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Whether the snow sculpture is a massive throne, an intricate pirate ship, a muddy cupcake or just two blocks of ice in the middle of the Green, we can always count on some dedicated students to build the Winter Carnival icon, an unavoidable thread that goes back many dozens of years through Dartmouth’s history. In 1994, one student jumped into a freezing pond and became a part of that story. The Polar Bear Swim became a tradition that hundreds of us choose to do against all of our common sense each year. Carnival is the time to jump in and become a part of a more than century-long history. Whether you are graduating this year or graduated 100 years ago, Winter Carnival unites us in our shared Dartmouth experiences. At other schools, winter is simply winter. After the holidays, there is not much celebration. Perhaps therein lies a small, maybe accidental, lesson from our College. When things seem bleak, find something to celebrate. Climb the red carpet onto the snow sculpture throne, decide you want to be a human dogsled or take an icy swim. During the winter, it is easy for everyone to get caught up in the small things — a midterm scheduled for the Monday after Carnival weekend, the iciness of sidewalks or how much of a hassle it is to dress in 10 layers only to find you are still missing a mitten. This weekend, take time to step back and look at the greater picture: Winter Carnival is Dartmouth. This is our home. The weekend can be just a series of pong games or something more. However you plan on spending the weekend, Carnival is a little piece of history, and we have the chance to celebrate something uniquely our own.
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‘Carnival of Thrones’ theme chosen from dozens of entries B y Victoria Nelsen The Dartmouth Staff
“Winter is coming,” and with it comes a new Winter Carnival theme: “Carnival of Thrones.” Many elements of the Carnival were planned to incorporate the theme, which was announced in the fall. Each fall, the Winter Carnival Committee solicits recommendations for potential themes via email. The theme then determines the sculpture, the poster and arts and crafts projects, as well as all merchandise sold. Carnival committee co-chair Mandy Bowers ’14 said the committee received around 50 to 60 responses this year. Of those, she said, 20 suggested the “Carnival of Thrones” theme, beating out other proposals for Olympics or Mardi Gras themes. Members of the committee said they had received similar recommendations last year and were happy to go forward with the idea for this year’s Carnival. Students are excited by the theme, committee co-chair Michael Perlstein ’14 said, because of the show’s status in popular culture. “It’s got a lot to offer in terms of
visual appeal,” he said. “It’s generally a fun theme. It lends itself to adventure and the exploration of the outside.” Bowers said that the “Carnival of Thrones” theme could have potential copyright infringement issues, but she said this has not proven to be an issue. The theme’s specificity marks a change from the themes of the past few years, which have been broader in scope. In 2012, the theme was “Carnival in Candy Land” and 2013’s theme was “A Very Grimm Carnival.” “It’s been a wide variety,” Bowers said. “We have been going in the direction of having broader Carnival themes because of the concern about copyright in recent years.” For the annual competition to design the Carnival poster, which corresponds to its theme, the committee selected a design by Amy Zhang ’17, who Bowers said was the clear winner. “I think we all agreed that this one really captured a lot of the elements that we were hoping to capture in the ‘Carnival of Thrones’ theme,” she said. Zhang said she submitted a
poster because she heard about the importance of Winter Carnival at Dartmouth, and she saw this as a good opportunity to participate in the event. While she faced the challenge of avoiding copyright infringement, Zhang aimed to capture Carnival’s scale and basic elements of the theme. The process took Zhang about 20 to 25 hours, she said. “For the poster, you want to make it seem like it’s a big deal, like it’s something super impressive, so I tried to capture some of the scale of the event, like the way we want to portray Winter Carnival,” Zhang said. “When we’re here, we’re always battling against the elements, and this poster makes it seem a little more intense.” Bowers said the poster is a critical part of Carnival because about half of the weekend’s budget comes from poster and T-shirt sales. In the past, Bowers said most submissions were hand drawn, but there was a heavy shift this year toward digital design. This allowed the committee to vote using an online survey rather than the typical in-person vote. Students interviewed said they
are looking forward to seeing how the theme plays out over the weekend. “It’s not as classic as other things, it’s not as established,” Max Deibel ’14 said. “It’s more like a pop culture topical thing than the past years have been, but I think it could be cool still.” Members of the Class of 2017
said they are excited for their first Dartmouth Winter Carnival. “Being a freshman, it was kind of crazy thinking of Winter Carnival,” Jalen Benson ’17 said. “‘Carnival of Thrones’ is cool because it sets the precedent for what it’s going to be for the rest of my life, and it better be fantastic because winter has come, and it’s cold.”
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The Carnival Committee seeks help from students to build the sculpture.
Winter Carnival has 103-year history, beginning with DOC
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Previous Carnivals drew many visitors to the College, especially for events like the annual ski jump.
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The 103-year evolution of Winter Carnival has been marked by setbacks, wild popularity and ever-changing traditions. Since the first “winter field meet” in 1910, Carnival has garnered national attention while providing a sense of community to students and alumni alike. Fred Harris, a member of the Class of 1911 and a founder of the Dartmouth Outing Club, first conceived of the idea of Winter Carnival, suggesting a “meet or field day” during winter term. He intended for the event to reawaken
the Dartmouth community amidst winter’s short days and low temperatures. When Harris sent a letter to The Dartmouth pitching the idea, the editorial board responded to his idea for the winter festivity with enthusiasm. “A winter carnival could be made the culmination of the season,” The Dartmouth wrote in its editorial on Dec. 17, 1909. “It is not impossible that Dartmouth, in initiating this movement, is setting an example that will later find devotees among other New England and northern colleges.” Sure enough, Winter Carnival began attracting people from all
across the nation and even the world. A few months after Harris expressed his idea, the DOC hosted a winter field meet, in which nearly 300 students, faculty and community members assembled to watch and participate in winter sports, such as 100-yard dashes on skis and snowshoes. The event was renamed “Winter Carnival” a year later in 1911, and the scale of the festivity increased. Fraternities on campus appointed delegates to host a formal dance for Carnival, a tradition that continued until 1932. The Drama Club performed a play, titled “David Garrick,” on the
last day of Carnival, and continued to perform a variety of shows for many years. Sports such as ski jumping and cross-country racing were added in 1911 as well. Later in 1920, indoor activities such as wrestling, boxing, fencing and gymnastics were introduced to Carnival. The College donated 50 percent of the ticket profits to the Mary Hitchcock Memorial fund, donating $300 to the hospital now known as the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. In the following year, Winter Carnival expanded again, adding a senior reception and basketball game. In addition to the DOC dance, fraternities began to host their own informal parties. Concerts performed by student groups in conjunction with other universities began during the Carnival of 1914. McGill University participated in the ski relay, snowshoe race and ski jump events in 1915, becoming the first separate institution to take part in Carnival. Other colleges on the east coast began to visit Hanover for the Carnival as well. In 1936, ski teams from Switzerland, Germany, Chile and Canada, plus the Norwegian Air Force Team all participated in Carnival. Even in its early years, the Carnival began to receive publicity and
