Like the Vanguard movement of the 1970s, Puff Daddy (Sean Combs), Bad Boy CEO and entertainer, finds that originality can be a bad thing. Popularized by pop artists such as Andy Warhol and literary staples like Manuel Puig, the Vanguard movement questioned the boundaries of originality.
For Carmen Harden '96 and Natalyn Nails '96, asking eager high school students questions like "What have you tried and failed at?" is a daily routine. Harden and Nails are two of the College's 16 senior interviewers, who work part-time as the student liaisons for the College's extensive admissions team, interviewing about 12 to 15 prospective students each week. In addition to the 16 part-time interviewers the College employees during the regular school year, the admissions office hires five students to serve as full-time senior interviewers over the summer. Nails said she worked as a full-time interviewer last summer. "The full-time position involved more than just interviewing prospective candidates," Nails said.
One year after the College narrowly avoided a potentially massive housing crisis, there are only 96 students on the wait-list for Fall term housing, according to Director of Housing Services Lynn Rosenblum. When housing assignments came out about two weeks ago, 132 students were on the wait-list, Rosenblum said. "Things look good," she said, but added she is not sure if every student who is on the wait-list will be able to get housing this fall. Rosenblum said it is hard to predict whether there will be a housing crunch. "This is my third year here, and there has been a wait-list every fall," she said.
Throughout the Ivy League and other prestigious New England colleges, the arrival of spring is celebrated in a similar way to the College's annual Green Key Weekend. Most colleges and universities around the country and all of the Ivy League schools, with the exception of Harvard University, host some kind of spring celebration usually designed to act as a diversion from impending finals. Princeton University features several events during the Spring which help to bolster school spirit.Communiversity Day, P-Parties, and Spring Fling are among their most recent spring parties. Communiversity Day, which was held on Earth Day, is a day for town residents and students.Stores along the college's main street closed in order to celebrate the events.Vendors and booths selling odds-and-ends (mostly art) sponsored the day, according to Colette Curran, a sophmore. The P-Party headlined the band Toad the Wet Sprocket. Spring Fling also featured area bands including Naildriver, Too much Joy, and Dead Serious.The event was sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government. Although many officials at other schools noted the involvement of drinking and Greek events during their own respective spring festivities, many of the area's collegiate spring weekends have championed activist issues such as AIDS and environmental causes. Columbia's annual spring festival is a huge event for its students.
Executing plays which have been the foundation of Japanese theatre including "No," "Bunraku" and "Kabuki," a troupe of eight Dartmouth students performed a trilogy of famous "No" plays last week and this weekend to audiences at the Moore Theater. The plays, which employed themes steeped in Japanese tradition, were written by Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's most daring and controversial authors.
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With many of the nation's colleges and universities mailing the bulk of their acceptance letters to prospective students this month, two cases have surfaced which can realistically be described as an admissions officer's worst nightmare. In one case, Harvard University rescinded an early admissions acceptance to an honors student who killed her mother at the age of 14.
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Once again, College administrators say next year's class will be the smartest group of first-year students ever, as the College's acceptance rate for the Class of 1999 dipped to 21.6 percent. A little more than 10,000 high-school students applied to be members of the Class of 1999.
When Rukmini Sichitiu '95 took over as Student Assembly President in January, she unveiled a self-described "liberal" agenda that focused on minority and women's issues. However, when she took office, Sichitiu had a much larger task facing her, one which she did not formally list in her agenda: restoring order and direction to an often combative and ill-respected Assembly. Sichitiu, who was initially elected the Assembly vice president, took office after Danielle Moore '95 resigned as Assembly president in November.