Circling the Green

• Row, row your boat: Not so gently up the stream it was for Tish Davis '79 and Ginger Cox '77, who spent their summer rowing a 20-foot, 250-pound boat with a five-foot beam up the inland waterway from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska. The two warmed up crewing in the Dartmouth-sponsored eight-woman shell entered in the national rowing championships in Seattle in mid-June. Then they headed north on the 1,200- mile voyage, figuring on 60 days on the water and another 20 of unrowable weather.

• Bargaining: After hard negotiations, but no bitter strike such as those which have rocked Harvard and Yale of late, the College and Local 560 of the Service Employees' International Union (AFLCIO) reached agreement on a new two-year contract that went into effect July 1. The package called for two annual wage increases of up to 40-cents-an- hour, premium pay for Sunday work at Thayer Hall, and next year the College's assumption of the full cost of health insurance.

• Tottings: The Class of 1982 should weigh in this month at close to the round 1,050 figure usually bandied about, in view of the 735 men and 315 women who signed up last spring. Hopes and/or fears notwithstanding, that is only one more woman and only six fewer men than the freshmen expected last year. Applications from women were up about 275 over last year; from men they were down about 180. In answer to a lot of inquiries we've had recently, there were 1,768 students enrolled for summer term. "Enrolled," by the way, doesn't necessarily mean "in residence" - 63 of the 1,364 undergraduates registered were in off-campus programs. Here with them for a time was a bumper crop of 301 Alumni College students, aged 16 to 70-odd, on campus to contemplate "Where Have All the Heroes Gone?" Collectively, they had in tow 46 children, with Dartmouth student counselors to keep tabs on where they were.