Paying Tribute
All Ivy football teams honored Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens ’79 by donning “BT” helmet stickers this season.

Well Connected
Dartmouth landed on Town & Country’s list of the 15 best alumni networks. “It’s all about who you know,” wrote the editors.

Bleacher Report
Approximately 2,000 students and parents attended a new welcome ceremony at Memorial Field in late August. President Sian Beilock presided. 

The Union Team
Fifteen members of the men’s basketball team have filed for representation by the Service Employees International Union.

Free Flair
A student-run thrift shop has opened in North Massachusetts Hall with help from the sustainability office.   

Pledge
President Beilock met privately with Greek student leaders during the summer and committed to “maintaining Greek life as a critical part” of campus life, according to one attendee.

Presidential Priority
President Beilock announced a new position in August: chief health and wellness officer. A national search is under way. 

Driven to Distraction
A vehicle crashed into a ground-floor window at Ripley Hall in late August. No injuries were reported.

Not Your Average Senior Thesis
Jack Duranceau ’23 used the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to discover two new planets outside our solar system. 

Trekking to Hanover
Actor-turned-activist George Takei will be on campus as a Montgomery fellow in the spring.

False Alarm
A state bomb squad spent several hours on September 1 dealing with cookware that had been left in the Dewey Field parking lot.
No worries—it was a leftover from a nearby potluck dinner. 

Naming Gymnastics
Alumni Gym has a new name—Lewinstein Athletic Center—following a significant donation to the athletics department by Stephen Lewinstein ’63. West Gym has been renamed Alumni Gym.

Honor Roll
Physics prof Miles Blencowe won the annual Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching, as voted on by the class of 2023.

Pedal Pushers
Wobbly Fridays have returned as students on bicycles gather every Friday afternoon for a bike ride through campus. “If you have a bike, you know what’s up, and if you don’t have a bike, you think all the cyclists are super irritating,” says rider Mahina Amoy ’25. 

Fortune and Fame
The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship has established a hall of fame for entrepreneurs. Shonda Rhimes ’91, Jim Coulter ’82, Steve Hafner ’91, and Keith Dunleavy ’91 are its inaugural inductees.

Poetic Justice
What does Edgar Morales ’24 have in common with Sylvia Plath and Robert Pinsky? Each has been honored by the Academy of American Poets. The English major won the academy’s Most Promising Young Poet Award in September.