Dartmouth Gets Transparent In the Globe, the M-Bomb writes of a fight at Dartmouth over the possible election of a petition candidate to the board of trustees.

The candidate in question is conservative, and is backed by conservative alums who disagree with President James Wright on the college's direction.

Rather than welcoming this as healthy debate, the Dartmouth administration is reacting defensively. In short, it is freaking out.

Here is one salient paragraph:

The petition trustees say they are learning much more about what happens on campus because of the Internet. Online campus newspapers and blogs allow them to circumvent "the clumsy propaganda in alumni magazines," Robinson wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece last fall.

Harvard Magazine is far better than "clumsy propaganda"—I think it's pretty balanced—but there is certainly plenty of propaganda coming out of other Harvard orifices. All paid for by alumni giving and student tuition money!

But now there's this blog, and the Crimson online, and Gadfly, and 02138 magazine....  ¶ 11:42 AM