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Monks Waste Perfectly Good Colored Sand

July 31, 2007 RSS Feed Print
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Tibetan monks invaded Sophomore Family Weekend at Dartmouth University this week. According to the Dartmouth, the main event was monks meticulously painting with sand, messing it up, and then throwing it into the Connecticut River–all to "symbolize the evanescence of life." One student described the visit as "thrilling," a word we never thought we'd see in the same sentence as Tibetan monk. –Alison Go

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