Table of Contents
26 The Hopkins Center as You’ve Never Seen It Before
A photographic tribute to the cultural center of campus on its golden anniversary. By John Sherman
44 Golden Memories
alums recall their fondest and funniest times inside the hopkins Center. By Sarah Schewe ’12
DEPARTMENTS
8 LETTERS
Notebook
14 CAMPUS
Around the Green in sixty seconds. Plus a quick tour of some noteworthy campus memorials.
18 HISTORY
An alumni-led program that brought Chicago gang members to Dartmouth in the 1960s changed the campus more than the underprivileged students it enrolled. By Jay Pridmore
20 HUMOR
More samplings of the Dartmouth-only only lexicon, in which denotations mingle with connotations and other doublespeak. By Alexis C. Jolly ’05
22 SPORTS
New York Mets General Manager sandy alderson ’69 says he enjoys challenges. after the largest team payroll cut in baseball history, he’s got one. By Brad Parks ’96
24 PERSONAL HISTORY
A transfer student struggles to fit in, finding more in common with the locals than her new classmates. By Jennifer Wulff ’96
Alumni News
52 SEEN & HEARD
53 SHELF LIFE
56 THE CLASSES
93 DEATHS
Continuing Ed 96
Art Koff ’57, Ceo of RetiredBrains.com, on older workers. By Lisa Furlong
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Room With a View The Top of the Hop (and Hopkins Center on cover), photographed in December 2011 by John Sherman
