The University of California at Berkeley has built nothing short of a vast underground empire of books.
There was a time when The Dartmouth Review, today a mere shadow of its former self, taught the world of student journalism some essential lessons.
I am grateful for the opportunity to reach the college through Dartmouth's print media. It is through this forum that I had wished not to offend the Student Assembly, but to study it in a serious manner. Legislative and representative bodies are important entities, and they consume a great deal of their members' time.
It is time to ask, in all seriousness, why Dartmouth's Student Assembly needs to exist at all. Nationally, there is a growing sentiment among Americans that technological forces of the modern age shall leave legislative and representative bodies in a state of decay, and that immediate electronic access to the United States Congress shall deliver a great blow to deliberative processes. If that is the case nationally, then at Dartmouth the Student Assembly has long been dead. A representative body in student government exists primarily as a place of discourse and deliberation and as a liaison between students and the college administration.
May Webster Hall never be forgotten. It welcomed virtually every presidential hopeful in past decades to come and speak within its walls.