Circling the Green
• You're OK/We're OK: The Alumni Fund, on the last day of May, had reached a figure of $4,128,829 in gifts and pledges from 15,453 donors. Compared to the same date last year, the amount is ahead by $660,000 and the donors by 700. The goal this year is $5.8 million compared to $5.3 million raised last year. The campaign ends June 30.
• One for Their Side: Fraternity members winter term accumulated a collective grade-point average higher than non-fraternity members — by one one-hundredth of a point: 3.07, as opposed to 3.06, on a 4.0 scale. Student Dean John Hanson '59 cautioned would-be inferrers "not to impute too much to it."
And Another: Alpha Delta, proclaimed by brother Chris Miller '63 as the inspiration for his Animal House, became celebrated in song as well as story when they won this year's Hums. A selection of songs from Oliver!, revised by two of the brothers, earned them the nod in competition said to be considerably more decorous than in some recent years. Sigma Kappa sorority took second.
• Sinking: Although 12 of the 20 fraternities on campus reported more pledges this year than last, the overall number dropped almost 10 per cent, to under 400. The shrinkage is attributed by many to "heat from home."
• Winners: Paul A. Gigot '77, former editor-in-chief of The Dart-mouth now a writer for NationalReview, has been chosen as one of 15 Luce Scholars, for a year in Asia in the context of his professional interests. Angela Arrington '79 has been picked by Black Collegian magazine as one of 15 outstanding black women undergraduates and by Glamour magazine as one of the top ten of American college women.
. Dismal No More: Putting their mouths where their money is, 283 undergraduates — '79s who have not yet finished their requirements, the full complement of 'Bos, and sophomores who have already declared their majors — have picked economics as their field of concentration. Next most popular is government with 260, followed closely by English with 256. History holds a long lead over the rest of the pack with 230.
. On the Road: The State of New Hampshire has raised the drinking age to 20, an action that seems a step in the wrong direction for reducing gasoline consumption (by automobiles). Vermont has retained the 18-year-old minimum for purchase or use of alcoholic beverages. Most alumni, of course, recall a drinking age of 21, not always strenuously enforced.
Gone: Lou's Restaurant, the last of the "old-time" eateries in Hanover, has been sold, and owner-proprietorconversationalist Lou Bressett has retired. The landmarks of even 20 years ago - Hal's, the Indian Bowl, the Midget Diner, the Green Lantern, the "Pit" (did it have another name?), and now Lou's - have all faded into memory or new ownership.
. In Memoriam: An abstract stone sculpture, created by Ted Arnold '78 and sponsored by the Classes of 1958, 1968, and 1978, honoring alumni killed in the Vietnam War, has been placed in Collis Center. A temporary plaque bears the names of 23 Dartmouth men, a roster feared to be yet incomplete.
. Up and Coming: Engineering Professor Frederick J. Hooven, who began his teaching career in his sixties after retiring as director of research planning for the Ford Motor Company, has earned his profession's highest recognition with election to the National Academy of Engineering. Among other accomplishments, Hooven has developed the first heartlung machine, the first electronic typesetting, the first controlled system for unmanned flight, and an improved front-wheel drive system for auto-mobiles.
.Demonstration: Parkhurst was picketed again last month, this time by students protesting library closing on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. They asked for 8:00 a.m.-tomidnight hours, seven days a week. One protester's sign read "Stop Institutional Anti-Intellectualism! Open the Libraries!"
