Copyright©1998
The Hanover Review, Inc.
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 Editorial: The
Axeman Cometh
Colby:
Discipline and Punish
by Benjamin Oren
 At Colby College fraternities
are illegal and an intense war is being waged against the
underground Greek system — the administration is
slowly winning, but not without some causalities along
the way. In 1984, the trustees of the
college decided to abolish fraternities and sororities
and replace them with a residential commons system citing
“with great conviction” that they “no
longer serve an overall constructive role at Colby, and
that, on balance, their continued presence is both
detrimental and divisive.” By banning the Greek
system, the college effectively criminalized a 139 year
tradition, and perpetuated the urban myth of elitism and
sexism within the fraternal orders of the college.
Here
I Go Again On My Own...
by Alexander Wilson
With last term's announcement by the Board of
Trustees of a new set of residential and social life
“principles, ” attention has naturally focused
on the actions Greek houses might take to avoid such an
action. One option is “going independent,” or
more precisely, houses ending their affiliation with the
College and becoming completely private organizations.
With the possibility of such a decision by one or more
houses likely to increase as the Trustees and the
administration make more concrete statements, a look back
at the recent history of independent Greek houses and
Dartmouth and elsewhere is of great value. More to the
point, of course, is how that independence was destroyed.
The
Five Points: Yesterday's News
by M. Ryan Clark
The administration's attempt to force
coeducation on fraternities and sororities is the most
recent move in a twenty-year battle between the College
and the Greek system. Over the course of this battle, the
administration has taken many steps to reduce and
possibly eliminate the role of fraternities at Dartmouth.
Letters
to the Editor
Preferences
Scandal at UMass by Jeffrey Hart
Cruelty
and the Beast by Christopher Pearson
Sports:
Dewey Defeats Truman, 1999 by Alexander Nazaryan
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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