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(11/17/25 9:30am)
With the 2025 elections now behind us — and the staggering Democratic wins across the board — we’ve received our first new dataset of polling accuracy since last year’s presidential election. American politics moves at nearly the speed of light, so reflecting back 12 months can be a formidable effort. But two key names are bound to ring bells for the political junkies far and wide: Ann Selzer and Nate Silver. Both of these pundits saw sweeping success in predicting election outcomes in the past but chose to take divergent paths in last year’s presidential election. While the heydays of these two are more likely than not behind them, they still embody the good and bad of election forecasting and an alarming trend that plagues the profession: herding.
(11/17/25 9:45am)
When I reflect on my first days at Dartmouth, I recall being excited, curious and eager to dive in. For all its positives, a Dartmouth education also comes with considerable stress. In this world of high achievers who make everything look effortless, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one struggling. I know I have felt that way. When I came down with mono during my first term, I needed to lean on this new community to ask for help. Professors, deans and classmates showed me grace and helped me through, and I’m grateful for that and their continued support. However, not every student feels comfortable asking for help and navigating the transition to college can be challenging. That’s what led me to Evergreen.AI. When I learned about the project, I saw its potential to make information at Dartmouth more accessible and less intimidating.
(11/17/25 9:15am)
One term into my Dartmouth journey, I am struck by how the “college experience” has at once stayed extraordinary and, in certain ways, already become ordinary. While it is early enough that some new things I notice still make me feel slightly off-balance, patterns are beginning to take shape.
(11/17/25 9:00am)
Calling all students, the Dartmouth parents’ Facebook group chat has leaked your personal information. Your father seeks comfort from 3,800 of your peers’ parents because it is 11 p.m. and you are not in your dorm room. Your mother posts about the mold growing in your closet and shares that you enjoyed the streakers during finals, while your father educates parents about the Leydard Challenge. As for upperclassmen who live off campus, you think you’ve been spared? Wrong. Your parents are reporting about your rabies shots after “two bats made their presence known inside the house.” While one mom crowdsources the best barber in Hanover for your curly hair, another shares how lonely you are and seeks a calculus tutor because “the TA simply has not provided the support we need.”
(11/14/25 9:00am)
In “Verbum Ultimum: Make More Classrooms Device-Free,” the Editorial Board argues that banning laptops and phones “would be beneficial for all of our learning and mental health.” I understand the concern about distraction in class. However, for many disabled students, so-called “device-free” classrooms do not promote learning or focus. They exclude us from it. The Board claims that banning laptops and phones is “an easy, evidence-backed solution” for better learning. Easy for whom? Certainly not for disabled students who depend on technology for access and learning.
(11/13/25 9:00am)
Last month, Dartmouth announced an AI mental health resource called Evergreen.AI. The initiative is an AI chatbot aiming to “help students flourish by providing personalized guidance and support in real time.” The first chatbot will debut in December while, according to the College, “the fully generative, more personalized chatbot debuts for testing at the end of 2026.” The price tag is estimated to be $16.5 million, which will be funded by parent and alumni donations. While some students have welcomed the potential to increase mental health accessibility, others have expressed concern about de-personalized mental health care. We asked our writers, how do you feel about Evergreen.AI?
(11/11/25 9:15am)
“Democracy dies in darkness” is the slogan of The Washington Post, which the paper adopted in 2017 after being used by its lionized reporter Bob Woodward for years in reference to Richard Nixon. But democracy doesn’t just die in darkness. Today, democracies also die in daylight — under studio lights, on cable news panels and at press conferences — not in secrecy, but with everyone watching and no one acting.
(11/11/25 9:00am)
Someone recently asked me why anyone should read my opinion columns. The exchange made me question everything that I had ever written in the past year. Who am I to say that the Co-Op is expensive without having taken a single economics class? Why should I be the one to criticise our obsessions with exclusivity while obsessing over a fraternity myself?
(11/07/25 9:15am)
In public bathrooms across campus, students can find “The Stall Street Journal.” It’s a series of posters produced by the Student Wellness Center offering students advice and help on a variety of topics. This term, they posted a new issue called “Doomscrolling Detox.” There are a couple of different designs, but they all convey the same message: that news and social media can be overwhelming, and it’s essential to consider your feelings and take precautions to avoid getting overwhelmed while scrolling through social media.
(11/07/25 9:00am)
A few weeks ago, I was sitting next to a group of boys at the meeting of a liberal campus political organization. They were discussing how they could collaborate to vote in the club’s elections to ensure that they were all elected, which would have resulted in a freshman board with no women. They seemed to either not realize that that is what the result would have been of their plan or, even more problematically, they understood and saw no issue with that outcome. In that conversation, I heard the same young men discussing how they might skirt their mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Project training, which is a four-year sexual violence prevention curriculum implemented for all Dartmouth students. One said they would play training videos on their laptop while the club meeting went on. Another said that the training didn’t apply to him because he is dating someone and doesn’t drink alcohol.
(11/06/25 9:15am)
Like many Dartmouth students this past Homecoming, I was disappointed to hear the College’s plan to supplement the traditional bonfire celebration with a light and laser show. I still vividly remember my freshman-year Homecoming. Huddled together, my friends and I stared in amazement, the heat radiating off of our awe-filled faces and warming us against the chilly New England night. We were staring at 137 years of Dartmouth tradition.
(11/04/25 9:15am)
Re: Rochkind: Time to Include All Voices
(11/04/25 9:30am)
In preparation for the Class of 2029’s student government elections, which concluded last week, the Dartmouth campus took on a familiar rhythm. Each would-be class senator released polished Instagram graphics, crafted statements about community and connection and circulated Google Docs paired with the promise of hearing students’ voices. Group chats begin to overflow with reminders to vote for a friend of a friend. The walls of Novack Cafe are plastered with headshots of freshmen in suits that remind you to “VOTE!”
(11/04/25 9:00am)
I’ve recently been rewatching two of my favorite TV shows whose take on American politics couldn’t be more different: “The West Wing” and “Veep.” The former is the Clinton-era brainchild of Aaron Sorkin, a sentimental ode to public service and politics at their most idealistic. It also contains an interesting Dartmouth connection: its fictional president Josiah Bartlet’s resume includes a serving stint serving as governor of New Hampshire and teaching economics at the College. “Veep,” on the other hand, is a cynic’s rendering of the post-Bush years. Its characters are ruthless and uncaring yet hopelessly incompetent in almost every endeavor.
(11/06/25 9:00am)
The Black Family Visual Arts Center is a hub for Dartmouth’s creatives. It’s a shame that it’s named after the notorious Leon Black ’73, who has been accused of pedophilia and rape and has close connections to Jeffery Epstein.
(11/01/25 8:10am)
“Since Trump won, Democrats have been unmoored.” Is anyone else tired of saying this yet? The same analysis of the Democratic party has been trod out over and over since November of last year. It follows a similar script every time — no one has a clear answer for the rhetoric of the Trump administration, and no one is “leading the party.” In a way, this is true. On the national level, it seems like Democrats are constantly caught on their back heel, with no strong voices in Congress that are able to command as much attention as Trump and his allies.
(10/30/25 8:05am)
Every group of friends has a “digital camera friend,” that one person that always has a digital camera on them, ready to deploy whenever needed. For months, I have been the digital camera friend. I love taking pictures, preserving memories and looking back on my memories in my shared albums —“shalbums,” as I call them — for when I miss particular moments in my life.
(10/30/25 8:15am)
Tucked away on the second floor of the Berry Library, the Jones Media Center is a valuable tool for campus creatives. Students can borrow production equipment, book an editing suite or even record a podcast. But I love the JMC for a different reason: its extensive collection of high-quality CDs.
(10/29/25 8:00am)
Re: Emeritus Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi criticizes U.S. role in Gaza conflict in virtual talk
(10/28/25 8:15am)
President Sian Leah Beilock has rightly rejected the Trump administration’s coercive Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. The compact was a deal with the devil, deceptively designed to enhance institutional quality through federal investment. It demanded a price no free institution of learning should pay — the surrender of academic independence in exchange for government dollars. Accepting such terms would have not only violated Dartmouth’s proud tradition of self-governance, but Dartmouth would have ceded corporate rights we won in Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
