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Figure skating holds winter showcase

By Josh Schiefelbein | January 28, 2014

As Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” played over the speakers, John Gilmore ’17 took to the ice in Thompson Arena, displaying all the swagger of Joel’s 1980 hit, tossing his hat and throwing his tie over his shoulder.

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Fall alcohol data show modest incident declines

By Sara McGahan | January 27, 2014

Between fall 2012 and fall 2013, the proportion of alcohol incidents involving first-year students decreased from 49 to 46 percent of all incidents, according to data released Monday by the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program and the Greek Leadership Council.

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Many applaud federal focus on campus sexual violence

By Sera Kwon | January 27, 2014

President Barack Obama announced the creation of a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault on Jan. 22, giving the group 90 days to submit recommendations for a coordinated federal response to campus rape and sexual assault. Students and community members supported the move, but they were not confident that it would directly influence College policies.

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Basketball teams downed by Harvard

By Jasper Bingham | January 27, 2014

The men’s and women’s basketball teams both lost to Harvard University this weekend, getting swept in the season series against the Crimson. The Big Green men (7-9, 0-2 Ivy), missing center and leading scorer Gabas Maldunas ’15 with an ACL injury, were scorched 80-50 at Leede Arena while the women (3-13, 0-2 Ivy) fell 77-59 in Cambridge, Mass.

Sports

More Than A Game

By Maddie Garcia and Abby Cohen | January 27, 2014

When the Big Green men’s hockey team takes on Princeton this weekend, Thompson Arena will be filled to capacity with students anxiously awaiting the first Dartmouth goal, prepared to unleash a tennis ball frenzy. For the past three years we have perfected the act of smuggling in seemingly innocuous fuzz-balls into the arena.

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Student Spotlight: Nick O’Leary ’14

By Aimee Sung | January 27, 2014

For his honors senior thesis project, Nick O’Leary ’14 will direct the 17th century classic production “The Alchemist,” the culmination of his interests and experiences at the College.

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Hood digitizes Native American art

By Marley Marius | January 27, 2014

Since the Hood Museum of Art received a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services four months ago, the museum has begun to digitize its 4,000-plus pieces of Native American art in a slow but steady process.

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DCHIP reports slight decline in alcohol incidents involving freshmen

By Sara McGahan | January 27, 2014

Between fall 2012 and fall 2013, the proportion of alcohol incidents involving first-year students decreased from 49 to 46 percent of all incidents, according to data released Monday by The Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program and the Greek Leadership Council. During that time period, the overall number of incidents of intoxicated undergraduate students handled by Safety and Security dropped approximately 16 percent, from 99 incidents in fall 2012 to 83 in fall 2013. This marks a decrease from prior years as well. In fall 2010 Safety and Security handled 123 incidents of intoxication, and in fall 2011 they dealt with 111.

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D’Souza ’83 pleads not guilty to fraud

By Zac Hardwick | January 26, 2014

Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza ’83, a former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review, slated to visit the College on Thursday, pleaded not guilty on Jan. 24 to charges that he illegally redirected $20,000 in campaign contributions to a candidate in a 2012 U.S. Senate election. D’Souza was indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday.

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Students participate in coed recruitment

By Ashley Manning | January 26, 2014

Four students accepted bids from Alpha Theta coed fraternity, which extended six bids total. Five students accepted bids from the Tabard coed fraternity and one student accepted a bid from Phi Tau coed fraternity, which extended three bids in total.

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TIPS program aims to fight teen substance abuse issues

By Caroline Hansen | January 26, 2014

The Teen Intervention Program against Substance Abuse, known as TIPS, is directed by two Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professors and focuses on individual counseling for teens. Some participants will also receive additional, more experimental treatments that will evaluate the success of monetary incentives and a working memory treatment.

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‘Nebraska’ is dumb luck, dark laughs

By Varun Bhuchar | January 26, 2014

America is big. Like, really big. You might think it’s a long way to the pharmacy, but that trip is peanuts compared to traveling across America. That’s why you get so many road trip movies; they’re all about the journey, and with a country as large and varied as the United States, you get lots of journeys.

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Panel to discuss potential for post-racial society

By Katie McConnell | January 26, 2014

This afternoon’s “A World Beyond Race” panel, featuring author and Native American studies scholar Roger Echo-Hawk and Dartmouth faculty members, will attempt to promote a new dialogue on race in society, specifically one without race. Echo-Hawk, author of “The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race” and “NAGPRA and the Future of Racial Sovereignties,” argues in his work that a post-racial world is possible.

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