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Fall walks — and unfiltered Instagrams — abound during the peak of leaf peeping season.

A spike in reports of forcible sex offenses at the College is likely due to higher reporting rates rather than an increase in incidents of sexual violence, community members and experts said following Wednesday’s release of the annual security and fire safety report.

Data from the report, an

annual disclosure of campus crime mandated by the Clery Act and authored by Safety and Security, showed 35 forcible sex offenses in 2013, compared to 24 in 2012 and 15 in 2011.

The College also reported one incident of dating violence and four incidents of stalking. The 2013 Violence Against Women ReauthoriSEE CLERY PAGE 5

Sociology professor Co-op members talk policies, plans joins Provost’s office B y SARA MCGAHAN The Dartmouth Staff

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Provost Carolyn Dever appointed sociology professor Denise Anthony to a new position of vice provost for academic initiatives, a role she began Wednesday.

Anthony will oversee faculty recruitment, training and retention, with a special focus on diversity — which she

said requires the College to look at “the entire pipeline of development.”

Dever, who came to the College this summer, appointed Anthony to the position as she assembles a leadership team in her third month on the job. Former interim Provost Martin Wybourne

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O ver th e pas t th ree months, member s of a group called “Concerned About the Co-op” have discussed potential changes to Co-op Food Store employment policies, a cross-store boycott and the Co-op’s April Board of Directors elections. The debate was catalyzed by the June 13 firing of Daniel King and

Senior survey shows lowered satisfaction B y Parker richards

Graduating students’ overall satisfaction declined for the third year in a row, but feelings about faculty availability, facilities and study abroad programming remained positive, the College’s 2014 senior survey found.

Administered to the Class of 2014, the survey saw a 44 percent response rate. The gender and racial breakdown

John Boutin, two longtime Lebanon Co-op employees who were dismissed without explanation, though some of the Co-op’s members say they had previous concerns.

At their most recent meeting, held Tuesday night in the Howe Library, concer ned Co-op members spoke for more than an hour about the Co-op’s financial report, potential recommendations for the Board of Directors and the

efficacy of implementing more direct actions against the cooperative. The group has met about once a week since the summer, “Concerned About the Co-op” leader Nora Jacobson said.

Thirteen Upper Valley residents — including many who had never been to a “Concerned About the Co-op” meeting — attended Tuesday’s meeting, intro-

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Percent of seniors who would RECOMMEND DARTMOUTH TO A STUDENT WHO RESEMBLED THEM:

of respondents roughly mirrored that of the College as a whole, with almost 50 percent identifying as white.

The survey results, released in late September, found that roughly 90 percent of students indicated satisfaction with their Dartmouth experience, down from a recent peak of 95 percent in 2010.

The College recorded a more severe SEE SURVEY PAGE 8

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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES Brown University: Brown’s Sidney Frank scholarship fund, which helps low-income students graduate from the university without student loan debt, celebrated its 10-year anniversary, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The fund — which was established with a $100 million donation by Sidney E. Frank, an alumnus who left the university after his first year due to financial problems — now supports about 130 students each year.

Columbia University: The Columbia University Marching Band adopted a new sexual assault policy following several alleged sexual assaults among band members, the Columbia Spectator reported. The new policy considers all allegations true and requires action be taken against members accused of sexual assault. Band members said the policy has already been implemented against two alumni band members, who have been prohibited from attending band events.

Cornell University: Cornell’s student assembly freshman representative elections were announced on Tuesday after four candidates were disqualified for violating campaign rules, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Three candidates violated elections and campus code chalking rules, and the other violated a campaign ethics policies.

Harvard University: Eight winners of the W.E.B. Du Bois Medals, Harvard’s highest honor in African and African American studies, were celebrated Tuesday for their contributions to African American culture, The Crimson reported. The winners included “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker Steve McQueen, television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes ’91, Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey.

Princeton University: Two Princeton students were relocated to new housing when inspectors found bedbugs crawling in their Forbes College one-room double last week, the Daily Princetonian reported, noting that the residential college saw bedbugs in April and in September 2013. The university uses heat treatment to eliminate bedbugs. These bedbugs were the first found at Princeton this academic year.

University of Pennsylvania: Penn administrators have proposed a new office that would focus solely on sexual misconduct cases, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Currently, these cases are handled by the Office of Student Conduct. The proposal also includes plans to hire a sexual violence investigative officer experienced in Title IX cases to lead the new office.

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After an unplanned hiatus, the Big Green Bus will return in a new form next year. Instead of driving a biodiesel-powered bus, participants will travel across the country via public transportation, staying with alumni as they have in past years.

The bus trip originally planned for summer 2014 was cancelled when the bus broke down at the end of 2013.

Trip organizers said they did not have enough time to make an informed decision about whether to buy a new bus or fix the current one before the next trip needed to start preparing, so the program paused to determine next steps.

Meegan Daigler ’14, who was the 2013 bus general manager, said several Big Green Bus alumni and current students — totaling more than 100 — spent the year discussing changes the program could make.

There were semantic as well as practical reasons for the program’s pivot this year. When the Big Green Bus started in 2005, running a bus on vegetable oil was a novel idea and presented a challenge, but that is no longer the case, Daigler said.

