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John Mearsheimer lectures on the ascendancy of China Thursday.
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Mearsheimer explores threat of China

By Nathan Swire | November 14, 2008

Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff The rise of China, and its likely desire to dominate East Asia, will pose a powerful threat to the United States in the near future, John Mearsheimer, prominent international relations theorist and political science at the University of Chicago, said in a lecture Thursday.

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Elliott derides Sievers '10 as a 'teenybopper'

By Rebecca Cress | November 14, 2008

Breaking a week of silence, Carol Elliott, the former Grafton County Treasurer, called Treasurer-elect Vanessa Sievers '10 a "teenybopper" who won her seat solely based on support from "brainwashed" college students, in an interview with the Valley News.

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College to cut budget by $40 mil.

By Turia Lahlou | November 14, 2008

College President James Wright has announced plans to cut the College's budget by 5 percent this year, with the goal of reducing the budget by 10 percent -- approximately $40 million -- within the next two years.

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Daily Debriefing

By Manisha Apte | November 13, 2008

Following the advice of a panel of experts, the U.S. Department of Energy has decided to halt funding for the Free Air CO2 Enrichment research program, despite opposition from many of the scientists involved, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

T-shirts hang in the Collis Center to commemorate the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals week at the College.
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Lecturers visit for U.N. MDG week at Dartmouth

By Ana Bowens | November 13, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Attempting to draw awareness to global poverty, disease and environmental degradation, the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding paired up this week to organize events and lectures devoted to the discussion of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the U.N.

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I3P teams with Senate on cyber security

By Elise Quinones | November 13, 2008

Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, in collaboration with members of the United States Senate, is in the process of creating a cyber-security research and development summary report for the next presidential administration, according to Martha Austin, the program's executive director.

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Daily Debriefing

By Shaun Akhtar | November 12, 2008

Ron Daniels, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected to be the 14th president of Johns Hopkins University, according to The Washington Post.

Students tally the number of Dartmouth voters exiting the 2008 election polls for the College's competition with Penn last Tuesday.
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Campuses tie in voter competition

By Ann Baum | November 12, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Neither Darmouth nor the University of Pennsylvania claimed a decisive victory in last week's voting competition, which sought to determine which swing-state school had the highest student turnout for the 2008 election.

Student Assembly discussed DartAlert and the new Alcohol Management Program at its Tuesday night meeting.
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Assembly meeting focuses on AMP, DartAlert system

By Ann Baum | November 12, 2008

Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly revisited the College's Alcohol Management Program in its Tuesday meeting, as Assembly President Molly Bode '09 read a letter she drafted addressing students' concerns with the policy proposal.

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College to restructure pre-med advising

November 12, 2008

Faced with an increasingly lean budget and a growing student population, the pre-health advising program at Dartmouth's Career Services is expected to undergo review and revision in the coming months, according to Kimberly Sauerwein, pre-health advisor and assistant director of Career Services. Following an external review of Career Services, completed last year, the pre-health advising program will formulate a plan to restructure its operations as part of an effort to improve Career Services as a whole, Sauerwein said.

World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall addresses an overflowing crowd Tuesday with her speech on inspiration in the face of suffering.
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Goodall visits College for MDG

By Drew Joseph | November 12, 2008

JON ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Despite widespread suffering in both the animal kingdom and the civilized world, the ice in the human heart is beginning to melt and the indomitable human spirit provides a reason for hope, Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace said to an overflowing audience in Alumni Hall Tuesday. Goodall's speech, part of the Dickey Center for International Understanding's Great Issues lecture series and the College's Millennium Development Goals Week, was projected to audiences in four overflow rooms across campus. Goodall -- who has seen the population of wild chimpanzees decrease from over one million in 1960, when she first went to work in Africa, to approximately 300,000 now -- told the story of a man who jumped over a barrier to save a drowning chimpanzee at the Detroit Zoo despite the risk of attack by the other chimps.

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Women take majority in N.H. State Senate

November 12, 2008

In a campaign year that broke long-standing racial and gender barriers, one national milestone has slipped quietly under the radar -- following last week's election, women will make up the majority of the New Hampshire State Senate, marking the first time in American history that women outnumber men in a state legislative body. Women will now hold 13 of the 24 seats in Concord, up from 10 before the election.

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Daily Debriefing

By Travis Cramer | November 11, 2008

Ottawa County Health Department officials forced Hope College, a liberal arts school in Michigan, to close its campus last Friday due to a contagious norovirus-like outbreak, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

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Speaker warns women against casual sex

By Ann Baum | November 11, 2008

Female students almost always pay a higher emotional and physical price for casual hook-ups than male students do because of women's hormonal and anatomical biology, according to Miriam Grossman, senior fellow at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and former staff psychiatrist at University of California, Los Angeles.

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