Editing Dickinson College (section)

==Student life==
There are over a hundred organizations representing different facets of the college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dickinson.edu/stulife/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827093946/http://www.dickinson.edu/stulife/|url-status=dead|title=Dickinson College - For Students|archive-date=August 27, 2007|website=Dickinson College}}</ref>

===Theatre and performing arts===
The Mermaid Players, Dickinson's student-run theatrical society active since 1949, regularly performs student-directed plays, cabaret, and other genres.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.dickinson.edu/dickinsonian/dickinsonian-november-4-1949 |title=Mermaid Players History}}</ref> The college's Department of Theatre and Dance offers a major and minor in Theatre Arts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/485/theatre_and_dance_curriculum |title=Theatre & Dance Curriculum}}</ref>

The Mermaid Players' sister co-curricular group, the Dance Theatre Group, produces dance concerts, coordinates guest choreographer residencies, and organizes many other dance events open to all Dickinson students.<ref name="Ticketing & Venues">{{Cite web |url=https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20031/theatre_and_dance/52/about_our_theatres |title=Ticketing & Venues }}</ref> Other dance groups on campus include Hypnotic hip hop dance crew, Synergy dance team, the Dig Drop Devils tap dance group, Anwar Belly Dance group, and the Swing Dance club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/826/funded_clubs_and_organizations |title=Dance Groups}}</ref>

There are three main performance spaces on campus: Mather's Theatre, The Cubiculo with a black box theatre and a dance studio; and The Site dance studio.<ref name="Ticketing & Venues"/>

===Athletics=== 
[[File:Dickinson Red Devils D logo.svg|thumb|150px|Dickinson Red Devils wordmark]]
The Dickinson Red Devils participate in intercollegiate sports at the [[NCAA Division III]] level as members of the [[Centennial Conference]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afca.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&KEY=&ATCLID=639420 |title=NCAA Division III Conferences and Independents for 2007 |website=afca.com }}</ref> The Red Devils sports uniforms of red, white, and black.

Dickinson has 23 varsity sports teams, including baseball and softball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, football, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's squash, women's volleyball, and women's field hockey. The college also has a cheerleading squad and dozens of intramural and club sports including ice hockey, men's volleyball, lacrosse, soccer, and ultimate frisbee.

The school's cross-country teams are led by long-standing coach Don Nichter. The women's cross country team has made 15 consecutive appearances at the Division III National Championships.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.dickinsonathletics.com/sports/wxc/2015-16/releases/20151121oerr8p |title=Red Devils Finish 11th at Nationals! |website=dickinsonathletics.com |date=November 21, 2015 }}</ref> The men's team has seen similar success, with eight consecutive appearances at the nationals championships.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.dickinsonathletics.com/sports/mxc/2014-15/releases/20141122o22l9q |website=dickinsonathletics.com |title=Weinhoffer, Stender Run to All-America Honors |date=November 22, 2014 }}</ref>

The current head coach of the [[Dickinson Red Devils football]] team is [[Brad Fordyce]].

Dickinson won the 1958 men's lacrosse team national title and Roy Taylor Division championship, also defeating Penn State in its final game to clinch the title.

Dickinson men's lacrosse is led by head coach Dave Webster, whose squad posted a compiled record of 65–10 over 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 seasons. The team won three consecutive [[Centennial Conference]] championships (2011, 2012, 2013) and went to the [[NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship]] four consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013). Prior to the 2010 season, Dickinson had never been in the NCAA tournament. In 2013, Heather Morrison and Brandon Palladino were named the NCAA Division III Outstanding Players of the Year: Iroquois Nationals Award. Palladino was also the first player in Centennial Conference history to earn first-team all-conference honors all four years of his career.

Dickinson's men's basketball team won Centennial Conference titles in 2013 and 2015, and an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament in 2014. Dickinson reached the "Elite Eight" in the [[2014 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2014/bracket|title=2014 D3hoops.com Men's Basketball Bracket|access-date=15 February 2020|website=D3hoops.com }}</ref> Gerry Wixted '15 was named D-III National Player of the Year in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-americans/men/2015|title=2015 D3hoops.com men's All-America team - D3hoops|access-date=7 December 2016|website=D3hoops.com }}</ref>

The college was the site of [[Washington Commanders|Washington Redskins]] preseason training camp from 1963 to 1994 and 2001 to 2002.<ref>[https://www.commanders.com/news/washington-redskins-training-camp-history-10086148 "Washington Redskins Training Camp History," Washington Redskins, Sunday, May 5, 2013.] Retrieved November 9, 2024.</ref>

===Music===
Approximately 300 students study music at Dickinson every year. Music ensembles, open to all students by audition, include the Dickinson College Choir, the Dickinson College Collegium, the Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble, the Dickinson Orchestra, the Dickinson Improvisation and Collaboration Ensemble, and the Dickinson Chamber Ensembles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.dickinson.edu/ideafund/home-2/what-we-do/jam-space/ |website=dickinson.edu |title=Jam Space - The Idea Fund|access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref>

Extracurricular music groups include Dickinson's four a cappella groups: the DTones, the Infernos, the Octals, and the Syrens.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/826/funded_clubs_and_organizations |title=Music Groups}}</ref>

Dickinson's radio station is [[WDCV-FM]].

