VOL. CLXXI NO. 31
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014
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New housing options will begin next fall By MIN KYUNG JEON The Dartmouth Staff
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A new addition to a snowy Green greeted passersby throughout the day.
Students back tougher policy
B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff
Re p l a c i n g D a r t mouth’s current sexual misconduct policy with a zero-tolerance policy for students found responsible for sexual assault has recently gathered momentum on the Improve Dartmouth online forum.
Since a Feb. 10 gathering on the Green, when students met in support after a male student threatened a female member of the Class of 2017 on Bored at Baker, discussion surrounding the policy has grown. Under the zero-tolerance policy students found guilty of rape
would be separated from the College. The suggestion, proposed on Jan. 23 by Cally Womick ’13, is Improve Dartmouth’s highest voted submission. Dartmouth’s current policy states that students are prohibited from engaging in any kind of SEE POLICY PAGE 3
Discussing issues ranging from a lack of shared cooking spaces to the need for more student-faculty interaction in residence halls, alumni, faculty and students gathered for the second set of Moving Dartmouth Forward sessions in Fahey Hall yesterday. Director of residential education Mike Wooten facilitated a lively discussion, collecting feedback on three new housing initiatives: a global village community, an arts and innovation community and a design-your-own housing community program. These residential options, which offer students with common interests opportunities to learn together outside the classroom, will be instituted by the office of residential life in the fall. Wooten said that the initiatives match College President Phil Hanlon’s vision for residential life. The global village community, which will be located in an existing physical plant, will enable students to explore global learning-themed subject matters under the common theme of global learning. The vil-
lage will house the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program, the international residence program, currently located in McCulloch Hall, and students enrolled in various language programs. Centralizing new and existing programs under the global village umbrella will hopefully encourage “cross-pollination,” Wooten said. The arts and innovation community will center on the College’s Student Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator at 4 Currier Place, which is expected to be completed by the spring. The design-your-own option allows groups of students to design their own communities around a theme. After briefly describing the initiatives, Wooten asked the crowd for input. Students suggested creating a central space within each building for residents to socialize, while others shared positive experiences of living in affinity houses like the sustainable living
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More women pursue Network helps partners find jobs degrees in science B y Rebecca Asoulin The Dartmouth Staff
B y Sera Kwon
The Dartmouth Staff
Though she is currently experimenting with an electromagnetic calorimeter as an intern at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Laura Bergsten ’15 never anticipated studying science at Dartmouth. With encouragement from her freshman advisor and other faculty members, however, Bergsten began to explore beyond her
original interests in government, working as a paid research intern through the Women In Science Project, experimenting with quantitative studies classes and running computer simulations in physics laboratories. She eventually declared a physics and math double major. Bergsten is one of 25 current students at the College who has declared a major in physics. Women constitute
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When Tyler Bergmeier discovered he would join the College’s financial aid office, he and his spouse, Miranda Bergmeier, were tasked with relocating to the Upper Valley. In addition to expensive housing, limited after-school child care and few options for African-American hair care, for Miranda Bergmeier, one of the most pressing challenges associated with moving to the area has been finding a job. Human resources senior
recruiter Beau Benson independently runs the Dual Career Network, which works with partners and spouses of the College’s new hires to find staff positions at Dartmouth or elsewhere in the region. Benson is currently working with Miranda Bergmeier to find work in the Hanover area. “I think in a lot of families now both parents have to work in order to meet the bills,” Tyler Bergmeier said. “Any time one spouse moves for a job-related opportunity, the other spouse has to move, and that in and
of itself makes it difficult.” Benson said she works with 30 to 40 accompanying partners a year. An accompanying partner includes anyone who has uprooted himself or herself to move with a staff or faculty member to Dartmouth. Finding a job in any community can be difficult, as word of many open positions spreads through personal connections, Miranda Bergmeier said. “This is hard to do when you are starting from scratch SEE CAREERS PAGE 2