Thursday, November 6, 2008

Alumni win seats in Nov. 4 state elections

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. More »

Students vote in record numbers

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. More »

DCGH raises awareness, students live on $2 for day

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. More »

Web Services creates new position

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. More »

Eisenberg urges students to volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights

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. More »

Daily Debriefing

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 »