Circling the Green
Tuition Too: Surely as inevitably as death and taxes is the annual rise in college expenses. Starting in September, Dartmouth students will pay an average $7,145 for tuition, room, and board for a typical fall-winter-spring term sequence, a rise of $517 over 1977-78. Tuition alone, up $130 a term, accounts for $4,920 of the total.
·Support: The Trustees have endorsed the Sullivan Principles, standards that commit U.S. companies doing business in South Africa to nondiscrimination in employment, pay, and facilities. President Kemeny says that the College owns no stock in South African firms or multi-national corporations whose principal activities are in South Africa.
. Keeping Fit: Classes in ballroomdisco dancing, on both beginning and intermediate levels — both carrying physical education credit — are held Mondays and Wednesdays at the White Church.
. Self-Cleaning: Cultures from ailing Dartmouth students, sent last term to the U.S. Communicable Disease Center for identification, turned up in Atlanta clean as a whistle. "Clinically," the chief at Dick's House declares, "I don't think there's any question" that the students had influenza; the victims agree they felt mighty poorly at the time.
. Broadening: Two seniors and four alumni have won Reynolds scholarships for study abroad next year: Thomas Bell '78 at Oxford; David Shoemaker '78 in Paris; Bruce Kimball '73 in Japan; Michael Denning '76 in Birmingham, England; Robert Duncan '77 at Cambridge; and Kenneth Frankel '77 in Mexico.
. Happy Birthday: Twenty years ago last month, WDCR burst upon the airwaves as a full-grown 250-watt commercial radio station, after a lingering infancy that started with the broadcast of the 1924 Dartmouth-Brown game. It was on-again, off-again, mostly transmitted through the College's electrical system, before the 1958 coming-of-age. WFRD, the FM baby of the family, just turned two.
. The Twain Do Meet: Steve Parker '78 from South Freeport, Maine, and Robert Meadow '79 from Berkeley, California, are one of 16 teams invited to compete in the National Intercollegiate Debate Championship late this month in Denver.
. Twosome: Elise and Kenneth Boulding, both on leave from the University of Colorado, both distinguished teachers and scholars — she in sociology, he in economics — will share honors as the first Montgomery Visiting Professors next year. The Bouldings will both be in residence at Montgomery House on Rope Ferry Road, teaching and lecturing and participating in the life of the campus, until January when he returns to Colorado while she remains at Dartmouth for the remainder of the academic year.
. Bonanza: After paying tuition, room, and board, students at the College spend over $5 million a year in the Hanover area, Curtis Conroy '78 learned from a survey he conducted as advertising manager of The Dartmouth. In all, they spend a cool million on textbooks and college supplies, 80 per cent of it during terms in residence.
