Early Winter term, one male freshman had a sobering experience on a frat row dance floor. “I’m dancing with this girl at a party, starting to feel the music, things get going a little, next thing I know we’re making out on the dance floor,” he said. “I went to lunch the next day with my friends, and behind me I hear this group of upperclassmen girls saying that my dance partner was cute, but it was too bad that she had an STI. That really scared me.” Through the grapevine he found out that she had scabies, and began researching the disease. He discovered that it could have been transmitted through prolonged skin-to-skin contact or orally. He has not been tested, and is waiting to see if he will get symptoms. “If we didn’t have sex, I assumed I couldn’t get it,” he said.
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With the combination of hormones, cold weather and less-than-thrilling entertainment venues in Hanover, it’s no wonder that students are hopping into bed with each other. From monogamous relationships to steamy hook ups, sex is a given for a significant portion of the Dartmouth population. Unfortunately, despite the benefits of sex, the possibility of STDs is a scary reality. So … if you want to be sexually active, how do you stay clean at Dartmouth?
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The only thing more contrived than vapid Hallmark holidays are getting to know-you-games. Spare me your two truths and a lie or any opportunity where I have to liken my personality to fauna or inspect myself for that share-worthy scar. The only question I can stand to answer tolerably is, if I could only pick one, which food would I choose to eat on a deserted island? My answer does not even warrant a pause: give me Korean or I’m going home.
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From Home Plate brunch to Bagel Basement, Hanover eateries are rife with gossip on Sunday mornings. Topping the list of requisite conversations is who hooked up with whom that weekend. Sometimes the worst thing that could happen is running into your Saturday night snogging partner between 10s and 11s on Monday, but in many cases, there’s a lot more at stake.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the service project yesterday. It occurred to me that my life has been worth living.
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Earlier today I was talking to one of my roommates. She told me she was really interested in the results of this week’s survey because, having dated her high school sweetheart all through college, she has no idea about the customs and conventions of the Dartmouth hook up.
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It is ridiculous that I am writing about a device that is still at least five months away from market, but that’s the sort of spell that Apple is able to cast on the general public. People have actually approached me wondering when I was going to write an iPhone article. (By people, I mean one person may have mentioned it in passing.)
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Book: “The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank” by David Plotz
David Plotz uses his case study of The Repository for Germinal Choice (also known as The Nobel Prize Sperm Bank) to answer the question of how American society today has negotiated with the idea of selective breeding. Plotz’s investigation is expressly intimate, both in the manner he addresses the reader, and in the manner he addresses his subjects. - Latif Nasser
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I’m going to Chi Gam tonight to get my penis licked.
-Outside Chi Gam
‘09 girl 1: I see all these boys carrying around flowers in plastic
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