Circling the Green

• Resigning: After 20 years of serving as dean of the faculty or provost or both, Leonard Rieser '44 announced to the faculty in late November that he intends to resign as provost on the completion of the Campaign for Dartmouth in 1982 and to return to full-time teaching in the natural sciences after a year's sabbatical. The dual position of dean of the faculty and provost was split last fall because of the heavy demands of the job and conflicting responsibilities.

• Full Dozen: Peter Smith, director of the Hopkins Center, will be stepping down March 31, 1981, after supervising the arts center for 12 productive and creative years. Following a nine-month leave of absence, Smith anticipates returning to a different post in the College administration.

• Residential Life: At their November meeting, along with endorsing a statement of residential policy that emphasizes the importance of supporting liberal education outside the classroom, particularly in dormitories, the trustees directed that a Committee on Residential Life be formed. The new committee will be responsible for implementing recommendations made by

the Committee on the Quality of Student Life, if they are practicable, for the reorganization of the dormitory system.

• More Beds: Planning has begun for a new dormitory, with a $2-million estimated price tag, that will probably be located down by the river near the Channing-Cox dorm. If the plans are approved by the trustees, construction could begin in the spring.

• Money: The College's revised budget for 1980-81, $92.6 million, a gross figure that includes the operations of the associated schools, auxiliary activities, and financial aid, was recently approved by the trustees. At the same meeting, they were presumably pleased with the favorable accounting from the investment committee, which reported a 15.6 per cent return on stocks and bonds combined. Looking ahead at the burden of increasing energy costs, the board also authorized a preliminary study of the College's power plant.

• Healthy: The Thayer School's solid financial situation prompted the trustees to approve a schedule for severing by 1982-83 the graduate school's annual subvention from the College, which this year is just under $200,000. As part of the plan for cutting the strings, Thayer will receive $600,000 from the Campaign for Dartmouth's

Fund for the 'Bos. Dean Carl Long also reported an all-time enrollment record at Thayer. The engineering school currently has 102 graduate students, 54 per cent more than the enrollment just three years ago, and 72 undergraduates who are expected to receive A.B. degrees in engineering in June, as opposed to the 41 engineering majors who graduated in 1978.

• Great Professor: Dartmouth has a new memorial lectureship, named in honor of the late Arthur M. Wilson, member of the faculty for 34 years, winner of the National Book Award, and director of the Great Issues course. Government Professor Roger D. Masters established the Wilson Lectureship with funds from the John Sloan Dickey Professorship, which he holds, and yearly appointments will be made to an outstanding scholar and teacher in fields related to Wilson's interests: political theory, 18th-century intellectual history, literature, and politics.

• National: Hcorot fraternity, a member of the Chi Phi association from 1902 until 1968, officially rejoined the national organization this fall but will continue to be known as Heorot on campus. The national affiliation gives the house some needed financial support for necessary renovations.