The Alumni Council voted to nominate only one candidate per open slot in this year's Board of Trustees elections, according to an Oct. 19 press release from the Office of Alumni Relations. This marks the third consecutive year in which the Council has chosen to nominate only one candidate per open slot, amounting to three candidates in total. The Council voted in May 2009 to nominate either one or two candidates for each open slot, a move closer to how the elections process worked prior to 1990, according to Association of Alumni President John Daukas '84. Although the Council has the option to nominate two candidates per slot, the Council has decided to nominate only one candidate per slot since 2009 because the "comprehensive" review process ensures the Council nominates the "very strongest candidates we can for the Board," Alumni Council President Danielle Dyer '81 Tu'89 said. Nominating only one candidate per slot, produces less "nasty" elections and prevents alumni from spending too much money on Board of Trustees campaigns each year, Nominating Committee Chair Pete Frederick '65 said. "I would much rather see someone spend a couple hundred thousand dollars on lights for the football field or better equipment for [The Dartmouth] rather than throw it into brochures for a campaign," he said. The Council accepts suggestions for nominations until Nov. 1, and will announce the nominees Dec. 1, according to Frederick.
Lack of faculty diversity and resistance to change have hampered emerging research from the field of political science, according to an American Political Science Association report released Friday, Inside Higher Ed reported. The report, produced by a panel appointed by former American Political Science Association President Dianne Pinderhughes, discovered that teaching and research methods in political science have not changed despite an increase in diversity of undergraduate students, Inside Higher Ed said. The report notes that political science faculty continues to be dominated by white males, and political science departments rarely include race and ethnicity subfields, Inside Higher Ed reported. The report also found that political science journals and textbooks rarely address gender, ethnicity and race, Inside Higher Ed reported.
The primary crime plaguing Stanford University's campus is bicycle theft, The Stanford Daily reported Monday. The Stanford Department of Public Safety's annual report released in September found that 329 of approximately 13,000 bikes on campus were stolen last year, according to The Daily. Of the stolen bikes, 175 bikes more than 50 percent of total reported cases were taken from in front of residence halls, where there is usually a high concentration of parked bicycles, The Stanford Daily reported.
