Shanty suit filed

Deborah Stone '87, Frank Reichel III '86 and Teresa Polenz '87 filed a civil suit in U.S. district court in Concord, New Hampshire, claiming the College denied them the rights of free speech and due process when it disciplined the trio for attacking the antiapartheid shanties in January 1986. Dartmouth College, President McLaughlin, and other employees of the College were named.

The suit, which was filed just days before McLaughlin left office, asks that the students' records be cleared of any mention of the incident, and that the court award them money for legal expenses and compensation for "loss of reputation, academic disruption, and emotional distress." The plaintiffs are represented by David Rivkin Jr., an attorney working out of the Washington office of the law firm Baker and McKenzie.

Back on stage: David Birney '61 and his wife Meredith Baxter Birney spent two weeksat the Hopkins Center preparing and performing The Diaries of Adam and Eve. DavidBirney edited and adapted for stage the reading based on two books by Mark Twain.