By THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD
With the Association of Alumni elections close on the horizon, thousands of alumni are now gearing up to cast the votes that will determine the composition of the next AoA executive committee. A contingent of the current executive committee's recent, more contentious actions -- most notably a costly mass mailing pushing the lawsuit in the name of the Association -- have raised the question of whether the committee has truly represented popular alumni interests.The committee's decision to file a lawsuit over the Board of Trustees' announced plan to add charter seats to the Board has ratcheted up the already noisy alumni governance debate to a fever pitch, pushing the College's troubles into the spotlight yet again. While the merits of the claims that precipitated the lawsuit are certainly open for debate, the decision to file the suit is of more dubious distinction.
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By David Glovsky, Staff Columnist
As the Class of 2008 prepares to embark on their long journey as alumni, talk around campus has turned to the future of our College. With just 14 short months left in President Wright's tenure, a decision will soon be made about his successor. The next president of Dartmouth College will take office at an important time; he or she must deal with battling alumni, issues of professor retention and the omnipresent gender issues that pervaded our campus long before we were born and will continue long after our time in Hanover is complete. This is the time for a bold shift in direction, a shift to someone who understands Dartmouth's past but will not let that past hold us back from becoming a better institution.
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By Skip Sturman, Director of Career Services
To the Editor:
On behalf of Career Services, I wish to express my sincere appreciation and heartfelt gratitude to all of the students, faculty and administrators who took time out of their busy schedules last week to meet with Career Services' External Review Team ("External Panel Tackles Career Services Review," Apr. 10). Between Apr. 9-11, the Review Team met with as many as 90 individuals across campus, including President Wright, to assess Career Services. We hope that the Review Team's candid conversations and subsequent written recommendations will help us chart a course for the future. At the very least, we trust that the review process itself helps further the goal President Wright set for the administration -- in the wake of The McKinsey Report -- of "encouraging innovation within a culture of interdependence, transparency, responsibility and accountability."
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