CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
CAMPUS
COLD SHOULDER
A month prior to Winter Carnival organizers decided to focus on events other than the creation of a snow sculpture on the Green, a tradition established in 1925.
HEADED TO BEANTOWN
The football team will play Brown at Boston’s Fenway Park in November. Dartmouth is 5-1 at the home of the Red Sox but hasn’t played there since 1944.
THE VOLE TRUTH
An animal rights group filed a federal complaint that charges the College with violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The victims: 13 voles that died in lab incidents last year. The group wants to see Dartmouth fined $10,000 per infraction.
QUEEN OF THE COURT
Former women’s hoops coach Chris Wielgus was honored in late January with the dedication of a lounge named for her at the team’s campus offices.
CLICK BAIT
On January 4 a phishing email using Phil Hanlon’s name was sent to several thousand campus in-boxes.
NIMBY
Citing concerns over size and aesthetics, Hanover’s planning board denied the College a permit for its proposed $17.5-million, 70,000-square-foot indoor practice facility. An appeal is under way.
TOP GEAR
The League of American Bicyclists has named Dartmouth a gold award winner as a “bicycle friendly university.”
SCREEN PLAY
Football coach Buddy Teevens and Dartmouth’s practice squad tackling dummy appeared in commercials about safe play during NFL playoff telecasts.
EARNING THEIR STRIPES
New striped uniforms greeted the men’s hockey team before a December game against the University of New Hampshire. Surprised players suited up and won the game, 5-1.
IN PRAISE OF PROTEST
Divest Dartmouth won the 2017 Student Organization Award as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards in January.
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
Ellie Smith, assistant to the VP of alumni relations, was honored for her 50 years at Dartmouth with a tree dedication near Blunt Alumni Center.
OBAMA DOES A CAPPELLA
Student performers from the Sing Dynasty staged a rousing rendition of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” at a White House holiday gathering.
ROCK SOLID
Augusta Terkildsen T9, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, spent part of her holiday break at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota protesting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.
HIT LIST
Women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor EngBeng Lim made Turning Point USA’s watchlist of professors “who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda.” Another Dartmouth professor called the list “pathetic.”
QUOTE/UNQUOTE
“When recruits visited, she was the one they wanted to emulate—they wanted to come to Dartmouth because they wanted to become like her.”
—Ellen O’Neil ’87 on former Big Green running coach Maribei Sanchez Souther ’96, who died of cancer in December
CLASS OF 2021
27.8
Percentage of earlydecision applicants admitted, drawing from 1,999 applicants, the largest pool ever
