CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS

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AT LAST

The class of 2020 will finally celebrate its Commencement with a weekend of activities August 5-7, 2022.

KUDOS

Professor Peter Orner, director of the creative writing program, had a new short story published by The New Yorker. “Barbara, Detroit, 1966” ran in August.

PRANKED!

Somehow a mounted deer head found its way from Zeta Psi into a third-floor room at Bones Gate during the summer.

GONE TOO SOON

Engineering professor Stuart Trembly, Th’83, died in July following a stroke. He was 67.

BACKLASH

Some alumni, students, and faculty have called for the College to change the name of the Black Family Visual Arts Center, namesake of former trustee Leon Black ’78. The investor is embroiled in controversy regarding his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and faces a defamation and sexual harassment lawsuit from a former mistress.

TOP DOC

Duane Compton has been reappointed to another four-year term as dean of the Geisel School of Medicine.

WAITLISTED

Three of the most popular courses during Sophomore Summer were “Classical Mythology,” “Exploration of the Solar System,” and “Ecological Agriculture.”

CHRISTENED

The giant athletics building near the Boss Tennis Center has a new name: Graham Indoor Practice Facility.

FOOD SWIPES

Thieves continue to target takeout orders left near the entrance of Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine in Hanover.

GROUNDED

Climbing team members have expressed frustration at the continued closure of the climbing gym. The facility is expected to remain closed this fall as officials assess the need for renovations.

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Thayer School of Engineering nabbed $1.25 million in grants to study icy planets in our solar system.

FOR ART’S SAKE

The Hood Museum finally reopened on August 4.

FIT TO PRINT

Matthew Olzmann, a senior lecturer in the English department, had his poem, “Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope,” published in The New York Times in July. Olzmann is releasing a new collection of poems in 2022.

MUNCHIES

Dining services has expanded its offerings and hours. Some snack bar locations are now open until 2 a.m.

HIS AIM IS TRUE

Placekicker Connor Davis ’22 converted 49 consecutive extra points before missing one early this season.

FACING FACTS

Students didn’t care for the return of the College’s indoor-mask-wearing mandate prior to the start of the fall term. Professors, on the other hand, didn’t mind at all.

BACKGROUND CHECK

The class of 2024 had its photo taken—but not in front of Dartmouth Hall, which is under renovation. Students struck their pose instead on Baker lawn.

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

'Being a Dartmouth student is really difficult, period/5

-Scott Brown, interim dean of the College

CLASS OF 2025

1,229

Number of students in the class, the largest ever

PHILANTHROPY

$2.9

Amount, in billions, raised so far in the Call to Lead campaign