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Editor’s Note: This article comes to publication after significant investigative reporting from numerous individuals. As always the Review has tremendous respect for law enforcement and thanks them for their service to society. Around 11:30 PM on November 2, 2018, shortly after the 9:45 PM shooting at 1 School Street, Lebanon Police detained Gage Young and 17-year-old Hector Correa, both of Lebanon NH, in a black Ford Fusion hatchback following a pursuit northward on Route 10. The pursuit ended around 60 Oak Ridge Road, West Lebanon NH,

which is a few houses away from the Gage Young’s parents’ house. Both suspects also allegedly fired shots near Dartmouth Printing on Lyme Road, Hanover, and at Estabrook Circle and Boston Lot, Lebanon. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, some have questioned why the Hanover Police Department has only charged the alleged shooter, Gage Young, with second degree assault. The Dartmouth Review has received information from a wide variety of sources confirming that Gage Young is the son of retired Lebanon Police Sergeant David A. Young, a fact that was also reported by Valley News. Sgt. Young is deeply connected in both

the law enforcement and prosecutorial communities in the Upper Valley. At a press conference held on Saturday afternoon shortly following the formal arrest of Young by Hanover Police at 2:47 PM, Hanover Police chief Charles B. Dennis said that Young had been charged only with Second Degree Assault under RSA 631:2 of the New Hampshire Criminal Code, which is a Class B felony. The statute, titled “Second Degree Assault,” refers to the suspect “recklessly caus[ing] bodily injury to another by means of a deadly weapon; or recklessly caus[ing] bodily injury to another under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human

life.” However, Hanover Police chief Charles B. Dennis reiterated at the press conference that while the shooting was an isolated incident, Young shot a Taurus 9mm handgun out of the window of a car, which was being driven by Correa. As Valley News reported, one of the affidavits quotes Correa stating, “Young said he was just going to scare the group and he shot once,” making it seem likely that the firearm was discharged purposively at them. If that truly did occur, the crimes committed by Gage Young may qualify with the First Degree Assault under RSA 631:1 of the New Hampshire Criminal Code.

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During and immediately after the shooting, one principal claim that the administration has made, and that has been propagated by many media sources and even the police is that this shooting was fundamentally unrelated to Dartmouth. This claim is based on the three assumptions that the victim was not affiliated with Dartmouth, that the shooting was random, not targeted in a way that might have threatened Dartmouth students, and that the shooting did not take place on campus. Each of these assumptions is a gross misrepresentation of the events that transpired that night.

Dartmouth has claimed that the victim of the shooting was unaffiliated with the College. In his email to campus on the morning of November 3, President Philip J. Hanlon referred to the incident as: “…a 19-year-old man was shot on the sidewalk outside the Christian Science Reading Room on School Street, about a block away from campus. The victim, who is not affiliated with Dartmouth…” The VOX Daily email sent out on November 5 via the Office of Communications to the Dartmouth community emphasizes the lack of connection the victim had with Dartmouth. It reads, “The victim is not affiliated with Dartmouth.”

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David Horowitz writes a letter to Phil Hanlon about his mistreatment at Dartmouth.

One of The Review’s editors conducted an interview with retired Judge Quentin Kopp.

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An Exclusive System What separated Dartmouth from its ter term. peer institutions for many years was The effects of this and other Hanlon its somewhat unique culture of “one- policies can be seen across Dartmouth. ness.” Dartmouth alums help each other This year when the freshmen ban was across the world because they are not lifted, many Greek houses did not imjust alumni of an “alpha-beta” soup of mediately open their doors, not wantGreek houses, or because they played ing to be the first to allow hordes of on the same sports team, or even be- risk-heavy freshmen to come streaming cause they were part of the same popu- in. Instead, some Greek houses stayed lar social group as happens at so many closed longer and allowed in only freshother campuses. Dartmouth alumni men who could be vetted and thus were are just that, alumni of a shared not major sources of risk. institution that autoThis decision makes matically gives them sense from the permembership to the spective of any Greek group that we are all a house that is worried part of. A Dartmouth about external invesID will get you into tigators, a hostile adevery Greek house on ministration, and an campus; matriculating increasingly disconat Dartmouth makes nected campus. Howyou a part of her for ever, it is a prominent the rest of your life. sign of the decreasing Though we all come value of the shared from radically difDartmouth experiferent backgrounds, ence. A Dartmouth we are all Dartmouth ID may no longer be students and have that enough to be a full B. Webb Harrington shared experience that part of the College. makes us part of the same team, DartDartmouth also had a nearly unique mouth College. This fundamentally culture of doing rather than just thinkAmerican concept of E Pluribus Unum ing. Huge numbers of members at so — out of many, one — is becoming less many clubs who also had multiple, and less true with each passing year. very involved leaders. A quick Google One key aspect of Dartmouth one- search for “a typical Princeton resume” ness used to be freedom of association will find the accomplished Frances B. — the ability to live and interact with Frist. She has done three internships, whomever we wished. Friends, or sim- and is a member of a sports team. She ply students who thought they would is also Vice President of a single club. work well together could move into the A typical Dartmouth resume submitted same room of their own volition. This during Sophomore Summer will have in fact was one of the sources of simi- some internships and perhaps three or larity across campus. The termly ‘hus- four clubs and groups that that students tle and bustle’ of finding a new room is a leader in. Dartmouth students run and roommate provided a shared Dart- around a half-dozen major businesses mouth experience while the D-Plan and on campus that pull in huge amounts of constant movement prevented self-seg- revenue for young people to be involved regation from becoming too severe. in that were also founded and funded This encouraged Dartmouth students by students. From the DOC and DIPP to room with many different people in to a cappella groups and Greek houstheir time here, but allowed them to es, Dartmouth students are known for room with people they liked well and their intense involvement in so many got along with. The housing system, as activities that it is a wonder they get any has been frequently pointed out, pre- sleep. This, too, seems to be on the devents this. It forces people to live with cline. Hard numbers are hard to come someone who has been randomly as- by, but I have heard from several leaders signed to their same group by an over- of clubs on campus that participation bearing administration. It replaces the from the Class of 2022 has been much hustle and bustle of the former room- lower than expected and it remains ing situation with an inability to choose to be seen whether this hallowed and your own room and roommate. Increas- unique part of Dartmouth’s culture can ing demand for singles, Greek house survive. rooms, and off-campus apartments are I do not intend to argue that these some of the unintended consequences unique aspects of Dartmouth’s culture of this failed residential system. are completely wiped out. Instead I The voluntary system allowed you to lay forward three propositions — first, maintain a close-knit group of friends these parts of our culture are different who would support you while forcing enough from our peer schools to be you out of your bubble to encourage called unique to Dartmouth; second, you to connect with people from all cor- that they are valuable and thus ought to ners of this small college. The Housing be protected; and third, that they may System breaks up friend groups, while be in a state of decline — which is why disallowing us from staying connected we must watch carefully to ensure that to the rest of Dartmouth by forcing us they do not die and that any policies to relive the same housing plan term af- that are damaging our culture be ended.

