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Geisel suspends M.D./Ph.D. apps

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Several  classes  were  canceled  due  to  Thursday’s  snowstorm.

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Tuck sees high employment offer rate for Class of 2013

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The Geisel School of Medicine has suspended admissions to its M.D./Ph.D. program, Geisel School Dean Wiley Souba announced in an email to the Geisel community Thursday morning. Since the decision _I[ Ă… Z[\ ZM^MITML QV I .MJ meeting, around 1,000 students IVL NIK]T\a PI^M [QOVML I XM\Q tion outlining concerns. Admissions were suspended to allow the administration to examine the program, deter-

mine its optimal size and discuss how to attract the best students, among other reasons, Souba said. The 25 students currently working toward their degree IVL \PW[M _PW PI^M ITZMILa been offered admission to the program will not be directly affected by the policy change. M.D./Ph.D. programs aim to train physician-scientists, a group uniquely able to participate in both basic and clinical research and patient care. The

Tuck School of Business graduates are waiting longer to IKKMX\ RWJ WNNMZ[ I \ZMVL \PI\ Jonathan Masland, director WN <]KSÂź[ +IZMMZ ,M^MTWX ment Office, attributed to the MKWVWUaÂź[ OZIL]IT QUXZW^M ment. Students, he said, can JM UWZM LQ[KMZVQVO QV \PMQZ RWJ searches. Data released by Tuck earlier this month on the compen-

sation rates and employment TM^MT[ NWZ UMUJMZ[ WN \PM +TI[[ WN PI^M UQZZWZML XI[\ aMIZ[Ÿ NQO]ZM[ The compensation rates and MUXTWaUMV\ TM^MT[ NWZ UMU bers of the Class of 2013 mirror figures seen in past years, according to data released by \PM [KPWWT WV .MJ Ninety-one percent of the KTI[[Ÿ OZIL]I\M[ PIL ZMKMQ^ML RWJ WNNMZ[ Ja OZIL]I\QWV ¸ \PM best of any peer MBA program,

Financial aid office clarifies application forms

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Masland said. Three months later, this number had risen to 95 percent. 6W\ ITT [\]LMV\[ PW_M^MZ chose to accept the employUMV\ WNNMZ[ \PMa ZMKMQ^ML Eighty-one percent of members of the Class of 2013 had IKKMX\ML RWJ WNNMZ[ Ja OZIL] ation. Three months later, another tenth of the class had IKKMX\ML WNNMZ[ ¸ UMIVQVO

UMUJMZ WN \PM 0W][M 7^MZ[QOP\ IVL /W^MZVUMV\ :MNWZU +WU mittee. The Higher Education Act prohibits higher education institutions from requiring applicants to submit NMM JI[ML Ă… VIVKQIT IQL NWZU[ []KP I[ \PM +WTTMOM *WIZL LM^MTWXML +;; XZWĂ… TM \W LM\MZUQVM MTQOQJQTQ\a NWZ NMLMZIT Ă… VIVKQIT IQL <PM TI_ PW_M^MZ LWM[ VW\ ILLZM[[ _PQKP SEE AID PAGE 5

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Median  base  salaries  fall  in  line  with  other  schools.

College, Tuck to hire social media coordinators

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After @TuckExecEd tweeted a link to its blog post about professor Sydney .QVSMT[\MQVÂź[ ZM[MIZKP _PQKP XZMLQK\ML the rise of female CEOs, Inc. Magazine reporter Ilan Mochari wrote an article citing the research and linking back to <]KSÂź[ WZQOQVIT JTWO XW[\ <PM VM`\ LIa @Dartmouth, @TuckExecEd and @ TuckSchool tweeted at Mochari and .QVSMT[\MQV QVKT]LQVO \PM =:4 WN \PM Inc. Magazine article. Then @Tuck-

Bridge chimed in. *W\P \PM +WTTMOM IVL <]KS PI^M ramped up their social media presMVKM W^MZ \PM XI[\ NM_ UWV\P[ IQUQVO to better connect to current students, XZW[XMK\Q^M [\]LMV\[ IVL IT]UVQ 5IZ\QV /ZIV\ \PM +WTTMOMÂź[ K]ZZMV\ director of digital content, said social media is important for spreading news IVL [\WZQM[ IJW]\ [\]LMV\ IKPQM^MUMV\[ faculty research and alumni accomplishSEE MEDIA PAGE 3

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In light of the Sochi Olympic Games, the global media has refocused on Russia’s 2013 anti-gay legislation, popularly known as the “Kill the Gays” bill. The law, which bans the promotion — such as public hand-holding — of “non-traditional sexual relations” in the presence of minors. This week, The Dartmouth sat down with English professor Jeff Sharlet to talk about his 15-day trip to Russia in November, reporting for GQ Magazine on LGBTQ life under the legislation. Sharlet’s piece, “Inside the Iron Close: What It’s Like to Be Gay in Putin’s Russia,” appeared in the magazine’s February issue. ?PI\ _I[ \PM UW[\ LQNÅ K]T\ \PQVO IJW]\ ZMXWZ\QVO \PQ[ [\WZa' JS: The steady accumulation of suffering. When you do this, you talk to far more people than you can include in the story. I was there for two weeks, and I slept maybe four hours a night. I spent my days talking to ordinary people and also activists, and at nights I would go out to the queer nightlife in Saint Petersburg and Moscow and talk to people there. In the day, it would be one kind of story of horror, and at night, another. And that was \PM UW[\ LQNÅ K]T\ XIZ\ \PI\ IKK]U]TI\QWV WN []KP [WZZW_ AW] UMV\QWVML \PI\ \PMZM IZM I TW\ WN ^QWTMV\ I\\IKS[ IOIQV[\ \PM 4/*<9 KWUU]VQ\a IVL IT[W SQTTQVO[ )ZM \PM[M I\\IKS[ ZMXWZ\ML I\ ITT QV \PM :][[QIV UMLQI' JS: Not much. The most violent are — I mentioned the killing of a young man in Volgograd who came out to his friends. They celebrated by raping him with beer bottles, crashing his head in with a stone and then arranging PQ[ [\ZQXXML JWLa NWZ LQ[XTIa <PI\ _I[ [W PWZZQÅ K \PI\ Q\ JMKIUM I VI\QWVIT story, and the police did try. Ordinary beatings are not addressed. 0I[ \PM OW^MZVUMV\ KZIKSLW_V VW\QKMIJTa LM\MZZML \PM ^WQKM WN :][[QI¼[ 4/*<9 KWUU]VQ\a' JS: In Moscow, they passed a law banning pride parades for 100 years. So apparently there’s going to be a great sexual liberation in Russia in 2112. But the pride parades are not what we think of. They last maybe two minutes. AW] OW \PMZM \ISM W]\ aW]Z ZIQVJW_ Æ IO[ OM\ JMI\MV IVL \PMV OM\ IZZM[\ML for being beaten. ?PMV aW] _MZM ZMXWZ\QVO \PQ[ _I[ \PMZM I UWUMV\ \PI\ [KIZML aW] \PM UW[\' JS: Yeah, when a Cossack pulls a gun on you, that’s pretty frightening. This interview has been edited and condensed. — COMPILED BY ELIZABETH SMITH

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College, Tuck expand Tuck alumni base salary matches peers social media outreach FROM TUCK PAGE 1

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other efforts on campus such as photography, web and video production, while also maintaining the College’s Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google+, iTunes university and Instagram accounts, with assistance from the College’s entire public affairs team. The College will hire a director of social media in the coming months, which Grant said he believes will lead to major improvements. “We leverage social media to expand the reach of almost everything we do,” he said. “Our photographers, writers and media relations team all work together.” In the next few months, this social media coalition will attempt to grow its existing channels, expand audiences and increase interaction between the College and its social media followers, Grant said. Tuck, which is also currently seeking a social media manager, uses sites like Twitter and Facebook to engage its audience in conversation and “spread the Tuck brand,” Tuck director of marketing and communications Gina des Cognets Tu’01 said. To increase its Instagram presence, Tuck began using hashtags such as #tuckadmit and #tuckpartner. Newly admitted members of the Tuck Class of 2016 wore a hat the school sent them in the mail after their acceptance and used the hashtags to post photographs on Instagram, which the school then reposted. Des Cognets said Twitter is particularly important in sharing faculty research, as well as disseminating information about visiting speakers. Social media is used to circulate information to alumni around the world, des Cognets said. “We will build relationships with our users that span a lifetime [through XZWÅ TM[E _PM\PMZ \PMa¼ZM I PQOP [KPWWT student applying to Dartmouth or a member of the Class of 1964,” Grant said. Recent alumni said they follow Dartmouth’s social media accounts as a way to stay on top of College-related news. Gwen Tetirick ’13 said that social media allows her to stay active in the Dartmouth community. “I love seeing what my fellow alums are up to and where their post-graduate lives are taking them.” Tetirick said in an email. “It always makes me feel a twinge of happy nostalgia when a Æ ]ZZa WN ,IZ\UW]\P ZMTI\ML XQK\]ZM[ crop up on my news feed, and it’s nice to know everyone there is still loving it as much as I did.” Several prospective students agreed that social media allows them to engage with campus. ¹*MNWZM 1 ^Q[Q\ML CQV \PM NITTE Q\ _I[ nice to be able to see little snapshots

of the campus on Facebook and Instagram,” said Carly Farmer, a senior at the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C. Kay Crawford, a Westminster School senior from Atlanta noted that the College’s Twitter account gave her a good sense of the Dartmouth community, especially compared to Twitter accounts at other colleges. Valentina Sedlacek ’18, who lives in Hanover, said the Facebook page has kept her updated about Dartmouth news since her acceptance in December. Current students, however, tended to downplay the importance of the +WTTMOM¼[ WNÅ KQIT [WKQIT UMLQI IK counts. Sam Glick ’17 said he gets his Dartmouth news from other sources, while Mary Van Metre ’14 said she has never seen the College’s social media XZWÅ TM[ Khori Davis ’15 expressed mixed feelings about social media’s role, but acknowledged it’s relevance. “I do think they’re important assets for the school to have in today’s technology-focused society,” Davis said.

