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Racist, classist, sexist, heterosexist, transphobic, xenophobic, and ableist structures at Dartmouth
<p>I agree with the author’s suggestion that the disgruntled students be told to transfer. </p>
<p>What is this, “Throwback Saturday”? I feel like I’m back in 1968 or so.</p>
<p>It sounds to me like the issue might be solved if a particular Professor were to transfer. He seems to be the antagonist. If all these students were to graduate or leave I’d bet within a couple of years a new group would be worked into a frenzy.</p>
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<p>I agree.</p>
<p>One of the groups requests is for racial quotas. Imposing racial quotes is a blatant and impermissible form of discrimination. </p>
<p>usually these situations are generated by a very small group of committed troublemakers. Just expel them. Realy, what’s the big deal here? They forcefully occupied – against the law – a private building. Imagine trying to do that in some skyscraper in New York? There is no difference. Handcuffs, police record, barista jobs the rest of their lives. Only in the hothouse, unreal world of academe would this behavior be tolerated. Just get rid of them and send the professor to pasture.</p>
<p>I think the Wall St. Journal is probably taking these people more seriously than anyone other than themselves does.</p>
<p>As my daughter observed a few years ago in response to a similar event at NYU: “If you can’t edit your non-negotiable demands down to nine or ten, you aren’t ready to occupy the administration building yet.”</p>
<p>@Bay stated’ “I agree with the author’s suggestion that the disgruntled students be told to transfer.”</p>
<p>Ah, too kind, you are. How about suspended or kicked out? They are disrupting the place beyond what is necessary for their weird demands. </p>
<p>Watch for another drop in applications again next year. They dropped 14%. This just adds another issue to help another decrease.</p>
<p>You can fix a lot of this type of problem in the admissions office. </p>
<p>Did they really spell it “womyn”?!</p>
<p>@dadx - Ditto!</p>
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<p>That’s just the WSJ tossing some red meat to their EDITORIAL readers who do tend to be on the right-leaning libertarian/conservative part of the political spectrum. </p>
<p>They’ve been writing articles like this for decades. Editorials like that link were a favorite of the libertarian-right/conservative classmates in HS. </p>
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<p>Launching campuswide protests and occupying administration buildings was a campus pastime for the majority of students at my LAC when I attended. </p>
<p>Also, many activists I knew in college would disagree with your D. They toss out a long list of demands because like any good hard negotiator…you always want to start out demanding far more than you actually want/expect so you create more negotiating room for yourself. </p>
<p>IME, works pretty well when negotiating for buying stuff on CL. </p>
<p>Wow. Nice comments people. Except… they are students. They are not supposed to know it all. We LIKE it when our kids are passionate about something. Sure they are obviously misguided, but really, what harm is being done? As is supposed to happen on a college campus… they will learn from this. </p>
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<p>Which type of applicant do you think will be scared away: the ones who agree with the protesters or the ones who disagree?</p>
<p>Kids will only learn the right lesson from this if their results from their illegal occupation and ridiculous and abusive demands are zero or negative. Otherwise Dartmouth is breeding disruptive, anti-productive individuals whose contribution to society will be negative.</p>
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<p>Since I’m very doubtful they are a critical mass of Dartmouth students, won’t affect applicants too negatively. </p>
<p>If anything, it may actually spur more applications from both activists who see others like them in this protest and right-leaning conservative/libertarian students “looking for a challenge” much like the reason a few conservative students applied and attended Oberlin. </p>
<p>Dartmouth might reap a windfall in the race to absolute zero for those elite-y points…</p>
<p>@oniongrass I seem to remember “illegal” action was a big part of what built this country and what has continually resulted in necessary changes here in the US. </p>
<p>Again, I think the demands are mostly ridiculous, but that doesn’t change my happiness to see students actually getting worked up over something OTHER than not getting into the school of their choice. </p>
<p>@Bay - I cannot say, but it is one of those situations where I wonder how it could be good thing re application-wise. An unsettled campus usually is not where students want to experience college life.</p>
<p>One poster mentioned an increase in activist students. OK, sure. But, to think that other non-activist students or students with an opposite point-of-view, but who are less political, are going to put themselves in a maelstrom, would be an error. </p>
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<p>Not necessarily. Many non-activist students or moreso…students with an opposing perspective at mainstream campuses tend to regard them as an interesting…sometimes even entertaining part of campus life. </p>
<p>@cobrat - If you are there already, that is a nice way to justify being stuck there. But, I know no one who would spend $60k to put themselves in the middle of that just for entertainment sake. We may know different people though, so that is possible I guess.</p>