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Director of Nature Conservancy's Sustainable Waters Program Brian Richter speaks to the Filene Auditorium audience Friday.
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Rockefeller Center hosts discussion on future of fresh water

By Sarah Badami | May 14, 2007

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Director of the Global Water Policy Project Sandra Postel outlined global water problems and offered potential solutions to them to a packed audience in Filene Auditorium on Friday. The discussion, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Nature Conservancy, focused on current freshwater supply issues, the future of the earth's freshwater supply, and proactive step towards freshwater resourcefulness worldwide. "Water is the basis of life.

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Electoral dynamics may affect trustee race outcome

By William Schpero | May 14, 2007

Due to the nature of the voting mechanism used in Dartmouth trustee elections and the perceived existence of two distinct slates of different sizes, the election of a trustee candidate nominated by the Alumni Council is contingent on a large voter turnout, scholars of election methods said. As of May 13, 17 percent of eligible alumni had voted online, according to voxthevote.org. The winner of the trustee election, which will end on Tuesday, is selected using the approval voting method.

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Student gov't task force to meet with UFC members

By Allie Lowe | May 14, 2007

In an effort to follow through on its recommendations, the Student Governance Review Task Force, formed this winter to conduct a review of Dartmouth's student government organizations, will meet with members of the Undergraduate Finance Committee on Monday.

A girl in ceremonial garb marches on the Green in the center of this weekend's well-attended Pow-wow, which attracted visitors from far and wide.
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Pow-wow garners record attendance

By Allie Lowe | May 14, 2007

Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff For Patti Morgan of South Stratford, Vt., the 35th Annual Dartmouth College Pow-wow is just one in a long line of Pow-wow memories. "I come out every year," Morgan said, estimating that she has attended the Pow-wow for the past 10 years.

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Found body identified as missing Vt. teen's

By Ben Nunnery | May 14, 2007

The recently found body suspected to belong to 16-year-old James Holley was confirmed to be his Sunday night, his father Robert Holley told The Dartmouth. "Indeed that was my son's body that was found, and yes, he was brought to the state medical examiner in Burlington for an autopsy by Dr. Shapiro [acting chief medical examiner for the Vermont Department of Health]," he said. Two neighborhood women discovered Holley's body Wednesday evening on a walk through the woods outside of Holley's home in Norwich, Vt., Norwich Police Sgt.

Economics professor Pascaline Dupas criticized the World Bank for failing to regularly assess its foreign aid programs to figure out what works.
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Econ prof criticizes aid management

By Michael Coburn | May 11, 2007

Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth economics professor Pascaline Dupas spoke about the need to implement foreign aid programs with proven positive results at an informal discussion group of 15 students on Thursday.

At room draw earlier this week, the handful of campus suites were snatched up in the first 15 lottery numbers.
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Seniors snatch top suites in room draw

By Emily Weisburst | May 11, 2007

Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Senior Staff This year's room draw process closed with relative ease in comparison with years past because of the Office of Residential Life's housing guarantee for upperclassmen and the introduction of gender neutral housing, according to Rachael Class-Giguere, ORL director of undergraduate housing. "Last year we were surprised with the increase in the number of seniors and juniors that participated.

Jetblue executive Ann Rhoades addresses an audience in Cook Auditorium Thursday about the importance of employee-oriented leadership.
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JetBlue executive stresses airline customer relations

By Victoria Boggiano | May 11, 2007

Jess Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff Ann Rhoades, founding executive vice president of people at JetBlue Airways and founder and president of consulting firm People Ink, spoke to an attentive audience about the leadership values that make companies successful in Cook Auditorium Thursday. The focus of Rhoades' work has been in improving personal relations in a variety of service-based industries including Southwest Airlines and Jetblue.

Organizers anticipate a record turnout for the annual Pow-wow, a festival featuring Native American culture and sponsored by several campus groups.
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NADs to host record Pow-wow

By Lauren Alpeyrie | May 11, 2007

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff The 35th annual Dartmouth College Pow-wow, a celebration of the Native American community at the College, is set to take place on the Green this weekend.

Staceyann Chin, the Center for Women and Gender's eighth annual Visionary in Residence, met with students at a dinner Wednesday.
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'Visionary' poet-activist gives reading

By Amanda Cohen | May 10, 2007

Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff Poet and activist Staceyann Chin recited four poems intermixed with personal reflection, observation and advice at a dinner Wednesday -- accepting her plaque and her place as the eighth annual Visionary in Residence at the Center for Women and Gender. Chin, who had the opportunity to sit in with students in classes, at Sexual Assault Peer Advisor training and at informal dinner and lunch discussions, said she wished to push students to take the curricular dialogue around race, class and gender issues and the respect they afford their peers within a classroom into their social and extracurricular spectra. Chin noted a tendency for students to "play liberal" in a formal setting, but lose that respect for others when the formality is lifted. "You have to find a way inside of yourself and say, 'You know what, the way that I treat my friend is not in congruence with my politics -- the way I treat my classmate, the way I talk to the women around me, the way I speak to the help around me' -- It has to begin with you," Chin said. Chin opened last night's dinner with her poem, "Imagination," which mixed laugh-provoking one-liners with her overall political call for activism. "Imagination is the bridge between the things you know for sure and the things you need to believe when your world becomes unbearable," she began. As she continued, Chin listed manifestations of classism, racism and sexism which make the world "unbearable." "I believe in monsters lurking under the bed because it gives our children something to conquer before the world begins to conquer them," she said. Chin directed her dialogue mostly to women, who composed the majority of the audience of students, faculty and administrators.

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Boykin reflects upon race, sexuality, College

By Carolyn Kylstra | May 9, 2007

In his speech "Race, Queerness & Sexuality" delivered Tuesday night to an audience of about 35, Keith Boykin '87 said that he chose to attend Dartmouth because of its reputation as a conservative school. Boykin joked that controversy follows him wherever he goes, but he admitted to having attended the College because he "wanted to shake things up." While a student at the College, Boykin witnessed a number of explosive situations including a storming of Parkhurst, the construction and destruction of a shanty town on the Green and the tape-recording and subsequently published transcript of a Gay Straight Alliance meeting by a writer for the Dartmouth Review. Boykin said his experiences with controversy at Dartmouth prepared him for the hurdles and difficulties he has faced since graduating. "I learned to go beyond my boundaries, beyond my life circumstances -- to try to walk a mile in someone else's shoes," he said.

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Police Blotter

May 1, 7:58 p.m., Greensboro Road A local resident complained that there was a huge party at a location near a baseball field that is commonly referred to as "shed number two." When officers arrived on the scene, nobody was present and all trash was in the receptacles, leading police to believe that a few ballplayers had a get-together after a game. May 2, 10:43 p.m., Gates Road A female Hanover resident called police when she heard her dogs barking at what she suspected to be car headlights in her driveway.

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