Board adds 8 seats, ends century-old parity
And when they had left the room, all hopes that alumni could wrest control of Dartmouth were gone.
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And when they had left the room, all hopes that alumni could wrest control of Dartmouth were gone.
The recent upsurge of web-based organizations aimed at maintaining alumni representation on the Board of Trustees has raised questions surrounding the significance of the anonymity of these organizations' leaders and the extent to which individual trustees should be allowed to voice their opinions publicly.
In the latest development of the ongoing trustee election debate, a group calling itself "the Committee to Save Dartmouth College" placed an advertisement on The New York Times website's homepage Thursday urging readers to "support democracy" and directing them to SaveDartmouth.org, a website which criticizes potential changes to the makeup of the Board of Trustees.
A group calling itself "the Committee to Save Dartmouth College" placed an advertisement on the New York Times homepage today urging readers to "support democracy" and directing them to a website that criticizes potential changes to the makeup of the Board of Trustees.
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees -- the only trustee board in the Ivy League in which alumni elect as many members as the board selects itself -- may soon receive a new structure. The board's governance committee, the group tasked with considering possible alterations to the representative body, announced in a June statement that it is exploring changes to "the size and composition of the Board and the method of Trustee selection."
Paulson said he plans to speak on the benefits of a liberal arts education and the importance of public service, while providing a little career advice along the way.
In a response to what a committee of Dartmouth trustees says has become "a highly politicized process for trustee selection," the Board of Trustees decided Friday to begin an exploration of "the size and composition of the Board and the method of Trustee selection." The decision, made at the Board's annual June meeting, coincided with the election of Charles Haldeman, Jr. '70 as the new chairman of the Board and Stephen Mandel, Jr. '78 as a new charter trustee.
Prominent leaders in alumni governance at Dartmouth are questioning whether the institution of alumni-elected trustees is in jeopardy. The issue surfaced following a presentation made by Chairman of the Board of Trustees Bill Neukom '64 May 19 before the annual meeting of the Alumni Council, one of the College's two principle representative alumni bodies.
Candidates nominated by petition won a majority of the seats on the executive committee of the Dartmouth Association of Alumni in the organization's first election that allowed "all-media" voting. Alumni selected William Hutchinson '76, a former petition candidate who was nominated in this election by a sub-group of the executive committee, as president.
Sleepovers on the golf course, 40-piece orchestras, mayoral elections and piano smashing contests -- just a few of the elements that have characterized Green Key weekend over its 108-year history. While this year's Green Key may lack certain elements of vandalism and violence that mark the event's past, the weekend still represents a time for revelry and release among Dartmouth students.
Petition candidate Stephen Smith '88 was elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees after one and a half months of voting. Smith, who won with over 54 percent of the vote, marks the fourth consecutive petition candidate to be appointed as a trustee. About 28 percent of alumni voted in the election.
Petition candidate Stephen Smith '88 has been elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, according to the Office of Public Affairs. Smith, who won with over 54 percent of the vote, marks the fourth consecutive petition candidate to be appointed as a trustee.
The panel discussion, titled "Separating Science from Hype: The Challenge of Reporting on Science and Technology in the 21st Century," sought to highlight how the media deals with the fields of science and technology in order to allow individuals in academia to enhance the communication of their enterprises and discoveries.
Due to the nature of the voting mechanism used in Dartmouth trustee elections and the perceived existence of two distinct slates of different sizes, the election of a trustee candidate nominated by the Alumni Council is contingent on a large voter turnout, scholars of election methods said.
Of the 26 alumni running to be members and officers of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Association of Alumni, five graduated from the College within the past seven years. Several of these young alumni said they hope to lend a "new perspective" to the association and to address the current debate over alumni governance.
"Some rap music in hip-hop culture encourages sexism, misogyny, homophobia and sexual violence," the sponsors said in an e-mail message. "How are we affected by this?"
A lawsuit brought by John MacGovern '80 against the Dartmouth Association of Alumni was dismissed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in an April 18 order. The lawsuit originated from MacGovern's claim that the 420 proxy votes he collected on behalf of other alumni for a 2005 officer election should be counted.
Kristof argued that the genocide's perpetrators are driven by practicalities, not ideology.
For the fourth consecutive year, Dartmouth students attended the Carroll Round, an annual conference on international economics hosted by Georgetown University, this past weekend. Participants represented 13 universities and colleges and were selected from an international pool of applicants. With five students selected, Dartmouth had the second largest delegation at the conference.
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch announced on Thursday that he would sign legislation allowing for civil unions. "New Hampshire has a proud history and tradition of taking the side of opposing discrimination where it occurs. This bill will go a long way toward assuring that," Lynch told the Associated Press, as reported by the Valley News. Republican opponents, however, asserted that support for civil unions would be costly to the state's Democrats, as New Hampshire voters will be taken by surprise.