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Independent film will showcase Hanover area

By Brendan Dooley | August 23, 2010

Although the town of Hanover is not easily confused with Hollywood, Calif., the independent film "Brief Reunion" (2011) was exclusively filmed in the Upper Valley this summer and will include several scenes that were shot at Dartmouth, according to "Brief Reunion" producer Ben Silberfarb '90. Written and directed by John Daschbach, the film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a middle-aged man who reconnects with an old friend through a social networking site, only to see his life slowly dismantled through their rekindled relationship, Silberfarb said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The idea for the film was developed a year and a half ago, when Daschbach contacted former high-school classmate Silberfarb over Facebook with an idea for a new project.

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Andy Warhol exhibit at the Hood reveals complex artist

By Brendan Dooley | August 19, 2010

<img alt="The Hood exhibit "Follow the Money: Andy Warhol's American Dream" highlights a variety of Warhol's styles." title="The Hood exhibit "Follow the Money: Andy Warhol's American Dream" highlights a variety of Warhol's styles." src="http://static.thedartmouth.com/2010/08/20/photos/5290articlephoto.jpg" /> Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff <img alt="The Hood exhibit "Follow the Money: Andy Warhol's American Dream" highlights a variety of Warhol's styles." title="The Hood exhibit "Follow the Money: Andy Warhol's American Dream" highlights a variety of Warhol's styles." src="http://static.thedartmouth.com/2010/08/20/photos/5290articlephoto.jpg" /> Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Known all over the world for his artistic renderings of Campbell's Soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles, Andy Warhol is one of the 20th century's iconoclastic artists and most fascinating personalities.

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Parsa explores causes of 1979 Iranian Revolution

By Brendan Dooley | August 12, 2010

Despite widely held beliefs, the 1979 Iranian Revolution was not a popular movement in support of Islamic fundamentalism at its outset, but instead began as a revolution for social justice supported by a broad coalition of secular interests, according to sociology professor Misagh Parsa.

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Lecture discusses Iranian women

By Brendan Dooley | August 5, 2010

/ The Dartmouth Staff / The Dartmouth Staff Women in Iran have resisted attempts by the Islamic theocratic regime to render them second-class citizens following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Haleh Esfandiari said in her lecture, "Iran's Indomitable Woman." Abigail McGowan, a history professor at the University of Vermont, followed with a discussion about the instability in Kashmir on Wednesday morning in Spaulding Auditorium. Esfandiari, who was held in an Iranian prison for four months after refusing to confess to engaging in anti-government activities, said that Iranian women expected liberation after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. "Following the revolution, women aspired to equality under the law and instead became second-class citizens," she said. Laws dictated where women could travel, what they could wear, where they could be educated and how they could interact with men under the new regime, Esfandiari said.

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Afghan voices ‘silenced,' profs say

By Brendan Dooley | July 29, 2010

Although six years of Taliban rule did much to damage the Afghan school system and diminish local women's rights movements, community-based efforts have made progress towards restoring education and women's rights to the war-torn country, geography professor Jennifer Fluri and gender and development researcher Lina Abirafeh said in a lecture held in Spaulding Auditorium on Wednesday. In the lecture, titled "Can a Broken System Produce Tomorrow's Leaders and Gender Balance?" Fluri and Abirafeh discussed the intersection of women's rights and education in Islamic culture. Women's rights as defined in Islam are "a lot better" than the current state of women's rights in Afghanistan, according to Fluri, who also teaches courses in the women and gender studies department. Since Islam is an integral part of Afghan culture, it can play a positive role in future women's rights movements, she said. "Islam is such a respected part of everyday life [and] an important vehicle to support women's rights," she said. Following the invasion of Afghanistan, the United States failed to understand the importance of the community over the individual in Afghan culture, Fluri said. "Thinking about yourself and thinking about your own personal wants and desires does not really make sense to people in Afghanistan," she said. The community-oriented culture puts the family at the center of social life and leaves women with a heavy domestic burden, making it difficult for them to pursue opportunities outside the home, according to Fluri. "We need to think about how to provide education and economic opportunity while considering [a woman's] household burden," Fluri said. The burqa, for example, has become a far too politicized issue in the west, Abirafeh and Fluri said, leading the burqa to be wrongly viewed by western nations as a "tool of oppression" used in Afghanistan. "My sense is that Afghan women long for choice the choice to wear a veil, a burqa or nothing at all," Abirafeh said. Fluri said that the burqa can have a positive practical application for women as it allows them to carry books and school supplies without getting harassed. Young women carrying books are often the target of Taliban attacks.

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Tabard court case ends in plea deal

By Brendan Dooley | July 15, 2010

The Tabard coed fraternity's two charges of serving alcohol to minors were reduced to Class B misdemeanors after the organization pleaded no contest following a plea agreement with Grafton county prosecutor Christopher O'Connor at Lebanon District Court on Wednesday afternoon. Under the terms of the ...

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Two students accept plea bargain

By Brendan Dooley | July 15, 2010

Correction Appended Andrew Lohse '12 and Sarah Koo '10 accepted plea bargains during separate hearings at the Lebanon District Court on Wednesday in connection with a May 13 incident at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity involving suspected cocaine use.

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