From trash to tradition: Homecoming's colorful past
(10/27/00 9:00am)
Dartmouth traditions are born and razed by the light of the Homecoming bonfire.
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Dartmouth traditions are born and razed by the light of the Homecoming bonfire.
Colossal and blazing though it may be, Dartmouth's Homecoming Bonfire has traditionally been surrounded by an aura of invulnerability, as evidenced by students' eagerness to help in its construction and run around its burning logs countless times.
The Class of 2004 "is so psyched up," said Allison Giordano '04, who jetted around the construction site yesterday afternoon, sporting dyed green hair and a Class of 2004 Bonfire t-shirt.
Think of great college football states -- states with multiple top-tier programs: Florida, Texas, Alabama, California, Michigan, Oregon. Wait, Oregon? That's right, Oregon. For years a seeming wasteland along the college football landscape, Oregon has suddenly become the football capital of the West Coast. The Ducks of Oregon and the Beavers of Oregon State are in contention for the Rose Bowl. The teams feature contrasting styles: Oregon's offense is good, but its strength is a downright overpowering defense; Oregon State has an explosive offense featuring the nation's fifth-ranked rusher, Ken Simonton. If both teams win out, which is not only possible but likely, they will face off on the last week of the regular season with identical 9-1 records, with the winner going to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. This game, dubbed the "Civil War" by Oregonians, has been meaningless for years outside the Northwest; now it has suddenly become the game of the year in the Pac-10.
A spirited Big Green squad traveled to Brewster, Mass. on Monday and Tuesday to take part in the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association Championship.
Several weekends ago, during the men's soccer game against the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Brad Christof '01 scored the game-winning goal off a pass from team Captain Nick Magnuson '01. But this was not an ordinary pass between two players.
To the Editor:
Traditions were made to be broken. Wait a second, that's not right. What was it that's made to be broken again?
I've once heard of a corner on a road which there were continual fatalities. Drivers, despite warning signs, would speed around this corner and be killed. Finally, one of the local councilmen had a bright idea. He suggested putting chickens on the side of the road. They did, and fatalities dropped dramatically; the drivers slowed down for the sake of the chickens!
With students generally unwilling to come forward with stories about hazing and with administrators very much in the dark about what actually goes on in the basements of Greek houses, the College hazing committee faces a difficult task to create a more effective policy.
The Novack Caf opened yesterday in Berry Library, drawing a large crowd desperate for a snack bar in a convenient location.
Dartmouth's new Humanities Center held its inaugural event -- a Symposium on The Global Humanities -- this past weekend. The symposium brought to campus new points of view on the humanities and a commitment to undergraduate involvement in the Center.
Although Muslim and Jewish students took a stand for peace last night on the Green, even at Dartmouth that peace rests on rocky footing over an issue that has tensions running high on an international level.
The new, expanded cable system that Dartmouth now offers has brought both good and bad to campus. The average GPA for campus has dropped from 2.8 during the spring term of this year, to just under 1.5 for this term. Like Hardware's glowing space-ropes, the new cable channels have ensnared Dartmouth College. Having been drawn in by Melodia's siren song, the average student finds himself in the center of one of Windhammer's brutal red dust storms. But some good has come with this decrease in scores; Students are achieving record levels of proficiency on the College Board's oldest and most respected test: The "Silverhawk" Aptitude Test.
I heard a rumor the other day that baseball is played outside of New York. I'm just as surprised as you are, but apparently there are 28 other teams out there, with 28 general managers, all of whom are salivating over the richest free agent class in baseball history. Money (lots of it) will be spent, franchises will be reborn and loyalties will take a backseat to checkbooks. Below are the top five most eligible ballplayers, coming to a stadium near you.
Princeton 3, Penn 0
Dartmouth's crew placed well Sunday while competing in the 36th annual Head of the Charles Regatta in Camrbidge, Mass.
The University of Massachussetts field hockey team handed Dartmouth its second straight loss, a 2-1 decision in overtime yesterday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field.
The Dartmouth men's soccer team bounced back from last weekend's heartbreaking overtime loss to Columbia to earn a hard-fought 2-1 victory against Long Island University yesterday at Chase Field.
Well, it is now less than two weeks until Election Day, and Al Gore and George W. Bush are making their last second pushes to mobilize their base to get out the vote and appeal to those few coveted independent voters who are still undecided. In recent weeks Bush has surged ahead of Gore and it now appears he is leading in both the popular and electoral vote polls. Still, the large number of undecided voters and toss up states are making it difficult to project a winner at this point. So what is Gore going to do in the next 13 days to get the toss ups to go his way?
