American Notes PREJUDICE

In a decade-long offensive against campus liberalism, the staff of the independent student weekly Dartmouth Review has managed to offend women, blacks, Native Americans and homosexuals. Last week, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Review sank to a new low by printing Hitler's boast that "by warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work." The Dartmouth campus erupted with indignation. Though editor in chief Kevin Pritchett claimed that some unidentified culprit had sneaked the quote into print, the Review's president and two other staff members quit. Outraged students supported by faculty members organized a mass protest that brought a throng to the campus green.

Before the week ended, the controversy had spilled over into national politics. There were congressional calls for the wealthy conservatives who keep the Review afloat to cease their contributions. The incident, said Massachusetts Democrat Chester G. Atkins, was "yet another example of this publication's policy of whipping up hate."