An 'Implicit' Battle: Women in the 21st Century
The 21st century woman. Strong, fierce, relentless. She no longer has to embrace docility and softness as the markers of femininity.
The 21st century woman. Strong, fierce, relentless. She no longer has to embrace docility and softness as the markers of femininity.
It’s funny to think about the changes that we have all witnessed on this campus. Four years is the perfect amount of time to see and quantify change, especially in a small community such as Dartmouth.
In the know. Savvy. Informed. Tuned in. Appraised. Knowing what’s what. With it. Au courant. Plugged in.
The 21st century. THE modern era. A time when most things are a click away, a time when waiting more than five minutes for any piece of information is too long, a time when self-promotion is embedded into our online presence.
While many students in Hanover may feel far removed from the current immigration debate occurring across America, seeing only an occasional social media post or a sporadic snippet from CNN in King Arthur Flour, for Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez ’19, these Senate floor speeches and presidential tweets carry significant weight.
A new bird has migrated south for the winter, settling in snowy Hanover: Canada Goose.
You can learn a lot from a cup of spit and $200. You can learn the precise breakdown of your racial heritage, how your hair curls, individualized weight loss strategies, whether you can smell asparagus in your pee, whether you might be susceptible to breast cancer or Alzheimer’s ... the list of potential knowledge goes on.
As we settle further into winter term, the snow and the schoolwork pile up. Bean boots and backpacks come out.
As flocks of geese escape winter’s frigid grip, seniors are similarly preparing to embark on their own journey.
Migration. During the winter geese take refuge from the harsh winter winds.
Coming back to Hanover in the winter is like coming back to a different world: The entire campus is coated in a layer of beautiful snow, making everything glitter.
Divisions. How are we divided? Everyday we are faced with a series of choices, placing ourselves into a series of categories.
Combining her love for fashion and social media, Jamie Ma ’20 created a project last fall with a stated mission to explore “the personal and individual styles of the Dartmouth community.” Her Instagram page @dartmouthflair has since attracted over 800 followers and counting. Ma decided to model @dartmouthflair after a similar Instagram page that started at the boarding school she attended for high school.
The first year for college students can bring massive changes to their lives, from making new friends to keeping up with the academic pressures.
The life of an Ivy League athlete is unlike any other. During the season, football player Emory Thompson ’18’s day starts around 6 a.m., when he wakes up to lift weights with his team.
At Dartmouth College, which offers more than 60 majors and numerous other minors, the mathematics department is largely an enigma for the hundreds of social science and humanities students who fulfill their single QDS distributive requirement and move on.
The house system brings about familiarity and comfort to some, apprehension and novelty to others.
Leslie Butler is a professor in the history department who recently undertook a year-long writing fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Before my first Dartmouth winter, I’d seen snow exactly four times. Five if you count the only time it snowed in my lifetime in San Francisco: Dec.