The Dartmouth Mirror 1/4/17

MIR ROR 1.4.2017

LET'S BE FRIENDS FRIENDSHIPS WITH BENEFITS | 6

AFTER OFFICE HOURS | 7

IF GREEK GODS WENT TO DARTMOUTH | 8 ERIC WANG/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Editors’ Note

Allow us to introduce ourselves. We’re Ali, Lucy and Mikey, your fearless new editors taking up the Mirror gauntlet. 2016 dealt us a rough hand, but we’re hopeful for bigger and better things in 2017 and plan to make this term of the Mirror the best yet.

Ali is a former news writer, geography major and friendly but reluctant Southerner who enjoys long runs around Norwich, buckets of coffee and episodes of Friday Night Lights #timriggins. Lucy is a former Dartbeat editor, anthropology major and biology minor who can usually be found listening to Bay Area music (E-40, anyone?), running in Pine Park or looking for the perfect GIF reply to a GroupMe. Mikey is a former arts writer, geography major and art history minor who will talk to anyone and everyone about how much she loves her hometown of New Orleans, “curates” Spotify playlists and is constantly hunting for the best cheeseburger (hit her up with recs!).

More importantly, Ali, Lucy and Mikey are new friends. For our first issue, we chose to focus on making friends at Dartmouth, the secret lives of professors’ friendships and the psychological and academic benefits of investing in your social life. You’ll learn a reason or two to go play a game of pong tonight with your friends, reflect on the pivotal bonding moments with other students and laugh (or cry) at the musings of our wise senior columnists.

Maybe this issue will even motivate you to get out of your spacious Topliff single, venture through these frosty streets and go meet a friend or two for an Umpleby’s panini or a Molly’s marg. Or maybe this issue will spark deeper conversation and create new connections.

Stay warm, stay hopeful and stay friends. 2017 is our year.

follow @thedmirror 1.4.16 VOL. CLXXIV NO. 1 MIRROR EDITORS MICHAELA LEDOUX ALEXANDRA PATTILLO LUCY TANTUM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RAY LU

PUBLISHER RACHEL DECHIARA

EXECUTIVE EDITORS KOURTNEY KAWANO ERIN LEE

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’18: ‘Collis has a Twitter?”

Unknown year: “Ebay is like socially acceptable gambling only instead of money, you get stuff you don’t need.”

’18: “Nipples are my favorite male body part. They’re so useless! I love it.”

’18: “I have 25,000 photos of snails.”

Two Indians and a Jew: Midseason Holiday Special COLUMN

By Elise Wien

We return from a winter hiatus to catch up with the women of North Mass 310.

Kayuri is in Warsaw, Poland, Corinne is in South Bend, Indiana and I am in New Rochelle, New York. Tasked with writing a column about friendship, but having nothing particularly new to say about it, I present to you the season finale of “Two Indians and a Jew,” the fictional sitcom about our own friendship. All text in italics is drawn verbatim from our group iMessage.

All other text is subject to poetic liberties.

I can’t participate in these sordid affairs.

So that’s what you missed last week on transition economies in Poland My life is a graveyard of phones —KB, 12/6/16, 3:57 P.M. Kayuri is in Warsaw as an extension of her economics class. She, along with a group of 15 other Dartmouth students in Public Policy 85, went to witness firsthand the processes they learned about in “The Transition of Poland to a Market Economy,” or, as another friend on the Ukraine immersion trip put it, “How to Prop Up Economic Structures That Are in

the U.S.’s Best Interests.” This is, of course, assuming that the market economies are also in Ukraine and Poland’s best interests, but one finds it difficult to tease out priorities.

“These Sordid Affairs” — The scandalous gossip coming from the Warsaw arm of room 310, not to be reprinted here for purposes of privacy and journalistic integrity.

“Graveyard of Phones” — Kayuri lost her phone in Poland. This happens with relative frequency (see: 15X episode: The iPhone at the Bottom of the Connecticut River).

