The Heart of Dartmouth
(06/10/01 9:00am)
Commencement and Reunion is another of those great Dartmouth weekends.
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Commencement and Reunion is another of those great Dartmouth weekends.
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With little fanfare and limited community attention, the Board of Trustees announced yesterday the first wave of changes resulting from the Student Life Initiative, launched last year.
Paul Gigot, Class of 1977 and former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary writing yesterday.
The Coed Fraternity Sorority Council is looking for guarantees that the Greek system will be allowed to continue to exist and remain residential if houses meet the proposed guidelines in the steering committee report. It will issue an official response to the recommendations in the coming weeks.
After a weekend of behind-the-scenes activity by Greek leaders and campus advocates, it now appears most of the controversy has been settled surrounding Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity's and Delta Delta Delta sorority's planned luau theme party.
After a trial run last month in the Courtyard Caf, Dartmouth Dining Services is now prepared to offer free soda refills in all but one of its dining halls starting this Fall term.
Voting for 2001 Class Council elections begins tomorrow, but so far the contest has failed to generate much campus excitement and the contenders' campaigns have barely been visible.
Starting this fall, the functions of the Hanover Green Card will merge with those of the DASH card to create a new student ID which can be used to purchase items both on and off-campus.
On February 9, 1999 students found a letter from the Board of Trustees and College President James Wright in their Hinman mail boxes. The letters, written subtly with no fanfare, were mostly ignored -- after all, administrative memos are common and are generally deposited in the nearby trashcans without ever being read.
After former College President James Freedman announced his resignation in the fall of 1997, many other administrators followed, most to assume bigger roles at other colleges.
While the campus may know little about William DeJong, the Initiative Steering Committee now knows considerably more about his views on alcohol and its role in colleges and universities.
Committee co-Chairs and Trustees Peter Fahey '63 and Susan Dentzer '77 refused to give much information about their work -- including specific people they met with or what the meetings were about.
In addition to their high-profile touring of campus Greek houses, the Steering Committee also engaged in less talked-about activities this weekend, meeting with numerous people involved in the implementation of the Trustees' Five Principles.
At first I thought it was just the air conditioning. Pleasantly cool in the theater compared to the sweltering outdoor temperatures, any movie would seem great, I said. Then the quirkiness began - offbeat movies are some of my favorites - and I thought that was it - an hour and a half of air conditioning and some intelligent, witty humor.
After a Winter term first shocked and then consumed by the Trustees' Social and Residential Life Initiative and its implications for the Greek system, a quieter Spring term brought with it continued Five Principles debate but also considerable campus news in other areas.
The College announced yesterday that the Coca-Cola company has won the rights to distribute its products in College dining halls and vending machines, more than one month after students voted in a campus-wide soft drink poll.
The shift away from in-person registrations in Alumni Hall to a more modern and efficient on-line version has been in the workings for over a year, but beginning today, the registration process finally takes the step into the 21st century.
It is undoubtedly frustrating to leave an institution such as the College in the midst of major change. Dartmouth has always changed and will continue to do so. But the changes facing the College at this time are perhaps the largest and most controversial since coeducation. Seniors will approach the elegant commencement stage today unsure of what exactly their new alma mater will be. What will the word "Dartmouth" mean to their employers or grandchildren?
In what was described by one Student Assembly member after last night's meeting as a "battle royale," a divided Assembly passed six of seven resolutions for social and residential life - but only after effectively gutting the resolutions of their most drastic reforms in a complicated series of procedural motions and amendments.