Monday, April 30, 2001

'Scalp 'Em': Another Perspective

What seemed a harmless event at the time escalated further than most expected: Long's and Hughes's fraternity, Psi Upsilon, has already been put on probation for two terms as punishment for their conduct that night, and now Long, Hughes, and another fraternity brother face disciplinary action for what they saw at the time as non-threatening, if unfriendly and increasingly unpopular, speech.

Chi Heorot on the Brink

Chi Heorot did not meet the College's Minimum Standards, a failing which could lead to probation or possibly derecognition. No house had failed minimum standards since Beta Theta Pi did in 1994.

Life Goes On at Zeta Psi

Thanks to the recent discovery of a certain ill-conceived newsletter, the Zeta Psi fraternity has had to endure the relentless scrutiny of the administration, student body, various Greek councils, and the Daily Dartmouth. The consensus is that, barring a miracle, the fraternity is breathing its last gasps as a Dartmouth College organization.

Dartmouth Women on Attack

Last Wednesday, Panhell held an emergency meeting at Delta Delta Delta sorority before meetings in reaction to Zeta Psi fraternity's 'sex papers,' which had been publicly released earlier that day. The majority of attendees were Trideltas, other sorority members, and several of the unaffiliated women who had urged the campus to 'boycott' fraternities for the night and later organized the rally outside of the President's house.

The Crisis of Academic Standards

Around college campuses there had been trouble when several campus newspapers printed an ad by David Horowitz listing ten reasons to oppose slavery reparations for black Americans.

Presidential Propaganda

I managed to identify 31 instances where President Wright used propaganda techniques identified during the 1930's by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA). The institute's goals were to educate the American people in the ways of mass persuasion—good and bad.

Meldrim Thomson: In Memoriam

Former Governor Meldrim Thomson, a fire-breathing hero to New Hampshire conservatives, was known for such controversial pronouncements. Sadly, he died last week on his maple sugar farm in Orford, NH.