Addressing the Student Senate meeting, Senate President Lee Tankle apologized for allowing the February 9th resolution to pass without considering the full context of the situation. Art Haüs was unsuccessful in its appeal of suspension.
Student Senate passed a resolution advocating for Art Haüs’s reinstatement. The suspension, in early February 2010, came after the house had been on probation for a “large, unregistered party” in 2008. After a failure to clean the house at the end of the 2009 spring semester, the house was suspended. Arts Haüs rallied students and other organizations through a petition, Facebook group, and letter writing campaign.
Constructed in 1804, Old West was finally recognized on the national level. On April 25, 1963 (now founder's day), Old West was acclaimed by the US Department of the Interior as a national historic landmark.
In a final poll conducted during dinner, 526 students voted on the new name of the Union Station. A previous poll with 22 possible choices was distributed to students in September, and narrowed down to four names on a second ballot: The Mermaid, Union Station, The Atrium, and Devil's Den. The final poll, conducted on October 10th, was between Union Station and Devil's Den.
The former houses standing on the 300-block of West Louther Street were demolished immediately after graduation. The seven new townhouses were not quite complete when they were opened to students the following year, resulting in mixed emotions from new residents. "We are disappointed that we don't have closets and we can't hang anything on the walls yet," as one student explained. A second student expressed that she though the College "overextended itself with all their new projects. But they (townhouses) are very nice".
The anthropology lab, located on the first floor of Denny Hall, was opened, housing human skeletons, Native American artifacts, fossils, and slides of primate fossils. Professor H. Wade Seaford, Jr. was appointed as director of the lab, which was used for both research and teaching.
At a student senate meeting, Financial Vice President, Dr. George Shuman, presented his personal plans for expansion of the Dickinson campus by 1973.
The Women's Center at Dickinson College opened on 222 Church Street. This center, which had been proposed by the President's Commission on the Status of Women, provided a meeting place for omen's groups on campus, offering lectures and exhibits focused on feminist issues.
Dickinson College entered into a contract for the purchase of the Brethren In Christ Church on 301 West Louther Street. The property consisted of a parking lot, sanctuary, and four houses and was quoted as being "probably the largest chunk of property the College has been able to buy in one piece", by James Nicholson, Treasurer of the College. The College took charge of the estimated 28,000 square feet in mid-1985. The College paid $1.25 million for the entire package.
Bosler Hall officially reopened after a year of intensive renovation. The updatesincluded the addition of the Audio-Visual Center, an elevator, restrooms, a handicap ramp, air conditioning, improved heating, and re-purposing the attic into a third floor, leading to an additional 10,000 square feet of usable space.
Denny Hall, home to one-third of the College's classrooms, closed for renovation. Deparments housed in Denny included American Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Military Science, and Sociology. Classes were relocated to Stevens Elementary School on the corner of Franklin and Lincoln Streets, amidst student complaints about the length of the walk and the small size of the temporary facility.
On June 4, 1974 a fire, with unknown origin, started in room 107 in the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House in the Quads. It destroyed one room and caused smoke damage in several other rooms.
The Dickinson College Children's Center (DCCC) was formed by September of 1989. The Center, which was a proposed idea by the Dickinsonians for Daycare group on campus, was temporarily located in Allison United Methodist Church. The permanent facility was located, and still is today, behind the Kline Center and was planned to be open by Thanksgiving of 1989. Roughly, 37 children were enrolled in the program at that time, most of which were "College related children." Many faculty members were excited about this new addition to campus.
The track on Biddle field was improved before the start of the school year of 1989. Rather than keeping their Tartan track surface, Dickinson opted for a newer material, Versaturf-360. This new material, made of rubber and latex, was placed over-top of the old material on the track. This new surface, according to Dr. Les Poolman, was on tracks all across the country and that it was a "super track for training."
A demonstration of almost 1000 students (the largest of its kind held at Dickinson) marched to "Old West" to protest against the proposed designs of two new dorms.
The march was the culmination of a dispute over architectural plans submitted by Howell Louis Shay and associates. The march began at 6.30 p.m. in front of the Arts Center. Here, students gathered to watch as boxes symbolizing the new dormitories were doused with kerosene and set ablaze. Following this, students Tom Fornwalt, Jeffrey Baron and John Exdell readvised participants of the reasons for the march.
The Lumberyard facilities on campus opened on Sunday, April 23rd. President A. Lee Fritschler and junior Laura Spindler, the president of Student Senate, opened the facilities by cutting the ribbon. The space became the multi-purpose place on campus, hosting a variety of social activities.
During the summer of 1987, the Holland Union Building received an upgrade in furniture. Mike Helm, Assistant Treasurer, selected a company called Environmental Interiors of Harrisburg to work on the project. The remodelling cost the College an estimate of $70,000. The project gave the HUB new "cushies" as well as bulletin boards to replace the carpet that had been on the walls.
The President's House, where then current President A. Lee Fritschler lived, was broken into during the late hours of November 2nd, 1987. Throw blankets, three bottles of wine, and the Fritschler's briefcase were stolen. That very same evening the portrait of Charles Nisbet, the first President of the College, was taken from Old West. Eventually, the portrait of Nisbet was found: a caller tipped off the College Police that the painting was on the porch of the President's House. Those who broke into the President's House were also discovered.
The Health Center was moved from the Drayer basement to 349 W. Louther Street due to the increase in those visiting the Health Center. The move allowed for more housing options in Drayer, but this was not the reason for the move of the Health Center according to Mike Helm, the Assistant Treasurer of Dickinson College. Originally, the Health Center was going to move to South College Street but 349 W. Louther Street was chosen instead.
An explosion from the College's primary boiler on October 26, 1981 forced dining services to resort to paper plates and plastic utensils, and resulted in a rude awakening for students seeking hot showers the following Tuesday morning. Residence halls built before 1964, primarily heated by the central steam supply, also lost heating for Monday evening. A mistiming of the ignition for the boiler's gas mixture resulted in a highly concentrated gas mixture inside the main chamber of the boiler.
The Dickinson Law School started holding classes in Trickett Hall on this date.
North College caught fire in the early hours of the morning. Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) described the incident in his journal:
After extensive flooding in the Carlisle area caused many to become homeless, the College made the decision to offer lodging and food to those in need. Fifty-five students and former graduates worked tirelessly to register flood victims and offer information. Overall, 158 people were housed and over 550 meals were served. The Red Cross and Civil Defense personnel also aided in the relief efforts.