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Last week, President Donald Trump’s major domestic policy bill, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill includes a proposed hike to the federal tax on university endowments to a 14% tax rate — up from 1.4% — on Dartmouth’s endowment returns, according to The New York Times.
Around 1:30 p.m., approximately fifteen pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the reception area of the president’s office in Parkhurst Hall. They then left the building at 6 p.m., when it closed for the day.
On May 25, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its eighth weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate voted down an amendment to its constitution limiting eligibility to serve on its executive board to only those who have served as senators or representatives. It also allocated $5,000 of its budget for the expansion of outdoor seating and wellness spaces on campus.
In a virtual town hall for alumni last week, College President Sian Leah Beilock and other top administrators said the College is advocating for higher education institutions against “government overreach.”
The Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility unanimously voted against advancing a divestment proposal from Dartmouth Divest for Palestine — claiming the proposal “does not engage sufficiently with counterarguments” and lacks “compelling evidence” of community support. The proposal failed all five of the College’s criteria for “completeness,” a metric that determines whether the proposal will be advanced.
Mathematical biologist Santiago Schnell will serve as Dartmouth’s next provost, College President Sian Leah Beilock wrote in an email to campus today. Schnell, who currently serves as the dean of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Science, will succeed outgoing Provost David Kotz ’86 on July 1.
The Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth began a strike this morning after seven months of negotiations with the College. The union — which represents Dartmouth Dining student workers and undergraduate advisors — is calling for higher pay and improved benefits, among other demands.
On May 10, the Native American Program at Dartmouth hosted the 53rd Annual Dartmouth Powwow in the West Gym, featuring Indigenous dances and ceremonies.
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 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.
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.
On Green Key last year, after another day of dangerous, unplanned, regretful decisions, I told Won sternly: “If your world ends, so does mine.”
Last month, the Hanover and Dresden school boards unanimously voted to join a lawsuit against the Department of Education over a Feb. 14 letter that threatened to revoke funding for public schools engaged in “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion practices. On April 24, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction, halting the enforcement of the letter ahead of a currently unscheduled district hearing.
On April 14 and April 28, Dartmouth hosted 759 admitted members of the Class of 2029 for “Dimensions” — a sleepaway program for admitted students to learn about the College.
Around 6:25 p.m. today, protesters took down the remaining tent erected in front of Parkhurst Hall yesterday during a pro-Palestinian protest. After nearly two days of negotiations, the College announced that the immigration legal fund will provide up to $5,000 of aid for international students in need. Administrators also committed to releasing a formal response to the protesters’ divestment proposal by May 20.
On the one-year anniversary of mass arrests during a pro-Palestinian protest, Dartmouth students erected another encampment on the lawn of Parkhurst Hall.
On the one year anniversary of mass arrests at Dartmouth, pro-Palestinian protesters have erected another encampment.
Around 11:45 a.m. on May 1, two bathrooms in Parkhurst Hall were filled with 10,000 ladybugs. Each bathroom contained bags of ladybugs left open, as well as cardboard signs with pro-Palestinian messaging.
A year ago today, police arrested 89 individuals on the Green during a pro-Palestinian protest.
Yesterday, Sabik Jawad ’26 and Favion Harvard ’26 were elected as the next student body president and vice president, respectively. The two ran on different tickets, with Jawad pulling ahead of Harvard’s running mate Jack Wisdom ’26 by three votes.