Over at National Review Online, Michael O’Brien provides a detailed update on the alumni/administration battles at Dartmouth. For the last few years, conservatives have won several spots on the Dartmouth board of trustees by pushing a reform agenda in contested alumni elections. Apparently if you can’t beat ’em, it’s best to just get rid of the elections all together (or at least that’s what some folk at Dartmouth are proposing).
Check out the article here. As the title suggests, the behavior of Dartmouth administrators through this ordeal has been straight out of Animal House.