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.
The Center for Sustainability Education introduces an apiary consisting of two hives, the Why We Wear Black movement reflects on the year, the spring concert Echosmith draws a modest crowd, and Dickinson welcomes the new Vice President for College Advancement Kirk I. Swenson.
Students are staying local for primary voting, students petition for Syrian Scholarships, Dickinson's annual Energy Challenge aims to cut the kilowatts, and words take center stage at the Annual Posse Plus Retreat.
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.