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Selingo Talks Future of Higher Education Finally, and most importantly, many have begun a barrage of courses, opportunities, and distractions. to wonder whether college is still a good investment.

Just as programs like Teach for America offer recent colAs part of the new “Leading Voices in Higher Edu- Although statistics and studies continue to prove that lege graduates opportunities to transition into the work force, cation” lecture series, Chronicle of Higher Education people with bachelor’s degrees Selingo encourages colleges to Editor-at-Large Jeffrey Selingo spoke at the College on make more money and are redesign and restructure their February 19. He discussed the current trends of higher more frequently employed first year experiences to develop education, his vision for the college of the future, and what than those without a college more pathways for students to all of this means for Dartmouth in particular. And don’t diploma, the ever-increasing take to through their educations. worry—he doesn’t think the liberal arts are dead quite yet. cost of higher education has

Selingo also encourages While the internet has certainly made it easier to com- caused many to reconsider colleges to certify experiences municate, research, and share information at colleges, Selingo whether the traditional college outside of the classrooms, such believes it has also disrupted the traditional model of higher experience is still “worth it.” as internships. By encouraging education. As technology and demographics have changed, While many have an idyllic students to develop more “real students’ educational needs have also shifted. Today’s students and romantic vision of colworld skills” instead of purely are much more used to multitasking and working in “dynamic” lege (think leafy quads and accumulate credits, Selingo learning environments than their predecessors. These students grand, Gothic and Neolithic believes that colleges will proultimately expect a similar experience from universities. buildings), this is far from duce graduates better equipped Therefore, it is not surprising that higher education has today’s reality. In fact, four in and qualified for the future. seen some changes over the past few years, for which Selingo five students feel that they are

It is for this reason offers the 2008 housing market crash as the likely cause. After “drifting” through their educaSelingo holds that the liberal the crash sent our economy into a massive recession, most tions, 33 percent of students arts and traditional college exindividuals’ wealth and family income decreased. In addition, transfer school at least once, perience are still valuable. They both state and federal governments were forced to cut their and 400,000 drop out entirely. allow students to work closely budgets, causing states to decrease their funding of higher However, Selingo said that with faculty, gain global pereducation and Washington to consider cutting research grants despite the trends and challengspectives, and focus on their and the Pell Grant program. In turn, tuition began eating up a es, we have only seen true inspecific interests in a way that larger and larger share of families’ average incomes (23.1% novation “around the edges” as MOOCs cannot. Nonetheless, in 2001 versus 37.7% in 2010) as families began paying our rankings-obsessed culture Selingo believes MOOCs and more out of pocket for their children’s educations, causing dissuades many institutions hybrid courses are important —Chronicle of Higher Education the cost of college to become a “front burner issue” for many. from changing their teachbecause they provide more Editor-at-Large Jeffrey Selingo— In addition, the ease and rapidity with which information ing methods and experiences flexibility in curriculum and can be shared over the Internet has led some to develop alter- because doing so may cause a school to drop a few spots allow students to work at their own pace, which innatives to the traditional college experience. These so-called down the U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” list. creases efficiency and productivity.

MOOCs, or massive Yet, while he does not believe there is a “one While Selingo believes Dartmouth’s future is more f course so many students flock to size fits all” solution to these current prob- secure than that of many other institutions, he nonetheopen online courses, are becoming inDartmouth for just the reason that it lems, Selingo is optimistic about the future, less holds that the College will have to adapt to some of creasingly prevalent. suggesting colleges evolve towards what he the current trends as we look toward the future and our However, their future provides what MOOCs necessarily cannot calls a new “ecosystem” in higher education. 250th anniversary in 2019. He encouraged the College to large-scale role in emulate: the liberal arts college experi- Selingo noted that he does not believe increase the quality and affordability of a Dartmouth educahigher education is ence, direct access to faculty and all. residential colleges will be replaced by tion in order to continue to attract the brightest students. still very unclear. online courses or that MOOCs are necesI am more than skeptical that MOOCs will ever play a Selingo suggests that the economic downturn and recent sarily the answer to the challenges posed to higher educa- significant role in the Dartmouth experience. Of course so technological advances have caused five major forces to de- tion. Instead, his proposal many students flock to velop in the field of higher education. First, many colleges focuses on “blending” beelingo believes the internet has disrupted Dartmouth for just the are, in fact, losing money. Many colleges have a hard time tween high school and the traditional model of higher education. reason that it provides attracting students, causing their cash flows to decrease or college, an increased value what MOOCs necesremain stagnant while their expenditures have increased, on real world experiences, As technology and demographics have changed, sarily cannot emulate: largely due to an increased focus on student amenities. and wider usage of MOOCs students’ educational needs have also shifted. To- the liberal arts college Selingo encourages us to consider whether rock-climbing and hybrid courses, which day’s students are much more used to multitasking experience, direct acwalls and other such amenities are really necessary to enhance combine online and tradicess to faculty and all. our educations. Furthermore, state governments are playing tional learning methods. and working in “dynamic” learning environments Nonetheless, Selingo’s a smaller and smaller role in public higher education and In general, American than their predecessors. These students ultimately talk was interesting and, there are fewer full-paying students. At the same time, the high school curriculums surprisingly enough, enexpect a similar experience from universities. development of online courses has undermined our common are highly structured. Alcouraging. While some understanding of the purpose or definition of higher education. though students are given some freedom to choose their continue to lament the death of the liberal arts, Selingo seems classes or activities, most take a standard set of courses to believe that their future is still bright. His forthcoming book, Ms. Sohr is a freshman at the College and News Editor prescribed by their school with guidance from their par- College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and ents. Once these students arrive at college, they face What It Means for Students, will be released May 7. n of The Dartmouth Review.

By Caroline Sohr

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Letter to the Editor:

Dear Adam, The current TDR is very good, but wrong on John Dickey.

Dickey knew that the faculty had to be improved. When I arrived in 1947 I found that many of the professors were inferior to the teachers at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.

The most spectacular addition to the faculty was Eugene Rosenstock-Huessey. He is still a subject of discussion, and Professor Pease is planning to write a book about him. Rosenstock-Huessey had fought in the Kaiser’s Army. And he would have looked right in a spiked helmet. He had his existential experience in a fox hole in no man’s land outside Verdun.

In 1947 the war had recently ended. And Dickey tried to make students aware of the world outside our borders. He started the Great Issues course for seniors. He brought outstanding guest speakers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr and important political readers.

Rosenstock, as we called him, changed students’ lives. He said that speech is the concrete representation of spirit: “You speak and I respond, and I am changed.”

Cheers, Jeff Hart

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Editorial The Dartmouth Review Making the Grade Founders

Greg Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, Keeney Jones “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

Adam I.W. Schwartzman Editor-in-Chief

Benjamin M. Riley President

Coleman E. Shear Executive Editor

Elizabeth A. Reynolds • Taylor Cathcart Vice Presidents

Thomas L. Hauch • Rebecca Hecht • Nicholas P. Desatnick Managing Editors

George A. Mendoza Features Editors

Chloe M. Teeter Media Editor

Nick Duva • Caroline Sohr News Editors

Hilary Hamm • Kirk Jing Associate Editors

Contributors

Blake S. Neff, Jay M. Keating III, Michael T. Haughey, Stuart A. Allan, J.P. Harrington, John Melvin, Melanie Wilcox, Paul Trethaway, Charles Jang, William D. Peters

Mean-Spirited, Cruel and Ugly Legal Counsel

The Review Advisory Board Martin Anderson, Patrick Buchanan, Theodore Cooperstein, Dinesh D’Souza, Michael Ellis, Robert Flanigan, John Fund, Kevin Robbins, Gordon Haff, Jeffrey Hart, Laura Ingraham, Mildred Fay Jefferson, William Lind, Steven Menashi, James Panero, Hugo Restall, Roland Reynolds, Weston Sager, Emily Esfahani Smith, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Charles Dameron Cover photo courtesy of Rauner Library A Grimm Carnival, indeed.

Special Thanks to William F. Buckley, Jr.

As Dartmouth chases the goal of recognition as a fully This is why we can hold hope for the incoming presiresourced university, it can’t seem to hurtle itself fast enough dency—Dr. Hanlon’s track record and stated intentions towards change. both reaffirm the commitment to education.

“Lest the old traditions fail” cautions us against this This is why when Paul Mirengoff ’71 proclaims, long march. That same phrase adorns the plaque marking “Dartmouth is lost,” The Review is inclined to agree. the Old Pine and features prominently into the Alma Mater.

