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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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Visual arts center plans uncovered

By Ben Nunnery | July 18, 2008

COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Dartmouth's release of architectural plans for a $52 million visual arts center to be located in downtown Hanover earlier this week has prompted criticism from some members of the College's Liaison Committee, which serves as a link between Dartmouth and town residents.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | July 15, 2008

Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean visited Hanover on Friday to meet with residents of the Kendall retirement community.

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Prouty ride, walk raises $2 million

By Michael Coburn | July 15, 2008

Courtesy of Donnie Surdoval Forty-two hundred students and community members came out Saturday to walk, run and bike to fight cancer in the 27th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | July 11, 2008

Photos of an Iranian missile test distributed to journalists on Wednesday by officials with the country's Revolutionary Guard were altered to show four missiles launching instead of three, according to a Scientific American interview with Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid published on Thursday.

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