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After a day of competition, the Dartmouth club fencing team placed first among club teams and eighth overall.
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Club fencing team hosts first tournament since 2008

By Emily Wechsler | February 10, 2015

The men and women’s club fencing teams hosted their first tournament since 2008 this Saturday on the Alumni Gym basketball courts, the last of three Northeast Fencing Conference tournaments for the 2014-2015 season. \n The tournament was attended by 10 colleges, including both student-organized club teams and NCAA varsity fencing programs.

WISE launched a new website and increaesd support groups and informational posters this term.
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WISE works to expand its role on campus

By Erin Lee | February 9, 2015

WISE@Dartmouth is increasing its presence on campus to give students greater access to resources through a new website, support groups and informational posters, co-chair Caeli Cavanagh ’14 said.

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Professors submit 51 proposals for seed funding

By Erica Buonanno | February 9, 2015

The Office of the Provost received 51 proposals from faculty members seeking seed funding for the 2014-2015 cycle, vice provost for research Martin Wybourne said. The program aims to help tenure-track and research faculty launch new scholarship, research and creativity at Dartmouth.

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Solarize Hanover results in 62 installation contracts

By Katie Rafter | February 9, 2015

Following the Jan. 31 deadline for Solarize Hanover, a program aiming to promote solar energy in the Upper Valley, 273 Hanover residents signed up to have their homes visited and evaluated, resulting in 62 installation contracts, which is a higher amount than any other town in the Upper Valley participating in this program. \n According to the Hanover press release, these 273 homes represent around nine percent of Hanover households. \n The Energy Emporium, a New Hampshire-based solar energy equipment supplier, conducted the site visits to evaluate whether the homes would be suitable for solar panel installations. \n Sarah Simonds, the energy program manager for Vital Communities, a nonprofit organization based in White River Junction working to promote solar energy in the Upper Valley said that Solarize has completed two rounds of household evaluations in the Upper Valley. \n She said that five towns took part in the first round of Solarize, conducted in March 2014, and 120 homes installed solar panels.

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Kronos Quartet to perform “Beyond Zero: 1914-1918”

By Mac Emery | February 9, 2015

The sights and sounds of a globally scarring cataclysm will bombard attendees from the bows of the Kronos Quartet, before a backdrop of absorbing historical footage, during the group’s upcoming performance of “Beyond Zero: 1914-1918” today.

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Women’s tennis upsets opponents to win ECAC tournament

By Chanelle Qi | February 9, 2015

The women’s tennis team traveled to Ithaca, New York this past weekend to compete in the three-day ECAC Division I Indoor Championship, bringing home its first ECAC Winter Championship title. Dartmouth entered the tournament seeded fourth, defeating No. 5 seeded Brown University and pulling upset wins over No. 1 seeded Princeton and No. 2 seeded Columbia Universities. The three victories extended the women’s stellar season record to 8-0.

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Men’s basketball drops two more on road for four straight losses

By Ray Lu | February 9, 2015

After suffering two defeats last weekend, the men’s basketball continued their streak of losses by falling to both Yale and Brown Universities this past weekend. Despite Miles Wright ’18 averaging 20.5 points per game — 20 against Yale and 21 against Brown — the team now carries a four-game losing streak on the road.

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Greek houses increase academic programming

By Noah Goldstein and Parker Richards | February 8, 2015

From Experiential Learning University, or ExL — a leadership and entrepreneurship organization — to faculty dinners, Greek houses have been focusing on developing the leadership and entrepreneurial skills of both their members and other students through experience and interaction with professionals.

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Fewer students applying to law schools nationally

By Timothy Connor | February 8, 2015

As the number of law school applicants across the country continues its historic decline, law schools appear to be lowering the bar in terms of required standardized test scores among applicants, according to a study conducted by University of St. Thomas School of Law professor Jerry Organ published at the end of last year.

Arts

“Saving Adam” retells statue’s rescue

By Kourtney Kawano | February 8, 2015

There is nothing more heartbreaking for an art museum than learning of the destruction of a beloved piece in its collection. While paintings can be cleaned using a combination of plaster and resin treatments, restoring broken sculptures is altogether a much more difficult task.

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Bill Phillips ’71 film “Sabra” to be shown at Loew Auditorium

By Kaina Chen | February 8, 2015

Film professor Bill Phillips, who is a member of the Class of 1971, started his career with an interest in playwriting and several appearances in the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival before shifting to filmmaking. His upcoming film “Sabra” about Vermont printmaker Sabra Fields will be played in Loew Auditorium today and Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m.

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Propaganda and “American Sniper”

By Andrew Kingsley | February 8, 2015

It’s odd seeing a propaganda film nowadays. There seems so little to cheer about in America — what could a director praise? Clint Eastwood’s hagiographic “American Sniper” (2014) lauds the murders of the deadliest sniper in American military history, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), while introducing a brand of colonialist racism reminiscent of the American settlers’ against the Native Americans.

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One-on-One with Taylor Yamahata

By Lily Gordon | February 8, 2015

This week, I sat down with swimming’s Taylor Yamahata ’18. This weekend, Yamahata led the Big Green in a narrow loss to the University of Connecticut, finishing with individual victories in the 200-yard IM and the 100- and 200-yard backstroke.

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