Through the Looking Glass: Frame of Reference
A few weeks ago, Trinity College passed measures to permanently and significantly alter its Greek system.
A few weeks ago, Trinity College passed measures to permanently and significantly alter its Greek system.
Preparation for the upcoming fiscal cliff and potential sequestration dominated the lobbying efforts of higher education institutions this year, according to National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Director for Budget and Appropriations Stephanie Giesecke. Dartmouth was the only Ivy League school that did not officially spend money lobbying between Jan.
If nothing else, this week I may prove how little shame I have left or, to spin it positively, the lengths to which I will go for this column.
Freshman pregames and an uncanny, and yet unfortunately short-lived, ability to guzzle $5 vodka from plastic bottles. Getting care packages from our parents.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff
Dear Gardner and Kate, If you could give a few pieces of advice to yourselves as freshmen, what would they be?Shelly Sixteen '16 Gardner: On a broad level, I would tell myself to worry less about everything, especially what other people think.
'14 Girl: It's like champong. At first, you're like, oh, this is yummy. Then you're like, oh, I'm on the floor. '13 Girl: Did you vote?'13 Guy: I voted absentee.
Dear freshman fall Jack, How is everything going? Wait, don't tell me let me guess. I have a feeling I may have some idea of what you've been going through.
Marietta Smith / The Dartmouth Staff This one time, one of my floormates blacked out and wandered into my room.
Ah, freshman fall. Oh, to be that young and naive! Now that I am nearly finished with the first term of my college experience, I feel I can finally look back on these long gone months with nostalgia and clarity.
This has been a long and transformative year for Dartmouth's social culture, one often characterized by conflict between segments of the student body and the administration.
From academics and extracurricular activities to dining preferences and exercise options (if any at all), Dartmouth students tend to be extremely divided in their interests.
Allison Wang / The Dartmouth *Now that they've run around the bonfire, finished their first term of classes and told their fair share of embarrassing stories from their long journeys since September, it's time to see what the '16s have learned about Dartmouth so far.
Nushy Golriz / The Dartmouth Staff The exponential curve plotting information technology's accelerating rate of development "doesn't look revolutionary, except it enables revolutions," inventor, theorist and futurist Ray Kurzweil said to an audience overflowing into adjacent rooms during his Thursday lecture in Filene Auditorium. Technology becomes smaller, smarter and cheaper at exponential rates, making substantial breakthroughs likely in the near future, Kurzweil said, citing historical trends in information technologies like computing, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering. "It actually took 400 years for the printing press to reach a mass audience," Kurzweil said.
Much to my chagrin, I have had to wait until my senior year to witness the talents of Michael Reilly '12 and Ryan McManus '15.
*Editor's Note: This is the first article in a three-part series exploring diversity in College Greek organizations.**## While the majority of Panhellenic Council sororities and Inter-Fraternity Council fraternities have physical plants on Wheelock Street or Webster Avenue, for some, Greek life stretches beyond these clusters.
I don't really know how to write this letter. I would like to think that is because there is nothing I'd change about my last three years at Darmouth, but it is probably more that I'm not ready to admit the things that I really messed up.
Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Staff Despite carrying young rosters this season, both the Dartmouth men's and women's basketball teams have high hopes for the upcoming winter season.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff To win the Ivy League title, the Big Green (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) must win its two remaining games and get some luck from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, which are the only two teams ahead of Dartmouth in the league standings.