DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL
You have seen by now, we are sure, that William H. King '63 has been nominated to succeed retiring George Munroe '43 on the Board of Trustees. Attorney King received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1967 and since then has practiced in his home city of Richmond, Virginia. In the new multiple-candidate system of balloting, it is not the practice to release King's margin of victory over the other candidates, Postmaster General Tony Frank '53 and Stan Roman Jr. '64. However, one readily available King statistic is his one-game total offensive yardage, against Columbia in 1962, when he captained and quarterbacked the undefeated, untied Big Green. His 348 yards are the all-time Dartmouth record.
The balloting was completed in record time, though word has it that the Hanover post office employees had an idea of the results before anyone. Anxious about the fate of the big boss, they held each of the incoming 13,483 ballot envelopes up to the light.
More news on the new job front, and of two searches which took the searchers around a reasonable part of the world, only to end right in Dartmouth's backyard. Timothy Rub, associate director of the Hood Museum, has been appointed its director,as James Cuno departs for Harvard. Tim Rub has extensive experience in art scholarship, curatorship, and museum administration, and holds degrees from Middlebury, NYU, and Yale. And to succeed Henry Eberhardt '6l as director of the Alumni Fund is Stanley A. Colla Jr. Stan was originally in the class of '66, and after army service got his degree in 1972, taught English for a number of years, then returned for a Tuck M.B.A. in 1986 and subsequent service in various fundraising capacities at Dartmouth.
It is hoped that with the right alumni support, Stan will not have to resort, as it was reported his University of New Hampshire counterpart did two months ago, to entering the $10 million American Family Publishers' sweepstakes to help make up for budget cuts.
Both UNH and Dartmouth will benefit, however, from a just-announced four-year, $150,000-per-year grant awarded by NASA to support fellowships in both graduate and undergraduate research in the sciences. New Hampshire is one of 25 states to receive the awards, part of which will also go to support the work of selected high school science students and their teachers.
Vermont was named the number one state in the nation in its efforts to protect the environment, due largely, we imagine, to the endeavors of its former governor, Madeleine Kunin, who has just crossed the river to be the current Montgomery Fellow. Among other activities, Kunin is team-teaching a government course, working on a book, and organizing an environmental institute designed to provide technical assistance to Eastern European countries. We heard Kunin's first lecture, entitled "Why Public Service?", in which she importuned students to "be an agent of change, instead of a victim of change." Asked if she seemed to be making any converts among her students in Government 37, she replied, "Well, they don't immediately break into caucuses and take a vote."
A couple of most spring-like days for this time of year brought out wall-towall sunbathers on one sector of the campus. In another area a group of East Indian students set up a cricket pitch. However, not much else to report just yet on outdoor sports. The soccer team, to raise money to help keep their jayvee team in existence, has taken on the Augean job of raking the Hanover Country Club fairways. We did read that James Blackwell '91, Green superguard for the past four years, has just won the Bob Cousy award, which goes to the outstanding New England basketballer who stands under six feet. But women's hockey forward Judy Parish '91, who cleaned up on Ivy ice during the winter like a runaway Zamboni, was notvoted Ivy player of the year. This just might have been a bit of pique on the part of rival coaches against Coach George Crowe for Dartmouth's 18-0 slaughter of Yale, for Parish should have been an obvious #1 to anyone. She has now traded weapons, and is already taking on similar offensive responsibilities for women's lacrosse.
You don't hear too much about a sport which, to the uninitiated, would be about as characteristic of Dartmouth as surfing but last weekend, the varsity sailing team placed first in a major regatta on Long Island Sound against such top competition as Coast Guard, Brown, BU, MIT, Yale, Navy, and Kings Point. And in another pursuit also not as indigenous to Dartmouth weather as it is, say, to California, men's tennis has nonetheless returned from its western trip with an 8-1 record.
According to those who should know, this will be an excellent year for the maple sugar industry. The sap has been running well on the campus too, to the distress of the student-faculty-administration committees in charge of keeping the peace, and of the Hanover police and possibly the State of New Hampshire and the feds as well. First, ten members of Beta Theta Pi were charged in the "kidnapping" of a member of another fraternity. Second, Sigma Alpha Epsilon not only illegally invited 18 freshmen to a rush at the house but also served alcohol during the rush, an obvious no-no-and then announced its intention to sever connections with the College anyway.
And third, a three-page ad (in fourpoint eyestrain type) appeared in The Dartmouth from SASH, the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Committee, as an attempt to clarify the College's judging and disciplinary processes in such cases-and a similar document is forthcoming from the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council to further define, for about the nth time, its alcohol policy.
Our observations: On the Betas the "kidnappers" were given probation ranging from one to six college terms, to our naive mind, an adequate penalty. With a few notable exceptions, hazing of this kind seems to be fading away on U.S. campuses, like freshmen beanies and two-toned shoes, and the sooner the better at Dartmouth. (One student we spoke to, however, seemed to think that hazing was ingrained in the male human fabric, like the instincts of a hunting dog which, even if raised as a house pet but taken outdoors at age five, would unfailingly point at a covey of birds.)
On the SAEs: you have probably read the overworked phrase, when the College has mishandled some wrongdoing, that "it shoots itself in the foot" well, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, it seems to us, has just shot itself in the head. The rushed freshmen are now subject to college discipline, which is a nice atmosphere in which to contemplate your upcoming brotherhood. And there doesn't seem to be any reluctance, as there once may have been, on the part of the College to deter police action in under-21 alcohol violations.
Finally, if you have ever had a teenager, multiply him or her by 4,000, more or less equally divided by sex, and collect them in an attractive setting, ex locoparentis, against a background of today's permissive but litigious culture, and you have the perfect scenario for what any college is up against these days. Naively again, we feel that the answer will only appear when students bright enough to get admitted will also be socially bright enough to realize that at least one of their goals in college should be to rack up all-A's in college's slew of non-credit courses in civilized conduct.
We remembered reading some years ago about a student named 9 Sanders, and we see from the class of '86 notes that 9 is now a fourth-year med student in Oregon. She now has a bit of competition, namewise. A recent Daily D student profile was about Odd-Even Bustnes '94, a Norwegian citizen, nordic skier, and freshman heavyweight crew member, and first-named for his two grandfathers, both common front handles in Norway.
Bill King is in, while Sigma Alpha Epsilon opts out.
