The gender, race and diversity issues with Dartmouth

Dartmouth College has a problem. Protestors occupied the president’s office at the Ivy League school a couple of weeks ago and demanded more “womyn or people of color” faculty, coverage of sex-change operations on the student health plan, and “gender-neutral bathrooms,” among other things. Now Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon has responded with a call “to end the extreme behaviors that are in conflict with our mission.”

But Hanlon’s aim seems focused almost exclusively on the campus fraternity system, and his solution — a committee to look into “high-risk drinking, sexual assault and inclusivity” — appears more a way to appease those who engaged in the sit-in than to confront genuine problems at the school.