Ironically, Mirengoff’s sentiment came in a piece Nowadays, it seems like that warning has been tossed to the condemning The Review for running an article entitled wind, as each new day brings talk of unprecedented change “What We Need from President Hanlon.” Mirengoff took to Dartmouth College. issue with the article’s focus on student and social life, The term “change” must not be taken as synonymous as opposed to educational issues. While The Review ofwith “adaptation.” Indeed the latter is natural concomitant fers the caveat that said article was written to elucidate of Dartmouth’s status as an elite academic institution—the tangible improvements that Dr. Hanlon can quickly College must develop alongside the world around it. institute, we wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Mirengoff But the change that the administration espouses is not of that education is of paramount importance to the College, this ilk. It is Procrustean, abandoning core values and severing and any appeal to the leader of this institution must be the College from its intrinsic worth. fully cognizant of that fact.

Dartmouth is chopped and stretched to Traditions at Dartmouth are meet a standard that is at best undefined being sacrificed in the race toand at worst a recapitulation of “the wards university recognition. The Harvardization of Dartmouth.” legacy of undergraduate educaBut can the College on the Hill tion at Dartmouth is one of these afford to lose all that falls between traditions, it is being threatened, the cracks? The Dimensions show, and its corruption is tantamount designed and run by freshmen to atto the corruption of Dartmouth, tract prospective students, is the latest herself. facet of the Dartmouth experience to Mirengoff deems “the leftist face the chopping block. Sanctions rot that has spread through many against the Greek system also proof the humanities department vide substance to the claim that the [sic]” as the primary threat facadministration attacks tradition in ing education at Dartmouth. The the name of progress. So too, is the Review offers an alternative: the slow sanitization of the College’s big university dream. Dartmouth is weekends. fast abandoning her traditions Now consider the tradition that in favor of wider appeal. If the Adam I.W. Schwartzman is most threatened by the College’s legacy of commutment to educauniversity push. It is the same tradition that is most integral tion is nothing more than one of these traditions, albeit to our school, and one that binds together all loyal sons and a consummately fundamental one, then this chipping daughters of Dartmouth: the fundamental, unwavering comaway of Old Dartmouth poses just as much of a threat mitment to undergraduate educato the academics as it does tion. ithout the commitment to undergradu- to any other facet of the Without that commitment ate education at the forefront of Dart- College. at the forefront of Dartmouth’s

Ultimately the conmission, the College is ruined and mouth’s mission, the College is ruined and tention of Paul Mirengoff replaced by a façade. A school that replaced by a façade. A school that does not and that of The Review are does not hold its obligation for one in the same: without the hold its obligation for teaching in the highest teaching in the highest esteem is commitment to undergradunot a school at all, but little more esteem is not a school at all, but little more ate education, Dartmouth than a congregation of flapping than a congregation of flapping mouths.

College ceases to exist. mouths.

“Your business here is This is why Charlotte Johnson must be removed from her learning,” President John Sloan Dickey was well known station as Dean of the College: her actions reveal a mindset to tell freshmen. that places more importance on diversity and inclusivity than “Your business here is teaching,” we remind the adthe academic experience. ministration of Dartmouth College. n

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Selingo Talks Future of Higher Education Page 2 Week in Review Pages 4 & 5 2013 Winter Carnival Recap Page 6 A Veteran’s First Carnival Page 7 Short Stories Explore Wartime Page 7 Men’s Tennis Rises to Tough Schedule Page 8 Men’s & Women’s Squash Benched Page 8 F. Scott Fitzgerald Visits Hanover Pages 9, 10 & 11 Last Word & Mixology Page 12

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The Week in Review Carnival Sees Second Chili Cook-Off The snowy Saturday of Winter Carnival saw contestants from fraternities, sororities, and restaurants in Hanover compete in the Second Annual Chili Cook-off. Phi Delta Alpha, Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, the Dartmouth Greek Letter Organizations and Societies, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Delta Delta Delta sponsored the event.

Aaron Goldman ’15, Taylor Cathcart ’15 and Nicholas Cunha ’15 of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity organized the event with Ruth Kett of the GLOS Office.

The Chili Cook-off was founded by Jacob Wijnberg ‘12 and donates all proceeds to the Fisher House Foundation. The Foundation builds homes near military bases and Veteran Affairs medical centers, which are designed for families whose loved ones are receiving treatment nearby.

Wijnberg is currently serving in the U.S. Army.

In the midst of such volatile relations between the College administration and Greek systems, these cosponsored events serve to ease tensions.

It is fitting that the event benefitted a charity centered on military affairs. Historically, Dartmouth has always been more supportive of the United States military than her peer institutions. To wit, our Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has endured continuously since 1951. President Emeritus James Wright is also a noted advocate of the American veteran.

The heavy snow and strong hill winds were not enough to keep people away from the Cookoff, even though it was held outdoors. “The event ended up being a big success and things went more smoothly than we’d expected,” Cathcart said. “We were all impressed by the number of volunteers that showed up to help set up. The event wouldn’t have been possible without them or the careful craftsmanship of the competitors.”

Psi Upsilon won the campus organization category and EBA’s won the restaurant category for the second consecutive year. Many members of the student body and employees of the College attended. When asked about the turn out Cathcart said, “It’s a great event—everyone loves chili in the winter—so we were glad to continue and expand [the Cook-off] and we’re looking forward to doing the same next year.”

“We met at the keg jump.”

-Col. James Donovan ‘39

and preservation of the monument. When the statue first arrived from France in June 1885, the assembly was delayed for ten months due to inadequate funding for the pedestal. In order to erect this symbolic monument, schoolchildren Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty have across the country collected $100,000 in pennies been closed to tourists ever since Hurricane Sandy to pay for it. Hopefully such drastic measures can wreaked havoc on the eastern United States. The remain in the past. twelve-acre Liberty Island, located a mile south of lower Manhattan, was in the direct path of the storm, resulting in the submersion of about 75% of the island in water. The Statue of Liberty itself did not suffer any damage, but the utilities and power system of the island did. Secretary of Noted for its quick rise to fame among high the Interior Ken Salazar estimates that repairs to schoolers and college kids, Four Loko alcoholic the island will cost $59 million. Salazar issued a energy drink has been a perpetual object of health statement in December saying, “We’re going to and safety related scrutiny. This so-called “blackget this done as soon as we possibly can because out in a can” has been blamed for heart attacks, [the Statue of Liberty is] such an important icon seizures, and even death. In Four Loko’s original for New York and America.” formula, each can contained 23.5-ounces of cafNo reopening date has been announced, but feine, guanine, taurine, and alcohol. eager Statue of Liberty aficionados can follow The Federal Trade Commission ultimately required updates regarding the recovery on all major so- Chicago-based Phusion Projects, the manufacturer cial media outlets. The Facebook page for the of Four Loko, to append the formula. monument has 165,409 “likes,” indicating that Two weeks ago, Phusion Projects settled claims enthusiasts will anxiously wait for a definite time of deceptive marketing by agreeing to redesign when they will be able to grace the brick pathways Four Loko cans so they can be resealed and consurrounding Lady Liberty again. sumed later.

Due to spending cuts in Washington and the Phusion is also required to place an alcoholGreat Sequester, the reopening could see larger facts panel on the side of each drink. One wonders delays than expected. In the past, the American what will come next in the battle between Four people have mobilized to finance the assembly Loko and the Federal Trade Commission.

New York Monuments Remain Closed

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The Week in Review

“He hasn’t been the same since the polar bear plunge.”

-Col. James Donovan ‘39

Lehigh Student Sues over C+ Attorneys for Megan Thode, the Lehigh University student who sued over her C+, are appealing to a higher court. Thode, the daughter of a professor at the university, has attributed her poor participation grade in the class to sexual discrimination, charging that she was treated unfairly by the professor based on her support of gay and lesbian causes.

Certainly, there are legions of college students in humanities courses living in fear of being discriminated against for their support of gay marriage. Academia is widely accepted to be a bastion of conservatism and intolerance.

Regardless, after Northampton County judge Emil Giordano squashed her lawsuit, Thode’s attorney refiled under the rationale that Thode’s C+ made it difficult to complete her graduate degree, thereby ending her dream of becoming a counselor.

Megan Thode now works as a drug and alcohol counselor after receiving a master’s degree in human development.

