A reader: “Did you get elected to the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth? I don’t remember seeing a posting on The Corner re: the outcome of the election.”

Me: That’s because the election is still taking place. Balloting, which began on March 7, will continue, online and by mail, until April 22. In the meantime, anyone who’d like to so do can read about the election brouhaha on a number of marvelous weblogs run by Dartmouth students and recent graduates, including Voices in the Wilderness, Dartlog, the Dartmouth Observer, and Joe Malchow’s Dartblog.

Blogs like these are springing up at colleges and universities around the country, by the way, and their existence has major implications for the governance of all institutions of higher learning: From now on, it’s going to be much, much easier for alumni to learn what’s taking place on campuses. Faced with propaganda in magazines, newsletters and other organs controlled by administrators, alumni will be able to get news directly from students instead.