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Student Board member is unlikely

By Kate Farley | April 21, 2009

While Cornell University is currently the only Ivy League institution to seat students on its Board of Trustees, the concept is a recurring theme of Dartmouth student government campaigns, including that of student body presidential candidate Frances Vernon '10.

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Microbes found below glaciers in Antarctica

April 21, 2009

The rust-colored brine that oozes from Blood Falls at Taylor Glacier in Antarctica may shed light on how early life on Earth developed in extreme conditions, according to a study led by Jill Mikucki, a geomicrobiologist and visiting fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

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Vernon clinches SA presidency

By Emma Fidel | April 21, 2009

DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Frances Vernon '10 and Cory Cunningham '10 were overwhelmingly elected student body president and vice president, respectively, on Monday, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee reported early Tuesday morning. Vernon won by a margin of more than 380 votes after eight rounds of instant-runoff voting.

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Vernon '10 clinches student body presidency

By Emma Fidel | April 21, 2009

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. Vernon garnered more than 380 first-choice votes over opponents Boyd Lever '10 and John Nolan '10, who received 715 and 290 first-choice votes, respectively, after eight rounds of instant-runoff voting.

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Daily Debriefing

By Madeline Sims | April 20, 2009

Three Dartmouth students were elected to the New Hampshire College Democrats state executive board at the College Democrats of New Hampshire Conference, held Saturday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.

Harvard professor Mark Jordan disucssed anti-gay rights activist Anita Bryant in his Friday lecture at the Rockefeller Center.
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Prof. discusses Bryant, 1970s anti-gay activist

By Nicole Newman | April 20, 2009

ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Beauty-queen-turned-evangelist Anita Bryant gave the religious right its anti-homosexual voice in the late 1970s, Mark Jordan, a Harvard University Divinity School professor, told an audience gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Friday.

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EPAC extends campaigning period

By Madeline Sims | April 20, 2009

The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee will allow candidates to campaign today until the polls close at 11:59 p.m., reversing a previous decision to prohibit campaigning after noon, according to EPAC chair Justin Varilek '11.

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Board chair responds to Zywicki '88 letter

By Turia Lahlou | April 20, 2009

Correction appended Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 released a statement on Friday outlining and defending the Board's reelection process for second-term trustees following recent controversy surrounding the Board's decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88.

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Board chairman responds to Zywicki '88 letter

By Turia Lahlou | April 17, 2009

Correction appended Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 released a statement on Friday outlining and defending the Board's reelection process for second-term trustees following recent controversy surrounding the Board's decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88.

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Graduate Senate aims to create 'unified voice'

By Caroline Duffy | April 17, 2009

Unable to convince the Board of Trustees to add a graduate school representative to the presidential search committee, Samuel Bakhoum, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D candidate, and Bradley Demay, who will complete his Ph.D in biology in 2010, decided to create an advocacy body for graduate students.

Motivational speaker Valerie Yong discussed the
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Young explains impostor syndrome

April 17, 2009

ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff About 70 percent of the population often feels incompetent and unsuccessful, Valerie Young, a workshop leader and motivational speaker, told students gathered in Kemeny Hall on Thursday.

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Funding for conferences untouched

By Madeline Sims | April 17, 2009

While many universities across the country have cut their academic conference travel budgets in light of the current economic crisis, Dartmouth's official policy on professional development funding has not changed, according to Robertson McClung, associate dean of the faculty for the sciences. "Participating in academic conferences is critical to the success, professional growth and reputation of our faculty," McClung said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.

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