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Re: Dartmouth Only Ivy to Abstain from Signing Letter Against Trump Administration Funding Cuts
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Re: Dartmouth Only Ivy to Abstain from Signing Letter Against Trump Administration Funding Cuts
On Apr. 11, DIY Indie Rock band Frog performed at One Wheelock as the closing show for a tour showcasing their new album — “1000 Variations on the Same Song,” a concept that plays with the inherent repetition across the songwriting craft and canon. The Dartmouth sat down with Frog member Daniel Bateman to discuss the band and its latest album.
The Black Family Visual Arts Center’s current lobby exhibition “Day In, Day Out” transforms everyday experiences into visual narratives. Annie Qiu ’24 and Tristan Macdonald ’24 have developed the exhibition — exploring routine moments through painting and printmaking.
This past Sunday, Jensin Hall ’27 threw her second collegiate complete no-hitter against Yale University, earning Ivy League Pitcher of the Week.
Campaign season for Dartmouth Student Government has begun. Two candidates are running for student body president: general house senator Sabik Jawad ’26 and East Wheelock senator Jack Wisdom ’26. Campaigning began on April 20, and a debate hosted by The Dartmouth between the presidential tickets will be held on Saturday, April 26.
Dartmouth professors and students say that President Donald Trump’s attack on higher education has impacted their work — despite the fact that Dartmouth has not been targeted by direct budget cuts.
“We urge everyone to speak out and actively participate in our democracy. As Coretta Scott King said: ‘The struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.’”
On April 23, Dartmouth solidified its place as a follower. Instead of standing up for higher education and our values, Dartmouth chose to sit by as Harvard leads the way in saying “no” to Trump.
To quote Charles B. Strauss ’34, an early student-activist and writer at the College: “The liberal college as the alumni knew it is slipping away. Its traditional sort of activity, whether at Dartmouth or at any other institution of its kind, is being repudiated more and more.”
Dear President Beilock,
Former Cornell University president Martha Pollack ’79 argued that universities should embrace developments in artificial intelligence in order to win back trust in educational institutions. Pollack spoke about the impact of AI on higher education at an April 21 talk hosted by the Montgomery Fellows program.
The Trump administration is reducing bureaucratic barriers for logging public forests, including New Hampshire’s 800,000-acre White Mountain National Forest. In a memorandum on April 4, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins designated an emergency situation determination for 112 million acres of national forests marked as “high risk” for fire danger, invasive pests or other concerns. Most of White Mountain National Forest is included in the memorandum.
As of April 21, the College has refused to bargain with our union in any further negotiating sessions. They have also refused to extend the current Dartmouth Dining student worker contract. What this means is that the College’s legal counsel rejected meeting with our rank-and-file, student-led bargaining team moving forward, making it more challenging to contractually preserve many of our vital protections for student workers, such as hour and workload security, discipline and discharge, and grievance protections for student workers seeking to resolve issues with their employer. In sum, the College has refused to protect key benefits for hundreds of student workers — especially against law enforcement officials and the rising cost of tuition.
On April 20, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its third weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate voted to allocate $15,000 for a student emergency fund, as well as $1,500 for a Make Your Own Bouquet event to be hosted on the porch of the Collis Center.
In a recent study from The Dartmouth, two thirds of student respondents said they do not feel protected by the College from external prosecution for expressing their opinions.
Last week, faculty, staff and community members protested efforts to attack higher education and the ongoing Israel-Hamas War at a “walkout,” “speak-out” and faculty panel. Speakers at the events gave remarks on the humanitarian violations in Gaza, recent mass deportations under the Trump administration and the protection of marginalized communities in higher education.
Re: Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts
Re: Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts
Re: Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts