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"Homosexuality has reared its bedraggled head and now the college has decided to subsidize this abominable abnormality."
"Ethnic study courses are for the culturally impoverished."
These quotes were culled from an archly conservative weekly newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, which has been the subject of controversy since its inception in 1980.
The Review, according to a recent "60 Minutes" story on CBS, "attacks, sometimes brutally, Dartmouth's attempts to change its reputation of being all white, all male, all preppy."
The paper opposes racial quotas, feminism, and curricula involving the histories of minorities and women. It is known for its biting attacks against faculty members.
Of one instructor, the Review said the following: "Little Latin commies have found their patron saint of academia. His courses are filled with fruits, butches and Dartmouth Review Editor Harmeet Dhillon Hopes for Bush Appointment assorted scum of the radical left."
OFF-CAMPUS PAPER
The Review has nothing at all to do with the Dartmouth College, and in fact, has been a target of university administration since its founding. It is widely thought to be supported by some of the most powerful conservatives in the country, such as William F. Buckley of the flag waving National Review, William Simon, a millionaire, who has praised the paper in the columns of the Wall Street Journal, and a host of alumni of the college, who feel that Dartmouth has grown too permissive.
It is presently embroiled in a bitter controversy with the Dartmouth administration, who suspended two of its top editors last March, for allegedly harassing a black music professor.
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