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How Did It Get So Late So Soon?

By Jamila Ma | May 24, 2012

If I woke up tomorrow and someone told me I'd dreamed the last four years, I would believe it. My parents are immigrants and don't have friends or family in the states, and as a result, I had both an insular childhood and a fantastical understanding of American culture.

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Through the Looking Glass: A Speech Deferred

By Jonathan Katz | May 24, 2012

Editor's Note: Through the Looking Glass is The Mirror's newest feature. We welcome submissions from all members of the community both past and present who wish to write about defining experiences, moments or relationships during their time at Dartmouth.

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Local businesses expect increase in customers over weekend

By Marina Shkuratov | May 17, 2012

In addition to lawn parties and relaxation, Green Key Weekend heralds increased business for local eateries, according to the establishments' owners and managers. The weekend is similar to other big weekends at the College in that local businesses experience fairly dramatic increases in patronage, Everything But Anchovies owner Maureen Bogosian said. EBAs is expecting a 35 percent increase in sales over the weekend, which is similar to the increase it experiences over Winter Carnival, Bogosian said.

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Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | May 17, 2012

A drunk alum tells me to enjoy this while I can. The real world, he says, is a lot less fun. I get this piece of advice, in one form or another, every year during Green Key.

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Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | May 17, 2012

This is the story of Green Key. Green Key is the best big weekend. Freshmen are finally a real part of the community and rage as such.

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What Green Key Means to Freshmen

By CONNOR WATUMULL | May 17, 2012

While most Dartmouth freshmen are familiar with the history and traditions that distinguish the College's Homecoming and Winter Carnival weekends, Green Key's origins and purpose are more ambiguous, leaving many members of the Class of 2015 confused about what to expect from the weekend.

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Past weekends include Bema party, fistfights

By Amanda Young | May 17, 2012

Wrestling fights, students jumping off buildings, people pulling fire alarms, power outages and vandalism are some of the incidents that Safety and Security has dealt with over past Green Key weekends, according to Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne. Still, Green Key is not a weekend that usually generates many "unusual" circumstances, Kinne said. "Green Key isn't oftentimes as big of a weekend as a real active weekend in the fall," he said. While Kinne said he could not remember any specific instance that stands out, he said many incidents have involved alcohol or large crowds. In recent years, Safety and Security broke up a party at the Bema in the midst of a campus-wide electricity blackout and retrieved an intoxicated man from a hole at a construction site on Tuck Mall. During Green Key 2010, one individual not affiliated with the College ran into a Safety and Security officer and knocked him to the ground after he was caught carrying alcohol entering a party. Nearly 80 students gathered at the Bema for a Green Key celebration during an electricity blackout in 2008, according to Kinne.

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Green Key Schedule

By Mackenzie Bohannon | May 17, 2012

Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.: Pregame 12s with the besties, four shot minimum. 12:30 p.m.: Arrive at your 12, turn in your paper, proceed to online shop for the next hour.

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Women imported to campus prior to College's coeducation

By Diana Ming | May 17, 2012

Before the College become coeducational in 1972, the highlight of Green Key weekend was, for many students, inviting women up to Hanover for the annual fraternity parties, Green Key Ball and the "Sweetheart" competition. "Hanover is God's gift to women this weekend, as hundreds of the proverbially fair sex invade the New Hampshire plain from the world at large," proclaimed a 1938 editorial in The Dartmouth.

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Weekend features performances

By Zack Doherty | May 17, 2012

Members of Dartmouth's fraternities and dance troupes will gather in Leede Arena on Saturday to showcase their stepping skills at the 21st annual Step Show, hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

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Overheards

May 17, 2012

'15 girl: My friends told me they thought the Arab Spring was a water source. '13 girl at hop: I'm the only girl of the 20 people in this line.'15 guy: It's like if you were a guy in line at King Arthur. '13 girl: You know that awkward moment when you go upstairs to meet the dog and then there's no dog? '15 girl: It should be his responsibility to tell me that I might get dinged from Tri-Delt for hooking up with him. '13 Italian major: I have "call me maybe" stuck in my head.

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Campuses across East Coast welcome spring with festivals

By Sasha Dudding | May 17, 2012

As Dartmouth students prepare for this year's Green Key festivities, students at other schools have already celebrated their own spring weekend events, which generally involved large concerts and parties as well as children's activities such as moon bounces, according to event organizers and students at some of Dartmouth's peer institutions. Brown University's Spring Weekend, held April 20-22, featured a carnival, parties hosted by fraternities and local bars and concerts by artists such as Childish Gambino, according to Brown freshman Eva Gonzalez. "This year, we had Fratty in the Ratty,' which meant that the Ratty [the dining hall] was open for food until midnight and there was also a crazy party with the kitchen staff and everyone just being insane," Gonzalez said.

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Green Key Society has evolving responsibility

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | May 17, 2012

In an effort to connect to past traditions this year, the Green Key Society will produce a pamphlet detailing Green Key weekend events and host an internal ball for current and incoming members, Green Key Society President Owen Scannell '13 said.

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