VOL. CLXXI NO. 125
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
Innovation center launches with fanfare By CHRIS LEECH
The Dartmouth Staff
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A full house of students, alumni, professors and community members packed into the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network’s Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator Wednesday night for the space’s grand opening. LED lights, which are usually set to Dartmouth green, pulsed different colors as a DJ played high-energy music and guests milled about. The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network has raised $4.3 million in alumni donations for the incubator, surpassing an original goal of $2.5 million, Innovation Center
director Jamie Coughlin said. Coughlin said around $500,000 went to construction and furnishing, with the rest funding events and accelerator grants. Programming will include an entrepreneurship “boot camp” called Six to Start, which will include sessions on brainstorming, pitching, marketing and other similar concepts, DEN associate James Furnary ’16 said. The program will be open for public registration. The boot camp will begin Thursday night with a talk by Mike Collins ’86, founder of SEE DEN PAGE 2
College converts rooms to accomodate requests By KENT SUTTON
The office of residential life received around 3,740 housing requests for fall term, requiring spaces in Cutter-Shabazz Hall, Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Chinese Language House to convert into bedrooms. Director of undergraduate housing Rachael Class-Giguere attributed the residential squeeze largely to the influx of the Class of 2018,
the largest class in Dartmouth’s history. The closure of Panarchy undergraduate society’s house over the summer also contributed, as students planning to live there this fall were forced to join the housing wait list. The initial housing wait list had 123 students, and the late wait list contained around 45 students. While the housing SEE HOUSING PAGE 3
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College releases safety report Liquor law arrests and violations
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Following a change in tallying procedures, liquor law arrests and violations skyrocketed.
By ZAC HARDWICk The Dartmouth Staff
Sexual assault and burglary reports jumped in 2013, and following a change in how the College tallies liquor law arrests and violations, reports of these incidents skyrocketed. The College released its annual security and fire safety report as mandated by the Clery Act on Wednesday afternoon. Reported forcible sex offenses increased to 35 in 2013 from 24 in 2012, while burglary reports increased to 27 from 16. Drug law arrests increased to 22 in 2013, from 16 in 2012, while drug law violations referred for disciplinary action remained steady at 20.
Liquor law arrests soared to 100 in 2013, from 16 in 2012. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said the jump follows a new recording policy which now includes students referred to the Hanover Alcohol Diversion Program, which offers first-time underage drinking offenders an educational alternative to court. Liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action jumped to 243 from 83, as the data now comprise not only students who undergo Committee on Standards disciplinary procedures but also those referred to the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students program — a drink-
ing behavior assessment program implemented in 2011 which consists of a 20-minute online survey about alcohol and drug use followed by a one-onone interview. Kinne said the boost in numbers does not reflect a change in students’ behavior, but a change in way the data is tallied, based on recommendations from a consulting firm specializing in campus safety, security and regulatory compliance. The firm, which was hired to review Dartmouth’s data collection, told College officials that changing the counting policy would bring them “more in compliance with SEE REPORT PAGE 5
Construction to start on Pine Park bridge
By JEFFREY LEE
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The College and the Town of Hanover are working together to improve trails in Pine Park, a privately managed forest reserve near campus, by building a bridge over a crossing near the mouth of Girl Brook, where it flows into the Connecticut River. Construction
is slated to begin the week of Oct. 13 and scheduled to finish by Thanksgiving, Hanover public works director Peter Kulbacki said. Local residents, including students, have complained that unpredictable water levels make the crossing, which consists of a few stepping stones, is often dif-
ficult to traverse. The track and cross country teams used to race through Pine Park, but stopped several years ago because runners were injuring themselves trying to cross, deputy director of the College’s outdoor programs office and Pine Park
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