serious bzns!
Dartmouth has always had the reputation of being extremely conservative and at times seemingly fostering bias and prejudice among its student body.

So while this particular woman may be batshit crazy, I wonder about the whole story behind this suit, what the students were saying and doing, in what context remarks were made, and, in short, the atmosphere that created this situation (though I've no doubt that the lecturer contributed).

I wonder, too, that every part of the evidence so far seems to come from Dartblog, which is of course coming out of The Dartmouth Review. This publication is *not* the college's standard campus newspaper (that's The Dartmouth, which I believe is one of the oldest student-run campus papers in the country). Rather, it's a highly conservative alternate paper -- so known as highly conservative on an already conservative campus. It is perhaps most famous for a horrible "practical joke" in which an issue ran with a passage from Mein Kampf in place of their standard motto. This was quite a while ago, to be sure (1990) but hey, turnover of attitudes and biases can take a while.

So yes, that this aca-scandal is coming out of Dartmouth, and the reporting from the Dartmouth Review -- I just wonder if there may be some basis to a few aspects of her case.