By Nova Robinson, The Dartmouth Mirror Editor
I tend to think that New Year's Resolutions are a waste of time. That doesn't really stop me from forming a list of 15 things I want to change about my life (such a list normally includes losing weight, eating healthier, being kinder, taking better advantage of the opportunities at school, etc...I know, how original), keeping them for fifteen seconds and then suffering through the self-hate that accompanies not being able to keep follow through on them. Wait, that doesn't happen to everyone? It is just me? You are really able to live up to your personal goals of being a better friend, easing up on the Keystones and battling the bulge, while successfully saving the world. Damn.
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By Cole Entress, The Dartmouth Staff
We sure could have used Captain Planet this past year. 2005 was a year with some big problems, and a green-haired crusader for conservation and personal strength might have been able to help with all of them. Some of these problems seemed tailor-made for the Captain -- the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia, the landslide, the earthquake and a couple of pretty terrible hurricanes all would have benefited from someone who can control water, wind and fire. Not to mention someone who stops bad guys who like to loot and plunder.
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By Lindsay Barnes, The Dartmouth Senior Staff
10. Aimee Mann -- "The Forgotten Arm"
As the songwriter whose works famously inspired filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson to make his three-hour epic "Magnolia," it seems only fitting that Aimee Mann finally wrote an operatic narrative of her own. And like "Magnolia," "The Forgotten Arm" is a moving account of desperate characters (a washed-up boxer and the junkie who loves him) searching for redemption that is occasionally frustrating but ultimately quite poignant. Mann refused to fall prey to the rock opera pitfalls of bombast and over-explanation and remained true to her graceful, understated, make-every-note-count style and proved it could be a perfectly fine vehicle for an album-length storyline.
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By Chetan Mehta, The Dartmouth Staff
10. "King Kong"
A monument to excess, Peter Jackson's "King Kong" is the kind of grand entertainment that Hollywood so often promises, but fails to deliver. The spectacle is merely a complement to the empathetic relationship between Ann Darrow and the gorilla that forms the emotional core of the film. It's an epic (and most likely definitive) update to a classic story.
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By Brent Clayton, The Dartmouth Staff
Holy crap, it's 2006. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready for the new year. Just as I was getting used to writing 2005, they go and switch it up on us all. Couldn't we just push New Year's back a month or two to give us all a buffer zone? Anyway, I still feel like I'm living in 2005 and am certainly not ready to start reflecting on it yet. But I do feel I've had enough time to digest 1995, and, man, what a year that was.
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By Caleb Powers, The Dartmouth Staff
An unscientific and generally uniformed look back at the stories that captivated us.
10. Windows are for jumping! Defenestrations abound.
It all started on an innocent evening in April. An innocent freshman at an innocent Chi Gam party, with an innocent penchant for the ridiculous, decided to innocently jump out of a window after innocently getting blacked out. As the police tried to revive him, a fellow partygoer innocently urinated out of a window in their direction. Soon, the buzzword was "defenestration," and copycat freshmen were dropping like Thads -- one even from a third floor dorm room in the Choates. After classes and classes of the same old mundane academic blah, there was finally a class with an identity: the Class of 2008 would forever be known for getting seriously hammered and throwing themselves out of windows. Not since the Class of 1897 became famous for its contests of seeing who could self-administer the most ether-based inhalants before attempting to catch live ammunition in their teeth fired from across the Green had a Dartmouth class been so courageous to adopt such a bold character.
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By Kate Hufft, The Dartmouth Staff
While it's only the first week of January, fashion magazines seem to think May flowers are about to bloom. Page after page display the hot new looks for Spring 2006: rolled shorts, Bermuda shorts, printed dresses, platform sandals, etc.
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By Hiba Siddiqui
As the snow begins to pile up on the ground, many Dartmouth students seem to succumb to the fashion trauma that I like to call the "Northface Effect." C'mon people! Just because it is cold outside does not in any way automatically denote that we must lose all sense of style and abandon all hopes of looking at least somewhat fashionable. While Northface is a great invention and certainly does a great job of keeping us warm, it nonetheless makes us look like every other Dartmouth student and quite frankly, it is just plain old "blah." However, do not despair. There are the heroic few among us who manage to still maintain a sense of style while at the same time keeping warm and toasty. Despite popular belief at Dartmouth, fashion and warmth are not mutually exclusive. Today, we would like to recognize and praise the few propagators of fashion that still exist in our dear college by enlisting the aid of colorful bags, cute boots, bright coats, and whatever other accessories they were able to incorporate to add some color and excitement to an otherwise dreary and grey season. We hail you and hope that your fervor for fashion will spread throughout the Dartmouth campus so that one day perhaps we will no longer be plagued by the "Northface Effect." Instead perhaps we will be surrounded by a plethora of warm and lo-and-behold FASHIONABLE people. Until that day, I will continue to crusade against this awful fashion trauma to encourage everyone to break out of the uniformity that cold weather seems to force upon us.More »
