The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee, which oversees the 2008 elections for many key campus positions at Dartmouth, held its final information session for potential candidates in Morrison Commons on Wednesday. Positions include Student Body President and Vice President, Class of 2009 and Class of 2011 President and Vice President, Committee on Standards Representatives, Organizational Adjudication Committee Representatives, Class Representatives to Student Assembly and Green Key Society Members. Students running for the Student Body President or Student Body Vice President positions must collect 100 students' signatures and those running for any other position need to collect 50 to be eligible for election. Candidates must submit the signatures by March 7, but students who are off-campus this term may turn in petitions for Student Body President or Vice President on March 28. The campaign will start on March 30, and elections will be held on April 8 and April 9. This year's campaign and elections will take place earlier than they did last year, which will ease the transition for the newly elected students and may make them more efficient at their positions, according to Sara del Nido '08, EPAC Chair. Del Nido is a former opinion editor for The Dartmouth.
Gail L. Warden '60 will be part of a commission charged with analyzing health care coverage in America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation plans to announce Thursday. Warden, who previously served on the Federal Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, will be one of several officers appointed to the commission in a ceremony to be held in Washington on Thursday. The launch of the commission will coincide with the Foundation's release of new data about disparities in health and productivity between income groups and the influence of various sociopolitical factors on health. The commission will meet over the next two years to address the issues raised in the report and develop solutions for a future proposal.
