EARLIER THIS YEAR, in a stunning rebuke to the school’s administration, Dartmouth alumni elected two insurgent petition candidates to the college’s board of trustees–Hoover Institution fellow and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson and George Mason University Law School professor Todd Zywicki. Both Robinson and Zywicki had run against the administration on issues ranging from free speech and political correctness to the athletic program and class sizes.

The election of Robinson and Zywicki last spring followed on the heels of the election of insurgent alumnus T.J. Rodgers last year. After the election returns were in (Zywicki has collected articles about the election here) it seemed as though conservatives had the liberal Dartmouth establishment on the ropes, but the most recent installment of the saga calls to mind The Empire Strikes Back.