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Another Personal Thought - Indian Uprising at Dartmouth
Please read the whole thing before you comment!
Who has followed the turn of events this semester at Dartmouth? Anyone? Well it seems they have had some major issues there involving Native American issues. Yes at a major Ivy League School where they are supposed to be on a higher level intellectually so to speek. Does anyone see something wrong here. Look at the cover of the Dartmouth Review this week.
http://www.dartreview.com/covers/11282006.jpg
"The Natives Are Getting Restless"? With that photo. Well what would one expect from a rag that demeaned those who had chosen alternative sexual lifestyles in the 80's right? (No I am not gay but I support the rights of all minority groups may gay friends included whole heartedly)
Well the Dartmouth Review had apologized. Along with Kerry, Kramer from Seinfeld, Mel Gibson, and now the estemeed Dartmouth Review. Sorry you cannot tack this stuff back. Mel Gibson said he was drunk when he made the anti-semetic comments. Kramer was being harrassed he stated. All lame excuses by the freaking way. Well what is their excuse lets see:
Here is their apology:
The Cover Story
By Daniel F. Linsalata | Saturday, December 2, 2006
In light of reactions to the cover of the most recent issue of The Dartmouth Review, I feel a word of explanation is in order. The cover was intended to be a hyperbolic, tongue-in-cheek commentary upon the reactions to events this term by the self-styled leadership of Dartmouth's Native American community. Placed in the context of the articles within the issue itself, the commentary made sense. But placed in the context of the reaction it elicited, the extent of the reaction was wholly unanticipated. However, I regret that the cover may have precipitated further feelings of offense within Dartmouth and overshadowed more thoughtful discussions of these matters presented in the articles within the issue itself.
I emphasize that I still stand fully behind the editorial content of the issue_which I encourage everyone to read and consider, quite apart from the cover. I also restate The Dartmouth Review's position that our criticisms are leveled entirely at the actions of the NAD organization, particularly its leadership, and not Native American students at large. The NAD leadership is not beyond reproach simply because it claims to speak for all Dartmouth's Native Americans, any more than the leadership of any other group should receive immunity from scrutiny. Unanimity of sentiment is an impossibility within any such group; thus, it is only reasonable to criticize the leadership who claimed to act as spokespeople, and not Dartmouth's Native Americans as a whole. The accusation, then, that this cover was maliciously designed as a wantonly racist attack on upon Native Americans is patently false. All the same, I regret that it could have been construed as such, to the detriment of discussion of the content of the issue.
Daniel F. Linsalata '07
Editor-in-Chief, The Dartmouth Review
Apology NOT EXCPETED buddy. Wanna really apologize get the Indian stuff off your freaking website. But what do you expect from a rag whose on whose board sits such conservative neanderthals such as William F. Buckley. Yeah he sits on the board of the review.
Well here is the article about this issue. Read it all read it carefully.
Dartmouth rallies for minority students By Beverley Wang, Associated Press Writer | November 29, 2006 HANOVER, N.H. --More than 500 Dartmouth College students, faculty and administrators rallied in support of the college's American Indian community Wednesday, a day after The Dartmouth Review published a picture of an Indian warrior brandishing a scalp with the headline, "The Natives are Getting Restless!" on Page One. "Like an open wound Dartmouth is hurting -- we have all been insulted," college president James Wright told the crowd gathered before Dartmouth Hall. College members wore green to show their solidarity. Some carried signs reading "Stop Hate Speech," "Civil Discourse" and "Standing Against Racism." A few carried umbrellas pasted with signs reading "Unity." "My Dartmouth, our shared Dartmouth, is one that condemns the deliberate mean-spiritedness that was demonstrated in the publication that was released yesterday," Wright said to cheers. The Dartmouth Review, an independent conservative student newspaper, is not affiliated with the college and has an adversarial history with minorities. Students said the paper's latest issue, ridiculing Native American students' complaints about a string of incidents seen as racist, was the trigger for the demonstration, held on the last day of classes before exams. However, complaints about insensitive acts on campus toward minority students -- including name calling of black students -- have persisted this fall at the college founded in 1769 as a school for American Indians. "The Review was more or less a tipping point," 19-year-old sophomore Samuel Kohn said. This fall, American Indian students have protested Homecoming T- shirts showing a Holy Cross knight performing a sex act on an American Indian caricature. The Review also has come under fire for distributing T-shirts emblazoned with the Dartmouth Indian, the college's long-since discontinued mascot. There also has been outrage over an interrupted drumming circle, a formal with a "Cowboys and Indians" theme, and other events. The incidents played out against an uncomfortable college history. Dartmouth graduated fewer than 20 American Indians during its first 200 years, the same time its catalog of Indian mascots -- featured on canes, sports uniforms, even songs and art depicting natives lapping rum -- increased. A renewed mission to recruit American Indian students in the past 30 years means Dartmouth has the largest indigenous student body in the Ivy League, about 160, or 3 percent. Last week, the college's Native American Council -- composed mostly of faculty -- placed a two-page in The Dartmouth, the college daily, demanding a community response to the recent incidents.
