Big Green Bikes: What is to be done?
By James Judah, New York, N.Y.
Published on Wednesday, April 19, 2006
To the Editor:
I would like to commend D. Bradley Bate '04 for his thoughtful letter to the editor blaming the student body for the failure of the Big Green Bikes program ("Campus responsible for Big Green Bike failure," April 18). I am sure Bate would also agree that the failure of the Soviet Union can be traced to the "total lack of respect and responsibility" of the Russian people.
Communal property is a viable and time-tested idea, and I feel that the program was a great leap forward for Dartmouth. I will only fault Bate for not proposing means to improve the lamentable moral condition of Dartmouth students (as compared to Middlebury students, for example, whose similar bike program succeeded). An obvious first step is mass purges and re-education camps, but I call upon the community to take action towards a comprehensive solution.