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Capital campaign hits $1.1 bil. on schedule

By Andrew Wells | July 25, 2008

The College's seven-year capital campaign reached a landmark $1.1 billion this June, putting the fundraising initiative on track to reach its $1.3 billion goal by December 2009, when the drive is scheduled to end. Although overall fundraising was up for the year, participation was down, vice president of development Carolyn Pelzel said, explaining that the decrease may have been due to the recent Association of Alumni lawsuit against the College and the state of the U.S.

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DOC seeks student leadership

By Victoria Boggiano | July 25, 2008

Current and former members of the Dartmouth Outing Club submitted a letter to College President James Wright, Dean of the College Tom Crady and acting Dean of Student Life Joe Cassidy on Thursday requesting that the administration read and respond to a statement describing students' vision of a student-run DOC.

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Prof. discovers gene for viable plants

By Kate Farley | July 22, 2008

More mothers worldwide may soon be able to order their children to finish their vegetables, as Dartmouth biology researchers have identified a plant gene that is key to growing healthy and nutritious plants.

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Rauh backs public campaign financing

By Michael Coburn | July 18, 2008

Six dollars a year is all it takes to end the power of corporate lobbyists and create a national public campaign finance system, John Rauh, founder and president of Americans for Campaign Reform, told an audience of approximately 400 local residents at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday.

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Phillips talks of life, literature

By Andrew Wells | July 18, 2008

Writer Caryl Phillips was a mere 10 years old when his father first decided to leave him alone while he worked a night shift. "Then, late at night, alone in the huge double bed, he leans over and discovers a paperback in the drawer of the bedside table and he begins to read the book," Phillips read from his autobiography titled "Growing Pains." "It is a true story about a white American man who has made himself black in order that he might experience what it is like to be a coloured man." John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" was just one of the works that deeply affected Phillips as a child.

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Doctor moves closer to classifying scleroderma

By William Schpero | July 18, 2008

A team of researchers at Dartmouth has shown for the first time that different forms of the autoimmune disease scleroderma can be classified solely by variations in gene expression, according to findings published on July 16 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, an online, open-access publication.

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