Circling the Green
• At the invitation of President McLaughlin, some 30 members of the New Hampshire state legislature and administration of Governor John Sununu spent the day at Dartmouth on January 28, learning about the College and hearing the president and others speak about the historic and present-day relations between Dartmouth and New Hampshire. A comprehensive tour of the campus was part of the day's program. The deans of the medical, engineering and business schools reviewed the ways in which their schools are cooperating with the state, and similar presentations were made about Hopkins Center and athletics. "We are vitally interested in the environment in which Dartmouth exists," President McLaughlin told the legislators. "The resources of Dartmouth are available to you as you address the problems of this state." Dean Shanahan observed of Dartmouth students, "When they leave this place, they take a little of New Hampshire with them and leave a little of themselves behind."
• Five nationally known economists who have combined policy-making roles in the federal government with academic careers are speaking at Dartmouth during the winter and spring terms in a series entitled "Macro-economic Policy Problems: An Insider-Outsider View." The series is underwritten by a grant from Household International, the former Household Finance Corporation. Dr. Stephen Goldfeld, chairman of the Princeton economics department and former member of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, opened the series on January 27. He was followed by Cornell economist Alfred Kahn on February 9. Other speakers will be Dr. Lyle Gramley, member of the Federal Reserve Board; Dr. Norman Ture, until recently Undersecretary of the Treasury for tax and fiscal affairs in the Reagan administration; and Dr. Lan Stewart, until recently federal deputy minister of finance in Canada, and formerly a member of the Dartmouth economics faculty.
• A special course that is particularly in tune with today is being offered at Dartmouth this term by Prof. Gene Lyons of the Government Department and Prof. Graham Wallis of Thayer School of Engineering. Called "Technology, Politics, and Ethics," it deals with nuclear technology, weapons, and associated political and ethical issues. Professor Wallis is the author of the definitive textbook on twophase flow, the study of what happens in nuclear reactions.
• Police Officer Karen Kelleher, Formerly of the Exeter, N.H., police force, joined the campus police in December. In addition to other duties, she will conduct Dartmouth's educational programs for self-protection against rape and sexual assault.
• Sheryl L. Porter has been named director of systems and production of information resources for alumni affairs and development at the College. She has experience as project and systems analyst at the College and as technical writer at a medical corporation in California.
• A new wrinkle in Dartmouth's varied program of continuing education was introduced last month when Roger Masters, professor of government, and David Kastan, associate professor of English, collaborated on an experiment called "Alumni in the College." Five alumni couples were invited to join undergraduates for a week in two courses, Government 63, "History of Political Thought," and English 25, "Shakespeare's Histories: Politics and Play." Professor Kastan was last year's academic director of Alumni College.
• Thayer School's board of overseers has two new members: Brian J. Thompson, dean of the University of Rochester's College of Engineering and Applied.Science, and Peter R. Brown '49 of Clearwater, Fla., chairman of the board of U.S. RESICO, Inc. Brown, who holds an engineering degree from Thayer School and an MBA from the Wharton School, owns a civil engineering company and is a rear admiral in the U.S. Naval Reserve Civil Engineering Corps.
• Mary Frances Berry, vice-chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and professor of history and law at Howard University, was in Hanover on January 17 to deliver the Martin Luther King lecture. The lecture, sponsored by Dartmouth's Black Caucus, annually presents to the Dartmouth community a scholarly address on issues which concerned Dr. King human rights, equal opportunity, and race relations. Dr. Berry spoke on "The State of Civil Rights 1983: Problems and Prospects." Her visit, made possible by the Montgomery Endowment, had wide campus support by the office of the dean of the faculty, African and Afro-American studies, the Afro-American Society, the Women's Studies Program, and the departments of government, history, sociology, and education.
• Twenty young Japanese men and women from the Tokyo area came to Dartmouth in mid-February to begin three weeks of intensive study of English. Their visit is under the auspices of Dartmouth Language Outreach, headed by Prof. John Rassias, creator of the internationally known Dartmouth Intensive Language Method. The Japanese students, mostly in their 20's and early 30's, are the second such group to study at the College. The first group came last summer. In addition to learning to speak English in the American idiom, the students are also absorbing as much as possible of American literature and American culture and manners. Living with families in the Hanover area is another important part of the total experience. At the Japanese end, the program is sponsored by the United Travel Study Service, which is currently providing study opportunities in the English language at only two places Dartmouth and Oxford University.
• Hanover's never-ending search for solutions to the parking problem has taken a new turn with town proposals to build a two-tiered parking structure on School Street, behind the Gulf station, and to raise the parking fee to 25 cents in order to discourage meter-feeders. Meanwhile, the College has done something on its own by inaugurating four vanpool routes serving mostly employees of the College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. More than 50 persons are coming to work in the new 15-passenger Dodge vans, which are either owned or leased. The four communities getting the round-trip service each workday are Woodsville, Piermont, and Claremont in New Hampshire; and Chelsea/Vershire in Vermont. Three other Vermont communities may be added to the system.
• Thayer dining hall uses 10,800 gallons of hot water every day. By installing a nearly completed system that uses the waste heat from its refrigerators for part of the water-heating job, the Dartmouth Dining Association expects to reduce its energy costs by $20,000 a year. The $63,000 installation will pay for itself in a little over three years. Thayer has been heating water to 140 degrees by steamThe waste refrigerator heat will do half of the job, up to 70 degrees, and steam will still be used to do the rest.
Winter Carnival ski-jumping (left) on Saturday afternoon drew the largest crowd of theweekend.
In years past, when desperately needed snowarrived in the nick of time for Winter Carnival,it was claimed, somewhat sacrilegiously,that God is a member of the D.O.C. Lastmonth, the Winter Carnival Council couldhave taken up that claim. Three days beforeCarnival was to begin, a foot and a half ofsnow fell on an almost bare campus. This year'sfestival was entitled "The Rise and Fall of theFrozen Empire," and winged Pegasus (above)dominated things from the center of the Green.By all reports, Carnival was a comparativelyquiet affair, with no great influx of out-of-visitors; but those who were on hand entownjoyed it and had the usual difficulty in keepingup with a very full, three-day program of events—fireworks, winter sports, ski meet, ice shows,concerts, Ivy League athletic contests, movies,and dances. The Dartmouth on Mondaymorning praised the job done by the WinterCarnival Council and the Dartmouth OutingClub, and headed its editorial with "Pass theAspirin."
