Week in ReviewBrewer Pleads Not Guilty Former Dartmouth Review Editor-in-Chief E. Davis Brewer '95 pleaded not guilty to charges of embezzlement earlier this week. Brewer is accused of using over $8,500 of Review funds for personal use.
The results of the on-line vote regarding the future of Dartmouth Dining Services indicated that students would rather see DDS drastically scaled back than be forced to pay the $800 minimum DBA proposed last month. Almost 93% of the 2,690 students who participated voted for either a drastic scaling back of DDS or its complete elimination. Treasurer and Vice President Lyn Hutton pledged that the administration would abide by the results of the referendum. Most likely to be hit by the budget ax are Westside Buffet and Collis, while Homeplate and the Hop were the most popular eateries with students. After having spent over $25,000 this summer renovating the East Wheelock Snack Bar, the 'intellectual cluster's' private facility received the lowest rating from over 2,000 students.
Dartmouth hosted the spring session of the Ivy League Conference for Life (ILCL) on April 18th and 19th. Olivia Gans opened the conference on Friday with her speech regarding an abortion she underwent in college. The experience led her to become a prominent spokeswoman for the pro-life movement. Gans' speech was followed on Saturday by Pam Smith, M.D., the president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She spoke about what she considered the fallacies of abortion, especially the so-called partial-birth abortion which she said was medically unnecessary in all cases. Doug Scott, a fervent monitor of Planned Parenthood, followed with a speech denouncing the odious beginnings of that organization, which was founded by Margaret Sanger. He called Sanger a 'believer in eugenics,' who 'hated the poor and blacks,' and told the audience that she longed for a Hitlerian 'master race.' The final speaker, 1996 Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes, gave his speech 'On Abortion and Morality' to a packed Dartmouth Hall. Keyes told the audience that human rights came from God, and the abridgment of those rights, especially the right to life, constitutes an atavistic return to feudalism where peasants had no rights, but only 'privileges' allowed them by their master. In those Dark Ages, 'might made right. Only the strong had rights.' Keyes compared this to abortion, saying that the mother is the stronger being, deciding the fate of a weaker human being. He declared this situation to be a 'cognitive dissonance;' the foundation of human rights is violated to allow the 'right' to abortion.
Villanova University has told their on-campus bookstore to begin removing the yellow and black jacketed Cliff Notes from their shelves. According to John Johannes, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the removal of Cliff Notes will force students to do 'serious critical and original thinking, rather than working with simplistic study aids.'
In the midst of an article on Dartmouth's winter sports, the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated took an unexpected and underhanded slam at The Dartmouth Review. Touting Dartmouth as the #1 winter sports school, the magazine gave much of the credit to the Dartmouth Outing Club. During the description of the Dartmouth Outing Club the following was suddenly interjected: '(No, this is not a group of students who plot ways to reveal the sexual orientation of fellow undergraduates. That would be The Dartmouth Review, a right-wing student newspaper, but that's another story.)'
The following letter appeared in the April-May issue of Link, a magazine distributed free to undergraduates at colleges across the country. The letter was in response to a request by Link for recommendations for a mascot for Dartmouth to replace the Indian. 'I've come up with an idea for revitalizing Dartmouth College's mascot's name. How about Big 'Straight, Male-Dominated Elite Institution for Rich White Kids' Green? You know, kind of a nickname. It's just a thought. Dan Spalding
Last week the African-American Society presented a week of programming featuring author and former Black Panther Party leader Elaine Brown. Among the events that Brown hosted during her stay was a public lecture entitled, 'Resolving Problems of Racism, Gender Oppression, and Class Disparity.' After joking about the rainy weather and Tiger Woods' recent victory, Brown began discussing the state of Black America and the ongoing racism in America. She continued her case for historically propagated racism by attacking Thomas Jefferson for his 'Virginia Papers,' reading them aloud at length, and finally concluding that America inherited its racism from the Founding Fathers. She then focused the discussion on Affirmative Action, declaring that the 'WASPS have been passing it down' for generations and criticized legislative attempts, such as Proposition 209, for attempting to end affirmative action. Miss Brown also mocked the Gulf War as a white man's war, citing the figure that 60% of the fighting soldiers were African-American as proof of the government's underlying motives. When the discussion moved to the topic of drugs, she referred to CIA involvement and then quipped that 'you don't see any black men flying those planes.' Toward the end of her speech Brown advocated reparations for slavery, declaring that 'if you give me and each [African-American] person $10 million we'll shut up,' and then told the audience confidentially that if 'you ask for 20 million then they start having problems [thinking it's too much]. No one has even said they're sorry.' To conclude her speech Brown spent 15 minutes describing the trial of a black Atlanta teenager who is being tried as an adult for the murder of an innocent African-American male bystander. 'No one was there to pick that boy up,' was her defense of the youth she called Little B.
