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Endgame
There are forty-eight hours left in this crucial Trustee election, and turnout is still a bit below twenty percent of eligible alumni. If you have not yet cast your vote for the independent candidate Stephen F. Smith—the fellow who has raised every single issue in this campaign, and who has the courage to fight for the broad and quiet middle of alumni and students—then please do so today. Vote at this website, and then call three Dartmouth friends and ask them to vote, too.
Low turnout, of course, helps the folks who want Dartmouth to continue to have a docile and uncritical Board; who favor the status quo and want to pretend that there are no problems to fix. In the most recent Trustee election, petition candidate Peter Robinson won with 48% of the vote and 25% turnout. The anti-petition-candidate constitutional referendum had much higher turnout—37%—and the petition process was reaffirmed when it was defeated by 51%. The higher the turnout, the greater the dissenting vote.
So do spread the word, get your friends to vote, and hopefully we will have good news when the results of this election are announced on, I think, May 19.
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D Afraid of a Little Competish
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How Regents Should Reign
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August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
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August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…