acclaim. In 1916, National Geographic gave Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival the title of “Mardi Gras of the North.” Three reporters from Boston and New York visited the Carnival in 1928, recording the jubilant atmosphere and beauty of the natural environment. CBS reported on the 1960 Carnival. In 1920, in order to manage the ever-increasing influx of visitors, Hitchcock Hall was opened to the public at a rate of one dollar per bed, forcing students to vacate their rooms. The College also attempted to arrange special trains for guests from New York and Boston. Female students from other universities came to visit the then all-male campus over Carnival weekend. The “Queen of the Carnival” was selected annually from 1923 to 1972, the year the College began admitting women. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his friend Budd Schulberg ’36 visited the festival in 1939 to write a movie script for the comedy “Winter Carnival,” but Fitzgerald became too drunk during his stay and was fired from the project. A number of famous skaters including Theresa Weld, Leah Mueller and Willie Frick have also visited over the weekend to perform. SEE HISTORY PAGE 17
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College winter athletes to compete at 2014 Olympics in Sochi B y michael qian
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Between her hectic training schedule and frequent competitions, freestyle moguls skier Hannah Kearney ’15 can only spend a few weeks at Dartmouth per year. Kearney, who claimed the gold medal in moguls in 2010, hopes for another strong performance at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The College has sent more athletes to the Winter Olympics than any other Ivy League school — more than 120 students and alumni as of the 2010 games. In the most recent games, hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2010, 10 Dartmouth students and
alumni competed in various disciplines, including ice hockey, biathlon and alpine skiing. Twenty-five Dartmouth-affiliated athletes vied to qualify for the games this year. Three alumnae — Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 Th’10, Susan Dunklee ’08 and Sara Studebaker ’07 — will represent the U.S. biathlon
team in Sochi. David Chodounsky ’08, Nolan Kasper ’14 and Andrew Weibrecht ’09 will represent the U.S. in alpine skiing. Sophie Caldwell ’12 and Ida Sargent ’11 will represent the U.S. cross-country ski team. Some Dartmouth students and alumni will also represent countries other than the U.S. Tucker Murphy ’04 will represent Bermuda’s crosscountry ski team, Trace Cummings Smith ’15 will represent Estonia’s Alpine ski team and Gillian Apps ’06 will play for Canada’s ice hockey team. Cami Thompson Graves, the women’s cross-country skiing head coach, said that part of Dartmouth’s strong Olympic showing comes from the team’s long history. The College’s skiing program is more than 100 years old. Graves added that part of the program’s success is due to its commitment toward getting athletes involved at a competitive level. “We’ve always prided ourselves on being the kind of program that supports intercollegiate skiing, but also skiing nationally and internationally,” Graves said. “We’ve encouraged our athletes to compete outside of collegelevel skiing.” Weibrecht said in an email that his experience training with Dartmouth’s Alpine ski team inspired him to continue skiing and training. The College’s annual Winter Carnival is also a large showcase for
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Dartmouth skiers will represent the College this weekend both at the Carnival races and the Olympic Games.
winter athletes. The weekend features competitions that typically serve as the College’s only home meet for skiers. Carnival serves as a pre-Olympic showcase because of its timing immediately before the international competition, according to the Boston
Globe. “It’s always been a place where a lot of people congregate from a lot of different places,” Graves said. “An effort is made to get people outside, enjoying the snow and cold, and not being scared of the cold. It’s also a pretty big deal for us to race on campus.” Weibrecht said that although he has never skied at the Carnival, he has been impressed by the quality of the weekend’s athletes and races. The College is flexible with academic scheduling for athletes who frequently need to leave for training trips and competitions, Graves said. In an interview with Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Weibrecht said
that training for a while with the Dartmouth team “and just being in that atmosphere” reinvigorated him with determination to continue racing. Kearney said she has a lot of respect for college athletes who successfully balance their sports with academics. “I’m basically an all-or-nothing kind of person,” she said. “When I’m at school, I’m working my butt off. Right now, my athletic commitment is my main priority.” Weibrecht said that in addition to taking classes over spring terms, he has also enrolled once each in the fall and summer. The 2014 Winter Olympics are scheduled for Feb. 7-23 in Sochi, Russia.
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Programming budget over $40,000 Skiing plays major role through Carnival’s history B y Sean connolly The Dartmouth Staff
This year’s Winter Carnival budget will run between $40,000$45,000, which is in line with previous years, Carnival committee co-chair Mandy Bowers ’14 said. Programming Board provides approximately $20,000 of the council’s budget, and the remainder comes from T-shirt and poster sales from the previous year. The student activities fee that students pay each term goes to the undergraduate finance committee, which contributes to Programming Board’s budget. Winter Carnival is one of Programming Board’s largest expenditures of the year, and the organization allots more funds to Carnival than the College’s other big weekends, Collis Center for Student Involvement director Eric Ramsey said in a previous interview. The Undergraduate Finance Committee and the Class Councils are mainly responsible for funding Homecoming weekend, while Green Key has no central budget, he said. In 2012, Programming Board contributed $16,000 of Carnival’s overall budget, along with $18,000 in 2011. The budget was slightly higher in 2011 to celebrate the weekend’s 100-year anniversary. The Carnival committee must be especially careful to stay strictly within budget this year, since Pro-
gramming Board funded an American Authors concert scheduled for Feb. 7, Bowers said. One of the most significant changes to this year’s budget is the additional cost of a new ice sculpture competition. The contest was originally proposed for last year but was cancelled due to weather issues, Bowers said. The contest, she said, will run upwards of $5,000. Bowers said that last year the committee had planned to take trash cans filled with water and to leave them outside overnight to make the blocks of ice, but despite repeated attempts, they did not freeze. Instead, the council has hired professional ice sculptor Murray Long, who will provide tools and ice for the contest. “We’ve solidified it so we don’t have to rely on the weather anymore,” Bowers said. Michael Perlstein ’14, the other Carnival co-chair, said the committee received additional support to fund the project from the Class of 1977, which donated money to purchase the ice and for cash prizes. Another change to the total cost of Carnival this year will be the elimination of the Carnival Ball. “It was very expensive and very hard to put together,” Bowers said. The event, which was held in the Hopkins Center in the past, was moved to Sarner Underground last year and featured a dance and a capella performances.
Perlstein said the other significant change made to Carnival planning and operations was the use of a snow blower for the main snow sculpture on the Green. The committee had already trucked in snow from around Hanover, in part due to lack of snow. Then the snow blower took snow from the ground, broke it up and shot it into the wooden mold at night. Snow sculpture committee chair Ben Geithner ’16 said the addition of the snow machine allowed the work crew to build a two tiered structure for the sculpture. The total cost of the sculpture is about $1,400, he said. Three years working on the Carnival committee has taught Bowers that the weather poses the biggest challenge to staying on budget, she said. Snow from the Dartmouth Skiway, which was purchased to make the sculpture in 2012, cost the committee $4,000. The council used snow from campus’ outlying fields last year. The remainder of this year’s budget will be spent on various activities, including subsidizing 99-cent ski day at the Skiway. Other expenses include Carnival-themed decorations, caterers, security and preparation for the Polar Bear Swim and maintaining emergency response teams at each event, Bowers said in a previous interview with The Dartmouth. Staff reporter Zac Hardwick contributed reporting.
