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BIKE BUMMERFootball coach Buddy Teevens ’79 of-

fered a $500 reward for any info about a custom-made bicycle stolen from his car in Connecticut. He was planning to use the wheels for a charity ride from

San Francisco to San Diego.

Justin Anderson is the new VP for communications. Anderson, who came to Dartmouth in 2011 as director of media relations, is an ABC News veteran. He’s held the title of interim vice president several times and now oversees the office of public affairs.

H I R E DGail Gentes, wife of President Phil Hanlon ’77, has joined the alumni relations staff as assistant director of the Dartmouth for Life program. She’ll be working part time to connect students with alumni and parents through new intern-ships and other profes-sional opportunities.

Jeffrey James, direc-tor of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, has announced his retirement, effective this summer. James has spent a decade in the position. “The Hop’s next leader will find great opportuni-ties as the campus looks to ambitious plans for the future,” he says.

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DAVID WHO?Of 10 students asked by The Dart-mouth, six “expressed dissatisfac-

tion” with New York Times columnist David Brooks being named this year’s Commencement speaker. Three students were not familiar

with Brooks..

HOUSE CLOSINGAlpha Delta was derec-

ognized by the College’s organizational adjudication committee as of April 20.

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JUST DESSERTSCollis Café was named one of the nation’s best college din-ing halls by Spoon University.

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$450,000Funding awarded to 10 of 51

faculty research proposals submit-ted to the provost’s office. Selec-

tion criteria included quality of the proposal, probability of success,

and having an undergraduate component. Many of the projects, in both the sciences and arts and humanities, are interdisciplinary.

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MUSEUM MAKEOVERMichael Taylor is out as head of the Hood

Museum. Juliette Bianco ’94 has been named interim director of the Hood, re-

cently named one of the 50 most amazing college museums by CollegeRank.net.

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Tuned In>>> Following two years of plan-ning and development, The Briefing Powered by Dartmouth premiered on SiriusXM Radio’s Insight channel March 21. The weekly program, hosted by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mike Mastanduno, provides in-depth analysis of cur-rent events through conversations with faculty experts. “The show is a vehicle for showcasing the deep tal-ent we’ve got here,” says Mastandu-no. “This isn’t a bunch of academics talking about academic stuff.”

Professors Brendan Nyhan, Marcelo Gleiser and Annelise Orleck have all recently visited The Briefing to discuss topics ranging from po-litical primaries to the Large Hadron Collider and the resurgence of the labor movement. Mastanduno says the show allows him to engage with his colleagues on a deeper level: “This is a great chance for me to talk to people on the faculty about something other than parking.”

Mastanduno, who has no prior experience in radio, transfers skills developed in the classroom to the broadcast studio. “The challenge is to generate intellectual curiosity, ask good questions and draw out your guests. That takes a little practice,” he says, adding that he’s also learn-ing the art of gracefully interrupting guests when they start to get long-winded or use academic jargon.

SiriusXM, which currently claims more than 27 million subscribers, initially approached the College in 2013 with the idea of producing a liberal arts radio channel dedicated exclusively to Dartmouth-generated content. Administrators deemed the idea too labor-intensive and decided instead to focus on a single pilot program. “One of our goals is to replicate this show with other shows on different topics,” says Mastanduno. SiriusXM hasn’t provided official listener counts for The Briefing, but Mastanduno has received positive feedback from top executives at the company. “So far, so good,” he says.

DOWN ON THE FARMOrganic farm manager Scott Stokoe has retired after nearly 20 years at

the College, leaving the operation in the hands of new farm fellow Laura

Carpenter (see page 15).

SIGNING DAYNearly 800 students signed a peti-tion for the College to retain 13-year

chemistry lecturer Siobhan Milde, whose position is to be dissolved and replaced by two tenure-track

faculty members. .

HAWK SIGHTINGRetired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a Dickey Center guest, told a Filene Auditorium audi-ence that he is “totally against

an Iranian nuclear deal.”

THE RACE IS ONIn a newspaper survey of 50 students, 22 said they were

troubled by presidential con-tender Hillary Clinton’s role in the Benghazi attacks of 2012.

