The DOC Looks North

Dartmouth's new Seminar on the Arctic, which this month makes its bow as a credit-carrying course in the curriculum, is a formal addition to the informal study, teaching and field work on the Northern Frontier that goes on as it has for several years in the past.

Important among the informal activities is the annual Cold Weather Program of the Dartmouth Outing Club, which organized it to meet the growing interest of students, faculty and alumni. The DOC's third such program opened in December and will continue through March with a series of lectures supplemented by field work. The lectures so far have dealt with cold weather clothing, forest camping, maps, travel in Labrador, and basic hunting. Talks during \February and March will deal with climate and weather, radio and communications, permafrost, air operations, geological problems of the Arctic, Katahdin winter project, and snowfield, icefield and glacier operations.

The DOC field trips are designed to provide experience with rations, snow houses, tents and stoves in an effort to eliminate some of the problems which inevitably arise when camping under severe weather conditions.

Eleven of the twelve lecturers in the 1952-53 program are drawn from Dartmouth's own faculty, indicating something of the extent to which members of the College teaching staff have specialized in various phases of the Northern Frontier.