Dickinson students participated in the Women's Rights Rally in Washington, D.C. on April 9th. The students joined various groups, both political and religious, who walked in the March on D.C.  This march focused on promoting equality for women and emphasized pro-choice with regards to abortion...

The students of Dickinson College organized a "sit-in" on campus for September 20th, 1989. The sit-in was covered in a special edition of the Dickinsonian and was conducted in response to the College's committee (the Senior Management Group) decision to limit kegerator use on the...

A five-page newsletter titled "Stop the Violence" was mailed and posted around campus. The letter, written by an anonymous party, alleged that campus Greek organizations engage in "ritualized violence" and called for all such activity to stop. Student reactions to the letter were varied, and a...

Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice from 1970-1994, was invited by the Dickinson Law School to speak about his experiences. Justice Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in the Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, was picketed by a handful of anti-abortion protesters outside of...

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...

Two racist posters were found in the Holland-Union Building (the HUB) and the 25-27 apartments and removed. The contents of the posters were not disclosed by administrators.  

Posters reading “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” and “Are you good without God? Millions are” posted by members of SSU were removed. In response, a Christian group on campus chalked a sidewalk, which in turn, was vandalized. Tensions between religious groups on campus reached a...