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Memory Lane

January 23, 2014

On a winter night my freshman year, I jolted awake from a poorly planned nap crammed between midterm study sessions. With a devastating sense of loss, I realized that my mother was nowhere to be found. I called out to her, my eyes bloodshot, then fell back into bed. I was not in my house in Korea, 6,600 miles away, but rather in my dorm room at Dartmouth, my supposed home away from home.

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Off-Turmoil

By Sara Kassir | January 23, 2014

I couldn’t even tell you the number of times my editors cut out the Dartmouth cliches I used in my first Mirror articles during freshman year. References like #facetime, the weather being unbelievably cold and all forms of “so/too real” were akin to profanity. But for me, these were the easy jokes because as a freshman, I understood them. I could even execute them. And it never occurred to me how little insight they conveyed to the upperclassmen that had heard the punch lines thousands of times before I ever stepped on campus.

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Down the Rabbit Hole: "Alexa"

By Taylor Cathcart | January 23, 2014

Down the Rabbit Hole is a new section of The Mirror that showcases student work from across campus. Submissions of all genres are welcome — please send works of 3,000 words or fewer to mirror@thedartmouth.com. The following, "Alexa" by Taylor Cathcart '15, is a work of fiction.

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Next to Normal

By Mary Liza Hartong | January 23, 2014

Over winter break, I spent a few days playing hot potato at the homes of my New England-dwelling friends. Each house and family was different — Shih Tzu puppy versus ornery cat greeting me at the door, scrumptious Indian food versus decadent blueberry muffins made from scratch — but toward the end of the week, I began to realize it wasn’t so much that these families were all different, but that none of them were normal by my standards.

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Sunstein talks personal data sharing

By Priya Ramaiah | January 23, 2014

In a lecture on Thursday afternoon, Sunstein explored the advantages and disadvantages of impersonal default laws, generic data rules applied en masse, versus active choosing, where the consumer decides which information to share with retailers.

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Trending @ Dartmouth

By Erin Landau and Marina Shkuratov | January 23, 2014

POLAR VORTEX BETA'S BACK: Break out your America gear — probation is over. SNOW SCULPTURE MYSTERY: We are more and more intrigued with every single wooden board that gets placed on this mystery box... DARTMOUTH OLYMPIANS: Did you know that 25 Dartmouth athletes are going for gold at the Sochi Olympics this winter?

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Thayer grad applies to Mars mission

By Sara McGahan | January 23, 2014

Fagin is one of 1,058 individuals chosen by Mars One — a program that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet — to advance into the second round of its application process.

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Tengatenga begins role at Mass. divinity school

January 23, 2014

After a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the revocation of his offer to become Tucker Foundation dean, the Right Rev. James Tengatenga started his position as a presidential fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. this month.

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | January 23, 2014

In case you were wondering, toothpaste, or what we recognize as toothpaste, was first invented by Washington Sheffield in 1892. Various other tooth-cleaning agents had been used before then, including but not limited to crushed bone, salt, charcoal and pulverized brick.

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Hockey teams face off against ECAC foes this weekend

By Josh Schiefelbein | January 23, 2014

The men’s and women’s hockey teams face crucial ECAC games this weekend. The women (5-13-1, 4-8-1 ECAC) will play Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, looking to pick up four points in the standings, while the men (3-13-3, 2-9-1 ECAC) square off against RPI on the road.

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Postgrad Puck

By Sasha Nanji | January 23, 2014

Sasha Nanji ’13 is a former Big Green hockey player and will write a column every other week about her life post-Dartmouth as a professional hockey player in Canada.

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D’Souza ’83 accused of campaign finance fraud

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 23, 2014

Dinesh D’Souza ’83 was indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday in relation to a 2012 U.S. Senate election. Although no candidates were named in the indictment, news organizations report that the race concerned was between Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y. and Republican challenger Wendy Long ’82.

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College joins online learning platform edX

By Chris Leech | January 23, 2014

The College announced today that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 year.

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