Table of Contents
FEATURES
38 The Dartmouth Caucus
Six alumni members of Congress get together to discuss the deficit, healthcare, foreign policy and the 2012 election. By Jake Tapper ’91
46 Piano Man
talk about a cool gig: For 26 years Bill Calhoun’76 has been tuning pianos for big-name performers at the Newport Jazz Festival. BY ERIC TUCKER
50 What Might Have Been
The College archives contain dozens of designs and plans for campus buildings that never got off the drawing board.
ON THE COVER The alumni members of the U.S. Congress. Photos: AP Photo and Getty Images
DEPARTMENTS
10 LETTERS
Notebook
18 CAMPUS
Around the Green in sixty seconds.
22 PERSONAL HISTORY
Student. Mother. Military wife. One alumna’s slightly complicated undergraduate experience. By Courtney Cook ’93
26 HUMOR
Samplings of the Dartmouth-only lexicon. By Alexis C. Jolly ’05
28 OUTSIDE
Alums and students are no mere bystanders when the area’s biggest cycling fundraiser hits the streets every July. By Ed Gray’67
32 TRIBUTE
A tiny detail from a poem captured the strangeness of the ordinary—and the extraordinary insight of a beloved professor. By James D. Fernández’83
34 ALUMNI OPINION
A Pulitzer Prize winner examines the periodic thwarting of u.s. civil liberties since the nation’s founding. By David K. Shipler ’64
Alumni News
58 SEEN & HEARD
62 THE CLASSES
91 CLUBS
92 DEATHS
92 ALUMNI COUNCIL
Continuing Ed 96
Mortimer Mishkin ’46, on studying the brain. BY LISA FURLONG
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Table Talk Jake Tapper (second from right) meets with the Dartmouth caucus on Capitol Hill March 29.
