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October 9, 2026
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Vernon clinches SA presidency

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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

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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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Nolan '10 admits his critique was strategic

Student body presidential candidate John Nolan '10 admitted that his recent criticisms of the current Student Assembly administration were motivated by a "desire to win" and are not representative of his personal beliefs in an e-mail to Student Body President Molly Bode '09 and Assembly Vice President Nafeesa Remtilla '09 obtained by The Dartmouth on Thursday. Nolan, in a presidential debate on Wednesday, said Bode's administration was "bogus" and that Bode had failed to adequately advocate for students' interests.


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Daily Debriefing

The New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday for a bill that seeks to allow gay marriage, the Associated Press reported.


Ongoing higher education strikes in France have affected students participating in Language Study Abroad programs.
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Protests in France affect students on LSA programs

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Kathleen Mayer '11 had to take her final exams over the Internet, using her host family's computer, during her Language Study Abroad to Toulouse last term after a strike by professors and students blocked the entrance to the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail.