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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss
Subject: Re: the Dartmouth Review, corruption
Message-ID: <2511@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 14:05:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 14:05:19 1984
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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> The tabloids are
> approved student publications, getting funding from student activities
> budgets as well.  They also borrow the prestige, & sometimes the name
> (DARTMOUTH Review), of the school itself.  They're part of the university
> and fall under its rules & regulations, which proscribe criminal conduct.
> 					Ron Rizzo

I have bad news for you: the Review has *NEVER* been part of Dartmouth
College, or been officially affiliated with it in any way.  A major  reason
for the Review's founding was that its founders were being censored
(and censured) by the Daily Dartmouth, the official campus newspaper.
The Review is thus completely beyond the College's control.
 
W/R/T the Review's behavior:
it is certainly despicable and vulgar, but not, alas, illegal.
 
From its inception, the Review has cloaked individual gay-baiting
under the righteous mantle of investigating College-funded groups.
Early on, the Review made a practice of baiting the then-President of
the campus gay group (GSA), running such humorous asides as 
"Alternate Winter Carnival Queen: XXX XXXXX".
 
Somewhat later, some papers from the GSA found their way into the
Review's hands.  (Not coincidentally, the GSA's office had been 
broken into earlier.)  The Review happily published all the names
they could find in these papers.  When various students complained
that, unlike the head of the GSA, they had not chosen to be publicly gay,
the Review called them hypocrites.
 
Recently, the Review has been amusing itself by running quotes from
local gay leaders under such headlines as "Sodomite Speaks".
 
There may be those who call these actions forthright, witty, or daring.
I call them cruel.  I hope that somebody sues the Review successfully
one of these days, but I can't see that any remedy is available through
the criminal courts.  Vulgarity is not illegal; simply contemptible.
 
-- 
Betsy Perry
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