Kayuri, then, is responding to messages with much less frequency. Aside from “Auschwitz and the salt mines,” nightlife in Poland is a major attraction. Corinne and I begin to worry that she’s been TAKEN. X We open on a supply closet. We see Kayuri, sitting on a metal folding chair with her hands tied behind her back. Facing her are two men in black cargo pants, turtlenecks and ski masks, muttering to each other in Polish. Kayuri remains stone-faced. The chain from the single light bulb swings between them.

“You will cooperate,” the man on her right says.

“Or you will suffer the consequences,” says the man on her left, brandishing a butcher’s knife.

“Rats!” yel l s K ay ur i, struggling against her restraints. “If only I hadn’t lost my iPhone, I wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.”

The two men whisper in Polish.

“We’re not sure how you made that jump in reasoning,” the man on her left says, “but we guarantee once you are working with u s , yo u c a n have as many iPhones as you

’19: “Salad makes no sense to me.”

wish.”

“Working with you? Is that what this is about? I should’ve known this wasn’t for ransom… I have no high-powered political relatives or state secrets. Why me?”

“Well as you know, Kayuri, Poland is going through a bit of a change—” “Transitioning to a market economy.”

“Yes. It’s ripe time to set up a boutique consulting firm specializing in—” he lets out a menacing laugh, “connections to global supply chains.”

“No!” “Yes! And we know you have the knowledge we need.”

A ring from one of the men’s phones.

The tune is Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, the Polish anthem.

“Why do Polish nationalists want to start up a boutique consulting firm?” Kayuri wonders. “Why are there so many printers in this supply closet? How big are they trying to make this thing? Surely over ten printers exceeds the bounds of ‘boutique.’ They should consult with someone about that — whoa, a consulting firm for consulting firms.” She pockets the idea.

The man on the left answers the phone, says only “tak” and nods to man on the right.

“We have to go,” he says. “We’ll be back in an hour. Meanwhile, watch this video on the evolution of the electronics manufacturing industry in northern Poland and how it’s responded to an increasingly globalized nation.”

They wheel out a TV and pop a VHS tape into its player. They exit, locking the door behind them.

“Okay, think Kayuri, think…” She fiddles with her Jostens® Dartmouth Class Ring.

The light bulb above her flickers.

“Aha!” She remembers why the ring was so pricy. She presses down on the signet and a mini switchblade swings out from the side.

She begins to saw through the rope that binds her hands together.

She wouldn’t think to design a ring with a secret blade compartment, what with airplane travel restrictions and regionally varying regulations on weapon carrying, but she would discuss that with Jostens® once she returned. Perhaps many alums find themselves tied up in Warsaw supply closets and have to rely on class rings as their only means of escape. Best not to judge their product design and marketing strategy before she had all the facts.

X I just ran over a dog / Damn / And then I spoke to her owner / He was drunk / But he said it’s ok / Said they were worried because she was running all over / Well / Still breathing / But hit her

going 55 / I told the owner happy holidays / But he was understanding / She was such a small dog / Like 15 lbs probably maybe 20 / Ankle biter / The owner held her warmly till she died / So at least she was warm / I am still sad about it Im allergic to cantaloupe, beans, peas, soybeans, sesame seeds, bass, crab, lobster, shrimp, all other shell fishes, almonds? Maybe hazelnuts and peanuts and only a minor reaction to wheat —Corinne, 12/13/16, 3:34 P.M. A terrier ran out in front of Corinne’s car, making this the first casualty of winter break. The group text mourned. Kayuri, still locked in a supply closet and watching “Przemysł Elektroniczny: Historia,” offers no response. We are worried, because every time a dog dies, Kayuri loses a small piece of her soul.

X Movie could b a lot shorter if they talked about their feelings —Me, 12/18/16, 6:09 P.M. I saw Manchester by the Sea and spent my 21st birthday sober with my parents, whom I love dearly. It’s not that I don’t value friendship, it’s just that 50 percent of my friends are locked in a supply closet in Warsaw.

X God now we’re talking about petroleum.

—Corinne, 12/15/16, 7:34 P.M. Corinne is on a date.

X Back to the supply closet in Warsaw, Kayuri is braving day seven of the documentary. She sits with her hands behind her back as if they are tied down.

