The Dartmouth 04/29/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 71

PARTLY CLOUDY

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

‘Phiesta’ cancellation brings debate, funds

THE RAINBOW BRICK ROAD

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By KATE BRADSHAW The Dartmouth Staff

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The street in front of the Hopkins Center was painted in rainbow colors for Pride Week.

Helman recalls student life B y treeman baker

Bill Helman ’80, who will start as chairman of the Board of Trustees in June, said he still remembers the words that inspired him to stay involved with the College after graduation. On his first day at the College, Helman recalled,

then-president John Kemeny delivered a speech saying that the purpose of a Dartmouth education is enabling students to give back to society. “I felt, when asked, I would do anything I possibly could to serve and to do the best I could to make Dartmouth the best it can

be,” Helman said. His time at the College, where he majored in history and was a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, was a formative experience, he said. “I grew up a lot on campus,” Helman said. “I SEE HELMAN PAGE 5

Alpha Phi sorority and Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s canceled their annual “Phiesta” fundraiser last week, sparking vigorous debate at the College, with some arguing that the event was culturally insensitive and others disagreeing, often highlighting the event’s goal to raise money for cardiac health. Students reported being targeted for their beliefs, both in person and online. After canceling the event, A Phi and Phi Delt chose instead to raise money through an online crowd sourcing website, nearly reaching its $7,000 goal by press time. The houses raised over five times the amount earned last year, Phi Delt president Taylor Cathcart ’15 said. Last week, after several students approached Office of Pluralism and Leadership staff with concerns over the event’s potential cultural insensitivity, OPAL and Greek Letters Organizations and Societies asked organizers to cancel the event. Cathcart and A Phi

president Courtney Wong ’15 met with other members of their houses and Tabard coed fraternity members at 8 p.m. Thursday to discuss “Phiesta.” The Facebook event was canceled around an hour later that night. Daniela Hernandez ’15, who sent an email to GLOS director Wes Schaub, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, OPAL and the Panhellenic Council upon hearing about the event on Thursday, said that, although she had asked for the event’s name and advertising campaign to be changed, she did not ask for its cancellation. She added that, as news of the event’s cancellation spread, she has been the target of anonymous online comments on Bored at Baker and other sites. While there were nine pages of comments about her on Bored at Baker by Friday afternoon, she said, they have since been removed by moderators. Various College officials, SEE PHIESTA PAGE 3

Arts, innovation talk DHMC picked for national grant sees mixed response B y ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff

B y MIGUEL PEÑA

The Dartmouth Staff

A ro u n d 3 0 f a c u l t y members and 15 students attended Monday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions, which discussed the Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator and an arts and innovation district that would centralize campus entrepreneurial and artistic endeavors. Some involved in the

College arts community expressed hesitation about the consolidation, noting a desire to separate artistic creativity from what they saw as financially-driven entrepreneurship. The Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, which will be housed at 4 Currier Place, was designed to engage students in experiential first-hand SEE FORWARD PAGE 2

The National Cancer Institute selected Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as a lead academic participating site for a new network of clinical trials, which will allow its Norris Cotton Cancer Center to boost efficiency and improve trial completion rates. Announced last week, Dartmouth will be one of 30 U.S. participants. The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is expected to enroll 74 patients annually into the program,

called the National Clinical Trial Network, said principal investigator for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center site Konstantin Dragnev. If that goal is reached by the end of the year, he said, the center will be reimbursed for each patient. Through the program, the institute will fully reimburse trial costs, said Robert Gerlach, the center’s associate director for administration and scientific affairs. In the past, the center had to request federal assistance for trial enrollment on a “milestone basis,” he said,

with funds coming in as more subjects enrolled and data was submitted. “As a lead academic participating site, NCI has contracted with us up front so it gives us a stable, steady stream of support to prepare and undertake studies and to activate them,” Gerlach said. Federal funding, he said, does not usually cover the entire cost of clinical trials. The National Cancer Institute plans to reimburse network participants at a SEE DHMC PAGE 5


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