Weeks before planned Dartmouth visit, Kirk assasination reverberates around campus
Two weeks before his planned visit to the College, prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.
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Two weeks before his planned visit to the College, prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.
On Aug. 12, former men’s cross country head coach Justin Wood filed a lawsuit against the Trustees of Dartmouth College and former Marjorie and Herbert Chase ’30 track and field and cross country director Porscha Dobson Harnden.
A memory: My roommate and I collapse into our seats across from each other at the dining table of our apartment in Prague — home for the next 10 weeks. Between us are bowls of couscous, roast chicken thighs, grilled eggplant and roasted carrots. As we begin to eat, our conversation drifts from excitement about being abroad, to weird cake ideas, to concerns about pigeons in the apartment. Warm sunset light bathes our meal. Like my study-abroad friends often said, this must be the point.
Throughout the summer, College President Sian Leah Beilock spoke across the country at multiple high-profile events about the future of higher education — including at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho that brings together the country’s rich and powerful.
On July 30, Roy Leibovitz ’27 won the triple jump at the Israeli Championships, setting a lifetime personal best of 15.59 meters. The Dartmouth sat down with Leibovitz to discuss his gold medal and experience as a full-time student and international athlete.
Dartmouth plans to borrow more than $450 million through the sale of $300 million in taxable bonds and $156 million in tax-exempt bonds to fund the College’s “long-term capital plan,” College spokesperson Jana Barnello wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth.
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a budget reconciliation bill that includes new guidelines for higher education financing opportunities, among other policies. The bill eliminates several student loan repayment options, restricts Pell grant eligibility and enacts loan caps — all of which may reshape access to higher education.
At a school full of traditions like Dartmouth, it’s no surprise that sophomore summer — a quintessential Dartmouth experience — contains many of its own. For one, the opportunity to join a summer performance group is a highly anticipated part of many students’ Dartmouth experience. Dance, a capella and comedy groups all host open auditions for students on campus and welcome dozens of new members for the term. For existing members of full-year groups, the chance to perform in a new ensemble allows them to explore new artistic styles and expand their creative boundaries.
On July 6, more than 80 people gathered on the front porch of the Collis Center for Student Involvement to honor the first anniversary of the death of Won Jang ’26. Jang drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.
Prosecutors have “declined to move forward” with a misdemeanor charge against Alpha Phi sorority for facilitating an underage alcohol house, according to Hanover Police Department lieutenant Michael Schibuola. In an email statement to The Dartmouth, Schibuola wrote that “no further charges are pending beyond what was already made public.”
The Lebanon District Court has found Kevin Engel ’27 and Roan Wade ’25 — two student protesters arrested in the fall of 2023 — guilty of one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass each. The two were arrested on the Parkhurst Hall lawn on Oct. 28, 2023, after setting up an encampment to protest Dartmouth’s investment in organizations “complicit with apartheid and its apparatuses,” among other aims listed in the Dartmouth New Deal.
On Tuesday, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team — which was represented by the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 — withdrew its petition to unionize. On March 5, 2024, players on the men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to join the SEIU Local 560, becoming the first successful student-athlete unionization in the nation.
In September, fourth-year mathematics Ph.D student Benjamin Logsdon filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers — the College’s graduate student workers union. Logsdon alleged that the union discriminated against him by failing to accommodate his request to be removed from the bargaining unit based on his religious beliefs.
Election Day 2024 has arrived, as millions of Americans prepare to head to the polls and cast their ballots in Hanover and around the nation.
On Oct. 28, trial proceedings concluded for Roan Wade ’25 and Kevin Engel ’27, who were arrested last October after setting up an encampment on Parkhurst lawn to protest Dartmouth’s investment in organizations “complicit with apartheid and its apparatuses.” The two were charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass and pleaded not guilty to the trespassing charge in their Dec. 18 arraignment.
On Sept. 19, Dartmouth fired family giving coordinator Marc Jacques, according to a College spokesperson. Six months earlier, Jacques had pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distribution of child pornography.
Four teachers at the Dartmouth College Child Care Center have been given the pseudonyms Amanda, Grace, Olivia and Sophia. They each have been granted anonymity so they may speak candidly about their experiences.
This article is featured in the 2024 Freshman special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Freshman special issue.
For more than one week, Ben True ’08 has been the only coach commuting to Dartmouth’s track and field offices in Alumni Gym. Typically, the team has around five to six active coaches, according to coaching records.