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Letters to the Editor

Monday, October 22, 2001

WAH-HOO-WAH

Sirs,

As I live near Boston, I still get to Dartmouth on a regular basis and still wear my Indian Baseball Hat (and yes, it is a political statement!). I graduated in '73 and was a student when the symbol controversy happened.

I played basketball for Dartmouth from '69 to '72. The first years, even during the worst defensive drills, wind sprints, and other acts of torture handed out by the coaches to the players, the Indian symbol painted in the circle at halfcourt seemed an inspiration and even a source of strength (Sounds crazy, eh?). When they painted over the Indian with 'Big Green' paint, it was a sad day for me. I never remember having anything but the highest respect for Dartmouth and the Indian symbol.

I must have missed the point...

Ray Sansouci '73


More Maria

Sirs,

I would just like to say that Mr. Gago's article in the latest edition of the Review (Everything..., October 1, 2001) is excellent. I couldn't stop laughing at the last two lines in the article: 'And her moaning still echoes in my mind. Make It Stop.' I can relate. Give this man an award.

John Dominguez '05


Sirs,

Upon reading the September issue of the review, I could not help noticing the number of deans the college seems to have. If I had not thrown out all my old yearbooks in the early '70s when the college started going to hell, I would have been able to count the deans we had in the early '50s. I know we had a Dean of Admissions, Skip Dickerson, a Dean of Freshmen, Stearns Morse, a Dean of the Faculty, and a Dean of the College. That was about it for a student enrollment of about 2800 undergraduates. It now seems to have deans for just about every phase of student activity.

It would be very interesting to see a comparison of students per ddean when I matriculated and the number of students per dean now. Even more enlightening would be rations of total college employees to students then and now.

Sincerely yours,

Phillip B. Mayer '55

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