<p>Not Amherst, in fact, I can’t imagine any of the schools you mention don’t have issues:</p>
<p>[Amherst</a> College Student’s Suicide Note Points Blame At School Administration For Mishandling Sexual Assault](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Amherst College Student's Suicide Note Points Blame At School Administration For Mishandling Sexual Assault | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>DartmouthBound18:</p>
<p>Dartmouth does have a very aggressive and alcoholic culture centered around fraternities, but of course there are rapes at all of those schools you mentioned.</p>
<p>Knowing the exact rate of sexual assault at each school is difficult, but Dartmouth’s out-of-control binge drinking certainly doesn’t help matters. (Just this past weekend several students were so drunk that they had to be hospitalized.)</p>
<p>Apart from raising the risk of sexual assault, at Dartmouth it is quite acceptable - and even promoted in some circles and contexts - to drink so much that you vomit. Then you drink some more and vomit again.</p>
<p>This is the “world class institution” that the Dartmouth administration will tout as you go through the application process.</p>
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<p>DartmouthAlum, did you drink so much that you vomited and then drank some more? If not, are you the only one who did not? Is it possible for a Dartmouth student to choose not to do this?</p>
<p>“DartmouthAlum, did you drink so much that you vomited and then drank some more? If not, are you the only one who did not? Is it possible for a Dartmouth student to choose not to do this?”</p>
<p>Yes, at Dartmouth, it is possible to not drink until you vomit so that you can drink some more and vomit again.</p>
<p>But a critical mass of boys (and maybe, by now, even girls) do choose to spend their precious four years of college doing this, so a lot of your classmates become surly, hungover slugs skulking around with bloodshot eyes and greasy hair. They make quite the campus companions. And they cast a pall over just about every aspect of academic and campus life.</p>
<p>(From a 2008 piece in the official student newspaper: “We go to a school where it’s okay to be a drunken mess on a regular basis — Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays to be exact.”) </p>
<p>This also means you get the pleasure of observing many promising young men - Ivy League scholars! - start on the road toward becoming lifelong alcoholics before your eyes.</p>
<p>DartmouthBound18, how nice for you that you have been accepted at Dartmouth, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Princeton, and Bowdoin!</p>
<p>Great choices!</p>
<p>You might want to do a bit more research before you make up your mind, even though all of those great schools are holding places open for you this late in May.</p>
<p>Dartmouth’s president sizes up the College’s “Greek system”:</p>
<p>From an interview w/Dartmouth’s 14th President, David T. McLaughlin '54: </p>
<p>“We should have gotten rid of the fraternities.” (p. 71)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/oh_interviews_pdf/McLaughlin_David.pdf[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/oh_interviews_pdf/McLaughlin_David.pdf</a></p>
<p>Consolation, DartmouthBound18’s screen name implies that he will applying this Fall. Pretty sure he is a ■■■■■ trying to be facetious though, or else he had better have someone proofread his essays or he’s not going anywhere.</p>
<p>A current student writes in the UK’s “The Guardian”:</p>
<p>“The protestors at my school speak for a larger constituency of students who find Dartmouth’s traditions, which are both reinvented and reinforced with each incoming class, unhealthy and destructive.”</p>
<p>[Take</a> a hard look at racism, sexism and homophobia on college campuses | Andrew Longhi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk](<a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/21/dartmouth-college-real-talk-racism]Take”>Take a hard look at racism, sexism and homophobia on college campuses | Andrew Longhi | The Guardian)</p>
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<p>I thought that it was obvious that <em>I</em> was being facetious. I chose to refrain from commenting on his writing skills, or lack thereof.</p>
<p>Both of the items linked above are worth reading, and both are FAR more nuanced than the quotations selected by the poster, whose ax must be ground down to a nubbin by now. (As an aside, I wonder why Longhi didn’t associate himself with one of the coed societies, rather than bizarrely attempting to “join” a sorority after not being offered a bid by his preferred fraternity. Apparently he is not transgendered? But is piece is good, anyway.)</p>
<p>And before I am yet again accused of being a reactionary, let me repeat that I think that D would be better off without a Greek system. But, since many alums and current students are deeply attached to their houses, I would suggest a transitional arrangement in which the houses are turned into coed living spaces, with perhaps one room retained as a ceremonial meeting space for the fraternity or sorority.</p>
<p>'Students and activists joined together Wednesday to file complaints against Dartmouth College and three other colleges and universities nationwide alleging that the schools have failed to follow federal laws, including those involving the reporting of sexual assault crimes and discrimination.</p>
<p>Attorney Gloria Allred announced that complaints were filed against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, USC and UC Berkeley on Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>Some of these were Title IX complaints alleging a hostile environment for women. Others charged the colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes.'</p>
