The Dartmouth 02/26/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 37

SNOW SHOWER HIGH 22 LOW 3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Training addressessuicide prevention

POKER FACE

By Zac Hardwick The Dartmouth Staff

By Jordan Einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

SOFTBALL GOES 0-5 IN FLORIDA PAGE 8

OPINION

ADDRESSING ADMISSIONS PAGE 4

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature cancelled its Arabic foreign study program in Tangier, Morocco for the fall of 2014, marking the second consecutive year that the program has been called off due to low enrollment. Department chair James Dorsey announced the decision on Feb. 17 via email, and professors in the department met with students later that day to discuss other possibilities for studying abroad in the Middle East or North Africa. After deans cancelled the

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In February 2013, 10 administrators, faculty members and advisors gathered to discuss forming a stand-alone suicide intervention program. The effort, coordinated by Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, set out to create a program that encompassed suicide prevention training, increased community outreach from the Counseling and Human Development Department and developing a website where students, parents and faculty could go to get more information on suicide prevention. One year into the initiative, 25 students gathered in Cutter-Shabazz Hall to participate in a suicide prevention gatekeeper training, sponsored by mental health umbrella organization Dartmouth Cares and Active Minds. The training, conducted by Dartmouth counselors with many members of the Active Minds organization participating, is a part of a larger effort by Dartmouth Cares to eventually train every member of the Dartmouth community in

The Dartmouth Poker Society gave out prizes on Tuesday night.

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Professors collaborate Barros ’96 appointed in Boston to study melancholy B y Kate Bradshaw

B y Miguel Pena

While mingling at a party for incoming faculty in 2007, English professor George Edmondson and German studies professor Klaus Mladek got to talking about melancholy. Seven years later, that conversation has grown into an idea for their forthcoming book, “A Politics of Melancholia,” and earned them a prestigious award and thousands of dollars in funding. Last week, the American Council of Learned Societies an-

nounced that the pair had been selected as one of eight teams of 2014 collaborative research fellows. “We just thought about what figure annoys the left and the right the most,” Mladek said. “That figure is the melancholic because it doesn’t like to enlist in movements, is not hopeful, is not an activist and he annoys pretty much everyone.” The fellowship is designed to support small g roups of huma nities

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As Boston’s first chief of economic development, John Barros ’96 plans to use his experience working in urban neighborhoods to promote small business growth, job training programs and build a city that is accommodating to residents of all backgrounds. Martin Walsh, the mayor of Boston who took office this January, created the position to equalize growth across the city. The son of Cape Verdean immigrants, Barros grew up in Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood. There, he first became involved in

local politics at age 17 as a member of the board of directors of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a community-organizing nonprofit focused on neighborhood revitalization. At Dartmouth, he majored in economics and African and African-American studies. He was president of the Afro-American Society and was involved with Palaeopitus senior society, Casque and Gauntlet senior society, the Black Underground Theatre Association and Colors, an organization which aimed to unite students of color. Barros said his time at Dartmouth positively af-

fected his career trajectory. “The Dartmouth community is a community of active students, students who really care about their surroundings and the rest of the world, and there were always conversations and activities that helped us to learn to give back,” he said. Shakari Byerly ’96, a friend of Barros’s who now works at a public policy consulting firm in northern California, said Barros’s selection did not surprise her. She added that she found him easy to work with during their time in the AfroAmerican Society. SEE BARROS PAGE 5


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