Alumni elections
By Grant Bosse, Washington, D.C.
Published on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
To the Editor:
I read with disappointment of the Alumni Association's decision to cancel this fall's scheduled elections ("Association of Alumni halts imminent elections," May 30). It would be disturbing enough for our elected representatives to nearly double their own terms, if it weren't also a tactless attempt to muscle through the incoherent constitution they wish to foist upon all Dartmouth alums.
It is this shallow gaming of alumni elections that critics of the proposed constitution fear will become the norm under the bureaucratic and confusing rules being offered. I may not favor this document winning a race to ratification, but I would ask that it proceed on its own merits, without our current officers dragging it kicking and screaming across the finish line.