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Over 750 apply to live Third debate draws crowd in affinity programs

By CHRIS LEECH

The Dartmouth Staff

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By the Monday night deadline, over 750 students had applied for a spot in one of the College’s living learning communities, a housing option for students seeking to live with peers who share a certain passion or interest. Students could opt to join an established affinity community, participate in one of three new programs or design their own. The programs being launched this fall include an entrepreneurship community, a global village and an LGBTQ affinity house.

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SPORTS

FENCING WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Fourteen groups of 15 or more students applied to design their own communities, with themes ranging from river conservation to political pragmatism. Students applying for the design-your-own option chose a faculty or staff advisor, and once selected, will receive activity funding.

Katharina Daub, assistant director of residential education for living learning programs and academic initiatives, said she was pleased with the program’s initial response.

Daub said she had expected SEE LLC PAGE 8

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Student Assembly candidates attended the season’s third debate on Thursday.

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Gillibrand ’88 asks for funds to combat assault

By AMELIA ROSCH

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As a Title IX investigation continues at Dartmouth, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y., announced Monday that she and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., will work together to combat sexual assault on college campuses. As a first step, Gillibrand and McCaskill released a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting $109 million in

new federal funds to be used for Clery Act and Title IX enforcement on college campuses, according to an April 7 press release from Gillibrand’s office.

Gillibrand’s communications director Glen Caplin said Gillibrand will introduce legislation about sexual assault on college campuses by the end of the year.

“This appropriation letter SEE GILLIBRAND PAGE 3

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Student Assembly presidential and vicepresidential candidates discussed the “Freedom Budget,” Bored at Baker and building community at Dartmouth in a debate hosted by the Inter-Community Council last night.

The debate was held in Cutter-Shabazz Hall and attracted an audience of around 40 spectators.

Presidential candidates Casey Dennis ’15, Jay Graham ’15, Jon Miller ’15, Yesuto Shaw ’15, write-in presidential candidate Sophia Pedlow ’15 and vice presidential

candidates Frank Cunningham ’16 and Harry Qi ’17 took part in the debate. Vice presidential candidate Matt Robinson ’15 did not attend the debate because he chose to focus on outside campaign events, his running mate Graham said.

Pedlow, who decided to run on Tuesday evening, said she felt that the slate of official candidates did not represent all perspectives on campus.

“I felt it was important for someone to step up,” she said in an email.

“A lot of students, especially women, didn’t feel represented by the perspectives of the official

candidates.”

Inter-Community Council co-chairs Karima Ma ’14 and Bennie Niles ’15 moderated the debate.

Candidates were asked for two points they agreed with in the “Freedom Budget” proposal and one they did not support.

Graham, responding first, said he agreed with the document’s call to increase the amount of financial aid awarded and require exit interviews for departing faculty, but disagreed with the ways in which students protested the College’s reaction to SEE DEBATE PAGE 3

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Yesterday, former Republican Massachusetts senator Scott Brown declared his intention to run for a Senate seat in New Hampshire against Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, DN.H. After months of speculation and a recent move to his former vacation home in Rye, Brown will

officially seek the New Hampshire Republican party’s nomination in September.

Brown has run twice for Senate in Massachusetts. In 2010, he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special election held after the death of former senator Ted Kennedy. In 2012, Brown failed to defend his seat

against Sen. Elizabeth Warren., D-Mass.

If Brown wins the Sept. 9 Republican primary — beating out a field of candidates that currently includes former Republican New Hampshire senator Bob Smith, a former Republican state SEE BROWN PAGE 8

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On Tuesday, the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee released a bill that would repeal the death penalty in the Granite state, setting up a likely senate-wide vote on the future of capital punishment next week. As legislators across the state ponder their final votes, The Dartmouth sat down with mathematics professor emeritus John Lamperti, who has investigated the impact of capital punishment on the U.S. the murder rate.

Why did you initially become interested in studying capital punishment from an academic perspective?

My interest in it goes back to the 1970s, when Vermont was revising its whole criminal code. There was an election that year, and a candidate for attorney general — I think he was the Democrat — was campaigning partly on the issue of “we ought to have capital punishment in Vermont.” I went to hear him talk one day, and I truly believed I had an open mind on the subject.

And then I heard this guy, who was running for attorney general, make what I thought was an insulting statement about statistics. He started off with, “now I don’t believe in statistics, but,” and then he quoted some numbers about how during that period — there hadn’t been any executions, there was a national moratorium — the murder rate had gone up somewhat. He sort of implied that this proved we needed capital punishment. And this was such a naïve argument, that I thought surely some people somewhere have done some serous studies about whether capital punishment results in lower murder rates. I read everything I could find, and I became more and more convinced that capital punishment was just plain bad public policy. And so I got involved in studying the deterrence issue.

