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Lecturers visit for U.N. MDG week at Dartmouth
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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
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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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Leb. features flights to Boston, but not to N.Y.
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Turia Lahlou
| November 13, 2008
Cape Air celebrated its new flight service from Lebanon Municipal Airport to Boston's Logan Airport with an official inauguration ceremony at the Lebanon Airport on Wednesday.
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Daily Debriefing
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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.
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Campuses tie in voter competition
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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.
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Assembly meeting focuses on AMP, DartAlert system
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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.
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Goodall visits College for MDG
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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
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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
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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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AoA moves to amend trustee election rules
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William Schpero
| November 11, 2008
The Association of Alumni proposed an amendment to its constitution on Monday that would bring trustee election procedures in line with Board of Trustees' recommendations.
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Daily Debriefing
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Shaun Akhtar and Manisha Apte
| November 10, 2008
A six-year study of Gates Millennium Scholarship Program applicants suggests that black students who major in "high-paying fields" tend to make less money immediately after graduating college than Asian-American and Hispanic-American students who major in the same fields, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Teach For America sees increased applications
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Greg Berger
| November 10, 2008
If there is a silver lining in the recent Wall Street meltdown, it may be the opportunity for Dartmouth seniors to pursue postgraduate options they would not have otherwise considered, like Teach For America, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations.
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Students celebrate Obama's victory
By
Shaun Akhtar
| November 10, 2008
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Five days after hundreds of students staged a spontaneous celebration across campus following the victory of President-elect Barack Obama, approximately 70 members of the Dartmouth community gathered together for a second Obama celebration in Collis Common Ground on Sunday night.
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Panel assesses an Obama presidency
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Manisha Apte
| November 10, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an inauspicious slate of challenges, the likes of which have not confronted incoming presidents in decades, when he begins his term in January, an interdisciplinary panel of professors agreed.
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Committee meets with potential presidents
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Susan Matthews
| November 10, 2008
JENNIFER ARGOTE/The Dartmouth Staff / The Dartmouth Staff The presidential search committee to find a successor for retiring College President James Wright has met with potential candidates and experts who specialize in higher education leadership searches, and is on target to begin interviewing candidates in January, Al Mulley '70, a member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the committee, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.