Verbum Ultimum: From Apathy to Activism

On Feb. 28, the Obama campaign's Greater Together Student Summit Tour will be coming to the College in an effort to engage students in a conversation about issues relevant to the next election and teach students about how they can become involved in the reelection campaign ("Obama campaign will host campus training," Feb.

Top 5 Most Obscure (But Interesting!) Historical Facts About Dartmouth

Unsurprisingly, a Dartmouth alum, Robert Smith, Class of 1902, was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, which now helps more than two million recovering alcoholics in 134 countries. Amos Tuck, Class of 1835, founded the original GOP, organizing its first meeting at Major Blake's Tavern in Exeter, N.H.

Through the Looking Glass: A Sense of Place

Editor's Note: Through the Looking Glass is The Mirror's newest feature. We welcome submissions from all members of the community both past and present who wish to write about defining experiences, moments or relationships during their time at Dartmouth.

Track prepares for Ivy Heptagonals

The Dartmouth's men's and women's track and field teams will travel to Cornell University this weekend to compete at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Being and Dartmouthness

When I was six years old, my uncle gave me a lacrosse stick for my birthday. Every day after school, I would grab it from the bench in our kitchen and run outside to play catch against this thing called a Rebounder, a bouncy net that sends the ball straight back to you.

Mehring: The Oscar Farce

This Sunday, the filmmaking world will celebrate the year in cinema at the 84th annual Academy Awards.

Chicken and Waffles

This is the story of a drop of water. Imagine what water once meant. Imagine what it still means to so many.

Rubin: Sticks and Carrots

On Feb. 23, North Korea and the United States will attempt to restart six-party talks to jumpstart the denuclearization of North Korea and the transfer of possible aid to the impoverished country.

Women's swimming seeks high finish at Ivy Championships

The women's swimming and diving team heads into this weekend's Ivy League Championships looking to use momentum, purposeful preparation and a bit of good fortune to secure a top-four finish, which would be an all-time best for the team.

Salty Dogs 2012-02-23

Brooks: The Price of War

While reading Zack Miller's recent column about Iran's nuclear program, I began thinking about all the arguments I could make against his assertion, as I have previously argued in this paper that the Iranian threat is overstated. However, what really struck me about his column was the tone in his statement, "The doves and the disconnected realists argue that Iran can be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon" ("Addressing a Nuclear Iran," Feb.

Daily Debriefing

The New York Police Department has recently received criticism for monitoring websites associated with Muslim student organizations at 16 universities in the Northeast, including several in New York and at Ivy League colleges, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Crepes a la Carte 2012-02-23

Inn's renovation faces unexpected expenses

As the Hanover Inn undergoes changes to modernize its facilities, the renovations and construction that prompted the Inn's Dec.

Tuck alliance with West Point benefits students

Over the last seven years, Tuck School of Business and the United States Military Academy at West Point have developed a relationship focused on negotiation and leadership strategies that apply to both military and business education, according to Jeff Weiss '86, a professor at both Tuck and West Point who has facilitated the unofficial partnership.

Profs. reconsider Hamlet's dilemma

That Hamlet's famous dilemma of "to be or not to be" resists translation across languages is a result of linguistic, cultural and social differences, elements discussed by professors from the Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures department at Wednesday's colloquium, "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question: The Problematics of Being' in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese." The four languages represented in the lecture are characterized by contradicting conceptions of grammar, time, religion and philosophy that all diverge from those of English.