Comments on: Dissidents at Dartmouth

By: Mike_Nargizian

Mike_Nargizian — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:15:00 +0000

Without trying to be cute but this is exactly what the Mullahs did in the past 5-7 years. They consolidated their already strong arm hold by crushing the growing oppositions’ voices in govt. They narrowed even further who could and could not run for Parliament there not to mention closing down tens if not hundreds of newspapers as well.

Now if this was taking place at Harvard how appropos or ironic it would be with the Grand Mullah Khatami speaking there on 9-11.

Then you could write a dripping article chock full of “inteligeniaisms in the vein of a Chomsky or Fisk “intelligently” comparing Harvard’s (Dartmouth’s) Board of Trustees to Iran “election processes”.

Unlike the other “brilliant” pieces don’t think Wash Post/NY/LA Times would publish it though.

Mike

By: timmah!

timmah! — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:13:45 +0000

“I sorta thought she meant it in the sense of “notorious” ”

Ah, I get it. My first thought was fabled as in “Isreali missles that drill evenly spaced holes on the way in, and tap them in your choice of metric or standard thread upon detonation”.

My confusion aside, Terrye’s point is spot-on.

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:01:34 +0000

WASP country club, like hell. This is more akin to how Iranian elections are run.

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:04:54 +0000

And it’s important for folks to remember instances like this when the academic chorus shouts about how the country should be run. They would have the country run the way Dartmouth is (and Harvard).

By: everyman

everyman — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:29:03 +0000

Does this college administration up in Hanover sound like one with a “voice crying in the wilderness”?

Do we suppose that these elites – who for so long have had their perverse way with my alma mater – actually think that they speak with such a voice?

Do we suppose that, indeed, they actually think . . .

At all?

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:02:44 +0000

Ever wonder where all the old Marxist have fled? Most have found very cushy jobs on the campuses of the colleges and Universities in the United States. It used to be thought that that with the fall of the Berlin Wall that communism was finished, not true. They have just changed their names to administrator and continued the war utilizing Political Correctness [mind think like in Orwell's 1984] and the plecebo of Diversity. Instead of direct confrontation like before they now just take your children and mold them the way they want while you aren’t watching, you just to get to pay the tutition and their exorbitant salaries. They figure in just several generations while being paid very well, they can take the United States down. They have a plan and they fight when it is being disrupted, Political Correctness and the rest of it is very dangerous to the Political well being of the United States and has to be fought just like the cold war was fought. We have a 5th column in this country and its on the Campuses.

By: shel

shel — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:56:57 +0000

“Fabled?”

I sorta thought she meant it in the sense of “notorious”

My son is very smart, high scores etc., and was often told by well-meaning people that he could go to college anywhere he wanted–meaning, of course, that even the wonderful Ivy Leagues would let him in. Being an iconoclastic libertarian by nature, he instead chose to attend a medium-sized branch of a state university where he meets all sorts of people, where elitism is laughable, and where practicalities and individualism trump any sort of orthodoxy or stereotypes. He assures me he doesn’t get any of that kind of crap in his classes (and would speak out if he did.)

I sincerely hope the last sentence of the above editorial is true–that that’s going to be the prevailing attitude in another decade or two, and the crumbling old academic idiots at these “country clubs” are going to be either a joke or gone. In a healthy world you go to college to learn how to think critically and arrive at your own conclusions, not to be told what to think by people who have spent their entire adult lives cloistered within the dreaming spires.

By: timmah!

timmah! — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:27:57 +0000

“This kind of reminds me of the fabled all White all Protestandt Country Clubs where only the right sort of people were acceptable.”

Fabled?

By: ricpic

ricpic — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:39:42 +0000

I don’t get it. What’s the hubbub all about? After all, aren’t Dartmouth’s administrators charter members of the elect, the chosen? And as such how can they do wrong? Accountability? By definition it doesn’t apply.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:44:56 +0000

This kind of reminds me of the fabled all White all Protestandt Country Clubs where only the right sort of people were acceptable.

I myself would not get a second mortgage to send my kid of to some university where he can learn to hate his country, his society, his culture, me etc.

Snobs.