sistant director Rory Gawler ’05 added that Winter Carnival is the The Dartmouth Staff best opportunity for students and Though Winter Carnival initially faculty to watch ski races on Dartemphasized skiing, the sport’s role mouth’s home turf, especially since in the weekend has decreased over the ski team has recently displayed the years. Regardless, certain events perennial success. still cater to the sport’s tradition at Although the Nordic ski race on the College. Both the Dartmouth Oak Hill will not be held this year Skiway and the Dartmouth Out- since the Nordic team is away during Club have ing Car nival, worked to make a number of “We’re trying to have Carnival skiingDOC ski trips related events more events for the will head both to fun for all par- other students who the Skiway and ticipating stuother locations, aren’t involved in the dents. DOC outdoor Winter Car- races but are there to programs depunival’s athletic ty director Brian spectate.” events will preKunz said. view the upcomCraig ing 2014 Winter - BENJAMIN CRAIG, said the Skiway Olympics in Sohas worked to chi, Russia, Ski- DARTMOUTH SKIWAY make Winter way snowsports RESORT MARKETING Carnival more d i re c t o r a n d inclusive for the COORDINATOR resort marketentire commuing coordinator nity. In addiBenjamin Craig tion to hosting said, especially since Dartmouth 99-cent day on Friday, the Skiway is often represented by Olympic will organize events like radio staathletes. tion giveaways and ski equipment The Skiway will host several of demonstrations over the weekend. the weekend’s scheduled ski races Coca-Cola will hold a tasting event and provide venues for alumni and at the Skiway, Craig said. students to watch. SEE SKIING PAGE 15 DOC outdoor programs as-
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Last-minute snowstorm arrives just in time for Carnival B y zac hardwick The Dartmouth Staff
Meteorologists and weather experts call it the “January thaw,” a short period during the first month of the year when temperatures are higher than average. Though nearly a foot of snow piled up Wednesday on the Green, rising temperatures in the month of January and a general lack of sufficient snowfall over the past few years have stymied classic Winter Carnival events and threatened the sanctity of the 103-year long tradition itself. The January thaw hit Hanover this winter during a four-day period in the second week of January, characterized by rain, sleet and sunshine culminating in iced-over sidewalks and slushy mud puddles. The results proved a major setback for the Carnival committee as all of winter break’s snowfall melted, which set back to event planning and snow sculpture progress. Earth sciences professor Erich Osterberg said these observations are consistent with regional trends attributed to global warming. Osterberg said that there are two main causes for the lack of snow at Winter Carnival: an overall decrease in snowfall and rising temperatures. “2012 and 2013 were some of the lowest years we’ve had on record in
terms of snowfall,” Osterberg said. Winter temperatures in Hanover have increased by about two degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, Osterberg said. Hanover native Trey Rebman ’16 has observed a noticeable difference in weather patterns over the last few years. “Over the years the snowfall has absolutely decreased and it has become a lot icier in recent years,” Rebman said. “At least for the College, the ice sculpture on the Green hasn’t been as well done and skiing hasn’t been as good, either.” The Winter Carnival Committee has two options when there is not enough snow on the ground to build the sculpture: buy snow from the Dartmouth Skiway or collect snow from outlying fields around campus. The committee pursued the latter option last year when there was sufficient snow from the surrounding areas, while the former was carried out in 2012. This year, the committee struggled with whether or not to build the traditional snow sculpture on the Green, committee co-chair Mandy Bowers ’14 said. Building the sculpture is a major time commitment for the snow sculpture chairs on the committee. Ultimately, however, the committee moved forward with the project.
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Sparse snowfall in 2012 required the Carnival committee to buy snow from the Dartmouth Skiway for the sculpture.
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Area ice sculptor to oversee first annual Ice Sculpture Contest B y ashley see
The Dartmouth Staff
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After impressing with his ice sculptures last year, Murray Long will return to oversee the new ice sculpture contest.
Carving 100-pound blocks of ice with his chainsaw, professional ice sculptor Murray Long will serve as a mentor for the revival of the Winter Carnival ice sculpture contest. Long, who grew up in nearby White River Junction, carved two ice sculptures during last year’s Carnival which were displayed on the lawn of Robinson Hall over the weekend. Because the sculptures were popular with students, Collis Center for Student Involvement director Eric Ramsey and the Winter Carnival Council invited Long back to facilitate a campus-wide competition, Ramsey said. “After sculpting, Murray spent the rest of the day interacting with people on campus,” Ramsey said. “That really impressed me.” The competition, on Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, hosts up to 20 student teams, who will compete to win prizes of $600, $300 and $100 donated by
the Class of 1977. Gustavo Mercado Muniz ’16, the chair for the ice sculpture contest and the polar bear swim, said that despite it being a new event, turnout has been strong. The committee began emailing campus about three weeks ago to make students aware of the event. In order to reach 20 teams, the competition was opened up to faculty as well, he said. Historically, Greek organizations at Dartmouth built snow sculptures on their lawns. Last year, the council opened the contest to all of campus, but due to a lack of snow the contest could not be held, Muniz said. “[The competition] is a way to update that tradition and get all of Dartmouth involved,” Ramsey said. The professional sculptor, he said, will also construct his own sculptures, which will be featured in front of Robinson Hall along with the contest participants’ creations. To prepare for the contest, teams SEE ICE SCULPTING PAGE 15
Safety and Security, Residential Operations prepare for weekend B y hannah hye min chung The Dartmouth Staff
College offices are bolstering their staff and services in preparation for Winter Carnival weekend. Residential Operations and Safety and Security will put extra staff members on the schedule, while Dartmouth Dining Services will stock extra food to cater events as the College expects an influx of visitors over the weekend. Residential Operations director David Eckels said that two additional workers will join the usual four-member custodial staff that oversees residential halls during regular weekends to more effectively manage the extra work that comes with a big weekend, which includes emptying trash cans and cleaning bathrooms. Custodians working on Friday will also be increasing stock of supplies such as paper towels and hand soap. Throughout the weekend, the staff will have radios to better communicate with Safety and Security officers if locations
require prompt maintenance, he said. Students hosting guests or visitors over the weekend can rent cotton mattresses through Residential Operations, free of charge, Eckels said. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that extra officers will patrol campus on foot. These patrols will aim to increase student safety from the official beginning of Carnival on Friday morning through its end on Sunday night. “We will be extra vigilant with parties at night as going out at night in the cold can be a risk factor,” he said. During last year’s Carnival, there were four Good Samaritan calls made and two cases of alleged assault, Kinne said. These numbers were lower than preceding Carnivals and other big weekends including Homecoming and Green Key, he said. The majority of calls to Safety and Security involved lost jackets and ice-related falls.
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During the weekend, Safety and Security will connect with other College offices, including Dick’s House and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services, along with Hanover Police, Kinne said. Safety and Security officers will also be on site for activities that require increased caution and supervision, like the polar bear plunge and the human dogsled race, he said. Visitors to the College fall under the jurisdiction of Hanover Police, Kinne said, while students will be
dealt with by Safety and Security. DDS director David Newlove said some on-campus dining halls will have shortened hours of operation because of Carnival. Novack Café will close at 9 p.m. on Thursday and 2:30 p.m. on Friday, and will remain closed all day Saturday. Dining Services expects low demand during those times based on previous Carnival weekends, Newlove said. The East Wheelock snack bar will also be closed on Friday night and Saturday.
