2017

Right vs. Left on Climate Change

This fall, Dartmouth College Republicans, along with the Dartmouth College Democrats, have planned and launched a series of bi-weekly dinner discussions centered on a variety…


Dartmouth Football: Midseason Update

Dartmouth football has started its 136th season in quite an impressive fashion. Five games in, the Big Green are 5-0 but have won four out…


Protests at Homecoming Bonfire

A defining element of the Dartmouth College experience are the rites of passage and traditions students experience throughout their time on campus. Each year hundreds…



Provost Dever Steps Down

On Tuesday, October 10, President Hanlon wrote to the Dartmouth College community to announce that Provost Carolyn Dever will leave her post at the end…


Thoughts in Autumn

Once again I quote the great T.S. Eliot, this time from a different part of his “Four Quartets,” entitled “East Coker:” Home is where one…


A Warm Welcome

In his 1974 poem “The Life with a Hole in It,” one of my personal favorite poets, Britain’s other Poet Laureate Philip Larkin, wrote: Life…


A Tragedy of Common Rooms

Three students sent in letters upon catching wind of rumblings that the College is interested in expanding its student body:     My name is…


Betsy DeVos and Title IX Changes

On September 22, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made good on her claims that her department would investigate the Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault. In…


DeVos and Title IX

On September 7th, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that her department will be reevaluating federal campus sexual assault guidance brought about during the Obama administration….