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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

By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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.

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SA points to areas for College's budget cut

By Ann Baum | November 20, 2008

Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly discussed recommendations for the upcoming College budget cuts in its weekly meeting on Wednesday in Carson L02.

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Obama may appoint Geithner '83

November 20, 2008

Correction appended. Timothy Geithner '83 has emerged as a likely contender for Treasury secretary in the Cabinet of President-elect Barack Obama.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ana Bowens | November 19, 2008

Dartmouth President James Wright received the lowest compensation of any Ivy League president, earning $569,761 for the 2006-2007 school year, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education survey released Monday.

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Cason '66 lectures on Latin America

By Vera Bergengruen | November 19, 2008

Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Staff While countries in Latin America have advanced significantly in the last 30 years, they still must broaden access to education and investment in scientific research in order to modernize, according to former United States ambassador to Paraguay James Cason '66, who gave a lecture in the Rockefeller Center Tuesday, titled "Emerging Trends in Latin America." Over the past three decades, Latin American literacy rates have steadily risen, the infant mortality rate is the lowest in the world's developing regions, and, due to improved education for women, the birth rate is now under control, Cason said.

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Lenders talk future of microfinance

By Caroline Duffy | November 19, 2008

BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff Representatives from two microfinance firms debated the advantages and disadvantages of commercializing the microfinance field at a Tuesday panel sponsored by Dartmouth's Social Enterprise and Economic Development Society.

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Panel examines Greek stereotyping

By Rebecca Cress | November 19, 2008

The College's Greek organizations should strive to make all students comfortable at social events, regardless of perceived stereotypes, students said in a panel held at Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, formerly Beta Theta Pi, on Tuesday night.

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'Men of Dartmouth' draws large crowd

By Emma Fidel | November 19, 2008

Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff Seven undergraduate men discussed the evolution of their understanding of masculinity and what it means to be a man in front of a riveted audience in a packed Collis Common Ground on Tuesday night.

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Daily Debriefing

November 18, 2008

Jamal Brown '08 was featured by the gay periodical Out Magazine as one of the "Men and Women Who Made 2008 a Year to Remember." Brown was recognized as a gay man who "moved culture" in the past year, according to the magazine's web site.

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Bernstein creates anti-smoking site

By Rachel Sarnoff | November 18, 2008

The Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School collaborated on a new web site, NoSmokingRoom.org, to teach girls between the ages of 8 and 11 about the dangers of smoking.

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Williams '79 describes memorial for 9/11

By Jen Buchholz | November 18, 2008

The construction of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, a process characterized by "angst, frustration, lack of candor and absurdity," is being stalled by the competing objectives of the numerous parties involved, David Williams '79, the project manager, said in a lecture on Monday in Collis Center room 101.

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Speaker examines democracy, markets

By Manisha Apte | November 18, 2008

SIJUN LIM / The Dartmouth Despite widespread popular linkage of democracy with economic development, such a view is often misguided, Jack Goldstone, a visiting public policy professor from George Mason University, said in a speech on Monday at the Rockefeller Center. A country's economic development depends on the number of opportunities people have to meet their needs in that country's economic market, Goldstone said.

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