THE COLLEGE

THAT "TASTE FOR CHANGE" emphasized by President Dickey in opening the College's 195th year (see Convocation Address on Page 19) was followed by an interesting diet of events in this first month of classes. Some portions have been, or could be, rather unsavory, but for the most part the offerings have been both tasty and tasteful. Some have been student or College-planned, but a few, including the missing bonfires, have been the result of natural causes.

The freshman class may have the frus- trating distinction of being the only class to erect a good part of a pre-game pyre only to see it come down the same afternoon without so much as a wisp of smoke for the labors. The center of campus structure of railroad ties rose as usual on Friday before the Bucknell opener, with an unusually large and enthusiastic group of '67's putting it up in rapid time, only to be halted midway by a Hanover Fire Department ruling. The freshmen watched glumly as the Building and Grounds crews pulled down and carried away but agreed with the fire chief that the prolonged drought made such a fire a hazard.

There was no question about the advisability of pre-game fires before Brown and Holy Cross weekends. The drought continued, and President Dickey, sensing the '67 disappointment on Dartmouth Night, promised "a good bonfire here if we have to wait until Carnival."

But there's been fire of a different type caused by student concern over segregation and racial discriminatory practices. Part of it was a direct result of an invitation sent to Alabama Governor George C. Wallace by the Undergraduate Council and Cutter Hall for a November 5 speech at Dartmouth. William S. Backer '64, the UGC president, told the student body that "the object (of the speech) is to enliven concern and awareness (of racial problems in U. S.) on campus." And it didn't take long to do that. The morning after the announcement Bruce L. Lawder '66 began to organize a picket line. Placards were to be "positive for integration rather than negative against Wallace." A short time later the "Students for Freedom" had formed about Lawder and the movement was well underway. One very positive, and ironical, sidelight was the new organization's plan to use the Wallace visit as a prime opportunity to raise funds to assist the Negro in the South.

But there was an "in our own backyard" revelation of discrimination that came out of fraternity rushing pushing Wallace off The Dartmouth front page several days in a row and causing some self-examination within the fraternity system - and a cry for reform from without. The situation is discussed in the first Undergraduate Chair column (on Page 35) by the newest occupant, David Boldt '63. As a result of the Interfraternity Council-Judiciary Council action, or lack of it, members of the faculty are circulating a resolution expressing indignation and concern and recommending that the Trustees take necessary steps to insure that any organization "whose practices reflect racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination will cease to be a part of Dartmouth."

While Governor Wallace has been uppermost in the campus news, another governor, New York's Nelson A. Rocke-feller '30, was welcomed warmly on the morning of the Holy Cross game for what was billed as a "non-political visit." The governor, mentioned prominently as a presidential candidate, visited Concord and Durham first, speaking to the University of New Hampshire Young Republican Club audience Friday night, then came north the next day, stopping at New London (Colby Jr. College) before arriving in Hanover. He attended a class picnic in the Bema, the game, and then was the guest of the Dartmouth Young Republicans for a big reception in the Nathaniel Leverone Field House after the game.

The Leverone Field House in itself has been responsible for several changes in past practices. The most dramatic was the Chest Fund Carnival where 3,000 students, townspeople, and others rode the ferris wheel (set up inside the Field House), pitted their muscles against a high-striker operated by pitchman and Dean of the College Thaddeus Seymour (see page 14), took chances on winning the dean's services as a chauffeur for Houseparties Weekend - and the services of Vice President Orton H. Hicks '21 too. The Carnival was both a financial and an organizational success. Previous Chest Fund drives had been by door to door solicitations. The Carnival also showed a new and popular use for the Field House - although there had been a "test run" several weeks earlier when 39 camp organizations set up their booths, tents, and boats et al. for a new version of Activities Night, acquainting freshmen with the variety of extracurricular programs available to them.

Although not as big in the headlines as some of the items previously mentioned, there were changes announced by the DCAC and Hopkins Center that had the campus buzzing. The Athletic Council revealed that freshmen may now "heel" for managerial posts in the sport or sports that have particular interest to them, and the Dartmouth Concert Series for 1963 was offered in two parts (appropriately titled Green and White) with a total of ten regular presentations and one bonus attraction - a good six more than offered previously. Internationalist in flavor, and varied in scope, the combined series offers a classic guitarist, Korean dancers and musicians, a soprano, two pianists and two violinists, and the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, as a major attraction in its own right - a billing it has earned under the guidance of its director, Prof. Mario di Bonaventura.