Yelling “Don’t Come Here” at tour groups intimates students out of applying and violently hijacking the Dimension show makes kids who lack context, culpability, or understanding of the problems you describe not want to enroll. Attacking the yield attacks Dartmouth – not the rapists, not the racists, not anyone who perpetuates the very things these protesters are opposing. It’s good this group is beyond simply ‘raising awareness’ and is into protests, but their protests need to attack the problem makers
So here’s what I’d rather seen:
Take the greek house with the most recent sexual assault. On Friday night, line the perimeter of the lawn with bull horns, banners, and candles. Shame every person who goes inside the line because they are perpetuating the assaults by paying into the social capital that protects the house. Starve the house into compliance. Go back on Wednesday. Put their names on posters. Make them embarrassed to be part of that organization.
Sick of the racism on Webster? Find a tree. Hang a noose on it for every time a member in your community has been called a racial slur. Host lectures the next day explaining how hate speech perpetuates the same attitudes and discrimination of the Jim Crow era.
Or say there’s an organization objectifying women like pieces of meat? Go into their basement and dump one bag of rotten offal for every incident you can catalogue. Sure this involves going into the lion’s den, but courage is something these women do not lack.
But for the love of god, stop doing stuff where the victim is Dartmouth, the student, or the prospective student. It was not long ago that ROTC members, eager to serve their country when so many others would rather spend college in a stupor, were spit on in protest of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. The irony was that those ROTC kids had nothing to do with the policy. The rule was forced upon their organization by those very protesters’ bigoted Congressman.
Let’s put the hate were it belongs. Likely somewhere near Webster Ave.
So here’s what I’d rather seen:
Take the greek house with the most recent sexual assault. On Friday night, line the perimeter of the lawn with bull horns, banners, and candles. Shame every person who goes inside the line because they are perpetuating the assaults by paying into the social capital that protects the house. Starve the house into compliance. Go back on Wednesday. Put their names on posters. Make them embarrassed to be part of that organization.
Sick of the racism on Webster? Find a tree. Hang a noose on it for every time a member in your community has been called a racial slur. Host lectures the next day explaining how hate speech perpetuates the same attitudes and discrimination of the Jim Crow era.
Or say there’s an organization objectifying women like pieces of meat? Go into their basement and dump one bag of rotten offal for every incident you can catalogue. Sure this involves going into the lion’s den, but courage is something these women do not lack.
But for the love of god, stop doing stuff where the victim is Dartmouth, the student, or the prospective student. It was not long ago that ROTC members, eager to serve their country when so many others would rather spend college in a stupor, were spit on in protest of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. The irony was that those ROTC kids had nothing to do with the policy. The rule was forced upon their organization by those very protesters’ bigoted Congressman.
Let’s put the hate were it belongs. Likely somewhere near Webster Ave.



