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NYers face own big choice

By Tara Kyle | November 7, 2000

As the nation goes to the polls today, many Dartmouth students from New York will have already mailed in their decisions on a race that ranks second only to the presidential campaign in mass media coverage -- First Lady Hillary Clinton versus Long Island Congressman Rick Lazio for the New York Senate. Although the New Yorkers who spoke to The Dartmouth largely disapproved of the intense publicity Clinton's candidacy has received, few were surprised by it. "It's nothing more or less than I expected.

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Media competes for your vote

By Julia Levy | November 7, 2000

Today is climax day for the media. After months of Campaign 2000 coverage, the big moment has arrived, and the news media is determined to cash in for its final hurrah. As the polls open today, most analysts have yet to cast their lots with one candidate or the other.

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Attack ads may distort message

By N.F.S. Knight | November 7, 2000

On the eve of election day, assistant government professor Lynn Vavreck criticized the increased role of independent political attack ads in the current presidential campaign in a lecture last night at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. "Sensational independent expenditure ads aired against presidential candidates during the election season are bad for the process because they distract voters from the debate's actual content," Vavreck said. Presidential campaigns have lost control of their core messages because of the sensational attack ads broadcast on television, she said. She linked popular opposition to such ads to the growing support for campaign finance reform laws that political figures such as Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold have proposed.

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DMS searches for 12 geneticists

By Alice Gomstyn | November 6, 2000

Nearly a year and a half after the Board of Trustees approved plans for a new department of genetics at Dartmouth Medical School, administrators continue to review a host of potential applicants to fill 12 targeted full-time positions. In general, hiring faculty members at institutions of higher education is a very long and involved process, according to the genetic department's first chair, professor Jay Dunlap. The process is also an expensive one. Dunlap estimated that Dartmouth invests approximately half a million dollars in bringing a new professor to the College.

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Charles Cook discusses election uncertainty

By Andy Albeck | November 3, 2000

Last night, Charles Cook, seen by some as one of the most astute political analysts of the Washington scene, spoke to a full audience about the uncertainty of the upcoming elections. Cook is the editor and publisher of "The Cook Political Report," has served as a Washington Insider for Rolecall Magazine and has appeared both on CBS and NBC as a political analyst on several occasions. Noting that the country is in the midst of economic prosperity and has a roughly even amount of Republican and Democratic voters, in his speech yesterday Cook said that next Tuesday may turn out to be one of the "most important elections, at least since the end of World War II." When asked to predict a winning candidate, Cook said he would go with Bush, because of the Republican candidate's current three to four percent lead in national polls. The fact that Bush is ahead nationally, however, "masks the situation," Cook said.

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Candidates differ on Social Sec.

By Julia Levy | November 3, 2000

In light of the widely discussed fate of Social Security, both George W. Bush and Al Gore have placed the system at center stage of Campaign 2000. While both praise Social Security and call it a "promise" made to Americans, each candidate has also suggested broad-reaching -- though very different -- changes to the current system to avoid its imminent demise. The Social Security system -- created in 1935 to help support senior Americans during the Great Depression -- faces financial insolvency within the next generation as the U.S.

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Million dollar donor discusses College years

By Tracy Landers | November 2, 2000

The recent $1 million gift by Roger Klorese '77 and his partner David Haney shows how profoundly the "Dartmouth Experience" affects the lives of some students and their loved ones -- even when their experiences were less than entirely positive at the time. Klorese and Haney gave the money to support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Programming.

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Muñoz stresses respect for Latinos

By Charles Gardner | November 2, 2000

Cecilia Muoz, vice president of the Research and Advocacy Office of the National Council of La Raza, spoke about the problems facing Latino immigrants in the 21st century in the Rockefeller Center yesterday. Muoz, a prominent national advocate for Latino civil rights, voiced her concern over the condition and treatment of Latinos as a whole, whether native-born or immigrant. "If we are not prepared to recognize the contributions of immigrants in our national community, then we fail to recognize the contributions of everyone else, as well," she said. During the lecture, Muoz stressed the importance of immigrants to the U.S.

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Students share homeless concerns

By Tara Kyle | November 2, 2000

While their classmates cheered on the athletic teams and watched freshmen dash wildly around the bonfire, five Dartmouth students spent their Homecoming weekends engaged in a far more serious topic -- attending the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homeless Conference. Jennifer Rottman '02, Christopher Taylor '01, Atteeya Hollie '02, Simon Han '02 and Kathleen McDermott '03 made the trip to the Maryland conference, which hosted students from 130 colleges.

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Candidates near end of one of tightest races ever

By Mike A. Hamilton | November 1, 2000

In the political footrace that is the campaign trail, leading candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore are running side by side, according to current polls, with neither one able to gain any significant distance on his opponent. And with only seven days left, the smallest change could spell victory or defeat for either one of them. The question is, how did the race get so close?

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Gore wins landslide victory in campus poll

By Wendy Yu | November 1, 2000

Just one week before election day, College undergraduates who responded to a poll by The Dartmouth have sent a clear message regarding their choice for president -- Democratic candidate Al Gore, by a landslide. According to the poll, 1,079 students -- or 62 percent -- plan to vote for Gore, which is nearly three times as many as those who indicated they would vote for Republican candidate George W.

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Asian-Americans have untapped political power

By Alison Schmauch | November 1, 2000

Assistant government professor David Kang spoke about the role of Asian-Americans in politics during a dinner last night sponsored by the Pan Asian Council, and said the group has an unrealized potential to impact major elections. Asian-Americans, like other minority groups, tend to engage in activist politics -- forming grassroots organizations, holding rallies, etc.

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