“We reached a point where the vehicle itself wasn’t facilitating the experience as much as the students who are planning where we are going and what we are trying to learn in each of those places,” Daigler said.

Daigler believes that using public transportation, such as Amtrak trains, will facilitate the same learning experience for the students involved.

“One of the coolest parts about it is the challenge,” she said. “So now there’s a new challenge of where can you get on public transportation, what is that

experience like for all the people in the different places that we visit.”

In addition to changing the mode of transportation, the mission of the trip is changing from teaching to learning.

In 2013, Big Green Bus participants focused on storytelling and understanding other communities.

“It can get kind of tricky for students

“We reached a point where the vehicle itself wasn’t facilitating the experience as much as the students who are planning where we are going and what we are tring to learn in each of those places.”

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to go to different communities thinking they can educate them on their resources and what their actions should be when they’re not from those communities,” said Elise Wien ’17, who hoped to participate in the 2014 program before it was cancelled and is helping organize next year’s program.

Maximizing participants’ time factored into the decision to change the program’s structure. The bus broke down frequently, and participating students spent time making repairs,

as well as getting commercial drivers licenses. Funding, which has traditionally come from corporate sponsorships and advertisements on the side of the bus, will have to change this year, Daigler said.

They group held a meeting on Sept.

25 where 30 students expressed interest in participating.

They then met on Thursday to finalize this year’s application. They based it off of past years’ applications, but shortened it so that students would not be deterred by the length.

In addition, they had to rework the application to reflect the program’s new model and criteria. For example, it is no longer important to have participants who know how to repair an engine or have specific expertise with biodiesel. This year, organizers hope for participants who excel in not only engineering but also communication and environmental justice, among other areas.

The program’s big changes have the potential to prompt strong student reactions.

“My first reaction was that they are losing the group home that you travel in, the community space that you get to share,” said Cedar Farwell ’17, who wanted to be a part of the 2014 bus trip.

Farwell is not planning on participating on the 2015 bus trip because he plans to take classes sophomore summer, but is still involved with the organization and may want to go on a bus trip in the future. He said he does believe there are benefits to taking public transportation as well, namely that limited mobility will present interesting challenges.

“If they do a good job documenting their travels, it could be incredibly illuminating in comparison to the bus experience,” he said.

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Yale University: Yale will host its annual sustainability week next week to promote the university’s sustainability strategic plan, a three-year initiative announced last fall, the Yale Daily News reported. The week will include more than 40 events.

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“College converts rooms to accommodate requests” (Oct. 1, 2014): The word “accommodate” was misspelled in the headline.

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Focus tightens on diversity FROM PROVOST PAGE 1

and executive officer and associate vice provost for government relations Martha Austin will serve alongside Anthony and Dever on the team.

In this position, Anthony will oversee the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, the Ethics Institute and the College’s international programs.

Dickey Center for International Understanding Director Daniel Benjamin wrote in an email that his staff is especially pleased to be working with her because of her experience at the Institute for Security, Technology and Society, which gives her insight into the role of Dartmouth’s centers and their potential for growth. Anthony served as research director of the Institute from 2008 to 2013.

Her role will also focus on faculty recruitment and retention, as well as professional development.

Dean of the faculty of arts and sciences Michael Mastanduno, who cohosted a spring “Moving Dartmouth Forward” discussion that focused on faculty recruitment and retention, said he expects Anthony will be a “terrific partner” in increasing faculty diversity.

At the April session, Mastanduno said each year departments search for 30 to 35 faculty members and eventually recruit 20 to 25, noting that attracting members of underrepresented minority groups can prove difficult.

He said in April that about 20 percent of College faculty self-identify as minorities. Of the 1,059 faculty members listed in the 2013 Fact Book, 7 percent are Asian, 2 percent are black or African American, 3 percent are Hispanic or Latino and 84 percent are white.

Mastanduno and other school deans are in charge of recruiting faculty.

“My understanding is that the idea is to have a person in the provost’s office who also makes it a high priority,” he said.

Anthony said one aspect of her job is collaborating with faculty to think about new areas where the College can develop academic programs or research initiatives.

“There must be an open line of communication between the faculty and the provost office so that ideas flow both ways,” she wrote in a follow-up email.

Physics professor Stephon Alexander, who has advocated for greater faculty diversity, said he hopes faculty will be increasingly included in recruiting colleagues.

Alexander said he would like to see faculty committees regarding recruitment and retention work with Anthony.

He said he also hopes to see policy that accommodates both “the wishes of faculty when it comes to hiring, and the wishes of the institution when it comes to enhancing diversity.”

Math professor Craig Sutton said Anthony’s position may lead to better coordination regarding faculty diversity.

“In the past, isolated tactics have been tried to achieve faculty diversity,” he said. “If we have a more global vision of how this could be achieved then I think we will actually meet a lot of success in the coming years.”

Anthony, a sociologist with a Ph.D. from Connecticut University, has been at Dartmouth since 1999. She will stop teaching after this term to focus on the new role, which she will hold for four years.

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It’s time to look beyond the numbers and change our ways.

Dartmouth by the numbers: One hundred liquor law arrests, 84 more than in 2012. Two hundred and forty three liquor law violations, nearly triple 2012’s amount.

