VOL. CLXXI NO. 64
MOSTLY SUNNY
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Faculty vote could open course reviews
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By NANCY WU
The Dartmouth Staff
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MIRROR
COEXISTING AT DARTMOUTH PAGE M4
DARTMOUTH MYTHBUSTERS PAGE M8
OPINION
VERBUM: RECRUIT AND RETAIN
Community members chop wood near a fire outside Robinson Hall.
Tuck to launch winter Bridge B y ROSHAN DUTTA The Dartmouth Staff
For the first time, The Tuck School of Business will offer a three-week version of its Business Bridge program over winter interim in addition to the popular monthlong summer program estab-
lished in 1997. Coined December Bridge, the new program will teach business and financial fundamentals, targeting Dartmouth sophomores, juniors and seniors. Tuck decided to launch the December Bridge program for students who cannot participate over the
summer, Tuck senior associate dean Robert Hansen said. Tuck professor William Martin, who teaches Business Bridge courses, said in an email that December Bridge will also target juniors who choose not to SEE BRIDGE PAGE 2
Pending approval from College faculty, undergraduate students may be able to view their peers’ online course evaluations dating back to 2006, starting next year. Spearheaded by the Student Assembly’s academic affairs committee, this proposal has attracted support from both students and faculty. This Monday, the committee of chairs, comprising heads of the College’s arts and sciences departments, recommended the initiative’s approval. Faculty members will discuss and vote on the proposal in May, Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno said. The committee on instruction, which oversees facultystudent curricular interactions, and the committee on priorities also recommended the proposal earlier this year, Mastanduno said. Faculty members read course reviews submitted each term, using them especially when modifying courses, but the information is not currently available
to students, the Assembly’s academic affairs committee chair Mac Murphy ’15 said. If the proposal passes, faculty members can choose to release their course evaluations to students via the registrar’s website, Murphy said. Only students will be able to access the website, and professors will not be able to see their colleagues’ reviews. If a professor decides to opt in, Murphy said, the evaluations for all of his or her classes will be made available for one year, which prohibits him or her from “cherry-picking” specific courses. Professors will be given the choice to opt in every year. Faculty members have expressed a wide range of opinions about publicizing their course reviews, and the opt-in allows them to act on that view, Mastanduno said. “I expect lots of faculty will opt in, but I still think it’s fair for faculty members, at this stage, to be able to decide SEE EVALUATION PAGE 3
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Eight alumni to serve Powwow preparations near finish as Presidential Fellows B y APOORVA DIXIT The Dartmouth Staff
B y CAROLINE HANSEN The Dartmouth Staff
Retur ning home after winter term, Stephanie Barnhart ’14 had just touched down when she turned on her phone to see an email from the Advancement Office. Sitting on the tarmac, her Internet connection was weak. “It was a heart-stopping few moments,” she said in an email. The message loaded, and
she learned she had gotten the job. Barnhart, along with seven other alumni, will work as a Presidential Fellow next year, serving in a yearlong administrative position at the College. Next year’s fellows listed a love of Dartmouth, desire to gain work experience and the opportunity to give back to the school as reasons they applied to the program, SEE FELLOWS PAGE 7
With less than a month left until the 42nd annual powwow, the 11 students on this year’s planning committee are wrapping up preparations for the program, which celebrates various Native American cultures through food, song, dance and drum. Based on previous attendance, around 1,500 people are expected to participate, making it the one of the largest student-run powwows in the Northeast. At the close of this year’s
event, the Native American Program and the Hood Museum of Art will unveil five sculptures by Allan Houser, a prominent Apache Indian artist and former College artist-in-residence, in front of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The event, said powwow committee co-presidents Zach Cooper ’17 and Emily Harwell ’16, takes nearly a year to plan, costing around $ 3 5 , 0 0 0 . T h e p owwow committee, which this year includes nine freshmen, organizes every aspect of the event, booking locations, in-
viting dance groups, judging competitions and selecting the head staff. Comprising the arena director, head man dancer and head woman dancer, the head staff traditionally host the powwow. Selection, Harwell said, is an honor that recognizes skills or performance. “They can make or break the powwow,” Harwell said. This year’s budget comes from the President’s Office, the Special Program and Events Committee and NAP, SEE POWWOW PAGE 6