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December 1, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Ask a Professor: Marlene Heck

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This is what a College ought to look like." Eisenhower said it when he visited Dartmouth in 1953, and professor of art history and senior lecturer Marlene Heck agrees. Marlene Heck came to Dartmouth in 1990 with an undergraduate degree in history, a masters degree in architectural history and teaching experience from Texas A & M's architecture department.


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Written with the Walls

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Imagine that it's spring and you're lying on the Green enjoying the sun. Now, let's imagine sitting on the Green in 1890: There is a yellow museum where Baker Library usually stands, and Dartmouth Hall is wooden rather than brick.


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The Granite in our Brains

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College is sometimes described as a time to find one's own place in the world. No wonder things have been getting so heated about 'who's empowered in what space when.' Jean Ellen Cowgill explores the politics of space further in what she promises is not just another article about Beta. Over the past year, we sons and daughters of Dartmouth have talked a lot about the politics of space.



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The Mirror Tech Column

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This gadget preview for 2008 should have debuted before the first month of the year was over, but Mac screwed us over by announcing MacBook Air that week.


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The DM Manual of Style

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I am afraid of 2008 celebrity style. While ordinarily I would be first on line to trade places with them, stylistically speaking, this year not so much.



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Hello Dartmouth!

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This issue's topic -- architecture on campus -- holds a special place in my heart. Right next to the place where I store this happy memory: Just over a year ago, my sophomore fall, I decided to pursue my long-standing interest in architecture more concretely and enrolled in Architecture 1.


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Spotlight on: Sydney Kim '07

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Sydney Kim '07, a studio art major and English minor, is currently a studio art teacher's assistant at Dartmouth. What are you doing now? I'm applying to art schools for my MFA -- master in fine arts.





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Today I am annoyed by... "Haters"

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America's poet laureate Hilary Duff (Sept. 28, 1987 " Dec. 25, 2011) once said in her magnum opus, "Haters": "Haters/ Traitors to the human race/ Haters/ What a drag, what a waste/ I'd like to see them disappear/ They don't belong anywhere/ Haters, haters" Never have words rung so true.




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The Granite in our Brains

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Sometimes the pressure to be perfect is too much, and we crack. Not in a "Cuckoo's Nest" way, but more of in a drink a case, boot on the floor, hose the bed kind of way.. Jean Ellen explores how Dartmouth students perfect the art of being imperfect. Upon hearing "compulsive perfectionism," two thoughts crossed my mind: 1.