May 13, 2005

Trustee Election at Dartmouth Is Seen as 'Battle for Academic Freedom'

By PAUL FAIN

Elections of trustees to college and university boards are generally a snooze. Not so at Dartmouth College, where an alumni vote for two slots on the Board of Trustees, the results of which should be released in the next few weeks, has included as much drama as a mudslinging Congressional campaign.

Dartmouth alumni choose seven members of the college's 17-trustee board. With two seats open this year, the Alumni Council, a body composed mostly of class and alumni-group leaders, selected

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