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Editorial: Chilling Free Expression

Hula No More: Lu'au Called Racist
by Steven Menashi
Alpha Chi Alpha Fraternity and Delta Delta Delta Sorority are racist and ignorant, some students are saying, because of a social event they planned for last weekend. “It has come to our attention that Alpha Chi Alpha Fraternity is having a Luau party where people are encouraged to dress up like Hawaiians,” wrote Omar Rashid '00, president of Lambda Upsilon Lambda, “Perhaps the rest of the members of the CFSC will tolerate bigotry."

Students Object, The CFSC Rolls Over
The complete texts of email messages that were sent to the Coed, Fraternity, Sorority Council in protest and Alpha Chi Alpha's apology. Also the correspondence, obtained by The Dartmouth Review, between the officers of the Coed, Fraternity, Sorority Council and the Presidents of Greek houses at Dartmouth.

Policing Thought Crimes on Campus
by Alexander Wilson
Among the proposals to the Trustee Steering Committee are several that purport to enhance community and inclusiveness at Dartmouth. On closer examination, however, it is difficult to avoid seeing many of them as an ill-conceived limitation of freedom of speech and thought. The most radical of the suggestions, endorsed by the AAm, is to make the Principle of Community an enforceable College policy. Under such an arrangement, violation of the Principle of Community would be a punishable offense, possibly under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Standards.

"The Body" Writes a "Book" by Bradford Stanley
Alan Keyes on Liberty and Morality by M. Ryan Clark
Books: The Final Descent by Jeffrey Hart
Sports: A Sculler and a Gentleman by Adam Tanney

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