The Dartmouth 01/05/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO. 2

SUNNY HIGH 23 LOW 11

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Sigma Delta pilots shakeout for rush

Begum-Haque remembered as caring friend and teacher

By MEGAN CLYNE The Dartmouth Staff

She was assisted by doctors present on the flight, but when she did not stabilize, the pilot made an emergency landing in Newfoundland, Canada. Begum-Haque died before she could be transported to the hospital. Azizul Haque said that she did not seem to be in any pain when she passed. She was one of the first female Muslim faculty members

Sigma Delta sorority will pilot a shake-out process to recruit potential new members for the winter term. The sorority will not participate in formal recruitment this winter, according to an early Monday morning email announcement by the Pan-Hellenic Council. Panhell has no current plans to continue the new shakeout process in the fall, Panhell vice president of operations Kate Healy wrote in a follow-up email to The Dartmouth. PNMs will be allowed to both participate in formal recruitment and shake-out at Sigma Delt and Episilon Kappa Theta sorority, which moved exclusively to shakeouts in the fall of 2014. Sigma Delt expects to extend around 10 to 20 bids, an estimate approved by Panhell, Sigma Delt winter rush chair Jordana Composto ’16 said. Sigma Delt’s process will include three open houses and a shake-out, she said. The shake-out will take place between round two and preference night of formal recruitment. During this time, women interested in becoming members of the sorority must write down their names to be considered for a bid, Composto said. Bids can be accepted or declined by PNMs until 10 p.m. on preference night, Jan. 19, at which point they must drop out of formal recruitment if they wish to accept a Sigma Delt bid. The process gives PNMs more time to figure out if Sigma Delt is a good fit for them, Composto said.

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COURTESY OF THE HAQUE FAMILY

Sakhina Begum-Haque stops to smile for a photo while working in the laboratory.

B y SONIA QIN The Dartmouth Staff

Most people remember late Geisel School of Medicine professor Sakhina BegumHaque not only for her research, but also for her work as the resident “lab mom.” Geisel professor Lloyd Kasper described BegumHaque as someone who noticed “every undergraduate, graduate and medical student under her wing.”

Begum-Haque’s research assistant Joe Burgess recalls her concern of his safety while he was setting up a speaker on a tall shelf the first day he arrived at her lab. Begum-Haque was 68 when she passed away on Dec. 13 from a heart attack while taking a flight to France with her husband, Geisel professor Azizul Haque. On the Air France flight, Begum-Haque began feeling chest pains, Azizul Haque said.

Alums and students attend, participate in COP21 B y RACHEL FAVORS The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth alumni, faculty and students were among the many delegates and attendees at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. After approximately two weeks of negotiations and meetings, the conference culminated in 195 countries adopting the first legally binding and universal agreement on slowing global warming.

The agreement, which comes into force in 2020, establishes an international action plan for avoiding dire climate change by limiting global war ming to well below two degrees Celsius, according to the European Commission. Prominent among the Dartmouth participants in the conference, also known as COP21, was U.S. State Department’s special envoy for climate change Todd Stern ’73, the lead negotiator

for the U.S. delegation. Morgan Curtis ’14 and Leehi Yona ’16 both attended COP21 representing SustainUS, a youth-led delegation advocating for justice and sustainability in United Nations meetings on sustainable development, climate change, eradicating poverty, biodiversity loss and women’s rights. As a youth delegate and a Dartmouth senior fellow, Yona followed the negotiations at the conference,

conducted interviews of delegates and academics attending the conference, participated in symbolic protests and wrote opinion pieces, she said. Before arriving in Paris, Curtis spent the five months before the conference cycling and gathering stories in eleven countries on a Climate Journey project. She focused on grassroots mobilization in climate action and gathering the stories of people who have made the transition

from individual to collective action for the climate. Curtis recalled her two weeks at the conference as the “most stimulating, difficult and transformative” of her life. A group of students from the Tuck School of Business also attended COP21 as observers. “It is important for my students who will be entering the work force soon to attend SEE CLIMATE PAGE 3


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