Some of the most notable include Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Rago and Hugo Restall of The Wall Street Journal, James Panero of The New Criterion, author Dinesh D'Souza, talk show host Laura Ingraham, and Hoover Institution research fellow Peter Robinson.

[3] The history of The Dartmouth Review can be traced to 1980, when a number of campus conservatives met in Jeffrey Hart's living room to discuss the school's prevailing political culture.

As early Review contributor Dinesh D'Souza tells it, the immediate impetus for the founding was a schism at daily campus newspaper which pitted a group of young Reagan-supporters against the organization's progressive editors.

Distributed to graduating students before the school's annual commencement exercises, it focused on the college's declining academic standards and the controversy surrounding its recent board of trustees elections.

In his words, The Review's mission was "to become what it was set-up to become: a responsible, bold publication of conservative opinion" and a prodigious source of "unbiased, reliable articles [written] without fear of administrative clamps.

"[1] Throughout its first few months of activity, the organization and its leaders sought to achieve this greater degree of professionalism by publishing suggested revisions to administrative policy, investigative reports on fraternity controversies, and interviews with notable conservatives like William F. Buckley Jr.

This episode, when combined with the paper's ongoing support of school's controversial Indian mascot and its criticism of a black professor's Music 2 class, led many on campus to accuse its editors of racism.

After the paper launched an editorial campaign that used a survey of national tribal leaders to defend the Indian mascot, support for the defunct symbol became so strong that undergraduates unfurled banners at home football games and proclaimed its return.

Among them were Betty Friedan, Ralph Nader, Czeslaw Milosz, Abbie Hoffman, Richard Nixon, Donald Rumsfeld, Bobby Seale, Charlton Heston, Allen Ginsberg, Charlie Daniels, Gennifer Flowers, and Norman Podhoretz.

[4] In response to popular demands from students and faculty members alike, President Freedman and the administration organized a "Rally Against Hate" to promote campus unity and censure the actions of The Review.

[1] Throughout the rest of President Freedman's tenure, the paper remained a vocal presence within the campus debate and was a consistent critic of the administration's affirmative action, governance, and free speech policies.

In what came to be known as the "Lone Pine Revolution," a plurality of alums succeeded in independently nominating and electing four trustees who were critical of the college's stance on issues concerning free speech, athletics, alumni rights, and the curriculum.

The Review built a web and social media presence,[7] increased donations, substantially revised editorial and business practices and moved operations into a large office on Hanover's Main Street.

After representatives from a number of interest groups forced their way into the "Dartmouth Dimensions" show and began protesting racism, elitism, and other social ills, The Review became the first campus publication to cover the event and release full-length stories on its website.

It is traditional for the final page to include "Gordon Haff's Last Word," a compilation of quotes related to the issue's central theme, and "Barrett's Mixology, a humorous (and often anonymous) satire written in the form of a cocktail recipe.

[9] After The Dartmouth Review first gained notoriety for opposing affirmative action policies in the early 1980s, the paper became the focal point of several legal and political battles that garnered a great deal of attention in the national press.

Examples of controversy from the organization's history include: In March 1982, The Dartmouth Review published an article in which author Keeney Jones criticized affirmative action policies by donning the persona of a disaffected African American student.

[1] The Review's editors defended the piece by pointing out that writers like Mark Twain and Damon Runyon had previously used racial dialects in social satire and that, since many claim jive is a viable alternative to traditional English, the article was the equivalent of publishing a feature in French, Spanish, or Latin.

[1] In May 1982, The Dartmouth Review cofounder Benjamin Hart was delivering copies of the paper's latest issue when he was attacked and bitten by a black administrator from the college's alumni center.

[1] In January 1986, a number of Dartmouth undergraduates formed the committee to Beautify the Green and used sledgehammers to dismantle the shanties that had been erected in the center of the campus as part of a campaign to promote institutional divestment of South African assets.

[1] When negotiations with College administrators reached an impasse, a band of twelve undergraduates took matters into their own hands and drove a flat-bed onto the Green, dismantled three of the four shanties, and sent the lumber off to a local charity.

Prior to the completion of the piece, then Editor-in-Chief Christopher Baldwin informed Professor Cole of the paper's intent to publish anecdotes from his course and that, should he desire it, The Review would give him a space to respond.

"[1] An attempt by The Review's editors to file similar charges against Cole and the African American students who subsequently threatened them was blocked by Dean of the college, Edward Shanahan.

[1] In the judicial proceedings that followed, the committee voted to separate Baldwin and Sutter from Dartmouth for six terms, suspend photography editor, John Quilhot, for two, and place Review contributor Sean Nolan on disciplinary probation for four.

[1] In the fall of 1990, an issue of The Dartmouth Review appeared not with the traditional quote from Theodore Roosevelt in the masthead but with several lines of text from Hitler's Mein Kampf.

"[1] Rather than work with the paper as the editors had requested, however, President Freedman and the rest of the administration publicly censured The Review and organized a "Rally Against Hate" to promote racial solidarity and condemn what was assumed to be a deliberate act of anti-Semitism.

[17][18][19] In fall of 2012, The Dartmouth Review ran a cover with a picture of Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson and the Director of the Greek Letter Organizations and Societies office, Wes Schaub, posed in the style of American Gothic.

Blake Neff, a member of the class of 2013 who had written for The Dartmouth Review, served as the head writer for Tucker Carlson Tonight until it emerged that he had made anonymous posts on the message board AutoAdmit that featured racist, sexist, and homophobic content.

Critics have charged that the paper is more provocative than effective, though the staff asserts that the combination of its investigative journalism and its consistent advocacy of issues relating to the curriculum, governance, and free speech have led to changes at the college.

[1] The fact that early contributors like Peter Robinson could later be elected to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees testifies to the paper's ability to influence public opinion and have a lasting effect on mainstream campus debates.