New Hampshire Governor Candidate Wants To Reopen Animal House Fraternity At Dartmouth
The basis of most political campaigns is that the candidates tell the constituents what they want to hear. It’s been that way since the beginning of time, and it’s not any different in the great state of New Hampshire. But what is a little bit different is what one Democratic gubernatorial candidate is saying — not about the economy or any of the other important issues that are at stake this election. Instead, he’s talking about re-opening a shuttered fraternity.
Businessman Mark Connolly is one of the leading candidates in the New Hampshire governor’s race, and is also an alum of the Alpha Delta fraternity at Dartmouth, AKA the chapter that was the basis for the legendary 1978 movie. According to The Boston Globe, Connolly sent a fundraising email to his brothers earlier this month that included his thoughts on re-opening the chapter, which was closed in 2015 after several conduct violations, including branding the asses of pledges and urinating on a woman from a second-floor balcony at the chapter house.
In his email, Connolly said:
“I understand the position the college was in and that some of the students were not fully cooperating, but I don’t think hurting past generations and preventing future ones is the best course,” Connolly wrote in a fund-raising pitch that was obtained by the Globe. “In the coming months and years, I would hope to see AD back up and running and have its status restored.”
And it turns out, if Connolly is elected governor, he may be in the position to do something about it – the state’s governor is automatically an ex-officio member of the Dartmouth College board of trustees. And while Connolly told the paper that “as governor, I will take my work as an ex-officio member of the board of trustees seriously, which I believe precludes special treatment for any one group,” and Diana Lawrence, Associate Vice President of Communications at Dartmouth College, said that “Derecognition is permanent.” I’m seeing a tiny glimmer of hope for the brothers of Alpha Delta.
Take that, Dean Wormer..
[via The Boston Globe]
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There needs to be more shit like this in the news. He might be a dirty lib but he’s got my vote.
9 years ago at 10:00 amJeanne Shaheen Sucks… but so does her granddaughter who goes to my school
9 years ago at 10:19 amTHEY GAVE BACK THE BAR! THE WHOLE FUCKING BAR!
9 years ago at 10:19 amIt’s what happens when you never give up. Just like how we never gave up after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
9 years ago at 11:04 amJaps but yeah we get the point
9 years ago at 11:39 amLet him go he’s rolling
9 years ago at 11:46 amThis guy has seen the movie.
9 years ago at 11:49 amI’ll see myself out gents
9 years ago at 1:11 pmI’m all about second chances. *cough* TFM*cough* . Grab yourself some beers and watch it.
9 years ago at 1:21 pmThey took everything, even the stuff we didn’t steal!
9 years ago at 3:26 pmFuck Dartmouth. They have been trying to dissolve Greek life for two decades. Now Miami of OH is trying to follow suit, along with many others. All this brother wants is a place to return to for Saturday football games so he can ogle some 20-something sorority trim and realize how far he’s come in life. Is that too much to ask? Because some drunk bitch staggered into a stream of piss coming from the balcony or a pledge gets an infected ass, he should be denied his right to return to his roots and live vicariously through the current brothers in the house. I reiterate, Fuck Dartmouth.
9 years ago at 10:37 amThey took the fucking bar!!!!
9 years ago at 10:40 amExcept the movie was shot in Eugene, Oregon.
9 years ago at 10:46 amI bet everyone in your life fucking hates you
9 years ago at 12:03 pm