One masked man returns, unlocks the door and enters. When he turns his back to her to take out the VHS tape, Kayuri grabs one of the HP Laserjet Pros and hits him over the head. She ties the man up and scoffs — the TAKER has become the TAKEN. She reaches for her iPhone to take a photo of the switch, then jerks her hand away, remembering with a fury.

Corinne and I begin to worry, because it’s now been a week without communication from our friend abroad.

Hbd Health Wealth Happiness Or survival at this point really Will Kayuri make it home from Poland?

Will the dog face resurrection? Will I make any new friends? Tune in next time.

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Time travel: Forming f STORY

Trips Trips is when many Dartmouth students form their first friendships on campus. Since students do not have access to phones or internet during Trips, it is almost impossible to appear busy or be antisocial. It is not uncommon for trippees to become close friends, as Danielle Moragne ’17 found.

“Two of my best friends are from Trips,” Moragne said. “It’s kind of funny because someone decided to put us together.”

Some Trips friendships, however, fade as the year goes on. Kristy Fan ’17 said that her trippees still greet each other and occasionally meet up but are not close.

Freshman roommates

By Nelly Mendoza-Mendoza

Thanks to the small student population, the D-Plan, and the ever-important concept of facetime, friendships at Dartmouth are constantly forming and evolving. Freshmen arrive at Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips without knowing anyone, while upperclassmen can hardly walk across the Green, much less navigate FoCo at dinnertime, without seeing a familiar face. In this timeline, we have highlighted some of the pivotal points for friendships at Dartmouth. Maybe you’ll find some commonalities, or maybe your friendships have followed a different path. Regardless, it’s probably time for a Trip reunion.

Some people are excited to meet and befriend their roommates and might even email or message them to start planning their living arrangements before the start of the term. After all, this is the person whom you will see every day for at least three terms.

While many freshman roommates part ways at the end of the year, some students get lucky with the housing system and remain close friends with their roommates. Roommates that were selected at random became good friends and have even continued living together. Kevin Ma ’17 has lived with his freshman roommate “all through freshman year, all sophomore year and then for part of junior year and now senior year,” he said.

Ma said that he and his roommate get along well and their rooming relationship has continued to work, even four years after they were randomly assigned to the same room.

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Floormates

The beginning of freshman year is also when connections form between floormates. Similar to roommates and trippees, some floors stay closer than others, while others will just see each other at weekly floor meetings.

Fan and Ma were freshman floormates and have remained friends. They still live in close proximity to each other along with a few of their other freshman floormates.

Fan said that when she was a freshman she heard an alum talk about how the same people that you will meet on your freshman floor will also be at your wedding. In fact, this turned out to be true. One of Fan’s floormates is planning on getting married after graduation and invited her.

Orientation week After trips comes Orientation (sometimes referred to as O-week). This is one of the most facetimey Dartmouth experiences. Moragne said that she encourages incoming students to take advantage of Orientation to make friends and meet as many people as possible.

“Making friends at Dartmouth involves taking advantage of Orientation Week because everyone is trying to make friends,” she said.

However, O-Week friends don’t always last forever. Fan said that she probably met over two hundred people during O-Week, making it difficult to form close bonds. Though freshmen are initially excited to befriend everyone on campus, that energy may fade away as classes intensify.

Alexis Wallace ’17 also met a large number of people during Orientation. While these people might not become close friends, they continue to be acquaintances and familiar faces on campus.

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friendships at Dartmouth Sophomore year

Sophomores see freshmen going to social events and reflect on their freshman selves, hoping that all of the people who they haven’t talked to for months still remember them.

After the hectic first year of college, friendships can occur more naturally. Moragne mentioned that being in a class with someone is a common connection, thus giving “permission to make friends with them later.”

The friends that you make in your classes can also slowly become the people whom you study with.

“I’ve definitely got a good group of friends who are bio majors, and we study together and try to motivate each other for exams,” Ma said.

Fan also said that she has made a lot of friends though her classes, because classmates often share common interests.

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FINISH Senior year Senior year is another college milestone. Wallace said that by this time, many students are concerned about postgraduation plans and have a close-knit group of friends, so they might not put as much emphasis on making new friends.

