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Hanover businesses, residents adapt to COVID-19 closures

By Savannah Eller | April 2, 2020

In the town of Hanover and the greater Upper Valley, the closing of Dartmouth’s campus is only one piece of a larger halt to normal activity. The threat of COVID-19 transmission has shuttered businesses, strained local medical resources and put local officials and community leaders on edge.

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Anonymous discussion app Librex provides platform for controversial comments

By Amber Bhutta | March 31, 2020

Librex — an anonymous discussion app founded by Yale junior Ryan Schiller — has provided the Dartmouth community a platform for both conversation and controversy.

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College admits 8.8 percent of applicants to Class of 2024

By Ioana Andrada Pantelimon | March 30, 2020

Dartmouth admitted 1,881 students to the Class of 2024 on Thursday with an 8.8 percent acceptance rate — the third-lowest in the College’s history. International students comprise a  record-high 14 percent of the accepted cohort, up from 12 percent for the Class of 2023.

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Guarini cancels summer off-campus programs

By Andrew Sasser | March 30, 2020

All Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education off-campus programs for the 2020 summer term have been canceled in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Guarini Institute executive director John Tansey announced in an email sent to affected students Saturday morning. 

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Dorm clearings continue as College prepares more self-quarantine sites

By Jacob Strier | March 27, 2020

Amid a string of residence hall closures, the Lodge has become the most recent dormitory to be cleared out and repurposed as a self-quarantine site for students.

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Students, faculty react to spring credit/no-credit grading system

By Kyle Mullins | March 24, 2020

In light of the College’s decision to implement a credit or no credit grading system for all spring undergraduate courses, many students have applauded the administration for a measure that they believe will make grading fairer for those faced with extra difficulties posed by remote classes. Meanwhile, a number of students have called for an option to opt out of the policy. 

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Credit or no-credit grading announced for all spring courses

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 23, 2020

All Dartmouth undergraduate courses will be graded on a credit or no-credit basis for the upcoming spring term, Provost Joseph Helble announced in an email to campus on Monday morning. Graduate courses will continue to use their regular grading systems. 

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Alumni trip to return home after Peru border closure leaves group stranded

By Andrew Sasser | March 21, 2020

After six days quarantined in a hotel in Lima, Peru amid a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, 19 Dartmouth alumni and parents will return to the United States Saturday morning.

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Hanlon, Helble hold virtual town hall to address COVID-19 concerns

By Pierce Wilson | March 19, 2020

College President Phil Hanlon and provost Joseph Helble held a virtual town hall on Wednesday afternoon to answer questions about the College’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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First Dartmouth undergraduate tests presumptive positive for COVID-19

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 18, 2020

A Dartmouth undergraduate student has tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed to The Dartmouth on Wednesday night. 

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Dartmouth to hold online classes for all of spring term

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 17, 2020

Students will not return to campus in May, provost Joseph Helble announced to the Dartmouth community in an email Tuesday afternoon. Both graduate and undergraduate classes will be conducted online for the entirety of spring term.

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College to convert Maxwell apartments to self-quarantine site

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 17, 2020

The College has begun clearing students’ belongings out of Maxwell Hall to provide a space for students who have remained on campus and may need to self-quarantine, according to an email sent by Dean of the College Kathryn Lively to winter residents of the building on Tuesday morning. 

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Dartmouth student tests presumptive positive for COVID-19

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 16, 2020

A Dartmouth graduate student living off-campus has tested “presumptive positive” for COVID-19, provost Joseph Helble announced in a campus-wide email on Monday night. This marks the first case of the novel coronavirus within the College community.

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Three students, professor awaiting COVID-19 test results

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 16, 2020

Three students living off-campus have been tested for the novel coronavirus, the College’s COVID-19 task force co-chairs Lisa Adams and Joshua Keniston announced in an email sent to campus this morning. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence told The Dartmouth that one of the students is an undergraduate, and two are graduate students.

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Dartmouth reviews interim housing applications, approves many initially denied

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 15, 2020

After days of uncertainty, Dartmouth has approved interim housing for many eligible low-income and international students, some of whose applications were initially denied. The College has mandated that all students — with few exceptions — vacate campus by March 16 as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Move to online classes presents new challenges for faculty, staff

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 13, 2020

Dartmouth’s move to remote learning has left both students and professors with questions about how spring classes will unfold. The College has kept open the possibility that students may return to campus in May, but provost Joseph Helble warned that students should not expect to return to campus this upcoming term.

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Dartmouth moves to online classes for first half of spring term

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 12, 2020

Dartmouth will be holding all classes in a remote format through May 1 due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, College President Phil Hanlon and provost Joseph Helble announced in an email to campus Thursday afternoon.

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Sports

Q&A with athletics director Harry Sheehy on spring sports cancellations

By Justin Kramer and Addison Dick | March 12, 2020

The Dartmouth sat down with athletics director Harry Sheehy Thursday morning for an extended interview about the Ivy League’s cancellation of spring sports and its ramifications.

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Tuck to move first two weeks of spring classes online

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 11, 2020

Tuck School of Business students will be required to take their classes online for the first two weeks of spring term, according to an email sent to campus by College provost Joseph Helble earlier this evening. Dartmouth will make an announcement by Monday as to whether it will take similar action for undergraduate classes.

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Ivy League cancels all spring varsity athletic events

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 11, 2020

In response to the growing coronavirus outbreak, the Ivy League announced this afternoon that all athletic practices and competitions for varsity spring sports through the end of the academic year will be canceled. Following that decision, Dartmouth decided that all practices, competitions and spring break travel for club sports will also be canceled for the spring term.  

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