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(06/22/07 6:48am)
At the event, which was billed as a conversation about stem cell research, Clinton both condemned the Bush administration's insistence on forbidding research it deems unethical and portrayed the issue as one that transcends partisan politics.
(06/15/07 9:27pm)
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., called on her fellow senators to fund stem cell research and said that as president she would make lifting the ban on the research "a very high priority as soon as taking office," during a town hall"style rally in Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center Friday afternoon.
(02/23/07 11:00am)
Yale University has announced plans to continue its on-campus interview program, the Yale Daily News reported Thursday. Yale will now be the only Ivy League institution continuing to offer this service to prospective students, in which seniors are trained by the admissions department to conduct interviews on campus. Yale believes that on-campus interviews allow for direct communication between prospective students and the particular school and sees no reason to change its current process. Last week Dartmouth announced that it was discontinuing on-campus interviews in order to spend more time and effort expanding on-campus programs for admissions visitors and to create a more fair admissions process. Harvard conducts on-campus interviews but places no evaluation in the applicant's file.
(01/05/07 11:00am)
One evening early last October, just past midnight, about 30 Native American students were holding their annual Columbus Day drum circle on the Green. A solemn yet energetic ceremony, it aimed to remind the public of centuries of genocide following Christopher Columbus's arrival and commemorate the death of Native Americans in the distant and recent past. A line of students outfitted in traditional blankets encircled a small group of backup singers and several drummers beating a large drum. In preparation, they had been practicing their songs and dances four hours a week.
(08/22/06 9:00am)
Director of Network Services Frank Archambeault announced Friday that students will be able to watch cable TV on their own television sets through the same wiring that carries phone conversations and other data beginning next term. Previously, students could only watch TV over the network by using DarTV. Now, TV addicts can get their fix by paying a $100 refundable deposit in exchange for a special box that allows a regular TV to connect to the digital TV data in the College's system.
(08/17/06 9:00am)
The life of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 will be celebrated this Friday at an 8:00 p.m. dinner aimed at raising funds to purchase a memorial tree on the Green. Willis-Starbuck was accidently shot by a friend in July of 2005 in her hometown of Berkeley, Calif. The event will take place in Collis Common Ground and is sponsored by the Programming Board, Collis Governing Board, the Afro-American Society and La Alianza Latina. Performances include pianist David Sicilia, the Gospel Choir and SoulScribes. The Meleia Willis-Starbuck Memorial Tree Fund hopes to raise $2,500 by Sept. 15.
(08/08/06 9:00am)
Strip clubs, meth labs and teenage life in rural Oklahoma are all topics central to the senior thesis of Mark Lawley '04: a novel titled "Strip Club of God." After a year-and-a-half of revisions, he finished his work on March 13, 2006 and has sent the manuscript to his agent, who Lawley hopes will agree to shop the book to publishers.
(07/27/06 9:00am)
New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary may lose importance following a recommendation of the Democrats' rules and bylaws committee that changes the schedule of state presidential contests. The change worries state Democrats and may dampen the traditional flurry of presidential candidates who traditionally visit Dartmouth.
(07/20/06 9:00am)
Following several suspicious encounters, Safety and Security warned students to beware of door-to-door salesmen who offer false stories in order to sell potentially fake magazine subscriptions in campus residence halls.
(06/29/06 9:00am)
In the face of recently enforced immigration regulations that make it difficult to stay at Dartmouth legally during sophomore summer, only 38 percent of sophomore international students are on campus this term, according to the Dean of the College Office, often after rearranging their Dartmouth Plans and risking canceled visas.
(06/27/06 9:00am)
Back from Sudan, brother and sister Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace Tu'01 reported on the crisis in the Darfur region and promoted volunteerism Friday as part of the Tucker Foundation's Sophomore Summer Opening Address. Both Steidle, a former captain with the U.S. Marine Corps, and Wallace, founder of the non-governmental organization Global Grassroots, urged attendees to react to the wrongs they see in the world, using the Sudanese genocide as an example.
(02/20/06 11:00am)
As both the Rockefeller Center's Associate Director of Training and Education and a Vermont state senator, Matt Dunne is used to balancing state politics and his career at Dartmouth. But now, while running for Vermont Lt. Governor, he plans take a leave of absence that could become permanent if he wins.
(02/10/06 11:00am)
While students head en masse to Webster Avenue this Winter Carnival weekend to attend fraternity parties, seven years ago frat row was silent. That Carnival weekend in 1999 saw cancelled parties, massive rallies and much speculation that the days of Greek life were coming to an end after the College administration unveiled its controversial Student Life Initiative on the celebration's eve.
(02/08/06 11:00am)
"We are a buffer sometimes between the client, the special interest ... and the institution. Our currency is our credibility and our trust," Fazio said of lobbyists.
(01/26/06 11:00am)
When Melissa Lafsky '00 wrote her first weblog entry on March 14, 2005, she had no idea that less than a year later she would quit her job at a law firm, receive threatening e-mails and begin writing a book based on her experience as a 27-year-old associate lawyer. Lafsky's blog, in which she anonymously recounted life in a competitive Manhattan law firm, received nearly one million hits by the end of last year and garnered press coverage from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Law Record and the American Bar Association Journal.
(01/13/06 11:00am)
After delivering his speech to a packed Alumni Hall, Rev. Al Sharpton sat down with The Dartmouth to discuss what the Democrats did wrong in 2004, what they should do in 2008, being the most comedic candidate on stage and possibly starring in a sitcom -- but only after he finished talking with Jesse Jackson on his cell phone for some time.
(01/13/06 11:00am)
Through his gestures and tone, Sharpton reminded the capacity crowd in Alumni Hall that he was indeed a reverend. He railed tirelessly against the president.
(01/05/06 11:00am)
Baker, an experienced pilot by all accounts, was flying his six-passenger, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron BE 55 alone when it disappeared from radar in less-than-optimal weather. The plane lost contact with air traffic control and dropped below 200 feet about 2.5 miles from the Nantucket airport it was approaching. According to his wife, Baker had dropped off his son at the Teterboro, N.J. airport and was returning to his home on Nantucket Island.
(11/14/05 11:00am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees acted on divestment, launched new construction projects, expressed support for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus and discussed faculty recruitment at its quarterly meeting this weekend.
(11/03/05 11:00am)
Top White House economic adviser Allan Hubbard gave an upbeat report on the current U.S. economy Wednesday evening at the Rockefeller Center, during which he expounded on the benefits of free-market policies and fielded questions from a rapt audience.