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Prof. finds texting promotes saving

By Jackie Donohoe | November 11, 2009

In what may be a vote of redemption for much-maligned text messaging, a recent study by a team of economists, including Dartmouth economics professor Jonathan Zinman, has found that when individuals received text messages reminding them to save, their account balances increased on average by 6 percent. The study found that the tendency to not save money is due to a lack of attention to saving, rather than a lack of self-control. The economists worked with three banks in Bolivia, Peru and the Philippines to monitor the savings patterns of new bank clients.

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Wright speaks to vets. at Vietnam Memorial

By Drew Joseph | November 11, 2009

WASHINGTON Former College President James Wright urged Americans to remember fallen veterans not only as casualties of war, but as individuals with accomplished lives, at a Veterans' Day celebration here on Wednesday.

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Panelists discuss childrens' health

November 11, 2009

Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended Almost nine million children under the age of five die of avoidable and treatable illnesses each year, according to Dartmouth Medical School professor John Butterly, executive medical director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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Artist denounces Burmese abuses

By Angie Yang | November 10, 2009

Burma's military regime relies on forced labor and election fraud to retain power, Edith Mirante, an artist and expert on Burma, said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.

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Prof. criticizes U.S. health care model

By Lindsay Brewer | November 10, 2009

Correction appended Successful health care reform would be a major turning point in United States history, with repercussions similar to those of the Industrial Revolution, Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger said in a lecture on Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ashley Blum and Ryan Kim | November 10, 2009

Student Assembly is currently working to create an updated version of the student survey used before last year's budget cuts, Student Body President Frances Vernon '10 said at Tuesday night's Assembly meeting.

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Vernon works to realize platform

By Ann Baum | November 10, 2009

TILMAN DETTE / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Just three months into her first official term as Student Body President, Frances Vernon '10 has made progress toward checking off several of the major goals outlined in her campaign including large-scale changes to the Organization Adjudication Committee.

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Cancer center becomes patients' ‘second home'

By Katie Gonzalez | November 10, 2009

Courtesy of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Walking into the lobby of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, where patients awaiting treatment flip idly through current issues of "House and Garden" and "Conde Nast Traveler," seemingly ignoring the support group pamphlets that also litter the reception area tables, it might be easy to miss the signs of disease that are ubiquitous here. Each year, however, the center becomes a "second home" to the 31,000 patients who receive treatment, said Christine Gilbert, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last March. Norris Cotton, which first opened in 1972, is one of the United States' 40 comprehensive care centers, facilities designated and funded by the National Cancer Institute to engage in patient care, conduct clinical trials and participate in research projects specific to cancer. The center employs approximately 200 health care providers, who are all officially employed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, according to Dartmouth Medical School professor Mark Israel, the center's director.

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Wright to speak at Vet. Day ceremony

November 10, 2009

TILMAN DETTE / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Former College President James Wright, himself a former Marine, has been chosen to speak at the annual Veterans' Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Campus prepares for coming budget cuts

By Laura Bryn Sisson | November 9, 2009

In the wake of this weekend's announcement of targets for College budget reductions, many faculty and students leaders interviewed by The Dartmouth said they are now looking to prioritize the programs and aspects of Dartmouth life that they feel are most important.

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Daily Debriefing

By Caitlin Kennedy | November 9, 2009

Dartmouth for Clean Water, a group founded by five members of the Class of 2012 that seeks to provide safe drinking water for developing countries, was selected to receive the inaugural Class of 1969 annual Special Projects Grant, Dimitri Gerakaris '69, chairman of the Special Projects Grant committee told The Dartmouth.

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Intl. travel for admissions is limited

By Katie Gonzalez | November 9, 2009

Admissions officers from many of Dartmouth's peer institutions travel more frequently and to a broader range of countries than do admissions representatives from the College, according to multiple college admissions officers.

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Despite cuts new profs. join College faculty

By Ann Baum | November 9, 2009

A group of 13 new faculty members, with interests ranging from electroacoustic music research to politics and public services for the rural poor of India, have joined Dartmouth's faculty this year in various departments across the College. While budget cuts have prevented some departments from completing searches to fill open positions, Mastanduno said he believes the quality of the faculty hired recently has been especially strong due to decreased hiring at other institutions. "Although we delayed a few searches, in the extent that we've been able to search, we've recruited really top people certainly in my division and I think across the College," he said. Dartmouth's focus on a "hybrid" of undergraduate teaching and advanced research attracts a self-selecting group of faculty, according to Michael Mastanduno, associate dean for the social sciences. "I think what we generally look for here are people who are both excellent teachers and excellent scholars," he said. As a fifth-grade teacher in a poor urban school district in the Boston area, Michele Tine found herself questioning why some students "seemed to learn in ways that were primarily different," she said.

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Ramirez criticizes Sandinista party

By Michael Coburn | November 9, 2009

Jamie McCoy / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his socialist Sandinista party have betrayed the principles of the Sandinista Revolution, former Sandinista Vice President Sergio Ramirez told a crowd of approximately 100 students and community members gathered in Filene Auditorium on Monday.

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Peer institutions also respond to losses with cuts

By PAULINA KARPIS | November 8, 2009

After making significant cuts to operating budgets last winter, Dartmouth's peer institutions have again embarked on cost cutting this fall in light of endowment returns that continue to drop, while attempting to maintain financial aid programs and protect the quality of the student experience. "Colleges are trying as much as possible to preserve faculty and support services for students, and are looking for inefficiencies in the way they deliver non-academic services," Cornell Higher Education Research Institute director Ronald Ehrenberg said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Paulina Karpis and Katie Paxton | November 8, 2009

Dartmouth was ranked ninth in Kiplinger's 2009-2010 Best Values in Private Colleges list, which took into account the College's academic standards and need-based financial aid program.

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