<p>[Activists</a> accuse colleges of not responding to sexual assault complaints - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-colleges-face-investigations-over-handling-of-rape-allegations-20130522,0,190593.story]Activists”>Activists accuse colleges of not responding to sexual assault complaints)</p>
<p>‘Dartmouth College “has been marketed as a safe and inclusive college, an ideal learning environment, an Ivy League university,” said a student involved in the complaint, in an e-mailed statement. “This is not true if you are a woman, gay, transgender, of color, or poor.”’</p>
<p>[Four</a> Colleges Hit With Federal Sexual Assault Policy Complaints - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>“We are asking the Department of Education to open an investigation into these complaints and take appropriate actions to force these colleges to comply with the law or risk losing their federal funding.” </p>
<p>[Complaints</a> filed against 4 colleges over rapes - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/APd2ab1e3237a44fd98145bd0e70b19e90.html?KEYWORDS=dartmouth+college]Complaints”>http://online.wsj.com/article/APd2ab1e3237a44fd98145bd0e70b19e90.html?KEYWORDS=dartmouth+college)</p>
<p>Gloria Allred. Do your own due diligence and check out the causes and people she has represented.</p>
<p>^Is this about the prosecutor or the victims?</p>
<p>I just read through two or three dozen legal battles listed on Wikipedia that Allred has taken on; she appears to be a forceful advocate for all sorts of underdogs, but especially women.</p>
<p>In any case, we will see what the legal process determines for Dartmouth College.</p>
<p>Sexual assault, hazing, binge drinking and intolerance are but a few of the consequences brought on by the prevalence of the fraternity system at the College." </p>
<p>“It is well known that the administration, and especially the student body, is only willing to change when significant, unfortunate tragedies occur.” </p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> Ramesh: A Modest Proposal](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2013/05/23/opinion/ramesh]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2013/05/23/opinion/ramesh)</p>
<p>Well, I actually think it is a good thing to see these Title IX lawsuits being brought against a broad spectrum of colleges, especially highly respected ones. Why? For one thing, because it has become increasingly clear that colleges and universities have become places where the small percentage of people who are predators can operate freely, due to a combination of circumstances. I think that school administrations are flummoxed by this, and in general haven’t figured out how to deal with it. They have a hard time sorting out the predator from the immature student who does something illegal and dumb (not assault). The latter student is the sort whom they have traditionally disciplined internally, in hopes that they will learn a lesson, grow up, and live a decent life. This kind of student does not need to be thrown to the legal wolves. The predators are another story. It is an established fact that those who rape typically rape multiple times. (As an example, the person recently arrested at D is suspected of raping at least one other woman.) Title IX lawsuits will, I hope, FORCE colleges and universities to deal with this epidemic of binge drinking and assault. (And let me hasten to add that I am not suggesting that ALL rapes and assaults are perpetrated by these predators.)</p>
<p>So, DartmouthAlum, you have no interest in my proposed solution? You just want to continue posting articles in a manner as prejudicial to Dartmouth as you can? What is YOUR solution? I’m obviously not denying that there is a problem, at D and elsewhere. But I’d like to see some constructive suggestions. I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the frat houses are owned by the fraternities themselves, not the College. Thus, the College would have to do what Colgate did, and that was to decertify the frats as a campus entity and try to force a sale of the buildings to the College. But, if I recall, that was a messy and drawn out legal process at Colgate. (I think Williams did something similar.)</p>
<p>To be fair, however, drinking at 'Gate and Williams is still very high, even without private frats.</p>
<p>In addition to taking over the frats, another idea is to allow drinking in the Sororities. If the girls held the parties at their place, they would be more in control. Of course, the downside to that idea is that the Dartmouth sororities are national brands, and their national charters tend to prohibit alcoholic parties.</p>
<p>I don’t think that the houses necessarily belong to the fraternities: hasn’t the college paid to renovate and reconstruct some of them? BTW, I believe that Bowdoin did the same thing that you describe.</p>
<p>Of course, those among us who are rational are aware that there is plenty of heavy drinking and sexual assault at campuses with no frats at all, but the ideologues among us refuse to even acknowledge it.</p>
<p>Consolation, why do you have your head in the sand over this issue? The research is pretty clear that participation in fraternities and sororities is highly correlated with increased incidence of binge drinking and, in turn, sexual assault. I have posted other studies before, several from the respected Harvard College Alcohol Study. Here is link that cites other sources:</p>
<p>[15</a> Frightening Facts about Sororities and Fraternities - Zen College Life](<a href=“http://www.zencollegelife.com/15-frightening-facts-about-sororities-and-fraternities/]15”>http://www.zencollegelife.com/15-frightening-facts-about-sororities-and-fraternities/)</p>