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November 30, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Easy A

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A 4.0 at Dartmouth is like a leprechaun. If you're like me and have a permanent seat on the struggle bus, you've likely heard stories about students with 4.0s but can't ever really know for sure who does and doesn't have one until the valedictorians are announced senior year.


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Sage Advice from a Senior

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As a senior, I feel it's my time to transition from writing opinions to giving advice, and beginning my fourth winter in Hanover surely qualifies me to offer a recommendation or two to my fellow students.


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Overheards

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Gov Prof: Don't worry about finding that book. So many of my colleagues simply make up their sources anyway. '11 Guy: I did the math and I can get Ds in both of my classes this term and my GPA will only go down like 0.5 points.'13 Guy: You must have a really low GPA. '12 Sigma Delt: I wasn't hungover because I woke up drunk, which was nice. '14 Guy: I'm just in an a capella group, and DREAM, and I work at the library.



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Overheards

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'11 Premed: Like, your grades don't matter if you want to be an ibanker, you just have to be in Theta Delt. '12 Panarchist: My dog doesn't smoke weed, but I know dogs that do. '12 Guy on London FSP: Oh, are we on the way to Canterbury?


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Navigating the Masculine Maze

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On a recent Friday afternoon made precociously dark by daylight savings time, I spoke with English professor Peter Travis, who occasionally teaches a women and gender studies course called "The Masculine Mystique." "Men in our culture carry extra baggage" due to expectations and responsibilities imposed on them by both society and themselves, he said.


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Finding Femininity

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Femininity. The term tends to conjure up images of lips, breasts, hair and high heels. Women who society considers "feminine" tend to fully embrace the attributes that delineate them from men, creating a greater physical, and perhaps social, gender divide. But is there a relevant definition of femininity that supersedes physical appearance?


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The DDS Detective

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Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Thanksgiving is easily the best day of the year.



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A Good Ol' Boy Becomes a Man

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My father has always fiercely believed that I am endlessly capable. He used to say to me when I was only five years old that I owed it to Eleanor Roosevelt to be a great woman, because everything she did, she did for me. I would protest in my stubborn way, saying, "She didn't even know me!" but he had predicted this response, telling me to think of all the little girls who weren't born yet who might someday know my name. He was a fraternity brother at the University of Texas, a star athlete and an Airborne Ranger in the United States Army.


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Transitioning in Hope of a Better Place

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When Pam Misener, the acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the adviser to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, came to Dartmouth 10 years ago, most openly transgender students at the College chose to transfer.






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Editor's Note

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Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Two years ago I wrote an article for The Mirror about dating at Dartmouth before co-education.



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Chicks, Dicks & Carrot Sticks

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I just want to be able to order a meatless egg-white wrap on whole wheat from the Hop without my masculinity being questioned. I mean, let's face it: we attend a school that has gender on the mind, as is incredibly apparent in this issue of The Mirror.


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Frosty's Corner

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*I am a Woman of Dartmouth.**## But what does it mean to be a woman of Dartmouth? And why is being a woman of Dartmouth a thing that needs a definition? I think the first time I became aware that it meant something to be a woman on this campus was when I was singing the Alma Mater with a group of friends and one of them turned to me and said, "Don't stomp on Lest the old traditions fail.'" I was taken aback. "We all stomp on that line," I responded. "No, we don't," he said, "People started stomping on that line when the Daughters of Dartmouth' line was added in the '80s.