Weinberg: An Effort to Reach Out
By ETHAN Weinberg | April 25, 2012While I look forward to Pride Week every year, I cannot help but wonder why we frame the event the way we do.
While I look forward to Pride Week every year, I cannot help but wonder why we frame the event the way we do.
Earlier this term, activist and playwright Larry Kramer visited campus as a Montgomery Fellow, sharing his experiences of leadership in the LGBTQ community.
As an Admissions Office intern and a member of the LGBTQA community, I am disappointed by Roger Lott's ignorant misrepresentation of LGBTQA recruitment at Dartmouth and his implied desire to match the number of incoming students who identify as such to national demographics expressed in his Monday column ("Learning to Live Together," Oct.
The Hopkins Center for the Arts plans to raise ticket prices, cut back on commissioned works and reevaluate its long-term strategic plans, including its stake in Dartmouth's proposed Visual Arts Center, in light of College-wide budget cuts and a possible downturn in individual donations, according to Hop director Jeff James. "We, the Hop, have more reasons to be concerned than a lot of other players because we rely on ticket sales and donations, and those are the things we are spending the most time thinking about how to protect," James said. As a result of the economic downturn, the Hop intends to raise its student ticket prices from $5 to $10 for performances by visiting artists, from $3 to $5 for student performances, and from $12 to $15 for Dartmouth Film Society's film series passes. It will be the first price increase for the Hop in eight or nine years, according to James.
The Hopkins Center for the Arts' Spaulding Auditorium will be closed this summer as workers demolish Brewster Hall and reconfigure the current parking lot and loading dock behind the auditorium, according to associate provost Mary Gorman. The Hop has had to modify its standard summer programming as ...
The Hopkins Center will consider revising workshop and studio hours, reestablishing a Student Advisory Group and revamping the Center's web site in response to a student survey, the "Dartmouth Cultural Pulse," released earlier this term.