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The Dartmouth
June 28, 2026
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'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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Letter from the Editor

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Laura Bryn Sisson / The Dartmouth Staff "Vox clamantis in deserto." You will read this phrase approximately a bajillion times in this issue.




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Femina Clamat in Deserto

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Women first arrived on campus in 1972 as full-time students and degree candidates to signs that read, "Co-hogs go home." At the outset of coeducation, women often found it difficult to feel comfortable at Dartmouth and even harder to voice their opinions and establish their presence on campus, according to religion professor Susan Ackerman '80, who attended the College in the late 1970s when women were still new and in the minority on campus. "Many of the organizations where women can speak as a collective didn't exist," she said. Ackerman currently serves as the chair of the religion department, and she is a member of the faculty of thewomen and gender studies program.


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'13 Boy: How do you dress as a vagina? '12 Boy: I don't know. It's just a flap. '13 Girl 1: I think I'm going to switch to Timeline.'13 Girl 2: Ew.


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Through the Looking Glass: Similar, but different

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Editor's Note: Through the Looking Glass is The Mirror's newest feature. We welcome submissions from all members of the community, both past and present, who wish to write about defining experiences, moments or relationships during their time at Dartmouth.