June 10 (Bloomberg) -- An alumni association at Dartmouth College has elected new executive committee members who plan to end a lawsuit that challenges an expansion of the Ivy League school's board of trustees, according to the school.

Every member of the Unity slate of candidates opposed to the litigation received about 60 percent of the votes cast in elections to the Association of Alumni executive committee, according to statement today by Dartmouth, in Hanover, New Hampshire. The alumni group had sued the school to stop an expansion of the board that would give more power to appointed trustees as distinct from those elected by alumni.

Dartmouth had voted to double the number of appointed trustees, giving them twice as much power as those elected by alumni. Dartmouth trustee T.J. Rodgers, president and chief executive officer of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., opposed the expansion and supported a slate of Association of Alumni candidates that would continue the suit. That camp lost.

``The new executive committee, all 11 members, will meet tonight to consider a resolution to begin the process of bringing the lawsuit to an end,'' said alumnus Sam Ostrow, a spokesman for Dartmouth Undying, a group that supported the winning Unity side, in a telephone interview today.

To contact the reporter on this story: Janet Frankston Lorin in New York jlorin@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: June 10, 2008 16:27 EDT