The Dartmouth Review: March 13, 2000

The Dartmouth Review

Alumni Sue College Trustees
by Steven Menashi
Last May, seven Dartmouth graduates filed a class-action lawsuit against the College Trustees in the Grafton County Superior Court, on behalf of all Dartmouth's alumni. The petitioners are entitled to such relief, they argue, because the College engaged in a fraudulent solicitation of funds from alumni in its “Will to Excel” fundraising campaign, initiated in 1992. In the campaign, the Board of Trustees sought over $500 million in contributions from alumni. The complaint explains that the Trustees represented to alumni that the purpose of the campaign was fivefold, but the Trustees never informed alumni that the money raised from them—hundreds of millions of dollars—would be employed toward the elimination of fraternities and sororities and their replacement with a new social system.

Trustee Election: Dartmouth's Choices
by Robert Allgyer and Benjamin Oren
The Alumni of Dartmouth College will cast a collective vote within the next month for a new College Trustee, to replace Richard Page '54, who is retiring. The Alumni Association has named three “official” candidates: Maxwell Anderson '77, Michael Chu '68 and Kevin Ross '77. One more—James Harris '91—collected enough signatures from College alumni to secure a spot on the ballot. Every living alum will be able to cast a vote for one candidate; the ballot went in the mail March 1, and is due back at the beginning of April. The immediate context of the vote is the Board's pending consideration of the recommended Student Life Initiative. Several candidates have framed their campaigns in specific response to the Initiative, and insiders have noted that the election gives the alumni body a lucky chance to weigh in on the matter explicitly.

Letters to the Editor

Dartmouth:

Dartmouth's New Fund for Gay Studies by Andrew Grossman
Research and its Discontents by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
CSLI's Dubious Admissions by Matthew Tokson
SLI: An Alumni View by William Tell '56
"Phi Delt, We Hardly Knew Ya" by Scott Judah

Academe:

Sarah McLachlan Fights Back by John Kalb
Discrimination at UNH by Nilanjan Banerjee
Fraternities on the Rocks by Maureen Sirhal
The Camel's Nose by Benjamin Kepple

Politics:

Going Negative by Jeffrey Hart
Dubya's Real Record by Richard Miniter

Books:

Death and Rebirth by Emmett Hogan
Literally Speaking... by Karen Parkman

by Gordon Haff

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt