CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS

SESTERCENTENNIAL

NEWS

The book arts workshop is hosting a student contest for bookplate designs that commemorate Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. The cash prize: $250.

FOLKTALE

Folk, the quaint and quirky jewelry and clothing store on Allen Street, is closing after 45 years.

HELLB Y RETURNS

Actor David Harbour ’97 came back to campus May 13 for an evening of his film clips and an onstage interview at Spaulding Auditorium.

TOUR READY

All-Ivy first teamer and College Squash Association All-American Alvin Heumann ’18 is turning pro.

A & Q

Eric Thorpe T8 appeared as a contestant in the Jeopardy! college championship this spring.

GOOD RIDDANCE

Dana Hall was partially demolished in April to make way for a $20-million

SWAN SONG

Glee Club director Louis Burkot, who is retiring, led his final show in early May.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation bestowed Guggenheim fellowships on three faculty members: Michelle Warren (comparative literature), John Heginbotham (theater), and Sienna Craig (anthropology).

L’CHAIM!

Rabbi Meir Goldstein starts as the new executive director of Hillel on July 1.

GREENIE

An anonymous potential donor has offered $5 million to help renovate Hanover Country Club and keep it open—if there is renovation.

TREE-MENDOUS

The Second College Grant has been named a “model forest” by the Forest Stewards Guild.

NONSTOP POLITICS

Former Maryland governor and 2016 Democratic primary presidential candidate Martin O’Malley spoke at Rockefeller Hall in April.

BIG DIPPER

A black bear whose three cubs were removed from Hanover and taken to northern New Hampshire last year has returned. She’s back with four cubs, once again rummaging through backyards.

The athletics department’s longtime assistant equipment manager Ernie Gour died in December.

He was 61.

THE COMMISH

NFL head honcho Roger Goodell visited campus in April and took in a spring football practice.

WHO’S COUNTING?

VP executive assistant Eleanor Smith retired in June after working in alumni relations for more than 51 years.

BUDGET DANCE

Following the 47th annual Pow Wow in May, organizers told The Dartmouth the College provides inadequate funding for the event.

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

“We are made of three different things: up quarks, down quarks, and electrons. All atomic matter is made of those three objects.”

—Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman, who spoke to physics classes in May

RANKINGS

30

Dartmouth’s rank in studentto-faculty ratio (7:1) at four-year, private, nonprofit institutions for 2016