1990

Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks at Bucknell University to an audience of close to 1000 people including 15 from the College. The Kinks perform on campus. Police shut down Greek Week event due to the unregistered presence of alcohol. A campus wheelchair experiment finds that much of the campus is inaccessible to handicapped students.

Yearly spoof edition of the Dickinsonian, a satirical review of the year's events.

Environmental Science students conduct audit of the College. Dickinson College Choir performs Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

Student Senate candidates present their platforms and ideas in debate. Campus reacts to current Student Senate president Laura Spindler's administration. Senior Kevin Nathan featured for his broadcasting start at TV40 in Boiling Springs with sports talk show, "SportsScene".

SASC subcommittee discusses and proposes changes to recognition draft in open forum discussion with students, faculty, and staff. Changes to be discussed at a later date. Housing Board issues final decisions for group housing in the 1990-1991 academic year. Butterworths hire private investigators to look into their son's death.

Nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island shuts down after elevated levels of radiation were detected. Poet Kathy Fagan to give reading in Memorial Hall. Sexuality Resource Group sponsors performance by musician/composer Nancy Day. Students discuss the high price of textbooks at the College bookstore. The Physical Plant takes over the recycling program, which Dickinsonians Advocating Resourcefulness with the Environment (DARE) had started in 1988.

The nationwide, student-organized "Land Use in Our Backyard March" in Harrisburg attracts 400 demonstrators with 100 coming from Dickinson College. Lumberyard closes for repairs after bathroom is vandalized during Mardi Gras party. SASC proposes new description of relationship between College and student organizations, Open Forum to be held to discuss the changes. Committee works toward a campus-wide plan to improve and upgrade facilities for disabled students. Several campus groups sponsor Multicultural Fair/Black Arts Festival, opening with keynote speaker Dr. Manning Marable.

Faculty approves adding a common hour to the routine schedule starting with the 1990-1991 academic year. Ralph Nader delivers keynote address at Public Affairs Symposium, drawing record crowds. Mermaid Players put on production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves". Indoor track teams finish season in Middle Atlantic Conference Invitational with school records broken in the men's 440-yard dash and women's distance medley relay.

Several campus groups endorse nationwide student environmental demonstration, Dickinson students to join PA section at the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Housing Board holds information session to outline changes in the special interest housing application process. Library's AV room renovated. Harmut Mechtel, founding member of the largest opposition group in East Germany speaks in Memorial Hall.

Lumberyard party attracts over 200 people, minors served alcohol but Committee says the problem has been corrected. Career center acquires new computerized system. Ralph Nader to be keynote speaker at the College's 26th annual Public Affairs Symposium. Czech choir to perform at Dickinson, first European musical ensemble to perform on campus. Dickinson football players selected for GTE District II College Division Academic All-America Football Team.

Lumberyard to offer beer as a choice at upcoming event. Two separate incidences of assault on campus. Academic Programs Committee calls for termination of the Nisbet Program. College officially revises alcohol policy. Applicants to Environmental Studies Program in Zimbabwe denied visas.

Housing forum discusses Greek Life housing situations in light of empty beds in fraternity houses. Peace Action Group founded in response to situation in the Middle East. Eaken Piano Trio performs on campus. Bookstore buy-back fairness examined. Middle East crisis comes into focus on campus.

Available Financial Aid examined. Associate Dean MacDonald discusses how college seeks to expand diversity on campus in hiring, while considering highly-qualified candidates for positions. Nabil Al-Khatab spoke on campus concerning the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Dickinson wins Homecoming football game against Gettysburg and win third straight centennial conference championship.

Metzger-Conway Series designed to provide connections between alumni and students. Declare Day reviewed. Fall Rush restricted to upperclassmen. A memorial service for the Boyd Lee Spahr Library's card catalogue was held.

The importance of all-college committee considered. Senior Leah Goldfarb gives lecture on pornography. Dickinson College and Franklin and Marshall College participate in a symposium concerning Gulf Crisis. Alcohol Awareness Week events recapped. Parents' Weekend activities discussed. Athletics faces major budget issues, which hamper performance.

Certificate Program in Women's Studies proposed and submitted to Academic Program Committee as well as a request for a program director. BACCHUS sponsors staged accident scene on campus to raise awareness of the effects of drunk driving. The Mermaid Players' productions of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" sells out.

Evaluation of campus security conducted over the summer, changes to follow. Common Hour enters its first full semester of activity. Biddle House to be used as an office and meeting space. Poet Sonia Sanchez reads selections from her various works in the Weiss Center. Mermaid Players perform in their fall production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Dalai Lama addresses crowd at the University of Pennsylvania. "Plan 2000" calls for the building of a new residence hall amongst other changes to campus structure.