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Were the petition trustees right about everything, the whole time?
I refer you, mes chers lecteurs, to this line in The Dartmouth’s reportage on the letting-go of several mid-level managers:
Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman announced in an e-mail on Thursday that his position at the College had been eliminated due to budget cuts. Spears said that other positions “similar” to the dean of residential life will be eliminated.
High-paying jobs that may not have been needed are being eliminated by President Kim. But not only are these unnecessary positions being eliminated—“similar” ones are, too.
Bureaucratic bloat? Some people—the very same ones who are soon going to tell you how to vote in this trustee election—were telling us just a year and a half ago that bureaucratic bloat simply didn’t exist at Dartmouth.
The headline of this post is something to keep at the fore of your mind, at the very fore, for the next several months.
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