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DARTMOUTH SUED FOR ALLEGED MISCONDUCT Early on the morning of November 15, 2018, President Hanlon sent out an email to all of campus informing them that the College was being sued by former and current students, saying “the suit follows the departures this past summer of three faculty members in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS).” The three professors Hanlon referred to are Todd Heatherton. Paul Whalen, and William Kelley. It is unclear why the President did not just say that the lawsuit was over the College’s handling of the investigation of the professors. Hanlon reiterated that “sexual misconduct and harassment has no place at Dartmouth.” At least the President had the grace to “applaud the courage displayed by members of our community within PBS who brought the misconduct allegations to Dartmouth’s attention.” Hanlon said The College “disagreed with the characterizations of [its] actions in the complaint. Seven former students at the College, including one current PhD student, filed a $70 million lawsuit alleging former Dartmouth professors delayed exams and went so far as to threaten the research of the women who rejected their advances. Vassiki Chauhan, a current PhD student at The College, claims she was assaulted at Paul Whalen’s home, and Kristina Rapuano, who received her doctorate this year, says she was raped by Kelley in 2015 after attending a party with him. Some of the plaintiffs of the lawsuit appeared on “CBS This Morning” on November 15 and all claimed to have been sexually harassed or assaulted by former Dartmouth professors, and unanimously agreed that the College and its administration had been of little assistance. Sasha Brietzke claimed that Heatherton had grabbed her butt in a room full of other graduate students, while Annemarie Brown claimed that Whalen had “openly bragged about retaliation,” presumably if she refused him, and Marissa Evans alleged that Bill Kelley would send sexualized text messages to her and gave her comments like “Your honors thesis just got harder” when she refused. Andrea Courtney said that opting out of the “boys’ club” culture meant being denied access to the vast resources of the College, a problem by no means unique to The College. If the plaintiffs are correct, and Dartmouth did know about the professorial misconduct as early as

DR. TAWFIK HAMID SPEAKS AT DARTMOUTH On November 1, the Dartmouth College Republicans invited Dr. Tawfik Hamid to speak on “Critical Thinking’s role in the ideological battle against radical Islam.” Dr. Hamid is originally from Egypt and has a degrees in internal medicine from Cairo University and in Literature from the University of Auckland. In Egypt, Hamid was a part of the US-recognized terrorist group, El Gama’a El Islamiyya, where he conspired with the future leader of Al Qaeda. An expert on radicalization, Dr. Hamid began his lecture by establishing that the battle against Islam was an ideological one and the fact that not all Muslims are alike. Hamid classified muslims into five categories: Cultural, Ritual, Theological, Radical, and Terrorists. Hamid made it clear that only the last two groups needed to be confronted but admitted that if theological Muslims were the majority, a nation would devolve into Sharia law. He then explained the four “brainwashing tactics” that were employed against him personally when he was in the terrorist organization: “Suppression of Critical Thinking”, “Suppression of Human Conscience”, “Severe punishment in Hell”, and “Sex Deprivation Syndrome”. Hamid said that when he first went to pray at the El Gama’a El Islamiyya mosque, the man who escorted him there told him “If you think, you will become an infidel,” a simple message that conveyed so much about the ideology of terrorism. Hamid described this as the most critical step towards his radicalization. The second step, according to Hamid, was suppress his conscience to make him stop thinking about the atrocities being committed in the name of Islam. “Sex Deprivation Syndrome,” Hamid explained, was where Islamists essentially prohibit all “physiological release of sexual desires,” but enchant impressionable young men with the promise of the 72 virgins in Heaven. The deprivation of sex on Earth coupled with the lifting of that prohibition after death encourages young Muslim men to die for their faith. There was further evidence that this was the case since men are far more likely than women to be radicalized. Furthermore, men are more likely to be radicalized when their testosterone levels are higher. Dr. Hamid then proposed three solutions to the problem, namely theological reformation, “Radical

Thinking Modification (RTM),” and “Shaking the Foundations Strategy.” Theological reformation is the method where you provide a different, less violent interpretation of the Koran. Radical Thinking Modification is the method by which you convince the radicalized person to view the world through a different lens, a strategy Hamid illustrated with a picture that looks completely different when viewed upside-down. The final method, “Shaking the Foundations” is the most radical of these solutions since it aims to disillusion the “brainwashed” completely by encouraging them to examine religious dogma critically, and to expose them to the art and music prohibited by extremist Islam. Finally, Hamid attempted to debunk other explanations for Islamic radicalization. If poverty is the cause, he asked, why aren’t non-Muslims under these conditions are not affected as adversely as Muslims. He further questioned that if the Arab-Israeli conflict is the cause, then why do Pakistani Muslims kill other Pakistani Muslims? Hamid then made the case against tolerating these Islamic ideas, by claiming that it was because we were intolerant of slavery and discrimination that we ended those evil practices. To conclude, Dr. Hamid listed the fundamental traits of Sharia Law and, to honor the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting, recited a poem he had composed.

