Dartmouth College is a very expensive, very white college in Hanover, New Hampshire. During the 60's and 70's, the venerable old institution, much like many other institutes of higher learning, embraced radical liberalism. In 1974, they dropped the (admittedly unofficial) Indian as their mascot, out of the white guilt the college embraced in full force.
Sometime in 1980, neocons attending Dartmouth felt the college and its resident newspaper, The Dartmouth, were just too damn liberal. Being rich little Republican daddy's boys, they had no problem raising the money to start their own conservative newspaper, the Dartmouth Review. The paper called for the return of the Indian as the school mascot, were critical of instructors and professors they felt were imposing their radical and liberal beliefs on students, and generally trolling the everliving fuck out of the every left-winger on campus.
It isn't too surprising that some of these instances escalated to a courtroom and even to national coverage.
Much like its campus-sponsored rival, the Review is a political mouthpiece and has no journalistic value whatsoever. Criticism and satire are its main ingredients, which would actually be pretty damn funny if it wasn't tempered by the fact that the reporters, writers, and editors enjoy the idea that they can get away with anything because Daddy is rich. The resulting battles between the Dartmouth Review and everyone else come across more like a pathetic slapfight between two dandys than anything else.
One of those memorable events was when the Review, in another one of its reports critical of certain faculty, likened a radical and inept professor's hairstyle to a "brillo pad". This particular professor was black, which was of course taken as a "racist" comment - a symptom of a highly-charged campus looking for any excuse to be offended, and the Review knew it. I don't think there's ever been a precedent set where Brillo Pads and racism went hand in hand, but that didn't stop those out to destroy the Review.
In 1986, students illegally set up a "Shantytown" on the Dartmouth Campus, whose purpose was to utterly destroy the grip Apartheid had over South Africa. The only thing this shantytown accomplished was to become an eyesore and even the town of Hanover ordered it to be torn down. The spineless college directors attempted to do just this, but were stopped by a small protest by very bored or very stupid students. The Review staff stepped in to do what the college was afraid to, and tore down the shanties. These staffers were soon after punished by the college for this.
A disgruntled ex-staffer for the Review inserted a quote by Hitler that managed to get past the editor and went to print. Even in the 80's and 90's, no rational publication would ever greenlight or endorse a quote by Hitler - common sense tells us this. If you can't already tell, common sense does not exist at Dartmouth and despite a recall of the paper and an apology by the staff for the oversight, a 2000+ "Rally Against Hate" gathered on the college grounds to protest the Review. It was about as effective as the shantytown campaign.
The Dartmouth College attempted to sue the Dartmouth Review into removing "Dartmouth" from the paper's title. This is especially interesting, hypocritical, and obvously biased considering the college not only supports and hosts the liberal "The Dartmouth", but also the incredibly radical and liberal Dartmouth Free Press which was recently created as a counter to the Review.
Nowadays the liberal side of this drama assures themselves that the Review is no longer relevant and not worthy of attention, even though the paper enjoys a circulation around campus of 5,000+ and over 10,000 paying subscribers around the nation. As much as they hate the Review, it wouldn't be where it is today without the unintended consequences of the efforts trying to sue and harass the Review out of existance. Whether they like it or not, the only success achieved by radicals at Dartmouth with their countless protests, rallys, complaints, and lawsuits was to guarantee the permanency and legacy of the Review.