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SA wages voting contest with Penn

By Julie Kim | October 28, 2008

After competing for centuries in athletic events and admissions, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania will now compete to see which Ivy League school can convince the highest percentage of its students to vote in the upcoming election. The chair of Penn's Undergraduate Assembly, senior Wilson Tong, accepted the voting challenge from Dartmouth's Student Body President Molly Bode '09 on Sunday night, and Bode will send an e-mail notifying the campus of the competition soon. Assembly members will advertise the contest by wearing "Beat Penn" and "Outvote Penn" shirts. The main goal of the contest, Bode said, is to raise awareness about the election. "I don't think of this as much of a way to affect someone's choice to vote or not to vote, but as a way to inform people that it's not too late, that you can even register to vote on Election Day," Bode said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Hank Nelson and Fan Zhang | October 27, 2008

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will donate more than $10 million to scientists researching creative medical proposals, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Burns details struggle with cancer

By JONATHAN ERDMAN | October 27, 2008

John Burns, New York Times London Bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, for the first time publicly shared the details of his struggle with cancer to a full auditorium of approximately 150 attendees at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday.

Construction on New Hampshire Hall will likely be completed by spring.
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New Hamp to reopen Spring term

October 27, 2008

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff The ongoing renovation of New Hampshire Hall has led to several power outages in adjacent Topliff Hall, where smoke detectors in residents' rooms have been set off at least twice this fall due to construction-related complications.

Community members celebrate Diwali on the Green Sunday evening.
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Diwali celebration lights up Green

October 27, 2008

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Fireworks spewed green sparks, illuminating the colorful clothing of the crowd gathered on the Green for Diwali, the Indian "Festival of Lights." The saris and skirts of southern India, the turbans of Punjabi Sikhs and the North Face jackets of Dartmouth students were all brilliantly lit side by side at the Dartmouth celebration of the Hindu New Year. The ceremony began at Rollins Chapel, where Hindus from Dartmouth and the local area worshipped before the idol of Lakshmi Puja, the goddess of wealth, good fortune and prosperity for the New Year. "These idols are a way for the human mind to comprehend an omniscient God," Tanuja Kulkarni '10, president of Shanti, the Hindu student organization, said. Though many of the worshippers at the event were Hindu, there were several Sikhs present as well.

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Residents feel heat of inflated energy costs

By Drew Joseph | October 27, 2008

As the price of oil heads to $60 per barrel and gasoline sits below $3 per gallon, many consumers may assume that energy price worries have been assuaged, according to Merilynn Bourne, executive director of Listen Community Services, an Upper Valley nonprofit group.

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Daily Debriefing

By Caroline Duffy | October 24, 2008

The College Board announced the release of a new standardized test for eighth-graders, available next fall, according to The New York Times.

Google engineer Marc Donner gives a lecture on practical problem solving at the Rockefeller Center Thursday.
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Google engineer explains pragmatic problem solving

By Nathan Swire | October 24, 2008

Ricky Melgares Through a series of "war stories" from his years working in the computer science industry, Google engineering director Marc Donner illustrated pragmatic problem solving, the topic of his lecture at the Rockefeller Center Thursday. To describe how pragmatic problem solving works, Donner recounted three "shaggy dog stories," which he defined as stories that take a long time to get to the point. In his first story, Donner demonstrated the importance of fully understanding a problem before attempting to fix it. "Security is often a matter of identifying the actual problem and solving it, rather than using huge amounts of technology," he said. Donner recounted the recurring appearance of graffiti on New York subway trains in the 1970s and 1980s.

Senator Joe Lieberman stumps for presidential candidate John McCain.
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Lieberman campaigns for McCain

October 24, 2008

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff If Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain is elected to the White House in November, the United States would have a bipartisan administration, something unseen since Abraham Lincoln, Sen.

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Crate recounts effects of climate change on Sakha

By Manisha Apte | October 23, 2008

LAURA DIEZ The Viliui Sakha people of Northeastern Siberia are among many native cultures threatened by climate change and need more information in order to survive, environmental science and policy professor Susan Crate of George Mason University explained during a lecture Wednesday in the Haldeman Center. Crate, who has studied the Viliui Sakha since the 1980s, recently spent the first of three planned summers in the Sakha Republic to study the people's understanding of climate change and to educate them. The Sakha, a semi-nomadic people, rely heavily on agriculture and cattle husbandry for survival in their taiga environment, rendering the community particularly vulnerable to environmental changes, according to Crate. Warmer winters, colder summers, increased precipitation and sudden temperature changes are severely impacting the community, she said. "Cultural change is analogous to other movements such as Native Americans moving to reservations," Crate said.

David G. Blanchflower, preferred name Danny G. Blanchflower, Professor of Economics
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Blanchflower predicts interest drop

By Marielle Battistoni | October 23, 2008

Courtesy of Joseph Mehling In the aftermath of the Bank of England's largest monthly decrease in interest rates since November 2001, Dartmouth economics professor and member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee David Blanchflower said he is "the one who got it right." Blanchflower, the only Dartmouth professor ever to be appointed to the Monetary Policy Committee, called for a decisive decrease in interest rates at least a year before the Committee's Oct.

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Rollins to house prayer labyrinth for meditation

By Madeline Sims | October 23, 2008

When stress builds, Matt Jorgensen '12 wanders the stacks of the Sherman Art library to "clear [his] mind." "I'd definitely feel less weird if I had a structured place to try to focus," he said. The "structured place" Jorgensen seeks will be available in the coming weeks at Rollins Chapel, future home to a new 24-foot-wide, 24-foot-tall custom prayer labyrinth. The labyrinth will be made available for use by students, faculty and community members during regular chapel hours, unless a special event or group reserves the space. The labyrinth is a circular maze-like structure made entirely of canvas placed on the floor.

Democrat Vanessa Sievers '10 is challenging three-term incumbent Republican Carol Elliott for the position of Grafton County treasurer.
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Student runs for county treasurer

October 23, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Twenty-year-old Montana native and Democrat Vanessa Sievers '10 is the first candidate to challenge 56-year-old three-term Grafton County Treasurer Carol Elliott, a Republican. Sievers said that she had nothing against Elliott personally, but wanted to bring the role of county treasurer to a new level. "I decided to run for Grafton County Treasurer because secure finances are an integral part to the workings of every community, and I believe building and managing Grafton's finances is the most important job I could do," Sievers said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Katie Edkins | October 22, 2008

A team of Dartmouth Medical School researchers presented the results of a seven-year study of a tuberculosis vaccine at the 39th World Conference on Lung Health in Paris on Monday, the Valley News reported Tuesday.

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