Strong censure is placed on some members of the Freshmen class after they haze a fellow first-year student as punishment for attending recitation on time. A Mr. W. C. Allison of Philadelphia donates funds so that Memorial Hall can be heated in the winter. Dickinson loses a football game to...
Phi Beta Kappa is granted a charter for Dickinson College. The football program comes under scrutiny after the death of E. Herbert Garrison the previous month. Rumors fly around the school regarding the admittance of a "colored boy" in the Preparatory School, as well as the hazing of a...
Tensions rise between Dickinson fraternity members and the Carlisle Police Department, with the Sentinel defending Dickinson's students. Criticism is levied on students for their behavior during chapel when a visitor is present. The co-eds in the school are criticized for hazing other...
The Dickinsonian suggests the creation of a school bookstore on the part of some enterprising student. Outrage is displayed after an unidentified student pours cold water over two co-eds in zero-degree weather. Flaws in the construction of Bosler Hall's water runoff system become...
Professionalism in athletics is condemned as destructive of the ends of intercollegiate athletics. The editors discuss what one should get from a college course. Phi Kappa Psi, at its Grand Arch Council, resolves to discourage hazing. The new Dickinsonian managers and board are...
Professor Fletcher Durell leaves the Dickinson faculty. Sigma Chi New York alumni chapter dinner. Comments on hazing. Criticism of the library. Comments on the preivously existing Intermediary committee.
Pennsylvania makes hazing a crime. Dr. Shumkoff, a citizen of Macedonia, gave a talk in Chapel Hall on his country. Dickinson changes rules regarding absences. The Y.W.C.A. candy shop attempts to raise money for the Silver Bay Conference.
Dickinson defeats Swarthmore in the Fourth Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest. The Junior physics class went to study the organ in Allison M. E. Church. Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman gives an excellent lecture. The combined musical clubs give a concert at Shippensburg. Dr. W. V. Kelley's lecture...
The senior class wins the Inter-class track meet. The Dickinson baseball team wins the first home game of the season. They also lost to Bellefonte and Penn State. Students are reminded of the rules against hazing and of the consequences that may result if those rules are disregarded.
The Student Senate passes new legislation abolishing hazing and recommending faculty supervision of college publications and the combined Musical Clubs. The junior class elects its class officers. The baseball team loses to Gettysburg. S.W. Harrington of the University of Pennsylvania is chosen...
Six Freshmen boys receive punishment for breaking "Freshmen rules." Sophomores hazing newly-arrived Freshmen. Changes made in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association's rules for eligibility in athletics.
Men's fraternities receive their pledges. Eighty men are pledging the eight fraternities. The Athletic Council draws up new requirements for achieving a letter in cross country which mainly require the runner to place first, second or third in some kind of race or meet. The freshmen class gets...
Professor Leon C. Prince gives a talk on the Golden Rule as aid for an economy recovery for the country. The soccer team loses to Delaware. The Debate Squad elects new officers. The Deputation Committee meets and plans out their work for the year. More freshmen are penalized by the Men's...
Librarian May Morris retires. The third annual military ball to be held; Andy Angellucci to play dance. 1956 Microcosm to be released in May; additions introduced in previous volume kept. Faculty take steps to stop student hazing. Professor LaVallee suspended because of current situation related...
Rebecca Walker hosts a presentation on "Becoming the Third Wave," a rally to modern advances in feminism. The Student Senate looks into establishing an honor code. Delta Delta Delta hosts a seminar promoting crime awareness. Hank Nuwer gives a presentation on the dangers of hazing based on his...
David McCullough to deliver 1998 Commencement address; Alleged hazing incidents spark administrative crackdown; Senate committee aims to reclaim Depot for student use; "Outbreak" scientists discuss experience with ebola virus; President's Task Force calls for new international focus; College...
Both DPS and the Carlisle Police Department are called to the Phi Kappa Sigma house to investigate a report of a fight. They find several underage pledges in an inebriated state. Disciplinary actions will be forthcoming and possibly detrimental as the fraternity had been suspended just two years...
The Phi Psi fraternity faces a two-year suspension for "very serious hazing violations." Presidential candidates of each class are advertised. It is announced that hip hop artist Talib Kweli will perform in late September.
The fraternity Theta Chi remains temporarily suspended due to hazing. Dickinson students pack the Stern Center Great Room to hear Benjamin Weiser, New York Times reporter and author, speak. Student Senate election results are posted. A racial epithet is found written on the door to...
Theta Chi receives a one year suspension. Hillary Clinton triumphs over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Primary, garnering 55% of the vote to Obama's 45%. Senior J.R. Warner raises funds to support Cameroonian students via the Kumbo Development and Orientation Center (KUDOC) in Kumbo,...
The college updates its hazing policy. One of this year's Metzger-Conway Fellows and world-renowned choreographer, Vince Patterson '72 lectures and provides student choreographers with feedback. Women's Tennis beats Haverford. Baseball Team wins against Gettysburg. Profile on student athlete...
Greeks raise hazing awareness, President Roseman's inauguration as the first female college president, Paul Muldoon wins the Stellfox award, RidePost cruises into Dickinson's campus, and students promote education for Israel.
