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By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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

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.

Jane Cowan '08 presents her thesis on women in the military Thursday.
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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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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.

Upper Valley residents discuss their experiences with the Haven in the panel
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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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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.

Former United States ambassador to Paraguay James Cason '66 gives a lecture on trends in education in Latin America at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday afternoon.
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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.

Microfinance experts take part in a panel discussion on eliminating poverty through the promotion of entrepreneurship on Tuesday.
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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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