VOL. CLXXI NO. 39
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Peedin oversees $3.7 College set to host Heps billion endowment
By josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff
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While jetting around the globe to Singapore, India and England, the College’s chief investment officer, Pamela Peedin ’89 Tu’98 manages the stress of overseeing Dartmouth’s $3.7 billion endowment with enthusiasm and the help of an occasional Starbucks triple grande dry cappuccino. Peedin says there is no such thing as a typical workweek. Some weeks she travels to see investors, while other weeks she prepares for investment meetings and meets with the Board of Trustees. She works mostly in the College’s Boston investment office, she said,
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holding weekly staff meetings to discuss investments and collaborate with managers. Though it is a high-intensity position, Peedin said she considers the work engaging, calling it a “dream job.” “Investing is one of the most fascinating intellectual challenges,” she said. “I think it’s an extraordinary field. Coupled with the passion I’ve always had for education, it’s a great combination.” She said the investment office tries to consider as many “whatif ” scenarios as possible when making investment decisions,
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Students donning “polished casual” attire lined up in the Hopkins Center on Thursday, hoping to escape the fluorescent lights and tiles of the Courtyard Café for the lowlit ambiance inside the Garage Bar, where groups of students sat around small tables and laughed over drinks. The room was filled with the sound of live jazz and conversation. Though many students find
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The track teams circle up in ’53 Commons for a cheer before the weekend meet. SEE PEEDIN PAGE 3
Garage Bar mixes up Thursday night scene
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themselves among the aisles of Baker-Berry on Thursday night, a new social option opened to students on Feb. 6, offering an alternative scene that also acts as an on-campus bar. The three-room venue, located across from the Courtyard Café, organizes a different theme each week to attract students, Hop student relations advisor Sean Gao ’13 said. While the bar’s first SEE GARAGE BAR PAGE 2
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Full of verve and anticipation, the men’s and women’s track teams huddled up in the Class of 1953 Commons on Thursday night to perform their ritual cheer. Shouting in a circle in the middle of the dining area, the teams shared their excitement for the weekend with campus. S e e k i n g t o p t h re e finishes, the men’s and women’s track teams will welcome the rest of the League to Leverone Field House on Saturday for the Heptagonal Championships. After an impres-
sive season, star runners Abbey D’Agostino ’14 and Will Geoghegan ’14 will compete in their last career home Ivy League competition this weekend. At last year’s competition, hosted at Harvard University, the women finished in fifth place and the men finished in sixth . After a season where the Dartmouth teams broke seven school records and three Ivy League records, the teams are looking toward a top three finish. “We are in a different position than last year because we can definitely compete with the top three teams,” D’Agostino
said, noting that the team is shooting for second. The women’s team will rely on D’Agostino, last years Most Outstanding Track Performer at the meet, for many of its points. D’Agostino holds meet records in all four of the distance events, from the 1,000-meter to the 5,000-meter races, and was a member of Dartmouth’s 4x880-meter relay team last year, which ran the fourth fastest time in Ivy history. “My individual goals are centered toward the team,” D’Agostino said. “I will hopefully score SEE HEPS PAGE 7
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Computer glitch delays course change
Music professor Sally Pinkas performed on piano.
Students hoping to change their spring course lineups could not access class schedules on Banner Student on Thursday morning, when add-drop period was scheduled to start, due to a computer-related issue
that has since been resolved. Students reported being confused, though not exceedingly impacted, by the delay. The College’s IT staff began addressing the issue when it arose, but the registrar’s office did not know how long it would take for the problem to be fixed, registrar Meredith
Braz said in an email. Once the registrar’s office was aware the issue had been resolved, it posted the new time that course change would open on its website. Students who contacted the registrar’s office about not being SEE REGISTRAR PAGE 5