Countering Campaign Charges

Before the ink was dry on the press release announcing my election to the Board of Trustees last month, we were let in on a secret: a Board committee from which petition trustees have been excluded is exploring alternative methods of selecting Trustees -- a euphemism, really, for stripping Dartmouth alumni of their longstanding right to elect half of the Board. The basis for this unprecedented assault on alumni rights is a series of false charges made by those who have again found themselves on the losing side of an election. The leading charge is that I essentially "bought" the election.