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...Last year, Dartmouth President James Wright announced the end of the Greek system "as we know it," and said that, after 158 years of single-sex Greek life, fraternities and sororities would have to go coed...
...weeks following Dartmouth's announcement, a thousand students marched on Wright's personal home to protest the change and alumni groups came out in opposition to it. A poll conducted by the Dartmouth, the campus' student newspaper, found that 83 percent of students supported single-sex Greek organizations...
...finding that the President lied, the committee agreed with the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a group of conservative activists in Atlanta who filed the original complaint, and with Judge Susan Webber Wright, the federal judge who presided over (and dismissed) Paula Jones' lawsuit against Clinton. Last year Wright fined the President $90,000 for contempt of court. The President, said Wright, "had undermined the integrity of the judicial process" when he denied in his Jones deposition that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky or that he had ever been alone with her. In fact, by now it's pretty much...
Well, almost everybody. After the committee's recommendation was made public last week, President Clinton told NBC's Tom Brokaw that he still "strongly disagrees" with Judge Wright's ruling--and with the committee's disbarment action too, of course. In a brief filed before the committee, his lawyers continued to insist that his answers in the Jones deposition were "not legally false." "Evasive," yes. And "incomplete." And even "misleading." Just not false. This fantastic denial will be familiar to anyone who followed the impeachment proceedings, and David Kendall, the President's attorney, vowed last week to "vigorously dispute...
...Legal Foundation knew exactly what it would get by initiating disbarment. The lawyer who'd strayed so publicly from the moral path would be further embarrassed, and the media would take a nice walk down memory lane past such impeachment signposts as "intentionally false and misleading," (Judge Susan Webber Wright) "technically accurate" (Clinton) and of course, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." (Now, wasn't that fun?) Nixon was disbarred, although not until 1976, after he'd resigned; Clinton will likely face the possibility this summer. Of course, book deals and the lecture circuit make it doubtful...