Part of the advice I received for this piece was to write the article you've always wanted to write, but a column in the senior issue has never been something I have looked forward to.
The frenzy over the alleged Mayan apocalypse on Dec 21 highlighted an interesting trend in American pop culture: a focus on the end of civilization and what might lay beyond.
Dear freshman fall Jack, How is everything going? Wait, don't tell me let me guess. I have a feeling I may have some idea of what you've been going through.
Marietta Smith / The Dartmouth Staff One of our alma mater's most memorable lines asks us to "set a watch, lest the old traditions fail." Yet throughout the College's history, many old traditions have indeed failed and passed on into the twilight of memory.
Dartmouth's Greek tradition is a long and proud one, stretching all the way back to the 19th century.
The recent Rolling Stone article "Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy" profiles the now infamous Dartmouth student Andrew Lohse '12 and his allegations of hazing and its subsequent cover-up here in Hanover.
For many students here, the Dartmouth Coach is their primary mode of transportation to and from campus.
My name is Fayston R. A. Townsend. I went to Beerfield Academy, a boarding school in western Massachusetts.
We always think everything bad will happen to other people. We watch our teammates tear ACLs, our friends get Good Sammed and our peers flunk tests, but we swear it could never happen to us. This attitude extends to our sexual proclivities.
A stately brick building with white shutters and a copper cupola perched on the roof, Cutter-Shabazz blends in with Dartmouth's typical Georgian architecture, save for the unusual script above the front door: "El Hajj Malik El Shabazz," the Muslim name adopted by Malcolm X. Home to the Shabazz Center for Intellectual Inquiry, part of the College's affinity housing program, Cutter houses the office for the Afro-American Society and a space for campus events.