UNDERGRADUATE SAMPLER

Read, graded, then consigned to the dusty nether world of term papers, theses, and research projects: such is the fate of most student course work at Dartmouth. For much of the work—done simply to get it donethe fate is deserved. Yet first-rate research, writing, and art does pass across professorial desks each term; unfortunately this exchange of ideas exists only between student and teacher. The Dartmouth community remains unaware of the caliber and nature of creative and intellectual efforts generated on campus.

To create a wider awareness of this excellence, this undergraduate "journal" is presented by the Alumni Magazine—the first, we hope, in a series to appear annually or semi-annually.

This first effort is, in effect, a sampler: a senior's study of the influence of the Munich Analogy on U. S. foreign policy; an account of research on the use of sexual pheromones for controlling the common house fly; a Virginia student's discovery, recorded in photographs, of what happened to three Louis Sullivan banks in small-town Ohio and Indiana; a journal, from English 77, of day-to-day responses to Moby Dick; and a report of pollution on presumably pristine Mt. Moosilauke. Accompanying these written pieces is an extraordinary pen-and-ink drawing by Gordon Wallace '74.

A sampling of some of the good work being done in various disciplines at Dartmouth, these contributions are in some cases excerpts from much longer papers. Otherwise they appear here as submitted to the faculty members who recommended them and wrote the comments serving as introductions.