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Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | February 23, 2012

When I was six years old, my uncle gave me a lacrosse stick for my birthday. Every day after school, I would grab it from the bench in our kitchen and run outside to play catch against this thing called a Rebounder, a bouncy net that sends the ball straight back to you.

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Overheards

February 23, 2012

'13 Girl looking at guy's love match sheet: There are no girls on this entire sheet!'13 Guy: That's because I'm gay... '13 Girl: I'm allergic to cats, but i LOVE cat photos! Psych prof: Apparently I give "tricky-ass" tests, according to your evaluations.

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Demystifying the Dartmouth Decade

By Leslie Ye | February 23, 2012

If Eleazar Wheelock could see us now, he would be rolling over in his grave. Yes, Dartmouth has remained a bastion of higher education over the centuries, and we are just as in the middle of the woods as we ever were.

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Communication Nation: Dartmouth Before Smart Phones

By Myrel Iturrey | February 23, 2012

I never get cell phone service in Lou's. On more than one occasion, I have accidentally flagged down a waitress as I guiltily raised my iPhone high above my blueberry-peach pancakes, hoping to catch a single bar of service. "It's frustrating," Libby Buttenweiser '15 said of the "dead zones" in Hanover, of which Lou's Restaurant is only one example.

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A Walk Down Webster Ave.

By Sean Schultz | February 23, 2012

Over a period of more than two centuries, Greek letter organizations and their literary society predecessors have become intricately intertwined with Dartmouth's culture.

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The Voices in the Wilderness: Finding Meaning in Dartmouth's Motto

By Anuraag Girdhar | February 16, 2012

Our understanding of "Vox clamantis in deserto" is wrong. In English, the College's motto reads, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness." However, directly translated from the Book of Isaiah in the original Hebrew Masoretic text, the actual full phrase is, "A voice crieth: in the wilderness clear a way for the Lord." Indeed, the voice itself does not reside in the wilderness it merely decrees that a path be cleared through the wilderness.

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Censoring the Vox

By Sara Kassir | February 16, 2012

Let's face it: If there were a higher power capable of silencing everything controversial or provocative that the publication produced, there is no way that The Mirror, much less The Dartmouth, would even exist. Dartmouth students are lucky we have an administration that supports students finding and using their voices.

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Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | February 16, 2012

This is the story of a voice. I've been worried about how I sound for a long time. I like to talk, and I feel like it'd be grating if I sounded dumb.

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Top 5 Lamest School Mottos

By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff | February 16, 2012

Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Oh really? University of Rochester: "Better." It just goes to show you that shorter is not always, well, you know, better. Evergreen State College: "Let it all hang out." This is actually an accredited institution of higher learning. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." You'd think that Rowena, Godric, Salazar and Helga would have come up with something slightly more spellbinding. Stephenson College: "One day I will rule the world." Noted alumni may include Mussolini, Hitler and Qadaffi.

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