Alumni of Dartmouth College elected two petition candidates to the college's board of trustees--two conservatives, no less.

Alumni of Dartmouth College elected two petition candidates to the college's board of trustees--two conservatives, no less. Peter Robinson '79 and Todd Zywicki '88 emerged victorious from a six-person field after a bruising smear campaign waged by supporters of the current regime (alumni, professors, even the president of the college himself) attempted to derail their candidacies. Robinson is a Hoover Institution fellow, TV moderator, National Review Online contributor, and former Reagan speechwriter. Zywicki is a law professor at George Mason University, and a writer for "The Volokh Conspiracy," a legal-affairs blog. Robinson and Zywicki have been highly critical of the college administration: Their platform called for more transparent governance, a rededication to undergraduate education, more support for the athletic program and the fraternity/sorority system, free speech on campus, and fiscal restraint to curtail an out-of-control bureaucracy. They join T. J. Rodgers '70, who was elected last year on a similar platform, on a board where they will assuredly be a minority faction, albeit a righteous one.