As this year’s beloved Homecoming weekend approaches, in sync with perfect fall weather and visibly heightened anticipation, I can’t help but feel nostalgic as I remember my own freshman Homecoming weekend, when I was so naive, and so utterly clueless. I think back on my first big weekend, my first big dive into Dartmouth social life, and think of how new it all was to me. I remember embracing this new beer-centric lifestyle with full force that weekend, calling all my friends from home on Sunday to brag about the wonders of mediocre beer, general disregard for hygiene and parties to which you didn’t necessarily have to wear dresses and heels. I was in heaven. Thinking back on similar phone calls home from various big weekends and sophomore summer — in which I used drinking beer and barbecuing all day as selling points for why Dartmouth is vastly superior in terms in fun — I couldn’t help but wonder: Since when did my party habits and my idea of a good time become so,well, fratty?
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The College on the Hill is an idyllic setting for an education and for the formation of life-long bonds of friendship, but I and many others were ready to move on when we graduated. The prospect of shedding a beer gut, resuming my function as a normal human being in society, and becoming a real, bonafide adult — albeit in graduate school — was deliciously appealing. Then six members of the Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni decided to sue the College.
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The lawsuit brought against the College by six Association of Alumni executives highlights a fundamental point about Dartmouth that seems ironic these days: Alumni love the place. The lawsuit is a result of their deep devotion to the value of community that Dartmouth itself instilled in them.
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To the Editor:
The Dartmouth’s editorial staff should check with their own writers to get their facts straight before forming and presenting opinions (“An Old Tradition Fails, Again,” Oct. 12). A majority of the Association of Alumni’s executive committee composed a communication to students, in follow-up to the one sent to them by College President James Wright. This was noted in the statement itself. Our message was given to a student volunteer for emailing. Apparently the “from” field in the email only referred to the association, rather than the correct “majority of the executive committee.”
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