The Student Assembly is expected to pass a resolution next week proposing an Ethnic Studies department that would offer majors. The Ethnic Studies department will complement the African-American Studies, the Native American Studies, and the Women's Studies department, which already exist in addition to Jewish Studies, which will begin next year. The Ethnic Studies department will most likely include courses on sexual identity. Last year, ethnic studies was a hot issue on the Columbia University campus. There, students protested for fifteen days, and three students went on a two-week hunger strike in support of ethnic studies. Buildings were occupied and classes were disrupted. Columbia President George Rupp stood firm, and the administration made few concessions.
The College has decided to allow the Native Americans at Dartmouth (NAD) to hold their annual Pow-Wow on the Green during May 10-11. This decision follows protests after the event, which has traditionally been held on the Green, was moved to the BEMA last year. As a symbolic gesture, a memorial for former Dartmouth College Professor and founder of the Native American Studies Department Michael Dorris will be held the proceeding day. Dorris committed suicide earlier this month.
The following was taken off of the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance's electronic bulletin board: 'According to a book by gay historian George Chauncey, the term 'queer' was generally used by both gays and non-gays in America up until the 1930s. Non-gays used it in a derogatory fashion, but gays accepted it as well, much as we may still use the term 'faggots' among ourselves today. Only with the onset of the Depression did the term 'queer' start to go out of fashion. 'In the late eighteenth century, female prostitutes were often referred to as 'gay ladies.' The term seems to have been eventually picked up by male homosexual prostitutes as well in the 1890s. Over the next three decades, the word 'gay' crossed the ocean and was eventually transferred to any man who dressed up in women's clothes, whether he was a prostitute or not. As police oppression mounted in New York and elsewhere in the 1930s and 40s, homosexual men had to latch onto a code word that they knew the police were probably not cognizant of. That word was 'gay,' which existed side by side with 'queer,' 'fairy,' and 'pansy' for several years before becoming the word of choice among homosexuals. It wasn't until the 1950s that the police and the media became aware of its subcultural meaning. So the word 'gay' was a self-invention of homosexuals and is a constant reminder of an earlier era when homosexuals had to use code words to hide their identity. In the '60s, when the gay revolution picked up steam, the previously hidden term 'gay' burst out into the open and thus became a symbol not of oppression, but pride.'
