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(08/09/24 9:10am)
On July 24, Dartmouth announced that it had joined the Small Town and Rural Students College Network, a group of 32 universities committed to supporting applicants from rural areas. The College is among 16 universities to join the network this year.
(08/09/24 5:05am)
On July 29, former varsity golf player Katherine Sung ’24 was named an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. The award, which was created in 1991, recognizes excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership of graduating student athletes, according to Dartmouth Sports. Originally from Palo Alto, Calif., Sung majored in economics modified with mathematics and minored in English during her time on campus. During her final season, Sung — a two-time All-Ivy League First Team honoree — captained the Big Green to its first ever Ivy League Championship. The Dartmouth sat down with Sung to discuss the award, her golf career and her post-Dartmouth golf plans.
(08/09/24 6:11am)
The Parish Players did an excellent job with Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child,” a strange play about masculinity, family and a forgotten America. I saw the play in Thetford, Vt., on Aug. 3 and was struck by the quality of the acting and the poetry of Shepard’s writing.
(08/02/24 9:00am)
On July 19, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed two anti-trans bills into law. The two bills, H.B. 619 and H.B. 1205, restrict access to gender-affirming care and limit sports participation for transgender athletes, respectively.
(07/26/24 6:00am)
Long summer afternoons are meant for quiet reading. The six books below will transport you from bustling contemporary Kolkata to the woods of 17th century New England. Whether you’re a true bookworm or just looking to fill the summer days, we hope you will give these picks a read.
(07/26/24 5:00am)
Varsity golf player Sophie Thai ’26 will compete in the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship — an elite national tournament— in Tulsa, Okla., in August. Thai, who has been playing in golf tournaments since she was nine years old, was recruited to Dartmouth from Los Altos High School. After two years on the Dartmouth team, she earned the Championship seat at a qualifying competition in Newton, Mass., on July 16. The Dartmouth sat down with Thai to discuss her recent qualification, playing golf at Dartmouth and how she’s gearing up for the competition.
(07/19/24 9:00am)
On July 1, English professor and Writing Program director James Dobson was named special advisor to the Provost for artificial intelligence. The digital humanities expert — whose knowledge spans both STEM fields and the humanities and social sciences — will advise Provost David Kotz throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. The Dartmouth sat down with Dobson to discuss his background, his vision for artificial intelligence at the College and his responsibilities within his new position.
(07/19/24 6:00am)
Glover, Vt., is lovely at this time of year.
(07/12/24 5:05am)
A mystery of identity, family and a river keep the reader rapt throughout Morgan Talty ’16’s debut novel, “Fire Exit.”
(06/28/24 9:10am)
One warm day this April, Kexin Cai GR and her partner Kristian Droste decided to drive up to Mont Tremblant in Canada to catch the last day of spring skiing on the mountain. They shed their coats on the chair lift and skied down in puddles, Droste said.
(05/21/24 5:23am)
Kexin Cai GR died at age 26, Dean of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Jon Kull wrote in an email to campus. The Lebanon Police Department and New Hampshire Fish and Game found Cai — who was reported missing on May 17 — dead Monday afternoon “after an extensive search,” according to Kull.
(05/01/24 12:33am)
Last night, Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers, the College’s graduate student workers’ union, voted to strike, according to a campus-wide email from College Provost David Kotz. The strike will take effect tomorrow.
(04/02/24 10:55pm)
Graffiti was discovered on the Sphinx building — known colloquially as “the Tomb,” according to past reporting by The Dartmouth — today. The all-male group, located on East Wheelock Street, is Dartmouth’s oldest senior society. The Dartmouth has not yet confirmed the perpetrators nor the date of the incident.
(04/02/24 9:15am)
Nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center are organizing to unionize, according to Service Employees International Union, Local 560 president Chris Peck. If organized, the union would negotiate for job security, healthcare and higher wages.
(04/01/24 9:00am)
For the first time since 2008, the Dartmouth Mock Trial team will compete in the national championship, program captain Kavya Nivarthy ’25 said. The national championship will take place at the University of Chicago on the weekend of April 19, according to the American Mock Trial Association website.
(03/29/24 2:46am)
This evening, Dartmouth accepted 1,005 members to the Class of 2028 through regular decision admissions. In total, the College drew from 31,657 applications — the largest applicant pool in the College’s history, Dartmouth News reported. Nearly 20% of admits qualify to attend without a parent tuition contribution, following a historic $150 million bequest last week dedicated to support scholarships.
(10/28/23 2:00pm)
Updated (Nov. 16, 10:30 p.m.): Parts of this article have been re-formatted for clarity.
(09/15/23 9:05am)
Gordon Wright exemplified the women’s rugby team’s core value of “extrospection” — defined as the examination or observation of what is outside oneself — according to Abbey Savin ’24. Savin said Wright’s ability to encourage “mutual investment in each other” made him a pillar of the Dartmouth community and a crucial support system to the team.
(09/13/23 6:25am)
On June 16, I departed for my study abroad program — the LSA in Santander, Spain — with Dartmouth. When I left, my sister sent me an article in The New Yorker called “The Case Against Travel” by Agnes Callard. It describes time abroad as a manner of “obscuring from view the certainty of annihilation” and tricking oneself into believing we are growing. After reading this piece — which describes travel as “preparation for death” — I was suddenly self-conscious. I hugged my parents goodbye and boarded the plane for Madrid.
(08/30/23 9:20am)
This article is featured in the 2023 Freshman special issue.