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The Dartmouth Date: 10 Jun 2007 09:30:00 From: Current Undergraduates Reply-To: stilltrappedinthebubble Subject: Commencement To: graduating.seniors@Alum.Dartmouth.Org Congratulations, you've made it!
The Dartmouth Date: 10 Jun 2007 09:30:00 From: Current Undergraduates Reply-To: stilltrappedinthebubble Subject: Commencement To: graduating.seniors@Alum.Dartmouth.Org Congratulations, you've made it!
Alpha Phi arrives, Tubestock bids adieu junior year
/ The Dartmouth During their last year on campus, members of the Class of 2007 saw Dartmouth tackle issues ranging from racial tension to alumni governance -- debates which at times thrust the College into the national spotlight. Arriving back on campus for Fall term, students were greeted by a changed landscape, as the Tuck Mall and McLaughlin Residential Clusters and academic buildings Kemeny Hall and Haldeman Center opened in September. This year's fall rush process likewise saw a new addition.
The intricacies of Dartmouth culture have become so convoluted in my mind that I'm not exactly sure if this observation is profound or blindingly obvious: sex, even the casual kind, is about connection. Over the course of the last six months I have collected a lot of survey comments from a lot of people, and a significant portion of them have expressed feelings of frustration, isolation and loneliness.
I'd like everyone to meet Guillermo Olivos '05. You may know him as Will Olivos -- he didn't go by his real name until Biloxi.
At times Dartmouth's location can be a challenge for the student body's many city-dwellers. The lack of exotic entertainment, diverse array of restaurants, shopping locales, hustle and bustle of everyday life and efficient public transportation can make Hanover, N.H.
The term is finally winding down and for a good quarter of the campus's population, each dwindling day brings the bittersweet possibility of last chances.
'08 Sig Delt: I've been blacked out half of my life ... does that make me younger? '08 Kappa: Kappa gets too much Overheard facetime.
I know my tens of readers will be disappointed (we just hit double-digits!), but this marks the end of my run here at The D.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff There is one word that inspires dread in the souls of all Dartmouth students.
After a term marked by freak snowstorms that lasted through April, this month it finally felt as though spring had arrived.
Phil Woram / The Dartmouth Staff The 2006 bonfire embers have long since died, and the snow sculpture seems to have melted ages ago.
Free food and warm weather are the foundation for success of this year's non-Greek Green Key events, according to Green Key Society President JeanCarlos Bonilla '08. "At this point people are low on DBA, so people pretty much take the free food that they can get," Bonilla said. For the first time this year, VEG Roast, a vegetarian barbecue, will be included on the schedule, slated to take place on Saturday afternoon on the Collis porch.
To college students nationwide, spring is often less about April showers and May flowers than it is about hot weather, rock concerts and an abundance of alcohol.
Just as the number of partygoers in Dartmouth basements will be augmented by the visiting alumni during Green Key, security forces at the College also plan to bolster their efforts this weekend.
Generally, after a night of big-weekend celebration, many students are faced with the decision of whether to skip their 10 a.m.
Once bussed into Hanover for big-weekend dances in the years before co-education and now throwing parties in their own sorority houses, the role that women have played over Green Key Weekend has changed greatly throughout Dartmouth's history. Before the College became coeducational in 1972, up to 1000 women would travel to Hanover by bus, train or car for Green Key weekend as the male students' dates.
It's just before midnight on the Friday of Green Key Weekend, and you're feeling good. After weeks of practice, you've finally perfected the dance moves you've been saving up just for tonight. But, abruptly, you find that you are dancing with yourself.
Sleepovers on the golf course, 40-piece orchestras, mayoral elections and piano smashing contests -- just a few of the elements that have characterized Green Key weekend over its 108-year history.