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The Mirror Asks... If I were a boy?

By Erin Landau | May 10, 2012

"On campus, I would want to just bro out in a frat basement because they're usually more of a guy scene than a girl scene." Amanda Spoto '14 "I would treat women with respect." Alice Liou '13 "I'd get used to my new body first.

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Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | May 10, 2012

When I came to Dartmouth, some of my closest friends were women. But by the end of my freshman year, I barely spoke to women at all outside of passing hellos or frenzied, convoluted exchanges in the basement.

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Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | May 10, 2012

This is the story of an allusion. "I wake up every morning and wonder whether I love this place or I hate it." "That means you love it." You have probably noticed that the seniors are all carrying around a lot of jade these days.

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Letter from the Editors

Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Ah, First-Year Family Weekend that time of year when freshmen hide the handles of vodka they have been pre-gaming with in their dorm rooms to show their parents what intellectual, collegiate individuals they have become during their first few terms at the College on the Hill.

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Dispatches of Love

By Anuraag Girdhar | May 3, 2012

Parents are pretty old and kind of weird. But even now, most of us still tell them what's going on in our lives and listen to what they have to say.

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Daddy's Little Girl

By Tyler Bradford | May 3, 2012

Going away to college is one of the best times for a student to assert his or her independence. Finally liberated from the grip of 18 years of parenting, a college student relishes in the opportunity to decide what to do and when to do it every single day.

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Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | May 3, 2012

My parents are polar opposites in many ways. Their friends from college often express amazement that my dad, a football and baseball-playing SAE, ended up with my mom, who was a hippie flower child with hair down to her waist.

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A Living Legacy

By Mackenzie Bohannon | May 3, 2012

We've all heard the insane marriage statistics (apparently one in 10 Dartmouth students will marry each other) and seen the alumni in the basements celebrating their 15th reuinions.

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Overheards

May 3, 2012

'13 Girl: I mean, I'm comfortable sending my underwear to an actual laundry service, just not to Psi U. '15 Guy: I've only considered being a Heorot.

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Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | May 3, 2012

This is the story of the tortoise and the hare. I've only ever heard a few true stories. "I just didn't do, like, anything today, dude.

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Too Close for Comfort

By Sara Kassir | May 3, 2012

Going off to college is nothing like how it is in the movies. No one's parents actually load up a minivan of furniture and clothes, plant their kid in a dorm and then say, "Hey, I'll see you at Thanksgiving." Parents always want updates on their son or daughter's life at school.

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