Elizabeth Kolbert wins the Sam Rose '58 and Julie Walters Prize for environmental activism and delivers a speech about her book The Sixth Extinction. Higher crime rates in Carlisle lead to an increase in patrols by the Carlilse Police Department and increased cooperation with Dickinson's Department of Public Safety (DPS). Interim President Neil Weissman holds first open hours session.
College struggles to hire minority faculty, semester concludes with a third Dialogue to Action event, the Center for Global Study and Engagement has added partner sites in India and New Zealand, DPS and CPD increase patrols and surveillance, and six students and alumni traveled to Paris, France to represent Dickinson at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Carlisle police responds to overcrowding and underage drinking issues at Alibis. Octals produce a CD and seek Senate funding. Annual Local Food Dinner draws a large crowd. Stop Hunger Now and 200 volunteers prepare meals for Japan. Men's Lacrosse clinches a spot in the Playoffs. Men's Track places third at Messiah and Women's Track places fifth.
In reaction to the recently removed crosswalk between Morgan Field and the Boyd Lee Spahr Library, students create an unofficial, spray-painted replacement. The cafeteria increases security by requiring the presentation of ID cards and sealing off side doors in order to increase efficiency. A senior student is in stable condition at the Carlisle Hospital after being struck by a car while biking and sustaining severe injuries. Carlisle Police seize 37 marijuana plants during a raid on the off-campus apartment of three students.
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.
Free Dickinsonian Summer Edition. Plans for Student Senate are drawn up. Colonel Smith, superintendent of College grounds, is interviewed. Ineffectiveness of Carlisle Police is deplored. Social Committee works to keep events interesting despite almost complete lack of male student body.
Students parade in midnight march after football victory over Penn State; police resort to tear gas. Annual college picnic is held. German club plans activities, including hike modeled after German youth movement. Tribunal convicts two freshmen of breaking freshman rules, gives punishments. Carnegie Corporation endows Bosler library.
Previous remarks on Dickinson Public Safety and Carlisle Police Department partnership found untrue. Dickincinema organization created to organize certain films the College should sponsor at the Carlisle Theater. Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, is replacing the previous membership program, Teachers for Tomorrow. Profile on musical student, Taryn Meighan '05. Club Spotlight on the College Democrats. The Frisbee Team receives gym credit. Sigma Chi Alumni respond to the expulsion of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Dickinson.
This issue includes further discussion of Michael Moore's visit, mentioning that Moore was unable to visit the College due to an illness. Rachel McCool '07 scheduled to appear on JEOPARDY! game show. Controversy over expulsion of Sigma Chi fraternity. Discussion on President Durden's protege, Dr Michael Brown, an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. Confirmation of Carlisle Police Department and Dickinson Public Safety teaming up to crack down on college parties.
New student-run website, DailyJolt.com, begins on campus. Speak of the Devil, an anonymous underground newspaper is distributed on campus, causing controversy. Dickinson Television, DC-TV, begins process of organizing itself. Housing is still a problem on campus. Appropriateness of Christmas Decorations on campus questioned. One act plays performed. Rose Marie Guiraud brings African dance to Carlisle and Dickinson. Dickinson College Public Safety strengthens working relationship with Carlisle Police Department. The Carlisle Diner opens in Carlisle on November 6th.
Grand plans for social space becoming a reality. College mourns the loss of alumni killed in a plane crash in California. The college undertakes the Capital Campaign, trying to raise $40 million for enhancing academic programs. The HUB becomes accessible to disabled students. College addresses questions at the first Town Meeting, organized by Student Senate and UPS. Community cracks down on jaywalkers. Three new staff join Dickinson, eager to help students.
Former college student Scott W. Sinning, '87, is suing campus administrators, the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, the Borough of Carlisle, Carlisle Chief of Police Frank Giordano, and two Carlisle Police Officers after being shot in the right eye by a pellet gun. Students that took part in the Malaga, Spain program have brought forth complaints about the program. Men and Women's Swim Team continues to set records during the season.
Campus Chest, Dickinson's only charitable organization, opens its funding drive with Luau. The student body prefers a fall delivery of the Microcosm. Faculty Frantics, led by Prof. Henry Yeagley, are scheduled to perform this night. Dickinson is set to host the regional Workshop of the United States Student Press Association. Kana Van Pelt of Fairbanks, Alaska, describes her experience in the Fairbanks flood of 1967.