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Frosty's Corner

By Sarah Frostenson | January 6, 2011

Truth: Time to face the facts "The Perfect Term" never actually happens at Dartmouth. When the bone-chilling sting of a Hanover winter begins to set in and people morph into unrecognizable blobs, masked in their hooded parkas and woolly scarves, it suddenly hits you: Everyone who's not on campus in the winter is currently having a better term than you. No, really, it's true.

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Editor's Note

By Christina Wray | January 6, 2011

Justin Cozad / The Dartmouth Staff In my first week back on campus, I've observed that the thick New Hampshire snow has done little to dampen the Dartmouth community's beginning-of-the-term optimism.

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Worst Term Ever

By Austin Prey | January 6, 2011

The phrase "Worst Term Ever" gets thrown around a lot these days. So much so, in fact, that it is losing its descriptive power.

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Easy A

By Patrick Chen | January 6, 2011

A 4.0 at Dartmouth is like a leprechaun. If you're like me and have a permanent seat on the struggle bus, you've likely heard stories about students with 4.0s but can't ever really know for sure who does and doesn't have one until the valedictorians are announced senior year.

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Sage Advice from a Senior

By Spenser Mestel | January 6, 2011

As a senior, I feel it's my time to transition from writing opinions to giving advice, and beginning my fourth winter in Hanover surely qualifies me to offer a recommendation or two to my fellow students.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | January 6, 2011

Gov Prof: Don't worry about finding that book. So many of my colleagues simply make up their sources anyway. '11 Guy: I did the math and I can get Ds in both of my classes this term and my GPA will only go down like 0.5 points.'13 Guy: You must have a really low GPA. '12 Sigma Delt: I wasn't hungover because I woke up drunk, which was nice. '14 Guy: I'm just in an a capella group, and DREAM, and I work at the library.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | November 18, 2010

'11 Premed: Like, your grades don't matter if you want to be an ibanker, you just have to be in Theta Delt. '12 Panarchist: My dog doesn't smoke weed, but I know dogs that do. '12 Guy on London FSP: Oh, are we on the way to Canterbury?

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Navigating the Masculine Maze

By Jack Boger | November 18, 2010

On a recent Friday afternoon made precociously dark by daylight savings time, I spoke with English professor Peter Travis, who occasionally teaches a women and gender studies course called "The Masculine Mystique." "Men in our culture carry extra baggage" due to expectations and responsibilities imposed on them by both society and themselves, he said.

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Finding Femininity

By Eliza Relman | November 18, 2010

Femininity. The term tends to conjure up images of lips, breasts, hair and high heels. Women who society considers "feminine" tend to fully embrace the attributes that delineate them from men, creating a greater physical, and perhaps social, gender divide. But is there a relevant definition of femininity that supersedes physical appearance?

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The DDS Detective

By Priya Krishna | November 18, 2010

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Thanksgiving is easily the best day of the year.

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A Good Ol' Boy Becomes a Man

By Kathleen Mayer | November 18, 2010

My father has always fiercely believed that I am endlessly capable. He used to say to me when I was only five years old that I owed it to Eleanor Roosevelt to be a great woman, because everything she did, she did for me. I would protest in my stubborn way, saying, "She didn't even know me!" but he had predicted this response, telling me to think of all the little girls who weren't born yet who might someday know my name. He was a fraternity brother at the University of Texas, a star athlete and an Airborne Ranger in the United States Army.

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Transitioning in Hope of a Better Place

By Emily Fletcher | November 18, 2010

When Pam Misener, the acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the adviser to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, came to Dartmouth 10 years ago, most openly transgender students at the College chose to transfer.

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