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Gap year numbers increase five-fold for Class of 2024
By: | 9/17/20 2:10amAlthough most students accepted into the Class of 2024 started their first term of classes on Monday, nearly 200 have opted to take gap years instead.
Although most students accepted into the Class of 2024 started their first term of classes on Monday, nearly 200 have opted to take gap years instead.
September 17, 2020 2:05am
The bustling campus to which students typically arrive at the beginning of fall term was noticeably absent this year.
September 17, 2020 2:00am
New students were welcomed to campus a little differently this year.
September 15, 2020 8:03pm
After a year-long battle with illness, environmental studies and Institute for Writing and Rhetoric professor Terry Osborne died on Sept. 7 at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care in Lebanon. He was 60.
September 15, 2020 9:12am
As the fall term begins, many students living both on and off campus have struggled to access belongings left in College storage. As they wait, some have been left without essential items like bedding and school supplies.
September 15, 2020 2:00am
Latif Nasser ’08 is the director of research at Radiolab, a Peabody Award- winning podcast and nationally syndicated radio program on predominantly science-related stories, with subjects ranging from snowflake photography to medieval robots. He is also the host of the new Netflix special, “Connected,” which explores the connections between seemingly distinct phenomena, and of the recent Radiolab miniseries “The Other Latif,” in which Nasser follows the drama-filled story of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay with whom he shares a name. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Nasser was president of the Displaced Theater Company, tutored at the Student Center for Research, Writing and Information Technology and was chosen by his graduating class to speak on Class Day.
September 14, 2020 3:30am
After Sept. 8’s New Hampshire state primary, government professor Russell Muirhead is one of four Democrats advancing to the general election for state representative. Former College Democrats president Riley Gordon ’22, who also ran, is not advancing.
September 12, 2020 5:22pm
Twenty-three students at the Tuck School of Business have been placed in quarantine after Dartmouth Safety and Security officers were called in to stop a social gathering on Sept. 4. Meanwhile, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity has been temporarily suspended following possible health violations in an incident at its house on Sept. 5.
September 11, 2020 3:08pm
As of Thursday evening, two asymptomatic undergraduate students have tested positive for COVID-19 and are receiving care in isolation on campus.
September 11, 2020 3:15am
As Dartmouth welcomes students back to campus amid an ongoing public health crisis, the College’s relationship with the nearby Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has become more important than ever.
September 11, 2020 3:10am
Even Dartmouth, tucked away in a rural New Hampshire town, couldn’t escape COVID-19.
September 11, 2020 3:05am
Amid the nation’s continued reckoning with anti-Black racism in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, Dartmouth has faced calls to examine the climate of its campus and prioritize racial justice.
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September 11, 2020 3:00am
On June 9, computer science Ph.D. student Maha Hasan Alshawi alleged in a Facebook post that she had been sexually harassed by her supervisor and unfairly failed on an exam by the department chair in retaliation for reporting the incident.
September 11, 2020 2:55am
Remote learning is bringing an additional dramatic change for the roughly two-thirds of eligible Dartmouth students who are members of a Greek organization.
September 11, 2020 2:50am
Twelve terms on. Three terms off. A summer in Hanover.
September 11, 2020 2:45am
Despite educational disruption and geographic displacement, both new and returning students will have the opportunity to vote in New Hampshire this year. The New Hampshire primary election took place Sept. 8 and will be followed by the general election on Nov. 3.
September 11, 2020 2:40am
Dean of the College Kathryn Lively has been the face of College communications to students about academic plans for the fall and other pandemic-related policies. She is known in part among students as the administrator whose campus emails have compared the flow of time to “cold maple syrup” and imparted the memorable words of wisdom “Kathryn … she is your experience.” Lively is also the administrator most connected to student life, meeting regularly with a number of student-run and student-oriented organizations. The Dartmouth sat down with Lively to discuss College policies for the fall, student communities and local wildlife.
September 11, 2020 2:35am
As Dartmouth students return to campus in the fall, many are looking forward to getting outside through the Dartmouth Outing Club.
September 11, 2020 2:30am
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.
September 11, 2020 2:25am
Dartmouth is known for its focus on undergraduates, a trait that allows students to get involved with research early in their Dartmouth careers.
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