Greetings from... London

So a girl walks into a bar in London. I mean, a pub. A girl walks into a pub. I mean, a girl tries to walk into a pub while also attempting T9 texting on a foreign phone and ends up walking into a glass door.

VERBUM ULTIMUM: Ding the System

Correction appended It is a perennial criticism even a platitude that women's rush at Dartmouth is flawed, and getting worse. Fall 2007 saw 251 bids extended to the 304 women who entered rush an acceptance rate of about 83 percent ("Women's rush week closes with 251 bids," Oct.

Reboot and Rally

Reboot and Rally is jumping back into the Petri dish this week to conduct a head-to-head body shaver smackdown.

Student Staffers

A commonly known Dartmouth statistic is that about 60 percent of Dartmouth students are involved in Greek life. The number of student employees on campus, however, might be even higher. According to Todd Kilburn, manager of the student employment office, approximately 62 percent, about 2,800 students, are in some way employed by the College.

DDS: Serving it up to students

So I have one bookmark on my iPhone, and it's the Dartmouth Dining Services menu page. You can start judging me, but I'm eating potstickers at Home Plate, so I don't even care.

Phreddie 2009-10-16

The DM Manual of Style

If Anthropologie made men's clothes, Jon Lohse '10 would be its designers' main source of inspiration.

From Cameroon to Hanover: Herve Metsam '12's journey

Four years ago, Herve Metsam '12 was a standout basketball player and student at his school in Cameroon, but he did not once think about playing college basketball in America.

Spotlight: Peter Carini

Peter Carini, college archivist, can show you Daniel Webster's socks or shards from the goalpost that exuberant fans ripped down when Dartmouth beat Yale in the famous Jinx game of 1935.

Front Row Seats: Dartmouth's Longest Serving Employees

You're a member of the Class of 2010, and after four years, you think you know this campus like the back of your hand.

Ask Miss Muffin Top

Dear Miss Muffin Top, How do you know if you are dating at Dartmouth? Down to Settle Down Dear DTSD, When Miss Muffin Top was a wee cupcake, she would fall asleep listening to the story of how her parents met at Dartmouth at something called a "fraternity formal." At a mythical place called Whaleback Mountain, Miss Muffin Top imagined her mother regally descending a staircase like a Disney princess, with her husband-to-be clutching a glass slipper at the bottom of the stairs.

Daily Debriefing

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., raised $141,282 in thethird quarter of 2009 for her reelection campaign, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported Thursday.

Blitz Check

A few weeks ago, my trippees and I returned to modern civilization after living in the woods like cavemen for five days.

AoA committee finds election reform is currently 'unachievable'

Campaign finance reform for Dartmouth Board of Trustee and Association of Alumni elections is politically untenable at this time, according to a report released on Thursday by an Association committee tasked with exploring the issue. "Although the clear majority of those responding recognize that the amount of money involved in alumni trustee and AoA Executive Committee campaigning in recent elections raises serious issues worthy of attention, the Dartmouth alumni community is significantly divided over whether anything can or should be done about it through the medium of changed election rules or guidelines," the report states. The report the result of several months of research and analysis comes after a series of elections that have been increasingly contentious and expensive.

Study finds cancer info. on YouTube unreliable

THE CUTTING EDGE