Controversy or Discourse?
By Ivan Cestero | April 5, 2001The Dartmouth chose recently to be among the many US college newspapers not to run David Horowitz's full page ad entitled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too." They ran instead, on March 28th, Rachel Osterman's article, "Ad Sparks Campus Controversy." Although the article described some of the reasons why "Ten Reasons" has caused such an uproar, it presented the ad in anything but an objective light.