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Dartmouth Was My Dream School

By Iris Liu | January 24, 2013

To be honest, my dream school growing up would not have been Dartmouth. I knew what I wanted: a large university, preferably somewhere warm and not too close to home.

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Editor's Note

By Amelia Acosta | January 17, 2013

/ The Dartmouth Staff A little known fact about me is that I was a fairly unsuccessful child actress, starring in "When I Grow Up I Want to be... A Veterinarian." Though this was the peak of my acting career, it wasn't the end of my life as a performer.

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Top 5 Performers at Dartmouth

By The Dartmouth | January 17, 2013

The Sun God: '16s, this reference may be before your time, but since he actually made a living as a performance artist, we figured he deserved a shoutout. Ma Thayer: Performs every day at lunch and dinner. My Dartmouth ID: Which performs a disappearing act every time i'm trapped outside my door in the freezing cold. The Dartmouth vpn: Stealing the show and getting you netflix on your off-term.

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Overheards

January 17, 2013

'14 Girl: I like people who I don't even know. I can't imagine how it would feel to like someone I did know. '15 Girl: I really need to blitz this kid to figure things out.

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Dartmouth in Film

By Myrel Iturrey | January 17, 2013

Allison Wang / The Dartmouth Staff We are introduced to Conrad "Ronnie" Brean an amoral political spin-doctor and one of Robert De Niro's most acclaimed roles in a hectic White House Situation Room. "Where'd you go to school, kid," Brean asks the White House aide, played by Suzanne Cryer "Wellesley?" The actress in the 1997 comedy "Wag the Dog," described in the original screenplay as a "bright young woman in her 20s," responds plainly: "Dartmouth." "Then show a little spunk!" Brean retorts. The quick, albeit telling reference to Dartmouth made within the first 10 minutes of the film's opening scene is just one amongst a slew of the College's portrayals in cinema.

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From Hanover to Hollywood

By Lindsay Keare | January 17, 2013

For a school about as far away from Hollywood as you can get in the United States, Dartmouth has a huge number of alumni who shined in the arts while they were undergraduates.

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Getting Typecast

By Iris Liu and Elizabeth Trager | January 17, 2013

Dartmouth students are notoriously overbooked. A 10 p.m. group project meeting is the norm and our iCals are visually pleasing just based on the sheer number of color-coded activities.

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Varsity Theater

By Sara Kassir | January 17, 2013

Award winning play director and Dartmouth theatre professor Carol Dunne didn't always feel comfortable around the stage. "The first time I did it, I was terrified," Dunne recalled.

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Pressure to Perform

By Natalie Van Brunt | January 17, 2013

When I step on the Dartmouth Coach and leave the Hanover bubble to head back home, I never look forward to the questions about school that are bound to be asked.

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Ready or Not

By Jack Boger | January 10, 2013

The frenzy over the alleged Mayan apocalypse on Dec 21 highlighted an interesting trend in American pop culture: a focus on the end of civilization and what might lay beyond.

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The Bucket List

By Lauren Vespoli | January 10, 2013

I think Winter term feels like more of a fresh start than Fall, particularly when we've been away from Hanover for over a month.

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