===Language, culture, and global education===
Dickinson College has various on-campus houses and clubs dedicated to language and culture. On-campus student houses include a [[Romance Language]] House,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20115/french/727/campus_community|title=Romance Language House |website=dickinson.edu}}</ref> the [[Russian language|Russian]] House,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/131/russian|title=Russian |website=dickinson.edu}}</ref> the Global Community House,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20116/german/1525/campus_community/3 |title=Global Community House |website=dickinson.edu}}</ref> and the Social Justice House. The Center for Sustainable Living, or Treehouse, is an on-campus student house dedicated to [[sustainability]] and [[environmentalism]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20052/sustainability/2333/treehouse|title=Treehouse |website=dickinson.edu}}</ref>

===Religious life===
Dickinson has a number of different religious organizations, including the Harlow Family Hillel and the Asbell Center for Jewish Life,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/121/asbell_center|title=Asbell Center for Jewish Life|website=dickinson.edu}}</ref> the Dickinson Christian Fellowship (DCF), the Dickinson Catholic Campus Ministry (DCCM), and the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association (MECA).

===Greek organizations===
Dickinson College has three recognized fraternities and six recognized sororities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fraternities and Sororities |website=dickinson.edu |url=http://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/518/fraternity_and_sorority_language_interest_and_media |access-date=2014-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903070808/http://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/518/fraternity_and_sorority_language_interest_and_media |archive-date=2014-09-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Phi Kappa Sigma]] (Epsilon chapter) was established in 1854 as the first fraternity at Dickinson until it was suspended in 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.dickinson.edu/storg/ifc/chapters/phikap.html|title=Dickinson College Interfratenity Council: Phi Kappa Sigma|website=www2.dickinson.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.dickinson.edu/storg/phikap/HISTORY.HTM|title=Welcome to the Epsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma|website=www2.dickinson.edu}}</ref> [[Beta Theta Pi]], which founded its Alpha Sigma chapter at Dickinson in 1874, was suspended in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Farr|first1=Leah|title=Ex-Frat Sues Dickinson|url=http://cumberlink.com/news/ex-frat-sues-dickinson/article_f903855f-0e86-5966-be84-d4eb35995527.html|access-date=27 August 2014|newspaper=[[The Sentinel (Pennsylvania)|The Sentinel]] }}</ref>

===''The Dickinsonian''===
''[[The Dickinsonian]]'', first published in 1872, is the student-run newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dickinsonian (1872-2019) {{!}} Dickinson College |url=https://archives.dickinson.edu/dickinsonian |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=archives.dickinson.edu}}</ref>

===School songs===
[[File:Dickinson College 15.JPG|thumb|150px|''The Mermaid'', a school icon]]
The college's musical tradition dates back to at least 1858 when the Medal of Honor recipient and author, alumnus [[Horatio Collins King]], wrote the alma mater, "Noble Dickinsonia" to the tune of "[[O Tannenbaum]]" ("O Christmas Tree"). In 1937 the college published a book titled ''Songs of Dickinson'', which contains over 70 works from Dickinson's past. In 1953 the men's glee club recorded an album of college songs. In 2005–2006, The Octals, Dickinson's all-male [[a cappella]] group, recorded a similar CD.

===Hat Societies===
Dickinson College has four Hat Societies on its campus. This name is given by the distinctive hats members wear on campus. To gain admittance into a hat society, one is "tapped" as a junior by current senior members to then serve as a member during his or her senior year. The induction ceremony is known as a [[Collegiate secret societies in North America#Tapping|tapping]]{{Broken anchor|date=2025-03-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Collegiate secret societies in North America#Tapping|reason= The anchor (Tapping) [[Special:Diff/1239813366|has been deleted]].|diff_id=1239813366}} ceremony. While membership criteria differ amongst the organizations, overall character, and general campus leadership are major requirements for membership in any of the organizations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dickinson College Division of Student Life |url=http://www.dickinson.edu/student-life/resources/campus-life/content/Clubs-and-Organizations |website=Dickinson College |access-date=2011-02-28}}</ref>