Wallace said that students should realize that it is important to be open to the experience of forming friendships throughout their Dartmouth experience.

“I wouldn’t say that friendships at Dartmouth come to an end,” she said.

But new friendships still aren’t impossible: Moragne said that she is using her senior year to reconnect with her freshman roommate.

Rush The start of sophomore fall also means the beginning of rush for Greek houses on campus. For those involved, rush is a hectic time and involves abundant, if somewhat forced, socializing.

After joining Greek houses, many students become close with other members. However, Wallace said that although she has become good friends with some of her sorority sisters, these friendships would have formed even if she was not affiliated, because she would have gotten along with them regardless.

“One common misconception is that because these people are wearing your same letters you have to become friends with them,” Wallace said.

Moragne, who is also affiliated, said that Greek house members form friendships mainly because they spend a great deal of time together and have many mutual friends.

“There is a better chance of liking people that you are introduced to by people that you already like,” she said.

Neither Fan nor Ma is affiliated. Fan said that she has not felt left out due to being unaffiliated — she simply has made friends outside of a Greek house setting.

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Junior year

Sophomore summer

Study abroads and internships. Job searches and major classes. If D-Plans don’t line up, you might not see some of your friends for up to nine months.

Sophomore summer is one of the most distinctive features of Liz Gold ’17 was “nervous to be off for three terms in a the D-Plan. Since most students on campus are sophomores, it row, especially junior spring when most people come back to is easy to get to know one’s class — especially when everyone is campus,” she said. However she spent two out of the three spending time outside on the Green. Moragne said that sophomore terms back home, so she was able to reconnect with old summer is a good time for forming friendships, because the friends and be with her family. She also met many people on weather is nice, so it’s almost impossible to be in a bad mood, and the geography FSP in Prague. you are surrounded by your classmates.

“I actually came back to campus after nine months with “It’s kind of like O-week again,” Moragne said. However, she many more friends instead of losing friendships,” Gold said. noted that, unlike O-Week, she was busy with classes during the “I think the D-Plan teaches you to be flexible and to keep in summer. contact with friends while you’re away. Once you get back to Wallace added that this is a good time to bond with people campus, you can pick up from where you left off.” that you have not really bonded with yet. “[That term] allows you to deepen relations that are already existent,” she said.

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Friendships with Benefits STORY

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne

“No, you can’t go out.”

“Focus on school.”

“Keep your priorities straight.”

Many college students can painfully remember hearing their parents parrot these statements back to them throughout high school. This kind of badgering from our parents is often seen as an unjust and evil attempt to get us to focus less on our friends and more on our schoolwork, but what if going to that Thursday night movie, weekly post rehearsal hang-out or even just loitering around the nearest Starbucks with your friends after school, was actually your golden ticket to the college of your choice?

In college, parents are no longer around to tell us what we can and cannot do, and in an environment as small and close-knit as Dartmouth, our friends play a pivotal role in shaping our experience as college students. We live with them, study with them, eat with them and party with them — but is the hyper social nature of college a benefit to our education? It turns out, it is. (Take that Mom and Dad!)

We asked sociology professor Dr. Janice McCabe if she thought friendships were academically beneficial.

“Definitely… friendships — and cultivating and maintaining those friendships — are more important than we often give them credit for,” she said.

As a sociologist, and “friendship connoisseur,” McCabe studies the importance and effects of friendships on college students. McCabe has written a book, “Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success,” conducted research on various college campuses and published many articles which explore college friendships and how they correlate to academic success.

In her article “Friends With Academic Benefits,” McCabe explains how she used network analysis to study college students’ different “friendship networks” and classified them into three distinctive types: tight-knitters, compartmentalizers and samplers.

Through her research, she found healthy

Duchenne Smiles COLUMN

By Clara Guo

June, 2052. Mimosa count: 4. We raised our glasses, (at least) one sparkling alcoholic orange beverage each.

“To… Dartmouth?” I ask.

A pause. Calin answers. “To trips?”

“To Isaac?” Cori says.

“And Hannah,” someone adds.

“To 35 years?” another voice asks.

“39,” Kelley corrects.

No one objects.

“To 39 years,” we say in unison.

We clink our glasses and take a healthy sip before returning to the menu. We haven’t seen each other in years — not since the last Reunions.

Calin, Kelley, Cori and I sit in the middle of Pine, two tables away from the window that looks out over the “Dartmouth Reunions!” banner hanging in front of Collis. The class of 2017 has returned 35 years later.

February, 2016. Mimosa count: almost 3.

Calin threw her classic “Big Weekend” party, complete with beers fancier than Keystone and homemade guacamole perfectly suited for Tostitos scoops. The four of us convened on her bed, preparing for candid photos.

Photo #7: Calin is leaning against the bed, her head tilted backward until it rests under Kelley’s chin. She’s smiling with her eyes closed, wearing the necklace that the three of us bought her for her debutante ball.

Kelley, according to her, is “fixing her hair,” with dangling hands framing her face and only one sleeve rolled up to her elbow. My arm is awkwardly resting below my sternum, mid-laugh with pieces of my hair statically resting on Cori’s orange-red shirt. Cori, arguably, looks the most normal. Her head is tilted so just slightly more than her profile is captured, exposing her heart earring and her two necklaces.

Photo #16: Calin and Kelley are looking directly into the camera, Duchenne smiles adorning both their faces. I am looking off to

the side (Why? I have no idea). Cori is leaning forward, happily shocked, eyebrows raised and mouth open in a “D.” In just a week, she’ll be able to order a mimosa with us.

January, 2016: Mimosa count: 2. Campus was covered with snow as we returned to Hanover for junior winter. We reunited in Pine: a Texan, a Floridian, a New Jerseyan and a Virginian. At this point, only Calin and I were 21.

Just a few weeks earlier, we had all flown down to Texas for Calin’s debutante ball. We wore long dresses, strolled in heels, sprayed our hair firm and drank cocktails from the open bar. We were so proud of her — beautiful in a white gown and white gloves, walking and curtsying down the center stage with her father. That was our friend — our best friend — who formally debuted into society in a ritual that, while still foreign to me, held great importance for her and her family.

September, 2013. Mimosa count: 0. I left for trips before the sun had risen in Fairfax, Virginia, wearing a light blue Adidas shirt and dark blue shorts. My red frame pack rested comfortably above my hipbones — a new buy with a convenient zipper down the middle allowing for easy access to all contents at the bottom. I put on eyeliner that morning, hoping that it would last for the next five days.

(Spoiler alert: it didn’t.)

Dartmouth was bustling when I arrived. I was young, nervous, overly enthusiastic about meeting new people — the kind of enthusiasm that tends to alienate the introverted and exhaust even the overtly social.

Many Salty Dog Rags later, we gathered into our trip groups — H933: Community Service.

There were six of us, Kelley, Cori, Calin, Brian, Gautham and me, along with our trip leaders Isaac and Hannah.

On the first official day of hiking, we summited Mt. Mist. We took a photo next to the wooden sign, “MT MIST: 2230’.” Brian,

friendships in college were strongly linked to academic success. If actively participating in one’s social life can be helpful to a student achieving academic success, why were we told to do less so in high school? And what makes college different?

McCabe attributes the uniquely social nature of college as one of the reasons why students’ friends and social circle can have a heavy impact on the outcome of their collegiate career, explaining that, “college is such a peer-centered environment” and “friends are around all the time.”

Although McCabe asserts that having a healthy social life is beneficial, she found that it may not be the case for students in all types of collegiate environments. As part of her research, she interviewed various students from a large university she calls “MU” about how their friends were involved in their academics.

“Even when they told me they kept them separate, there were so many ways their friends became involved in their academic life for the good and for the bad,” she said.

For students who go to a small college, smack dab in the middle of a remote landscape, their school easily becomes all encompassing, housing their classes, their activities and their friends.

Although isolated, one major benefit of attending a rigorous college located in a rural area, such as Dartmouth, is the academically conscientious environment that the pairing fosters. McCabe suggested this was an advantage not all college students had.

“There are definitely ways that Dartmouth is different,” she said. “I think that friends are more integrated in academics here for the average student than they were at what I call ‘MU’ that I feature in my book.”

McCabe explained that a few students [at MU] had an academic group of friends, but overall, it was much easier to not have that academic group.

“Whereas [at Dartmouth], it seems that students on the whole are more academically engaged with their friends,” she said.

So next time your parents give you grief when you tell them you went out last night, and the night before, are on your way to your weekly dinner with friends or are not skipping Wednesday meetings even though it’s midterms week, you can appease their worries about your seemingly overactive social life by telling them that it was prescribed by a doctor — Dr. Janice McCabe.

Calin, Isaac, Gautham and I are standing in the back. Hannah, Cori and Kelley are squatting in front. The sun filters in through the leaves, still green, creating calico patterns on our bodies that quite successfully hid our sweat stains.

Soon after, while walking on flat terrain, I sprained my ankle and spent the next three and a half hours hopped up on Ibuprofen.

We ate lunch near a lake, spreading peanut butter and jelly on tortilla bread and adding Country Time lemonade to our water bottles.

That night, we arrived at our cabin, complete with running water and a wooden swing on the porch. We volunteered at Glencliff Home the next day, a home for the elderly and mentally ill. (Thanks to my swollen ankle, I spent the day in a wheelchair). We tie-dyed shirts, sang karaoke, played games — but, mostly, we listened to the residents’ memories of the past and their versions of the present.

By day three, my trippees and I had grown comfortable around each other. Later, we would argue that our easy comfort, unforced, resulted from c h o o s i n g “Community Service” over Hiking 1 or Cabin Camping.

We never determined whether our friendship stemmed from the embarrassing moments we shared with one another after picking the red Skittle, nor did we conclude that our friendship developed despite several rounds of Mafia during which the

Detective failed to identify the Murderer.

Perhaps it was swinging together in the mornings or stargazing at the Lodge. Perhaps it was what happened after trips — running down Mass Row during a downpour, chugging Goldfish together after a bitter phone call, baking cakes in Fahey McLane, almost completing the Lou’s Challenge not once but twice. And more. Much, much more.

Finding a family at college is no easy task.

Finding one on the first day of school is nearly impossible. We have watched each other grow, enduring the stress of mistakes and the fear of failure. You have been my support system — steady, steadfast. I cannot imagine a Dartmouth without you three.

Hanya Yanagihara once wrote, “Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”

After Office Hours STORY

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By Cristian Cano

Of course, we all know that professors However, Peterson also mentioned that are real people with complex personal lives. he did not see many of these professors However, it can be hard to imagine how they again until they were offered tenure six years spend their time outside of the classroom. later. Instead, most of his interactions with It is even harder to imagine how professors other professors occurred within his home “hang out” with other professors. department. There were clear parallels To lear n more about friendships to how many student friendships develop: between professors, I students’ initial friend interviewed biology “The level of intimacy groups during the first few and earth science weeks drastically change differs [with different professor Kevin as they meet more people Peterson . Since his people]. Sometimes and develop a routine. arrival at Dartmouth in you’re just closer with So, do professors never 2000, he has had plenty interact with those in other of time to befriend his certain people for departments? colleagues. To get a reasons that you don’t Both Parks and Correa general sense of how recognized the apparent know, but you just are.” difficulty of maintaining students’ perceptions of professors’ friendships close friendships with compare to the reality, -KEVIN PETERSON, those you don’t work with I also interviewed two directly. Parks wondered students, Isabel Parks BIOLOGY AND EARTH if the College held faculty ’20 and Pablo Correa SCIENCE PROFESSOR dinners and activities ’20. where professors could get Peterson, who did to know one another better. not know any other Correa thought similarly, professors when he first came to Dartmouth, mentioning that there should be “campus said he first met his colleagues at a “training events” for professors from all departments day,” during which new professors mingled to socialize. while going through the Dartmouth Both students imagined campus-sponsored Handbook. Afterwards, a party was held at events helping to facilitate the formation of College President Phil Hanlon’s house to professors’ friendships, perhaps inspired by welcome the new faculty members. the myriad activities held during orientation

