Montalbano: It’s time Dartmouth honors the alumni who fought for equality
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This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
This article is featured in the 2024 Commencement & Reunions special issue.
It creeps up on me every now and then.
We appreciate that our colleagues working on student well-being face incredible pressure and are constrained by Dartmouth’s definition of the problem. We were, nonetheless, stunned by the framing of the May 23 “Day for Community” as a “journey of reflection, connection and community building following the protest on the Green on May 1,” according to a message from the College’s chief health and wellness officer, Estevan Garcia. Last Thursday’s event was advertised as an opportunity for healing — healing, apparently, from the peaceful May 1 protest, but not from the mass arrests, physical injuries and collective harm inflicted on students, faculty and staff by the police response to that protest.
Back in the tranquil days of my senior year of high school, at the height of college application season, my Dartmouth interviewer asked me, “What would you like your legacy to be when you graduate?” Ambitiously, I answered along the lines of, “I’d like to have done my part to make Dartmouth a better place.”
Maybe it’s because I’m writing this on three hours of sleep, but I’ve begun to lose track of the all-nighters I’ve pulled this term.
After meeting my First Year Trips leaders at the start of my freshman year, I wondered if I would ever feel as knowledgeable and settled at Dartmouth as they seemed to be. Now, as I look back at my fall term self, who felt utterly unprepared for college and living away from my family, it is remarkable how much more I feel like my Trip Leaders, who I looked up to not even a year ago.
From Duke Ellington to the Grateful Dead, Neon Trees to this year’s headliner, Shaggy, Green Key — Dartmouth’s annual spring concert — has hosted artists representing nearly every genre of music. Thanks to the performers and the accompanying weekend events, Green Key is widely considered the most exciting weekend of spring term. Unlike most terms at Dartmouth — fall devolving into barren trees and fading tans, winter becoming numbingly cold and inconceivably slushy — spring seems to get better and better, with Green Key acting as the light at the end of the tunnel.
Last fall, I arrived on campus in awe of Dartmouth’s beauty.
Few who walk past the lawn between Parkhurst Hall and McNutt Hall know that the remains of an 18th-century house lie beneath the grass. According to anthropology professor Jesse Casana, the so-called Brown House, built in 1790, passed through different owners before eventually housing Susan Brown and her daughters from 1850 to 1900.
Like many college students, I find comfort in routine — Monday laundry, coffee in between classes and my daily woccom, a walk around Occom Pond. Despite the ever-changing landscape of freshman year, I most enjoy the activities that I know will be the same week-to-week. The Saturday of Green Key, however, my routine was suddenly altered when I tripped over a tree root at the Gamma Delta Chi D.J. set. The next morning, I couldn’t walk and had to make a trip to the emergency room with a sprained ankle. As I fiddled with my hospital wristband, awaiting my X-ray results, I wasn’t concerned with how the injury would affect my treks to classes. I was wondering if I would miss my daily woccom.
On May 26, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its ninth weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Jessica Chiriboga ’24, the Senate discussed an amendment to increase transparency by publishing a public roll call of all votes, including those held in closed session or online. After debate, the Senate voted against the amendment, with eight in favor and nine against.