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December 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Style Maverick

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Jean Luo / The Dartmouth Staff Ty Moddelmog '08 Ty compensates for his green mesh shorts with a Thomas Pink button-up and retro RayBans. What's Hanover missing?


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Style Maven

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Jean Luo / The Dartmouth Staff Ursula Grisham '08 Ursula echoes the cream color of her square-neck top in her snakeskin flats and boasts a gold pendant necklace. What's Hanover missing?


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Book: "Gulag: A History" by Anne Applebaum The often belittled story of the Gulags, the soviet concentration camps, has never been told with such piercing accuracy as in Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A History." A 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, Applebaum skillfully juggles her sources, raising arguments so precise and definitive that they're hardly arguable.


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Overheard

'11: Omg, how beautiful does the moon look tonight? It's so romantic. Aww. Another '11: Uhh, that's a streetlamp. Shirtless dude headed into Food Court with green "A" painted on his chest: "Yo I don't want to go into Thayer without a shirt." Shirtless dude with a green "D" on his chest, as he puts back on his wifebeater: "Yeah, we gotta keep in classy in here." '11 boy (to his '11 roommate): "Dude, I don't care how awesome the atmosphere is at the dance party, if you're dancing with a girl you just ask her to leave.



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Maggie's Cheat Sheet: Media Frenzy

The start-of-term honeymoon is over, and campus is back to its usual bickering. Loving the Greek system, hating the Greek system, arguing about the college mascot.



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THE DISH: Diners are Gorges

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A little feel-good food may convince you that grease and mayonnaise can cure all ills. In search of such soulful satisfaction, we made a jaunt over to Quechee, Vt., home of such wonders as "the most spectacular river gorge in Vermont," the Cabot cheese factory shop and the miniature cows at the Fool on the Hill. Only a few yards from the gorge, Dana's By The Gorge sits as a relic of seasonality and a reminder of Vermont's booming tourist industry.



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Daily Debriefing

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Tagg Romney, the eldest son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt, visited the College Thursday to stump for his father.



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Wright: U.S. needs new GI bill for vets

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"[I]n the midst of the debate over troop levels, exit strategies, and assessment of the war's progress, we have lost sight of the men and women who are fighting this war," College President James Wright wrote in an op-ed column published in the Boston Globe Saturday.



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Nobel winner explains his novels

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Exactly one year after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave a lecture in Rollins Chapel Thursday about the melancholic and self-reflective portrayal of Istanbul that made him famous. Pamuk, the author of six acclaimed novels and the recipient of multiple international awards and honors, visited Dartmouth just after visiting Columbia, where he is spending the term teaching.






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A Time for Priorities

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In his speech to the faculty on Monday, College President James Wright identified three goals for the College to pursue in the future: moving toward need-blind admissions for international students; providing one leave term where there are no earning expectations for students; and providing that, for financial aid students studying abroad, the incremental expenses will be covered by scholarship rather than by loan.