By Suzanne Lehrer, Staff Columnist
When it comes to classroom debauchery, I thought I'd heard it all. There's always the one about the student who did or didn't plagiarize and got Parkhursted, the one about the student who slept with the prof, the student who got arrested for drunkenly participating in a class he wasn't enrolled in with his shirt off, the student who said something memorably and inappropriately crude, or that kid in the back who was so high -- the list goes on. However, just when I thought I was becoming bored and unimpressed with tales of classroom mayhem, there emerges on the scene the one about the disgruntled prof who wanted to sue her students. Jackpot.
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By Denise Hotta-Moung, Contributing Columnist
Dartmouth's BlitzMail provides an outlet for students to spread their beliefs to the rest of campus with the simple click of a button. I, along with the numerous other members of any "recipient list suppressed," have received pleas from Dartmouth peers to take sides on various causes regarding Tibet, Darfur, Burma and most recently, the Association of Alumni executive committee election. While an increase in student concern is always encouraged, there lies a danger in using this method to acquire such support: The issue at hand becomes attached to the sender's name and our decisions become affected by factors other than our own thought processes.
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By David Shipler, Former Trustee
To the Editor:
The election in the Association of Alumni, which began this week, is critical to impeding the radical right's long-term campaign to control Dartmouth. The new "unity" slate led by John Mathias '69 would end a lawsuit against the College. That suit seeks "parity" in trustee selection to allow inroads by a highly politicized and pervasively ideological brand of conservatism. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is about Dartmouth alone. Higher education remains one of the last institutions beyond conservative domination, and Dartmouth is merely a convenient target in a larger strategy.
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