To the Editor
I was looking forward to reading your Weekend Gazette on "Dartmouth University," and hoped to find careful analysis of the graduate offerings at Dartmouth.
I was shocked (there's no other word for it) to find no mention at all of a graduate program run by Dartmouth for many years (long before the music and comp. lit ones), the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program.
Students in this program have struggled for many years to increase their visibility on campus and the credibility of the degrees they earn from their participation. MALS students make active and continuing contributions to the quality of campus life; perform important research in the sciences and humanities, much of which is later published; contribute significantly to the quality of the classes they attend with undergraduates and donate money to the Alumni Fund.
I quote from Gazette Three, under the headline "Feel Shortchanged": "The only graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences departments are two masters level programs -- one in comparative literature and other in electroacoustic music."
To have neglected even to mention the graduate Liberal Studies program, let alone not have solicited some statement by the program or its participants is, in my view, a journalistic oversight, to say the least. Your editors have simply left out a significant group of students on this campus.