On Wednesday, Dartmouth released its annual security and safety report as mandated by the Clery Act — and the data show greater administrative transparency. The report now includes in its tallies those who were referred to the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students program, those who were sent to Dick’s House after a Good Samaritan call and those who participate in the Diversion program.

Furthermore, the College’s reporting practices better align with federal law.

These broader figures paint a clear picture of what transpired on campus last year, and the report was quickly distributed over email to students — and parents. We commend how the College shared this important information.

But let’s back up — it’s time to talk about what these numbers mean. The data add context to College President Phil Hanlon’s statement to students, trustees and staff that “Dartmouth’s promise is being hijacked by extreme and harmful behaviors.” The College’s 2014 security and safety report shows troubling behaviors that current structures have not effectively addressed.

We can no longer downplay the dangerous behaviors that surround us. Making a Good Sam call is of course always the right thing to do, but we wish students didn’t need to dial that number so often. Blacking out is not normal or okay, nor is encouraging friends to “boot and rally.” Stealing each other’s property, drunk or sober, is never justifiable. Standing by while students actively harm each other is morally reprehensible. Our attitudes toward alcohol require a drastic shift.

Finding a solution to these “extreme and harmful behaviors” requires administrative support and student buy-in. To student leaders, to the presidential steering committee — we recommend as first steps strengthening existing structures, particularly the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative and programming after Homecoming.

The College has already poured considerable time and financial resources into DBI. Last

spring, Student Assembly attempted to incentivize participation in DBI by linking the provision of Greek house dues-assistance funds to participation in the program. While this particular initiative was shot down by the Undergraduate Finance Committee, the idea that last year’s Assembly pitched shows the way we must think as we develop policies and practices. College organizations — and administrators — should aim to answer the same question: how do you incentivize safety if students perceive it as the alternative to fun? Just as students were required to attend workshops before Greek recruitment, we suggest finding ways to link DBI education to other things that students want to do: attend a foreign study program, enroll in sophomore summer, lead a first-year trip.

DBI programming must also meet student scheduling needs. The D-Plan makes fitting in that extra time commitment feel like a Herculean task. But other campus centers — namely, the Center for Professional Development — can serve as examples for the health promotion and wellness office. The center hosts events on the Collis porch, advertising its programming frequently over email. By centralizing events in student locations, they are easier to fit into our busy lives.

Second, we can learn from the Greek Leadership Council’s decision to block first-year students from alcohol-serving Greek events for the first six weeks of term. This fall, movie nights and student concerts have brought freshmen through seniors to Greek social spaces — without alcohol. But after Homecoming, when the ban is lifted, the College must incentivize Greek organizations to continue hosting these types of events. Perhaps one way to do this is to require organizations to register an event without alcohol for every two at which they serve it.

While the College has policies in place that protect students from recklessness and keep records clean despite liquor law arrests and violations, we remain accountable for our actions. With its new tallying policy Dartmouth is admitting to a drinking problem, taking responsibility for our debauchery. Now it’s our turn as students to do the same.

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Coed houses can contribute to the stability of sophomore rush.

Following the conclusion of men and women’s rush this past week, certain inescapable realities about the recruitment process once again reared their ugly heads. Despite the Panhellenic Council’s extensive efforts to improve the manner in which houses conduct rush — extending round two parties by 20 minutes to allow for more time to meet rush participants, pushing for all potential new members to receive invitations to round two parties at four houses — some women still fell through the cracks. Men too. While the raw aggregate numbers (297 bids were extended to women and at least 241 bids were extended to men) are impressive, it is still an unfortunate truth that single-sex Greek institutions have not completely mitigated how emotionally taxing the recruitment process is on the Dartmouth community. The process is rough for everyone, whether an individual receives a bid at his or her favorite house, gets put in one of his or her bottom two or simply drops out.

Formulating the trajectory of the social scene year after year is an enormous responsibility.

Single-sex fraternity and sorority leaders are tirelessly striving to make rush as fair and inclusive as they can, but they are struggling under an insurmountable burden — how do they take everyone who wants to join? How can they improve the transition from inclusive, community-based freshman floors to the jarring, unexpected social dispersal that takes place sophomore fall? They can’t — at least, not without help. And this is where the coed houses need to step in.

In a recent meeting with interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer and Laura Hercod of the President’s Office, the Greek Leadership Council and Greek leaders discussed how to change the underlying ethos of a college lifestyle centered on drinking, and how perhaps such rampant glorification of extreme behaviors stems from under-utilized power in the social arena. Subsequent points were made that while these notions are functionally sound, in reality precipitating a fundamental change in the system at large is close to impossible. How can we change what students want to do, and what they assume they must do to survive in the jungle of Dartmouth nightlife?

These discussions resonated with me deeply, because I, like many of my peers in the coed community, am ready and willing to step up to the plate. I am admittedly biased here — I am the president of a coed house. But I went through women’s rush all the way to pref night, and then decided that being in a single-sex house was not the right choice for me. Undoubtedly others have realized the same. If someone were to create a category of “under-utilized social power” in the steering committee’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” report, the coed houses and Amarna should be at the top of the list.

Why can’t we assume relatively visible leadership roles in forming social options on campus?

