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In the first-of-the-year issue of the Dartmouth Independent, a non-partisan publication if ever there were one, Emily Mirengoff ‘10 undertakes a primer on Dartmouth election politics, and emerges from the thicket of the proposed constitution with the hide of a slain document:

The problem with the new constitution concerns the process by which alumni can voice dissent or agreement with the direction of Dartmouth. The college administration already has the power to appoint half of the Board, and the proposed Constitution reduces the extent to which the election of the other half is truly democratic. It does so by manipulating the election rules in a number of ways - some of which require an advanced degree in game theory to comprehend fully.