Chicken and Waffles

This is the story of a voice. I've been worried about how I sound for a long time. I like to talk, and I feel like it'd be grating if I sounded dumb.

Censoring the Vox

Let's face it: If there were a higher power capable of silencing everything controversial or provocative that the publication produced, there is no way that The Mirror, much less The Dartmouth, would even exist. Dartmouth students are lucky we have an administration that supports students finding and using their voices.

Modernizing the Motto: Anonymous Campus Voices

When you line up all the Ivy League school mottos, Dartmouth's doesn't quite fit in. Harvard's "Veritas," meaning truth, and Yale's "Lux et veritas," meaning light and truth, exude a certain collegiate sophistication.

The Voices in the Wilderness: Finding Meaning in Dartmouth's Motto

Our understanding of "Vox clamantis in deserto" is wrong. In English, the College's motto reads, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness." However, directly translated from the Book of Isaiah in the original Hebrew Masoretic text, the actual full phrase is, "A voice crieth: in the wilderness clear a way for the Lord." Indeed, the voice itself does not reside in the wilderness it merely decrees that a path be cleared through the wilderness.

Through the Looking Glass: Similar, but different

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.

Jennrich: Addressing the Gender Divide

This article is the answer to the annual question directed at the efforts of V-Week: Why is there no P-Week? First, a clarification: The "V" in V-Week actually stands for "Victory Over Violence," not "vagina" as many people believe.

Ex Libris 2012-02-17

EKT undergoes repairs after fire

The three students displaced by the Feb. 4 fire at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority's physical plant are expected to move back by the weekend of Feb.

Big Green fencing club wins Northeast duels

Most students come to Dartmouth with the intention of trying new things and breaking out of their comfort zone, and club sports, such as the Dartmouth club fencing team, offer them the chance to do just that.

Thayer app. numbers increase by 35 percent

While application rates for incoming classes at Dartmouth Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been consistent with those of previous years, the Thayer School of Engineering has seen a notable increase in its application pool, which grew by approximately 35 percent for the class entering in Fall 2012. At Thayer, PhD and master's programs received a combined 391 applications, up from 290 in 2011, according to Director of Public Information Catharine Lamm.

Students named among top young innovators

Aspiring entrepreneurs from the Dartmouth Kairos Society attended the fourth annual Kairos Global Summit Feb.

Batchelor: Mind the Gap

Given that much of the Occupy movement has come in from the cold city streets around the world to organize indoors, many protestors have been asking: What now?

Daily Debriefing

Robert Champion's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner of Fabulous Coach Lines and the driver of the charter bus on which Champion, a student and band member at Florida A&M University, was hazed before dying as a result of the November 2011 incident, The Associated Press reported.