IM Softball

For Earth Week, DARE stresses environmental resourcefulness. Common Hour speaker Peter Montague discusses toxic waste problems. Rape is discussed at Health Center. Housing Board grants different living arrangements for Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi. Dana Stuchell of Animal Rights Mobilization presents on factory farming as part of Earth Day festivities. Mermaid Players perform "Six Characters in Search of an Author." Robert Koller presents photography project. Buffy Arnold performs senior recital. Faculty flutists Beth Bullard and Mary Hannigan perform. Comedian Rich Hall performs in ATS.

Student Senate rescinds use of College name agreement. Communications and Development director Robert White resigns amid fund-raising. First weekend of BYOB meets with success, few problems. Social life committee to continue. Feinberg dinner rescheduled for next week. Eating disorders on campus force college to face the problem. Carlisle Car Shows. Art professor Dennis Akin, who did the stained glass, retires. Jim Morrisey latest storyteller in a series from the English department. College Choir featured in Bicentennial celebration of Allison Methodist Church.

Parents' Weekend activities will honor President Rubendall. The Union Philosophical Society resumes activities. The Senate voted unanimously that the faculty restore honorary status to Skull and Key. IPR (Institutional Resources and Priorities) presidential candidates are announced. A biography of President Rubendall and his career at Dickinson is given.

The College-Community Orchestra and College Choir will preform together along with featured guest cellist Michael Haran for Parents' Weekend. WDCV continues to make plans for improvement, including expanding airtime and adding a greater variety of programs. A gallery of the Black Arts Festival "The Black Light of Truth" is given. The Men's Tennis team looses the first time this season.

A severe windstorm causes damage to the campus taking out six trees. Retired professor John C. Pflaum, 71, dies of a heart attack in a car accident. Despite heavy opposition, the Nisbet Scholars Program is adopted by faculty at their last meeting. It will be implemented as an experimental two year program beginning with the class of 1980. Admissions reports a drop in the freshman class. Carl Sagan, winner of the 1975 Priestley award, spoke on the need for more unmanned exploration of the solar system at the award ceremony. Robert Greenler will receive the College's Glover memorial award.

Dickinson hosts its fifth annual Blacks Arts festival with the theme of "The Black Light of Truth." A schedule of events for the festival is also published. The faculty holds a special meeting to discuss possible changes in the requirements for tenure. Plans for a new gym complex on Cherry street are proposed. The Admissions and Financial Aid Committee report results for the incoming freshman class to Student Senate. The IM softball season begins with a new format.