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Dartmouth Sorority House Green-Lighted

Monday, June 17, 2013

Hanover — The Dartmouth College trustees approved at its meeting last week a $3.5 million construction project to build a 23-bed Kappa Delta sorority house on campus, using a fraction of the college’s $982 million operating budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The Hanover Planning and Zoning Office received and processed the project’s building permit application Wednesday, Senior Planner Vicki Smith said. The house at 1 Occom Ridge will be …

Entertainment Highlights: Les Ballets Trockadero Has Wit, Technique

Thursday, June 13, 2013

When Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male dance company based in New York, bring their unique fusion of classical ballet and satire to the Hopkins Center on June 29 and 30, expect the swan feathers to fly, the ballerinas to swoon and simper and their consorts to demonstrate a staunch belief …

Dartmouth Class of 2013 Urged to Do More 

Monday, June 10, 2013

Hanover — Just when they thought their workload had been at least temporarily cleared, nearly 1,900 Dartmouth College graduates were assigned a hefty challenge by one of the nation’s most accomplished education reformers in yesterday’s commencement address. Geoffrey Canada spoke to a crowd of more than 10,000 about a promise that he had …

Big Green Pitcher Engineers a Comeback

Monday, May 6, 2013

Hanover — Cole Sulser has waited more than two years for this day, the day when he will help lead the Dartmouth College baseball team against Columbia in New York City during the best-of-three Ivy League championship series. …

Documentaries Remain Vital; Hopkins Center to Host Some of the Best

Friday, May 3, 2013

The record of the average American feature film in the past decade has been, on the whole, rather dismal. The word “puerile” leaps to mind. American documentary film, on the other hand, is as vigorous, provocative and engaging …

Dartmouth Home Requires Additional Testing for TCE

Friday, May 3, 2013

Hanover — Initial test results for trichloroethylene have come back for five houses owned by Dartmouth College south of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and only one house showed levels near the screening level. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers performed testing between March 28 and April …

Art Notes: The Art and Craft of the Stinehour Press

Thursday, May 2, 2013

I n the 1970s , the book arts in New England reached a pinnacle. Years before the advent of desktop publishing, printers, bookbinders and book designers were turning out all sorts of interesting work on everything from letterpresses …

Dartmouth Joins Clinical Results Transparency Campaign

Friday, May 17, 2013

Hanover — Dartmouth College has become the first academic center in the U.S. to join an advocacy effort aimed at improving transparency in reporting results from clinical trials. The Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice both joined the AllTrials Campaign, which …

The Road to Confidence: Dartmouth Women’s Track Athletes Commit to Girls on the Run

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

White River Junction — The evidence suggests Abbey D’Agostino — NCAA outdoor 5,000-meter champion, NCAA indoor 3K and 5K champ, national women’s indoor athlete of the year — is a sponge when it comes to running. Yet twice …

It's a Double: Dartmouth Softball Going to ICS, Too 

Monday, April 29, 2013

Boston — Harvard installed yellow softball bases for its Ivy League doubleheader with visiting Dartmouth yesterday, part of a fundraising tribute on behalf of Boston Marathon bombing victims. The Crimson, however, was left green with envy after the …

Cornel West Counsels Unity at Dartmouth  

Friday, April 26, 2013

Hanover — Author and philosopher Cornel West, one of the country’s leading public intellectuals on social justice, gave a talk yesterday to a Dartmouth College crowd for whom the tumultuous events of the past week still resonate heavily. Several hundred students, faculty and others packed into a Tuck …

Audio Slideshow: Book Fans Leave a Message For Unknown Readers

Friday, April 26, 2013

At Left Bank Books in Hanover on Tuesday night, Lauren Harris opened a copy of Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Between its pages, the Dartmouth freshman tucked a message she had written to future readers: “Hume is …

Dartmouth Looks Within: College Takes Break After Student Protest Uproar

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Hanover — The last time Dartmouth College canceled classes for non-weather-related purposes was in 1986, after the destruction of the anti-Apartheid “shanty town” on the green. Yesterday, it was social unrest once again that led college administrators to …