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(01/17/25 7:10am)
Extreme weather is on the rise across the United States, according to a Jan. 10 report by NASA. Last year was the hottest ever on record, and in the first weeks of 2025, environmental crises — such as the Southern California wildfires — have continued record-breaking trends. For many Dartmouth students, these crises thousands of miles away are in fact close to home.
(01/16/25 7:02pm)
The Lebanon District Court has found Kevin Engel ’27 and Roan Wade ’25 — two student protesters arrested in the fall of 2023 — guilty of one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass each. The two were arrested on the Parkhurst Hall lawn on Oct. 28, 2023, after setting up an encampment to protest Dartmouth’s investment in organizations “complicit with apartheid and its apparatuses,” among other aims listed in the Dartmouth New Deal.
(01/16/25 10:20am)
Dartmouth community members are mobilizing to bring Omar Rashid ’29, an incoming student from Gaza, to campus “as soon as possible,” according to a Change.org petition titled “Bring Omar to Dartmouth.” The petition was launched on Dec. 25, 2024 by three incoming members of the Class of 2029 — Rima Alsheikh ’29, Lila Li ’29 and Trace Ribble ’29 — and has amassed more than 33,400 signatures.
(01/14/25 10:15am)
On Dec. 24, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law, requiring higher education institutions to disclose reports of hazing in their annual Clery Reports on campus crime. Additionally, the bill requires higher education institutions to develop a “prevention program on hazing.”
(01/13/25 10:00am)
On Jan. 9, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., was officially sworn in as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire. Ayotte — who defeated former Democratic Manchester, N.H., mayor Joyce Craig in the gubernatorial election last November — succeeds Gov. Chris Sununu, who spent four terms in office.
(01/09/25 10:05am)
Beginning this term, students can enter the Class of 1953 Commons using palm biometric recognition technology. In addition to the new system — which consists of three gates at the dining hall’s entrance — students can choose to swipe in with their physical ID cards at one remaining swiping station.
(01/03/25 12:18am)
On Tuesday, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team — which was represented by the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 — withdrew its petition to unionize. On March 5, 2024, players on the men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to join the SEIU Local 560, becoming the first successful student-athlete unionization in the nation.
(12/16/24 11:20pm)
On Dec. 13, the College extended its first offers of admission to the Class of 2029, drawing from a pool of 3,550 early decision applications — Dartmouth’s sixth “early record pool” since 2017, Dartmouth News announced today.
(12/04/24 9:46pm)
The Hanover Police Department has issued arrest warrants for three suspects following a report of fraternity hazing, the Department announced in a press release today.
(11/23/24 12:53am)
The Hanover Police department has filed charges against Alpha Phi sorority and two members of Beta Alpha Omega fraternity in connection with the death of Won Jang ’26. Jang was found dead in the Connecticut River on July 7 following a social event with APhi and Beta.
(11/19/24 10:15am)
The Steering Committee of the General Faculty — a College administrative group that manages general faculty meetings and agendas — will release a recommendatory report with “more concrete guidance” for statements written by centers, departments, institutes and programs at the beginning of the winter term, according to Provost David Kotz. Kotz tasked the committee with reviewing the procedures of department statements over the summer, he added.
(11/18/24 10:00am)
In September, fourth-year mathematics Ph.D student Benjamin Logsdon filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers — the College’s graduate student workers union. Logsdon alleged that the union discriminated against him by failing to accommodate his request to be removed from the bargaining unit based on his religious beliefs.
(11/14/24 10:00am)
On Nov. 11, the Dickey Center for International Understanding hosted an event titled “Continuing Service: Navigating Leadership and Mission after Military Service” in honor of Veterans Day. The event — held in Haldeman Hall and attended by approximately 30 community members — featured a panel of four members of the military community at Dartmouth, who spoke about their experiences in military leadership roles and their transitions from military service to civilian life.
(11/13/24 7:04pm)
On Nov. 8, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to create a new school of Arts and Sciences, College President Sian Leah Beilock wrote in a campus-wide email on Wednesday afternoon. Beilock previously recommended The Future of Arts and Sciences Project to the Board after the project passed an Oct. 30 advisory vote among the faculty of Arts and Sciences.
(11/12/24 10:05am)
From Sept. 30 to Nov. 1, the Native American Program hosted a series of events to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Month. Nationally, Indigenous Peoples’ Month is celebrated throughout November.
(11/11/24 10:00am)
On Nov. 8, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy hosted a post-election panel called “What Just Happened?” featuring government professors Jason Barabas, Jennifer Lind, Anna Mahoney and Brendan Nyhan and moderated by senior vice president for communications Justin Anderson. The panelists discussed the implications of the 2024 election results before fielding questions from the audience.
(11/08/24 10:20am)
At 5:35 a.m. on Nov. 6, The Associated Press called the 2024 presidential election for former President Donald Trump — marking the first time in 20 years a Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote. The result came as a shock to some Dartmouth students — a majority of whom expressed plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
(11/05/24 10:21pm)
Election Day 2024 has arrived, as millions of Americans prepare to head to the polls and cast their ballots in Hanover and around the nation.
(11/04/24 10:00am)
Elections are a busy time at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Dvora Greenberg Koelling knows the process well. In the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, Greenberg Koelling — who serves as public programs and special events assistant director — has been helping to coordinate the public programming for the 2024 Election Speaker Series. The series, in partnership with GOVT 30.17/PBPL 24, “The 2024 Election,” has brought national political figures, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., to campus this fall. The Dartmouth sat down with Greenberg Koelling to discuss her career, work at the Rockefeller Center and the rollout of the speaker series thus far.
(11/02/24 12:50am)
On Friday morning, the Hanover Fire Department responded to a fire on the eighth floor of the Remsen Medical Science Building, according to Hanover fire chief Michael Gilbert.