Circling the Green

• Dean Appointed: Robert W. McCollum, chairman of the Yale University School of Medicine's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, will become dean of the Dartmouth Medical School in January 1982, succeeding James C. Strickler '50, who will return to teaching after a year's sabbatical. A distinguished medical researcher, McCollum graduated from Baylor University and received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1948.

• Dean Resigned: John E. Hanson '59, appointed Dartmouth's first dean of students in 1977, is resigning his position and taking a one-year leave of absence for educational purposes, after which he hopes to rejoin the College administration in a different capacity. "Over the past several months," Hanson explained, "I found the requirements of the dean of students position, with its frequent evening and weekend obligations, to be increasingly in conflict with what I believe to be my more fundamental responsibilities as a husband and father."

• Director Selected: After a year-long search, the Dartmouth College Glee Club has found a new director, Louis George Burkot Jr., whose three-year appointment will begin with the fall term. Burkot is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Yale School of Music. He recently served as director of choral activities and assistant professor of voice and theory at Marietta College.

• Title Defended: The Dartmouth Bicycle Club won its second consecutive Eastern Championship and fifth straight Ivy title on a hilly course through Hanover and Etna during Green Key Weekend. Riders in the "A" race made five laps of the ten-mile course, while racers in the "B" and women's events rode the circuit three times.

• Riders Ranked: The riding team won the Ivy League Invitational Horse Show held in early May at the College's Morton Farm in Etna. The win placed Dartmouth third in New England competition behind Mt. Holyoke and Smith.

• Symbols Rejected: The Ad Hoc Symbol Committee of the Undergraduate Council, choosing from over 100 entries, selected three finalists that were voted on in a campus-wide "election" for a new College symbol. The Timberwolves received 565 votes, the Vikings received 320, and the Woodsmen received 320. The real winner was "none of the above," which along with some write-ins received 738 votes.

• Body Revived: Palaeopitus, an organization of senior campus leaders, dis- banded in 1968 after a student referendum called for the abolition of the Undergraduate Council, has been unofficially resurrected by a group of 12 seniors. One of the group's first actions was to release about 10,000 marbles in the Library's Reserve Corridor during an exam period.

• Attack Reported: According to the Campus Police log for Friday, May 22, a student reported being assaulted by a Frisbee.

• Debaters Succeeded: Dartmouth's first debate team of Cy Smith '81 and Mark Weinhardt '82 concluded a successstudded season by placing second, behind the University of Pittsburgh, at the National Debate Tournament held this spring in Pomona, California. Debate Coach Ken Strange said the pair compiled "the best record of any team in the last ten years."

• Place Enhanced: Eleven comfortable and sturdy park benches, recently put up at convenient and scenic locations around the campus, have been installed in memory of James A. Epperson, professor of English, who died last spring while bicycling in Norwich. Epperson was an advocate of a "civilized" Dartmouth campus, and the benches are the sort of thing he would have enjoyed.