The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1988 Page: 4 of 16
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4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1988 THE RICE THRESHER
Review sues Dartmouth over discrimination — against whites
Racial incidents have occured at
several universities this fall
including one unusual event at
Dartmouth which may have a long-
term impact on campuses.
Four Dartmouth students who
were staffers for the conservative
Dartmouth Review newspaper are
suing the college for discrimination
against whites. The newspaper is
unaffiliated with the college.
The suit, filed over the summer,
asks three questions:
1. Can a university discriminate
against a conservative white
criticizing a liberal black without
violating Title 6 of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964?
2. Can a professor, by virtue of
being a minority, claim immunity
against criticism from students
traditionally protected by the First
Amendment?
3. Can the federal government
legally give $30 million annually to
Dartmouth if there is a violation of
due process for an ethnic group (in
this case, whites)?
The students wrote alumni,
asking for financial support to
finance the lawsuit The alumni
responded and have hired the New
York law firm of Myerson and Kuhn
for the students.
They have support from Morton
Halperin of the ACLU and many
prominent conservatives, including
Sens. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)
and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa),
former Treasury Secretary William
Simon, and outgoing Rep. Jack
Kemp (R-NY).
The suit stems from an incident
that occurred last winter and spring
at Dartmouth. The student-run
Review taped a music class taught by
Professor Bill Cole, a liberal black
professor. They wrote an article
which was critical of his class, calling
it "one of Dartmouth's most
academically deficient courses."
After the article was published,
on advice of counsel, four students
from the Review delivered a letter to
him after class, offering space in the
newspaper to reply. The students
and professor began shouting at and
pushing each other.
Dartmouth's committee on
standards suspended three students
for 18 months and placed a fourth on
probation for disorderly conduct,
harassment, and violation of Cole's
light to privacy. Cole said later.
"They should have been kicked out."
by Kurt Moeller
The committee said, "One
student was found guilty [of
harassment] because he initiated
and persisted in vexatious oral
exchange with Professor Cole,
despite Professor Cole's repeated
requests to leave his classroom."
At a faculty meeting two weeks
later, Dartmouth President James 0.
Freedman blasted the Review and
received a standing ovation. He
accused them of "poisoning the
intellectual environment of the
campus" and being "irresponsible,
mean-spirited, cruel and ugly." He
said the Review case was not a case
of free speech.
Other racial incidents have
occurred this fall at major
universities. In October at Stanford
there was a derogatory caricature of
a black man on a poster of Beethoven
at the Ujamaa dorm house. In the
same house a flier with the word
"nigger" scrawled on it was found.
Stanford President Donald
Kennedy devoted most of his
Parents' Weekend address to talking
about the incidents. Two weeks after
the first incident, an anti-Semitic flier
was placed under the office door of
the Hillel Foundation.
A fraternity at the University of
Virginia distributed fliers reading
"No nega babes" and "No short
wops." The frat responded to
criticism by saying "nega" was short
for negative and "wops" was a
nickname for a frat member. On the
university's unofficial graffiti
location someone painted, "The
worst racism is that falsely alleged."
At the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, a fraternity held a "slave
auction." Frat members dressed as
slaves, painted their faces black,
wore afro wigs and play-acted
derogatory scenes aimed at
prominent blacks.
At Yale, a swastika with the words
"White Power" was painted on the
wall of the Afro-American Cultural
Center.
Over the past two years, racist
incidents have occurred at the
UniversityofMichigan. Inresponse,
the university imposed an anti-
harassment code and said anyone
distributing racist fliers or involved
in any racial incident would be
expelled. Administrators are also
discussing adding a required course
about other cultures and races.
Divestment protests
Students at Cornell University
participate in weekly rallies for
divestment in front of the campus'
administration building. The
protesters call for Cornell to sell all of
its $42.6 million of stock of
companies doing business in South
Africa.
