Stephen Smith — Petition Candidate for Dartmouth Trustee

"[T]he most depressing moments I have had [in my association with Dartmouth], was when talented men and women failed to reach their potential, because they took security in a state of dependence on the status quo, were too captive to the established mindset, and lacked the freedom--or the independence, if you will--to understand John Sloan Dickey's description of the nature of a Dartmouth edcation as the 'liberating arts.'

"At a time when tuition and administrative budgets are soaring—between 2000 and 2005, administrative costs at the College grew at five times the rate of inflation—it’s unfair to deny undergraduates the courses they need, when they need them.

"80 percent of the oversubscriptions this year have come from the departments of Dartmouth's most popular majors: economics, government, history and psychological and brain sciences.