Meet the candidates: A sit-down with DSG presidential and vice presidential candidates
This week, elections will be held for campus-wide student leadership positions, including for DSG president and vice president, house senators and class council.
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This week, elections will be held for campus-wide student leadership positions, including for DSG president and vice president, house senators and class council.
Remembered for his boundless curiosity, exceptional musicality and limitless kindness, Enzo La Hoz Calassara ’27 inspired those around him to pursue what they love and to connect with the world around them.
As part of The Dartmouth’s coverage of the upcoming 2026 midterm and gubernatorial elections, the paper is publishing an interview series, “A Sit-Down with The Dartmouth,” featuring in-depth conversations with candidates for state-wide and New Hampshire district positions.
On April 7, artificial intelligence lab Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful new large-language model which the company claims has found “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities” across the internet. Anthropic announced that it would not publicly release the model due to security concerns and is forming a consortium of large tech companies — called Project Glasswing — which will use Mythos to patch vulnerabilities in critical software.
On Sunday, the Dartmouth Student Government announced that the DSG Student Life Committee will design the layout and menu of Russo Cafe, a dining location planned for Russo Hall, a new 290-bed dormitory set to open this fall as part of a broader effort by the College to expand housing.
On Monday, Brown University — which organizes the exchange program that sends students in the U.S. to the University of Havana — announced to participating schools they are “paus[ing]” the fall 2026 cohort “due to the geopolitical tensions and resource stress produced by the U.S. blockade on the island,” Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor and Dartmouth exchange program faculty director Jorge Cuellar wrote in an email to The Dartmouth. The U.S. State Department has advised “increased caution” when traveling to Cuba “due to crime and unreliable electrical power” since 2018.
Ryan Lafferty ’26 died early today, senior vice president for community and campus life Jennifer Rosales and interim dean of undergraduate student affairs Anne Hudak wrote in an email to campus this evening.
On March 30, an Upper Valley community member read a statement attributed online to Hamas during a pro-Palestinian rally on the Hanover Green.
The College offered 1,687 regular decision invitations to the Class of 2030 on March 26, rounding out an application cycle that took place amidst political tensions in higher education, including Dartmouth’s rejection of the Trump administration’s compact for higher education.
On March 10, Lebanon residents voted to lease land in West Lebanon owned by the Lebanon School District to the Boys and Girls Club of Central and Northern New Hampshire for a new child care facility, with 1586 votes in favor and 449 against. The exact schedule of construction is unknown.
This morning, Dartmouth Student Government and the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault called on the Board of Trustees and College leadership to rename the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The SPCSA is an “intermediary between students and the larger Dartmouth College community” whose tasks include planning and implementing “cross-campus initiatives to address sexual violence.”
Alpha Phi sorority will participate in formal recruitment at Dartmouth for the first time in two years this fall, according to the College’s Office of Greek Life and Student Societies website. In an April 2 email from Inter-Sorority Council president KJ TeKrony ’27 to GLASS assistant director for new member education and chapter management Makenzie Vandenbark and the presidents and recruitment chairs of each sorority, TeKrony wrote that representatives from APhi national would attend a recruitment planning meeting on April 3. The email was obtained and reviewed by The Dartmouth.
On March 26, the College invited 1,687 students to join the Class of 2030 from a pool of 28,863 applications, the second-largest in College history after that for the Class of 2028. The overall admissions rate was 5.8 percent, down slightly from six percent for the Class of 2029. Data about the newly admitted class was first reported by Dartmouth News. College spokesperson Jana Barnello declined to provide additional comment.
As part of The Dartmouth’s coverage of the upcoming 2026 midterm and gubernatorial elections, the paper is publishing an interview series, “A Sit-Down with The Dartmouth,” featuring in-depth conversations with candidates for state-wide and New Hampshire district positions.
As the U.S. war with Iran intensifies, student veterans at Dartmouth say the conflict feels both familiar and unsettling. For many students on campus, the fighting unfolds through headlines and government class discussions. But for those who once served in the military, some of whom were deployed in the Middle East, the war carries memories of their time in service, concerns for friends still serving and questions about whether the region is once again entering prolonged instability.
The College is requiring Dartmouth Libraries to cut its budget over the next two fiscal years, according to emails sent by dean of libraries Susanne Mehrer to library staff and obtained and reviewed by The Dartmouth. While a Dec. 1 email from Mehrer stated the required cuts totaled $2,614,000, Mehrer wrote in a March 5 email that the “FY27–FY28 budget planning figure is $1 million lower” than the initial $2.6 million cut.
Enzo La Hoz Calassara ’27, an undergraduate student from Minnesota, passed away on Sunday after “an accident in the Cook Islands,” senior vice president for community and campus life Jennifer Rosales and interim dean of undergraduate student affairs Anne Hudak wrote in an email to campus today. Calassara was participating in the linguistics foreign study program in New Zealand and Polynesia.
On March 16, Annabelle Zhang ’27 and Vihan Jayawardhane ’27 will assume the roles of editor-in-chief and publisher to head the paper’s 183rd directorate. They will replace outgoing Editor-in-Chief Charlotte Hampton ’26 and Publisher Quentin Proud ’26, respectively.
Leon Black ’73, a former client of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, pledged to donate $500,000 to renovations for the President’s House at Dartmouth and more than $350,000 to Jewish studies programs, according to a 2014 financial summary from the College recently released by the Department of Justice.
Last month, the New Hampshire Executive Council approved a study to examine the feasibility of New Hampshire exiting the New England regional energy grid, according to a meeting agenda published on the Secretary of State’s website. The study — which will be conducted by consulting firm London Economics International — will cost the state $230,046.