betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) (10/24/84)
> 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 UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (10/26/84)
Aha! From dartvax!betsy's article, it sounds like the Review may have actually made some actionable statement (i.e. that caused someone real damage.) I look forward to some action from the campus GSA... By the way, you said "not coincidentally" w/r/t the correlation between a GSA-office break-in and the appearance of names in the Review. Are you *sure* it wasn't co-incidental? Or was that simply an assumption? -- Can you say "classical fallacy?" Good! I *knew* you could. Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)
lffast@watrose.UUCP (lffast) (10/30/84)
Perhaps publishing the names of the "Dartmouth" Review organizers could help. Or just organizing a "Garbage disposal brigade" which would dump all the papers as soon as they appeared on campus. Larry Fast (University Of Waterloo)