I hope someone at Yale goes as "Soopermexican" for Halloween next year.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

The media is largely liberal. Ill bet FoxNews would be more in line with your thinking (that's not the insult it may appear to be)

But if you dont like what's on CNN, switch to Fox for the other side (for the most part)

I'm not sure how one could see it in other terms. He also trivialized threats of violence by characterizing them as "bullying."

Nevertheless, the guy seems to be a good teacher and is extremely popular with his students. I don't think his comments deserve punishment, but I would advise him to be more careful about the way he phrases his emails in the future.

Well it is an insult, at least to me.

I'm not there. I don't have all the details nor a feeling of the campus. At any time in any school there is a complete nut wanting to be violent or capable of it if pushed or given the opportunity. I think that is the world we live in. I have no idea how serious or credible the threats were, the professor may not either. Since the school did not cancel classes, the professor said get yourselves to class. If anybody does not feel truly safe they can stay put. They are 18+ and can call/email whomever. I'm sure there will be something worked out and leeway given during this time.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Well, he said a lot more than that.

The stuff about "not letting the bullies win" was obviously a challenge to minority students. Given the death threats on Yik Yak, the tumultuous nature of the campus, and recent incidents of mass violence on other campuses, his message was not appropriate.

Thursday’s Blackout demonstration, organized by Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has sparked controversy after allegations of physical assault were made by users of social media outlets, like the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak, and later in an editorial in The Dartmouth Review, which on Monday gained traction from some national media outlets.

The Review editorial said demonstrators pushed and shoved students in the library. One female student, the editorial alleges, was pinned against a wall by demonstrators while shouting “filthy white b****!” in her face.

None of the police officers who monitored the demonstration on Thursday night witnessed any acts of violence, Hanover Police Lieutenant Brad Sargent said. As of Monday, only one incident of violence in the library has been reported, and this was by a third party, Sargent said.

No complaints of physical violence have been made, according to a press release by the College. The College described the events as a “peaceful meeting” that transitioned to a “political protest.”

Several students have filed bias incident reports with the College, with some describing feelings of intimidation and disrespect by other students, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. Other reports expressed concern from demonstrators, claiming they are being falsely accused of being violent. Some reports claim that demonstrators are being named on Yik Yak and other social media sites, and that this creates a potentially unsafe situation for those people, Remy said.

Several students interviewed by The Dartmouth reported witnessing chants including expletives, such as “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your comfort.” Several students also said they witnessed a group of women crying on First Floor Berry in response to the demonstration.

Two students reported that demonstrators entered their private study rooms and blocked the doorway, while others said that demonstrators singled out some students by name and circled around others’ desks while chanting. No students reported witnessing or experiencing any sort of physical violence, though some expressed that they felt uncomfortable or intimidated by the protest.

NAACP president Jonathan Diakanwa ’16 said there were incidents of close verbal confrontations between individuals, and that although these students could have been uncomfortable or scared, there was no physical violence of any kind.

NAACP vice president Tsion Abera ’17 also said that there is no truth to the allegations of violence.

“These allegations of physical assault are lies to make white students look like the victims and students of color to look like the perpetrators,” Abera said. “The protest was meant to shut down the library. Whatever discomfort that many white students felt in that library is a fraction of the discomfort that many Natives, blacks, Latina and LGBTQ people feel frequently.”

Abera denied that there were any physical assaults perpetrated by the demonstrators, but some protesters did use profanity in their chants, she said.

The NAACP organized the Blackout to demonstrate solidarity with the black students at the University of Missouri and Yale University, and also in response to the vandalism of a Collis Student Center Atrium #BlackLivesMatter exhibit representing the unarmed black individuals who lost their lives to police brutality this year.

Demonstrators marched from Novack Café to the lawn in front of Dartmouth Hall. At that point the official demonstration concluded, but many demonstrators continued, marching back into First Floor Berry up through Fourth Floor Berry, then back to Novack and Collis.

