soapbox

In light of Tim’s post on cultural insensitivity, here you go: the latest hoax.

…but the latest journalistic abuse of the hyper-reactionary Dartmouth Review is several steps over the line, I don’t care whose rule book you’re using.

For those not aware, this seems to have been the most direct reason for today’s protest rally on the Green, but many of the instances and issues behind this latest development have been churning in the undercurrents of campus discourse for a while now. By virtue of my position as a GA, I’m privy to a bit more of the behind-the-scenes info, and I’m much more keenly aware of the impact this stuff has on the student community than the rest of y’all might be. The ripples are getting large enough that I’m seriously considering putting together some kind of programming to address such concerns within our cluster, in addition to all the larger campus-wide stuff that’s happening.

Anyways, I guess my point is this: read the D for all the normal reasons you’d read a college paper, read the Free Press for some additional perspective, and use the Review to line your birdcage, to housebreak your dog, as compost material, or whatever - just don’t read the fool thing…