Profs hold x-hours in place of Friday classes
Generally, after a night of big-weekend celebration, many students are faced with the decision of whether to skip their 10 a.m.
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.
As local businesses and high school students prepare for Green Key Weekend, residents of the town of Hanover will not be as much of a presence on campus as they tend to be over Homecoming and Winter Carnival -- a difference attributable to the insular focus of most of the weekend's activities. "Your average town resident doesn't even know what's going on," Town Manager Julia Griffin said.
This weekend, you may find yourself waiting behind a group of people using real money in the line at FoCo. Later that night in a frat basement, you might even be paired up with someone who seems like they haven't seen a paddle in more than a year.
Although it will play only a minimal role in the upcoming weekend, current Green Key Society members will attempt to reunite the organization and the weekend, while simultaneously expanding the group's reach on campus. "We want to expand the Green Key Society to not just be a service for the College, but to be more proactive and be more visible on campus," Green Key Society President JeanCarlos Bonilla '08 said.
The bands have been booked, the kegs have been tagged and the grills have been cleaned as the College's fraternities and sororities prepare for the 2007 Green Key weekend.
Green Key is not known for its tradition of culinary fare. It's not particularly known for much, actually, apart from drinking.
Now that Tubestock has tragically gone the way of the Tamagachi, CBGBs, scripted television and (shortly) Lindsay Lohan's acting career, this weekend marks the arrival of Dartmouth's undisputed Best Big Weekend.
The national press hasn't put it in so many words, but they have been tripping over themselves clamoring about what Wednesday's New York Times called "the astonishing competitive crunch at the top." Astonishing! Lest we forget, the top is us.
I hate game playing. I think it's retarded. It's a waste of time. Being direct is the easiest and most efficient way to get what you want in every other aspect of life, so why should the matter of courtship be any different? It shouldn't, but it is.
What is it about disaster relief? Before Mississippi, I'd never done real physical labor, never seen a place like hurricane camp.
In my desire to discover the true definition of "intellectualism," I discovered absolutely nothing at all except that it can't be defined.
With temperatures mounting, it seems that spring has finally arrived. While some are starting to break out the seersucker, in this week's column, we are longing for a change in taste -- for spring (and, dare we say it, early summer) delectables! Eager to leave behind last season's palate, we decided we wanted ice cream, watermelon wedges, corn on the cob or anything outside and grilled.
An in-depth analysis of intellectualism in campus conversation
I have to admit that before I met English Professor Michael Chaney, I was skeptical of the validity of the graphic novel (or comic book, the terms are essentially interchangable) and oblivious to its role in literature.
While graphic novel creation may be up and running in White River Junction, in its burgeoning stages at Dartmouth, students have still managed to produce impressive cartoon works.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff I don't understand comics.
Carlos Mejia: That's why we're not a democracy in this country, we're a republic. Travis Green: I think we can make Novack a happier place. Mejia: There were so many diverse groups there ... there were women there. Jaromy Siporen: Heorot's always on probation. Green: You can't say the Greek system is flawless, we have our weaknesses... I mean, maybe you can say it's flawless. Siporen: We can end the monopoly of Sunja's Sushi. Raj Koganti (drawing a model on the board): Success Siporen: I've lived through everything. Nova Robinson: We need to centralize, not neutralize. Student Assembly presidential candidates say dumb things (at debates, no less). Overhear something else?