percent of the class turned down offers. These numbers were lower than in past years. In 2012, 86 percent of students had accepted job offers by graduation, while 83 percent of students had accepted job offers by graduation in 2011. On average, graduates of Tuck’s Class of 2013 who reported their compensation information earned a base salary of around $115,000, similar to graduates of prior Tuck classes. Tuck’s median base salary of $115,000 for Class of 2013 graduates falls in line with that of other business schools. Among Columbia University’s business school graduates, the median base salary was $110,000. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s median was $125,000, Harvard Business School’s was $120,000 and Yale School of Management’s was $110,000. Thirty percent of the Tuck Class of 2013 received jobs in financial services — including investment banking, investment management, private equity and venture capital. An additional 27 percent accepted

offers in the consulting industry, 13 percent in the technology field and 10 percent in to consumer goods and retail-related jobs. Other top business schools sent students into similar industries, with financial services and consulting topping their lists. A recent incline in jobs in the technology industry, however,

“When most people get to their actual interview, they have already met with so many Tuck alumni and been prepped so many Ɵ ŵĞƐ͕ ƚŚĂƚ ŝƚ͛Ɛ ĂůŵŽƐƚ like a formality.” ͳ > y E Z K>/s Z dh͛ϭϰ may signal the sector’s growing relevance. Microsoft, Google and Amazon are some of Tuck’s strongest

employers, Masland said, adding that 900 corporations specifically recruited Tuck students during the 2012-13 academic year. Tuck’s career development office helps students find employment with one-on-one career coaching, on-campus recruiting and alumni connections. “When most people get to their actual interview, they have already met with so many Tuck alumni and been prepped so many times, that it’s almost like a formality,” Alexander Oliver Tu’14 said. The office also mentors students throughout the employment process. Andrew Wong Tu’14 said the office helped him determine what job fit him best. Oliver attributed the class’s success to the institution as a whole and the preparation it provides. “I think the product of great jobs and great salaries,” he said “is just a symptom of the good education.”

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contributing Columnist Aylin Woodward ’15

Past the P.R. Speak

Where is the Unity?

Dartmouth’s  problems  cannot  be  solved  by  spin. At 11:22 a.m. on the Friday of Winter Parkhurst. Carnival, Dean of the College Charlotte Instead of solving problems, Dartmouth Johnson emailed campus about a Jan. 10 is rebranding. These are issues that cannot Bored at Baker post that outlined the steps be solved with spin. one should take to rape a female member The College’s P.R. machine pushes of the Class of 2017. Within 20 minutes, the center as a mark of Dartmouth’s the Office of Public leadership on the Affairs published issue — but this is a press release an- Íž/Ćš Ĺ?Ć? Ć&#x;žĞ ĨŽĆŒ ƚŚĞ ŽůůÄžĹ?Äž ƚŽ ƚĂŏĞ a bogus claim. It’s a nouncing a new cen- Ä‚ Ć‰ĆŒĹ˝Ä‚Ä?Ć&#x;ǀĞ ĂŜĚ Ć‰ĆŒÄžÇ€ÄžĹśĆšÄ‚Ć&#x;ǀĞ͕ simple repackaging ter for prevention of ĆŒÄ‚ĆšĹšÄžĆŒ ƚŚĂŜ ĆŒÄžÄ‚Ä?Ć&#x;ǀĞ ĂŜĚ Ä?ĆŒĹ?Ć?Ĺ?Ć?Ͳ of existing prosexual assault. Ä?Ä‚Ć?ĞĚ͕ Ć?ƚĂŜÄ?Äž ŽŜ Ć?ĞdžƾĂů Ä‚Ć?Ć?Ä‚ƾůĆš grams. And it has T h e p re s s re - ƉŽůĹ?Ä?LJ͘Í&#x; been suggested time lease claims “the and time ag ain. new center reflects The Student and Dartmouth’s commitment to confront the Presidential Committee on Sexual Asnational scourge of sexual violence on sault proposed such a center years ago. college campuses.â€? It doesn’t. Dartmouth Change, a nonprofit alumni The press release touts the College as and faculty group concerned with sexual “a leader in developing culture-changing assault issues on campus, offered to fund a strategies.â€? It isn’t. center, but was rebuffed by Johnson, who In the aftermath of yet another potential said comprehensive services were already public relations nightmare — compounded in place. by the precipitous decline in applications Now, in the midst of bad press and the for the Class of 2018 — the new resource wake of another campus scandal, the Colcenter is nothing lege offers up a new more than a fig leaf. acronym to learn. It is time for the ÍždŚĞ ƉĂĆ?Ćš Ç‡ÄžÄ‚ĆŒ ŚĂĆ? Ć?ĞĞŜ ƚŚĞ Why fix probCollege to take a ĂĚžĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć?ĆšĆŒÄ‚Ć&#x;ŽŜ Ć?ĆšĆŒĆľĹ?Ĺ?ĹŻÄž ƚŽ lems when snowy proactive and pre- ĆŒÄžĆ?ƉŽŜÄš ƚŽ Ä?ŽŜÄ?ÄžĆŒĹśĆ? Ä‚Ä?ŽƾĆš pictures of the ven tative, rath er Ä?ĂžƉƾĆ? Ä?ĹŻĹ?ĹľÄ‚ĆšÄžÍ˜ ^ƚƾĚĞŜƚĆ?Í• Green look so great than reactive and Ä‚ůƾžŜĹ?Í• ĨÄ‚Ä?ƾůƚLJ ĂŜĚ ĞǀĞŜ ƚŚĞ under a Mayfair crisis-based, stance KĸÄ?Äž ĨŽĆŒ Ĺ?Ç€Ĺ?ĹŻ ZĹ?Ĺ?ŚƚĆ? ŚĂǀĞ filter on Instagram? on sexual assault ÄžÇ†Ć‰ĆŒÄžĆ?Ć?ĞĚ ĹľĹ?Ć?Ĺ?Ĺ?Ç€Ĺ?ĹśĹ?Ć? Ä‚Ä?ŽƾĆš ƚŚĞ Or when a January p o l i c y. C a re f u l l y by OCR invesĂĚžĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć?ĆšĆŒÄ‚Ć&#x;ŽŜÍ›Ć? Ä?ŽžžĹ?ƚžĞŜƚ ƚŽ visit constructed releases tigators can be burcan only do so much Ć?ƚƾĚĞŜƚ Ć?Ä‚ĨÄžĆšÇ‡Í˜Í&#x; ied in the middle of to preserve appearthe campus digest ances, and do precious little to improve the email, sent daily at 1 a.m., under a post quality of student life. advertising a “tropical lunchâ€?? The past year has seen the administraIt is clear that the administration needs tion struggle to respond to concerns about to do more to address the ongoing issues campus climate. Students, alumni, faculty at the College. Surface-level improvements and even the Office for Civil Rights have and reshuffling existing resources do little, expressed misgivings about the administra- if anything, to address the root causes of tion’s commitment to student safety. the College’s problems. We deserve better And yet paralysis rules the roost in from our school.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014

THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

NEWS EDITOR: Jessica Avitabile, LAYOUT EDITOR: Amanda Edwards, TEMPLATING EDITOR: Hallie Huffaker. COPY EDITOR: Angela Jin.

SUBMISSIONS: We welcome letters and guest columns. All submissions must include the author’s name and affiliation with Dartmouth College, and should not exceed 250 words for letters or 700 words for columns. The Dartmouth reserves the right to edit all material before publication. All material submitted becomes property of The Dartmouth. Please email submissions to editor@thedartmouth.com.

Rather  than  demanding  outrage  from  one  another,  we  should  unite. At this moment there is nothing that Dartmouth’s collective community cares more about than the Bored at Baker incident — it reminds us intensely of the potential for great cruelty that exists in our midst. Our student body is incredible at showing spontaneous solidarity in the face of issues like this one. The community gathering on the Green Monday evening was inspiring and poignant in its simple, elegant statement: We are Dartmouth, and we are better than this. But only a relatively small fraction, maybe a quarter of campus, came to show support despite numerous blitzes and personal invitations from all corners of campus. So the question is why so few? Dartmouth has a collective action problem. Right now, the group of Dartmouth students most vocal about mercilessly cracking down on sexual assault is too extreme for many students to identify with. This is what needs to change — we need every single student on this campus to understand that it is worth being as engaged and passionate as those spearheading the movement. If we want a safer campus, we cannot just attend community gatherings, we must become a ]VQĂ…ML ^WQKM ¸ WVM \PI\ LMUIVL[ KPIVOM zero-tolerance policies, transparency and accountability where none previously existed. We must remember a few key things. First, it is impossible to unify if we alienate half of our campus in the process. And I am not ZMNMZZQVO [WTMTa \W INĂ…TQI\ML UMV -TWY]MV\ opinions like “Where’s the Outrage?â€? (Feb. 10, 2014) by Sadia Hassan ’13 play an integral role in catalyzing change. Unfortunately, that catalyst comes at the high cost of alienating those on campus who may not feel quite so angry. Students, like myself, may feel unable to engage with these important issues because they are afraid of being judged for not being passionate enough about them. We do not all feel comfortable lending our voices to such extremism. We all engage with issues on different levels: it is a fact of life. Not all of us will make addressing sexual assault

our singular goal on campus, but make no mistake — every single student gives a damn. That the Greek system, and the culture it perpetuates, has issues is old news, and I won’t discuss that here. But I take issue demonizing \PM NZI\MZVQ\QM[ IVL NWZKQVO M^MZa INĂ…TQI\ML man to bear the burden of the abhorrent IK\[ WN WVM QVLQ^QL]IT ¸ IVL IV ]VINĂ…TQI\ML one, at that. One of my friends called the community gathering “weirdâ€? because “there were actually a lot of men there.â€? Of course there were men! How dare we think that they care any less about the safety of campus as everyone else. To damn every single man on this campus because of the actions of a select, horrid few belies a mindset that is just as closed as that of those we maintain IZM ZM[XWV[QJTM NWZ W]Z [Q\]I\QWV QV \PM Ă…Z[\ place. Moreover, I take issue with Hassan’s assertion that fraternities “furnish all men with disproportionate power,â€? because that statement undermines the active agency of all individuals, male or female, who are not fraternity members. I, for one, am not powerless because I do not allow myself to feel powerless. If you insist on alienating a group by branding them a common enemy, then by all means let it be the administration. Why not hold the administration and Committee on Standards accountable and demand that the hearing of such a case be open and the perpetrator named? :QOP\ VW_ \PM [\]LMV\ JWLa Ă…VL[ Q\[MTN WV \_W [QLM[ WN I [KPQ[U ¸ WVM [QLM ]VQĂ…ML in passion for a necessary change, the other alienated and uncertain. Passions are high. People are angry, scared and discouraged. But we are Dartmouth. We are all Dartmouth. And we need to bridge the divide before our campus unravels into a disparate group of untrusting, hateful people who will share no more than the signature on their diploma. This rampant plague of sexual assault and lack of appropriate action is tearing our school apart from the inside out. We have the power to stop it, but only if we stand together.

