Interesting times at Dartmouth

citygirlsmom
Sun, 27 May 2007 02:56:25 +0000

http://phrygiansociety.com/-

http://thedartmouth.com/2007/03/07/news/secret/

An all-male secret organization that is unrecognized by the College and calls itself the Phrygian Society is striving to “fight against the heavy hand of the administration,” according to documents obtained by The Dartmouth. The society — which consists mostly of politically conservative students, including leaders of conservative campus publications — has held meetings with members of the Board of Trustees and briefly established a shell corporation to receive donations from alumni.

Several members of the organization have used various media outlets to support the positions of petition trustees presently sitting on the Board as well as Stephen Smith ‘88, a candidate in the upcoming trustee election.

Joe Malchow ‘08, for example, placed an advertisement in The Dartmouth in support of Smith and is an administrator of the Facebook.com group “Stephen Smith Supporters,” a group to which Eastman and Ellis also belong.

Fenn has also expressed support for Smith; Smith’s website cites three quotations from him.

(ah, the plot thickens)