President-elect Dr. Nancy A Roseman gives an interview which is reported in full. The student body debates the outcomes of Greek Life on campus. Students share their Hurricane Sandy stories. More Dickinsonians are enrolling in study abroad programs.
Three new programs added to College's abroad options. Senate to absorb Public Affairs Symposium. Post-baccalaureate artist-in-residence Ethan Grosso '11 presents artwork at Goodyear Gallery. Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosts Leadership School. Carrie Scott '01 returns to Dickinson as Cogan Fellowship speaker.
Students studying abroad in Japan return. Fast Eddie's could lose its liquor license. Author Colson Whitehead comes to Dickinson. Equestrian Team wins the Briarwood Intercollegiate Horse Show for the first time. Softball beats Ursinus. Track performs well at the Little Three Championship. Men's Lacrosse continue to dominate.
Student shares her story of her brief study abroad experience in Egypt. Multiple authors to visit Dickinson, including Richard Russo, Colson Whitehead, and Richard Wolffe. Men's Swimming wins against Swarthmore. Men's Basketball moves to second in ranking.
Pretty Lights to perform for the spring concert. Dickinson study abroad students in Egypt return. The College Farm introduces beef cattle. Miseno's now accepts declining balance. Women's Basketball beats Muhlenberg. Men's Swimming wins conference to earn top rank.
Global Education is developing new summer abroad programs. Vargas Llosa, a past Stellfox winner, receives the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. Club Ice Hockey claims their first victory of the season with a win against the University of Maryland. Women's Soccer continues success and breaks records. Cross Country performs well at Gettysburg and Penn State and prepares for the upcoming Centennial Conference.
Study abroad program in Queretaro, Mexico, on hiatus due to a State Department warning. Men's Soccer post their third shutout match.
Fire in Dana Hall. Students studying abroad on the Norwich Science Program along with Professor Marcus Key are stuck in Iceland due to the volcanic ash hovering above northwestern Europe. Mock Trial returns from Nationals, and Reco Sanders '11 receives an All-American Attorney Award and an All-American Witness Award. Women's Tennis defeats Gettysburg. Track Team performs well at the Mason-Dixon Invitational. Men's Lacrosse heads to the Centennial Conferences. Profile on student athlete Tyler Magann.
The College campus reacts to Political Science Professor John Ransom's charges of possession of child pornography. Study Abroad options increase. Students travel to Denmark for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15). R. Russell "Rusty" Shunk to retire from his position as Vice President of College and Community Services. Latin America, Latino and Caribbean Studies major created and Security Studies Certificate added. Profile on student athlete Brooke Muller. Men place second in Winter Track opener. Women's Swimming wins against Bryn Mawr.
Poet Maxine Kumin receives Stellfox Award. Sexual assault reports prompt an administrative meeting. Global Education offers a new semester option in Bologna, Italy. Library Information Services begins switch from Blackboard to Moodle education system. The Weekend Initiatives Group joins Multi-Organizational Board. Football remains undefeated. Men's Soccer defeats Wilkes University. Cross Country dominants the Long/Short Invitational.
Concerns rise after two students are struck by cars in crosswalks on campus. Controversy over the move of the Special Collections archive from the May Morris Room to the library's new addition. Details on Sexual Assault Awareness Week activities and goals. Professors begin using the Internet to connect their classes to other universities and to create an interactive classroom. Article on students' study abroad experiences in Toulouse, France. Men's Cross Country ends the season well, and senior Jon Coldron advances to nationals. Football defeats Gettysburg.
Elizabeth Dole, wife of Republican presidential nominee Robert J. Dole, is to speak at the Kline Center. A new major in International Business and Management is being considered. Former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker spoke at Common Hour about the relevance of the Constitution in today's society. Professor of Physics, Priscilla Laws receives the Robert A. Millikan Award for the development of the Workshop Physics program. Rush Scholarships will be added to the financial aid package. Profile on Mike Helm, Director of Purchasing and Auxiliary Services.
