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Green Key is not the biggest of the big weekends, but for over 100 years it has given students an opportunity to take time off their academic work and relax in warm weather after a long New Hampshire winter.
Green Key weekend marks the first time Phi Delta Alpha fraternity will host an event since being de-recognized in March 2000. Brothers anticipate the attendance of hundreds of students and alumni for the festivities, starting at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon.
To the Editor:
A defining Dartmouth tradition, Winter Carnival has had many faces in its 93-year history. Starting as a humble field day, Carnival has evolved into one of the biggest events on campus and over the decades has included athletic competitions, evening balls, beauty pageants and even TV commercials in the years since its founding in 1910.
Admittedly, for a sizable portion of upperclassmen, the consensus is that winter is the ideal term to scratch an "L," "T" or "O" into one's D-plan. For starters, it's cold, and the sun has a tendency to increasingly go AWOL. The grass on the Green is replaced by ever-accumulating tons of snow, and when one has to layer and de-layer repeatedly it certainly puts things in greater perspective. The hot clam chowder in Food Court seems to run out at an exponential rate when compared to other terms. And, if you're from the tropics (like me, a proud resident of Singapore, located one degree above the equator) there are just some days when you want to curl up and "put an end to it all," as a close friend of mine likes to say.
Winter Carnival, it seems, is on life support. The keg jump was canned some years ago because of insurance, or lack of it. Now, the Dartmouth Outing Club is having a go at the snow sculpture after the Winter Carnival Council gave up. How did one of Dartmouth's most celebrated weekends end up in this sorry state?
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.