Whether we are lounging on the Green, studying in the library, socializing at a party, relaxing in the dorm or eating in a dining hall, food is an ever-present aspect of college life; this commonly unacknowledged undercurrent and literal nourishment of the campus plays a huge role in happiness and overall quality of life for students. Given the extensive variety, quality and quantity of food on Dartmouth’s campus, it is not surprising that Dartmouth Dining Services boasts a grade of 15th in the nation on The Princeton Review’s “Best Campus Food” rankings. But how does healthy eating factor into choices, and how much thought does the typical student put into what he eats?
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Most Dartmouth students don’t mentally calculate their protein intake for the day while waiting in the Food Court grill line. Few worry about whether they’re getting a full serving, or three, of veggies or cheese or tofu when they throw together a Collis salad. There’s no denying that academics, extracurricular involvement and/or raging have a way of taking up so much of Joe and Jane Dartmouth’s time and brain space. Thinking about good nutrition just isn’t always a priority. While the Freshman 15 may not happen to everyone, college eating is definitely very different from eating out in the real world, as every student transitioning from home to school for the first time soon discovers.
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It’s starting to get to that time of the term: the time when DBA is starting to drop and students are starting to get desperate to cut corners. So I’ve devised a few little ways to eat for free at Dartmouth. Listen closely seniors: this time next term, when going negative is just not an option and you’ve burned through that giant signing bonus already, you’re going to need this. I know this issue is centered on nutrition and some of these meal ideas may not seem like the most nutritious but riddle me this: what’s healthier, eating or not eating? Eating. Eating is more nutritious, no matter what that supermodel/ballerina/native Los Angeles resident tells you.
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You know the expression, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you?” Well when it comes to food — surprise, surprise — this may not be true.
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Barely conscious from exhaustion, I tried to write my column last night. I woke up this morning slumped over on a couch fully dressed and coffee-stained, my face on my keyboard. Firefox had two pages open: the lyrics to 2Pac’s “Brenda’s Got a Baby” and my Facebook profile. As failures go, it was to working what drunkenly passing out in a puddle and drowning is to partying.
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I spent much of Monday night perched atop a cozy basement bench passively observing the scene before me. The events I witnessed seemed more apropos to a wilderness safari than the amicable gathering of collegiate sophisticates in which I found myself. I refer specifically to an intricate and bizarre mating dance that I watched transpire between several different “couples.” By couples, I mean two people that had clearly made out/hooked up before and were now encountering each other again. While each scenario went down a bit differently, the basic trajectory was as follows:
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A little over three weeks ago, something happened that may have changed my entire perspective on life. The NFL playoffs were still in fullswing, and my beloved New Orleans Saints were looking to defy the course of their entire history and advance to the Super Bowl. Of course, since this was the Saints, this could not actually happen; a Saints Super Bowl is one of the signs of the apocalypse and would bring upon us the End of Days. Instead, God decided letting the Saints get to the conference finals was enough karmic payback for Katrina for now, and that he really wanted to see what happens with Jim and Pam on The Office before putting an end to everything. (I believe he even sometimes enters those frightful IMDB messageboards and posts threatening notes about what he might do if Jim keeps it up with Karen).
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Book: “Good poems,” selected and introduced by Garrison Kiellor
In many an English class, the professor inevitably says that Dartmouth students don’t read enough poetry. This collection of poems is the beginning of the antidote, and offers exactly what it says it does: good poems. And though it may seem a little Reader’s Digest-y to read a collected jumble rather than intensely delving into one poet’s oeuvre, Keillor’s taste level in selecting the work for Good Poems prevents it from sinking into the banal depression of the likes of Chicken Soup for the Soul. - Amy Davis
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Ice Climbing Instructor: So you swing the ice pick as if you were swinging a hammer.
‘10 Girl: What if you’ve never used a hammer?
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