Dartmouth Students Learn About Communism

The Dartmouth living unit South Mass has been facing some real crappy fines lately. It seems that someone is rubbing human feces on the stall and fixtures of the varous floors restrooms. When vandalism is not caught, the cost of repair is paid directly by the students of the living unit through direct fines.

However, other students like Cole Glassner '07 are decidely more concerned
with the prospect of impending damage assessments. "I just wish I didn't have to pay for other people's mistakes," Glassner '07 said.

According to Reed, the damage policy often finds itself the focus of student criticism.
"[ORL] gets tons of feedback. While there is a large amount of people that understand the policy," Reed said, "the majority say the policy is unfair because they had no part in the damage."

This response is interesting in its young, liberal contradiction. While many of these young people are as liberal as the parents pocket book is deep, they fail to see the direct contradiction in their line of thinking.

These kids don't want to pay for other people's mistakes? I took KJita to the ER tonight to get X-rayed after a playground fall. She is fine, but my bill will be larger because of the many uninsured and irresponsible people in the ER with us tonight. When a criminals shop lifts at the Wal-Mart, the costs of good goes up. When a teen-aged girl downloads a child, lives with Grandma in Section 8 housing and pays for her dinner with a "credit card looking" food stamp card (so she won't be traumtized for living off the taxpayers at Kroger), the money comes directly out of my paycheck.

The students don't like paying for someone else's stupidity and mistakes? The self reliant of our society do it every day.

Welcome to the real world.