So there are a lot of people saying that the protest will scare 17s away. But in the same breath, these same people are dishing out death threats to the protesters.

Did you ever take a second to think about how death threats are a LOT scarier than protests?

I mean, if I was a 17 in the Dimensions Show audience, yes, I would have been put off by the protest. No one wants to learn that their dream school is not be the wonderful fairytale land they’ve been told it was.

But since the problems that the protesters brought up are problems that exist everywhere, the protest probably would not have deterred me.

But seeing the threats the protesters have received, that would definitely make me think twice about matriculating. There is absolutely nothing appealing about a place in which people have to fear for their lives because they spoke out against injustice.

I got that sooooo many times during my freshman year. Random anons all up in my ask box, “Why don’t you transfer if you’re so unhappy here?” and shit like that.

And yes, that is true. No one has to be here. But that doesn’t mean that they should just sit back and ignore all that goes on. Every place is going to have its problems so transferring won’t necessarily solve anything. Same problems, different location. So stop taking it so personally when someone doesn’t like Dartmouth.

I don’t get all up in your shit because you don’t like potatoes, do I? Actually, I probably would because potatoes are delicious and it makes 0 sense for someone not to like them. Jkkkkkkkkk. But actually.Just ignore the people who have issues with Dartmouth. Or better yet, open up your eyes and actually see what it is they’re so angry about. Take off your rose-colored glasses and actually learn something.

There is something so frightening and disgusting about people being angrier at those who speak out against injustice than at the actual injustice itself.

First, let me start off by saying I 100% support the need for prospective students to know everything there is to know about Dartmouth. People really need to know what they’re getting themselves into. I’ve heard too many people talk about how they came to Dartmouth because of Dimensions and that Dimensions gave them a skewed perception of reality at Dartmouth.

And it’s not even just the problems; one (rather eccentric) girl matriculated because she assumed that it was normal for people to run around with crazy colored hair and wear flair. Nope. That only happens at Dimensions and Trips.

Now back to the protest. Apparently the groups behind this attempted to have “civilized” discussion events but the Administration shut down all their advertising and promotion of these events. (Because silencing unhappy people is Dartmouth’s favorite thing to do.) Their posters were ripped down and their chalk messages were scrubbed off the sidewalks. So they backfired with this protest to make sure they were heard.

I respect that.

What bothers me is that they the interrupted the Dimensions Show. I am an event planner. It’s what I do. And I know the hard work that goes into planning an event like that. And I know how devastating it can be when even something relatively minor and unrecognizable goes wrong. But this, this was definitely major and definitely recognizable.

I know if something like this would have happened during one of my shows, I would’ve fucking flipped my shit. The protest would have been NOTHING  compared to the results of my rage.

I realize it probably would not have been as effective, but as someone who can sympathize with the Dimensions Show Crew (or whatever they’re called), I would have preferred if they protested outside of FoCo, at the beginning/end of the Dimensions show, as all the 17s were entering/exiting. The same people would have seen their completely valid message, and they wouldn’t have interfered with the final product of hours and hours of commitment and hard work.

That being said, I really hope the people involved in the protest don’t get into any sort of trouble. That would be hella hypocritical of Dartmouth. Punish the people bold enough to speak out against the shit that happens here, yet do nothing to the people that cause all the shit that happens here. 

Okay. >_>

evolving-theopposite:

Dimensions tomorrow

beyond excited

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

:D

Some group at Dartmouth needs to sponsor a Kai Davis visit.

Just saying.

I went to bed a little before 1 because I was on the edge of death. And when I go to bed feeling terrible, I am KNOCKED OUT, like even moreso than usual.

And out of nowhere, I am woken up by this girl just screaming fucking bloody murder! She’s all like “OW! OWWWW! OWWW! OWWWWWWWWWWW! SOMEBODY HELP ME! OWWWWWWWWWWW!”

So naturally, being the nosy ass person good citizen that I am, I run to the window to see what’s up. I can’t see the source of all the noise, but I see a few scantily clad people running through the snow over to where she is and a few others just staring in that direction from the sidewalk.

She continues screaming at the top of her lungs for like, a good 10 minutes, adding things like “I don’t know what happened” and “I don’t know I how got here” in between her original ow’s and somebody-help-me’s.

Eventually, S&S, HPo, and an ambulance showed up. She’s still screaming, though much quieter and less frequently. I never saw her or anything other than the various vehicles of the agencies mentioned above until she was moved into the ambulance via stretcher. But from my window, I still couldn’t identify anything being wrong with her.

When I left my dorm this morning, there was no blood in the snow, no broken glass or anything, no sign that anything out of the ordinary happened. And I assumed it would be all over campus news and such but it just…wasn’t.

How often does freaky shit like this happen on this campus?

I swear I will never rest until I find out wtf was going on with that girl.

(Source: itsmerandi)