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July 12, 2025 | Latest Issue
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ORL to give dorm delivery rights

Dartmouth Dailies -- a student-owned and operated company that delivers national publications door-to-door -- may become the first organization to be officially allowed to circumvent the dormitory door locks and continue to deliver publications to individual rooms in College dormitories.

The organization, which delivers The Boston Globe and The New York Times, among others, to about 95 Dartmouth students every morning is concluding discussions with Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. By the end of this week, it will probably have exclusive rights to continue its deliveries despite previous regulations regarding the new dormitory door locks, according to Redman.

According to Dartmouth Dailies Vice President Troy Campbell '04, Travis Escobedo '03 founded Dartmouth Dailies last year to, "provide a valuable service to the campus and because the entrepreneurial aspect provides real world experience."

Redman said that while no one had "signed on the dotted line yet," the potential contract with Dartmouth Dailies, which would make them the College's sole provider of daily national newspapers, would be very similar to those that the College has with other companies that provide dorm services such as vending machines and laundry service.

"This is a bidding process so anyone who wants to participate drafts a contract and we pick which one is going to deliver the highest quality, and at this point to the best of our knowledge there is no one interested in competing," Redman said.

Redman also said that in earlier conversations, Dartmouth Dailies had agreed to a "lock box" type of distribution, where each residence hall would have a locked newspaper vending machine that only subscribers would have the password to. However, the College eventually decided that such a method would be too cumbersome and that students preferred the door-to-door deliveries.

"This is fantastic," Escobedo said. "It's good for us, it's good for business and it's good for students."

Campbell added, "We are both very pleased."

The Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor publication and other publications that have previously delivered door-to-door had also been in discussions with Dean Redman about how to continue delivery despite the new door locks, Jack-O editor Nick Duquette said.

According to Duquette, as part of the agreement, all student publications run through the Committee on Student Organizations, will eventually have distribution boxes provided by ORL in every dormitory on campus.

"Not every organizations agrees with this, but I think the boxes are a good idea," Duquette said.