MASSACRE AT PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE Over the last several years the social fabric of the United States has taken a significant beating. From the deadly rally at Charlottesville to the 2016 Dallas police massacre to the Parkland school shooting, America has seen its fair share of tragedy. The seemingly inexorable nature of these events would be enough to challenge the stability and heart of a nation, but to make matters worse, after every one of these tragedies political pundits have divided the nation by immediately launching into debates on gun control, race, and ideological motivation. After the recent shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, a conservative Jewish house of worship, national pundits again took to their bunkers and commenced lobbing rhetorical grenades at each other, regardless of their damning effect on our nation. In contrast, Dartmouth’s candle-light vigil on October 30th honoring the lives and mourning the loss of the victims was a moment of healing and unity for our campus. Organized by two Jewish student groups, Dartmouth

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ON VETERAN’S DAY: A COMMEMORATION On November 11th, the College commemorated Veterans Day. It had events spread over nearly a week to pay respect to the great sacrifices made by veterans the country-over and thank them for their service. The College created a program for the ‘20s class to accept veterans after their military service, so their efforts to commemorate did not feel hollow like so many such efforts often do. On the 11th of November, it had also been exactly one century since the representatives of the various Allied nations and Matthias Erzberger, a Catholic parliamentarian from Germany, sat in that now infamous railroad car in the forest of Compiegne and signed the armistice that ended the fighting. Ten million men had died fighting in what many to this day consider a pointless war. None of the questions that the war tried to answer were actually answered; none of the tensions that the war tried to resolve were actually resolved. Instead, a fast-growing and increasingly free Tsarist Russia was replaced with an even more oppressive communist nation; the nations of Europe were vastly weakened with half a generation of men injured in the war; and nationalist tensions boiled forth to destroy multi-ethnic empires and lead to vast amounts of death and mistreatment of minorities. Perhaps most pointlessly of all, World War II seemed to be a reply of the same scenario that the armistice had tried to end: an aggressive and militaristic Germany invading both East and West in order to protect itself from perceived threats. On this day, it bears remembering the many costs that war can bring and those incredible men and women who make those sacrifices for us to keep this nation free and safe.

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Is the Shooter Getting Special Treatment? This statute pertains to a suspect “purposely or knowingly caus[ing] bodily injury to another by means of a deadly weapon.” Local criminal lawyer Jonathan Cohen of Cohen & Winters noted that, “intent will be one important determining factor when it comes to which charges to prosecute. There are several however.” On top of this, other actions taken by both Gage Young and Hector Correa may warrant additional criminal charges under the New Hampshire Criminal Code. For starters, Young notably fired several shots before being taken in by Lebanon Police Department. These actions resemble the wording laid out within the Unauthorized Use of Firearms statute under RSA 644:13 of the New Hampshire Criminal Code. According to this statute, “A person is guilty of a violation if, within the compact part of a town or city, such person fires or discharges any... gun... except by written permission of the chief of police or governing body”. The State of New Hampshire Department of Justice gave prosecutors guidelines for “enhancing” the sentences of alleged criminals. Among these was the suggestion that crimes where the “deadly weapon” was a firearm be prosecuted under RSA 651:2, and that all crimes where there existed “offense against law enforcement officer[s]” be tried under RSA 651:6, both statutes wherein the suggested sentence is longer than otherwise. According to a press release issued by Lebanon Police Department chief Richard D. Mello on Nov. 3, when Sgt. Rich Norris spotted the suspects’ vehicle, which was “consistent with the description of a possible suspect vehicle” inside the Boston Lot Lake parking lot, he tried to investigate. In response, the duo attempted to avoid Sgt. Norris, resulting in a short police chase before the suspects crashed on Oak Ridge Road off Route 10. Furthermore, the Valley News reports that Young “attempted to discard the pistol after the vehicle had crashed,” according to Lebanon police. Considering the harm that this pair caused to a college student, it would be reasonable to expect that the police would bring down the full force of the law on the two alleged criminals. In Young’s case, one must ask whether he is being under-charged. Mr. Cohen emphasized that while additional charges may be appropriate based upon the facts of the case, prosecutors are reserved a “tremendous amount of prosecutorial discretion” when it comes to deciding which charges can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Mr. This article was produced by a group effort from staff members at The Dartmouth Review.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM Photo is shot from sidewalk in front of Sigma Delta Cohen also noted that further investigation may lead the prosecutor to pursue additional charges based upon newly acquired facts. The suspect’s father, Sgt. David A. Young, is a former Law Enforcement Specialist and Sergeant of the United States Air Force. He served during the first Gulf War and received an honorable discharge shortly after on request. In 1992, after graduating from the 97th NH Police Academy, he joined the City of Claremont Police Department, NH, as a Patrol Officer and Detective. He moved to the Lebanon Police Department (NH) in 1998, where he was a Corporal and then a Detective Division Supervisor. He finally retired in June 2016 as a Sergeant in the Uniform Patrol Division. An extensive search of Sgt. Young’s professional profiles show deep-seated connections and interactions with both law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities across New Hampshire. During his 24-year-long police career, Sgt. Young focused extensively on investigations and often worked closely with prosecutors in cases that went all the way up to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He was also extensively involved with the local police association, serving as its Vice President, and with the New Hampshire Police Association (NHPA). From June 2012 through June 2013, he served as the President of the NHPA, following which he was appointed as one of the Association’s directors. Prior to that, Sgt. Young had been a member of the Legislature Board to the NHPA starting 2005, and the following year he was elected to a seat on their Executive Board and

later the Board of Directors, which he continued to serve on until his retirement in 2016. In 2008, he was also appointed the NHPA’s SergeantAt-Arms. In the Fall of 2016, shortly after his retirement from both the NHPA and Lebanon Police Department, his daughter was awarded the NHPA scholarship in a year in which they awarded 25 instead of the usual 10 scholarships. The prosecutor for Grafton County, Lara Joan Saffo, has been in office since at least 2010, and so may have worked with Sgt. Young given his distinguished career as an officer of the law. Since the Grafton County Attorney’s Office, which Saffo leads, is prosecuting Young, her relationship with his father is certainly relevant to the case and to the people of Grafton County. Lebanon Police Department charged shooter Gage Young with “reckless conduct” and “falsifying physical evidence,” in addition to the charges from the Hanover Police, to which Young has pleaded “Not Guilty.”. Sgt. Richard Norris, who served for years with Sgt. Young, was the arresting officer. The earliest mention of Norris as a Sergeant at the Lebanon Police Department we found is from April 2015, which overlaps with Sgt. Young’s tenure by at least 15 months. He was a member of the same division as Sgt. Young — the Patrol Bureau. In a small department like Lebanon Police Department, which has only four Sergeants, it is almost certain that the two officers worked with each other in the past and knew each other well. Sgt. Norris has also worked extensively with the Hanover Police Department in the past, as recently as March 2018, on a case involving

