Table of Contents

NOVEMBER 1987 VOL. 80, No. 3

FEATURES

Lee Michaelides

18 Special Report: Free Speech

Are Dartmouth's conservatives being silenced?

Glenn Tremml '82

20 Taking the Sky

An alumnus literally raises the level of human endurance.

Teri Ailbright

27 Testing the Body's Competitiveness

New College equipment measures physical prowess.

Karen Endicott

28 Rooming with Style

How dorm decor has changed over the decades.

Rich Barlow '81

32 The Right Man at the Right Time

A profile of former Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth.

Stephen Bosworth '61

34 After Iran

Can we still have a foreign policy?

Lawrence Biemiller

38 Creating Creators

The verbal side of a visual studies class.

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

12 Dartmouth Authors

Lee Michaelides

14 College

Matthew Garcia '88

42 Undergraduate Chair Emotional Constituencies

43 Report from the Council

44 Class Notes

83 Obituaries

COVER Gleaming in the twilight, Morton dormitory provides students with such previously unheard-of amenities as air-conditioning and tastefully furnished lounges. The dorm is named after the late William H. Morton '32, a National Football Hall of Famer and former president of American Express. For a retrospective look at the inside of dorms, see the article beginning on page 28.