Weekend trouble numbers
The following are numbers provided by Rebel Roberts of Safety and Security from last year's Green Key Weekend. Disorderly conduct 3 Open container 9 Miscellaneous 2 Inebriates 11 Possession by a minor 5
The following are numbers provided by Rebel Roberts of Safety and Security from last year's Green Key Weekend. Disorderly conduct 3 Open container 9 Miscellaneous 2 Inebriates 11 Possession by a minor 5
When students formed the Green Key Society in 1921, it was intended to be a community service centered organization.
This year marks the 73rd Green Key Weekend in Dartmouth's history. For some this will be their first experience with the most popular spring event; for others, it is old hat. But all can agree the event has changed dramatically since its conception in 1899. "Hanover is God's gift to women this weekend as hundreds of the proverbially fair sex invade the New Hampshire plain from the world at large.
The Programming Board and various student musical groups have planned a variety of performances for Green Key Weekend. For the kick off event,last night the Programming Board welcomed alternative bands, Cracker and The Meat Puppets who played in Webster Hall last night. Tonight, the annual Spring Sing will be held in Spaulding Auditorium at 8.
For the first time in its 73-year history, Green Key Weekend has a theme but Director of Student Planning Linda Kennedy said this is not a "monumental decision." The Programming Board, which Kennedy advises instituted the theme -- "Helldorado." The Programming Board has a hand in almost every event on campus this weekend and master-minded the planning of Saturday's festivals on the Green. Chair of the Programming Board's Green Key Planning Committee Kerri Cavanaugh '95 said the committee decided to have a theme so Saturday's events would not "be simply 'the event on the Green.'" Kennedy said she has been planning a trip West with her family and has come across summer festivals in the West called "Helldorado." She said she suggested it to the committee and they decided to try it.
O, but Green Key Weekend has grown tame indeed! Soon younger alumni and students will begin celebrating the legendary party weekend, but as with most legends, past splendors have faded into a far more boring present. Though they try hard, today's revellers can not begin to match the hard-partying ethic of their forbears. "My recollection only is that Green Key was the best," Gordon Thomas '49 said.
For 74 years, the Green Key Society has served the College performing various community services. The two biggest services of the honorary society for juniors are welcoming new students at Freshman Orientation and bidding farewell at Commencement ceremonies. "Anytime a different office sends a request, the Green Key Society helps to do the job," Green Key President Kaja Schuppert '95 said. Other activities for the Green Key Society include Student Activities Night and the Horizons Program for alumni.
For the athletically inclined, the Programming Board will introduce the Green Key Olympics this year to this spring weekend's list of events. The first Green Key Olympics is part of an effort by the College Programming Board to find "something [they] could do on the Green that everyone would enjoy," said Brian Greenberg '95, a member of the Programming Board. The Olympics are decathlon-style and "will feature a series of traditionaland not-so-traditional, country-fair games," Greenberg said. The decathlon events will include: a pie eating contest, tricycle race, Collis bagel shot put, Thayer Dinning Hall tray discus toss, three-legged race, basketball shooting contest and a long-distance egg toss. Competition in the Olympics is open to any organization, dorm, society or group of friends.
ALPHA CHI ALPHA -- On Friday night, these brothers will host one of the funkiest New York alternative bands , Thin Lizard Dawn, from 10 p.m.
The main event of Green Key's Helldorado theme consists of a festival on the Green on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. In addition to the planned musical events, the Green Key Planning Committee has developed a series of booths, contests, musical programs and events in celebration of Green Key Weekend. Kerri Cavanaugh '95, chair of the committee, said she hopes the event will be successful. "In the past people stop [at the Green] on their way to somewhere else," Cavanaugh said.
Nathaniel Cook '94 and David Robb '94 will face the Committee on Standards in a public hearing today for allegedly violating the College's hazing policy. The proceedings are scheduled for 2 p.m.