On First Floor Berry, many demonstrators spoke about their struggles at Dartmouth as a students of color and challenged and yelled at students who were sitting on the other side of the library to stand up and support the movement.

Many of the demonstrators then approached the sitting students and chanted “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your white asses,” demonstrator Dan Korff-Korn ’19 said.

“It was important to point out that the students sitting there in the library at the computers represented this greater degree of ignorance, apathy and privilege that you see at Dartmouth, but the way it was done by personally attacking people was counterproductive,” Korff-Korn said.

David Tramonte ’18, who was not involved in or present at the library during the demonstration, said he heard from some students in the library that students were verbally assaulted and that some cried in response to this treatment.

“While I don’t think the protest should happen again to the extent where people are being yelled at and making people cry, I think the invasion of space needed to be done,” Tramonte said.

Victoria Campbell ’18, who also was not involved with the demonstration, said she has heard that demonstrators got in other student’s faces and that there were some incidents of disrespectful language.

“However, I have a problem with the protest being made to look like a spectacle by the students who were recording videos of it in the library,” Campbell said.

Many white students were angered by the protest and the language used, but the protest should not be labeled as a hate crime or racist, Tramonte said.

Charlie Lundquist ’17, who participated in the protest but left after feeling uncomfortable with the shift in tone and documented this experience in a column on The Tab, an online tabloid covering Dartmouth-related issues, said that the protest’s organizers “failed to identify what exactly was going to happen in the protest that day.”

“I think a lot of people wouldn’t have participated if they had known that the protest would be disruptive and in the library yelling,” Lundquist said.

Lundquist said that he left almost immediately after the protest reached the library, and did not witness personally any yelling or intimidation.

Comments such as “F*** your white privilege” were not personal or racist attacks on individual white persons in the library, Diakanwa said. Instead, these comments were meant to target the legacy of white supremacy that many students have benefited from and students of color are fighting against, he said.

Demonstrator Kevin Bui ’17 said that the protest called attention to important issues regardless of its use of expletives.

“I do agree that emotions got quite strong, but I think that we as a community should validate their anger and listen to it and not just brush it off,” Bui said. “It is important to look at what causes such emotion and how to support that.”

On Friday, College President Phil Hanlon responded to the controversy of the demonstration in a campus-wide email.

Halon’s email did not directly mention the protests, but it did discuss the merits of “free expression and the open exchange of ideas” while acknowledging that “the inclusion and safety of all members of our campus is a responsibility…citizens of the Dartmouth community [hold.]”

Hanlon’s response shows that people of color are not supported by the administration, Abera said, which has been evidenced by administrators’ responses to previous racist acts against people of color, such as the alleged egging of a Native American student this term, hate speech on social media and death threats that were posted on Bored at Baker during previous protests,

NAACP secretary Abbeygale Anderson ’18 described Hanlon’s response as “political rhetoric and fluff” that did not address anything that occurred on campus from either perspective of demonstrators or students who felt targeted by them.

At a community discussion in Cutter-Shabazz on Monday night, several students voiced concerns over portrayals of Thursday’s protest, particularly in The Dartmouth Review and on Yik Yak.

Vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer was in attendance at the meeting, and she apologized to students who engaged in the protest for the negative responses and media coverage that they have received.

“There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not being very nice,” Ameer said.

Ameer pointed to the College’s press release that acknowledges that no complaints of violence have been filed with the College at this time and describes the protest as a “peaceful meeting” turned “political protest.”

Many students who witnessed the actions of the protesters approached by The Dartmouth declined to comment for this article.

Assistant dean and advisor to black students at the Office of Pluralism and leadership did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne did not respond to request for comment by press time.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

This is the problem with these leaderless protest movements. They devolve into uselessness. Just like the "Occupy Wall Street" people, the loss of focus and a clear message loses the whole thing.

That really seems to be the problem with these social media fueled protest groups. It starts off well but ultimately it is a bad way to get real change.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

The personal nature of many recent campus demonstrations continues to puzzle me. Seeking out confrontations with other students--in the campus library no less--doesn't seem like an effective way of building a movement.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Many of these protests are truly strange, seemingly a complete rejection of the ideals held by previous generations of Civil Rights protesters and the political left more broadly...

