[647] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Dartmouth and Zeta Psi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Sun May 13 03:54:21 2001
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:54:00 -0400
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 09:09 PM 5/12/01 , Sourav K. Mandal wrote
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>The real problem here is that the ZP newsletter provided the names of
>real people.
So? This happens regularly in the hip hop circles. Hell,
I've raised bashing Carol Orme-Johnson to an artform. Ain't
my fault her name happens to rhyme with a lot of material.
Makes for a great drinking game.
>While there are certainly no _legal_ grounds for tort
>action, it violates the implicit expectation of privacy that one has
>when living in a college campus.
What? Where is it written "If thou shalt live promiscuously, thou
shalt expect thy bedmate to keep secrets?"
>In a residental university, this
>expectation is vital towards creating an enviroment conducive to
>education.
How so?
>The administration of the university, as stewards of an
>_intellectual_ community, has an obligation to discipline those who
>would interfere with its bottom line -- learning.
How does the sex lives of Zeta Psi intefere with learning? Where
are the data points demonstrating that rampant sex leads to
bad grades?
>Playing "hip hop" is tolerable, since it does not directly harm the
>university's mission by directly harming its members.
Oh, but sex does. Oh, so does discussing sex in any
medium other than to a breakbeat.
>Aram Harrow posted links to the original documents, suggesting that the
>Zeta Psi newsletter is a _personal_ communication, and that the same
>expectation of privacy I discuss above can be applied to the
>newsletter. However, Zeta Psi is an official house in Dartmouth's
>official housing system, and this was their newsletter; the fact that
>it was internal does not relieve Zeta Psi of the obligation to follow
>Dartmouth's policies.
Which includes protecting freedom of expression.
>After Zeta Psi is disbanded this spring, members
>who have a strong desire to make tasteless conversation should do it
>from the comfort of their dorm rooms or apartments on _private_ mailing
>lists.
My understanding is that the newsletter was internal, and
thus effectively private.
>Peter Shulman raises the idea of an official MIT code of conduct.
>Based on the right principles, this can be a good thing; based on the
>wrong principles, this can magnify the scourge of political correctness
>to heretofore unseen heights.
Based on anything other than constitutional guarantees, a
liberal college who actively supports the freedom of
expression and then turns around and commits idiocy at
this magnitude lacks any moral credibility.
Rev Prez
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