AROUND THE GREEN

The 22 percent discrepancy between salaries for male and femaleprofessors at Dartmouth is not onlygrowing (it was 18 percent last year) but itis also the Ivy League's largest. The data was released in April by the American Association of University Professors, which found Columbia to have the second-largest gap at 12 percent—the national average.

Joseph J. Helble, former head of the department of chemical engineering at theUniversity of Connecticut, will becomethe 12th dean of Dartmouth's ThayerSchool of Engineering in September. Helble, whose research has focused on air pollution and nanotechnology, holds a 1982 B.A. from Lehigh and a 1987 Ph.D. from MIT.

Peter Robinson '79 and Todd J. Zywicki'88 won election to the board of trusteesin alumni balloting concluded in May. Roughly 24 percent of the alumni body (15,334 people) participated in the voting, an increase of almost one percent over 2004, when 14,661 alums voted.

Dartmouth has signed an agreementto advise the American University ofKuwait. To be administered by the Dickey Center, the relationship will include study and research opportunities for College students and faculty.

Fifteen Dartmouth ultimate Frisbee playerswill travel cross country this monthand next in a school bus converted to runon unmodified vegetable oil. Proposed stops, where they will promote alternative energy sources, include Chicago; St. Louis; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento; Salt Lake City; and Boulder, Colorado. For details visit www.thebiggreenbus.org.

Jim Merkel has been hired as the College'sfirst sustainability director. A former military and industrial designer and salesman for TRW, Merkel left the corporate world for environmental activism after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Both the women's lacrosse team and thefootball rugby club won Ivy titles thisspring, their 10th and eighth respectively. The stickwomen, who also made it to the NCAA final four, capped a perfect 7-0 Ivy season by defeating Princeton 129 (handing the Tigers their only loss of the season) and the ruggers drubbed Cornell 21-7.