The Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Prohibition Association met at Dickinson on this date. The goal of the IPA was complete and utter prohibition.
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Fri., Apr, 6, 1917
Training of students began on campus. Students of the senior class started to prepare for officers examinations under the watchful eye of Lt. Rippey T. Shearer (Class of 1914) and Hays McLaughlin of Company G, the local National Guard unit.
Wed., Oct. 22, 1930
Empowered by President Mervin Filler's public disdain for the freshman rules, freshmen men staged an anti-rules demonstration outside Bosler Hall in which they wore colorful ties, unbuttoned their coats, and put their hands in their pockets but retained their dinks. Violence was averted by...
Mon., Nov. 17, 1930
The Board of Trustees denied College recognition to two Jewish fraternities, Sigma Tau Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi, on the premise that the ratio of fraternity to non-fraternity Jewish students would be too high. It was widely assumed that the denial of official recognition to the fraternities was...
Mon., Oct. 19, 1931
In celebration of the 10-6 football victory over Penn State, the Dickinson student body organized an impromptu parade from the Old Gymnasium to Conway Hall and then on to Metzger Hall at 12:05am Monday morning. The College Band led the procession. The Carlisle Police attempted to disband the...
Wed., Mar. 2, 1932
The Women's Student Government Association (WSGA) presented a petition to President Karl Waugh requesting an in-depth explanation of the demerit system in an upcoming chapel period. The students were angry about ambiguity in the giving of demerits for cutting class.
Mon., Mar. 7, 1932
The faculty decided at their Monday night meeting that the best response to the Women's Student Government Association (WSGA) petition requesting an explanation of the demerit system would be to have faculty members sit with small groups of students and explain the system. The faculty also...
Fri., Jun. 9, 1933
On June 9, 1933, The Dickinsonian published an open letter to the trustees authored by Hazelle M. Allen, Metzger Council President, and Bertha E. Lynch, Women's Student Government Association President. The letter requested a reduction in the Metzger annual room and board fee, which...
Mon., Oct. 13, 1941
At the close of the rushing season, a group of male students marched around the campus singing and gathering numbers before deciding to march to Metzger Hall. The Carlisle police intercepted and attempted to disperse them. When they arrested one student, thirty other students declared that if...
Mon., Nov. 7, 1966
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...
Fri., Nov. 18, 1966
On November 18, 1966, Dickinson College President Rubendall responded to the protest march of November 9, and addressed other campus concerns such as student representation and rush changes with a communication published in The Dickinsonian.
Among the issues addressed, President...
Sun., Oct. 22, 1967
An estimated 50 Dickinson students attended the National Mobilization Committee's Peace March in Washington on Saturday, October 21st, 1967. The rally, which filled all available space surrounding the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial, began at 12.30 p.m. Highlight speakers at the rally...
Fri., Oct. 18, 1968
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a demonstration against the Reserve Officer's Training Corp (ROTC). It was estimated that 75 SDS members participated in the demonstration, which consisted of two parts. The first part was a rally in front of Bosler Hall and the second was to...
Wed., Oct. 15, 1969
Thirteen hundred students, faculty, and citizens from Carlisle and the surrounding area gathered at the college at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 15, 1969, and marched past the U.S. Army War College to the college recreation land as part of a peace rally in support of military pullout in Vietnam....
Sun., Sep. 6, 1970
Four Dickinson freshmen took a walk into town at 1am on Sunday, September 6, and were assaulted on the first and second blocks of W High Street by a group of Carlisle youths. One student received a chipped tooth from a blow to the mouth and another required stitches for cuts to his face...
Mon., Sep. 14, 1970
A meeting was held in Dean Gillespie's office with representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Professors Priscilla and Kenneth Laws, interested students, the college lawyer Boyd Landis, and members of the construction company that was attempting to remove trees on College...
Mon., Sep. 14, 1970
On the evening of Monday, September 14, 1970, approximately 100 students met to plan further action in their protest of a tree felling project on N. College Street. They divided themselves into three groups: the Senate Community Services Committee would investigate the possibility of planting...
Mon., Sep. 14, 1970
At approximately 8:30am on Monday, September 14, 1970, a group of students gathered around a tree due to be cut by a construction crew that had been making its way down College Street, removing trees in preparation for a street-widening and drain-installing project. Students parked their cars...
Tue., Mar. 2, 1971
At 1:01pm on Tuesday, March 2, 1971, the Carlisle police received a bomb threat on the Holland Union Building (HUB). The HUB was evacuated at 1:20pm and searched for two hours. No bomb was recovered.
Fri., Feb. 8, 1980
Students marched in front of Denny Hall in a eight hour demonstration against President Jimmy Carter's proposed restart of the Selective Service System. The students chose Denny because it was the campus headquarters for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the military science department...
Sat., Sep. 19, 1981
Fifteen Dickinson students and four professors joined a quarter of a million strong march in Washington on Saturday, September 19th, to protest President Ronald Reagan's budget cuts and general policies. The coalition, made up of numerous civil rights protesters, labor unions and women's groups...
Wed., Mar. 6, 1985
A group of Dickinson students headed by senior Mai Fernandez, took a Student Senate sponsored bus to Washington, D.C., in order to lobby Senators for the U.S. Institute of Peace. After lunch in the Vandenberg Room in the U.S. Capitol, students received a briefing on lobbying techniques....
Tue., Sep. 17, 1985
Dickinson students and faculty members protested before the United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III's "major policy address" in ATS on Tuesday, September 17, 1985. Meese's speech reinforced the Reagan Administration's commitment to the abolition of race and gender quotas in American...
Thu., Oct. 23, 1986
A rally, sponsored by the Coalition Against Apartheid, attracted a crowd between 100 and 200 people during the two hour anti-apartheid sing-out and rally. The crowd was a mixture of faculty, students, observers, active participants, people wearing black armbands in protest of apartheid, and...
Wed., Mar. 23, 1988
The Latin American Studies' annual colloquium hosted their keynote speaker, Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann, on March 23, 1988. The focus of the colloquium was Nicaragua: A Country in Turmoil. The colloquium, which lasted two days, focused on the impact of the Sandanista...
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