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We Like Some Alums, But Not Others
The College has energetically publicized Ricki Stern ‘87’s upcoming documentary on knuckleballers, and well it should. The subject is a fascinating one: the quirky pitch seems to be the specialty of equally eccentric pitchers. By all accounts, and looking at the trailer, the film is charming.
However nary a word has been heard from the College’s PR machine about another alumnus-produced documentary, one that took in $6 million on its opening weekend (this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday), immediately making it the highest grossing documentary of the year: Dinesh D’Souza 83’s “Obama’s America.” Why the favoritism?
Of course, Dartmouth does not have a monopoly on this kind of bias. The Yale Law School endlessly celebrated the fact the Bill Clinton had earned a JD degree there; however, it was only 20 years after my own graduation that I learned that another Law School grad had been President: Gerald Ford. It seems that the former Michigan football center had done somewhat more as an undergrad than hike a ball back to his QB.
Addendum: And lo and behold, look what appeared on Dartmouth Now the day after the above post. Here’s the link to the NYT piece.
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