2008 Association of Alumni Candidates

Zach Hafer '99, Boston, MA
INDEPENDENT, PRO-PARITY PETITION CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law; Armour Scholar (full-tuition merit scholarship); awarded the Traynor Prize for outstanding oral advocacy in Virginia’s moot court competition.  Law clerk for the Honorable Shirley W. Kram, U.S. District Judge, S.D.N.Y. Litigation associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, New York City. Currently an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston, in the Office’s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Graduated Dartmouth cum laude. Member, Men’s Hockey team; named First-Team Academic All-Ivy. Active supporter of the Dartmouth College Fund, Dartmouth Hockey, and the Class of 1999. Dartmouth alumni interviewer.

“I have been nominated by alumni petition and I fully support the efforts of our 2007-2008 Association of Alumni Executive Committee to prevent the Board of Trustees from discarding the 1891 Agreement which has guaranteed for 116 years that Dartmouth alumni elect 50% of the Board. 

“The trustees have dismissed elections as "divisive," but the effect has been the opposite.  Look at the cover of the most recent Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and you can see the new unity of sentiment for smaller classes and a better student-faculty ratio. This is an issue that languished until it became the centerpiece platform of the last Alumni Trustee election.  Stanching alumni elections will once again relegate fresh voices to voces clamantis in deserto.”

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