The Dartmouth 04/16/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 61

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Tuck admits record number of female applicants

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By Hannah Hye Min Chung The Dartmouth Staff

Tuck School of Business admitted a record-high number of female applicants for the Class of 2017, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said. Thirty-five percent of the applicants admitted so far are female, though the admissions process is ongoing, Danos said. He added that he expects the number to increase to about 38 percent when the admissions process ends. Tuck admissions director Dawna Clarke said that, in addition to the increase in accepted female applicants, JIN LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Tuck School of Business has admitted a record-high number of female applicants.

Dartmouth network will undergo security modifications

B y Estephanie Aquino The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth network will undergo modifications to improve security over the spring and summer terms, but these changes — which are part of a series of security measures titled “Towards a Secure Dartmouth” — are not expected to interfere with daily usage. The changes will include a new Virtual Private Network application, an update to the Dartmouth web

authentication system, a Java update and a new BWA webpage that is used to log into BlitzMail through a web browser, according to the computing at Dartmouth website. Each of these smaller components aim to create a more secure online environment for internet users on campus. Although some students are simply using the network to browse the web, others are using it for more sensitive activities, such as online banking or handling job contracts. The need for a more secure network

also affects professors, who may use the network to conduct secure government research and official College business, including business relating to the College’s finances, on the Dartmouth network. This new, more secure system aims to reduce malicious hacking, phishing and cybercrime, Alan Cattier, director of academic and campus technology services, said. Phishing is when a hacker tries to get a user to click on a link or download a file that will then release a virus, which will infiltrate

Richard Mills advocates for change in town hall meeting B y emilia baldwin The Dartmouth Staff

Gathered in Spaulding Auditorium yesterday afternoon, special collections librarian Jay Satterfield and College executive vice president Richard Mills addressed a crowd of approximately 70 faculty and students. The lecture was part of the fourth town hall meeting in an ongoing series of open conversations launched by Mills last October. Mills largely focused on keeping

the computer and could either steal information or track what the user is doing. “‘Towards a More Secure Dartmouth’ is a series of steps that [Information Technology Services] hopes will serve to minimize the risk of these types of activities, both to individual members of the community and to the community as a whole,” Cattier said. The improvements are scheduled SEE SECURE PAGE 2

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the College at an educational parity with peer institutions before opening up the floor to audience members for a question and answer period. Mills began his talk by evoking the “Red Queen” hypothesis, a theory that states that species must keep evolving to survive in competition with other ever-changing species, as a metaphor for upcoming changes at the College. In particular, Mills referenced the fact that the annual pay raise for some TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Students hold a vigil for the victims of the Garissa attack in Kenya.


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