Obviously you aren't coming to Dartmouth just because it had the best looking brochure highlighting the beautiful campus and countless extracurricular options.
A new honor society last week inducted 142 students in an Alumni Hall ceremony. The group, called the Golden Key Honor Society, is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors who have a minimum 3.5 grade point average. Golden Key, a national organization represented at 182 schools, is targeting Ivy League institutions beginning with Dartmouth as sites for new chapters, according to Brenda Edison, the chapter president here. Members pay a $45 fee which contributes to scholarships, conventions, a publication called Concepts and the salaries of the national organization workers who start chapters and work through the red tape. But some students who were invited to join the group said the $45 membership fee was too burdensome. "After reading the literature, it didn't seem worthwhile to pay $45 for a society that was essentially honorary in nature," said Steve Fagell '95 who was asked to join but refused. "I questioned what the student gets out of it," he said.
Saturday afternoon, 109 people participated in the third annual Peter A. McKernan Memorial Biathlon, a race made up of a three-mile run on Rip Road and an eight-mile bike race on the Etna loop. Participants joined the event, a tribute to Peter McKernan '93 who died of cardiac arrest in the winter of 1991, to help raise money for the scholarship fund named in his honor. The $10 contribution per participant amounted to a $1090 donation to the scholarship fund.