Pied

Now that streaking has become passé, wouldn't you expect the College's undergraduates to come up with some new fad to help take a of the tension out of final exams? We that's exactly what some enterprising students have done, and if you want more details, _ ask Bruce Kimball '73, assistant dean of the College, or Jeff Sudikoff '77, news director of WDCR.

Kimball and Sudikoff are among the victims of the Green Defense League - also known as the Cretinese Liberation Army. For the uninitiated, the GDL is an organization of self-styled radical students whose main avocation is throwing pies. Usually banana cream pies. The pies are lofted into the face of an unsuspecting administrator, faculty member or student, a Ullsually cryptic) message is delivered, and the assailant then flees. Anyone who can find the GDL can "take out a contract" on somebody in the Dartmouth community for a nominal fee, sit back, and wait for the victim to be "pied." But since the organization is underground, not very many people have been able to take out contracts.

Kimball was "hit" during an end-of-term meeting of the College Committee on Standing and Conduct. The perpetrators knocked at the door, Kimball answered, the pie flew, and the assailants fled in a waiting car. Sudikoff got his while broadcasting the Six O'Clock News on WDCR. Rumor has it that contracts have been taken out on scores of faculty members and administrators. When departing Dean of the College Carroll Brewster was told that he was on the list, he reportedly replied, "I doubt it. I don't think they'd start so low."

College Proctor John O'Connor isn't too concerned about the new craze. "I think it'll probably die faster than streaking," he says, adding that "the Campus Police haven't made any great effort to track down the perpetrators." None of the victims, according to O'Connor, has complained to the Campus Police.