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An Appropriate Halloween

By Kalie Marsicano | October 30, 2014

If there’s one lesson “Mean Girls” taught me, it’s how to do Halloween like a champ — just add animal ears. This rule of thumb has brought me consistent success (recent hits include “sexy cat” and “sexy Mickey Mouse from ‘Fantasia’”) but my overwhelming lack of creativity just doesn’t do it for everyone, and I get that. On Halloween, we dress to scare, amuse and impress, sometimes all at once, and the rules that dictate our daily attire disappear.

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Boots and Rallies

By Aaron Pellowski | October 30, 2014

An important woman in my life once told me that “minor distinctions make the man” — a token aphorism whereby she justified her ceaseless vituperation of others, often me, for transgressing upon “Good Style” so criminally as to put prepositions at the ends of sentences (something up with which she simply could not put). “Fitzgerald said that,” she said, after saying it herself two or three times. “He always had his suits tailored at Brooks Brothers, you know.”

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Editor’s Note

By Erin Landau | October 30, 2014

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

By Zak Meghrouni-Brown | October 23, 2014

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

By Connie Gong | October 23, 2014

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

By Timothy Connor | October 23, 2014

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

October 23, 2014

’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

By Marian Lurio | October 23, 2014

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

By Aaron Pellowski | October 23, 2014

“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

By Veronique Davis | October 9, 2014

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

By Hannah Petrone | October 9, 2014

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

October 9, 2014

’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

By Marian Lurio | October 9, 2014

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

By Aaron Pellowski | October 9, 2014

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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