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Stuart Lord donates kidney to twin
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Victoria Boggiano
| March 31, 2008
The phone call between Stuart Lord, dean of the Tucker Foundation, and Reverend Stanley Lord on a summer night last June was anything but typical for the twin brothers.
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Assembly candidates begin campaigning
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Susan Matthews
| March 31, 2008
Student Assembly's election season officially began this weekend as presidential and vice-presidential candidates have begun to campaign to improve Student Assembly's image on campus. This year, the election falls earlier in the term than in previous years.
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Daily Debriefing
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Allyson Bennett
| March 28, 2008
The probability that a college freshmen will withdraw from a university increases significantly when large, introductory courses are taught by part-time, adjunct professors, according to a study presented at this year's meeting of the American Education Research Association on Wednesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
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Tuck student Chat explores Iran
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Drew Joseph
| March 28, 2008
Many Americans hold the common misconception that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats towards the United States and Israel represent Iran's final say in the matter, but the unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really has ultimate authority in the nation's policies, according to Saba Deyhim Tu'09. "Iranians don't take [Ahmadinejad] seriously," Deyhim said in her Country Chat about Iran at the Tuck School of Business on Thursday.
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Jager-Hyman '00 shadows college applicants in new book
March 28, 2008
Courtesy of Joie Jager-Hyman As the anxiety and competition surrounding college admissions increase, even an Olympic-bound gymnast and world-class pianist have found themselves uncertain of receiving one of the coveted "fat envelopes" from Harvard University.
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India Queen owner calls Hanover 'family'
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Julie Kim
| March 28, 2008
Editor's Note: The following article is the first in a weekly series profiling different members of the Upper Valley community. When Bhavnesh Kaushik, owner of India Queen and honorary member of the Tabard co-ed fraternity, offers refreshments to guests at his establishment, a polite refusal is not permitted. "You have two choices " lassi or chai tea," said Kaushik, who sports long, feathered hair and six gold rings.
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SA presidential candidates named
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Susan Matthews
| March 28, 2008
Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly held its first meeting of the term Thursday night, voting to allow alcohol at alternative space parties and to allocate funding for a student-alumni luncheon and the Ivy Council's spring trip.
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Speaker looks critically at tobacco companies
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Nathan Swire
| March 28, 2008
LEBANON, N.H -- Joking that he was "making up for past family sins," Michael Cummings, a researcher at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the grandson of a cigarette company employee, criticized the tobacco industry in a lecture at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday. Focusing on the public health implications of tobacco use rather than the science behind these issues, Cummings addressed the expansion of smoking worldwide, the history of cigarettes, the reasons people smoke and how governments can combat tobacco use. Cigarette smoking causes 7,500 deaths each week, Cummings said. "Imagine if those deaths were caused by the 'evil-doers' out there, we'd probably do a lot more to fix it," he said. Images of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Osama bin Laden and the founder of Phillip Morris then flashed on the screen behind him. Cummings colored his lecture with a series of videos and jokes.
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Alums at Bear Stearns fear firing
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William Schpero
| March 28, 2008
As JPMorgan Chase managers filed into the lobby of Bear Stearns headquarters following the latter bank's near collapse earlier this month, Dartmouth alumni working on the floors above began to question whether their jobs were in jeopardy.
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Daily Debriefing
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Drew Joseph
| March 27, 2008
The United States Department of Education submitted a plan to define the circumstances in which universities are able to divulge confidential information about potentially dangerous students, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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Eighth graders shadow Dartmouth employees
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Emily Goodell
| March 27, 2008
Baking chocolate eclairs does not figure into the usual schedule of a middle school students, but that was the assignment for several eighth graders who shadowed professionals in the kitchens of the Hanover Inn as part of a "Job Shadow Day" on Wednesday.
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DMS stunts growth of cancer cells
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Victoria Boggiano
| March 27, 2008
Dartmouth researchers may have found a way to stop breast cancer tumors from growing, which would make the cancer easier to treat.
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Real Beauty Initiative tackles body image
March 27, 2008
Noting the power of a six-inch Barbie doll to breed unhealthy beauty standards in young girls throughout the country, the 20 students involved in Dartmouth's newly formed Real Beauty Initiative aimed to humorously readdress Barbie's body-image standards with their newly purchased 7'2'' "life-sized" Barbie, complete with a 40-inch bust and 22-inch waist. The group, which announced its presence on campus this term with a colorful exhibit in the Collis Center and promotions for its first dinner event, hopes to start campus-wide discussion on healthy and unhealthy concepts of beauty. "Having a negative body image detracts from all areas of life," Kelly Everhart '09, the project's student intern and leader, said.
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Farid founds 'digital forensics'
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Michael Coburn
| March 27, 2008
COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS With $100 Photoshop software and a little training, computer users can drastically alter digital photos, shedding a few pounds from a high school prom picture or removing a tumor from a medical image.
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Daily Debriefing
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Rebecca Cress
| March 26, 2008
After failing to negotiate a new three-year contract with the University of Michigan, teaching assistants staged a walkout, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday.
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DMS professors devise model for cystic fibrosis
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Turia Lahlou
| March 26, 2008
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have discovered a new model to study antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in cystic fibrosis patients.
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Gerzina ties slavery to her family history
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Erin Jaeger
| March 26, 2008
Zachary Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff It could have been the legendary hostile white mobs.
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Lambert '90 to direct sustainability efforts
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Allyson Bennett
| March 26, 2008
Kathy Lambert '90 will become the College's sustainability manager, who helps to generate and implement plans to improve Dartmouth's sustainability efforts, in August 2008.
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DHMC cuts staff salary raises
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Nick Swanson
| March 26, 2008
After suffering a loss of $1.7 million during the first four months of the fiscal year, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has reduced the amount of money available for staff raises.