Imagine meandering among succulent cacti, smelling a lemon blossom and admiring orchid blossoms... in Hanover.
Student groups are working to alert the campus to the alarming rates of HIV infection in the black community as part of a national campaign that began last Friday with National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Volunteers distributed informational pamphlets and condoms at Collis on Friday to passersby, many of whom were apparently unaware of the AIDS epidemic that has come to be the leading cause of death for black males between 25 and 44 years old. "People don't know that this is a great problem in the black community," Aritetsoma Ukueberuwa '04, leader of the Student Global AIDS Campaign, one of two organizations behind the push to inform the Dartmouth community, said. Regarded as a risk solely for the gay and white community in the early 1980s, HIV and AIDS infection among blacks has continued to mushroom in past years even as overall rates have leveled off. Although blacks constitute 12 percent of the total population, they accounted for half of all new HIV cases reported in 2001, according to the Center for Disease Control. 35 percent of all AIDS patients have been African-American, and by the end of 2001 more than 168,000 African-Americans had died from AIDS. While the national campaign focused on 16 cities where AIDS concerns are most pressing, the Student Global AIDS Campaign and Concerned Black Students, an appendage of the Afro-American Society, will continue to bring the the message to Dartmouth throughout this week. CBS will hold a discussion on AIDS in the black community on Thursday, and the SGAC will send a pamphlet to all black students on campus by the end of the week. "AIDS I think in the global community affects the poverty-stricken areas, so students at Dartmouth might feel removed from that," Ukueberuwa said. Race and ethnicity alone are not risk factors for infection.
Snowfall deters some would-be swimmers, but 150 students -- and a Psi U dog -- turn out
Despite delay, College will hire tenure-track prof. on schedule
County Coroner says cause of death remains unknown
A student-run environmental petition drew 500 signatories to an empty beer keg in the Collis Center Friday, in an effort to convince administrators to ease keg restrictions at campus parties. "Do you enjoy kegs and have 30 seconds to support them?" Environmental Conservation Organization representatives working to reduce aluminum can waste asked passers-by. The College's current alcohol policy, revised last term, allows the consumption of alcohol from kegs only at parties that have been registered with the Office of Residential Life.
A defining Dartmouth tradition, Winter Carnival has had many faces in its 93-year history. Starting as a humble field day, Carnival has evolved into one of the biggest events on campus and over the decades has included athletic competitions, evening balls, beauty pageants and even TV commercials in the years since its founding in 1910. The first Winter Carnival, the brainchild of Dartmouth Outing Club founder Fred Harris '11, was envisioned as a way for Dartmouth students to take advantage of the school's prime location for winter sports.
Renowned fusion band musicians Joseph and Byron Bowie to highlight Saturday evening's show
Tonight at Spaulding Auditorium there will be zany sketch comedy, celebrity guest hosts and great music, all in front of a live audience.
Alumni reminisce about fireworks, busloads of visitors arriving from across New England
Partner, remember the hills? The gray, barren, bleak old hills We knew so well. Not those gentle, placid slopes that swell In lazy undulations, lush and green. No: the real hills, the jagged crests, The sharp and sheer-cut pinnacles of earth That stand against the azure -- gaunt, serene, Careless of all out little worsts and bests, Our sorrow and our mirth. Partner, remember the hills? Those snow-crowned battlements of hills We loved of old. They stood so calm, so inscrutable and cold, Somehow it seemed they never cared at all For you or me, our fortune or our fall. And yet we felt their thrall And, ever and forever to the end, We shall not cease, my friend, To hear their call. Partner, remember the hills? The grim and massive majesty of hills That soared so far, Seeming, at night, to scrape against a star. Do you remember how we lay at night And watched the moonshine -- white Against the peaks all garlanded with snow While soft and low The night wind murmured in our ears -- And so We wrapped our blankets closer, looked again At those great, shadowy mountaintops, and then Sank gently to our deep And quiet sleep. Partner, remember the hills? The real hills, the true hills. Ah!
Women's Basketball faces Ivy foes Yale, Brown this weekend
A Note from the Editors
Safety measures at College-sponsored Polar Bear Swim include presence of on-site emergency personnel
The Dartmouth Green may be the only locale on this side of Middle-Earth fitting enough to host a giant snow statuette of the wizard Gandalf holding none other than -- a pair of skis. Though in past years carried out exclusively by the Winter Carnival Council, according to Jeffrey Burns Woodward '06, one of five chairs of the project, the Dartmouth Outing Club assumed the responsibility of designing and building the 25-foot tall sculpture this winter.
This weekend, Baker Tower becomes green, open to visitors
Admittedly, for a sizable portion of upperclassmen, the consensus is that winter is the ideal term to scratch an "L," "T" or "O" into one's D-plan.
ATHLETICS Friday, Feb. 7 9:30 a.m.Women's Giant Slalom 1st run, Dartmouth Skiway 10 a.m.
The big three -- Homecoming, Winter Carnival and Green Key -- have an almost cult-like appeal to them.
The Dartmouth community may gather this weekend to venerate one ring to rule them all, but they won't be celebrating around one rink as they have in the past.