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Charlie Kirk died in one of the most grotesque ways imaginable: a lone assassin’s bullet to his neck, fired before a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. The shooting, which was horrific and effectively ruled out any chance of survival, was filmed and viewed by millions on social media almost instantly.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
Re: Arts and Sciences faculty overwhelmingly vote in favor of creating School of Arts and Sciences
Re: Dartmouth’s community has mixed feelings about being the Ivy League’s ‘Switzerland’
Re: https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025/08/academic-boycotts-make-no-sense
Today, President Donald Trump and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine. Students of history may find the circumstance disquietingly similar to an event 87 years ago, but I am shocked by how few people seem to be talking about it.
Campus protests, opinion pieces and open letters continue to petition for boycotts of Israeli academics, as a means of pressuring Israel to end its war in Gaza. I argue that weakening academia anywhere, including Israel, is most likely to have consequences exactly opposite to petitioners’ stated or implied goals of helping Palestinian people in Gaza.
The other morning, I was enjoying a leisurely stroll to the gym. I was doing something dumb on my phone when suddenly, I was struck by a splash of cold water. I looked up, expecting an errant water balloon or an ephemeral summer shower. I was instead greeted by a cold, unfeeling black cylinder emerging mysteriously from the ground. I had once again become the victim of the panopticon of automated sprinklers, whose watering paths frequently fly carelessly in the face of major pedestrian thruways. This 10 a.m. shower is emblematic of something larger on our campus: a strange grass fetish.
Once you are enrolled in a college and have paid your fees for the term, you are more or less trapped. Aside from transferring or dropping out, you have little freedom to engage with alternatives beyond the college, and your money has no power to incentivize change within the institution. A college acts like a business in how it takes money, then acts as a communist state in how it delivers its services.
If you ever walk around Hanover on Friday afternoons, you’re probably well aware of the group of local Upper Valley residents that collect on the sidewalks at the four way intersection between Wheelock Street and Main Street. There’s usually about 30-40 of them, and they stand quietly with a variety of anti-Trump signs. For a podcast that I am making for a class, my groupmates and I visited last week’s protests and talked to the leader of the protests as well as a handful of participants. Dartmouth students urgently need to hear what they told us in an hour and a half of conversations.
The 40th anniversary all-class reunion of DGALA — the College’s LGBTQIA+ alumni association — at the end of July was my first time returning to Dartmouth since I graduated in 2015. One of the primary reasons that I wanted to attend this reunion was to advocate for increased support for student protesters and Dartmouth Divest for Palestine from DGALA. Like the other affiliated alumni associations, DGALA signed onto a joint letter sent to Dartmouth senior leadership on May 17, 2024 denouncing the College’s policing of student and community protesters, which was timely and needed.
In December 2024, Dartmouth joined the Kalaniyot program, a network of American and Israeli universities who partner together for two goals: to make American college campuses less hostile to Israel and deepen research ties. Once funding is secured, the Dartmouth program aims to offer post-doctoral fellowships, sabbatical funding and opportunities for collaborative research projects in the sciences between Dartmouth faculty and Israeli researchers.
I once agreed to eat lunch with a friend and he sent me a Google Calendar invite. I cancelled because of it. Since when does enjoying a meal follow the drumbeat of a business schedule? The answer is: since Dartmouth students have become so busy. Meetings, post-grad applications, clubs, homework, lab, drinking, scrolling TikTok — there is too much to do.
In yet another display of Dartmouth’s courageous commitment to fiscal discipline, the College opted to open up Sarner Underground as an air-conditioned sleep space to the student body this summer for a single week from July 15 to July 18. Though it is noble of them to provide such a space in this year’s sweltering weather, I am neither a member of ROTC nor a soldier on the front lines of the Great War, so I find these temporary accommodations less than preferable at a school endowed with more money than the Gross Domestic Product of Lichtenstein.
Summer weather in New Hampshire is pretty much perfect. With the exception of the recent heatwave, it’s sunny and just warm enough to jump in the river, but not too hot that you can’t sit outside for hours enjoying the greenery. The “Dartmouth bubble” is a well-known phenomenon, but in summer it seems to transform into a strong plastic shield. You can still look at everything going on in the world, but it seems almost impossible to touch — and it seems as though none of it can touch you. There’s a heavy miasma that coats everyone in a “we’ll handle it later” mentality. Yet at some point, this apathy becomes absurd in the face of our world.
Dartmouth needs a place reserved for an international member on the Board of Trustees. By international, I don’t mean a child of immigrants or a naturalized U.S. citizen. For the purposes of this article, I don’t mean anyone from the Anglo-Western world either. I am talking about people who have been through the daunting process of leaving their home country and crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries to seek an education in the States, but who choose to ultimately return to their countries of origin or settle away from the United States. This, I believe, is where a school like Dartmouth’s calling truly lies — not in contributing to global brain drain or fueling the American corporate machine, but instead creating a class of exceptional individuals who embody “a sense of responsibility for each other and for the broader world,” as outlined in the College’s mission statement. I believe that having an international Trustee is not only symbolically important, but also a strategic imperative to pursue these aims.