To the Editor:
I'm getting tired of the derogatory language I hear about East Wheelock in everything from slam poetry, to comments by friends, to even a quote in an article in The D ("Administrators insist CFS to remain wet," Jan. 14). The general consensus that East Wheelock is the loser dorm where all the smart people live so that they can all have perfect silence every day and work in their plush hotel-style rooms is ill-informed indeed.
In fact, I'd say that judging from my experiences with Bissel and Gile, East Wheelock is the infinitely louder and people-oriented dorm. This stems primarily from the common interests people in it share, a love of knowledge and a love of culture. I'm sorry if I think its more fun to live in a dorm where someone is likely to come in my room and tell me about their amazing history professor or some controversial article than to live in a dorm where some guy threw up in the same place three times in the boys bathroom, once leaving it there for three days straight without cleaning it up.
I've spent many a night frat-hopping and looking for a good time, but I think I much prefer the moments spent at home in the Andres common-room playing poker or listening to music. Or perhaps it was the nights spent having water fights that culminated in me and another kid from my floor locked outside with water balloons being pelted from above. Even the time I went to watch "The West Wing" with one of the professors who lives in the house next to East Wheelock, I found that what could have been a very sad/dorky/nerdy moment in my attempts to keep my nice room turned out to be a lot of fun, if only because I was surrounded by interesting people. Is this not what Dartmouth is supposed to be all about?
