In Brief

• Only the new, official version of the College's 62-year-old Alma Mater was printed in Commencement programs in June. The lyrical changes were the result of two years of study by alumni and students. The song is now called, simply, "Alma Mater." Other changes: "Stand as brother stands by brother" is now "Stand as sister stands by brother"; "sons" becomes "ones"; and "undying faith" replaces "chivalric faith."

• United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar told more than 2,000 people in Thompson Arena that the United States' failure to pay its U.N. dues "threatens the viability of the world body." Perez de Cuellar was on campus in May to mark the Dickey Endowment's fifth anniversary.

• More than 64 percent of Tuck School alumni contributed $1,102,750 to the Tuck Annual Giving Campaign this year, including more than 87 percent of those who graduated in the last 15 years. "Considering October 19 and the new tax law, we had a fantastic year," said Dean Colin Blaydon. Last year the campaign gleaned $1,003,500.

• The residence of the dean of the College on Choate Road is now called Laycock House, in honor of Craven Laycock, College dean from 1913 to 1934. The house was renamed in June after Dartmouth received a major bequest from the estate of Catherine McKennan, Dean Laycock's daughter and the widow of longtime Anthropology Professor Robert McKennan '25. Interest from the gift will be used to pay for upkeep.

• The 60-year-old Great Bear Cabin, located on the west slope of Mt. Moosilauke, burned to the ground on May 15.

• The Women's Resource Center opened in the spring in an apartment of Choate Residence Hall. The center's director, Judith White, helped start a similar center at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. The week of September 19 has been slated for celebrating 15 years of coeducation.

• Cork Online, an extensive computerized directory of information on alcohol and alcoholism, is now available internationally through BRS Information Technologies, a New York-based multidisciplinary database vendor. Cork Online, with more than 9,000 listings of alcohol-related writings, is part of Dartmouth Medical School's Project Cork.