What advice would you give to state legislators as they look at the bill?

Well, I think they should vote to abolish [the death penalty]. It’s certainly not necessary in New Hampshire in particular — there is no reason at all to have this on the books. New Hampshire hasn’t executed anyone for about 60 or 70 years.

Do you think that legislation in New Hampshire is indicative of a national trend to move away from the use of the death penalty?

There’s very much a national trend. Back in the 1970s, when I got interested in this, things had been pretty static for a long time.

There were a handful of states that hadn’t had capital punishment for many years, but there were only a few, and most of them had had it. But the picture hadn’t changed. It’s changed tremendously in the last 30 years.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Reflecting on campaign approaches, Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates cited being personable, willing to listen and reflecting diverse voices on campus — including using Improve Dartmouth as a resource — as key strategies.

At Dartmouth, Student Assembly candidates can campaign for one week, are prohibited from engaging in negative campaigning and must abide to a spending limit set by the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee.

Presidential candidates Casey Dennis ’15, Jay Graham ’15, whose name will appear on the ballot as James, Jon Miller ’15 and Yesuto Shaw ’15 and vice presidential candidates Frank Cunningham ’16, Harry Qi ’17 and Matt Robinson ’15 began campaigning Tuesday at midnight and will finish when online voting opens at midnight on Monday.

Sophia Pedlow ’15 is running as a write-in candidate, and is also participating in campaigning activities.

Dennis and Cunningham, Graham and Robinson, and Miller and Qi are running on joint tickets. Shaw is the only candidate running on a solo ticket, while Pedlow is running

for president as a write-in candidate.

Tibble said he does not see running on a ticket as a guaranteed advantage because students vote for positions separately.

Cunningham said that running with Dennis has had several benefits, including the ability to reach more students because the pair interacts with different groups on campus.

Shaw said he was surprised to see that the majority of the candidates were running on joint tickets. He noted that students may be unaware that they vote for each candidate individually even if two run together.

Pedlow, who noted in an email that last year’s winning tickets were split, said she did not feel that running without a partner was a disadvantage.

“I don’t feel like I’m campaigning alone,” she said in an email. “I made the decision to run in part because of the overwhelming encouragement from my peers to step up.”

Tibble, who also chaired EPAC during last year’s elections, said he sees little variation in campaign tactics this year. EPAC has not disqualified any candidate from either election, he said.

Almost all candidates have taken to social media to build support for their campaigns. All candidates except Pedlow have Facebook pages, Cunningham and Dennis have cre-

ated an Instagram account and Shaw, Miller and Qi have created websites that feature their platforms and allow student feedback and peer recommendations. Miller and Qi released a video featuring a rap written by Carter Bastian ’17.

“Social media really brings people together — that’s why Mark Zuckerberg created it,” said Kyle Dennis ’15, one of Dennis and Cunningham’s campaign managers. “It’s a great tool because it’s so hard to get so many busy people in one room at a time.”

Cunningham and Dennis have three campaign managers, Kyle Dennis, who is Casey Dennis’s twin brother, Reilly Johnson ’16 and Catherine Donahoe ’15. The duo, who said they were influenced by Cunningham’s work for President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, divided their team into visibility, social media and video and press.

Shaw said he was inspired by current student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14, whose campaign website featured student recommendations.

Graham was also impressed with Ferrari’s campaign and his personable attitude, adding that he encourages students to email him and his running mate.

“In addition to what you’re runSEE CAMPAIGNS PAGE 9

Call for Comments on Proposed Sexual Assault Disciplinary Policy We want your feedback regarding the proposal to comprehensively revise Dartmouth’s student disciplinary policy for charges of sexual assault.

The proposed policy changes include mandatory expulsion in certain cases of sexual assault and a new investigatory process employing outside investigators.

The changes aim to encourage reporting, expedite the disciplinary process, enhance consistency in sanctioning, and represent a stronger deterrent to sexual assault.

For more info, go to: dartgo.org/sacomments Please submit your comments and suggestions by April 14 to: Proposed.Sexual.Assault.Policy@Dartmouth.edu Or, you can share your evaluation and comments online publicly at: ImproveDartmouth.com Comment period runs through Monday, April 14

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ICC-hosted debate highlights community, ‘Freedom Budget’ FROM DEBATE PAGE 1

its demands.

Dennis said he believes the College needs to increase recruitment of students and faculty from minority backgrounds and bolster the transparency of its financial aid policy. He disagreed with the call to make new departments at Dartmouth, adding that he believes increasing the amount of minority faculty at the school should come before new departments are cre-

ated.

Pedlow said she agreed with the call to lower the cost of transferring high school credits, requiring exit interviews for departing faculty and renovating Cutter-Shabazz.

Pedlow said she did not understand the rationale behind some of the recommendations, specifically the call for more language programs, which she said the administration proposed in the past but had not succeeded.

