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April 14, 2026
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Report From The Ground

By Susan Ackerman | May 12, 2008

I write on behalf of some 25 Dartmouth professors who are among those faculty both privileged enough to teach here and also to hold a Dartmouth undergraduate or graduate degree.

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Vox Clamantis: Parity and the Presidential Search

By Alexander Abate | May 9, 2008

To the Editor: With all due respect to John Mathias '69, his piece insults the intelligence of both students and alumni ("Time For Alumni Unity," May 6). To be clear, I take issue with his motivation and reasoning, not with his love for Dartmouth. The reason behind the timing of President Wright's resignation -- announced a mere three days after the court granted an injunction against the Board's expansion plan -- has now become abundantly clear.

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Time For Candor

By J. Michael Murphy | May 9, 2008

John Mathias '69's recent Opinion piece mentioned only once the key issue in the Association of Alumni election -- maintenance of alumni parity on the Board of Trustees -- but what he said was interesting: "Issues of alumni governance and 'parity' should be addressed in constructive dialogue with the trustees" ("Time For Alumni Unity," May 6). There's a slight problem: Mathias also wrote that "I do not think that parity is a good idea at all" (according to a post attributed to him on the AoA blog, Nov.

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Verbum Ultimum: Money Talks

Given the volume of dialogue that has raged in the pages of this and other publications for months over the Board of Trustees' expansion plan, it is increasingly hard to believe that any lack of communication precipitated the current state of affairs.

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Our Uninformed Trustees

By Joseph Asch | May 8, 2008

Board of Trustees Chair Ed Haldeman '70 and presidential search committee head Al Mulley '70 have invited the entire faculty to meet with them this Friday to discuss the search for Dartmouth's next president.

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An Army Of Half

By Brian Solomon | May 8, 2008

Picture yourself as a United States private and medic in an Afghan village, dodging bullets from Taliban fighters as you heroically shield and treat your fellow soldiers beside a burning Humvee.

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Discrimination Debauchery

By Suzanne Lehrer | May 5, 2008

When it comes to classroom debauchery, I thought I'd heard it all. There's always the one about the student who did or didn't plagiarize and got Parkhursted, the one about the student who slept with the prof, the student who got arrested for drunkenly participating in a class he wasn't enrolled in with his shirt off, the student who said something memorably and inappropriately crude, or that kid in the back who was so high -- the list goes on.

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Pastor Problems

By Michael Belinsky | May 2, 2008

The Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. came back to the political spotlight this week -- with a vengeance. Wright, Senator Barack Obama's former and longtime pastor, delivered a barrage of what The Daily Show's Jon Stewart called "mild, medium and spicy" remarks.

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Oh, Called Out!

By Spenser Mestel | May 1, 2008

I'm a freshman. I hide a campus map at the bottom of my backpack just in case I get lost, I consider myself lucky when I get sixths on a pong table, and I have overwhelming urges to walk with my 20 closest freshmen friends everywhere I go.

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Monopolies And Mythmaking

By Daniel Belkin | April 30, 2008

In the past week, undergrads have enlisted themselves as foot soldiers in the Battle for Dartmouth. No longer relegated to just the ballot box, mass mailings, the media spotlight and the blogosphere, the ongoing governance skirmish between alumni has landed right in the laps of current undergraduates. BlitzMail inboxes have been flooded with petitions drafted by students both in favor and in opposition to the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College.

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