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By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — In February, unionized graduate student-workers at Dartmouth decided that if they continued to feel that the college was stalling on contract negotiations, they’d walk off the job.They weren’t bluffing. On Wednesday at noon, more than 150...

HANOVER — Dartmouth College will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month, the school said Monday in a move that could send the case to federal court.In a statement announcing...

It’s a great mystery why Dartmouth College, the new home of “brave spaces” for public debate, continues to pursue the criminal prosecution of a pair of peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters accused of trespassing on their own campus.The mystery...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Dartmouth College administrators will meet with the Hanover Planning Board on Tuesday to discuss a proposed housing project on West Wheelock Street which would provide “apartment-style units” for approximately 190 undergraduate students on a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock was among a group of senior college administrators who huddled together in an effort to determine what to do about two Dartmouth students who refused to leave a tent pitched in front of her...

By JIM KENYON

What is Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock so afraid of? I thought she’d welcome the opportunity to enter into the public record her administration’s reasoning for having two student activists arrested for criminal trespass while peacefully...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — One minute, 27 seconds.That’s the extent to which the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team held a lead on Friday night during an 82-69 loss Penn at Leede Arena. Were the Quakers an Ivy League force, the statistic might be somewhat...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — On Monday, eight Dartmouth College students announced that they would begin a hunger strike. The move comes in opposition to the charges still standing against two students arrested while protesting in October, as well as what activists...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — In 1966, trade workers at Dartmouth got fed up with their bosses picking favorites and pitting employees against each other.It was time to get organized.Now, Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union represents more than 500...

Of all the reasons for colleges to require applicants to take a standardized test, among the most unlikely would seem to be promoting increased diversity in the student body. But that is precisely the rationale cited by Dartmouth this week in...

By JIM KENYON

The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team hasn’t won many games on the court this season, but the players scored a major victory Monday in their bid to unionize. Laura Sacks, director of the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office in...

By JANET LORIN

Dartmouth College said it would require standardized testing again for applicants to the Ivy League college, the second elite US university to reverse a trend about assessments that was halted during the pandemic.The school said the reactivation is...

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — An 18-year-old Piermont man who brazenly groped women in public last year will plead guilty and faces a 12-month jail sentence under a plea agreement struck between state prosecutors and his defense attorney.William Menard will plead...

By JIM KENYON

At around 1 a.m. on Oct. 28, Hanover police arrested two Dartmouth College students for criminal trespass on their own campus. After the student-activists were hauled away in handcuffs, cops involved in the encounter would have written a report with...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona met with Dartmouth College students and President Sian Beilock on Wednesday afternoon to discuss ways to improve the quality of political dialogue on college campuses.Dartmouth’s administration...

By JIM KENYON

Overcharging, as it’s known in the legal world, is a ploy that prosecutors use to coerce criminal defendants into accepting a plea bargain.By tacking on multiple charges from a single incident, the prosecution gains all-important leverage. In exchange...

By JIM KENYON

It was bad enough that Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock and her administration overreacted by having Hanover police arrest two students who were peacefully protesting on the lawn outside her office last month.Now it appears the...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Students in an intensive Ukrainian course at Dartmouth College concluded the term last week by sharing their translations of poems.That in itself might not be so special for a language class, but they did so in partnership with students at...