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Twyman '09 named Rhodes scholar
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Marielle Battistoni
| November 25, 2008
Kathryn Twyman '09 will pursue a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at Oxford University as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar next year.
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Alumni launch new suit against College
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Susan Matthews
| November 25, 2008
Several Dartmouth alumni filed a lawsuit against the College last week, the second form of legal action the school has faced from its alumni in the last 14 months.
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Panelists dismiss claims of pending second Cold War
November 24, 2008
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Russia's military incursion into Georgia last August does not signify an impending "new Cold War," a panel of Dartmouth faculty members concluded Friday evening in the Haldeman Center.
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Lowe '10, Santo '10 to lead The D
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John Alzate
| November 24, 2008
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Allie Lowe '10 and JR Santo '10 were named the new Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Dartmouth, respectively, at the organization's annual changeover ceremony on Saturday night at Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society.
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Daily Debriefing
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Emma Fidel
| November 24, 2008
Becky Ball, a post-doctoral fellow in Dartmouth's environmental studies program, welcomed young readers to the second field season of her Antarctica research blog last week.
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Beta hosts nonalcoholic programs, social events
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Rebecca Cress
| November 24, 2008
Before most fraternities began pong tournaments, cocktail events and dance parties one Saturday night this term, guests at Beta Alpha Omega fraternity practiced more coordinated footwork at the fraternity-hosted tango workshop that afternoon.
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Webster program hosts conference
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Marielle Battistoni
| November 24, 2008
The Daniel Webster Project, formerly the Daniel Webster Program, hosted its first "ancient and modern conference," which featured papers by several prominent professors of political philosophy and debate over the role of classical and modern influences in contemporary liberal arts education.
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Geithner '83 tapped to be Treasury Secretary
November 24, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will appoint Timothy Geithner '83, president of the New York Federal Reserve, to the post of Treasury Secretary in the new presidential Cabinet, according to reports from several news outlets.
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Daily Debriefing
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Madeline Sims
| November 21, 2008
Tennessee State University and Hampton University have blocked the web site JuicyCampus.com from campus web servers, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Thursday.
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Goodwin looks at adoption in U.S.
November 21, 2008
The market-based adoption system in the United States is unfair to parents and children because it places monetary value on a child's race and class, according to Michele Goodwin, a professor at the University of Minnesota who spoke to a room of over 50 people in the Rockefeller Center Thursday.
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Tempest Williams lectures on beauty, global conflict
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Susan Matthews
| November 21, 2008
Between learning how to make mosaics in Italy, protecting prairie dogs in Utah and constructing a genocide memorial in Rwanda, Terry Tempest Williams said her journey to "Find Beauty in a Broken World" -- the title of her most recent book -- has led her to discover that even when the world seems to be in pieces, there is always hope to combine the fragments into a complete "mosaic," at her speech Thursday to a full audience in Cook Auditorium. Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer, delivered this year's George Link Jr.
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Cowan presents on women in military
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Elise Quinones
| November 21, 2008
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Most women in the military do not carry traditional feminist viewpoints, but are, at the same time, acting as feminists, according to Jane Cowan '08, who presented her thesis, titled "Women in the Military," in the Haldeman Center Thursday.
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Kim explores Asian mental health
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Neera Chatterjee
| November 21, 2008
The Asian American community is seeing a growing trend mental health issues relating to depression and academic pressures -- an exacerbated by a cultural adversity to seeking treatment, according to Josephine Kim, a lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and the featured guest of Thursday's Pan Asian Community Dinner.
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Honor Comm. seeks code violation reports
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Susan Matthews
| November 21, 2008
Dartmouth's student Honor Education Committee has begun publicizing students' ability to submit anonymous violations of the College's academic honor code online, as evidenced by a Nov.
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Daily Debriefing
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Caroline Duffy
| November 20, 2008
Approximately five colleges and non-profit organizations are considering suing their investment managers in light of recent financial losses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday.
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Sisson '09 skates to fight hunger
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Jamila Ma
| November 20, 2008
Courtesy of Jack Sisson Rollerblade, the West Lebanon-based company that is now synonymous with inline skating, presented Jack Sisson '09 with a $5,000 check for the non-profit organization Action Against Hunger on Tuesday.
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Students sign pledge for day-long vegetarian diet
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Susan Matthews
| November 20, 2008
Mushroom stew replaced chicken dinners and red meat was exchanged for black bean cakes at Home Plate Wednesday night, welcoming supporters of the "Veg Pledge," a national effort to encourage college students to commit to vegetarianism for one day.
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Panelists garner support for Haven
November 20, 2008
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff In a panel on "Poverty in the Upper Valley" at the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday, staff members and three families shared stories of their experiences with The Haven, a shelter based in White River Junction that provides shelter, food and clothing to those in need, to an audience of about 30 in the Rockefeller Center. Tom Ketteridge, the Haven's managing director, described the organization's goal of helping families and educating their children.