A Brief History of 420...
So it's April 20th, also known as 4/20, also known as time to get high. Yes, this day's date is both the hour to toke and our favorite code word for smoking marijuana and talking about it in front of oblivious squares.
So it's April 20th, also known as 4/20, also known as time to get high. Yes, this day's date is both the hour to toke and our favorite code word for smoking marijuana and talking about it in front of oblivious squares.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Nothing brings to mind a college campus quite like weed and alcohol.
When John Ledyard arrived at Dartmouth in the spring of 1772, he grabbed everybody's attention with his flashy clothes and his carriage -- the first to ever reach Dartmouth.
'09 Sigma Delt: I'll pee in a frat shower if I have to go, but I would NEVER go in the sink. Ew. '08 Kappa: Oh my God, I want a stick of meat! Christian 1: I'm going to go see "The Passion of the Christ," do you want to come? Christian 2: Nah, it's too bloody.
Quick! What do a stump-toed ghecki, yards of astroturf and a past-its-Halloween prime princess costume all have in common?
Senior spring is a wonderful time, particularly if you're not taking classes. Being at school without actually having to go to school has afforded me (and a handful of my similarly toolish former AP-scholar friends) a whole lot of free time.
I am in the Dayton, Ohio airport waiting to fly back to Biloxi. My first eleven weeks on the Gulf Coast were like Natalie Portman's character in Garden State: challenging, strangely beautiful and likely to change my life. At the end of the movie, Zach Braff experiences a Natalie montage set to silly hipster music.
I have never been much for lyrics. There are plenty of bands that I love. I may know only about five lyrics from their entire discographies but continue to recommend them to friends.
One of the staples of my college tours was the ubiquitous "blue light emergency phone." Inevitably, a parent would question the safety of 20-somethings cavorting around alone at all hours.
How Dartmouth responds to sexual assault
Technology changes fast. Your brand spanking new computer will be archaic in less than one year. To have the newest iPod, you would have to buy one about every six months, on average.
'09 Guy: If Cohen and Little were connected, it would be Clittle. '09 Kappa: The moral of the story is, stop hooking up with Theta Delts. '06 Theta Delt (without irony): Then who would you hook up with? '08 Girl 1: Who is this girl? '08 Girl 2: She used to sell me Adderall.
Book: "Einstein Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc" by Arthur I. Miller Is it merely coincidence that cubism and relativity, together defining modernity and renovating the arts and the sciences, appeared to the world within two years of one another?
When the campus is already littered with countless copies of journals and newspapers capturing the pulse of student political thought, humour and artwork, it might seemsurprising that many students still feel the need to blog or post articles online.