BUILDING BOOMThe board of trustees has approved a rebuilding of both Moosilauke Ravine

Lodge and Ledyard Canoe Club.

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Mount Moosilauke, one of the great White Mountains scattered be-tween New Hampshire and Maine, has enjoyed a close association with Dartmouth for nearly 100 years. The designated final stop for freshman orientation trips every summer, the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, which sits at the center of 4,600 College-owned acres on the mountain, recently turned its surroundings an even deeper shade of green with the addition of the Class of 1965 Bunkhouse, which opened in June. “It is a truly unique and astound-ing aspect of Dartmouth that a college has placed a mountain in a central place in the school culture,” says Adam Schneider ’15, former chair of Dart-mouth Outing Club’s Cabin & Trail program. (C&T is responsible for main-taining 50 miles of trails on and around Moosilauke.) “It speaks volumes to how students here cherish the outdoors and College traditions as a whole.”

—Marley Marius ’17

“Bald Place”

4,802 FEETALTITUDE AT THE SUMMIT, MAKING MOOSILAUKE NEW HAMPSHIRE’S WESTERN-MOST 4,000 FOOTER AND 10TH HIGHEST PEAK OVERALL.

$485,000COST TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN THE NEW CLASS OF 1965 BUNK-HOUSE. DESIGNED TO SLEEP 26, THE 1 ,270-SQUARE-FOOT BUILDING INCLUDES TWO WOOD STOVES, A STONE TERRACE, AN INCINERAT-ING TOILET AND A DARTMOUTH-GREEN INSULATED METAL ROOF.

26 MILESLENGTH OF MOOSILAUKE’S NINE MAIN TRAILS AND VARIOUS LOOPS.

9.5 MILESLENGTH OF TRAILS ON MOOSILAUKE THAT ARE PART OF THE APPA-LACHIAN TRAIL (FROM GLENCLIFF TO KINSMAN NOTCH).

53.6 MILESACTUAL LENGTH OF “THE 50,” A HIKE FROM HANOVER TO THE LODGE THAT A SMALL GROUP OF STUDENTS ATTEMPTS EACH YEAR.

MOOSE HIKETHE NAME OF A TREK INVENTED BY BRAD BACKUS ’95 AND BERNIE WAUGH ’74. COM-POSED OF THREE TRIPS UP THE MOUNTAIN AND BACK, IT COVERS A COMBINED 36 MILES OVER SIX TRAILS.

WARNING!SIGN AT THE BEAVER BROOK TRAIL, WHICH GAINS 2,000 FEET IN ONE AND A HALF MILES: “THIS TRAIL IS EXTREMELY TOUGH. IF YOU LACK EXPERI-ENCE PLEASE USE ANOTHER TRAIL. TAKE SPECIAL CARE AT THE CASCADES TO AVOID TRAGIC RESULTS.”

CHROME DOMEWITH A BARE SUMMIT THAT OFFERS 360-DEGREE VIEWS OF THE OTHER WHITES, VERMONT AND THE ADIRONDACKS (ON SOME DAYS), MOOSILAUKE GOT ITS NAME FROM THE ALGONQUIN WORD FOR “BALD PLACE.”

AT HOME IN THE WOODSTHE LODGE—OPEN FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER—SLEEPS 94 AND CAN SEAT UP TO 100 FOR DINNER. ABOUT 4,000 PEOPLE VISIT ANNUALLY.

SUMMIT RUINSIN 1860 A HOTEL CALLED THE PROSPECT HOUSE (LATER TIP-TOP HOUSE) OPENED ON THE SUMMIT. AFTER THE PROPERTY WAS DONATED TO THE COLLEGE IN 1920, STUDENTS RAN IT UNTIL 1942, WHEN IT BURNED DOWN. A STONE FOUNDA-TION REMAINS, ALONG WITH THE CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS OF A NEARBY CABIN AND EMERGENCY SHELTER RE-MOVED IN 1978.

A DOWNHILL FIRSTTHE LOWER SEC-TION OF GORGE BROOK WAS ONCE PART OF HELL’S HIGHWAY SKI TRAIL, SITE OF THE FIRST U.S. DOWNHILL CHAM-PIONSHIPS IN 1933.