Crossing the Green
"Wild Things"
Maurice Sendak's children's classic, Where the WildThings Are, was the theme for this year's Winter Carnival, February 6-9. Highlights included a fireworks display, intercollegiate ski competition at the Skiway for the first time in many years, snowshoe races, and a Carnival Ball. The 25-foot center-of-the-Green snow sculpture was of one of the "wild things" from Sendak's book. Nanny Pope '86 and Sharon Flanagan '87 cochaired this year's Carnival Council.
South African scholarship
Dartmouth is one of 20 New England colleges and universities supporting a scholarship fund to defray room, board, and living expenses for black and nonwhite South African students attending the integrated universities in their homeland. Dartmouth is providing one scholarship of $2,800, and 27 scholarships are being funded overall. The program was set up by the New England Board of Higher Education, working with South African institutions that admit students regardless of race.
IFC officers
The Iriterfraternity Council has elected to head the group during 1986 Tom Fyda '87, president of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, as president, and Anne Schnader '87, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, as vice president. Schnader's election marks the first time a woman has held one of the top two posts in the IFC.
Computing director named
Susan Hardy has been named director of computing at the Tuck School. Formerly manager of editorial services at Kiewit Computation Center, where she had been since 1977, Hardy holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke and a master's in biology from the University of New Hampshire.
Famine funds sought
Students Against Famine Everywhere (SAFE), the student group which last year attracted national media attention for getting 78 colleges across the country to raise over $60,000 for famine relief, is in action for its second year. Co-chaired by '88s Susan Kelly and Kathryn Geldens, the effort aims to get students across the country to give up one meal and donate the monetary equivalent to SAFE. Details of the program have been sent to 3,500 colleges nationwide. This year, the organizers are seeking donations to cover the costs of the mailings-which last year were covered by startup grants from various Dartmouth groups. Donations may be sent in care of the Tucker Foundation.
While the absolute amounts of the College's revenues and expenses have certainly risen over thepast few decades, there have also been some relative changes in the way funds have been raisedand spent. These figures from the Treasurer's Office show that, among other things, tuitioncovers more than it used to and scholarship support costs more.