Vox Clamantis is the next frontier for civil rights, and I hope that Take A Stand Dear President Hanlon, I’m an ’03 alum who is asking you to stand up against rape, sexual violence and the threat of rape or sexual violence of any kind. I’ve read with horror the Bored at Baker case as well as the investigation of Dartmouth for Title IX violations. While reading about Bored at Baker, I thought to myself how lucky I was not to be the victim of sexual assault while at Dartmouth. But I shouldn’t have to be lucky. That should be how everyone on our beloved campus is: not assaulted, not raped and not threatened with violence or rape. The overwhelming presence of threats of rape IVL I[[I]T\ IOIQV[\ _WUMV JW\P WVTQVM IVL WNÆQVM is not just a Dartmouth problem. But I am asking Dartmouth and you, President Hanlon, to stand up and be a leader in advocating for change. This

Dartmouth will be at the forefront of changing the culture of rape that women have endured at Dartmouth (and elsewhere) for too long. A zerotolerance policy for rape or sexual violence or the threat of rape and sexual violence is the only way forward. Students who feel entitled to threaten and harm other students need to be expelled. They do not represent what Dartmouth strives to be. My husband is also an ’03 and we want Dartmouth to be somewhere we could envision sending our sons. And right now, it isn’t. Please stand up and make Dartmouth the leader on this issue I know it can be. My fellow alums and I will be watching — we care about what happens on W]Z KIUX][ IVL W]Z N]\]ZM OQ^QVO _QTT ZMÆMK\ PW_ Dartmouth handles this scourge. K ATHERINE R UE BOLLINGER ’03

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strongest reaction to an academic decision he has seen in his 30 years at Dartmouth. Cynthia Hahn, an M.D./Ph.D. student, said the decision to stop accepting applications is against the institution’s mission, which states that Geisel’s vision is “to be the medical school that sets the standard for educating physicians, scientists and teachers to be leaders of change in creating a healthier, better world.â€? Citing the fact that all other top 30 UMLQKIT [KPWWT[ ZIVSML QV \PM QV = ; News & World Report have a M.D./ Ph.D. program, Hahn said Geisel is VW\ IK\QVO TQSM I TMILMZ QV Q\[ Ă…MTL The petition echoed these sentiments, citing a potential “ripple effect.â€? The cost of suspending M.D./ Ph.D. admissions will outweigh the JMVMĂ…\[ WN IVa Ă…VIVKQIT [I^QVO[ I[ Geisel’s standing in the medical community will decline, it said. Witters agreed, saying the decision is inconsistent with the national image /MQ[MT [MMS[ \W XWZ\ZIa IVL VW\QVO \PI\ students are image-conscious. Geisel saw a 27 percent increase in applications to their medical program

Aid forms confuse some students FROM AID PAGE 1

forms colleges may require to determine eligibility for non-federal aid. The letter, based on an investigation by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight, named 111 schools that might give students the inaccurate impression that they must complete the CSS/ Financial Aid profile, a College Board-created form that requires a []JUQ[[QWV NMM \W ZMKMQ^M IVa ÅVIVKQIT aid. Along with Dartmouth, the letter QLMV\QÅML )UPMZ[\ +WTTMOM ,]SM University and Swarthmore College, as well as every Ivy League institution except for Princeton University. After Cummings’s allegation, ,IZ\UW]\PŸ[ ÅVIVKQIT IQL WNÅKM ILLML an explanation on its website that only the FAFSA is required to apply NWZ NMLMZIT ÅVIVKQIT IQL ÅVIVKQIT IQL director Virginia Hazen said. The College does not require [\]LMV\[ \W []JUQ\ \PM +;; 8ZWÅTM If a student refuses, the Financial )QL 7NÅKM VW\QÅM[ \PM [\]LMV\ \PI\ PQ[ WZ PMZ ÅVIVKQIT QVNWZUI\QWV _QTT be reviewed only for FAFSA eligibility but not institutional funding, Hazen said. <PM ÅVIVKQIT IQL WNÅKM ][M[ \PM FAFSA to determine eligibility for NMLMZIT N]VLQVO IVL \PM XZWÅTM NWZ need-based institutional aid. Of the 14 students interviewed by The Dartmouth, most said they understood that the FAFSA had to do _Q\P NMLMZIT IQL IVL \PI\ \PM XZWÅTM Q[

