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Following both internal and external criticism, recently appointed Susan Taffe Reed will no longer serve as the director of the Native American Program, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed in an email. Lawrence wrote that the external “distraction around [Reed’s] appointment” prevents her from being able to effectively serve students as director. She will remain at the College, and administrators are “exploring other opportunities” for her. Reed assumed the director role on Sept. 1 and quickly experienced disapproval from Native American students and alumni after a post on the blog “FakeIndians” claimed that Reed is of solely Irish descent. Reed identifies as a person of mixed Native and European ancestry and is president of the Eastern Delaware Nation — a federally unrecognized tribe that allows non-Native people to join as social members. Alumni took greater issue with the fact that Reed apparently misrepresented her ancestry than with the fact that she is allegedly not of Native descent, with several saying this should not be a prerequisite for the position. Others said that it may be more difficult for Reed to advise Native students from reservations if she does not have that lived experience. The controversy surrounding Reed’s appointment was covered in the Wall Street Journal, Inside Higher Ed and other national news outlets.
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Clery Act data released B y PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff
Big changes in the way sexual assault is tallied and a higher reporting rate contributed to a jump in the number of sex crimes reported in Dartmouth’s 2015 Annual Report on Campus Security and Fire Safety. The report was sent out via campuswide email on Thursday. The rates of alcohol-related offenses, stalking offenses and dating violence also saw an increase,
while the number of hate crimes, burglaries and arsons decreased. The report tallies campus crime and is submitted to the federal government and released each October as a requirement stipulated in the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990. “We are incredibly fortunate that Dartmouth is a safe and secure environment and community,” Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist said. “Our community members look out for
one another, whether it be through a reporting avenue or getting support for a friend or colleague — we need to emphasize that.” There were 48 reports of rape reported in locations connected to Dartmouth in 2014. There were also seven cases of fondling. Rape and fondling were previously combined in the “forcible sex offenses” category, which saw 35 reports in 2013 and 24 in 2012. SEE CLERY PAGE 5
Alternative to Common App After AAU survey,profs want to support safe campus
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Dartmouth has joined 80 colleges and universities, including all Ivy League institutions, in the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success — which aims to offer a platform that serves as an alternative to the Common App. The Coalition will be offering online programs to help high school students with
the admissions process starting in January 2016, creating a platform that will serve as an alternative to the Common Application. According to the official press release on Sept. 28, the Coalition said with this platform, it aims to make the admissions process a more engaging and long-term experience. Specifically, students will be able to add to a digital portfolio
— a collaboration platform and an alternative method of applying to member colleges — starting their freshman year of high school. The rationale is that students can start thinking about college early and identifying appropriate schools to which they can apply. “[The application process] is kind of a race to the finish line, and it SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 3
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Some College faculty were startled by the results from the Association of American Universities campus climate survey data released last week, even as others said they were not surprised. Still, all agreed that professors have an obligation to create a safe campus community. The College has not formally reached out to the faculty to address
the findings. According to the survey, 13 percent of Dartmouth students reported that sexual contact — either by incapacitation or physical force — had been attempted or completed against them since they matriculated. The overall rate for the 27 participating institutions was 12 percent. For female undergraduates in SEE AAU PAGE 3
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DAily debriefing The national default rate for federal student loans fell by two percent to 11.8 percent of those who started loan repayment in 2012, Inside Higher Ed reported. Additionally, one fifth of borrowers are not in default but have not started to repay their student loans. Of the 171 schools where a majority of borrowers had not started to repay their loans, 143 were for-profits, 24 were private nonprofits, and four were public. Fifteen colleges have exceeded the 30 percent default rate cutoff set by Congress and are consequently at risk of losing federal student aid. This summer, a bipartisan group in Congress introduced a bill to change the cutoff for colleges receiving federal student aid from one measured by default rate to one measured by the proportion of students not repaying their loans in any form. Only 38 percent of college alumni who graduated between 2006 and 2015 strongly agreed that their college education was worth the cost, while 13 percent strongly disagreed, according to a GallupPurdue Index poll. Half of all the 30,000 college alumni polled strongly agreed that their higher education was worth the cost, while 4 percent strongly disagreed. Thirteen percent of private for-profit college graduates strongly disagreed. Only a third of graduates in student-loan debt strongly agreed their college education was worth the cost. Of recent graduates with more than $25,000 in debt, 27 percent said their debt had prevented them from moving out of their parent’s house, 26 percent said it delayed them having children and 19 percent said it delayed their marriage. Inside Higher Ed conducted their annual survey of admissions directors. The survey found that three-quarters of admissions directors think their college is receiving fewer applications because of the financial cost of attending. A quarter of admission directors also say they have been pressured by senior college officials or trustees to admit particular applicants. A majority of the 264 admission directors surveyed said they also intended to increase their recruitment of international and out-of-state students. Additionally, most admissions directors are strongly in favor of the right of colleges to practice affirmative action. Furthermore, 51 percent of private admissions directors and 33 percent of public admissions directors believed that colleges generally hold Asian-American applicants to a higher standard in admissions. Despite a pending Supreme Court case on affirmative action that is likely to be decided by an anti-affirmative action majority, only 15 percent of public admissions directors and 2 percent of private admissions directors have planned contingencies in the event of a ban on affirmative action.