Because we are both realistically and structurally impaired from doing so. As The Dartmouth’s summer editorial board wrote this past July, the Greek mainstream dismisses coeds and casts them as being outside the traditional system to the point where they are considered “alternative.” As one president said quite succinctly last night, “No one comes when something is called alternative.” And therein lies the problem. None of the other Greek houses consider us to be on an equal playing field, and therefore neither do any of the eligible sophomores preparing to rush.

I recognize that some may conflate the notion of throwing support behind coed houses as being synonymous with supporting a push for all single-sex houses to go coed. That was put forth as a possible panacea to cure the ailments of the Greek community, but I know I am not alone in believing that it is not and should not be a viable option.

I am not calling for any converts here. In fact, the differing functions of single-sex versus coed houses on campus are necessary contributions to our diversity of social scenes. But single-sex fraternities and sororities (as well as administrators) could gain significant dividends by promoting coed houses as being equally legitimate and accepted social spaces. For those in the know, they already are. For the rest of campus, they have the potential to be the non-alcohol centered social spaces that the College is trying so desperately to create.

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Some say data cannot show the full picture FROM CLERY PAGE 1

zation Act requires that institutions report dating violence, domestic violence and stalking separately in their safety reports starting in 2015, though some institutions included them this year.

This year’s report will be the last comprised entirely of data collected before the College’s new sexual assault policy took effect in June. Under the new policy, a trained external investigator examines reported incidents of sexual assault, conducting interviews, reviewing evidence and producing a fact-based report of the incident as well as a conclusion of responsibility.

Formerly, students who reported a sexual assault testified in front of Committee on Standards panels comprising administrators, students and faculty.

One of the aims of the new policy is to allow students to feel more comfortable reporting assaults, former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said in a spring interview with The Dartmouth.

Director of judicial affairs Leigh Remy said that no students have filed formal reports with her office for incidents taking place after June 18, though some may have chosen alternative reporting routes like WISE, a support organization for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Upper Valley. As a result, she said, the impact of the external investigator on sexual misconduct reporting rates has yet to be determined.

Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said that she hopes that the presence of an external investigator will enhance reporting rates and the desire of reporting students to move forward with a formal complaint.

“I want to see more reports,” Lindkvist said. “I really do.”

The safety report includes reports made to judicial affairs, Safety and Security and Hanover Police, Remy said. She added that all survivors respond differently in how they decide to report or not to report an incident of sexual misconduct.

Citing the attention the issue has garnered in the past year both at the College and nationwide, Remy suggested that the increase in offenses is due to greater comfort with communicating about sexual assault.

“It’s something that’s in our consciousness in a very different way than in previous years,” Remy said.

Occidental College professor Caroline Heldman, a co-founder of End Rape on Campus who led a Title IX complaint against Occidental College, said that in the short term, the increase in reporting is a “very positive” sign, even though seeing the higher numbers may be alarming at first.

“As numbers go up, it means survivors are more comfortable coming forward and schools can get a better handle on what’s going on,” Heldman said.

Of 12 students interviewed, eight said they believed that people would feel more comfortable reporting incidents given the June policy and recent media spotlight on campus sexual violence, while four said they thought students will still likely have a hard time trusting both the reporting and judicial process.

Caeli Cavanagh of WISE wrote in an emailed statement that the safety report does not factor in the outcomes of student reports or whether or not students felt they had adequate resources throughout the process.

“It’s impossible to know the true scope of people’s experience on campus from this report,” she wrote.

Victoria Nevel ’16, a member of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said that the rise in reported incidents still fails to account for the total number of sexual offenses on campus.

“The numbers don’t give the full picture of what’s going on,” Nevel said, adding that a campus climate survey is a more reliable tool of evaluating survivor experiences throughout the reporting process.

Susy Struble, cofounder of Dartmouth Change — a nonprofit group of alumni, faculty and other community members advocating for student life reforms — also said a campus climate survey would be more effective than report numbers at gauging the scope of sexual violence at the College. She added that there is no evidence to determine if the spike in numbers is due to an increase in reporting or incidence.

A 2009 study by the Center for Disease Control found that 19 percent of all college women experienced attempted or completed sexual assault since entering college. According to the National Institute of Justice, about 74 percent of sexual assaults go unreported due to self-blame, shame, fear or lack of trust.

Annie Ma and Zac Hardwick contributed reporting.

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dip when it asked members of the Class of 2014 if they would recommend the College to “a high school senior who resembled them.” Only 71 percent indicated they would do so, down about 10 percentage points from the Class of 2012.

While Dartmouth has generally seen higher rates of overall satisfaction than its peer institutions, that is no longer the case. The survey separates “peer institutions” into two groups: the Ivy League and other private, selective colleges. The College has now drawn roughly level with both its main peer groups.

Similarly, while Dartmouth was once tied with its peer groups in terms of students who would recommend the school, the figures dipped in 2014 and Dartmouth now trails both groups.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence said administrators are reviewing the data, noting that “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee members are aware of the figures.

“There’s no question that there’s room for growth,” Lawrence said. “I think the survey reflects some of the challenges that we’ve been facing the last few years and that the ‘Moving Dartmouth Forward’ committee is reviewing.”

