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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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Editor's Note

By Eve Ahearn | November 18, 2010

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Two years ago I wrote an article for The Mirror about dating at Dartmouth before co-education.

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Chicks, Dicks & Carrot Sticks

By Matt Lifson | November 18, 2010

I just want to be able to order a meatless egg-white wrap on whole wheat from the Hop without my masculinity being questioned. I mean, let's face it: we attend a school that has gender on the mind, as is incredibly apparent in this issue of The Mirror.

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Frosty's Corner

By Sarah Frostenson | November 18, 2010

*I am a Woman of Dartmouth.**## But what does it mean to be a woman of Dartmouth? And why is being a woman of Dartmouth a thing that needs a definition? I think the first time I became aware that it meant something to be a woman on this campus was when I was singing the Alma Mater with a group of friends and one of them turned to me and said, "Don't stomp on Lest the old traditions fail.'" I was taken aback. "We all stomp on that line," I responded. "No, we don't," he said, "People started stomping on that line when the Daughters of Dartmouth' line was added in the '80s.

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To Give or Not to Give: Is Gender the Question?

By Leslie Ye | November 18, 2010

Thirty-seven years before anonymous senior women left "The Red Book," a self-purported "Guide to Dartmouth," under my door, another far more sinister pamphlet was slipped into the rooms of every Dartmouth woman living in Woodward Hall, an all-female dormitory.

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How to Date at Dartmouth

By Kathleen Mayer | November 11, 2010

(heteronormative edition): His:1) Ignore her. Hers:1) Ignore him. 2) Have your friends convince you the ball's in your court. 3) Blitz him. 4) Ignore him.

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