Lawyers representing Lehigh University claimed that Thode regularly broke out in profanity and tears in class, causing her to score low participation grade. Thode claims that she engaged “No one, I think, with any sense of history and propriety, can come to Dartmouth for the first time and not recall Daniel Webster’s remark that it is ‘but a small college but there are those of us who have loved it.’ I am sure Dartmouth students have heard this passage many times. The remark still moves my soul whenever I come across it. Dartmouth still boasts that it is the smallest of the Ivy League schools, though, with some four to six thousand students, it is only ‘small’ when compared to, say, Ohio State or NYU or Texas.

Dartmouth’s smallness is mindful to me of Chesterton’s remark that Rome was not first great and then men loved her. Rather they first loved her, then, as a result, she became great. To stay sane, we always need to get our metaphysical priorities right.

That was Webster’s point too, I think. Much is to be said for a man who loves a woman because she is beautiful. But, as Yves Simon said, much more is to be said of him when he still faithfully loves her when she has lost her beauty.”

-Reverend James V. Schall, S.J. in a speech given at Dartmouth College on May 4, 2012.

in no behavior that could be considered unacceptable. With today’s standards of behaviors, The Review notes that these are not necessarily mutually exclusive statements.

Cornell Hazing Continues Over the course of February 28th to March 1st, the administration at Cornell university administration charged three fraternities with hazing.

Chi Psi, Sigma Nu, and Delta Phi were all placed on probation after hazing allegations were made against them by various members of the student body. These allegations, physical hazing in the case of Sigma Nu and Delta Phi and psychological in the case of Chi Psi, occurred the week before official initiation was to occur. The three fraternities will be reviewed by the Fraternity and Sorority Review Board or the Cornell Judicial Administrator. Until that time all are to remain on suspension by the University, and Sigma Nu and Chi Psi will also face suspension by their national headquarters.

As the Cornell Daily Sun reported, the vice president for judicial affairs of the Interfraternity Council said, “At the same time, [the allegations are] concerning enough that we don’t want to allow anything further to continue until we have a better understanding of the situation,” yet the

suspensions were “not any indication of guilt.”

This comes a little over one month after three other fraternities, Tau Epsilon Phi, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Pi Kappa Phi, were suspended by the Cornell administration in January on allegations of hazing.

Since January, the University has been working towards stricter regulations of how freshman are incorporated into the Greek Houses. Travis Apgar, the Robert G. Engel Associate Dean of Students, trying to turn this into a positive PR situation, remarked that “[t]he fact that we have community members who recognize and intervene to spare peers and community members from hazing is fantastic. We are pleased to see Cornell demonstrate that it is a community of action takers, not bystanders.” It will be interesting to follow how the dynamics of Greek Life at Cornell University changes as a new generation of students are ready to notice and react to instances of pledge hazing.

Harvard Cheating Scandal Concludes Academic sanctions were issued to approximately 60 Harvard University undergraduates in the aftermath of a major cheating scandal. In total, some 70 students withdrew from the school for various lengths of time.

In the spring semester of 2012, a Harvard teaching assistant grew suspicious of shared answers on a take home test. The course, “Introduction to Congress” was a lecture class in the government department with nearly 300 students. Among undergraduates, it was considered an easy A. Ultimately, over 100 students were implicated in the scandal, which posed difficulties for a number of sports teams. In particular, two co-captains of the basketball team were dropped from the roster after they were forced to withdraw.

Predictably, responses to the cheating scandal has been mixed. Some fault the university for a cheating policy considered unclear and obtuse.

Others support the academic sanctions as a important and necessary response to the violations.

Prominent alumni including Thomas Stemberg, founder of Staples, have been openly critical of the administration and president Drew Gilpin Faust as well as assistant professor Matthew B. Platt. n

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2013 Winter Carnival Recap our northern festival. Concert attendee Willie Maritz ’15 said afterwards, “That Florida Georgia Line party was the The magic of Winter Carnival seems already a distant perfect way to kick off the weekend.”

Tracing back to its founding, Winter Carnival is centered memory, along with the winter itself. As spring’s verdant tendrils creep into the Upper Valley, we remember the fallout on a ski tournament between various northeastern schools. of last weekend’s merriment. While many students felt am- This series of races takes place over the course of the weekbivalence towards the tradition of Winter Carnival and just end, and despite initial being initially postponed due to high enjoyed the three-day weekend as a hiatus from schoolwork, winds, they were held as usual. Both the Nordic and Alpine some old traditions were still enjoyed and new ones contin- ski teams gave a strong showing. As skier Hunter Black ‘15 ued to bring excitement to the student body. The Carnival said, “Our Nordic teams have a lot of momentum and are seemed to be staring down the barrel of warm weather for skiing extremely well. We had great performances out of our the second year in a row, as the grass on the green shone women’s alpine team, and while the men’s alpine team had through the soupy remnants of melting snow. But although some issues, but got great performances out of Ian Macomber ’13 and Ben Morse ’14 the days where droves of girls ed by Will Baird ‘15, the group tried their which helped us finish arrived by train seem long forgotten, this weekend was best to recreate the eerie imagery reminis- second on the weekend.” weather was a testament to the resolve of cent of the old Grimm fairytales, a sculpture of alsoAdverse unable to stop students Dartmouth students to have a little red riding hood facing down the big bad from enjoying activities good time.

Kicking off the weekend wolf. Due to lack of manpower and wavering outside. Many lined up at hall for a winter was Wednesday’s Country for weather conditions, the sculpture amounted Robinson carnival hat and a bonea Cause concert at Alumni Hall, benefitting David’s to what can only be described as a strangely warming barbecue meal House, a local charity that buxom Russian doll next to an oversized rat. from Big Fatty’s Restaurant. helps support families of Other traditions still held strong, including the polar children being treated at Hitchcock Medical Center. Concert organizer Chris Zhao ’13 said, “We were so glad to be able bear swim, one of the more sadistic traditions enjoyed by to put together the second annual Country for a Cause. It’s students. Freshmen and upperclassman alike who feared so rare that you can be a part of something so fun, but also missing their icy opportunity lined the street down to Ocso rewarding.” Despite Dartmouth’s dubious track record com Pond to the hole cut in the ice. Jay Keating ’15, who with bringing good acts up to Hanover, headliners Florida took his first plunge this first year, commented, “It was the Georgia Line played a great show, sending the sell out most physically shocking endeavor I’ve ever experienced”.

The resurgence of the human dog sled race on the Green crowd into a frenzied mosh pit with their hit song “Cruise”.

Students shed their boat shoes for cowboy boots as the band was accompanied by a large student showing, both of racers rocked the Top of the Hop and brought a southern flavor to and supporters. As some may remember, last year’s competition was cancelled because of a lack of snow. This year Mr. Haughey is a sophomore at the College and a con- brought a return to the flair-filled race, where some teams tributor to The Dartmouth Review. came to win and others just for a good time. As competitor

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Rennie Song ’15 put it, “we knew victory was out of reach so we decided we should lose with dignity and grace. We made history as the first team that couldn’t complete the course.”

As many noted this year, the usually iconic snow sculpture paled in comparison to memories and photos of years past, last year’s cupcake debacle excluded. However, many do not realize that small core of no more than three or four committed architects create virtually the entire sculpture. Led by Will Baird ‘15, the group tried their best to recreate the eerie imagery reminiscent of the old Grimm fairy tales, a sculpture of little red riding hood facing down the big bad wolf. Due to lack of manpower and wavering weather conditions, the sculpture amounted to what can only be described as a strangely buxom Russian doll next to an oversized rat. Baird had this to say about the restrictions and regulations he and his team faced while building the sculptures: “People complain about how the sculptures aren’t as good as they used to be, but in the times they’re referring to a significant portion of the student body came out to help, and there were fewer restrictions on what the sculpture could and couldn’t be. For example, we’re not really allowed to have overhangs or a supporting internal structure. Those factors, combined with the lack of natural snow, make a student-built sculpture really difficult. So we’re much more limited, both aesthetically and in our resources, than past sculptures have been.”

As for evening activities, many fraternities spent the duration of the big weekend on social probation levied by the administration. Yet the resolve to still party was held firm by all. An Alpha Chi Alpha beach party and Psi Upsilon Jack Wills-sponsored party were held without alcohol.

