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Down the Rabbit Hole: "Alexa"

By Taylor Cathcart | January 23, 2014

Down the Rabbit Hole is a new section of The Mirror that showcases student work from across campus. Submissions of all genres are welcome — please send works of 3,000 words or fewer to mirror@thedartmouth.com. The following, "Alexa" by Taylor Cathcart '15, is a work of fiction.

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Next to Normal

By Mary Liza Hartong | January 23, 2014

Over winter break, I spent a few days playing hot potato at the homes of my New England-dwelling friends. Each house and family was different — Shih Tzu puppy versus ornery cat greeting me at the door, scrumptious Indian food versus decadent blueberry muffins made from scratch — but toward the end of the week, I began to realize it wasn’t so much that these families were all different, but that none of them were normal by my standards.

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Trending @ Dartmouth

By Erin Landau and Marina Shkuratov | January 23, 2014

POLAR VORTEX BETA'S BACK: Break out your America gear — probation is over. SNOW SCULPTURE MYSTERY: We are more and more intrigued with every single wooden board that gets placed on this mystery box... DARTMOUTH OLYMPIANS: Did you know that 25 Dartmouth athletes are going for gold at the Sochi Olympics this winter?

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | January 23, 2014

In case you were wondering, toothpaste, or what we recognize as toothpaste, was first invented by Washington Sheffield in 1892. Various other tooth-cleaning agents had been used before then, including but not limited to crushed bone, salt, charcoal and pulverized brick.

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Overheards

January 17, 2014

'16 Girl: I can't believe they tried to just stop rush. I mean, isn't that illegal? In the hallway outside the scholar studies offices in the stacks: Does it count for the Dartmouth Seven if I have sex with someone in your office? '14 Girl: I have this lifelong passion of making children's songs out of popular raps. Collis employee when the power went out: Don't worry, DDS can always take your money. '16 Guy: I don't even know this guy, I just hooked up with him. '14 Girl: I have never applauded in an X-hour before.

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Editors' Note

By Erin Landau and Marina Shkuratov | January 16, 2014

This week, we took a deeper look at social issues that Dartmouth has confronted (namely, Lohse-pocalypse) and how the College has handled and learned from them. As two juniors (?!) having lived through many less-than-flattering Dartmouth headlines, we have had a lot of time to reflect on our very own social problems and successes.

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Striking a Balance

By Maggie Shields | January 16, 2014

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has emerged once more a hot topic for the student body, but not all students believe the dialogue surrounding it is a diverse one.

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And the Oscar Goes To...

By Erin Landau and Michael Riordan | January 16, 2014

In light of yesterday’s Oscar nominations announcement, The Dartmouth’s resident awards experts, executive editor Michael Riordan ’15 and Mirror editor Erin Landau ’15, ruminated long and hard on who will win, who will be snubbed and who should claim a naked statuette on March 2.

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Dartmouth: An Evolution?

By Troy Palmer | January 16, 2014

The coming week will mark two years since Lohse published “Telling the Truth,” his op-ed in The Dartmouth that accused Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of widespread hazing and ignited the now-familiar firestorm surrounding Dartmouth’s social scene. The anniversary allows us to reflect on the two-year-long debate. What has changed? What hasn’t changed? Will Dartmouth continue to pursue solutions to hazing issues, or are Lohse and his controversy fading from the forefront of our preoccupations?

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | January 16, 2014

In case you were wondering, the coldest recorded temperature on Earth was minus 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 93.2 degrees Celsius for the metric folk among us. No, this was not in Hanover, though that may be hard to believe given our current state of affairs. It was on the East Antarctic Plateau on Aug. 10, 2010, which is the middle of winter down there in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Editors' Note

By Erin Landau and Marina Shkuratov | January 9, 2014

As we attempt to adjust to the frozen tundra that is 14W, we’ve noticed a lot of changes at the College on the Hill. Daylight hours have dwindled, King Arthur Flour has reintroduced the brie-and-apple staple to our daily diets and overeager ’18s are wandering their soon-to-be alma mater. And of course, there’s us — your new Mirror editors. We know we have big shoes to fill, especially when it comes to giving you your weekly dose of Overheards and double entendres. Before we dive into the lives of others, we wanted to take a minute to introduce ourselves. After extensive research on OkCupid (online dating is legit, we promise), we’ve come up with profiles to give you a little insight into our deeply private personal lives.

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So Far Away From Me

By Andrew Zhu | January 9, 2014

Walking into my two-room triple this term to two barren, stripped beds stunned me. My home was missing my two best friends — there was no one there blasting music; the room wasn’t already a mess. I was forced to get ready to conquer my sophomore winter solo. I now have the most luxurious and spacious single on campus, but trying to fill up all the space by myself is going to be, well, a little lonely. The people whose clothes I would borrow, who hated waking up to my obnoxious sonic boom alarm and who enjoyed late night EBAs with me have left Hanover for Barcelona and Paris.

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It's Going Down (I'm Yelling Tinder)

By Luke McCann | January 9, 2014

In the darkest moments of my finals period last term, I looked for anything entertaining to distract me from the 10 pages I had to write in 12 hours. Bored of Facebook stalking and walking back and forth between KAF and Novack, I decided to create a Friendsy account. After attempting to navigate the maze of recognizable faces, I found myself looking at the top murmurs, a collection of the most popular anonymous shout-outs to Dartmouth students.

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Then & Now

January 9, 2014

With Dartmouth regular decision applications due today, Common Application essays are still very much on the minds of future freshmen. For graduating seniors however, applications are nothing but a relic of the past. We asked four seniors to review their Dartmouth application essays, and the results were striking, poignant and sometimes hilarious. For many, re-reading applications was a reminder of both how much they had changed and the opportunities Dartmouth had allowed them to pursue through the years.

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Taking Note of Accessibility at Dartmouth

By Marian Lurio | January 9, 2014

Within our increasingly medicalized society, information processing disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can easily be conflated with Adderall and similar “miracle drugs,” peddled nonchalantly across campus by students who don’t always understand the deep issues behind the disabilities. Due to a culture where legitimate treatment for learning disabilities can be marred by stereotypes of partying or cheating the system to get ahead, students utilizing a variety of accessibility services on Dartmouth’s campus are often misunderstood.

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