“It’s like a perpetual spring break at Dartmouth”
From The Dartmouth's annual "Hey, spring break just happened, think we can squeeze 500 words out of it?" newsstory, "Spring Breaks Run the Gamut":
For some students life at Dartmouth is raucous enough and already resembles the revelry that students at other schools seek during their spring breaks.
"It's like a perpetual spring break at Dartmouth," Scott McKnight '11 said.
We always suspected Dartmouth was the odd Ivy out. A proposal: Instead of those latently classist "State Night" parties Ivy Leaguers like to throw (you know, party like a state school kid, drink beer through funnels, pretend you care about sports?) let's switch to "Dartmouth Night." It'll be less classist but way more elitist, if the rank-counting hairsplitters on our comment boards have anything to say about it.
More on the Beer Bong of the Ivy League, after the jump.
Danielle O'Bannon '11, for one, emphasized the "break" part of the spring interim break "I was going to go to Miami, but last week I decided I was going to go home instead," O'Bannon said. "I miss my mom and I kind of want a break before spring."
Her mother will also be pleased to read this:
"Friends at other schools are going on trips with their fraternities or sororities to places like Miami, Daytona, or Palm Beach," O'Bannon said. "I feel like here people are a lot more tired and there's not really a strong interest in going and raging for a week. I've done that the entire term."
Weeklong ragers? School-night binges? We would now like to extend an open party invitation to the entire student body of Dartmouth, who could clearly beat at Quarters. You bring the anthropomorphized beer keg, Dartmouth. We'll bring the morning-after regret.
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March 26th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
“It’ll be less classist but way more elitist, if the rank-counting hairsplitters on our comment boards have anything to say about it.” …..So true. That conversation would produce enough haterade on both sides to fuel the summer games.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
although you may laugh, that kid’s words, while over dramatized, aren’t too much of a stretch
Dartmouth’s schedule allows those who need to party every night the ability to do so, all while not failing out. Of course that usually involved majoring in Psych
god bless dartmouth
March 26th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
the broken link to the story links to your movable type default page.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
This is it: http://thedartmouth.com/2008/03/25/news/springbreak/
The biggest party nights of the week are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Yup, 2 out of 3 are school nights – though the school has helpfully scheduled the earliest class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am (unless you’re taking a language – though that doesn’t stop many from raging anyway).
March 27th, 2008 at 12:49 am
WHOOPS. That’s a pretty damning broken link. Fixed
March 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I think State Night might only be a Princeton thing. Maybe TI should call it Dartmouth Night in the future, though I suspect people would show up wearing fleeces and ski goggles.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am
No, “Party Like a State School” is definitely not only at Princeton. We have it here at Northwestern (though are rivalries with State Schools are grounded in things beyond JUST classism, though there’s a healthy dose of that too).
March 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Northwestern isn’t a state school?
And to make sure I piss everyone off, I call bullshit on this Dartmouth attitude. I have several friends there, and from what I’ve heard and seen while visiting, they party no harder than other Ivies. Like all of the ancient eight, they have a bunch of people who party their asses off and a bunch of people who sit in their rooms all weekend. Just because you drink in the same frat basement for 4 years doesn’t mean you party harder than everyone else.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Agreed. Aaaaaand cue haters.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
SAE held a “State School/Safety School Dance Party” where the posters for the party had a picture of a stereotypical bro on it, they were hilarious.
and @Confused:
your friends are probably really lame. all the people i’ve met that visited from other ivies supported the conclusion that dartmouth is insane, as did i when i visited other ivies
Sincerely,
Michael Corleone
Dartmouth 1949
March 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Typical response. “Your friends are lame and you didn’t really get the experience.”
Can’t I say the same thing about you and your visits? I’m not saying Dartmouth is a lame or boring place, just saying that this delusion that their party scene is so much more awesome than everyone else’s is bullshit.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
While I agree that Dartmouth’s party scene is no more or less awesome than the college norm (frats do get boring rather quickly), I’m quite certain that a drinking culture is particularly more pervasive at Dartmouth when compared to other Ivy League schools. This is nothing to be proud of, however, and to see Dartmouth students flaunt it like a badge of honor is actually a bit embarrassing.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:50 am
stop ruining my school, you new school douche.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Please god tell me this is a joke and we all still won’t be involved in this pissing contest in another 50 years. Seriously if this is what the future holds we all just might as well give up now.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I am drunk during my Tu/Tr classes. That is all.
-dmoufselfcallsmorethanalonelyphone
March 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
It’s simple. Dartmouth drinks, Yale snorts, Brown smokes, Harvard whines, Princeton smirks, Cornell frets, Columbia forgets, and Penn wanks away. We all have our addictions.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:08 am
“Columbia forgets”? What are they forgetting? I was under the impression that Columbia were the ones that snort. So what does that make Yale? Perhaps we should make a distinction between marijuana and cigarette smoking. Or perhaps we should just come to the conclusion that has been several centuries in the making: we’ve run out of stereotypes, and the eight Ivies are actually not very different.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 am
open you’re eyes. how are the eight ivies not different? there are totally different from the people that attend the schools, to the cultral of each school, and the locaiton of the schools. from my visits to other ivies let me just say that your parties suck and darmtouth’s frats are the way to go!