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(11/06/08 8:48am)
A recent New York Times article, "Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus," highlights this increasing trend of multitasking and adds some evidence from psychologists and neuroscientists to show that, after a certain point, multitasking hinders our efficiency. It is especially detrimental to our efficiency when we combine activities not meant to be combined. For example, according to the articleour reaction times are slower behind the wheelif we are texting than if we are "drunk or stoned."
(11/06/08 8:45am)
The Dartmouth Big Green finished in fourth place out of 11 teams on Sunday at the University of New Hampshire Intercollegiate Horse Show.
(11/06/08 8:45am)
Andrew Olsen '11 notched the game-winning goal eight minutes into overtime as the Big Green outlasted UNH, 2-1.
(11/06/08 8:45am)
Andrew Olsen '11 notched the game-winning goal seven minutes into overtime to send the Big Green past the Wildcats in the team's final non-conference game of the season.
(11/06/08 8:42am)
In 2005, the Canadian edition of Time Magazine said that The Arcade Fire "helped put Canadian music on the map." Musician Brendan Reed is a former member of The Arcade Fire, and his new project Clues has benefited from the increased exposure to Canadian audiences.
(11/06/08 8:40am)
The Glee Club's concert,
(11/06/08 8:40am)
The Glee Club's concert, "Faure and Friends," features "French or French-inspired composers," according to director Louis Burkot.
(11/06/08 8:35am)
Kendra Field, the College's 2008-2009 Charles Eastman Fellow in Native American studies, presented her dissertation, "Intruder of Color: Race, Nation and Thomas Jefferson Brown's Life in Indian Territory," to about 25 attendees in Carson Hall Wednesday evening. Fields, a doctoral candidate at New York University, discussed the life of Thomas Jefferson Brown, a "mixed-race" man who migrated from Arkansas to the Indian Territory in 1870. Brown, who was born to an Irish woman and a black man, was married twice -- both times to members of Native American nations with African heritage. The talk explored several of the issues surrounding Native Americans in Brown's time, including the relationship between settlers and Native Americans in the territory and land allocation as a result of the Dawes Act. The presentation was part of the annual First Nations Week, presented by Native Americans at Dartmouth.
(11/06/08 8:35am)
Carola Eisenberg, founder of Physicians for Human Rights, encourages students to volunteer for her organization's chapter at Dartmouth Medical School at a presentation Wednesday evening in the Rockefeller Center.
(11/06/08 8:35am)
Eisenberg urged both medical and undergraduate students to get involved with PHR -- which promotes the universal right to health care using advocacy, health training and public policy -- through the organization's chapter at DMS.
(11/06/08 8:34am)
The College's Web Services team is hiring a new web services manager to help the limited staff meet the demands of Dartmouth's increasing reliance on the internet, according to Sarah Horton, director of web strategy, design and infrastructure at the College.
(11/06/08 8:33am)
Members of the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health talk to students in Thayer Dining Hall to raise awareness of global poverty.
(11/06/08 8:33am)
The challenge, sponsored by the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the East Wheelock Service Corps, offered a $2 rice-and-beans dinner served in Food Court. The event also included a food and clothing drive in Collis Common Ground to benefit Goodwill and the Upper Valley Haven in White River Junction, as well as a survey to determine how much students knew about the United Nations's Millennium Development Goals agenda.
(11/06/08 8:33am)
Jessica Guthrie '10, Myra Altman '11 and Justin Varilek '11 organize volunteers at the Vote Clamantis Election Day headquarters in the Rockefeller Center.
(11/06/08 8:33am)
"This election is crucial, so Vote Clamantis is making sure that each student gets to the polls some way, somehow," Guthrie said.
(11/06/08 8:32am)
Vanessa Sievers '10 has yet to hear the results of her race for Grafton County treasurer against three-term Republican incumbent Carol Elliott.
(11/06/08 8:32am)
Hoeven was reelected in a landslide victory, defeating Democratic state senator Tim Mathern with 74 percent of the vote. Hoeven, a two-term incumbent, will be the first North Dakota governor to serve for more than eight years.
(11/05/08 1:14pm)
A professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton returned to the United States on Sunday after being detained in Khazakstan for over a month on charges of currency smuggling, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. Victor Skormin, who emigrated from Kazakhstan to the United States in 1978, was arrested at the airport in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, on Sept. 28 with $14,221 in American bills he had earned for giving two guest lectures in Kazakhstan. Skormin said he was unaware that the sum exceeded customs regulations. The Kazakh immigration service confiscated the cash and held Skormin in the country until a court could hear his case. During the detainment, Skormin, who only has one, partially functional kidney, ran out of his medicine and became ill. He said he was only able to avoid kidney failure because friends helped him secure more medicine. Skormin was found guilty on Oct. 24 and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine but since his money had been confiscated, he was forced to borrow from his doctoral students, according to the Chronicle.
(11/05/08 1:13pm)
As Democrats and Republicans faced off in heated battles across the nation, Dartmouth's chapters of the College Republicans and College Democrats also went head to head in a he-said, she-said battle of alleged campaign foul play on Tuesday.
(11/05/08 1:13pm)
Democrats swept New England's congressional races Tuesday, defeating the last remaining House Republican in the region, Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbents Governor John Lynch and U.S. Representative Paul Hodes '72 handily won re-election, and former Governor Jeanne Shaheen defeated Republican incumbent John Sununu in a heated race for U.S. Senate.