I was one of those “true believer” freshmen: excited, idealistic and eager as ever to do whatever work was thrown at me. I didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid, I guzzled it. I got involved through the “freshmen cohort” during the Andreadis impeachment affair and in its aftermath wound up the Assembly’s secretary. It was an exciting, if time-consuming, job: lots of gossip and exclusive meetings. It was like Gawker for Dartmouth administrative politics. At my term’s end, I thought I’d give it another go-round and was elected treasurer, the Assembly CFO and second in line to the presidency. This past spring I was reelected, but quietly resigned instead. Let me explain why.
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At the end of his most recent rant (“Consider This,” August 15), Zachary Gottlieb ‘10 concludes that we Dartmouth students are “a bunch of jerks” who have supplied “no evidence to contradict” his belief that our campus is plagued by a “lack of consideration for property, academics and most importantly, people.” Gottlieb’s argument, which is reminiscent of his previous column’s (“Passing the Buck,” August 1) criticism of the average Dartmouth student’s “numbing apathy”, begins with the initial claim that we are all “self-serving, destructive people.” This claim is later developed through the use of tragic, firsthand stories of Dartmouth’s antisociality: In one, Gottlieb is unable to leave his row during a quiz because his classmates won’t pull their legs in; in another, first-comers to a free-pizza event take whole pies, leaving subsequent pizza-hopefuls unsatiated.
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