Table of Contents

Summer 1987

Vol. 79, No. 9

FEATURES

Lee Michaelides

28 Special Report: Fraternities

Life on campus is slated for an overhaul.

Jay Heinrichs

36 The Scholar President

Report on the man from lowa.

44 The Shape We're In

A forward look at the McLaughlin presidency.

50 The President's In-Box

Problems and proposals that await the new.boss.

Lee Michaelides

53 Presidential Perks

All this and a salary, too?

Eric Semler James Benjamin Adam Gross

54 Defining Armageddon

Three Dartmouth seniors translate the arcane jargon of nuclear war.

60 Commencement '87: Sun, Smoke and Scholars

62 Reunions '87: Still Green After All These Years

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

17 Dartmouth Authors

Lee Michaelides Teri Allbright

18 The College

30 Sports

Jock McDonald '87 Lesley Barnes '87

35 Undergraduate Chair

Growth Pains

Lee Michaelides

58 Alumni Album

Wendy Becker '87

Karen Endicott

70 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER New Hampshire-born legal scholar James Oliver Freedman, the College's fifteenth president, poses in front of Dartmouth Hall. He inherits a fiscally sound university and one of the nation's more difficult presidencies. Special coverage begins on page 36.