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Wien: Love is an asymptote

By Elise Wien | February 15, 2017

The book of love is long and boring / No one can lift the damn thing / It’s full of charts and facts and figures / And instructions for dancing / But I, I love it when you read to me / And you, you can read me anything. — The Magnetic Fields Love is a tenuous term.

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Trail magic

By Cristian Cano | February 8, 2017

The Appalachian Trail, commonly called the A.T., is an arduous trek spanning over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.

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The future is in your hands

By Alison Hagen | February 8, 2017

Just for a second, take yourself back to the elementary school playground. Do you remember how easy it was to be a psychic when you were a child?

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Women of color bring magic to campus

By Andrew Sosanya | February 8, 2017

During her sophomore year, Tsion Abera ’17 grew frustrated by the lack of hair care for black women around campus.

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Guo: Half a second of magic

By Clara Guo | February 8, 2017

I tie my left skate before my right, tightening and retightening my laces until the calluses on the outside of my pinkies turn red with aggravation.

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Wien: The coven

By Elise Wien | February 8, 2017

In religion classes we learn that calling something magic is a way to delegitimize it. If what’s happening here is religion (holy, legitimate), what’s happening there is magic (profane, illegitimate). Kayuri brings a statuette of an owl into our room.

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Flowchart: Which Harry Potter house are you in?

By Lucy Tantum | February 8, 2017

If getting a house community scarf wasn’t exciting enough for you, imagine being sorted into a house at Hogwarts.

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The art of pong

By Cristian Cano | February 1, 2017

Step into the basement of a fraternity or sorority, and more often than not, you’ll find pong tables.

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Collis trivia by the minute!

By Jaden Young | February 1, 2017

In the interest of finding out a bit more about one of the games offered on campus, I decided to gather up a group of friends to participate in Collis’ Tuesday Night Trivia.

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Wien: Run and scream

By Elise Wien | January 31, 2017

What is the shape of your woe? What is the container that holds it? Round 1: Take your woe out of its box.

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Guo: Knights on planet Dart

By Clara Guo | January 31, 2017

The day Dhruv and I created “Geo fun with Dhruv” was the day we sat next to each other in geosystems class during senior year of high school, terribly bored, having just finished a lab assignment that was supposed to teach us about wind patterns or rock formations.

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Why game theory matters

By Andrew Sosanya | January 31, 2017

As humans, we do not always make the best decisions or act in the best interest of others. Our actions lead to friendship, conflict or even betrayal.

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Battle of the funnies with Dog Day and Casual Thursday

By Alison Hagen | January 25, 2017

While you may have seen Dartmouth’s two improv groups, Dog Day Players or Casual Thursday, perform at a fraternity or campus event, you have not seen them like this before.

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Editors' Note

By Michaela Ledoux , Lucy Tantum and Alexandra Pattillo | January 25, 2017

This issue’s theme is humor, so we’ll try to get you warmed up with a few of Lucy’s best jokes: What do you call the grass in front of the President’s house? Phil Han-lawn. What does DDS say when you ask how to contact them? Collis. How do studio art majors turn in their work? They put it on Canvas. How do you know if someone did Hiking 4 for Trips? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. What would you call a KAF workers’ advocacy group? Baker Lobby. What do you call an awkward encounter with a former fling? An ex-hour. Why didn’t the frat need any lamps? Because they had so much Keystone Light. Now that those are over with (thank godness, right?), we’re excited to introduce the rest of the Humor Issue.

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Finding humor in a sometimes-unfunny world

By Andrew Sosanya | January 25, 2017

Harambe. The 2016 election. El Chapo. Brexit. The list goes on. A look back at 2016 tells us that humor is the most prevalent when there is a pervading sense of discomfort about current events.

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Wien: Getting the Joke of White Feminism

By Elise Wien | January 25, 2017

“When you make someone laugh they are on your side for a second.”  —Guerrilla Girls “I have a powerful urge to communicate with you , but I find the distance between us insurmountable.” From “The Christians” by Lucas Hnath Here are some things I know: 1) This Saturday, hundreds of thousands of women marched in cities across the country and the world to protest Trump’s inauguration. 2) These were not women united in purpose.

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Guo: Drunk Shakespeare (despite "budget cuts")

By Clara Guo | January 25, 2017

How many of Shakespeare’s works have you read? Definitely “Romeo and Juliet.” Probably “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Twelfth Night.” Maybe you read Shakespeare for fun — because you fell in love with his imagination and made-up words that have now become commonplace.

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Making it in the entertainment industry

By Cristian Cano | January 25, 2017

Amelia Acosta ’14 currently works for NBC News in Manhattan, New York. As part of the on-air talent department, her work includes finding, training and developing on-air talent.

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The real Dr. Seuss

By Nelly Mendoza-Mendoza | January 25, 2017

Who was “Dr. Seuss” at Dartmouth? An athlete? A scholar? A trickster? The Dartmouth Mirror sat down with English professor and the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor Donald Pease to find out.

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Wien: Space Travel (feat. Elon Musk)

By Elise Wien | January 17, 2017

Maybe you just caught me on an off day, maybe it’s the stagnancy of winter or the dread of the impending inauguration, but it’s time to write about travel and the dull ache in my chest has returned. It would be easier to imagine that the women of North Mass 310 have been tapped for space travel.

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