VOL. CLXXI NO. 77
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014
Big Green Bus cancels year’s programming
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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By MARIAN LURIO The Dartmouth Staff
This summer, the Big Green Bus will not travel on what would have been its 10th cross-country trek. Due to various logistical issues — including lack of physical transportation and an insufficient recruitment draw — Cedar Farwell ’17, who would have been a member of the 2014 crew, said the organization will not conduct programming this summer. For the last nine years, the biodiesel-fueled, studentdriven bus has traveled across the U.S. to visit sustainable SEE BUS PAGE 5
SPORTS
W RUGBY NABS FOURTH AT ACRA SEVENS PAGE 8
OPINION
HERBST: BURIED ALIVE PAGE 4
SCHNEIDER AND SCHEIN: SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT PAGE 4
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A student measures liquids during chemistry lab on Tuesday.
Spots for transfer students decrease with higher yield
B y Caroline Hansen The Dartmouth Staff
After hovering between 60 and 70 percent since 2008, the yield for admitted transfer students dropped to 47 percent in 2013. Despite the smaller rate, the office of undergraduate admissions will not change the process by which it attracts accepted transfer students to the College, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said. Laskaris said she was unsure
about the reasons for the drop, adding that she did not think it was because of the College’s recent media attention. She noted that fluctuations are natural due to the transfer credit process and the small nature of the transfer program. This year, due to the high yield percentage of accepted first-year students, the College will accept 15 transfer students, half of the typical figure of 30 students, Laskaris said, resulting in an acceptance rate of under 3 percent. At 1,210 students,
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kinds of students we want to have in our community,” Laskaris said. “And they would not want to apply as first-year students.” These applicants include veterans and students with non-traditional educational backgrounds, such as those who have gone to a two-year community college or a junior college before coming to Dartmouth, she said. The admissions office’s only transSEE TRANSFERS PAGE 3
Nachtwey ’70 shares stories covering Afghan civil war
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the number of incoming freshmen accepting Dartmouth’s offer of acceptance is its highest ever, producing a yield of 54.5 percent. Laskaris said that although the Class of 2018 is overfilled, it is important to maintain a transfer program. The Class of 2018 currently comprises 90 students above the projected class size of 1,120 students. “I think there are applicants, there are students who apply as transfers that are very much the
Nachtwey shared his experiences covering Afghanistan’s civil war.
A photo of a young Afghan child swinging from the barrel of a tank gun stretched behind internationally recognized war photographer James Nachtwey ’70 as he shared his experience covering Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s. The talk, which took place Tuesday afternoon, featured photographs chronicling his stay in Kabul before the Taliban wrested control of
the city in 1996, as well as his time with the Afghan Northern Alliance, who were fighting the Taliban outside of Kabul. The photo essay shows Kabul as a “moonscape” ruined by civil war, he said. He captured a school with no chairs or desks, as well as an orthopedic hospital full of Afghan amputees injured by mines still present in the city. Outside of Kabul, Nachtwey remembered being yards away from a rocket SEE NACHTWEY PAGE 2