to unite new students. However, Peterson some professors’ families quite well, he had seems to have formed many of his friendships never met the spouses or children of others. outside of such events. For example, in Certain professors were close friends of his, addition to his friends within his departments, but others were simply his acquaintances. he also sees some professors frequently “The level of intimacy differs [with because their children attend the same school, different people],” Peterson said. “Sometimes and accordingly they attend many of the you’re just closer with certain people for same school functions. reasons that you don’t know, but you just Overall, Peterson’s friendships between are.” professors seem to have formed naturally, I was also interested in hearing about without much aid from formal activities whether professors’ friendships influenced hosted by the College. But beyond the initial research in any way. According to Peterson, act of meeting other professors, what exactly he has performed research with professors do professors do to “hang out” with their whom he considers friends. In fact, at the friends? time of the interview, he was currently coParks imagined professors “getting lunch” authoring a paper with McPeek. and “grabbing coffee” as their most common “Our relationship is very productive [and] activities, as well as meeting up to attend very intellectually satisfying,” he said.

Dartmouth athletic events, such as football However, he knows other professors whose and hockey games. Correa academic interests do “always imagined professors “Each friend fills a not overlap with his going out to bars” to enjoy own, so research has slightly different some drinks together. not played a role — he Peterson agreed that meals position [in my life]” “doesn’t talk science” are certainly a significant way with them. that he spends time with other As I thanked professors. For example, he -KEVIN PETERSON, Peterson for providing recalled having recently gone BIOLOGY AND EARTH insight into the out to lunch with both his world of professors’ wife and biology professor SCIENCE PROFESSOR friendships, he made Patrick Dolph. House parties sure to mention that and dinner parties are also there is no universal typical activities for him and his friends way for such friendships to function.

— Dolph, along with Different professors have drastically different biology professors Ryan personalities and levels of sociability, so just C a l s b e e k a n d M a rk as his individual friendships vary, the types McPeek , had attended of friendships that other professors maintain Peterson’s most recent vary as well. birthday celebration.

It should be obvious that professors’ Important to keep friendships for m naturally and are i n m i n d , Pe t e r s o n individualized. After all, students’ friendships e m p h a s i ze d , i s h ow work the same way. However, it can be each of his friendships tempting to view professors as unrelatable and “is different, and each wholly different from students. It’s voices of friend fills a slightly professors like Peterson that remind us that different position” in in many ways, we’re often more similar than his life. While he knew we are different.

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IF GREEK GODS WENT TO DARTMOUTH STORY It’s known that Greek life plays a lead role at Dartmouth, but what if there was a different kind of “Greek” life present on campus? Here you’ll find all of the Greek gods and goddesses that, as a Dartmouth student, you are unknowingly friends with.

1. Hercules: the sporty friend Don’t let Hercules’ “demi-god” status fool you into thinking he isn’t as “godly” as any other on this list. In ancient Greek mythology, he is the picture of strength and courage, which isn’t surprising considering his father is Zeus.

Hercules was bestowed with inhuman physical prowess, making him a warrior you could bet money on. At Dartmouth, we have our own type of Hercules, also known as varsity athletes. Or if you’re a proud NARP, they are simply the “sporty friend.” You can spot them by their “Peak Performance” t-shirts as they wander campus, lifting heavy things and walking faster than their non-athletic counterparts.

Although you may not fathom how they wake up at 5:00 a.m. for practice or use their bodies like well-oiled machines, you are definitely jealous of their abs.

2. Athena: the activist friend In Athena, the goddess of war, strategy and wisdom, we recognize a type of friend all Dartmouth students are lucky to have: the activist friend. Like the goddess, our fiery activist isn’t afraid to stand up and fight for what they feel is right and are always ready to defend the honor of those they believe in.

3. Aphrodite and Eros: the flirty friends Everyone can relate to having the notorious, but much loved, flirty friends, or in this case, Aphrodite and Eros. These companions are the Greek gods of love and have surprising similarities to a college version of Pepe Le Pew. They aren’t exclusive, are both hot and have no need for the gym, if you know what I mean.

