The college welcomed students back (above) and the student newspaper, The Dartmouth, offers a first-person look at how things have changed in a story headlined, A Walking Tour of a COVID-Changed Campus (LINK).
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Thanks to several emailers sharing news of the passing of former Dartmouth quarterback John Dell Isola '55. (LINK)
Ell Isola earned a letter in 1954 and later served as both a bomber pilot and a commercial airline captain for TWA. His father, John, coached the line at Dartmouth after his playing career with the New York Giants ended, and his son Bob '83, was a two-year letterwinner as a defensive tackle for the Big Green.
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The NCAA yesterday gave the go-ahead to a 16-team FCS football playoff this spring. Men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball and men's water polo championships were also moved from fall to spring.
Green Alert Take: The FCS playoffs were scheduled to have 24 teams this fall but the reduction in the field will have no effect on the Ivy League – if it plays this spring – because . . . wait for it . . . the Ivies are not allowed by their presidents to participate in the postseason. Ah, but the soccer teams, cross country teams, women's volleyball and men's water polo teams will be able to go on – if they compete this spring. Please explain how that is fair. I'll wait.
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Notre Dame's football game against Wake Forest this week has been called after after seven Fighting Irish players tested positive for COVID and others are in quarantine as a result of contact tracing. It could be made up Oct. 3, an off day for both teams.
Green Alert Take: Surprised? Me neither.
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Forbes has a story under the headline, Is Covid-19 Making College Towns Unsafe To Retire In? The piece, which opens with a couple who retired to State College, Pa., includes this:
Kendal Corp., which operates senior living communities in hometowns of schools including Cornell University, Oberlin College and Dartmouth College, has been making some of those institutions’ cultural activities and classes available remotely.
That can be helpful if you live in a college town but fear going on campus or have transportation limitations.
And . . .
The Kendal retirement communities have relationships with those schools letting residents take classes, attend lectures and participate in a variety of programs. Many of those programs have shifted online during the pandemic.
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EXTRA POINT
Thanks to Mrs. BGA's faculty status we were able to stream the "HOP @ Home" program, A Dartmouth Fireside Chat with Trevor Noah last night.
While I think Noah might be the best of the late-night hosts for his work on The Daily Show, I wasn't quite sure what to expect in a program billed as . . .
". . . a casual conversation on this moment of adversity and possibility. Noah reflects on the state of our nation and discusses how our Dartmouth community can, in spite of isolation, come together around the arts, pursue racial justice and rise to the challenge of this moment."
Suffice it to say Noah's answers to questions thrown at him were insightful, well reasoned and thought provoking. It was a thoroughly engrossing program even without a single laugh.
