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Raising the Bar: Women in Powerlifting

By Cristian Cano | April 11, 2018

Imagine what a powerlifter looks like and it is probably someone muscular. Someone whose extraordinary strength shows with every lift, the weights much heavier than the average person could manage. For many, the stereotypical powerlifter is a man.

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Finding a Love of Backpacking

By Zachary Gorman | April 11, 2018

At a college in the middle of New Hampshire’s scenic mountains and verdant forests, students have the freedom to spend as much time as possible in the surrounding environment.

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Ten Tools for Survival at Dartmouth

By Vanessa Smiley | April 11, 2018

Though survival at Dartmouth takes no clear-cut path, certain “tools” are universal, even if they manifest themselves differently for each of us.

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Home Bird: Q&A with Collis Employee Falcon Wright

By Saba Nejad | April 4, 2018

Falcon Wright is one of the Dartmouth Dining Services workers at Collis Café. He was in the stir-fry line before the winter term but has since been moved to Collis Late Night.

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The Grass is Greener at the Organic Farm

By Melanie Prakash | April 4, 2018

Approximately three miles north of campus, a little deeper into the peaceful hills of the Upper Valley lies a farm “for the students” that offers an escape from the stress and demands that otherwise define the Dartmouth experience.  This is the phrase and idea with which I came into contact multiple times during my conversations with some members of the Dartmouth Organic Farm.  “It’s only three miles away, and you can go whenever you want,” Annika Bowman ’21 explained.

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For the Birds: An Idiomatic, Linguistic Expedition

By Laura Jeliazkov | April 4, 2018

Idioms are enigmatic ways of describing the chaos that is the world around us. Something in their endurance makes them comforting.

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Achieving Self-Expression Through Sculpture

By Jacob Maguire | March 28, 2018

At Dartmouth, where the four most popular majors are economics, government, computer science and engineering, some undergraduates overlook the academic discipline of studio art.

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Through The Looking Glass: Little House Life

By Riley Carbone | March 28, 2018

I don’t remember when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. I can picture the nine-volume paperback box set, each cover a different pastel gingham, sitting on the lower left of the downstairs bookcases as if it has always been there.

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The Renaissance Man and Woman Today

By Cristian Cano | March 28, 2018

Dartmouth, as a liberal arts institution, not only encourages but also requires students to take a variety of courses in many different subjects.

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The Invisible: Menstrual Taboos in the 21st Century

By Vanessa Smiley | March 28, 2018

Menstrual stigmas are rooted not in what is said but in what goes unsaid. We encounter them in the silence between words, in the euphemisms that have spilled into our social script to claim a language of their own, reflexive but prosaic.

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Q&A with art history professor Jane Carroll

By Kylee Sibilia | March 28, 2018

Professor Jane Carroll is a senior lecturer in the art history department and a member of the steering committee of the Medieval and Renaissance studies department.

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Spring Break for Social Change

By Timothy Yang | February 28, 2018

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Mirror Asks: Alternative

By Mirror Staff | February 28, 2018

What’s your favorite alternative band? Christopher Cartwright ’21: Passion Pit. Annie Farrell ’21: The Strokes. Jacob Maguire ’21: Banners!

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Unconventional Pedagogy

By Alice Zhang | February 28, 2018

In a 2016 announcement about the “Liberal Arts Imperative,” College President Phil Hanlon said that Dartmouth “serves as a laboratory for intellectual innovation.” Each course at Dartmouth fulfills this mission differently.

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Editor's Note

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne and Carolyn Zhou | February 28, 2018

It’s the last Mirror issue of the term, and we decided to do something different. Something unconventional.

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Peters: Worth It

By Marley Peters | February 28, 2018

At Dartmouth, students often face a significant amount of pressure to leave this place with a finished product.

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Of This Alternative Universe

By Laura Jeliazkov | February 28, 2018

If the sun and the moon and the stars were all to align themselves differently, what would we find?

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Best of Both Worlds: Social Spaces at Dartmouth

By Nikhita Hingorani | February 28, 2018

Social spaces are integral to a well-functioning college. If you think about the places that we frequent on campus, more often than not they are social spaces.

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Siblings of Dartmouth: Legacies in the Making

By Annie Farrell | February 21, 2018

Evan Muscatel ’21 and Garrett Muscatel ’20 Do you two spend time together on campus? GM: Yeah, I’ll hang out with him at [Beta Alpha Omega fraternity] sometimes, we played IM sports, we play video games sometimes.

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Through the Looking Glass: DDS — Dartmouth Duck Syndrome

By Sarah Salzman | February 21, 2018

 For those of you who haven’t heard of “duck syndrome,” it is a concept often applied to college students who appear calm on the surface but are frantically suffering underneath.

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