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Smack in the middle

APRIL • 1987
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Smack in the middle
APRIL • 1987

Next year, the price of tuition, room and board at Dartmouth will total $17,091. This makes the College the fourth most expensive school in the Ivy League after Harvard, Brown and Princeton. In February the Board of Trustees, citing the need to raise the compensation levels of College personnel, increased the price of a Dartmouth education by 6.3 percent.

Talking pictures: Film students say that, off-screen, Robert Redford is candid and stillsexy at age 50.

Above all, people become presidents because they have a sense of responsibility. To prove this, put a thousand people into one room and have someone yell, 'There's something terribly wrong in here!' Snap these folks' pictures at that precise moment. When the prints come back, you'll find that a certain percentage look startled, a certain percentage look blank, and a rather small percentage look guilty. Individuals in this third group are the ones who qualify to be a university president." Stephen Joel Trachtenburg, president of the University of Hartford Women are reminded in many ways that this whole place is not welcome to them." Nina Beattie '89, a member of the Women's Support Task Force I spent most of my life feeling like an academic failure, largely because it was true. One of the reasons was because of my father's dream that I go to Dartmouth." Robert Redford, upon receiving a tribute from the Dartmouth Film Society I find it somehow ironic that I should get a day off from classes to better appreciate a 44-foot high snowman, but not a day off to consider the life of Martin Luther King Jr., a man immensely important to this college and this nation." Michael Roy '87 RANDOMS JUMP" —A message stamped in the snow beneath Baker Tower during Winter Carnival. In student lingo, "randoms" are that foreign breed of people who visit from other schools.