morangotango

ummm peace everyone? *waves white flag*
i'm glad to hear such a variety of opinions, i will admit that.
but i dont want things getting hostile ^^;
i believe i might have started quite the mess...

OdysseyTigger

should be demonstration enough that Dartmouth is a place where a diversity of opinion can and will be heard....(though not necessarily listened too )

yes there is a conservative voice of long standing on campus
but by no means is it the voice of the majority there

BigGreenJen

Im listening! love to the diversity of opinions at Dartmouth.

OdysseyTigger, are you a current student, an alum, or a parent?

Also, yay to me for almost being done with my take-home lit essays.

OdysseyTigger

alum ...hence my question about "your" symbol

and parent (although S1 is headed to Harvard not Dartmouth)

half_baked

So, this is a bit off topic, but I have a few questions.

First, where can I find a "Holy Cross Sucks" t-shirt? I looked all over and didn't find one until they stopped selling them.

Second, where can I find one of those shirts passed out by one leftist group or another depicting the "Dartmouth White Man" or something like that? It was absolutely hilarious, I really want one.

Yes, I confess: I own an Indian shirt. I took possession of it in a moment of weakness; I allowed myself to brutally oppress an entire race of people simply to put off the laundry for one additional day. I also own an Indian head cane. I'm a squash player, you see - the constant hither-tither of running after a flat rubbery ball extracts quite a toll on the knees, and the cane was the only thing that allowed me to have any mobility at all. And besides, if I'm going to be labeled a villian for my affiliations anyway, I might as well look as diabolical as possible, I suppose. I strike quite the pose, I think, when I walk down Webster Avenue with my Indian shirt, my cane in one hand, and the still-beating heart of a young orphan in the other hand.

It is true, we do drink. But we don't do so because we are boorish or crude; no, it is thirst that drives us to alcohol. Those who have never tried New Hampshire tap water cannot begin to fathom the depths of despair that we who brave the North Country experience before turning to Keystone and cheap $7 vodka. Not for entertainment, mind you, but for survival.

The one major downside of the College that I love so much is that the people who come here really tend to have neither a sense of humor nor any appreciation for sarcasm. I know I personally possess neither of these gifts... perhaps I should have gone with my gut around this time last year and have enrolled in my second choice: UC Berkeley. Given my current social and political inclinations, I feel certain that life out West in full view of San Francisco would have been perfect for me.

Xanatos

"leftist."

MovieBuff

Loved that post half_baked! congrats !

ammarsfound

Hmm i've never read the review myself, so this just conjecture on my part, but it seems like the reputation the review has right now is unwarranted if it's source is an argument over mascot symbols. I'd say it comes to the same thing as the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspapers. They were obviously seen as offensive by a cultural minority, but the reaction to them was completely over the top. I mean, yes, the cartoonists probably should have taken care when messing around with the subject, especially given recent events, but to have them labeled heretics and putting out a hit on their heads was obviously NOT justified. The analogy applies perfectly to the review. While it probably should take care that what it publishes could offend certain groups, the negative stereotypes sound a bit exaggerated.

FindFishFast

oh, oh! Paloma!

I'm a straightlaced quasi-conservative boy... perhaps we should continue the miscegenation proposed by our Spanish ancestors! (Sorry Elisabeth, we have cultural similarities. Sweden? ABBA! A-Teens... and Mexico?)

But yeah... The Review... What's up with that? Can someone give me a sparknotes version of the whole Native American thing in the newspaper?

half_baked

Go back to the posts on this forum from November of this year and read up on it. Some vocal opponents of the Review as well as some of the staff members of the paper commented at length on this subject. This topic is more or less at the center of the campus political dialogue, so it's worth looking into.

chr100

Is there room for a conservative that doesn't drink?!

cameliasinensis

Some of my closest friends are: conservatives who don't drink, bleeding-heart liberals who don't drink, liberals who do drink, conservatives who drink to excess, moderates who drink... moderately (oh, that's me), and every other configuration you could imagine.

Er, that's a yes.

KLLeader

Dartmouth is definitely a party school. Have you not heard of Keggy the Keg, Dartmouth's unofficial mascot? Go to YouTube and look at the video Drinking Time. Dartmouth is an amazing school with a beautiful campus and incredible student body. Sure they are partiers but they are intelligent ones.

As far as political prefrence goes, Dartmouth is historically a more conservative college. It is definitely one of the most conservative ivies. Regardless of political views, everyone at Dartmouth seems to get along. It is a great place and anyone would be lucky to attend.

cameliasinensis

If it's any reassurance, morangotango is a good friend of mine, and she seems to be having quite a good time here despite being "a very liberal girl who doesn't drink at all."

Utopia19

Wait which one of you is Paloma?