Circling the Green
• La Même Chose: At their April meeting, the Trustees re-elected David T. McLaughlin '54 as their chairman for another one-year term; re-elected R. Harcourt Dodds '58 and Richard D. Hill '41 to second five-year terms as Charter Trustees; and elected Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50, who has been filling an unexpired term, to his first full five years as an Alumni Trustee.
• To Be or Not To ... : In the ongoing will-they, won't-they, will-they, won't-they, will-they-organize-a-student-government saga, undergraduates the first of this month were about to be presented with a tentative draft of a Student Government constitution, to elicit their reaction.
• Lucely Picked: Two recent alumni, Ralph A. Child '72 and Bruce A. Kimball '73, have been named Luce Scholars, for a year in a program designed to promote understanding of the Far East among potential American leaders who are not Asian specialists. Only Dartmouth and Berkeley had two of their graduates picked for the annual group of 15.
• Attrition: Concern over the fact that women professors are leaving Dartmouth at a far greater rate than their male colleagues has led to a report to the Trustees drawn up by about 75 per cent of faculty women. Following a presentation to the Board at its April meeting, all parties said nice noncommittal things about positive responses, and the Trustees announced that the report will be one of three topics to be discussed at their summer meeting.
• Tidying-Up: Betty Eberhart, who shares digs on Webster Terrace with Dartmouth's poet-in-residence, got so tired of confronting littered fraternity lawns as she went to and from her house that she picked up her rake and tackled the "garbage problem" in a one-woman spring cleaning. An assistant dean gave her a trash bag, and a surprised IFC president asked for a week to see what he could do. Most Webster Avenue residents said they didn't know they had a problem.
• Dial-a-Pledge: Aided by two Wellesley students and one Thayer Hall staff member, 94 undergraduates took to the telephones last month and came up with $7,900 from 234 pledges to the Alumni Fund and an additional 351 promises of unspecified sums. Star of the second annual telethon was Liz DeMurga '78, who was on duty every night of the week and collected one pledge for $500.
• River Pilot: Between 40 and 60 students and at least six faculty members will take part in a "Pilot Residential Academic Program" at the River Cluster during the fall, winter, spring terms next year. The theme for the program, to be centered in McLane Hall, will be "Alternative Education."
• Sharp Shooters: Dartmouth's varsity trapshooters last month won the National Collegiate Championship by one target, in competition in Peoria. Captain Dennis DeVaux '78 took second place among 270 individuals, scoring 196 out of 200.
