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A whimpering attitude has spread faster than pink eye and infected the entire campus. I do not understand this phenomenon. Why do students grumble about every minute aspect of Dartmouth life and slog around campus as if they have been imprisoned in some horrible and unbearable place? After all, we chose to come to this small college in the woods.
On a windy day last January, Bret Anderson '05 was in a shack at the top of Holt's Ledge with a few other members of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol when a call came over the radio. Someone on a chair-lift had witnessed a violent collision -- a skier was badly injured.
Perched 40 feet in the air, my hands frozen and my arms burning, I repeatedly swung the serrated point of my ice tool at the face of the cliff. Shards of ice glanced off my helmet and my calves shook. My mind focused as intently as my protesting body would permit, and I aimed my ax at a glistening crevice.The pick made a noise something like a pebble bouncing off the hood of a car, and the ax fell limp at my side. I shouted "Take!" to my partner and I flopped off the ice wall, shivering and exhausted. As I dangled from the rope and looked down at the fearsome ice tools in my mitted hands I thought, "What am I doing here?"
Founded some 93 years ago to "stimulate interest in out-of-door winter sports," the Dartmouth Outing Club boasts both more members than any other student organization on campus and a longer history than any other college outing club in the nation.
1999-2000
Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of two articles examining the lives of four recent Dartmouth graduates.
Freshman year, 1998-9
When I think of Dartmouth, a number of things come to mind. Most memorable, however, are those moments that unite us all as a campus, those moments when we are brought together annually around our beloved bonfire, our snow sculpture and our Green ... Key. Wait a second, is that right?
Aging, undersized and overcrowded, Dartmouth's non-varsity athletic facilities lag behind those of most comparable institutions, but administrators say there is little prospect for significant improvement in the near future.
A defining Dartmouth tradition, Winter Carnival has had many faces in its 92 year history. Starting as a humble field day, Carnival has evolved into one of the biggest events on campus and has included athletic competitions, balls, beauty pageants and even TV commercials in the years since its founding in 1910.
With fresh snow still carpeting the ground, students met yesterday to begin planning one of Dartmouth's most time-honored traditions: Winter Carnival.
Work on Dartmouth's new security system -- which will provide proximity card access to all residential halls on campus -- is well underway and remains on target for a January 1st completion date, according to Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels.
He is helping to build the world's most compact satellite. He plans to travel to Nepal this fall to swap American healthcare information with Nepali medicine men. He is a double major in engineering and biology. What's next for this 20-year-old sophomore?
What do you do for fun in a town with six stoplights? Where do you go when the thrill of meeting new people and discovering where they are from fades? For over 200 years, the enterprising students of Dartmouth have found ingenious ways to escape boredom.
For over 50 years, incoming Dartmouth freshmen have started their careers known not as students ready to tackle the world of college academia, but as "trippees" prepared to spend several showerless days in the woods.
That the administration does not act in good faith is painstakingly evident. That they do not care about student opinion is clear. That they go out of their way to destroy the Greek system through underhanded and disguised tactics cannot be mistaken. After the latest instance of administrative attempts to control the lives and undermine the will of the students, the student body at large has come to these realizations. Administrators, the students of Dartmouth sadly accept the fact that the you are not working with us to create a better Dartmouth, but instead working against us to change the face of the school in significant and unnecessary ways. Thus, I am not writing this column to demonstrate to the student body your descent to the level of cartoon super-villains, nor am I making a plea to you to care for and respect the student body. Instead, I intend to point out the pragmatic problems with your senseless crusade and illustrate how, from an objective standpoint, it will do great harm to the school.
Even though Sophomore Summer is heralded as one of the best times to be at the College, some sophomores choose not to spend their summer at Dartmouth taking classes as the traditional D-plan prescribes.
Like most Dartmouth students, Jesse and Michael Foote's time at the College has been filled with strong friendships, frolicking in the outdoors and stressful academics. And yet, when they are together in a room, a shared sense of purpose and commitment to improving their world is obvious.
On a September morning in 1972, College President John Kemeny began his address to the crowd of freshmen assembled in College Hall with the words, "Men and women of Dartmouth" for the first time in the Dartmouth's history.
Adam Sepulveda '02 told The Dartmouth that he is hoping his first term as the new Dartmouth Outing Club President will be a term that initiates important changes within the entire organization.