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Sophomoric Reflections

By Jennifer Parkinson | October 3, 1996

It's not so easy being a sophomore. First of all, no Dartmouth student ever fully recovers from the shock of no longer being a freshman. Like a rude awakening from a pleasant dream by the shriek of a fire alarm at 4 a.m.; like a rockin' dorm party disseminated by the ominous knock of Safety and Security at the door (oh yeah -- but that was last year too) sophomore year hits hard. Sophomores live in the River (except for a few enviable ORL staffers, or those who have finagled the system.

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All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned In Psych 1

By Anat H. Levtov | October 3, 1996

Unfortunately, it is rare that I feel the material I am learning in class relates directly to my everyday life at Dartmouth.

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Major Headaches

By Laura Mannix | October 3, 1996

So," said my Harvard-educated dentist, coming into the small sterile room and walking over to the chair where I sat. "Where do you go to school, Miss Mannix?" "Dartmouth College." "Really!?" he said, sounding shocked.

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De Gustibis

By Matthew Lubin | October 2, 1996

The pace of life at Dartmouth leaves time for very few lingering meals, of the sort good writers can render with such mouthwatering abandon.

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A Vote for Bill Clinton Is a Vote for E.T.

By Marc Mcdonald | October 2, 1996

If you watch television, you can definitely tell it is an election year. Instead of micro-Smiling Steve driving around the Lebanon Pharmacy in his Tyco Black Thunder four-wheeler, there's campaign message after campaign message telling the viewers who they should vote for. A vote for Bob Dolegingrich, according to ads paid for by Clinton/Gore '96, means cuts in Medicare, social security, education, and anything else the government helps fund, in order to pay for Dolegingrich's 15 percent across-the-board tax cut. In his ads, Bob Dole states that a vote for Clinton means ... well, he has trouble on this one considering the economy if flying.

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Key to Fountain of Youth Lies in Worms

By Jennifer Dziura | October 1, 1996

Ever since human beings noticed that we have been dying -- and what's more, doing so permanently -- we have been searching for a fountain of youth. At last, we may have found our fountain in some curious mutant worms.

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History of Hinman

By Jamie Bedrin | October 1, 1996

The other night as I waited in the Lone Pine Tavern for my dinner, I happened to glance around the room looking at the different artifacts from Dartmouth's history.

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College Shows Double Standard for Puppet Show

By Joshua M. Winterhalt | October 1, 1996

To the Editor: Funny how the Administration wouldn't allow the Pow-Wow to be held on the green last spring because the dancers' mocassin-clad feet would damage the tender grass, yet it seems to have no problems allowing a bus to be driven onto the green and puppeteers to dance about on stilts behind a small barricade of banners driven into the precious green by wooden stakes, while hundreds, possibly a thousand more spectators than the pow-wow draws, stood in rapt attention...

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Jagged Little Senior

By Sam Bonderoff | October 1, 1996

I was sitting in my room last night, a half-smoked Camel Filter casually dangling from my lips, wrapping up the evening's reading of "Richard III" for the next morning's Shakespeare class, listening to some Smashing Pumpkins album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Pretentiousness," I think feeling rather Edgar Allan Poe-esque, when I heard a knock on the door. "Come in," I bellowed, but it was a happy bellow, a come-on-in-and-suck-on-my-aura bellow. Two pointy figures poked in their young heads, one male, one female.

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Topliff Renovations

By Aaron D. Klein | October 1, 1996

Over the summer, the Co- College invested over $1 million in renovating Topliff. I happened to get a single in the "new Topliff" and it became obvious that nobody had bothered to get any student input on the renovation process. How do I know this?

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Dartmouth Appreciation

By Cara Abercrombie | September 30, 1996

After three years in Hanover, my awed, appreciative, freshman-year impression of Dartmouth has since developed into the cynical perspective of one who envisions the campus only in the framework of hum-drum everyday life.

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C Says, P Says

By Carolyn Wachsman | September 30, 1996

Food. We eat it every day. Some people are pickier than others. Some students will inhale anything, while others are overly particular about what they will allow to come in contact with their palettes.

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Columnists' Photos Should Not Appear in The D

By Kenji Hosokawa | September 30, 1996

I was confounded by the column "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words" [September 26], in which Jennifer Parkinson claimed that the columnists who do not want their photographs to appear in The Dartmouth are unprepared to "stand behind their opinions." Ms. Parkinson suggested that if the no-photograph position were taken to its logical end, the class or even first name of columnists should also not appear in the newspaper because any such information might induce the reader to presume unjustifiably about the opinions of the columnist.

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True Individualism

By Abiola Lapite | September 30, 1996

You've heard it all before. About how Dartmouth students are lacking in individualism. About how they all dress alike and speak alike.

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Nice To Meet You

By Lea Kelley | September 27, 1996

As Jen Parkinson wrote yesterday, "If some one is going to bother reading 750 or more words of my opinions, perhaps they deserve to know who I am." So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Lea Kelley, I'm from Washington state, I'm a double major in English and History and I'm a Tri-Delt.

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Pressing the Flesh

By Matt Mcdonald | September 27, 1996

Few Dartmouth and college traditions are introduced to freshmen as quickly as the unavoidable ritual of pressing the flesh.

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Lone Pine Deli, Changes to Collis Cafe Disappoint

By Patrick L. Craven | September 27, 1996

To the Editor: What a disappointment it was to walk into Collis Wednesday, the first day of classes, and discover how inept Dining Services has proven itself to be once again. It was heartening to hear that I was not the only student perturbed by the changes to Collis, which was once the choicest eating establishment during the lunch hours.

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I Want to be a Freshman

By Laura Mannix | September 26, 1996

You know what?" I asked Cheryl, "This stinks." We were both sitting on my bed in my tiny single, poring over our ORCs in an attempt to get our lives in order. "Ok, if I do a thesis, then I have to take only English classes for the rest of my life.

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Defining Character

By Laura Zachman | September 26, 1996

In the last few weeks before returning to Dartmouth, I had the misfortune of attending a local Republican rally with my father who is running for local office.

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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

By Jennifer Parkinson | September 26, 1996

Today, I'd like to kick off the year by risking offending a group of people whom it could be dangerous to offend. I'd like to write this column about columnists. It's perhaps a bit bizarre, or at the very least, self serving, to write about writers, but hey, we're a bizarre, self-serving bunch. Monday night, I went to a columnist meeting at the brand-new offices of The Dartmouth.