George Leef ponders the larger implications of the Dartmouth Board majority’s decision to boot me, “Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish Need Apply“” “Message to the remaining critics: ‘Accept your powerless status and keep quiet.'”
And Joe Malchow questions the wisdom of reopening the shooting wars of the past few years just to settle scores:
This action is by any measure an egregious one. Talk about disproportionate response: for years a small entrenched band of insiders on the Board and in Parkhurst have attempted to repel a groundswell of student and alumni sentiment in favor of better management practices, smarter free speech policies, more support for the academic departments in demand, less revulsion to the notion of athletics and the Greek system, and other hale and hearty measures Dartmouth students and alumni have supported throughout the ages to ensure that Dartmouth remains true to itself. Most of the reaction to this sentiment has been ham handed: the failed constitution that would have rigged the trustee election procedures against petition candidates; the candidacy of Sandy Alderson, billed as a conservative because Parkhurst presumed that those quintessentially Dartmouth passions were nothing more than right-wingerism; and finally the abrogation of the 1891 compact that provided for a half-elected Board. Call that the nuclear option. Call the dismissal of Professor Todd Zywicki the most cowardly post-armistice blindsiding in the history of gentlemanly warfare.
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