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And the Music You're Missing

By Kate Farley | October 1, 2009

I'm musically oblivious to the point that I'm often embarrassed to blitz out song requests to my sorority because it reveals just how behind the times I really am (I will categorically deny requesting "Party In The U.S.A.," um, yesterday). Given that this is my baseline level of awareness, it's possible that I've totally overlooked a sick Hanover-based music scene, but my band-geek-turned-art-school-hipster friends from home are full of stories about jamming to underground, alternative rock bands in trendy local clubs and grinding to recorded music in the sweaty Heorot basement doesn't exactly measure up. It's not like the College to fall short in any one area like that (forgive me if I sound like I swallowed a PR machine, but even the most cynical of us have to admit that our little bubble is chock full of opportunities, assuming one is sober and conscious enough to appreciate them). As a government major, I've been fortunate enough to let countless prospects slip through my fingers the bustling New Hampshire political scene provides all the schmoozing and thankless campaign work any aspiring government mogul could ever need. But what about our musically-minded intellectuals?

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Ask Miss Muffin Top

By Miss Muffin Top | October 1, 2009

Dear Miss Muffin Top, Who the hell are you? Bissell Babe Dear Bissell Babe, You may think Miss Muffin Top is some nobody, or worse, that I'm related to that dreadful cousin who sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey. And you wouldn't be entirely wrong. Miss Muffin Top enjoys dairy almost as much as she enjoys fine wines.

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Music around the Block

By Erin Lansky | October 1, 2009

Let's face it: Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" is stuck in your head 24/7 And, although you'd like to blame those oh-so-juvenile '13s for your Disney-starlet sweet-tooth, chances are you heard the hit at Heorot.

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The Music You Know

By Emily Fletcher | October 1, 2009

Dartmouth, we have an addiction problem. I'm not talking about Blitz or Keystone. This addiction finds us in our rooms, in basements, even on DOC Trips.

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Overheard

By The Dartmouth | October 1, 2009

'10 Girl 1: WTF, why can't we be drinking out here, we're 21. '10 Girl 2: Yeah this is New Hampshire, our motto's not live free or die sober! '11 Girl: If I hook up with her, would it violate the rules of rush? '08 Working at the career fair: I think I'm still drunk. '10 Psi U 1 to '10 Psi U 2: Yo man, you want to get dressed in similar outfits tonight? '12 Girl 1: That guy is so hot'12 Girl 2: OMG yes, who is he?'12 Girl 1: I think he's a Beta.'12 Girl 2: Oh great ... sexy, but never hooks up with anyone. '12 Guy: I just put on some coverup, and now it's raining.

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What's your Social Site?

By Karen Iorio | September 24, 2009

Upon starting your first year at Dartmouth, you probably received a copy of the Green Book, which contains a picture of each member of your class paired with some personal information limited to hometown and high school.

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Spotlight on Filligar

By Emma Fidel | September 24, 2009

Pete Mathias '09, Teddy Mathias '09, Johnny Mathias '11 and Casey Gibson have bouncy, swooning voices when singing in their wildly-popular-among-college-kids rock band, Filligar.

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Editors' Note

By Jen Argote and Amita Kulkarni | September 24, 2009

Alex Rivadeneira / The Dartmouth Senior Staff N ow that we are officially a week into our senior year at Dartmouth, it seems like only yesterday Jen and I were eagerly friending random members of the Class of 2010 on Facebook with the notion, that, "Hey, we are going to be fellow '10s, so of course we must be friends by default." In our three years here, Facebook and online social networking sites have transformed the way we communicate, and have influenced the people we choose to know.

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A Voice Crying Out in the Twittersphere

By Matthew Ritger | September 24, 2009

True story: Late one night my sophomore spring, I was working on a paper in a study lounge in McLane, when a black girl tried to throw herself out the window of whatever that dorm is across Tuck Drive. She was screaming out to the streets about how racist and hopeless Dartmouth is, and screaming at her friend, and climbing in and out of her fourth-floor window, and generally making it difficult for me to do my homework. She was hollering about how awful it is to be a woman, and to be black, and how disgusted she is by our false pretense of diversity here when Twitter update from MyToddelmog: "Natalie Portman just walked down my block." Humph.

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The Revolution Will (Probably) Not Be Twittered

By Kate Farley | September 24, 2009

I usually know a trend has arrived when my father blitzes me with a confused question, and in light of his recent inquiry about "getting on that Twitter thing," I'm going to call social networking an official phenomenon. From a serious analytical perspective, I think that we've definitively seen the Rise of Friendster and weathered The Shift Towards Facebook (you know you can see future sociologists seriously debating this). The pressing question of the day now is, "Has the Great Twitter Awakening Begun?" Are we on the cusp of a major revolution? Unfortunately, I might not be the best person to answer these questions, because I have an embarrassing confession to make: I don't tweet.

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