primarily used by private institutions for institutional funding. Several said that although they could not learn about the different functions of each document from \PM .QVIVKQIT )QL 7NĂ…KMÂź[ _MJ[Q\M they thought the College gave clear guidance for the application process. Benjamin Bonner ’18 said he had a “rudimentaryâ€? understanding of \PM Ă…VIVKQIT IQL XZWKM[[ IVL 4I]ZMV Maiorano ’17 said her mom commuVQKI\ML _Q\P \PM Ă…VIVKQIT IQL WNĂ…KM throughout the application process to I[S IJW]\ MIKP WN \PM ZMY]QZMUMV\[ Felipe Acevedo ‘16 said he attended I V]UJMZ WN KWTTMOM Ă…VIVKQIT IQL information sessions to learn about the process. Hazen estimated that 90 percent of aid, excluding loans, comes from the College’s private funding. The XZWĂ…TM [MZ^M[ [\]LMV\[Âź JM[\ QV\MZM[\[ Ja XZW^QLQVO \PM Ă…VIVKQIT IQL WNĂ…KM with more detailed information, she said. About 9 percent of scholarships granted to Dartmouth students during the 2012-13 academic year came from federal or state sources, according to the Dartmouth College Fact *WWS <PI\ aMIZ [\]LMV\[ ZMKMQ^ML $83,602,258 in need-based scholarships and $8,758,946 in loans, almost half of which were federally-funded. Hazen said she believes some of the FAFSA’s questions are misleading, allowing households to omit information about taxed incomes. The FAFSA IT[W LWM[ VW\ I[S PW][MPWTL[ \W ZMXWZ\ on their untaxed incomes and busi-

nesses, she said. š<PM .).;) PI[ JMMV [QUXTQĂ…ML over the years to the point where it VW TWVOMZ KWTTMK\[ []NĂ…KQMV\ QVNWZUI\QWV \W ITTW_ ][ \W UISM IV IKK]ZI\M decision of need,â€? she said. Cummings said in an email that he wants to ensure institutions do not JTWKS [\]LMV\[ NZWU ZMKMQ^QVO KZQ\QKIT federal aid. The letter alleged that 58 institutions explicitly state that students must []JUQ\ \PM XZWĂ…TM \W ZMKMQ^M IVa \aXM WN Ă…VIVKQIT IQL _PQTM QV[\Q\]\QWV[ — including Dartmouth — require \PM XZWĂ…TM _Q\PW]\ M`XTIQVQVO Q\[ ][M <PM TM\\MZ IT[W [IQL \PI\ \PM XZWĂ…TM KWVtains more detailed and complicated questions than the FAFSA and that its fee waiver process is not transparent. The College Board does not decide whether to waive its application fee until after it reviews an applicant’s XZWĂ…TM _PMV Q\ KIV LM\MZUQVM \PM [\]LMV\Âź[ Ă…[KIT KIXIJQTQ\a )[ I ZM[]T\ [\]LMV\[ U][\ []JUQ\ \PM XZWĂ…TM JMNWZM they learn if its fee will be waived. Students must pay $25 to submit \PM XZWĂ…TM \W WVM QV[\Q\]\QWV IVL for each additional institution. Douglas Freehafer, the father of a member of the Class of 2018, said he had learned about the usage of each form though the course of submitting Ă…VIVKQIT IQL IXXTQKI\QWV[ Financial aid administrators visit high schools to assist students in KWUXTM\QVO \PM XZWĂ…TM IVL [\]LMV\[ KIV IT[W [MMS O]QLIVKM NZWU +WTTMOM Scholarship Service and call centers, Hazen said.

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this year. All other Ivy League institutions have M.D./Ph.D. programs, including Princeton University, which does not have a medical school but runs its program in conjunction with Rutgers University. With over 180 students, the University of Pennsylvania’s program is one of the nation’s largest. ;SQX *ZI[[ LQZMK\WZ WN \PM =VQversity of Pennsylvania’s M.D./Ph.D. program, said that he continuously ZM^QM_[ IVL _WZS[ \W QUXZW^M PQ[ university’s program. Brass noted, however, that M.D./ Ph.D. programs have high costs and said each university must decide if the investment is worthwhile. Witters also expressed concern about the status of the Clinical and Translational Science Award, an $18 million grant the College received last fall. In the letter to Hanlon and the trustees, students said that every institution to receive a similar grant has an M.D./Ph.D. program. Students and faculty also said they feared that the quality of students at-

tracted to the program may decline if admissions resume. Qualified prospective applicants would not see Geisel as valuing the program, M.D./ Ph.D. candidate David Qian ’11 said. Several M.D./Ph.D. and medical students said having students at Geisel for an extended period of time Q[ JMVMĂ…KQIT 5 , 8P , [\]LMV\[ serve on student government and can provide continuity and valuable institutional memory, Geisel student Marietta Smith ’12 said. Smith said she interacted with M.D./Ph.D. students throughout her years as an undergraduate. 2W[P 4IVOM Âź _PW _WZS[ QV I lab with an M.D./Ph.D. student and signed the petition, said he would be interested in pursuing a similar program in the future. š1 \PQVS \PMZM Q[ I UW^M \W_IZL[ more collaboration between medical doctors and patients and directly relatQVO \PI\ \W_IZL TIJ _WZS Âş PM [IQL š1N we’re moving in that direction, then it won’t help us for the future if we get rid of the program.â€?

