At the Hop, Clinton backs stem cell research
By Stuart A. Reid | June 22, 2007Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Presidential hopeful Sen.
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Presidential hopeful Sen.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., called on her fellow senators to fund stem cell research and said that as president she would make lifting the ban on the research "a very high priority as soon as taking office," during a town hall"style rally in Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center Friday afternoon. At the event, which was billed as a conversation about stem cell research, Clinton both condemned the Bush administration's insistence on forbidding research it deems unethical and portrayed the issue as one that transcends partisan politics. She couched her criticism in an overall attack on what she termed Bush's misuse of science. "For the past six years, science has been under siege in Washington," she said.
One evening early last October, just past midnight, about 30 Native American students were holding their annual Columbus Day drum circle on the Green.
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As both the Rockefeller Center's Associate Director of Training and Education and a Vermont state senator, Matt Dunne is used to balancing state politics and his career at Dartmouth.
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