To the editor:

In the 1970s, a band called Buffalo Springfield released a song called For What It’s Worth. Some of the lyrics went like this: “I think it’s time we stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look, what’s going down?” I think the same can be said for the Dartmouth School Committee’s appointed subcommittee on “Diversity and Equality.”

The handpicked subcommittee members were appointed because of their similar radical agenda. Are there any conservative voices? Any diversity of thought? Ideological diversity is a thing of the past. The subcommittee’s only mission has been to cancel the Dartmouth Indians

name and symbol from history.

The Dartmouth Indians — a few people may find this offensive to certain individuals. However, the creator is a federally recognized Wampanoag and Dartmouth High graduate. The Wampanoag Tribe wants the town to “keep [the] name and logo,” as former Dartmouth High graduate and tribal chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais previously told Dartmouth Week.

It seems silly to be even discussing this subject with the current state affairs in the world.

Unfortunately, the school committee and a few others have focused on canceling the Indians’ name and logo when the focus should be the education of our students. If those we elected decide to cancel the Indians, it will have no impact on my life. What will have an impact is if we allow a small but powerful group of elitists who aren’t from Dartmouth change what we say and think while disallowing other people’s opinions.

Bob Gauvin,

Dartmouth