Copyright©1998
The Hanover Review, Inc.
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 Wright, Trustees to Close Down Greeks
by Andrew Grossman and Alexander Wilson
 A pair of related incidents at Dartmouth have
put the future of the College's treasured Greek system in
severe jeopardy. The Trustees of the College released a
letter to the student body and President James Wright
gave an interview with The Daily Dartmouth which, taken
together, announce a new administrative policy.
Dartmouth, it seems, in a new “spirit of
inclusion,”will force its fraternities and
sororities to become, by co-educational by policy.
President Wright says he expects the changes to take
place in time for next fall's rush.
Carnival
Cancelled in Response
by Christian Hummel and M. Ryan Clark
If President Wright's announcement was intended
to shake things up and create a debate on social and
residential options at the College, it certainly worked.
Reaction was swift and decisive. In a random survey taken
by The Dartmouth Review on Wednesday afternoon, an
overwhelming majority of students opposed the trustees'
proposals. Fliers were posted announcing a rally on the
Green to be followed by a march to the President's house
on Webster Avenue. However, that rally was canceled when
the Coed-Fraternity-Sororities Council (CFS) decided to
hold a meeting to discuss the situation and plan an
organized response. CFS also voted, 24-12, to shut down
all parties at Winter Carnival. The vote is binding.
Paternalism
and Illegality
by Steven Menashi
Dartmouth's paternalists are at it again. James
Wright and the Dartmouth Trustees want to remake the
College in their own image and, in the process, have
ignored the sentiments of Dartmouth's students and
alumni. Wright plans to eliminate all fraternities and
sororities. According to Claire Ebel, Executive Director
of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, the decision
violates the constitutional rights of students to free
association. Moreover, the decision is but the latest in
the administration's social engineering project on the
Dartmouth campus. The students won't stand for it.
Editorial
Statement: A Terrible, Terrible Decision
The Editors
Letters
from Alumni
Inside
the Deathmobile by
Barrett Thornhill and Alexander Wilson
The Last
Word by Gordon Haff
by Gordon Haff
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“Far better it is to dare mighty
things, to win great triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to 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
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