Crossing the Green

$10,000 for SAMS

Dartmouth students have raised $10,000 for a national organization called Students Against Multiple Sclerosis (SAMS). The money was raised with raffles, spaghetti dinners, and an extremely popular "dry bands" contest, where groups of students mimic their favorite rock performers. "Virtually every dollar raised came from an event where the donor was allowed to participate in a show, a dinner, a party. This philosophy ... fosters positive feelings toward a charity," said senior Jeffrey Jamieson, SAMS co-chairman. Dartmouth was one of 150 colleges nationwide to take part in the SAMS campaign. Multiple sclerosis, a neurological disease for which there is no known cure, often strikes young adults between the ages of 18 and 34.

National scholarships

Five Dartmouth students have been awarded prestigious national scholarships, including the Marshall, the Rotary, and the DA AD. Todd Beane '86 is the recipient of a Rotary Scholarship and will study English in the United Kingdom. Erik Hagerman '86 turned down a Rotary in favor of a Marshall, which he will use to study Islamic scientific thought at Oxford University. In addition, Mary Beckman '86, Edwin Radke '86, and James Kallman '86 - an unusually high number for one institution - were awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Scholarships, funded by the German government.

Reynolds scholars

Two graduate students and three seniors have won $10,000 stipends for foreign study under Dartmouth's Reynolds Scholarship program. The five were selected from 42 people who applied - an especially high-quality pool this year, according the Committee on Graduate Fellowships. Daniel Heyman '85 will create paintings depicting the war-time memories of French survivors of World War II; David Hillinck '85 will study Russian government at the London School of Economics; Mary Beckman '86 will study theology and ethics in Germany; Keith Noyes '86 will study the training of Chinese bureaucrats at the International Trade College in Beijing; and Kristof Hagerman '86, twin of Marshall recipient Erik Hagerman, will study international relations at Cambridge.

U.S.-Soviet exchange

Project Cork, an alcohol education program at Dartmouth Medical School, is part of an exchange program between the United States and the Soviet Union on the subject of alcohol abuse. The program, which will send about 15 people from each country to the other to study alcohol programs, is thought to be the first of its kind. Project Cork is one of two organizations that have helped plan the project.