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The Dartmouth
June 22, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Editor’s Note

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In the past few weeks, it’s been hard not to question some of those aspects of my identity that I used to consider givens.



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A Culture of Normed Behavior

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The warm hues of the falling leaves and the tolling bells of gleaming Baker tower make me feel like I’m in a blessed enclave of academic inquisitiveness. I’ve just arrived at Dartmouth, and already find myself settling in to a cozy chair in Sanborn, content. But all is not well.


After moving all her possessions for the 10th time at Dartmouth, Connie Gong ’15 reflects on her minimalist attitude and the things that really matter.
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Through the Looking Glass: Unpacking Four Years

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This fall marks the 10th time I’ve moved during my Dartmouth career. It’s the 10th time I’ve loaded my life into neat, portable containers and the 10th time I’ve carted those containers up stairwells, through unfamiliar hallways, into new rooms.


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Q&A: Professor Sonu Bedi

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We sat down with government professor Sonu Bedi, who has studied the intersection between sex, gender and the law, to discuss women’s colleges in the 21st century.


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Overheards

’17 on a Thursday morning: “I need sleep, water and an IV.” ’12: “Okay, here’s the Homecoming plan.


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Fridays with Marian

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You are probably asking yourself, “What does Marian think the federal government should do to prevent Ebola from spreading through the U.S. population?”


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Boots and Rallies

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“Sarah!” I’d cry, “Bradford! How would you like to join me out on the fire escape? We can smoke clove cigarettes and read Camus to one another!”





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Playing for a Higher Purpose

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Student athletes must selectively choose how to spend their limited amounts of free time, and a number of these athletes choose faith and religion. So why don’t we hear more about it?


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Putting Dartmouth in Context

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We must find something or someone meaningful enough to help shepherd us through our descent into an environment more conducive to all sorts of life. For me, Beverly Daigle, an 81-year-old blind woman from Lebanon, New Hampshire, was that someone.


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Overheards

’18: “Why do I keep getting these blitzes about Casual Thursday on Wednesday?” ’18: “He had the audacity to complain about the art in McLaughlin — that’s like a Dartmouth first-world problem.” ’17: “I do have standards.


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Fridays with Marian

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Did you ever play the ’90s computer game “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” I really loved it. As we speak, the world — myself included — is dying to know the whereabouts of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.


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Boots and Rallies

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My rental bike was stolen last week from the knoll between Fahey-McLane and frat row. Let me say, if you’re the mongrel who stole it and you’re reading this, I wish you no bodily harm. I would rather you grow up to perfectly resemble a parent you despise, or a person whose presence will remain addicting to you for the rest of your life breaks your heart, or you realize on an early deathbed that you never had a proud moment that came from within.


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Selling the Product of Fraternities

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During the first weeks of this term, my social relevance somehow increased. With fraternity rush impending, I, alongside many other men in my class, was starting to be taken seriously as a potential new member by fraternities. This was a strange reversal from our invisibility to the frat brothers when we hung around in their basements as freshmen — it was almost a throwback to orientation. “What are you taking this term?” and “Where are you from?” were questions I heard far too frequently.



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For Whom the Baker Bells Toll

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As the air gets colder and the sky starts to merge darker shades of blue and purple, I often find myself, whether suffocating in the stacks on Sunday night, hanging in my room or lounging on the Green, absentmindedly wondering why the bells of Baker Library haven’t yet tolled the “Alma Mater.” It is not long after I pause my work and mull over this thought that the bells unfailingly begin, and it is then that I resume my work with a habitual nod of satisfaction.


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Through the Looking Glass: Tuning In

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As I enter my senior year, I’m reminded of our collective dream to lead happy and successful lives. It’s difficult to avoid the contagious excitement that pervades our campus — we’re all here to figure out how to build and live a great life, while frequently having a bit too much college-rated fun.