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Wright apologized via a college-wide message last week and encouraged the community to build a more welcoming atmosphere for minority students. The publication Tuesday of the Review, with its inflammatory cover art and several articles mocking American Indian students and the college's apologies, sparked the latest round of campus soul searching. In an interview Tuesday after the rally, which he did not attend, Review Editor-in-Chief Daniel Linsalata, a senior, was unapologetic and a little surprised by the hubbub. He said the paper was a response to "the overdramatic reaction to events this term." "They're out for blood, so to speak," he said of complaints by American Indian students. In an editorial, Linsalata wrote: "While the onus may fall partly on the student body to facilitate an environment more hospitable to Indians, nothing can be done until the Indians themselves lay out measurable goals and steps for how this harmony can be achieved. Patronizing advertisements and excessive use of the race card are antithetical to this goal." He added: "The administration and the campus as a whole owe the (Native American student group) no sort of olive branch until (they) prove themselves willing to engage in a reasonable, productive dialogue." The Review also criticized the college's apology for the scheduling of a Dec. 29 hockey game against the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux," a move that drew fire from that state's governor, a 1979 Dartmouth alum. "I think it's unfortunate she wrote that letter and I think she's wrong," Gov. John Hoeven told the Grand Forks Herald. He referred to a recent letter from Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper published in The Dartmouth. "I must offer a sincere apology to the Native American community, and the Dartmouth community as a whole, for an event that will understandably offend and hurt people within our community," Harper's letter said. Dartmouth students who attended Tuesday's demonstration focused on events originating on campus. Speaking for the student group, Native Americans at Dartmouth, Kohn, a member of the Crow tribe, urged administrators to pursue disciplinary action against offenders. "We're not reaching for something that's just a temporary cosmetic fix," he said at the rally. "We're calling for a lasting solution from the Dartmouth administration." Administrators who spoke praised students for organizing the rally, expressed support for their cause and vowed to work for change, but made no specific promises about disciplinary action to be taken against the Review or others. "It saddens all of us when you feel alienated or unwelcome," Dean of Faculty Carol Folt told the crowd. "We all know that it's very hard to solve the underlying problems that are producing disrespect ... we do have the power and, in fact, the resolve to take on these intractable issues." ------ On the Net: Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu The Dartmouth: http://www.thedartmouth.com The Dartmouth Review: http://www.dartreview.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Another article prior to The Uprising just to give you some background:
Dartmouth Apologizes for Indian IncidentsDartmouth College's president and athletics director issued pre-Thanksgiving apologies for a series of incidents that have angered American Indian students and professors.Following a meeting with Native American leaders, Dartmouth President James Wright sent a letter to the campus expressing concern about "racist and insensitive" behavior that Indian students have experienced. "I apologize on behalf of the college," he wrote.Wright acknowledged that much of the behavior that has angered American Indians _ such as the distribution of clothing with Indian symbolism _ is not illegal and could not be punished by the college. But he called for more people _ himself included _ to speak out against offensive comments. "Freedom of expression is a core value of this institution," he wrote. "The college is not going to start a selective dress code and we do not have a speech code. Free speech includes the right to say and to do foolish and mean-spirited things. We have seen several examples of this exercise this fall. But free speech is not a right exclusively maintained for the use of the mean and the foolish _ it is not unless we allow it to be, and then the free part has been minimized."Wright's letter was distributed just after an advertisement appeared in The Dartmouth, the student newspaper, noting some of the incidents that have upset Native American students this year. (A spokeswoman for the college said that the president's letter was in the works prior to the ad's appearance.)Among the incidents cited in the ad: On Columbus Day, fraternity pledges disrupted a student group's observance of the day (which is viewed as anything but a celebration by Native American leaders) with "clapping, mock dancing" and jumping through "the sacred center of the Native students' drumming circle."A fraternity sold T-shirts, prior to the football game against the College of the Holy Cross, depicting a Holy Cross Crusader performing oral sex on an Indian.A party in November organized by athletes featured a "Cowboys, Indians and Barnyard Animals" theme, with students dressed as Indians. One athlete, when confronted about the party, told a