The Undergraduate Chair
Six student refugees of the Hungarian revolution have been admitted to the College, and a seventh is expected to enter next fall, his application having been approved.
One of the men, 32 years old, speaks English exceptionally well and has had previous university training. He was therefore matriculated right away and is pursuing a regular course of study. The other five, aged 18 to 23, commanding the language in degrees from not at all to a little, have been admitted as special students until they get the language and the routine.
All six are receiving full-tuition scholarships out of the ten grants set aside for the purpose by the Trustees in December. The Undergraduate Council and the Dartmouth Christian Union are collaborating in providing spending money, books, furniture, and other essentials, and the Interfraternity Council has induced some of its members to furnish rooms. Understandably, the men arrived from Hungary with few possessions.
A special student committee, headed by John Cusick '57, has been set up to over come the language problem. Plans call for volunteer undergraduates to hold onehour English sessions, and for the bulk of the effort to be accomplished in the fraternity houses where bright, young American boys daily babble their version of the mother tongue.
WDBS's application for a commercial license seems destined to be delayed, perhaps a year or more, by the audacious and somewhat crafty application by WTSL's owners for a Laconia, N. H., station on the same frequency. Reportedly, the owner's application will force an FCC public hearing, after a determination of whether the stations would conflict, and according to William Rust, the Dartmouth station will have all sorts of complications with the federal minimum wage and hour laws because it will be trafficking in inter-state commerce. But there's lots of time, as a College man put it.
The outgoing Dartmouth directorate got in a parting rap at the application, and then turned to defend itself on another front: the Dart moved boldly to pirate some of the sales revenue from the Carnival Program, a Daily D enterprise, by distributing a leaflet through the dormitories announcing that Dart would print a complete program in its regular issue - so why buy a fifty-cent program? WDBS gleefully plugged the Dart, complete with program. "It didn't hurt our sales," said a D-man, referring to the leaflet, "but what a dirty trick!"
Whatever his business methods, Dart editor Daniel Pollick '57 did a clever satire on Great Issues, combining certain features of the course and the salient repugnancies of "The 164,000 Question." The Steerage Committee, Uncle Bob Farr, and the Sponsor (a tall, partly bald fellow, who used terms like "the stuff of the audience") brought well-known institutions to mind.
Irwin Zooker, now age 7, reappeared in Dart — to no discernible purpose - and also in The Dartmouth, in whose columns he lamented the passing of the Tutoring Bureau.
The demise of that long-cherished institution was announced last month, and the blame for its failure placed squarely on the College. The average student has become more and more intelligent, with less need for the Bureau's briefs to pass his courses, said Phil Sherman '28, owner and operator, as he picked up stakes and headed for Florida to seek employment. Mr. Sherman's outlines, which had covered
most courses for more than 15 years, had indeed become less and less in evidence during recent years, year by year.
The UGC committee investigating Judiciary Committee procedures has asked for recommendations from students. Monte Pascoe '57, chairman, requested that undergraduates with ideas submit written summaries to the "Judiciary Committee Evaluation Committee" and then work out with him a time for their appearance before the committee. Summaries reportedly were requested to provide a written record and to force students to "think out their recommendations." The JCEC has said it hopes to issue a report before spring vacation. December, January, February, March.
Winter Carnival came and went, and with it a conviction that the new Board organization has merited not only further trial but continued use. DOC Director John Rand was allowed to breathe for the first time in many Carnivals, and a few students outside of the DOC had something to do. The great concept of making the weekend an all-College activity was, of course, not fulfilled, but an appreciable broadening of responsibility did occur.
The weather was terrible, that is, for winter, with bare spots in evidence all around and the statues rapidly melting. Snow finally did arrive Saturday afternoon, during the ski jump, and then turned to rain.
A nice commercial touch was added by a band of ad agency personnel who arrived to give their all for a soup company and insisted on making themselves visible with such stunts as a team of huskies pulling a dog-sled laden with a concoction the soup company manufactures. NBC's "Monitor," a show that goes places and does things, and the food editor of a New York newspaper were also on hand; and, with the appearance of an article the next week in the newspaper, suggesting that a certain soup was a vital ingredient of Dartmouth Winter Carnival, it was suspicioned that some arrangements had been made. The why of this little debasement is left for more supple minds, wise in the ways of the world.
Milestones
The Dartmouth: President, William D. Hartley '58, Seattle, Wash.; Editor, Lincoln A. Mitchell '58, Minneapolis, Minn.; Business Manager, Richard Frisch '58, Baltimore, Md.; Executive Editor, Herbert G. Isaacson '58, Winsted, Conn.; Associate Editor, Ronald P. Zwart '58, Darien, Conn.; Sports Editor, James R. Spence '58, Armonk, N. Y.
Ginger Evans, date o£ Ted Gude '59 of Summit, N. J., is crowned Queen of the Snows byJane Barber, who reigned as Queen last year.
Finalists in the selection of the 1957 Dartmouth Carnival Queen were (l to r) Janie Townsend,Albany, N. Y.; Virginia Evans, Summit, N. J., who was crowned; Holly Arnell, Manhasset,N. Y.; Peggy McDonald, Atlanta, Ga. and Chris Lovelace, Albuquerque, N. M.
The campus statue, "Fire and Ice," set the theme for this year's Carnival snow sculpture.
College Studio Photos
Gamma Delta Chi won the fraternity statue prize with "Wal-Rye-Us" (left) and South Hall took dorm honors with "60 to the Rescue."
College Studio Photos
Gamma Delta Chi won the fraternity statue prize with "Wal-Rye-Us" (left) and South Hall took dorm honors with "60 to the Rescue."
