If The New York Times did its duty by the National Alumni Forum, the same cannot be said about its treatment of The Dartmouth Review. On January 4, the Times ran an extraordinary puff piece about the president of Dartmouth College, James O. Freedman. Written by Sara Rimer, “A Shy Scholar Transforms Dartmouth into a Haven for Intellectuals” is a congeries of half-truths, misstatements, and outright falsehoods. The villain of the piece—as of every piece written about Dartmouth in the liberal press these days—is The Dartmouth Review, the conservative student-run newspaper that gained national celebrity for its courageously anti-PC crusades in the 1980s. According to Ms. Rimer, one of President Freedman’s many accomplishments was saving Dartmouth from The Dartmouth Review: “he restored tolerance and civility by standing up to a group of right-wing students … whose harassment of blacks, ho ...

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