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Week in Review

Wednesday, June 5, 1996

Galileo, Be Our Guide

A recent National Science Foundation survey found that most Americans know little about basic science, with only 25% of those surveyed possessing comprehensive facts. Fewer than 50% knew that the Earth orbits the sun yearly. Nine per cent knew what a molecule was. Fewer still could explain the concept of acid rain. However, more than 70% supported continued funding for scientific research.

Indian Symbolism

Former pitcher Allie Reynolds, Creek Indian and the sole Yankee to pitch two no-hitters in one season, was asked if the chopping tomahawk motion used by Braves' fans was insulting to Native Americans. 'It's sort of complimentary,' he responded. 'I've gone through some hard times being an Indian... but this cheering, I can't see it as derogatory.'


Food for the Chief

Want to eat like Bill? Well, Cader Books has the cooking tome for you. In the Kitchen With Bill: 50 Recipes for Chowing Down With the Chief by Anonymous has hit the bookstores. The parody of In the Kitchen with Rosie features such Arkansan fare as 'Whitewater Waffle Burger' and 'Hillary's Hushpuppies with Something Fishy.'

The recipes are by V. Jaime Hamlin Schilcher, a Martha's Vineyard caterer who has cooked for the President. She's mum on whether her co-author is Joe Klein, but it sounds like the description of Clinton in the roman ∑ clef, Primary Colors, as a big-eater who'll take the food off his neighbor's plate is accurate: 'He truly loves food.' Health-conscious recipe-seekers beware: according to Schilcher, that waistline isn't from too many sprouts: 'He doesn't like any thing that's good for him.'


Poppin' Fresh Dough

A visitor to Arkansas pulled over to a car with a woman inside who looked troubled, and asked if there was anything wrong. The woman responded that 'I've been shot in the head, and I'm holding my brains in.'

When the paramedics arrived, they broke into the locked car and found that the woman had bread dough on her head and hands. The heat in the car had made a Pillsbury biscuit cannister explode, hitting her in the back of the head after making a loud gunshot sound. When she reached back, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She passed out from fright, then awakened, madly grasping at the back of her head in an effort to keep her 'brains' from leaking out of her skull.


Kinsley's Double Entendre

Former Crossfire regular Michael Kinsley hit a snag in the developmentof his new online magazine on politics for the Microsoft network. The cyber-zine was set to be called Boot which is geek-speak for starting up your computer. Mr. Kinsley was informed by one of his younger staffers that the term had an all together different meaning for the teens and college students that will make up a significant portion of the magazine's readership. In the parlance of Generation X, boot means to vomit.

The magazine is now set to be called Slate, a metaphor for starting anew.


Honorary Degrees

The College has released a list of those to receive honorary degrees at this year's Commencement, on June 9.

Legendary Dartmouth football coach Robert L. Blackman will receive a doctor of laws degree. Under Blackman's leadership, Dartmouth became in 1970 the last Ivy League team to be ranked in the top 15 nationally. In 16 years with the Indians, Blackman achieved a 104-37-4 record, with unbeaten teams in 1962, 1965 and 1970. He is a member of the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame.

George M. Woodwell '50 will receive a doctor of letters degree. Woodwell is a founding trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Resources Defense Council, the environmental group which instigated the Alar scare. Woodwell has held faculty positions at the University of Maine and Yale.

Sidney Altman, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, will receive a doctor of science degree. Altman won the prize in chemistry for his research on RNA, a carrier of genetic code. He served as Dean of Yale College from 1985 to 1989, and was a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth in 1992.

Other recipients will include Harvard sociologist Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, playwright David Mamet, and educator Deborah Meier, who will receive doctor of letters degrees.

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