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(02/17/12 4:00am)
"Vox clamantis in deserto." You will read this phrase approximately a bajillion times in this issue. Nevertheless, as forward-thinking as Eleazar Wheelock was when he chose this as our motto in 1770, I'm almost certain that at the time, he could not even begin to imagine the vocal powerhouse his tiny college in the New Hampshire wilderness would eventually become. The voices of Dartmouth are numerous and diverse they have histories behind them, and they have evolved with time. It's not always easy to voice oneself at this school, though instances of censorship, administrative indifference and discrimination have certainly affected our campus and influenced which voices are privileged over others. But in the end, voices are an incredibly important part of our school. At a college as small as Dartmouth in a location as rural as Hanover, a voice can actually make a difference. So this issue is about us how we express ourselves, where we express ourselves and why we express ourselves. After all, Dartmouth College represents 4,196 distinct voices. People ought to listen.
(02/03/12 4:00am)
I love Dartmouth. I do. But sometimes, I can't help but wonder whether my general standards of health have deteriorated since starting school here. I am now numb to the smell of a fraternity basement. I am more of an expert on digging six-inch holes than I would care to admit. And with my broken wrist currently in a cast, showers are now more of a luxury than an absolute necessity. Somewhere in Dartmouth's history, it became not just accepted, but condoned, to be really, really filthy. A friend of mine actually once told me that she did not want to hang out in Sig Ep's new house because the basement was "too sterile." Since when does anyone not hang out somewhere because it's TOO clean? Dartmouth, we have hit rock bottom. It's time to clean up our act. Literally. Consider this issue an opportunity for self-reflection on the not-so-savory hygiene practices you have perhaps adopted since coming to Dartmouth. Or at the very least, use this issue of The Mirror to wipe the frat juice off your shoes. It's gross and smelly, and the person sitting across from you is probably just being nice.
(01/27/12 4:00am)
I am the 30 percent. You know, the shockingly high percentage of students at Dartmouth who choose to study abroad twice during their college careers. I guess I have my parents to thank for my penchant for international travel the first flight I ever went on was a nine-hour haul to Spain at the prime age of two months, and since then I have certainly racked up my fair share of frequent flyer miles. At Dartmouth, I have really come to appreciate the many ways in which our student experience is internationalized. From the food on Main Street to our unique language program to the robust presence of international students, whether we like it or not, our experience here truly is a global one. This issue will examine how internationalism manifests itself both at Dartmouth itself and among its students, both past and present. We will even offer up a few nuggets of advice on how to avoid cultural faux pas when traveling abroad. For example, did you know that if you want to give a gift to someone in China, you cannot give a clock, a stork, a crane, a handkerchief or anything white, blue or black because the Chinese associate all of these things with death? Well, now you know. You're welcome in advance.
(01/20/12 4:00am)
While I was in London this past fall, I met an '07 who told me that during her time at Dartmouth (which was really not that long ago), she often wondered why given the amount of lawbreaking that occurs here on a daily basis this college is still recognized today as a legitimate institution of higher learning. The truth is, we break a lot of laws. We drink, we streak, we inhabit brothels. (Apparently, it is considered a brothel for three unrelated residents to live together. Oops.) So in light of the crime and occasional punishment that takes place on a day-to-day basis here at Dartmouth, we decided to devote an entire issue to looking at our past and present history of lawlessness. I'll be real with you some articles in this issue are kinda scary. Like PG-13 or above scary. As in, I hope you're reading these articles on a sunny day while enjoying the company of a group of happy people and a delicious Collis baked good and not alone in your apartment on a dark and stormy night like I did. Thankfully, some of the other articles address the more humorous side of crime and punishment, like being naked or how Dartmouth kids love punishing themselves by playing pong until 2 a.m. on a Monday when they have a 10A. And if those are crimes, then just lock me up and throw away the key, because who even wants to live freely in a world like that?!?! On a final note, I hope that whoever is reading this does not live in Mid Mass 207. I apologize in advance. You'll see what I mean.
