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DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 1991 VOL. 83 NO. 5

Now for the Hard Part Can the institution keep its envied niche? By Jay Heinrichs 16

Our Passionate Preference Competition compels Dartmouth to hold to its traditions, by joseph D. Mathewson '55 18

Who Owns Dartmouth? Revamped trustee elections raise the question of proprietorship, by Joe Boldt '32 22

Is Harvard Becoming More Like Us? Another exclusive DAM quiz 30

The End of the Story When Norman Maclean '24 died, he left a man haunted, by Dan Nelson '75 32

Z-Man Covers the War AIDS correspondent Victor Zonana '75 writes of a nation under siege, by Robert Eshman '82 36

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4

LETTERS • 8

SYLLABUS • 12

PRESIDENTIAL RANGE • 14

CLASS NOTES • 47

OBITUARIES • 72

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80

Cover: Dartmouth has its plan, and it has the tools. The illustration is by David Wilcox.

Victor Zonana was a business reporter when a giant quilt and Camus's The Plague inspired a change in beats. The photograph is by Jon Gilbert Fox.