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Editor's Note

By Gayne Kalustian and Annie Ma | June 13, 2015

It’s easy to get swept up in remembering the beginnings and ends of things. The nostalgia of Trips and the seemingly grand significance of right now — what may feel like an end to some and a beginning to others but is probably something of both. But, in between that first step on the Green to the last step off that stage, what will you remember once you are no longer at this College on the Hill?

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Lessons in Geopoetry

By Stephanie McFeeters | May 28, 2015

Some 20,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to melt, gradually thawing and retreating, inching up and up and up, at some point shaping the very valley we inhabit. I won’t purport to understand this process better than my B+ in “Marine Geology” suggests.

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Defining My Dartmouth

By Caela Murphy | May 28, 2015

A few weeks ago, in one of my few forays into the wilderness since my Hiking 1 trip freshman year, I spent the night with a group of friends at the Class of 1966 Lodge, also known as Harris Cabin. As we laughed through rounds of Taboo and “yum-yummed” the remainder of what must have been an industrial-sized block of Cabot cheese, the daylight receded, bringing with it the serene darkness and the distant, unknown living sounds characteristic of a forest at night.

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Once A Cynic, Now Reformed

By Emma Moley | May 28, 2015

There was a moment my freshman fall — standing on the snow-covered Green, wearing drenched sneakers and a crayon costume (yes, it snowed on Halloween) and surrounded by hundreds of my similarly elated classmates — when I declared in an uncharacteristic display of sappiness that I loved Dartmouth.

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Forgetting Your Past

By Erin Landau | May 28, 2015

It is easy to lie about who you are, both to yourself and others. Most freshmen enter college with very few people who truly know them — and, of course, many barely know themselves.

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Embracing the Unexpected

By Sasha Dudding | May 28, 2015

During our time here, we watch as the strangers we are thrown together with in this remote place become our closest friends — and sometimes, as they become strangers again.

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Unexpected Places

By Taylor Malmsheimer | May 28, 2015

But when I sat down to write this column, I found myself thinking about places that have defined my time here. I first recalled a moment during my initial visit to campus. My dad and I were listening to our tour guide, and I remember imagining myself lounging on the Green, FoCo cookie in hand, after a morning in the biology class that my tour guide described.

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Going to School in the Woods

By Blaze Joel | May 28, 2015

Flashback to Wednesday, March 30, 2011 — college acceptance letter day for the Class of 2015 and the day I found out I was accepted to Dartmouth (contrary to popular belief, I did not apply early decision).

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Leaving the Buffet Behind

By Ashley Ulrich | May 28, 2015

I have been so lucky and privileged to be the recipient of boundless support and love from my parents and brother, but I also think that I have managed “to do Dartmouth right” for me — which I think entailed taking the classes that excited me, joining the organizations that open my eyes to the world and befriending the people whom I care about to the ends of the earth.

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Clarity in the Chaos

By Aditi Kirtikar | May 28, 2015

8:41 p.m.: The exact time I received the blitz about writing this very column. I was in the middle of a weekly standing hangout (read: harbor) date with my freshman floormates.

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Boots and Rallies

By Aaron Pellowski | May 28, 2015

“If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.” — “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986)

Allie Fudge '18 hangs out with her support dog, Kelsie Iris, on the Green.
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A Student's Best Friend

By Maggie Baird and Kate Hildreth | May 21, 2015

Frat dogs have long been the undisputed top dogs on campus, many sparking followings of their own, but there is another class of up-and-coming canine. This fall, Student Accessibility Services implemented a new support animal program, which now allows students to live with their support animals in campus dorms.

Allie Fudge '18 hangs out with her support dog, Kelsie Iris, on the Green.
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National No More

By Maggie Shields | May 21, 2015

It’s 1976, and change is brewing in Hanover. A group of Dartmouth women feel that the College’s social scene does not fit their needs, so they contact the national sorority Sigma Kappa to discuss establishing a chapter on campus. That spring, the sorority’s first pledge class sees an immense turnout. Flash forward to 1988 and seven more national sororities have been established on campus. Still, some of them feel that the ideas and rituals of their national governing bodies do not match up with the social needs of women at Dartmouth. So what has happened when sororities decide to go local?

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Help Wanted

By Caroline Berens | May 21, 2015

In May 1992, Thomas Cormen, vying for a position in the mathematics and computer science department, had a lot on his mind.

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