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(05/04/09 7:24am)
Student Body President-elect Frances Vernon '10 and Student Body Vice President-elect Cory Cunningham '10 have focused on preparing the Student Assembly budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year during the first two weeks of their transition period, the pair said in interviews with The Dartmouth. They plan to submit the Assembly's budget proposal to the Undergraduate Finance Committee on Monday.
(05/01/09 6:38am)
As co-chair of Gender Sexuality XYZ, Jen Schuster '09 works with members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Allied community to combat heteronormativity on campus and promote gender-neutral equality. Although it's great that students rarely encounter overt homophobia at Dartmouth, Jen says, changes still need to be made.
(04/21/09 9:01am)
Vernon won by a margin of more than 380 votes after eight rounds of instant-runoff voting. Vernon garnered 1,101 votes, while Boyd Lever '10 and John Nolan '10 received 715 and 290 votes, respectively, by the eighth round. The instant-runoff process allowed students to rank candidates, including write-in candidates, and eliminated the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes after each round of counting.
(04/21/09 4:19am)
Frances Vernon '10 and Cory Cunningham '10 were overwhelmingly elected student body president and vice president, respectively, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee reported early Tuesday morning.
(04/21/09 3:02am)
Student government election results are not yet available due to a delay in compiling polling data, according to Elections Planning and Advisory Committee chair Justin Varilek '11. Results were expected some time before 1 a.m. on Tuesday. The Dartmouth will post results as soon as they are available.
(04/20/09 9:05am)
The forums began with a discussion held by Agora, a student discussion group, on Friday at the Rockefeller Center, followed by a debate focusing on diversity-related issues on Saturday at Cutter-Shabazz Hall. The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee held its debate on Sunday in Carson Hall.
(04/17/09 7:22am)
So, why are you so passionate about the environment?
(04/15/09 6:24am)
The Student Assembly presidential candidates exchanged eye rolls, congratulatory whispers and heated retorts during the Student Assembly's annual candidate debate, held in a crowded Carson L02 on Tuesday. Presidential candidates Boyd Lever '10, John Nolan '10 and Frances Vernon '10 and vice presidential candidates Phil Aubart '10 and Cory Cunningham '10 discussed the need for improved communication between Student Assembly and the student body and changes in the College's alcohol policy.
(04/10/09 7:28am)
"Fashion keeps me sane," Lauren Amery '10 says. As an economics major and aspiring financier, Lauren relies on her love for vintage jewelry and fashion styling to express her creative side. While sifting through her hundreds of "baubles," Lauren explained why more Dartmouth girls should wear four-inch heels.
(04/09/09 7:29am)
Lord will serve as Naropa's fifth president, according to the university's web site. He will replace current president Thomas Coburn, who announced in May 2008 that he would step down from the presidency after serving for six years.
(04/08/09 6:31am)
Vermont legislators voted to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday, overriding Republican Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of legislation passed by the state Senate on Monday. When the legislation goes into effect on Sept. 1, Vermont will become one of four states in the nation to allow gay marriage.
(04/07/09 4:00pm)
Vermont is now one of four states in the nation to allow same-sex marriage after the states legislature voted on Tuesday to override the Republican Gov. Jim Douglas veto of legislation passed by the Vermont Senate on Monday.
(04/03/09 6:40am)
Louis Buck 10 has latrines on his mind. As co-president of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects, Louis spent his spring break scouting locations for HELPs upcoming water sanitation summer project in Tanzania. Designing effective, affordable latrine technology is crucial, Louis stresses, because Tanzanians lives " and a $200,000 grant " are on the line.
(03/30/09 5:29am)
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage last Thursday. Gov. John Lynch, D-N.H., has publicly stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, but has not said whether he will veto the bill if it reaches his desk, according to his press secretary, Colin Manning. The legislation will now move to the state Senate.
(03/26/09 5:59pm)
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, one day after voting to repeal the death penalty in the state. Both pieces of legislation will now be sent to the state Senate for consideration.
(03/09/09 7:25am)
The Mascoma Corporation, a leading biofuel technology company founded by two Thayer School of Engineering professors, is now producing cellulosic ethanol from sustainable biomass -- a renewable energy source that may one day help power vehicles and reduce the country's dependence on oil -- at its newly constructed pilot facility in Rome, N.Y. While the pilot plant does not produce ethanol on a commercial scale, it is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of cellulosic ethanol, a wood-derived alcohol that is blended with gasoline to create more sustainable fuel.
(03/06/09 9:27am)
Linda Li '11 and Ana Jackson '11 do not intend to save the world in 10 days. Instead, the co-leaders of the new Alternative Spring Break trip to Immokalee, Fla., want to connect with the often-exploited immigrant workers who pick fruit in the nation's top tomato-producing town. Ana and Linda are certain that while their classmates are partying in Key West, they will be having a different kind of "unique experience."
(03/05/09 9:04am)
College President James Wright released a statement on the matter late Wednesday night.
(02/27/09 10:04am)
Hugh Mellert, the director of the Fitness Center and the Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement Program (FLIP), has not had a desk chair in his office for over five years. Instead, Mellert performs his administrative duties from the comfort of his bright red exercise ball. While gently bouncing at his desk, Mellert stressed the importance and success of Dartmouth's fitness programs.
(02/25/09 8:52am)
"The fact that we as a society accept the degree of violence that occurs, that we do not recognize it as extraordinary, shocking, obscene -- that is part of the problem," one of the 13 presenters at the event said, reading from an anonymous letter. "Speaking out is one way of making it extraordinary."