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A Voice Crying Out in the Twittersphere

By Matthew Ritger | September 24, 2009

True story: Late one night my sophomore spring, I was working on a paper in a study lounge in McLane, when a black girl tried to throw herself out the window of whatever that dorm is across Tuck Drive. She was screaming out to the streets about how racist and hopeless Dartmouth is, and screaming at her friend, and climbing in and out of her fourth-floor window, and generally making it difficult for me to do my homework. She was hollering about how awful it is to be a woman, and to be black, and how disgusted she is by our false pretense of diversity here when Twitter update from MyToddelmog: "Natalie Portman just walked down my block." Humph.

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The Revolution Will (Probably) Not Be Twittered

By Kate Farley | September 24, 2009

I usually know a trend has arrived when my father blitzes me with a confused question, and in light of his recent inquiry about "getting on that Twitter thing," I'm going to call social networking an official phenomenon. From a serious analytical perspective, I think that we've definitively seen the Rise of Friendster and weathered The Shift Towards Facebook (you know you can see future sociologists seriously debating this). The pressing question of the day now is, "Has the Great Twitter Awakening Begun?" Are we on the cusp of a major revolution? Unfortunately, I might not be the best person to answer these questions, because I have an embarrassing confession to make: I don't tweet.

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Overheard

By The Dartmouth | September 24, 2009

KDE '10: I just Good Sam guys I don't want to hook up with. TDX '11: Dude, either go to bed or come back to the tweetsesh. '10 girl: I love hanging out at phi delt because you can do whatever you want and nobody there will remember it the next morning. '10 Girl: She looks like a guy from behind.'10 Guy: Guys don't wear thongs. '13 Girl (in line at the Hop): What's the Big Bad Burger?'11 Guy: Two burgers with cheese and bbq sauce.'13 Girl: What's "DBL"?'11 Guy: ... Double. '13 Girl: Excuse me, can you help me with this?

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Friending and Following (Counterpoint)

By Katy Briggs | September 24, 2009

Mr. Zuckerberg, you have created a monster. The appropriate use of social networking along with the economic downturn, global health care inadequacies and climate change has become one of the great hurdles facing our generation.

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Reboot and Rally

By Luofei Deng | September 24, 2009

Due to Twitter's inherent limitations, a cottage industry has sprung up around it in an effort to add functionality and circumvent the 140-character limit per tweet.

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Wifing

By Sarah Frostenson | August 20, 2009

With three-fourths of the campus away this term, the potential for hook-ups has been mighty slim.

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Meeting the Parents

By Sydney Ribot | August 20, 2009

There comes a time in every American college student's life when she must confront the fact that her best friend did not arise from a vacuum - that her friend did, in fact have a life, home and family before college.

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Editor's Note

By Sarah Frostenson and Sydney Ribot | August 20, 2009

/ The Dartmouth Staff With summer a week shy of closing,The heat at an end you're opposing,Your fears we shall quellWith truths we shall tell,If you don't shy from gettin' to nosing.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | August 20, 2009

First '11 Female: I always think about sex in the library. The second I'm there, bam, I'm thinking about it.

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Spreading Ourselves Too Thin: What Dartmouth Students Sacrifice to Excel

August 6, 2009

I interviewed upwards of 29 people (which the professors of Gov 10, Math 9, Public Policy 11 and Psychology 11 would all tell me is not a particularly impressive sample size) for this article and have come to quite the statistically significant conclusion that nearly all of those interviewed (28 out of 29, to be precise) use an Excel spreadsheet to plan their class schedule and major, plot their D-Plan and often calculate their maximum possible GPA.

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The Mirror Picks

By The Mirror Staff | August 6, 2009

STYLISH:Fieldstock 09X Tank-TopI have never been a big fan of buying T-shirts at Dartmouth. Yes, I was at Green Key '08, but I don't need to advertise Keystone to prove it.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | August 6, 2009

'11 Girl: I said do NOT make me black in. '11 KDE: I had so much more sex in high school. S&S Officer in South Mass: What's in that cup?Friend from home holding a cup of Tea: I think it's just iced tea, sir.S&S: Let me smell it.

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