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.
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 Sean White.
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 on Browning is a success. Mid-winter sports exhibition held. New Dickinsonian board announced. Editor responds to hazing controversy. 1912 Microcosm board members announced.
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 as next year’s football coach. The track team is featured. Dr. Super retires. The graduating senior class is also featured.
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.
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, Cameroon.
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 Davidson-Wilson Hall regarding the upcoming US presidential elections.
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.
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 ago. DPS works to change their relationship with students from policing to purely ensuring safety. The Keystones hold a wheelchair basketball game featuring the Temple University Rollin' Owls and the Dickinson College men and women's basketball teams.
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 apparent with increased precipitation in Carlisle. The school's gymnasium is finally opened on January 6, followed by a busy night of banquets and celebrations.
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 students. Dickinson loses to Swarthmore 6-22 in football. Mud-slinging between Dickinson and Lafayette continues, and Lehigh also begins criticizing Dickinson's football team.
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 chosen. The establishment of a Trophy Room is proposed.
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.
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 Freshman student the previous month as a punishment for honorable conduct.
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 Lehigh 0 to 26, and against Lafayette 24 to 5. E.
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.
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 stopped by the fire department for having a bonfire outside Conway Hall. A group of Dickinson alumni meet in Philadelphia weekly to discuss problems with the world and Dickinson in general.
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 Tribunal for failing to memorize college songs and cheers. The faculty decides to shorten classes on Saturday so that everyone will be able to attend the football game against Gettysburg.
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.
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 to the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation; other concerns related to the Red Scare addressed. Student Senate requests revocation of LaVallee suspension.
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 alumna Jennifer Ringley has 24-hour webcam in her room; Students for a Free Tibet participate in D.C. rally; DTG to perform with Dance Alloy; New music class offers chance to explore lesser-studied female artists
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 book Broken Pledges--The Deadly Rite of Hazing. The library installs five Macintosh computers. The college examines the future of ROTC. Dean Allan discusses declining enrollment and grade inflation in a revealing interview.