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Hockey needs points to get back in playoffs FROM HOCKEY PAGE 8

outshot the Crimson for the second time this season and held the Crimson \W \_W OWIT[ ]V\QT \PM ÅVIT UQV]\M WN the game. “One of the things we did well against Harvard, and certainly something we’re going to try to do again this week, is slowing them down by being both disciplined but also trying to provide a lot of pressure on the puck so that they can’t do what they want to do,” Hudak said. The team is looking to break a slow streak on offense. Coming out of the winter break, the Dartmouth women have been much better offensively, scoring 21 goals in January. The last two weeks, the team has struggled to put the puck in the net, scoring four goals in three losses. ¹?M IZM \ZaQVO \W _WZS WV \PM ÅVQ[Ping aspect of the scoring opportunities, but it’s hard,” Hudak said. “You can’t just work on one thing because it reITTa LWM[ ZMY]QZM aW] \W ÅZ[\ OM\ \PM opportunity to score and then actually put the puck in.” In Dartmouth’s last game against Clarkson, the team managed just 11 shots on goal. Though the team fared much better against St. Lawrence, ripping 34 shots on goal, the women still connected on just one score. “A lot of scoring is a little bit of an attitude, and a lot of it is mental,” Hudak said. “It’s tough if you haven’t been successful with it to get that little bit of an edge.” The Big Green’s offense will once

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again have to play without forward Karlee Odland ’15, who has been key to the Big Green’s top line this season. Last weekend, the offense clicked against the Crimson, so the team seems to be up to the challenge. “We’ll be a little short, we’ve just got 15 skaters, so everybody has got to chip in and contribute,” Hudak said. In the two previous games against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the Big /ZMMV ITTW_ML \PMU JW\P \W [KWZM ÅZ[\ and had to play catch-up for the rest of the game. “Every game we talk about trying to come out and be ready from the start and not let up a goal and then realize we need to start playing hard,” co-captain Lindsay Holdcroft ’14 said. ¹?M¼ZM LMÅVQ\MTa TWWSQVO \W KWUM W]\ hard from the drop of the puck so there are no early goals that we can’t come back from late in the game.” The team has progressed since Nov. 8 and 9, when the Big Green traveled to upstate New York to play Clarkson IVL ;\ 4I_ZMVKM NWZ \PM ÅZ[\ \QUM \PQ[ season. ¹?M¼^M LMÅVQ\MTa OZW_V I[ I \MIU and we’ve gotten a lot better,” Allen said. “We played them a long time ago when we were having a little bit of a rough season, but since the break we’ve really turned it on.” The Big Green faces St. Lawrence Friday night at 7 p.m. and Clarkson on Saturday at 4 p.m., both at Thompson Arena. Following Saturday’s game, the team will hold a senior recognition ceremony for its three members of the Class of 2014.

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Teams head to national championships on road FROM SQUASH PAGE 8

The Big Green women defeated the Ephs handily. The home team only won five sets in the match. Five of the games were 3-0 sweeps by the Big Green women. Only the number four match between Kate Nimmo ’14 and Williams sophomore Nicole Feshbach went on to five sets. After losing the first two games by a score of 12-10, Nimmo battled back and won the third. The fourth set was 11-9 before the senior took control and won the final set 11-1. The women have won four of their last six games, losing to No. 4 Yale University and No. 6 Cornell University. The recent hot streak has helped the women maintain their No. 8 ranking and stay in the draw for the Howe Cup, the team

championships for the A-division, which consists of the top eight teams in the nation. The men will play the No. 13 U.S. Naval Academy and the women will play No. 9 Princeton University. The Big Green men faced off against the Naval Academy earlier this year at the Midshipmen’s home courts in Annapolis, Md., and defeated them 5-4. The Midshipmen will come in having dropped two of their last three games. If the Big Green pull off a win over Navy then it will advance within the B-division to play Princeton, a team that dominated the Big Green in Dartmouth’s first home weekend after winter interim. The Big Green hopes to avenge its 7-2 loss and rise to the top of the second division with a No. 9 ranking.

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SPORTS

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY VS. ST. LAWRENCE 7 PM

MEN’S BASKETBALL @ CORNELL 7 PM

Women’s hockey hosts home weekend

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The women’s hockey team plays its last two home games of the year this weekend, facing St. Lawrence University on Friday and No. 5 Clarkson University on Saturday. Earlier this season, the women (7-16-1, 6-11-1 ECAC) fell 3-0 to Clarkson (21-4-5, 12-2-4 ECAC) and 4-1 to St. Lawrence (10-16-3, 9-6-3) on the road. The women are currently in ninth place in the ECAC and sit just one XWQV\ W]\ WN \PM Å VIT XTIaWNN [XW\ QV \PM league. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute currently occupies eighth, but the Big Green owns the tiebreaker, having beaten the Engineers twice this season. “We’re one point out of playoff contention right now,” head coach Mark Hudak said. “I think the important part for us is to do what we need to do, and _M¼TT Å VL W]\ _PI\ PIXXMV[ IN\MZ \PM other teams play.” The Engineers should be able to pick up some points this weekend, as they host Colgate University, who is 11th in the ECAC. The team also hosts No. 3 Cornell University. In order to [\Ia KWUXM\Q\Q^M NWZ \PM Å VIT XTIaWNN spot in the league, Dartmouth needs points this weekend before traveling to

Yale University and Brown University NWZ \PM [MI[WV¼[ Å VIT _MMSMVL Dartmouth is looking to use the tough play from its 4-1 loss to No. 6 Harvard University in upcoming games. “We’re just going to try to build off

the energy we had and build off the effort, and that’ll help push us through this weekend,” Lindsey Allen ’16 said. <PM 0IZ^IZL OIUM¼[ Å VIT [KWZM LQL VW\ ZMÆ MK\ Q\[ \WVM <PM *QO /ZMMV SEE HOCKEY PAGE 7

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The women’s hockey team will play its last two home games of the season this weekend.

