Monday, May 28, 2007

Dartmouth alumni elect conservatives to trustee board

CNN reports:
For two decades, Dartmouth College has tried to rein in rowdy fraternities -- such as the one that inspired the movie "Animal House" -- and make the campus more welcoming to women, minorities and scholars.

Now, some alumni who appreciated the old Dartmouth are pushing back. Football, fraternities, opposition to codes regulating hate speech and a fresh focus on teaching undergraduates top their agenda.

The struggle for control of Dartmouth is being waged in elections for the Ivy League school's board of trustees, which steers its policies and hires top administrators. In the past four years, the football-and-fraternities faction has won all four open seats on the 18-member board using a once-obscure rule to elect petition candidates.
The fact that this is news suggests there isn't much intellectual diversity on campus.