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Shining a Light on SAD

By Karen Iorio | October 29, 2009

There are a handful of complaints that will crop up in any rant about Dartmouth: Collis is always overcrowded, we're in the middle of nowhere, we have too much work. But above all others, one gripe has stood the test of time: It's miserably cold in Hanover. The polar ice caps may be melting at record rates, and the rest of the world might be reaching new high temperatures every year, but Hanover remains immune from global warming.

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Should I stay or should I go?

By Kate Farley | October 29, 2009

So now that our intrepid freshmen have officially cemented their place in history as the worst class ever (apparently it's possible to overlook a massive, belligerent mob screaming at you to "touch the fire already") I think it's time to take them to task for another serious fault: excessive friendliness.

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Editors' Note

By Amita Kulkarni and Jennifer Argote | October 29, 2009

Catherine Treyz / The Dartmouth While it may be too early to start the countdown to graduation, we can't help but be reminded by our stressed-out peers in business suits, and the always popular "so what are you doing next year?" that, in a few months, we will have to say goodbye to the place we have called home for the past four years. Honestly, we aren't ready to leave.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | October 29, 2009

'13 Girl : I just really want to hook up with a Yale boy because I wanted to go there. It will be like closure. '10 Sigma Delt: You know you have a problem when you find your thesis notebook in the basement.

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Tales of the Transfers

By Priya Krishna | October 29, 2009

Think back to the moment when you signed the enrollment agreement form confirming your decision to come to Dartmouth. I can almost guarantee that, as we signed the next four years of our life away to the College on the Hill, many of us were thinking the same thing: Thank the SAT gods, I will never again have to fill out another Common Application. But, if you think that doing your college applications was a huge pain in your proverbial ass, try having to do it two years in a row. I'm talking, of course, about transfer students: those select few who took a minor detour on their road to Dartmouth. If you're one of those people who is convinced that your senior year of high school was the most competitive admissions year of them all, try this statistic on for size: According to the Office of Institutional Research, Dartmouth's transfer student acceptance rate for fall 2008 was about 6 percent not exactly a picnic. Still, while their journey to Hanover may not have been the smoothest nor the most direct many transfer students interviewed by The Dartmouth this week said that the Big Green has been well worth the wait. "[I wasn't] completely satisfied with how things were [at Tulane]," Natalie Young '10, who transferred to Dartmouth from Tulane University after her freshman year.

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Ask Miss Muffin Top

By Miss Muffin Top | October 29, 2009

Dear Miss Muffin Top, I really want to go to a sorority semi-formal. How do I score an invitation? Lord of the Dance Dear Michael Flatley, Send a preemptive and unexpected blitz.

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Spotlight: Peter Carini

By Katy Briggs | October 15, 2009

Peter Carini, college archivist, can show you Daniel Webster's socks or shards from the goalpost that exuberant fans ripped down when Dartmouth beat Yale in the famous Jinx game of 1935.

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DDS: Serving it up to students

By Kate Farley | October 15, 2009

So I have one bookmark on my iPhone, and it's the Dartmouth Dining Services menu page. You can start judging me, but I'm eating potstickers at Home Plate, so I don't even care.

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Student Staffers

By Caroline Francis | October 15, 2009

A commonly known Dartmouth statistic is that about 60 percent of Dartmouth students are involved in Greek life. The number of student employees on campus, however, might be even higher. According to Todd Kilburn, manager of the student employment office, approximately 62 percent, about 2,800 students, are in some way employed by the College.

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Reboot and Rally

By Luofei Deng | October 15, 2009

Reboot and Rally is jumping back into the Petri dish this week to conduct a head-to-head body shaver smackdown.

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The Gospel According to Matthew

By Matthew Ritger | October 15, 2009

An affiliated female student who lost her virginity through sexual assault by a fraternity brother, and then couldn't convince her friends, or herself, that there is anything else to do here but go back to hanging out in his basement. Another affiliated female student, who only remembers "crying a lot, and telling him to please, please stop." A young woman who was date-raped during her freshmen year, tried to press charges but was thwarted, and went into rush hoping to find a support system in a women's society but didn't get a bid. These are your friends.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | October 15, 2009

'10 Heorot from Long Island: I wish life was like The Sims, and every person from Long Island had a big green diamond floating over their head. '10 Girl: You know you've hit a low point when the highlight of the week is General Tso's chicken night. '12 Girl 1: I don't want to change out of my dress.

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Greetings from... London

By Eve Ahearn | October 15, 2009

So a girl walks into a bar in London. I mean, a pub. A girl walks into a pub. I mean, a girl tries to walk into a pub while also attempting T9 texting on a foreign phone and ends up walking into a glass door.

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