Posted by Todd Zywicki:
Response to Dartmouth Booting:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_04_12-2009_04_18.shtml#1239888125
George Leef ponders the larger implications of the Dartmouth Board
majority's decision to boot me, "[1]Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish
Need Apply"" "Message to the remaining critics: 'Accept your powerless
status and keep quiet.'"
And Joe Malchow [2]questions the wisdom of reopening the shooting wars
of the past few years just to settle scores:
This action is by any measure an egregious one. Talk about
disproportionate response: for years a small entrenched band of
insiders on the Board and in Parkhurst have attempted to repel a
groundswell of student and alumni sentiment in favor of better
management practices, smarter free speech policies, more support
for the academic departments in demand, less revulsion to the
notion of athletics and the Greek system, and other hale and hearty
measures Dartmouth students and alumni have supported throughout
the ages to ensure that Dartmouth remains true to itself. Most of
the reaction to this sentiment has been ham handed: the failed
constitution that would have rigged the trustee election procedures
against petition candidates; the candidacy of Sandy Alderson,
billed as a conservative because Parkhurst presumed that those
quintessentially Dartmouth passions were nothing more than
right-wingerism; and finally the abrogation of the 1891 compact
that provided for a half-elected Board. Call that the nuclear
option. Call the dismissal of Professor Todd Zywicki the most
cowardly post-armistice blindsiding in the history of gentlemanly
warfare.
References
1. http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=2158
2. http://www.dartblog.com/data/2009/04/008588.php
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