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Fall COVID-19 regulations keep campus case count low, but raise mental health concerns

Dartmouth’s mask requirements, weekly testing and restricted gatherings seem to have successfully staved off the virus this fall. Even as students returned to campus for the College’s first term of on-campus operations amid the pandemic, COVID-19 positivity rates remained below a tenth of a percent. However, some students and parents raised concerns that the regulations came at a cost to mental health, as gathering rules meant many students weathered the pandemic largely alone.

College faces projected $91 million loss in fiscal 2021

Despite the partial return of students to campus, the recovery of the financial markets and the prospect of widespread vaccinations, the College is, financially speaking, not out of the snowy New Hampshire woods. Dartmouth will face an estimated $91 million operating loss for fiscal year 2021 as it works to return to normal operations and begins planning for the long-term budgetary impacts of COVID-19.

Video footage reveals possible suspects in menorah vandalism investigation

As Hanover Police continue to investigate the vandalism of the menorah on the Green reported last Wednesday, the department has obtained a video that may show two perpetrators.

Callahan, Osmundsen & Phillips: Reestablish the Ombuds Office

The litany of complaints is well-known at this point: a lawsuit on behalf of sexual harassment victims in psychological and brain sciences department, an open letter from Black faculty, staff and students highlighting institutional racism at Dartmouth and a graduate student forced to resort to a hunger strike. Despite the College’s rhetoric, Dartmouth has not taken sufficient concrete steps to address harassment, discrimination and harmful power dynamics in its community. The College must establish an independent ombuds office to help mediate conflict and resolve disputes among faculty, staff and students.

ED applicants reflect on virtual admissions process

Newly admitted members of Dartmouth’s Class of 2025, many of whom had to get to know, apply to and interview with the College entirely remotely, faced unique challenges in what proved to be an especially competitive early decision admissions cycle. Out of a record-breaking 2,664 applicants, the College admitted 566 students on Thursday.

College condemns anti-Semitism after Dartmouth Green menorah vandalized

Updated Dec. 18, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

Dartmouth admits 566 early decision applicants from largest-ever pool

Updated Dec. 19, 10:23 p.m.

Geisel professor Alan Green remembered for dedication to family, passion for research

A prolific researcher and dedicated father and husband, Alan Ivan Green was known for his endless enthusiasm, innate curiosity, steady nature and kindness.

Q&A: Fed Challenge winners discuss historic win and COVID-19 economy

On Nov. 20, a team of Dartmouth students won the 17th annual national College Fed Challenge for the first time in the College’s 10 years of participation in the competition. The competition, which is organized by the Federal Reserve, takes place in two parts: a 15-minute scripted presentation in which students role-play as members of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee and provide a monetary policy recommendation, and a question and answer session about their recommendation in front of a panel of judges, who are members of the Fed.

Niko Lalos ’20 forces turnovers in first two NFL games, earns Giants contract

In four seasons with the Big Green, defensive end Niko Lalos ’20 recorded one interception and one fumble recovery. In the two games since the New York Giants elevated Lalos off their practice squad at the end of November, he has already matched those totals, forcing a pair of clutch turnovers in back-to-back weekends. 

Eighty-six students removed from campus fall term

Updated Dec. 11, 2020 at 4:56 p.m.

College to offer increased opportunities for in-person engagement this winter

Updated Dec. 11, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Winter term arrival dates delayed, quarantine period shortened

Arrival dates for students returning to campus in the winter have been postponed from Jan. 5 and 6 to Jan. 16 and 17, Provost Joseph Helble announced in a campus-wide email on Monday afternoon. The delay comes amid the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the Upper Valley and an anticipated post-holiday surge in transmission.

Community raises money for Lou’s waitress after cancer diagnosis

When longtime Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery waitress Becky Schneider was diagnosed with stage 3B lung cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes last month, the Dartmouth, Hanover and wider Upper Valley community quickly sprang to action. An online fundraiser started on Schneider’s behalf has raised over $50,000 for her living expenses as of Saturday.

Beau DuBray ’24 remembered for kindness, passion for outdoors

Those who knew Beau DuBray ’24 recall him as a kind friend, thoughtful classmate and lover of nature. 

Jake Sullivan, former Dartmouth teaching fellow, to serve as Biden’s national security adviser

President-elect Joe Biden announced on Monday that Jake Sullivan — a resident teaching fellow at Dartmouth from winter 2019 to spring 2020 — will serve as his national security adviser. At 44, Sullivan will be the youngest national security adviser in decades.

Geisel psychiatry professor Alan Green dies at home

Alan Green, former chair of the department of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine, died on Thursday. 

Video: Student Life During COVID-19

Student Life During COVID-19

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