The Times They Are A Changin'

Watching this recently posted video of scenes from this year's Dartmouth Winter Carnival I found myself thankful that former Sports Information Director Kathy Slattery (Phillips) shuttered the office doors and required all of us who worked for her to head out to watch the Carnival ski jump competition at Hanover Country Club. She said if you really wanted to know Dartmouth you had to know the Carnival. (The statute of limitations is up so I can even tell you Slats used to smuggle a bottle of wine out to the jump along with a few paper cups so we'd really get a feel for the Carnival.)

Times change but I can't help but think something enormous was lost when the ski jump was taken down and if not for Slats I may not have realized just how much.



How much have times (and the carnival) changed? Watch this video from the 1955 affair:

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Football is in the bullseye when the subject is concussions but an Axios report under the headline U.K. bans children from heading soccer balls included this, which seems to have gone largely unreported in this country:

The new guidelines are in direct response to a 2019 study that found former pro soccer players were 3.5 times more likely to die of dementia compared with a control sample, and five times more likely to die of Parkinson's.