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The Dartmouth
April 6, 2026
The Dartmouth

All Things Change ...

To the Editor:

The April 7 column "Wright Priorities" by Joe Asch '79 deals with our fundamental identity question, but in black and white simplistic terms.

What is the " old Dartmouth ?" Mine was all male. New co-ed Dartmouth is a big improvement. Old Dartmouth included three professional schools, but everyone understood that we could still be called a college without straining the term. The Wright-Trustees vision does not aim to destroy the undergraduate focus or our undergraduate essence.