The Belles Lettres society hosts a celebration of the revamped Dickinson Review, CSE Observes Earth Hour with a bonfire, community members share their failures and successes in TED-style forum, the Office of Diversity Initiatives is changing its name to the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity, and a prize-winning poet visits campus.
Posters shed light on discrimination, Dickinson mourns world tragedies, Edwidge Danticat is selected as the Stellfox winner, and both internal and external boards review greek life.
Lorrie Moore, the Stellfox Award winner, visits Dickinson, First-Years learn to adapt, the Clarke Forum hosts a panel discussion on the social impacts of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a 2015 Fall Mosaic titled "Assessing American and South African Education Since Civil Rights and the End of the Apartheid" hosted by the Africana studies and Education departments is announced, and excitement grows for the Fall Concert featuring the Chainsmokers and 3lau.
Dickinson College ranked second in the Sierra Club's annual Top Ten Cool Schools. Clarke Forum hosts a standing room only panel discussion on What's Next in Syria. Irish poet and Stellfox winner Seamus Heaney dies at age 74. Wellness House moved from Matthews House on Mooreland Ave to the fourth floor of 25/27.
Five Dickinsonians are awarded Fulbright Scholarships, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney is selected as the 2014 Stellfox Award winner, 36% of Seniors donate to the class gift drive, the Dickinsonian interviews senior Joshua Davis, and the Dickinson community celebrates the current president's last year.
MOB selects Janelle Monae as Fall Concert performer. Margaret Atwood to come to Dickinson November 29th to receive Stellfox Award. Matthews House opens as new special interest Wellness Living House. Career Center hosts first Internship Showcase. Philip Zelikow, former executive of 9/11 Commission, brought as Clarke Forum speaker.
The illegal distribution and sale of prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin becomes very present on campus. A tuition increase for the 2007-2008 school year is announced, much to the dismay of students though it seems that they understand the reasons behind the increases. Although it meets the national and state safety requirements, Kaufman Hall still contains levels of toxins too high for Dickinson standards which will be handled over winter break. Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove comes to Dickinson as the recipient of the 2006 Stellfox Award.