Commencement Speaker
By Lea Kelley | May 22, 1997President Freedman Underestimated Students
President Freedman Underestimated Students
Those who placed the anonymous posters around campus labeling a '99 a rapist did a great disservice to both the students involved and to the Dartmouth community as a whole. In no way do I mean to disparage the seriousness of rape and sexual assault.
At this year's Homecoming football game three freshman were arrested for the "crime" of rushing the field.
There has been much discussion in recent weeks about what to call the class of 2000. Well, in case anyone hasn't heard -- they are zeroes.
Everybody loves to hate the Greek system. Sororities are for bimbos. Frats rape. All sorority members are anorexic and blond.
As Jen Parkinson wrote yesterday, "If some one is going to bother reading 750 or more words of my opinions, perhaps they deserve to know who I am." So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Lea Kelley, I'm from Washington state, I'm a double major in English and History and I'm a Tri-Delt.
I have sat down to write this column several times, but I can't decide if I should start with "I'm really glad I'm not a '00" or "I really wish I was a '00." I remember vividly the first time I actually considered how cool it was to be a 'shmen.
For the first time in what seems like years (but is really only 16 months), a term is taking place at Dartmouth, and I'm not there to see it.
I have sat down to write this column several times, but I can't decide if I should start with "I'm really glad I'm not a '99" or "I really wish I was a '99." I remember vividly the first time I actually considered how cool it was to be a 'shmen.
I took a poll of Dartmouth students on Wednesday in order to discover what was on their mind. "Write about something interesting," they said. Suggestions on what I should write about ranged from an attack on Dick's House to a questioning of Rukmini Sichitiu's '95 ability to write an objective review of the Greek system to a refutation of anything written by Sarah Johnston '97. Okay, so that was a lie.