<p>Of course there are alum with a different point of view! Hell, there are some 8% who don’t disapprove of the board’s actions. </p>
<p>However there is no disagreement (even by the chairman of the BOT) that the overwhelming majority of alumni are not in that camp. (including at least one and probably two of your letter writers) </p>
<p>some other recent letters</p>
<p>to the Dartmouth Independent
<a href=“NameBright - Coming Soon”>NameBright - Coming Soon;
<p>To the D from an Economics Professor
<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2007/10/03/opinion/kohn/[/url]”>http://thedartmouth.com/2007/10/03/opinion/kohn/</a></p>
<p>As far as the lawsuit goes, even the AoA board is unanimous in finding it distasteful. Still the majority found it necessary.</p>
<p>…and the thing is, they were elected to their positions by the alumni. They have been speaking to alumni and getting their opinions about this for the last 5 years…they have polled the alumni and found 92% of them opposed to the board’s actions …so they do have a sense of where the alumni as a whole are stand. </p>
<p>In the end their vote was not unanimous - but it was informed - and it was representative.</p>
<p>Something that can not be said for the charter trustees in the newly configured board who stand as a body of 16 individuals with total control of Dartmouth and answerable to no one except themselves.</p>