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Exploring narratives outside the gender binary

By Sonia Qin | May 19, 2016

For Logan Henderson ’17, his identity as a trans and gender-queer person of color has been significantly affected by the College’s small size, lack of racial and ethnic diversity and location in a rural town.

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Alumnae pioneer in gender-related fields

By Lucy Li | May 19, 2016

Despite its 247-year history as an institution, Dartmouth opened its doors to women 44 years ago, and since then we have had some incredible alumnae who have made their mark in a patriarchal world.

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Makers of Dartmouth

By Lucy M. Li | May 10, 2016

Lucy Li '19 explores various makers at Dartmouth.

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Designing Desserts at Dartmouth

By Nelly Mendoza-Mendoza | May 10, 2016

How does Foco create the sweets and treats that nourish students at the College?

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Build Your Own Major

By Abbey Cahill | May 10, 2016

Abbey Cahill '18 explores creating and modifying majors.

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Joe Kind: A Guy

By Joe Kind | May 10, 2016

Joe Kind '16 reflects on his term spent in Argentina and...Tinder?

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Making Things Up

By Mary Liza Hartong and Andrew Kingsley | May 10, 2016

Mary Liza and Andrew offer some suggestions for excuses when you just can't make it to class.

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Editor's Note

By Hayley Hoverter and Caroline Berens | May 10, 2016

Why was Caroline holding half of a hot dog and a broken flower crown?

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Photo Essay: Making Things, A Narrative on Life

By Seamore Zhu | May 10, 2016

Senior Staff Photographer Seamore Zhu '19 explores the history of humans in relation to the Earth by capturing the way we have come to see and use nature to lock ourselves into smaller, more constructed spaces.

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Photo Essay: Distractions

By Eliza McDonough | May 4, 2016

Senior staff photographer Eliza McDonough '18 looks into the nature of distractions.

The Decibelles are the College's oldest all-female a cappella group

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Dartmouth Decibelles...or Distractions

By Carolyn Zhou | May 3, 2016

Carolyn profiles the Dartmouth Distractions, now known as the Dartmouth Decibelles.

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Through the Looking Glass: The Mundane Miracle of Resilience

By Sadia Hassan | May 3, 2016

In Tomas Tranströmmer’s poem “The Blue House” (1997), a man stands in the woods outside of his home and sees with new eyes. It is as though he were dead and suddenly flooded with sight. Before him, the house transforms into a child’s drawing. The timber is heavy with sorrow and joy. The garden is a new world awash with weeds. The walls and ceilings tell a story different than he remembers. At the end of the poem, everything falls away except for a single image: a battered ship setting sail on raging seas. Each of our lives is trailed by a phantom life, he asserts, “a sister vessel which plows an entirely different route.”