Crossing the Green

New frosh dean named

Cornelius Raiford has come to Hanover from Choate Rosemary Hall School to be the new assistant dean of freshmen and director of the Intensive Academic Support program. Raiford was assistant director of admissions, director of the A Better Chance program, and a track coach at Choate Rosemary Hall. He did his undergraduate work at Vassar and the University of Pittsburgh and earned a master's degree in history from Carnegie-Mellon.

New '86 dean named

Gregory T. Ricks, formerly an educational consultant at the Master's School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has been appointed assistant dean of the College and dean of the Class of '86. He earned a B.A. at the Hampton Institute and master's degrees from Harvard and MIT, and he is working on his doctorate in educational administration at Harvard.

Coach honored

Carl Wallin, head coach of men's track and field, was named New England Division I Coach of the Year. The award, voted annually by track and field coaches in the division, capped Dartmouth's most successful track and field season ever. A 1965 graduate of Northeastern, Wallin is in his sixth year at the College.

Sanctuary explored

Nationally-known supporters and critics of the movement to seek sanctuary for Central American refugees gathered in Hanover this fall for a conference to explore the complex humanitarian and legal questions the issue raises. Among participants were Maurice Inman, general counsel to the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Duncan Earle, a Dartmouth anthropology professor; Anne Nelson, a Los AngelesTimes columnist and Latin American specialist; and Robert McAfee Brown, a liberation theologian in residence at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow.

Two win honor

Two undergraduates, Ken Benedict '85 and Michael Sayette '86, have been named winners of the New England Psychological Association's Undergraduate Fellowship. Dr. Norman Berkowitz, chair of the fellowship, said Dartmouth was the first college in the history of the awards to have two of its students win the honor simultaneously.

IBM program announced

A new cooperative program has been arranged between Dartmouth and IBM. Under the program, IBM will send qualified employees from its semiconductor facility near Burlington, Vt., to Dartmouth to pursue master's degrees in math, physics, or engineering. The company will provide release time and pay tuition for employees who meet the College's regular admission requirements. The program will include two terms of full-time coursework on campus as well as work on a thesis at IBM under the supervision of a faculty adviser. The College expects to enroll five to ten IBM employees at a time.

Xerox awards grant

An $894,000 grant from the Xerox Corp. has funded the installation of a network of advanced computer workstations at the College, forming the computing backbone of Dartmouth's new doctoral program in computer science. The grant also covered associated software and maintenance for two years. Dartmouth was one of 12 schools to receive funds during the second year of Xerox's three-year, $30-million University Grant Program.

Trends in technology

A lecture series sponsored jointly by Dartmouth's Computer and Information Science Program, a two-year master's program, and Arthur Andersen, one of the world's largest public accounting and consulting firms, was held at Dartmouth this fall. In nine presentations over three months, executives from Arthur Andersen explored state-of-the-art use of computers, video equipment, telecommunications, and other technology. Students in the CIS program and at Tuck and Thayer as well as business executives in the region were invited to the series.

Apartheid opponents rally

The first Northern New England Anti-Apartheid Conference was held at Dartmouth in October, with representatives attending from college and community activist groups throughout the region. Held in observance of the United Nations' South African Political Prisoners' Day, the conference featured speeches by Mel King, director of the Massachusetts Rainbow Coalition; Eugene Booth of the Rhode Island State Commission on Human Rights; former South African political prisoner Dennis Brutus; Neo Mnomzana, chief representative of the African National Congress; and James Breeden '56, dean of the Tucker Foundation.

Alzheimer link postulated

Dr. Abraham Lenzner, a psychiatrist at Dartmouth Medical School, has found an apparent link between Alzheimer's disease and the incidence of viral infections earlier in the victims' lives. In a study of the records of patients at Hitchcock Hospital, Lenzner discovered that 17 percent of patients with senile dementias with no specific cause had been treated for a variety of viral infections, compared to four percent of patients in a nondemented control group.

New MALS head

Barbara E. Smith has been named the new executive director of Dartmouth's master of arts in liberal studies (MALS) program. Formerly a counselor at the College Health Service, Smith also lectures in the psychology department. A 1955 graduate of Hunter College, she received a master of science degree from New York University in 1974 and has been at Dartmouth for ten years.