Writers looking for a little inspiration need not travel further than Main Street, as the Dartmouth Bookstore now carries a new line of interactive greeting cards intended to bring out the creative side in everyone.
Although they share the same moniker, Green Key Society's relationship to Green Key weekend is a tenuous one. The Society was formed in 1921 at the behest of Orton Hicks '21, after he visited the University of Washington as a member of the football team.
The College awarded over $10,000 in prize money to Greek organizations and individuals Monday night at the annual Coed, Fraternity and Sorority Achievement Awards, hosted by the Order of Omega Greek honor society and the Office of Residential Life. The awards fell into six categories representing the Greek communities guiding principles: accountability, service, inclusivity, brotherhood/sisterhood, scholarship and leadership. Collis Commonground was filled for the event as the leaders of Dartmouth's CFS community showed their support. "Greek organizations play an integral role in many aspects of the Dartmouth community and have a profound impact upon campus life" said Order of Omega awards committee co-chair Mary Reynolds '05.
With only a few more classes left and the last day of exams just a week away, Dartmouth students are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and their minds are turning to spring break. "The thought of going to Rome is the only thing keeping me sane right now, in the midst of three final papers, a presentation and finals," Meredith Raucher '06 said. Raucher spent last spring in Rome on a Dartmouth language study abroad program.
Local author and activist Robert Nichols began his term as a Montgomery Fellow Monday. A resident of nearby Thetford, Vt., Nichols said he plans to share his unique worldview with the student body. Born in Worcester, Mass., in 1919, Nichols remembers his childhood being shaped by Charles Lindbergh's first transatlantic flight in 1927. "I remember going up to the attic, and being positioned in the window and told that Lindbergh's plane was coming back after he'd flown to Paris -- I do remember looking in the sky and seeing it fly back," Nichols said. After serving in the Pacific during World War II, Nichols studied at the Harvard School of Design.
Despite common perceptions that classes in the hard sciences have much lower median grades than those in the humanities, a recent study by The Dartmouth reveals that all students are in the same boat. The Dartmouth analyzed the median grades of 13 departments by averaging the median grades of every class offered by those departments in the past year.