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Banners displayed at recent Dartmouth football games have become the local point for campus controversy over the schools' former symbol, the Indian...
After Native American groups on campus attacked the symbol as offensive and racist daring the mid-1970's the administration renounced its use. Consequently, any display of the Indian symbol became a "violation of the principle of community," according to Kevin Rosen, President of the Dartmouth Student Assembly...
...Indian symbol has never completely disappeared. In the past few years it has seen a resurgence, which some students link to the growth in influence of the Dartmouth Review. The three-year-old conservative student paper considers the reinstitution of the Indian symbol a bulwark of its editorial policy...
President David I McLaughlin released a letter after the Cornell game stating that the incident betrayed an "insensitivity to segments of the community." He realfirmed the 1972 trustees" decision that "use of the [Indian] symbol [is] inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives...
This is the second time Gantt, 40, has stood as a symbol of racial progress. Twenty years ago, the color barrier was peacefully broken at South Carolina's Clemson University when he became the first black student. A practicing architect with a master's degree in city planning from M.I.T., he served on the Charlotte city council, leading a drive to revitalize Charlotte's inner city. "Businessmen are attracted to Harvey's intellect," says Banker Hugh McColl Jr., who plays tennis on Gantt's own court. "He's no firebrand. He's very...