Why a "No" vote is best for Dartmouth
To the Editor: I take issue with Peter Fahey '68's opinions on the alumni constitution ("Five Reasons to Vote, and Vote 'Yes,'" Sept.
To the Editor: I take issue with Peter Fahey '68's opinions on the alumni constitution ("Five Reasons to Vote, and Vote 'Yes,'" Sept.
To the Editor: Much has been written lately about a "small cabal" of alumni and undergraduates creating the "illusion" of discontent with the proposed alumni constitution ("Five Reasons to Vote and Vote Yes," Sept.
To the Editor: Most of the discussion on the alumni constitution has spun off into name-calling and side issues.
To the Editor: It seems strange that everyone in the audience who was quoted in the Alumni Governance Task Force article ("AGTF panel addresses student, alumni qualms," Sept.
For the past few weeks, the ongoing vote on the proposed Alumni Constitution has been the focus of political debate on our campus.
Last spring, I collaborated with Dan Linsalata '07 on an op-ed opposing the constitution ("United Against the Constitution," May 31). I now wish very much I had reserved my judgment on the matter.
To the Editor: T.J. Rodgers '70 and Todd Zywicki '88 wish to join me in noting that your story on Sept.
Despite all the attention given to the vote on the proposed Alumni Association constitution in the pages of this newspaper, very little of the discussion has been overly student-generated.
On Sept. 4, while shooting footage for his eight-year-old daughter's television show, Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray, one of the ocean's most docile and harmless creatures.
I've spoken with a lot of alumni friends about the upcoming vote on the revised constitution for alumni organizations.
When our country's fundamental laws were written based on the ideals of fairness and democracy, our founders could not have envisioned that there would one day be a president, the guarantor of these legal protections, who understood himself and his administration to be above and thus exempt from the very laws their elected and appointed positions require them to protect.
Every year, around 1,000 students choose to attend Dartmouth over other schools. For that reason alone, why is it not obvious that they might actually like it here?
Voting has begun on the proposed new constitution from the Alumni Governance Task Force, as well as on the four amendments to the current constitution that were proposed by petition (requiring 1 percent of the alumni body to sign for each). The Executive Committee of the Association has issued a recommendation of how to vote to all alumni.
I am always astounded by the level of voluntary political apathy that I encounter in a lot of students at Dartmouth.
I was disappointed to read the story in The Dartmouth about a meeting I had with Nick Stork '06 in June ("Alumni Debate Reaches Students," Aug.
Last week, two vocal opponents of the proposed Alumni Association reforms accused senior College administrators -- who claim to be neutral in a contentious constitutional debate -- of using their positions to squelch criticisms of the document.
To the Editor: In your Aug. 15 story, "Alumni election suit thrown out of court," Frank Gado '58 responds to the dismissal of the John MacGovern '80 lawsuit against the Association of Alumni with allegations of legal corruption in the New Hampshire court system and claims that the lawsuit was not really about proxy voting, but about alumni enfranchisement.
In the days following the foiled terrorist plots in airports across England, British Muslims have come under renewed scrutiny as a threat to security.
Last term, a group of 16 Dartmouth students descended on Washington. Many of us had never met before the program and little did we know that spending 10 weeks of a beautiful spring in the District would bring us so close. The first thing that had piqued my interest about the Government Foreign Study Program in Washington, D.C., was the internship component.
Fourteen Hanover Police officers raided Alpha Delta fraternity a few days before Commencement. They left with at least 10 crates of evidence after five hours labor without managing to find a sexually explicit tape, their alleged reason for entering the house.