Word: dingmans
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...whole plan got afoot last fall when Thomas A. Dingman ’67, the dean of freshmen, took several upperclassmen to a theatrical essay toward racial understanding, “Nigger Wetback Chink.” While the group found the show useful as a point of departure, they were naturally concerned by its obvious drawbacks, such as the three-man troupe’s inattention to gender issues...
...Dingman chose to hash out the details with a committee, though some selected were unfit in act and temperament for so delicate a task. Among them was J. Lorand Matory ’83, professor of anthropology, who, during the time on the committee, complained that he and other partisans of Palestine were, in his words, being persecuted by “a moneyed and media-connected American Israeli Defense Force…agile with the pen and the campaign donation...
...years in their preferred residences in only 13.9 seconds. This move stirred fears of bias toward alumni children and athletes, and the card-sorting process was overseen by two students to “check everything themselves, if they wish,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman...
...According to current Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67, who was then the assistant dean for housing, renovations of the other River Houses occurred during the following summers. Coburn emphasized the importance of flexibility in construction, such as a summer building schedule, as a way to avoid inconvenience in housing students, and to allow for the postponement of certain work at any time...
...Though routine maintenance work can way to stave off larger construction projects, the College should “expect that at some point, you may have to commit to a bigger period of time” to confront larger problems from a wider perspective, Dingman said last week...