Sunday night, as the sun faded across the snow-swept green along with many an Advil suppressed headache, the return to academia crept into the collective student community. The four-day bender came to a close, replaced by the more mundane realities of looming exams and papers. Let the twelve-week countdown to Green Key commence. n

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A Veteran’s First Carnival

By William D. Peters

ked coeds, I did not back out. What a sobering experience at Streeter—or was it Gile—staring up at three concerned that was; literally, I was still drunk from the night before. young women, asking if I was all right. They were angels As an army veteran, I admire Dartmouth’s strong apFriday night saw singwith fluorescent halos. Or perhaps f I’m not being asked about the my beer goggles were getting glitchy. preciation for tradition. It is something I looked forward to ing, drinking, and a drunken when I began at the College last fall. But Dartmouth hasn’t fireman-carry race across the Mandarin Chinese on my forearms, My night proceeded to a meetbeen all smiles, bake sales and flowered dresses—oh no! Green. After all parties failed I’m usually asked my thoughts on the ing the Canoe Club with my usual This land of the elite has surprised many times over in my to complete the length of the crowd. I ordered a Jack Daniel’s and short attendance. My fellow students have shown me that the Green, the race devolved into Dartmouth social scene. Until Winter promptly fell asleep. I recovered from work hard, play hard culture exists outside of the military. a snowball fight. Fortunately, Carnival, I didn’t have a good answer. this gaff, as I often do, and returned I had survived my first homecoming, which Mother Nature had provided a to the dormitories to conclude my Now, at least I have a good story. proved to be four days of drunken shenanigans. measure of snow without the Winter Carnival. I do not regret nearly I thought I was in the clear. p o w e r o u t a g e s s e e n a c r o s s N e w E n g l a n d . emptying the Goldstein Hall vending machine, nor do I regret I now know better, because Winter CarniI relocated to Beta Alpha Omega Fraternity where drawing a moustache on a friend’s face after walking him home. val schooled me, and it schooled me big time.

I found myself immediately submerged in a raging Thus my first Winter Carnival ended, successI was not groomed for a place like Dartmouth, nor sea of freshman. They laughed and danced and drank, ful except perhaps for the atrocious snow sculpture, did I ever expect to be a part of such an amazing institu- with fire in their bellies and passion in their eyes. which I gather is par for the course. n tion. But I’m here now and getting everything I can out of “Jesus, I’m old,” I thought, and immediately it. I often find myself to be the oldest person I the room (I shotgunn’d a beer. am eight years older than some students). If I’m not being Among the hoard of underclassmen there was talk of asked about the Mandarin Chinese on my forearms, I’m sledding and snowballs, skiing and snowboarding, and even usually asked my thoughts on the Dartmouth social scene. of streaking. It seemed that all the activities of Winter Carnival U n t i l Wi n t e r C a r n i v a l , I d i d n ’t h a v e a merged into a beer-soaked night of genuine hell raising. By good answer. Now, at least I have a good story. two in the morning, those who were not a part of the scene The first night of Carnival, were asleep on couches and hat a sobering experience the floors, pinned against walls Thursday, can be summed up with one word: inebriation. Several hours polar bear plunge was; literally, with single-serving partners, of pong (which I am horrible at), otherwise indisposed.

I was still drunk from the night before. or flip-cup, quick sixes, and a whole

The masses were not lot of laughter led me to an early wake up, hazy memo- done with Carnival come Saturday, and neither was I. The ries, and a bedfellow who shall remain nameless. Win! fun resumed around three in the afternoon. Chi Gamma Later that morning I notched my second big Dartmouth Epsilon welcomed me in for a drink. I was accompatradition following the Homecoming bonfire: the polar nied by my fellow oarsmen, fresh from crew practice. bear plunge at Occom Pond. Ah, how my bowels taunted At Chi Gam I was instructed in some of the finer points me just as I got to end of the line. I’m proud to say that, of Dartmouth etiquette: how to properly serve in pong, for thanks to motivation from my comrades and a few half na- instance, and how girls will judge me for playing video games.

I was foolish enough to think that I could best my compatriots Mr. Peters is a freshman at the College and a contributor in a few contests of quick six, and in fact I believe I did betto The Dartmouth Review. ter than expected. That is, until I found myself on the floor

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Short Stories Explore Wartime

By Alex Kane In “Play The Game” by Colby Buzzell, an Iraq veteran adjusts to home life with feelings of emptiness and an alcohol problem. In “New Me” by Andrew Slater, powerful and disturbing dreams haunt an Afghanistan veteran with a brain injury. In “Redeployment” by Phil Klay, Dartmouth ’05, soldiers shoot dogs on sight.

Book Review Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War

Edited by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton Da Capo Press, 2013 These are only four of the stories in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, a short fiction collection that includes works written by everyone from a Green Beret to a military wife. The collection lacks a consistent, underlying ideology or political message; each story simply expresses a different, complex perspective that unites seamlessly into a whole.

The work will satisfy anyone with even a vague interest in war fiction. Filled with struggles with the mundane and deadly alike, the stories provide a broad examination of human existence. The book’s focus on the experience of the modern American soldier is quite welcome, as it has been Mr. Kane is a freshman at the College and contributor to The Dartmouth Review.

overlooked in recent representations of the post 9/11 wars. In But the real power of the anthology lies in its serious side.

TV’s “Homeland” and film’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” subterfuge “Television” by Roman Skaskiw and“The Train, and Redeand intrigue, sexier and more palatable to the public, dominate ployment” easily rank among the best the anthology has to the plot with the experience of the soldier as faint backdrop. offer. Each describes people placed through harrowing and, for In “Zero Dark Thirty,” for instance, the reader as well as the characters, he collection lacks a consistent, haunting experiences. when Seal Team Six is not busy killing Osama Bin Laden, it is underlying ideology or political “Television” begins with an IED characterized almost exclusively on the road that fails to take message; each story simply expresses attack through a scene where the men the lives of any US soldiers targeted. play horseshoes, a few speaking a different, complex perspective that A local boy, who may or may not jauntily while the rest stare gruffly unites seamlessly into a whole. have set off the device, is shot and into space. injured critically in the altercation.

“Fire and Forget” tells stories that popular mediums ought There is a pervasive sense of helplessness in the story. This to focus on, all the while doing an excellent job of telling them is the only real action these soldiers have seen, as they othitself. Its stories are brutal and conveyed unflinchingly. All erwise have had no real effect on the course of the war. To of the writers grapple with the task of understanding these underscore the futility of their role, they are compelled to wars and making them intelligible to a sometimes detached ask the forgiveness of a broken family. “The Train,” unique American public. as the sole representation of a female soldier’s perspective, While the style varies between authors, the quality of presents a character truly damaged by her experiences in the the writing is unilaterally high. Mariette Kalinowski’s prose war. She rides New York’s 7 train to forget herself, and the flows smoothly in The Train, pullclose friend she failed to save. Kalining the reader through the narrator’s owski beautifully constructs an ailing memories of losing a friend and fellow relationship between this soldier and solider as she sits on the 7 train. Brian her mother to frame the tragic story Turner’s language in “The Wave That around.

Takes Them Under” takes on an artistic “Redeployment” is perhaps the quality as the experience of soldiers in best of them all. The first line of the a sandstorm is reduced to a mixture story, “We shot dogs” is just one of light, dark and fear. “Redeployment” many the narrator shocks us with. As is narrated in terse, profanity-riddled he reacquaints himself with home, his thoughts that revolve around his the memories of service, which include author’s time on active duty. some of the most disturbing scenes This book is not wholly grim, described in the anthology, from overthough. “Poughkeepsie” by Perry seas incessantly bubble to the surface.

O’Brien and “When Engaging Targets, The narrator notes instances in the past Remember” by Gavin Ford Kovite serve where he feared his experiences would as comic additions to the anthology. “break” him, but Klay gives the sense The former follows an AWOL soldier, that something inside the narrator may bent on attacking the college of a girl that rejected him with already have broken. an army of rabbits. In the latter, the reader chooses between To make special note of these three stories is not to make different numbered passages when a convoy the narrator is little of the others. Each writer weaves a captivating narrative defending is threatened by an advancing vehicle. The options worthy of standing alone. As a collection, however, Fire and are all funny, mostly embarrassing, and none of them end Forget adeptly captures the human element in fighting our well. wars overseas and the struggle in coming home again. n

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Men’s Tennis Rises to Tough Schedule

By Alfred J. Pennypicker

are nationally ranked. He also stressed the fact that these teams Indiana, the rest of this term’s results have been strikingly were traditionally unwilling to travel all the way to Hanover positive. The afternoon of February 8th saw an 8-1 victory over With a tougher schedule and the loss of key graduating and that present willingness indicates growing esteem for the Bearcats of Binghamton University. The team used this seniors, the Dartmouth Men’s Tennis team hardly knew what to the Dartmouth triumph to propel expect coming into their 2012-2013 season. And yet the trepi- p r o g r a m . themselves to a dation has hardly been warranted. Though the season has not Though the stunning perforbeen solely filled with victories, the team has battled through early losses mance against the tough parts of a threatening non-conference schedule and is were disapBoston College, rounding into form just as the Ivy season is set to get underway. pointing, Jablanking the The fall was filled mostly with individual competitions cobs remained Eagles 7-0. The and tune-ups. The team performed well as the hosts of the positive about doubles match Dartmouth Shootout in October, compiling an 18-2 singles t h e t e a m ’s was tight, but a record and 8-2 doubles record. Results were more mixed at the prospects golate break by JaGopher Invitational, hosted by the University of Minnesota, and ing forward. cobs and Alex De the Harvard Halloween Classic. Yet the team kept its focus, us“It’s posChattelus ’13 led ing these events as chances to bolster their games before the start sible we got to a win and elecof the non-conference season that occurs during winter term. off to a slow trified the crowd.

