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Now that the judge in the lawsuit against Dartmouth’s Trustees has made some very significant findings of law against the Trustees and in favor of the Association of Alumni, the latter organization decided to write to its 70,000 constituents to report on the good news. View their letter below, or download it by clicking here.

It is becoming clearer that the Trustees—with the exception, of course, of the four petition Trustees—are attempting to defend the indefensible: a power-grab that breached a contract with Dartmouth’s own graduates. And that, in hiring one of the nation’s most expensive law firms in lieu of using its own attorney, the Board is wasting money attempting to prop up an untenable position. This letter, with its extensive quoting of the Court’s Order, makes it plain that the Trustees’ arguments, supported by the administration but by virtually no one else, are indeed an offense against “the obligation of good faith and fair dealing implicit in any contract.”