Numerous students expressed dissatisfaction with pre-major academic advising. Only 31 percent of students expressed satisfaction with pre-major advising, down from 33 percent in 2012 and a high of 47 percent in 2010. Thirty percent of students reported feeling “very dissatisfied” with pre-major advising.

History professor Cecilia Gaposchkin, assistant dean for premajor advising, wrote in an email that the data is “hard to read” and that the exact reasons for the low ap-

proval rate for pre-major academic advising is difficult to determine.

Ten students and recent graduates interviewed expressed divergent opinions on pre-major advising.

“My experience was not that good,” said Tom Dexter-Rice ’15.

“When I came in, my pre-major advisor was, I think, a geophysicist or something. I came in not knowing what I wanted to major in, but I knew it would be in social sciences, so her advice to me wasn’t that helpful because she wasn’t that knowledgeable about the course offerings on that side of the College.”

Dexter-Rice’s experience was echoed by several other students, who said that their advisors, while pleasant, were often unable to help

“I think the survey reflects some of the challenges that we’ve been facing the last few years and that the ‘Moving Dartmouth Forward’ committee is reviewing.”

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significantly in areas not relating to the advisor’s own area of expertise.

Abbie Lund ’15, a former member of the ice hockey team, said her coach helped direct incoming students to resources that were appropriate for their academic interests.

Sophia Vazquez ’14 said that she had a highly positive experience, largely because she requested

an advisor from the government department, in which she hoped to major.

One hundred Dartmouth students apiece in the Classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018 are enrolled in the Advising 360 pilot program, which aims to increase collaboration among academic advisors, undergraduate deans and staff in residence halls as they advise students. Return rates — the instance of students returning to see their dean after an initial visit — have been higher under the new program.

Satisfaction with equipment and facilities remained generally high, with more than 90 percent saying they were happy with laboratory, library and athletic facilities.

Students were also generally pleased with academics. Ninetyseven percent said that they were happy with the out-of-class availability of the College’s faculty, and more than 90 percent were satisfied with the quality of instruction both overall and in their major fields and with class sizes.

Dartmouth outpaced its peer institutions in terms of student satisfaction with various academic metrics, and scored particularly well in faculty availability out-of-class.

One major area of improvement for the College was the perception of the administration. Only 35 percent of respondents in the Class of 2012 expressed satisfaction with the “administration’s responsiveness to student concerns,” which represented an all-time low. For the Class of 2014, the number rebounded to 49 percent, still lower than the 71 percent satisfaction reported in 2010.

Social life and diversity were areas of concern for some students, though figures have improved since the late 1990s. About 64 percent of respondents said they were satis-

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More than 90 percent of responding seniors indicated satisfaction with laboratory facilities.

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Before Commencement, seniors described their experiences at the College.

fied with the climate for minority students on campus, a slight drop from a peak of 71 percent among the Class of 2010 but still substantively higher than the 44 percent who reported satisfaction in 2000.

Additionally, 73 percent of students said that they were satisfied with the campus’s ethnic and racial diversity, down from 81 percent in 2012.

Sarah Fernandez ’14 said she saw minorities and people of color marginalized at Dartmouth and her experience was negatively impacted by “a very white, affluent, heterosexual, extremely patriarchal culture.”

Michael Zhu ’14 said he had a positive experience and did not feel his background changed his time at the College.

“While being Chinese may have distinguished me from some of my peers in the Cords or [Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity], it was never a barrier for me,” he wrote in a follow-up email.

Satisfaction with social life on campus was 68 percent, the lowest rate reported across the records of survey results, which date back to 1998.

Study abroad experiences and volunteer experiences received high marks from students at Dartmouth and peer institutions alike.

Ninety-four percent of students were satisfied with study abroad opportunities, and several students interviewed ranked their study abroad experiences as the highlight of their Dartmouth careers.

Fewer Dartmouth students reported receiving financial aid than students at peer institutions, the survey showed. A greater percent of Dartmouth students indicated that the impact on their family of paying for education would be “severe” or

“considerable.” In total, 53 percent of survey respondents said that they received some form of financial aid, while more than 66 percent did not borrow any money for their education. Only 5 percent of students borrowed more than $40,000 for their education.

Financial aid director Virginia Hazen said it is difficult to determine what makes the figure lower at Dartmouth than at peer schools without data more specific than that offered in the survey.

“There’s a degree of self-selection on who goes to what school, so it’s possible that wealthier people are selecting Dartmouth,” she said. “I think that based on what the survey says, it’s very hard for someone to give you any reasons as to why the families are feeling more stressed or why we’re supposedly offering a lower percentage on aid.”

Dartmouth has a higher cost of attendance than all its Ivy peers except Columbia University. It provides free tuition to families making less than $100,000 per year with typical assets, a higher threshold than Harvard University and Columbia University, other Ivy schools with a set baseline. Dartmouth does not have a “no loans” policy like Princeton University, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Sixteen percent of students said that paying for college would have “slight” or no impact on their families, while 13 percent said the impact would be severe.

Dartmouth students were generally satisfied with campus safety, and 89 percent said they felt safe on campus — outpacing peer institutions by as much as 20 percent.

