Posters

The week before final examinations, when the temperature was in the eighties and when students were struggling to maintain a studious demeanor while sunbathing on dormitory rooftops, fire escapes, and the roped-off sections of the Green, we strolled around campus looking at posters to see what other diversions were available. Here, in order of appearance, is what we saw advertised:

The Dartmouth Wargaming Club, seeking new members, promised that "we shall fight in the classrooms, the dorms, and the fraternities."

The Psychology Department asked male undergraduates to volunteer to participate in a series of unspecified experiments.

The Religion Department announced a lecture by Professor Wendell Dietrich on "The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition."

Phi Psi had plastered bulletin boards everywhere with announcements of a benefit concert.

An alumnus offered $35 a day for help building a "solar saltbox" in Sunapee.

A $150 reward was offered for the winning suggestion for a new College symbol.

A poster with "Indians!" scrawled across it announced an election to choose between three symbol finalists the Woodsmen, Vikings* and Timberwolves.

Another poster, quoting the words of the second verse of the Alma Mater, called attention to the line, "Till like the Vikings they went forth."

An illustrated green flyer urged students to write in "Artichokes" on the symbol ballot as a protest against the "sexist, ethnocentric, uninspired, or otherwise un acceptable choices."

A lecture on "Iran: Our Captors, the Students," by former hostage Moorehead Kennedy and his wife Louisa, was announced.

The P.T.L. Club's production of I'll BePraying For Your Leg, Fred was to be staged in Rollins Chapel.

The Dartmouth Motor Sports Club promised four-wheeled adventure.

A poetry reading by Richard Kenney '70 was about to take place in Sanborn Library.

The Dartmouth Collegium Musicum announced the production of something called Sweeney Todd The DemonBarber of Fleet Street.

Latin American poetry was the topic of a three-day symposium called "Commitment and Rebellion."

"Lock Your Desk!" was the message on a notice posted by the Campus Police.

A freshman class party featured a band called "Deadline" and free ice cream.

Members of the class of '82 were told when and where to get their senior portraits taken.

Senior Fellow John Foggle was going to make a presentation about the Philippines, "Rice Terraces or Hydro Electric Dams?"

A three-day Ledyard Canoe Club openhouse promised free use of canoes and kayaks.

A bicycle-touring workshop was open to the public.

Instead of throwing away their clothes when they cleaned out their closets, students were asked to donate unwanted apparel to a local service agency.

The Storrs Pond Recreation Area was about to open.

The Dartmouth Gospel Choir was giving a free concert at the Top of the Hop.

The "Oak Hill 5," an upcoming "European-style" five-mile cross-country race, was to be run through the woods just out of town.

Ballet classes were starting,

The Hopkins Center's professionally designed and silk-screened posters advertised the 18th Annual Student Art Exhibition, concerts by the Collegium Musicum and the Handel Society, a modern dance performance, and a Drama Department production featuring scenes from the American theater of the 1930s.

The Dartmouth Outing Club was recruiting leaders for next fall's Freshman Trips and volunteers for the Moosilauke Trails Weekend featuring a lot of hard work with picks, shovels, axes, and saws.

"Soaps in the Spring," a series of films and lectures on the history of melodrama in Hollywood, put together by Sturtevant Burr 'BO, was about to conclude. "Bring your own handkerchief," the poster ad vised.

Is whimsy alive in Hanover? This five-foot soft sculpture by senior Marcia McCraemight convince even the hard-hearted. It appears in the current student art show.