student who complained that the theme was really "Cowboys, Barnyard Animals and Indigenous People."The ad said it was inappropriate for people to make light of such incidents or of the use of Indian imagery. "As Native people, the right the decide what offends us belong to us and us alone. It is arrogant for non-Native people to presume that they somehow have this right," the ad said. It added: "It is wrong for one race of people to appropriate the cultures and customs of another race of people. Objectification is about power."The treatment of Indian students and the use of Indian symbols is particularly sensitive at Dartmouth. The college was founded in 1769 with the stated goal of educating both Indian and white students, but the mission of educating Indians was largely ignored for two centuries. Starting in the 1970s, however, the college reclaimed that original mission, and Dartmouth has educated hundreds of Native American students _ something few elite colleges have done _ and the college has a well respected Native American studies program.As the college was reaching out to Native American students, it also abandoned the use of the "Indians" as its team name. The Dartmouth Review, a conservative newspaper, has campaigned to restore the name and regularly distributes to students T-shirts with the Dartmouth Indian symbol on them.In his letter, Wright reiterated the college's view that the issue of the Indian symbol was long settled (in favor of not using it) at the college. The college's prior use of the symbol, Wright said, reflected its "amnesia" about its obligations to Native Americans.In the last year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has pushed member colleges that still have Native American symbols or team names to abandon them. The University of North Dakota is among the institutions that have resisted the push _ recently filing suit over the matter _ and its Fighting Sioux hockey team is due to visit Dartmouth for a tournament in December.Josie Harper, director of athletics, published a letter in The Dartmouth last week condemning North Dakota for keeping the name, and called that university's position "offensive and wrong." Harper said that when the university was invited _ two years ago _ its team name wasn't considered and that "perhaps" it should have been. In his letter to the campus, Wright pledged to develop policies to deal with the issue of playing teams with Indian names. Reaction in North Dakota has not been surprising. A spokesman for the university told reporters that no other university has apologized for playing North Dakota, a traditional hockey powerhouse, and bloggers backing the Fighting Sioux name are calling Dartmouth politically correct.The politically correct charge is one of the reactions in Hanover, too. Dartblog called Wright's letter "a weak-kneed concession to a political interest group."Others, however, are strongly backing the president's response. Bruce Duthu, a professor at Vermont Law School who also teaches Native American law at Dartmouth and who is a member of the Houma tribe, said that he was unsure why, but this semester has seen "hate-filled idiocy" of the sort that hasn't taken place recently at the college. "We haven't had overtly racist incidents, but for some reason we are."Duthu said Wright's response was "wonderful," but said it should have come earlier in the semester, after the first incident. "He's saying that this kind of intolerance is just not acceptable." Noting that Wright has strongly supported the recruiting of Native American students over the years, Duthu said he believed the letter was sincere and that Wright would continue to speak out as necessary.Wright was also correct to call for individuals to take personal stands against intolerance, Duthu said, rather than trying to legislate a solution. "In an educational setting, you have free speech and sometimes that means you have to put up with idiots," he said._ Scott Jaschik (from www.insidehighered.com)
Notice the students jumping through the drum circle, which is indeed sacred, the party theme, and the absurd T-shirts both done by Greek letter orgs. Notice also the comment from the student in the Dartblog linked in the article below (http://www.dartblog.com/).
What really bothers me about these issues is that the students mentioned in these articles do not see the big deal. Do you? Would it be different if the student were in black face or yelling culturally insensitive remarks about other races? Obviously not as some students did not see the big deal at Johns Hopkins or at Penn. Both of whom had big incidents involving cultural insitivity this year.
What if it were a negative caracature of a gay person on the cover of The Dartmouth Review. There is no difference here folks. Indian, Black, Muslem, Hispanic, Gay, Straight, we all deserve equal respect.
What about the 1st amendment? This isn't about the first amendment. It is not about freedom of speech or press. This is about doing what is right to our fellow people and fellow americans for that matter. Come on. Now it is the Dartmough Reviews freedom to publish what they want. It too is their freedom to dress in white robes with pointy hats if they want. I would not be associated with thea crap though and if I were at Dartmouth I would be darn sure that my insitutitions name was not associated with that racist behavior or I would go elsewhere.
