By Caitlin Kelly, The Mirror Editor
Our generation has been pounded with anti-drug, anti-smoking rhetoric for as long as we can remember. My first exposure was in Kindergarten, when my teacher put in a VHS about "Just saying no" and then went outside for a Virginia Slim. Signals have been mixed ever since. Sure, cigarettes might give me lung cancer, but they also look so cool! From James Dean to Don Draper, asking for a light has been shorthand for, "I'm awesome, and by the way, let's get out of these clothes."
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By Eve Ahearn
I walked down Mass Row, past the Gold Coast, Baker Library and the Fayerweathers, trying to find someone smoking a cigarette to interview for this article. I saw no one. Every time I passed somebody, I started to talk to him or her, only to see that the light was just a reflection from a cell phone; what seemed to be a motion toward the lips was merely nervous nail-biting. I thought this was college: Where are all the smokers?
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By Amy Davis, Deputy Editor
I'm once again in the middle of midterms. I've got a cold; there's laundry piled up on my floor; I have no idea what classes I want to take next term and no time to write for The Mirror this week. I cried to my mom, and besides telling her that my nose was running and I had too much to do, I also told her this week's theme -- smoking at Dartmouth. This morning I checked my HB, and she had FedEx'd me chicken soup, pudding and what seemed to be a short epistle, written on a series of notepad sheets designed for grocery lists. Apparently she took it upon herself to write Why Telling Your Friend Not to Smoke While You're Both Drinking is Hypocritical. I copied it over here, since I figured both her handwriting and the little ducks on the sides of the notepad would make it difficult to read:
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By Sydney Ribot
Dartmouth students are notorious for letting their "vices" meander into casual conversation. As long as they do not venture into "self-call" territory, nonchalant mentions of unprotected (or simply promiscuous) sex, binge-drinking, drugs and, for the less adventurous, procrastination, mean bonus points in the Dartmouth social arena. Or -- dare I say it -- at any American college.
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By Luofei Deng
Netbooks are the new craze in computing. Everybody and their mother seems to be making these very small, very low-cost laptops. Lenovo, the company that makes the ThinkPad notebooks, has joined in on the party with the IdeaPad S10 (props for the clever name).
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By Stefanie Zychowski
Spotted: Dartmouth students having a not-so-secret love affair with WASPy prep-school staples -- luxe tweeds, proper plaids and argyle sweaters. From FoCo to the Choates, girls in knee socks and boys sporting cashmere scarves are ubiquitous this fall, thanks to "Gossip Girl," the television program New York Magazine has dubbed, without a hint of hyperbole, the "Greatest Show of Our Generation." The super-addictive soap opera, which chronicles the lives of Manhattan's privileged elite, has ignited a sartorial frenzy that brings tony Upper East Side style to Hanover. For those who have not yet embraced the aristocratic swagger of Gossip Girl's pampered teenagers (and their preternaturally preserved parents), there are plenty of ways to embrace the trends currently sweeping campus.
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By Emma Fidel
Eben Clattenburg '09 is the tobacco cessation intern for the College's Health Resources department and is a member of the Tobacco Task Force. He is passionate about tobacco cessation because he doesn't think that smokers "have the right to put other people's lives at risk." Eben elaborates on Dartmouth's cigarette culture or, rather, lack thereof.
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