Opinion
Evaluating College Tradition
By Benjamin Selznick | May 30, 2007A recent CNN.com article discussing Dartmouth's recent trustee election ended with this quote by College President James Wright: "For those people who don't like goals that include diversity, that don't include faculty doing scholarship, I'm sorry, but I think those are the best traditions of Dartmouth." What strikes me about this statement is Wright's invocation of tradition.