- Rauner has an exhibit on the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College Case.
- The winning design for the Sestercentennial Bookplate has been announced.
- A Dartmouth News story from last fall stated that the Hovey Murals were to be moved from the grill room/rathskeller in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall (’53 Commons) to the Hood’s Remote Storage facility.
- The Valley News reports that an alumna is planning to create a bookstore/café/bar in the former Dartmouth Bookstore space on Main Street.
- The Office of Planning, Design and Construction reports on the work its official drone.
- The Valley News reported last fall that Lyme had rescinded an anti-climbing ordinance once it learned that Holt’s Ledge was actually owned by the college.
- The active Norwich Historical Society seems to be thriving.
- An interesting Ben Zimmer history of the term “ratf*cking” in Politico Magazine locates the origin of the word in college pranking and includes as its earliest citation a ca. 1937 Dartmouth reference.
- Dartmouth Law School hasn’t been much in the news lately, but Arrested Development S5E13 (“The Untethered Sole”) does mention a character who is a member of the crack legal team “The Guilty Guys” and attended Dartmouth Law. 1See also California Gov. Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz of Bojack Horseman, introduced in S4E1: “It happens that I’m an excellent skier who won numerous medals in the sport when I raced for Dartmouth but, again, I am shocked that fact is relevant in the matter of selecting our state’s governor.” In Episode 7, he emerges after tunneling to reach a group trapped underground: “Vox Clamantis in Deserto. It is I, Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz.”
- Macworld has an article on longstanding independent Mac programs, and it features Fetch, the ftp program that was begun at Dartmouth in 1989 (I remember using it on System 6 in 1991).
↑1 | See also California Gov. Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz of Bojack Horseman, introduced in S4E1: “It happens that I’m an excellent skier who won numerous medals in the sport when I raced for Dartmouth but, again, I am shocked that fact is relevant in the matter of selecting our state’s governor.” In Episode 7, he emerges after tunneling to reach a group trapped underground: “Vox Clamantis in Deserto. It is I, Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz.” |
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