VOL. CLXXI NO. 116
SUNNY HIGH 60 LOW 37
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
OPAL sees staff turnover, absorbs CGSE
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
New structure brings Wagner into CFO role
HOP TO IT
By ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff
By REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff
MIRROR
STATE OF THE COLLEGE POLL PAGE M4
OPINION
VERBUM ULTIMUM: WHEN THE FANFARE FADES PAGE 4
Three new staff members have joined the Office of Pluralism and Leadership in the past month , filling vacancies created by several recent resignations, including the departure of firstgeneration students advisor Karlos Santos-Coy on Sept. 4. The office also saw some restructuring this summer, reabsorbing the Center for Gender and Student Engagement. Alysson Satterlund left the College on July 11, and CGSE director Reese Kelly — who began in the CGSE SEE OPAL PAGE 2
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Dartmouth has adjusted its financial administration structure to better suit College President Phil Hanlon’s academic agenda, appointing Michael Wagner chief financial officer. Wagner will fill this role and continue as vice president for finance, reporting to executive vice president and former CFO Richard Mills. Considering Dartmouth’s $1 billion operating budget for 2014-15, Provost Carolyn Dever’s arrival and Hanlon’s vision, College leaders decided to separate chief financial officer responsibilities from the operating role of executive vice president, Mills said. Wagner said the change will allow Mills to focus on special initiatives while he focuses on financial challenges and opportunities. “Then as a team we can help folks make decisions,” he said. Chief investment officer Pamela Peedin, whose office works with the finance team to understand Dartmouth’s financial risk profile and implications for investment strategy, wrote in an email
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The student handbook now specifies sexual harassment, stalking and dating violence as kinds of sexual misconduct that threaten the well being both of students and the College as a whole. These adjustments to the handbook’s language, announced Monday afternoon in a campuswide email from interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer, reflect the judicial affairs office’s yearlong effort to institute a stronger
sexual assault policy at the College. The office, for merly called undergraduate judicial affairs, dropped “undergraduate” from its name this summer to demonstrate that graduate students are also protected under the new sexual misconduct policy, which took effect in June, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. While previously, the standards of conduct did not refer specifically to sexual harassment, stalking or dating SEE JUDICIAL PAGE 5
This week, 113 freshmen applied for 25 spots in the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program. They will join more than 50 participants living in the Global Village, a new livinglearning community that will introduce a residential component to the program. Great Issues Scholars, founded in 2009, is a yearlong program designed for first-years with an interest in global affairs. A donation allowed the program, which previously accepted 50 students, to double in size last
year. More than 200 students applied for last year’s 100 spots. Based on feedback from students and mentors participating in the program, coordinators decided to decrease the size of the program to around 75 freshmen, student programs manager Casey Aldrich said. The large size of last year’s program meant that the group split into two sections. With fewer students, the program will not be divided, which Aldrich said will increase the sense of community among participants. The Great Issues Scholars program will collaborate with
the Global Village, a new living-learning community. Around two-thirds of this year’s Great Issue Scholars applied for the Global Village, which is housed in the McLaughlin cluster. The community, which also contains language floors for upperclassmen, is home to around 160 students, Aldrich said. Sharidan Russell ’18 learned about the program when filling out her housing application. She decided to apply because of her interest in the Middle East and her travels to Israel and the West Bank. SEE GIS PAGE 3