Opinion
Horan: More Children Left Behind
By Helen Horan | October 5, 2020The pandemic has exposed and amplified vast inequities in education.
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Opinion
Horan: It's All About the Benjamins
By Helen Horan | October 11, 2019When you turn on a televised football game, it is hard to distinguish between a college game and a professional one.
Opinion
Horan: The Irony of Safety
By Helen Horan | September 26, 2019Campus is abuzz with talk of Dartmouth’s new residential access policy. Students have discussed the absurdity and uselessness of the decision, while bemoaning its consequences. The exclusivity of the Cube, the now everyday nuisance of letting a friend in to a dorm, the ludicrous “solution” to ...
Opinion
Horan: On Creating a Self
By Helen Horan | May 3, 2019Reflections on conformity at Dartmouth.
Mirror
From Scandal to Opportunity: Virginia's Political Turmoil
By Helen Horan | March 6, 2019February has been a hellish month for my home state of Virginia. The state has been hit with a storm of scandals that have rocked the political hierarchy.
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Take a Hike, Sometime
By Helen Horan | February 6, 2019“Here we have a story of injustice, betrayal and diehard survival,” begins Matt Gannon ’22. Three guys set out to the mountains, only to return 10 hours later with many miles under their feet and even more stories to share.
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25 Milestones in 250 Years
By Helen Horan | January 16, 20191769 College Charter signed, establishing Dartmouth as the ninth college in the United States 1797 Geisel School of Medicine founded 1799 The Dartmouth publishes its first issue on August 27 by Moses Davis under the name the Dartmouth Gazette, establishing it as “America’s Oldest College Newspaper” 1819 Trustees of Dartmouth College v.
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First in the Nation
By Helen Horan | November 7, 2018From Kennedy to Obama, from Reagan to Bush, countless presidents have visited our campus while still just hopeful candidates, their eager eyes set on the Oval Office yet their immediate efforts focused on New Hampshire voters.
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Boys Will Be Boys...and Supreme Court Justices
By Helen Horan | October 17, 2018In the wake of the polarizing confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court following multiple credible allegations of sexual misconduct, this week’s Mirror theme of gender falls at an tremendously relevant time.
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In Silence, a Cry for Change
By Helen Horan | October 3, 2018One of the most emblematic and accurate descriptions of our school can be found in its motto: “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” or “a voice crying out in the wilderness.” Yet the phrase is rarely given much attention or thought, perhaps dismissed as an archaic Latin idiom that fails to inspire students.