Occasionally missing class or falling asleep during lecture are minor infractions that all students have been guilty of at one point or another. Usually, it’s not a big deal and such incidents are put out of mind without a second thought. But what about walking out during the middle of a lecture or harassing a professor with rude, incessant e-mails? Is that going too far?
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There has been much confusion about the history, planning and execution of Frat Free Friday. I hope to be able to rectify the situation.
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Recently a series of events and debates at Dartmouth — the Sex Fest, The Vagina Monologues, The Dartmouth’s three-part series on sexual abuse in February and Frat Free Friday — have brought questions of women’s sexuality, sexual assault and rape to the forefront of campus discussion. While it’s good that these dialogues are occurring, the one-sided discourse in which they are couched is problematic. This discourse encourages what I and others have come to call a “culture of protection.”
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