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Article: Good news from Dartmouth. (Sarah Sully resigns)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 15, 1989
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IN AN extraordinary sequence of events, Dartmouth College officials have come down hard on classroom political indoctrination.
The circumstances are these: One Sarah Sully, a lecturer in French and Italian, assigned her French II class an essay on, wait a minute, the Dartmouth Review. The freshmen duly wrote their French essays, and one of them apparently failed to condemn the Review. He did not know who Sarah Sully is: the wife of the now-famous black music professor Bill Cole, a principal in the College's dispute with the newspaper. Miss Sully awarded the student a grade of D, commenting that his essay was "racist."
The student went to his ...