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Following the success of “Weapons,” director Zach Cregger might have chosen to go even bigger and more complex for his next feature. That film wove together multiple nonlinear narrative perspectives, culminated in unexpected revelations and invited discussion over its broader social themes.
On Friday, Sept. 18, singer-songwriter Ashe headlined Fallapalooza on Gold Coast Lawn. The concert was opened by student band Dublin and alternative rock band Friday Pilots Club.
In 1818, Daniel Webster declared to the Supreme Court: “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” Today, Dartmouth’s president is erasing Webster’s Dartmouth in The Atlantic. In “Why I Want More AI at Dartmouth,” College President Sian Leah Beilock writes that universities that don’t embrace AI “guarantee their own irrelevance.” She claims her essay is pedagogical. It isn’t — it’s a marketing strategy for growth. By November 2024, Beilock called for 1,000 more beds, reinstated standardized testing, mass arrested peaceful protesters and reorganized undergraduate education under a new School of Arts and Sciences. After Trump’s election, she hired the Republican National Committee’s former attorney, adopted an institutional restraint policy barring public statements, changed Dartmouth’s diversity, equity and inclusion website and organizational chart, cut the libraries’ budget, signed an AI partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services and began expanding the student body — while her spokesperson insists we’ll remain “the smallest Ivy.” AI is the story that lets Beilock’s blueprint for growth sound like a distinction that sets us apart from the other Ivies as we begin to more closely resemble them. “AI at 70,” the Dartmouth conference marking the anniversary of the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project that coined the term “artificial intelligence” is billed as an inquiry into “what must remain human.” The lineup reads like a trade show for industries whose claims need scrutiny: Amazon keynotes, Anthropic hackathons — the companies selling Dartmouth its AI infrastructure at an as-yet unreported price — and a “Presidential Session” moderated by Beilock to boot. What’s missing is as revealing as what’s included. Nita Farahany ’98, one of the world’s leading AI and neurotechnology ethicists, isn’t on the program — even though she was quoted in CalMatters last month warning that neural-monitoring tools could let employers detect when workers are thinking about organizing a union. That omission may be innocent, but her work goes directly to the conference’s stated theme — and an expert on these tools’ potential harms would complicate a stage built around Beilock’s enthusiasm for AI. Those sounding alarms about what their former companies built were also kept off the program. On Feb. 9, Mrinank Sharma resigned as head of Anthropic’s Safeguards Research team, writing on X and Substack that “the world is in peril,” citing AI and bioweapons among a “series of interconnected crises.” As Beilock’s essay made the rounds, Jacob Coxon, who spent three years on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned publicly, writing on X that the two companies “are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” and that the people building it “earnestly believe AI could kill all humans.” Two current Anthropic staffers, including its own alignment science lead, publicly agreed. On Sept. 11, Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei said AI development needs to slow down and be closely monitored. If people inside Anthropic are worried about where their own work is headed, Dartmouth’s president is complicit in handing a spokesperson for a company chasing a $1 trillion valuation a stage and calling it “academic inquiry.” Beilock’s claim that AI will “future-proof” Dartmouth graduates collapses the moment one looks at who the future has already stopped working for. She opens by citing Stanford University research showing employment for young workers in AI-exposed fields has fallen 19%, then turns to her own research on math anxiety, suggesting anxiety can be reduced through practice and exposure. That analogy is elegant — and a category error. Math anxiety is a psychological state, softened by preparation and repeated exposure. The AI economy isn’t a test a student can practice for until the fear fades — it is a series of decisions employers, investors and tech companies are making about which jobs to automate, which workers to keep and which labor to make cheaper, including roles requiring advanced degrees. Adjunct faculty don’t get tenure no matter how many years they teach. Staff attorneys don’t make partner no matter how many hours they bill.
On Sept. 16, the House Oversight and Governing Reform Committee approved a resolution to hold former Dartmouth trustee Leon Black ’73 in contempt of Congress. The charge came after Black defied the committee's subpoenas related to their investigation into convicted sex offender and Black’s longtime acquaintance, Jeffrey Epstein. On June 26, the committee issued two subpoenas to Black after he refused to answer “specific questions” about nondisclosure agreements that he was involved in during a voluntary closed-door testimony committee chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told news outlets after the June 26 meeting.
