1964

With the New Year, the snow, and the returning undergraduates comes the annual winter "issue." This year, as it has been recently, the issue concerns fraternities. But this time, the issue is more important than the common controversy over women undergraduates at Dartmouth. The Committee on Administration, concerned with the rising tide of obscenity on the campus and the inability or the unwillingness of the student government to effectively control it, has in effect abolished the IFC-JC's jurisdiction in fraternity cases of misconduct. A Sunday afternoon "show" at one of the fraternities has been the incident which has received the most publicity. As a result, the Committee also ruled that all Sunday houseparties must be chaperoned. However the issue finally resolves itself, I'm afraid that it means one more step downhill for the fraternity s ystem at Dartmouth. Hopkins Center, here we come.

I received a copy of the C&T (Cabin and Trail) newsletter, the other day (it was pretty gross by the way). Dan Connelly is at Cornell studying Civil Engineering (this is the unmarried Dan Connelly). Alden Wright is studying abstract mathematics at Wisconsin as Fred Roberts is doing at Stanford. RoyLewicki is working toward a Doctorate in psychology at Columbia.

I received a description of the wedding of Anne and Ed Gingras last year in India, lid's comment was that "it doesn't feel too much different to be actually married." But, I understand the wedding was beautiful. They are both in the Peace Corps at Hyderabad Public School.

Getting back to the real world, Eric Oxboel, The Ox, has put in a bid for additional dependents' pay (or is it hazardous duty). Her name is Cindy Schanck hailing from Syracuse, N. Y. Ox is now stationed in Boston with the Navy; they plan an April wedding.

I talked with Don Kubit New Year's Eve (which shows how hard up I am for news), there, Kubes, I got the old name in there. Rumors are flying around however that he'll soon make the column with news of a more permanent nature. He's at Bucknell studying college counselling and playing dean to the poor misguided undergraduates. Tell them about Bermuda and obscenity. There ought to be a law.

Tom Zitrides is still in the Peace Corps. He's in Colombia, after training at Georgetown University. He's teaching chemistry at the TJniversidad de Antioguia (however you pronounce that).

The incoming news this month from the Alumni Office hit an all-time low. Samples . . . John Kindergan qualified for expert rating (John is in the Army stationed in Germany); Ron Herzog is leading a seminar group on underdeveloped countries in Durham, Conn., and C. Dean Razzano is going back to med school at the University of Kansas.

With that final crescendo of news, we await the new month.

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