Copyright©1998
The Hanover Review, Inc.
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 Wright, King,
Stith-Cabranes Flop
by J. Patrick Leo and Catherine Muscat
 On February 17, President James Wright, Acting
Dean Daniel Nelson, and trustees William King and Kate
Stith-Cabranes confronted the student body via closed
circuit television in an attempt to assuage many of the
rumors that have been circulating around campus.
Psi
Upsilon: The Students Rally
by Mohamed Bydon and Noah Hutson-Ellenberg
On the Saturday of Winter Carnival, in place of
the traditional keg jump, Psi Upsilon fraternity held a
rally to protest the Trustees’ decision to end the
Greek system “as we know it.” Over eight
hundred students attended the rally to hear speeches from
various members of the Greek community and one
unaffiliated student. The speakers challenged the
connection between the five principles announced by the
Trustees and the elimination of single sex Greek
organizations and expressed anger at the lack of student
consultation before the changes were announced.
Dartmouth's
Fraternity Row
by William F.
Buckley, Jr.
Dartmouth College has for a dozen years
attracted national attention not alone for its fine
academic work and the achievements of its graduates but
because it is a groundhog of sorts, a kind of PC
super-vane, which tends to advise us seasons ahead of
anybody else what it is we’re to do in order to be
upright. With the election of a new president, there were
those who thought that the ideological offensive had
ended, or at least slowed down. But last week Dartmouth
announced that from now on single-sex fraternities would
cease to exist.
Obfuscation
and Liberal Education
by Steven Menashi
The presentation of the trustees’
initiative has been marked by double talk and
obfuscation. James Wright and the Trustees have claimed
that the five principles mean the end of the single-sex
Greek system. They have also claimed, with the same
passion and frequency, that the single-sex Greek system
will survive. Unsurprisingly, many students are unclear
about the administration's intentions. The alumni office,
however, finds the principles perfectly clear: they have
been telling alumni that the College has no plans to end
the Greek system -- and that, therefore, alumni should
continue contributing money to the College. The faculty,
however, think that the principles do mean the end of the
Greek system -- and they're marching in lockstep support
of that goal.
What
is 'Tens of Millions' Good For?
by Alexander Wilson
Dartmouth students are being asked to imagine a
new campus, with fundamentally different social and
residential options. They are being asked to imagine a
campus with new and better facilities and more money for
student programming. And they are being asked to imagine
a campus without a powerful Greek system. Their
imaginations are to be funded by “tens of millions
of dollars” that the Trustees say they will devote
to making our dreams come true. Not suprisingly, students
are opposed despite their generosity.
Editorial:
A History of Lies The
Editors
Dartmouth:
Take Action
A Night
at Panarchy by Andrew Grossman
Bible
Study, Opera, and One Packed Bar by Bradford Stanley
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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