NEWS AND NOTES

NEWS AND NOTES

CAMPUS

Honorary Degrees Awarded

Commencement speaker Mindy Kaling ’01 wasn’t alone in receiving an honorary degree this year. Other recipients were trustee Frank J. Guarini ’46, the former U.S. congressman and UN rep behind the newly named graduate school; Peter Fahey ’68, a retired partner of Goldman Sachs; William H. Holmes ’79, a surgeon and global public health leader; Sylvia Kaaya, dean of the School of Medicine at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania; and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group.

Art Hide and Seek

Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 has convened a study group to determine the fate of the controversial Flovey murals, which have been under wraps for years. The nine-person team is charged with deciding if the art should be moved into Flood Museum storage or remain in place—in a locked room in the Class of 1953 Commons basement. The four painted scenes, which depict the mythical founding of Dartmouth, were painted in the 1930s by Walter Beach Flumphrey, class of 1914, as a provocative response to the 1934 Orozco murals.

UPNE Closes

About 20 people lost their jobs when the College dissolved the University Press of New England in April. Deemed “unsustainable to operate” by administrators, the press was closed after 48 years. The College’s imprint, Dartmouth College Press, is expected to be preserved in some form.

A faculty study group will make recommendations in November.

Hello and Goodbye

First, the good news: The football team has hired former NFL head coach David Shula ’81 as an assistant. Pie’ll be in charge of receivers. Shula, son of the legendary Super Bowl-winning coach Don Shula, led the Cincinnati Bengals from 1992 to 1996. Fie was a two-time All-Ivy receiver. Now the bad news: Two star professors are leaving the College for new jobs. Computer science chair Plany Farid announced that he’ll be starting at UC Berkeley next year. (Plis wife, psychology professor Emily Cooper, is also headed there.) And government professor Brendan Nyhan is departing for the University of Michigan.