Like during past big weekends, Collis Café and Courtyard Café will serve special late-night items such as chicken wings and macaroni and cheese, he said. Ultimately, Kinne said it is important for everyone in the community to be especially cautious during big weekends. “Watch out for each other but also have a good time,” he said. “It’s a fun weekend and there’s a lot of fun things going on and as long as people do it in a safe manner, that’s wonderful.”
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A student catches a ride from Safety and Security, which will increase its force during Winter Carnival.
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Town businesses prepare for influx of Carnival visitors, alumni B y SERA KWON
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Many local stores and restaurants anticipate a spike in business this weekend, a welcome relief during winter, which some say is the slowest season for business. While preparations for Winter Carnival will vary depending on the weather during the four days of festivities, most businesses expect no major operational changes. Good weather means more alumni, Lou’s Restaurant owner Toby Fried said. “If it’s not extremely cold and there’s snow, it’ll get people psyched about Winter Carnival projects,” he said. Fried said that he does not expect for the restaurant to run any differently than it would for any other busy weekend. The restaurant will continue to offer its regular menu, in addition to winter-themed cupcakes made for Carnival weekend. Though Morano Gelato operates on a limited schedule during the winter, shift manager Aubrey Madison said she expects to see more customers during the weekend. “The whole town comes in to partake in winter gelato,” Madi-
son said. “It’s a good time for us because we have more people in shop.” After purchasing a gelato cart last summer, Morano Gelato started to bring the cart and apple cider to various College sporting events, including football and hockey games. The company has considered applying for a contract to bring the cart to some Winter Carnival events, Madison said. Dartmouth Co-op general manager Don Powers said the store will extend its closing time by two hours for Friday and Saturday of Carnival. The Co-op will also carry Winter Carnival-themed mugs and posters in-store and online. “If the weather’s great and they don’t cancel events like the Occom Pond Party, we’ll do well,” Powers said. “If there isn’t a lot of snow and people don’t come in, then we won’t really be affected.” Stinson’s Village Store will have more staff in the store to check IDs and help with restocking, store owner Jack Stinson said. Stinson’s weekly beer tasting events will continue during Winter Carnival, featuring Smuttynose beer on Friday night and Woodchuck Cider and Goose Island beer on Saturday night, Stinson’s wife Donna Stin-
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Each Winter Carnival weekend, Hanover shops prepare for a surge in business.
son, who is involved at the store, said. Food will also be served at the events. Hanover Inn director of sales and marketing Alex Zullo said the hotel expects to be booked for the weekend. Guests begin reserving rooms for the Winter Carnival in November, she said. She also said the inn expected
to host business meetings. Molly’s Restaurant and Bar will have more staff present during the weekend to accommodate the volume of people in town, Jennifer Packard, public relations director for Blue Sky Restaurant Group, which runs Molly’s, as well as Jesse’s Restaurant and Tavern, said. Molly’s will also offer addi-
tional specials on the menu, which will be posted on the restaurant’s website. Packard said that she looks forward to the fun, festive environment that follows Winter Carnival. “We look at Winter Carnival as more than a big weekend — it’s a downtown Hanover event,” she said.
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Greek organizations host parties, events to celebrate Carnival
mouth,” Desai said. “I’m excited to finally get the chance to experience it for myself.” McDonough said he is also looking forward to Alpha Chi’s beach party. “I think that the Winter Carnival is a defining aspect of the Dartmouth experience,” McDonough said. Luka Pejanovic ’17 said he hopes to get a taste of Dartmouth’s unique culture during the weekend’s parties. “The tradition is fascinating, and I can’t wait to be a part of it,” Pejanovic said. Matt Abate ’17 is looking forward to the daytime festivities more than the parties, but he said that he is excited about Carnival as a whole. Abhishek Parajuli ’15 said he is looking forward to the campus coming together over the celebration. The weekend’s social events, he said, play a role in this sense of unity. “It’s really a positive experience for everybody involved,” he said. Representatives from Alpha Delta fraternity, Alpha Theta coed ZONIA MOORE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF fraternity, Beta Alpha Omega fraA number of Greek houses along Webster Avenue host themed events and parties to celebrate Winter Carnival weekend. ternity, Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, Chi Heorot fraternity, Epsilon ity and Bones Gate fraternity will experiences. ’14 said in an email. Entertainment Kappa Theta sorority, Gamma B y roshan dutta Kush Desai ’17 and Riley Delta Chi fraternity, Kappa Delta will include performances by Big co-host an art show at Bones Gate, The Dartmouth Staff Party Orchestra, a Boston cover Sigma Delt programming chair M c D o n o u g h Epsilon sorority, Alison Leung ’14 said. The show, ’17 knew of band, and the fraternity’s own cover Kappa Kappa Greek organizations plan to hold “I’m excited to fi nally sponsored by the GLC, will take band, Burn the Barn. Winter CarniKappa fraternivarious social events over Winter val when they get the chance to In preparation for the party, the place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. ty, Phi Tau coed Carnival, offering everything from fraternity, Psi special hot chocolate drinks to a fraternity poured tons of sand in its Leung, a studio arts major, said decided where experience [Winter Upsilon fraterbasement filled with 10 tons of sand front room and lined it with fake the show will be a new way to use to attend colpalm trees. nity, Sigma Alto celebrate the big weekend. Greek space during Winter Carni- lege, and they Carnival] for myself.” Phi Delta Alpha fraternity will val apart from the evening parties. said they have pha Epsilon fraThe events and parties will mark anticipated this hold its third annual chili cookoff for ternity, Sigma the first big weekend Greek festiviThe event, she said, will increase Nu frater nity ties that members of the Class of the Fisher House Foundation, which the studio arts community’s visibil- weekend since - KUSH DESAI ’17 admission. and the Tabard 2017 may attend, since the Greek helps veterans and their families, ity on campus. “I’ve been coed fraternity Leadership Council’s First-Year on Saturday afternoon, fraternity As these events are held, memSafety and Risk Reduction policy member Peter Gips ’16 said. bers of the Class of 2017 may hearing about Winter Carnival were not available for comment by On Saturday, Sigma Delta soror- have their first Greek big weekend since before even applying to Dart- press time. barred them from attending Greek events over Homecoming weekend. On Wednesday night, Zeta Psi fraternity planned a special twist on its weekly cider event, serving Here at Ramunto’s Brick & Brew we hot cocoa mixed with peppermint are dedicated to the schnapps and cider mixed with highest quality New cinnamon whiskey, social chair York pizzas. Our Brendan Nagle ’14 said. handcrafted pizzas, Zete also scheduled a dance calzones, and stromboli require party for Wednesday night, Nagle the freshest dough, which said. is made daily along with our Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority signature sauce and freshly hosted its termly “Tackiez” party grated, premium whole- milk on Wednesday night as well. mozzarella. Our authentic woodfired and seasoned slate ovens Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity finish the process hosted its termly pop-punk party on with our skilled Thursday, member Alex Moushey cooks monitoring the ’16 said. The party is held every big process. Come join weekend throughout the year and us for a real has been a tradition since 2007. pizzeria experience Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity in a fun family also hosted a dance party Thursday atmosphere. night featuring DJ Nokturnal. 9 South Street On Friday night, Alpha Chi Hanover, NH Alpha fraternity will host the 39th (603) 643-9500 incarnation of its annual beach ramuntospizza.com party, social chair Andrew Roberts
