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Barbary Coast will perform tribute concert to Sun Ra

By Kourtney Kawano | October 22, 2014

Audience members are primed for the trip of a lifetime, as Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble will play a concert that delivers them to space, celebrating the influence of musician and philosopher Sun Ra on Saturday. Noted trombonist and composer Craig Harris, who once played with Sun Ra as a member of Arkestra, will join Barbary Coast on stage.

Corinne Romano '15, a studio art major and digital arts minor, has designed for the DALI lab and Tiltfactor.
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Student Spotlight: Corinne Romano '15

By Hallie Huffaker | October 22, 2014

Romano said she came to college confident in what she wanted to get out of the experience and has stuck to her path since freshman year. Now a senior, the studio art major and digital arts minor can reflect on her time in the arts at the College.

At the bonfire, officers arrested a non-student spectator for alcohol possession.
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Number of arrests declines

By Katie Rafter | October 21, 2014

The police arrested five students for alcohol-related incidents and two for disorderly conduct, down from last year’s 13 and three arrests, respectively, over Homecoming weekend.

Five students discussed their experiences with faith on Tuesday night.
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At Tuesday panel, students discuss faith

By Emilia Baldwin | October 21, 2014

Five panelists spoke about experiences with faith at Dartmouth at the Tucker Foundation’s annual “Voices of Faith” dinner Tuesday night. The event’s theme was “finding community and meaning in the desert of chaos,” organizer Andrew Nalani ’16 said.

Sir Malcolm Grant spoke at Dartmouth through the Montgomery Fellow program.
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Montgomery fellow talks U.K. health care

By Erin Lee | October 21, 2014

Despite the United Kingdom health system’s high patient satisfaction ratings — based on factors like short waiting times, comprehensive use of electronic medical records and universal access to health care — the system’s outcomes are not as good as they should be, said Sir Malcolm Grant, chair of England’s National Health Service and the College’s current Montgomery Fellow.

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New program links Tuck, IMD

By Lucia McGloin | October 21, 2014

A leadership program focused on executive education, run through the Tuck School of Business and Switzerland’s International Institute for Management Development, will launch next spring. The program, separate from Tuck’s full-time MBA program, aims to help experienced managers with more than 10 years of experience transition into business leadership positions, associate dean for executive education Sydney Finkelstein said.

The Danilack brothers, Hugh ’15 and Matt ’18, are keys to the soccer team’s success.
Sports

Danilack brothers team up in Big Green soccer resurgence

By Nick Harrington | October 21, 2014

A pair of brothers have been crucial in the men’s soccer team’s resurgent 2014 campaign. Co-captain Hugh Danilack ’15 and Matt Danilack ’18 both found soccer at a young age and began playing early in elementary school, eventually joining recreation leagues. As their talent deepened, they moved onto travel teams. The brothers are on parallel tracks this season. The elder Danilack has scored eight points and the younger brother is right behind with seven, including three goals. Each notched his first collegiate goal within 15 minutes of the other against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in late September.

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Hanlon, Dever stress improving faculty diversity at meeting

By Parker Richards | October 20, 2014

In five years, the College aims to have minority and international professors comprise 25 percent of its faculty. At Monday’s termly meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences, Provost Carolyn Dever and College President Phil Hanlon discussed increasing minority and international faculty at Dartmouth, describing it as a major priority to the around 200 faculty members in attendance.

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Government updates sexual assault regulations

By Priya Ramaiah | October 20, 2014

The College will create new sexual violence prevention programs and enhance existing education and outreach to comply with federal regulations published Monday. Among other requirements, the regulations instruct universities to list all possible sanctions for students found guilty of sexual violence and provide comprehensive information about dating violence, domestic violence and stalking in their annual campus safety reports.

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Yik Yak reflects campus culture

By Chris Leech | October 20, 2014

When the Class of 2018 arrived on campus in September, they brought with them a penchant for a new social media platform, a location-based forum known as Yik Yak. The app allows users to submit anonymous posts, or “yaks,” that can be seen, replied to and voted up or down by nearby users.

Community members gathered on the Green Monday to savor local apples.
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Apple Crunch launches week of food programming

By Noah Goldstein | October 20, 2014

The week’s programming includes a lecture by Mark Winne, an expert on food systems who has worked in agriculture policy, a viewing of “Fed Up” (2014), a documentary exposing the modern food production system, and a “Harvest Dinner” in the Class of 1953 Commons, which will offer locally sourced fare including stuffed portobello mushrooms, grilled apple-glazed pork loin and baked apples a la mode.

Kayden Cook ’15 leaps high in the air for the set at Leede Arena. Cook had 32 assists in the weekend’s two games.
Sports

Volleyball splits two Ivy games over Homecoming weekend

By Joe Clyne and Ellie Gonzalez | October 20, 2014

The women’s volleyball team split its two games over the weekend, beating Princeton University in a five-setter on Friday before falling to the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Big Green followed up its impressive win over the Tigers with an error-filled game against a Quakers squad playing its best volleyball of the season. After the weekend at home, the Big Green (13-5, 4-3 Ivy) now takes to the road for five straight Ivy League away matches.

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Crew teams take on fierce competition at Head of the Charles

By Kelly Chen | October 20, 2014

The men’s and women’s championship eight boats finished 26th at the 50th annual Head of the Charles Regatta over the weekend, marking a fall from last season when the men placed 25th and the women finished 20th. Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Head of the Charles Regatta was the first of the season for the Big Green, serving as a litmus test for what the teams can expect going forward. The crew teams are only slated to compete in a few regattas in the fall before the season begins in earnest in the spring.

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Riots at Keene State prompt police action

By Kelsey Flower | October 19, 2014

Rioting broke out among students and visitors at Keene State College this Saturday, just blocks away from the annual Pumpkin Festival, where families from all over the state brought 21,912 lit jack-o’-lanterns in an attempt to set a world record. Police in riot gear responded to intoxicated crowds in the street and on nearby properties.

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