The Office of Institutional Research did not respond to requests for comment.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

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‘Concerned About the Co-op’ meeting highlights grievances any reason or notice. “Concerned About the Co-op” recommends ducing themselves by saying their that the Co-op implement a “just name, town and “I’m concerned.” cause” policy, which would require One attendee was a store employee a reason for employers to fire emwho said he was happy working at ployees.

Most the Co-op.

Co-ops in the The group’s “The over arching New HampFacebook page idea is that all shire and Verhas 278 “likes,” mont region and its mem- the employees work with an bers and sym- are involved in “at will” firpathizers filled ing policy, Drye a 300-person understanding how said, noting that crowd at a July the business goes as a this allows both Co-op Board whole, as opposed to employers and meeting held to discuss the just their department.” employees flexibility without firings. a set contract.

Most conThere are bencerned Co-op — Margaret Drye, efits and detrimembers have co-op board of ments to both privately boydirectors president policies, Drye cotted shopping said. at Co-op food T h e stores since the summer, “Concerned About the group is formulating a recomCo-op” leader and 22-year Co-op mendation to implement a system member Liora Alschuler said. The under which employees are insured group has considered more direct a hearing for their grievances by actions, such as a public boycott or an outside panel of individuals. demonstration, but such activities Current company policy states that store supervisors hear emhave not yet been organized.

A Co-op policy gives bonuses ployee grievances. If the grievance if a Co-op store meets its target is not resolved, higher levels of number of gross sales, so boycot- management get involved. ting the Co-op stores would have Many employees do not report the adverse effect of penalizing their grievances because they beemployees, Alschuler said. This lieve they will receive repercussions is one of the main reasons why from management, “Concerned concerned members have not an- About the Co-op” leader Victoria Fullerton said. The group’s nounced a public boycott.

This policy falls in line with employee support sub-committee the Co-op’s “open-book man- aims to serve as a confidential agement” style, Co-op Board of mediator between employees and Directors president Margaret Drye the Board of Directors, bypassing management. said.

“The over arching idea is that The Co-op’s Board of Directors all the employees are involved in and management hired a thirdunderstanding how the business party survey team two years ago goes as a whole, as opposed to just to do a voluntary, extensive survey of the entire staff. their department,” Drye said.

Tuesday’s meeting showed a Ninety-four percent of the staff clear consensus that the group participated, Drye said. The Co-op will focus on the Board of Direc- performed at or higher than the tors’ April elections rather than benchmark set for all questions, an organized boycott, Alschuler she said. said. In the election, which will Last year, the Co-op sent a more have four open seats, “Concerned focused survey to a smaller number About the Co-op” group members of employees, Drye said. To avoid will advocate for candidates who “survey fatigue,” however, the Coop did not survey their staff this share their positions.

“Concerned About the Co-op” year, but they will sent out another has four subcommittees: policy, extensive survey in 2015, she said. communications, employee sup- At its August Board of Direcport and direct action. The policy tors meeting, open to the public, committee makes recommenda- the directors announced the tions for potential changes to formation of a sub-committee to the Co-op and sends them to its address employment practices.

This “pleasantly surprised” many directors.

One of the group’s main goals attendees, Co-op spokesperson is to change the Co-op’s “at will” Allan Reetz said.

“The Board has looked at these employment policy.

Under New Hampshire law, issues because it’s something they any employee without a contract felt they needed to,” he said. can be fired without being given The September meeting adFROM CO-OP PAGE 1

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Some Co-op members have staged private boycotts of Co-op stores since the dismissal of two employees this summer.

dressed specific changes to store guidelines, which will be further discussed at the October meeting.

Some Co-op members disliked the company’s direction before King and Boutin were fired, Fullerton said. Corporatization and management practice were among members’ apprehensions.

The forebearer of the Co-op food stores was formed in 1936 by 17 local residents, including Dartmouth professors. Today, the Co-op has spread into Vermont and New Hampshire, comprising three stores, one market and a service center.

The company has around 5,000 shoppers per day and makes about $74 million in sales per year, Reetz said. He noted that its membership is growing at an unprecedented place, and is on track to expand by 1,500 this year.

This makes it the second largest food Co-op in the nation, as well as one of the oldest, according to the company’s website.

The company emphasizes that it is “member-owned,” as it has more than 30,000 members, of which 21,000 are active shoppers, Drye said.

The Hanover store will break ground for renovations next week, which will include expanding the store and making it more energy efficient, town manager Julia Griffin said. The renovation is expected to cost $5.3 million.

“Concerned About the Co-op” members have raised some questions about how the renovations aligns with the overall values and goals of the Co-op, Alschuler said.

As the Co-op has grown into

a large company, members have wondered if its size equates to success.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Alschuler questioned, “is it possible for the Co-op to be too large?”

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

Taylor Watson ’16

TODAY 3:30 p.m.

Physics and astronomy colloquium with Dr. Joseph Emerson of the University of Waterloo, Wilder 104

7:00 p.m.

Film screening, “Calvary” (2014), Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

7:00 p.m.

Women’s volleyball versus Brown University, Berry Leede Arena Court 2

TOMORROW 12:00 p.m.

Field hockey versus the University of Pennsylvania, Astroturf Field

2:00 p.m.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” National Theatre in HD, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

7:00 p.m.

