A Clarion Call to Stay

In the Feb. 2 issue of The Dartmouth, an article was printed about the reasons why students transfer from Dartmouth College ("Students transfer for many reasons"). Upon reading the article, I did ponder for a moment the numerous people that I knew in my own class that were contemplating transferring. Their reasons for wanting to leave varied from not feeling that they had a place in the Dartmouth community, to wanting to be closer to home, to desiring to go to a "better" school (I won't mention names). The lack of intellectual stimulation outside of the classroom, feeling pressure to conform from a predominately white, Christian, homophobic and pro-beer campus, the cold weather and the fact that we are in the Hanover metropolis were too much for them to take. I thought about my own role as a student at this college.