It is hard to pinpoint the emotion I felt upon opening this past week’s Dartmouth Mirror to Georgia O’Keefe’s “Guide to Eating Out” (“Aurora’s Guide to Eating Out, Oct. 5). I was expecting something relative to the “Upper Valley,” which the front page of the Mirror had led me to believe. Well actually, with Aurora Wells ‘10’s (the actual author’s) meticulous focus on the clitoral hood, “Upper Valley” may in fact have hit it right on the nose (pun intended): “It’s all good in the hood.”
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It pains me to respond to — and thus validate — Aurora Wells ‘10’s article on eating out (“Aurora’s guide to eating out,” Oct. 5), but it would be irresponsible of me to ignore its significance. The article demonstrates an acceptance of the egregious gendered double standards that thrive on this campus. However, using institutions — such as The Dartmouth and other campus resources — for the purpose of creating a collective voice of the oppressed on campus is a misguided approach for relieving discomfort with the “male-dominated” aspects of campus.
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I was very surprised to read the recent news article in The Dartmouth about the upcoming changes to the Arabic LSA+. (“Arabic dept. upgrades its foreign study prog.,” Oct. 4). After experiencing the LSA + for myself this past summer, the last thing I expected was for it to be moved from Fez. I thought, “Why are they playing around with something that worked so well?” The Arabic department is sacrificing the true cultural experience of an incredible city like Fez for the ease and convenience of operating out of a big city like Tangiers.
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There’s a scene in the movie “Mean Girls” in which newcomer Cady — still completely ignorant of the customs and norms of her American public high school — surveys the scene in the cafeteria with wonder during her lunch period. She notices that her fellow students are clustered together in distinct groups that, as her friend Janis describes, run the gamut of stereotypical high school cliques: from the “preps” and “J.V. jocks” to “desperate wannabes, burnouts, and sexually active band geeks.” Obviously, the movie is a hyperbolic and exaggerated portrayal of social cliques — funny precisely because its rendering of adolescent social interactions is so over the top. But amidst the laughs is a surprising grain of truth. The movie works partly because its caricature of high school sociology is an honest reflection of how young adults actually partition and subdivide their social world.
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