VOL. CLXXI NO. 2
FLURRIES HIGH 11 LOW 5
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014
College goals may Campus faces blackout impact provost pick
By HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG
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In choosing its next provost, a search that has spanned nearly eight months, the College must decide whether to hire from within its ranks, as it has done historically, or from outside the College — a choice between institutional knowledge and a fresh perspective, experts say. Interim provost Martin WyJW]ZVM PI[ Å TTML \PM XW[Q\QWV since July 2012, when Folt began her role as interim College President, continuing in his role when College President Phil Hanlon \WWS WNÅ KM IVL .WT\ TMN\ \W JMKWUM
chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Dartmouth, the provost is responsible for the institution’s academic integrity as well as its strategic planning initiatives. Additional duties include managing the budget, leading government relations and overseeing both academic research and College support services. Though a college provost’s responsibilities vary by institution, the provost typically serves as a chief academic WNÅ KMZ IVL UISM[ SMa LMKQ sions alongside the president. SEE PROVOST PAGE 5
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During the winter interim period, Ezra Toback ’14 roamed Tokyo and its surroundings, interviewing priests and collecting materials at over 15 sacred sites. Toback’s travels, funded by the College’s office of undergraduate advising and research, formed an integral part of his Asian and Middle
Eastern studies thesis, which looks at the ways in which Japanese shrines and temples market themselves to members of various socioeconomic classes. For Toback and others who conducted fieldwork for their honors theses over break, the six-week interim provided time to focus on research away SEE THESIS PAGE 3
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B y SERA KWON and roshan dutta A two-hour blackout left students and faculty in the dark on Monday, the first day of winter classes. After trudging through the slush to arrive at class, students were forced to read their syllabi by the light of their cellphones’ flashlights while professors had to improvise without lecture slides. The outage, caused by a faulty power line at Liberty Utilities, the College’s electricity provider, affected approximately 65 College buildings, said associate vice president
of Facilities, Operations and Management Frank Roberts. It stretched from 9:52 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. Although Liberty Utilities initially forecast that the problem would be resolved by 11 a.m., only buildings on the northern part of campus had received power by that time. Businesses and homes in downtown Hanover were also included in the tally of the 143 Liberty Utilities customers who lost power, company spokesperson John Shore said. While heating in residence halls and class-
rooms was largely undisturbed, telephone and Inter net access were affected, Roberts said. Some professors cancelled class due to the weather, but many taught without functioning lights, computers or projectors. Experiencing his first power outage after six year s at Dartmouth, Arabic professor Mostafa Ouajjani was unable to use his PowerPoint slides in his morning class, but said it did not prevent him from teaching. He added, however, that the outage SEE OUTAGE PAGE 3
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Holcombe takes office in Vt.
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Former education professor and director of Dartmouth’s teacher education program Rebecca Holcombe took office as Vermont’s Secretary of Education on Jan. 2. Holcombe said one of her main goals is to improve
the education opportunities the state provides young people by closing both the achievement gap and the opportunity gap. Whether through changed academic prog ramming or by providing additional help to teachers, Holcombe said she aims to ensure that students from diverse socio-
economic backgrounds have equal opportunities to learn and succeed. In addition to closing the achievement gap, Holcombe said, it is important to address the opportunity gap, which can disadvantage students from lower socioeconomic SEE HOLCOMBE PAGE 5