Mirror Asks: Alternative
What’s your favorite alternative band? Christopher Cartwright ’21: Passion Pit. Annie Farrell ’21: The Strokes. Jacob Maguire ’21: Banners!
Unconventional Pedagogy
In a 2016 announcement about the “Liberal Arts Imperative,” College President Phil Hanlon said that Dartmouth “serves as a laboratory for intellectual innovation.” Each course at Dartmouth fulfills this mission differently.
Dartmouth not included in letter discouraging legacy admissions preference
A coalition of 13 first-generation and low-income student groups at 12 American universities sent a letter encouraging their institutions to reform the practice of giving legacy students preference in their admissions processes.
Editor's Note
It’s the last Mirror issue of the term, and we decided to do something different. Something unconventional.
Q&A with Tracie Williams '05
Tracie Williams ’05 discovered her love of the outdoors as an undergraduate after participating in a backcountry skiing break trip sponsored by the Outdoor Programs Office.
Peters: Worth It
At Dartmouth, students often face a significant amount of pressure to leave this place with a finished product.
Community members participate in winter edition of the Pitch
On Monday night, Dartmouth held its latest rendition of its entrepreneurial show, the Pitch. Twenty-one groups of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students pitched their startup ideas to a panel of six judges and approximately 100 voting audience members. This year, the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, the event’s co-sponsors, experimented with several changes to the event. Since its conception in spring 2014, the Pitch has taken place once per term.
Of This Alternative Universe
If the sun and the moon and the stars were all to align themselves differently, what would we find?
Best of Both Worlds: Social Spaces at Dartmouth
Social spaces are integral to a well-functioning college. If you think about the places that we frequent on campus, more often than not they are social spaces.
Dartmouth will not build large College park dorm, Hanlon announces
Dartmouth will not build a 750-bed residence hall in College Park due to the high cost of such a project, College President Phil Hanlon announced during yesterday’s termly faculty of arts and sciences meeting.
The Dartmouth announces incoming 2018 directorate
Zachary Benjamin ’19 and Hanting Guo ’19 will serve as The Dartmouth’s next editor-in-chief and publisher, respectively. Benjamin, an English major from Lodi, California, joined the news section his freshman year and served as a news managing editor during winter 2017 and winter 2018.
Magann: Sensible Limits
It is time for reasonable firearms regulation.
Lee: Logic Complete
When your thermostat has a mind of its own.
Freeman: Doubt Yourself
If people do not doubt their actions, they will not know themselves.
Review: ‘1984’ production leaves viewers questioning the present
Although 2018 is just starting, there have already been many times this year that I’ve found myself wondering if I am living in a twisted dystopia.
Review: ‘Lady Bird’ is charming, honest and Oscar-worthy
It’s hard not to ask what the best film of 2017 was, given that the 90th Academy Awards are less than a week away.
The Weekend Roundup: Week 9
The men’s swim and dive team scored 561 points at the Ivy League Championships at Princeton University, taking seventh place.
Big Green Olympians have strong showing at 2018 Winter Olympics
With high expectations and an arsenal of veteran Olympians, Dartmouth affiliates stay neck-in-neck with other elites
Already a good team, Dartmouth skiing got better in 2018
With the 2018 carnival season in the books the Big Green proved that its strong 2017 season was clearly no fluke. Dartmouth equaled or exceeded most of its 2017 numbers in 2018.