(01/13/12 4:00am)
In his speech to the Class of 2011, Conan O'Brien compared Dartmouth to its Ivy League peers by referring to it as the "cool, sexually confident lacrosse-playing younger sibling who knows how to throw a party and looks good in a down vest." Without a doubt, Dartmouth is a unique constituent in the Ivy League. Some might even say we have an inferiority complex relative to the Big Three. We have no eating clubs like Princeton, no Harry Potter-esque residential colleges like Yale and instead of the absurd cinematic facetime that Harvard received in both "Legally Blonde" and "The Social Network," Dartmouth gets pop culturally sidelined as "that place Nate's dad on Gossip Girl' went to school," or "the Superbad guys' alma mater." And "Animal House" which many Dartmouth students hype up as a famous nod to our beloved College on the Hill technically takes place at Faber College, whatever that is. Regardless, I would say that we are probably the most unique Ivy. We spend most of our evenings underground (think about it), we worship a giant bonfire one night each year and we go through ping pong paddles faster than the Chinese Olympic table tennis team. So this issue will examine Dartmouth's place in the famed Ivy League. Are we, after all, more than just the crunchy, granola-eating Ivy for lumberjacks and other miscellaneous bros? Hey, at least we aren't the lesbian sister who never leaves her room that would be Brown. Happy Friday the 13th, everybody!
(01/06/12 4:00am)
"Welcome Home." As a Dartmouth student, you hear and see that phrase almost constantly the residential life packet you receive in the mail before freshman Fall, that flashy banner that greets you when you arrive on Robo lawn for Trips. Even my Dartmouth Coach driver couldn't resist repeating the same phrase as I arrived in Hanover for 12W after a brief stint in London. And it doesn't stop even once you graduate from Dartmouth the "Welcome Home, Alumni" poster drapes the columns of Collis during every big weekend, just in case they forgot where to call "Home, Sweet Home." But in reality, regardless of how many different ways Dartmouth tries to make itself our home, not everyone comes to see it that way. This issue will look at the idea of finding a home at Dartmouth who finds it? Who doesn't? So whether you feel like you have just returned home or entered an industrial-sized meat freezer (or both), welcome to 12W! I'm Priya, your new Mirror editor! Check out our new "Top 5" section, just above the Overheards!
(09/23/11 2:00am)
We're all talking about it. Whether we are referring to the new FoCo, 1953 Commons, or Fiddy (the unsung hero of nicknames), the new dining halls are abuzz in Hanover. This column usually features an original recipe that utilizes only ingredients that one can find in the dining halls. However, in light of this new dining hall that everybody not just you, '15s! seems to be struggling to figure out, I decided to devote this week's DDS Detective to providing you with a simplified and user-friendly guide to the dining halls. So if you find yourself wondering whether Pavilion cookies still exist, what purpose those fancy cups next to the fro-yo machine serve or who exactly "Ma Thayer" is and what she serves in her kitchen, read on!
(08/16/11 2:00am)
Take all of the best things on YouTube Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber and randos with marginally satisfactory guitar skills looking to get discovered on the internet and you get this week's internet meme: "It's Friday, Baby (Rebecca Black/Justin Bieber mashup)." This meme features a motley duo of teens sporting Bieber haircuts playing the guitar in questionably dim lighting. As if that weren't enough to get you to check this video out, the clip is not only mashups of the music and lyrics of "Friday" by Rebecca Black and "Baby" by Justin Bieber the clever hipsters decided to add a few original lines that further decry the plight of a middle-schooler, including but not limited to: pencils not being sharp enough, not being able to understand Shakespeare and the inability to find a good carpool buddy. The upside to all of this? Rebecca Black did tell Good Morning America that her dream duet would be with the Biebs. Looks like this meme is a happy ending for all of us.
(08/12/11 2:00am)
A lot of people say that thinking about your last supper is morbid. I, on the other hand, find it really interesting. Think about it if you knew you were about to die and could have anything, anything at all, that your heart desired as a last meal, what would it be? Would it be sweet or savory? Something super fancy or just hometown classic? Your mom's cooking or your favorite restaurant?
(08/09/11 2:00am)
Dear '15s, you all hail from a whopping 49 states and 54 countries all with different cultures and ways of life (trust me, I Googled it). However, whether you are a sweater-vest-wearing polo player from Connecticut or a kangaroo-loving Sheila (that means girl, right?) from Australia, there is one common bond that you and your classmates will all share during your time at the College: you will all eat in a Dartmouth dining hall.
(07/29/11 2:00am)
I love summer fruits as much as the next person, but I found it more than a little depressing when I pointed out the empty apple crates under the Collis stir fry line to the manager, only to find out that apples will not be showing up in the dining halls until late August. They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so I can only conclude that the disappearance of apples from Collis is basically a money-making ploy by the doctors at DHMC. Fortunately, the man hasn't totally got us down there is still local applesauce in the fridge.