Here's an analysis of the ongoing actions at Amherst College: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-illiberal-demands-of-amherst-uprising/416079/?utm_source=SFFB.

But it was the contrast between the faux-militant preamble, with its stark warnings about radical measures and escalation, and the eighth demand on the list that actually made me laugh out loud: “Dean Epstein must ask faculty to excuse all students from all 5 College classes, work shifts, and assignments from November 12th, 2015 to November 13th, 2015 given their organization of and attendance at the Sit-In.” They’re posing as radicals, but still asking permission to skip class.

Thursday’s Blackout demonstration, organized by Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has sparked controversy after allegations of physical assault were made by users of social media outlets, like the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak, and later in an editorial in The Dartmouth Review, which on Monday gained traction from some national media outlets.

The Review editorial said demonstrators pushed and shoved students in the library. One female student, the editorial alleges, was pinned against a wall by demonstrators while shouting “filthy white b****!” in her face.


Several students interviewed by The Dartmouth reported witnessing chants including expletives, such as “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your comfort.” Several students also said they witnessed a group of women crying on First Floor Berry in response to the demonstration.

Two students reported that demonstrators entered their private study rooms and blocked the doorway, while others said that demonstrators singled out some students by name and circled around others’ desks while chanting. No students reported witnessing or experiencing any sort of physical violence, though some expressed that they felt uncomfortable or intimidated by the protest.

Many of the demonstrators then approached the sitting students and chanted “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your white asses,” demonstrator Dan Korff-Korn ’19 said.

“It was important to point out that the students sitting there in the library at the computers represented this greater degree of ignorance, apathy and privilege that you see at Dartmouth, but the way it was done by personally attacking people was counterproductive,” Korff-Korn said.

David Tramonte ’18, who was not involved in or present at the library during the demonstration, said he heard from some students in the library that students were verbally assaulted and that some cried in response to this treatment.

Victoria Campbell ’18, who also was not involved with the demonstration, said she has heard that demonstrators got in other student’s faces and that there were some incidents of disrespectful language.

“However, I have a problem with the protest being made to look like a spectacle by the students who were recording videos of it in the library,” Campbell said.

Many white students were angered by the protest and the language used, but the protest should not be labeled as a hate crime or racist, Tramonte said.

Charlie Lundquist ’17, who participated in the protest but left after feeling uncomfortable with the shift in tone and documented this experience in a column on The Tab, an online tabloid covering Dartmouth-related issues, said that the protest’s organizers “failed to identify what exactly was going to happen in the protest that day.”

“I think a lot of people wouldn’t have participated if they had known that the protest would be disruptive and in the library yelling,” Lundquist said.

Lundquist said that he left almost immediately after the protest reached the library, and did not witness personally any yelling or intimidation.

Comments such as “F*** your white privilege” were not personal or racist attacks on individual white persons in the library, Diakanwa said. Instead, these comments were meant to target the legacy of white supremacy that many students have benefited from and students of color are fighting against, he said.

Vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer was in attendance at the meeting, and she apologized to students who engaged in the protest for the negative responses and media coverage that they have received.

“There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not being very nice,” Ameer said.

I think The Atlantic, and Conor Friedersdorf in particular, has done some great work analyzing the protests from both sides.

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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Someone put tape over the campus pictures of all Harvard's black professors

I don't doubt for a second "the movement" would do something like this to create sympathy and an act to rally around.

Yeah, no kidding. The timing of that act is very...convenient.

What makes things like this particularly despicable is that people have and/or will lose their jobs over this crap.

The only thing more ridiculous than the aggressive behavior of the people at Dartmouth is a member of the administration apologizing to them for the their hostile, bullying acts receiving negative coverage. As Tall Midget said, their inability to recognize their own social and economic privilege is absurd.

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Who Gets to Organize a Protest?
Demonstrations against racism at two universities were canceled after black students complained about the rallies being organized without their involvement.

