- So He's That Kind of Republican: Smith wrote an article expressing some extreme skepticism about the general practice of science, sympathizes with intelligent design.
- George Will Endorses Alderson
- The NY Post on the Trustee Election: Glenn Reynolds writes a hack piece glorifying Smith.
- Trustee Voting: a few items about the actual election, and why, even if you don't agree with Wright about most things, Smith is a bad candidate for you.
- More Smith Flip-flopping on Free Speech
- Interesting Note from TJ Rodgers
- The Mega-versity Meme: responding to Dreisbach's op-ed/panic attack about Dartmouth's imminent defeat by 'bigness'
- Smith on Free Speech
- Follow the Money: discussion of The D article reporting on where campaign monies are coming in this election
- Groundhog Day: A DFP piece analyzing Smith's claims about free speech on campus
- On a Mission: on the release of the new mission statement, I talk about the utter silliness of the "Dartmouth is losing its identity" objection to the presence and even growth of grad programs.
Digging deep into the archives, here is some coverage of the last trustee election, from site founder Chris Bateman:
- The Robinson-Zywicki Agenda
- Zywicki and Robinson: Petitioning and Misleading: has a link to a great op-ed published in The D by Geoff Berlin, co-founder of Alums Online, which denounces Zywicki and Robinson.
- Dartmouth c. 2030: predicts dire things if the Robinson-Zywicki (and now Smith) agenda is enacted.
Something else: It is possible that I have never read anything as smug as this editorial of the New Criterion's, supporting Smith. I realize it's an editorial, but the way that it just assumes that the most over-the-top accusations it can put to Jim Wright are true simply because they're saying them is genuinely bracing.
Regarding the New Crapterion's comment that the "establishment" ran "an electioneering blitz, cold-calling alumni and filling their mailboxes with letters and flyers":
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the magazine remember what actually happened, or was it not paying attention? The Common Sense cold-calling only emerged late in the campaign, as a reaction to the unprecedented and often misleading electioneering of conservative blogs and organizations. Common Sense was strategically unwise, but its effort was not inherent in the constitution proposal -- it was a reaction to the unexpectedly rabid response the constitution received.
The campaign groups that prompted the formation of Common Sense include dartmouthviews.org (run by crackpot Tim Dreisbach, author
of "A Battle for the Soul of Dartmouth"), the Hanover Institute (MacGovern), daog.org,
alumniconstitution.org, voxclamantisindeserto.org (a student organization, so made up of people who couldn't vote), dartlog.net (which reported falsely "Tampering Already in
Progress"); other negative and often baseless reports appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on the blogs of FIRE and ACTA, which thought (for some reason, perhaps ignorance) that they had a horse in that race.
And if not the Clinton Group, who does Smith have behind his campaign? I've received two mailings from him already, sent from the University of Virginia's postal account (is he reimbursing them for this)? How did he get my name? Who's managing his website, which is slicker and therefore more cynically desperate than anything Common Sense ever put out? The impressive effort he (or someone) is putting into campaigning reeks of something.
The New Criterion is written by Stefan Beck and James Panero, Dartmouth Review alumni who are basically fartlog incarnate. I wouldn't take it seriously.
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