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Hello! My name is Clara Ottati. I attend Davidson College in North Carolina as an English and History double major. I am a frequent writer and section editor of the Davidsonian, Davidson's student newspaper. I am also a freelance writer for The Wednesday Journal, a local newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. 

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Annual Hackathon promotes innovation

The Hurt Hub served as many Davidson students’ bedrooms this past weekend for Davidson College’s Hackathon. 
Over 36 hours, students in teams of two to three participants scrambled to design, prototype and execute a working product that addresses specific problems provided by the Hack@Davidson team. The real challenge: everything teams build must be made from scratch.
“You cannot work on your project before the Hackathon starts or after [it ends],” said Murtaza Nikzad ’27, president of this year...
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Hugh Lee ‘89 to lead program on ethics, honor, and leadership

Hugh Lee ’89 is “always excited when someone wants to talk about ethics.” Lee is the inaugural Director of the Program on Ethics, Honor and Leadership at Davidson. He began his position in Jan. 2026. 
“The program is brand new in the Institute for Public Good,” Lee explained. 
According to the Davidson website, the Institute for Public Good is focused on “fostering academic and intellectual collaboration that e...
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Kevin Kosar lectures on ‘What’s Wrong with Congress?’

When Kevin Kosar, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, asked a room full of Davidson students to raise their hands if they felt Congress was “doing a good job,” no one moved. The response was not a shock to Kosar, who has been studying Congress for over 20 years. “That is the typical reaction,” he joked to the crowd. 
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, Kosar gave his talk “What’s Wrong with Congress?” in the Hance Auditorium. Originally published in January 2026 to Public Discourse as an essay...
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Students allege RLO failed to properly communicate policy enforcement

Kiko Lancastre ‘26 was in Sintra, Portugal for winter break when he received a “written warning” from Davidson’s Residence Life Office on Dec. 22 about a game table stored outside his Armfield Complex apartment, in response to a violation of RLO policy 61 days earlier, on Oct. 10. 
According to a copy of RLO’s email obtained by The Davidsonian, Martin Court area coordinator Nic Capano observed a large wooden game table outside Armfield 101, where Lancastre lives. Capano informed Lancastre that h...

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