Substance abuse and the Big Green
Alcohol and substance use at the College forms part of a wider nationwide dialogue about high-risk behavior on college campuses.
Alcohol and substance use at the College forms part of a wider nationwide dialogue about high-risk behavior on college campuses.
This year, the College’s art history department will undertake a widespread effort to promote experiential learning and shift away from lecture-format classes, according to art history department chair Allen Hockley.
Don’t let Dartmouth’s culture define who you are.
Let’s consider how sports shape our view of body image.
Dartmouth activists must think beyond their four years here.
When the typical Dartmouth student thinks about the importance of athleticism in Dartmouth’s history, they may focus on annual traditions such as running around the Homecoming bonfire, diving into Occom Pond for the Polar Bear Plunge or hiking The Fifty.
Think Dartmouth: a school in a picturesque college town, charming but remote. A quintessential college campus, with a clock tower, a college green and a set of neatly matched, colonial-style academic buildings.
At the beginning of her sophomore summer, Angelina Lionetta ’18 was worried about one of her upcoming classes.
Freshman year is a time for many adventures, but above all, it is a time of learning. For some students, living at college is the first time they’ll be away from home.
When College President Phil Hanlon first arrived at the College in 1974, it was his first brush with what would become a life in academic learning and institutional improvement.
Many students have become blasé to the “hookup culture” on college campuses. For Dartmouth, the phrase falls into the same categories of “Greek life” and “drinking culture” — things students don’t seem to question after a couple weeks on campus.
It’s 5:30 p.m. on an especially warm spring night. Sunlight’s last rays cast across Mink Brook.
The arrival of spring and the many students returning from (purposefully timed) winter off terms jolts the College on the Hill awake.
For many Dartmouth students, a drive to learn seems to come naturally; students are constantly engaged in a rigorous 10 week-term of three — or four — highly focused courses and several extracurricular activities. However, once we try to trace back the intellectual motivation that fuels this constant “grind,” we might not always be sure why we do what we do.
This is the new story of Dartmouth. It is written between night shifts at Novack and pong games on Webster Avenue, between the time spent stressing about academics and the countless hours worrying about relationships, between the final hole of the Hanover Country Club and a seat in the financial aid office.
Legendary college basketball coach Bob Knight once said, “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing.