Over the past nine weeks, you've spent up to 36 hours looking at your professors. That's 12 hours per professor (give or take a 10a). You noticed things about them.
Evenings cool and days shorten, finals and formals approach and everybody acts personally betrayed by the arrival of August.
Cheers erupted in the Collis Center last Thursday as students tuning in for their weekly viewing of the popular Fox television series "The O.C." heard Adam Brody's character, Seth Cohen, praise Dartmouth at Cornell University's expense. Cohen quipped that another character might have been told her chances were better at Cornell than they were at Dartmouth. Dartmouth's appearance on "The O.C." is just one of many popular portrayals of the College that range from the partying fraternity members of "Animal House" lore to the academic reputation that has earned the College a place among the top 10 universities in U.S.
Instead of scaring people this Halloween, Dartmouth students are donning costumes, baking goods and more to help various community service organizations on campus. Last Friday, members of DREAM, an organization that mentors children from underprivileged communities, enlisted the aid of campus sororities and fraternities to help celebrate an early Halloween.
Religious observances unite, empower community members
At least nine members of the Class of 2009 rushed the football field during halftime at the Homecoming game Saturday, according to Safety and Security officials. The students sprinted across the field, eliciting a roar of encouragement from the crowd as they carried on an infamous Dartmouth tradition. Kimmi Kruge '09, one of the students who rushed the field, said her decision was entirely last minute and that she had never met the students who led the charge. "I figured if a bunch of people were doing it, it wouldn't be that scary," Kruge said.
New ritual, aimed at deterring would-be law-breakers, involves large freshmen "gauntle"
Despite high oil costs and a week of high temperatures, the Office of Residential Life turned on the heat in College buildings over the course of the weekend.
The College and the Student Assembly revamped their advising systems this year to better connect with members of the Class of 2009 who are exploring academics at Dartmouth for the first time this fall. Both students and faculty had criticized the College's old faculty advising system.
As Americans shuddered at fast rising gas prices this summer, 15 Dartmouth students traveled 10,000 miles across the nation and back promoting environmentally friendly transportation in the Big Green Bus, a 37-foot vehicle fueled almost entirely by vegetable oil. After the group completed each day's journey, they met up with Dartmouth alumni, ultimate frisbee players and family friends who hosted the group overnight. The seven members of the group who were approved to drive the bus divided the journeys to their next destinations, which ranged from two or three hour stretches to the overnight journey from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to Seattle. The bus ran primarily on vegetable oil, the same liquid used to fry eggs at the Hopkins Center's Courtyard Cafe, but it also used diesel fuel, or the more environmentally friendly biodiesel fuel, to heat the engine.