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Dartmouth surrenders to threat of 'physical action' and offers $31 million
American Thinker ^ | 03/12/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/12/2014 7:05:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Dartmouth College is teaching its student body a terrible lesson: physical threats against the rich pay off big-time. Alec Torres writes in National Review Online:

Having been threatened with “physical action” by an unknown number of anonymous students if it did not respond to a list of more than 120 demands, the Dartmouth administration promptly surrendered last week and is planning on spending at least $31 million to satisfy the students’ will.

College President Phil Hanlon and Provost Martin Wybourne made a statement last Thursday in response to the so-called “Freedom Budget” — the eight-page letter and list of demands made by the anonymous students – saying, “Diversity is one of the cornerstones of our academic community and, like you, we want Dartmouth to be a campus where our students gain the confidence and skills to work and lead in a global society.”

The initial student letter called for greater diversity in the faculty and post-doctoral program as well as an increase in enrollment for Black, Latino, and Native American students to 10 percent of the student population each. The anonymous students also demanded that all students be required to take classes on “social justice” and “marginalization,” that gender-neutral housing be available for all students, and that restrictions on the use of the term “illegal immigrants” be imposed.

The college, which has a $3.7 billion endowment, is planning to spend the $31 million blackmail on several programs:

Dartmouth plans to allocate $1 million to hire faculty “who bring diverse perspectives to campus.”


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: college; dartmouth; threats

1 posted on 03/12/2014 7:05:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You know what happens next on campuses nationwide.


2 posted on 03/12/2014 7:09:13 AM PDT by AU72
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To: SeekAndFind

SMH Caving in to the unreasonable demands of immature spoiled brats in the sixties is what has this country in the mess it is in today.
What Dartmouth really needed to say to these little fools is “No. If you don’t like it, withdraw and go home.”


3 posted on 03/12/2014 7:11:01 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: AU72

Yep, it used to be called the DOMINO EFFECT.


4 posted on 03/12/2014 7:11:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

DON’T BE FOOLED!!!!

THEY *WANTED* TO DO THESE LIBERAL AGENDA ITEMS ANYWAY

Now they have an excuse, and can explain it to their Alumni this way


5 posted on 03/12/2014 7:14:25 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“global society”

The downfall of great societies is their desire to grow beyond the boundaries of their culture and diversify to be “global”. What a pant load.


6 posted on 03/12/2014 7:20:34 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Mr. K

My thoughts exactly. thanks for the post.


7 posted on 03/12/2014 7:36:58 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Quick! Let's all send letters to the Dartmouth administration demanding hundreds of millions or else "something bad" will happen to their pets!

They'll fold like a cheap suit...

But seriously....this is the work of BAMN - "By Any Means Necessary" - a terrorist group of non-whites that makes threats and carries out those threats against colleges all over the U.S.

BAMN

8 posted on 03/12/2014 7:38:43 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

Race terrorists.


9 posted on 03/12/2014 7:46:29 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SeekAndFind

>> “anonymous students”

Mmm Hmm. Yeah sure they were.

>> “all students be required to take classes on ‘social justice’ and ‘marginalization,’ that gender-neutral housing be available for all students, and that restrictions on the use of the term ‘illegal immigrants’ be imposed.”

So just which faculty/administrators perpetrated this hoax, this sham?


10 posted on 03/12/2014 7:54:58 AM PDT by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait a tic... those exact same demands were made at the University of Michigan just last month. Sounds like we have an organized conspiracy here.


11 posted on 03/12/2014 8:04:37 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m D class of ‘72, and I can attest the rot had already started in earnest by then. I was one of the far lefties on campus by the end of my sophomore year. It almost killed my dad, but I came around after b-school years later and working for a living.
I sometimes console myself by reflecting that the school is the alma mater of Dartmouth Review editors-in-chief Dinesh D’Souza, Laura Ingraham and Ben Hart (author of Poisoned Ivy,1984, the first book to identify the “political correctness” problem that infects academia.


12 posted on 03/12/2014 8:04:55 AM PDT by Bill W was a conservative (Profile, detain, interrogate, deport.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cowardice is a prerequisite for being a college administrator.


13 posted on 03/12/2014 9:05:58 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

“students” do not come up with plans like theses. It is the college professors and union members pushing this as they get the money.


14 posted on 03/12/2014 10:26:33 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: SeekAndFind

Its called...”Mau-Mauing the Flack Catchers”....book from the late 60’s by Tom Wolf (IIRC?)


15 posted on 04/06/2014 8:44:08 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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