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(05/19/09 3:52am)
Seidman was appointed as FDIC chairman in 1985 by former President Ronald Reagan and served until 1991. He helped to lead the nation out of the savings and loan crisis by working to convince Congress to create the Resolution Trust Corporation, which sold lenders' assets at reasonable prices.
(05/12/09 5:07am)
Dartmouth Russian department chair Lev Loseff, a world-renowned poet and scholar of Russian literature, died last Wednesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center of multiple illnesses, according to his son Dimitry Loseff. He was 71.
(05/11/09 6:22am)
The Tucker Foundation's Special Olympics organization hosted its fifth annual Upper Valley Summer Olympics Games on Saturday, according to event chair Kyle Sherry '09. The event, which included 90 participants from New Hampshire and Vermont, served as the regional level of competition. Athletes who achieved qualifying scores or times on Saturday will participate in a state competition later this summer. Approximately 75 Dartmouth students volunteered for the Games, which featured track and field events, swimming competitions and bocce ball on Memorial Field. "It's really important to get involved in the community," Sherry said. "It connects us to something bigger and helps us foster a relationship between Dartmouth and the community."
(05/08/09 6:27am)
The New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down a bill on Wednesday that would have allowed 17-year-olds who turn 18 before the general election to vote in New Hampshire primaries, according to the Concord Monitor. Although the bill received some support from both Democrats and Republicans, the Supreme Court ruled that the bill violates the state constitution's standing provision that all residents must be 18 years of age or older to vote, the Monitor reported.
(05/08/09 6:24am)
The Hanover Inn employee suspected to have swine flu has tested positive for the virus, according to College Health Services director John Turco. There are now three confirmed cases of swine flu in New Hamphire, state public health director Jose Montero said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(05/06/09 6:30am)
U.S. officials should attempt to increase communication with the war-torn areas of the Middle East, Faramarzi said.
(04/30/09 5:17am)
Laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are being inappropriately used to enforce cultural norms regarding sexual conduct, several professors and scholars said during a panel discussion held in Dartmouth Hall on Wednesday. The panel, which sought to address the cultural and political context of same-sex marriage, came just two hours after the New Hampshire Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
(04/21/09 9:03am)
New Hampshire would be the 14th state to legalize medicinal marijuana if the bill passes, according to Matt Simon, executive director of the New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy. Medicinal marijuana use is legal in Vermont.
(04/20/09 9:07am)
"I was kind of on the fence about whether to come to Dartmouth before this weekend," Eres said. "But now I'm pretty sure I'm going to come."
(04/10/09 7:02am)
Although President-elect Jim Yong Kim's responsibilities at Harvard University limit his ability to meet in person with Dartmouth community members, Kim has worked with College administrators and alumni to begin his transition process and will visit campus at least three times prior to his inauguration in July, according to Provost Barry Scherr.
(04/06/09 8:31am)
High school students donned suits and assumed new identities as United Nations delegates during the fourth annual Dartmouth Model United Nations conference, hosted by the Dartmouth Model U.N. organization. Over 200 students, twice as many as attended last year, travelled from throughout New England to Hanover to participate in the competition.
(03/31/09 7:19am)
While in recent weeks business schools have been criticized in the media for their perceived role in the current economic crisis, the Tuck School of Business is taking steps to increase the social awareness and accountability of its students through changes to its curriculum, according to Tuck Dean Paul Danos. Beginning with the class that will matriculate in September 2009, Tuck will require all students to complete courses in ethics and leadership.
(03/30/09 5:34am)
Joseph Jiampietro '87 has been tapped to be the senior advisor for markets to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Blair, according to a March 24 FDIC press release. Jiampietro will provide Blair with policy and legal advice regarding fiscal transactions, business markets and bid structures. Jiampietro's economic experience was a major reason for his consideration and appointment to the position, Blair said in the release. Jiampietro served as managing director of the Financial Institutions Group at J.P. Morgan in the New York office since 2007, having previously served as a managing director at the Financial Institutions Group of UBS Investment Bank, according to the press release. At Dartmouth, Jiampietro majored in government. He later received a law degree from Columbia University.
(03/30/09 5:33am)
Barbara Lewis' death was ruled a homicide after a March 18 autopsy, conducted by New Hampshire's chief medical examiner Thomas Andrew, revealed multiple gunshot wounds to her head and chest.
(03/20/09 1:35am)
Elliot Lewis, 84, and his wife of 59 years, Barbara Lewis, 82, were found dead in their downtown Hanover condominium on March 16 in what appears to be a murder-suicide, officials said.
(03/10/09 6:15am)
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(03/06/09 9:01am)
As a practitioner of Tibetan medicine in Mustang, Nepal, Tenzin Bista incorporates his beliefs as a Buddhist monk into his daily work with patients and preserves traditional cultural practices, Bista told audience members gathered in Haldeman Center on Thursday night. In his lecture, "Traditional Medicine, Social Change, and Global Health: A View from the Nepal Himalayas," Bista discussed the benefits of Tibetan medicine and the role of Lo Kunphen, a school of medicine and astrology he and his brother founded in Mustang.
(03/03/09 10:42am)
Neuro-determinism is a scientific explanation of human behavior, which holds that the physical structure of the brain, and not free will, determines people's actions.
(02/24/09 9:17am)
The recent writers' strike was motivated largely by changes in digital technology, panelists said. Unlike film and television studios, writers were not earning additional revenue when programming was made available over the internet, film studies professor Bill Phillips, a member of the panel, said.
(02/20/09 9:54am)
Developed nations are partially responsible for the economic inequality and political instability that causes many immigrants, asylum-seekers and refugees to leave their home countries, New York University English and comparative literature professor Robert Young said in a Thursday lecture at the Haldeman Center. In the lecture, "Migration and Globalization, from Benjamin to Fanon," Young examined the difficulties that immigrants face and their motives for migration.