The team faced a substantial challenge in its first proper start because The momentum match of the season on Friday January 25th, lining up against w e w e r e n ’t flowed as all the the Tigers of Clemson University. Clemson is a traditional used to the singles players tennis powerhouse, the fact that the team would travel to the tough compewon in straight north woods for competition says a lot about Dartmouth’s tition right off sets, save for improvement in reputation and quality over the last few years. the bat. It’s Justin Chan ’16, —Dartmouth Men’s Tennis Captain Mike Jacobs ‘13— Though the Dartmouth men fell 4-2 in a hard-fought match, great for the future of the who took his match in three. the team did not allow itself to become disheartened. How program though. We’re getting our act together now The team struggled at ECAC Championships the could they with another stern test facing them the next day? and are excited to battle for the rest of the season,” he weekend of February 15th but did not let this deter them The team refocused said—maintaining that and they go into spring break riding a three-match winIt’s possible we got off to a slow start because we the tougher schedule will ning streak. They notched a come-from-behind 4-3 victory to face the then-undefeated Purdue Boilerweren’t used to the tough competition right off the only serve to benefit the against a wily St. John’s team with De Bot clinching the makers, another team both now and match with a third set win. After the match Jacobs had bat. It’s great for the future of the program though. program known as a national in subsequent seasons. nothing but praise for De Bot, calling him “our rock.” contender. Though the We’re getting our act together now and are excited Jacobs’ words have Just last weekend the team travelled to the Midmen fell 4-3, the fact to battle for the rest of the season,” Jacobs said. proved prescient, as the west to face Marquette and the University of Iowa that the match was team has strung together winning both matches 5-2. In addition to the winning so close boded well for the team’s future prospects. an impressive set of wins following the losses of their first tennis the team enjoyed some downtime in the heartSpeaking to team captain Mike Jacobs ’13 after the match, weekend. On February 1st the team bested the Monarchs land, playing laser tag and generally hamming it up.

I was struck by the positive tone and excitement in his voice. Ja- of Old Dominion University 4-3, with strong performances As the team enters the meat of its season there is cobs stressed the dramatic increase in quality of opponents this by Erik Nordahl ’16 and Brandon De Bot ’14 at fourth nothing but pride among the players. They have peryear, noting how most of the teams on the Dartmouth schedule and sixth singles, respectively. Feeding off the animated formed admirably in the face of a demanding schedule crowd at Boss Tennis Center, Nordahl rose to the occasion and are finding their form just as the Ivy season gets Ms. Pennypicker is a senior at the College and admirer by overcoming a first set bagel with a three-set victory. underway. As the snow melts this spring in Hanover of The Dartmouth Review.

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Men’s & Women’s Squash Benched

By Cellar Door

to bench the majority of both teams. Head Coach Hansi a department rule that was violated. It was their own rule.

Wiens explained tersely, “multiple team rules were broken.” We thought about it a little and we wanted to make sure the In order to attain a national ranking, squash teams are Sources close to the teams shed more light on the trans- message gets out. There are things that you do that impact selected to compete in eight team cups. The top eight teams in gressions, explaining that the team has a rule that prohibits the whole team.” He went on to discuss the importance of the compete in the Howey Cup, drinking within 48 hours of a match. integrity to the athletics program, saying “We’re always the second eight in the Kurtz cup.

The match against Brown was on going to try to do the right thing at Dartmouth. We’re going The Dartmouth Women’s squash a Sunday and the team members to make sure that what we makes sense and we’re not goteam finished their season ranked drank on that Friday. The num- ing to worry about Ws and Ls over doing the right thing.”

9th nationally this year, the ber of women’s team members The Ivy League is rarely esteemed in the world Men’s team finished ranked 11th. who drank remains unspecified. of college sports. Athletic Director Sheehy’s puritaniA squash match is comprised All but three members (Captains cal attitude perpetuates this reality. Would Alabama or of 9 individual matches and Robbie Maycock ‘13 and Chris LSU bench players for a transgression that otherwise the winner is determined by Hanson ‘13 as well as Chris Jung would have had no impact on their season? For a closer which team wins 5 of the 9.

‘14) of the men’s team drank. comparison, would Stanford ever make a similar deciThe women won the Kurtz Cup Perhaps the most interesting part sion? Considering that squash is one of the very few in three matches with scores of the controversy is how the coach sports in which the Ivy League excels, the Dartmouth of 9-0, 9-0, 8-1, meaning they and athletic directors discovered the Athletic Department does a disservice to the school won 26 of the 27 individual violations. Sources close to the by handicapping a particularly successful program. n matches they played. The teams con—Athletic Director Harry Sheehy— men placed third in the Kurtz firmed that Cup and earned their own national distinction. the captains of the women’s team blitzed Both teams have been selected to play in the Howey Cup Coach Hansi the names of the women (top eight) for the last six years. The men came in 7th last who drank. It remains unclear how the year and the women 8th. Members of the women’s and men’s men’s team violation was uncovered, but teams both expressed positive feedback about their seasons. several theories are circulating. Some susHowever, the end of the regular season (just be- pect that the women’s captains divulged fore the draw for the national cups was re- the men’s team violation in their initial leased) came full of controversy for both teams. blitz. Alternatively, Coach Hansi may The final matches of the regular season were against Brown. have confronted the men’s team himself.

At the time, both Dartmouth squads were ranked 8th in the The ultimate decision to bench the country and Brown 17th. If Dartmouth won the matches team was made by Athletic Director as was expected (in November, Dartmouth beat brown Sheehy, Coach Hansi, and Associate 8-1), both Dartmouth teams would have been selected to Athletic Director Richard Whitmore. play in the Howey Cup and thus given a chance to win a Harry Sheehy confirmed that the national title. The matches were to take place on a Sunday. players broke the team’s drinking rule, However, instead of the expected wins, Dartmouth was quipping that while no league rules were forced to forfeit both matches after a decision was made explicitly broken, the NCAA “in most cases doesn’t drill down to that level.”

Mr. Door is a sophomore at the College and a fervent Mr. Sheehy also discussed the decision —Head Coach Hansi Wiens with men’s captain Robbie Maycock ‘13— to bench the players, saying, “It wasn’t supporter of Dartmouth Athletics.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Visits Hanover: before. One could hardly blame a movie tycoon-alumnus “Winter Carnival” was the kind of movie that is very hard to like Walter Wanger for wanting to bring it to the screen. get your mind on, especially when you have the excitement Editor’s Note: The following is a Review favorite “Wanger was a very dapper man; he prided himself on of so many other things that are really more interesting.”

It was, in other words, a pleasant time, though they were from the archives. Former Editor-in-Chief Nicholas being dapper in a Hollywood setting among gauche HollyDesai drew this account of Fitzgerald’s visit to Ha- wood producers. Walter was Ivy League, and he played that not doing the work for which they were being paid. “After nover from Dartmouth Library’s Budd Schulburg files. role of the Ivy League producer. He had the right threads about four or five days, it reminded me of sitting around a on for the Ivy League: he was Brooks Brothers. And he had campus dormitory room in one of those bull sessions, talkThe story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1939 trip to Dartmouth books—real books!—in the bookcase behind him. The only ing about all the things we both shared and enjoyed.” An for Winter Carnival is legendary, even if the best known thing that bothered me—well, a number of things bothered me additional danger loomed: though they drew salaries, they version has it simply that the novelist got very drunk in about Walter—but the only detail that bothered me was that had not signed contracts and could be fired at any time.

