Students anticipate weekend traditions
Winter Carnival offers students a chance to celebrate despite the freezing temperatures that define Hanover's grimmest season.
Winter Carnival offers students a chance to celebrate despite the freezing temperatures that define Hanover's grimmest season.
It was one of the coldest days of the term, bright and clear despite sub-zero temperatures. Skating on Occom Pond seemed the quaint sort of winter activity that would make a beautiful but cold day enjoyable.
Since the first Winter Carnival in 1910, snow sculptures, ski races and parties in fraternity basements have defined the celebration.
To fight off the winter chill, Dartmouth's peer institutions engage in winter celebrations ranging from parties and winter traditions to academic-themed events.
Over Winter Carnival weekend, Safety and Security and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services will increase campus presence and patrol in anticipation of greater activity and potential hazards caused by the cold weather, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne and Dartmouth EMS executive director Nick Valentini '13 said.
Correction appended In keeping with tradition, Greek houses are hosting a variety of parties over Winter Carnival weekend from Feb.
This year's Winter Carnival will feature the weekend's traditional events inspired by the theme "A Very Grimm Carnival," a tribute to the Grimm Brothers' dark fairy tales, Winter Carnival Council co-chair Mandy Bowers '14 said. While the council hoped to revive previously canceled events, as of press time, a second year of unseasonably warm weather prompted the cancellation of the campus-wide snow sculpture contest and the Carni Classic, a cross-country ski race on the Hanover Country Club golf course. On Thursday evening, Winter Carnival opened with ceremonies on the Green.
Hanover businesses are expecting a flurry of economic activity over Winter Carnival weekend, according to local store owners and employees. Hanover dining staples, such as the Canoe Club and Lou's Restaurant and Bakery, are preparing for an influx of visitors, including alumni and their families.
DO NOT under any circumstances eat any of your meals in town, unless you want to dine alongside alums enjoying legality in Hanover with $2 margaritas or karaoke at Salt Hill Pub. If you see beer other than Keystone in the basement, don't touch it.
The Winter Carnival celebrations that Dartmouth students now enjoy began as a mere field day in 1910 after a single student, Fred Harris '11, proposed in The Dartmouth that students should take greater advantage of the opportunities the frigid Hanover weather presents for showcasing winter sports. Since then, the weekend has seen beauty pageants, the mental breakdown of an American literary giant and a number of particularly rowdy fraternity parties. At its inception, Winter Carnival, which was then known as "Winter Meet," involved ski races, hockey games and other sporting events held around Occom Pond.
You're hanging out with your public policy textbook and KAF chai latte in the 1902 Room because it's totally trendy and totally hardcore.
It's no secret that Hanover winters are generally pretty rough, and for some people they're much rougher than for others.
As our favorite alumnus Dr. Seuss once said: "The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Whenever people hear that I'm from Chicago, they automatically assume I'm fine with the cold.
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You look outside your window and all you see is a sheet of white. You check your iPhone weather app to try to assuage yourself and just disregard the number, not even believing it can get this cold.
When the temperatures start to drop and the sun goes into hibernation for weeks at time, there is a very good chance you will find me camped out on the floor of my room, hidden in a blanket cocoon and living off peanut butter, dry cereal and whatever else I can eat without leaving my little bubble-within-a-bubble.
Dear Gardner, There is a girl that I've had a crush on since we were freshman floormates, but she seems so perfect that I've never gotten up the courage to ask her out.
"Heathers," the '80s cult classic high school drama features some of the best hair and best outfits ever shown in feature-length film. "Drop Dead Gorgeous," a mockumentary about beauty pageant contestants in Minnesota.