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(04/17/25 8:05am)
The Ph.D. was once one route among many for the life of the mind — now it is the route. A multiplicity of intellectual paths have over time flattened into one, and that path leads straight through graduate school. But the professionalized academic is not necessarily the best teacher. Here at Dartmouth, we must change our Society of Fellows to align with more diverse intellectual paths. The Society of Fellows should cease to be a postdoctoral program and instead look for a diversity of intellectual backgrounds.
(04/15/25 8:15am)
Omar Rashid ’29 lives in Gaza – you can read more about his story from his incoming classmates or through his Instagram. He has risked his life to apply to Dartmouth, and his dream of being accepted came true in December. Yet without help, he may never arrive. Israel has broken the ceasefire, and Gaza has been sealed off from the world. No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for over a month, and the Israelis allow virtually no one to leave.
(04/15/25 8:10am)
Students came back from spring break to massive dining changes. Late Night was devoid of practically all snacks and favorite meals, and the Courtyard Cafe had digital ordering kiosks instead of dining workers checking out students. According to a survey conducted by Dartmouth Student Government, 94% of student respondents were dissatisfied or strongly dissatisfied with the changes to Late Night dining.
(04/11/25 8:00am)
Re: Kluger: Don’t Wish Ill on Raymer
(04/11/25 12:14pm)
This week, two Dartmouth students abruptly had their visa statuses revoked. Nearly every other Ivy League school has had funding rescinded or suspended for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s demands.
(04/10/25 8:25am)
Since College President Sian Leah Beilock began her tenure at Dartmouth, the official college policy on almost every issue of importance has been one of neutrality. This so-called “institutional restraint” ostensibly serves to foster an open community where all can be heard and respected alongside attempting to keep the college clear of the scrutiny — and funding reductions — that our peer institutions, such as Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, have faced.
(04/10/25 8:10am)
“Radical,” “foreign,” “pro-Hamas,” “pro-terrorist,” “anti-Semitic,” “anti-American” — these are all words President Donald Trump has used to describe Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University. Because he led student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, the Trump administration is now trying to deport him for his activism. According to his narrative, he is one of the many subversive, foreign-aligned radicals — many of them “paid agitators,” to use his language — working to overrun American college campuses and to undermine our national security; they must be deported if they are foreign or punished if they are domestic. Sound familiar?
(04/08/25 8:20am)
If someone asked me to name one thing that unifies students at Dartmouth, it would be the contempt we hold for our dining services. Even before we got our Class of ’53 Commons hand-scanners and Courtyard Cafe kiosks, Dartmouth Dining under director Jon Plodzik was mismanaged, causing inconvenience at best and food insecurity at worst. The automation and dehumanization of our dining system was the final straw: Plodzik ought to resign from his position.
(04/08/25 8:05am)
Our campus and country have been taken by a storm of terrifying news articles, ICE videos that look like muggings and fearful uncertainty. International students and professors have been detained for their political views. On April 7, The Dartmouth reported that two Dartmouth students lost their visas with no apparent rationale.
(04/04/25 8:10am)
Matthew Raymer ’03 was recently hired as the College’s next general counsel and senior vice president. He “will oversee the Office of Visa and Immigration Services and serve on College President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership team,” as The Dartmouth reported earlier this month. Most significantly, Raymer is a Republican, and as anyone with a pair of eyes knows, to be a Republican staff member at Dartmouth College is to commit a grave sin.
(04/04/25 8:05am)
During spring break, College President Sian Leah Beilock and the Dartmouth administration announced that the College has hired Matt Raymer ’03 as Dartmouth’s senior vice president and general counsel. I argue that Raymer’s employment at Dartmouth represents a spineless acquiescence to President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic attitude and anti-free speech attacks on higher education. His presence on campus will actively threaten students’ free speech, and he ought to be terminated immediately.
(04/03/25 6:05am)
Re: Courtyard Cafe temporarily closed for installation of self-order kiosks
(04/01/25 8:00am)
Dear American universities,
(03/07/25 9:00am)
The climate crisis has arrived. From wildfires incinerating neighborhoods in Los Angeles, to Hurricane Helene’s devastation of the Southeast, to floods displacing Vermonters near Dartmouth’s campus, extreme weather events are harming communities across the country.
(03/06/25 9:00am)
In the wake of the landmark 2023 Supreme Court Case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, which declared the explicit use of race in college admissions unconstitutional, elite colleges like Dartmouth have sought to show that they base their admissions decisions on diversity of experience, rather than identity checkboxes. Perhaps no admitted student group better offers this desired experiential diversity than student veterans.
(03/04/25 9:00am)
The Washington Post’s opinion section has long been a hub of diverse thought, featuring voices ranging from staunch conservatives like George Will to progressive columnists like Katrina Vanden Heuvel. It has provided a platform for foreign policy hawks and anti-interventionists alike, for free-market champions and economic populists, for establishment figures and radical critics of power. Last week, Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos pulled off one of the most grotesque threats to American media in recent history.
(02/28/25 9:00am)
As of June of 2023, race-based affirmative action is no longer permissible, and even when it was practiced, it failed to achieve its goals. When former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell authored his 1978 opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke — which determined whether affirmative action violated the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment — he justified race-based admissions as a means to achieve diversity that fosters a “robust exchange of ideas.” The deference that universities were granted when selecting their incoming classes was thus carefully predicated on achieving the educational benefits that flow from “viewpoint diversity,” a point that is almost entirely overlooked in the modern discourse surrounding this issue.
(02/27/25 2:30pm)
In my sophomore year at Dartmouth, I auditioned for the Dog Day Players — a highly competitive campus improv group. At least 100 people showed up to the initial audition. We were packed into a lecture hall, way over capacity. We filled every seat, poured out onto the staircase and lined the walls. It was loud and boisterous. People puffed their chests, deepened their voices and exuded extroverted confidence. I knew I had to make a strong impression. Despite having no prior experience, I managed to make the room roar with laughter and was selected, among a few others, for a second round.
(02/25/25 9:00am)
On Feb. 19, Dartmouth Divest for Palestine — a coalition of Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and alumni — submitted a formal proposal for Dartmouth’s divestment from “companies complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.” DD4P delivered its filing to the College’s Board of Trustees, College President Sian Leah Beilock and the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility — the administrative body tasked with reviewing investment-related proxy resolutions relating to important social issues. Endorsed by over 25 organizations across campus, the 55-page proposal meticulously lays out a myriad of specific human rights and international law violations — most notably genocide, apartheid and the ongoing illegal occupation and Israeli settlement of Palestinian land — that must trigger Dartmouth’s responsibility to take action. Namely, the proposal recommends prohibiting any investment in corporations complicit to these violations.
(02/21/25 9:10am)
How many of you have walked home at 2 a.m. in freezing weather? Missed the last bus to Summit on Juniper and found yourself without a place to sleep? Woken up with the flu or some other mystery illness and needed a ride to Dick’s House — yet opting, without a car, to trek 15 minutes through the snow with tissues and cough drops falling from your pockets?
