What’s up, DOC? Outing club adapts to COVID-19 restrictions
As Dartmouth students return to campus in the fall, many are looking forward to getting outside through the Dartmouth Outing Club.
As Dartmouth students return to campus in the fall, many are looking forward to getting outside through the Dartmouth Outing Club.
It’s week five, and you’ve just finished a midterm for a class that you thought was going to be a layup. No matter, it’s over, and you’re looking forward to catching up with a friend at Foco. As you take a warmcut through Newvack, you scoff at the line and keep heading through FFB, waving back at a particularly facetime-y friend as you pass. You grab a chair on the light side and shoot a text to your friend: “light side @now!! come thru.”
While some student workers have been able to adapt their on-campus jobs to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic, others have lost their work opportunities.
Dartmouth is known for its focus on undergraduates, a trait that allows students to get involved with research early in their Dartmouth careers.
Dear ’24s, Chances are, you didn’t imagine spending your freshman year online and in quarantine.
For many incoming LGBTQ+ students, their identity will add one more layer of disruption to a fall already full of unknowns.
Even in more normal times, Dartmouth students live a significant part of their college experience online.
Dartmouth students should take courses on social justice seriously, or not take them at all.
From grabbing late night snacks with floormates to having club dinners, dining is an integral part of many students’ Dartmouth experience.
I miss school. Let me clarify that — I miss the things that made Dartmouth some of the most formative and meaningful times of my life.
With over 40 departments and interdisciplinary programs, Dartmouth offers students the opportunity to explore a constellation of academic interests.
Widely seen as an attempted social alternative to Greek spaces, Dartmouth’s house community system sets out to connect students with each other through shared residential halls and social events.
As most professors plan fully remote classes for the upcoming fall term, economics professor Marjorie Rose is preparing to teach in person. In fact, her class, ECON 22, “Macroeconomics,” is the only economics class that will have in-person instruction this fall. Rose spoke with The Dartmouth about her thoughts on teaching on campus, as well as how she has spent her time during the pandemic.
It’s been well noted that incoming freshmen will experience an unconventional welcome fall term. The rest of us non-’24s will experience an unconventional welcome back as well, but, while ’21s, ’22s and ’23s have had the luxury of stumbling upon many of Dartmouth’s resources on campus serendipitously (or being handed them during orientation), ’24s likely won’t have that same opportunity.
Many Dartmouth traditions have been put on pause to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including those that used to define the social integration of freshmen.
OK, we’re just gonna say it — this is a little weird.
’24s should consider deviating from the standard Dartmouth track.
In a letter to the Board of Trustees on Aug. 25, 13 members of the swimming and diving team alleged that the College’s decision in July to cut five sports teams discriminated against Asian athletes. Signers of the letter, after conducting an informal survey of athletes at the College, claim that the program eliminations have reduced the number of Asian athletes at Dartmouth by nearly half.
Dartmouth men’s basketball star Chris Knight ’21 will miss the 2020-21 season after undergoing surgery on Aug. 4 for a ruptured left Achilles tendon, he announced on Twitter last week.