Copyright©1999
The Hanover Review, Inc.
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 Editorial:
Disabling Speech
 Seldom has a new professor been greeted with
such enthusiasm on his first day of teaching. But there
they were: some 250 protestors gathered on the campus of
Princeton University to decry Peter Singer, Princeton's
new Ida W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics. This September
14 incident was the latest effort in a systematic
campaign to get Singer's appointment rescinded.
The
Trustees' Bland Vision
by Steven Menashi
At a September 21 “town
hall” meeting in Alumni Hall, Dartmouth College
Trustee Peter Fahey informed students and faculty that
the Social and Residential Life Task Force has
“reached no conclusion” as to whether
“Greek houses should be modified or replaced”
so as to harmonize Dartmouth's social life with the
“central academic mission of College.” When asked what, precisely, is the central
academic mission of the College, Fahey replied, “If
I have to explain to you what the central academic
mission of the College is, you probably shouldn't be
here.” Students in the audience booed.
College
to Greeks: Evicted!
by Brian Maloney
One of the Dartmouth
administration's central contentions in the ongoing
debate over the Greek system is that fraternities and
sororities don't need houses. They can function just as
well, the administration claims, without a physical plant, and without all the alcohol
abuse, sexual harassment, and anti-intellectualism that
goes along with it. Proposal 26 of the College's Task
Force Report on the Residential and Social Life
Initiative argues, “If [single-sex] groups are truly
committed to the values of personal and leadership
development and community service, then the need for a
physical plant to conduct these activities is
minimal.”
The Dartmouth
Review Freshman Issue:
The Pedagogues: Dartmouth's Best
Professors
The Pretenders: Dartmouth's Worst
Dartmouth's Best Courses
Ivy League Football Preview
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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