Monday, June 11, 2001

Dartmouth Derecognizes Zeta Psi

Dean Martin Redman of the Office of Residential Life announced today that Zeta Psi fraternity has been permanently derecognized and will no longer exist at Dartmouth. The derecognition comes in response to Zeta Psi's publishing of an internal newsletter, the Sigma Report, which contained tasteless jokes about specific female Dartmouth students.

Dartmouth Mourns Zantops

Dartmouth's tranquil idyll was visibly disturbed as the school reopened Monday. Community members were still adjusting to the news that Professors Susanne and Half Zantop were killed Saturday in their home at 115 Trescott Road in Etna, NH—just three miles from campus.

Dartmouth's Shameful Censorship: The Humphries Murals

Of course, Humphries painted a cartoonish portrait of not only the Reverend, but also of his Indian students; it's understandable that some would consider the work 'offensive.' Still, says Art History Professor Robert McGrath, the paintings 'convey a certain mindset of the times.'

Students for Change! Activism at Dartmouth

Soon after the protest began, the group moved to Rockefeller Hall where the trustees were meeting. The peaceful protest turned rowdy as students began banging on the walls and speaking loudly. Their chants included 'Hell no, status quo' and 'We're here, we're queer, and our parents think we're studying.'

'Scalp 'Em': Another Perspective

What follows is Mr. Long's account of the events of that night, the official statement that he has presented to the College. His anonymous accuser's words have been given great weight, despite the unknowing emptiness behind them.

Dartmouth's Racial Separatism

Despite Dartmouth's stated faith in multicultural integration—the College's 'Principle of Community' states that diversity provides "an opportunity for learning and moral growth"—the administration continually creates group distinctions among students, and separates them along racial and sexual lines.

Colleges' Housing Hypocrisy

Tufts, for example, in the same year it joined the lawsuit against the military, established 'The Rainbow House,' a college residence for gay students that, according to its mission statement, 'exists to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students and allies a housing option where their sexual orientation will not be an issue of conflict.'

Multicultural Misrepresentation

When it comes to trying to make a campus more diverse, just how far is too far? Admissions Director Robert Seltzer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tested the limits when he allowed the head of a black student, Diallo Shabazz, to be electronically cut from one photograph and inserted into the cover picture of the University's application brochure—a picture of white Badger fans at a 1993 football game.

Thanks For Sharing

This young student arrived at Dartmouth fresh, eager, and ready to make new and different friends. However, having not taken a DOC trip, she was alone on campus. She could not eat with tripees, so she ate alone. Not the type to 'meet half of my class in half an hour,' she was left out of the loop, stuck on the outside looking in. Alone.

Rainbow Intolerance

Schneider's visit to campus on May 23 spawned campus-wide debate on issues of homosexuality and freedom of speech. The debate really started several days before Schneider's visit, when the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance and the Gay-Straight Alliance decided to hold a candlelight vigil and several other demonstrations, including a march to the Top of the Hop, during and after the speech to protest Schneider's message.

Dean Redman Commits Fraud

In the past few months, Dartmouth's Dean of Residential Life, Martin Redman, has been behaving in a way that suggests his ignorance of this principle. He does so at his own peril. Dean Redman's decision in the 'sex papers' scandal involving the Zeta Psi fraternity so flagrantly violates the College's own regulations that the College is, by his actions, guilty of fraud.

Reparations Rumble

George Orwell once said that real journalism consists of what someone does not want published, and that all the rest is public relations. Public relations is what campus journalism mainly consists of today.

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.

The College on the Pill

UGA Training, which is organized by the Office of Residential Life, imparted more than helpful household hints, however. A September 8 presentation instructed UGAs on dealing with sexual abuse. Susan Marine, the coordinator of Dartmouth's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, and Aaron Akamu '01, a Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor and Area Coordinator for ORL, instructed UGAs on the resources available to them on campus.

"I Want You Guys to Have All the Sex You Want": Dick's House and the Morning After Pill

Editor's Note: A student went to Dick's House and met with Physician Assistant Anne Michaels. The student reported that she had not been taking her birth control pills regularly, but that she had been in a fight with her boyfriend and wasn't having sex, anyway.

Rage Against the Fraternity

If you just so happen to wear Greek letters on Dartmouth's campus, you better watch your back. The gig is up for the Zeta Psi fraternity house after Dartmouth college officials announced on May 11th they would take the liberty of closing its doors—forever.