Table of Contents

SEPTEMBER 1987

VOL. 80, No. 1

FEATURES

Teri Allbright

18 Inauguration: Heeding the Beat of a Different Drummer Dartmouth's new president outlines his plans for the College.

Jon Appleton

22 The Computerization of Music Why have symphony orchestras gone bankrupt?

Tim Hartigan '87

28 Diary of a Distance Runner The sometimes-bizarre joys of running 12 miles a day.

Daniel Q. Haney

32 Mystery on the Mountain An alum seeks to prove that Edmund Hillary was beaten to the top of Everest.

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

10 Dartmouth Authors

Lee Michaelides Teri Allbright

12 The College

Charles F. Moore IV '87

16 Undergraduate Chair—Rigor and Sensitivity

Steven Mullins '54

39 Report from the Council

38 Class Notes

82 Obituaries

COVER

Music Professor Jon Appleton lectures in front of technology he helped create: a state-of-art synthesizer hooked up with Macintosh computers in the newly refurbished Bregman Electronic Music Studio. In the essay beginning on page 22, Appleton argues that electronics have changed music—and the teaching of music—unalterably. (Photograph by Jonathan Sa'adah/Intermedia.)