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(07/15/08 7:17am)
Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean visited Hanover on Friday to meet with residents of the Kendall retirement community. Dean is currently on a multi-state tour campaigning for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, D-Ill. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Dean said New Hampshire will be critical in the general election as it is the only New England state not leaning toward Obama, who is currently only 0.7 percent ahead of the Republican presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. in the state, according to the Real Clear Politics average. Dean said Obama is a better choice for older Americans, arguing Obama has better judgement on national security issues and does not want to privatize social security, unlike McCain. "To have national security you have to have respect for America at home and abroad, and to do that you have to engage in the kind of relationships that Senator Obama has talked about," Dean said. "You don't talk down to your allies, you don't treat them as junior partners."
(07/11/08 7:22am)
Photos of an Iranian missile test distributed to journalists on Wednesday by officials with the country's Revolutionary Guard were altered to show four missiles launching instead of three, according to a Scientific American interview with Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid published on Thursday. Farid, an expert in digital forensics, said he believes similarities among the missiles' smoke plumes and rocket trails suggest elements of the image may have been digitally cloned. "It's almost certainly doctored in some way, but there are some subtleties here," Farid told Scientific American. "Whoever did it did a reasonably good job."
(04/02/07 9:00am)
Economics professor David Blanchflower, in his capacity as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, has found that the Scottish people are more likely than their peers in the United Kingdom to be unhealthy, unhappy and suicidal. He announced that "2.2 percent of Scottish people agreed they were depressed, had bad nerves or suffered anxiety, compared with 1.7 percent across Britain as a whole," the Bloomberg news service reported. Blanchflower attributed the trend to "bad diets, smoking and alcohol," and other factors. "It turns out that they have high rates of obesity, diabetes, accidental death, blood disease, [and] heart disease," he told Bloomberg.
(01/23/07 11:00am)
Princeton University students -- or more accurately, their parents -- can live a little easier next year as the school's Board of Trustees for the first time in forty years has decided not to increase the cost of tuition, holding it steady at $33,000. While room and board will increase by 4.2 percent, a $13 billion endowment and returns of over 20 percent on the university's investments made the decision possible. "We are aware of the concerns people have about the high cost of sending kids to college," Robert Durkee, vice president and secretary of the university told The New York Times Jan. 22. "For students who don't qualify for financial aid, this will hold the level of tuition steady for one year and we hope that will help."
(01/16/07 11:00am)
Tom Byrne '55, chairman of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce, is set to retire. He will also retire as general manager of the Hanover Improvement Society, the non-profit organization that owns the Nugget Theater, Storrs Pond Recreation Area and James Campion Ice Rink. Byrne, who has been at the center of downtown development and planning in Hanover, will be succeeded by the current vice chairman of the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce, Doug Wise '59. Matt Marshall, former general manager of the Hanover Inn, will become general manager of the Hanover Improvement Society.
(01/08/07 11:00am)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger selected Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eric Taylor '84 as a possible appointee to the state Court of Appeals. Taylor, president of the California Judges Association from 2003 to 2004, was in private practice with Pettit & Martin and Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal prior to beginning his nine-year tenure presiding over the court. After leaving private practice, he served as deputy county counsel for Los Angeles until 1998, when Governor Pete Wilson appointed him to the Inglewood Municipal Court. Taylor rose to the Superior Court in 2000. Taylor received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1988.
(11/13/06 11:00am)
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann apologized for a Halloween photograph showing her standing next to a student dressed as a suicide bomber in an open letter to the university community last Sunday. The photograph, taken at the president's annual Halloween party, sparked controversy since its release on the internet and prominent coverage on blogs as well as in The New York Post. Since then, alumni, students and members of the University's Jewish community have openly criticized Gutmann's decision to pose for the photograph.
(10/31/06 11:00am)
Modine Manufacturing Company, a producer of thermal management systems for industrial and vehicular applications, recently announced the appointment of Charles Cooley Tu'83 to its Board of Directors. Cooley, who received his B.A. from Yale University, is currently Chief Financial Offier of the Lubrizol Corporation, a chemical company. He is also employed by the American oil manufacturer Atlantic Richfield Company and was a former assistant secretary with the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.
(10/25/06 9:00am)
Lynmar Brock, Jr. '55 Tu'56 recently published "Must Thee Fight," a novel for young adults. According to BookSurge LLC, Brock's publisher, the novel centers around the protagonist, Thomas Pratt, in the 1700s as he attempts to reconcile his pacifist Quaker upbringing with the call to arms during the Revolutionary Era. Brock himself dealt with a similar conflict in his own life as both a Quaker and an officer in the United States Navy, which he joined after graduating from Dartmouth. Brock, who is the president and CEO of Brock and Company Inc., is currently involved with a number of philanthropic and community organizations. A former director of Rotary International, Brock is a member of the Willistown Friends Meeting and the Welcome Society. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Claudie, and has two sons.
(09/28/06 9:00am)
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials have reported that a stuffed teddy bear is responsible for causing the deaths of 2,500 trout at a hatchery in Milford. According to Hatchery Supervisor Robert Fawcett, the teddy bear clogged a drain, thus depriving the fish of dissolved oxygen and resulting in their unfortunate suffocation. "Please think before you act. If a teddy bear is dropped accidentally, find a fish culturist and tell them quickly, so they might save your teddy bear, and keep it from becoming a killer," Fawcett said. Hatchery officials, in order to account for this new threat, added the following warning to the end of the somber press release: "RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED."