Pleasantries

Nice things have been happening to a lot of deserving people on the campus these last few weeks. A sampling of the highlights:

Professors Walter W. Arndt of the Russian Department and Michael Dorris of anthropology, who is chairman of Native American Studies, were among only about 200 in the country to be awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for next year. Dorris will study the 1971 Alaska Land Claims Act, which recognized the title of Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts to 40 million acres of Alaska. Arndt will work on a bilingual book, The Verbal and GraphicSatire of Wilhelm Busch, an illustrated anthology of the work of the 19th-century German poet, draftsman, and painter.

Dartmouth Broadcasting won, in competition with commercial broadcasters from the New England states, a United Press International citation for "an outstanding news achievement of 1976." The

recognition was of WDCR's and WFRDFM's coverage of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, which was heard through a network of 27 commercial radio stations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. The program has also been nominated for an Armstrong Award, given by Columbia University.

A Dartmouth debate team, for the 23rd time in the 26 years Professor Herbert James has been coaching, qualified for the national intercollegiate championships. Kenton P. Dauten '77 and L. Stevenson Parker '78 survived the preliminary and two other rounds at the tournament, but lost at the level below quarter-finals. The two had previously won 71 per cent of their major matches this academic year.

And by no means least, the Alumni Fund was, by the first of this month, almost $30,000 and 1,500 donors ahead of last year at the same time.