electronic information in the 21st century. The author of Idealism and Liberal Education, Freedman became a spokesman for the importance of the liberal arts. President Freedman died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on March 21, 2006. Criticism The one event in Freedman's presidency that garnered the most press was the so-called "Hitler Quote" scandal of The Dartmouth Review in 1990. A member of the staff of the controversial conservative weekly paper inserted a quote from Mein Kampf into the masthead of one edition of the paper. This edition of the Review was dated on Yom Kippor, the holiest day in the Jewish year. In the same edition, the paper also printed a drawing of Freedman as Hitler. The paper's editor discovered the quote three days after the paper was distributed, pulled available copies, and issued a campus-wide apology, but the quotation was seen as the latest in a series of attention-getting stunts that were either provocative or offensive depending on the reader's point of view. Freedman's administration undertook the building of the "second Green" in an attempt to create a genuine sense of intellectual community at the College. George Mason law professor Todd Zywicki, a Dartmouth alum (and trustee) later referred to Freedman as a "truly evil man" whose "agenda was to turn Dartmouth into Harvard." Former Dartmouth Senior Fellow William C. Dowling, noting that the danger of Dartmouth's ever becoming like Harvard was exceedingly remote, characterized Zywicki's remark as typical of a "brutal philistinism too often associated with the Dartmouth name." Dartmouth's Board of Trustees publicly repudiated any association with Zywicki's sentiments. On December 18, 2007, head of the Board Ed Haldeman (Dartmouth '70) issued a statement noting that "Mr. Zywicki has apologized to members of the Freedman family and indicated that he would like to retract other parts of his speech." Zywicki was not reelected to the Board. References External links Dartmouth College Wheelock Succession: James O. Freedman William C. Dowling, Rising Reputation and Intellectual Mediocrity "Freedman, College president emeritus, dies at 70", Kevin Garland and Tara Kyle, The Dartmouth, March 28, 2006. James Freedman, Former Dartmouth President, Dies at 70, NYT, Mar 22, 2006 obituary. 1935 births 2006 deaths Harvard College alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma Deans of University of Pennsylvania Law School Presidents of Dartmouth College Presidents of the University of Iowa Yale Law School alumni People from Manchester, New Hampshire American academic administrators