<p>The guerrilla campaign to retake the Board of Trustees from the political correctness crowd continues, with remarkable success. I’ve often corrected people on CC who are under the misapprehension that Dartmouth is a '“conservative” Ivy. With a little luck, and some more hard work, perhaps it will become so. Good for these happy warriors! And the alumni that supported them against the overwhelming Dartmouth PC machine.</p>
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<p>I don’t see why the canidates are called conservative? PC Machines? All words that I don’t see have any validity to the issues. Labels don’t help. I am a liberal, I guess, but I can, gasp, agree with some of the issues discussed. So does that make me a conservative or the new trustees liberal? Hmmmmm</p>
<p>As someone who is about to relinquish large quantities of my hard-earned money to Dartmouth, I don’t know enough yet, to have an opinion. But, they were handed several great campaign issues - oversubscribed classes in certain majors at a school where the UG education is a big selling point, and the departure in disgust of the only speech professor, who was teaching classes that routinely turned away students. The same week as the professor resigned because his requests to hire a second speech prof were turned down, another administrator with a title not directly involved with education was hired (sustainability director).
What I don’t know, of course, is whether or not the admin is actually actively working to address these problems, or if some of the other non-write -in candidates would have championed these issues if elected. It is going to be interesting. I think the candidates are considered highly conservative becuase one was a speechwriter (something along those lines) for Reagan.</p>
<p>Robinson penned the “Mr. Gorbachev…tear down this wall” speech. 
Zywicki is one of the members of the great legal blog " the Volokh Conspiracy". <a href=“http://volokh.com/[/url]”>http://volokh.com/</a>
I’m a huge Dartmouth fan, and my daughter came within a hair’s breadth of going there. So I hope they keep working through some of their issues regarding the current administration. Anyone else who is interested should be regularly reading the “banned” campus newspaper–The Dartmouth Review–to get a sense of what’s going on.</p>
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