Alumni and 'shmen sweep campus

Every year, the freshman class takes a major part in defining the character of Homecoming Weekend by building, and then running around, a huge bonfire with the last two digits of their year on its top. According to tradition, the class year dictates the number of tiers the bonfire is constructed of, as well as the number of times the freshmen circle the blazing structure on Dartmouth Night. This year's Freshman Bonfire Committee was faced with a special problem when they planned the impressive structure now being constructed in the center of the Green. The problem: how many tiers for the Class of '01? Rather than erect one lonely tier which the freshman class would run around exactly once, the Class of 2001 is building 101 tiers, some of them made of popsicle sticks, in a two-day marathon construction process consisting of eight two-hour shifts from 8 a.m.