Dartmouth rose 29 spots to sixth place in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2027 College Free Speech Rankings, up from 35th last year and 224th in 2024.
New Hampshire voters selected their parties’ nominees for federal and statewide offices on Sept. 8, setting up general election contests for the U.S. Senate, governor and both of the state’s congressional districts. Statewide results are available through the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office.
When I read the most recent installment in College President Sian Leah Beilock’s seemingly annual series of Atlantic articles last week, two main contradictions stuck out to me.
The Dartmouth field hockey team opened the season last week with a 5-1 loss against Boston University on Sept. 6, a 4-2 win against Merrimack College on Sept. 11 and a tight 1-2 loss to Sacred Heart University on Sept. 13. The team’s win over Merrimack at Chase Field in Hanover marked new head coach Jason Klinkradt’s first win at Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth women’s soccer team secured two nonconference wins against College of the Holy Cross and Colgate University last week to continue their nonconference success and bring their overall record to 5-1-2.
On Monday night at the biweekly Selectboard meeting at Hanover town hall, the Hanover Selectboard discussed creating an assistant town manager role and proposed a review of fiscal policy guidelines to prepare for increases in town capital expenditures.
More than just a gallery space showcasing Upper Valley artists, the Alliance for the Visual Arts Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H., is a vibrant hub offering programming for local residents — and a community space for artists.
“John Proctor is the Villain,” the Tony-nominated play about a high school English class reinterpreting “The Crucible” amid a sexual assault allegation at their school, will open at the Northern Stage theater in White River Junction next Wednesday, Sept. 23.
In addition to its chip-winning basketball franchise and bodega cats, New York City is home to some of our country’s finest welfare programs. Millions of kids, including myself, grew up on them. Beyond the typical surprises city kids face when going rural — constellations, deep breaths of air, Republicans, et cetera — I was especially taken aback by New Hampshire’s school lunch program.
We are now approaching the second anniversary of College President Sian Leah Beilock’s implementation of institutional restraint at Dartmouth. In anticipation of a presidential administration that espouses strong rhetoric against universities, institutional restraint was presented as a form of protection for students: opening doors for dialogue without self-censorship and ensuring that students are able to speak out in the so-called brave spaces. Beyond that, it was a strategy for the university’s self-preservation, a marked attempt to distance itself from potential attention of the Trump administration. As the only Ivy League not signing onto likened it to the “Ivy League’s Switzerland” in an essay in The Atlantic.
This past weekend, the new Russo Hall and renovated Fayerweather Hall began welcoming residents for the fall term. The new building developments are part of College President Sian Leah Beilock’s 10-year, $500 million housing initiative, which aims to add 1,000 new beds for students, faculty and staff” announced at her inauguration in June 2023. The Dartmouth toured Russo Hall and the Fayerweather Halls and spoke with undergraduate housing projects director Lindsay Walkinshaw about the new spaces and their construction process.
On Sept. 9, Dartmouth students using Headspace — an app for guided meditation, sleep and breath work — through the College’s institutional subscription were informed by email that Dartmouth had ended its partnership with the app and, with that, their memberships. The College ended the institutional subscription, which began in 2022, to focus on Dartmouth’s own mental health offerings, the Mindful Dartmouth project and the Commitment to Care plan, Student Wellness Center executive director Caitlin Barthelmes told The Dartmouth.
On Aug. 26, the New Hampshire Department of Justice announced that the social media company Meta will pay the state up to approximately $224 million in a settlement that called for new restrictions for children on Instagram and Facebook, pending judicial approval. New Hampshire’s resolution is included in a $17.1 billion multi-state settlement with 48 states and territories, including N.H., and Washington D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the Department’s press release.
Philanthropist Tom Golisano donated $30 million to the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Health announced on Sept. 10. The hospital, located in Lebanon, N.H., will be renamed to the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Health in recognition of the donation.
Sydney Towle ’22 never dimmed her light, even through her darkest moments. She walked on runways, wrote her heart out and threw princess-themed parties for her friends. She loved the sun.