CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

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CAMPUS

PAYING TRIBUTE

All Ivy football teams honored Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens '79 by donning “BT” helmet stickers this season.

WELL CONNECTED

Dartmouth landed on Town & Country’s list of the 15 best alumni networks. “It’s all about who you know,” wrote the editors.

BLEACHER REPORT

Approximately 2,000 students and parents attended a new welcome ceremony at Memorial Field in late August. President Sian Beilock presided.

THE UNION TEAM

Fifteen members of the men’s basketball team have filed for representation by the Service Employees International Union.

FREE FLAIR

A student-run thrift shop has opened in North Massachusetts Flail with help from the sustainability office.

PLEDGE

President Beilock met privately with Greek student leaders during the summer and committed to “maintaining Greek life as a critical part” of campus life, according to one attendee.

PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITY

President Beilock announced a new position in August: chief health and wellness officer. A national search is under way.

DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION

A vehicle crashed into a ground-floor window at Ripley Flail in late August. No injuries were reported.

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE SENIOR THESIS

Jack Duranceau ’23 used the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to discover two new planets outside our solar system.

TREKKING TO HANOVER

Actor-turned-activist George Takei will be on campus as a Montgomery fellow in the spring.

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FALSE ALARM

A state bomb squad spent several hours on September 1 dealing with cookware that had been left in the Dewey Field parking lot. No worries—it was a leftover from a nearby potluck dinner.

NAMING GYMNASTICS

Alumni Gym has a new name—Lewinstein Athletic Center—following a significant donation to the athletics department by Stephen Lewinstein ’63. West Gym has been renamed Alumni Gym.

HONOR ROLL

Physics prof Miles Blencowe won the annual Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching, as voted on by the class of 2023.

PEDAL PUSHERS

Wobbly Fridays have returned as students on bicycles gather every Friday afternoon for a bike ride through campus. “If you have a bike, you know what’s up, and if you don’t have a bike, you think all the cyclists are super irritating,” says rider Mahina Amoy ’25.

FORTUNE AND FAME

The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship has established a hall of fame for entrepreneurs. Shonda Rhimes ’91, Jim Coulter ’82, Steve Flafner ’91, and Keith Dunleavy ’91 are its inaugural inductees.

POETIC JUSTICE

What does Edgar Morales ’24 have in common with Sylvia Plath and Robert Pinsky? Each has been honored by the Academy of American Poets. The English major won the academy’s Most Promising Young Poet Award in September.

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

"We're protecting the Jack-O-Lantern’s rights to Keggy and maintaining the character for student expression, not personal profit.”

-Jack-O president Lily Arrom ’25 on sending a cease-and-desist warning to a website selling merchandise in violation of trademark rights to the unofficial Dartmouth mascot created by Nic Duquette ’04 and Chris Plehal ’04 in 2003