In Sickness and in Health
Every term at Dartmouth starts out the same: DBA overflowing, low stress levels and my sweatpants still tucked away deep inside the dresser.
Every term at Dartmouth starts out the same: DBA overflowing, low stress levels and my sweatpants still tucked away deep inside the dresser.
'11 Premed: Like, your grades don't matter if you want to be an ibanker, you just have to be in Theta Delt. '12 Panarchist: My dog doesn't smoke weed, but I know dogs that do. '12 Guy on London FSP: Oh, are we on the way to Canterbury?
On a recent Friday afternoon made precociously dark by daylight savings time, I spoke with English professor Peter Travis, who occasionally teaches a women and gender studies course called "The Masculine Mystique." "Men in our culture carry extra baggage" due to expectations and responsibilities imposed on them by both society and themselves, he said.
Femininity. The term tends to conjure up images of lips, breasts, hair and high heels. Women who society considers "feminine" tend to fully embrace the attributes that delineate them from men, creating a greater physical, and perhaps social, gender divide. But is there a relevant definition of femininity that supersedes physical appearance?
Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Thanksgiving is easily the best day of the year.
We have decided, here at The Manual, to discuss this week's theme of gender as it relates to the fashion community at Dartmouth and the larger fashion world.
My father has always fiercely believed that I am endlessly capable. He used to say to me when I was only five years old that I owed it to Eleanor Roosevelt to be a great woman, because everything she did, she did for me. I would protest in my stubborn way, saying, "She didn't even know me!" but he had predicted this response, telling me to think of all the little girls who weren't born yet who might someday know my name. He was a fraternity brother at the University of Texas, a star athlete and an Airborne Ranger in the United States Army.
When Pam Misener, the acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the adviser to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, came to Dartmouth 10 years ago, most openly transgender students at the College chose to transfer.
My mother graduated from Dartmouth in 1977 the second complete class of women to graduate from the College.
We are both drunk girls, but we also both have penises (what up Lady GaGa). We sink fulls and halves and occasionally (by occasionally, we mean never) get golden tree'd.
Upon approaching Kate Taylor '13, a Sexpert and a Sociology major with a concentration in women and gender studies, I noticed she had two documents open on her computer.
I have something to admit. I feel like now that we've been together for a while I can open up to you a little more.
Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Two years ago I wrote an article for The Mirror about dating at Dartmouth before co-education.
I spent the first year of my college career thinking that Dartmouth was inherently a man's school.
I just want to be able to order a meatless egg-white wrap on whole wheat from the Hop without my masculinity being questioned. I mean, let's face it: we attend a school that has gender on the mind, as is incredibly apparent in this issue of The Mirror.
*I am a Woman of Dartmouth.**## But what does it mean to be a woman of Dartmouth? And why is being a woman of Dartmouth a thing that needs a definition? I think the first time I became aware that it meant something to be a woman on this campus was when I was singing the Alma Mater with a group of friends and one of them turned to me and said, "Don't stomp on Lest the old traditions fail.'" I was taken aback. "We all stomp on that line," I responded. "No, we don't," he said, "People started stomping on that line when the Daughters of Dartmouth' line was added in the '80s.
Thirty-seven years before anonymous senior women left "The Red Book," a self-purported "Guide to Dartmouth," under my door, another far more sinister pamphlet was slipped into the rooms of every Dartmouth woman living in Woodward Hall, an all-female dormitory.
1) Febreeze2) Buy extra underwear. A lot of extra underwear.3) Freeball
(heteronormative edition): His:1) Ignore her. Hers:1) Ignore him. 2) Have your friends convince you the ball's in your court. 3) Blitz him. 4) Ignore him.
There are some skills that Dartmouth students have down pat and then there are some skills that we just don't have.