Posse Foundation

Various campus and local performing arts groups prepare for the Haiti Benefit Concert. Campus hosts the annual POSSE Plus Retreat. Author Rebecca Skloot visits campus to discuss her book. In the DuCharme Invitational for track, the men's team finished on top and women's came in third. Women's Basketball heads to play-offs after defeating Gettysburg and Franklin and Marshall. Profile on student athlete Chris Heine.

The new safety flag stations installed at crosswalks, while intended to make the community safer, are viewed as a joke. However, other proposed safety measures such as more lighting and blinking signs near crosswalks were denied by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation so the flags must be used. Dickinson is ranked 11th among the top 50 colleges for African Americans as rated by Black Enterprise magazine for its diversity initiatives and the POSSE program. The new Rector Science Complex begins to be constructed, expecting to be finished for the fall of 2008.

Alcohol incidents decline within campus community. Some students disappointed with study abroad program offerings. Students react positively to new, longer cafeteria hours. A backstage pass with the concert committee. Posse program expands to Los Angeles. The play Platanos and Collard Greens, sponsored by the African American Society and the Latin American club focuses on interracial relationships. Students participate in Breast Cancer Benefits. Death Cab for Cutie performance better than the CD. Cross Country combats the Oregon Trail.

Professor Marco Biagi is shot and killed in Bologna, Italy in an attack attributed to the Red Brigade. Christian Muniz '98 announces his candidacy for the 199th State Legislative District. Foreign films to be shown in the Quarry. First annual Dickinson PossePlus retreat to Mount Aetna held.

Shop lifting problem on campus reviewed. New student organization, Queer Theory, begins on campus. Posse Scholarship gains international recognition. Poetry slam held for the first time on campus. Campus relation and college-wide communication on agenda of Student Senate. Discussion of need for pictures in the lobby of Bosler to be replaced and updated. Crossing Borders program hailed by college as "a new kind of global education." Improvalooza comedy festival held on campus. Women's Cross Country places 23rd in NCAA Championships.

College celebrates one year anniversary of the New Science Building and Telescope. Admissions visiting program for admitted students a success. Interest in Hillel re-surges. Tome will undergo renovations to house Global Education and East Asian Studies. Alumnus mixes running, coaching, and the internet with new website. The Carlisle Unity Celebration receives an leadership award for the event. The Posse Foundation will start a scholarship program on campus in Fall 2001. Production of Clue at the Cubiculo a success. Mandy's coffeehouse very popular on Friday nights.

Students have mixed feelings about the new class registration system. Wildlife at the Reineman Wildlife Sanctuary and Field Laboratory is being harmed by an overpopulation of deer. Alcohol Awareness Week is this week. Ashley Myers and Allyson Ayers write an article about turnitin.com, the new online way that teachers can see if their students have plagiarized. The editors editorial questions the purpose of the various physical renovations happening to Dickinson's campus. Students are interviewed about their views on whether affirmative action could be used to bring men to campus.