Vox the Vote
Speaking of trustees I just happened to read all the candidate descriptions this morning. It seems that there are two camps of candidates, those nominated by the Association of Alumni and those running by petition. Of those running by petition, all candidates are a part of this "Dartmouth United" group who's main goal is to establish "parity" on the trustee board. In fact, there are a few who actually state that "parity" is the most important issue facing the college today.
Now all day long I've been rumminating over the idea that Dartmouth United = Parity, which I have to say I find very humorous as well as the idea that the most important issue facing Dartmouth College is it's lack of parity. If I'm not mistaken, I also think this Dartmouth United group is the one that raised all kinds of hoopla with a lawsuit and petition candidates the last election. The result of that election was record breaking alumni participation and a landslide victory for the AoA candidates. Histerically, some of the current Dartmouth United candidates are claiming responsibility for the increase in voter participation in the last election totally ignoring the fact that more alumni decided to vote for the first time in order to say "No" to Dartmouth United.
Needless to say I'm not going to vote for any Dartmouth United candidates unless they happen to be BLD members AND I'd much rather vote for BLD members running for State Representative.
