Whatever You Do, Don't Let This Guy Carry A Sketch Pad to Your Reunion

To Jake Tapper '91, all of Dartmouth is just one big cartoon.

At Jake Tapper's Dartmouth, Phil Donohue is the official mascot, a feminist won't let her roommate eat a phallic banana, and the president's ears look like satellite dishes. These gleeful distortions are in Tapper's new comic strip, "Static Cling," which is rapidly becoming the most avidly read feature in the daily Dartmouth.

To the freshman cartoonist, the world is a caricature. Tapper is happy with James O. Freedman because "he's easy to draw," and his favorite presidential candidates are Hart, Jackson and Robertson ("they make the best cartoons").

He finds no lack of material at Dartmouth. Radical feminists, sorority sisters, the football team, deans and racial problems all get blown out of proportion by his marker pen. Critics say his strip tweaks the noses of the left more than the right, and Tapper readily admits the imbalance. "It's just that the left is more vocal," he explained in an interview held before the latest campus conflict. "There are just as many jerks on the right, but while I've been here the right hasn't done anything dumb."

Laugh while you can. The Dartmouth legacy (son of Theodore Tapper '6l) confides that one of his future targets is the alumni.

Jake Tapper sketches one of his favorite subjects—James O. Freedman.