The Dartmouth 03/26/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 47

FLURRIES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Two charges dropped against Gilbert ’16

STRINGING US ALONG

HIGH 32 LOW 5

By MARINA SHKURATOV and MADISON PAULY The Dartmouth Senior Staff

TRACY WANG/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

SPORTS

CREW TEAMS IMPACTED BY ICY WEATHER PAGE 7

The Arditti Quartet, performing tonight at the Hopkins Center, practiced together.

ACTING WITH INTEGRITY PAGE 4

ARTS

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SEE TRIAL PAGE 5

Danos announces retirement, will leave Tuck in 2015 B y MICHAEL QIAN

OPINION

North Haverhill — The defense in the trial of Parker Gilbert ’16, charged with rape, began and rested its case Tuesday without calling Gilbert to the stand. On the seventh day of the trial, the prosecution rested and Judge Peter Bornstein ruled to dismiss two of the prosecution’s eight charges against Gilbert. Without sufficient evidence that physical force had been

used, Bornstein dismissed the charge of oral penetration, as well as one of two charges of anal penetration, but denied the defense’s motions to dismiss the remaining six charges. After these rulings, the defense began its case by calling four witnesses: Gilbert’s former undergraduate advisor, a female friend of his, a sexual assault examination nurse and an acoustic forensic analyst. Gilbert, 21, is no longer enrolled in classes at the College.

The Dartmouth Staff

Tuck School of Business Dean Paul Danos stated yesterday that he would not seek reappointment for a sixth term and will step down at the end of his current term in June 2015. His announcement, which follows 19 years of deanship, was relayed by a campus-wide email from College President Phil Hanlon. “In Tuck’s 114-year history, few have had a greater impact on the

school,” Hanlon said in the email. Danos, who was appointed to his fifth four-year term in May 2011, is the school’s longest-serving dean. Under his direction, Tuck introduced research-to-practice seminars, which offer students the chance to closely collaborate on faculty projects, spearheaded a newly revised curriculum and increased its full-time faculty size from 36 to 51. Tuck’s small size, Danos said, allows the school to deliver per-

sonalized instruction, which offers students a “different dimension of analyzing problems.” Tuck senior associate dean Bob Hansen, who headed the search committee that hired Danos, said Danos was originally recognized for his previous work at the University of Michigan. Hansen said Danos focused on two main themes throughout his time at Tuck: technology and SEE DANOS PAGE 2

Courtesy of the Tuck School of Business

Paul Danos has served as Tuck’s dean since 1995.

Students, faculty support Memorial Field renovations Thayer school expansion to boost safety of west stands B y Victoria Nelsen The Dartmouth Staff

Thayer School of Engineering’s proposed expansion is expected to accommodate a growing number of students interested in the field and increase majors’ course schedule flexibility. Students and faculty interviewed said they support the expansion, announced by College President Phil Hanlon last November.

The number of undergraduate engineering majors has grown in the past five years and the department is currently at capacity, Thayer dean Joseph Helble said. Engineering students can face high levels of competition during course enrollment as many required major classes have enrollment caps. Alumni, corporations and foundations will fund the expansion process, which will finish SEE THAYER PAGE 3

B y MIguel PEña

The Alumni Gym and Memorial Field’s west stands will undergo significant renovations in the coming year, financed by the 2014-2015 $54 million capital budget approved at the Board of Trustees’s March 8 meeting. The west stands will undergo roughly $10.5 million in renovations next year. Despite several maintenance projects, Memorial Stadium, built in 1923, has slowly deteriorated due to its stands’

concrete shell structure. By 2006, a structural engineering analysis had recommended that the College replace the old benches. “[The stands] are really nearing the end of their life expectancy,” Purcell said. “Eighty-five years is long enough for a building like that.” The new stands will have steps of equal heights, reducing the risk of falling. The project will also replace the SEE RENOVATION PAGE 3


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