Miller agreed that departing

faculty should be given exit interviews and that the College should offer pro-bono legal and financial assistance to undocumented students. Miller said he disagrees with the proposal of a 10-percent admissions quota for students from certain minority groups, which he believes should fluctuate based on the demographics of applicants.

Shaw said he believes Dartmouth should boost faculty diversity and work to attract students with lower socioeconomic status,

Gillibrand targets campus sexual assault FROM GILLIBRAND PAGE 1

was just a first step,” Caplin said.

Though Gillibrand and McCaskill had competing proposals for how to reform the military’s handling of sexual assault, with McCaskill’s passing unanimously after Gillibrand’s was voted down, the pair has joined in their efforts to promote this new initiative.

Gillibrand said in the statement that the requested funds would go to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to ameliorate staffing and funding issues.

The Office for Civil Rights handles over 10,000 complaints a year but does not have a specific staff member who handles Title IX sexual assault complaints, the release said.

The Office of Federal Student Aid’s Compliance Division and the Office for Civil Rights, both subsets of the of the Department of Education, also oversee Clery Act complaints. The press release stated that the Office of Federal Student Aid’s Compliance Division was unable to investigate 63 percent of schools that violate the act, and around one third of the sexual assault policies at nearly 300 schools surveyed do not comply with the Clery Act. Between 2000 and 2013, due to limited resources, the office had only enough data to fine 21 institutions of higher education, which Caplin attributed to low resources.

Gillibrand’s efforts are unlikely to have an immediate impact on schools currently under investigation for Clery Act and Title IX complaints, Caplin said. The request is part of a broader effort and that change takes time, he added, noting that Gillibrand’s efforts to reform the Pentagon’s handling of sexual assault cases took over a year.

Activists involved in fighting assault on college campuses said that Gillibrand’s proposals are a good first step, but that more work needs to be done to address the issue of sexual assault on college campuses.

Andrea Pino, co-founder of

the IX Network and a senior at enforcement and taking reports of the University of North Carolina sexual assault seriously are important at Chapel Hill, said Gillibrand’s parts of prevention. announcement has helped draw “I believe that removing boundarnational attention to the issue. ies to reporting, consistently investi“For a long time, it was seen as a gating reports and providing harsh singular issue problem, as in specific sanctions for perpetrators of sexual schools that were doing it wrong violence are critical components that was not seen as affecting every of tackling sexual violence in any college campus,” Pino said. setting,” Weed said. “This message Annie Clark, is powerful beco-founder of cause it makes the IX Network “Sexual assault is it more risky for a n d a U N C not a Democratic or perpetrators to alumna, called perpetrate and Republican issue. I’m the attention less risky for surpromising but optimistic in thinking vivors to come a preliminary that both sides of forward.” step.

TeachS h e s a i d the aisle will come ing students to proper infra- together.” i nve r ve n e i n structure is esrisky situations sential to enand providing forcing laws and - ANNIE CLARK, COmental health combatting the FOUNDER OF THE IX support for surissue, on camvivors are other puses and within NETWORK essential steps the federal govfor institutions ernment. to take, she said.

She added that it is essential that Caplin said he is hopeful that the the Office for Civil Rights be able to Senate Appropriations Committee more effectively handle and process will grant Gillibrand and McCaskill’s complaints. Education and fixing request, which was co-signed by 12 campus climates, she said, are also other senators, for increased funds essential to effectively combatting and that any future bills will have sexual assault. bipartisan support.

“There are laws to ensure that Clark said she is optimistic that people are treated fairly, but we can’t other senators will join the effort. pass a law to end rape,” she said. “We “Sexual assault is not a Demohave to have the two sides working in cratic or Republican issue,” she said. tandem, the legislative and cultural “I’m optimistic in thinking that both pieces.” sides of the aisle will come together.”

Holli Weed ’14, who has worked The Office for Civil Rights is extensively to combat sexual assault currently investigating the College on campus, said in an email that for alleged violations of the Clery supporting survivors by increasing Act and Title IX.

and also disagreed with the admissions quotas.

Candidates agreed that the College should better support its undocumented students.

Candidates disagreed about Bored at Baker and whether they would shut it down if they had the power to do so.

Running mates Miller and Qi said they would not try to close the site because doing so would violate students’ freedom of speech, though Qi added that anonymity should be rescinded if something illegal is posted.

While Shaw said he believes Bored at Baker does more harm than good, the Assembly cannot close the online forum down as it is run independently of the College.

Graham said he believes that Bored at Baker represents the campus climate well, though he agreed that posts mentioning illegal activities should be addressed.

Dennis said he does not support a forum in which students are threatened and victimized and would want names to be attached to all posts on the site.

Pedlow said she would advocate banning the use of Dartmouth email addresses to log in to Bored at Baker, making the forum a public site. Pedlow said she believes the site is not consistent with community standards.

