CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

AROUND THE GREEN

PAPERS, PLEASE Uncertainty about immigration policy, enforcement, and travel has international students, faculty, and staff on edge. In mid-March the College issued travel guidance, including details on what to do if approached on campus by ICE or other law enforcement.

INVENTIVE SPIRIT

Dartmouth again made the National Academy of Inventors’ Top 100 list of universities worldwide granted U.S. patents last year. It ranked 75th with 52 patents issued.

ON THE BALL

Led by head coach David McLaughlin, the men’s basketball coaching staff was named 2024-25 Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year. The team clinched its first winning record since 1998-99 and first Ivy Madness appearance.

SCHUSS!

Twelve skiers qualified for the NCAA ski championships, and Luke Allan ’25, Benny Brown ’27, Jasmine Drolet ’25, John Steel Hagenbuch ’25, Ava Thurston’ 26, Oscar Zimmer ’26, and Zoe Zimmermann ’25 earned First-Team All-American honors.

PROFS HONORED Neuroscientist Luke Chang and climate scientist Helene Seroussi each earned a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

LAWYERING UP

Matt Raymer ’03 took office as the College’s senior VP and general counsel. He was most recently chief counsel at the Republican National Committee.

REPORT CARD

The College topped the Ivies with a B, up from a C, in the Anti-Defamation League’s latest report card on how U.S. colleges combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students.

THE DATING GAME

In a student poll on dating culture, The D found 55 percent had received or sent a “flitz,”a flirty email. Also, 55 percent identified as single, 32 percent were in a serious relationship, and 6 percent reported it was “complicated.”

CHAMPS

Men’s hockey earned its first sole Ivy League title since 1979-80 with a 5-1 win over Yale in March to close out the regular season.

GATHERING WOOL

A fiber-art knitting bee meets once a month at the Hood Museum.

IN THE CLASSROOM

This winter President Beilock—with profs Paul Christesen ’88 and Doug Van Citters ’99, Th’03 Th’06, and athletics director Mike Harrity—taught an interdisciplinary course on college athletes in the 21st century.

FIRST 100 DAYS

In April the Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth Dialogues, and student groups launched a wideranging series of talks on the start of President Trump’s second term, with speakers from across the political spectrum.

DORM DISRUPTIONS Residents of Hitchcock Hall and Wheeler Hall were required to attend meetings—or face a $100 fine—to address recurring issues related to cleanliness and noise.

FRENCH CONNECTION

As part of “Monet: Reimagining the French Landscape,” which runs until September 28, the Hood Museum is exhibiting two paintings by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet for the first time.

WINTER IS BACK

39

Inches of snow that blanketed

Hanover in February—up by 37 inches over the white stuff that fell in February 2024

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

“They are destroying decades of institutional knowledge and expertise.”

—Brad Duchaine, psychological and brain sciences professor who organized a Stand Up for Science protest of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash federal government funding for institutional scientific research, March 7 on the Green