Dartmouth Alumni Relations Excuses Black Lives Matter Library Disruption
Do you think they would have the same position if the College Republicans burst into the library and started swearing at people who were trying to study?
The College Fix reports.
Dartmouth Alumni Relations on Black Lives Matter library disruption: ‘no rules broken’
Dartmouth’s Assistant Director of Alumni Relations, Meg Ramsden, has been busy communicating to the school’s alumni to inform that the Black Lives Matter activists who, back in November, charged into a campus library chanting and yelling racial epithets won’t be subject to any punishment for their actions.
“After concluding its investigation with respect to the complaints and studying what was seen in the video in Baker-Berry Library, it was determined there were no specific violations of the Standards of Conduct,” Ramsden writes.
“In essence, no rules for which there are recorded and communicated sanctions were broken.”
Ms. Ramsden does go on to say that, despite there being no Standards infringements, “the spirit of the recent Moving Dartmouth Forward Citizenship Pledge was clearly violated.”
“Abusive language aimed at any of our community members by any group, at any time, in any place,” she continues, “is not acceptable.”
So, first-year law students, just what principle are we to derive from Ms. Ramsden’s tortured logic: that any group can invade the library and verbally insult students who otherwise were calmly and quietly studying there?
Does such aggressive behavior not violate Standard VIII of the Dartmouth Community Standards of Conduct, which includes a prohibition on:
…conduct (including by way of example, obstruction, noise, or the display of banners or objects) that prevents or disrupts the effective carrying out of a College function or approved activity, such as classes, lectures, meetings, interviews, ceremonies, and public events.
Dartmouth Alumni Relations on Black Lives Matter library disruption: ‘no rules broken’ (The College Fix)
Comments
You can sure tell that it is an Ivy League school that has this problem. They know how to rationalize any situation to fit the current dogma. That kind of activity does take a level of intelligence not attained by most. The problem I am wrestling with is whether the level is high or low.
Interesting that all this mewling is coming from the Dept. of Alumni Relations. Alumni must be zipping their wallets shut as they learn about the decline and apparent senility of their dear alma mater.
Some people—like, f’rinstance, me—take libraries seriously; seriously enough to donate money to them. Assaults or desecrations of libraries are not something everyone is willing to ignore for the sake of multiculturism, Affirmative Action, or Social Justice. Some people are just enemies, and no two ways about it.
In 1914, when the Kaiser, in one of his more infantile moments, decided that it would be of political and military advantage for his troops to be known as the new Huns of Europe, he thought he’d get his enemies quaking in their boots by destroying the library of Louvain. The library, a large academic one with an extensive collection of incunabula (pre-Printing age books, and by definition irreplacable) housed in a medieval guild-hall built in magnificent full-throttle Gothic style, was burned. The Germans made an impression, all right. But not as something to be feared and placated; rather as an enemy of civilization to be fought to the last extremity. And of course, to this day Europe has never really recovered.
Moral: don’t dick with libraries. Turn over police cars or burn down orphanages if you must. But back off from libraries.