Work Hard Play Hard," our patented phrase: many hours dormant spirit, 10 hours intense fun, easy stimuli, destructive lifestyle, hyper-intense social situations, intense gender relations, destruction to community with the help of alcohol, insufficient social education, malleable freshmen, status quo crap, defend the right to WHAT?, ridiculous t-shirts, crisis in community, strive to be Harvard, (Strive to be DARTMOUTH Dammit!) run like a business, buy the best professors, pass over the best teachers, kill education department, bite the hand that feeds you, faculty AT Dartmouth not IN Dartmouth, academic institution, social issues not allowed in classroom, not the place for it, no consilience, no mission, no push for growth, heart and mind not connecting, scrutiny of interdisciplinary, learning only to forget, not real learning, no introspection, no reflection, need opportunities to own the class material, the North Face, power of the groups to keep the mold, Dartmouth: the dysfunctional family, pride in teaching, no teacher assessment, 10 weeks discontinuity, social comfort zones, teach self segregation, stupid frat stuff, high school mentality, no responsibility, Coed Fraternity Sorority Council, representing WHAT Greek community? Fostering growth of leaders with a conscience " well where's that in the curriculum? The Question: Is Dartmouth more part of the problem than the solution?, my Dartmouth.
VERSUS
Teachers who remember 200 names, teachers who challenge, teachers who assign learning, DOC tours, pong instead of Beirut, Montgomery Fellows, Senior Fellows, Tucker Fellows, Thesis Presentations, Big Brother Big Sister, Dartmouth Sports, research with a professor, The ROOTS, the Green, volleyball, soccer, Collis Porch, DOC cabins, the BEMA, Green Key, DarCORPS, Community at Dartmouth Night, SHEBAAAAA, Winter Carnival, FSPs, Hip-Hop till dawn, the bonfire, World Music Percussion Ensemble, the Hood Museum, the Rassias Method, Groovemerchant, Rauner Special Collections, Dick's House nurses, Downtyme, Skating on Occum, music at frats, Korean Culture Night, Barbary Coast, Career Services, raging parties, UGAs, Collis Stir Fry, Gay Straight Alliance, Ed 20, Film Society, Habitat for Humanity, Ledyard, Mosiac, Rockefeller Center, Class of 1950 Grant, Dickey Foundation, Baker Tower, Artist in Residence, Teacher Prep Program, Freshman Snowball Fight, Big Green Bikes, Sophomore Summer, Tubestock, Webster Hall, dogs in class, Rrrrrrramuntos, Lunch at Hanover Inn with a prof, BevKing, new computers, Hop fries, Pow Wow, Poetry Slam, Vagina Monologues, Toots & the Maytals, B-feld's, Kevin Livelli's Senior Fellowship Performance Wed May 31st at 9 p.m. in Collis Commonground, Freshman Trips, the Skiway, Moosilauke, the Gender Forum, Ultimo call para Fro Yo.
How are we to make sense of it all? Anyone?
