Step into any dance party on campus, and you’re almost guaranteed to see the same thing: girls in skimpy tops, pushing their backsides into whoever happens to be behind them, and guys moving just enough to get the girls to grind with them. Occasionally, a particularly talented soul will manage to pull off a move more complicated than the standard pelvic gyration, but for the most part, the bump and grind reigns supreme. It seems that social, non-performance dancing has deteriorated into vertical sex — the only difference being that the participants wear clothes.
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By
Merle Adelman, First Vice President, Association of the Alumni of Dartmouth College
To the Editor:
The Executive Committee of the Alumni Association appreciates the concerns of your Editorial Board (“Alumni and democracy,” Feb. 17) and recognizes these concerns may reflect the opinion of many students at the College.
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To the Editor:
Please accept my thanks for your Verbum Ultimum regarding the outrageous conduct of presiding officer Al Collins ‘53 and his Executive Committee (“Alumni and democracy,” Feb. 17). Those of us involved in the struggle to establish democratic alumni governance have met with such indefensible arrogance year after year. It is reassuring that at long last some sectors at Dartmouth are noticing.
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