We stood in the foyer of Panarchy, staring at a patch of brown water damage on the ceiling. “People think that’s where a ghost has been,” Panarchy member Caroline Brandt ‘09 told me. Cocking our heads to the side, we searched for the profile of a face. After rotating a couple of times, I finally saw it; a long nose and an eerily faded eye appeared in the plaster. “It looks like water damage to me,” Brandt said.
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With Halloween right around the corner, I decided I wanted to put my questions about ghosts to rest. Do they exist? In a quest for truth, I sought out two haunted inns in Vermont to talk to staff members about the mysterious happenings they have witnessed. Put down your spiked cider and decide for yourself if you believe.
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There may be some validity to that chill you get when you walk into the Tower Room, or the fact that you feel eyes on the back of your neck when you walk to the reserve desk (or around First Floor Berry, but that’s a different article). According to Ron Kolek and Maureen Wood, the heads of the New England Ghost Project, you can stop feeling crazy.
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My mom always told me never to drink without eating. It was my first time. Of course, my parents drink exactly 1.5 glasses of red wine per day. To them, blacking out is a scary, alien concept — the generation that made their bodies chemistry sets for a Skittles factory of hallucinogenics no one knew were bad for you has yet to fathom that their sons and daughters black out frequently and sometimes on purpose.
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There are three things that I’ve thought about that aren’t related to Dartmouth this week: South Park, my job as a nanny and wildfires. All three of these things are smoking hot (nanny job in particular), but the wildfires warrant attention that few of us have had time to give them. So, let’s turn our attention to the West this week. You might have to squint a bit to see through the Hanover bubble (it’s stained with coffee and cigarette smoke these days), but the world is still out there and there’s much going on.
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There are artists that make a habit out of abusing their vocal cords, and in the process, abusing some listeners’ ears. While it’s easy to dismiss all screaming in music as unintelligible noise that reflects a lack of talent, there are nuances and depth to screaming that not everyone realizes.
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Sorority girl 1 at delibs: Oh, I love that girl.
Sorority girl 2: Oh, me too, [retracted] passed her off to me and she was great, I’m in love.
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Book: “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson
Read about how Hunter S. Thompson did enough drugs to kill three small elephants and still had the audacity and lack of shame to write about how crazy the rest of us are. This ironically sobering account of desperation in the face of the absurdity that we all deal with daily will be extreme enough to make any dedicated rager raise his Keystone in a toast and literary enough to make any proud English major put their hand up in praise. — Tom Mandel
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