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By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — The town will host a public forum next month to hear the community’s feedback on the role the police department played in the arrests of scores of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the Dartmouth College Green on May 1.The listening session is...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Acting swiftly, Dartmouth College has suspended two Greek organizations involved in a social event where heavy drinking was reported, after a student who attended the party is believed to have died by drowning in the Connecticut River on...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The body of a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student was recovered from the Connecticut River on Sunday and the circumstances surrounding the presumed drowning are being investigated, according to police.Won Jang, a member of the class of...

By JIM KENYON

This week, Ian Struckhoff learned he won’t be prosecuted for standing on the Dartmouth Green during a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration one night last month.Forgive Struckhoff, 45, if he doesn’t feel like celebrating. The criminal trespass charge...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER —Hanover Police prosecutor Mariana Pastore has decided against filing criminal trespass charges against at least 28 of the people arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the Dartmouth Green last month, according to paperwork she...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Dartmouth College acquired four properties last week on West Wheelock Street, an area where college officials aim to substantially increase housing for undergraduate students. On Friday, Dartmouth College finalized the purchase of the...

By TRIS WYKES

Josie Harper, who as Dartmouth College’s athletic director became the first woman to hold such a post in the Ivy League, died last week in White River Junction. She was 81 and had battled cancer.“It is a sad day for the Dartmouth community,” current...

By JIM KENYON

In a way, I feel sorry for Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore. Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has put her in a tough spot.The day is fast approaching when Pastore must declare whether she’s moving forward with criminal charges against 87...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — The Dartmouth Green was the scene of celebration and defiance Sunday morning as the college awarded degrees to more than 2,000 graduates during a commencement ceremony held under rainy skies.Swiss tennis great Roger Federer, the commencement...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — An academic year that opened with the historic ascension of Dartmouth College’s first woman president is closing with the institution having made history of a different sort.Amid vital initiatives such as expanding campus housing, shrinking...

By JIM KENYON

I can think of 92 reasons why graduates at Dartmouth College’s 2024 commencement ceremony on Sunday might want to walk out in protest.The first 91 are easy to identify. It’s the number of people, including 67 students and five staff members, President...

In some curious way, the 90 or so peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters caught up in Dartmouth’s dragnet on the Green May 1, and the hundreds of others who supported them on the scene, can be grateful that President Sian Leah Beilock called in the cops...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Voters will consider a resolution at Tuesday’s Town Meeting calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the West Bank and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.The meeting takes place in the wake of the recent arrests of demonstrators at...

By JIM KENYON

Andrew Tefft wasn’t inside a tent on the Dartmouth College Green. He hadn’t locked arms with protesters who had formed a circle around the short-lived encampment. The 45-year-old Hanover native didn’t have a pro-Palestinian sign.Still within 30...

HANOVER — The State of New Hampshire is declining to press charges against two student journalists arrested for being on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest last week, according to The Dartmouth student newspaper.Mariana Pastore, the...

It’s far too soon to tell what the ultimate effect will be of the demonstrations that have roiled college campuses this spring, including those at Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont. But we hazard an educated...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s unionized graduate students marked International Workers’ Day by going on strike, leaving classrooms vacant of teaching assistants and research stations empty.“We’re going to be out here all day, every day until what?”...

By JIM KENYON

Under sunny skies and (slightly) warmer temperatures, Dartmouth students flocked to the college’s quintessential campus Green this week. They left their camping gear behind, though.They didn’t join the masses of students at other elite colleges across...

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD — A man who has served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas was granted parole Thursday.James...

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has made it clear the college views its men’s basketball players — and their recent historic vote to unionize — as a threat to ….Fill in the blank.The college’s bottom line? The status quo? The misconception that...