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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.
On Jan. 26, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Life co-hosted author Ilyasah Shabazz — the daughter of Black nationalist leader Malcolm X — for a keynote address titled “Honoring a Legacy.” Shabazz’s address was part of a two-day celebration commemorating the 60th anniversary of Malcolm X’s visit to campus in 1965.
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, marking a return to office after his first term concluded in 2021. In the week following the inauguration, members of the Dartmouth community have expressed both fear and excitement.
The trial for a Dartmouth alumnus indicted for allegedly raping and strangling a woman on the roof of Theta Delta Chi fraternity in April 2022 began yesterday. The woman — who was an 18-year-old Dartmouth student at the time of the alleged assault — testified throughout the day in court, providing graphic details of the night.
On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second time, ending former President Joe Biden’s term in office. The Biden administration made several impacts on federal policy, including passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and education-related policies.
On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on TikTok — a subsidiary of Chinese company ByteDance — that made it illegal for companies in the United States to host the platform after Jan. 19 unless “U.S. operation of the platform is severed from Chinese control,” according to TikTok Inc. v. Garland.
On Jan. 23, members of Dartmouth Student Government met with Dartmouth Dining to discuss the relocation of the campus food pantry — a pantry containing refrigerated foods and non-perishables — from the basement of Dick’s House to Kellogg Hall, located on the ground floor of the Geisel School of Medicine. The pantry was relocated in December following a “fire code issue” of which the College was notified in September, according to School House senator and Dining Advisory Committee member JJ Dega ’26.
On Jan. 22, former Georgia state representative and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams delivered the keynote address for the College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. The official theme of this year’s address was “Moral Courage in the Face of Change and Uncertainty.”
After serving for 10 years as Hanover Police Chief, Charlie Dennis retired in December to move closer to his family in Texas. The Dartmouth sat down with Dennis to discuss his tenure at the Hanover Police Department, which saw events ranging from the May 1 protest, when 89 individuals were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest on the Green, to the Department’s accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies — a recognition of voluntarily meeting a set of professional standards.
On Jan. 19, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its second weekly meeting of the winter term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate continued closed session voting for executive board positions — which began at last week’s meeting — and began discussions about new student life projects.
On Jan. 13, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced the appointment of economics professor Nina Pavcnik as the interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, a position established by the Future of Arts and Sciences project. As interim dean, Pavcnik — who co-led the project’s steering committee with Provost David Kotz — will implement the proposal to combine the currently separate faculty of Arts and Sciences and Division of Student Affairs into a single administrative and budgetary structure. The Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve the plan on Nov. 8, 2024, after it passed an advisory vote among the faculty of Arts and Sciences in October 2024. Pavcnik will serve as interim dean until the permanent dean is appointed through an external search — a process that will start in the fall of 2025, she said. The Dartmouth sat down with Pavcnik to discuss her work so far with the Future of Arts and Sciences project, the experience she brings to the interim dean role and her next steps in the position.
On Jan. 16, the Dartmouth Political Union hosted a debate on political philosophy between academic and former presidential candidate Cornel West and Princeton University professor of jurisprudence Robert George. West and George, who have respectively been described by The New York Times as a “left-wing public intellectual” and “one of the country’s most influential conservative Christian thinkers,” debated the merits of “capitalism versus democratic socialism,” according to DPU president Malcolm Mahoney ’26.
On Jan. 10, 2024, College President Sian Leah Beilock launched Dartmouth Dialogues, a program designed to “facilitate conversations and skills bridging political and personal divides,” according to past coverage by The Dartmouth. The initiative has included several speaker series, a partnership with StoryCorps One Small Step — a nonprofit dedicated to organizing conversations with individuals across the political spectrum — and the Dialogue Project, a skill-building initiative designed to “foster empathy, active listening and collective responsibility,” according to past coverage.
Though elections may be periods of confusion and uncertainty for the average voter, many social scientists see them as opportunities for research and data collection — including Carson Goh ’25, a government and quantitative social science double major. On Nov. 25, Goh won the Wilson Carey McWilliams award for best undergraduate research paper at the annual New England Political Science Conference in Newport, R.I. Goh’s paper, titled “Competition or Representation? How the Public Views Substantive and Descriptive Effects of Independent Redistricting Commissions,” explores how minorities are represented in elections. His research found support for independent redistricting commissions decreases when they are presented as threats to majority-minority districts — those where racial or ethnic minority populations form a district’s largest voting bloc. The Dartmouth sat down with Goh to discuss his background, research and plans after his upcoming graduation this spring.
This week, the Supreme Court may rule on the constitutionality of the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bipartisan bill that will ban TikTok in the United States if the company is not sold by Jan. 19. Once in effect, TikTok — a subsidiary of Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance — will be removed from app stores, while users in the United States will no longer be able to update the app, CNN reported.
Extreme weather is on the rise across the United States, according to a Jan. 10 report by NASA. Last year was the hottest ever on record, and in the first weeks of 2025, environmental crises — such as the Southern California wildfires — have continued record-breaking trends. For many Dartmouth students, these crises thousands of miles away are in fact close to home.
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 Jan. 14, the Political Economy Project — a professor-led interdisciplinary project that hosts talks on economics, politics and philosophy — hosted government professor William Wohlforth for an event titled “Great Power Subversion.”
Dartmouth community members are mobilizing to bring Omar Rashid ’29, an incoming student from Gaza, to campus “as soon as possible,” according to a Change.org petition titled “Bring Omar to Dartmouth.” The petition was launched on Dec. 25, 2024 by three incoming members of the Class of 2029 — Rima Alsheikh ’29, Lila Li ’29 and Trace Ribble ’29 — and has amassed more than 33,400 signatures.
After seven months of renovations, the Collis Center for Student Life porch has reopened for pedestrian use. The College will complete the remaining construction — including the patio staircase — and restore tables and chairs to the porch area.