The President of The Dartmouth Class Officers Assocation’s sent out this email to his associates. In the email, he soft peddles the proposed Dartmouth Alumni Constitution (‘you will note that the Association is NOT taking a position for or against the Constitution’), but later he gets straight to the point (‘join me in endorsing the document and listing your name with mine as a supporter on communications to the alumni body… Send a message to your class leaders and ask if they will do the same.’)
As mentioned in another post, the proposed Constitution gerrymanders the Board of Trustee’s election process to the disadvantage of the petition—read: conservative—candidates, the last three of which have won elections and have been seated on the Board.
Of course, the book that describes the budding and ripening of this Lone Pine Revolution—which revitalized the open debate between conservatives and liberals on college campuses after the tumultuous 60’s—was edited by The New Criterion’s very own James Panero and Stefan Beck.
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