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Classes held Friday despite planned weekend festivities

By Elise Quinones | October 17, 2008

By Amidst the celebrations that Homecoming entails -- the bonfire, the football game and the delights of Webster Avenue -- Friday classes will also be on the docket, to the dismay of many students. Prior to 1986, the Friday before Homecoming was an official College holiday on which classes were cancelled.

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Health Services warns of weekend dangers, excess

By Ana Bowens | October 17, 2008

The large crowds and chaotic events of Homecoming weekend combined with excess drinking, make it important for students and visitors to be cautious during their weekend celebrations, according to Mark Reed, director of counseling and health resources at Dick's House. During Homecoming, which along with Winter Carnival and Green Key make up the three "big" weekends of the year, there are significantly more Good Samaritans called into Safety and Security, Reed added. "Whereas there will be about five reports on average on a normal weekend, we will see between 12 and 20 reports, on average, over a big weekend," Reed said.

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Bonfire construction now safer than before

October 17, 2008

Freshmen have sported hard hats and work gloves this week as they constructed the iconic bonfire that will stand at the center of tonight's Homecoming festivities. Lessons learned after the 1999 bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University have led to a safer environment for students working on the Dartmouth bonfire, Mark Lancaster, sergeant at Safety and Security, told The Dartmouth in 2006.

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Safety and Security increases presence

By Jen Buchholz | October 17, 2008

Freshmen students are lacing up their running shoes for 112 laps around the bonfire, upperclassmen and alumni are anticipating a weekend of revelry, and Safety and Security, expecting massive crowds and raucous students, is preparing to keep the campus safe. Homecoming festivities will call for extra officers patrolling on campus, but College Proctor and head of Safety and Security Harry Kinne said that there will not be any significant differences from Safety and Security's approach last year. "We are gearing up the way we usually do," Kinne said.

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Protest, celebration mark women's role in Homecoming

By Rachel Sarnoff and Travis Cramer | October 17, 2008

The way that students fraternize during Homecoming has varied throughout the tradition's storied past, the weekend has always been an opportunity for men and women to mingle at the College. While Homecoming in the years after coeducation occasionally sparked gender tension, earlier celebrations were decidedly dominated by men. "For those men lucky enough, women played the role of dates," Jim Adler '60Tu'61 said. The arrival of women on campus for Homecoming, or Dartmouth Night as it was previously known, provided a respite from Dartmouth's monastic lifestyle, Adler said. Before coeducation was instituted, Homecoming was a rare opportunity for Dartmouth to be a destination for women, according to John Engelman '68.

Keggy the Keg, a mainstay of Dartmouth sporting events, has been missing since it was allegedly stolen over the summer.
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'Keggy the Keg' remains missing for Homecoming

By Ann Baum | October 17, 2008

Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff This Homecoming is the fifth birthday of Keggy the Keg, but the popular anthropomorphic beer keg that has become Dartmouth's unofficial mascot, will not be around to celebrate.

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Class of 2012 awaits weekend celebration

By Zoe Friedland | October 17, 2008

Although football fans and returning alums dominate the Homecoming spotlight, Dartmouth's newest students are looking forward to taking part in the traditional weekend, with one event dominating their horizon: the bonfire.

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Overheard

By The Dartmouth | October 10, 2008

'12 Guy: Don't f*ck with me! I'm passive aggressive! '12 Guy 1: What the f*ck were you thinking letting her bite you like that? '12 Guy 2: I didn't realize.

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Soundcheck Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

By Divya Gunasekaran | October 10, 2008

Guilt -- yet another one of those emotions I'm incapable of feeling. The closest I've recently come was Beck's summer release, "Modern Guilt," an apocalypse-themed album sporting social and environmental awareness; but as much as I may try to mooch off of Beck's guilt, it's really his and not mine. The role of guilt in music preferences is a strangely large one.

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Teacher's Pet

By Rembert Browne | October 10, 2008

If you ask anyone in the "know" about Dartmouth's strongest quality, those in the "know" will answer back with, "the people." The people at Dartmouth are what set this eleemosynary institution apart from the Harvards and Devrys of the world.

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Editor's Note

By Caitlin Kelly | October 10, 2008

In honor of Yom Kippur, this week The Mirror turns its eyes on the guilt that plagues us all. When I told my mom about the theme she said, 'What does guilt have to do with Yom Kippur?!" Exactly, Mom.

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