Verbum Ultimum: End Legacy Admissions

Legacy admissions is the status quo at Dartmouth. It needs to end. 

College obtains easement to treat contaminated groundwater at Rennie Farm

In an effort to expedite the ongoing cleanup of Rennie Farm, a site where the Dartmouth Medical School disposed of test animal carcasses in the 1960s and 1970s, the College has obtained an easement that will enable the College to treat contaminated groundwater on an 11-acre property abutting the existing treatment site.

College Scandal Culpability

Colleges need to stop fueling the admissions craze. 

Intro to UI/UX: Designing Beauty and the User-Experience

 This spring is the inaugural term for the class “Intro to UI/UX Design I” with professor Lorie Loeb. According to Loeb, the class, which is open exclusively to first- and second- year students, focuses on creating meaningful, accessible and beautiful interfaces for technology. The class, which requires no previous experiences, uses elements of human-centered design, graphic design and design with digital tools. As the first part in a two-class sequence, students are expected to take “Intro to UI/UX Design II” in the following summer, fall or winter terms in order to apply their skills in the DALI lab as a designer.  

Jones: The Good Kind of Nationalism

How we can emphasize what’s good about America to combat exclusion. 

Wealth in College Admissions

The bribery scandal highlights the unmerited role of wealth in college admissions.

CPD employer fair offered few public policy, social sciences options

On Tuesday, the Center for Professional Development hosted 55 companies, firms and organizations at its Employer Connections Fair in the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. The fair included representatives from the finance, consulting education and technology sectors; however, the fair offered comparatively few public policy or social science opportunities.

Subway or the Highway

  Public transportation facilitates immersion in a place.

Inventing Innovation in Silicon Valley

  It’s time we reconsider our definition of “disruption.”

Hasan Minhaj's 'Patriot Act' is breath is a breath of fresh air for comedy

Netflix has been a boon for stand-up comedians these past few years, offering an enormous platform for artists whose work would have been a little more difficult to find for our generation of instant streamers. I fell into the rabbit hole of stand-up around the same time I started my Netflix subscription, which means for a while, I hadn’t done much else but listen to the upteenth comedian give a self-deprecating monologue. 

Bridges: Title IX Engages Faculty

Wait, I Have an Accent? Exploring Dialects at Dartmouth

Helping Hands: Engineering a Better Cot for the Haven

Being at Dartmouth can be all-consuming, as we worry about our own responsiblities and futures. Even walking into Hanover doesn’t really bring a lot of variety; it’s a small, wealthy town with many of its buildings owned by Dartmouth.