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A Reasoned Editorial
The Dartmouth made some fine and well-reasoned points in their most recent Robinson Hall, the summer version of the staff editorial Verbum Ultimum, writing
While 60 percent of the voting alumni has spoken against the suit, this same 60 percent has not necessarily renounced the general notion of parity. The 11 newly elected “Unity” slate members of the executive committee should not view their obvious victory as a mandate for ending discussion about the composition of the Board.
Alienating 40 percent of the alumni who voted in the election would detract from Dartmouth’s incredible tradition of alumni involvement. Both slates drew on the generosity of alumni who gave money and time to their respective causes. The College must be able not only to capitalize fully on the entire range of alumni financial resources, but also to draw upon the wealth of experience offered by an engaged alumni body.As the College moves forward with the changes to the composition of the Board of Trustees, it must avoid the disaffection of her alumni, a phenomenon that occurs all too often at peer institutions.
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
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…