The Dartmouth 02/05/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 22

SNOW HIGH 26 LOW 5

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Appiah speaks on bridging difference

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

ORL program creates interestbased housing

REMEMBERING TORIN

By Claire daly

By Kate BRADSHAW

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TENNIS TEAMS NAB NON-LEAGUE VICTORIES PAGE 8

OPINION

OPPORTUNITY OPPROBRIUM PAGE 4

INSIGHT FROM THE FRONT PAGE 4

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN: ART ACQUISTION PAGE 7

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Participants held each others’ gaze. “This person is 1,000 stories I do not know,” a workshop facilitator said. This exercise, one in a series of student-run activities that aimed to promote discourse over difference, took place after the annual William Jewett Tucker Lecture on Tuesday afternoon. In the lecture at the Hanover Inn, philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah discussed using conversation to overcome differences. Appiah, named one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 public intellectuals in 2008, SEE TUCKER PAGE 3

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Students passionate about subjects varying from television to triathlons can to live with peers with similar interests in a new housing initiative that will launch this fall. The program will allow 15 or more students who share a common interest or hobby to apply to live together, according to the office of residential life’s website. Each budding community must submit a statement identifying its goals and find a faculty associate to serve as an advisor. The faculty member would attend events, meet with the group and provide guidance, though he or she would not live on the floor, River cluster community director Katharina Daub said. To be eligible to apply for a living learning community, ORL requires at least 15 students to register their commitment to furthering a shared interest. Applications for 2014-2015 are due by April 7. The program differs from Dartmouth’s existing Greek and affinity houses because the communities will be integrated into residential

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SEE LIVING PAGE 2

Peer advising may TALES links students, patients cover gender, sexuality B y Jordan Einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

B y Ashley Manning

Recognizing a potential gap in current peer advisory programs, students and staff are discussing the establishment of a new group that would focus on gender and sexuality. At a workshop late last month, around 20 students gathered to discuss the possibility and the needs the program would address. The three-hour workshop, sponsored by the Center for Gender and Student Engagement and the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, focused on

the nuances of gender and sexual diversity in society. Attendees discussed heterosexuality and identity, as well as perceptions and stereotypes of LGBTQ students. Students also talked about deconstructing societal views of LGBTQ individuals, the origins of those views and how they manifest themselves at Dartmouth. The workshop also outlined the process of recognizing and reporting incidences of intolerance, Joseph Miller ’14 said. SEE ADVISING PAGE 5

Tina Ma ’14 spent Saturday morning celebrating an early Valentine’s Day with Alzheimer’s patients from across the Upper Valley. “Golden Oldies” music and movies played in the background, including clips of the dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Ma watched her partner, an older woman suffering from fairly advanced Alzheimer’s disease, write a Valentine to her husband bemoaning the fact that today’s youth cannot dance like Astaire and Rogers. Ma and her partner are participants in the Alzheim-

er’s Learning Experience for Students Program, known as TALES. Twice a month, 20 Dartmouth students meet with Alzheimer’s patients to chat, sip a cup of coffee or go for a hike. The program, which aims to educate individuals about the disease, matches pairs of students with Alzheimer’s patients, or learning partners, for at least three terms. The relationships built through TALES give support to the Alzheimer’s patients, but also provide students with an idea of what living with the disease is like. Ma said she was initially intimidated by the disease but learned to focus on improv-

ing patients’ quality of life, especially since many are uncertain about their futures. She has gained a unique opportunity to learn about handling chronic illness, she said. Robert Santulli, a physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, founded the program in 2010. Santulli said the program was inspired by the Buddy Program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, _PQKP XIQZ[ Å Z[\ aMIZ UMLQKIT students with local Alzheimer’s patients. At Dartmouth, TALES is advertised to premedical students, though a SEE TALES PAGE 5


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