Mascots and Indignity
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To the Editor:
It has been almost 40 years since Dartmouth changed its mascot from the Indian to the Big Green. In 1968, our dear old Dartmouth turned in its fierce Indian warrior in exchange for the intangible and ambiguous color of green.
The Class of 2005 experienced much change during their first three years at Dartmouth. They were the largest class the College had seen in sometime, possibly spurring the much-needed construction that occurred in their upperclass years and they became closer when the landmark events of September 11 occurred during their first quarter at the College. Classes before the '05s entered a Dartmouth torn by the Student Life Initiative, but this Fall term tragedy brought the campus together in many ways.
Over the past five days, Dartmouth's varsity squash teams have ridden the emotional and physical roller coaster of competitive sports. "No one threw up though," said co-captain and oft-injured Martha Ucko '05, "because it wasn't a real roller-coaster."
The editors of the Homecoming Issue of The Dartmouth have asked me to write a Homecoming column because this weekend is the one where everyone, you know, comes home. I am of course perfectly happy to do this, but a columnist can only write about the same weekend so many times in a career. This is why so many writers move on to subjects like politics when they get old. It's not that they become uninterested in the social hierarchy of a small college's Greek system, it's just that they've exhausted all possible words to describe it.
Jesus did it over 2,000 years ago. Tupac did it in 1997. Keggy's doing it at Homecoming.
From the highs to the lows, a look back at the last four years at Dartmouth.
As September rolls around and high school friends have long departed for their college orientations, the members of the Dartmouth Class of 2008 will anxiously await their opportunity to join their new classmates. Yet, while eagerly anticipating their chance to experience college life, they can also look forward to the surplus of unique Dartmouth traditions that await them in the year ahead.
Playboy Magazine recently reinforced the College's reputation for intemperate alcohol consumption, previously established by National Lampoon's "Animal House," by choosing Hanover's very own Five Olde Nugget Alley as its College Bar of the Month.
On a sunny morning, joined by family and friends on the Green, the 1,649 men and women who received Dartmouth degrees, including 1,067 undergraduates, passed from students to alumni in the College's commencement exercises.
They were the first freshman class of the new millennium and much has happened in their four years spent on campus. From the highs to the lows, a look back at the life of the Dartmouth Class of 2004:
Although all Dartmouth students make their own impression on the school, certain '04s, it is safe to say, "rocked the boat." Through campus controversy, debate and persistence, these four seniors will not soon be forgotten.
To the Editor:
Starting today, America's oldest college newspaper presents a new look to its readership.
Drawing students from each Ivy League school and several others in the northeast, the All-Ivy Native American Student Conference discussed "Indigenous Minds Uniting" at a weekend conference held at the College.
Dartmouth students have never been particularly well known for playing by the rules, so when Keggy debuted last fall as the Big Green's unofficial mascot, he fit in perfectly.
Crime and institutional change defined Fall term, as a string of robberies struck pizza delivery drivers in the Upper Valley, the Board of Trustees approved the second expansion in its history and students searched for a new school mascot.
A traumatic episode came to a close late last week for would-be mascot Keggy the Keg, when staffers of Jack-o-Lantern humor magazine recovered the missing costume.
Following the announcement of Keggy the Keg's disappearance early this afternoon, the Jack-o-Lantern humor magazine received a picture of the unofficial mascot, bound and gagged, in a threatening email message.
I'd like to express my overwhelming glee about Dartmouth's latest plunge into the national media. On Nov. 18, Keggy the Keg was the subject of a debate segment on ESPN's popular daily show "Pardon the Interruption."