The Dartmouth 10/30/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 145

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 51 LOW 34

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Political study spurs controversy in Montana

Students express solidarity

B y ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

CROSS COUNTRY TO COMPETE IN HEPS PAGE 8

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Students gathered on the Green Wednesday afternoon as part of a national day of action.

B y PRIYA RAMAIAH The Dartmouth Staff

OPINION

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Undeterred by rain, about 20 students carried pillows and a mattress onto the Green to show solidarity with sexual assault survivors Wednesday afternoon. The event was part of a national day of action coordinated by activist coalition Carrying the Weight Together.

Emma Sulkowicz, a senior at Columbia University who reported being raped to the Columbia administration in April 2013, inspired the movement with her senior visual arts thesis protesting the university’s response. After a disciplinary process that found her alleged assailant not responsible, Sulkowicz began conducting a performance art piece she called “Mattress

Performance: Carry That Weight.” As part of the project, Sulkowicz carries a standard twin XL dorm mattress everywhere she goes on campus for as long as she and her alleged rapist both attend Columbia. The mattress symbolizes both the location of her assault as well as the emotional weight SEE CAMPAIGN PAGE 5

Teach for America participation drops B y annie ma

The Dartmouth Staff

The number of Dartmouth graduates joining Teach for America fell from 33 in 2013 to 21 in 2014, dropping the College from 8th to 12th place in the organization’s highest contributing medium-sized schools. This changes comes as the program seeks to broaden the pool of universities it draws from. Until this year, the College largely saw an increase in the number of graduating seniors joining the organization.

For the past week, Dartmouth and Stanford University have been embroiled in controversy over a research project that has potentially affected Montana’s upcoming Supreme Court elections by implying the nonpartisan candidates had party affiliations. Last week, Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch filed a complaint, as an individual, against the project’s three researchers — Dartmouth government professor Kyle Dropp and Stanford professors Adam Bonica and Jonathan Rodden — for interfering with the election and improperly using Montana’s state seal. The professors sent the flier, titled “2014 Montana General Election Voter Information Guide,” to 100,000 Montana residents. In response to the complaint, Dartmouth and Stanford are sending apologies asking recipients to

disavow the election mailers, incurring a $52,000 cost. Dartmouth’s Institutional Review Board, which approves research projects, approved the study, while Stanford’s had not. The letter acknowledges that the research proposal was not submitted to Stanford’s review board, violating the university’s policy. Similar fliers were also distributed to around 210,000 voters in California and New Hampshire, though the project has not sparked controversy in those states. The experiment aimed to ascertain whether voters given more information would be likelier to vote. Montana commissioner Jonathan Motl, to whom McCulloch sent the complaint, said that academic institutions that want to do research during elections should check state election laws and request an advisory opinion from the SEE MONTANA PAGE 3

JUST ONE DROP

Dartmouth contributed 20 individuals to the Corps in 2010, 29 in 2011, 37 in 2012 and 33 in 2013. Monica Wilson, the Center for Professional Development’s senior associate director, said Teach for America has consistently maintained a large presence at Dartmouth during the corporate recruiting season. The organization works to generate interest within the student body through the employer connections fair and campus liaison coordinators who SEE TFA PAGE 5

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Students participated in a walk-in Red Cross blood drive on Wednesday.


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