an online shooting threat directed at Hanover High School. Gage Young, the son of Sgt. Young, grew up in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and attended Lebanon High School, where he played basketball as a senior as a forward. After graduating, Young worked in the town of Hanover, in close proximity to the location of the shooting, for a significant amount of time. Hector Correa, the 17-year-old Lebanon High School student who was driving the car at the time of the incident, was arrested by Lebanon Police Department at the end of the chase along with Young. However, he was only charged by Lebanon Police Department with “disobeying a police officer,” a misdemeanour, and was “summoned to appear in Lebanon Circuit Court” on December 17. Hanover Police Department confirmed that Correa was driving at the time that Young allegedly fired 4–6 shots near Rhonda Dowling’s house near Fountain St. in Lebanon. By Correa’s own admission, he was shooting and driving at the same time; the only difference being that he did not injure anybody. Lebanon Police Department’s dispatch records show that Rhonda Dowling called 911 about shots being fired in the vicinity of her house, which resulted in Lebanon Police Department attempting to stop and search the car in which Correa was driving with Young. Correa’s speeding away from the police seem to embody the wording laid out in Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution under 642:3 of the New Hampshire Criminal Code. Under this statute, a person is guilty of an offense if: “with a purpose to hinder, prevent or delay the discov-

Image Courtesy of Eashwar Sivarajan ery, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another for the commission of a crime, he provides such person ... transportation for avoiding discovery or apprehension.” When contacted for comment, Hanover Police Department chief Charles Dennis declined, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation. Lebanon Police Department promised to return our request for comment, but at the time of publication we have not heard from them. Why was Young not charged with first degree assault nor any of the sentence-enhancing charges that can be used in a firearm related case? Why was Correa not charged with additional crimes? Is it related to Sgt. Young’s deep connections in the law enforcement and prosecutorial communities in the Upper Valley? Will related individuals who know Sgt. Young well recuse themselves from his son’s case? These questions we aim to raise with this article are questions of accountability. At the end of the day, it is imperative that Dartmouth is safe from criminal violence of any kind. While we respect our police departments and the sacrifices they regularly make to keep us safe, it is also important to fulfill our civic duty and our responsibilities as members of the journalistic fourth estate to ensure our institutions are wholly uncorrupted. Editors Note: Jonathan Cohen is a practicing trial attorney based out of Concord, NH, and a former New Hampshire Public Defender. He previously taught at the Law School at Franklin Pierce University. His firm, Cohen & Winters, can be found here: www.cohenwinters.com.

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Administration Downplays Shooting escorted the victim to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Some of the students were questioned extensively by Hanover Police for many hours. The students informed the College’s administration about the incident and the status of the injured person, but till Sunday, the administration has not reached out to the injured student. What compounds the administration’s apathy towards the student body’s safety is the way that the DartAlert system was used. While the dispatch at 911 received a call around 9:45 PM according to Hanover PD Chief Charles Dennis, the first notification that students officially received from the College was at 10:23 PM, more than half an hour after the shooting was reported. With a shooter at large, such a delay could easily have put more Dartmouth affiliated lives at risk. A College employee, who was on duty at the time of the incident and usually is on Amber alert status, claimed he did not receive notification of the incident from the College until the morning after. The College has repeatedly said that the shooting did not take place on campus. President Hanlon in his email to the Dartmouth community referred to the location as “about a block away from campus.” A release by the Office of Communications refers to the “shooting near campus.” These claims are defensibly true, but also highly misleading to anyone not familiar with the area. After all, the definition of what is “on campus” is not clearly defined. The attached map highlights the buildings used by the College and those affiliated with it. (Note: Up to 5 students live on the premises of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in their College affiliated residential program. The church has a Dartmouth Blitz account, demonstrating a significant relationship with and recognition from the College).

A MAP OF THE SHOOTING Coverage from most national has corroborated the actual facts and local news outlets empha- extensively. A Dartmouth stusize the College’s statement dis- dent invited three friends from tancing itself from the incident outside of Dartmouth to stay through both geography and with him over the weekend in affiliation. During the incident, his College dormitory. Around while the campus was on lock- 9:30 PM on the night of Novemdown, the College’s social media ber 2, a group of five Dartmouth accounts were busy emphasizing students and their three guests that the student was not affiliat- staying with them that night were ed with the College in any way, going south on School Street, shape, or form. This was reflected heading into town. in the emails the College sent to They were in two groups of students’ parents and guardians four each, engrossed in converas well. sation; the group at the rear was Police described the incident shot at. They reported hearing as a “random, isolated attack.” the sound of a gunshot, and the As is visible from this image, Moreover, when questioned victim shouted an expletive and the shooting took place around about what the victim was do- complained of pain. The group a hundred yards from the largest ing in Hanover, and specifically opened the jacket of the victim to dining hall on campus, Class of whether he was visiting Dart- find that blood was oozing out, 1953 Commons. It also took place mouth, Police Chief Charles and that he had been shot in the so close to the College-owned Dennis responded by saying, lower back. The students called and student occupied Sigma “I’m not going release any in- 911 and immediately escorted Delta that the students and their formation on that at this time.” Thus, any misconceptions about “Therefore, the administration’s claim the connection between the shooting victim and the College that the attack was not directed at the Darthave not been corrected by police to the best of our knowledge mouth community does not hold up” at this time. The Dartmouth Review has spoken to multiple sources, in- him to a College-owned sorority guests took shelter in that Dartcluding students with first-hand house on the opposite side of the mouth sorority’s portico while knowledge of the shooting and street, Sigma Delta, where they waiting for the ambulance. Colwaited for emergency services lege-owned and faculty occupied This article was produced by a to come and save their injured housing is further along School Street, which the Hanlon Admingroup effort from staff members at guest. Upon arrival, the ambulance istration would describe as furThe Dartmouth Review.

