Entries drawn from the college history timeline
On April 10th, the Women's Center sponsored a "Take Back the Night" march for campus. Roughly 60 to 70 men and women attended the march. The purpose of the march was to raise awareness within the community about sexual violence and to educate students about the resources that were available....
The Peace Action Network protested on October 21st and the 22nd against the College's decision to divest $6 million in South America. The group urged Dickinson to divest its money, stating that Dickinson was more interested in business interests than in the interests of people. The protest...
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...
Eddie Money performed at Dickinson College on Sunday, April 23rd. While some students attended the concert, others objected to the Concert Committee's selection and the cost. These students argued that the Committee's had selected an artist that yielded a low turn out and resulted in a loss of...
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...
Members of Dickinsonians Advocating Resourcefulness with the Environment (DARE) joined community protestors in a march to oppose business development on the site of the Seven Gables Forest.
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...
After the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in a trial concerning an attack on Rodney King, the Dickinson Student Senate provided financial support for a letter-writing campaign to United States Attorney General Thomas Barr. Approximately 400-500 postcards were sent to the Attorney...
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...
Some time between Spring 1999 and Spring 2000, this student group formed for (what was then termed) GLBT students and their allies as a more activism-focused alternative to the ALLIES support group that also existed at the time.
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...
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.
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.
Conversations between adminstrators and a group of Jewish students failed to secure a spot on campus for a chapter of the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. The student group had hoped adminstrators would consider them an exception to the Greek life moratorium.
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...
A coalition of students, faculty, and administrators gathered for a panel discussion of religious differences on campus. This took place in response to the Secularist Students Union’s poster campaign and resulting sidewalk Christian chalk art, events which catapulted questions of religious...