4. Ploutos: the Econ major friend Ploutos is very present across Dartmouth’s campus. As the god of money and wealth, you might recognize this Greek god in all of your

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friends who have proudly declared themselves Econ majors. These are the ones who know the ins and outs of the “market,” as they call it, might have a job lined up at a prestigious New York hedge fund next year, and if you’re not an Econ major yourself, they are the person you went to see “The Big Short” with because, let’s face it, you needed them to walk you through that one.

5. Dionysus: the ragey friend As the god of wine, Dionysus knows how to party. He’s said to have introduced mankind to his favorite purple liquid, and as a thank you, he was worshipped with roof-raising dance parties that would make GDX proud. He’s the god that always goes out after meetings, has one of the most extensive flair collections on Olympus and boasts masterful pong skills that will leave you with your tail between your legs. Sound familiar? The “ragey” friend is one most Dartmouth students would call a true Hanover staple. Just like Dionysus, you can trust that wherever your ragey friend goes, a good time will follow.

6. The Nymphs: the sustainable DOC friend Dartmouth is no stranger to Nymphs. Yes, you read that correctly — Nymphs. These ancient Greek gods are considered the architects of the natural world. Although not considered major deities in Ancient Greece such as Zeus or Athena, they hold a paramount position on Dartmouth’s Mount Olympus. As a freshman, your first introduction to the school you now call home is through the magic of these Nymphs.

They tricked you into believing a Canadian Ground Fruit was real (and let us remember we all go to an Ivy League school), told you to suck it up and pee outside and preached about the endless beauty of the Upper Valley on such a religious level it almost made you believe you could go four days without showering. The Dartmouth Nymphs make campus a better place, converting one urbanite at a time.

7. Hermes: the facetimey friend Hermes, our beloved facetimey friend, is a true Dartmouth favorite. As the messenger of the

gods, outfitted with a pair of winged sandals (so chic!), they deliver messages between the “who’s who” of Olympus, carrying the most important information across the world. Hermes knows what’s up. Out of all the Olympian gods, they’re the one who knew what was going on even before it happened. They know who Eros is hooking up with this term, what the KAF line looks like and connects the most obscure corners of campus.

8. Apollo: the artsy friend Apollo is your artsy friend. Amongst a crowd of distinct Greek personas, they’re the friend who will invite you to the opening night of the term’s theatrical production, which they’re in of course. They may also be the one you spend an afternoon with at the jewelry studio, which results in you cursing your inability to be crafty. Following in Apollo-esque fashion, your artsy friend might also be a poetry fan or part-time song writer. It’s also common for them to scoff at your Urban Outfitters wall tapestry, insinuating that your basic-ness gives them hives. You love your artsy friend, because deep down, you know you’re envious of their fantastical left brain.

9. Atlas: the stress ball friend At a place as fast-paced and exclusively populated with keen perfectionists as Dartmouth, it’s not a surprise that with all that energy comes a fair amount of stress in the air. The titan Atlas is that one friend — or in our case, many — that we sympathize with during midterms or finals, when we know they feel like they are carrying the weight on the world on their shoulders.

10. Nike: the over-over-achiever friend At a college like Dartmouth, it’s easy to assume that every bright-eyed and bushy tailed student can be characterized as an “over-achiever.”

Although there may be truth to this specific stereotype, there is always that one person on campus that always seems to be one step ahead. They are what we can call the Nike friend, and no, I’m not talking about sneakers.

They are the “over-achiever” who makes you wonder just how they fit 25 hours of work into a 24-hour day.

#TRENDING D PLAN SURPRISES

When you’ve been away so long that people think you are a ‘20 @Mikey

WINTERIM INSTAGRAMS

Your instagram feed is filled with sunsets, palm trees, and coconuts.

Anything but the #hanovertundra that is outside your window. .

4:00 PM SUNSETS

lead to dwindling vitamin D, wool socks, and the need for a bedfellow to keep you warm on those cold, cold nights.

MISSING NAPKIN HOLDERS

How will we smuggle our FoCo cookies outside?