Table of Contents

OCTOBER 1989 VOL. 82 NO. 2

Don't Call It "The D" Why Dartmouth's paper is proud of itself, by Michael T. Reynolds '90 20

Bubbles and Peak Moosilauke reaches new heights 26

After the Massacre Students in Beijing adjust to the horror, by Jessica Smith '89 28

Boredom's Uses Assessing a "psychological Sahara," by Joseph Brodsky 30

How I Started Writing Muscular Prose Pumping iron with the football team, by Chuck Young '88 36

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4

LETTERS • 8

SPORTS • 12

SYLLABUS • 16

CLASS NOTES • 42

DARTMOUTH AUTHORS • 72

OBITUARIES • 88

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 104

Cover: To celebrate The Dartmouth's 50th year of independence, we simulated the drafting of the editorial that helped bring it about. Photo by Jon Gilbert Fox.

Nobody gets closer to a story than Sports Editor Chuck Young '88, who researched the football team's remarkable weight-training program by hardening his own body.