Green Key arrests down from 2006
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Although the sun only made a cameo appearance for this year's Green Key, the weekend was, as usual, packed with events.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Although the sun only made a cameo appearance for this year's Green Key, the weekend was, as usual, packed with events.
The NBA has long been an image-conscious entity, striving for mass acceptance. Starting in the 1980s with Magic and Bird, then with Jordan in the late 1990s, the league achieved record popularity.
In this week's column, Hodes and I decided to take a closer look at the increasingly stringent nature of the NFL and NBA conduct policies, and decide which of the two was getting more out of hand.
This summer, the Dartmouth rowing program will host the men's national under-23 training and selection camp.
Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff With this year's cold winter a thing of the past, Dartmouth's new Floren Varsity House will be going through the final phases of construction over the next few months.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff As evidenced by the high readership of "The Dartmouth Independent's" article on fraternity ratings by "Sweet '09 Frat Dude," everybody loves to stereotype fraternities, and a major component of fraternity stereotypes is the perceived athletic affiliations at each house.
It is generally accepted by most who play video games that those that are adapted from movies are usually not very good.
Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes The Big Green hit Hanover this weekend.
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.
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.