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Before the campus daily came off the presses, however, 12 students took matters into their own hands. The Dartmouth Committee to Beautify the Green Before Winter Carnival (DCBGBWC), equipped with four sledgehammers and a flatbed truck, attempted to tear down the shanties. Calling themselves "environmentalists" and "trash collectors," the anti-shanty dozen planned to donate the debris to local charities "to help provide fuel for heating stoves," according to a statement they handed to policemen arriving on the scene five minutes after demolition began...
...wasn't like a mob of 12 sledgehammer-swinging students. It was well organized and cooperative," says senior Robert W. Flanagan, a member of the DCBGBWC. "I was very serious about what I was doing. I knew the dangers of letting the situation carry me away." Two women were spending the night in one of the shanties, Flanagan says, but "their safety came first...
Campus observers called for strict punishment of the DCBGBWC. "If these people don't get severely punished, it is going to be ugly around here," said Jeffrey A. Blatt, publisher of The Dartmouth, last week. Although Blatt denies inconsistency, the campus daily called for the expulsion of the 12 students only one day after its editorial pages had called for the shanties to come down...