This article contains detailed information on a number of student groups at Dartmouth College. For more information on athletic teams, please see Dartmouth College athletic teams. Dance Campus dance clubs and ensembles include the Argentine Tango Society, Ballet Folklorico de Dartmouth, Ceili Irish Dancers, Chinese Dance Troupe, For Your Glory Praise Dance Team, FUSION Dance Ensemble, Native Women’s Dancing Society, SHEBA hip hop dance, Staccato, Street Soul, the hip hop Ujima Dance Troupe, and Vandana South Asian dance ensemble.

Debate

Dartmouth Forensic Union The Dartmouth Forensic Union (DFU) is the policy debate team of Dartmouth College. The DFU has had at least one first-round qualifier to the National Debate Tournament (NDT) for 25 years running, and has won the NDT eight times.

Drama and performance

Casual Thursday Casual Thursday is an improv comedy troupe that performs at Dartmouth. Casual Thursday usually focuses on shortform games in their shows. The group was recognized by the college in 2004.

Dartmouth Laboratory Theatre

The Dartmouth Laboratory Theatre performed in Robinson Hall and attracted much student involvement starting in the 1910s.

Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals The Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals is a student-run Shakespeare company. Founded in the fall of 2008, it is the college's oldest student-run theater troupe.

Displaced Theatre Company The Displaced Theatre Company is a contemporary theatre organization that is run by students.

Dog Day Players The Dog Day Players improv comedy group was founded in 1995. Dog Day's shows tend to be in longform style. Prominent Dog Days alumni include Mindy Kaling (2001), Phil Lord and Christoher Miller (1997), and Alexi Pappas (2012).

The Harlequins The Harlequins is the only student-run musical production organization at Dartmouth College. It was founded in 1995 and produces musicals. , the group consists of over 300 student singers, instrumentalists, production staff members, and officers, and hopes to put on additional shows at Dartmouth each term in the coming year.

Sit-Down Tragedy Sit-Down Tragedy is a student stand-up comedy group. It was founded in the fall of 2007 as the Dartmouth Stand-Up Comedy Group and changed its name in 2009. Its members write their material ahead of performances.

Soul Scribes Founded in 2004, the Soul Scribes is the only group at Dartmouth dedicated exclusively to performance poetry. The Scribes have made multiple appearances at the national College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational and were the 2012 champions of the Wade Lewis Poetry Slam Invitational (the nation's second largest collegiate slam). The group has opened for several world-renowned slam poets, including Roger Bonair-Agard, Derrick C. Brown, Andrea Gibson, Sarah Kay (poet), Phil Kaye, Taylor Mali, Anis Mojgani, Shihan, and Buddy Wakefield.

Fraternities and sororities

Dartmouth College is host to many fraternities and sororities, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In 2005, the school stated that 1,785 students were members of a fraternity, sorority, or coeducational Greek house, about 60 percent of the eligible student body.Hughes, C.J. (2006) "Bye Bye SLI." Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Vol. 98, No. 4, March/April, 2006, p.18. Dartmouth College was among the first institutions of higher education to desegregate fraternity houses in the 1950s, and was involved in the movement to create coeducational Greek houses in the 1970s. In the early 2000s, campus-wide debate focused on whether the Greek system at Dartmouth would become "substantially coeducational", but most houses retain single-sex membership policies. Currently, Dartmouth College extends official recognition to fifteen all-male fraternities, eight all-female sororities, and three coeducational Greek houses.

Governance

Collis Governing Board The Collis Governing Board was created in 1980 at the inception of the Collis Center to give students a voice in the management of their student union. It is actively involved in student programming and capital movements to the Collis building.

Dartmouth Student Government Dartmouth Student Government (DSG) is the official elected Student Government for all Dartmouth undergraduate students that represents student concerns to the administration and outside community groups, whether that’s around mental health, dining and food insecurity, elections, or infrastructure and housing. Any issue affecting the quality of undergraduate life or education falls within the jurisdiction of DSG. To this end, DSG lends a voice to student concerns and opinions; plays an active role in shaping College policy; protects student rights and freedoms; promotes and finances undergraduate activities; fosters school unity and pride; and serves as a forum for the discussion and advancement of ideas. Each year, twenty-four student Senators are elected to serve across the four undergraduate class years, in addition to the Student Body President and Vice President.

Music

Dartmouth Brass Society Founded in 2001, the Dartmouth Brass Society is a student-run organization with a membership of over twenty brass instrumentalists. It has several component groups, including brass quintets and trombone quartets. Certain groups receive professional coaching in conjunction with the Music Department's for-credit chamber music program.