Another Personal Thought - Indian Uprising at Dartmouth
Please read the whole thing before you comment!
Who has followed the turn of events this semester at Dartmouth? Anyone? Well it seems they have had some major issues there involving Native American issues. Yes at a major Ivy League School where they are supposed to be on a higher level intellectually so to speek. Does anyone see something wrong here. Look at the cover of the Dartmouth Review this week.
http://www.dartreview.com/covers/11282006.jpg
"The Natives Are Getting Restless"? With that photo. Well what would one expect from a rag that demeaned those who had chosen alternative sexual lifestyles in the 80's right? (No I am not gay but I support the rights of all minority groups may gay friends included whole heartedly)
Well the Dartmouth Review had apologized. Along with Kerry, Kramer from Seinfeld, Mel Gibson, and now the estemeed Dartmouth Review. Sorry you cannot tack this stuff back. Mel Gibson said he was drunk when he made the anti-semetic comments. Kramer was being harrassed he stated. All lame excuses by the freaking way. Well what is their excuse lets see:
Here is their apology:
The Cover Story
By Daniel F. Linsalata | Saturday, December 2, 2006
In light of reactions to the cover of the most recent issue of The Dartmouth Review, I feel a word of explanation is in order. The cover was intended to be a hyperbolic, tongue-in-cheek commentary upon the reactions to events this term by the self-styled leadership of Dartmouth's Native American community. Placed in the context of the articles within the issue itself, the commentary made sense. But placed in the context of the reaction it elicited, the extent of the reaction was wholly unanticipated. However, I regret that the cover may have precipitated further feelings of offense within Dartmouth and overshadowed more thoughtful discussions of these matters presented in the articles within the issue itself.
I emphasize that I still stand fully behind the editorial content of the issue_which I encourage everyone to read and consider, quite apart from the cover. I also restate The Dartmouth Review's position that our criticisms are leveled entirely at the actions of the NAD organization, particularly its leadership, and not Native American students at large. The NAD leadership is not beyond reproach simply because it claims to speak for all Dartmouth's Native Americans, any more than the leadership of any other group should receive immunity from scrutiny. Unanimity of sentiment is an impossibility within any such group; thus, it is only reasonable to criticize the leadership who claimed to act as spokespeople, and not Dartmouth's Native Americans as a whole. The accusation, then, that this cover was maliciously designed as a wantonly racist attack on upon Native Americans is patently false. All the same, I regret that it could have been construed as such, to the detriment of discussion of the content of the issue.
Daniel F. Linsalata '07
Editor-in-Chief, The Dartmouth Review
Apology NOT EXCPETED buddy. Wanna really apologize get the Indian stuff off your freaking website. But what do you expect from a rag whose on whose board sits such conservative neanderthals such as William F. Buckley. Yeah he sits on the board of the review.
Well here is the article about this issue. Read it all read it carefully.
Dartmouth rallies for minority students By Beverley Wang, Associated Press Writer | November 29, 2006 HANOVER, N.H. --More than 500 Dartmouth College students, faculty and administrators rallied in support of the college's American Indian community Wednesday, a day after The Dartmouth Review published a picture of an Indian warrior brandishing a scalp with the headline, "The Natives are Getting Restless!" on Page One. "Like an open wound Dartmouth is hurting -- we have all been insulted," college president James Wright told the crowd gathered before Dartmouth Hall. College members wore green to show their solidarity. Some carried signs reading "Stop Hate Speech," "Civil Discourse" and "Standing Against Racism." A few carried umbrellas pasted with signs reading "Unity." "My Dartmouth, our shared Dartmouth, is one that condemns the deliberate mean-spiritedness that was demonstrated in the publication that was released yesterday," Wright said to cheers. The Dartmouth Review, an independent conservative student newspaper, is not affiliated with the college and has an adversarial history with minorities. Students said the paper's latest issue, ridiculing Native American students' complaints about a string of incidents seen as racist, was the trigger for the demonstration, held on the last day of classes before exams. However, complaints about insensitive acts on campus toward minority students -- including name calling of black students -- have persisted this fall at the college founded in 1769 as a school for American Indians. "The Review was more or less a tipping point," 19-year-old sophomore Samuel Kohn said. This fall, American Indian students have protested Homecoming T- shirts showing a Holy Cross knight performing a sex act on an American Indian caricature. The Review also has come under fire for distributing T-shirts emblazoned with the Dartmouth Indian, the college's long-since discontinued mascot. There also has been outrage over an interrupted drumming circle, a formal with a "Cowboys and Indians" theme, and other events. The incidents played out against an uncomfortable college history. Dartmouth graduated fewer than 20 American Indians during its first 200 years, the same time its catalog of Indian mascots -- featured on canes, sports uniforms, even songs and art depicting natives lapping rum -- increased. A renewed mission to recruit American Indian students in the past 30 years means Dartmouth has the largest indigenous student body in the Ivy League, about 160, or 3 percent. Last week, the college's Native American Council -- composed mostly of faculty -- placed a two-page in The Dartmouth, the college daily, demanding a community response to the recent incidents.