ther away from campus. Looking again at the map, most of the buildings in the immediate vicinity of the location of the shooting are either Dartmouth-owned or at least heavily associated with the College and its students. Several are office buildings occupied by Dartmouth officials, Theta Delta Chi (TDX) is an on-campus Dartmouth fraternity, and the Episcopal Church houses students of the College. For Hanlon and the rest of the Administration to regularly insist that the shooting was a “block away from campus” would be to feign ignorance with the geography of the small town they work in and inhabit. Hanlon, additionally, has roamed these very same streets as an undergraduate student from 1973–77, and later, from 2013 onwards, as President of the College. To use the language that the Administration has used is to deemphasize the closeness of the incident to the student body. Sources with knowledge of the shooting incident further impressed upon the mind the intertwined nature of the shooting and Dartmouth. When the Review spoke to those who were present at the incident, they emphasized that the shot did not seem to be targeted towards one

person, but rather, at a group of what would seem like Dartmouth students to those who did not know the individuals in the group personally. Some of those present recount that they saw a car similar to the one that Gage Young was eventually discovered in by police. These sources noted that the vehicle was a significant distance away from the location of the shooting, so much so that it seems highly unlikely that the shooter could have aimed a handgun with sufficient accuracy to hit one desired student out of the four after recognizing him in the dark with his back turned towards the shooter. Therefore, the administration’s claim that the attack was not directed at the Dartmouth community does not hold up — some of those present strongly believe that Gage Young intended to attack members of the Dartmouth community. Add to this Young’s familiarity with Hanover — he worked in close proximity to the site of the shooting for a substantial period of time and grew up right outside the town, on Oak Ridge Road, which is just a few hundred yards from the boundary of the town of Hanover — and we know almost definitely that the attack was carried out with intent to harm.

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David Horowitz’s Letter to Hanlon

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Letter to the Editor Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Frontpagemag.com President Philip Hanlon Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Dear President Hanlon, On October 23, I spoke at your college. I was invited by members of College Republicans and Students Supporting Israel. They probably wanted to hear what I had to say because I am one of the most prominent conservative intellectuals in America, having published over twenty books, three of which were New York Times best-sellers and one of which was nominated for a National Book Award. The feminist Camille Paglia has said of me: “I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts…. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz’s spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.” Despite my credentials, and even though these conservative students pay the same tuition - $75,000 per year – as your leftwing students, I was forced to raise the money to underwrite my visit and lecture. This was particularly galling to the Dartmouth conservatives who invited me, because the previous spring Dartmouth’s “Office of Pluralism and Leadership” sponsored a visit by notorious anti-Semite and terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour – who has no academic credentials to speak of – underwriting her expenses and paying her a reported $10,000 honorarium for her talk. My hosts were also probably interested in what I had to say because over the preceding deDavid Horowitz is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a famous Conservative speaker.

cades, Dartmouth has purged conservative intellectuals from its faculty so effectively that the students could only name two Dartmouth liberal arts professors who were conservative. This reflects a collective faculty attitude that intellectual diversity is dangerous and unwanted. This is a disgraceful fact of academic life, which could easily be remedied, which prevents Dartmouth students from getting a decent liberal arts education, where all issues are controversial and intellectual diversity is the only guarantee that students are being educated rather than indoctrinated, or that there are reasonable checks on unchallenged leftist professors going off the deep end. As it happens my visit elicited a professorial outburst showing just how far leftwing bigotry and anti-academic discourse can go on your campus. I will come to this in a moment. Before my arrival, an anonymous leaflet was circulated, apparently by the Dartmouth Socialists club. It was filled with lies about my work, calling me a “racist, sexist and ignorant bigot.” These slanders were drawn from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an institution so discredited that it recently had to pay a devout and moderate British Muslim $3.4 million after it libeled him as “a violent anti-Muslim extremist.” None of the students behind this slander sheet was apparently aware that I have a 50-year public record as a civil rights activist, or that I have published three books in the last 20 years dedicated to Martin Luther King’s vision of an America in which people are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. And why should Dartmouth students be aware of my views since Dartmouth’s leftwing faculty obviously has no respect for conservative perspectives, which is why conservatives are as rare as unicorns on your faculty. Leading the pack of Dartmouth character assassins who mobilized to combat my presence was Professor Annel-

ise Oreleck, an out-of-control Gender Studies professor who tweeted: “Long-time hater, Islamophobe and anti-intellectual David Horowitz is speaking today in Rocky 3 at 6pm. He is a hater of the first order. If you’re so inclined, support students who are organizing a protest – Bring signs. Turn your back. Stage a walkout.” What justification can there be to have such an angry, close-minded individual teaching Dartmouth students? Professor Oreleck’s protest instructions happened to be – and surely this was no coincidence - exactly what the Dartmouth Socialists were planning to obstruct my lecture - namely to turn an academic talk into a circus so that no one would pay serious attention to anything that was said. They

nothingism that they couldn’t care less what they are fighting against. As for the transgenderism, like many other conservatives, I am actually a very tolerant person. I happen to have a transgendered grandson who graduated from an Ivy League school and would never think of attending a college lecture only to mock it. Wondering how students paying $75,000 a year for a Dartmouth education could throw away such an opportunity, it occurred to me that maybe they were not paying anything at all, but were so-called “marginalized” and “under-served” affirmative action scholarship cases. What a travesty that Dartmouth would encourage them to squander the opportunity their scholarships provided by not insisting on behavior

“‘The Dartmouth reporter Andrew Culver failed to print a single word of my interview.” came in force to play loud porn videos, put on headphones to block out my words, unfurl distracting banners with slogans like “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” and “ICE is the Gestapo,” and to periodically walk out of the room throwing jibes in my direction as further distractions before they left. One transgender person, dressed as though she was going to Mardi Gras, sat herself near the front and eyed me intensely in the hope I guess that I would find her disturbing. All the disrespectful antics of the protesters were in fact disturbing – not least because they were displays of Ivy League students wasting what could have been a valuable educational opportunity, and demonstrations of their total lack of interest in what someone who disagreed with them, and was far more educated, might be saying. When I was a college radical, as I told them to no effect, I always wanted to hear what our opponents were saying because I thought it would make me a better radical. Apparently, today’s radicals are so dedicated to self-righteous know-

appropriate to an academic community. When educators encourage closed minds, what is left of the learning process? As it happens there were several Dartmouth administrators overseeing this event, including Keysi Montás, the Director of Safety and Security who was in charge. Unfortunately, they were not there to enforce an educational decorum but to encourage the protesters by tolerating their antics and refusing to eject them. The whole travesty was sealed by the school newspaper, The Dartmouth, which bills itself as “The Oldest College Newspaper,” and which sent a reporter named Andrew Culver to cover the event. Before I began speaking, I gave Culver a recorded interview at his request. In it, I defended myself against the slanders in the anonymous leaflet, and showed him exactly how and why they were gross misrepresentations of the facts. For example, I was called a “sexist” for pointing out the scientific fact that men score higher on mathematical aptitude tests than women. What the slan-

