Alumni College '83

From its recent consideration of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, Dartmouth Alumni College will turn this summer to a theme that has been a burning concern throughout all human history "War and Peace." The 20th anniversary session is scheduled for August 7—18, with Prof. William Cook of the English department as academic director.

"Everybody talks about war and peace with a great deal of conviction, but not always with a great deal of thought," says Professor Cook. "We plan to ask our students to read and think a great deal. Maybe we can lower the level of rhetoric and increase the idea content. Alumni College '83 will be neither a peace college nor a war college."

Three other members of the Dartmouth faculty will join Professor Cook as Alumni College lecturers. Kenneth Korey, associate professor of anthropology, will discuss three theories posed by anthropologists to account for human aggression. Charles Wood, Daniel Webster Professor of History, will deal with the anomalies of war, from the Peloponnesus to Appomattox, from the Crusades in the Holy Land to a more modern one in Europe. Ian Lustick, associate professor of government and a Middle East specialist, will examine the ways in which technological advances have changed wars. Professor Cook will concentrate on the poetry of war, contrasting poets who glorify war to those who see it as the most hateful enemy of civilization.

A dozen other faculty members will assist as discussion leaders, and several guest lecturers will take part. More than 300 alumni, parents, and friends of the College are expected as students this summer.