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(02/11/09 10:22am)
A Senate amendment to the federal economic stimulus package passed Tuesday cut about $59 billion in funding for education and state governments from the version of the bill approved by the House of Representatives. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 61-37.
(02/04/09 8:11am)
The New Hampshire state government will have to cut programs and lay off employees in order to balance its budget, Gov. John Lynch said on Thursday. The governor's announcement comes as the state government, facing a budget shortfall due to the economic recession, is attempting to reduce expenditures.
(01/30/09 10:38am)
Focusing on concrete, short-term goals has been effective in the past, Gautam said, citing the United Nations' vaccination program in the 1980s. Many developing countries at the time had vaccination rates of 20 percent or lower, he said, because of weak, ineffective ministries of health. As part of the program, the United Nations pressured the Catholic Church in Colombia to instruct their parishioners to have their children vaccinated and mobilized the army and police to act as distributors. After two years, Colombia's vaccination rate rose from 20 to 70 percent, Gautam said.
(01/27/09 9:48am)
The 60-34 confirmation vote largely followed party lines, with all but three Democrats voting in favor of Geithner's confirmation and all but nine Republicans voting against.
(01/08/09 9:24am)
Franklin Rea '08 expected to get a job as the intern director for the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information, where he had previously worked as a research assistant, after he graduated from Dartmouth. When the person who planned to leave the position was himself unable to find a new job in the weakening economy, Rea was soon without employment. Seven months after graduating, Rea is still sending out cover letters in an attempt to find a full-time job.
(11/24/08 9:23am)
An unidentified perpetrator started the fire by igniting an empty Keystone Light box covered with two cans of lighter fluid underneath a pong table in the basement of the fraternity, according to Fidel, who was not present at the time of the fire. Hanover Police believes the fire was the result of malicious action.
(11/14/08 1:24pm)
Mearsheimer's speech, "Why China Can't Rise Peacefully," is the first in a five-part lecture series on the rise of China, sponsored by the War and Peace Studies program of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
(10/24/08 7:09am)
To describe how pragmatic problem solving works, Donner recounted three "shaggy dog stories," which he defined as stories that take a long time to get to the point.
(10/22/08 5:10am)
Fick served in the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the marines, which led the invasion of central Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The battalion's story was covered by Rolling Stone's Evan Wright, who wrote about the battalion in his article "The Killer Elite." The article became a book -- "Generation Kill" (2004) -- and the book became an HBO series by the same name.
(10/17/08 8:13am)
Although representatives from Dartmouth's Panhellenic Council said that the new Select and Rank sorority rush system increased the number of women receiving bids -- likely referring to the 22 more bids extended this year -- only 75.6 percent of rush participants received a bid this fall, compared to the 82.5 percent who received bids last year. Additionally, some participants accused Panhell of unfair practices.
(10/07/08 6:59am)
Marissa Knodel '09 had always planned on attending law school right after graduating from the College, but the current economic downturn has convinced her to weigh her employment options as well.
(10/02/08 2:14pm)
Zhou framed the speech as marking the 30th anniversary of Chinese-American trade relations and the decades of prosperity that grew from China's decision to engage in world trade.
(09/29/08 12:39pm)
Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey, along with a team of scientists and researchers, will soon begin clinical trials to test a new computer program that would help treat depression in astronauts on long space flights. The program, developed by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, uses an interactive, multi-media approach that would allow astronauts to self-diagnose and self-treat psychological problems.
(09/26/08 6:56am)
Cultural anthropologist Montgomery McFate emphasized the importance of sociocultural knowledge in forming national security strategy, explaining a new counter-insurgency theory that relies on experts in social-science disciplines, in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Thursday evening.
(09/25/08 7:12am)
The College's new financial-aid policy, which drastically cut tuition for low- and middle-income families, took effect this fall, eliminating tuition for families that earn less than $75,000 each year and replacing all loans with grants for incoming students. Current students saw 50 percent of their loans replaced with grants.
(09/24/08 6:34am)
The costume of Keggy the Keg, Dartmouth's unofficial mascot, has been missing since August, according to the Dartmouth's humor publication, the Jack-O-Lantern. The Jack-O-Lantern has already alerted the campus, as well as Safety and Security and Hanover Police to Keggy's disappearance. Dylan Kane '09, editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, said the costume would be unusable, as the thief took only the plastic exterior, leaving the wearable harness behind. Keggy the Keg, who first appeared in fall 2003, has been a fixture at sporting events and big weekends at the College. He has also starred in Jack-O-Lantern productions, such as the video "Drinking Time," where he led a marching band down Webster Avenue.
(06/09/08 4:44am)
Following in the footsteps of politicians, writers and television personalities, this year's Commencement speaker, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is the latest in a long line of distinguished and diverse honorees. Speakers from the worlds of politics, journalism, academia and the arts have all traveled to the College to deliver a Commencement address in recent history.
(05/27/08 9:09am)
Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth.
(05/23/08 9:55am)
Amanda Merrill Gr '79 announced her candidacy for the State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham on Wednesday. Estabrook announced last Friday that she will not seek reelection after serving 12 years in the legislature, according to the Foster's Daily Democrat. Estabrook has endorsed Merrill, who received a Ph.D. in psychology from the College, to replace her. Merrill has worked in state politics since the 1980s and served as a New Hampshire state representative between 1989 and 1998, ending her stint in the state House of Representatives as Deputy Democratic Leader. She has served on the House Majority Office policy staff for the last two years. Senate District 21 represents the towns of Dover, Durham, Epping, Lee and Rollinsford.
(05/22/08 6:46am)
Ninety years ago Dartmouth began rejecting qualified Jewish applicants based on nothing other than their religion. Sixty years ago the College removed these quotas for the first time. Thirty years ago the College hired its first rabbi. Ten years ago it opened the Roth Center, the first official Jewish space on campus. Today, the College boasts a healthier, more intense, more vibrant Jewish community than at any time in its history, according to historians and Jewish leaders on campus.