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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...