Three experts on global trade faced off yesterday afternoon to debate the future of trade barriers and human-rights issues in world commerce. About 150 people gathered in Cook Auditorium to hear representatives from Japan, the European Union and the United States discuss their nation's roles in the future of world trade. Each of the participants gave a short address detailing his views about the evolution of world trade and the results of the latest round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, a multinational agreement designed to reduce trade barriers. The agreement resulting from the latest round of GATT negotiations, which was signed by more than 100 countries on April 15 after seven years of wrangling, will create a World Trade Organization intended to increase the ease of liberalizing global commerce. The three panelists agreed that although the treaty did not meet its original expectations it was still successful because it significantly reduced trade barriers and addressed areas not covered under previous agreements. The GATT is "one of the most important developments in world trade in the postwar period," said Andreas van Agt, the European Union's ambassador to America and former prime minister of the Netherlands. But all three stressed the need to continue the liberalization of trade. Masahisa Naitoh, a former director-general in Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defended his nation's trade surplus with the United States and Europe. Although noting that America runs a massive trade deficit with Japan, Naitoh said per capita consumption of American goods by the Japanese is higher than per capita consumption of Japanese goods by Americans. "Perception does not always fit reality," he said. But American businesses have difficulty penetrating Japanese markets, said Joseph Massey, a professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration who was recently appointed head of Tuck's new Whittemore Center for International Business. The experts also discussed the role of human rights in trade issues.
Montgomery Fellow and literary critic Geoffrey Hartman spoke about different aspects of dealing with the Holocaust experience to faculty and students in a packed Loew auditorium last night. Hartman, who is lecturing at the College throughout May, delivered a speech titled "Reading the Wound: Testimony, Art and Trauma" and showed part of a documentary featuring interviews with Holocaust survivors. "Video testimony retrieves deep memory," Hartman said.
Labor Secretary Robert Reich '68 and six others will receive honorary degrees at the 224th Commencement exercises in June, the College announced yesterday. The College confirmed that Reich will speak June 12 to the Class of 1994 at Commencement if President Bill Clinton does not attend. Clinton was invited by College President James Freedman but has not yet confirmed.
This summer the Fayer-weather cluster of dormitories will undergo substantial renovations and the Choates cluster of dorms will get some minor ones. The $750,000 renovations to the Fayerweathers will include the installation of carpeting throughout the cluster, new lighting, new furniture and improvements to the heating system to reduce pipe banging, said Woody Eckels, director of residential operations. In addition, rooms will be painted, a sprinkler system will be installed and the computer and phone wiring will be upgraded, Eckels said. The renovations will be similar to the ones made last summer to New Hampshire Hall, Eckels said. "The Fayerweathers are also getting new emergency generators for emergency equipment when the power goes out," Eckels said.
Dr. Samuel Betances, a sociologist from Northeastern Illinois University, cried out against certain aspects of the U.S.
College President James Freedman yesterday appointed Colin Blaydon, a former dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, as interim Tuck dean. Blaydon will take over when the current dean, Edward Fox, leaves on Sept.
Administrators are beginning to consider the specifics of tearing down most of the old Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital buildings, which stand nearly vacant on the north side of campus. Director of Facilities Planning Gordon DeWitt said the abandoned hospital will not be demolished in a spectacular explosion, but rather will be stripped and gradually destroyed by the end of 1995 or the beginning of 1996. About 400,000 square feet of the old hospital complex, including the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Faulkner building and its adjacent clinic, will be eliminated to make way for a new psychology building, greenery and parking space, DeWitt said. Only the radiation therapy department in the two underground floors of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center is currently being used, though the hospital may move some administrative offices into the cancer center this summer, DeWitt said. Some organizations, including the Academic Skills Department, Office of Student Life and Career Services, were temporarily located in the Norris Cotton Cancer Center while the new Collis Center was under construction. When the radiation center moves to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1995 or 1996, the complex of old hospital buildings will be destroyed, DeWitt said. A security company patrols the buildings after working hours and on weekends, Associate Director of Facilities, Operations and Management John Gratiot said. At various times before and during demolition, possibly as soon as next winter, attempts will be made to salvage all valuable items from the hospital, DeWitt said.
As a result of a vote at Hanover's annual town meeting last night, town officials will reopen discussion of the proposed plan for the replacement of Ledyard Bridge. The vote marks the culmination of months of lobbying by a group called Friends of the Ledyard Bridge that wants to downsize plans for the bridge's reconstruction. But state and federal officials say the plans are final and Hanover officials do not think the town's efforts will lead to any significant alterations. Construction is scheduled to begin in 1996. Following a series of public hearings last spring, state transportation officials adopted a plan to rebuild Ledyard Bridge, which is on New Hampshire's "Red List" of most structurally-deficient roadways in the state. The plan calls for a two-lane bridge with a 16-foot median down the center and a sidewalk and bike path on both sides.
Conservative television political analyst Angela "Bay" Buchanan said yesterday afternoon that American government must move toward eliminating welfare to save the nation's families. "A strong family is the basic ingredient of a great nation," Buchanan said.