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Charlie Dudley's nephew John Casey spent a week in Hanover to prepare a story on Dartmouth for The New York Times Magazine of February 26. Read it for a talented outsider's honest view of Dartmouth today. I spent two hours with him in Hanover.

Later he wrote me, "Dartmouth has everything good it needs . . . only a little less acid in the soil."

Art Ryan, in two letters to the A1 Mag editor, sees a college with too little humor to appreciate satire and caricature in the Review. Hanover sees something more like Chinese water torture. Art would be relieved to know how much Dartmouth is trying to devote itself to the aims he suggests. They didn't start the attacks on law and order or the lawsuits that get the headlines. Here are some facts:

Jim Freedman has never wavered from his defense of free speech for the Review or anyone. He pledges to maintain Dartmouth's tradition of having its students taught by professors.

Comparing punishments for Reviewers with those for a rapist is a phoney. No student has been charged with rape. The "slap on the wrist" for students who took over the Baker Library tower was to deprive the two leaders of graduating with their class.

Angela Davis was not the key speaker at the celebration of 15 years of women at Dartmouth. She didn't get her own "rising vote of acclaim." Dean Lahr introduced her with bare details, ending with word of her Lenin Peace Prize and then, "Without further ado, let me introduce Angela Davis."

Errata: Karl Pittelkow won't let me change the spelling of his name. It got me a nice note!

I was too late for the April column for the happy news that Squeek Redding is able to take back his nominating committee job. He's since had the holes in his throat sewed up and shames us all by going to work every day.

Ben and Evelyn Stacey sold their Chatham home to Jack Boyle '52, who's moving from the Wayland home he bought from A1 Finlay a few years ago! The Staceys and Matt and Helen Rock moved by now to a new development in South Yarmouth.

Frank Foster and I agree the College needs a Review but with a mature sense of decency.

The ugly Buckley types deploy Their factless tactics that destroy. There's nothing much that they've produced

But anguished minds that they've seduced.

Why must they scorch our earth with lies?

They're best equipped to fetilize. See you at the 60th.

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JUNE 12, 13, 14, 1989