November 20, 2015
By Jake New

In the wake of the demonstrations at the University of Missouri that led to the resignation of the university’s president, student protests over racial inequality and campus climate have spread to colleges across the country.

Though the demonstrations have included a broad range of minority groups and white students, they have predominantly been organized by black students. At a handful of institutions, however, white students have tried to lead the rallies, prompting accusations that these students are engaging in the same kind of behavior as those they are protesting.

Last week, a student at Cornell University announced that he was organizing a rally called #ConcernedStudent2015, a play on Concerned Student 1950, the name of the group and hashtag behind the Missouri protests. The year 1950 was when black students were first admitted to the University of Missouri.

Nearly immediately after the Cornell student created a Facebook page advertising the event, black students began to criticize the protest and its intentions.

“We would like to point out the lack of people of color in the planning and attendance of this protest,” Black Students United, a student group at Cornell, posted on the page. “While we appreciate the solidarity and interest of our allies across campus, we would like to be able to address prejudice on this campus and campuses like it in our own way. In the future, please ask how you can support us before organizing on your own. With that in mind, we would appreciate the cancellation of this event.”

Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan de Cornel, a Mexican American student group, condemned the event in even stronger terms.
“Racism destroys because it is backed by power, policy and action,” the student group said in a statement posted to Facebook. “As students of color, directly affected by racial discrimination, the power to dictate how change must come about is ours. The #ConcernedStudent2015 protest disregards this notion, and instead perpetuates a white savior complex, placing the power to decide change in the hands of those not living our realities. In order for change to benefit the most oppressed students, our voices must be taken into account and must be at the forefront of these movements.”

Others accused the organizer of creating the event in an act of self-promotion, calling the planned protest insincere and “a complete mockery.” The organizer, Will Isenberg, is an aspiring entertainer who is known around campus for his attempts at satire. Shortly after the criticism surfaced, Isenberg -- who goes by the alias William Heisenberg -- canceled the event.

In a statement posted to the event’s Facebook page, Isenberg apologized for creating the event, but defended his motivations.

“I was not in any way intending to make light of the current, serious issues, but I now realize why people did not think I was being serious,” he wrote. “I have learned that other groups are planning protests of their own, so I would encourage you all to attend those. Thank you for calling me out on my ignorance.”

Also last week, a similar situation unfolded at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Students enrolled in Whiteness Studies -- a course that, according to its description, examines the “development of whiteness from past white supremacy, current colorblindness to possible future multiculturalism” -- decided to organize a rally and promote it using the hashtag #CUStandsWithMizzou.

Unlike the event planned at Cornell, the organizers of the event included students of color. However, many of the students involved are white, and the organizers did not contact the university’s Black Student Alliance or other similar student groups when planning the event.

Hillary Potter, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the university, said in a Facebook post that several black students told her they felt “further marginalized and silenced by not being consulted about these actions.” Leaders of the Black Student Alliance agreed, saying that they felt silenced by the event and how it was planned without their consultation.

In a comment posted to Facebook, Paris Ferribee, co-president of the Black Student Alliance, said she felt that the students were only hosting the rally to “be part of a fad.” She said a black student in the class had warned the other students against organizing the demonstration, but the black student was ignored.

“So whose agenda were they standing for?” Ferribee asked. “Who were they protesting for and what exactly were they protesting? To be a part of a movement that is much bigger than just protesting. Just to protest is problematic.”

On Friday, Azabe Kassa, one of the event’s organizers and a student in the Whiteness Studies course, apologized to the Black Student Alliance on Facebook.
“We realize that we acted impulsively and should have consulted with Black Student Alliance,” Kassa wrote. “We acknowledge that we should have contacted BSA to see what they were already planning with regard to Mizzou. While we understand that this does not excuse our actions, we learned a lesson in proper allyship. We still hope to work with BSA to support your efforts and to stand in solidarity with black students.”

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I started out with sympathy here and now I just want the whole thing to go away.

Good job protesters!