der sheet left out was that I also said, women score higher than men on verbal aptitude tests, and that I brought up these facts in defense of Harvard’s liberal president, Larry Summers, who was under fire for stating them first. I also described my public record as a civil rights activist, mentioned the fact that I had three black grandchildren, and was probably the only conservative in the country to defend Trayvon Martin during the trial of his killer George Zimmerman. The Dartmouth reporter Andrew Culver failed to print a single word of my interview. Instead he opened his article by repeating the lies in the leaflet – namely that I was a racist, a sexist and a bigot. Culver’s mis-reporting of the event closed off the possibility that anyone in the Dartmouth community at large would be exposed to anything I had actually said. Only the slanders would remain. This is the state of education at a once admired Ivy League institution, where students can go four years without encountering a conservative adult. Moreover, if one is invited to campus to speak, he will be drowned out by students who shouldn’t be in college in the first place. You had no personal role in these travesties, but you are president of the institution that made them possible. I’m not going to ask you to have your “Office of Pluralism (how Orwellian is that)” sponsor a return visit from me, since it might well provoke a faculty riot. I just want you to think about these signs of a damaged institution. and the warping of the educational experiences of your students. I would like an apology from you on behalf of the Dartmouth community. I would also like to see some instruction from you to your staff on the importance of promoting educational values rather than encouraging close-minded political bigotry at your school. Perhaps hiring a dozen or so conservative administrators might help. Sincerely, David Horowitz

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Review Reviews: Senator Cory Booker Eashwar N. Sivarajan

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On Sunday, October 28, The College Democrats hosted a “Get Out the Vote” event featuring appearances from Representative Annie Kuster and Senator Cory Booker. Garrett Muscatel ‘20, who at the time was running for the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, was asked to speak and to introduce the Democratic members of Congress. Muscatel, the Vice President of the New Hampshire College Democrats, was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against voter suppression. Muscatel started his speech by accusing the Republicans in the New Hampshire’s legislature of wanting to “strip [students] of their right to vote” — which is not a Constitutional right. He went on to campaign to the largely-liberal audience, pushing for proposals such as affordable college for all AmerMr. Sivarajan is a sophomore at The College and a Managing Editor at The Dartmouth Review

icans. Muscatel introduced Annie Kuster ‘78 as someone who would “fight for all of us in Congress next year.” Kuster’s appearance, unlike Booker’s, is justifiable, as she is the Congresswoman for the Dartmouth’s students. Since this was an event to “Get Out the Vote,” Kuster began her short talk by telling the audience what they must do to vote, from informing them of New Hampshire’s same-day registration policy to acknowledging the need for ID “so that [the pollsters] know who you are.” This is a remarkable admission, since Kuster has publicly opposed voter identification laws because she believes that they suppress the vote. Kuster then went on to advocate against sexual assaults in various workplaces after introducing State Sen. Martha Hennessey ’76, who is running for a second term, presumably because Ms. Hennessey has publicly said she was sexually assaulted while at The College. Kuster also said she was trying to fight the opioid epidemic, advocating for “treatment and

long-term recovery.” She concluded her speech by pushing for more affordable college, access to healthcare, and “saving the planet.” Kuster introduced the highlight of the event, the Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. Who among us can despise the man who claimed his releasing of an email was his “I am Spartacus” moment? Who can question the integrity of the Senator who cried “tears of rage” when he heard from his colleague that President Trump had used crude language to describe some foreign nations? Are we worthy of looking upon the face of the man who exploded when Secretary Nielsen said she did not remember the President of the United States making said comment, accusing her “silence and amnesia” of being “complicit?” Those in attendance were fortunate enough to hear a veritable rebel speak. Future Presidential-candidate Booker, as is an unspoken tradition among Presidential frontrunners, displayed his religiosity by speaking of a story

from the Torah. Of course, in the interests of inclusivity, he referred to the morals of the story — goodness towards man and always fighting for justice, as “Abrahamic ideals.” Booker’s speech was replete with talk of all kinds of injustice, from the injustice black people faced at the hands of the police to the “environmental injustice” of children drinking water with lead. After convincing the audience beyond any reasonable doubt that he cared about them, Booker pivoted to pointing out that these issues had little to do with the current President since they had existed from long before he was elected. While the first half of Booker’s speech had little substance and was teeming with truism, the latter half was moving enough to touch the soul of the most cold-hearted individual. The Senator spoke of the terrible discriminatory hardship his black parents faced in the 1960s. He spoke of how his father grew up dirt poor and had to work for everything he got. Booker told the audience of

how his parents were not sold a house because of their race, and how his father, accompanied by lawyer, accused the seller of illegal racial discrimination when a white couple were sold the house, only to have a dog sicked on him. Booker said he tracked down the lawyer and asked what had compelled the attorney to defend a black couple in 1960s. The lawyer credited the act of kindness to the horrific treatment of the people who marched from Selma to Montgomery. The ethos of Senator Booker’s argument was that many Americans are reluctant to try to affect change, even though they believe it must be done. He even attempted to formulate a catchy slogan — “If it is to be, it is up to me” — but evidently failed, miserably. However, Booker demonstrated a mastery of political maneuvering, touched all the right notes in his speech to a Democratic audience, and consolidated his position as a force to be reckoned with in the 2020 Democratic Primary elections.

torium where students were sheltering without identifying himself, causing the students to report it to Hanover Police. Hanover Police chief Charles Dennis confirmed, saying that “Hanover Police responded to the call that someone was knocking on the door where people were sheltering in place. My understanding is [that] it was a custodian that was knocking on the door and didn’t identify himself.” A student watching the Department of Theatre pro-

duction ‘Eclipsed’ at the Moore auditorium recounts that “The first incident occurred during the play … afterwards, we just had to wait in the theater for about two hours until the lockdown was lifted.” Safety and Security did not comment on the request. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin could not be reached for comments. Hanover Police requests anyone with additional information or tips to contact them at 603-643-2222.