After a week, Wanger called them into his office to Hanover. Even this condensed form has appeal: the man he had a large photo of Mussolini framed there on the wall, of letters who does not uphold the supposed dignity of inscribed ‘To Walter, with the best wishes of his friend, Benito.’ check on their progress. Having done hardly any work, his profession is both comic and tragic. Yet an investiga- By the end of the year that disappeared into the bathroom.” they nevertheless managed not to let on that they had been tion of the Budd Schulberg papers reveals a tale that, Wanger told Schulberg that the script he’d written solo ignoring the script. Wanger said that they’d better create a fleshed out, gains still more gravity and comic appeal. was “lousy,” (“I didn’t see War and Peace in Winter Carni- central storyline soon, since the entire crew was traveling It’s a yarn that Schulberg ‘36 related many times in val,” quipped Schulberg), and that he would need to bring to Hanover to shoot “backgrounds.” (“In those days, they publications, at conferences, and in in another writer. Schulberg would shoot the backgrounds based on what the scenes were fictional form in his 1951 novel The said later that no matter how and then in the studio have the actors behaving as if they Disenchanted. Like any drinking famous or accomplished a were at the ski-lift, on the porch of the Inn, and so forth.”)

As to whether they should accompany the crew, Fitzgerstory, it seems to alter with each tellwriter was in those days, he ing to provide maximum entertaincould be hired for a few days ald was resistant. “Well, Walter, I hadn’t planned to go to ment, usually through emphasis but before being summarily fired. Dartmouth. I’ve seen enough college parties, I think, to write occasionally in presentation of facts.

So he felt lucky merely to have a college movie without having to go to the Winter Carnival.”

His resistance was perhaps more understandable if you (Did Schulberg really take Fitzgerald hung on to the job and asked to Psi U or simply feint in that direcwho his collaborator would be. understand that flying in those days required a goodly chunk of tion?) But Schulberg, the acclaimed “ I t ’ s F . S c o t t time. “People today don’t realize what flying was. It was just one novelist of What Makes Sammy Run? Fitzgerald,” said Wanger. step away from the Santa Fe Chief. You got on, and you stopped and Academy Award-winning screen “I looked at him; I hon- for refueling several times, and it took about sixteen hours.”

To stay employed, Fitzgerald gave in. “While I felt writer of “On the Waterfront,” tells it estly thought he was pulling sorry for Scott, I have to admit that I was looking forwell each time. What follows is the my leg.” Schulberg had seen ward to going back to Dartmouth with Scott Fitzgerald.”

‘39 bender according to Schulberg, Fitzgerald some years back Schulberg regarded his father, the head of Parawhich is drawn from several accounts downtown at the Biltmore and rendered using a combination of Theatre as he came out of a play mount, as one of the more literary producers in town, and quotation and paraphse. His is the with Dorothy Parker and look- this trait made him proud that his son was working with controlling view, since he stuck by ing “ghostly white and frail such a figure as Fitzgerald. Therefore, the elder SchulFitzgerald more closely than anyone and pail.” But that was some berg brought them two bottles of champagne for the trip.

“As we got on the plane, we were still talking,” Schulberg else during their brief excursion. years back, and when Wanger recalled, “We were talking about Edmund Wilson, we were Schulberg was something of a said, ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald,’ I talking about communism, we were talking about the people Hollywood prince, the son of a movie said, ‘Scott Fitzgerald—isn’t —Budd Schulberg ‘36— mogul who had known only Holhe dead?’ And Wanger made we knew in common, like Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens. lywood, Deerfield Academy, and Dartmouth by the time he some crack like, ‘Well, I doubt that your script is that bad.’ All of this was going on and on. And it would have been great had reached his twenty-fourth year. He had graduated from He perhaps said, ‘Maybe bored him to death,’ or something fun if we didn’t have this enormous monkey—more like a Dartmouth three years before and was working for David like that. But Wanger said, ‘No, he’s in the next room, and gorilla—of “Winter Carnival” on our backs. We got to sipping O. Selznick, a family friend and the legendary producer he’s reading your script now.’” Schulberg went to meet him. champagne through the next hour or so; it was very congenial. It who made “Gone with the Wind.” This would have led to a “My God, he’s so old,” he thought then. was really fun, I thought, and then we cracked the second bottle of champagne. We career in production, like his father’s, but Schulberg aspired “His complexion,” he said later, “was manuscript to write. After extricating himself from Selznick, he received white and, though there was still a light brown I’m really amazed that you know went on merrily talking and drinka call from the producer Walter Wanger ‘15 who proposed tint to his hair, the first impression he made anything about me,” said Fitzgerald, ing. Every once in making a picture about Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival. on me was of a ghost—the ghost of the Great “I always thought of Hollywood like a principality of Novelist Past who had sprung to early fame with “I’ve had the feeling that nobody in your a while we would its own,” Schulberg reflected years later, “ It was like a sort This Side of Paradise, capped his early promise generation would read me anymore.” say, ‘You know, by the time we get to of a Luxembourg, or something like that, or Liechtenstein. at age 29 with what many critics hailed as the And the people who ran it really had that attitude. They great American novel, The Great Gatsby, and then had taken Manhattan we’d better have some kind of a line on this Winter weren’t only running a studio, they were running a whole nine years to write and publish the book most of the same Carnival.’ And we tried all kinds of things; we really did try.”

In Manhattan, they stayed at the Warwick Hotel, little world... They could cover up murder... You could liter- critics condemned as ‘disappointing,’ Tender is the Night.” ally have somebody killed, and it wouldn’t be in the papers.

Fitzgerald finished reading the forty-eight-odd pages where they worked for a bit on the story, to no real end.

“It was not something on my own I would sit down and of the “Winter Carnival” script and said, “Well, it’s not very “Scott,” he said, “You’ve written a hundred short stories, be fascinated by, the Winter Carnival movie,” Schulberg good,” to which Schulberg replied, “Oh, I know, I know, I and I’ve written a few: I mean between the two of us we recalled, “But it was good money; it was 250 bucks a week, know it’s not good.” They went to lunch at the Brown Derby. should be able to knock out a damn outline for this story.” “ Ye s , w e w i l l , w e w i l l . D o n ’ t w o ra lot of money—there’s no denying it. I’d been married Schulberg and Fitzgerald soon discovered that they young. Also it was about my own place, my own college.” knew “everybody in common; it was a small town... We ry, pal. We will, we will,” said Fitzgerald.

A few college friends called Schulberg, and it Schulberg later described the Carnitalked about so many writers. turned out they were staying only a few blocks away. val as “jumping off point in time for the chulberg was something of a We talked about the dilemma “So I told Scott that I would go and see them; I’d be ski craze that was eventually to sweep the Eastern writer coming Hollywood prince, the son of a of America from Maine to California. But West and writing movies for a back in one hour. That was one of my mistakes.” When he somehow in the 20’s, it had gotten all mixed movie mogul who had known only living, always with the dream of returned to the room, he found an unpunctuated note that up with the election of a Carnival Queen. Hollywood, Deerfield Academy, that one more chance, one more read, from Schulberg’s memory, “Pal you shouldn’t have And by the time I was an undergraduate, I to go back and write that left me pal because I got lonely pal and I went down to and Dartmouth by the time he had chance mean a Dartmouth man, the Carnival had novel, write that play that would the bar pal and I came up and looked for you pal and now developed into a hyped-up beauty contest, reached his twenty-fourth year. re-establish him—mostly him, Im back down at the bar and I’ll be waiting for you pal.”

Schulberg found Fitzgerald in a hotel bar a few blocks winter fashion show and fancy dress ball, a few hers—once again.” complete with an ‘Outdoor Evening’ ski-and-ice extravaganza S c h u l b e r g t o l d h i m h o w m u c h h e a d - away and saw that he was in bad shape, not having eaten that would have made Busby Berkeley green with envy. mired Gatsby, and how much it meant to him, anything. Nevertheless, they continued to drink and work “In 1929 the Carnival Queen was a fledgling movie star, along with the short stories and Tender is the Night. on the script back in their room in preparation for the Florence Rice, daughter of the illustrious Grantland... In 1937 “I’m really amazed that you know anything about nine a.m. meeting with Wanger at the Waldorf Astoria the Dartmouth band led five thousand to Occom Pond in a me,” said Fitzgerald, “I’ve had the feeling that no- in the morning. Despite the drink, the lack of sleep, and torchlight parade to cheer the coronation of a gorgeous blonde body in your generation would read me anymore.” the fact that they had no story, they successfully evaded with full red lips. The Dartmouth ski team swooped down “I have a lot of friends that do.” (“That was Wanger’s detection and were encouraged to keep working.

