Home Bird: Q&A with Collis Employee Falcon Wright

Falcon Wright is one of the Dartmouth Dining Services workers at Collis Café. He was in the stir-fry line before the winter term but has since been moved to Collis Late Night.

The Grass is Greener at the Organic Farm

Approximately three miles north of campus, a little deeper into the peaceful hills of the Upper Valley lies a farm “for the students” that offers an escape from the stress and demands that otherwise define the Dartmouth experience.  This is the phrase and idea with which I came into contact multiple times during my conversations with some members of the Dartmouth Organic Farm.  “It’s only three miles away, and you can go whenever you want,” Annika Bowman ’21 explained.

Achieving Self-Expression Through Sculpture

At Dartmouth, where the four most popular majors are economics, government, computer science and engineering, some undergraduates overlook the academic discipline of studio art.

Through The Looking Glass: Little House Life

I don’t remember when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. I can picture the nine-volume paperback box set, each cover a different pastel gingham, sitting on the lower left of the downstairs bookcases as if it has always been there.

The Renaissance Man and Woman Today

Dartmouth, as a liberal arts institution, not only encourages but also requires students to take a variety of courses in many different subjects.

The Invisible: Menstrual Taboos in the 21st Century

Menstrual stigmas are rooted not in what is said but in what goes unsaid. We encounter them in the silence between words, in the euphemisms that have spilled into our social script to claim a language of their own, reflexive but prosaic.

Q&A with art history professor Jane Carroll

Professor Jane Carroll is a senior lecturer in the art history department and a member of the steering committee of the Medieval and Renaissance studies department.

Peters: Worth It

At Dartmouth, students often face a significant amount of pressure to leave this place with a finished product.

Siblings of Dartmouth: Legacies in the Making

Evan Muscatel ’21 and Garrett Muscatel ’20 Do you two spend time together on campus? GM: Yeah, I’ll hang out with him at [Beta Alpha Omega fraternity] sometimes, we played IM sports, we play video games sometimes.

Through the Looking Glass: DDS — Dartmouth Duck Syndrome

 For those of you who haven’t heard of “duck syndrome,” it is a concept often applied to college students who appear calm on the surface but are frantically suffering underneath.

Leaving a Sustainable Legacy

Bequests: Threads of Legacy at Dartmouth

While well-known traditions such as running around the bonfire during Homecoming or participating in the polar bear plunge during Winter Carnival contribute significantly to Dartmouth’s legacy, smaller traditions such as bequests help shape the College’s legacy on a more personal level.  Bequests, which are items that are cyclically passed from a senior to an underclassman, typically within an organization, are usually clothing items, but they can be just about anything that the senior wishes to pass down.