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The Hanover Review, Inc.

Summer 2001 Special Report

CIDE Report Lacks Support and Clarity
by Alston Ramsay
  The Committee on Institutional Diversity and Equity (formerly known as the Committee for the World Cultures Initiative) recently released its latest report, a 28-page exposition on the past, present, and future of "diversity" at Dartmouth. While the report offers a few valid suggestions, it is nevertheless premised upon faulty assumptions and definitions, backed by unsubstantiated evidence and plagued by contradictory language. Despite its many flaws, Dartmouth College has agreed to implement the three main suggestions as soon as possible.

Free Speech at Zeta Psi
by Alison Jeffe
  By summer, three-fourths of the undergraduate student body had left campus; many began to accept the “Sex Papers” charade as history. Many students accepted the College’s decision as evidence that Dartmouth simply doesn’t permit free expression among its students, and they resigned themselves to the new college policy.

The Worm Turns - Slowly - on Identity Politics
by Emmett Hogan
  Those who are walled up in the land of academia harbor little hope that identity politics will go out of fashion there soon. Liberal professors swear by identity politics, as do administrators; and they will continue to do so for a long time to come.

On Redemption and Reconciliation
by Emmett Hogan
  A few years ago, on an appropriately overcast day, I visited the concentration camp of Dachau, just outside of Munich. Dachau was the first concentration camp to be established by the Nazis, and it was the first to be liberated by Allied troops. The tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust had its longest run within these walls.

College Enacts New Greek Policies
by Emmett Hogan
  Another term begins on the Hanover plain, and another set of poor decisions (designed - as they invariably are - to “improve” the quality of student life at Dartmouth) comes down from the Administration. This time around, the College decided to pull a one-two punch, issuing two fiats simultaneously. The first of these decisions prohibits the consumption of alcohol outdoors on Greek property unless it is part of a registered event. The second decision allows Safety and Security to conduct “safety visits” of all Greek houses at any time.

Commencement 2001

Editorial: How We Learn

The Week in Review

Dartmouth Derecognizes Zeta Psi
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.

Dartmouth Mourns Professors
by J. Lawrence Scholer
  Dartmouth's tranquil idyll was visibly disturbed as the school reopened Monday. Community members were still adjusting to the news that Professors Susanne and Half Zantop were killed Saturday in their home at 115 Trescott Road in Etna, NH--just three miles from campus. The double murder is the first homicide in the Hanover area since 1991. Students first learned of the tragedy Saturday night, when local NBC affiliate WMUR and other stations broadcast news of the murder in their 11:00 p.m. report. At 12:14 a.m. Sunday morning, The Dartmouth newspaper sent an email to the campus stating that the Zantops were dead, possibly murdered.

"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's Shameful Censorship
by Stephen Farrow
  During the 1937-38 school year, Walter B. Humphries, class of 1914, decided to create a painting to immortalize Dartmouth's beloved song "Eleazar Wheelock." He caricatured the song and painted it for the walls of Hovey's Grill, the establishment on the first floor of Thayer Dining Hall named for the poet. Humphries' murals adorned the walls of the Grill until 1979 when, with John Kemeny as president, the College decided that the paintings were too offensive. The murals were boarded up, and Hovey's Grill was closed off and used only for storage. The paintings remain censored today; they are very rarely uncovered for private viewings. This fall, Hovey's Grill reopened its doors to students as "Hovey's Lounge," and it includes a pool table, foosball, and other games. Yet, instead of the bright murals, the walls are covered by plain, gray, canvas-covered boards. Students should tear them down.

Reparations Rumble
by Jeffrey Hart
  George Orwell once said that real journalism consists of what someone does not want published, and that all the rest is public relations. Public relations is what campus journalism mainly consists of today. A very interesting and important thing has happened on a number of university campuses. So far, only Brown has come out of it with honor. David Horowitz is an interesting fellow. He was raised in Queens, NYC, both his parents devote American Communists. He marched in the May Day parade, went to communist summer camps, lived in a communist world. During the 1960s, he found himself in California with the New Left.

Students for Change!
by J. Lawrence Scholer
    "There is something wrong with Dartmouth." The words echoed from the steps of Parkhurst as Dartmouth students rallied for "change." The protesters hoped an organized rally would push the trustees to face the problems the students discussed.

"I Want You Guys to Have All the Sex You Want"
  The Dartmouth Review sent a student to Dick's House to obtain the pill, and she did so after a five-minute consultation with a Physician Assistant, Anne Michaels. Michaels, like Marine at UGA Training, was sure to distinguish between the morning-after pill and abortion. While many believe that pregnancy occurs with fertilization, the position of Dartmouth Health Services is that pregnancy begins only at implantation. Still, the College’s health providers inform students, emphatically, that Plan B is not an abortion--even if the student's own convictions might lead to an alternate conclusion.

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 

The College on the Pill
by Steven Menashi
  A September 8 ORL presentation instructed UGAs on dealing with sexual abuse. Susan Marine, the coordinator of Dartmouth's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, and Aaron Akamu '01, a Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor and Area Coordinator for ORL, instructed UGAs on the resources available to them on campus. Students who are at risk for pregnancy, they explained, should take "emergency contraception," or "Plan B." Marine was careful to note that taking Plan B does not constitute an abortion, since the pill only prevents a sperm from connecting with an egg or the embryo from implanting in the uterine wall. Students can obtain the pill from Dick's House. Akamu added that he had some pills in his room, and that other SAPAs also kept a supply of Plan B, which they made available to students who had problems with regular contraception. Marine nodded. The morning-after pill, however, is a prescription medication; only a doctor (or similarly certified health care provider) can legally dispense it.

Rainbow Intolerance
by Matthew Tokson
This past spring term’s Voces Clamantium speaker was chosen, not by the usual unanimous vote, but by a 5-4 margin after a lengthy and emotional debate.  And thus began Dartmouth’s troubled relationship with Yvette Schneider, Policy Analyst in Cultural Studies for Washington, DC’s Family Research Council and self-identified former lesbian. Schneider’s visit to campus on May 23 spawned campus-wide debate on issues of homosexuality and freedom of speech.

Colleges' Housing Hypocrisy
by Steven Menashi
  At the first Democratic debate of the primary season, Bill Bradley mused, “If a gay American can be a bricklayer, a doctor, an athlete, a lawyer, a painter, why can’t a gay American be a sergeant and a lieutenant colonel? It does not make sense to me.” Al Gore, appearing with Bradley at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, agreed. At a later debate at the University of New Hampshire, Gore even said that allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military would be a “litmus test” for prospective members of the Joint Chiefs. The candidates received applause at both universities, themselves longstanding combatants in the assault on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy—the policy crafted by President Clinton in 1992 that prohibits open homosexuality in the ranks.

Thanks for Sharing
by J. Lawrence Scholer
  She hated Dartmouth. Her story began with the acceptance letter, and the anticipation of four incredible years at a prestigious Ivy League College in the woods of New Hampshire. Her anticipation would become despair soon after she arrived on campus.

Dartmouth's Racial Separatism
by Alexander Talcott and Darren Thomas
  Last April, Dean of the College James Larimore distributed a memo explaining that “The advisory positions for African-American students, Latino/Hispanic students, Asian Pacific American students, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered students will be expanded from half-time to full-time.”  As such, Dartmouth is providing special advisors just for them. Despite Dartmouth’s stated faith in multicultural integration—the College’s “Principle of Community” states that diversity provides “an opportunity for learning and moral growth”—the administration continually creates group distinctions among students, and separates them along racial and sexual lines.