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(03/05/25 1:45pm)
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall: it’s Gretchen, writing from one of the mysteriously-stained, slightly-too-squishy couches that lives on the second floor of Robinson Hall — the same couch I’ve sat on for the past four years at Mirror story assignment meetings. To be honest, I’ve been dreading this Editors’ Note — the last of the 181st Directorate — because the end of my time on Directorate is akin to taking the first step on the path that leads to graduation. And that, in turn, feels somewhat like stepping off the edge of a cliff when you don’t know what lies beneath — not to be dramatic or anything. Clearly, our last night of production is filling me with the first twinges of nostalgia for my college experience.
(02/18/25 2:18pm)
On Feb. 10, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Dartmouth Dialogues co-hosted Egyptian journalist and author Ahmed Naji for an event titled “The Power of Literature and Free Expression in the Middle East.” In 2016, Naji was imprisoned in Egypt for “violating public decency” in his 2014 novel “Using Life” — which tells the story of young people in Cairo creating a series of documentary films and depicts LGBTQ+ people and explicit scenes.
(02/13/25 10:10am)
Three international undergraduate students have been given the pseudonyms Jessica, Samantha and Tom. They each have been granted anonymity to speak candidly about their experiences.
(02/04/25 10:05am)
On Jan. 29, as global celebrations of the Lunar New Year commenced, College and student organizations alike rang in the Year of the Snake with a slate of on-campus programming.
(01/30/25 10:05am)
Residential life administrators are working to curb community standards violations in multiple residence halls. According to associate dean for residential life Stacey Millard, residents in Hitchcock Hall and Wheeler Hall were required to attend meetings last week to address recurring cleanliness issues and noise complaints, respectively.
(01/14/25 10:15am)
On Dec. 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law, requiring higher education institutions to disclose reports of hazing in their annual Clery Reports on campus crime. Additionally, the bill requires higher education institutions to develop a “prevention program on hazing.”
(11/13/24 7:04pm)
On Nov. 8, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to create a new school of Arts and Sciences, College President Sian Leah Beilock wrote in a campus-wide email on Wednesday afternoon. Beilock previously recommended The Future of Arts and Sciences Project to the Board after the project passed an Oct. 30 advisory vote among the faculty of Arts and Sciences.
(10/03/24 9:10am)
Starting in January 2025, students will have the option to swipe in at the Class of 1953 Commons with palm biometric recognition technology provided by Idemia — a technology company that specializes in biometrics and cryptography — rather than with physical ID cards, according to Dartmouth Dining director Jon Plodzik. Other dining locations are also undergoing changes, Plodzik said, including a new boba menu at Cafe@Baker launched at the start of fall term and a new ordering kiosk at Courtyard Cafe coming in March 2025.
(09/30/24 10:12pm)
In April 2024, Catherine Harnois ’27 logged into her housing portal to find no available on-campus housing for her and her roommate. The duo was placed on a waitlist and given three options: remain on the waitlist, apply to a Living Learning Community or opt-in to an off-campus apartment at the Summit on Juniper complex, located approximately 3.2 miles — or a 15-minute bus ride — from campus in Lebanon, Harnois said.
(05/21/24 1:49am)
Students arrested at the May 1 protest will not face suspension or expulsion, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced during the May 20 faculty meeting. According to Beilock, the College has now concluded its disciplinary process for the arrested students.
(05/21/24 12:29am)
On May 20, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to censure College President Sian Leah Beilock during a faculty meeting. One hundred and eighty three faculty members voted in favor of the motion to censure Beilock, and 163 voted against it.
(05/13/24 9:10am)
On April 23, the Ivy League filed an amicus brief — a brief filed by external parties in “cases of significance or high interest,” according to the National Labor Relations Board website — to the NLRB. The brief sided with the Dartmouth Board of Trustees against the unionization of the College’s men’s basketball team.
(05/02/24 11:14pm)
After being arrested during campus protests last night, Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that she was “banned from the campus.” According to College spokesperson Jana Barnello, in an email statement to The Dartmouth, Orleck’s prohibition was a condition “imposed by the bail commissioner,” while the College “had no intention of seeking Prof. Orleck’s exclusion from campus.”
(05/02/24 9:00pm)
At 12:30 p.m. on May 2, Dartmouth faculty and staff held a walkout on the Green in response to the arrests of 90 community members during the May 1 encampment protests. Approximately 100 professors, staff and students gathered to condemn last night’s mass arrests and the police response to the peaceful protesters.
(05/01/24 12:33am)
Last night, Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers, the College’s graduate student workers’ union, voted to strike, according to a campus-wide email from College Provost David Kotz. The strike will take effect tomorrow.
(04/17/24 7:25am)
Last week, rather than fretting over busy schedules and overwhelming classes, my best friends and I spent Sunday night in Randolph, New Hampshire, preparing for the totality of Monday’s solar eclipse.
(04/01/24 9:05am)
On March 27, the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers — the College’s graduate workers union — staged a walkout protest on the Green. According to Rendi Rogers, a GOLD-UE organizer and Ph.D student at the Geisel School of Medicine, the protestors decided to gather after the College failed to provide a counter-offer to their demands for higher compensation and other benefits by their March 7 deadline.
(03/25/24 3:19pm)
Dartmouth has received a bequest of more than $150 million, the largest scholarship bequest in its history, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced today in an email to campus. The gift comes from the estate of Barbara and Glenn Britt ’71, Tu’72 and will be split between undergraduate students — who will receive 75% of the donation — and the Tuck School of Business.
(03/18/24 11:16pm)
Today, Dartmouth College declined a request to bargain with the men’s basketball team's union, College spokesperson Jana Barnello wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. On March 5, members of the team voted to unionize as part of the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 in a historic 13-2 vote, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth.
(02/23/24 5:54pm)
On Wednesday, Feb. 14, College President Sian Beilock, Provost David Kotz and Dean of the College Scott Brown met with approximately 50 to 70 students at open office hours from 12 to 12:45 p.m. Many students present voiced their concerns with the College’s reinstatement of its test-mandatory admissions policy on Feb. 5, though the office hours were open to “anyone who wanted to discuss a question or idea with the president and provost,” according to an email statement by Kotz.
