Circling the Green
• Alfred T. Quirk, dean of admissions and financial aid, disclosed last month that Dartmouth had accepted 1765 of 8000 applicants for the Class of 1987. These figures are approximately the same as last year's, when 1776 of 8300 applicants were admitted. Actual matriculation is expected to shake down to 1050.
Quirk noted that early-decision acceptances were slightly higher this year, and that the incoming class would be about 60 per cent male and 40 per cent female. The number of minority acceptances was also slightly higher than last year, 159 to 139. In an effort to increase the number of minority students accepting admission, a special "This Is Dartmouth College" weekend was held April 22—23. Sixty applicants plicants came to Hanover to see the Col lege, attend classes, hear a faculty panel and be entertained by students. Another 20 came the following weekend. Two seniors, Leslie Skinner and David Moore were in charge of the program, which was an enlargement of last year's inaugural effort.
• Three Dartmouth faculty members received honors recently. James Cox, Avalon Professor of Humanities and professor of English, was at the 60th annual Honors Convocation at the University of Michigan as one of three alumni to receive the university's Outstanding Achievement Award. Frank E. Musiek, associate professor of clinical surgery, received the Michael E. Glassock II Research Award from the Education and Auditory Research Foundation, recognizing his study of auditory brainstem response. Horace A. Porter, assistant professor of English and of African and Afro-American studies, has been named a member of a national visiting committee of five scholars to evaluate the programs of the American Council of Learned Societies.
• William S. Cole, professor of music, has filed a $600,000 defamation suit against The Dartmouth Review, which in its January 17 issue printed an article deriding his course and his teaching and grading methods. The article in question was entitled "Prof. Bill Cole's Song and Dance Routine" and was written by a Review staff member who had attended his course. "American Music in Oral Tradition, without his knowledge.
• Doctors at the Dartmouth Medical School, in collaboration with Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, have inaugurated a new short-stay alcohol treatment center at the hospital. The program is radically different in that patients will normally stay only seven to 12 days, in contrast to the average of 21 to 28 days required by most in-patient alcohol rehabilitation centers. The new approach is keyed to extensive family involvement in the alcoholics in-patient treatment and intensive posthospitalization follow-up. The latter will consist of a three-months' regimen of weekly meetings with a counselor, gatherings of "alumni groups" of patients, regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, special therapy groups.
• Very few graduates in the entire history of the College have lived to be 102 years old. That milestone was passed on April 1 by Howard L. Ropes '03 of Watertown, N.Y., who has no competition for being Dartmouth's oldest living alumnus. Ropes, who was a student under President William Jewett Tucker and saw Dartmouth Hall burn down, got an engineering degree from Thayer School in 1904. For 17 years before retiring in 1952 he was in charge of road construction and maintenance for the Jefferson County (N.Y.) Highway Department. Earlier he was an engineer with a paper manufacturing firm. Ropes never married and now lives in a Watertown nursing home.
After Ropes, the oldest Dartmouth alumni are Guy Blodgett '08, aged 98; and Arthur Graves '09, Allen Perkins '08, and Bertrand French '09, all 97 in that order.
• Jonathan Auerbach '85 of Scarsdale, N.Y., is one of 98 Harry S. Truman Scholarship winners. The scholarships, awarded annually to college sophomores across the nation, are designed to provide opportunities for outstanding students to prepare for careers in public service. Each award winner is granted $20,000 to be used over a four-year period. Auerbach's scholarship begins in September 1983 and will help finance his two remaining years at Dartmouth and two years of graduate study.
• Sink Night, held April 9 by Dartmouth's fraternities and sororities as the climactic event of the annual formal rush period, resulted in 370 new fraternity members and 133 new sorority sisters, according to a survey by The Dartmouth. The fraternity total was down somewhat, but the number of new members for the five sororities was up. The fact that 250 women had attended formal rush but only 133 were able to pledge led The Dartmouth to editorialize that five sororities are not enough.
Kathy Slattery, who has been Dartmouth's assistant sports information director for six years, has been named acting director. She takes the place of Art Petrosemolo, who left in March to enter business. Slattery, a graduate of Newhouse School of Journalism at Syracuse Universiy was a reporter for the Manchester Union Leader before assuming her DCAC job.
For the 7th annual Alumni Fund Telethon,staged in the Top of the Hop for four nights,April 11—14, some 540 undergraduates volunteered to telephone alumni who have made atleast one Fund gift in the past ten years but whohave not been regular givers. Their efforts hadrecord results: 1,786 pledges totaling nearly$80,000. Kate Drislane '83 of Paramus,N.J. (shown at right) was student director ofthe telethon, working with Sam Smith '49,associate director of the Alumni Fund.
For the 7th annual Alumni Fund Telethon,staged in the Top of the Hop for four nights,April 11—14, some 540 undergraduates volunteered to telephone alumni who have made atleast one Fund gift in the past ten years but whohave not been regular givers. Their efforts hadrecord results: 1,786 pledges totaling nearly$80,000. Kate Drislane '83 of Paramus,N.J. (shown at right) was student director ofthe telethon, working with Sam Smith '49,associate director of the Alumni Fund.
