Views From the Green: September 2023

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A new academic year starts with an active month on campus.

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Kimberly Juanita Brown, professor
Professor Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, offers words of welcome at the launch of the institute at an event in Dartmouth Hall on Friday, Sept. 15. The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 moved a group of Black alumni to begin the work to made the institute possible, Brown says. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)
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Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater performers
Members of the Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater brought an exuberant spirit of celebration to the institute’s launch reception in 105 Dartmouth Hall, the same space where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the Dartmouth community in 1962. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)
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Sian Leah Beilock, Elizabeth Smith, Vivee Francis
President Sian Leah Beilock, left, speaks with Elizabeth F. Smith, center, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English Vievee Francis at the IBICL reception. Francis read five poems at the celebration, including “On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Me.” Cherry set the bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four girls on Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, “60 years ago today,” Francis said. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)
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Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater performers
Members of the Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater performed during the IBICL launch reception at 105 Dartmouth Hall. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)
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Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater performers
The Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater dancers on the 105 Dartmouth Hall stage. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)
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Twilight ceremony 2023
Members of the undergraduate Class of 2027 light candles for the Twilight ceremony. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Walking across the Green toward the Bema for the Twilight ceremony
First-year students walk across the Green with their candles for the Twilight ceremony at the Bema. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Twilight ceremony 2023
Students gather at the Bema for the Twilight ceremony. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Twilight ceremony 2023
A student holds a candle during Twilight at the Bema. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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The sunset behind Dartmouth Hall and Baker Berry library
(Photo by Robert Gill)
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Lily Rose Johnson and others sign their name into the book.
Lily Rose Johnson ’27 participates in the signing at Matriculation. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
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Students walk to matriculation
Members of the Class of 2027 head toward Matriculation on Sunday. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
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South Fayerweather House 1 and 2
President Sian Leah Beilock addresses students living in South Fayerweather 1 and 2 at Matriculation on Sunday. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
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The sunset behind Baker Tower
(Photo by Robert Gill)
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Students peruse course options while they wait for a guidance session.
Yunfei Zheng ’27, Cal Shin ’27, Devan Opper ’27, and Tajreen  Nushba ’27 look at course options while they wait for a guidance session with one of the first-year deans. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Tristyn Girouard '27 speaks with Professor Jamie Horton
Tristyn Girouard ’27 speaks with Associate Professor of Theater Jamie Horton during the academic open house. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Aerial of Dartmouth Hall at dusk
(Photo by Robert GIll)
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Gwendolyn Roland '25 and the South House mascot
Gwendolyn Roland ’25, right, with Sven the penguin, the South House mascot. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Women's soccer player kicking the ball
Dartmouth women’s soccer tied Boston College 1-1 in Newton, Mass.  (Photo by Nick Romei)