WEEK-ENDING

During the same year that has witnessed a record breaking number of feminine guests at both Carnival and Fall House Parties, we notice also that more and more undergraduates are spending week-ends in Northampton, Boston, New York, and Saratoga Springs. Students seem to have more money for these pleasure jaunts, and transportation facilities are always accessible. One of the problems to be considered by the Social Study Committee is the "Dartmouth week-end," and ways in which it can be made more attractive in Hanover. It seems to this department that Saturdays and Sundays cannot be made much more socially attractive to Dartmouth men unless the importance of the woman element is fully considered. Nineteen out of twenty undergraduates who leave Hanover for week-ends do so for parties, dances, or dates, and any new plans to keep men in town over the week-ends would necessarily seem to include mixed social functions of some sort.

As usual during the dull, dragging period between Carnival and Easter vacation, the annual clamor against the 35 cent Nugget rate broke forth again this year. Numerous Vox Pops appeared in TheDartmouth, the Hanover Improvement Society was asked to open the Nugget books to the public eye, and the walls of the local cinema were whitewashed one night with huge "25 cent" signs. And, as usual, the books were not opened, the rate remained the same, and the clamor subsided. It is unfortunate that the Dartmouth student body is always either too weak or two disinterested to combat the unfair Hanover price monopolies. High food, clothing, and "movie" prices are foisted upon an almost defenseless college body. Perhaps in time a conscious student body will find redress: in food prices by eating in fraternity houses, in clothes prices by purchasing outside Hanover, and in the Nugget rate by a good, active boycott.