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(05/27/11 2:00am)
Over the course of her past two years at 17 South Park St., Marguerite has made her room her very own. On one wall, there's a city skyline. On another, a tutu top below a T-shirt made out of newspaper. On another, an entire Matisse book, page by page. "I tore them out and staplegunned them up because I knew if I left it on my desk, it'd just sit there. At least this way, I got to read it here and there, and I did."
(05/06/11 2:00am)
A dorm room's story is often told on its walls but in the case of Kevin Estrada '11, it's in his boxes. And there are tons of them under his bed, piled up against his window, in the shadows of his soccer jerseys in the closet. On first glance, I'm a little worried.
(04/22/11 2:00am)
I first noticed Maceda Alemu '13 when she told our Spanish professor that her Spanish wouldn't be so great because she'd been speaking Amharic for the last two months. After seeing her third pair of neon sneakers and a few intercambios exchanging our hopes for the conditional future, I asked: "Puedo feature you in The Mirror?"
(04/08/11 2:00am)
Competing with a mini Kindle on his bedside table is a sturdy stack of all of this week's issues: Harper's, Spin, Wired, The Atlantic, Esquire, Newsweek. "I've kept everything I've read since freshman year," Jamie explains as we enter his bedroom in Fahey 103. "When I finally picked them up from storage this term, there were six boxes, must have been a couple hundred pounds heavy."
(03/04/11 4:00am)
There's even a coffee table covered in books on the art of making cupcakes. How a Dartmouth student lives in such composed and civilized conditions is beyond me. Jocelyn Drexinger '12 keeps a cloth-covered footstool beside her bed along with not one, but two living plants, one of which sits in a pink pastel pot settled in a larger banana leaf dish on her coffee table. "This one's called a Hen and Chicks,'" she says with the calm reserve of a florist. "It's a succulent, so it doesn't take in much water."
(02/18/11 4:00am)
But it's not the posters, nor the Van Gogh replica, nor the skis leaning against the window that seem worthiest of mention. Not when there's a huge forest mural sprawled across a wall with fall leaves dangling along a string from the ceiling above and a pumpkin sitting on the wall's ledge as if perplexed by a passing salmon in the creek.
(01/28/11 4:00am)
After rushing across campus to 104 North Mass with wet hair, more than a night's worth of work and a camera slung around my neck, Allie's warm, candy-lit dorm is a welcome refuge. I find her cross-legged on the floor with a friend and a half-finished bottle of wine, lounging amidst a wind-swept array of magazine clippings and nail polish. I spot "Barthes's Mythology" from a literary theory class she's taking this semester. "Tonight is certainly not a work night," she insists with a curling, Merlot-lipped smile. As I notice the blue light of the cold hour on the snowy fire escape outside her window, I'm tempted to agree.
(01/14/11 4:00am)
The indulgent patchwork parlor of Shelby Jackson '13 is full of bohemian mystery. A cabaret lamp in the color and shape of a cabbage hangs from a long cable, tinting her room a dim gypsy green. Admiring its scalloped piqu, I'm surprised when she flips off the light to reveal a rather delicate, virginally ivory lampshade. "It's a green light bulb," Shelby explains, settling onto an exercise ball in the middle of her floor.
(11/12/10 4:00am)
"It's a sticker," she says, peeling up an edge as she hops up onto her bed, displacing an overalled old bear in the process. "I picked it up back home in Miami's Design District."
(10/22/10 2:00am)
As I enter the dorm room of Sydney Thomashow '11 (Lord 104) she offers me my pick of the Hello Kitty tattoos and a wet washcloth, scattered around German Expressionism art history books and wine glasses on her table. While she and her roommates busy about, I slap a cupcake tattoo on my wrist and have a look at the coloring book pages she's taped up on her wall. "To decompress," she eyes me in the mirror. "CVS, 3 bucks."
(10/08/10 2:00am)
"It's from a pie fight," she explains dryly, her housemate Alexi Pappas '12 laughing rascally in the doorway. "I realized last year that I'd never been pied in the face, so I took it upon myself to make it happen."
(09/24/10 2:00am)
When Danielle Short '13 first arrived at Streeter 209 this term, it was covered in cobwebs.
(01/29/10 4:00am)
As Andy Warhol put it, living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. Like, for instance, a collection of late-19th-century abalone shell buttons chronicling railroad development in France. At Tender Buttons (143 East 62nd St., near Lexington Ave.), you'll find everything from the practical (that is, 400 different models of blazer buttons) to the extravagant.
(01/15/10 4:00am)
Read forth, ye brown-nosed hopefuls. Here's the quick guide to getting a citation, from the very benefactors themselves your profs and from the very medium that you use to complain about the results, blitz! If you're still working on the A, don't read this. It's just depressing:(Giavanna Munafo, Women and Gender Studies) "When a student's passion for the ideas and materials propel her or him to produce exceptional work work that stands out as remarkably more insightful, adventurous, creative, thorough and/or ambitious than that of the class overall then I honor that effort and productivity through the mechanism of a citation. For me, the citation is symbolic. It is always my goal to have provided that student with lots of substantive feedback along the way and at the close of the term to reflect my appreciation and to be sure that I fully acknowledge the quality of her/his work."(Ernest Hebert, English) "I give out very few citations and A's. The reason is grade inflation. We award so many B pluses and A minuses these days that I feel I must reserve A's for excellent work and citations for the truly extraordinary. I wish we graded creative writing on class attendance and participation in workshops only, so that students could experiment with different kinds of writing without worrying about the damn grade." (Vera Palmer, Native American Studies) "Across academe, and particularly among the Ivy schools, there exists an ongoing faculty concern about grade inflation. At Dartmouth I've observed that students often feel they deserve an A' just because they have worked hard. While such diligence is laudable and necessary for learning, the quality of work produced by a student is the deciding factor; it should rise to the level of an A,' as articulated in the ORC: Excellent mastery of material, a very high degree of originality and/or creativity, excellent performance in analysis, synthesis and critical expression (oral or written), and unusual effectiveness in working independently." (Robert Caldwell, Physics) "I award a citation to students in my introductory physics classes who have performed beyond the level of excellence necessary for an A, who would otherwise earn an A+. I have had many very good students in these courses and have been pleased to give ~2-3 citations per year."(Adina Roskies, Philosophy), "I don't often give citations. They go only for work that is consistently top-notch, and deserves special recognition. I don't think there are directions one can follow to get one."