Blame It On The Box
As I write this it is 5 AM, and I have just finished another long night of typing away on my thesis.
As I write this it is 5 AM, and I have just finished another long night of typing away on my thesis.
Today, Dartmouth College permanently derecognized the Psi Epsilon Chapter at Dartmouth College of Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America, Inc. Psi Epsilon of Zeta Psi deeply regrets that Dartmouth College has taken this action.
As a Dartmouth alumnus and a member of the pledge class that helped transform Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity from an unpopular house into the thriving house of today, I would like to offer my thoughts about the perceptions of our house as well as the issue of minority self-segregation.
To the Editor: The spectacular performance by Senior Fellow Robert Mirakian '01 and the orchestra he assembled was the most exciting student artistic event I have witnessed in my 35 years here at Dartmouth.
To the Editor: As a returning Keene State College student, some of the things Dan Galemba wrote resonated with what I went through when I was a student (the first time) at Keene State back in the mid-1990s. I worked on The Equinox the two years I was at Keene State and I would often write columns touting my conservative viewpoint on the various things going on in the world and on campus.
To the Editor: I am writing in response to the May 2nd article in The Dartmouth, "Zete not covered by free speech," by News Editor Victoria McGrane '02. This article should not have been written.
The current Student Assembly is not living up to its potential. A third of students who responded to The Dartmouth's most recent poll said that the Assembly does not represent their concerns.
To the Editor: Of the several incidents noted in your article of May 2 "Past five years marred by hate crimes directed toward Asians," none were actually crimes. Similar incidents involving the Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Chi Alpha fraternities, while perhaps in poor taste or simply misunderstood, in no manner broke any law. Similarly, though David Berenson's "Bear Bones" comic strip offended several Asian students, Berenson is innocent of all criminal wrong-doing, at least so far as "Bear Bones" is concerned.
Ben and Jerry's and I go way back. For the first 12 years of my life, I lived just a 10 minute walk away from the ice cream haven.
To the Editor: Don't you people realize what you are doing is wrong as well? Sure, "The Zetemouth" is disgusting and vile, but it was also private.
To the Editor: On May 2nd, I had to endure reading The Dartmouth's headline "Tri Kap confronts its Asian image," as if an Asian image is such a horrible thing that Tri Kap or any other group would surely want to "confront" it, and then an article by an Asian male (Derek Lee '01) with such a narrow view on race relations that he actually defends an article in the Harvard Crimson that is patently ignorant, inflammatory and just plain stupid in every regard. I would expect the usually responsible editors of The Dartmouth to have slightly more judgment in their selection of a headline -- the op-ed article was too filled with stupidity for me to even respond in great detail. To think that these fools like Derek Lee and Justin Fong wonder why Asians or members of any other minority group somehow choose to stick together.
Controversy is nothing new at Dartmouth. This year, like every previous one, has seen a number of important issues and debates.
To the Editor: So I figured that a term away would help me get a better perspective on myself and give me a little distance from Dartmouth so I could break out of the Hanover bubble for a couple of weeks.
Why do most students shrug their shoulders when I ask them what they think about Student Assembly?
What have you done for me lately? That's probably the question that most students ask every spring when SA elections come around.
The Student Assembly has become irrelevant to almost every student on campus. This is a reality the current and past leadership of the SA refuse to acknowledge.
To the Editor: The reduction in parking fines seems to be nothing more than an administrative sleight of hand.
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. We are barely five months into the 21st century, and the Greek system, that gloried institution of everything Dartmouth, has clearly demonstrated its obsolescence.
Sixty active members, a yearly budget of $35,000, established relationships with administrators.
To the Editor: As word of the Zeta Psi fraternity incident spreads among alumni, I can't help but feel absolutely frustrated at the College's perpetually turning a blind eye to the systemic nature of fraternity problems.