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Wright apologized via a college-wide message last week and encouraged the community to build a more welcoming atmosphere for minority students. The publication Tuesday of the Review, with its inflammatory cover art and several articles mocking American Indian students and the college's apologies, sparked the latest round of campus soul searching. In an interview Tuesday after the rally, which he did not attend, Review Editor-in-Chief Daniel Linsalata, a senior, was unapologetic and a little surprised by the hubbub. He said the paper was a response to "the overdramatic reaction to events this term." "They're out for blood, so to speak," he said of complaints by American Indian students. In an editorial, Linsalata wrote: "While the onus may fall partly on the student body to facilitate an environment more hospitable to Indians, nothing can be done until the Indians themselves lay out measurable goals and steps for how this harmony can be achieved. Patronizing advertisements and excessive use of the race card are antithetical to this goal." He added: "The administration and the campus as a whole owe the (Native American student group) no sort of olive branch until (they) prove themselves willing to engage in a reasonable, productive dialogue." The Review also criticized the college's apology for the scheduling of a Dec. 29 hockey game against the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux," a move that drew fire from that state's governor, a 1979 Dartmouth alum. "I think it's unfortunate she wrote that letter and I think she's wrong," Gov. John Hoeven told the Grand Forks Herald. He referred to a recent letter from Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper published in The Dartmouth. "I must offer a sincere apology to the Native American community, and the Dartmouth community as a whole, for an event that will understandably offend and hurt people within our community," Harper's letter said. Dartmouth students who attended Tuesday's demonstration focused on events originating on campus. Speaking for the student group, Native Americans at Dartmouth, Kohn, a member of the Crow tribe, urged administrators to pursue disciplinary action against offenders. "We're not reaching for something that's just a temporary cosmetic fix," he said at the rally. "We're calling for a lasting solution from the Dartmouth administration." Administrators who spoke praised students for organizing the rally, expressed support for their cause and vowed to work for change, but made no specific promises about disciplinary action to be taken against the Review or others. "It saddens all of us when you feel alienated or unwelcome," Dean of Faculty Carol Folt told the crowd. "We all know that it's very hard to solve the underlying problems that are producing disrespect ... we do have the power and, in fact, the resolve to take on these intractable issues." ------ On the Net: Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu The Dartmouth: http://www.thedartmouth.com The Dartmouth Review: http://www.dartreview.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Another article prior to The Uprising just to give you some background:
Dartmouth Apologizes for Indian IncidentsDartmouth College's president and athletics director issued pre-Thanksgiving apologies for a series of incidents that have angered American Indian students and professors.Following a meeting with Native American leaders, Dartmouth President James Wright sent a letter to the campus expressing concern about "racist and insensitive" behavior that Indian students have experienced. "I apologize on behalf of the college," he wrote.Wright acknowledged that much of the behavior that has angered American Indians _ such as the distribution of clothing with Indian symbolism _ is not illegal and could not be punished by the college. But he called for more people _ himself included _ to speak out against offensive comments. "Freedom of expression is a core value of this institution," he wrote. "The college is not going to start a selective dress code and we do not have a speech code. Free speech includes the right to say and to do foolish and mean-spirited things. We have seen several examples of this exercise this fall. But free speech is not a right exclusively maintained for the use of the mean and the foolish _ it is not unless we allow it to be, and then the free part has been minimized."Wright's letter was distributed just after an advertisement appeared in The Dartmouth, the student newspaper, noting some of the incidents that have upset Native American students this year. (A spokeswoman for the college said that the president's letter was in the works prior to the ad's appearance.)Among the incidents cited in the ad: On Columbus Day, fraternity pledges disrupted a student group's observance of the day (which is viewed as anything but a celebration by Native American leaders) with "clapping, mock dancing" and jumping through "the sacred center of the Native students' drumming circle."A fraternity sold T-shirts, prior to the football game against the College of the Holy Cross, depicting a Holy Cross Crusader performing oral sex on an Indian.A party in November organized by athletes featured a "Cowboys, Indians and Barnyard Animals" theme, with students dressed as Indians. One athlete, when confronted about the party, told a student who complained that