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On May 14, Harvard University history and law professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 discussed the importance of including broader perspectives in remembering American history at an event sponsored by the Montgomery Fellows Program.
On May 9, Erik Peterson ’27 and Ranvir Deshmukh ’26 won the 2026 Magnuson Startup Competition with their real-estate startup RealPact, an artificial intelligence tool for real estate brokers that can “handle the operational work behind every [real estate] deal,” according to its website. The competition — hosted by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship — evaluates startups for metrics such as their “strength of team,” “problem definition” and “quality of solution.” The winning startup receives a grand prize of $20,000.
Re: Verbum Ultimum: We are Missing the Right
Dear Freak of the Week,
Monday was the first hot day we’ve had in a long time. One day we were still waiting for spring to fully arrive, and then it did without announcement. People were suddenly outside again in a way that made it obvious how long we had all been indoors, stepping into the cold only when really necessary.
From Miriam Dia ’27 in São Paulo and Salvador, Brazil
At yesterday’s meeting, the Hanover Selectboard voted unanimously to “take no action” on the anti-apartheid pledge passed at the annual town business meeting on May 12. The majority approval at the town meeting was “non-binding,” according to the town warrant.
On May 14, United States assistant attorney general for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon ’89 joined the Dartmouth Political Union for a moderated conversation and open forum Q&A on her work in the Department of Justice.
In September, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression president Greg Lukianoff went on the Megyn Kelly show to accuse transgender rights advocates of intimidating their opponents into silence. Over a period of 30 minutes, Lukianoff alternated between nodding solemnly along with Kelly’s anti-trans rants and chiming in to remind the audience that, under the Constitution, you cannot be compelled to “call [a trans person] by a name that you don’t believe is theirs.” He also claimed that transgender people expecting others to use their names and pronouns is “totalitarian,” that transgender rights have only ever gained support because “people were just terrified of the trans rights activists,” and that formerly terrified people are now “waking up” from their previous support of trans rights. Throughout the show, Kelly promotes her sponsors: a gold company, a matcha tea company and an online pharmacy that offers ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, controversial medications pushed by right wing influencers as a cure for COVID-19. Participating in this farce, in itself, we would call dishonorable. But even the trans-bashing apparently does not disqualify Lukianoff from what Dartmouth calls “the College’s highest distinction”: receiving an honorary degree.
Recent digging on Dartmouth’s institutional Claude platform led me to a “team” project section where a seemingly random group of people in the Dartmouth community, intentionally or not, shared customized versions of Claude AI for anyone within the Dartmouth email ecosystem to view and use. My natural instinct was to snoop, and although there were a handful of interesting things there, three different Claude models with meticulous instructions particularly caught my eye.
COVID-19 marked a massive shift in how America shops. E-commerce became the status quo, and its finger-tap convenience became habitual. Companies like Amazon and DoorDash, which were already thriving in the from-your-coach digital market, set the example for other companies Walmart, Target and Macy’s, all of which prioritized door-to-door delivery or in-store pickup options. As e-commerce took off, the actual mall-shopping experience died.
On May 17, at the seventh weekly Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, senators discussed a proposal pitched by general senator Isla Walker ’29 to fund free, environmentally-friendly laundry detergent manufactured by Generation Conscious, a New York-based startup.
During Green Key weekend, which ran from May 15 to 17 this year, the Hanover Police Department responded to 28 calls “associated with the event area and surrounding campus activity,” including 16 “intoxication-related incidents” as well as noise complaints, “property-related incidents,” “minor disturbances” and follow-up investigations, according to Hanover Police chief James Martin. No students were arrested.
On May 12, Yale University psychology professor and podcast host Laurie Santos discussed the “student mental health crisis,” the impacts of artificial intelligence on mental health and the policy applications of happiness science at an event hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
On May 6, the College rolled out a new online hostile intruder training module as part of broader campus safety and emergency preparedness efforts. The training is designed to provide students, faculty and staff with strategies for responding to emergencies, according to Dartmouth Safety and Security director Keiselim Montás.
It’s midnight on a Wednesday, and someone wants to play a game of pong. They enter a basement that reeks of sweat and musk, where brothers are cracking open and sipping the amber runoff from an infamous blue can.
Walking across the Green on an unusually sunny day during an otherwise bleak Hanover spring, you’ll see armies of students playing spikeball and hacky sack, kicking soccer balls and throwing footballs and sitting on blankets with friends. You’ll also notice clusters of students eating from Collis paper bowls with plastic utensils and cups — containers that, by the end of the afternoon, are stuffed into or stacked precariously on top of overflowing trash cans.
This past weekend, Dartmouth hosted its annual Green Key music festival, headlined by the band Grouplove. While the celebrations take place over just a few days, the weekend is the result of months of extensive planning by the Programming Board and campus organizations such as Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, which hosts its annual Block Party before the Programming Board’s mainstage concert.
In the days before they took the Green Key stage, members of the student band Avalanche kept a light atmosphere in the practice room as they riffed off of each other. Members threw out ideas for songs to cover, offered advice about each other’s technique and cracked jokes before starting up on their setlist. The pressure of opening for one of Dartmouth’s biggest events seemed not to be a burden.
In a January op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, College president Sian Leah Beilock argued that American higher education faces a “trust problem.” She wrote that colleges can be “too ideological” and students are often taught “what rather than how to think.” Her arguments are a response to a question faced by many elite universities across the country: What is, after all, the point of higher education?