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Food prices in Hanover are 4% above national average, according to the Council for Community and Economic Research.
On April 25, the College announced in an email to campus that it will award seven honorary degrees at the Class of 2025 commencement ceremony on June 15. The honorary degrees include two Doctors of Arts, three Doctors of Humane Letters, one Doctor of Laws and one Doctor of Sciences to individuals who have made significant contributions to athletics, the arts, public policy and the sciences.
Almost exactly 250 years ago, as the sun rose on a late spring day, members of the fifth graduating class of Dartmouth College awoke to the sound of distant cannon fire. Eleazar Wheelock, the College’s founder and first president, noticed it too, writing in his diary and in letters to friends of the “noise of cannon” echoing through the valley.
This spring term, College occupancy has been slightly higher, compared to previous terms, according to undergraduate housing director Rachael Class-Giguere.
On May 12, Dartmouth Student Government hosted a panel with College President Sian Leah Beilock and other senior administrators to share updates and answer questions regarding federal government actions affecting Dartmouth. During the panel, Beilock defended several of her recent decisions — which have garnered criticism from faculty, students and alumni — and argued the state of free speech is better at Dartmouth than other campuses.
On May 10, the Dartmouth Diabetes Link — a student advocacy group for students with diabetes at Dartmouth — raised $10,700 for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center endocrinology department at the inaugural Dartmouth Diabetes Dash 5K run. The money will be donated to a DHMC fund to subsidize the cost of diabetes education for recently diagnosed patients, according to Diabetes Link co-president Coston Autry ’28.
At the annual town meeting on May 13, Hanover residents passed a petition Article 23 that advised the Selectboard to prohibit Hanover Police from entering into agreements that would allow the department to be trained and deputized as immigration officers. Earlier in the day, residents voted to amend its zoning ordinances to allow for duplexes to be built on each unit in town.
Dartmouth Student Government voted to allocate $1,800 to a “strike cafe” to support student dining workers, if they choose to go on strike. The Student Workers Collective has initiated a strike authorization vote after negotiations with the College ended.
On May 9, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo presented her vision of how to keep America economically competitive, arguing for more public-private sector collaboration, policies to reduce inequality, universal job training and targeted tariffs.
Virginia secretary of education Aimee Guidera and Hanover and Norwich school district superintendent Jay Badams clashed over the government’s role in K-12 schooling in a Rockefeller Center for Public Policy event last week.
Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk spoke about her advocacy for human rights in Ukraine in a May 9 talk at Dartmouth Hall. Matviichuk has been a dedicated tracker of human rights violations in Ukraine through her organization Center for Civil Liberties — and since 2014, has identified 86,000 war crimes committed by Russia throughout its invasion.
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, town residents will head to the ballots to vote on local offices and zoning amendments, prior to the 7 p.m. Town Meeting in the Hanover High School gym.
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On May 8, Jerry Hughes ’88 moderated a panel about free speech at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Hughes was one of the Dartmouth students who took part in the 1986 sledgehammer attack on the shanties that were built on the Green to protest South African Apartheid.
Hillel at Dartmouth and the Rohr Chabad Center at Dartmouth held a vigil on the Green last week to commemorate Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s remembrance day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Earlier in the day on April 30, community members placed 1,200 Israeli flags in front of Dartmouth Hall to represent the nearly 1,200 individuals killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel.
Asian societies, cultures and languages studies postdoctoral fellow Josephine Ong has worked with other postdoctoral fellows and the Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective at Dartmouth to increase awareness about the lack of Asian American studies courses at Dartmouth and advocate for an Asian American studies department. The Dartmouth sat down with Ong to discuss her course about Guam, academic work with Asian American studies and initiatives in partnership with the DAASC.
Sociology professor Brooke Harrington criticized offshore financing, or the movement of money out of a country to foreign centers, and its impacts on democracy in an event on May 6.
Last week, Harvard University Jewish studies professor Derek Penslar and Hebrew University sociology and anthropology professor and former human rights lawyer Yael Berda discussed “settler colonialism” — and whether the academic term can be used to describe Zionism.
A group of academics and agriculture professionals came together to talk about migrant labor and food production in a panel last week.
Over a third of the faculty have signed an open letter urging College President Sian Leah Beilock to “defend the values” of higher education.