Politics

The group known as the Committee of Concerned Dartmouth Alumni, which last spring backed the successful petition candidacy of Dr. John F. Steel '54 for trustee, apparently does not intend to mount petition drives for candidates to fill two forthcoming trustee vacancies. S. Avery Raube '3O, one of the organizers of the Concerned Alumni, said in mid-January that he "kind of doubted" his forces would put up candidates to oppose Robert E. Field '43 and Ronald B. Schram '64, who were nominated by the Alumni Council in December.

Petition forms have been obtained, however, for the purpose of supporting Malcolm V. Beard Jr. '67, quarterback for the Ivy football championship teams of 1965 and 1966, and T. Coleman Andrews III '76, who as a student helped found at Dartmouth a conservative-oriented society called the American Forum, in opposition to the Alumni Council nominees. This effort is backed by students, including Gregory A. Fossedal 'Bl, chairman of the Dartmouth Review, the weekly tabloid which shares many points of interest with the Committee of Concerned Dartmouth Alumni. The signatures of 250 alumni are required to place petition candidates in nomination. The deadline is March 1. If petition candidates run against the Alumni Council nominees, a balloting of all alumni will occur in the spring.

Meanwhile, speculation continues on campus and elsewhere about when the trustees will name a successor to President Kemeny. They could make the selection at their regular meeting in late February. The next regular trustee meeting after that is in April.

"SOME of the alumni were exasperated by the growing vogue of sport [in the 1870s]. One graduate of great influence transferred his son from Dartmouth to Middlebury as a result of his feeling of indignation at the growth of athletics, and became bitterly hostile to President Smith for allowing that condition to arise." L. B. Richardson History of Dartmouth College