Crossing the Green

Computing doctorate set Beginning next September, the College will inaugurate a doctoral program in computer science. The program will make an important contribution to the nation's desperate need for Ph.D.-level computer scientists. In addition, it is expected to have a positive impact on undergraduate computer offerings at the College. Three new faculty members, bringing to 13 the number in computer science, will be hired. About ten students a year will be admitted to the four- to sixyear course of study.

Computing conference held

A major conference on state-of-the-art academic computing was held in Hanover in mid-July for 120 senior college administrators from the eastern half of the country. A similar session for the West was held at Stanford. The participants looked at integrating computing throughout curricula and studied such advanced applications as at Dartmouth, MIT, Brown, and UCLA. The programs were sponsored by EDUCOM, a nonprofit consortium of 500 educational institutions, with some funding from Apple Computer, Inc.

Theater grant received

Dartmouth's Williams/ Watson Theater Collection will be restored and made more accessible through a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The 58,000-item collection includes rare playbills and other theatrical memorabilia. Under the grant, ten employees will be hired for a year to do work it is estimated would have taken more than 60 years for the collection's sole curator to accomplish. Items will be repaired as necessary and also catalogued in machine-readable form so that scholars can access the collection by computer.

Long-term grant awarded

For the second time, Dartmouth was singled out by the Chemical Bank as an institution offering excellence to education and given a four-year $80,000 grant to help assure the College's fiscal stability. A total of $3 million was awarded to 60 colleges and universities through Chemical's Higher Education Grant Program. Dartmouth was an original recipient in 1982.

SAFE raises $60,000

College students from more than 80 campuses nationwide raised nearly $60,000 for African hunger relief under a program initiated by two Dartmouth freshmen. Students Against Famine in Ethiopia (SAFE) was launched last winter by 'BBs Brett Matthews and David Steinberg, who are already looking towards a follow-up campaign. Most of the participating colleges relied on asking students to fast for one meal to raise funds. At Dartmouth, $3,000 was raised in one day. Next year, Steinberg said, the pair would like to expand the program to a week's worth of fund-raising activities.

Student journal launched

The newest student pub- lication on campus has a clearly-defined mission to express the scientific out-look in both philosophical and nontechnical terms. Founded by Ahron Friedberg '85, the journal is named Snark, after Lewis Carroll's nonsense ballad, "The Hunting of the Snark." The first, 16-page issue, was partially funded by the Fairchild Center for the Physical Sciences through the office of Associate Dean for the Sciences Bruce Pipes, who also has an article in it entitled "Science in the Liberal Arts: Fit or Misfit."

Fund names Farrish

Kristin Farrish '82 has joined the Dartmouth Alumni Fund as an assistant director. An undergraduate history major, she served on her class council for four years and was a cheerleader, a member of Sigma Kappa and Green Key, and on the sailing team. Since graduation, she has worked in fundraising for the U.S. Ski Team, managed her own photography business, and worked in public relations and advertising. Her father is Grover Farrish '57, and her sister, Heidi, is an '84.

Developments at Thayer

Susan Van Wie Kastan '77 has been named director of development for the Thayer School of Engineering. A magna cum laude graduate with majors in history and music, Kastan has worked as an export representative for Hexcel Corporation and as western regional director for the Campaign for Dartmouth. Acting director of development since last fall, she is responsible for all fund-raising, public relations, and alumni relations at Thayer. Her father and brother are both alumni of Thayer.

Grant-seeker named

Nathan B. Dinces, science officer for Applied DNA Systems, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pa., has become the College's first director of industrially sponsored research. Acting as a "matchmaker" between faculty and industry, he will seek support for both basic and applied fac- ulty research. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins and a B.S. from Tufts.

Cole drops suit

Music professor William Cole has dropped a $600,000 libel suit against The Review. Both Cole and the newspaper signed a statement agreeing to end the dispute, which began when The Reviezv published an article that Cole called "racially motivated and unfair and inaccurate." The Review has stood by its article, but Cole's attorney said he felt the statement was an admission that the paper did not have the competence to assess Cole's qualifications.

In other suits involving The Review, former associate chaplain Richard Hyde has filed a $3-million libel suit against the paper, and TheReview was ordered to pay $1 and legal costs to Richard Darby '41, whose photograph was used without permission.

Both guest professionals with the Dartmouth Players this summer boasted Dartmouth connectionsand noteworthy credentials. Conferring with visiting director Robert Morgan '66 about NoelCoward's 1920s comedy, Hay Fever, are Michael Learned, center, the daughter of Bruce Learned'39 And a four-time Emmy winner, and Heather Stanford, right, the sister of Adam Stanford '83and recognizable to-soap opera fans as Nina on "All My Children."