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Jessica Guthrie '10, Myra Altman '11 and Justin Varilek '11 organize volunteers at the Vote Clamantis Election Day headquarters in the Rockefeller Center.
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Students vote in record numbers

November 6, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Of the 2,400 registered Dartmouth student voters, 2,219 cast their ballots in Hanover yesterday, according to Jessica Guthrie '10, president of Vote Clamantis, a nonpartisan student organization.

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By Shaun Akhtar | November 5, 2008

A professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton returned to the United States on Sunday after being detained in Khazakstan for over a month on charges of currency smuggling, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday.

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Students spar over campaign tactics

By Drew Joseph | November 5, 2008

As Democrats and Republicans faced off in heated battles across the nation, Dartmouth's chapters of the College Republicans and College Democrats also went head to head in a he-said, she-said battle of alleged campaign foul play on Tuesday. Hanover Police stopped students writing campaign messages for now President-elect Barack Obama on the sidewalk in front of the Hopkins Center for the ArtsTuesday morning, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.

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By Travis Cramer | November 4, 2008

Many state-funded community colleges will likely face midyear budget cuts, according to a survey conducted by Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center in the College of Education at the University of Alabama and Terrence Tollefson, professor emeritus in the department of educational leadership and policy analysis at East Tennessee State University.

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DMS expects apps increase in 2009

By Greg Berger | November 4, 2008

Joanne Nurse / The Dartmouth Despite a recent report by the Association of American Medical Colleges that shows a 3 percent decline in the number of first-time applicants to medical school for the current academic year, Lee Witters, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, said he expects the number of medical school applications to increase in 2009, especially among Dartmouth students. Based on past trends, the current national economic crisis may cause more students to consider attending medical school and pursue jobs in medicine, as positions in business become more scarce, Witters said. Among Dartmouth seniors this year, 218 students are currently considering applications to medical school, with 179 of those students sure of their plans to apply to medical school, according to Kimberly Sauerwein, the pre-health adviser at Career Services.

Jere Daniell '55, history professor emeritus, examines the
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Daniell '55 details history of College presidencies

November 4, 2008

SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ-BRUNNER / The Dartmouth Staff Jere Daniell '55, history professor emeritus and an unofficial historian of the College, presented a history of Dartmouth's past presidents to students, faculty and staff gathered for his lecture in Dartmouth Hall Monday night.

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Campus prepares final efforts for Election Day

By Katie Gonzalez | November 4, 2008

Eric Tanner / The Dartmouth Staff The 2008 election fervor reaches its climax today, as a variety of student groups make last-ditch efforts to increase student participation and affect the outcomes of the presidential, state and local elections.

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By Jonathan Erdman and John Alzate | November 3, 2008

Nearly half of all medical school students experience burnout, and 11 percent indicate having suicidal thoughts, according to a study conducted by Liselotte Dyrbye of the Mayo Clinic.

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Wilson stumps for McCain at EBAs

By Madeline Sims | November 3, 2008

U.S. Representative Heather Wilson, R-N.M., campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain in Hanover on Friday, emphasizing the importance of each individual's vote in what she believes will be a close election. Wilson, a New Hampshire native, met with about 30 voters-- primarily senior citizens -- at Everything But Anchovies Friday afternoon.

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Comedian Dratch '88 stumps for Obama

By Neera Chatterjee | November 3, 2008

Actress Rachel Dratch '88 brought some of her Saturday Night Live humor to Hanover on Sunday afternoon, greeting volunteers from the Dartmouth College Democrats in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center.

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McCain rallies voters in last N.H. town hall

November 3, 2008

PETERBOROUGH -- Descending from his "Straight Talk Express" bus to strains of "Danger Zone," Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his entourage returned to New Hampshire on Sunday for a final town hall meeting before the Nov.

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By JONATHAN ERDMAN | October 31, 2008

Colleges across the country are cutting back on technology spending in response to the current economic crisis, according to the results of the Campus Computing Project's 2008 survey, as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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