We Want You

It's as close as Dartmouth comes to a city bazaar: upper-class club representatives hawking their activities to crowded aisles of first-year students. In the annual Activities Fair, more than 50 leaflet-armed organizations filled tables in Collis Common Ground late into the night. "Join the Irish Club!" an orange-haired woman yelled to passers-by. "Intellectualism is NOT dead!" read a large sign for Disquisitions, a weekly student salon.

Newly created groups like Culture Shock (a multi-racial support group), Sheba ("Dartmouth's only hip-hop dance group"), and Parliamentary Debate (an impromptu-style alternative to policy debating) advertised alongside such traditional clubs as Ledyard Canoe Club and campus ministries.

Next door, leaders of the Outing Club, the Ski Team, and The Dartmouth used cider and donuts to lure students into newly renovated Robinson Hall. But the Glee Club had the biggest draw that evening. At 11 p.m. it initiated new '00 members on the Green by singing the Alma Mater and "Dartmouth Undying" beneath a total lunar eclipse.