Under current U.S. immigration policy everybody loses. Most bad policies have at least some small beneficiary, but our virtually nonexistent immigration policy is just good enough to keep out any winners and just bad enough to make sure that everybody loses. Case in point is the current political, social and now constitutional crisis over two border patrol agents who are in jail for forcibly restraining a suspected illegal border-crosser. More »
Since 1891, Dartmouth’s alumni have elected half of the Board of Trustees, a right memorialized in several Board resolutions adopted at the time and traditionally referred to as the “1891 Agreement.” In recent communications to alumni, however, Chairman of the Board Ed Haldeman questioned the validity of this longstanding agreement. “If you read the resolution,” he claims, it “didn’t promise parity,” does not “contain the word or concept of parity in it” and merely permitted “the alumni to nominate the next five trustees for the Board to then elect.” Haldeman adds that there “seems to be a great deal of confusion about the 1891 ‘agreement.’” More »
To the Editor: Though it is too early to write the history of the petition trustee insurgency, it is not too soon to nominate the top howlers in the debates about trustee elections and the constitution fight. More »
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