Arabica!
Novack Café now features Starbucks products—but not after midnight, the café’s new closing time.  

Digging In
Work has begun on the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, a three-story, 55,000-square-foot building with a $113-million price tag. 

O Yes!
English professor Peter Orner’s short story collection, Maggie Brown and Others, landed at No. 2 on Oprah Winfrey’s list of best books of 2019. 

Beloved
Former dean of the College Thaddeus Seymour, 91, died in October. 

She’s Done It All
After 45 years working for the various restaurants of the Hanover Inn, Shirley St. Peter retired in October.

House of Jazz
Students from Allen House joined Jon Batiste, bandleader and musical director for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, for a sound check prior to his Hop performance in early October. 

Not Forgotten
Bill Aydelott ’72 and Katherine Rines premiered their documentary, Early Daughters of Dartmouth, in Filene Auditorium on October 11. Rines is one of several women who came to the College as exchange students in 1970.

Pond Crossing
British novelist Zia Haider Rahman will be on campus as a Montgomery Fellow in February.  

Piece of Cake
Who made that giant cake of Dartmouth Row that was gobbled up by Homecoming revelers? Boston’s Oakleaf Cakes Bake Shop.   

Puzzle Master
Math and computer science prof Peter Winkler is on a sabbatical to lead “A Year of Puzzles” for the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. “Puzzles are my outreach device,” he says.   

Clothes Call
College lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company selling T-shirts adorned with the phrase “Dartmouth Indians.”  

Mind Weld
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld met with student Republicans in October. He’s running for president.

Shelf Life
Baker Library is so full that the College may build an $18.5-million offsite storage facility in nearby Lebanon, New Hampshire. A potential 20,000-square-foot building could hold 1.2 million books and other library treasures.  

Happy Anniversary
Fifty years ago, Martha Fransson, Tu ’70, became the first woman to graduate from Tuck. 

Really Big Green
The most recent Forbes “400” list of wealthiest Americans includes eight Dartmouth alumni.

Yes, It Was Insured
The College’s electron microscope facility reports water from a September storm irreparably damaged a $1.4-million microscope. It will be replaced.  

Mouse Pad
During the first weeks of fall term, students living in French Hall told The Dartmouth they encountered mice in their building “on a daily basis.” Exterminators were summoned.