CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

AROUND THE GREEN

TRIAL WRAPS

In January, a judge found Kevin Engel ’27 and Roan Wade ’25 guilty of one count each of misdemeanor criminal trespass for their protest on the Parkhurst lawn in October 2023. They were to be sentenced February 11.

THE BROLIGARCHS

Professor Brooke

Harrington recently appeared with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss a hot topic—oligarchies. She’s the author of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism.

DESPICABLE

A jury found Kyle Clampitt ’20 guilty of raping a first-year student on campus in 2022. He faces sentencing in April for convictions on 12 counts of aggravated felonious assault.

ALL TALK

Debate team members Ryan Lafferty ’26 and Madeleine Wu ’26 became the first Dartmouth duo to win the World Universities Debating Championship earlier this year. They are the first American team to win in seven years.

BUDDY’S LEGACY

Army’s football coach, Jeff Monken, was the first recipient of the new Buddy Teevens Award. The honor goes annually to a coach whose innovations improve the game.

HOLIDAY SPEAKER

Voting rights activist and Georgia politician Stacey Abrams delivered the keynote address at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in January.

CALL OF THE WILD

Former head of outdoor programs Earl Jette died in December at age 85. “In lieu of flowers, please plant a tree, climb a mountain, go for a ski, or just take a moment to enjoy nature,” his family requested in his obituary.

AT LONG LAST

This fall the Ivy football champion will compete in the NCAA Division 1 FCS playoffs for the first time after the league changed its outdated, 80-year-old policy that prohibited extra football.

COMING SOON

With 3,550 prospective students applying early for the class of 2029, the pool set yet another record.

PLAYING THE LONG GAME

Men’s basketball players have given up their two-year effort to unionize. For now.

OTHERS ARE NOT WAITING

Employees at the College’s child care center voted to unionize in December.

SPECIAL COLLECTOR

College archivist Peter Carini has retired after 20 years at Rauner Library.

CLEAN SHEET

For the fourth consecutive year, a skating rink opened on the Green in late January as temperatures remained mostly below freezing.

NEW EATS

Two restaurants have opened in Hanover, each with an international flavor: Casa Brava Tapas Bistro and Little Havana.

LEGEND OF THE GAME

The women’s hockey team honored Judy Parish Oberting ’91 during an alumni weekend in late January.

RIDING HIGH

The equestrian team started the spring season atop the Eastern College Athletic Conference following an undefeated fall season.

TRADITIONS

-2

Temperature when the call for winter’s first snowball fight went out January 19

EGADS

50

Percentage of deer ticks that Dartmouth researchers say carry Lyme disease

QUOTE/UNQUOTE “I generally believe in the progression of technology. When those gates opened for me, I felt like a Jedi. It was sick.” —Tyler Lucca '26, on using the new palm biometric scanners to enter the Class of 1953 Commons