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...almost got to pity the guy. Kevin Pritchett, that is. He's editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review, the notorious right-wing journal that cannot seem to extricate itself from explosive controversy. Despite his best efforts to turn the Review into a thoughtful voice of intellectual conservatism, he remains prisoner to the magazine's immature and suspect past...
...Pritchett's dilemma is this: He suspects that a wiley student--perhaps a disgruntled Review staffer--sabatoged the paper's computer system in order to embarrass its editors. But given the Review's history of outlandish behavior, who'd believe...
Upon discovery of the quotation, Pritchett (who, incidentally, is enrolled in Religion 34: "Modern Jewish Thought") repudiated the slur, denied any knowlege of its presence in the paper before publication and hand-delivered letters of apology to the community on behalf of the Review. He also retrieved and destroyed some 10,000 of the 13,000 copies printed...
These conspiracy theories are more the stuff of the John Birch Society than of responsible conservative journalism. It seems likely that the use of Hitler's words was an attempt by a few staff members to embarass the Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Pritchett, who was selected by the Review's trustees after the staff had elected someone else...
...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...