During my brief time at Dartmouth, I have been a part of many student organizations on campus. Yet I've never paused to think whether the College actually recognizes the organizations and what they do.
After I received several Facebook group invitations just hours after campaigning had officially begun last week, it was clear that the race for next year's Student Assembly leadership was well underway.
As I attended the College Democrats meeting last Monday, I was positively surprised by the large turnout.
Townies take over Dartmouth! While this might be an exaggeration, it almost felt this way last Thursday, when I tried to get into Filene Auditorium to attend former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer's speech.
"'If you had been elected vice president in 2004,'" asked The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, "'who would you have shot in the face?'" With that statement, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards opened his speech, which was held in Alumni Hall at the Hopkins Center last week.
Last term, I was stressed trying to figure out which classes to take. Indeed, with the amount of options out there and with classes ranging from Anthropology 47 (Hunters and Gatherers) to Math 28 (Introduction to Combinatorics), choosing a course load can be overwhelming.
Noche Dorada, held last weekend, was not at all what I expected. Instead of attending a mere gathering of people enjoying amazing free food and crazy salsa dancing, I was confronted by impassioned speeches from alumni, and an informative address from a professor.
The news that Dartmouth had made the top 50 schools for African-American students, as determined by Black Enterprise magazine, did not provoke any deep feeling.