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Update Appended (May 27, 1:17 p.m.): This article has been updated to explicitly reflect that the Hanover Police Department determined Lloyd was the driver during their investigation at the scene of the accident.
Dear Freak of the Week,
What was your role in the 182nd Directorate?
There’s something deeply embarrassing about realizing, while packing up my room to move for the summer, that I might have a genuine addiction to Depop. Every drawer I open seems to produce another shirt I forgot I owned, another pair of shoes I convinced myself I needed because they belonged to some version of myself I was trying to become. For years, I’ve gone through phases of trying to be a minimalist — reorganizing my room, donating clothes, promising myself I’d stop accumulating so many things. But somehow I always return to the same instinct: Surrounding myself with physical objects because they make life feel fuller, more tangible and more well-lived.
Most of the in-class essays I’ve had to write throughout my academic career have ended in a similar scene. With a cramped right hand, I frantically flip through my blue book reviewing my work, all the while nervously glancing back at the clock to check how many seconds I have left. As I try to read over my panicked, borderline-illegible handwriting, I make peace with an inevitable truth: The essay I just wrote sucks. It’s shallow. It’s a desperate attempt to string together ideas from course readings and namedrop theories for the sake of it, and it’s mostly just nonsense. But despite the stressful process of writing it, I’m never very concerned about the quality of the final product. Why? Because I know no higher standard can be expected of in-class writing.
Re: Taneja: The Apocalypse Will Save Us All
On May 24, at the eighth weekly Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, senators discussed funding first-year health kits, supporting Muslim student association Al-Nur’s Eid al-Adha Gala and expanding a reusable cup initiative at Novack Cafe.
On April 21, the Committee on Organization and Policy for the School of Arts and Sciences created the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading Practices and Assessment to “identify opportunities to strengthen the clarity, coherence and credibility” of College grading and assessment policies, COP committee co-chair and earth sciences professor Erich Osterberg wrote in a May 21 email statement to The Dartmouth.
A Republican-backed effort to expand firearm rights on New Hampshire college campuses collapsed on May 21 after the state Senate declined to negotiate differences between the state House of Representatives and Senate versions of the legislation through a Committee of Conference.
On May 21, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression president and chief executive officer Greg Lukianoff, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Commencement next month, condemned the state of freedom of speech in higher education at an event in the Hanover Inn.
As we approach the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election, one of my biggest fears is that the Democrats will run on the temptingly easy “anti-Trump” platform. The Democratic Party has long stood as a purveyor of constructive, immortalized policy — I want that approach to re-emerge and set our nation back on course. We don’t need more political division and hateful rhetoric. We need more jobs, more housing and a long-postponed, much-needed response to the climate crisis. We need to rail.
It’s become clear over five seasons that the writers of “The Boys” are far better at setting up an interesting premise than actually delivering on one. While Season 4 was the least consistent of the bunch so far, it ended on a tantalizing cliffhanger that seemed to wash away the sins of a clunky buildup and weaker writing. Megalomaniacal superhuman antagonist Homelander (Antony Starr) and the superhero megacorp Vought had effectively seized control of the presidency, while most of The Boys — the show’s titular group of ragtag anti-superhero black ops — were captured and imprisoned. The stakes were set for an explosive, high-stakes finale.
For the first time in my adult life, I will not be voting come Election Day.
On May 19, Harvard University faculty voted to cap the number of A’s professors could hand out at 20% per course, with an allowance of an additional four A’s per class. This follows months of debate over Harvard’s grade inflation — a “crisis” we’re witnessing at higher-ed institutions across the country. A 25-page report, released last October by Harvard dean of undergraduate education Amanda Claybaugh, concluded that Harvard’s current grading system was “damaging the academic culture of the College.”
Last week, a writer at the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine reached out to ask if I would speak to her about artificial intelligence. She had read my columns in The Dartmouth and concluded I was a critic, while also asking if I was a member of some kind of anti-AI organization on campus. I was surprised on both counts. At any given moment, you can find me running three different large language models simultaneously, and here I was being accused of being an AI non-believer and a potential member of some technophobe cult. I spent 20 minutes digging through my own archives before understanding the confusion. I had never written against AI as a whole. I had written against AI in specific contexts, specifically art and mental health. Convinced I needed to rehabilitate myself, I wrote a piece arguing that AI is a tool and a college education must teach us how to use it well. Eli Moyse ’27 read that piece and wrote a rebuttal. This is my rebuttal to his rebuttal, but more importantly, a feeble attempt at clarifying that I am neither an AI-denialist nor an AI-romanticist, but a mere realist who dares to hope.
From May 22 to May 24, the Displaced Theatre Company — a student-run contemporary theatre organization — will perform “Clue” at 7 p.m. in the Warner Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
On May 9, Ben Hinchliffe ’27 won the road race at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road Race National Championships in Waterloo, Wis. Hinchliffe completed the 86-mile race with a time of 3:21:22, over two minutes ahead of his closest competitor. The next day, Hinchliffe placed 19th in the men’s club criterium, a high-speed circuit race where competitors complete as many laps as possible in 80 minutes.
On May 20, journalist and free speech advocate Maria Ressa visited Hanover to give the keynote address for this year’s Social Justice Awards ceremony. The awards, hosted by the College’s Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity, honor Dartmouth alumni, faculty, staff and community members for their commitment to “social justice locally and worldwide,” according to IDE’s website.
As part of The Dartmouth’s coverage of the upcoming 2026 midterm and gubernatorial elections, the paper is publishing an interview series, “A Sit-Down with The Dartmouth,” featuring in-depth conversations with candidates and political leaders connected to statewide and New Hampshire district races.
New Hampshire will receive $500 million in federal healthcare grants over the next five years from the Rural Health Transformation Program, a federal initiative created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after it was signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025. Some healthcare providers and state politicians told The Dartmouth they worry that the funding will not compensate for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s simultaneous cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.