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Editorial: Where Blame is Due

Chi Heorot on the Brink
by Darren Thomas
 Chi Heorot did not meet the College’s Minimum Standards, a failing which could lead to probation or possibly derecognition. No house had failed minimum standards since Beta Theta Pi did in 1994.

Life Goes on at Zeta Psi
by Stefan Beck
  Thanks to the recent discovery of a certain ill-conceived newsletter, the Zeta Psi fraternity has had to endure the relentless scrutiny of the administration, student body, various Greek councils, and the Daily Dartmouth. The consensus is that, barring a miracle, the fraternity is breathing its last gasps as a Dartmouth College organization. The most probable outcome of its pending meeting with campus officials is a minimum two years of derecognition.

"Scalp 'Em": Another Perspective
by Eugene Long
  At 9 PM on Friday, February 16, Will Hughes and I were on the lawn of Psi Upsilon. We decided to say the old football chant, "Wah-Hoo-Wah, Scalp ‘em," something that we had done numerous times at Dartmouth football games. We had been drinking moderately in the basement of Psi Upsilon the night of the incident. Although the house had elected not to buy beer that weekend, it was understood that brothers of age could buy and consume their own alcohol on the premises. 

Dartmouth Women on Attack
by Karen Parkman
  Last Wednesday, Panhell held an emergency meeting at Delta Delta Delta sorority before meetings in reaction to Zeta Psi fraternity's "sex papers," which had been publicly released earlier that day. The majority of attendees were Trideltas, other sorority members, and several of the unaffiliated women who had urged the campus to "boycott" fraternities for the night and later organized the rally outside of the President’s house. 

The Crisis of Academic Standards
by Jeffrey Hart
  Around college campuses there had been trouble when several campus newspapers printed an ad by David Horowitz listing ten reasons to oppose slavery reparations for black Americans. About two-thirds of the newspapers approached by Horowitz turned down the ad. The rest, which published it, issued craven apologies for doing so. The only exception was Brown, where the editor insisted on his right to publish that side of the argument.

President Propaganda
by Alston Ramsay
    President Wright is skilled in the ways of propaganda. Last week he let us all know it. His letter to the student body is a propagandist’s masterpiece—short, terse, and full of tasty tidbits of hazy language and "virtue words," which aim to bypass the rational part of our minds by appealing purely to emotion. I managed to identify 31 instances where President Wright used propaganda techniques identified during the 1930’s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis 

In Memoriam by Emmett Hogan
The Last Word compiled by Michael Pryor

The Week in Review 

by Gordon Haff

“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