Dartlog: 07/13/2003 - 07/20/2003

The Dartmouth Review

Friday, July 18, 2003

An Announcement

Hello everyone. I just wanted to take this brief opportunity to let everyone know that, come August 1, I will no longer be an employee at FIRE. I've accepted a job at Kirkland & Ellis, a very prestigious law firm, with headquarters in Chicago. If anyone wants to email me between now and when I get my Kirkland accoutn, my alum account is the best way to go --- emd *at* alum.dartmouth.org.

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Posted by Emmett at 9:50 AM (0 comments)

The Shanties

The Free Press did a piece on divestment during the 80s in their latest issue, and this is what they say about those Reviewers who tore down the shanties:

For four months, the shanties remained on the green as a symbol to some, an eyesore to others. One night in February of �86 the shanties were attacked. A group of ten to twelve students, wielding sledge hammers, destroyed three of the shanties before the police arrived to stop the violence. Most of the students involved in the attack were members of The Dartmouth Review, a conservative paper critical of the shanties and the actions of the DCD. Despite the overlap in membership, the group of students did not officially act in affiliation with the paper, instead referring to themselves as the Committee to Beautify the Green for Winter Carnival. They saw themselves as taking action in an arena that the administration was unwilling to become involved in.

In response to the attack, 175 students occupied Parkhurst Hall, invading the hallways, stairwell, administrative offices and even the office of the President. Over one hundred students spent the night to show their anger at the destruction of the shanties. The administration, calling for a moratorium, cancelled classes for a day to allow for a discussion series on intolerance.
A feature in Rolling Stone in March of 1986 included two opinion pieces on the controversy, one from the DCD and one from the attackers. Divestment movements on other campuses looked to what was happening at Dartmouth for direction. Leaflets were circulated that encouraged traditionally liberal Berkeley students to persevere in their divestment struggle, as Dartmouth�s traditionally conservative students had despite the attack. In April of �85 the college started to sell its investments in South Africa, but by no means did it appear to be interested in full divestment.

A debate erupted on campus during this time concerning the legitimacy of the shanties, the attack on them, and what punishment each side deserved. The Committee On Standards (COS) opted not to punish those who initially built the shanties, ignoring cries of trespassing violations by other students. The COS did, however, choose to punish those students who attacked the shanties. With initial suspensions ranging from 1-3 terms, the punishments for those students were later reduced to probations. Some of the students directly involved in the DCD and construction of the shanties were outraged by the reduction in punishment and in response took over the Baker Library bell tower for an afternoon. Many, from both sides of the debate, viewed their actions as immature. Those who had occupied the tower said that their action was not intended to inspire support of their cause; it was a reaction that expressed their anger at the reductions.... sort of

Forgetting a court case, are we?

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Posted by John Kalb at 3:28 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, July 17, 2003

Off to a bad start

"Welcome to the blog of the Dartmouth Civil Liberties Union, the first truly nonpartisan organization at Dartmouth College."

Um, no.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:33 PM (0 comments)

Jake Tapper '91

Salon.com political reporter Jake Tapper '91 will join ABC News as a Washington correspondent for the network's 2004 presidential election coverage.

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Posted by alex at 10:07 AM (0 comments)

Tubestock queries

Based on two items in an article in today's D...

Richard Akerboom '80, Thayer '82, sponsored the first Tubestock weekend in 1986. Two years ago, however, he withdrew his sponsorship without publicly explaining his reasons for doing so.

Has anybody figured this out? He was a Heorot--Marucheck? Tokson?

Each Greek house will appoint two sober monitors, who will wear red visors to make them readily visible. The police have agreed to approach the monitors first about signs of trouble, according to William Fang '05, moderator of the GLC.

Is this really happening? My fraternity is a small house; this could be devastating...though I tend to think the 5-0 will be cool as in past years.

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Posted by alex at 10:01 AM (0 comments)

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Re: Fun with Amazon

My Review of Cunt

Somehow this never made it into the new website. Hmmm...

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 8:22 PM (0 comments)

Word

We've got our new server. When the domain-name transfer actually takes place, there will be an outage of up to one day. Most likely, this will happen separately for dartreview.com, dartlog.net, and dartblogs.com (if it happens all at once...let's not think about that).