Squash teams dominate Williams

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enough for the Howe Cup,” head coach Hansi Wiens said. “It shows our [men’s] team is ready for this weekend.” The Big Green men will play in the College Squash Association Championships starting today. On Wednesday, Chris Jung ’14 and co-captain Fletcher Pease ’14 both played solidly, finishing up their college squash careers with 3-2 wins, as did teammates James Fish ’16 and Glen Brickman ’17, who also won their matches 3-2. “A lot of the matches yesterday were pretty close, but our guys pulled away to give us a strong 7-2 victory,” Pease said. “It was their senior day, and we always have tough matches with them, so we knew they were going to fight hard on their home courts. We went in with the mentality that we needed to dig deep and fight even harder.” The only 3-0 victory for the men came from Michael Mistras ’15 in the number six match up.

Nick Harrington ’17 lost in the top spot, replacing an injured Xander Greer ’16, who plans to return for

“It was their senior day and we always have tough matches with them so we knew they ǁĞƌĞ ŐŽŝŶŐ ƚŽ Į ŐŚƚ ŚĂƌĚ on their home courts. We went in with the mentality that we needed ƚŽ ĚŝŐ ĚĞĞƉ ĂŶĚ Į ŐŚƚ ĞǀĞŶ harder.” ͳ &> d , Z W ^ ͛ϭϰ the weekend’s championships. The only losses for the Big Green were by Harrington and Kyle Martino ’16 in the number eight rung on the ladder. SEE SQUASH PAGE 7

With the Olympic Games comes a celebration of the world-class talent of individual athletes. There’s something about the Olympics that is inherently different from our dominant American sports culture: it’s rare that we appreciate individual sports rather than the team sports associated with large stadiums and die-hard fans. For a nationwide sports fan base so committed to particular teams — some, like the Cleveland Browns’ Dawg Pound, in fanatical way — it’s quite jarring to witness the sudden shift to admiring individual athletes. We should use the Sochi Games as an opportunity \W ZMÆ MK\ WV _Pa QVLQ^QL]IT [XWZ\[ have been pushed so far to the periphery in our collective sports consciousness and how better appreciating them would do justice to athletes at the college level. Young people are introduced to athletics through team sports — family outings to the ballpark, Little League baseball and football on Sundays. Throughout middle school and into high school, the most athletic students almost always gravitate toward sports that generate the most public attention and the biggest crowds. Most of the student body will only care about teams like football and basketball. A county or state championship in either one will be the talk of the town. Meanwhile, runners, swimmers and tennis players may merely be honored at the school district’s board meeting and receive a write-up in the local newspaper. The divergence between team and individual sports continues at the college level. But in the NCAA sphere, it’s a more daunting problem because revenue comes into play. Premiere programs will devote all their attention to revenuegenerating teams intent on securing lucrative television contracts. They may not even offer the full range of teams available at the high school level. The Ivies seem to do the best

job at recognizing the value of individual sports, as part of the League’s commitment to “broadbased participation.” Dartmouth’s 34 varsity teams dwarf the number held at many big-time schools in other conferences. Still, even at the Ivies, football and basketball get the lion’s share of attention from fans. I don’t mean to suggest that all sports fans should change their habits, or that they shouldn’t follow their favorite teams. But neglecting non-spectator sports is problematic. Why shouldn’t the hard work and commitment of swimmers, runners and tennis players be valued as highly as that of the more “marketable” sports? Why do we rarely hear about individual accomplishments and championships? Clearly, with our attentiveness to the Olympics, the sports world has shown the capacity to place greater value on individual sports. Why can’t that enthusiasm be present in the everyday happenings of sports? On a college campus, we can elevate the spotlight of individual sports. The competitors are our classmates, friends, fraternity brothers and sorority sisters. For example, the men’s cross country team is one of Dartmouth’s most successful programs, yet most do not know anything about it. Between 1984 and 2002, the team captured 13 Ivy League championships, including an eight-year winning streak beginning in 1984. Former head coach Vin Lananna is tied for the record number of Ivy team championships by a coach (eight), and current coach Barry Harwick is in a four-way tie for second on that list (six). On an individual basis, Ben True ’08 holds \PM 1^a ZMKWZL QV \PM Å ^M UQTM Z]V True and Jim Sapienza ’85 are two of only three Ivy runners ever to win three individual Ivy titles. The Big Green have the highest number of individual Ivy title winners, 15. Let’s use the Olympics buzz to think about how we can better recognize the achievements of inLQ^QL]IT I\PTM\M[ <PQ[ _QTT JMVMÅ \ both athletes and fans.

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