Review & Outlook, Apr. 4, 2014, The Wall Street Journal
Academia has been obsessed over identity politics for two
generations, so there's some justice in the newest addition to the matrix of
oppression: an Ivy League education, according to the Dartmouth College
students who this week took over the president's office.
On Tuesday Dartmouth's finest seized the main administration
building and disrupted college business. The squatters were allowed to remain
until Thursday night, when the dean of the college negotiated and signed an
exit settlement assuring them the non-dialogue would continue.
The
demonstrators had a 72-point manifesto instructing the college to establish
pre-set racial admission quotas and a mandatory ethnic studies curriculum for
all students. Their other inspirations are for more "women or people of
color" faculty; covering sex change operations on the college health plan
("we demand body and gender self-determination"); censoring the
library catalog for offensive terms; and installing "gender-neutral
bathrooms" in every campus facility, specifically including sports locker
rooms.
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