Every Wednesday, about 25 to 40
protesters in the ad hoc group
Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid,
which includes students, participate
in the vocal demonstrations.
Protesters have gathered outside
President Frank H.T. Rhodes' office
three times.
There are few blacks in the
regular Wednesday demonstrations.
Members of the black-led South
African Ad-Hoc Committee are
frustrated at being expected to
attend the weekly protests. Two
Fridays ago, about 100 black
students held a quieter rally to show
their support for divestment.
The Board of Trustees' Review
Proxy Committee held a public
forum on divestment on Nov. 3.
Twenty-five people spoke for
divestment. One person spoke
against it and was loudly hissed.
After hearing the committee's
report on Nov. 23, the Board of
Trustees will decide about full
divestment in January. Since 1981,
Cornell has practiced a policy of
"selective divestment" and has sold
approximately $100 million of stock
of companies with South African
holdings.
New minority plan
On October 28, the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board
accepted a new five year plan to
improve minority recruitment and
retention in state schools. The plan
will affect students from junior high
to graduate school.
The plan makes minor changes in
the five year plan that expired earlier
this year. Only five universities
complied with certain freshman
enrollment goals under a federal
Fondren
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of the $540,000 budget.
Compared to the small liberal-
arts colleges, Duke University's
William R. Perkins Library did not
do well. With an enrollment of 9781,
Duke spends about $288.74 on each
of its students. Tufts University's
Nils Yngve Wessell library fared
even worse. With an enrollment of
7160 students, Tufts spends
$799,418 on library resources, or
$111.65 per student.
Not that Rice is number one yet.
Princeton University Library spends
$4,961,589 on 6187 students, or
$801.94 per student, a figure that
tops Rice's by nearly 60 percent. And
in terms of the percentage of total
expenditures that is channeled into
material resources, Rice is again not
the very best Williams' Sawyer
Library directs 43.4 percent of its
$1,587,667 income into material
resources. Swarthmore's McCabe
spends 39.8 percent of its total
income on material resources. Rice
channels 42.2 percent of total
income into material resources.
Princeton University Library
enjoys a reported income of
$16,974,111 yet steers only 29.2
percent into material resources.
Tufts' Wessell Library spends 20.8
percent of total income on material
resources.
Fondren has many other
concerns aside from straight
number-crunching. But perhaps
these figures are indicative of a true
commitment on the part of the
administration to improve Rice's
libarary facilities. In that case, with
the question of "how much"
answered favorably, Rice should be
looking at how it spends its money,
on historical collections, on certain
specialty areas, and on
underdeveloped areas of study.
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desegregation plan-
In the last five years, black
enrollment in the state's public
institutions of higher learning has
declined by 1100 students. Shirley
Binder, UT director of admissions,
said the board members were
"somewhat puzzled" as to reasons
for the decline.
Brits debate Baylor
Two members of the British
International Debate Team are
traveling throughout the U.S.
debating students at 30 colleges and
universities. They are arguing in
favor of establishing the welfare
state in the U.S.
The Britons say the welfare state
is good for the country, despite the
higher taxes it causes. This is
because it provides for those who are
forced out of work through no fault of
their own. Although they
acknowledge the inefficiency of
government spending, they argue
that the welfare state should be
made more efficient, not thrown
away.
The debaters, Iain Morley and
Justine Fosh, stopped at Baylor on
October 31. They said it was their
toughest debate of the twenty-two
already held. Morley said the only
other school that challenged them
was Scranton University in
Pennsylvania
Esperanza
To the editors:
I would like to reiterate the fact
that I am not resigning from my post
with the Rice Program Council
because of RPC politics. My
resignation is a result of personal,
family and academic decisions.
I feel that Esperanza '88 was
indeed a success. Perhaps everyone
would like to remember the good
times they had at the formal. Not the
fiasco fabricated afterwards.
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McGarrity, Patrick & Sendek, Joel. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1988, newspaper, December 2, 1988; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245708/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.