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I'm Mad (Lib)

By Andrew Sosanya | March 29, 2017

For your entertainment, a Mad Lib from Andrew Sosanya '20.

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Editor's Note

By Lauren Budd and May Mansour | March 29, 2017

Annette, Lauren and May join forces as your new Mirror editors.

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Balancing acts: students juggle jobs and academics

By Cristian Cano | March 8, 2017

It’s no secret that college life is pricey. On top of costs for tuition, housing and meal plans, students must also consider the fees associated with textbooks, clubs, sports, Greek life and medical services — and more.

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A behind the scenes look at the "stars" of DDS

By Alison Hagen | March 7, 2017

A voice cries out in the ... kitchen? While the College’s motto may not seem to apply to employees of Dartmouth Dining Services, their voices are certainly worthy of attention.

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The Origin of Vox Clamantis in Deserto

By Julia O'Sullivan | March 7, 2017

Imagine for a moment that you are walking down Webster Avenue in short sleeves after losing a fracket that you could have sworn had been tied to six others.

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Guo: Vox Clamantis in Raleigh

By Clara Guo | March 7, 2017

The figure skating team had our second qualifying competition this past weekend at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Beyond the Dartmouth Stereotype

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne | March 7, 2017

Dartmouth students are known for having prep in their step. It is no secret that the College is known as one of the preppiest of Ivy League schools.

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Wien: Crystal bridges

By Elise Wien | March 7, 2017

Vox clamantis in deserto. I thought about writing of how much sleep I got this week with my roommates away.

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Bootleggers & The Boom Boom Lodge

By Lucy Tantum | March 1, 2017

It is just after one o’clock in the morning when one Dartmouth student kills another over a quart of whiskey. The year is 1920, and the 18th Amendment, which prohibits the sale, transport and consumption of alcohol in the United States, has been in effect since January.

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Guo: Treat yourself to a Golden Monkey

By Clara Guo | March 1, 2017

The following email was sent on Friday afternoon to the entire figure skating team: This is a reminder that dry policy begins tonight at 11:59 p.m.

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Wien: Basically Animal Farm

By Elise Wien | March 1, 2017

Hello! Welcome to week eight. (Nine? Eight. Nine?) It’s not that I have nothing to report from my room. It’s that a lot of the information is not of the nature that should be printed. When you live with people for four years, there is a proximity to their private lives that is at first unsettling, then comforting, then integrated, which is to say their private lives become so entangled with yours that you begin to take on parts of their personalities. When my roommates and I talk, dress or gesture like one another, we call this “leaking,” as though are bodies are closed vessels that are breaking open at the seams and contaminating one another. Gross, right?

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Forbidden fruit

By Chloe Jennings | March 1, 2017

If you’ve ever been in a position of power, you know that getting people to follow the rules is a complicated and often elusive pursuit.

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Two years of Moving Dartmouth Forward

By Andrew Sosanya | March 1, 2017

On Jan. 29, 2015, College President Phil Hanlon presented the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, his plan that implemented policy changes on campus.

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Lots and lots of snow to throw!

By Cristian Cano | February 22, 2017

It was 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12 when I first heard the rumors. In my floor’s GroupMe, someone had sent a picture of a poem, written in the familiar style of Dr. Seuss, announcing a midnight snowball fight on the Green.

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Reliving Dartmouth past

By Morgan Sandhu | February 22, 2017

During First-Year Trips, like most Dartmouth students, I wrote myself a letter. Unlike many of my peers, I wrote this letter quite seriously, pouring my soul out to my future self who would receive it six months from then.

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Guo: "100 nights" before graduation

By Clara Guo | February 22, 2017

We drive along the Hudson River, having already said goodbye to the privacy of a house rented by eight West Point “firsties” for the weekend.

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Wien: Searching for the golden spike

By Elise Wien | February 22, 2017

In my geography class, we learn that geologists use golden spikes to demarcate the beginning of a new geologic epoch.

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The biocultural impacts of rites of passage

By Andrew Sosanya | February 22, 2017

Everyone has gone through a rite of passage in their life, whether it be graduating high school, getting their first driver’s license or even just having their first kiss.

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Lest the old traditions fail

By Alison Hagen | February 22, 2017

“Did you know the ‘Lou’s challenge’ isn’t free?” my friend asked as we passed by Lou’s restaurant. “Of course,” I replied, baffled.

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Editor's Note

By Michaela Ledoux , Lucy Tantum and Alexandra Pattillo | February 22, 2017

We talk a lot about the quintessential Dartmouth “rites of passage” throughout this issue, like staying up all night to eat Lou’s, swimming across the river naked or jumping in freezing water over Carnival.

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