By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth alumni won elections in state and local campaigns in New Hampshire, New York and North Dakota yesterday. U.S. Representatives Paul Hodes '72, D-N.H., and Kirsten Gillibrand '88, D-N.Y., and Gov. John Hoeven '79, R-N.D., were all re-elected to their current positions.
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By Katie Paxton, The Dartmouth Staff
Of the 2,400 registered Dartmouth student voters, 2,219 cast their ballots in Hanover yesterday, according to Jessica Guthrie '10, president of Vote Clamantis, a nonpartisan student organization. Approximately 400 additional Dartmouth students voted using absentee ballot in their home states.
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By Marielle Battistoni, The Dartmouth Staff
The first-ever Two Dollar-a-Day Challenge, held at Dartmouth on Wednesday, tested students' ability to sustain themselves for one full day on $2 or less, in an effort to call attention to the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide.
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By Elise Quinones
The College's Web Services team is hiring a new web services manager to help the limited staff meet the demands of Dartmouth's increasing reliance on the internet, according to Sarah Horton, director of web strategy, design and infrastructure at the College.
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By Rachel Sarnoff
As a teenager in 1930s Argentina, Carola Eisenberg visited a psychiatric hospital where she saw 3,500 patients chained to beds. Eisenberg, founder of Physicians for Human Rights, told undergraduates and Dartmouth Medical School community members how this experience inspired her fight for humane health care in a Wednesday speech at the Rockefeller Center.
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By Conrad Scoville and Elise Quinones, The Dartmouth Staff
- Kendra Field, the College's 2008-2009 Charles Eastman Fellow in Native American studies, presented her dissertation, "Intruder of Color: Race, Nation and Thomas Jefferson Brown's Life in Indian Territory," to about 25 attendees in Carson Hall Wednesday evening. More »
- Brown University and Cornell University recently announced cost-saving measures such as hiring freezes. More »
- Two members and five new members of Phi Mu Delta fraternity at the University of New Hampshire are scheduled for arraignment today on possession by consumption charges from an Oct. More »