Crossing the Green
New journal formed
The World Affairs Council, a student organization dedicated to increasing understanding on campus of international affairs, has begun publication of a bi-an-nual journal called WorldOutlook. The first issue has been underwritten by the Dickey Endowment and contains an article on Yalta by Dickey Fellow Robert Barry '56, former ambassador to Bulgaria; a piece on religion and nationalism by Montgomery Fellow Conor Cruise O'Brien; an interview with Admiral Stansfield Turner by Peter Blum 'B5; and several other student papers. The journal will be printed in an edition of 1,000 for distribution on campus, to alumni, and to other schools; issues are expected to run about 150 pages. The faculty advisors include government professors Gene Lyons and Laurence Radway and sociology professor Elise Boulding.
Studies funded
Sandra J. MacKay, research assistant professor of psychiatry, has received two major grants from the Veterans Administration to fund studies of community-based rehabilitation of stroke and brain-injured patients. The success of a $370,000 award made two years ago has led to a recent grant of $430,000 to expand the focus of the original effort. The initial study was the first randomized clinical trial in the world of a rehabilitation method developed in Great Britian and based on work with actress Patricia Neal. It uses trained community volunteers in the post-hospital rehabilitation of aphasic stroke patients, those with communication difficulties, monitoring the effects of regular social stimulation on the patients' progress. The new study will use the same approach with any stroke patients as well as those with a brain injury as a result of trauma. Both grants are for three-year periods.
Attorney named
Sean M. Gorman '76, an attorney with the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag, and Eliot, has been named assistant College counsel. In college an associate editor of The Dartmouth and a Rufus Choate Scholar, he graduated magna cum laude with highest distinction in honors English. He received his law degree in 1981 from the University of Chicago Law School.
Bowl team takes fourth
The Dartmouth College Bowl team, invited to the national College Bowl finals after a stunning second-place finish in the regional competition, tied for fourth place in a field of 35 teams at the national tournament. The only teams which bested Dartmouth as well as many which placed behind the Green were ones with "long-standing traditions of College Bowl," according to Steve Lipscomb '84, the team's advisor. The Dartmouth achievement was "pretty extraordinary," he said, because this was the first year the College had fielded a College Bowl team since the tournament's revival several years ago.
