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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.
On Jan. 14, the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies department hosted a panel of immigration experts for an event titled “What is Mass Deportation?” The panelists discussed the potential implications of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration for U.S. immigration policy. Trump’s proposals call for the deportation of undocumented migrants, migrants with criminal records and people with Temporary Protected Status, according to The New York Times.
Quantitative social science major Kate Pimentel ’25 received the Rangel Graduate Fellowship on Nov. 15, 2024, Dartmouth News announced on Jan. 10. The fellowship aims to “prepare” recipients for careers in the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service, according to its webpage. Fellows are awarded up to $42,000 annually for the completion of a two-year master’s degree program in addition to a stipend of $18,000 per academic year. The Dartmouth sat down with Pimentel to discuss her journey toward winning the fellowship and how she has explored her interest in foreign affairs at Dartmouth.
On Jan. 9, the Dickey Center for International Understanding hosted an event titled “Care Culture in America: Who’s Not Being Served?” The event featured Roshan Sethi, a Harvard Medical School oncologist and co-creator of the medical television show “The Resident,” who discussed biases in Hollywood and the medical profession.
On Dec. 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law, requiring higher education institutions to disclose reports of hazing in their annual Clery Reports on campus crime. Additionally, the bill requires higher education institutions to develop a “prevention program on hazing.”
On Jan. 12, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate held its first weekly meeting of the winter term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate appointed a new executive board and set its agenda for the next nine weeks.
On Jan. 3, parliamentary debate team members Ryan Lafferty ’26 and Madeleine Wu ’26 placed first at the World Universities Debating Championship in Panama City, Panama. Lafferty and Wu became the first-ever Dartmouth pair to win the tournament — and the first U.S.-based team to win in seven years.
On Jan. 9, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., was officially sworn in as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. Ayotte — who defeated former Democratic Manchester, N.H., mayor Joyce Craig in the gubernatorial election last November — succeeds Gov. Chris Sununu, who spent four terms in office.
On Oct. 1, 2024, Kathryn Bezella started as the dean of undergraduate admissions, a new position focusing specifically on undergraduates. She reports to dean of admissions and financial aid Lee Coffin, who was promoted from vice provost for enrollment to vice president in September 2023. Bezella primarily focuses on admitting undergraduates, while Coffin guides Dartmouth’s broader admissions goals. Prior to joining Dartmouth, Bezella most recently worked as vice dean and director of strategy and innovation for undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania from 2023 to 2024. During her time as a student at Barnard College, and for several years after, Bezella was heavily involved in opera and performance. The Dartmouth sat down with Bezella to discuss her background in admissions and priorities for undergraduate admissions at the College.
Two restaurants opened in downtown Hanover last month. Casa Brava Tapas Bistro, located in the South Street Hotel, serves “international tapas” — a traditionally Spanish small-plate style of cooking — according to owner James Van Kirk. Meanwhile, Little Havana offers authentic Cuban cuisine in a “homey family meal” environment at 15 Lebanon Street, according to co-owner Maylena Chaviano.