CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS

2.25 M.P.H.

Twenty-seven teams signed up for this year’s 54-mile speed-hike from Mount Moosilauke to Hanover. Eight were chosen to start. Seven groups finished—in roughly 24 hours.

FROM GREEN TO RED

After three years in Hanover, women’s lacrosse coach Danielle Spencer has accepted the head coaching job at Stanford. Her team won a share of the Ivy crown last year.

ONLINE REVIVAL

Dartblog—a website written by Joe Asch 79 that was often critical of the College—is back in business. Asch died last year.

SMOKE SIGNALS

Now that Moosilauke Ravine Lodge staffers have figured out its complicated new fireplaces, visitors can cozy up to a fire. Venting and drafting problems had rendered the fireplaces inoperable prior to September.

BAD BOYS

Phi Delta Alpha will be on probation for two terms following its suspension during the summer. The punishment comes after the frat served hard alcohol to an underage student.

PAGING KANYE

Jackson Rich ’21 took top honors—and $500—in a book-making contest sponsored by the library’s book arts workshop. His handbound effort featured lyrics and images of rapper Kanye West.

ENERGIZED

A July forum on the proposed campus biomass plant featured a range of opinions, including opposition from several alumni who believe the project will increase carbon emissions.

RETURN ENGAGEMENTS

Former U.S. Treasury secretary Hank Paulson ’68 and author Louise Erdrich 76 will return to campus as Montgomery fellows in January and May, respectively.

BLESS ’EM

Hanover’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church offered a “Blessing of Backpacks and Laptops” on the morning of Sunday, September 15, just prior to the start of fall term.

COINCIDENCE?

More than a dozen U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents ran a checkpoint on Interstate 89 near Hanover in early September, one day before the College’s orientation program for international students.

OOPS

Remember Joe Biden’s mistaken recall of pinning a medal on a soldier in Afghanistan, later refuted by The Washington Post? The candidate uttered the gaffe at Dartmouth in August. “The details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making,” he said later.

A VAST, VIRTUAL TREASURE

Dartmouth libraries subscribe to 202,286 print and online publications at a cost of $9.8 million, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

NEW CREW

Kelly Harris has been named interim head coach of women’s rowing. Head coach Wendy Bordeau resigned in August after 14 years with the team.

THE NOBLE CLASS

William Dartmouth, a.k.a. William Legge, 10th earl of Dartmouth, visited campus in late September and met with President Phil Hanlon 77.

WORTHY DEEDS

ROTC cadet Sgt. Jhon Ortiz ’20 received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State in September.

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

“No single individual, here or elsewhere, is more important than another.”

-Dean of the Faculty Elizabeth Smith, addressing the class of2023 prior to the start of fall term

STATS

19.4

Percentage of students with disabilities in 2015-16, up from 10.9 percent in 2007-08