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Dega: Dartmouth Must Continue to Lead in Health and Wellness

From Jan. 15-17, the Student Wellness Center sponsored my attendance at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies Conference, the principal higher education professionals conference for sharing harm-prevention and risk-reduction strategies. I spent three days attending presentation after presentation discussing risk mitigation, engaging Greek life students and reimagining big weekends to integrate safety measures.

Letter to the Editor: Stand Against Trump

Re: College adopts ‘institutional restraint’ policy, outlines procedures for department statements

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith urges students to be ‘optimistic about the future’

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith advised community members to be “optimistic about the future” at a Rockefeller Center for Public Policy event on Jan. 14. 

Climate ecologist-turned-pastor reflects on return to campus

Former climate scientist Andi Lloyd ’89 returned to campus in October 2025 as co-pastor of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College following a 25-year career as a biology professor at Middlebury College. Lloyd researched climate change in Alaska and Siberia before leaving Middlebury to study at Yale Divinity School and becoming ordained in the United Church of Christ in 2022. The Dartmouth sat down with Lloyd to reflect on her career path and the connections she sees between climate and theology.

DSG Senators consider solutions to student mental health ‘crisis’

On Jan. 18, at the second weekly Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the winter term, senators listened to two presentations about mental health on campus — the first by faculty members involved in Evergreen.AI, and the second by members of the student Mental Health Union. 

Flu cases surge in New Hampshire as Dartmouth reports spike in cases

New Hampshire is facing one of its sharpest flu surges in recent decades, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently classifying the state at a “very high” risk level for influenza activity. 

Moyse: Dartmouth’s Ouroboros

Women’s basketball drops to 0-2 in conference play after Cornell loss

The Dartmouth women’s basketball team played Cornell University in their second Ivy League game on Jan. 10, losing 61-52 to drop to 0-2 in Ivy League play. 

Hot Takes Week 2

Montalbano: What Ever Happened to Pragmatism?

The purpose of politics is to serve the public interest, not one’s own. However, it appears that increasingly in the West, fewer and fewer aspiring “leaders” have a respect or understanding for the offices that they seek. More often than not, they are blinded by raging partisanship, uncompromising ideology and an unquenchable drive for positions of great power. Dogmatic politicians are the faces of politics today, and it seems that fewer and fewer policy-oriented individuals enter the arena.

Belcher: History Is Repeating Itself in Venezuela

On New Year’s Eve, President Trump hosted his annual black-tie party at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. In attendance were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President J.D. Vance, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and countless other high-profile guests from the Republican sphere and beyond. The evening featured fine dining, conga dancing, live music and even a live painting of Jesus Christ, which was later auctioned off for a modest $3 million.

Review: ‘Zootopia 2’ is an instant classic

In an era of floundering Disney remakes and sequels such as the live-action “Snow White” and “Moana 2,” “Zootopia 2” is an imaginative return to the quick-witted, touching Disney of my childhood. The sequel to the beloved 2016 animated film seamlessly integrates sociopolitical themes into a heartwarming movie geared towards children. The film also dares to ask: What would the child of a fox and bunny look like?

‘American Pop’ reconsiders pop art across time and culture

“American Pop,” on view at the Hood Museum of Art from Dec. 13, 2025 through Nov. 7, 2026, reframes Pop Art as an evolving visual language shaped by consumer culture, colonial histories and environmental concerns. The exhibition places canonical works alongside contemporary artists to invite viewers to reconsider how American identity has been constructed and contested.

Dartmouth Health rejects new CDC vaccine guidelines

On Jan. 7, Dartmouth Health rejected the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s new childhood vaccine guidelines in favor of the vaccine schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to an email statement from Dartmouth Health pediatrics department chair Keith Loud. 

Government professor Jennifer Lind says China’s ‘smart authoritarianism’ balanced freedom and control during rise as superpower

Government professor Jennifer Lind described China’s unique practice of “smart authoritarianism,” a governing style that focuses on “foster[ing] innovation” through a balance between freedom and control, in a Jan. 14 discussion on her new book “Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny.” 

‘I don’t know what kind of country we live in’: Students both criticize and defend ICE behavior at Dartmouth Turning Point USA event

The behavior of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been in the national spotlight, especially since the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minn. last week. On Tuesday, a group of about 30 students gathered to discuss ICE and the shooting in an event hosted by the Dartmouth chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA. 

Former U.S. ambassador to Sweden and Poland Mark Brzezinski ’87 says diplomacy is essential as war in Ukraine approaches four years

With the four-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaching on Feb. 24, the war grinds on and the U.S. relationship with its European allies is uncertain. Former U.S. ambassador to Sweden and Poland Mark Brzesinski ’87 argued in a campus talk on Tuesday that diplomacy remains essential.

New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate says New Hampshire needs ‘community-first economics’ to fix housing and inequality

As part of The Dartmouth’s coverage of the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, we are launching a new interview series, “A Sit-Down with The Dartmouth,” featuring in-depth conversations with major national and statewide candidates in New Hampshire. 

An ‘iconic Hanover small business’ closes its doors

After nearly three decades of serving Hanover’s chefs, Main Street Kitchens will close on Feb. 14, according to a statement posted on the store’s Facebook page. 

Upper Valley faces ‘unusually cold’ winter

Hanover’s average temperature so far this winter has been five degrees colder than the 30 year average, according to geography professor Alexander Reid Gottlieb. Compared to winters over the past 30 years, Hanover has experienced a “really unusually cold” season this year, he said.