The Classes of 1997, 1998, and 1999 celebrate their 15th Reunion this June. We took a look back at some facts and interesting developments during the academic year 1997–1998, during which all three classes were on campus.
In 1997–1998:
- The new band Rusted Root played in Leede Arena
- Some students campaigned for a new Dartmouth moose mascot
- The football team went 10–0
- Bob Gaudet ’81 was appointed head coach of men’s hockey
- The new DASH card system was introduced
- Seinfeld was the most popular show on television
- President Bill Clinton was elected to a second term
- Frode Eilertsen ’99 and Nahoko Kawakyu ’99 were elected Student Assembly president and vice president
- Asian American studies classes were introduced
- James Wright was appointed provost; Michael Mastanduno was appointed director of the Dickey Center
- Ramuntos Pizza opened in West Lebanon
- The statue of Robert Frost was erected near the Bartlett Tower
- “The Dartmouth” ran a regular feature called “Surfing the Net: A Look at the Internet”
- Top search engines were Yahoo, Altavista, Webcrawler, and Excite (Google was launched in 1998)
- Blitzmail was commonplace
- Dartmouth was first in the Ivy League for Yahoo!’s “America’s Most Wired Colleges” list
