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September 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Just coming in from a source: In order to attempt to legitimize the Board-packing plan—by which eight new Trustees will join Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees, upsetting the century-old balance between elected and appointed Trustees, the…
Just coming in from a source: In order to attempt to legitimize the Board-packing plan—by which eight new Trustees will join Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees, upsetting the century-old balance between elected and appointed Trustees, the…
Some interesting thoughts here—particularly on the style of John McCain’s cognition….
If one includes PBS, it turns out that more folks watched Sarah Palin than watched Barack Obama. When the numbers settle, she may have given the most-watched political convention address in history. And, mark, four…
Soon we will learn the identities of the new Trustees who will take seats on the Dartmouth Board as a result of the promulgation of the Board-packing scheme. (Or, rather, the takeover of the committee…
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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…