Alumni shape debate in hot political summer; Article by: Che, Jenny; Page No: 3, 2011-09-14

Subject(s): Immelt, Jeffrey; Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, College Trustee; Chair of President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness; Geithner, Timothy; Treasury Secretary; US economy; Portman, Rob; Ohio Republican Senator; Gillibrand, Kirsten, New York Democratic Senator; U.S. debt ceiling crisis; U.S. economy; Dartmouth alumni; Ricciardone, Francis; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; U.S. international affairs; "Leading Voices in Politics and Policy"; summer lecture series sponsored by the Rockefeller Center; Masters, Roger; Government professor emeritus; Standard and Poor's U.S. economy downgrade; Hoeven, John; Republican Senator of North Dakota; Bass, Charles; Republican Representative of New Hampshire; Capuano, Michael; Democratic Representative of Massachusetts; Carney, John; Democratic Representative of Delaware; Off the Sidelines; increasing women's participation in public life; public diplomacy in Turkey; Rassias, John; French professor and president of the Rassias Foundation