Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Springfest was also held on the same weekend as Siblings Weekend. The events started on Friday with a concert in ATS. The band "Peace of Mind" performed their reggae music for the college community. On Saturday, the students were able to eat breakfast and watch cartoons in the Snar. Later that...
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.
The 1965 College Bowl Team faced the current undergraduates at the Homecoming College Bowl.
The Dickinson branch of Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Among College and University Students (BACCHUS), an organization dedicated to alcohol education and preventing drunk driving, staged a mock accident on College Street during lunch hours. The event caused confusion and controversy for some...
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...
Vice president for student development April Vari, '82, presented the results of a Quality of Student Life Study over breakfast during Homecoming and Family Weekend. The study found a need for improvements in non-academic buildings, specifically the HUB, residence halls, and sports facilities...
In the first ever Homecoming Fall Fest, student clubs, academic departments, and on-campus organizations exhibit their activities, projects, and accomplishments at booths set up on Belvedere Field.