Audience members then began to ask questions, inquiring about candidates’ initiatives to reduce sexual assault, their opinions on the presence of racism on campus, Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training, the purpose of camaraderie at sporting events and working with different communities at Dartmouth.

In order to combat sexual assault, Dennis said he would mandate bystander intervention train-

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ing during Orientation so that, in a few years, everyone on campus will have undergone training. Qi said he also supported the initiative, and added that if he were elected, he would reallocate Student Assembly funding to groups that combat assault.

Graham said he would incentivize the training during Orientation by granting participants a physical education credit. He said would also seek to create a residential expert on sexual assault position within every Greek house.

When asked which candidates had undergone DBI training, Cunningham and Shaw raised their hands. Pedlow, who partially raised her hand, said later in an email that, while she has not been trained, she played an active role in developing the program through her work on the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault. Other candidates said they planned to undergo training in next few weeks.

A member of The Dartmouth’s opinion staff, Miller was asked if he would be willing to work with communities of which he is not a member and has written about previously. Miller responded by saying that he has a long history of working with many student organizations and that he aims to be an advocate for all groups on campus.

Cunningham is a member of The Dartmouth business staff.

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Staff columnist yoo jung kim ’14

Saving the Assembly

Big Green Dreams

It’s time to overhaul the Student Assembly system.

A few chalk campaign ads adorning Assembly play this role? Or do we need campus sidewalks, vague promises to unify it to, considering our relatively accessible campus and pledges to address specific administration? student demands — it’s election season. Thanks to Improve Dartmouth, any stuAnd we’re not convinced. dent can post a question or suggestion online Historically, The Dartmouth’s edito- and be answered quickly and publicly by rial board has used the proper adminthis space to en- “As the Student Assembly istrator. With this dorse a candidate. election looms on the horizon, easier to navigate Year after year, the we urge students to reconsider and more demoeditorial includes cratic advance, Stuthe organization’s role.” a laundry list of dent Assembly is no reservations with longer as necessary. the Assembly. We’ve looked back at these We appreciate Assembly members and editorials, and the problems remain. the work they do, but we also recognize This year, we’d rather use the space to the organization’s limitations. Expending address deeper issues with the system. As time and resources on the current Student the Student Assembly election looms on the Assembly program seems misguided at best horizon, we urge students to reconsider the and counterproductive at worst. We need organization’s role and ask themselves if this to replace the current infrastructure and is the governing body they need. Debates emphasize outcome-oriented actions or are hardly attended, and voter turnout consider removing the system altogether. has consistently been low. This year, three We propose a more effective system Class Council candidates are running un- that resembles Palaeopitus senior society, contested, and 28 out of 38 spots, including in which the student body president would 27 positions for class representatives, have oversee an elected body of 12 campus zero candidates. The elections usually end leaders from any organization or comup bestowing power — how much power is munity who wished to propose a candiunclear — on candidates before they fully date. Assembly representatives could then understand their serve as moderators roles. in more accessible “Expending time and resources As the Assem- on the current Student Assembly and publicized conbly’s influence has versations between program seems misguided at declined, we have students and adminseen many success- best and counterproductive at istrators. Instead of ful grassroots move- worst. ” filling positions with ments flourish at the sole competitor Dartmouth in the past or not being able to few years, leading us to question where the fill positions at all, this congress of student Assembly fits in — or whether we need it leaders could replace the Assembly entirely at all. and become the functional governing unit At its core, student government has of the student body. an important purpose: communicating Student Assembly, in its current form, students’ grievances and desires to the ad- cannot stand. We implore the winners ministration. Ideally, student government of Monday’s election to spearhead real acts as a filter, measuring, evaluating and change. This organization is broken. Overthen relaying student opinion. Does our hauling the system is the only way forward.

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Those who draw the most from the College seize every opportunity.

As soon as College President Phil Hanlon’s email about the unprecedented $100 million donation reached the student body, we all asked two questions: who and why? While the pool of candidates for the former query is small enough to make an educated guess, we will probably never know for certain unless the donating family decides to reveal itself. As for the latter, I’ll take a stab: the donation is an affirmation from alumni who truly believe in this institution and have benefited from the College’s rich offerings.

For my last four years, I have been the beneficiary of the love that alumni hold for our school. For instance, Samuel L. Barnes provided scholarships for students from Western Washington for years. Barnes was hardly alone in his generosity, as College students across the globe have also benefited from other alumni’s wishes that future students receive the stellar education that they had once received. Alumni kindness also extends beyond financial aid; whenever I find myself in a major city for an extended period of time, I Google local physicians who have attended Dartmouth. I give them a short call or send an email, explaining that I am a current Dartmouth student hoping to shadow them at their hospitals or clinics. No alumnus I’ve contacted has ever turned me down. During downtime, we shoot the breeze about things that allow us to connect beyond time, like the Homecoming bonfire, breakfast at Lou’s and beloved professors who have served the College for decades. They have given me brutally honest advice regarding job prospects and have set up additional shadowing opportunities with their colleagues. The strength of the Dartmouth network is not limited to professionally established alumni, either. Out-of-the-blue emails to more recent alumni have yielded advice for scientific poster competitions, inside tips about literary agencies and qualified career advice.

