tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post1708607709001493075..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Hedge Fund U, Version 2Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-71951533598952720862009-05-07T10:29:00.000-04:002009-05-07T10:29:00.000-04:00Anonymous 2nd -
You have repeated, again and agai...Anonymous 2nd -<br /><br />You have repeated, again and again, two rather technical points about the governance of Dartmouth, and especially about the contrast between alumni and charter trustees. The first point seems to be that even alumni trustee candidates who got sufficient votes to win what to all other observers would appear to be an election must be approved by the existing board before Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-65508681489770597202009-05-05T15:53:00.000-04:002009-05-05T15:53:00.000-04:00Silvergate is running in his own "petition" candid...Silvergate is running in his own "petition" candidacy, operates a nonprofit that has specifically supported Zywicki and criticized the board in the past, has no known expertise or familiarity with corporate governance, has never voted in a Dartmouth trustee nomination contest, and acknowledges that Rodgers is a client of his! I see no reason why we shouldn't take his word for the way things workAnonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-56188907180294448692009-04-29T15:55:00.000-04:002009-04-29T15:55:00.000-04:00By the way, there is a letter in The Dartmouth, pu...By the way, there is a letter in The Dartmouth, published today, 29 April, 2009, by John Engleman, Dartmouth '68, a member of the Dartmouth Association of Alumni Executive Board, which has some content and stylistic similarities to the posts by "Anonymous 2nd." <br /><br />http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/29/opinion/voces/ <br /><br />"Anonymous 2nd," are you John Engleman?Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-13249856708382150902009-04-29T15:49:00.000-04:002009-04-29T15:49:00.000-04:00Re: "Anonymous 2nd's" second set of comments on 27...Re: "Anonymous 2nd's" second set of comments on 27 April:<br /><br />Re his/her various factual assertions about the alumni lawsuit, what is their relevance to my post above (which was mainly not about Dartmouth), or any of my posts relating to Dartmouth? Bad leadership or governance is not necessarily, and probably rarely illegal. But just because aspects of leadership and governance are not Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-65355063108526118052009-04-28T15:39:00.000-04:002009-04-28T15:39:00.000-04:00Since "Anonymous 2nd" seems to have many concerns ...Since "Anonymous 2nd" seems to have many concerns about how I have summarized the Dartmouth case, I thought I would provide an alternative summary, this one from Harvey Silverglate (who is also Vice President of FIRE). His full posting on his candidacy for the Harvard Board of Overseers is here:<br />http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/04/in_theory_email_should_make.html<br /><br />Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-50531265409715595882009-04-28T11:09:00.000-04:002009-04-28T11:09:00.000-04:00There are many other summaries of the Dartmouth ca...There are many other summaries of the Dartmouth case that suggest that the alumni used to elect de facto a substantial proportion of the trustees.<br /><br />If you want to argue with suspect facts in the FIRE summary, please do not simply claim the support of some large and complex document. Provide one or more relevant quotes and explain how they support your argument.<br /><br />In any case, Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-71163031180157246942009-04-27T17:40:00.000-04:002009-04-27T17:40:00.000-04:00This web-log regularly benefits from the insight o...This web-log regularly benefits from the insight of anonymous commenters whose ideas are at least dealt with regardless of the prestige of the names attached to them. My observations are not meant to insult FIRE's staff, which no one has even referred to until now and who still remain anonymous. They are meant as a critique of Dr. Poses' use of the quotation, as a way of showing why Dr. Poses Anonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-65877660247763553872009-04-27T14:11:00.000-04:002009-04-27T14:11:00.000-04:00"Anonymous 2nd" above declined to reveal his/her i..."Anonymous 2nd" above declined to reveal his/her identity, because he/she would "prefer not to be insulted by name." <br /><br />But cloaked in anonymity, above you called FIRE, an organization which does not hide the identities of its officers and staff, "highly unreliable and uninformed," and "ignorant." <br /><br />In other comments, you have insulted other people.<br /><br />You are Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-25862423392968099922009-04-27T12:40:00.000-04:002009-04-27T12:40:00.000-04:00Anonymous:
