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Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff There is one word that inspires dread in the souls of all Dartmouth students.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff There is one word that inspires dread in the souls of all Dartmouth students.
After a term marked by freak snowstorms that lasted through April, this month it finally felt as though spring had arrived.
Phil Woram / The Dartmouth Staff The 2006 bonfire embers have long since died, and the snow sculpture seems to have melted ages ago.
Free food and warm weather are the foundation for success of this year's non-Greek Green Key events, according to Green Key Society President JeanCarlos Bonilla '08. "At this point people are low on DBA, so people pretty much take the free food that they can get," Bonilla said. For the first time this year, VEG Roast, a vegetarian barbecue, will be included on the schedule, slated to take place on Saturday afternoon on the Collis porch.
To college students nationwide, spring is often less about April showers and May flowers than it is about hot weather, rock concerts and an abundance of alcohol.
Just as the number of partygoers in Dartmouth basements will be augmented by the visiting alumni during Green Key, security forces at the College also plan to bolster their efforts this weekend.
Generally, after a night of big-weekend celebration, many students are faced with the decision of whether to skip their 10 a.m.
Once bussed into Hanover for big-weekend dances in the years before co-education and now throwing parties in their own sorority houses, the role that women have played over Green Key Weekend has changed greatly throughout Dartmouth's history. Before the College became coeducational in 1972, up to 1000 women would travel to Hanover by bus, train or car for Green Key weekend as the male students' dates.
It's just before midnight on the Friday of Green Key Weekend, and you're feeling good. After weeks of practice, you've finally perfected the dance moves you've been saving up just for tonight. But, abruptly, you find that you are dancing with yourself.
Sleepovers on the golf course, 40-piece orchestras, mayoral elections and piano smashing contests -- just a few of the elements that have characterized Green Key weekend over its 108-year history.
As local businesses and high school students prepare for Green Key Weekend, residents of the town of Hanover will not be as much of a presence on campus as they tend to be over Homecoming and Winter Carnival -- a difference attributable to the insular focus of most of the weekend's activities. "Your average town resident doesn't even know what's going on," Town Manager Julia Griffin said.
This weekend, you may find yourself waiting behind a group of people using real money in the line at FoCo. Later that night in a frat basement, you might even be paired up with someone who seems like they haven't seen a paddle in more than a year.
Although it will play only a minimal role in the upcoming weekend, current Green Key Society members will attempt to reunite the organization and the weekend, while simultaneously expanding the group's reach on campus. "We want to expand the Green Key Society to not just be a service for the College, but to be more proactive and be more visible on campus," Green Key Society President JeanCarlos Bonilla '08 said.
The bands have been booked, the kegs have been tagged and the grills have been cleaned as the College's fraternities and sororities prepare for the 2007 Green Key weekend.
Green Key is not known for its tradition of culinary fare. It's not particularly known for much, actually, apart from drinking.
Now that Tubestock has tragically gone the way of the Tamagachi, CBGBs, scripted television and (shortly) Lindsay Lohan's acting career, this weekend marks the arrival of Dartmouth's undisputed Best Big Weekend.
The national press hasn't put it in so many words, but they have been tripping over themselves clamoring about what Wednesday's New York Times called "the astonishing competitive crunch at the top." Astonishing! Lest we forget, the top is us.
I hate game playing. I think it's retarded. It's a waste of time. Being direct is the easiest and most efficient way to get what you want in every other aspect of life, so why should the matter of courtship be any different? It shouldn't, but it is.
What is it about disaster relief? Before Mississippi, I'd never done real physical labor, never seen a place like hurricane camp.