Students gathered in the HUB to plan a fundraising concert for victims of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, where it was decided the money would be donated to the Red Cross and EcoFiltro. The meeting was led by students of the Dickinson Haiti Relief Student Senate committee.
A concert to benefit survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake raised $17,124.42. Performers included the D-Tones, Infernos, Octals, Syrens, Dance Theater Group, Synergy, Hypnotic, Third Degree, Run With It, and local groups REACH! and the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.
One of the student delegates that attended the conference, Moorad Mooradian, described the accomplishments of the Second West Point Conference on United States Affairs at the Military Academy. The conference was sponsored by the Academy at West Point and the Carnegie foundation. According to Mooradian, the conference tested the instructional values and possibilities of conference programs at an undergraduate level, to compare the faculty and undergraduate level, and to create foreign policies for the United States in the Far East.
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson spoke at the Fourteenth Student Conference on United States Affairs, which was held at West Point from December 5 to December 8. Two Dickinson students, Jim Gauntt and Glenn Wilcox, attended in the conference and regarded Acheson's speech as the highlight of the event. During the conference students participated in round-table discussions that were chaired by scholars and advised by experts in the field.
Dickinson students and faculty hold a silent vigil called "Turn from Death to Life" as part of a nationwide time of observance as part of Easter and Passover weekend. It was also held in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the first anniversary of his death.
Both faculty and students reacted strongly to the news of Reverend Martin Luther King's assassination on April fourth, 1968, expressing sorrow, dismay, shame and fear.
Dickinson College President Howard Lane Rubendall expressed sympathy for King's family said April fourth would remain a "fateful day in American history." In a further statement following the announcement of King's death, he said "The finest tribute we can pay to this truly great man is a personal commitment to work for the high goals to which he gave his life, and to work in his spirit of non-violence."
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 Dickinson College Democrats and the Political Science Department sponsored a visit from Lisa Dukakis, daughter-in-law of Michael Dukakis then Governor of Massachusetts and hopeful Presidential candidate. Lisa Dukakis spoke to students on Thursday, April 21st, asking students to help with campaigning for her father-in-law. Lisa Dukakis acted as his southern finance coordinator for the campaign. The event allowed for the students of Dickinson to hear more about the campaign and to come together and discuss a political movement and campaign.
Richard A. Davis, former Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy, U.S. Department of State, discussed Nuclear Arms Control in the Public Affairs Symposium on February 13, 1984. In his discussion, Davis outlined the then current United States policy regarding the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union.
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.
The Cox-Roosevelt Club, a democratic club, is formed on campus. The main topics of debate were the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. The members endorsed the candidacy of Governor James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the presidential election of 1920.
Mandatory military drill begins for students at the start of the 1917-18 school year. Counting as a gym credit, students must drill with instructor, Mr. Robert W. Irving, at least twice a week.
President James Morgan outlined the wartime situation that faced Dickinson on this date. Issues included seniors preparing for wartime service, as well as credit transfer for those taking preparatory classes for commissions in the military.
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.
Dr. Jacob Sargis, a fugitive from the Ottoman Empire, gave a lecture to students on the horrible atrocities being committed by the Ottomans against the Armenian population. Dr. Sargis was an American Methodist missionary. In what would later be known as the Armenian Genocide around 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman government. Dr. Sargis also lectured about the current global conflict. This was one of the first written acknowledgements of the First World War in the Dickinsonian.
After a meeting, Dickinson students wrote and sent a petition to Washington D.C. that asked the US Army to send a drillmaster to Dickinson.
Carlyle Earp (class of 1914) hosted German sailors of the North German Llyod Liners company who were stranded in Baltimore due to the outbreak of war in Europe. His extensive knowledge of German gained at Dickinson helped him to teach the sailors English.
Class of 1893 Alumni Clyde B. Furst was caught in between the two vast armies fighting the First World War in Europe. Along with his wife and two sons he managed to arrive in Holland after being detained, and successfully boarded a ship bound for New York City.
Elections were held in Pennsylvania, and Whig candidate Lemuel Todd was elected to the House of Representatives for District 16. Dickinson student Horatio C. King, Class of 1858, reported on Oct. 10, "Election day in Pennsylvania. Much excitement in town. ... It is rumored that Todd is elected to Congress." The next day, he wrote, "Listened to the serenade given by the now Hon. Mr Todd. Had a glorious time. [Whig candidate James] Pollock is elected Governor and Todd for Congress."
The Dickinson College Religious Association began a drive to raise funds for food for war-weary residents of England and unoccupied France. The Association asked every student to donate one penny per meal eaten for the extent of the drive. The money was to be given to the Friends Service Fund for use in procuring and transporting food.
A committee of students directed by James Steele began a fundraising drive as part of the Christmas Seal Campaign, a national fundraiser for charities fighting tuberculosis. The committee aimed to sell 25 special Christmas Seal Campaign stamps featuring singing children to each student on campus to raise a total of $135.
The specially-formed Dickinson College Registration Board held a draft registration event in the McCauley Room on Wednesday, October 16, 1940. The event was held to help the students and faculty of the College comply with the recently-passed Burke-Wadsworth Selective Service Bill. Ninety-two students and seven faculty members registered at the event. The Registration Board consisted of four WWI veterans: college treasurer Gilbert Malcolm and Professors E. A. Vuilleumier, W. H. Norcross, and Ralph W. Schecter.
Student Senate and the Department of Political Science hosted a visit to campus by three people involved in the Harrisburg Six trials: Thomas Davidson, William Davidon, and Leonard Weinglass. The three spoke in the Dining Hall about their predicament as "victims of justice".