New Contest: Ask Dartmouth
The latest post at Ask Dartmouth serves up a vertiable verbal tango to dance around a rather innocuous answer to a straight-forward question. The inquistor…
News
Here comes the Sun
Annie Karni has written a very readable round up of negative reactions to this past weekend’s unpleasantness in the New York Sun. By the way,…
Haldeman and Chu to speak in New York on September 24
“Cash bar”??!? What’s a diploma worth? From: Dartmouth Alumni Relations Date: Sep 12, 2007 4:09 PMSubject: A Conversation with Dartmouth Please Join Us! The Office…
Damn it feels good to be a gangster
Being on the governance committee is sweet. As the commenter wryly observed below, “Nick, why don’t you be quiet already about ‘democracy’? Since when has…
Getting away with it
What a wild, crazy, no-holds-barred, anything-goes weekend for collegiate governance. As a majority of the trustees voted to do away with the means by which…
The other paper of record on alumni governance
Please read the no-nonsense editorial below about the recent trustee scandal at the College. It appears in today’s (9/11/07) Wall Street Journal; it is reproduced…
Endowment Growth
I haven’t been on here in forever, and I hope the undergrads don’t mind a crusty alum posting out of the blue, but I wanted…
AoA Press release
This just in: the Association of Alumni has issued the following press release– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2007 Dartmouth Alumni Association Leaders Condemn Trustee…
‘Where exactly is the beef?’
“Presently ALL the trustees (except President Wright and the Governor of NH) are alumni,” Thomas Luxon argues in the comments, adding that “the trustees expect…
The information machines at work
Now that the Governance Committee—whose members include President James Wright and Chairman of the Board Ed Haldeman—has decided to sidestep 116 years of the College’s…