Author:
An Observer
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Date Posted: 09:25:29 03/12/24 Tue
Back when I was in sixth grade -- as a reminder, that's elementary school -- like the Dartmouth basketball players, I got swept up in the heady emotions of the times and organized my peers.
I formed something called the SARC, the Student Active Rights Committee. I rallied my fellow sixth-graders and we asked for more of a voice in how our school was run.
The administration of my elementary school reacted beautifully. They allowed me to address my classmates during school time and were receptive to considering our "demands." They treated us, as least superficially, seriously.
Then they waited for us to graduate to junior high school.
I recommend that Dartmouth treat their college students as my elementary school principal and teachers treated me. Communicate, appeal the ruling through the courts and delay as much as possible.
Like me in sixth grade, these rabble rousers will graduate.
And as I did when I arrived in junior high school, they will soon forget about their grievances and move on in life.
If not, shut down the team.
Seriously, I doubt it will come to that but, if we are still here at the end of the appeals process, it's time to pull a President Reagan/Air Traffic Controllers Union. There's a time for smiles and handshakes, then there's a time to show that you have options.
Shut down the team.
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