2008 Association of Alumni Candidates

Richard Roberts '83, Wethersfield, CT
INDEPENDENT, PRO-PARITY PETITION CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

J.D., University of Virginia Law School.  Private practice in Hartford, CT; currently partner at Halloran & Sage, LLP.  VP and Director, Dartmouth Club of Hartford; alumni interviewer for over 20 years.  Currently District Enrollment Director. Involved in local government and farmland preservation efforts.

“The overriding issue in this election is whether the long-established right of Dartmouth alumni to elect half of Dartmouth’s trustees will be preserved.  I respectfully disagree with the view expressed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees that reducing the percentage of trustees elected by alumni somehow will mean the election of more capable trustees. In my view, the opposite is true; who has better judgment in this matter than, collectively, the sons and daughters of Dartmouth? I also take exception to the Board’s efforts to achieve by Diktat what it could not achieve by consent.         
         
“The Association of Alumni acted correctly in suing to prevent the high-handed reversal of procedures that have served Dartmouth so well since 1891.  Fortunately, the lawsuit has stopped the Board in its tracks. If the Association of Alumni petition candidates are elected, the Board will hopefully see the need, finally, to seek consensus regarding any electoral reform.  Differences can then be resolved.  If our slate is not elected, this lawsuit will be dropped and the Board will see itself as unchecked, and divisions will deepen.

“I am running to promote the former result and to avoid the latter.”

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