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Whether making the pilgrimage back to Hanover to see campus in full winter swing or to participate in College-sponsored alumni events, alumni flock to the College for Carnival weekend each year. Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley president Dimitri Gerakaris ’69 sees the weekend as a celebration for the whole community. “Homecoming is a big weekend for alums, Green Key is a big weekend for students and Winter Carnival is a big weekend for everyone — students and alums alike,” he said. Assistant director of the young alumni student program Derrick Smith ’07 said the Office of Alumni Relations plans its annual weekend conference for club and affiliated group officers to coincide with Winter Carnival festivities. Many alumni representing regional, career and other Dartmouth-affiliated groups will come to Hanover during Winter Carnival to participate in the conference. This meet up allows alumni clubs to learn from each other and is a way for Alumni Relations to assist in volunteer management, Smith said. Winter Carnival is one of the largest leadership gatherings of alumni organizations, Alumni Association president John Daukas ’84 said. The presidents of each alumni club attend this event, though usually other leaders from the clubs come as well. The Hill Winds Society will run a trivia competition open to all students and alumni on Feb. 7 at the Hanover Inn, Smith said. While at the College for official events, alumni also enjoy the
Carnival festivities, which include watching the ski racing and attending parties. Alumni remember the numerous snow and ice sculptures along with the exciting ski races of Winter Carnival from their time as students, Gerakaris said. The ski jump used to take place at the golf course, which was closer than the ski races and consequently better attended by students, administrators and alumni, he said. He added that the ski jump used to determine which school won Winter Carnival and that he regrets it no longer takes place. Class of 1977 president Nancy Vespoli ’77 said the ice sculpture competition, which her class will sponsor this year, attracts many alumni during Winter Carnival. “Back in my day, every dorm and building built a sculpture,” Vespoli said. “I came back with my daughter to show her this great tradition of the snow sculptures, but there were none, so that is part of the inspiration behind this event.” The Class of 1977 hopes to encourage student participation in the contest by offering prize money for the best sculptures, Vespolie said. Alumni Council presidentelect Lou Spelios ’95 said that in addition to participating in club officers gatherings, alumni return to Dartmouth to enjoy Winter Carnival festivities like skiing and playing ice hockey. “Many young alumni that were skiers or outdoorsy come up for Winter Carnival,” Smith said. “Winter Carnival is the most outdoorsy of the big weekends, so that attracts alumni.” Lexi Kellison ’13 said she is returning to campus for Winter
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Alumni returned to campus for Homecoming festivities last fall, just as many will return for Carnival weekend.
Carnival mainly to see fellow members of the Class of 2013 whom she has not seen since graduation. She said she also enjoys seeing the College covered in snow during Winter Carnival. Alumni Relations web content editor Steven Smith said that his office advertises Winter Carnival through social media. Smith manages the alumni Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. This year, much of the social media publicity has centered around Dartmouth students and alumni who will compete in the SEE ALUMNI PAGE 17
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The Office of Alumni Relations plans events during Winter Carnival weekend.
Publicity surrounds College’s carnival B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff
Ranked the sixth best winter carnival in the world by National Geographic in 2012, the College’s annual celebration has held the media’s fascination for decades, and has been featured in publications ranging from Playboy magazine to the Boston Globe. The Carnival is known as the first collegiate winter carnival in existence, Collis Center for Student Involvement director Eric Ramsey said. The event garners large amounts of publicity for the College and attracts many different types of visitors over the course of the weekend. Numerous publications have written in-depth articles on Winter
Carnival over its history. Sports Illustrated ran an extensive story in 1955 by Budd Schulberg ’36, who visited for the weekend with F. Scott Fitzgerald when they attempted to make a movie adaptation of their book “Winter Carnival.” In 1960, CBS filmed the Carnival festivities, and 11 years later Playboy used the weekend’s events as a backdrop for the magazine’s “Playmate of the Month” feature. The big weekend has also been used as a setting for advertisements for Pepsi and Studebaker cars, among other products. Over time, the weekend has not lost its charm and still receives a great deal of media attention. The Examiner ran stories about the weekend in 2009, 2010 and 2012,
while Yankee Magazine covered the 2011 event. This past month The Boston Globe previewed the weekend, calling it “reason alone to pay Hanover, N.H., a visit.” Despite this external fascination, the College focuses most of its advertising efforts on the student body, Ramsey said. “The event is planned by undergrads, so we focus on undergrads,” he said. “However, the event is community-wide so it includes alums, grad students and residents of Hanover. Different people at Dartmouth reach out to different constituents and outreach deals with media requests.” Students receive printed schedules, infor mation emailed to SEE PUBLICITY PAGE 17
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Student Opinions Next time you visit the upper floors of Collis or muster the courage to climb the stairs to fourth floor Berry, look closely at the walls. Inconspicuously, Winter Carnival posters have been integrated into Dartmouth’s campus. They are displayed as works of art, made more valuable by the historical and traditional meaning they bring to the College. Students who encounter the posters on a daily basis said they do not normally scrutinize the various designs but have noticed a trend in style. “It’s interesting to contrast the simplicity in the posters of the past and the chaotic nature of those today,” Nathan Busam ’17 said. Other students recognized a thematic evolution in the posters since their inception. “In the beginning, the Carnival posters seem very winter sports themed,” Diane Lee ’15 said. “Later on, other themes seem to emerge and the designs also get more and more complex.” Saaid Arshad ’14 said he sees keeping the posters as a record as something of great value to the Dartmouth community and beyond. “I feel like these are primary sources, almost like snapshots of history,” he said. “Whether it be the general context of the time or more directly relating to Dartmouth, we can see the thoughts of the people at a specific moment in history.” Lee said the posters serve as a reminder of Winter Carnival as part of the College’s own history. Amy Sun ’17 agreed that the posters serve as an important memento of each Dartmouth winter.After graduation, she expects to look back at the posters, remembering each carnival weekend by the images on the glossy prints.
Perilously wrapped around Baker-Berry library, a colossal dragon spews fire through the swirling winds of a blizzard. This year’s “Carnival of Thrones” poster reflects the epic fantasy theme. From this year’s theme to “A Very Grimm Winter Carnival” to the many ski-themed posters of Carnival’s early days, every year, a unique Winter Carnival fills campus with a buzz of excitement and produces a poster made in the artistic styles of the time. This tradition has created a unique catalogue of posters that displays trends in artistic styles over the past century. The earliest Winter Carnival poster dates back to 1911, depicting a dark green silhouette of a man ski jumping, contrasted against a creamy backdrop. The poster is a model of the abstract, minimalist trends of the day. “Advertising posters tend to be bound by stylistic conventions,” said Steven Heller, who authored an article called “The Perfect Poster Storm,” published in the 2010 book “Winter Carnival: A Century of Dartmouth Posters.” Heller, who is also the co-chair of the Museum of Fine Arts Design program at the School of Visual Arts in Boston, said that Carnival posters from the 1930s and 1940s exhibit a brush technique that “borders on Deco and realism.” Deco is a visual arts style characterized by vivid colors and bold geometric patterns, often incorporating images of the 1930s and 1940s “Machine Age.” Advancing into the 1960s, the color schemes and composition of Carnival posters reflected the rise of new artistic trends. The poster from 1969 mirrors psychedelic rock posters of the period.