Anyway, the upside is that things will be much faster on all TDR site and that it will be easier for us to add all sorts of neat stuff.

So, for anyone who cares, here is a page being served off of the new server...

Update: Dartlog is migrated (even if the name server hasn't caught up with us yet). Dartreview will go over tomorrow or tonight (I want to make some technical changes before throwing the switch) and Dartblogs will go, um, eventually. Let me know if you see any problems. Yes, I know that Blitzlite is broken; it will be replaced with a faster version tonight, after Anna and I go out and get drunk.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 6:29 PM (0 comments)

Fun with Amazon

So I was looking up Inga Muscio's page-turner, Cunt on Amazon (trust me, it's work-related). Apparently, there's another book with the same delicate title, by a feller named Stewart Home. The only review -- a one-star review -- had this to say:

It was wacky and out of step with Bolachian principles. You could even say it had a Vludicrian influence but only slight hints and purposely concealed. I didn't like the book at all as it was perfect up until the end and then fell flat with Jerrialimian contrived symbolism thrown in seemingly randomly to tie-up the story.

But the same could be said of so many books these days.

I'd link to Andrew Grossman's review of Miss Muscio's book, but I can't seem to find it online...

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Posted by Emmett at 4:35 PM (0 comments)

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

RE: FIRE

Emmett, always eager for an opportunity to give FIRE a shout-out.

But we're all eager to see your mug on the FIRE staff page.

We're waiting...

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Posted by alex at 4:26 PM (0 comments)

Hugo Restall '92 in the WSJ

A number of you had the opportunity to meet and dine with former Review editor, and current editorial page editor of the Asian WSJ, Hugo Restall '92 spring term (at Panda House, where else?).

He has a feature in today's U.S. edition (it's a pay site--sorry to some).

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Posted by alex at 4:23 PM (0 comments)

Re: Fire in The Atlantic Monthly

Eek:

sexual harassment [can be] subtle and indirect, possibly even unintentional

I'd forgotten that wonderful language. Men, take note: so little as walking around campus with a copy of Rolling Stone could be your undoing.

And God forbid you should compliment a woman (or man, I suppose) on her dress, appearance, intelligence, etc.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 4:07 PM (0 comments)

FIRE in The Atlantic Monthly

Here's a neat piece by Stuart Taylor in The Atlantic Monthly about FIRE's doings. It mentions Dartmouth's speech code, too.

Thanks to Scott Glabe for passing it on to me.

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Posted by Emmett at 2:51 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth's GOP

James Baehr writes in today's D to criticize an article from last Friday on the "Dartmouth Loves America" rally that was -- ahem -- "staged" by the College Republicans.

As evidence of CR's activity, James cites two speakers who came to town on CR's dime -- Christina Hoff Sommers and yours truly. Incidentally, both speakers are affiliated with FIRE: I, of course, work for FIRE, and Christina Hoff Sommers is on our Board of Advisors. Clutch!

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Posted by Emmett at 11:14 AM (0 comments)

Kobe-Dartmouth Connection

The DA who will decide whether or not to file charges against Kobe Bryant is a Dartmouth grad.

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Posted by Michael Ellis at 11:11 AM (0 comments)

Monday, July 14, 2003

Like Berkeley without the pretentions

That's how Dartmouth was described tonight on "City Confidential" on A&E in an episode about the Zantop murders. Has it gotten that bad?

While the show was interesting, the script was pretty ridiculous.

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Posted by Ryan at 11:14 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, July 13, 2003

Ivy League Shakedowns

I'm so irritated at the College and its policies that I long ago decided to not give them a dime. This has led to my practice of giving the wrong address. Over the last year, mail from Dartmouth has been sent to the Florida State Prison in Raiford, FL, and the Federal Supermax in Florence, CO. After about 8 weeks, I get an email saying that the address didn't work and if I could please update my coordinates. I can't think of anything I would want to receive from the College, even the Alumni Magazine. The D.A.M. not really worth reading and in any case my alumni friends do receive it so I can occassionally glimpse at the (almost always lame) class notes.

But, this Harvard man's antics gives me new inspiration on how to avoid the shakedown (er, fundraising) artists employed in Blunt.

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Posted by Christian at 2:43 PM (0 comments)