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Freak of The Week: Daddy Warbucks

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Freak of the Week: Back to the Future

I’ve been hooking up with someone repeatedly this term who I’ve hooked up with in the past. I enjoy hanging out casually, but I’m worried the other person is more invested than I am. I don’t see it going anywhere in the long run.  At what point should I stop seeing my former scheme?

Moyse: Do Your Readings

Class is in 20 minutes, and the syllabus says to read a 40-page research paper, a chapter of a book or some crazy long piece of text. There’s no way the reading is going to get done in time for class. Life got in the way. Maybe you look up a summary, maybe ChatGPT it, then just let others do the heavy lifting in the class discussion. Or, you try to get some participation credit and say something vague as you try to read your professor’s poker face while wondering whether they can tell you haven’t read it. 

Freak of the Week: Inter-Grade Relationships

This article is featured in the 2025 Commencement & Reunions special issue. 

Freak of the Week: Friendcest

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Moyse: The Deans Who Cried Wolf

When I read co-interim deans Ann Hudak and Eric Ramsey’s letter to the student body about the Parkhurst Hall sit-in, I had the same reaction that much of the student body did. The email described an unruly and chaotic scene in which members of Safety and Security and the president’s staff were injured and where property was damaged. I agreed with the interim deans’ conclusion at the end of the email – that escalation like the events of May 28 cannot be tolerated on our campus. What I didn’t know at the time was that the statement made by the deans was misleading, according to a letter from House professors to senior administrators recently obtained by The Dartmouth. 

Freak of the Week: HAGS!

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Freak of the Week: Dating App Dilemma

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Moyse: Mr. Di Martino, Be More Honest

Recently, I attended a Political Economy Project lecture by Daniel Di Martino, titled “The High Prices of Free Things: How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela.” The central thesis of the talk was basic: that state socialism, and this model of governance alone, is to blame for the poor social and economic conditions in Venezuela. I believe this assertion is fundamentally wrong. The speaker’s attempted use of the failed state of Venezuela to fearmonger against progressive movements in the United States was in bad faith and factually dishonest.

Freak of the Week: We’ll Always Have Paris

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Moyse: SWCD Must Focus its Message

Recently, the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth has been one of the most prominent activist groups on campus. From the encampment in front of Parkhurst last week to recent rallies on the Collis Patio, they have taken stances on contract negotiations and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Although I think that a combination of pressing social issues can often be powerful and effective tools to help raise awareness, there is a time and place for them. In the case of SWCD, the fusion of being pro-Palestinian and fighting for higher wages for dining workers  wrongly compares the struggle of Dartmouth students with those suffering in Gaza, intentionally or not. 

Freak of the Week: Last Loser, Last Chances

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Alsheikh and Moyse: Somewhere, On a Desk in Parkhurst

Ramsey Alsheikh ’26 and Eli Moyse ’27 imagine the desk of a messy College administrator. 

Moyse: Free Speech Policy Compels Dartmouth to Divest.

Exactly one year after May 1, our campus remains deeply divided. Although many of us probably wish we could put the memories of what happened on the Green that day out of our heads, doing this would be a disservice to our campus community and dishonest to our values as an institution. It is in this spirit of open discourse that I approach this column, with appreciation for the delicacy of the situation, but a deep desire for my voice to be heard regardless of the repercussions.

Freak of the Week

My D.C. off-term situationship (CLASSIC Dartmouth canon event) is graduating soon. I think he will be back in D.C. in June. I am also going to be in D.C. for a few days in June, and he told me to text him if I’m ever back in D.C. … should I text him if I’ll only be there for three days?

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How do I turn a situationship into a relationship?

Moyse: The Walkout

Moyse: DSG, Wake Up From the Nap Pod

The “Dartmouth Bubble” is real. Although it’s impossible to say what exactly causes it, I think geographic isolation and rigorous courses of study often prevent students from engaging with the world beyond our campus. Right now though, things are different. It feels like the world is coming to Dartmouth in a way that it almost never does, frantically waving its arms and begging us to notice. 

Moyse: Dartmouth Serves Wall Street, Not the World

It’s no secret that certain hiring pipelines dominate Dartmouth’s campus: according to the 2023 Cap and Gown Survey, an annual College-run evaluation of where graduates plan to work, 46% of Dartmouth graduates were working in either “finance” or “business and management consulting.” We’ve all felt it. Frantic chatter about “recruitment” swallows our campus whole, becoming an inescapable topic of conversation and a widespread aspect of identity on campus. 

Moyse: A Faustian Bargain