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In 1970, the poster is clearly influenced by the pop art pioneered by Andy Warhol throughout the ’60s. After the 1970s, the posters appear to take a thematic turn. Art history professor Mary Coffey said that up until the ’70s, poster designs focused on general winter images, then became more illustrational of Carnival themes after that period. Coffey attributed the changing trend to a “growing emphasis on theme.” Earlier Winter Carnivals, especially before coeducation at the College, were heavily centered on winter sporting events. Gradually, Winter Carnival became meaningful not only to Dartmouth but also to the surrounding communities. The movement toward illustrational posters also reflects a search for inspiration from the past. Progressively, entering into the 1980s, the posters increasingly draw upon childhood motifs, including children’s books and fairy tales. “It seems like a slow infantilization of imagination, moving from students seeing themselves as participating in an adult world to students seeing Winter Carnival as a way to express their childhood fantasies,” Coffey said, A century’s worth of Winter Carnival posters, kept as archives in the Rauner Special Collections Library, speaks to Dartmouth’s history and the College’s context and interactions with the world beyond campus. “It reveals a commitment to graphic design of a certain kind,” Heller said. “It shows how graphic style impacted every corner, including Dartmouth.”
Q&A with Regina Barreca Regina Barreca ’79 is a English professor at the University of Connecticut. Barreca authored the article “One Student’s View” in “Winter Carnival: A Century of Dartmouth Posters.” She talked Carnival posters and art history in an interview with The Dartmouth. How are the Winter Carnival posters significant as historical documentation? RB: The posters are representations of the College as seen through the eyes of people around the same age, always drawn around the same time every year. There’s something fascinating about that. Do the posters reflect the changes that Dartmouth has undergone in the past century? RB: In the beginning, the posters reflect the blond Nordic types representing winter athletics. Then they progress to place more and more emphasis on fantasy; creatures that aren’t even human. I think that it’s more imaginative, and I think some of this can be attributed to the College increasing its emphasis on creativity in its curriculum. Consistently, though, the posters are always about the contemporary. In that way the posters will always remain similar. What were the posters like when you were an undergraduate at Dartmouth? RB: The posters from 1975 to 1979 were nostalgic in theme. One of them was like a poster from the frontier, from the Old West. I remember there was a poker table, and something about the gold rush. We look back on these posters and we can see what the values of the students were. The poster I just mentioned reflects the rush to Wall Street in the early ’80s. People were also thinking about the old days and yearning for the old days.
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In the early years of Winter to revert to its original mission, getCarnival, the DOC winter sports ting people outside on small trips to “We’re trying to have more division was the appreciate the events for the other students who governing body so it “Carnival is skiing, the outdoors, aren’t involved in the races but are for ski racing scaled back its there to spectate,” he said. role in Carnival, in the north- rest of it is window Carnival began solely as a Dart- eastern United dressing on top of Gawler said. mouth Outing Club skiing event. In States, Gawler In1961, that.” fact, “carnival” is a term used for said. control of Winski races. Fred Harris, a member t e r C a r n i va l A s Wi n t e r of the Class of 1911 who founded Carnival grew was given to the - RORY GAWLER ’05, DOC the DOC and first suggested the beyond solely a Collis Center idea of a Winter Carnival in 1909 ski race event, OUTDOOR PROGRAMS for Student Into increase interest in winter sports, the Outing Club ASSISTANT DIRECTOR volvement, and was hailed by Sportsman magazine became bogged the ski team was as “The Man Who Put America on down with the moved to the Skis,” bringing national attention to event’s administrative and logistical College’s athletic department, reboth skiing and the College. tasks. Eventually, the DOC needed porting to the department rather than the DOC’s outdoor programs office, Kunz said. Still, the DOC works with the ski team to provide training courses, along with other resources. Though he acknowledged that the role of skiing in Winter Carnival activities has declined over time while other events have expanded, Gawler emphasized the key role that skiing has played and will continue to play in Winter Carnival. “Carnival is skiing, the rest of it is window dressing on top of that,” he said. “Still, the whole point of all of this is to get outside and enjoy Courtesy of Dartmouth College winter, and however people choose Skiers celebrated Carnival’s 30th anniversary on the slopes. to do that is great.” FROM SKIING PAGE 5
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attended a mandatory training session on Wednesday afternoon about safety and sculpting techniques to minimize the risk of injury. Teams then sketched their designs and prepared to carve. Twenty 100-pound blocks of ice and pedestals have been brought in for the final creations, which will line Main Street. Long or another professional will make two rough cuts to the sculpture to help get teams started. To ensure a fair contest, the competition committee set specific guidelines for the sculptures. No sculpture can exceed eight feet in height, each must be marked with the name of the organization that sculpted it, all sculptures must be non-interactive, each must be made entirely of the ice provided and content must be age and theme appropriate. Groups will be provided with sculpting tools to use for their projects. Long began ice sculpting at 15 years of age as the first official ice sculptor for the nearby Quechee Club in Vermont. He then attended culinary school and entered the restaurant business, working as a chef at
a Las Vegas hotel and casino. After work, he would carve ice sculptures, using the tools available to him in the kitchen. After 20 years in Las Vegas, Long moved to New Hampshire and spent nine years as an instructor at a Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, where he began a sculpting club on the school’s campus. After the college closed, he moved to Boston. “Pretty soon I had a serious hobby on my hands and I had to decide whether or not I wanted to turn it into a full-time gig,” Long said. “I am glad I did.” Five years later, Long’s company Wicked Good Ice, located in Rochester, N.H., creates sculptures for weddings, birthdays and other events. Though winter festivals boost his business, he said that business is steady in other seasons because of weddings and buffets that order ice sculptures, with seafood ice bars being his specialty. The ice sculpture competition began Thursday at noon and will continue Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Judging will commence at 3 p.m. and the winners will be announced at Collis from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m.
