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Weekend includes Dartmouth Night
Friday night's bonfire and Saturday's game against Columbia will undoubtedly be the highlight of this year's Homecoming weekend. Yet, multiple other events are planned for the enjoyment of students, alumni and community members during the three-day fall celebration.
Construction of the bonfire proceeds Thursday afternoon.
Bonfire tradition celebrates its 119th year at Dartmouth
The College's history of building bonfires began in 1888 after a baseball victory over Manchester College. Following the game, students gathered everything that was both flammable and portable to build an impromptu bonfire in the middle of the Green. An angry editorial in The Dartmouth denounced the event, saying that it "disturbed the slumbers of a peaceful town, destroyed some property, made the boys feel that they were men and, in fact, did no one any good." Despite these humble origins, however, the bonfire was here to stay.
Alumni office plans events for graduates
As the Class of 2011 runs around the bonfire 111 times, continuing to create their own traditions at the College, the campus will be brimming with alumni who have returned to revel in the weekend's festivities and relive some of the best times of their lives.
Health services ready, extra cots prepared
While Homecoming weekend may conjure up images of out-of-control dance parties and heavy drinking, College health officials say that for them Homecoming is just an average weekend. Health officials say that the number of Good Sam calls they receive and the number of intoxicated students they care for over Homecoming weekend is comparable to other weekends.
Dance revolution: the Homecoming tune guide
The big football game and the omnipresent display of school pride are staples of homecoming that any college can brag about. But what makes Dartmouth's homecoming so unique? Besides the gargantuan bonfire that freshmen are encouraged to touch (no, really, touch it), it has to be the banging dance parties. As a college that incorporates music and dance into every activity possible and that can incite over 4,000 students to perform the same set of synchronized moves by simply blaring "Blame It On the Boogie" or " The Salty Dog Rag," it wouldn't be a Dartmouth homecoming without dance parties.
Hanover residents embrace Homecoming, student parties
Despite visions of Homecoming releasing hordes of drunken students upon the unsuspecting populace of Hanover, the town remains largely unconcerned with one of the three big weekends at Dartmouth.
Maggie's Cheat Sheet: On Vocabulary
Language says a lot about its surroundings. It's been said, for example, that Eskimos have over 24 words for snow. Back home in Minnesota, we have around 11 words for ice hockey and a remarkable 29 different words for milk toast. It is fitting, then, that Dartmouth has an estimated 77 ways to say frat party, and that is where we will turn our attention today.
For the first time, College organizes halftime field rush
In yet another attempt to deter students from illegally rushing the field during the Homecoming football game, the athletic department has unveiled what it hopes will become a new tradition: having the freshman class forms its class number on the field during halftime.
Homecoming dates to 1895, survived changes to world and College
Now that fall has arrived and students are firmly settled into the routine of campus life, there is only one thing left to do: build a large wooden tower on the Green, set it ablaze, and begin running in circles around the conflagration.
Alex Got In Trouble: The Benefits of Tradition
(Happy Homecoming. My Trouble story continues next Friday.)
Fight to Rush the Field
Ah, Homecoming. A chance to come together as a school, get drunk and burn things. Seriously, though, Homecoming is probably my favorite big weekend, and for the freshman class, it is a right of passage into Dartmouth woman- and manhood.
Burning Progressivism
Circled by a self-flagellating cult of persistently counterclockwise freshman, the Goddess Bonfeu revels in the warm fetal glory of her worship. Ecce Homecoming.
Hey Alumni, What About Us?
On behalf of Palaeopitus Senior Society, I would like to voice our group's deep concern regarding the current debate over alumni governance, and especially the lack of interest in the sentiments of the most important constituency affected by this controversy: Dartmouth students themselves. We know all parties involved are passionate about this issue, but frankly, we are growing weary of the inflammatory rhetoric constantly hurled back and forth between the opposing viewpoints. Both sides claim to understand student opinion and then use these assumptions to claim to know what is best for the College. What is puzzling, however, is that neither side has produced quantifiable data to support its assertions " and both parties have neglected to even approach the student body as a whole to collect this data.
Wenda Gu, Who are You?
I have what might be some rather depressing news for Mr. Wenda Gu, if indeed he is the D reader I always suspected him to be: I have neither spoken to, nor heard of, or from a single person who enjoys your multi-million-dollar imposition into the middle of our library. In fact, the highest praise of the work that I did come across was that it is merely "a little creepy." And this when I was pretending to adore the sculpture, in a quest for a little positive response. But the reasons behind this reality might not be quite so obvious or shallow as Dartmouth's publishing community professes, albeit in a laudably comedic manner. No, I (rarely) like to (do anything/) stir up a little excitement, a little interest (maybe even a little controversy?) on this apathy soaked campus. So, instead of attributing Wenda's distinct lack of support at this institution to such mundane factors as the general grossness of braided human hair or the fact that the artist uses the sweat of Chinese factory workers to make whole his visions of genius, I am taking it to the source: "The Dartmouth Administration ... " Oooooh.
A Homecoming for the Inernational Crowd
Being a confused international student with no understanding whatsoever of most American college concepts, the word homecoming does not tell me much. Even for American students the idea of such an event strikes me as rather vague. It is hard to discern the attraction of running like maniacs around a fire while being attacked with insulting comments from upperclassmen. But if being insulted leads to being accepted into the Dartmouth family, than so be it. After all, we have all been the worst class ever, and it may be the satisfaction given to upperclassmen during this ritual that will ultimately redeem us from our worthlessness as a class. Believe it or not, but we do need you guys more than ever as stress, homesickness and bad time management are beginning to get to us, and I am begging you: Give us a chance!
A Homecoming for the International Crowd
Being a confused international student with no understanding whatsoever of most American college concepts, the word homecoming does not tell me much. Even for American students the idea of such an event strikes me as rather vague. It is hard to discern the attraction of running like maniacs around a fire while being attacked with insulting comments from upperclassmen. But if being insulted leads to being accepted into the Dartmouth family, than so be it. After all, we have all been the worst class ever, and it may be the satisfaction given to upperclassmen during this ritual that will ultimately redeem us from our worthlessness as a class. Believe it or not, but we do need you guys more than ever as stress, homesickness and bad time management are beginning to get to us, and I am begging you: Give us a chance!
Editor's Note
Homecoming is the quintessential Dartmouth weekend. As Baker Tower shines its green light and alumni stream back to their old home, students put down their pens and laptops and run from the classrooms of Dartmouth Hall, the labs of Wilder and the stacks of Berry to the bonfire and the sunburn that comes with it.
Security stepped up for weekend
As members of the Class of 2011 run 111 times around the bonfire and alumni flock to campus to relive old traditions, it falls on Safety and Security to ensure that everyone stays safe in the process.