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Dearest fine readers of Mirror,
As the Class of 2026’s graduation approaches, many are surely reckoning with those last few bucket list items that remain unchecked. Whether they hope to finally perform karaoke at Sawtooth, to tackle the Lou's challenge or to go to their first Friday afternoon class, time is running out. Careful planning is necessary to ensure a satisfying climax to the Dartmouth experience.
One of my favorite things about living in an off-campus apartment is that I have the option to cook and eat whenever I want. My roommates would probably make fun of me for saying this, given that I have cooked exactly one meal this year. However, if you count pouring my bottled iced coffee into a cup and sprinkling granola into my individual yogurt containers, then I have made many more meals than my roommates would give me credit for. I enjoy being able to walk to the kitchen in my pajamas in the morning and grab a cup of coffee and a yogurt to eat and drink leisurely as I get ready for the day. This routine emulates the sense of separation between home and school that I lost when I moved away for college.
Dear Freak of the Week,
This weekend, I finally decorated my room. I’d put it off for too long; only a knee injury and being trapped in my small corner of campus forced me to finally address my blank walls. I ended up perched on my bed, leg locked and crutches just within reach, trying to press photos into the corners of my walls. I used the wrong kind of tape, though, so the edges of my photos keep peeling up, stubborn and suspended in air. Every day, my half-stuck photos wait for me to get back from class, daring my hands to smooth them back down.
At the Dartmouth Student Government’s first weekly meeting of spring term, School House senator Oscar Rempe-Hiam ’29 solicited feedback on a statement he drafted urging Dartmouth to rename the Black Family Visual Arts Center. BVAC was funded by a $78 million donation from Leon Black ’73, who maintained a longstanding relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a personal project in which I try to draft a list of things that AI cannot replace with ease — a humanity conservation project, if you will. Of all the items on that rather short list, poetry both excites and worries me the most. In an age where poetry is consumed primarily through short-form content of nature with yellow serif font, and the average attention span of a college student is shorter than most printed poems, we are indeed in a heap of trouble. I was even more alarmed when I saw the latest installation at the Hopkins Center for the Arts: Being, a 30-foot-tall humanoid artificial intelligence that “represents a Griot — a West African storyteller, poet and oral historian,” according to the Hopkins Center’s website.
It is no secret that networking plays a critical role in obtaining a job, especially in one’s early career. 85% of today’s jobs are found through networking, and 70% of open positions aren’t even posted. The desire to have expansive social structures is practically baked into our DNA — we are hardwired to expand our social networks and collaborate, and we are more inclined to give positions to individuals we know and trust to be successful in certain roles.
Magistrate Judge Beth Jantz ’99, who sits for the Northern District of Illinois, called for a move away from an “incarceration model” in criminal justice and towards a “treatment and rehabilitation model” instead during an event hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy on April 2.
Fuel prices in New Hampshire are climbing as the Iran war continues to disrupt energy markets. The average price of a gallon of gasoline across New Hampshire was $3.92 on Monday, slightly below the national average of $4.11 — but both national and state prices are the highest they have been since August 2022.
Students in New Hampshire will no longer be able to show school-issued ID cards to obtain a ballot on election day, according to a new law passed last Friday. On April 3, Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed H.B. 323, which amends the state’s current voter ID law to require the presentation of a government-issued ID — a driver’s license, non-driver identification card, military ID or passport — at polling locations.
Cloud rap has always been a genre defined by its resistance to definition. Emerging in the late 2000s through trailblazing artists like Main Attrakionz and Lil B, cloud rap introduced a sound that felt hazy and psychedelic, often shaped more by mood than by design. Though frequently tied to the online music platform SoundCloud and the artists who rose through it — such as Yung Lean and Bladee — the “cloud” has never referred to the platform itself. Instead, it is the atmosphere that lingers in the music’s euphoria and detachment: essentially, the perfect high.
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” knows exactly what it is. Directed once again by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and produced by Illumination and Nintendo, the sequel had high expectations to meet. Its predecessor, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in 2023, remains the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.
Famously drawn on Dartmouth fraternity life, the raunchy, exaggerated depictions of Greek social scene and over the top humor in 1978 comedy “Animal House” still resonate with today’s college students. Author Jeff Nelligan explores the film’s cross-cultural bridge in his recently released short satirical book, “When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor: Animal House in Western Intellectual Thought,” a faux-academic study of “Animal House,” which was co-written by Dartmouth alumnus Chris Miller ’63. In the book, Nelligan frames the film as a cornerstone of the Western intellectual tradition, comparing it to classical works by authors like Homer and Shakespeare. In doing so, Nelligan playfully applies the language of high cultural theory to a film rooted in college chaos and irreverence.
After a one-year hiatus, the women of Dartmouth Ski Patrol brought back International Women’s Day at the Dartmouth Skiway on March 8 with a renewed focus on community, mentorship and access to the outdoors. Originally launched in 2024 as a celebration of women in skiing, the event has grown into a full-day experience featuring a Junior Girls Patrol Day, hands-on skill stations and community-wide festivities.
After a long winter filled with hard-fought battles and victories, Dartmouth men’s hockey capped off their 2025–2026 campaign with the first Eastern College Athletic Conference championship in school history, as well as its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1980. A huge X factor in the team’s success was second-year forward Hayden Stavroff ’28, who lit up the ice all season for the Big Green and proved to be among the best offensive powerhouses in all of college hockey.
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.
Several Grafton County towns — such as Enfield, Grafton, Lebanon and parts of Hanover — are experiencing severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Most of the rest of the county, including the remaining parts of Hanover, is still experiencing moderate drought, which began across wide swaths of New Hampshire in September.
Jennifer Hunt will be the next dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, according to a campus-wide email sent by College President Sian Leah Beilock and Provost Santiago Schnell on Thursday. Hunt will assume the role on Aug. 1 and will be the first female dean in the school’s history, according to the email from Beilock and Schnell.
In one of the first scenes of the documentary “Assembly,” multidisciplinary artist and co-director Rashaad Newsome prepares to deliver his father’s eulogy. He does not hide his anxiety. Newsome, who is a Black queer person from Louisiana, says he has “never felt truly protected in this country.” With a desire to create spaces of safety and belonging, Newsome decides to transform the Park Avenue Armory, a former military facility in New York City, into a futuristic ballroom house where LGBTQ+ people can thrive.