The members of Alpha Delta Epsilon sorority decide to affiliate instead with Gamma Phi Beta. Action is taken after "special effects" powder causes an explosion at the Sigma Chi fraternity house. President Samuel A. Banks announces the formation of the Task Force on Student Life. Professor Neil Weissman discusses overestimating Soviet aggression. Section on the construction of the Kline Center. Professors Osborne, Perinchief, and Spear will sponsor a Dickinson semester program in Britain.
Dickinsonians fast for Oxfam organization. After being closed for years, the Peoples Republic of China reopens its borders to American travelers, allowing Dickinson students to schedule a trip. Professor of History at Stanford, Dr. Barton J. Bernstein gives a talk on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Foreign students speak out about campus life in one article. Professor Ned Rosenbaum recommends a separation between the Sociology/Anthropology Department. The Follies perform "Candide." Details on the College's relatively new Boxing Club.
Dickinson's study abroad program based in Yaoundé, Cameroon continues despite civil unrest within the country. Biddle Field renovations are scheduled for the summer. After an unprecedented number of applicants, the off-campus-living lottery stirs controversy. An increasingly number of Dickinson students participate in the Fulbright Scholarship program.
The Enrollment and Student Life Committee discontinues the use of Engage the World Fellowship scholarships. Engaging the world as a concept, however, remains in full swing, as Dickinson holds a study abroad fair and an international student reception at Waidner-Spahr.
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.
The owners of Casa Mani, a popular local coffee shop, express plans to build a coffee cart in the library for Dickinson students. Juniors, especially those studying abroad, express their distaste for the current application process for living off campus. Fourteen students and four faculty members commit their winter breaks to a service trip to Jamaica. The Dance Theatre Group prepares for its fall concert "Possible Landscapes" featuring four faculty-choreographed pieces. The Women's Cross Country Team become NCAA National Champions. Both the men's and women's swim teams are undefeated.
The second annual Run for Steph is set for Homecoming Weekend in order to preserve the memory of this beloved deceased Dickinsonian. For the first time in the past four years, a nominee for a Student Senate committee is rejected. This candidate, a sufferer of autism, was recommended to the Student Senate Judicial Board twice by the college's discipline systems administrator and yet denied. Grab-N-Go promotes the sale of reusable lunch bags to reduce Dickinson's paper usage.
Class Day is planned. Commencement is planned. Rising Sophomore John Burnite is selected to spend summer at German student labor camp. YMCA and YWCA are replaced with Dickinson College Religious Association. Interfraternity Council denies Phi Epsilon Pi and Sigma Tau Phi's requests to join. Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society unite to form Union Literary Society. Dramatic Club presents "The Fugitive". Summary of men's basketball, men's cross-country and men's tennis seasons.
Dickinsonian representatives attend Intercollegiate Newspaper Association of the Middle Atlantic States convention. College applies for another month of CWA funds; student jobs under this program are described. W3YC's new radiotelephone transmitter functions. Katharine Loder receives scholarship to University of Toulouse. List of most popular books circulated in library for pleasure reading.
Four courses added to English, social science, and speech departments. Fathollah Amir Hooshman comes to study education at Dickinson at the expense of the Shah of Persia. Tribunal punishes two freshmen.
Athletic Association passes resolution against President Morgan's limitations on number of athletes taken to away games. Men's Senate plans pep rallies. All Dickinson students who applied to medical schools were accepted. Two German exchange students come to Dickinson; interfraternity council chose which two from a pool of five. Sesqui-centennial celebrations planned.
List of freshman class and overview of states they represent. College's heating system is rebuilt. Microcosm no longer to focus on senior class and no longer to be sole responsibility of Juniors. Freshman orientation. New demerit system outlined. Carnegie Room opened in Denny to display art. Karl T. Waugh resigns presidency; James Henry Morgan is elected president for third time. Watson Pedlow, '29, and Fred Klemm, '33, study abroad in Germany (description of how this is financed). Montgomery P. Sellers recovers from nervous breakdown and eye injury.
Several Dickinson men plan to go abroad this summer to western Europe and norther Africa. The Beta Psi fraternity and the Commons Club merge and now will collectively be called the Commons Club Incorporated. Edward Biddle, president of the Board of Trustees creates a committee of trustees that will consider men for the office of president of the college. The Microcosm is sent to the printers and will be ready for distribution for the price of $4.50.