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Quarantine Routine: A Day In The Life

By Christina Baris | September 16, 2020

I used to be a big fan of routines; my weekly structure provided me with the consistency I thought I needed. It was comforting. If you asked me to recall what my Thursdays looked like this past winter, I could provide you with a slightly alarming amount of detail: what time my alarms were set for (8:45 if I was feeling ambitious), the time I actually woke up (9:45, leaving me with just enough time to rush to my 10A), what I ate for lunch (most likely a brie and apple sandwich from KAF) and where I studied between classes (2FB).

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Editors' Note

By Sarah Alpert and Novi Zhukovsky | September 16, 2020

People often talk about New Year’s resolutions as if Jan. 1 marks a logical date to start eating clean and hitting the gym. For students, however, the new year starts in September. As the trees begin to repaint themselves in flaming colors, Dartmouth students can remake themselves by trying out new classes, activities or ways of living.

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The Words that Bind Us: Dartmouth Lingo

By Arielle Beak | September 11, 2020

It’s week five, and you’ve just finished a midterm for a class that you thought was going to be a layup. No matter, it’s over, and you’re looking forward to catching up with a friend at Foco. As you take a warmcut through Newvack, you scoff at the line and keep heading through FFB, waving back at a particularly facetime-y friend as you pass. You grab a chair on the light side and shoot a text to your friend: “light side @now!! come thru.”

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Zoom University: A ’24’s Guide To Online Learning

By Emma Ginsberg | September 11, 2020

Dear ’24s, Chances are, you didn’t imagine spending your freshman year online and in quarantine.

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One More Layer: Queerness Disrupts an Already Disrupted Fall

By Caris White | September 11, 2020

For many incoming LGBTQ+ students, their identity will add one more layer of disruption to a fall already full of unknowns.

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TTLG: Reminiscing On The Dartmouth That Never Was

By Peter Charalambous | September 11, 2020

I miss school. Let me clarify that — I miss the things that made Dartmouth some of the most formative and meaningful times of my life.

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Majors Across the Board: A Look at Dartmouth’s Underrated Departments

By Jaymie Wei | September 11, 2020

With over 40 departments and interdisciplinary programs, Dartmouth offers students the opportunity to explore a constellation of academic interests.

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Hidden Gems: Making the Most of Dartmouth’s Resources

By Kate Yuan | September 11, 2020

It’s been well noted that incoming freshmen will experience an unconventional welcome fall term. The rest of us non-’24s will experience an unconventional welcome back as well, but, while ’21s, ’22s and ’23s have had the luxury of stumbling upon many of Dartmouth’s resources on campus serendipitously (or being handed them during orientation), ’24s likely won’t have that same opportunity.

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Navigating the Labyrinth of Mental Health During a Pandemic

By Marimac McRae | September 11, 2020

Many Dartmouth traditions have been put on pause to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including those that used to define the social integration of freshmen.

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Commitment to the Cause: A Look Into Hunger Strikes on College Campuses

By Lorraine Liu | August 14, 2020

When Dartmouth Ph.D. student Maha Hasan Alshawi went on a hunger strike in protest of the College’s handling of her allegations of harassment and retaliatory academic action by two computer science professors, other Dartmouth students supported her in various ways, including through public sit-ins, a petition and hashtags on social media. Hunger strikes, like Alshawi’s, have a long and robust history on college campuses.

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Who Fits Under Your Umbrella: The DOC, Inclusion and Advocacy in the Outdoors

By Caris White | August 14, 2020

This spring, the Black Lives Matter movement swept across the United States and the world. Millions of Americans attended protests, donated money, posted on social media and signed petitions.

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Editor's Note

By Christina Baris | August 14, 2020

Sophomore summers are usually filled with idle days spent swimming in the Connecticut River and long nights spent trying yet another flavor at Ice Cream Fore-U.

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Anxiety and Anticipation: Kendal Residents, Upper Valley Community Respond to the College’s Reopening Plan

By Coalter Palmer | July 31, 2020

Without a single reported case of COVID-19, Hanover’s Kendal Retirement Community has been lucky in avoiding the reach of the pandemic so far. But with thousands of Dartmouth undergraduates soon to be returning to campus from all over the country and world — some likely to be traveling from infection hotspots — the possibility of spread to the town and to other vulnerable Upper Valley communities like Kendal has become a source of uneasiness.

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Sisterhood Through The Ages: The Road To Empowerment?

By Jaymie Wei | July 31, 2020

The first time I played pong was during my freshman spring in the basement of Chi Gam. My partner was a Dartmouth senior, a Chi Gam member and a would-be Masters finalist. He was also my UGA. Thinking back, there was probably no better introduction to the illustrious game of Dartmouth pong. Unless, of course, I had learned in a sorority. But sororities hadn’t been marketed to me as open spaces, I didn’t know any sorority members and for some reason I was thrilled to be invited into a male space.

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A Hundred Years of Dartmouth Sickness: Lessons Learned From The 1918 Flu

By Emily Lu | July 31, 2020

When the influenza in 1918 caused Dartmouth to cancel student activities and postpone classes for two weeks, Clifford Orr, Class of 1922, wrote to his father that “the epidemic has killed what college life there was.”

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To Be or Not To Be (on Campus): Current Students Consider Gap Years

By Claire Callahan | July 31, 2020

On June 29, Dartmouth announced its plan for a partial reopening in the coming terms, which includes a decreased student body in residence, a mix of virtual and in-person classes and restrictions on where students can and cannot go. Due to these limitations, some students are considering gap years, hoping to be on campus only when Dartmouth is closer to normal.