As they got up, Wanger asked in passing, “Oh, from the hills with flaming torches in tribute to their Queen only partly true,” he said later, “Most of my radical, of the Snow. Champion skaters twirled on the ice in front of communist-oriented peers looked on him as a relic.”) by the way, did you meet anybody on the plane?”

Schulberg mentioned that they had seen Sheilah Graher throne and sky rockets lit the winter night. It had begun to “Last year my royalties were $13,” said Fitzgerald. look more like a snowbound Hollywood supercolossal starring They discussed politics, literature, and gossip. “Scott was ham, a movie columnist. “And Walter’s face darkened, and Sonja Henie and a chorus of Goldwyn Girls than the homespun tuned into everything we talked about—everything except he looked at Scott and said, ‘Scott, you son of a bitch.’”

It turned out that Fitzgerald had secretly arranged to have college event Fred Harris had fathered a quarter of a century “Winter Carnival.” Everything. We went through those things, I think, all afternoon. We decided to meet the next day at the his girlfriend accompany him on the trip, though it might be Mr. Desai is a member of the class of 2008 and Editor studio at ten, and we did but we got talking about everything more correct to say that she was the one who insisted on it.

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The Saga of the “Winter Carnival” Film health. But, in Schulberg’s presence, Fitzgerald and Graham director, Otto Lovering, better known as Lovey, met them on a total wreck.’ But he didn’t say it in a nice way to me. At the pretended to have met by chance on the plane. Schulberg the platform, bright and eager. “Just tell use where to go, boys,” same time Scott looked as if he was absolutely non compus, apologized to Fitzgerald for mentioning it in the Waldorf. he said to them, “We’re ready, we got the crew... we’re ready but his mind was going fast and well, and he made observa“Well, Budd, it’s my fault. I should have told you.” to go!” They stalled and asked to go to the Hanover Inn, where tions about these people that were much sharper, I think, than Despite this delay, they managed to make the Carnival Spe- they supposed they might think up a story within an hour or so. anything that Professor MacDonald or anybody else could say.”

Then Schulberg realized why Wanger had insisted When they got to the Hanover Inn, the entire film crew was cial, the train conso strongly on Fitzgerald’s coming to Dartmouth. He had already there, “twenty people—more, two veying crowds dozen—everybody had a room at the Inn.” hoped that the college might confer Wanger an honorof females to “Sir, we don’t seem to have a reservation ary degree if he paraded around a writer. “He thought Dartmouth for for you,” said the desk clerk to Fitzgerald, that showing off Scott Fitzgerald, even a faded Scott the weekend. and as a result Schulberg and Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, would help him along that road. And now “They were realended up in the attic of the Inn. “It was he’d been embarrassed and, in a way, humiliated.” ly like a thousand In The Daily Dartmouth’s February 11, 1939 issue, John not really a room meant for people to live Scott Fitzgerald D. Hess wrote up an interview with Wanger and Fitzgerald: in,” remembered Schulberg, “It was sort heroines, they “The public personality of Walter Wanger ‘15 is a of an auxiliary room where things were were...The enstored.” The room contained a single disturbing blend of abruptness and charm. At this particutire train given two-level wire bed, a table, and no chair. lar interview, he sat quietly in a chair exuding power and over to Win “Gee, I’m sorry, Scott, but it’s hard authority in easy breaths, seemingly indifferent to anything ter Carnival.” to believe they’ve forgotten to get I said, but quickly, suddenly, sharply catching a phrase, In 1974, a room for us,” said Schulberg. questioning it, commenting upon it, grinding it into me, Schulberg revis “Well,” Fitzgerald quipped, “I guess that smiling, and then apparently forgetting all about me again. ited Dartmouth “In a chair directly across from Mr. Wanger was Mr. really does say something about where the and wrote an open F. Scott Fitzgerald, who looked and talked as if he had film writer stands in the Hollywood sociletter to Fitzgerety.” (“And he seemed to see it completely long since become tired of being known as the spokesald, reminiscing in symbols,” Schulberg remembered later.) man of that unfortunate lost generation of the 1920’s. about their little They stayed in their attic room the entire Mr. Fitzgerald is working on the script of Mr. Wanger’s bender. The Carday, drinking and trying to write. “Scott picture, ‘Winter Carnival.’” We now know, of course, nival Special was stretched out on his back in the lower that Fitzgerald was not tired but three sheets to the wind. apparently the Having more or less survived the faculty ordeal, the [bunk], and I in the upper, according to most noticeable pair proceeded back to the Inn, where Schulberg encourour rank, and we tried to ad-lib a story… absence from the aged Fitzgerald to take an invigorating nap. He lay down But the prospect of still another college 1970s version.

—An incription from Schulberg: “For my friends at musical was hardly inspiring, and soon on the bottom bunk, and Schulberg, believing Fitzger“Can you hear me Dartmouth: This book inspired by my troubled visit with we were comparing the Princeton of his ald asleep, snuck off to visit some fraternity chums. right, Scott? No F.S.F. just 45 years ago. Sincerely, Budd Schulberg”— generation with the Dartmouth of mine.” Sitting at the fraternity bar not long after this escape, more Carnival “Well, maybe this is good,” thought Schulberg, “The Schulberg felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Fitzgerald.

Special! No more train loads of breathless dates, doll-faced “I don’t know how he got there or found me, but he did. blondes and saucy brunettes, the prettiest and flashiest from booze will sort of run out. We’re up in the attic; there’s no Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. Plus the hometown knock- phone; there’s nothing. And maybe if Scott takes a nap, And he looked so totally out of place. He had on his fedora outs in form-fitting ski suits, dressed to their sparkling and we take a deep breath, we’ll just start all over again.” and his overcoat. He was not in any way prepared either in Periodically, Lovey popped his eager-beaver head his clothing or his mind for this Winter Carnival weekend.” white teeth for what we used to call ‘The Mardi Gras of Supporting him by the arm, Schulberg walked Fitzgerald the North.’ Of course there were some plain faces among into the room. “Where do we go? What’s the first them, homespun true loves, as befits any female invasion.” set-up?” Schulberg and Fitzgerald simply pulled loca- out of the house and down Wheelock street. He seemed sudThough Schulberg had told himself he would keep tions out of thin air with no relation to any extant plot. denly to regain his energy and suggested having a drink at Psi U. “And when we got to the Inn... I tried to fool Scott.

They told him on a whim to shoot at the Outing Club: an eye on Fitzgerald’s drinking, the man had nevertheless managed to procure a pint of gin, which he kept in his “Well, we have a scene of the two of them as they come down I was trying to get him back in the room. I said, ‘O.K., overcoat pocket. “One thing that [writers are] able to do, the steps and they look at the frozen pond, and we’ll play Scott, here we are,’ and he realized what I was doing they are like magicians in their ability to hide and then sud- that scene there.” They didn’t, in fact, have a scene. Lovey and got very mad at me. We had sort of a tussle and we denly produce bottles.” Wanger took Schulberg aside and enthusiastically dispatched these fool’s errands: ‘”Great, fell down in the snow, kind of rolled in the snow.” After asked him if Fitzgerald had been drinking, to which he an- you’ve done it awfully well.”

And just when it seemed swered no, in a sort of writers’ solidarity against producers.

“Another thing I should mention in passing is that they’d drunk all the alcohol, that Scott may have looked as if he was falling down the “ruddy-faced, ex-athlete” drunk but his mind never stopped,” Schulberg recalled. Professor Red Merrill came into their attic chamber, bearing What Dartmouth Winter Carnival repre- a bottle of whiskey. Schulberg sented—and remember how we tried to had been introduced to Fitzgerald’s work in Merrill’s class analyze this, Scott, in our futile pursuit of “Sociology and the American a suitable Winter Carnival theme—was a Novel,” and Merrill was a rare tribal fertility rite,” Schulberg wrote in his Fitzgerald fan. The three of them proceeded to kill this bottle in a 1974 letter, “That was the essence of Car- few hours while discussing litnival, we decided, taking its character from erature. After Merrill left, Lovey the self-enforced isolation of thousands of ducked in and asked for another set-up, which he received. young males living together on by far the Fitzgerald was then supmost isolated campus in the Ivy League.” posed to attend a reception with the dean (there was at that The train trip didn’t improve the script either as they time only one dean, accordcontinued to talk about anything but the film. There was ing to Schulberg) and several literally no story. Fitzgerald offered a story about a “waitress other literature-minded faculty with a baby and the baby on an ice floe and the ski captain members. The idea was that saves the baby... it was awful, it was awful. And we were Wanger would present him and getting a little like, ‘Jesus, Scott. That’s terrible!’ and ‘Well, Fitzgerald would describe the if you think that’s bad, then you—’” They became a bit edgy. plot of the film they were shootSchulberg’s idea, he later claimed, was mostly to ing. “It was a disaster since it do with a “rebel college editor” (Schulberg had edited was pretty obvious that not only The Daily Dartmouth as an undergraduate), and Fitzger- was Scott drunk, but when I ald centered on the story of “an old love rekindled for tried to fill in for him, anyone a moment in the Carnival fires and then forever lost.” could see that we had no story.”