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the various Carnival events. Without sufficient snowfall, the hu“As we saw last year, it doesn’t end man dogsled race on the Green could well when there isn’t enough snow, help have become a safety risk. The event, and time,” Bowers said. along with the cross-country ski race This year the committee bought on the golf course, the “Carni Classic,” snow from the Skiway and trucked it would have needed to be cancelled, to the Green in the middle of the night, Bowers said. The cross-country ski race, because of the lack of snow on outlying a 30-year tradition, has not been held fields around campus and an urgency since 2011 because of lack of snow. to begin work on the sculpture. Once “We haven’t had nearly enough in place, a snow blower took the snow snow to do it in the last couple years,” and blew it into the wooden frame, Bowers said. “The human dogsled expediting the process and allowing for race didn’t happen two years ago but a two-tiered frame. Sculpture co-chair happened last year after a freak blizzard Ben Geithner ’16 said the total cost — 6-7 inches — on the Friday of Winter for the sculpture Carnival.” is about $1,400. T h e “It’s a tough business G e i t h n e r, committee has though initially to be arguing with the nearly given up discouraged, said weather gods all the on the idea of that prospects original Carni time, but someone has the looked better Classic ever haponce the snow to do it.” pening again, was delivered. and has decided “In the beto replace the ginning we were - MANDY BOWERS ’14, ski race with a really frustrated WINTER CARNIVAL snowshoe race because there on Gold Coast COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR was no snow and Lawn. This alterthat’s obviously native event still the main ingredirequires a minient,” Geithner said. “It really acceler- mum amount of snow in order to take ated once we got snow from the Skiway place. and that got things going in the right “The week before is the critical direction.” time,” Bowers said. “It’s a tough busiThe budget for Winter Carnival is ness to be arguing with the weather roughly $40,000 this year, half of which gods all the time, but someone has to comes from the Programming Board do it.” and half of which is raised through Despite the stroke of luck that left the T-shirt and poster sales. Green covered in nearly a foot of snow “We don’t really appreciate having on Wednesday, Bowers suggested that the extra expense of having to buy the College consider an alternative date snow,” Bowers said. to comply with recent weather trends. Bowers said she was pleased with the “Maybe the answer is moving the heavy snowfall on Wednesday, indicat- Carnival back a week because of the ing it was the perfect amount for all of January thaw,” she said. FROM SNOW PAGE 6
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Alumni Relations uses Famous figures visit Carnival in past social media outreach FROM HISTORY PAGE 3
a Facebook album of old snow sculptures that received numerWinter Olympics, rather than ous likes, and CNN anchor Jake Winter Carnival. Last week, how- Tapper ’91 retweeted a picture of ever, Steven Smith said he posted one of the snow sculptures to his followers. a p i c t u re o f Alumstudents laying “Winter Carnival is ni page visitors groundwork for something that all often “like” or the sculpture at twilight with alumni remember, and s h a re p h o to s to their online the lights of it’s a point of shared circles. Baker Library “It’s i n t h e b a c k - pride.” always very ground. Dartexciting to see mouth Alumni - STEVEN SMITH, ALUMNI alumni respond also maintains a Pinterest page, RELATIONS WEB CONTENT enthusiastically to Winter Carwith a Winter EDITOR nival,” Steven Carnival board Smith said. pinning numerous photos of snow sculptures and “Winter Carnival is something that all alumni remember, and it’s past Carnival posters. Last year, Steven Smith posted a point of shared pride.” FROM ALUMNI PAGE 10
Perhaps the most well known surviving tradition, the Winter Carnival sculpture and theme, started in 1925. The first theme of the Carnival was “Jutenheim Iskarneval,” reflecting the Carnival’s inspiration from Scandinavian winter carnivals. Former history professor Jere Daniell ’55 said that Carnival
experienced a temporary setback due to the breakout of World War II, but continued to maintain its popularity from the early 1930s through the early 1960s. External factors such as emerging forms of entertainment, evolving attitudes toward gender and the change of the New Hampshire drinking law that set the legal drinking age as 21 led to the decline of the popularity of Carnival, Daniell
said. Internally, the switch to the quarter system and administrative concern over the legal liability of hosting so many visitors decreased the scale of Carnival, he said. After 1961, Daniell said, the DOC no longer organized the theme, poster, the snow sculpture or the Queen of the Carnival judging. The Collis Center for Student Involvement began managing most aspects of Carnival.
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Students sprint to the finish in flair during the human dogsled race.
Past Carnival popularity attracts press FROM PUBLICITY PAGE 10
campus by the Winter Carnival Committee and word of mouth guidelines from upperclassmen about which events to attend. The event’s history has piqued the interest of a number of media sources. “It has history as a significant weekend at Dartmouth and New England so there is natural name recognition,” Ramsey said. “It is one of the celebrations that embraces the outdoors in the winter, and it certainly used to be one of the biggest.” While the history and media attention brings many extra visi-
tors to Hanover for the weekend, not all see this as a positive occurrence. Ellie Loughlin ’89 recounts overcrowded parties and said the weekend is less focused on the Dartmouth community. “The campus used to get inundated with visitors, and that could be overwhelming,” Loughlin said. “My favorite weekends were Green Key because there were so many outdoor events and Homecoming because I love the bonfire. Those had fewer visitors so it was more about Dartmouth people.” Today’s students agree. Many students say they enjoy the other big weekends more than Winter Carnival.
“In my experience, Winter Carnival has never really struck me as that different than any other weekend of the winter term,” Julia Isaacson ’15 said. “There are always lots of community events but none that are well-attended by students. Green Key, on the other hand, is an absolute blast.” Meg Parson ’16 disagrees, saying that Winter Carnival is her second favorite big weekend of the year. “It has more scheduled events during the daytime than any other big weekend,” she said. “While it may not be as popular as it was historically, I still think it’s a fun weekend for students.”
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THE DARTMOUTH STAFF At Brown University, twinkling lights illuminate the campus’s main green from windows in the surrounding buildings before students leave for winter break, freshman Julianna Bradley said. After the first snowfall, the school closes a main road through campus, and students ski down the street. Many students also go sledding on stolen trays from the dining hall, she said. Columbia University embraces the darkness of winter by lighting the trees that surround its entranceway. In a tradition dating back to the Revolutionary War, students carry a yule log and sing seasonal carols around campus following the lighting, according to the Columbia University website.
At Cornell University, students developed their own tradition for celebrating. For the tradition of “traying,” students take a tray from the dining hall and sled down a campus hill on it, sophomore Mark McConnell said.
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Harvard University upperclassmen attend winter holiday dinners with their residential houses late in December. In Lowell House, house members eat Yule Dinner by a fireplace, the room lined with Christmas trees, house member and junior Caroline Leahy said. Other houses hold formal dinners or holiday parties, and the school’s finals clubs also host events before winter break.
The University of Pennsylvania held a winter festival celebration in the university’s student center before winter break, sophomore Allison Higgins said. The event offered free food and a photo booth but was not a weekend-long event like Homecoming and Spring Fling, respectively Penn’s fall and spring big weekends, she said.
In the early 1970s, Princeton University started a tradition called the “Nude Olympics,” though it ended in 1999 due to safety concerns. Every year, hundreds of students would run nude around campus, performing activities ranging from snowball fights to calisthenics.
