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August 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
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A Final Nightmare

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It’s the end of week nine. The leaves are gone and the cold is here to stay. The sun will not appear for another six months. We all know what time it is. Finals!




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Joe Kind, A Guy

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I’ve been telling friends that I am participating in No-Shave November because, you know, I am really cool. But no, I just have yet to deal with my face in what is now three weeks. I have more important things to be thinking about.




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Baring it All

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After all, the Ledyard Challenge is just one of the College’s numerous nudity-focused traditions, along with streaking finals, the Dartmouth Seven and the blue light challenge. Although we consider these practices normal and acceptable, a closer examination may provide a different perspective — why do so many of our traditions require participants to be naked? Are we obsessed with nudity?


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There's No Place Like Home

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Aside from us, there are approximately 1,114 other ’19s at Dartmouth. They come from across the globe — from here in New Hampshire to Thailand to Kenya. And yet, we haven’t a heard a single one of them admit to being homesick.







 Ali Dalton/ The Dartmouth Staff
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United States of Halloween

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Halloween is uniquely celebrated in the United States, and the same traditions do not hold necessarily hold true for international students. Without being accustomed to such traditions, one might see our enthusiastic celebrations as bizarre or even outlandish.


 Alyssa Schmid/ The Dartmouth Staff
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Ghosts Galore

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“If you’re looking for the best place in Portsmouth to take a bathroom selfie, it is here, at the Music Hall,” Rosie says. Mental note made — I will return for a ghost selfie in near future.



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A Ghoul at Our School?

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Nine School Street is haunted. Residents of the 19th-century mansion today known as the Panarchy undergraduate society firmly believe that spiritual presences both malevolent and benign haunt the buildings behind its massive columns.


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Sam's Little Larks

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Fall is my favorite part of the year. Everything is dying. People drive up from Connecticut to celebrate death, taking pictures of the chlorophyll breaking down and the suicide plunges of hundreds of little leaves.


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Joe Kind, A Guy

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I know what you’re all thinking— “FoCo Joe, if you can conjure up random desserts every other dinner, surely you must have some costume ideas?!!”