Tubestock: A Casualty in the "War on Fun"
By Christopher Rubinate | July 13, 2006To the Editor: Yet again Dartmouth College, the Town of Hanover and the State of New Hampshire have triumphed in their War on Fun. From the recent banning of Tubestock to the ban on playing pong outdoors to the repeated removal of the rope swing over the Connecticut River (and eventual cutting down of the tree from which the rope swing hung to forever remove any chance that the dastardly physical diversion would ever return) the Triumvirate in Charge has managed to ban and restrict many of the best ways to enjoy oneself in the beautiful environs which surround Dartmouth in the summer. Perhaps the paternalistic lifeguards of the Upper Valley will next move to ban horseplay or not waiting a half hour after eating before swimming. These "Powers That Be" need to realize that Dartmouth students are adults with the full mental capacity to make choices about their lives and how to live them, not little, confused toddlers who need instructions and to have their hands held all the day by Daddy Dartmouth or Mama Hanover. Do these parties really have nothing better to do than tell Dartmouth students how they can and can't peacefully enjoy themselves? I thought that New Hampshire's motto was still "Live Free or Die"