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The Staff Around 9:45 PM last night, Hanover dispatch received a 911 call informing them of a shooting incident on the sidewalk outside the Christian Science Reading Room in downtown Hanover. A 19-year old male, who is unaffiliated with the College, was injured and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he is now in a stable condition. The victim is from the New England area but is not from New Hampshire. Hanover Police has requested the court for the name of the victim to be sealed for his privacy and to ensure the integrity of the investigation. Hanover Police chief Charles B. Dennis reported in a press conference today that at 2:47 PM, Hanover Police arrested 22-year old Lebanon NH resident Gage Young for Second Degree Assault, a class B felony. Young appears to have been traveling through the Town of Hanover when he fired a handgun from a car, injuring the yet-unnamed victim in the lower back. At this point in time, Hanover Police believes that it is an isolated incident and that the assailant did not know the victim. Upper Valley police departments, the Grafton County Sheriff ’s Office, New Hampshire State Police, and Hanover This article was produced by a group effort from staff members at The Dartmouth Review.

Fire Department assisted Hanover Police in responding to the incident. The assailant, accompanied by a 17-year-old male, was detained after a chase on the northbound section of Route 10 in a black Ford Fusion. They crashed near 60 Oak Ridge Road around 11:30 PM, and were not injured. Hanover Police Department is exploring charges against the 17-year-old male accompanying the assailant at the moment. Hanover Police chief Charles Dennis confirmed that Young is being “held without bail at the Grafton County House of Corrections pending his arraignment on Monday, November 5, 2018, at the Grafton County Superior Court.” The Christian Science reading room is adjacent to the Sigma Delta Sorority on West Wheelock Street, and across the road from the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house and the Class of 1953 Commons’ parking lot, the largest dining hall on campus. Since the incident occurred on a Hanover street rather than Dartmouth property, the Hanover Police Department is taking lead on the investigation. The College issued a “shelter in place” alert through DartAlert 30 minutes after the incident, at 10:23 PM, followed by an update at 11:12 PM upgrading the situation to a campus-wide emergency. The lock-

down was lifted at 12:46 AM in consultation with the Hanover Police department. Additional claims of shots being fired were reported by students in the vicinity of the Bones Gate fraternity house and Fahey-McLane cluster around 10:50 PM. Just before midnight, there were additional reports of multiple shots being fired in Lebanon, near Main Street and Fountain Way. A student staying in the Fahey-McLane Cluster at the time said, “I heard what I thought was a shot.” The student has had experience with firearms in the past, including handguns, and believed that that was what made the sound. “It sounded pretty clearly like a .22 [caliber gun] to me. The only other thing that sounds like that that I can think of is a large branch breaking.” A brother of the Bones Gate fraternity confirmed that he believed he heard a shot. Hanover Police have confirmed that the suspect used a handgun in the shooting, but at this point, they are not releasing the caliber of the gun. Hanover Police chief Charles Dennis said that while they have found no evidence corroborating the reports, it is part of their ongoing investigations. At the Hopkins Center for the Arts, students were told to take shelter in place. A janitorial custodian knocked on the door of one of the practice rooms underneath Spaulding audi-

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An Interview With Quentin Kopp ‘49 Alexander Rauda Griffin Mackey Managing Editor Associate Editor

Quentin L. Kopp is a member of The Class of 1949, and a politician and retired judge. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of San Francisco in 1979 against Dianne Feinstein. In 1986, he ran for California State Senate as an independent in a heavily Democratic district. Though he had no party affiliation, he received financial support from Republicans because of their distaste for the Democratic nominee. Kopp ended up winning by one percentage point. He later went on to win re-election in 1990 and 1994. Term limits prohibited him from running in 1998. However, Republican then-Governor Pete Wilson appointed Kopp to a judgeship in 1998, a position he served in until 2004. TDR: Let’s start with your childhood. Tell me a little bit more about growing up in New York and how that influenced you in becoming a man? Kopp: I didn’t grow up in New York City — or anywhere near it. I grew up in Syracuse in upstate New York, about 250 miles north and west of New York City. Syracuse had a population in the 1930s census of 209,326. My father, Sheppard S Kopp, emigrated from Russia to Brooklyn in 1912 at the age of 15. In 1917, after we declared war on Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and after training was sent to France as part of the American Expeditionary Force and he was naturalized in France in 1917. He became a corporal and after the armistice he was selected as one of a hundred men for the American mission to Armenia which was under the leadership of two generals. That was a 90 day mission which then reported to the Congress and president on its findings respecting the genocide by the Turkish Armed Forces of Armenians. He then came to Syracuse because the oldest of his five siblings was a pharmacist and my father had completed pharmacy school. At that time it required only two years of school. My mother was born in Binghamton, New York in 1900. Her parents also emigrated from Russia legally as did my father. I underscore the word legally. The part of Russia that both families were farmers in, living in villages, is now Belarus. They married in 1925. I was born in 1928. I have a sister who was born Mr. Rauda is a sophomore at the College and a Managing Editor at The Dartmouth Review. Mr. Mackey is a sophomore at the College and an Associate Editor at The Dartmouth Review.

in 1930 and who graduated from Smith College in 1950. My father’s pharmacy had two Dartmouth graduates as customers. I went to a public high school called Nottingham High School which had about 250 in our graduating class, 90 percent of whom went to college and 90 percent of that 90 percent went to Syracuse University which for many people saved money because you could live at home and walk to campus. My father wanted me to attend Princeton because he had served in France with four or five people who graduated Princeton. I applied to Princeton, but I was rejected and these two customers, one of whom was Bill Martin of the class of 1928 insisted I applied at Dartmouth. I applied to Dartmouth and was accepted for the entering class in July of 1945. At that time Dartmouth had three semesters a year, not quarters. Because World War 2 was still in progress, we had a big contingent of the V12 Navy officer candidates, and so Dartmouth went year-round. Our class started in March of 1945. The next contingent was July and the final contingent was November. I began work in my father’s drugstore when I was eleven and a half and continued to work in the drugstore until after I graduated law school when I was home on vacation. I worked every afternoon during high school or every night. When I came to Dartmouth, I was taken aback because Hanover was so small. When I matriculated, Hanover probably had only four or five thousand people. Ernest Martin Hopkins was president. Neil Langer was the Dean of the College for medical men. I lived in Wheeler my first semester and then moved to Russell Sage the next semester with two roommates. And I began ‘healing,’ that was the word used. I was a heeler for The Daily Dartmouth. The war had ended in August of 1945. In November, the first returning World War Two veterans came to campus and we had just two outstanding journalists. One was Jerry Tomer from New York City. He was one of the founders of The Village Voice, which closed down last week. The other journalist was Alex Fanelli, who later became an administrator at the College and they were just wonderful as far as training to be newspaper reporters. And after the first semester of healing with them, I asked to be assigned sports, and I was assigned to sports and stayed on the paper for about two more years and became assistant sports editor. Then my last year in that era, you could take your senior year at Tuck School so I did. I also wanted to go to law school, and in those days you could get into some law

