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HowToEffectChangeAtDartmouth

In order to make a difference at Dartmouth, you need to have power.

Power can come from you being a high-ranking official such as President Wright?, Dean Larimore, one of the Trustees?, etc... or it can come from Alumni monetary backing and massive student support (case in point: the Swim Team?....).

But there are probably many other ways for you to get power or widespread acknowledgement. If lots of people know about your cause or idea, that might lead to some more power for you. But OTOH, perhaps not. The Greek system? at Dartmouth has tons of support, money, members, etc... but it is still getting beat down by the Dartmouth administration?. And...

...wait, where was I? oh, right.. power. So basically you need to get people to listen to you.

Ideas

• Make a Petition?. Get lots of people to sign it, then nail it to the doors of Parkhurst ala Martin Luther? (but be nice on the doors and just use scotch tape? or something...).
• Hold a Rally?. A bunch of us went to Parkhurst for the swim team? -- enough, in fact, that we couldn't all fit inside the building. Getting lots of agitated students on your side is a good thing. But try to keep things under control -- riots will just give you lots of bad press in the newspapers. Be civil (remember the methods of Ghandi?, Martin Luther King Jr.?, etc...).

• What else? give us ideas. put them here. make a difference.

RobinsonTryon - 16 Feb 2003