The Dartmouth 02/04/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 21

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 32 LOW 19

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Web entrepreneur delivers talk Profs, students,

staff brainstorm D-Plan changes

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The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian colored his speech with references to Grumpy Cat.

B y REBECCA ROWLAND The Dartmouth Staff

OPINION

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Though a Yahoo official once dismissed Reddit’s number of users as “a rounding error,” last year the website garnered about 731 million unique visitors and 56 billion page views. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian asked the audience to take advantage of the immense

accessibility of the Internet to learn skills and reach their full potential in a lecture that filled Filene Auditorium on Monday. Directing his comments at students, Ohanian said that failure becomes a reality for many after graduation, when grades no longer define success. Students can use the Internet to overcome some of

B y CLAIRE DALY

The Dartmouth Staff

FRESHMAN VIEWS ON CARNIVAL

Armed with a $10,000 budget, seven students traveled to New York City over the weekend to select a photograph for the Hood Museum of Art. After visiting various galleries, museums and private collections, the students chose “Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965,” by James Karales to add to the Hood’s collection. The students, participants in the

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their failures and difficulties, Ohanian said. “As long as we have access and the ability to make the most of [the Internet], we can have our ideas spread far and wide,” he said. Entrepreneurs naturally face competition, Ohanian said. He then projected a meme of Grumpy Cat, a

The D-Plan’s flexibility is both its greatest advantage and biggest drawback, faculty, staff, alumni and students concluded at the first set of Moving Dartmouth Forward discussion sessions on Monday. The two meetings, held in the afternoon and evening to allow more community members to participate, were presented by the D-Plan Study Group, a research committee formed in response to College President Phil Hanlon’s address to the faculty last November.

The first meeting took place at noon in Haldeman Hall and drew a crowd of around 100 people, while a smaller group gathered for a second meeting on the Fahey Hall ground floor that evening. Attendees offered mixed opinions on the D-Plan. Discussion touched on housing capacity, course sequences, winter term student enrollment, adjuncts and visiting faculty teaching in the summer, international student visas, admissions, student leadership and the Greek system. SEE FORWARD PAGE 5

A memorial service for Torin Tucker ’15 will be held in Rollins Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. The service will include student reflections, and Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson will also speak. A candle-lighting ceremony on Baker Lawn and a gathering in Collis Common Ground will follow the service.

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Hood-sponsored Museum Collecting 101 program, met with program directors Amelia Kahl and Katherine Hart to finalize the decision on Monday. The photograph by Karales will cost the museum about $5,000, program participant Kate Bradshaw ’14 said. The Hood may use the remainder of the budget to purchase one of three second-choice photographs selected by the group, which are by SEE HOOD PAGE 3

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Students shared a meal during the Benefit for Burma, hosted by GlobeMed.


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