A collection of essays by deceased Dartmouth professor Noel Perrin was recently published. The collection, titled Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, brings together essays written by Perrin on various subjects, most of them pertaining to the rural farm in Thetford Center, Vt., where he lived for more than 40 years. Perrin arrived at the College in 1959 as an English instructor, and stayed involved with the college until his death in 2004. He was the chair of the English department from 1972 to 1975, and joined Dartmouth's environmental sciences department in 1984.
The serious side of Dr. Seuss (that's Theodor Geisel '25) is on display at the University of Northern Iowa's museum. The new exhibit -- "Dr. Seuss Wants You!" -- showcases little-known political cartoons written by Geisel before and during World War II. In the cartoons, mostly drawn for the left-leaning magazine PM, Geisel criticized equally Nazi military expansion and America's unwillingness to confront it. He also wrote comics condemning racism within American society. While at Dartmouth, Geisel wrote for humor publication the Jack-o-Lantern.
A BlitzMail message sent by Edward Hillenbrand '07 promoting a Friday night party at Theta Delta Chi fraternity sparked a miniature controversy last week and led to the eventual cancelation of the party. The e-mail mocked a letter from a Student Assembly computer that charged College fraternities of encouraging sexual assault and the letter's supposed writer, Student Body President Tim Andreadis '07. The message criticized Andreadis, who ran for office on a campaign that highlighted sexual assault. In response, Dana Walker '07 wrote a campus-wide e-mail mocking TDX, calling them, "spineless coward[s]" who "make fun of the objectification of women." TDX canceled the party soon after. The fraternity has refused to comment beyond issuing a statement. "Our party blitz was supposed to be humorous, not disrespectful," the statement read. Walker refused to comment further. When asked for a reaction, Laura Little '08 said, "I wish the writers of the blitz had thought more about the precarious state of gender relations currently at Dartmouth before sending it to the whole campus." Bret Tenenhaus '09, however, saw things differently. "A debacle was created out of a meaningless joke," he said.