The following are excerpts of the official minutes of the College's alcohol free organization, Asgard. It was posted on their electronic bulletin board and we are still trying to figure out what it means. 'The first item on the agenda was a report on Saturday's sleep-over. Rich chose the movies: 101 Dalmatians (the new live action version), From Dusk Til Dawn, which Rich thought was hip, smart, and funny, but which I found to be a bucket of horse dung. Curt suggested that the Mountain Dew at Home Plate is better than anywhere else. He then mentioned that he recently bought a can of caffeine-free Mountain Dew (he claimed it was an accident), and that it turned out to be what they serve at Home Plate. So, apparently, caffeine-free Mountain Dew actually tastes good. (But I ask you, without the caffeine, what's the point?) Jenny exclaimed, 'Nobody tickle me!' Nelson exclaimed, 'I'm not getting a spinal tap!' Nelson reminisced about the good old days of Asgard. Nelson's pacemaker started acting up. Mihai complained, 'From now on, whenever I think of Asgard, I'll think of Nelson in his boxers.' Ignoring her request, Dave tickled Jenny mercilessly.' But the fun did not stop there—indeed, it continued at the next meeting: 'Nelson mentioned the original Asgard T-shirt. Rich pointed out that the image was a stick figure of a Viking holding a sword. 'Imagine Owen naked. Although that has nothing to do with the T-shirt.' At this point in the meeting, Curt became very frustrated. He complained, 'No one will respond to me - they all want to make barnyard noises.' And, I've had numerous requests (most of them from Mihai) to include the answers to tonight's special category on the attendance sheet. Along with name and year, we asked for each person's 'Least favorite pizza topping'. Here are the responses: broccoli, olives, mushrooms [list truncated out of respect to the reader].
On Wednesday President Freedman spoke to the Rockefeller Student Council about his recent 10-day trip to Vietnam. After discussing the beauty of the country and some of his experiences with its people, President Freedman discussed Tuck School's involvement in a project with the university in Hanoi. The Tuck school is providing resources and expertise to create a Western-style MBA-program business school. So far, members of the Tuck faculty have traveled to Vietnam and taught a series of short seminars on Western business practices. Some Vietnamese faculty are scheduled to come to take a course at Tuck this summer to prepare to teach at the Hanoi business school. President Freedman expressed a great deal of disappointment that the project has not been more successful and indicated that the Vietnamese were not holding up their end of the bargain. The project started last year and was supposed to have a working MBA program this year, but neither a site for the new business school nor faculty for the program have been found. The faculty for the institution represents one of the greatest obstacles to a successful program. Most faculty were educated in the Soviet Union during the '70s and '80s at such institutions as Moscow State University, and therefore are equipped with Marxist theory, which is of little use in the emerging capitalist economies of Southeast Asia. President Freedman expressed interest in furthering Dartmouth's relationship with Vietnam. He has offered to create an exchange program for Vietnamese students but has received very little interest from Vietnam's communist government.
An Alabama Circuit Court Judge will be awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in late May. Charles Price was selected to receive the award for his ruling to force fellow Circuit Court Judge Roy Moore to remove the ten commandments from his courtroom. Price will receive $25,000 for his courageous decision. Perhaps Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, should receive this year's award. Kennedy is under investigation for having a five-year affair with his children's baby-sitter, who was 14 when it started. Kennedy apparently took lessons from Jerry Seinfeld, who recently broke-up with his twenty-one year old girlfriend of five years.
'Friendship In the Age of AIDS' promised to 'challenge stereotypes about AIDS and...teach students how to reduce the risks of HIV.' Joel Goldman and T.J. Sullivan — the friends in this 'Age of AIDS' — were not to give 'just the same old message about AIDS.' Someone should have told them that. Goldman, HIV positive, and Sullivan gave their presentation to over 350 students at Collis Commonground. The two speakers were friends — not fraternity brothers, as advertised — at Indiana University back in the 1980s. Now they tour the country, giving their presentation to college campuses. They were brought to Dartmouth by Deb Reinders with $3,000 financed by fraternity keg fines. Mr. Sullivan began the evening by declaring, 'We are all in this together.' After explaining his relationship with Goldman, he handed the microphone over. Goldman told of his teenage years in which he learned of sex from the five-volume sex encyclopedia his father gave him which told of everything from 'wet dreams to how to masturbate correctly.' He quickly added that there is a right way and 'if anyone wants to know [how] see me after the show.' He then gave a history of his college years in which he 'mix[ed] sex and alcohol.' Several years after college he was tested for HIV and his test was positive. It was the 'worst day in my life,' he said. The show then moved on to issues of 'safe-sex,' with Sullivan declaring 'I am the condom queen.' According to the pair, 'safe-sex has really taken off,' and one should 'do it safe.' Sullivan declared that 'this is our generation's Vietnam.' |
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