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College to cut health benefits for retirees
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Allie Lowe
| November 13, 2007
Reductions in the College's retiree health care benefits plan for faculty and staff were contested at the Fall term meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held in Alumni Hall on Monday.
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Daily Debriefing
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Nathan Swire
| November 12, 2007
The Green sprang into brilliance Sunday night in observance of the major Indian and Nepalese holiday festival of Diwali.
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Poverty specialist: language does matter
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Emily Goodell
| November 12, 2007
Members of different classes should not make assumptions about each other, Jodi Pfarr, a consultant for Aha!
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Edwards daughter campaigns at AZD
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Maria Fillas
| November 12, 2007
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff Alpha Xi Delta sorority welcomed John Edwards representatives Kate Michelman and Cate Edwards, the politician's daughter, to its house on Friday for an informal meet-and-greet cosponsored by Women in Leadership and Dartmouth Students for John Edwards.
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Council files amicus brief to dismiss
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William Schpero
| November 12, 2007
The Dartmouth Alumni Council filed a brief Thursday calling on the Grafton County Superior Court to dismiss the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College.
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Thirteen trustees, little disagreement at student question forum
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Turia Lahlou
| November 12, 2007
Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth Despite public differences among members of the Board of Trustees on recent governance issues, the board spoke with one voice in addressing concerns of class size, financial aid and facilities in the first student-trustee open forum in College history, held Friday night in Filene Auditorium.
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Alumnae celebrate, reflect at weekend
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Susan Matthews
| November 12, 2007
Over 350 alumnae returned to Hanover this weekend for a three-day program commemorating the 35th anniversary of coeducation at the College.
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Obama's foreign policy advisor lays out platform
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Brook Jackling
| November 12, 2007
Addressing the pressing foreign-policy questions of Iraq, Iran and Darfur, Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and advisor to presidential hopeful Sen.
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Underdog candidate talks health at DHMC
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Ahra Cho
| November 12, 2007
Andy Faust / The Dartmouth Calling for an American healthcare system based on active prevention as opposed to reaction, presidential hopeful and former governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., addressed residents, doctors and staff of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Friday afternoon. Huckabee chose to focus on his personal political experiences rather than his current platform, highlighting the successes of his health programs as governor.
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Trustees change committee structure
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William Schpero
| November 12, 2007
No petition candidates in leadership positions
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Daily Debriefing
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Compiled By Samuel Buntz
| November 9, 2007
Google Video has suppressed a recording of Robert Spencer's "Islamofascism" talk at Dartmouth, according to Spencer's blog jihadwatch.org.
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Use of 'smartphones' on the rise as anti-cell norm disintegrates
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Jennifer Gaudette
| November 9, 2007
Whether it's used for making dinner plans or asking someone out, BlitzMail is one of the defining features of the Dartmouth experience.
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Women grads return to Hanover for symposium
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Kashay Sanders
| November 9, 2007
Thirty-five years after the first female Dartmouth students arrived on campus, 375 alumnae will return to the College from Nov.
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After Wenda Gu, Hood looks forward
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Josh Roselman
| November 9, 2007
Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Staff Mixed public reaction to Wenda Gu's installation at Baker-Berry has not affected choices for future exhibitions, Hood Museum of Art director Brian Kennedy said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "We fully intend to continue with the strategy we have adopted for the future of the museum," said Kennedy, who refrained from disclosing what this strategy entails.
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Rauner to digitize some collections
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Thomas Bukowski
| November 9, 2007
Over lunch in 2001, Google co-founder Larry Page and Stanford University librarian Michael Keller marveled how much information was still locked inside books in libraries' stacks worldwide and how wonderful it would be if all that information was digital and searchable.
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Two trustees RSVP for student interrogation
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Turia Lahlou
| November 9, 2007
Amidst recent controversies surrounding Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, students will have the opportunity to ask trustees any questions they choose at an unprecedented, uncensored forum, to be held Friday in Filene Auditorium at 4:30 p.m.
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Police Blotter
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-- Compiled by Andrew Lebovich courtesy of Hanover
| November 8, 2007
October 31, 3:12 p.m., South Main Street Police were called to a brook just outside of Hanover after a citizen reported seeing dead kittens in the water.
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Compiled by Josh Roselman
| November 8, 2007
After an August 2007 eight-week internal investigation into its billing practices, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recently notified government agencies about potential irregularities at one of the center's clinical services, the Valley News reported on Nov.