Film screening, “Snowpiercer” (2014), Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

RELEASE DATE– Friday, October 3, 2014

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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31 Symbol seen in viola music 32 Parisian map line 33 Oracle 37 Edinburgh souvenir 38 Army post merged with McGuire AFB and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst 42 Youngest goal scorer in MLS history 43 Hops kiln 45 Took top honors 46 Exasperated cry 48 Trader who doesn’t take the market seriously?

52 Some runners 55 Betrayed, in a way 56 Like most tupelo leaves 57 His epitaph reads “And the beat goes on” 59 Part of a roof 63 Classified instrument?

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34 One titled “Lord” 35 Do lawn work 36 River past Duisburg 39 Uncommon bills 40 Bashful companion?

41 Green stone 44 Sleeping sickness carriers 47 Seemed logical 49 Place for a nest egg 50 Gave up the ball 51 “Time __ the essence” 52 Roadside business 53 Creamy white 54 Memory problem

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

B y BLAZE JOEL AND JOE CLYNE The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Week three brings the beginning of the Ivy slate for the Dartmouth football and men’s soccer teams, as several others move further into their Ancient Eight schedule.

Women’s volleyball vs. Brown University (Friday at 7 p.m.)

The women’s volleyball team is off to its hottest start in years, winning 10 of its first 12 games. Though the Big Green has not beaten Brown since 2011, the team looks poised for a leap.

Over the weekend, the Big Green took down last season’s Ancient Eight runner-up, Harvard, in four sets. Since Brown and Harvard play similar offensive styles, look for Dartmouth to come out prepared Friday night.

Dartmouth’s attack, led by Emily Astarita ’17 and Paige Caridi ’16 have tallied nearly 12 kills per set. However, the Big Green has struggled with its starts, winning only five first sets.

Look for Dartmouth to struggle early before powering back for a big win.

Prediction: Dartmouth 3-1 Football vs. the University of Pennsylvania (Saturday at 1:30 p.m.)

Penn (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) comes into Hanover in the throes of a six-game losing streak and the Big Green (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) should be looking for revenge — Dartmouth hasn’t defeated the Quakers since 2007, and its four-overtime loss in Philadelphia last year cost the Big Green a share of the Ivy League title.

That, and the fact that Billy Ragone is no longer calling the shots for the Penn offense, should help the home team.

Ragone led the Quakers to three titles in his five years under center and was 5-0 against Dartmouth.

While Penn’s offense has managed to rack up 340 yards per game, it has averaged just 19 points per game (notably, however, that number reflects the fact that the Quakers managed just seven against No. 6 Villanova’s vaunted defense). Dartmouth’s defense will have to tighten up if it wants to compete on Saturday — the Big Green has given up more than 38.5 points per game.

The University of New Hampshire stymied the Big Green attack for much of the game last week. The return of Brian Grove ’16 should help Dalyn Williams ’16 and Kyle Bramble ’16 exploit Penn’s defense, which has given up more than 30 points in both contests.

Over the last four years, these games have consistently been close, and this one should be no different. The home atmosphere should help motivate the Big Green.

Prediction: Dartmouth 28-21

Men’s soccer at Princeton University (Saturday at 4 p.m.)

Both the Big Green (4-2-1, 0-0 Ivy) and the Tigers (3-2-2, 0-0 Ivy) get Ivy League play underway this Saturday afternoon in New Jersey.

The Big Green has not lost a game since its return from the Hoosier State for a tournament against the last two national champions, the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University.

Over this five-game unbeaten streak, Dartmouth has outscored its opponents 12-4, including a 2-1 double overtime win over the University of Vermont on Wednesday. Princeton has also not lost since a 3-1 defeat against then-No. 13 Georgetown University on Sept. 17.

Both teams have scored 13 goals this season and, while the Tigers have surrendered 12, the Big Green has only been scored on nine times. The main difference for the Tigers is junior Ben Hummel in net. Hummel has a whopping 25 saves so far this season.

Top scorers Alex Adelabu ’15 and Robin Alnas ’15 will have their hands full finding the net.

On the other side of the ball, the Dartmouth defense will have trouble with senior Cameron Porter and junior Thomas Sanner, who each have four goals on the year.

If the Dartmouth D can handle these tough matchups, the Big Green should escape with a win.

Prediction: Dartmouth 2-0 Women’s soccer at Princeton University (Saturday at 7 p.m.)

Coming off a tough 1-0 overtime loss against Sacred Heart University on Tuesday that ended its five-game unbeaten streak, the Dartmouth women (3-3-2, 0-0-1 Ivy) travel to New Jersey to take on the Tigers (2-3-2, 1-0-0 Ivy).

The Tigers’ last game was a 1-0 win on the road at Yale University. That win was one of the few bright spots for a Tigers team that has been outscored 15-8 this year. This could be tough against a Big Green defense that has held opponents to just six goals, 75 shots and 17 corners all season. Goalkeeper Tatiana Saunders ’15 has been just as impressive, stopping 22 shots and surrendering just 0.92 goals per game.

Princeton has managed to rip 107 shots and earn 36 corners, but an inability to convert could come back to haunt them in this contest.

