Wednesday, September 13, 2006
“Alumni for Common Sense” Calls Your Family at Dinner
Many, many readers are e-mailing in to say that Dartmouth Alumni for Common Sense, the officious group which openly advocates 1) For passage of the controversial constitution and 2) For no petition trustee ever to be elected again, is placing robotic, automated telephone calls to all alumni at dinnertime, telling them to vote ‘yes’ on the constitution “because it is common sense”. I’ll have more as it develops, but there are already significant concerns. The Dartmouth Alumni Directory does not print alumni phone numbers. Where in the world did this Common Sense group get your phone number?
(They are calling numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, as well.)
UPDATE: What is fascinating about these Alumni for Common Sense is that they simultaneously advocate for the constitution and then for alumni to prejudge all future trustee candidates, and to blindly vote against any petitioners. Alumni for Common Sense is the main—the only, really—group advocating for the constitution. And the actual drafters of the controversial proposed constitution comprise much of its membership. Yet the constitution’s drafters, in an effort to scare up some support, have been claiming, falsely, that the constitution doesn’t hinder the chances of petition candidates. This is flatly untrue. And what proves it doubly? The fact that the group advocating for the constitution is also asking alumni to vote against all future petition candidates, no matter who they are or for what they stand. To see the Common Sensical alums doing just this, read the group’s recruitment letter. [PDF]
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