The Review and Immigrants

Just a few quick points:

a) I am glad to see that many Reviewers or Review sympathizers were wearing their "Indian Head" t-shirts today. It was very good of them to point out that most of us here at Dartmouth are the descendants of immigrants who came to control America through genocide and duplicity. Thank you all for this stunning reminder of the vanishingly tenuous link most of us have to "native" status.

b) Dan Linsalata complained today in the D about how the truancy advocated by the organizers of the event wasted the money of Dartmouth's many kind benefactors. In a spirit of cooperation, I would like to suggest a few other student activities that could be curtailed in order to optimize the use of our benefactors' money. But rather than listing all of them, I'll hold myself to one: ban alcohol from campus and especially from frats. It is an unquestionable fact that alcohol induces students to miss class, and things that make us miss class therefore make us waste our benefactors' money, which is bad. Applying Dan's logic and argument to this, I see no reason why Dan shouldn't be a proud advocate of alcohol bans all over campus. Our parents are not paying large amounts of money, and alumni do not pay larger amounts yet, just for us to get drunk when we feel like it. I think we should put a stop to this profligacy, and I hope Mr. Linsalata, in a show of consistency will support me.

c) Carrying along this theme of thrift and fiscal responsibility, I would like to reprimand whoever threw away their money on this plane:

Couldn't that money have been spent in better ways? Like perhaps more Indian Head t-shirts—you know, something to really say, "white people, go fuck yourselves."