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(04/01/15 8:05am)
April Fools' Day is upon us again, and Dartbeat has put together a few ways to finally establish yourself as an evil mastermind — the ultimate prankster. Of course, your prank depends heavily upon whom you’re pranking, so we’ve divvied up our list of ideas based on just that. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t celebrate the holiday last year or if you’re known for your pranks and are looking to kick things up a notch. Either way, we’ve got you covered.
Significant Other:
When it comes to your significant other, it may be best to avoid the fake breakups, pregnancy announcements and proposals. Instead, you could say that you’ve decided to get their name tattooed onto your body, and even ask for their help in deciding where it should go. Or you could bake one of their favorite desserts but replace the frosting with mayonnaise. You get the idea.
(02/05/15 7:44pm)
Last month, New Hampshire began to sell $1 bacon-scented scratch-n-sniff lottery tickets. Yes, you read that right, and yes, here @Dartbeat we couldn’t be more thrilled about the development. So, as a lover of all things breakfast, I volunteered to rush down to the gas station by CVS this week and buy two tickets as fast as I could. Here’s a breakdown of my experience.
(01/24/15 1:52pm)
Well, that was a rough week. Stepping outside felt like navigating through artic tundra, and to complete the theme, the wet slush and slippery ice had many of us walking like penguins. So, if you slipped this week and need to laugh it off, here’s a list of 7 poses you may have accidentally struck as you made your way around campus this week. If any of these happened to you, tweet us @Dartbeatblog with your story!
(01/18/15 2:47pm)
Forty years ago this Thursday, The Dartmouth’s opinion page featured the following column from David MacDonald. According to David, who worked at the Baker Circulation Desk, students would frequently come to his desk and complain that the Xerox machine had stopped working.
(01/12/15 12:33pm)
We’re only a few weeks into the New Year, but at least here @Dartbeat we’ve already given up on our tricky resolutions like “do the reading” and “exercise more.” So, in order to help ourselves and other failing self-improvers, we’ve decided to put together a list of more feasible changes you can make this year to marginally better your life. Everyone has to start somewhere, right?
(05/29/14 6:00am)
“Where should I eat?” and “Which frat should I go to?” are questions that many Dartmouth students often finding themselves asking. Bryan Crampton ’17, Mike Urbach ’14 and Chris Jung ’14 have created a new app to help answer such questions. Tether allows students to rate the crowdedness of dining areas, the library and the gym and comment on the activity at fraternities and sororities. The app also shows how many of your friends are currently at these locations.
(05/20/14 9:00am)
1. You feel like week nine just snuck up from nowhere.
(05/16/14 9:15am)
1. When you first saw you’ve been waitlisted, you couldn’t believe it.
(05/08/14 4:00pm)
Brown University: A newly-formed task force on sexual assault will submit recommendations by December for improving prevention efforts, campus resources and university policies, the Brown Daily Herald reported. In addition, the university will seek a full-time Title IX coordinator to assume the responsibilities of three existing part-time coordinators.
(04/30/14 9:00am)
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(04/23/14 7:00am)
1. You’re super warm and cozy in the winter.
(04/17/14 1:00pm)
1. You’re super excited to frolick on the Green once again.
(04/10/14 11:30am)
Brown University: Brown graduates have the highest average debt of all Ivy League graduates, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The annual report released by the Institute for College Access and Success, a non-profit, revealed that in 2012, Brown graduates left with an average debt of $23,521 per borrower. This marks a 15 percent increase from 2011, when the university’s average student debt was $20,455.
(04/03/14 1:00pm)
Brown University: Brown offered admission to 8.6 percent of the 30,432 applicants to the Class of 2018, the lowest acceptance rate in the university’s history, the Brown Daily Herald reported. A record-high 18 percent of admits are first-generation college students, and a record-high 46 percent identify as students of color.
(03/26/14 11:00am)
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(03/06/14 11:00am)
1. You start out super pumped for all the things you plan on doing.
(03/04/14 11:00am)
March 1, 2:31 a.m., Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity: A Safety and Security officer received a report of two stolen jackets worth $300 each. Both students declined assistance from Hanover Police.
(03/03/14 8:00am)
1. Carrying your ski equipment around campus just became too much of a hassle.
(02/26/14 11:00am)
Eight Dartmouth graduates and three current students competed in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, with three making it to the podium as medal winners. Hannah Kearney ’15 won the bronze medal in freestyle moguls skiing, the event she took first in at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
(02/19/14 11:00am)
In a world where social media is often used for cyberbullying, it’s refreshing to see four ’17s use an online project to bring the Dartmouth community closer together. Sharon Cho ’17, Neil Kamath ’17, Alyssa Mahatme ’17, and Josh Renaud ’17 run the Facebook page “Faces of Dartmouth,” inspired by “Humans of New York,” a photography blog that features the portraits and words of the city’s inhabitants. Similarly, each post on the “Faces of Dartmouth” page includes a photo of and quote from a member of the Dartmouth community.