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December 21, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Big Green Sibs

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Allison Wang / The Dartmouth Remember when you trolled websites like "College Prowler" and "Rate My Professor" the summer before freshman year, looking for advice about how to navigate the foreign waters of Dartmouth?



Opinion

Verbum Ultimum: A Missed Opportunity

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In the spring, increased visibility of harmful hazing at Dartmouth prompted the College administration to announce the creation of the Committee on Student Safety and Accountability, equally comprised of students, faculty and staff, to work toward decreasing the incidence of harmful initiation rituals performed by student organizations ("College forms safety committee," May 8). Despite Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson's strong rhetoric regarding the importance of an inclusive discourse on campus hazing practices and specifically the important role that this committee would play, the members of the committee of which she serves as co-chair have not met since the committee's initial meeting in the spring ("COSSA fails to meet since May," Oct.


Mirror

Blurring the Lines

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Most definitions of a sibling relationship are highly subjective. Some prefer to casually coexist like the acquaintances you wave to at the grocery store, while others swear by the deep-rooted blood ties that unite their souls.










News

COSSA fails to meet since May

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The Committee on Student Safety and Accountability, a 12-member advisory group created in May to formulate short and long-term solutions to address hazing, high-risk drinking and sexual assault, has neither met since its initial meeting in the spring nor reached out to the local and national partner organizations outlined in former College President Jim Yong Kim's March 22 and May 8 press releases, according to COSSA members. The committee, co-chaired by Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, consists of four students, four faculty members and three additional staff members, including Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne. Johnson said that the committee has not met since the spring because the new academic calendar has created scheduling conflicts among members.


News

Daily Debriefing

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Two delegates from the Peruvian Ministry of Health visited campus this week to promote the relationship between Dartmouth and Peru, according to a College press release.


Arts

Editor's Note

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Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Over the summer, Interim College President Carol Folt announced the Year of the Arts initiative, a project that coincides with the dedication of the College's new Arts District, with the opening of the Black Family Visual Arts Center and with the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center.


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‘Crouching Spider' sculpture weaves home outside of VAC

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Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College's newest sculpture "Crouching Spider" by Louise Bourgeois was unveiled at the heart of the newly constructed Maffei Arts Plaza in early October, advancing Dartmouth's Year of the Arts initiative through publicly displayed artwork.


News

Writing Institute grows with new professors, courses

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Having anticipated an enrollment increase with the elimination of an SAT-based exemption for Writing 5, the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric has seen a smooth transition facilitated by nine new sections of Writing 5 and the hiring of six new faculty members, according to Institute director Christiane Donahue.