Alston: A Different Kind of Diversity
The College should focus its diversity efforts on socioeconomic parity.
The College should focus its diversity efforts on socioeconomic parity.
Louise Fishman, a former artist-in-residence at the College, still remembers how she feared leaving New York City for Hanover. “To get in my car and pack up all my stuff and go north — I’d been to New Hampshire once camping, but I didn’t know where I was going,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of fear of putting yourself out in that way.”
Back when Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were the big names in American music, Dartmouth hosted the world’s first competition in electronic music. Yes, you read that right.\nUnder the direction of former music professor Jon Appleton, the College opened its first electronic music studio in 1968.
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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.
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.
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.
While in New York on a Programming Board trip this weekend, Rebecca Burten ’16 asked a stranger in Times Square to take a picture of her and her friend, and he unexpectedly asked her to videotape his marriage proposal.
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.
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.
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.
Privilege is hard to talk about, but we need to have this conversation.
Restricted diets are about more than weight control.
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.
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.
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.
The event’s 113 athletes competed in showshoeing events as well as beginner, intermediate and advanced alpine skiing and snowboarding races.
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.
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.
If Dartmouth were a country, it would rank 43rd among nations for total medals won at the Olympic games, with 63 overall. Ahead of countries like Mexico, Iran and Ethiopia, the Big Green’s 29 gold, 21 silver and 13 bronze medals stand as a testament to the school’s storied history at the Olympics.