Posted on Power Line earlier this week by Scott Johnson, aka “The Big Trunk:”

I feel a tremendous sense of gratitude to my alma mater, Dartmouth College. Indeed, apart from my family, I ascribe just about everything good that has happened in my life to my college education. Foremost among the experiences that contributed to my education as an undergraduate was the opportunity to study literature in every one of the classes taught by Professor Jeffrey Hart [of the Dartmouth English department and also a senior editor of National Review] during my four years at the college. Yet I wonder if it would be possible for students at the college today to have an undergraduate experience like mine. See Dan Knecht’s sobering Dartmouth Daily article “The monolith on the hill.“
Last year Cypress Semiconductors chief executive officer and Dartmouth alum (‘70) T.J. Rogers successfully waged an insurgent campaign for election to the Dartmouth board of trustees. I believe his election to the board will greatly benefit the college, but as of today he is more or less alone in the perspective that he brings to the board.
Peter Robinson (‘79) is one of Professor Hart’s most prominent former students. Peter famously put his literary education to work in writing President Reagan’s world-shaking “tear down this wall” speech. His excellent book on his experience as a member of the Reagan speechwriting staff is How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life.
Peter is now a Hoover Institution fellow and is seeking a seat on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees as a petition candidate in the trustee election this coming March. In order to be included on the election ballot he needs to collect 500 signatures supporting his candidacy by mid-February. Click here [www.peter-robinson.org] to take a look at Peter’s site and download a petition form. I support his candidacy and if you are a Dartmouth alum I hope you will consider doing the same.

With my thanks to Scott—and a reminder to everyone else: If you know any graduates of Dartmouth, please send them the link to the website in question, www.peter-robinson.org.