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‘Wild’ thrives on emotion, grit

By Andrew Kingsley | September 21, 2014

Imagine hiking for the first time, with a backpack equaling you in weight, being afraid of the wilderness and leaving your home behind. This sounds like the worst Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trip ever, or the premise of Jean-Marc Vallée’s latest film, “Wild” (2014). If there was a theme at last year’s Telluride Film Festival, it was the survival tale, captured in big hits like “All Is Lost,” “Gravity” and “Tracks.” Adapting Cheryl Strayed’s national bestselling autobiography “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” Vallée rides this wave of survivalist success.

Arts

Beyond the Bubble: Art in the Digital Age

By Andrea Nease | September 21, 2014

The 21st century has left many living through their electronics rather than in real time. Since the Internet is now a person’s go-to advisor on most matters, why not take the physical world of art to the digital?

News

New structure brings Wagner into CFO role

By Erica Buonanno | September 18, 2014

Dartmouth has adjusted its financial administration structure to better suit College President Phil Hanlon’s academic agenda, appointing Michael Wagner chief financial officer. Wagner will fill this role and continue as vice president for finance, reporting to executive vice president and former CFO Richard Mills.

News

OPAL sees staff turnover, absorbs CGSE

By Rebecca Asoulin | September 18, 2014

Three new staff members have joined the Office of Pluralism and Leadership in the past month, filling vacancies created by several recent resignations, including the departure of first-generation students advisor Karlos Santos-Coy on Sept. 4. The office also saw some restructuring this summer, reabsorbing the Center for Gender and Student Engagement.

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A year in, Remy steers judicial affairs office

By Victoria Nelsen | September 18, 2014

The student handbook now specifies sexual harassment, stalking and dating violence as kinds of sexual misconduct that threaten the well being both of students and the College as a whole. These adjustments to the handbook’s language, announced Monday afternoon in a campus-wide email from interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, reflect the judicial affairs office’s yearlong effort to institute a stronger sexual assault policy at the College.

News

113 apply for Great Issues Scholars

By Bryn Morgan | September 18, 2014

This week, 113 freshmen applied for 25 spots in the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program. They will join more than 50 participants living in the Global Village, a new living-learning community that will introduce a residential component to the program.

Mirror

State of the College

By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff | September 18, 2014

For the surveys, we contacted 411 faculty, of whom 39 responded, and 2,827 students, of whom 284 responded. Because the sample sizes are not representative, we did not calculate statistical significance for either the faculty survey or student survey, both of which were sent via email last weekend. Take a look at what we found.

Mirror

Faculty Reflections

By Luke McCann and Victoria Nelsen | September 18, 2014

For decades, Dartmouth’s faculty have been invested in the wellness of their students, both inside and outside of the classroom — with the small community at the College, separating the two is almost impossible. A 32-question Mirror survey allowed faculty to reflect on the current state of the College, and the results reveal that discussions about major issues are far from finished.

Mirror

Editor's Note

By Erin Landau | September 18, 2014

As you’ll soon see, this week’s edition is a little different. If you’ve checked blitz in the past few days, you’d see the massive and semi-exhaustive survey blitzed out to students and faculty covering topics ranging from cheating to sex to marijuana legalization to satisfaction with the Greek system. It is certainly not reflective of all students on campus, but we were able to manage around a 10-percent response rate (which, as those of you who have taken stats at Dartmouth know, is pretty good for a survey with more than 50 questions.)

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Through the Looking Glass: A Great Hopportunity

By Aaron Ellis | September 18, 2014

When I told my parents that I had received $7,000 from Dartmouth to drive around the country drinking, researching beer and hanging out in national parks, my dad asked me if I was an alcoholic. I thought it was a joke, but as it turns out, he was really concerned.

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Fridays with Marian

By Marian Lurio | September 18, 2014

Why am I writing this column? I have no clue. It’s my senior year, and I feel like I’m still a freshman. Correction: my knowledge of many Dartmouth traditions — i.e. the lyrics to our alma mater — is minimal despite my best efforts to inundate myself in our “campus culture” (i.e. Bean boots). Until I saw the giant sign, I thought the Triangle House was KD’s new physical plant.

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Boots and Rallies

By Aaron Pellowski | September 18, 2014

A little blasphemous, a little extreme, very dark and maybe a little bit true. Or completely true, at least in spirit, as I judged when I heard this for the first time. Meet circa-2004 Aaron R. Pellowski ’15, a moody adolescent equipped with a decidedly anti-other-people disposition and an ego so bloated it almost burped. I became demonically obsessed with the theory that any person even remotely in touch with the world should be petrified with disgust.

Sports

Men’s soccer sets sights high for 2014

By Katie Jarrett | September 18, 2014

After a two-year hiatus from the NCAA tournament, the men’s soccer team has high hopes for this season. In 2013, the Big Green finished 6-7-4 overall and 1-6 in Ivy League competition after having one of the best starts in program history — beginning the season 4-0-4. The collapse came after a 2-1 home loss against Princeton University.

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Sports

Football starts season under the lights

By Brett Drucker | September 18, 2014

With the sun setting over the West Stands of Memorial Field on Tuesday, the Dartmouth football team finished one of its final practices before the team’s season opener this weekend. After months of sweat and preparation, the team anticipated returning to the gridiron and is seeking to extend its four-year winning streak in season openers.

Sports

The Big Green Weekend Primer

By Blaze Joel | September 18, 2014

The first weekend of term is also a major sports weekend for the Big Green, as nine Dartmouth teams are in action. We’ve analyzed a few games on the weekend slate.

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