1982

I'm sure many of you recently received a letter from Tom Farmer '81 regarding the establishment of the McGorrian Fellowship in honor of Paul McGorrian '83. Paul was a freelance journalist who was lost in a plane crash in Pakistan. The goal of the McGorrian Fellowship is to fund foreign travel for students who share Paul's interest in both journalism and faraway places. Your taxdeductible contributions should be directed to Ms. Melanie Norten, Director of Stewardship, 63 South Main St., Hanover, NH 03755.

Ed and Ellen Frechette are the proud parents of yet another child. Anna Isabel is their third child, second girl, and both mother and uncle are doing nicely, thanks.

Master of International Management program.

Tee Lotson recently stopped by my office in Providence. Although Tee is still working in the legislative branch of the NCAA, there is no truth to the rumor that The Big East is under investigation (knock on wood). For the second time Tee gave me a full rundown on a number of our classmates, and for the second time my inefficiency resulted in the disappearance of same. Try again, Tee. Third time's a charm.

As the elected secretary of our class, it is my duty to report on the activities of our class. However, I'd like to take this opportunity to address a problem that concerns not only our class, but the College as a whole.

In the September 18 edition of the Boston Globe, an article entitled, "Who'll win the Battle for Dartmouth's Soul?" focused on the problem Dartmouth is having recruiting minority students and on the Dartmouth Review as the main cause of these problems. The article described the numerous instances of racism perpetrated by the Review and how these events and their subsequent publicity have led to decreased applications from not only minority students, but students as a whole. Professor Donald Pease is quoted as saying, "the Review's meanness and cheapness has a potentially cataclysmic effect on this school when it comes to recruiting exactly the most searching, provocative minds we've got to have."

We were on campus when the Review came into being and a lot of us probably got a kick out of some of the things printed in "The Last Word" or in the letters section. I don't think any of us expected it to be taken seriously by the alumni of one of the most highly respected institutions of learning in this country. But it obviously has been taken seriously because those same alumni have supported it enough to keep it going and growing into the ultra-conservative and obviously harmful weapon it is today.

If Dartmouth is to continue to be an institutional leader we can be proud of, it must remain diverse and open-minded. And it is up to the young alumni, and alumni as a whole, to give a rouse, support President Freedman, and get the students from all walks of life to consider an education on the Hanover Plain.

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