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January-February 2024

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Big Picture

Vested Interest 
Bog Walk

Campus

Students Arrested
The Editors
Israel-Hamas conflict raises tensions.
Primary Season
Nancy Schoeffler
Professor Jason Barabas ’93 steers the Rockefeller Center into another huge election year.
The Art of Archery
Nancy Schoeffler
Undergrads learn a new way to draw.
Uncommon Paths
New podcast examines alumni ingenuity.
Ask the Expert: How to Save Your Books
Milea Keogh ’25
Deborah Howe | Collections Conservator 

Continuing Ed

Robert B. Reich ’68
Lisa Furlong
A public policy expert on what he’d like to fix

Features

The Buckaroo Effect
TY BURR ’80
How a zany cult movie by director W.D. Richter ’68 reverberates 40 years later
Whale Watch
Svati Kirsten Narula ’13
Janet Coit ’85 navigates competing interests to save a rare species from extinction.
A Monk’s Journey
Jim Collins ’84
Doug Bachman ’97 chose a path less traveled.
Everyday Zen: Ten Steps Toward a More Mindful Life
As told to Jim Collins ’84
Dharma teacher Pháp Lưu ’97, a Buddhist monk for the past 20 years, offers a personal guide to finding balance and meaning in the present.
Dynamo
Joe Gleason ’77
Language maestro John Rassias was all teacher.
Avalanche
Charlie Pike ’22
When a snowy weekend 25 years ago suddenly turned deadly, several alumni came to the rescue.

Letters

Deaths
Your Turn
Readers write, react, and respond. (January/February 2024)

Look Who’s Talking

Rob Kennedy
Sean Plottner
Hockey Play-by-Play Announcer

Voices in the Wilderness

Junior Achievement
Nancy Schoeffler
Disney exec Kim Keith Berglund ’00 takes kids’ shows from pitch to pilot.
Beyond Policing
Heya Shah ’26
City official Anise Vance ’11 backs safer response to 911 calls.
Hockey Quant
Chris Quirk
Data cruncher Dustin Walsh ’13 hoists Stanley Cup.
Dam Good
Milea Keogh ’25
Environmentalist Jessie Griffen ’10 partners with furry engineers.
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Portfolio

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Books
Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
Woman wearing red bishop garments and mitre, walking down church aisle
Voices in the Wilderness
New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
From the Archive
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.
Illustration of woman wearing a suit, standing in front of the U.S. Capitol in D.C.
Continuing Ed
Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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