Table of Contents

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

May 1997 Vol. 89 No. 8

22 Don't Call Me A Pundit

Challenged, scorned, verbally abused... yet thousands of Americans turn to them every day to know what to think. By Diane Cyr

28 Getting In

The GI had nothing to recommend him but an extraordinary desire to go to Dartmouth. Ail original one-act play. By Frank D. Gilroy '50

38 Dartmouth's Balance

Our mission? To be the best of what we already are. By James Wright

4 Letters

10 Dr. Wleeloek's Journal

14 On ike Hill

18Curmudgeon

20 Syllabus

44 Class Notes

63D.Mail

75 Obituaries

80Dartmouth Undying On the Cover:

Bill Duffy arrives. "The campus. Thewhite buildings. Thelibrary where bells tolled the hour.Everything as advertised."Painting by Richard Piloco.

Intimacy among the columns: a sense of scale sets Dartmouth apart.