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Zeta Psi Shuttered for "Abusive" Newsletter
by Matthew Tokson

 Dean Martin Redman of the Office of Residential Life announced today that Zeta Psi fraternity has been permanently derecognized and will no longer exist at Dartmouth.

Halvorssen on Zeta Psi's Derecognition
by Andrew Grossman

 The Dartmouth Review talks with Thor L. Halvorssen of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

National Media Hits Hanover...Again
by J. Lawrence Scholer

 Hordes of television crews and reporters swarmed onto Webster Avenue, Dartmouth’s fraternity row, Friday, May 11, in the wake of the College’s decision to permanently derecognize Zeta Psi fraternity.

Students Respond to Zeta Psi Derecognition
by Seth Goldberg

 Many students interviewed by The Dartmouth Review agreed that the derecognition of Zete was merely a sign of the times, as Dartmouth has become increasingly hostile to Greek organizations.

Zeta Psi Press Release

Dartmouth College Press Release

President Wright's Letter to the Community

Dean Larimore's Letter to the Community


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Editorial: Overblown Rhetoric and Tiny Tragedies

Behind the Sigma Report
by Andrew Grossman

 Zeta Psi’s weekly Sigma Report, over which the house now faces possible derecognition, may not be quite so scandalous as initial reports made out.

Faculty Letter Bashes Greeks
by Darren Thomas

  101 faculty members signed a full-page open letter that appeared in the Daily Dartmouth on May 3rd. The letter accuses the Greek system of "institutionalized forms of discrimination and segregation that still dominate social life." 

Restricting the Greeks: A History of Derecognition
by John Kalb

  While many think that the College’s attack on the Greek system is a recent phenomenon, it has been going on since the 1970s. Starting roughly thirty years ago, the College began to tighten its grip on the Greeks.

Condemning Private Obscenities, Sanctioning Public Porn
by Alexander Harrison

  The discovery of and debate over the Zetemouth has raised a vitally important issue for our college community: the moral tone of our educational environment. College is where young people form intelligent and influential views on moral issues, from the treatment of women in society to questions of academic honesty and personal integrity. 

Affirmative Action Harms Black Colleges
by Emmett Hogan

  In recent years, a debate has arisen over the role played by historically black colleges in higher education. Created during the days of segregation in the South, these institutions served a valuable purpose: they gave black youths an opportunity to advance in society at a time when the channels available to whites were not open to them.

Invigorating the Student Assembly: The Candidates, Reviewed
by Alexander Wilson

    It’s election time again at Dartmouth. Posters are hanging, of both the standard and inane varieties. Rhetoric is flying, some more blimpish in its hot-air capacity than others. Students, at least some of them, are actually thinking about the Student Assembly. 

Campus Crazies Across the Country
by Alexander Talcott

    Dartmouth College is a unique place in many ways. But the College is not alone when it comes to occasional bursts of activist enthusiasm and disorganized protest.

Make a Run for the Border, Eh?
by J. Lawrence Scholer

   On April 21, seven Dartmouth students trekked northward up I-89 to protest the Summit of the Americas which was being held in Quebec City. The Dartmouth students protested because of concerns about the effects of inter-continental free trade on human rights and the environment.

Library Sex Scandal
by James Haskell

    Last Friday night, a female friend of mine was assaulted by a document far more offensive and vulgar than anything contained in Zeta Psi’s infamous "sex papers," the most recent in a series of scandals to hit the school.

Fix the Death Penalty
by Jeffrey Hart

    We administer the most severe penalty we have available to those who commit murder, and we do so because we place so high a value on the life of innocent people. The death penalty says an emphatic no to murder.

The Class of 2005
by Rollo Begley

    The preliminary results of the class of 2005 are somewhat alarming compared to the classes above them.

The Week in Review  Special: Outing Anonymous

The Last Word compiled by John Kalb

“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