Don’t Just Look, Stop and Help
Nick Taranto ‘06 really likes Dartmouth students. He also really likes to help people in need, especially when they are Dartmouth students. Unfortunately, I don’t think he likes me all that much. More »
Monday, May 08, 2006
The Case for AEPi
Last Thursday, for the second time, the Interfraternity Council rejected sponsorship of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a national Jewish fraternity. And last Thursday, for the second time, the Interfraternity Council made a mistake. More »
Coming clean about quotes
To the Editor: I’d like to respond to last Thursday’s article on pornography (“Pornography becomes more socially acceptable,” May 4). The article misrepresents my opinions of pornography, presenting comments I made in a joking fashion in a way that was totally out of context. More »
A better debate about Duke
To the Editor: Michael Belinsky ‘08’s “Breaking Down Partisan Perspectives” (May 5) correctly states that the Duke lacrosse scandal should not be viewed through a partisan lens, “crime.” Who exactly is the “we” he claims supposedly all too “easily contextualizes” the incident along ideological lines? Moreover, his definitions of the “conservative” and “liberal” partisan views of the rape case are completely bogus. I sincerely doubt that there is some sort of embedded conservative consensus that views the stripper’s rape as “inherent to her profession” of stripping. Additionally, there is hardly any underlying liberal consensus that shares the view outlined in Belinsky’s completely inane description of the “liberal” take on all of this. Most people would never have bothered to view this through a partisan lens anyway, and if they did, they surely would not have taken the oversimplified approach outlined by Belinsky, thus rendering his entire article pointless. More »
Plane Stupid
To the Editor: Daniel Killeen’s op-ed (“All Speech Should Be Equal,” May 3) attempted the absurd — to defend an act of overtly bigoted agitation (flying an airplane over the immigrant solidarity rally with an anti-immigrant message) by means of the very values of tolerance and diversity such an act flouted. Killeen attempts to insulate himself and his organization from our opprobrium — simply asking for equality of treatment, that we listen to The Dartmouth Review as we would to anyone else. But equality is actually not what Killeen is asking for at all; he is asking for exceptionalism. He is implicitly requesting that the actions and words of a consistently intolerant newspaper be given special indulgence because those actions and words are intolerant, that we hold our tongues and quench our ire for an action designed to provoke nothing but indignation. He is asking, in short, that we react to intolerance with more forbearance than we would to a slightly irritating, though innocuous, statement. More »
