By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff
There is really very little that students should have to do in this election. The trend of collecting signatures from prominent students in support of the pro-board packing and the anti-board packing schemes, which was started rather ignobly by agents in Dartmouth Undying, is frankly silly. The Association of Alumni's mission is to serve alumni, which students inherently are not. While we will join the AoA's constituency one day, there are pressing student issues that do not concern alumni that should occupy our time. If we don't want alumni to butt into our business, we should stay out of theirs.
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By Nathan Bruschi, Staff Columnist
The Hood's "Black Womanhood" exhibit is largely my fault. Well, not mine personally. More so than it does for black women, the exhibit tells the story of white men. The collection is an interpretation -- a historical record, really -- of the way white men like myself have defined women's sexuality and reduced "black womanhood" to a series of sexual icons.
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By Frank Gado
To the Editor:
The contention that the current mode of nomination and election "splits" the vote in trustee races has never been proved ("Elections could seal fate of AoA suit," April 28). In an approval voting system, the voters can vote for as many candidates as they wish -- hence there is no "splitting." Mr. Smith was named on a majority of the ballots; no other candidate in his race was. (I have been informed that the same was true in the Rodgers race, but I do not have the figures available.) It should also be noted that the approval system was instituted, not by those who have supported petition candidates, but by the Alumni Council and other "insiders" who chose this as a way to defeat the vote-splitting they blamed for the election of John Steel.
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