Lawsuit Withdrawn- June 28, 2008 As expected during the recent election, the new AoA Executive Committee has decided to terminate the AoA's lawsuit against the Board of Trustees. The College's press release is here.http://dartlog.net/2008/06/lawsuit-withdrawn.php Open Thread: Presidential Search Committee- June 26, 2008 The members of the Presidential Search Committee were recently unveiled. There seems to be partisans from both sides of the alumni dispute on the committee, most prominently Martha Beattie '76 and Peter Robinson '79. This is an open thread concerning its make-up. Discuss.http://dartlog.net/2008/06/open-thread-presidential-search.php How to Create a Nom de Plume- June 26, 2008 There are numerous ways to avoid posting anonymously, but the following is the easiest:Click Post a Comment at the bottom of the post.You will then have four options: a google name, an OpenID name, NameURL, and Anonymous. Click the circle next to NameURL.In the space to the right of Name, write whatever sequence of letters, numbers, and spaces your little heart desiresas long as it doesn't spell 'anonymous'.The URL space is optional. If you have your own website or blog that you want people...http://dartlog.net/2008/06/how-to-create-nom-de-plume.php Haldeman: Conflicting Reports- June 21, 2008 The Daily Dartmouth finally got around to reporting yesterday that Dartmouths Board Chair Ed Haldeman will be stepping down from his post as Putnam Investments CEO and Presidentdartlog readers may recall our coverage of this event here several days ago.Haldeman will now be the chair of the companys mutual fund unit. According to Haldeman, as reported in the Daily Dartmouth, This transition has been anticipated for a very long period of time.Specifically, according to the Daily Ds article, this..http://dartlog.net/2008/06/haldeman-conflicting-reports.php Unethical Dealings by a Board Member- June 20, 2008 Trustee Leon Black is in the news.P.S. Here's more.http://dartlog.net/2008/06/unethical-dealings-by-board-member.php Presidential Search Committee Announced- June 19, 2008 Here.The following are the six members of the Board of Trustees on the committee:Bradford Evans '64, managing director of Morgan Stanley and a vice chairman of the firm's Investment Banking Department; Jose W. Fernandez '77, a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and global co-chair of the firm's Latin America practice; Pamela Joyner '79, the managing partner and founder of Avid Partners; Stephen Mandel Jr. '78, managing director and...http://dartlog.net/2008/06/presidential-search-committee-announced.php Haldeman, Denying Allegations, Steps Down as Putnam CEO- June 17, 2008 Two days after Dartmouths Association of Alumni results were announced, Dartmouths Board Chair Ed Haldeman told reporters in a June 12th teleconference that he will be stepping down as Putnam Investments CEO. Putnam Investments is a mutual funds firm based in Boston. During the media teleconference, Haldeman insisted that the move has nothing to do with an allegation, put forward recently by a Putnam whistleblower, that Haldeman had known about the market-timing activity that had occurred years.http://dartlog.net/2008/06/haldeman-denying-allegations-steps-down.php 'Unity' slate sweeps executive committee seats- June 11, 2008 From the horse's mouth:HANOVER, NH - The Dartmouth College Office of Alumni Relations today announced that a record number of Dartmouth alumni voted to elect new leadership of the Association of Alumni (AoA) committed to ending a lawsuit against the College. Every member of the "Unity" slate of candidates for the eleven-member executive committee was elected with approximately 60 percent of the votes cast. With 24,940 ballots cast, a record number of Dartmouth College's more than 60,000 alumni..http://dartlog.net/2008/06/unity-slate-takes-all-aoa-seats.php Vote Reminder- June 5, 2008 Online voting for the AoA's Executive Committee concludes today. For those who live close to Hanover, you can still vote in person at their annual meeting on the 10th.http://dartlog.net/2008/06/vote-reminder.php The Dartmouth Review's Parity Slate- June 1, 2008 Apparently being endorsed by us is a bad thing:du.blather.pdfhttp://dartlog.net/2008/06/dartmouth-reviews-parity-slate.php |