Table of Contents

SEPTEMBER 1991 M VOL. 84 NO. 1

The Gatekeeper An era has passed at the College Grant, by Jim Collins '84 16

Bio Rhythms From starfish puke to beer pollution, a prof sees poems in evolution 20

An Exam? Let Me Try to Pencil It In Why students don't study as much as they used to, by Jonathan Douglas '92 24

Electric Body Language Computer mail returns us to a more graceful time, by Jay Heinrichs 34

LETTERS • 3

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4

ON THE HILL • 8

PRESIDENTIAL RANGE • 12

SYLLABUS • 14

GLASS NOTES • 42

OBITUARIES • 70

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80

Cover: For the complete Veree Hawkins '93, see page 24. Jon Gilbert Fox posed Veree (she's really jumping) and a passel of other active students in a makeshift studio set up in the very busy Dartmouth Alumni Magazine offices. Actually, the whole place was jumping.

A very busy author: Intern Emeritus Jonathan Douglas '92, who collared dozens of busy students for the cover story. Jon is also a Mets fen. We don't hold it against him.