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Re: Kluger: Don’t Wish Ill on Raymer
This week, two Dartmouth students abruptly had their visa statuses revoked. Nearly every other Ivy League school has had funding rescinded or suspended for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s demands.
On April 7, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy hosted a panel discussion entitled “Bipartisan Discussion on Energy Policy.” The event, with former Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and former Department of Energy chief of staff Kevin Knobloch, was moderated by Tuck School of Business government and society professor Charles Wheelan, Dartmouth Conservatives member John Coleman ’26, Dartmouth Democrats member Fiona Hood ’26 and Tuck Business and Politics Club member Nolan Mayhew TU ’25.
The Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth held a rally on April 8 outside of the Class of 1953 Commons to protest automation of Dartmouth Dining locations as well as “union busting, food costs and management harassment,” according to a flyer circulated by the union. Approximately 30 students and community members attended the rally.
The Howe Library, Hanover’s town library, may experience changes and cuts to its services following a March 14 executive order signed by President Trump which will substantially reduce funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
On April 2, the Office of the Provost released a new freedom of expression and dissent policy. The Dartmouth went through the new 28-page long report and compared it to the prior policy, which was adopted in 2015.
A new town policy differentiates demonstrations, protests and vigils from other planned outdoor events. It will allow organizers to register this type of event two days in advance and promotes logistical communication between organizers and the Town. These new guidelines clarify the registration process for a separate category of outdoors events that require less scrutinous code review, according to Town Manager Robert Houseman.
Since College President Sian Leah Beilock began her tenure at Dartmouth, the official college policy on almost every issue of importance has been one of neutrality. This so-called “institutional restraint” ostensibly serves to foster an open community where all can be heard and respected alongside attempting to keep the college clear of the scrutiny — and funding reductions — that our peer institutions, such as Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, have faced.
“Radical,” “foreign,” “pro-Hamas,” “pro-terrorist,” “anti-Semitic,” “anti-American” — these are all words President Donald Trump has used to describe Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University. Because he led student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, the Trump administration is now trying to deport him for his activism. According to his narrative, he is one of the many subversive, foreign-aligned radicals — many of them “paid agitators,” to use his language — working to overrun American college campuses and to undermine our national security; they must be deported if they are foreign or punished if they are domestic. Sound familiar?
Ramsey Alsheikh '26 makes an analogy on campus current affairs.
Business executive Barry Caldwell ’82 and investor Hadley Mullin ’96 will join Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees on July 1 for a four-year term.
The number of ticks that carry Lyme disease has climbed in recent years. A recent study by Dartmouth researchers and several other universities found that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks in northeastern United States carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
A row of red barns; a golden dog to herd cows; paint peeling where it is supposed to. A pair of friendly tenant farmers. The farm blends into the Vermont landscape.
The federal court of New Hampshire temporarily restored the F-1 student immigration status of Xiaotian Liu GR on April 9, according to a press release from the New Hampshire chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Julie Rose has been an associate professor in the government department since arriving at Dartmouth in 2014. She teaches classes that bridge ethics and public policy such as “Justice and Work” and “Ethics, Economics and Environment.” Rose’s research — which is broadly in political philosophy — focuses on issues of economic justice. Rose will become director of the Ethics Institute on July 1.
When the clock strikes 4 p.m. every weekday, the historic Sanborn Library in the heart of Dartmouth’s English Department — adjacent to Baker-Berry Library — transforms from a study space to a tea parlor honoring a near 100-year-old tradition. Glass teapots appear, mugs are passed out, steam rises and cookies circulate. For one hour, Sanborn Library becomes a spot for students to take a break from their busy lives.
The transition into this term felt like being dropped into a pool and told to swim before I could even surface for air. One minute, I was catching up with friends, eating rushed dinners with people I hadn’t seen in months, laughing too loud and staying up too late; the next, I was hunching over tables in the Life Sciences Center and Fairchild Physical Sciences Center, whispering the names of organic compounds under my breath like incantations, and hoping they’d stick.
If someone asked me to name one thing that unifies students at Dartmouth, it would be the contempt we hold for our dining services. Even before we got our Class of ’53 Commons hand-scanners and Courtyard Cafe kiosks, Dartmouth Dining under director Jon Plodzik was mismanaged, causing inconvenience at best and food insecurity at worst. The automation and dehumanization of our dining system was the final straw: Plodzik ought to resign from his position.
Our campus and country have been taken by a storm of terrifying news articles, ICE videos that look like muggings and fearful uncertainty. International students and professors have been detained for their political views. On April 7, The Dartmouth reported that two Dartmouth students lost their visas with no apparent rationale.
On April 6, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its first weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate discussed changes to Dartmouth Dining locations, the creation of a DSG text hotline, library nap pods and the recent West Lebanon shuttle pilot project.