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In defense of emo

By Divya Gunasekaran | February 15, 2008

In honor of Valentine's Day, it would only be appropriate to talk about a musical style that Valentine's Day brings out the best in, and that, of course, is emo. Sure, Valentine's Day is about flowers, chocolate hearts, the corporate exploitation of an overly sentimental holiday with an overriding focus on consumerism and maybe even love, but there's also the counter-cultural approach to Valentine's Day -- celebrated with the donning of black attire and the blasting of bitter songs about cheating ex-girlfriends and loveless, empty futures. However, I'm not going to address emo music and its surrounding culture per se, although I won't go out of my way to avoid ridiculing it; rather, I want to discuss everyone's over-eagerness to classify music as emo. Emo originated as a musical style that branched off of hardcore, a subgenre of punk that many find unbearable, or at least incomprehensible.

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Students say yes before senior year

By Joanna Patterson | February 15, 2008

Two things come to die at Dartmouth -- shoes and dating. Call me an upperclassman girl, but I suspect that four years here will not land me an MRS to go along with my B.A. That being said, there exists a segment of the Dartmouth population whose most important ring obtained in college is not for graduation but for marriage.

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Dating, Mating and Equating

By Eve Ahearn | February 15, 2008

Didn't have a date for Valentine's Day? Imagine trying to get one before the school was coed, or in the late seventies when there was only one woman for every three men!

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Designing Foundations

By Amy Davis | February 1, 2008

Kyle Betts / The Dartmouth Over half of all high school seniors who state their intended majors on college applications graduate with something completely different on their diplomas.

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Ask a Professor: Marlene Heck

By Christine Paquin | February 1, 2008

This is what a College ought to look like." Eisenhower said it when he visited Dartmouth in 1953, and professor of art history and senior lecturer Marlene Heck agrees. Marlene Heck came to Dartmouth in 1990 with an undergraduate degree in history, a masters degree in architectural history and teaching experience from Texas A & M's architecture department.

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Written with the Walls

By Eve Ahearn | February 1, 2008

Imagine that it's spring and you're lying on the Green enjoying the sun. Now, let's imagine sitting on the Green in 1890: There is a yellow museum where Baker Library usually stands, and Dartmouth Hall is wooden rather than brick.

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The Granite in our Brains

By Jean Ellen | February 1, 2008

College is sometimes described as a time to find one's own place in the world. No wonder things have been getting so heated about 'who's empowered in what space when.' Jean Ellen Cowgill explores the politics of space further in what she promises is not just another article about Beta. Over the past year, we sons and daughters of Dartmouth have talked a lot about the politics of space.

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The Mirror Tech Column

By Luofei Deng | February 1, 2008

This gadget preview for 2008 should have debuted before the first month of the year was over, but Mac screwed us over by announcing MacBook Air that week.

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The DM Manual of Style

By Dylan Leavitt | February 1, 2008

I am afraid of 2008 celebrity style. While ordinarily I would be first on line to trade places with them, stylistically speaking, this year not so much.

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Hello Dartmouth!

By Caitlin Kelly | February 1, 2008

This issue's topic -- architecture on campus -- holds a special place in my heart. Right next to the place where I store this happy memory: Just over a year ago, my sophomore fall, I decided to pursue my long-standing interest in architecture more concretely and enrolled in Architecture 1.

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Spotlight on: Sydney Kim '07

By Jean Luo | January 25, 2008

Sydney Kim '07, a studio art major and English minor, is currently a studio art teacher's assistant at Dartmouth. What are you doing now? I'm applying to art schools for my MFA -- master in fine arts.

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