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(05/09/06 9:00am)
The Eating Disorders Peer Advisers hosted the No Diet Day food fair in Collis Commonground from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Monday. The advisers doled out free Ben & Jerry's ice cream, EBAs, bagels, fruits, vegetables, chocolate and baked goods to observe the May 6 International No Diet Day. The fair also gave students the opportunity to sign a contract pledging to abandon diets for one day in its mission to "celebrate healthy, balanced, non-restrictive lifestyles of eating and exercise that are good for the body and mind." International No Diet Day was started in 1992 in England by Mary Evans Young, the director of the British anti-diet campaign Diet Breakers.
(05/05/06 9:00am)
A group of 15 students, only three of whom were not Student Assembly members, attended the Student Assembly Dartmouth Town Meeting Thursday night in Collis Commonground.
(05/02/06 9:00am)
New Hampshire tied with Vermont for the second-lowest job fatality rate nationwide, with only 15 deaths this year, according to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization's annual report, which was released in honor of the Workers Memorial Day. Seven of the 15 deaths occurred in transportation accidents, three in falls and five were unclassified. This decline in the rate of fatalities from 3.1 to 2.1 per 100,000 workers comes as the national average rose from 4.0 to 4.1 fatalities per 100,000 workers.
(05/01/06 9:00am)
After a relatively quiet campaign season, write-in candidate Tim Andreadis '07 emerged as the winner of the student body presidency with a shockingly large margin, leaving many students surprised at the results, especially in reference to the large margin of victory.
(04/27/06 9:00am)
Of the 2,435 votes cast, Andreadis won 1,025 in the first round, a startling majority given his status as a write-in candidate and the fact that the past two Assembly elections have been narrowly decided. Current student body president Noah Riner '06 won by a 29-vote margin while Julia Hildreth '05 secured the presidency with a single vote two years ago.
(04/25/06 9:00am)
Despite his long involvement with Student Assembly, Assembly President Noah Riner '06 will probably be most remembered for his controversial, religiously charged convocation speech, which overshadowed the accomplishments of much of his tenure as student body president, making his administration seem inaccessible at times.
(04/25/06 9:00am)
Candidates for student body president and vice president met to debate for the final time Monday night before voting begins today at 9 a.m today.
(04/21/06 9:00am)
The three candidates for Student Assembly president, all of whom are members of Greek houses, discussed issues ranging from Greek diversity to the Assembly's role in Greek proceedings on Thursday night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's third annual debate on Greek issues.
(04/20/06 9:00am)
As the candidates for student body president and vice president enter their sixth day of campaigning, two students have attempted to make press in an unorthodox way as write-in presidential candidates. Tim Andreadis '07 and Raj Koganti '08 both decided to run after observing the campaigns of Chrissie Chick '07, Adam Patinkin '07 and Dave Zubricki '07.
(04/19/06 9:00am)
Chrissie Chick '07, Adam Patinkin '07 and Dave Zubricki '07, all of whom have previously served on the Assembly, debated how much experience is necessary in assuming the post of president.
(04/18/06 9:00am)
Yesterday, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee sanctioned vice-presidential candidate Ruslan Tovbulatov '09, and presidential candidate Eddie Duszlak '07 announced that he would drop out of the race, citing time management and social pressures.
(04/13/06 9:00am)
Election season has officially begun: the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee released the names of the candidates running for student body president and vice president yesterday after petitions were submitted on Tuesday.
(04/11/06 9:00am)
So where have all the bikes gone?
(04/05/06 9:00am)
With school-wide elections just around the corner, discussion in the Student Assembly has turned to campaign season. After frequent and contentious sanctions of various candidates in last year's elections, this year's Elections Planning and Advisory Committee reviewed previous rules concerning campaign decorum and presented a revised procedural booklet at the Assembly meeting Tuesday night.
(04/04/06 9:00am)
The idea for the additional stations, which will print 55 rather than 45 pages per minute, originated in the Student Assembly over the summer, said Student Life Committee Leader Chris Bertrand '07, who brought the idea to Provost Barry Scherr.
(03/31/06 10:00am)
Kirsten Gillibrand '89 announced in January that she will leave behind her private lifestyle as a partner in a law firm in order to run against incumbent Republican John Sweeney for New York state's 20th Congressional District seat.
(03/08/06 11:00am)
Although the Student Assembly recently heated up over the newly proposed changes for Dartmouth Dining Services, the Assembly has generally been complacent this term.
(02/28/06 11:00am)
Most college students feel apathetic or even bitter toward their student governments, a Yale Daily News article recently reported.
(02/22/06 11:00am)
After approximately 90 minutes of debate, the Student Assembly passed a statement criticizing the proposed Dartmouth Dining Services changes Tuesday night.
(02/10/06 11:00am)
Understandably, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, which began in 1910, used to be kind of a big deal. Big enough, indeed, to attract coverage from Life Magazine, The New York Times, the Boston Globe and even Playboy. And more importantly, as far as the men of Dartmouth were concerned, Carnival was big enough to attract women from colleges all over the Northeast, including Wellesley, Vassar, Skidmore, Mt. Holyoke and Smith.