Hanover anticipates influx of outsiders
Along with the truckloads of lumber for the Homecoming bonfire come carloads of College alumni and guests of current students, who create both problems and opportunities for the town of Hanover.
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Along with the truckloads of lumber for the Homecoming bonfire come carloads of College alumni and guests of current students, who create both problems and opportunities for the town of Hanover.
The Dartmouth Co-Op
So there's the bonfire, the frat parties, the Yale game and Fall Fling -- but even with all that excitement you'll still want to eat and shop in some of Hanover's local restaurants and stores. Below is a helpful guide to the town's dining establishments and some unique stores you might want to visit while you're here.
Tonight, as students gather on the Green and alumni return to Hanover, the College will see its 103rd Dartmouth Night as the Class of 2002 runs around and around its huge bonfire in honor of one of Dartmouth's oldest traditions for Homecoming Weekend.
I cried into my soup yesterday as I sat in Collis reading The Dartmouth. The story was easily overlooked, hidden on the third page, in the National Briefs section. It was just a short clip from the Associated Press about a student named Jason Greco from Rutgers University who died early on Monday morning. Jason was 20 years old, my age, a third-year engineering student, and a member of a fraternity. He fell down a flight of stairs after a night of drinking last Thursday, and was declared clinically dead on Sunday. The decision to take him off life support was made soon thereafter.
While giving tours during the past interim period, I was reminded that many of our sacred traditions here at Dartmouth College might seem a bit bizarre and strange to unfamiliar eyes. Many older alumni, especially those who were here before women were admitted to the school, might point out that Dartmouth has undergone remarkable changes and has lost a few traditions. However, I like to think that we have gained a few along the way.
Tomorrow is the Homecoming game, and I hope you all are as excited as I am! Actually, based on my previous football game experiences here, some of us are probably a little too excited. Therefore, I would like to offer some advice for those of us not able to keep our football enthusiasm in our respective pants.
Homecoming is by far the most exciting big weekend at Dartmouth. Unlike the other big weekends, Carnival in the winter and Green Key in the spring, this one actually still has meaning. It's a time for all the alumni to come up and get sloshed.
More than 100 years have passed since 1895 when College President William Jewett Tucker introduced Dartmouth Night to the College.
Sitting in the middle of the street is fun, but getting third-degree burns from a Homecoming bonfire is even better. While both activities may be thrilling, running through campus with 999 screaming, frantic, intoxicated classmates will not get you killed (probably).
This past month, our friends at Dartmouth Dining Services have offered the student population two totally new, totally scrumptious dining experiences: the Midnight Express, and the Big Green Bean. Open from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., the new eateries are perfect for those late night munchies when you can't bear to order EBAs one more time. The Midnight Express and the Big Green Bean offer some of the best food and drink I've eaten in my month-long Dartmouth career, and are definitely not to be missed.
The animals were piling into Noah's Ark two by two as Dartmouth men's soccer took the field against Boston University. A fierce rain soaked the field and a biting wind chilled players and spectators alike. But those die-hard fans who remained to watch were rewarded, witnessing a thrilling game as well as one of the strangest plays in the history of college soccer.
Since the unveiling of my "Capitalist Column," a number of anticapitalist and anti-Objectivist columns have appeared in The Dartmouth. These columns have included Andrew Boldt's "Yay, Capitalism!" [Oct. 7], and Emmett Hogan's "In Defense of Capitalism" [Oct. 9]. The first, Boldt's column, is a rather straightforward critique of Objectivism (the philosophy of Ayn Rand), while the second, by Hogan, is a rather cowardly piece, which pulls the old "But Brutus is an honorable man" trick on capitalism and myself.
My homecoming was two weeks ago. I don't mean that I lit a bonfire in my dorm room and ran around it in a drunken frenzy. Rather, I went home for the first time in a month. After what seemed like eternity, I would finally make the pilgrimage back home to that Eden of American suburbia known as West Hartford, Conn. It was precisely these thoughts that occupied my mind as I waited for my parents to come whisk me away from the cozy confines of Hanover.
So I've just seen "Saving Private Ryan," in which the medic, Wade, laments that he didn't spend enough time with his mom. He then proceeds to get shot the next day, and I'm thinking, wow, I've been with my friends all summer, what if I get drafted tomorrow and proceed to get shot, and they don't even bother to make a movie about it?
In 1992, the Dartmouth chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, a historically black Greek organization was inactivated due to a violation of national policy. However, in the spring of 1997, it was reactivated, and over the past year and a half, the sorority has been quietly regrouping and reorganizing.
The select seniors who have been awarded Senior Fellowships are digging deeply into their respective theses and conducting research on their many diverse projects.
Throw out those number two pencils -- seniors applying to graduate schools will no longer be able to take the Graduate Record Exam general test in the traditional paper format after April 10. After that, the general test will only be offered in a computerized version at special testing sites.
A theft in New Hampshire residence hall and an unusual exhibitionist incident near the River Cluster marked the beginning of this week.
James Finney Boylan's fourth and newest novel, "Getting In," is the story of four high school seniors who think they're ready for college. But first they have to get into one.