VOL. CLXXI NO. 62
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014
Theta cuts formal rush Full prof. gender pay gap to use shake-out system remains League’s largest
By VICTORIA NELSEN The Dartmouth Staff
SPORTS
WOMEN’S LACROSSE FALLS TO HOFSTRA PAGE 8
OPINION
HELE: AN ILLCONCEIVED INITIATIVE PAGE 4
BLAIR: GO WITH GILLIBRAND PAGE 4
ARTS
MONTERO AWES WITH PIANO IMPROVISATION
Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority will not participate in the formal recruitment process this fall, instead opting for a more casual “shake-out” process, Theta executives said in a campus-wide email Tuesday morning. They referenced lowering exclusivity and superficiality in the sorority recruitment process and making the Greek system more accessible for female students and members of minority groups as reasons for the change. Theta’s new recruitment process will resemble frater-
nities’ current system, but it will be more flexible, Theta president Emily Reeves ’15 said. Theta will participate in planned Panhellenic Council pre-recruitment events. Potential new members who attend Theta’s shake-out events will not be bound to join the sorority. Two shake-out events will be held, one before formal Panhellenic sorority recruitment begins and one near the end of the process. Potential new members who participate in formal recruitment will have the chance to drop out to attend SEE THETA PAGE 2
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Dan Fagin ’85 earns Pulitzer for non-fiction By TREEMAN BAKER
Dan Fagin ’85 had forgotten this Monday was Pulitzer Day until his wife showed him the official awards site, which listed him as a winner. “Dan, I think you won a Pulitzer!” Fagin, a professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, won the prize for general
non-fiction for his book “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.” The book, published in March 2013, investigates a New Jersey town where decades of toxic chemical dumping led to high rates of childhood cancer and tells the story of its citizens. The book uses the incident to look at man’s longstanding SEE FAGIN PAGE 5
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OUR BEST GUESS: WHO’S BEHIND THE $100 MILL?
B y ZAC HARDWICK The Dartmouth Staff
Female full professors at Dartmouth make, on average, 82.8 percent of what their male colleagues earn, giving Dartmouth the largest gap in annual wages for full professors in the Ivy League. On average, male tenured professors at the College make $182,500 while their female counterparts make $151,100, according to the 2013-14 American Association of University Professors Faculty Salary Survey published last week by
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the Chronicle of Higher Education. This statistic shoes a wider gap than in 20122013, when female full professors were paid 83.2 percent of what their male colleagues earned. Among the Ivies, Yale University boasts the lowest wage gap, with female full professors making 93.8 percent of what male full professors make. Cornell University and Brown University follow Yale, with female professors bringing in 93.7 and 91.9 percent of male professors’s salaries, respectively. Princeton
University follows Dartmouth in greatest wage difference by gender among full professors, with women earning 89.9 percent of their male colleagues’ salaries. Full professors tend to be older than associate and assistant professors, visiting assistant sociology professor Kristin Smith said, adding that the wage discrimination that existed in the 1960s and 1970s may persist today. Faculty who receive a promotion to full professor are further along in SEE SALARY PAGE 3
With new tactics,gift campaign kicks off
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Dartmouth’s pay gap between male and female full professors has grown from last year’s figure.
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Organizers of this year’s senior class gift aim to lessen socioeconomic pressure by deemphasizing the goal of having all members of the Class of 2014 donate. The Class of 1964, which has pledged to match donations
two-to-one, will donate three times the total amount raised if the Class of 2014 campaign can break $25,000 on its own. Last year, the Class of 2013 raised $24,785. As in previous years, the gift will go to financial aid for members of the incoming freshman class.
“Through the 2014 Senior Class Gift, we will help give members of the Class of 2018 the Dartmouth experience that all alumni and students share, regardless of class year and financial status,” said Rohail Premjee ’14, a senior class gift intern.
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