<p>Welcome aboard dukedad! I cannot emphasize enough how happy I am as a Dartmouth dad. Our experience with the school, its traditions and the other students and families has been a terrific ride. And its going by so quickly. Check out the Dartmouth YouTube channel and subscribe to Dartmouth Now for email updates. Read about President Kim and watch the Conan graduation video and you will be a Big Green fan forever. Let us know if you have any questions. Aloha -MPI</p>
<p>Has anyone gone to Winter Carnival?</p>
<p>I went when I was in college. :)</p>
<p>OK Consolation, where are you in this video? [Dartmouth's</a> Channel - YouTube](<a href=âhttp://www.youtube.com/user/Dartmouth#p/u/235/tsUKRm21EZc]Dartmouthâsâ>Dartmouth - YouTube)</p>
<p>Here is last yearâs Winter Carnival: [Dartmouth's</a> Channel - YouTube](<a href=âDartmouth - YouTubeâ>Dartmouth - YouTube)</p>
<p>Hope they get snow for this yearâs carnival, Son told me yesterday there is no snow anywhere.</p>
<p>When we visited Hanover last summer, both the Hanover Inn and Six South Street Hotel were about $120 per night. I see that they are both charging north of $300 per night for a room next September during student orientation (parent drop off). Ouch!! Thatâs some serious price gouging! I guess since they seem to be âthe only show in townâ for nice hotels, they can get away with raising prices close to 300% during peak weekends. My question is, can I expect this drastic price increase from these two hotels during the busy times of year (orientation, Parents Weekend, Winter Carnival, Graduation)?</p>
<p>I know there are probably cheaper options in the small surrounding towns, but we found it was definitely nice to stay in walking distance of the campus.</p>
<p>Yes as to prices. Iâve always stayed in White River Junction. We once stayed at a quaint Inn in Queeche. However, walking distance of the campus and your son may be worth the extra dime or two. We found that once he is on campus, he will have his âschmobâ that he will want to spend time with, and you will only be able to catch a glimpse of him from time to time. In fact at the Sophomore drop, he was so busy seeing âoldâ friends, we left early.</p>
<p>Hope your son is looking forward to his âtrip.â</p>
<p>Thanks for the links MPI⊠looks crazy. Lined up to jump in that frigid water! Yikes! I really hope they have snow soon! We will check to see if our son can deal with another family visit. We went in the fall, watched football, hockey. Was great! He and some friends went to games/dinner with us but the carnival looks to be all about hanging w/ your friends and doing crazy stuff.</p>
<p>At graduation, the Inn is only available to official guests of the college, such as those receiving honorary degrees. Weâve stayed at the Chieftain Motel, which is just a few miles up the road. It certainly isnât elegant, and doesnât have hotel services, but I like itâs non-chain ambiance and it does have a pool, which was nice during Sophomore Family Weekend.</p>
<p>Magnum, I attended during the mid 70s. Frankly, I donât remember too much about it. :)</p>
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<p>Like consolation said, you wonât be staying at the Hanover Inn during graduation. As with any other school, you have to book really early. We stayed on campus (You can rent a dorm room for ~$40/night), park your car and walk to everything.</p>
<p>We paid a ridiculous price for our Graduation Hotel room. Next time I will try to rent a house in Hanover for the whole family. Or a house on a lake nearby.</p>
<p>Our older D graduated from Dartmouth last year- btw she loved the experience and got a great job after graduation. Iâm convinced the Dartmouth connections made the difference between her getting a job and ending up as many of her HS friends have this year with no job. </p>
<p>We made our hotel reservations for graduation a year in advance. Many hotels expected a guarentee, with faxed contracts starting June 1st of the previous year- first come first serve. We ended up at at hotel in White River with a highly inflated cost. I suggest beginning early for graduation.</p>
<p>If you have a lot of guests attending graduation I suggest renting a house- there are a lot in Quechee, Vermont about 10-15 minutes from campus. Also keep in mind that restaurants get booked early for the days leading up to graduation so make reservations at least a month in advance if you can.</p>
<p>I donât even want to think about graduation yet. Itâs all going by so quickly. We love to visit and take in the games and events. I can see why a friend of ours who had 2 kids go to Dartmouth, decided to retire there even though the kids settled elsewhere. I am looking forward to seeing Winter Carnival pictures on the Dartmouth Flickr website.</p>
<p>DS graduated with his AB last June and just got his BE in December He just got a great job offer earlier this week. Heâs very excited to be entering the real world of work (and, after working for 42 years myself, Iâm not going to burst his bubble!). Weâre very pleased with how his education went and very pleased with his getting this job so quickly.</p>
<p>Yeah Very Happy!!! Congrats to your son. Those 4 years just fly by.</p>
<p>I would be VeryHappy too. Nice to hear good news about a Dartmouth degree. </p>
<p>On another note, have you tried using Google Maps street view of the campus. Amazing.</p>
<p>Have any of you read the hazing article in the D? Dartmouth posted two links on my Facebook wall today⊠this is very disturbing. I keep encouraging my son to check out the frats to see if he might be interested next year but he seems to have zero interest. Now I think maybe heâs got a much better handle on the situation than I do.</p>
<p>I abhor hazing, but note the DATES of most of the stuff they talk about. Iâve asked my son about hazing. He says his house doesnât haze, not even during pledge term. Specifically, he said âWe like our pledges, we donât want to harm them.â (They do some totally harmless silly stuff that I wonât repeat here, in the interest of not too obviously identifying his house.) He is a very independent-minded individual who was adamantly opposed to fraternities before going to D. At D, he says there are about 3 houses he liked at which he would have felt comfortable. (None of the ones associated with specific sports teams or a passionate desire to be an I-banker. 
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<p>KnowsNothing, one of the advantages of the way D does fraternities is that your S will have an entire yearâor more, fall term is not the only time people pledgeâto visit houses and see if he likes the guys at one of them and feels at home. And if it turns out he doesnât, no problem</p>
<p>It is past the editing deadline, but I now realize that the article I was looking at is not the Lohse article. I have certain doubts about him, as well as doubts about whether ALL houses do this kind of thing. But I certainly find it disturbing.</p>
<p>My daughter told me about this last night. I guess the students found out in an article posted on Dartblog or something like that. She is friends with quite a few boys in the frat in question, and she just canât see them giving in to peer pressure and doing the things mentioned. I donât know what to think. I guess the boy was kicked out of the frat, so he probably wants revenge. Then again, I know hazing does happen, and it is possible he is telling the truth, maybe with a bit of exaggeration. I guess the good that will come out of this is organizations (not just greek life, but sports and music as well) will probably be a bit less likely to do anything considered hazing in light of all of this. If this is not true, it is a shame for the frat in question. If they somehow find out it is true, the frat should be penalized. My daughter is in a sorority, and she insists there was nothing remotely like hazing. Everything they did was just plain fun.</p>