The following press release was received from Allison Furbish, web media coordinator at King Arthur Flour. Starting tomorrow at 11 a.m., students can pick up one free sandwich per person while supplies last. Starting June 8th, sandwiches will no longer be offered at all in the Baker-Berry cafe, and the cafe will close at 8 p.m. instead of 11:30 p.m. Lunch is on us! Change is in the air – and maybe in your pocket – because lunch is on us on May 30th at our café in Dartmouth’s Baker-Berry Library. Starting at 11am, students will be able to pick up one free sandwich per person while supplies last. BUT WHY??? Free sandwich day is a day of appreciation for the love you have shown for our sandwiches AND a day of farewell — as we reluctantly must change our menu to no longer include sandwiches at Dartmouth. (Did we just say that?? We did.) Due to our kitchen capacity at our home in Norwich, we are not able to offer sandwiches at Baker-Berry Cafe, beginning June 8th. We are introducing the original menu for the café, offering what was imagined when the college designed and built it – coffee and… Read more »
BEING OUTDOORSY (on land): Sophomore summer is virtually the one term guaranteed to be snow-free, so unleash the crunchiness within you and revel in your soon-to-be rugged physique. 1. Hike Mount Moosilauke 2. Go to the Velvet rocks 3. Rent a cabin 4. Go on Strips 5. Conquer the rope swings in Pine Park 6. Go to Nathan’s garden 7. Dominate outdoor pong in preparation for Masters BODIES OF WATER: Unthawed lakes, rivers and ponds, oh my! 8. Jump off the ledges 9. Jump into the copper mines 10. Canoe to Gilman Island 11. Learn to paddleboard on the Connecticut FOOD: Fuel your rugged physique and adventure to these semi-nearby eateries. Hopefully you have a car. 12. Take Ben and Jerry’s Factory tour and eat a Vermonster 13. Drive to Cabot Factory 14. Get dinner at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge 15. Eat at Fort Lou’s at an obscure hour 16. Have a picnic lunch at Balch hill 17. Go to Ice Cream Fore U and Mini Golf ACQUIRING SOCIAL CAPITAL: The pool of students is smaller, therefore your relative social presence is larger. Take advantage of that before you become an (even more) irrelevant upperclassman. 18. Try out for any and all performance groups you are heinously underqualified for 19. Do a circuit 20. Get invited to/crash every… Read more »
Open for about a month, The Swirl and Pearl and Noodle Station have added to the variety of off-campus dining options. The Swirl and Pearl and Noodle Station operate somewhat independently. They share an entrance, but a wall running through the middle of the building creates two distinct sections and encourages — but doesn’t force customers to sit on the side where they are giving their patronage. To get a feel for the full swath of the location’s offerings, I stopped in for a full dining experience with a couple friends. Noodle Station is located on the left side of the building. With a crowded chalkboard menu, it’s essentially the Boloco of noodles. They list all their sauces, noodles and veggies, allowing you to create your custom noodle dish. Customers can also order Noodle Station’s pre-designed specials, such as the “grown-up mac ‘n’ cheese” or savory garlic shrimp. Cooks prepare your dish in plain view in one of an army of woks that will remind you of Collis Café’s setup. After pondering my options, I ordered the lo mein with red curry sauce, broccoli, onions and mushrooms. My friend ordered rice noodles with peanut sauce and her choice of veggies. We… Read more »
May 17 5:17 p.m.: Officers received a phone call from a student regarding texts that were being sent to her from an individual who was not related to the campus. She had told him to stop texting and he said he would. Hanover Police involvement was offered but she declined at the time. It is still an open case. 4:15 p.m.: Officers approached by two women who said they were hit by two water balloons launched from area of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity. Officers checked the yard but found no one in the immediate area. It was suspected to be a first year student. 4:53 p.m.: Officers responded to Topliff Hall for an individual with high temperature that was fighting pneumonia. The student was transported to DHMC for further treatment and then returned back to campus. 5:22 p.m.: A student that had been arrested for an open container was picked up from the Hanover Police Department. 9:00 p.m.: Officers responded to a call from Topliff Hall where an individual returned to his room to find that someone had dumped a bottle of white wine on their bedding and clothing. 10:00 p.m.: Officers at the Programming Board… Read more »
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Seeking to elicit a conversation, several ’15s released a video campaign to portray the strength of the Dartmouth community. A student-run initiative, #OurDartmouth interviewed several dozen Dartmouth students, as well as a few professors, and asked them to sum up their Dartmouth experience. The most commonly cited words, like “home” and “community” highlighted the welcoming nature of the College and the importance of the student body. The comments ranged from those students who consider Dartmouth a “pseudo-utopia” to those who found Dartmouth unifying, to those who are unaffiliated with the Greek system but still feel welcome. The campaign describes itself as a conversation starter, and maintains that it has “no political agenda.” #OurDartmouth also released a series of videos from students who detailed aspects of their Dartmouth experience, such as the remarkable opportunities Dartmouth offers, the welcoming of the community and the need for a receptivity to change. The campaign invites different individuals to voice their own experience, as a way of demonstrating that there is “no one Dartmouth experience.”
Every Summer, Fall, and Spring, Dartmouth students take on one of the most ultimate physical and mental challenges offered through the school – The 50. A somewhat different kind of all-nighter, The 50 is a 53.6 mile hike that takes students from the steps Robinson Hall to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Usually completed in teams of three or four, the hike takes between 25 and 35 hours. Gerben Scherpbier ’14 supported the 50 twice before hiking it during his sophomore summer. Summing up his experience in one word, he could only say that it was “incredible.” “I did it with three friends, and it took us 23 hours,” said Scherpbier of his hike. Scherpbier, who was president of the Dartmouth Outing Club, insists that doing the Fifty is more mental than anything else. He completed the challenge with his three friends, not whom he met through the DOC, but through his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon. “There was perfect weather and a lot of my friends were supporting it too so we got to know each other really well,” said Scherpbier. When asked about tricks that helped them keep going, Scherpbier spoke about how they kept telling each other riddles, and carried a portable boombox… Read more »