While looking through The Dartmouth’s archives in preparation for this issue, I came across an interesting sentence in a Verbum Ultimum from April 1969. Discussing the overwhelming student participation in a referendum on reopening faculty discussions of the U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Officer Training Program, the Editorial Board of long ago wrote that the turnout “dispelled the common notion that has existed on this campus for as long as we can remember: that of the apathy of the Dartmouth student.”
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On May 6, 1969 at 3:15 p.m., Dartmouth College was in a veritable state of chaos.
Carrying “hammers, nails, and padlocks” a group of 75 students ran into Parkhurst and calmly explained to those inside that they were about to take the building over. As Corey Wishengrad ‘96 states in his senior honors thesis “Incinerating a Dog and Other Stories of Protest at Dartmouth College, 1966-1971,” “the activists entered the building, methodically filled its offices, explained that those inside were in the midst of a takeover, and told them they must leave.”
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Imagine a clear, sunny day: you grab a poetry anthology and head outside to do some reading, and there, right in the midst of your Keats, you see 400 students in fatigues marching across the Green.
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By Rembert Browne
In 2001, Jake Gyllenhaal starred in a movie that changed my life forever. That movie was “Bubble Boy,” and along with “The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones,” it was one of the few movies that I brought to college. After watching “Bubble Boy” again last weekend, I began to see parallels between that movie and Dartmouth. You might want to hold on to something, because I am about to rock your world.
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Oh boy, stop Blitzing me about your lost jacket/iPod/wallet/libido/dignity. I don’t have them. And if I did, I’m not giving them back. Even if there is a “$$$$ REWARD.”
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Okay, Dartmouth, I think it’s time we had a little chat. Things have gotten out of hand. Sure, everything looks the same as winters past: TDX has a slide, my roommate Tess is in tights and Uggs, and the sculpture is slowly melting into an indiscernible lump. But under the surface, the seamier characters of our College scene are gaining momentum and, if we let them, are threatening to ruin Dartmouth life as we know it. That’s right. It’s time to declare war on campus crime.
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This past week, I came to a sobering, depressing realization. The latest, newest technology is not necessarily the best. As I eagerly waited half an hour for my computer to update itself to the latest version of its operating system, I envisioned that when it was done, I would have a computer free of bothersome bugs, glitches and ever-annoying blips. My fantasy world of make-believe lasted all of 26 hours. Then, in quick succession, my computer coughed up on connecting to Dartmouth Secure and refused to shut down until I gave it the dreaded sustained finger jab. Time to start waiting for the next series of updates.
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Once again, full skirts impeccably hemmed to the mid-calf, exaggerated cinched waists and gorgeously flaunted collar bones and bustlines are back. Trends personified by Grace Kelly and Christian Dior’s “flower women” highlighted women’s curves in the 1950s. Wearing what became known as the “New Look,” Dior’s women were feminized and ready to bloom. And fifty years later, after flower women, flower-power, power suits and what can only be described as the current all-around new millennium motley mode, ’50s classics are back.
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Girl [about Winter Carnival]: The size was small, but the enjoyment was large.
‘10 TriDelt: I don’t even smoke. I am just so hungry.
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Taylor Campbell ‘11, President of MEaD
What is Medieval Enthusiasts at Dartmouth?
MEaD is a group of people who are interested in medieval recreation and ideas and food and culture and games. Our College group is known as The Inn at Knottyng Cross. The world is divided into several kingdoms; most of the East Coast and Canada are the East Kingdom, and New Hampshire is specifically known as the barony of Stonemarche.
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