Dartmouth's motion to dismiss the firs...Anonymous:<br /><br />Dartmouth's motion to dismiss the first lawsuit was not "rejected on all counts." It caused the court to eliminate one or two of the plaintiff's claims, although the court denied the request to dismiss the entire case. The plaintiff's case met the minimum standard to go forward as long as the truthfulness or falsity of its factual claims was ignored. Every plaintiff who Anonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-26874402174588518582009-04-24T16:09:00.000-04:002009-04-24T16:09:00.000-04:00Here are some facts:
Dartmouth filed a motion to ...Here are some facts:<br /><br />Dartmouth filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on the 1891 Agreement. That motion was rejected on all counts. The Court said that plaintiffs could proceed with the case. Notably, in the most recent lawsuit to enforce the 1891 Agreement Dartmouth chose not to file a motion to dismiss--because it knew it would lose.<br /><br />Do you really think that the state Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-4510310486242648712009-04-24T14:59:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:59:00.000-04:00I prefer to think that your arguments stand or fal...I prefer to think that your arguments stand or fall on their merits, and knowing the identity of the writer doesn't make them any more or less compelling. I am not a member of the Board and have no material interest that is threatened by the attacks on the Board, if that is what you are suggesting. You must be new to this discussion if you think there is nothing to be lost by a commenter who Anonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-48315379931225140492009-04-24T13:31:00.000-04:002009-04-24T13:31:00.000-04:00@ Anonymous 2nd:
You ought to reveal your identit...@ Anonymous 2nd:<br /><br />You ought to reveal your identity. I realize that you declined to do so in January (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/11/leadership-of-elite-american-university.html#c8415477089065639537), but at this point the readership could evaluate your assertions--some of which may be perfectly valid--more reasonably by knowing who you are. Otherwise you are likely to be viewed Kimball Atwood, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16730600565983594548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-21172589855319625872009-04-24T10:22:00.000-04:002009-04-24T10:22:00.000-04:00Dr. Poses,
Since you seem to misunderstood my com...Dr. Poses,<br /><br />Since you seem to misunderstood my comments on FIRE, I will repeat them. FIRE is uninformed and unqualified to provide useful or reliable analysis of corporate governance at Dartmouth. For that general reason you should not have quoted from FIRE's comments on Dartmouth. I also showed why those particular comments were inaccurate, which is another reason you should not Anonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-80682220337487172412009-04-22T17:09:00.000-04:002009-04-22T17:09:00.000-04:00I am impressed how much interest there is about th...I am impressed how much interest there is about the governance of Dartmouth College, presumably mainly among those affiliated with the institution. Every time I write something about the subject, I can expect a lengthy response from “Anonymous 2nd,” in defense of the Dartmouth administration and the Chairman of its Board of Trustees. So here we go again... <br /><br />Although the blog post Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1452756674641292482009-04-20T17:21:00.000-04:002009-04-20T17:21:00.000-04:00Dr. Poses, you might obtain a more accurate unders...Dr. Poses, you might obtain a more accurate understanding of nonprofit governance as it is practiced at Dartmouth on <A HREF="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/11/leadership-of-elite-american-university.html#c8637579710288690803" REL="nofollow">this blog comment</A>.<br /><br />The FIRE is a "free speech" organization and a highly unreliable and uninformed source for information about corporate Anonymous 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-73095314851252012102009-04-14T22:04:00.000-04:002009-04-14T22:04:00.000-04:00Steve, in the upper echelons people are hired not ...Steve, in the upper echelons people are hired not for their ability, but for the size of their wallets and connections. That is bad but --<br /><br />At the lower echelons, people are not hired for their ability, but for their "skillsets", a very short sighted and narrow view of talent management.<br /><br />I believe widespead destruction of western culture is to blame, leaving in its wake the InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-20792335686210938902009-04-14T09:12:00.000-04:002009-04-14T09:12:00.000-04:00A question raised in a number of articles and tele...A question raised in a number of articles and television shows concerning the GM debacle is the position of the board in the decision making process. One consistent answer is that boards are made up of people who have a similar background and outlook.<br /><br />One person made it clear: you do not invite a skunk to the garden party. Their way of stating you do not want someone who raises a stinkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com