Dartmouth is not an institution that belongs to a small group of current students. It is a school held together by the work of adminis-

trators, the knowledge of professors and the memories of alumni. Yes, Dartmouth has been the subject of negative press lately, but, ultimately, the College will not be defined by fleeting headlines. Rather, Dartmouth will be judged on the basis of the men and women it has educated and what they have gone on to do with their lives.

I have had the pleasure of getting to know students from seven different classes, from the ’11s to the ’17s. I have met students who will change this world. I think of them as tomorrow’s Nelson Rockefeller ’30, Timothy Geithner ’83, Louise Erdrich ’76 and K. Barry Sharpless ’63. I’m willing to bet that I’m currently acquainted with a future acclaimed movie critic, a future president of a major medical society, a future editor of a renowned publication and several future highly successful venture capitalists. Perhaps those who are reading this column can recognize themselves. Unsurprisingly, these individuals, like the famous alumni before them, have taken advantage of Dartmouth’s academics, extracurricular activities, access to professors, access to funding and grants and many other resources to start distinguishing themselves as leaders. Those who get the most out of their time here are those who love it, and those who love it make it possible for future students to love this small school.

The current tumult at the College, whether or not it results in significant policy revisions, is but a blip in the institution’s distinguished 244-year-old history, like the many other protests that preceded it and the many others that will likely follow. No matter what, Dartmouth will continue to change and to produce new generations of leaders. The best thing that any of us could do for the College and for ourselves is to make use of its resources, including the people around us, and learn as much as we can. We should strive to become the happiest and the most successful individuals we can possibly be to live our lives to the fullest and bring honor and respect to our alma mater.

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only five or six groups to apply for their own communities.

The office of residential life originally planned to approve three or four proposals, Daub said, but is now considering approving up to seven.

Aside from the design-your-own communities, there are around 300 spots open in the other communities, which include gender-neutral housing, language floors and affinity houses. This fall, five language floors will reside in the McLaughlin residential cluster to create a global village community. Three existing language floors — French, Italian and Arabic — will join the new Japanese and Portuguese language floors to create the community.

Triangle House, an affinity house for LGBTQ students and allies, and the DEN in Residence, a community for students involved with the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, will also start next year.

Daub cited success at other colleges, as well as the desire to improve students’ academic experience, as reasons behind the initiative.

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each other, and this is another chance to make that happen,” she said.

Students accepted to the designyour-own communities program will receive a floor for the fall.

Continuation of each program will depend on whether students complete their proposed program, Daub said.

Chase Mertz ’15, who hopes to reside in a design-your-own community, proposed a “political pragmatism” floor with economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan. Mertz said he hopes that the floor will hold weekly meetings, screen movies and host speakers.

If the community continues for the next two years, Mertz intends to create programming around the next presidential election.

Mertz said he has found 22 students to join him. The process, he said, was difficult due to the uncertainty involved with the program. Rising sophomores and juniors, he added, were excited to join so that they could improve upon poor room draw numbers.

Michael Baicker ’17 applied to create a community centered on river conservation with environmental studies and geography professor Chris Sneddon. The floor

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would study conservation, local ecology and water quality. Next spring, Baicker added, the group would complete river fieldwork and hold dinner discussions.

Baicker said he hopes to get funding for a trip to Wilder Dam and to host conservation-themed film screenings.

While the community will mostly consist of rising sophomores, Baicker said that there are members from every class.

While students may try to “game the system” and attempt to create a community simply to have better housing, Baicker said, it will be easy to weed these applications out because they will be less thorough.

Avery Feingold ’17 tried to create a community focused on comedy, but said he did not apply when there was not enough general interest. He noted that he didn’t leave himself enough time to find enough likeminded undergraduates, pointing to other factors that he said made applying to the program difficult.

“It’s hard to get people to commit to these communities if they hadn’t even been thinking about housing yet,” Feingold said. “It’s also hard to find a faculty advisor if your focus is somewhat off the beaten path.”

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to sign the pledge again.

Fifteen students interviewed and two former Republican state senator Jim faculty members expressed mixed sentiRubens and activist Karen Testerman ments about the role of the “People’s — he will face Shaheen, New Hamp- Pledge” and Brown’s campaign genershire’s senior senator, in November’s ally. Only two students interviewed recognized the former senator’s name, and general election.

