The Men Behind the Buildings, Part II
Last time, we focused on the successful philanthropists whose names grace the fronts of the buildings of our main library complex. Today, we continue to…
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Thayer Team Wins NASA Challenge
In late April, a team of Dartmouth engineering students won the 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge for their design of a greenhouse intended to support…
A Profile on Dartmouth’s Hoda Barakat
Throughout the Spring term, Hoda Barakat, newly-crowned queen of Arabic literature, has been quietly holding court on the southeast end of campus. Barakat, acclaimed Lebanese…
On Dartmouth’s Debauchery
The irony of beginning this editorial with something like “When I think back to my freshman Green Key…” is that most people simply don’t remember…
Silence, Farmers, Yellow Pages, and more: The Men behind the Buildings of Dartmouth, part I
Those coming to Dartmouth soon pick up the lingo of campus— “FoCo,” “The River,” “FFB” (First Floor Baker), “4FB” (Fourth Floor Berry). Students are too…
SAE Renames as Scarlett Hall
For decades, the big Georgian house that frames Baker Library and College Street had borne the letters Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Following whirlwind years of bad…
Margaret Atwood Comes to Dartmouth
Acclaimed writer-turned-cultural-icon Margaret Atwood spoke to a brimming Spalding Auditorium on April the 18th as part of the 2019 Dorsett Fellowship Lecture Series—“Ethics Through the…
Tribal Citizenship: A Primer
I was recently struck by a conversation I had with a Dartmouth professor. When the subject of my favorite Presidential candidate came up, this professor,…
Representative Muscatel’s First 100 Days in Office
Although arbitrary, the first hundred days of a president’s first term in office is often thought to be a benchmark by which to measure that…
Elizabeth Warren and Racial Politics
Elizabeth Warren, 2020 Presidential Candidate, Massachusetts Senator and progressive firebrand du jour, entered a packed conference room at the Hanover Inn about an hour late….