Women’s swimming falls to UNH, beats UVM
The women’s swimming and diving team lost a close home meet to the University of New Hampshire on Friday before defeating the University of Vermont soundly on the road in its Sunday matinee.
The women’s swimming and diving team lost a close home meet to the University of New Hampshire on Friday before defeating the University of Vermont soundly on the road in its Sunday matinee.
The gun went off, and Abbey D’Agostino ’14 shot to the front of the pack. Less then one lap in, she cleared the field, going on to win the women’s 1,000-meter race in 2:46.88, over seven seconds ahead of the second-place Columbia University runner. Overall, the Big Green women came in second in the Ivy League tri-meet Saturday at Leverone Field House, while the men easily took home first.
Roughly a third of the audience participated, unfurling large colorful signs. “Enough distraction — where is the action?” read one. Another protester held up the Anarchist movement’s symbol, an encircled “A.”
Students, faculty, alumni and staff are encouraged to speak with the representatives regarding issues of sexual harassment and violence, according to a message from the Office for Civil Rights distributed to campus in a daily digest email Monday morning.
Fraternities extended 26 bids at the conclusion of men’s winter recruitment last weekend, according to Interfraternity Council rush chair Brett Kana ’14.
At the fifth annual Student Forum on Global Learning on Monday, dozens of students spoke about cross-cultural experiences that ranged from domestic internships and research opportunities to international service trips and study abroad programs.
Changes to this year’s winter sorority recruitment reflect minor shifts in a long, evolving history of rush processes at the College. This year, a talk on dues, philanthropy and financial aid, as well as an anonymous question-and-answer session, replaced song-and-dance routines.
The College’s libraries will grow its collection of online texts and expand its electronic resource offerings in a campaign to diversify its collection of roughly 639,000 e-books. The initiative, which will also focus on digitizing pictures and texts, follows a fall 2012 pilot program.
Michelle Khare ’14 has a film fanatic or animation buff’s dream resume. Khare, a digital media and technology major at the College, is currently in Los Angeles on the film studies Foreign Studies Program, where she is interning in the office of actor Steve Carell. In the past, Khare has worked in the marketing departments for Google and DreamWorks Studios and interned for Chris Sanders, who directed “The Croods” (2013), nominated for best animated feature film in the 2014 Academy Awards.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Not weather-wise, of course. I’m talking about awards season. Although the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards are already behind us, an abundance of other awards shows in February and March — the Grammy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Raspberry Awards and, of course, the Academy Awards — are reason enough to huddle inside with hot chocolate, popcorn and a mock-up ballot sheet.
His dilated black pupils glare at viewers, seemingly daring them to continue staring while asking “Did I give you permission to look?” Composed from heavy strokes of black, brown, gray and red, Carlos Sanchez’s eyes remain just as haunting in his “Self-Portrait” as when the artist first painted the work in 1923 as a Dartmouth student.
Atheists are an underrepresented American demographic.
Ex-varsity athletes should continue to be allowed to play intramurals.
The men’s tennis team dominated on Saturday, handily defeating Bryant University and Villanova University in a morning-afternoon doubleheader. Both competitions ended 7-0, marking the second time in the past three seasons the Big Green has swept its opening weekend.
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This weekend, the Big Green men (3-13-3, 2-9-1 ECAC) battled Colgate University and No. 12 Cornell University in two tough, physical matchups, losing 4-1 on Friday to the Raiders (11-9-3, 7-3-1 ECAC) before fighting to a draw on Saturday against the Big Red (9-4-4, 5-3-3 ECAC).
The women’s ice hockey team had an inconsistent weekend, falling to No. 2 Cornell University on Friday, then coming from behind to win against Colgate University on Saturday. The Big Green (5-13-1, 4-8-1 ECAC) was shut out against Cornell (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC) 3-0. Dartmouth rallied from a one goal first period deficit to beat Colgate (5-17-2, 2-10-0 ECAC) 4-2 on Saturday.
The Big Green men’s and women’s basketball teams experienced mixed results this weekend, as the women (3-12, 0-1 Ivy) picked up their first road win against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 48-45, and the men (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) fell 69-55 to St. John’s University. Both games marked the teams’ last outside the Ivy League this season.
At Dartmouth, where almost a quarter of the student body participates in a varsity sport, rumors of athletic pipelines and exclusive athletes-only information sessions are infinite. But is there any truth to them?
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights seeks to speak to students, faculty, administrators and alumni about issues of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the College later this month.