As part of the Multicultural Fair and Black Arts Festival, the Dickinson Society of Hispanic Students sponsored a lecture given by Dr. Francisco Villagran, the former Ambassador of Guatemala. The lecture was held on March 2nd in Memorial Hall. The president and vice-president of the Society of...

Lorrie Moore, an author and former graduate from Cornell, was hosted by the English department on March 9th. Moore, who had been praised for her use of realism and humor, read selections from Self-Help, a collection of short stories, and her new novel Anagrams. The readings...

Earth Week, sponsored by the Environmental Science and American Studies departments, began on April 14th. DARE (Dickinsonians Advocating Resourcefulness with our Environment) was also involved in this program: it was their first big educational program. Some of the events that were hosted during...

Sibylle Niemoller, the widow to Martin Niemoller who resisted Adolf Hitler directly in World War II and eventually became his "personal prisoner" in a concentration camp by 1945, came to talk to Dickinson students on April 25th, 1988. She spoke of her experiences  and her parents experiences in...

On October 20th, Dickinson hosted, as part of the Bicentennial Forum , a lecture entitled "The Presidential Campaign." The lecture and debate discussed negative campaigning and the candidates' rights to privacy. The talk was held in the Rubendall Recital Hall in Weiss. L. Patrick Devlin...

The 1989 Public Affairs Symposium started on February 19th. The Symposium started with a lecture, the topic was the American family of 1989, given by Professor Eleanor Holmes Norton. Norton was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University of Law Center. 

Niel Weillver, an oil painter, delivered the Robert H. and Jane Weiner lecture on March 13th at 8 p.m. in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Weillver discussed his paintings, which were part of the painterly realist school, and how they developed from a cross between abstract expressionism and...

Moshe Waldocks, co-author of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, presented a lecture on Jewish humor on Saturday, April 1st. The talk was sponsored by the College's Hillel and was hosted in the dining hall. 

Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey from 1981-89 and President of Drew University from 1990-2005, addressed the College as part of the 1990 Commencement exercises. Governor Kean also received an honorary degree from the College.

Dr. Wilford Scott, Director of Adult Programs for the National Gallery of Art, led a common hour discussion entitled "Interpretations of Visual Documents of Our Past" in conjunction with a Trout Gallery exhibit on art of the American West.

In observance of Holocaust Memorial Week, an exhibit chronicling the Holocaust was displayed in the HUB Social Hall. Arnie Joseph, translator at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, also addressed the campus during Common Hour.