Dartblog Specials: The 2007 Trustee Election

Thursday, May 31, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 31, 2007 / /
After four petition victories, concerns that Trustee elections may end or be postponed after chairman addresses alumni over Green Key weekend; Association of Alumni lobbied for elections in 1890, now in 10-1 vote passes motion calling on Board to preserve…

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 22, 2007 / /
In The Dartmouth this morning, Jacob Baron ‘10 writes that the election of petition Trustee Stephen Smith gives the lie to the tawdry conceit of a “radical minority cabal.” Far from a cabal, support for the reform movement grows…

by Joe Malchow on May 22, 2007 / /
This past week has been a remarkable one for Dartmouth. The fourth petition Trustee in a row, Professor Stephen F. Smith, was elected. An unprecedented 55% of alumni voted for him, despite a schoolyard campaign of personal attacks that revealed…

Sunday, May 20, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 20, 2007 / /
Professor Smith writes on his blog: As of yesterday, the results of the Dartmouth Trustee election are in. Thanks to the hard work of countless alumni, I have been elected to the Board of Trustees. It is an honor beyond…

Friday, May 18, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 18, 2007 / /
This morning, two good thoughts—written independently, but really of a piece—about yesterday’s very large win by petition Trustee candidate Stephen Smith. Ned Kenney, a freshman, writes, “Four petition candidates have been elected to the Board. A constitution designed to smother…

Thursday, May 17, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 17, 2007 / /
T.J. Rodgers, Todd Zywicki, Peter Robinson, the constitution, and now Stephen F. Smith. Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees will be joined by a fourth petition Trustee. Stephen F. Smith ‘88 has won the latest election, with 9,984 votes. 55% of…

by Joe Malchow on May 17, 2007 / /
Watch this space for the Dartmouth Trustee election results. Total turnout: roughly 28% of Dartmouth’s 66,000 alumni—historically high for Trustee elections. UPDATE: Results in. Stand by. Dartmouth press release coming soon. Results here….

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 16, 2007 / /
In the last two elections for Dartmouth Trustees, roughly 25% of Dartmouth’s 66,000 alumni voted. The six-week voting period in the current election has just closed, and 20% of alumni have cast their ballots using the Internet. However, alumni could…

Monday, May 14, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 14, 2007 / /
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…

Thursday, May 10, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 10, 2007 / /
The industry rag, The Chronicle of Higher Education, recently ran an article profiling boards of trustees all across the United States. The article’s data came from the results of an “extensive survey” of trustees and presidents. The results? Predictable, and…

by Joe Malchow on May 10, 2007 / /
Reformers at Dartmouth—none more passionate than petition Trustee candidate Professor Stephen Smith—insist that Dartmouth rededicate itself to its great undergraduate tradition. Not to do so, they say, would be to allow a slow slipslide into the sort of impersonal research…

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

by Joe Malchow on May 1, 2007 / /
Dan Collins on the Trustee election….

Monday, April 16, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 16, 2007 / /
A cavalry of wind and rain has run the electricity (and not a few tree branches) clean out of Hanover. Blogging will be a bit slow. In the meanwhile, update your beliefs about climate change per Robert Hansen. Or, if…

Friday, April 13, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 13, 2007 / /
The chairman of the student committee that recommended a slate of reforms to Dartmouth’s often-arbitrary disciplinary system, Adam Shpeen ‘07, wrote the following op-ed in The Dartmouth yesterday, saying that petition Trustee candidate Stephen F. Smith would, if elected, prove…

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 11, 2007 / /
Among the costs of thinking things at Dartmouth could be a bit improved? (Among the penalties for noting such inconvenient truths as the fact that, over the last ten years at Dartmouth, the deanery has been budget-privileged over the faculty?)…

Sunday, April 08, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 8, 2007 / /
Every once in a while I check Technorati to see what other blogs are linking to Dartblog. Yesterday I discovered that an anonymous Dartmouth Livejournaler—someone called hipporetriever—is writing about the Trustee election. Neat. BUT: Don’t waste your time poring over…

Friday, April 06, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 6, 2007 / /
Still in draft, I have a post written about the negative campaigning tactics of Trustee candidate Sandy Alderson. It describes them, and expresses my sense that they are probably unhelpful to both Mr. Alderson and Dartmouth College. Before I could…

Thursday, April 05, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 5, 2007 / /
Just in, this letter signed by a dozen or so Dartmouth lawyers and judges endorsing Stephen Smith ‘88 for Trustee—“a charismatic man of great character.” Judge Quentin Kopp ‘49 and Justice Tom Parker ‘73 are among the signers. (Plus Jake…

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 4, 2007 / /
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, often referred to by Dartmouth when it desires to show that it protects freedom of speech, has taken exception to some of the ways in which Dartmouth is using the ‘green’ rating. FIRE…

Monday, April 02, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 2, 2007 / /
The Manhattan-based New Criterion arts journal, edited by a Dartmouth graduate, editorializes in favor of petition candidate Stephen Smith ‘88….

Sunday, April 01, 2007

by Joe Malchow on April 1, 2007 / /
On the Tuesday following the first Monday of November every year, you can be told: Vote, because men have died to ensure that you may. At Dartmouth, the best we can say is that the College’s doting alumni have, in…

Friday, March 16, 2007

by Joe Malchow on March 16, 2007 / /
Although it is understandable that more attention will, in coming weeks, drift toward Dartmouth’s Trustee election (where the independent candidate Stephen Smith ‘88, a professor of law, is facing three officially vetted candidates) there is also an election for the…

Friday, March 09, 2007

by Joe Malchow on March 9, 2007 / /
The Dartmouth government student’s cup spilleth o’er not with wine but with news about the world. Between AP, Reuters, Xinhua, Bloomberg, Kyodo, Dow, and, oui, sometimes the Agence France-Presse, I must glance at more than one thousand news items a…

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

by Joe Malchow on February 28, 2007 / /
The Dartmouth Trustee Election season is heating up. In anticipation, I asked Dartblog readers to come up with a list of questions that I’d send to each candidate. Here are the questions we developed together:1. Last year saw much debate…

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

by Joe Malchow on February 6, 2007 / /
Dartmouth’s Office of Alumni Relations has announced that one petition candidate, Stephen Smith ‘88, has filed the requisite number of petitions necessary to gain a spot on the ballot. Stephen Smith announces his accomplishment in a post on his blog…

Friday, December 01, 2006

by Joe Malchow on December 1, 2006 / /
At Dartmouth, half of the Board of Trustees is elected by the alumni. The three most recent open seats were filled by petition candidates instead of the officially nominated candidates. A group of alumni called the Alumni Council appoints a…

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