Shaheen has an extensive back- many Dartmouth students interviewed ground in New Hampshire politics. She were unaware of his candidacy.

College Democrats president Logan served as governor from 1997 to 2003 and has served in the Senate since 2009. Brog ’15 said he thinks the “People’s Brown’s new permanent residence Pledge” will play an important role in in the state will permit him to run this the election, adding that he thinks it fall. Having spent most of his life in would be a mistake for Brown not to sign.

New England, “People the former sena- “People from the state from the state of tor has strong ties of New Hampshire don’t New Hampshire to Massachusetts, don’t like the idea where he grew like the idea of outside of outside money up and attended money pouring in to try pouring in to try college.

Colin Reed, and change what should and change what should be a deciBrown’s newly be a decision made sion made by the appointed camby the voters of New voters of New paign manager, Hampshire,” he said Brown’s cam- Hampshire.” said. paign will focus Govon improving ernment profeseconomic perfor- - LOGAN BROG ’15, sor Joseph Bamance and ad- COLLEGE DEMOCRATS fumi said that not dressing federal PRESIDENT agreeing to the deficits. Reed also pledge could benemphasized that efit Brown, noting Brown’s opposed the Affordable Care Act, unlike Shaheen, who voted for the that there are likely many third-party groups willing to spend on his behalf. measure in 2009.

Anne Reed-Weston ’16 said she was In his 2012 race against Warren, Brown co-signed a “People’s Pledge” intrigued by Brown’s recent move to strongly discouraging third-party spend- New Hampshire.

“I find it very interesting that he lost a ing, but so far has not mentioned it in his bid for the Republican nomination. re-election campaign and then relocated Reed refused to address Brown’s current so that he could run again,” she said.

A WMUR/University of New position on campaign spending.

Shaheen has been pressing Brown to Hampshire poll released Thursday limit ads paid for by third-party groups showed Shaheen six percentage points since early March. In a statement on ahead of Brown among likely voters, her website, Shaheen called on Brown 45 to 39 percent.

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Candidates use social media in campaigns

playing fair, so to speak,” EPAC chair Ryan Tibble ’14 said.

The guidelines set a $200 spending ning on it’s important to be a person someone feels comfortable talking limit each for presidential and vice presidential candidates, and who are to,” Graham said.

The candidates have continued then reimbursed beyond the first $50 traditional methods of campaigning spent after presenting receipts to EPAC. Tibble said the EPAC sets spendas well, including creating posters and chalking sidewalks with slogans and ing limits so that no single candidate has a financial advantage and all names.

Graham and Robinson began giv- students are able to run, regardless ing out green and white chocolates of socioeconomic background.

All the candidates agreed that the along with business cards on Thursday morning. Miller and Qi have four spending limit creates an even playing posters, ranging from serious and field and is more than sufficient funds for running a successful campaign. platform-focused to lighthearted.

“Without it, you create a situation EPAC regulates all forms of campaigning, from posters to door- where the candidates who have more money end up winning,” Graham to-door conversations.

“The rules make sure that we’re said. “In the real world that’s how it works, but this way the students not overwhelmcan decide who ing campus with the best fit for our visibility “The rules make the student body campaigns and sure that we’re not is and anyone ensure that it on campus who doesn’t become overwhelming campus feels like they a nuisance to with our visibility have a message campus,” Shaw campaigns and ensure can do it.” said.

T h e Under EPAC that it doesn’t become guidelines, can- a nuisance to campus.” spending limit changes, howd i d at e s h ave ever, when two only a brief time students run a period in which - YESUTO SHAW ’15, campaign toto convey their PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE gether. Candiplatform to the dates on a joint student body. ticket may spend Candidates agreed that they have to complete an up to 75 percent of the total funds immense amount of campaign work that the rules allow, or $300 for a joint in a short time, with sleep becoming presidential and vice-presidential a second priority. Today is day four campaign.

Campaigning at Dartmouth has of the six-day campaign window.

“You’re probably sitting in a room not seen any major rule changes in of people who have had a total of 12 the past few years. The largest recent hours of sleep combined,” Cunning- change was in 2012, Tibble said, and ham said, speaking for his campaign modified a rule that barred students team. “That’s how committed we who had been suspended by the College from running for president are to the campaign.”

The student-run EPAC provides or vice president.

This rule led to the disqualificaelection oversight, with rules detailed in its annual election guidelines. The tion of Will Hix ’12 in the 2011 rules apply to all candidates, includ- race, though Hix ultimately ran as a write-in candidate. Now, students ing Pedlow.

“What’s good about EPAC is it’s must sign a disclaimer and allow students holding other students ac- their suspension to become public countable and making sure they’re knowledge before running.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014

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3:30 p.m.

