News

Tuck announces layoffs due to budget deficit

By Andrew Sasser | September 29, 2020

As the College continues to rid revenue losses, budget cuts and hits to various programs due to the financial fallout of COVID-19, the Tuck School of Business announced on Sept. 15 that it had laid off 18 staff members. Meanwhile, the Thayer School of Engineering has announced that it is not planning any layoffs, and other divisions at the College have not yet made final decisions about job reductions.

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Opinion

Allard: Mutually-Insured Destruction

By Sydney Allard | September 29, 2020

Insurance companies shouldn’t have to cover wildfire-prone regions in California.

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Sports

From the Bleachers: Can the Heat burst LeBron’s bubble?

By Baily Deeter | September 29, 2020

We might have expected to see the Los Angeles Lakers clash with the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals in 2011, when Kobe Bryant and LeBron James would have led their respective squads into battle. In 2020? Not so much.

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News

As case count remains low, COVID-19 dashboard monitors pandemic on campus

By Hannah Jinks | September 29, 2020

While Dartmouth’s reopening has so far gone smoothly with only six cumulative cases since July 1, the College has identified certain key benchmarks for when it may need to reevaluate its reopening plan. Since its debut ahead of students’ return to campus this fall, the COVID-19 reporting dashboard has allowed the Dartmouth community to follow relevant testing, quarantine and isolation data. 

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News

Terry Osborne remembered for sincerity, community engagement

By Lorraine Liu | September 28, 2020

A thoughtful teacher known for his welcoming presence and community-based, experiential courses, Terry Osborne inspired his students to connect with their local communities. Osborne, who served as a senior lecturer at the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and the environmental studies program, died of cancer on Sept. 7 at the age of 60.

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News

Student-created ‘Who’s Down’ app promotes relationships in the COVID-19 era

By Yilin Huo | September 28, 2020

Students looking for a way to stay in the loop about on-campus happenings have a new option for finding events. On Sept. 15, Arjun Bhatt ’20 and his team of Dartmouth students and alumni launched Who’s Down, a new app that aims to connect students safely with campus events during the pandemic.

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Arts

Fireside Chat with Trevor Noah explores intersection of art and social justice

By Veronica Winham | September 28, 2020

On Tuesday, late night talk show host and political satirist Trevor Noah joined over 1,800 Dartmouth students, faculty and staff for a discussion on issues ranging from COVID-19 to racial politics to social media.

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News

Jake Tapper ’91 discusses film adaptation of “The Outpost” at virtual Hop event

By Soleil Gaylord | September 28, 2020

On Sept. 24, the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ “Hop at Home'' series hosted Jake Tapper ’91 for a live chat session. Tapper, CNN’s chief Washington correspondent and host of “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” joined students and staff for a Q&A on the movie adaption of his New York Times bestseller, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.”

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Opinion

Colin: Go Greek?

By Sarah Colin | September 28, 2020

Dartmouth’s social scene would be less safe and more exclusive without Greek life.

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Arts

Review: Fleet Foxes’ 'Shore' offers reflection on changing times

By Jack Hargrove | September 28, 2020

With their self-titled 2008 debut, Fleet Foxes established themselves as an indie folk outfit with achingly sincere, pastoral lyrics and a penchant for vocal harmonies. And unlike many folk rock artists emerging out of the late 2000s, they have remained fresh, while managing not to make a major departure in style on any of the three albums they have released since their debut. 

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Opinion

Nicastro & Xiao: Violence Is Not Social Justice

By Jonathan Nicastro and Victoria Xiao | September 28, 2020

When violence becomes unrecognizable, justice becomes unattainable.

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News

Recycling in all residence halls temporarily suspended

By Savannah Eller | September 25, 2020

Quarantine and regular testing aren’t the only ways in which COVID-19 has disrupted campus operations. In an effort to reduce contamination, recycling has been suspended indefinitely in residence halls on campus, according to Facilities, Operations and Management associate vice president Frank Roberts. 

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News

Laundry machine card readers replaced by app, some frustrated by glitches

By Pierce Wilson | September 25, 2020

In an effort to streamline laundry services on campus, the College has phased out most old Dartmouth ID card readers in favor of a new mobile app that allows students to pay with a credit card rather than with DASH. However, some students have reported difficulties with the new system.

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News

Supreme Court scholar talks division at Rockefeller Center event

By Caitlin McCarthy | September 25, 2020

Over 200 people tuned in to watch the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy 2020 Constitution Day lecture given by legal journalist and scholar Linda Greenhouse on Wednesday night. The topic of the lecture — polarization and the Supreme Court — was a timely one in light of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recent death.

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Sports

Club sports operate under strict return-to-sport guidelines

By Ethan Strauss | September 25, 2020

As the academic year begins, every Dartmouth student faces a vastly different college experience, with performance groups, clubs and other extracurricular activities holding few in-person gatherings. For club sports, which rely on the physical presence and close contact of team members, transitioning to a remote format has proven especially difficult.

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Opinion

Verbum Ultimum: Vote Now

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | September 25, 2020

This is an election unlike any other — so plan to vote now.

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Sports

Ben Rice ’22 dominates summer league, secures MVP

By Benjamin Ashley | September 25, 2020

After a breakout summer in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, catcher Ben Rice ’22 earned Most Valuable Player honors and was named to the All-Futures-League First Team.

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News

Dartmouth encourages faculty to safeguard students as Chinese law targets free speech globally

By Kyle Mullins | September 24, 2020

Protests in Hong Kong may seem far away for most Dartmouth students, but the Chinese government’s response — a new national security law with worldwide implications — has brought concerns about censorship and surveillance to Dartmouth itself.

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Arts

Review: Yaa Gyasi's 'Transcendent Kingdom' illuminates the Black immigrant experience

By Mia Nelson | September 24, 2020

Yaa Gyasi’s follow-up to her American Book Award-winning 2016 debut “Homegoing” is “Transcendent Kingdom,” a novel alternating between past and present in the life of Gifty, a Ghanaian-American neuroscience Ph.D. candidate and former self-proclaimed “Jesus Freak.” Throughout the book, Gifty, who studies impulse control in mice, reexamines what led her to a life of empiricism after growing up in a deeply religious immigrant family in the Bible Belt. Grappling with Gifty’s experiences growing up “sticking out like a sore thumb” in her predominantly-white town and “as Ghanaian as apple pie,” the novel is both accessible and urgent. 

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News

Town hall aims to mobilize youth vote against Sununu

By Soleil Gaylord | September 24, 2020

With a number of highly contested races on the ballot this November, political hopefuls across New Hampshire have been vying to court the student vote. In a virtual town hall last week, NextGen New Hampshire, a political action committee that seeks to mobilize young voters to elect progressive candidates, made its pitch to students to support Democratic nominee for New Hampshire governor, state senator Dan Feltes (D-Concord). 

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