Anti-Apartheid Rift at Dartmouth Spurs Calls for Expulsion
Dartmouth College canceled classes Friday for the first time in six years as most of its students and faculty gathered to condemn racism and hear demands for expulsion of those who attacked shanties built to protest apartheid.
“The festering sore of racism is alive and well at Dartmouth College,” senior Michael Teague of Roselle, N.J., told the crowd of more than 1,000 in Webster Hall on Friday. Hundreds more watched on closed-circuit television in Alumni Hall.
About a dozen students wielding sledgehammers were apprehended by police Tuesday as they attacked four shanties erected on the Ivy League campus green to symbolize the poverty and oppression of South African blacks.
Anti-apartheid students responded with a 30-hour student occupation of the college administration building.
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