VOL. CLXXII NO. 56
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Tri-Kap plans renovations
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Islam Awareness Week begins today By Rebecca Asoulin The Dartmouth Staff
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Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity will begin extensive renovations this spring term.
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Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity will begin a $2.3 million renovation project at the end of spring term, chair of Tri-Kap’s board of directors James McKim ’83 said. The project will add five bedrooms to the facility, redesign the house’s interior extensively, update the building’s egress routes to the most recent planning codes and construct substantial additions to both the east and west
sides of the house, Bernie O’Rourke, the architect for the Tri-Kap project at Wiemann Lamphere Architects, said. “It’s pretty much a full renovation,” he said. Construction is currently expected to take all of summer and fall terms, O’Rourke said. Tri-Kap’s safety issues — including the lack of a secondary fire escape route, a mold problem and the failure to meet recently updated Hanover town codes — were
a major part of what the renovations aim to ameliorate, O’Rourke said. Making improvements to the house is the primary goal of Tri-Kap’s 10-year capital campaign, which began in August 2013. The campaign aims to raise $3 million over 10 years, with most of the funds going to the construction of a new house and the rest earmarked for the fraternity’s endowment, McKim said. Since the camSEE TRI-KAP PAGE 3
In preparation for Islam Awareness Week, Saaid Arshad ’14Th’18 stumbled upon something he never thought he would find anywhere, let alone at Dartmouth — a 1,000-year-old Quran manuscript. Arshad, the graduate student representative for Al-Nur — Dartmouth’s Muslim students association — said that seeing and touching the manuscript of the sacred religious text, available for viewing through Rauner Special Collections, was a “transcendental experience.” “Seeing the history of something that’s sacred and holding it in your hand — I mean these were some of the first written pages of the Quran,” Arshad said. “To hold those in your hand as a Muslim, well, you just don’t expect to ever do that.” The manuscripts will be displayed in Rauner during this week’s Islam Awareness Week, Arshad said. This is Dartmouth’s first Islam Awareness Week in five years, Al-Nur president Iman Hammad ’17 said. Members of
Al-Nur felt that in light of current events, it was an appropriate time to hold Islam Awareness Week once again. The awareness events started April 5 with a display in the south end of Baker-Berry Library. Hammad said that the library display includes space for students to answer questions such as “What do you think when you hear the word Islam?” and to name famous Muslim-Americans. She said that the group began planning for the week’s events last fall. “We thought it would be a good way to show that you’re only seeing one part of the story — of a small minority causing a big problem,” Hammad said. “We want to show all the different parts that make up Islam.” Arshad said that the group felt the need to hold these events due to recent negative media coverage of Islam. In addition, he noted the importance of the events in the context of the recent murder SEE ISLAM PAGE 5
Symposium presents Orozco lecture features Castañeda nonprofit career paths B y Lauren Budd
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Students will have the opportunity to learn from and engage with established professionals in the nonprofit sector as part of the Tucker Foundation’s “Breaking the Mold: Careers for the Common Good Symposium.” The event, which starts this afternoon and will continue through tomorrow, will feature a keynote address from Katherine Collins, Founder and CEO of Honeybee Capital,
and multiple workshops focused on educating students about nonprofit career paths. Adam Knowlton-Young, the program manager for service trips at Tucker and one of the organizers of the event, said the symposium arose out of student interest in careers for the common good. He added that this event is the culmination of similar but smaller-scale events and collaborations SEE PANEL PAGE 5
The countless Dartmouth students who study in the Orozco mural room daily interact with the mural — even if they are unaware of its significance — simply by studying in the room, art history department chair Mary Coffey said. The National Park Service awarded the mural national landmark status in 2013, Hood Museum interim director Juliette Bianco said at yesterday’s fourth annual “Manton Foundation Orozco Lecture.” The event’s featured speak-
er Luis Castañeda discussed schoolhouses in Mexico and their role in Mexican history. Castañeda explained the concept of public architecture, exemplified by these schoolhouses, as an “interface where architects, bureaucrats, artists and politicians all intersect.” Specifically, he discussed the murals in these schoolhouses. Schoolhouses’ structure in Mexico are standardized, but local artists influence the architecture through their murals, Castañeda said in his lecture. Coffey said in her introduction of the art historian that Castañeda’s talk would “open
up a whole new world.” In his lecture, Castañeda said that he aimed to make a connection between “radical experiments” in Mexican public education and “the architectural vessel” for these experiences. “What I’m arguing is that these schools, a lot of which prominently featured murals, are an extension and a fulfillment of the mission of the radical muralist movement,” Castañeda said. Castañeda said the work of the Manton Foundation, SEE OROZCO PAGE 2