Physics and astronomy colloquium, with Dr. Warren Brown of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Wilder 104

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The Manton Foundation Annual Orozco Lecture, “Orozco and the Aztecs in The Epic American Civilization,” Hood Auditorium

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Fencing claims top honor in Tennessee SEE FENCING PAGE 12

finished in the top five.

“Every single level of the team fenced well above the level we had expected,” Brookes said. “All weekend was a series of unbelievable events I never would have predicted.”

Among the most surprising performances was a stunning upset from the women’s sabre team, which included team members Lindsey Lam ’15, Tammy Hua ’17, Ksenia Ryzhova ’17 and Kristin Nascimento ’17. The squad bounced back from an initial 22nd seed to upset the tournament’s 11th seed, finishing 16th.

Stern and Heather Szilagyi ’15 had pledged each other that this spring season — when both would be on campus together for the first time since Szilagyi’s freshman year — they would win a national title in women’s foil, Stern said. In a dominating final round performance against the University of Michigan, the two achieved their goal.

“It was an incredible feeling to succeed in such a long awaited goal,” Stern said.

Szilagyi is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

The win in Knoxville capped a suc-

cessful season for the Big Green, which had traveled mostly throughout New England for Northeast Fencing Conference events at Boston College and the University of New Hampshire that included both club and varsity teams.

The Big Green finished seventh in the combined NFC standings.

Without a coach, the Big Green fencers make all of their travel arrangements independently, coordinating with the club sports office at the College.

Cecelia Lu ’16, one of the team’s standout performers who is currently spending her off-term in Ohio, had been expecting to fly to Knoxville but found her flight to Tennessee cancelled.

So as not to miss the tournament, she hopped a 12-hour bus to compete at the championships, where she helped the women’s epee squad nab a top-five finish.

“Even now when I look back, I can’t believe I rode a 2 a.m. bus to Knoxville,” Lu said. “I just really wanted to be there for the team. When you’re a part of a team, it’s something that’s bigger than yourself.”

Associate athletic director for club sports and intramurals Joann Brislin could not be reached for comment by press time.

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Sailing to transition to fleet racing SEE SAILING PAGE 12

races. Against Boston College, the Big Green had the fastest boat but fell with a 1-4-6 finish. Dartmouth was able to nudge by Harvard University in the final standings thanks to its strong first day, despite its loss to the Crimson on day two.

“Because of the emotions and adrenaline in general, everyone was on edge a little more than usual, which was to be expected, so it made things a little more dramatic.”

championship.

The Big Green edged out the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by 13 points, taking third with 208 points.

The A division boat finished fourth while the B division boat finished tied for sixth.

Dartmouth jumped out to an early lead as the A and B boats respectively took fifth and first in their opening races. Yale quickly took the lead and would be in the top position for the remainder of the competition. The Big Green lost its hold on second after the ninth races as Rhode Island powered to a strong finish.

The team has been hampered by

an unusually cold spring, unable to practice on Lake Mascoma. Instead, the team has been traveling to Boston multiple times a week, leaving at 1 p.m. and returning around 8 p.m. Despite this disadvantage, Wefer said he does not think that the team’s sailing has been negatively affected.

This weekend, the team will race at three regattas while giving some of the top teams the weekend off after four consecutive weeks of competition.

“With the team racing portion of our season over,” Greason said, “we are mentally resetting and preparing for fleet racing competitions, where we have traditionally had more success.”

- MATT WEFER ’14 “Because of the emotions and adrenaline in general, everyone was on edge a little more than usual, which was to be expected, so it made things a little more dramatic.” Wefer said. “We did a good job of staying focused on each race as it came.”

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Club fencing takes first national title B y Josh Koenig

The Dartmouth Staff

In a first in College history, the Big Green men and women’s club fencing team won the U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Club’s national championship in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend. Buoyed by strong performances across the board — including a first-place finish in women’s foil and a second-place finish in men’s epee — the Big Green fencers now answer to a new title: national champions.

“It’s pretty overwhelming,” cocaptain Scott Brookes ’14 said. “There had been rumors throughout [the last

day] that we might have taken it, but we didn’t know for sure until they announced. We were all so shocked, but also just ecstatic.”

The Big Green finished with a combined total of 1,675 points, beating out the second place University of Michigan by 55. The men’s team finished first with 910 points, topping Cornell University by 70. The women finished fourth, 105 points behind the leader, the United States Naval Academy.

The Big Green’s performance is made all the more impressive considering that the fencing club trains without a coach — unlike many other top club teams across the country — and fea-

tured a squad at nationals at which over one third of the competitors had not fenced before arriving at Dartmouth.

“We work together and help coach each other,” co-captain Gaby Stern ’14 said. “It’s really rewarding to have won this coming from a team without much prior experience.”

