February 6, 2004

Professor's Departure Stirs Questions at Dartmouth; Trustees Fire President of Rock Valley College; U. of New Mexico Names Director of Latin-American Institute

By ROBIN WILSON, JAMILAH EVELYN, and PIPER FOGG

COMMENDED BUT CANNED: A popular professor at Dartmouth College will be out of a job come summer, and students wonder whether his criticism of the Iraq war has something to do with his departure.

Ronald W. Edsforth, 55, has been a visiting professor in American history at Dartmouth for 11 years and became coordinator of the college's War and Peace Studies Program in March 2000. "War and Peace Since 1900," a course he teaches, is the centerpiece of the program. Mr. Edsforth, who