“Are your friends making you fat?” demanded headlines displayed on a number of media networks this July in response to a study published by Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard University, and James Fowler, a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Christakis spoke about the study’s conclusion, that the fluctuations of a person’s weight affect the weight of people in one’s social network, in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Thursday night.
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A conservative think tank that has frequently spoken against Dartmouth’s governance structure has ties to alumni that have been critical of College policies and openly supportive of the Association of Alumni’s lawsuit against the College.
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Broken GreenPrint stations forced students to travel across campus to print documents last week, leaving users inconvenienced and frustrated.
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Ben Nunnery, The Dartmouth Staff, Courtesy of Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone
Feb. 2, 1:26 p.m., East Wheelock Street
Hanover police responded to a man who reported a theft from the Alumni Gymnasium faculty locker room on Jan. 31 between 6 and 8 a.m. The victim told police that when he returned to the locker room, he had discovered that his locker had been broken into. He claimed his credit cards, license and a small amount of cash had been removed. Upon contacting the credit card companies, the victim learned that his cards had already been used to purchase a $2,778 computer system at Systems Plus in either Hanover or Lebanon. Two purchases totalling $1,401 were then attempted at a Target and a Wal-Mart in Massachusetts. To date, the suspect or suspects have yet to be apprehended
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Presidential candidate former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., dropped out of the primary race Thursday after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., won significantly more delegates to the Republican nominating convention in the Super Tuesday primaries.
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