Table of Contents

April 1983, Vol. 75, No. 7

26 Cancer

Hairline cracks are beginning to appear in medicine's toughest nut, and research at Dartmouth is helping to widen them.

34 Whitewater Racing

A sport in which Dartmouth kayakers have done supremely well and yet have been accorded slight recognition by the College.

40 1340 on your radio dial

WDCR, unique among student-run commercial stations, completes its first 25 years.

Departments

4 Letters

14 Reviews

20 Wearers of the Green

22 The College

39 Alumni Album

43 Undergraduate Chair

45 Sports

49 Class Notes

85 Obituaries

Cover Against a background of cancer cells, three images from Dartmouth's new radiation treatment-planning computer stand out with eerie beauty. At the top is a "cat" scanner image of a cancer patient's lungs and tumor. The middle image is a proposed treatment plan coded by color for "fall-out" to healthy tissues near the tumor. At the bottom, the treatment plan is shown superimposed on the scanner image. The background of small-cell cancer of the lung, magnified some 4,000 times, is from an electron microscope photograph taken by Dartmouth pathologist George Ruben. Nancy Wasserman '77 took the treatment-planner photographs.