<p>DartDad and ATS:</p>
<p>I see: When a fraternity boy urinates on a woman’s head, that means it’s time to denigrate the San Francisco Chronicle. Unfortunately, that approach is emblematic of what usually happens when one points out a Dartmouth flaw.</p>
<p>Dumbo11: Your apologetics are what we’ve been hearing for decades: “A few bad apples,” “Society at large has problems,” “No college is perfect,” “Yale (or some other college) just had a bad incident”, etc. What this shunting aside of legitimate criticisms aims to do is delay yet again confronting Dartmouth’s systemic problems, the ones that have been clearly identified and pointed to by College presidents and College faculty now for decades. The difference is that some isolated incident at Yale or elsewhere is just that: Isolated. At Dartmouth, the problems are structural. They are repeated over and over through time. </p>
<p>I can all but guarantee that this coming academic year, if not by the end of Summer term, there will be several more ugly incidents on campus involving drunkenness, misogyny, racism and/or sexual assault, and the epicenter of the vast majority will be located in the Greek system. In fact, I would put big money on it. That is an institutional problem, and it needs to be fixed.</p>
<p>WhatsNext: That article shows how deep-seated and during Dartmouth’s problems really are. That’s exactly the point I’ve been trying to make here.</p>