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A Guide to Idiots

By Jeff Deck | August 10, 2000

I'd like to take this particular column as an opportunity to recognize an oft-overlooked segment of our society.

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Off-Campus Housing

By Gary Weissman | August 10, 2000

To the Editor: In Tuesday's edition of The Dartmouth, a story read, "For the first time ever, this fall seniors will have the option of selecting off-campus housing owned by the College through the Office of Residential Life" The Foley House, located on the corner of Maple and West Street has been a College owned, off-campus residence for over 20 years.

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Experiences, Not Exams

By Liam Kuhn | August 8, 2000

During the recent Class of 2002 Family weekend, my family came up to Hanover to visit with me and to get a better sense of what my life at Dartmouth College is like.

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I'm Not the Anchor

By Randy Stebbins | August 4, 2000

Life. We're in it. For the long haul. It's what we do. We get up in the morning, shower -- most of us -- dress neatly -- some of us -- and trudge/bike/drive/ into the day. Life.

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A Music Phenomenon

By Abbye Meyer | August 2, 2000

I have found a very moving force in the world, in my life. And for the first time ever, I feel the need to convert others to my way of thinking, to reverse the often-innate repulsion of country music that most of you probably hold and convince you to take a chance on the Dixie Chicks. For those totally in the dark, I should explain that the Dixie Chicks are a huge country music sensation.

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A College of Your Own

By Linda Romano | August 1, 2000

Welcome to college, folks. Everything you need to know about pursuing a degree in higher education will be blitzed to you, at least 25 times a term, by well-meaning people who haven't yet figured out that everyone has read those forwards that tell you why college is like kindergarten, that teach you how to convince your roommate you're a walking psychopath and that remind you that a dorm is a real-life manifestation of everything Dante wrote about. The most useful thing that I can tell you about Dartmouth is do not settle for anything.

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It's Greek to Me

By Anne Cloudman | August 1, 2000

If you'd asked me two years ago whether I would join a sorority in college, I probably would have given you the standard, skeptical, "Me?

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Tips for Being Green

By Geoff Carlson | August 1, 2000

Before I came to the rolling green hills of New Hampshire, I was like any other incoming freshman -- not of age, anxious and, of course, spectacular in bed.

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Cheney: The Right Choice

By Joe Schroeder | July 31, 2000

Nothing's worse than a dry, pretentious college kid. Well, okay, there's the college kid who finds that his summer job consists of writing articles about small town politics, choosing from such impressive issues as "should we open the '7-11' 24 hours a day?" or "can we put stools at the bar in the Chinese restaurant?" Not to say that this is my job.

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Things That Annoy Me

By Jeff Deck | July 27, 2000

Yes, it was inevitable. A sequel to the popular, yet controversial column that ran at the end of '98 Fall term was unavoidable: there are many things on this great green globe that deserve immortalization here.

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Research in Rauner

By Allen Fromherz | July 21, 2000

Books are caskets, vainly walled against decomposing time: knowledge eternally embalmed. Lightly pressing the 1-inch wooden frame covered by thick, ornate, faded lambskin, the heavy, brass clasps snap open.

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