Welcome, Dexter!
Hcagr welcomes the formation of Dexter, a new independent student newspaper on the Hill dedicated to “truth, transparency and inquiry.” If you want to know what’s going on, take a look at the debut issue.
The reporting & editorial content cover substantive issues on the Hill that are of interest to students and alumni alike. Dexter provides information about programs, activities & plans that would never make it though the filter of Communications & Development or of the Spectator which unfortunately has come to lack standing in serious matters.
Dexter’s first issue sets a high standard for quality of journalism and presents crisp prose and lucid thought. We invite you to compare it to Joan Stewart’s letter of September, 2008, to alumni.
The good news is that alumni now have a credible student newspaper reporting on a kind of information not previously available…sourced by boots on the ground. If you want to know where Hamilton College is headed, well… have a read.
Kudos to Dexter.
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"Ayers is such an imbecile, we ought to be amazed that he's teaching at a university -- even when you consider that it's an ed school -- except all former violent radicals end up teaching. Roughly 80 percent of former Weathermen are full college professors -- 99 percent if you don't include the ones killed in shoot-outs with the police or in prison -- i.e., not yet pardoned by a Democratic president.
Any other profession would have banned a person like Ayers. Universities not only accept former domestic terrorists, but also move them to the front of the line. In addition to Ayers, among those once on the FBI's most-wanted list who ended up in cushy college teaching positions are Bernardine Dohrn (Northwestern University), Mark Rudd (a junior college in New Mexico) and Angela Davis (History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz).
While others were hard at work on Ph.D.s, Susan Rosenberg was conspiring to kill cops and blow up buildings, and was assembling massive caches of explosives. This put her on the fast track for a teaching position at Hamilton College!"
"Despite having absolutely no qualifications to teach, having earned only a master's degree in "writing" through a correspondence course, Rosenberg was offered a position at Hamilton within a few years of President Clinton pardoning her in 2001, releasing her from a 58-year prison sentence for participating in the murder of cops and possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives."
It contains much wisdom about the state of things in the academy.
The crowd was in stitches. Well worth the $100,000+
If the choice of Great Names is now a matter of a voting majority, where else on campus shall we extend the principle of King Numbers?
Perhaps members of the board of trustees would care to explicate.