My Dartmouth - A Rant
By Paul Holzer | May 31, 2000Work Hard Play Hard," our patented phrase: many hours dormant spirit, 10 hours intense fun, easy stimuli, destructive lifestyle, hyper-intense social situations, intense gender relations, destruction to community with the help of alcohol, insufficient social education, malleable freshmen, status quo crap, defend the right to WHAT?, ridiculous t-shirts, crisis in community, strive to be Harvard, (Strive to be DARTMOUTH Dammit!) run like a business, buy the best professors, pass over the best teachers, kill education department, bite the hand that feeds you, faculty AT Dartmouth not IN Dartmouth, academic institution, social issues not allowed in classroom, not the place for it, no consilience, no mission, no push for growth, heart and mind not connecting, scrutiny of interdisciplinary, learning only to forget, not real learning, no introspection, no reflection, need opportunities to own the class material, the North Face, power of the groups to keep the mold, Dartmouth: the dysfunctional family, pride in teaching, no teacher assessment, 10 weeks discontinuity, social comfort zones, teach self segregation, stupid frat stuff, high school mentality, no responsibility, Coed Fraternity Sorority Council, representing WHAT Greek community?