(07/15/11 2:00am)
I'm from Texas. That would not be immediately obvious if you didn't see the Texas necklace hanging around my neck and the obnoxious (yet obligatory) Texas flag I have plastered to the wall of my room. Weirdly enough, people always tag me as a Pennsylvanian. I don't know what this means. Nonetheless, I have a lot of Texan pride and my biggest source of Texan pride comes in one of the objectively best cuisines known to mankind that is native to the Lone Star State: Tex-Mex. Just to clear a few things up no, Gusanoz does not count as real Mexican food, and no, California, adding a ton of avocados and unnecessary fish to your Mexican restaurants' menus does not make it a signature cuisine. If you want the best Mexican food, you simply have to go to Texas (Mi Cocina, to be exact). So this week, I wanted to tip my (cowboy) hat to one of my favorite cuisines in a kind of unconventional way. This recipe fuses Mexican flavors with the delicious sticky rice of Sunja's sushi to make what I call a Mexican rice casserole.1. At Collis, get a bowl with one scoop of black beans, one scoop of corn, and one (or two!) scoops of cheese.2. Go to the Sunja's sushi line and ask one of the chefs to put a scoop or two of sticky rice in your bowl (it's free!)3. Using a spoon, mix the entire thing so that the beans, corn, and cheese are incorporated fully into the rice and that everything is stuck together.4. Spritz the juice of one lemon slice on top of the mixture.
5. Stick that in the microwave for 45 seconds.6. Let it cool it will be really hot!7. Top that with salsa, salt and pepper to taste.
(07/01/11 2:00am)
Nothing says sophomore Summer like a watermelon. Unfortunately, I hated watermelons for the majority of my life. I know what you are thinking only a person who kicks babies for a living could ever dislike such a delectable summer treat. It all started when my sister told me when I was little that if I swallowed a watermelon seed I would grow a watermelon in my belly. Not eager to appear with child on top of my already awkward fifth-grade figure, I avoided the melon like the plague. I soon figured out, however, that this was just another one of her brown-M&M's-are-poop-style jokes.
(07/01/11 2:00am)
PS Don't forget to check out Gardner's version of the food pyramid on the cover. Apparently, you should be grilling 7-11 times a day. So get after it.
(06/10/11 2:00am)
While it may be easy to remind you all of the day you first stepped onto Robo lawn for your DOC trip, ran around the bonfire during your first homecoming and won your first game of pong (or if you haven't what have you been doing all of Senior Week?), for many of you the experiences that stand out most are not those that appear on the Dartmouth bucket list, but rather the moments that were uniquely your own.
(06/01/11 2:00am)
Coxswains crew team members responsible for navigating and motivating boats while on the water play a largely unheralded role. Few people know they exist, much less understand what they do. But for the Dartmouth rowing teams, they are an essential component of any crew's success, providing energy and decision-making skills despite taking a largely backseat role.
(05/27/11 2:00am)
To those who claim to not like dessert, you just haven't found the right one yet that sweet treat that makes you slump back in your seat in awe of the little portion of heaven that you've just tasted. There's no better time to (re)discover dessert than the present, especially given this week's recipe banana crumble. It's hands down one of the best things DDS has to offer.
(05/16/11 2:00am)
Eight proved to be the lucky number for the men's lightweight and women's crew teams' first varsity boats, whose octets took second and third, respectively, in the Grand Finals at the Eastern Sprints this past weekend. The men's heavyweight crew team failed to send its first varsity boat to the Grand Finals, but it qualified for the IRA National Championships and placed several boats in the top 10 of their respective divisions.
(05/13/11 2:00am)
We had three classes. In the morning, we had grammar with Paulina who was, in fact, only in the business of teaching foreign exchange students in order to expand her iTunes collection of msica americana. Before lunch, we had our conversation lesson with Jorge, whose life with his three closest amigos served as the inspiration for the movie, "The Hangover" (not verified, but I'm pretty positive). Last but not least, we had Hugo for an afternoon class whose purpose we never actually learned.
(05/06/11 2:00am)
*Your placement in the Choates, Russell Sage or McLaughlin was arbitrary, but at Hogwarts, your ambitions, tendencies and personality quirks determine where you live, what colors you wear and the company you keep in other words, your house.**##