It’s probably important to understand that Dartmouth has a big-time inferiority complex. Dartmouth (and to a slightly lesser extent Cornell and Brown) has always been considered second-rate by the Ivy elite. So if they have professors who claim god-like authority, from Dartmouth’s perspective this is probably a good thing.

What makes you say that, Pink Pig? I haven’t noticed this presumed inferiority complex. Dartmouth has decided to remain a college, and to focus its mission on undergraduates. That’s what makes this particularly disgusting.

Why would anyone want to be considered first-rate by the “Ivy elite”? Does this reflect as much on the institution as, say, what happened to Larry Summers at Harvard, or what’s gone on with Madonna “Noose” Constantine at Columbia? One goes to Dartmouth to say “fuck you” to Ivy elitism in the first place (at least in my case: dining halls? WTF?).