Over 700 athletes competed at the Knoxville Convention Center — representing 40 schools from across the country. In addition to the wins in women’s foil and men’s epee, the Big Green men took home first place overall. Five of the Big Green’s six squads SEE FENCING PAGE 11

Courtesy of Isobel Szilagyi

The Big Green defeated 39 schools en route to its first-ever combined team championship.

Sailing falls short of team race nationals

B y Jake bayer

The Dartmouth Staff

On Thursday afternoon, for the third time this week, the sailing team trekked south to Boston’s Charles River as Lake Mascoma remains frozen. The team enters this weekend at a transition point — the team race season ended last weekend and the push towards fleet racing championships begins.

Last weekend, the sailing team competed in two regattas, coming in fifth at the Fowle New England Team Race Championships at Connecticut

College. Ranked 10th nationally, the race left the Big Green one position shy of a berth to the championships.

“It was definitely a disappointing weekend,” Nate Greason ’17 said. “We had been training hard because New England is the hardest region to qualify from in the nation. We felt we had a good chance at qualifying even though Dartmouth hasn’t in a while. We did a great job handling an up-and-down weekend and variable wind conditions all weekend, and we were in a great position when the final round of the top six teams started.”

In the Emily Wick Trophy regatta,

Dartmouth traveled to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where it finished third of 18 teams in a two-division fleet race.

The Big Green finished the first day at the Fowle Championships 8-8, qualifying for the second day.

“The regatta had more of a championships atmosphere,” Matt Wefer ’14 said, noting that conditions were challenging. “All the races were really tight.”

The second day was rough for the Big Green, which lost all five of its SEE SAILING PAGE 11

B y dan bornstein The Dartmouth Staff

Since the National Labor Relations Board’s decision that Northwestern University’s football players are employees of the college and have the right to form a labor union, advocacy for collegiate student athletes has gained momentum. Many demands that are central to this movement appear to have little relevance to the scholarship-free Ivy League: compensation for players, scholarships that cover the full cost of tuition, funding for continued education and guaranteed retention of scholarships for athletes whose careers are ended due to injury. After all, treatment of student-athletes is on the national agenda largely because of the revenuegenerating capacities of certain sports; the thinking has been that institutions gaining millions of dollars in lucrative television deals are obligated to the students whose performance enables such revenue.

Though this phenomenon is beyond the realm of the Ivy League, our schools can still work toward creating fairer opportunities for student-athletes. In fact, this movement will be greatly strengthened by the active involvement of Ivy student-athletes. Solidarity among all student-athletes will tell college athletics establishment that business-as-usual is no longer an option. The Ivy League can add credibility to calls for reform — in many ways, it models the ideal balance between academics and athletics.

As the big-time programs make ambitious efforts to reel in ever-increasing media revenues, mid-week travel often leads students to miss classes, causing some to fall behind. Many studentathletes depend on one-year renewable athletic scholarships, and thus may receive little encouragement to find ways to avoid conflicts between school and sports.

At the Ivies, however, there is an understanding that the rigors of our education won’t tolerate athletics taking precedence. By engaging in national advocacy, Ivy athletes show what student-athletes really are — students first. Our schools’ participation in athletics may prove to narrow-minded athletic departments nationwide that an alternative is possible.

Why is this so crucial to the calls for

reform? Underlying the Northwestern players’ case is the concern that their school is neglecting its foundational purpose — to educate young people — at the expense of athletic success.

This is not merely a shallow debate about whether athletes should get paid; it is more fundamentally about how athletes’ academic priorities are being sacrificed for the coffers of their institution.

Additionally, Ivy League athletes never have to worry that an injury on the playing field will jeopardize their education. For students whose college enrollment is tied to an athletic scholarship, however, this is an unavoidable concern.

One concrete reform schools could make is to prohibit career-ending injuries from impacting a student’s access to education. It’s hard to imagine an official explicitly opposing such a policy, but we have still not reached a point where such a sweeping reform has been enacted. After all, how could NCAA member schools defy their own mantra that “most of us go pro in something other than sports,” as the oft-repeated commercial tells us?

Indeed, as the Northwestern students continue their fight, they may even be able to influence the Ivies. One of their agenda items is funding for further education, allowing them to gain a fullyfunded master’s degree. Graduate-level athletes who have not exhausted their eligibility are generally not allowed in the Ivy League barring rare medical waivers. But this is typically allowed in other conferences. For example, Dartmouth’s own Alexi Pappas ’12, a distance runner, enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Oregon to join its team. This is one area where the Ivies have failed to keep up with the rest of the nation. If Northwestern students can push for graduate education funding beyond their four-year scholarship, might this open an opportunity for the Ivies to re-consider their restriction on graduate-level student-athletes?

For years Ivy League schools have seen themselves as worlds apart from a college sports landscape increasingly influenced by money. But now they have something valuable to contribute to a key national debate — and to shy away would be at the peril of student-athletes nationwide.