Another Perspective

Hanover became a two-newspaper town at Commencement-time when staff members of The Dartmouth Review distributed free copies of the first issue to graduates and their families as they filed out of Thompson Arena. Among other extended features, that first 12-page issue, the only issue to date, contained a column by Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a 3,700-word interview with trustee nominee John Steel '54, a shorter piece by William F. Buckley Jr., and an article on two female professors subtitled "still battling for women."

The emergence of the feature-oriented paper came shortly after a period of unsettledness in the back offices of The Dartmouth. After a term of disagreement over editorial policy and other management matters and a series of emergency meetings of The D's governing body, Greg Fossedal '81 resigned in May from his post as editor-in-chief and president of the board of proprietors of The Dartmouth to found and become chairman of the board of directors of The Review. Other D staffers have since joined the ranks of The Review, including prize-winning cartoonist Steve Kelley '81.

Judging by the first issue, the editors of The Review have adopted a format somewhat different from that of The Dartmouth. For one, The D is a daily paper whose editors are primarily concerned with next-day reporting of campus, local, and national events. The Review, on the other hand, will publish on a weekly basis, and will devote most of its space to long news features on topics with, some might say, wider appeal. Future issues of The Review will reflect the balance set in the first issue, according to one Review spokesman, who described the paper as having a conservative perspective while representing varied points of view.

Hanover can now boast two independent student-run newspapers: one the oldest college newspaper in America, the other, at least for a little while, the youngest.

Robert Penn Warren, a natural storyteller, taught creative writing for many years,but he quit teaching poetry when it mysteriously depleted his own creative juices.