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The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Dissent at Dartmouth, 1969-1972

Photographer Jonathan Sa’adah ’72 snapped dozens of images as an undergrad at Dartmouth during the tumultuous Vietnam War years.

Updated on January 4, 2015

Photographer Jonathan Sa’adah ’72 snapped dozens of images as an undergrad at Dartmouth during the tumultuous Vietnam War years. Several of these photographs can be found in his new book, How Many Roads?, available from Phoenicia Publishing.

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Antiwar presidential candidate Senator George McGovern speaks at Dartmouth, October 1971.
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Professor Hoyt Alverson addresses students in the stairwell of Parkhurst Hall during sit-in, spring 1969.
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Students participate in a sit-in outside the president’s office in Parkhurst, spring 1969.
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Students lead a discussion of the Vietnam War in 105 Dartmouth, spring 1969.
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With Parkhurst occupied, student protesters look toward the Green as the National Guard and state police convoy appears, May 6, 1969.
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Students are led through a cordon of state police outside Parkhurst, May 6, 1969.
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Relatives and friends visit jailed Dartmouth students in Colebrook, New Hampshire, spring 1969.
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Steve Tozer ’72 goes “back to the land” in Norwich, Vermont, winter 1972.
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During a heavy snowfall Tozer heads to Dan and Whit’s to fill up on kerosene, winter 1972.
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Visiting professor of music Don Cherry waits for entry into a prison where he has organized a concert featuring Dartmouth students, Windsor, Vermont, March 1970.
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Cherry, renowned musician and counter-cultural figure on campus, leads a class in the Bema, April 1970.

More Galleries

Computer Graphics

While students decorate themselves with flair, they adorn their laptops with a wide array of stickers.

The Power of Faces

Photographer Theresa Menders ’88 covers the global refugee crisis, one portrait at a time.

A History of Dartmouth in 50 Objects

From a weathered book of Scripture, circa 1743, to a dirty pair of 2013 running spikes, the things that make Dartmouth different are the things that make Dartmouth.

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