The DBS has played original compositions by Dartmouth students and often collaborates with the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra. Its performances feature a variety of works, ranging from baroque to contemporary music.

Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra Founded as an offshoot of the Music Department's conducting class, the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra was founded by Katherine Domingo '96 and has become famous as the school's only student-run orchestra. A student conductor and president choose the music and set the venues for each concert, which consist of a wide variety of music. Though the group receives no official funding from the school, the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra maintains its presence on campus through help from various grants from the Music Department and the Committee on Student Organizations.

Dartmouth College Marching Band

The DCMB is the oldest marching band in the Ivy League; it was formed during the 1890s as The Dartmouth Band. The DCMB's instrumentation is chiefly traditional, but also features a keg section (hit with a stick as a percussion instrument) and kazoos. During the fall, the band performs at all home football games, as well as a few away games. The DCMB also has a winter band that performs at hockey, basketball, and other events. The band continues to play traditional fight songs that have been played at Dartmouth football games for nearly a century.

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is the resident orchestra of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. Conducted by Anthony Princiotti, the DSO performs standard works from the symphonic repertoire (while also including some works off the beaten path).

Dartmouth Wind Symphony Consisting mostly of non-music majors, the Dartmouth Wind Symphony (DWS) performs three official concerts a year, one each academic term (except for summer), at the college's performing arts center.

Friday Night Rock Friday Night Rock is an active student group that brings independent bands and musicians to Dartmouth several times every term for concerts and provides an important alternative social space for students. Concerts are held in Sarner Underground.

Politics Campus political groups regularly host events for presidential candidates and other well-known politicians in conjunction with Dartmouth's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Groups occasionally collaborate in organizing dinner discussions, debates, and events with a bipartisan scope.

Dartmouth College Democrats With most Dartmouth students identifying as more liberal, the College Democrats has the largest membership of the three partisan political groups on campus. In addition to working on state and national political campaigns, the group hosts speakers and occasionally lobbies lawmakers when legislation relating to college students is up for debate. In April 2006, the group founded the College Democrats of New Hampshire, a state federation made up of College Democrats organizations at colleges throughout New Hampshire.

Dartmouth College Libertarians The College Libertarians are a group of Dartmouth students committed to the cause of liberty who host events and invite speakers to campus to discuss libertarian issues.

Dartmouth College Republicans The Dartmouth College Republicans were founded in 1958. It is the founding chapter of the New Hampshire Federation of College Republicans.

Dartmouth Political Union The Dartmouth Political Union was founded by William M. Reicher and Vlado Vojdanovski in 2018. Since then, the club has grown to have over three hundred members. The DPU is a “nonpartisan student-run organization dedicated to providing a forum for respectful political discourse on campus” by “promoting facts, seeking nuance, and challenging preconceptions.” The DPU “works to bridge partisan divides and foster respect for the freedom of speech among the Dartmouth student community”.

The DPU has aimed to host engaging speakers, who have included co-founder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale, former CIA Director John Deutch, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, and linguist and political Activist Noam Chomsky. The DPU has also had success in organizing student-led debates and viewing parties for important events. DPU event attendance is among the highest of any club at Dartmouth College.

Rockefeller Center The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences sponsors numerous dinner discussion groups with strong followings, including PoliTALK, Daniel Webster Legal Society, Women in Leadership, Agora, First Year Forum, and Vox Masters.

Publications

Dartmouth features two independently funded newspapers, The Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Review. The Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern is a humor magazine. Dartmouth's Collegiate Journal of Art History is the first such academic art history journal in the country. Other campus publications include the Dartmouth Law Journal, Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, and Lifelines literary journal. The Aegis is Dartmouth College's yearbook.

Radio

Dartmouth Broadcasting is a self-supported student organization that operates two radio stations, WFRD-FM and WDCR-AM. WFRD is one of the few fully commercial college radio stations in the United States. Recreation

Dartmouth Billiards Student Organization The Dartmouth Billiards Student Organization (DBSO) was founded in 2022.

Dartmouth Outing Club

The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) is the oldest and largest collegiate outing club in the United States, founded in 1909 to stimulate interest in winter sports. The DOC includes many subgroups, including The Big Green Bus and Dartmouth Ski Patrol.

Dartmouth Union of Bogglers The Dartmouth Union of Bogglers (DUB) is a college-recognized club founded in 2020 to promote and organize games of Boggle for members of the Dartmouth community.

Senior societies