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The Dartmouth
March 17, 2026
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College admits record-low percent to the Class of 2022

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1,925 students have been admitted to Dartmouth’s Class of 2022 from a pool of 22,033 applicants — the largest application pool in five years —representing a record-low admission rate of 8.7 percent. This is the College’s all-time lowest acceptance rate and is the lowest number of students accepted since the early 1990s.


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Hanover Police adopts new sexual violence reporting program

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The Hanover Police Department recently received certification for a nationally-recognized sexual violence reporting program called You Have Options, the seventh agency nationwide to do so. The You Have Options program is intended to empower victims of sexual assault by offering them a wide variety of choices for reporting their experiences and extensive control over the process, according to Hanover Police captain Mark Bodanza.




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Through The Looking Glass: Little House Life

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I don’t remember when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. I can picture the nine-volume paperback box set, each cover a different pastel gingham, sitting on the lower left of the downstairs bookcases as if it has always been there.





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Study suggests e-cigarettes are a net harm

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Despite e-cigarettes’s potential to help smokers quit smoking, a recent study suggests that they are more harmful than beneficial to the American population. The study, titled “Quantifying Population-Level Health Benefits and Harms of E-Cigarette Use in the United States,” was conducted by researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Geisel School of Medicine, as well as the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego; the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing; and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.



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Hocus Pocus! Missing dog found after three weeks

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While students stayed in the library or in their rooms at the end of last term, studying for final exams and waiting out the seemingly endless torrent of nor’easters, research grant manager Jean Blandin’s red-golden retriever puppy Hocus was missing, likely without food or shelter. Luckily, Hocus has since been found and is now safe and healthy, according to Hanover Police patrol officer Robert DePietro, who helped guide the dog home.





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Biron to step down as Dean of the College

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Interim provost David Kotz ’86 announced today that Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will be stepping down from her position and returning to full-time teaching and research at the end of the academic year, according to a College press release. Biron, who was hired in 2006 as a professor of Spanish and comparative literature, has served as Dean of the College for three years.