schools after three years. I was accepted after my junior year at the University of Virginia Law School and Stanford Law School. One of my Government professors was Donald Morris, who later became Dean of the College. Wonderful man. He said, “now you shouldn’t go to the University of Virginia law school. That’s for wealthy kind of college ne’er do wells like Franklin Roosevelt’s son.” And of course, that’s where Teddy Kennedy later went. And that’s where John Tommy went. I also got accepted to Stanford Law School, whose Dean was from Dartmouth’s class of 1929. His name was Carol Spath but it seemed so daunting to turn around and go 3000 miles back to the San Francisco Bay area. So, I turned down the offer and then the following year I was accepted at Columbia Law School and got a partial scholarship for tuition. I was on a waiting list at Harvard Law School and on Labor Day weekend I got accepted by Harvard Law School. A cousin of mine who’d gone to Harvard Law School and practiced law in Los Angeles who is older said, “nobody’s heard of Columbia Law School in California. You’ve got to go to Harvard,” and I said, “well I’ve got a $200 tuition scholarship which pays half the tuition.” He said, “I’ll make up the $200 and you’ll get an academic scholarship for the second year.” So I told Columbia Law School, “I’m sorry but I’m going to cancel my decision,” and I went to Harvard Law School and finished law school at the end of May 1952. TDR: That was a very interesting story. Could you clarify a bit what a heeler is at the daily Dartmouth and what that entails? Kopp: That’s when you’re a freshman and you were a member of an organization. One would be the Dartmouth Outing Club. Another would be the Daily Dartmouth. Another was the humor magazine which was published monthly called the Jack O’ Lantern. It was kind of a pledge period where you did all of the petty chores. Meaning if somebody said empty that wastebasket you empty the wastebasket, or if somebody said here proofread this column. Basically, less than highly regarded kind of responsibilities and tasks were given to the heelers. That was the short word. It wasn’t used with athletic teams, but it was used for non-athletic extracurricular clubs. TDR: I see. What was your fondest memory from your time at Dartmouth? Kopp: My fondest memory was my junior year when I got a 3.6 GPA, which made me a Ru-

fus Choate scholar. That was my fondest memory. And I was able to achieve that because I persuaded my parents that I would never be a medical doctor and I didn’t want to major in pre-med which I had done as a sophomore taking physics, chemistry, physiology, comparative anatomy, and biology. Through the first two years I wasn’t cut out for it scholastically, and I then transferred my major to government. Asa government major, I did better, and I say it was the happiest moment getting a three point six and being named the Rufus Choate scholar. TDR: It seems that a lot of the traditions of old Dartmouth have disappeared or been forgotten. Are there any that you can remember that you think should be brought back? Kopp: They have. As a freshman, you wore a beanie which had your class numerals on the bill which was a short bill, not like a baseball cap bill. And you wore that any time you were outside and if you didn’t wear it an upperclassman would upbraid you and say, “get back in your room or go get your beanie. Don’t you dare come on campus without your beanie.” And you wore your beanie until sometime in the second semester. There was an event which triggered the end of wearing the bean in. It was the tug of war between the freshman class and the sophomore class and that was a tug of war where the freshmen would line up near round chapel on the green. Sophomores would be lined up the southeast corner of the grain that tug of war with the rope of them would be grasped by freshmen and sophomores I know. And if the freshmen won that tug of war, we didn’t have to wear beanies anymore. That took place as soon as the snow disappeared, so it would typically be on or before April 1. That year, we beat the sophomores at tug of war. A third tradition was the Gauntlet, which took place in late Spring Term, probably before Green Key. The freshmen lined up in the northeast corner of the Green, and all the upperclassmen lined up on both sides of a path going from northeast to the southwest, holding leather belts. They couldn’t have metal but leather belts or straps, and you’d run like hell. Because they would be hitting you with the leather belts Another tradition was during freshman year in the dormitories. Upperclassman could do this a couple of times. They would come down the hall and yell “Forty-nine out” and that meant every freshman would get out of bed or get out of the room away from a desk or chair where he was studying and assembled downstairs in

front of a front door. And then the upperclassmen would lead you on a hike. The hike I remember was the Occam Pond then you go down there and then they let you go back to the dormitories. “Forty-nine Out”. When you heard that your blood curdled it scared the hell out of you as to what was going to happen. The Hums was a Spring term tradition. Most of the dormitories and fraternities would have their own choruses, and they would all sing at Green Key. We weren’t Ohio State or hoedown state. We were Dartmouth and what we added was fall house parties and that was in the dorms and fraternities. You’d invite a date up and you’d move out of the fraternity house if you were living there or you’d move and there was one dorm set aside for the women. If you were in that dorm you’d move, and the administration did that. You’d have to move out and go sleep in somebody else’s dorm room or something of that nature. And then winter carnival and then. And then green Key. But it wasn’t homecoming it was fall house party. Another tradition was, the only people who could sit on the fence at the green were seniors. That’s why it was called the senior Fence. If a junior, sophomore, or freshman or wouldn’t even dare think of it sitting on that Fence they’d throw them off. When I was at Dartmouth, the Hovey murals were in the hall where we ate our meals, and not just in a corner. What the hell! Not that commons were freshman commons, but it had a name to it. And the Hovey murals were there and they were out. They were like the Orozco murals, except, of course, Orozco was a radical artist, and there was some criticism when Dartmouth put his murals in the library. That criticism came from conservatives. But that was Dartmouth — particularly Dartmouth when John Sloan Dickey was president — and I didn’t have too much experience with Hopkins. I met Hopkins. Every incoming freshman would go. You would be in a line and you would sit down, and the president is up to shake hands, and each freshmen would sign a document of matriculation. John Sloan Dickey came my second semester. Hopkins retired at the end of the summer semester and John Sloan Dickey came in November, I think. And he started another tradition, an academic tradition that was great. His theory was you get a business school degree, which then was an MCS (Master of Commercial Success), and Tuck was not a highly rated business school although it was a good school. My father’s theory was you get that degree

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