Monday, September 29, 2003Re: DOC HazingI'd say "I told you so," because I largely did in an article two years ago when the current hazing policy was proposed(The Terrible New Hazing Policy):"Imagine that you have just joined an organization. Almost immediately you are informed that there will be a new member trip into the woods around Hanover. Attendance is not required but it is strongly encouraged, and almost every other new member is going to go...After two nights in the woods, you return, having been forced to sleep on the ground in the rain, and hike mile after mile. On the way back you tripped and sprained your ankle. Under Dartmouth's proposed statute, you may have just been hazed...Of course, you might also be a freshman returning from your DOC trip." But I can't really claim any prescience, because as you can see, even a man as dubious of the College's good sense as myself assumed that a hazing prosecution of the DOC for freshman trips was a reductio ad absurdum, not a likely consequence of the policy. If the College is going to prove my undergraduate predictions wrong, must it be by becoming even more a caricature of a miniature nanny state than I ever thought it would? Posted by Alexander at 1:56 PM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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