Educational Stock-Taking

The College community paused in its academic routine May 4 for "The Greening of Dartmouth," a day-long symposium on education at the College.

Sponsored by the Student Forum, approved by the faculty executive committee with the proviso that the day's classes be rescheduled for other times, the symposium was a sort of institutional stock-taking of every phase of The Dartmouth Experience, from undergraduate vs. graduate education to off-campus programs, from athletics to residential arrangements.

President Kemeny opened the convocation with a morning address in Webster Hall on "The Future of Liberal Arts Education at Dartmouth," the text of which is printed in this issue of the Alumni Magazine.

Among the afternoon's seminars, the Dartmouth Christian Union sponsored a film and discussion on "Student Involvement and Service in the Community." Concurrent seminars, 24 in all, met at various locations on the campus, starting at 1:15 and 3:30. Some of the topics discussed were minority education, freshman orientation, environmental studies, athletics, fraternities, Outward Bound, college governance, grading, residential arrangements, the judiciary system, education of women, and the Indian symbol.

The Dartmouth, in a rare eight-page edition the day before, offered precis of discussion topics, to aid students in choosing which of the concurrent events they were most concerned with. Many faculty members and administrators joined students at Thayer Hall for dinner to continue the exchange of ideas engendered at meetings throughout the day.