To celebrate the winter season, Yale University holds a freshman holiday dinner before winter break, which has included momentous ice sculptures, gingerbread houses, prime rib and more elaborate foods, along with themed decorations, according to the Yale Daily News. Upperclassmen have smaller dinners in their residential colleges, sophomore Christina Bradley said. KELLEY LIN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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In case you were wondering, a hangover is an affliction caused by your body metabolizing alcohol, and no one knows exactly how to cure it. Some quacks suggest water, oxygen and Gatorade, but that will only help a little. You just have to wait until your liver — that much abused yet beloved organ — processes it. What with it being Winter Carnival, I know that a fair few of you are now miserable due to both the cold and pounding headaches. I know the general consensus is that Winter Carnival is overrated, but it’s my favorite big weekend after Homecoming. Exhibit A: we get Friday off. I know there are some mythical classes where the Friday meetings are cancelled during other big weekends, but that has never happened for me, and Friday mornings of Homecoming and Green Key are not when I’m at my academic best. I also like Winter Carnival because expectations are comfortably low. Can’t drag yourself to tails for half an hour on Saturday night when all you want to do is sleep? You’ve got a great excuse, there’s currently a blizzard. People deride Winter Carnival because it doesn’t mean anything,
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to which I say, why does everything have to mean anything? This isn’t a Philosophy 11 class. Carnival is the purest, most basic celebration there is. It is cold and we will drink, because we are sons and daughters of Dartmouth and that is how we cope when faced with the fur y and might of a Hanover winter. We will have fun, dammit. And if you choose not to imbibe, there are a few non-alcoholic activities to pursue. You can ski, assuming that the Dartmouth Skiway actually has snow this year and is not a mountain of rock and ice. You can cheer on peers at the Human Dogsled Race, which I have slept through ever y year. You can throw yourself into a pond of freezing water at the Polar Bear Swim, which is a thing we do for some reason. And as the weekend commences, I find this year’s theme, “Carnival of Thrones,” to uniquely fit the occasion. The “Game of Thrones” motto, “Winter is Coming,” is one of the best ever invented, and if we ever want to get rid of “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” I think it’s a suitable replacement. Forget “Keggy the Keg” or the “Dartmoose” — let’s be the Dartmouth Direwolves and strike real fear into the hearts of
our enemies. Like the Starks, the show’s tight-knit, tough family of the North, Dartmouth students inhabit a frozen wasteland, following weird customs that no one
“IT IS COLD AND WE WILL DRINK, BECAUSE WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF DARTMOUTH AND THAT IS HOW WE COPE WHEN FACED WITH THE FURY AND MIGHT OF HANOVER WINTER.” in the South understands. Also like the Starks, our times of great celebration can end in the spewing of body fluids. Like Winter Carnival, “Game of Thrones” features merriment and drinking. In the show, Tyrion Lannister’s drunkenness is often a
plot point, but that’s okay because Tyrion is awesome. One of my fonder memories from sophomore summer is playing the “Game of Thrones” drinking game, where one of the rules was “drink ever y time Tyrion says a witty quip.” I also played as House Stark, which, despite events of the most recent season, is still the best house ever. (The North remembers!) As House Stark, ever y time someone said “Winter is Coming,” it was my turn to drink. I didn’t make it past the seventh episode. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s okay, and I admire your ability to get through the previous two paragraphs. Though I have to ask, what have you been doing for the past three years? You’ve missed out on 30 hours of excellent television featuring zombies and dragons, which suggests an inevitable epic battle between the mythical monsters. That is, if G.R.R. Martin can hurr y up and finish the series. But I understand how for some people, swords, gratuitous nudity, seeing characters you’ve come to love die and copious amounts of bloodshed are just not their thing. Just like how Winter Carnival, in all its frozen, alcoholic
splendor, is not ever yone’s thing. In all honesty, winter is not really my thing, and yet there are those who love it. Mostly those people ski or are from Canada or someplace else “beyond the wall.” But never fear, Winter Carnivalers. Like minus 50 degree temperatures, your hangover will pass. The day after your killer hangover, you will feel so wonderful, because the miser y of the previous morning (or afternoon, or, if you’re really unlucky, early evening) will be long forgotten — kind of like winter itself.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014
WINTER CARNIVAL 2014 THURSDAY // FEB.6 10AM-4PM ICE SCULPTURE COMPETITION CARVING TIME @ THE GREEN & IN FRONT OF COLLIS AND ROBINSON HALL // 7PM OPENING CEREMONIES @ THE GREEN // 7.45PM CARNIVAL TEAM @ TOP OF THE HOP
FRIDAY // FEB.7 ALL DAY 99¢ SKI DAY @ THE DARTMOUTH SKIWAY // 10AM MEN’S TENNIS VS. BUFFALO @ BOSS TENNIS CENTER // 10AM- 3PM ICE SCULPTURE COMPETITION CARVING TIME @ THE GREEN & IN FRONT OF COLLIS AND ROBINSON HALL // 10.30AM-1PM POLAR BEAR SWIM @ OCCOM POND // 10.30AM-1.30PM HOT CHOCOLATE AND COOKIES @ THE ROTH CENTER // 3-4PM CARNI CLASSIC @ GOLD COAST LAWN // 3-4.30PM CARNIVAL COFFE W/ THE DARTMOUTH COFFEE CLUB @ NEW HAMPSHIRE HALL 1ST FLOOR LOUNGE // 4PM ICE SCULPTURE COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED @ ROBINSON HALL // 5PM MEN’S TENNIS VS. BOSTON @ BOSS TENNIS CENTER // 6.15-7.30PM HILL WINDS SOCIETY TRIVIA MATCH @ THE HANOVER INN GRAND BALLROOM // 7PM WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY VS. HARVARD @ THOMPSON ARENA // 7PM MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. YALE @ LEEDE ARENA // 7.30-11PM OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES WATCH PARTY @ TOP OF THE HOP // WINTER WHINGDING W/ THE DARTMOUTH DECIBELLES AND DUKE’S MEN OF YALE @ SPAULDING AUDITORIUM // 10.30PM AMERICAN AUTHORS PERFORMANCE @ ALUMNI HALL // 10.30PM-2AM AXA’S 38TH ANNUAL BEACH PARTY @ 13 WEBSTER AVENUE
SATURDAY // FEB.8 12-3PM OCCOM POND PARTY @ DOC HOUSE // 2 -3PM HUMAN DOG SLED RACE @ THE GREEN // 3-5PM 3RD ANNUAL CHILI COOK OFF @ COLLIS PATIO // 4-6PM DESIGN YOUR OWN BANNER @ COLLIS COMMON GROUND // 7PM MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. BROWN @ LEEDE ARENA // 8PM 38TH ANNUAL DARTMOUTH WINTER CARNIVAL CONCERT: BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE @ SPAULDING AUDITORIUM // 11PM LATE NIGHT BREAKFAST AND KARAOKE @ COLLIS COMMON GROUND
SUNDAY // FEB.9 12PM MEN’S SQUASH VS. YALE @ BERRY SQUASH EXHIBITION // 12PM WOMEN’S SQUASH VS. YALE @ BERRY SQUASH EXHIBITION
TRENDING @ Carnival
THRONES
OVER HEARDS
CREEPY ALUMS
The glory days are over.
VALENTINE’S DAY
’18s
With Winter Carnival festivities, there’s one last chance for a love connection before the big Friday night.
’16 Girl: I was like, how can I combine “Game of Thrones” and drinking, my two favorite things?
Blitz overheards to mirror@thedartmouth.com
Literally how many of you applied. We just want to know.
Government professor: You all look a little beleaguered today. But you know? One boots, and then one rallies.
ZOMBIES
’17s GO BIG
Enjoy Carnival, but don’t worry, with Green Key next term it only gets better.
’15 Girl: I’ve called it Green Key at least four times...clearly I want warmer weather.
Kind of like the “white walkers” in “Game of Thrones,” the cold and barrage of midterms this week have caused a likeness.
SOCHI
’14 Girl: What if the snow sculpture was just a wall?
’16 Guy 1: This winter feels warmer. ’16 Guy 2: Is it? Or are you just colder? Wait...
’16 Guy: I performed in lingerie and now I can’t find my shirt.