For the Big Green, Lucielle Kozlov ’16 has been the principal offensive threat, scoring four of the team’s nine goals this season.

If Dartmouth can score early, this game should open up and the Big Green could pile on. With two low-scoring offenses, however, one goal could make the difference.

Prediction: Dartmouth 1-0

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Lottie MacAulay ’17 and Stacey Benton ’17 defend the net for the Big Green in the team’s home opener against Bryant.

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Jackie Friedman ’16 attempted a free kick for the Big Green in its 1-0 double overtime win over Northeastern University.

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The Big Green celebrates a touchdown in the team’s home opener, a resounding win over Central Connecticut State.

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

FRIDAY LINEUP

VOLLEYBALL VS. BROWN 7 PM

MEN’S GOLF MACDONALD CUP

Football seeks revenge on Quakers in Ivy League opener

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Ryan McManus ’15 breaks the plane for a touchdown in Dartmouth’s heartbreaking 2012 home loss to the Quakers.

Mike Banaciski ’14 tries to tackle Penn receiver Conner Scott in the 2012 contest.

B y Brett Drucker

The Dartmouth offense has shown spurts of success this season, in the second half against CCSU and on back-to-back scoring drives against UNH, but lacks consistency.

“We had a lot of mistakes [against UNH], even on basic plays that we’ve run since I’ve been here,” wide receiver Victor Williams ’16 said. “So we just need to get those kinks out, and make sure that we take care of our assignments and execute a lot better than we did last week.”

Quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16, who is tied for the Ivy League lead in passing touchdowns with five this season, will look to exploit the Quakers defense that has allowed 480 yards of offense on average per game this season.

On the defensive side, the Dartmouth unit will need to recover from last week’s performance by cutting down on the 531 yards they gave up to the Wildcats.

Dartmouth will try to send the Quakers back to Philadelphia still winless on the season after falling to Villanova University and Jacksonville State in their first two games.

Despite its record, Williams cautioned about reading too much into the team’s prowess.

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

In 2012, Dartmouth lost a heartbreaker to the University of Pennsylvania by a touchdown. In 2013, after a missed game-winning field goal by the Big Green, the Quakers eventually prevailed in quadruple overtime.

Now, one year after knocking off the presumptive champion in the final week of the season and inching closer to the top of the Ivy League, the football team prepares to open play in the Ancient Eight this weekend as it seeks revenge against the University of Pennsylvania.

In what has become one of the league’s most exciting matchups, the Big Green (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) heads into the game looking to avenge its two last-second losses to the Quakers (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) in the past two seasons.

In 2012 in Hanover, the Big Green fell into a 20-0 hole by halftime before storming back to within a touchdown, eventually falling just short of a miraculous comeback, 28-21.

Last season, the two teams played the longest game in Ivy League history in a back-and-forth thriller at Penn’s historic Franklin Field. The

Quakers pulled out a hard-fought 37-31 win in four overtimes.

“It was one of those ones where you just kept wondering if it was ever going to end,” defensive coordinator Don Dobes said. “Obviously, we were devastated. We felt like we had a great opportunity to win it a couple of times and, for one reason or another, either offensively, defensively or special teams, we didn’t get the job done.”

The Big Green looks to shake off an inconsistent performance from last week. Dartmouth fell 52-19 at the University of New Hampshire.

On offense, defense and special teams, the Big Green chalked the loss up, in large part, to a series of mental mistakes.

“I think, athletically, our team is there,” running back Kyle Bramble ’16 said. “We just need to go through our assignment and actually do what we’re supposed to be doing.”

The most impressive performance for Dartmouth in Durham was kickreturner Kirby Schoenthaler ’15, who tallied a Dartmouth-record 198 return yards over the game, including a 92-yard return that gave the Big Green offense the ball at the UNH two-yard line.

Both players and coaches said

that, although the early games are helpful to improve and evaluate the team, Ivy League contests are always

“That’s something we’re looking forward to, winning the conference, winning the Ivy League championship. It’s been a while since we’ve won one. I think we’re all ready to go. Everyone’s going to be jacked up.

It’s going to be a big game.”

- KYLE BRAMBLE ’16, RUNNING BACK the biggest games.

“It was good to play against two really good teams to find out what you’re good at and what you’re not so good at,” he said. “We’re really excited about getting [Ivy play] going.

This is what it’s all about.”

“I don’t take anything from it,” he said. “I like to come into each week and prepare as if they’re just another opponent and have respect for any opponent we play against.”

Penn will be starting sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen who is making his first career Ivy League start. Torgersen replaces the graduated Billy Ragone who had been a thorn in Dartmouth’s side throughout his career, going 5-0 as a starter against the Big Green.

The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that the Quaker defense may be without senior captain and linebacker Dan Davis who suffered a concussion last week and would be evaluated in the days leading up to the game.

The Big Green seeks its 18th Ivy League title, its first since 1996.

“That’s something we’re looking forward to, winning the conference, winning the Ivy League championship,” Bramble said. “It’s been a while since we’ve won one. I think we’re all ready to go. Everyone’s going to be jacked up. It’s going to be a big game.”

Kickoff will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Field and will be broadcast on regional TV on Fox College Sports Atlantic.