Showing posts with label Dartmouth College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dartmouth College. Show all posts

Saturday, June 04, 2016

One More Tradition Busted


What is it about Dartmouth that it can't maintain traditions? We find out now that one more tradition is too burdensome to continue ... and that is for the President of the College to hand out diplomas at the graduation ceremony ... see: No Diplomas from Phil. In a few years time I suppose graduating seniors will watch this once joyous rite only on virtual-reality YouTube and receive a facsimile of their diplomas via e-mail?

Monday, November 16, 2015

Student Racism

Protesting Students
Please read in detail about what recently happened at Dartmouth College where a group of black students went on a rampage denouncing their white classmates with profane vitriol ... see: Campus Reform Story. Now, as an exercise in turnaround is fair play, imagine that this was a demonstration of white students at Howard University ... and replace the chanted word "white" with "black" and you will see racism in its purest and ugliest form.

Yes, these black-student protesters at Dartmouth clearly do not have fully-formed senses of social consciousness ... and probably will eventually live to regret their impetuousness. But they nevertheless put a KKK stamp on their repulsive actions that will quietly resonate in the ivied halls of Hanover.

I do however doubt that the administration there will have the gumption to give them their due ... rather taking the attitude so prevalent these days that "blacks will be blacks." But, to me, lack of push-back against such disgusting demonstrations only makes matters worse ... giving these miscreants a sense of what they did was sanctioned and even encouraged. This is exactly the wrong message from a college that should know better.

Afterward: I'm batting 1000 ... see: Dartblog Entry.

Friday, December 09, 2011

"College" on the Hill

Daniel Webster
Now here's a tradition worth fighting for and preserving (just like Daniel Webster did) -- the appellation, "Dartmouth College," and not "Dartmouth University."  For a well documented statement of said reasons see:  Dartblog