by Hugh Fitzgerald
The demonstrators had a 72-point manifesto instructing the college to establish pre-set racial admission quotas and a mandatory ethnic studies curriculum for all students. Their other inspirations are for more “womyn or people of color” faculty; covering sex change operations on the college health plan (“we demand body and gender self-determination”); censoring the library catalog for offensive terms; and installing “gender-neutral bathrooms” in every campus facility, specifically including sports locker rooms.
What Dartmouth’s president should have told bullying students, here
These are baby brownshirts. No violence, as yet, and apparently lots of hesitant giggling, as if they are not quite sure of what it is they are supposed to do, when they invade a building and sit-in for a day or two; .
Those who participated should have been expelled at once. Or, if not at once, had their names taken, and warned that they were all on probation, and that one more such incident would lead to expulsion. For there are many students who would gladly transfer to Dartmouth, and take their places.
As for the man who may be deemed their faculty adviser, one Russell J. Rickford, you can find out more about his scholarly accomplishments to date — and also that he’s leaving for Cornell, which says something about the current standards, or possible desperation to Increase Diversity, of the History Department at Cornell — here  And for a few more piquant details about Russell Rickford, see here.
