Sunday, June 11, 2006

Bidding the Class of '06 Farewell

Thankfully the rains of spring have stopped on graduation Sunday. It's gray and gloomy but after two more days of steady downpour they might, that's might, be able to graduate outside at Dartmouth today. ...

For its graduation special, The Dartmouth has a series of stories on the Class of 2006 and its time in Hanover. One of the stories includes a capsule profile and picture of graduating football player Nick Stork who was "convinced that his fraternity brothers were better citizens than the fraternity's reputation led people to believe (and) set out to open minds in and outside of the fraternity during his time as president." The story notes that "Stork trained as a Sexual Assault Peer Advisor in the winter to increase his understanding of some of the issues being discussed around campus," and that his fraternity "was also the first group to invite Mentors Against Violence, a campus group dedicated to ending inappropriate sexual and violent behavior, to give a presentation."

Kansas City Royals farmhand Eddie Lucas, who quarterbacked the Dartmouth jayvees before giving up football for baseball, is the subject of a story in his hometown Daytona Beach newspaper. Lucas would likely have taken over the starting role on the varsity as a sophomore when injuries struck down players ahead of him on the depth chart.

The Dartmouth briefly notes Buddy Teevens had more success with his team off the field than on it in this story and briefly rehashes the John Lyons firing and Teevens hiring here.

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