The Ivy League schools have beclowned themselves over the last few years. They have been hotbeds of anti-Semitism, they have persisted in illegal DEI policies, and they have been hostile to free speech. With one honorable exception.
Under President Sian Beilock, Dartmouth has rejected these far-Left policies, and thus has kept its name out of the newspapers. This tweet sums up Beilock’s accomplishments:
Dartmouth Alumni, Faculty, Students and Friends are standing up for President Sian Beilock as she faces attacks from radical faculty who think she’s too neutral.
The breaking point? She refused to cave and did not sign the AAC&U open letter. Under her bold leadership, Dartmouth… pic.twitter.com/9i4qLWalzZ
— Alumni Free Speech Alliance (@afsaalumni) April 28, 2025
The tweet refers to a letter by the American Association of Colleges and Universities that has been signed by many, many college presidents–just about all of them. You can read the letter here. The letter is relatively mild in tone, but its purport is to align academia with the Democratic Party, in opposition to the Trump administration. Thus, it begins:
As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.
I take it they are referring to the administration’s demand that they comply with anti-discrimination law as laid out by the Supreme Court in the Harvard and North Carolina cases, and stop tolerating or encouraging anti-Semitism. To her credit, Sian Beilock is one of the few college and university presidents who declined to engage in this naked partisanship.
This should give Dartmouth a huge recruiting advantage. There must be countless parents who would have liked their offspring to attend an Ivy League school, but now wouldn’t touch Harvard, Columbia or Penn with a stick. For them, Dartmouth could be a great alternative.
The tweet embedded above includes a link to this Change.org petition, which supports President Beilock “as a Free Speech Leader.” I signed it.
