Opinion
Institutional Bystanders
By Steven Zyck | March 1, 2004Whenever a major social crisis or issue receives attention, the gut reaction seems to be to localize it.
Whenever a major social crisis or issue receives attention, the gut reaction seems to be to localize it.
Every time one of these big Dartmouth weekends comes, I begin to feel a bit afraid. In my three years at Dartmouth I have gotten used to the patterns and stories -- the half-forgotten nights, near-death cases of alcohol poisoning, the cases of sexual assault and the trickle of students heading into Dick's House to deal with mistakes committed and violations experienced that weekend.
In case you have yet to see the posters recently put up by the Men's Project, let me fill you in on a few statistics.