Dartmouth Students Walk Out on Bill

[Mark Gambo]

Dartmouth Students Walk Out on Bill

[Shaggy Hiker]

What a bizarre column. The headline makes it sound like they got mad at what he said, or something like that. The column goes on to say that he got pretty much a positive reaction, but that a bunch of the people there had already decided to vote for someone else. That's about as misleading a headline as they could have wrung out of that story.

Gee, college kids at school walk out of a two hour session. That's SO shocking. I wasn't really into skipping classes when I was in college, either.

[Mark Gambo]

. . . I wasn't really into skipping classes when I was in college, either.

Nor was I into drinking beer at the frat house

[SurfDemon]

My college was old fashioned. We didn't have skipping classes, hopscotch classes or ballet classes.......

[Shaggy Hiker]

Nor was I into drinking beer at the frat house

Animal House was based on Dartmouth.

I stayed at one of the frat houses while hiking the AT in 89. I think I was actually old enough to drink, but I never have for no particular reason. However, the other hikers at the house were not so reticent, and the frat house had beer on tap 24/7. Where I went to college, I was associated with the most partying frat on campus (they were put on double secret probation and kicked off campus in my sophmore year, which was almost as much fun), but they only had beer during the parties (or if you were desperate, there were cups of it lying around for days afterwards, and the room below the bar had a large trash can placed to catch the steady stream of beer that poured through the floor during parties).

[Mark Gambo]

Animal House was based on Dartmouth . . .

and also Washington University in St. Louis. I wonder how many Bluto Blutarskis actually attended Dartmouth, graduated and then became a US Senator ;-)

[Shaggy Hiker]

I know a few who became fairly respectable sorts, but not senators. On the other hand, if you have the cash/connections to get into Dartmouth, you don't necessarily need brains. Interestingly, that was the only college that turned me down. It was also the only one where I was interviewed by the alumni association to see whether or not I was good enough.