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June 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Pundits pick women's hockey to win Ivy and ECACHL

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Two Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) titles in the last five years; four NCAA Frozen Four appearance in a half decade; four former Olympians, including three from the gold-medal winning Canadian women's hockey team at the 2008 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy; two preseason All-League selections; the top-ranked team in the Ivy League and ECACHL preseason polls; and to top it all off, a No.


News

Dept. Editing Program to end in June

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Following months of collaboration with faculty and administrators, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt decided this July to put an end to the Departmental Editing Program by June 2007. The program, which in the last year has surfaced as a contentious topic of debate, provides an in-house writing editor to the art history, religion and mathematics departments. DEP's founder and financier, Joseph Asch '79, informed The Dartmouth of Folt's decision in late September, saying that he had been on a family vacation since receiving the letter with Folt's July 2006 decision.


Safety and Security officers along with other football game officials tackle a freshman as he attempts to
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Weekend proceeds with fifteen arrests

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Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Fifteen current students and alumni were arrested over Homecoming weekend, many of whom encountered the Hanover Police Department during one of Dartmouth's annual traditions. Nine of the arrests were alcohol -related, while the other six were described as disorderly conduct, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.


Sports

Equestrian nabs second

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Led by numerous strong individual performances, Dartmouth equestrian narrowly missed upsetting home team Vermont on Saturday, finishing only one point behind their regional rival.



News

Class of 2009 sent nine members 'rushing' for tradition

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Despite threats of three terms of probation, arrest by the Hanover police and a fine of up to $500, daring freshmen continue the Homecoming football game tradition of running down from the home stands, rushing across the football field and storming the opposing side's bleachers during halftime. Last year, at least nine members of the Class of 2009 rushed the football field. Of these students, four were arrested on site and five were subsequently implicated due to an affiliation with the Facebook groups "I Rushed the 2005 Homecoming Game" and "I Rushed the '05 Homecoming Game and Got Arrested." All of the students arrested were placed on disciplinary probation by the College for at least three terms, were required to meet with their Class Dean and were fined $100 by the College. According to College policy, a first violation can be permanently erased from their record as long as no further violations are incurred within one year after their arrest. In court, the students were further charged with criminal trespassing, a violation under New Hampshire law and some with resisting arrest, a class B misdemeanor.




Sports

Dartmouth Football to face Holy Cross Saturday afternoon

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Members of the Dartmouth Big Green Football team, invoking their 2006 motto "Bringing it Back," hope to defeat Holy Cross at the Homecoming game Saturday. Seniors on the team want their final Homecoming game to end with a victory. "Really, we just want a win," Joe Gibalski '07, a linebacker for Big Green, said. Football games, now a staple of Homecoming weekend at Dartmouth, once had a less prominent role.







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'The Gauntlet' hopes to replace field-rushing tradition

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This Homecoming weekend, the Dartmouth administration will again attempt to deter freshmen from rushing the field during halftime of the football game by offering alternative events. Sam Hopkins, the Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing and Promotions, explained that his department's plans for this year include hosting a lunch for students in the Alumni Gym on Friday afternoon, at which pizza will be served and Dartmouth football T-shirts will be distributed.




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Per usual, Safety and Security heightens security measures

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Perhaps it's the danger inherent in a thousand people, many of whom will be heavily inebriated, running around a 60-foot inferno, or maybe it's the inconvenience of a handful of them, also heavily inebriated, rushing the football field at halftime; whatever the reason, Safety and Security will be taking extra precautions this Homecoming weekend. A combination of Homecoming's bonfire, football game, influx of alumni and multitude of social gatherings involving alcohol account for the weekend's greater need for Safety and Security, College Proctor Harry Kinne said, whether the officers are needed for alcohol related-instances or a simple medical call. Because of this, Kinne stated that Safety and Security will increase the number of patrols on campus as well as the number of officers working throughout the weekend. "It's clearly one of our busier weekends of the year," Kinne said.


Opinion

Homecoming and the Bonfire

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The Italians have an expression, "ci metterei la mano sul fuoco," which means "I would put my hand on the fire." I'm told that people use it when they are 100 percent sure of something.