The Dartmouth 01/14/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO. 9

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Bill Clinton speaks to 700 at the College

MOSTLY CLOUDY HIGH 28 LOW 14

By JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

KATELYN JONES/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

SPORTS

MEN'S BASKETBALL BEATS CANISIUS PAGE 8

Former president BIll Clinton speaks about Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

THE DEATH OF PEACEFUL PROTESTS? PAGE 4

ARTS

HOOD DISPLAYS CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS

SEE CLINTON PAGE 3

Students pursue pre-professional interests over break By ZACHARY BENJAMIN

OPINION

Former President Bill Clinton, husband to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, spoke to an audience of 700 Dartmouth and Upper Valley community members yesterday evening in the Hopkins Center’s Alumni Hall. Many of the audience members watched his speech in an overflow room in the Hanover Inn. Clinton was preceded by a performance by the Dartmouth Aires; speeches by Austin Boral ’16, a New Hampshire Hillary fellow and Clinton campaign team leader at Dartmouth, and Ross Svenson, organizer of Hillary for New

The Dartmouth Staff

This past Thanksgiving, many Dartmouth students were left wondering what to do with themselves during the five long weeks of winter break. Several students chose to spend some of that time participating in the December break opportunities program, run by the Center for Professional Development. The CPD has been offering pre-professional interim oppor-

tunities for several years, associate director for advising Leslie Kingsley said, but the structure of the program was changed in December 2014. Previously, the program had been aimed at upperclass students, and required students to physically come into the CPD’s office to sign up for job shadows or projects. Under the new system, Kingsley said that students can sign up for break opportunities through Dartboard rather than in-person, making it easier for

them to find potential hosts. This also gives students who are off campus during the fall term a more fair chance to find job shadows or projects through the program, she said. She noted that this system collecting data on outcomes, satisfaction and student performance easier. The program also has been changed to allow parents of Dartmouth students to host job shadows or longer-term projects, she said. Previously

the program had limited host positions only to Dartmouth alumni. In addition, the program has been redesigned to have a greater focus on first-years and sophomores, she said. Priority registration is given to students in the CPD’s professional development accelerator program, a two-year program piloted in the 2014-2015 school year for incoming students to begin preparing for their professional lives early in their college careers.

After that, first-years have priority access, then sophomores, then juniors and finally seniors. “We see an extreme importance of involving our first-year students really from day one,” she said. Brenda Miao ’19, who participated in a short-term project with the biotechnology company Celgene, said that she learned about December break opportunities on Dartboard, SEE CPD PAGE 2

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Warm weather contributes to Hanover’s deer problem

By KATIE RAFTER

The Dartmouth Staff

With the warmer temperatures and lack of snow this winter, Hanover residents have been saying “oh, deer.” Higher temperatures have kept deer in the area active longer, as more falllike weather continued into the end of 2015. Hanover town officials are currently waiting to deter mine to what extent new hunting

regulations addressed the problem of an increasing deer population in the Upper Valley over the past few years. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said that while there has always been a number of deer in the rural areas of Hanover, the deer problem has gotten worse in the in-town areas over the last few years. Barbara McIlroy, a member of the Hanover Conser-

vation Commission’s biodiversity committee, echoed this sentiment. She said that increasing deer markers have been found more than six miles from the center of town. McIlroy said the Hanover Conservation Comission held a well-attended meeting in September 2014 about deer management and forest health, with outside experts invited to speak. “The most basic takeaway

is that we need help from hunters, and they need to be taking doe in order to bring the deer population down to a reasonable level,” she said. Griffin said the town is working together with New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the College to open large tracts of land near downtown Hanover that are owned by Dartmouth and the town to hunters, increasing their access to the deer population.

“Those are areas of land that were previously posted no hunting, but in the last three years we opened them up to hunters,” she said. During the hunting season, Griffin said Hanover hunters increased their deer intake from around 85 to 90 deer taken in 2013 to over 145 in 2014. She added that the town is still waiting for New Hampshire Fish and SEE DEER PAGE 5


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