5/22/2023 0 Comments Second Time Around by Gay IngramWe wanted to find out how student funds were being spent and to demonstrate the double standard Dartmouth had created by funding the group. Part of what we did was journalistically justifiable: The group received college funding but, unlike every other student group receiving a college grant, refused to make public its membership or budget. As editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review in the mid-1980s, I had ignited a major campus controversy when I sent an undercover reporter into a publicly advertised meeting of the Gay Students Association and then printed a transcript of the meeting (but only the names of student officers who had already publicly identified themselves as gay). Eschewing cocktail party pleasantries - not to mention the "bipartisan" good feelings that saturated the room - he began pelting me with unflattering epithets.įrank, who publicly identifies himself as gay, was angered by recent news accounts that had dredged up events from my college newspaper days. I had gone over to him to say hello, recalling how the two of us sparred a few years ago when I testified before his House subcommittee, which was examining racial and gender preferences. At a fancy inaugural party this January, I found myself being called a "bigot" and a "homophobe" by Rep.
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