Ninety-seven years of history: Winter Carnival still lives on
By Allie Lowe
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By Allie Lowe
Students willing to put on cross-country skis and fun costumes participated in the annual Carni Classic, a 3 kilometer. race at the golf course at 2 p.m. Thursday. For those who preferred to stay on campus, the Human Dog Sled Race, held on the Green at 4 p.m, provided a fun option, with students braving the wintery weather in crazy costumes. The event featured prizes, music, games, and refreshments.
Blinded and deafened by clouds of dust and the sound of wrecking balls, students walking on the pathway north of Baker-Berry Library are beginning to notice the demolition of the Gerry and Bradley buildings. Demolition, which began in early December, is slated to continue through the winter and pave the way for a landscaping project that will leave a bowl-shaped open area that will separate Baker-Berry library from the newly built Kemeny Hall.
The 2008 Class Council has planned Fieldstock, a College-approved day of chariot races around the Green and a barbecue at the Big Empty Meeting Area, for Saturday, Aug. 12 as an alternative to the summer tradition of Tubestock, a 20-year-old event that was never sanctioned by the College.
Dear Anna and Chris,
On Friday night, just off the shore of Gilman Island, Kiersten Hallquist '08 and six other Dartmouth students on her Sophomore Trips flat-water canoeing section climbed into their canoes, took off their clothes and paddled their boats into one another in a moonlit game of naked bumper canoes.
It is easy to fall into the trap of treating sophomore summer -- a Dartmouth tradition since the mid-1970s -- as something of a less-than-equal cousin of the Fall, Winter and Spring sessions. In all honesty, who could blame you? The weather is beautiful, the campus is at its most stunning and there is a plethora of outdoor activities to take part in, from soccer to softball, the river to the ledges. For the members of Dartmouth's various Greek houses -- especially those who live therein -- the temptation to slough off work and rage seven nights a week is a powerful one indeed.
Last year's Carnival saw 11 students arrested by Hanover Police in party-related incidents, a small number compared to the previous year's 18. Police also had to deal with the malicious activation of two fire alarms, at least one of which was at a fraternity party, and one case of assault at a fraternity last year.
Many Dartmouth students shy away from the frigid New Hampshire winters. Some even make their Dartmouth Plans so that they never have to experience the dreaded Winter term after freshman year. But for those of us who are stuck here, or, for whatever reason, actually chose to be here during this term, there's more to do than just sit inside and mope.
From the Connecticut River to Lake Umbagog and from Camel's Hump to Moosilauke, the Dartmouth Outing Club gives the Dartmouth community the opportunity to enjoy the north woods of New England.
Co-ed sleep-overs on the Hanover golf course may be a thing of the past, but Green Key weekend still manages to bring some revelry to every Dartmouth student's Spring term.
Temperatures have flirted with the 40s, and slush puddles have replaced snow banks on the Green, but winter spirit is still in the air, as Dartmouth prepares for its annual Carnival weekend.
Continuing its effort to make weekend mornings as exciting as nights by encouraging greater student participation in outdoor activities, the Dartmouth Outing Club is sponsoring its annual Winter Weekend on Saturday.
From the western hunter to the mountain skier to the avid climber, the Dartmouth Outing Club provides ample opportunities to explore the wilderness, to hike the Appalachian Trail and to kayak rapids on the Connecticut River.
From the highs to the lows, a look back at the last four years at Dartmouth.
During the summer months, the lure of the New Hampshire outdoors is nearly irresistible, and many Dartmouth students have chosen to take advantage of the agreeable weather while fulfilling a graduation requirement.
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:
Some of Dartmouth's Green Key traditions may be over 100 years old, but the College's spring celebratory weekend has undergone radical transformations since its origins.
White churches and whiter Christmases, commons, trees bursting with colorful foliage, wassailing, gentlemen farmers and tiny towns with a long and much-loved local history -- just a few of the images filed in the American cultural imagination under the term "New England."
As Winter term comes to a temperate close, we at The Dartmouth look back on a term that was, in many ways, light on news around campus. Aside from the whirlwind New Hampshire Democratic primary, the winter doldrums seemed to have quelled campus activity. We look forward to a busier spring -- and the return of our cold-fleeing classmates.