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Sat Apr 19, 2014, 11:07 AM Apr 2014

What is it about Dartmouth that makes it a target for alumna INGRAHAM and now Linda CHAVEZ?

It couldn't be a profoundly regressive, hatefulness, *COULD* it?!1 There was a Mother Jones article exposing the Rethug governor of New Mexico, Susana MARTINEZ, for being petty, vindictive, and policy-ignorant, and attacking other women and teachers (for being paid to not work 2 1/2 months/yr!1). CHAVEZ pre-dated her as the typical minority-member who is a Rethug, like Ruben NAVARRETTE and Clarence THOMAS: Styled as being "non-traditional" meaning siding with the Old White males against their own minority groups.

For Dartmouth alumna INGRAHAM, see "Blinded by the Right", where her exploits of drunken crawling across barroom floors, holding a gun to the head of an ex-boyfriend, and with her ex-boyfriend Dinesh D'SOUZA posting flyers on campus outing Gay students. Oh, but she converted to Catholicism, along with Robert NOVAKula and assorted Spooks and FBI agents (Opus Dei?), which led me to think that this would mean a change away from her vileness towards others -- SILLY ME!1

So in the CHAVEZ column from MURDOCH's NY Post, the Rethug "moral values" are on full display, being anti-women and anti-"inclusivity".

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Ingraham earned a bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1985 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991. As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. In her senior year, she was the newspaper's editor-in-chief,[6] its first female editor.[2] She wrote a few controversial articles during her tenure, notably an article alleging racist and unprofessional behavior by a Dartmouth music professor Bill Cole. Cole later sued Ingraham for $2.4 million; the college paid for his lawyer. The lawsuit was settled in 1985.[7]
She is alleged to have secretly taped certain meetings of a Dartmouth LGBT student group, later publishing the transcript, and the names of the officers, in the Review.[8] Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having "the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable," and noted that "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual."[9] In 1997, Ingraham wrote an essay in the Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis and his late companion coped with AIDS.[9] Ingraham regrets the "callous rhetoric" of her youth, and now supports some legal protections for homosexuals.[9]

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Background with labor unions[edit]
Starting in 1975, Chavez was employed within the inner circles of the United States second largest teachers' union, the American Federation of Teachers, where she was responsible for editing that organization's publications.[9][10] She was a confidante of Al Shanker,[11] the AFT's president. While she believed in President Shanker's personal philosophy of trade unionism, she eventually came to feel that many in the organization were intent on moving the union in another direction after Shanker's inevitable departure. She later wrote that the more she learned about the goals of these newer union leaders, the less comfortable she felt in the organization. She left the AFT in 1983. ....

Run for U.S. Senate
.... In the campaign, Chavez attacked Mikulski, a lifelong Baltimore resident, as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern, liberal Democrat."[19] Chavez was accused of making Mikulski's sexual orientation a central issue of the political campaign. Chavez wrote that the term referred to Jeane Kirkpatrick's 1984 Republican National Convention "Blame America First" speech, in which she coined the phrase "San Francisco Liberal" in reference to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.[19] Using political advertisements and press conferences, Chavez attacked Mikulski's former aide Teresa Brennan as "anti-male" and a "radical feminist", a tactic that Victor Kamber observed to be implying that Brennan and Mikulski were radical lesbians, and that "fascist feminism" was Mikulski's political philosophy.[20][21] Brennan had not been part of Mikulski's staff for five years, but Chavez implied Brennan was still working on Mikulski's campaign. Mikulski did not respond in kind to the barbs.[22] She defeated Chavez with 61% of the vote.[23]

http://nypost.com/2014/04/18/sex-booze-and-quotas-the-troubles-at-dartmouth/

[font size=5]Sex, booze and quotas: The troubles at Dartmouth
By Linda Chavez [/font]

Dartmouth College has a problem. Protesters occupied the president’s office at the Ivy League school a couple of weeks ago and demanded more “womyn or people of color” faculty, coverage of sex-change operations on the student health plan, and “gender-neutral bathrooms,” among other things. Now Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon has responded with a call “to end the extreme behaviors that are in conflict with our mission.”

But Hanlon’s aim seems focused almost exclusively on the campus fraternity system, and his solution — a committee to look into “high-risk drinking, sexual assault and inclusivity” — appears more a way to appease those who engaged in the sit-in than to confront genuine problems at the school.

Let me be clear. Binge drinking is a huge issue on campuses across the country, and fraternity hazing can be cruel and dangerous. But fraternities are not, by and large, the cause of the breakdown of civil and responsible behavior at Dartmouth or other colleges.

Dartmouth could ban fraternities tomorrow, and students would still get plastered every weekend, and young women would still wake up after drunken hookups feeling like they’ve been assaulted (and they aren’t entirely wrong). What’s more, minority students who’ve been admitted with lower grades and test scores through misguided affirmative action programs would still feel alienated and find themselves the objects of unfortunate stereotyping. ....

As for assault, stop the drinking, and there will be fewer sexual assaults. But it also would help if student orientation sessions that emphasize the importance of consent in sexual relations spent some time exploring the negative consequences of hooking up. Pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease aren’t the only things students should be protected against. The promiscuous culture rampant on university campuses leads to a coarser atmosphere and diminished happiness.

There was a time in American education when educators felt comfortable in passing along moral values to the young. Now the only thing they seem to know how to do is pass on platitudes about inclusivity.

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