Farewell Headmaster Wright
By Christine Paquin | May 28, 2009I'll freely admit it, I love Harry Potter. Seriously people, those books are pretty great.
I'll freely admit it, I love Harry Potter. Seriously people, those books are pretty great.
I'm a good little faux new age hippie. Although I don't own Birkenstocks or Doc Marten's, I'm from Vermont, my family composts, I eat organic, I like the Grateful Dead and I think that new vegetable garden at the White House is rockin'. I always use canvas bags on my Co-op runs, I don't litter, I own a BPA-free Nalgene and I think every high school kid should watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in science class.
In life, some things are recognized as pure, unadulterated facts. For example, Princeton can't play hockey, UGGs will never go out of style at Dartmouth, a pong date here is equivalent to a first date everywhere else, and elliptical machines are for wimps.
Lindsay Lohan has had a rough year. From the notorious "I'm happier than ever," to the breakup with Sam, it's been a doozie.
Your home friends: They're the ones who knew you before you thought doming was a sport. Blitz is alien to them, they think large fires surrounded by teeming hordes signify something akin to the occult and, for these special some-ones, pong means Beirut.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff New Year's Resolutions: everybody has them, most people enjoy breaking them.
Dartmouth business clubs enjoy newfound energy as Dow dips
I t can take a college student both considerable work and imaginative power to picture a professor outside of the classroom or the lecture hall.
If you're writing a thesis on "Mesopheric Meteoric Dust" you probably went to space camp as a kid.
Courtesy of Bueno-Chavez / The Dartmouth Staff Raul Bueno-Chavez is a professor of Spanish language and literature.