Fifty years ago was the last all-male, four-year graduating class. So, in this issue, the 182nd Directorate of The Dartmouth takes a look at women at the College. To start, we spoke to College President Sian Leah Beilock about recent turbulence in higher education and her role as Dartmouth’s first female president. Then, Production Executive Editor Kent Friel ’26 continued his history series and dove into the archive on coeducation at Dartmouth. Another news writer spoke to five graduating women of color to chronicle their stories. Another spoke to a Sexual Violence Prevention Project student leader — ten years since the group’s inception. Our data team checked the pulse of women on campus today and found that many problems persist: 91% of surveyed female students reported facing sexism during their time at Dartmouth. Another writer interviewed Judy Geer ’75 Th ’83, a transfer student to Dartmouth and the first woman to receive the annual honorary degree, awarded to a member of the 50 year reunion class.
In 1972, women opened the door to Dartmouth and stepped through. Today, women hike Gile and lead DOC trips. Women speak up in seminars and get talked over anyways. Women pack into 9Ls and 1 a.m. frat floors. Women put up with the traditions they were never meant to inherit and somehow make them their own.
To the Class of 2025: Whether you spent four years in the stacks, becoming a pong pro, crying on the Green after a midterm or barely surviving 7:45 drill, you opened the door too.
Revel in it,
Tierney, Laila, Oğuz