the theme was really "Cowboys, Barnyard Animals and Indigenous People."The ad said it was inappropriate for people to make light of such incidents or of the use of Indian imagery. "As Native people, the right the decide what offends us belong to us and us alone. It is arrogant for non-Native people to presume that they somehow have this right," the ad said. It added: "It is wrong for one race of people to appropriate the cultures and customs of another race of people. Objectification is about power."The treatment of Indian students and the use of Indian symbols is particularly sensitive at Dartmouth. The college was founded in 1769 with the stated goal of educating both Indian and white students, but the mission of educating Indians was largely ignored for two centuries. Starting in the 1970s, however, the college reclaimed that original mission, and Dartmouth has educated hundreds of Native American students _ something few elite colleges have done _ and the college has a well respected Native American studies program.As the college was reaching out to Native American students, it also abandoned the use of the "Indians" as its team name. The Dartmouth Review, a conservative newspaper, has campaigned to restore the name and regularly distributes to students T-shirts with the Dartmouth Indian symbol on them.In his letter, Wright reiterated the college's view that the issue of the Indian symbol was long settled (in favor of not using it) at the college. The college's prior use of the symbol, Wright said, reflected its "amnesia" about its obligations to Native Americans.In the last year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has pushed member colleges that still have Native American symbols or team names to abandon them. The University of North Dakota is among the institutions that have resisted the push _ recently filing suit over the matter _ and its Fighting Sioux hockey team is due to visit Dartmouth for a tournament in December.Josie Harper, director of athletics, published a letter in The Dartmouth last week condemning North Dakota for keeping the name, and called that university's position "offensive and wrong." Harper said that when the university was invited _ two years ago _ its team name wasn't considered and that "perhaps" it should have been. In his letter to the campus, Wright pledged to develop policies to deal with the issue of playing teams with Indian names. Reaction in North Dakota has not been surprising. A spokesman for the university told reporters that no other university has apologized for playing North Dakota, a traditional hockey powerhouse, and bloggers backing the Fighting Sioux name are calling Dartmouth politically correct.The politically correct charge is one of the reactions in Hanover, too. Dartblog called Wright's letter "a weak-kneed concession to a political interest group."Others, however, are strongly backing the president's response. Bruce Duthu, a professor at Vermont Law School who also teaches Native American law at Dartmouth and who is a member of the Houma tribe, said that he was unsure why, but this semester has seen "hate-filled idiocy" of the sort that hasn't taken place recently at the college. "We haven't had overtly racist incidents, but for some reason we are."Duthu said Wright's response was "wonderful," but said it should have come earlier in the semester, after the first incident. "He's saying that this kind of intolerance is just not acceptable." Noting that Wright has strongly supported the recruiting of Native American students over the years, Duthu said he believed the letter was sincere and that Wright would continue to speak out as necessary.Wright was also correct to call for individuals to take personal stands against intolerance, Duthu said, rather than trying to legislate a solution. "In an educational setting, you have free speech and sometimes that means you have to put up with idiots," he said._ Scott Jaschik (from www.insidehighered.com)
Notice the students jumping through the drum circle, which is indeed sacred, the party theme, and the absurd T-shirts both done by Greek letter orgs. Notice also the comment from the student in the Dartblog linked in the article below (http://www.dartblog.com/).
What really bothers me about these issues is that the students mentioned in these articles do not see the big deal. Do you? Would it be different if the student were in black face or yelling culturally insensitive remarks about other races? Obviously not as some students did not see the big deal at Johns Hopkins or at Penn. Both of whom had big incidents involving cultural insitivity this year.
What if it were a negative caracature of a gay person on the cover of The Dartmouth Review. There is no difference here folks. Indian, Black, Muslem, Hispanic, Gay, Straight, we all deserve equal respect.
What about the 1st amendment? This isn't about the first amendment. It is not about freedom of speech or press. This is about doing what is right to our fellow people and fellow americans for that matter. Come on. Now it is the Dartmough Reviews freedom to publish what they want. It too is their freedom to dress in white robes with pointy hats if they want. I would not be associated with thea crap though and if I were at Dartmouth I would be darn sure that my insitutitions name was not associated with that racist behavior or I would go elsewhere.
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