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Through the Looking Glass: Fresh Old Start

By Carol Brown | March 1, 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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What if I weren't a varsity athlete?

By Chad Hollis | March 1, 2012

Throughout my Dartmouth career, I've always been defined as a football player. My major has changed, I joined a frat and I've been a member of a couple campus groups.

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What if dating at Dartmouth were a thing?

By Erin Landau | March 1, 2012

I met my wonderful boyfriend Brad during our First-Year DOC Trip Hiking 3 Section J. Well, technically we met on the Bema when I jumped into his strong arms during those wonderful meet-and-greet games you play before heading off on your trip.

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Top 5 Rejected "What If" Articles for This Issue

By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff | March 1, 2012

1."What if when they rebuilt Dartmouth Hall, they painted it pink?" What a great question! Just kidding.

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What If I Could Do Dartmouth Again?: Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | March 1, 2012

This is the story of a different Dartmouth. We measure time on a line. Sort of. Someone decided to bend that line into a circle.

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What if I were a varsity athlete?

By Anuraag Girdhar | March 1, 2012

Catch, drive, finish, release. Catch. Drive. Finish. Release. The only thought that occupies my mind three hours every morning, six days a week.

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What if these celebrities were Dartmouth alumni?

By Lauren Vespoli | March 1, 2012

Dartmouth already has its fair share of contemporary celebrity alums, from the real such as Mindy Kaling '01 and Timothy Geithner '83 to the fictional, such as Meredith Grey and Stephen Colbert.

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What if Hanover were in the South?

By Kelsey Anspach | March 1, 2012

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, South Carolina. Sometimes we love it, sometimes we hate it, but mostly it is awesome.

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Letter from the Editor

By Priya Krishna | March 1, 2012

Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth We all like to imagine alternate versions of our lives.

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What If I Could Do Dartmouth Again?: Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | March 1, 2012

"Coulda, woulda, shoulda." That's what my dad always says when I start a sentence with "I should have..." It's infuriating.

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From Dewey to Digital: The Evolution of Our Library System

By Tyler Bradford | February 23, 2012

In today's cyber age, compiling information has never been easier for the average Dartmouth student working on a research paper.

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We're Gonna Party Like It's 1769

By Sara Kassir | February 23, 2012

It would be the understatement of the past 243 years to say that the Dartmouth of 2012 is different than the College on the Hill founded by Eleazar Wheelock in 1769.

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Top 5 Most Obscure (But Interesting!) Historical Facts About Dartmouth

By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff | February 23, 2012

Unsurprisingly, a Dartmouth alum, Robert Smith, Class of 1902, was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, which now helps more than two million recovering alcoholics in 134 countries. Amos Tuck, Class of 1835, founded the original GOP, organizing its first meeting at Major Blake's Tavern in Exeter, N.H.

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Through the Looking Glass: A Sense of Place

By Annie Laurie Mauhs-Pugh | February 23, 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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Being and Dartmouthness

By Kip Dooley | February 23, 2012

When I was six years old, my uncle gave me a lacrosse stick for my birthday. Every day after school, I would grab it from the bench in our kitchen and run outside to play catch against this thing called a Rebounder, a bouncy net that sends the ball straight back to you.

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Chicken and Waffles

By Peter Stein | February 23, 2012

This is the story of a drop of water. Imagine what water once meant. Imagine what it still means to so many.

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Overheards

February 23, 2012

'13 Girl looking at guy's love match sheet: There are no girls on this entire sheet!'13 Guy: That's because I'm gay... '13 Girl: I'm allergic to cats, but i LOVE cat photos! Psych prof: Apparently I give "tricky-ass" tests, according to your evaluations.

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Demystifying the Dartmouth Decade

By Leslie Ye | February 23, 2012

If Eleazar Wheelock could see us now, he would be rolling over in his grave. Yes, Dartmouth has remained a bastion of higher education over the centuries, and we are just as in the middle of the woods as we ever were.

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Communication Nation: Dartmouth Before Smart Phones

By Myrel Iturrey | February 23, 2012

I never get cell phone service in Lou's. On more than one occasion, I have accidentally flagged down a waitress as I guiltily raised my iPhone high above my blueberry-peach pancakes, hoping to catch a single bar of service. "It's frustrating," Libby Buttenweiser '15 said of the "dead zones" in Hanover, of which Lou's Restaurant is only one example.

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Dartmouth Through the Decades

By Anuraag Girdhar, Lauren Vespoli, Elizabeth Trager | February 23, 2012

Dartmouth 1957 WASP. One syllable encapsulates how a lot of people on the outside view Dartmouth.