COSO recognizes new student groups for funding ("Dartmouth For Democracy")

[Rose Siding]

The start of Spring term is also a fresh beginning for several new student groups on campus. The College recognized several new organizations at the end of Winter term, and now, with funding from the Council On Student Organization, the club leaders are preparing to increase awareness about everything from malnutrition to grassroots politics to Taiwanese culture.

In response to the 2004 presidential election, several students spearheaded the creation of Dartmouth For Democracy, a self-described non-partisan group designed to train students interested in gaining necessary skills to run grassroots campaigns.

Dartmouth for Democracy claims it will support any candidate on the national, local, or college level who is "socially progressive and fiscally responsible," said co-founder Sarah Ayres '06.
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Dartmouth for Democracy is a local chapter of Howard Dean's Democracy for America, an organization he started following his unsuccessful presidential primary campaign. Dartmouth College is among the first institutions in the country, and is the first school in the Ivy League to start a chapter.

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