Despite their foul smells, permanent layers of grime and questionable sanitation levels, Dartmouth’s basements hold a place in students’ hearts. On trips back home and over the phone to friends, hours are lost trying in vain to justify and explain the appeal of such social spaces, but neither words nor at-home-pong-reproductions can do a basement justice. More »
You’ve seen them around. They’re slinking behind every corner, taking up prime benches on the green, and roving around town in hordes. We all express irritation at their presence, but we know they must have inner lives. When it comes down to it, who doesn’t want to know what the deal is with all the campers? In an effort to answer this question, I spent a couple hours lurking around their home base at their greatest moment of weakness: feeding time. More »
'09 Guy 1: What do you look for in a girl? '09 Guy 2: You know, it really is the little things, the way a girl twirls her hair with her finger or bats More »
We all know they’re coming. Their arrival is inevitable — those pesky little freshmen, who make us cringe at the sight of their lanyards and hold our ears as their “shmobs†scratch against campus like nails on a chalkboard. But while we are still free from the newbies for another two months, Dartmouth is being invaded every day by even younger potential students and their parents, who flock to the campus for summer tours. More »
Eggs can come scrambled, sunny-side up, or in the case of Latif Nasser '08's one-act play "The Oologist's Egg," passionate -- as in Fritz the passionate egg. The winner of this year's annual Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition, Nasser's one-act play will be performed alongside five other short sketches by seminal playwrights Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco in a unique collaboration between the theater department and Hopkins Center Dance Program titled "A Mouth as Big as All Outdoors." Nasser's is the first student-written play to be performed as part of a Mainstage production. More »
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