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Directed by Akiva Schaffer, “The Naked Gun” is the fourth film in the eponymous franchise inspired by the spoof 1980s TV show “Police Squad.” Liam Neeson stars as Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr. of the Los Angeles Police Department, the son of Leslie Nielsen’s original detective protagonist from the preceding trilogy. Styled after classic film noirs, the plot follows a murder investigation that gradually reveals a greater conspiracy. Pamela Anderson costars as Beth Davenport, a crime novelist and sister of the murdered man.
If you ever walk around Hanover on Friday afternoons, you’re probably well aware of the group of local Upper Valley residents that collect on the sidewalks at the four way intersection between Wheelock Street and Main Street. There’s usually about 30-40 of them, and they stand quietly with a variety of anti-Trump signs. For a podcast that I am making for a class, my groupmates and I visited last week’s protests and talked to the leader of the protests as well as a handful of participants. Dartmouth students urgently need to hear what they told us in an hour and a half of conversations.
The 40th anniversary all-class reunion of DGALA — the College’s LGBTQIA+ alumni association — at the end of July was my first time returning to Dartmouth since I graduated in 2015. One of the primary reasons that I wanted to attend this reunion was to advocate for increased support for student protesters and Dartmouth Divest for Palestine from DGALA. Like the other affiliated alumni associations, DGALA signed onto a joint letter sent to Dartmouth senior leadership on May 17, 2024 denouncing the College’s policing of student and community protesters, which was timely and needed.
To be honest, I never put much thought into my sophomore summer living situation. I lived with one of my best friends during my sophomore year, so there was never a doubt in my mind that I would continue to live with her for sophomore summer, especially since our junior year D-Plans do not line up in the slightest. We knew that our dorm would be nice, and we were fairly content with our ways of life, so we never looked far beyond the College’s housing options.
When I sat down to watch the latest film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I felt long detached from it. Though once a diehard fan, I lost interest in following the convoluted multiversal plotlines, multiple miniseries and hosts of new characters following “Avengers: Endgame.” However, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” — a standalone film within the MCU — boasts a unique aesthetic, some good acting and strong themes despite featuring plenty of the typical “Marvel-isms.”
In recent months, Dartmouth has received attention in national media outlets as the sole Ivy League school to largely avoid the Trump administration’s renegotiation of federal funding: “How one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath,” declared The Economist on May 1. “How one Ivy League university has avoided Trump’s retribution so far,” published the New York Times on May 11.
Dartmouth spent 25 times more on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2025 than in the first six months of 2024.
Thirty students completed the Dartmouth Outing Club Fifty on July 27, hiking 54 miles from Moosilauke Lodge to Hanover in an iconic and celebrated College tradition. The outdoor event is a complicated logistical feat organized entirely by students. Over 150 students, selected via applications, run support stations along the hike, offering hikers snacks, water and medical aid, according to Carter Bartel ’27, the Fifty’s logistics director.
Dartmouth launched a partnership with Israeli universities in October 2024 that will bring Israeli researchers to Hanover and facilitate academic collaboration.
Throughout the summer term, more than 4,000 alumni return to campus for 12 class reunions and the 40th anniversary of DGALA, the Dartmouth LGBTQIA+ Alumni Association. The Dartmouth sat down with vice president of alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82 and alumni engagement director Joe Piedrafite to discuss this year’s reunions, undergraduate involvement in these events and what they hope to accomplish with reunions.
This spring, Roan V. Wade ’25 and Jordan Narrol ’25 were suspended following the May 28 sit-in at Parkhurst Hall. Both students were barred from accessing Dartmouth-owned and affiliated spaces and have since pleaded not guilty to College disciplinary charges.
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Dearest fine readers of Mirror,
On July 28, Polish filmmaker Anna Zamecka visited Dartmouth College for a special screening of her film “Communion” at Loew Auditorium followed by a talkback. Known for blending documentary and fiction in her work, Zamecka achieved remarkable international success with her first feature film, “Communion,” which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2016.
On July 27, the signature opening vocals to Big Time Rush’s titular single resounded through the amphitheater at BankNH Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., announcing the familiar sound of a 2010s boy band. The venue was packed with Gen Z and millenials alike, all of whom were in attendance to reminisce on the days of Nickelodeon when boy bands just made sense.
Sophomore summer — an iconic tradition in which students stay on campus and take classes during the summer following their sophomore year — is a unique part of the Dartmouth experience. While spending the summer away from schoolwork may seem normal to students at other institutions, when a Dartmouth student announces that they are opting out of sophomore summer by taking it “off,” they are typically met with a follow-up question: Why?
In December 2024, Dartmouth joined the Kalaniyot program, a network of American and Israeli universities who partner together for two goals: to make American college campuses less hostile to Israel and deepen research ties. Once funding is secured, the Dartmouth program aims to offer post-doctoral fellowships, sabbatical funding and opportunities for collaborative research projects in the sciences between Dartmouth faculty and Israeli researchers.
I once agreed to eat lunch with a friend and he sent me a Google Calendar invite. I cancelled because of it. Since when does enjoying a meal follow the drumbeat of a business schedule? The answer is: since Dartmouth students have become so busy. Meetings, post-grad applications, clubs, homework, lab, drinking, scrolling TikTok — there is too much to do.
There’s nothing quite like starting your afternoon by getting thrown across a mat. Welcome to ASCL 61.10: Japanese Martial Arts, a course I’m taking this summer that meets twice a week in the classroom and twice on the mat — yet lingers in my muscles all week long.