“What Dartmouth Winter Carnival represented—and “One Professor Macdonald remember how we tried to analyze this, Scott, in our futile (I remember him well; he was pursuit of a suitable Winter Carnival theme—was a tribal a very dapper man, very wellfertility rite,” Schulberg wrote in his 1974 letter, “That was dressed, very feisty) made me the essence of Carnival, we decided, taking its character from feel bad because I thought he was the self-enforced isolation of thousands of young males living enjoying Scott’s appearance and together on by far the most isolated campus in the Ivy League.” Scott’s defeat. He said, ‘He’s reWhen they arrived, the extremely enthusiastic second unit ally a total wreck, isn’t he? He’s —”Winter Carnival” advertised in The Dartmouth Graphic, 1939—

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And the Bender of 1939 this was resolved, they decided to visit a coffee shop. was extremely damaged.” Yet, touchingly for Schulberg, last time. “I remember very well it was on the first day of “[At the coffee shop] it was humorous in a way because Fitzgerald continued to send him notes about the film. December in 1940, and I was going East; I’d been working there were all those kids enjoying Winter Carnival, and every“He had great dreams about Hollywood,” Schulberg on my first novel), I went to say goodbye to Scott, and he was body was so up, and we were so bedraggled, so down, worried, said, “It was not just the money. Most of the writers I knew— in bed. He lived in a sort of simple, fairly plain apartment in despair.” Suddenly, Fitzgerald went into his element, and Faulkner and the others—just wanted to get the money and right in pretty much the heart of old Hollywood off of Sunset told “this marvelous detailed, romantic story of a girl in an get out. Scott was different. He believed in the movies…. He Boulevard right around the corner from Schwab’s Drugstore, open touring car (he described how she was dressed). Over went to films all the time and he kept a card file of the plots. which was the hangout for everyone in the neighborhood. the top of the hill is this skier coming down, and she stops the He’d go back and write out the plot of every film he saw.” Scott had this desk built for him to fit around him in the bed, car and looks at him. Scott described it immaculately well.”

Still, the picture itself couldn’t have worked, he as he was pretty frail and feeling weak and at the same time Having finished the coffee, they proceeded back to said, “For by the end of the 30’s, when we haunted found he could write in bed for two-three hours every day.”

He brought a copy of Tender is the Night, which he had the Hanover Inn, on whose steps loomed—“as Fitzgerald inscribe to his daughter Vicky. The inscripin a bad movie—or maybe in the movie we were tion read, “Whose illustrious father pulled me out of trying to write” —none other than Walter Wanger, snowdrifts and away from avalanches.” (Dartmouth dressed in a white tie and top hat “like Fred has this inscribed copy in its special collections.)

Astaire... He was not a tall man, but standing a Schulberg asked how his novel, which turned out to step or two above us and with a top hat, he really be The Last Tycoon, was progressing. Though Schullooked like a Hollywood god staring down at us.” berg didn’t know the novel’s exact subject matter, “I don’t know what the next train out of here is,” he guessed it was Hollywood since Fitzgerald had Wanger intoned, “but you two are going to be on it.” barraged him with questions about the film industry, “They put us on the train about one o’clock and what it had been like growing up around it. in the morning with no luggage,” Schulberg Later, Schulberg was mildly disappointed to read in remembers,” They just threw us on the train.” the first pages of The Last Tycoon an insight that he At dawn they pulled into New York, and Schulhad given Fitzgerald during one off these interviews. berg with the porter had to rouse Fitzgerald and It was the idea that Hollywood was an industry town drag him into a cab. They returned to the Warwick like any other, except that it made movies instead they had just left, and apparently experiencing a of tires or steel. Yet, it did not sting too badly: “I’ve motif, were greeted with the news that there was known writers (I was raised with them), and I’ve no room. Perhaps, Schulberg thought later, their known them from one end of my life to the other. And appearance and lack of luggage dissuaded the he was one of the most gentle, kindest, most sympastaff. “Somehow the days had run together and thetic and generous writers I’ve ever met. At the same we hadn’t changed. We both looked like what you time, of course, he couldn’t stop lifting something look like when you haven’t done some of the things you said because that’s the profession he was in.” that one needs to do to keep yourself together.”

—A note from Fitzgerald to Schulberg: “Bud: Am upstairs doing a sort of In late December 1940, Schulberg had a drink with “Have you got a reservation?” the desk staff asked. creative brood, Scott. Changed—gone out with Walter.”— a Dartmouth professor, Herb West, at the Hanover “Well, we just left,” they responded, although, Schulberg recalled, “It seemed like a year, an eternity... As I the Carnival, it had become a show in itself. And Inn. West “suddenly but terribly casually looked up from look back we had no luggage, and the two of us looked like back-stage stories are notoriously resistant to quality.” his glass and said, ‘Isn’t it too bad about Scott Fitzgerald?’”

Schulberg and Fitzgerald remained good friends after- This was the first that Schulberg had heard of Fitzgerald’s God knows what. I don’t think we’d changed our clothes from the time we’d left Hollywood. I’m sure we’d hardly gone to wards, continuing to discuss what they’d always wished to death of a heart attack in Sheila Graham’s apartment.

The obituaries portrayed Fitzgerald as a mere mascot bed, maybe an hour or so, half-dressed, in the Warwick.” discuss without the burden of Wanger or his film. Schulberg Several unreceptive hotels later, Fitzgerald said, remained struck by Fitzgerald’s irrepressible, almost boyish of the Jazz Age, a man unfit for the age of political com“Budd, take me to the Doctors’ Hospital. They’ll take enthusiasm for ideas. “One evening, in West Los Angeles,” mitment. Disgusted, Schulberg, John O’Hara, and Edmund me in there at the Doctors’ Hospital.” This worked, and Schulberg wrote, “I was dashing off, late for a dinner party, Wilson, inter alia, approached The New Republicin 1941 a week later Sheila Graham took Fitzgerald back west. when Scott burst in. ‘I’ve just been rereading Spengler’s with the idea of a Fitzgerald memorial issue, which ran.

Wanger went on to lead the Association of Alumni and He was of course fired. Schulberg was fired and re-hired. Decline of the West.’ That was for openers from the playboy “After Winter Carnival,” he was in major trouble,” of the western world. How did he maintain this incredible the Motion Picture Academy, while continuing to produce remembers Schulberg, “You know what a small town it sophomoric enthusiasm that all the agonies could not down? I movies. Schulberg testified voluntarily before the House is. Everybody knows everybody else’s business, and Scott told him I just didn’t have time to go into Spengler now. I was Un-American Activities Committee, explaining that he notoriously late and had to run. Scott accepted this with his broke with communism when they tried to interfere with erhaps, Schulberg thought later, their usual Minneapolis-cum-Princeton-cum-Southern good man- his literary work. He won the Academy Award for the ‘All right. But we have to talk about it. In the light of what screenplay for “On the Waterfront” several years later. In appearance and lack of luggage dis- ners.

Hitler is doing in Europe. Spengler saw it coming. I could feel 1951, Wanger shot his actress wife’s agent in the groin with suaded the staff. “Somehow the days had it. But did nothing about it. Typical—of the decline of the west.’ a .38 pistol. “I shot him because he broke up my home,” “Maybe it was to make up for the years frittered he told the police. The incident was well-covered in the run together and we hadn’t changed. We away at Princeton, and in the playgrounds of the rich, papers. He served four months in prison. Schulberg’s The both looked like what you look like when but, drunk or sober (and except for the Dartmouth Disenchanted, published in 1950, was widely seen as a you haven’t done some of the things that trip and one other occasion, I only saw him sober), roman-à-clef about Fitzgerald and became a bestseller. It one needs to do to keep yourself together.” he never stopped learning, never stopped inquiring.” renewed interest in Fitzgerald and his novels, which were Schulberg remembers the day he saw Fitzgerald for the reprinted. Today, his critical reputation is unassailable. n

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