—Compiled by Carter Brace
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Professors launch drug info website B y MEGAN CLYNE The Dartmouth
After reading the nutrition facts on a box of cereal one morning, Geisel School of Medicine professors Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz thought of using the same model to communicate drug safety infor mation.This idea became Informulary, a company seeking to increase public knowledge about commonly used medicines by publishing easy-toread drug fact information on its website, which launched last week, they wrote in an email. Drug advertisements are often presented in the esoteric language of medicinal drugs, which can be daunting for the average consumer. According to the Informulary website, while it is customary for Food and Drug Administration reviews to incorporate Phase III clinical trial data regarding drug effectiveness, these reports are often lengthy and lack structure and precision. Infor mulary is working to provide key facts about popular medicines without the confusion and hassle generated by television and other advertisements. According to Woloshin and Schwartz, Americans spent $370 billion on drugs in 2014 alone, many of which were either inexpensive and ineffective or, conversely, overpriced and easily replaceable with other more affordable alternatives. The project analyzes the data the FDA uses to approve drugs to summarize the most relevant facts regarding the potential advantages and detriments of certain medications. Once this information has been acquired, a DrugFactsBox, a label much like that of nutrition facts on food products, is created. In 2009, the FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee and Congress recommended that the DrugFactsBox be the primary source of information for the benefits and risks of pharmaceuticals,
according to the Informulary website. Section 3507 of the Affordable Care Act encouraged this plan to adopt the DrugFactsBox format as a communication standard. The FDA decided, however, that creating DrugFactsBoxes was too complicated an undertaking, Woloshin wrote in an email. Unlike other popular medicinal information sites like WebMD, Informulary is not funded by pharmaceutical companies, founding chairman of Informulary Gregg Fairbrothers said. “It’s a self-sustaining entity,” he said.
said. According to a 2009 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the DrugFactsBoxes have had an overwhelmingly positive influence on Americans’ understanding of the medicines themselves. When two randomized groups were given drug information — one with a DrugFactsBoxes and one with standard information, 70 percent of the drug box group identified the more effective drug, compared to 8 percent of the control group. Fairbrothers identified two overarching hopes he has for the future of Informulary. From a social and medical perspective, he said, “we want people to use drugs wisely with the best information possible.” In order for people to be able to do so, he said that Informulary must provide consumers with that information, presenting it to them in ways that are directly applicable. Financially, he said he hopes that the company is able to grow as cost-efficiently as possible. Alexander Kaye ’15 became involved with the company this past July. Kaye said he was interested in pursuing a career in health and sought an opportunity to learn more about his passions while making an impact on the lives of others. “It is a realistic way I can help both patients and doctors understand the medicines they’re using,” he said. Kaye was also inspired by Woloshin and Schwartz’s journey to create Informulary. “The fact that they saw an issue that needed to be addressed and just addressed it is incredible,” he said.
“It is a realistic way I can help both patients and doctors understand the medicine they’re using... The fact that they saw an issue that needed to be addressed and just addressed it is incredible.” - ALEXANDER KAYE ’15 Grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Consumer Reports have helped further the progress of the company. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was supportive of the project as well, Fairbrothers said. DHMC aligned with their mission of helping the greater public, added value to their production, and had good financial return, he
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their senior year, 34 percent reported nonconsensual sexual contact by force or incapacitation, seven percentage points higher than the national rate of 27 percent. The College also had one of the top five highest response rates at 41.7 percent, compared to the average of 19 percent. Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote, who declined to comment over the phone or in person, will chair a data analysis committee to release an additional report that will synthesize the AAU data with the Community Study survey the College is conducting in October. He wrote in an email that a “thoughtful analysis” could help evaluate the efficacy of solutions and result in deeper insights. Through data analysis, he wrote, the College could “distinguish itself in a very positive way.” Faculty expressed varying degrees of surprise regarding the College’s comparatively high rates of nonconsensual sexual contact. Engineering professor Jane Hill said she was not surprised by the results and accompanying “media splash,” though she had hoped the College’s sexual assault rates might be lower. “I think everybody should be concerned,” she said. “These numbers are unacceptable to students, not to mention faculty or students’ families.” Biology professor Mark McPeek said the numbers were higher than he expected. Seven faculty members interviewed by The Dartmouth agreed that they have a responsibility to create a safe environment for students, although some said they were not sure exactly how to engender comfortable campus communities. English professor Ivy Schweitzer said the College should provide a forum for faculty to ask questions or respond to the survey results. Schweitzer chairs the Committee on Student Life, a group of faculty and administrators that meets once a term to discuss issues and reports pertaining to student life. The committee discussed sexual assault extensively last year, but it has not yet convened this term, she said. “Although one could argue most faculty aren’t trained to create or judge these kinds of questions — it’s important for transparency, for the administration to show they’re working hard on these issues,” Schweitzer said. “The faculty need to buy in on this process — we are a major force on campus.” Hill was recently appointed to be a house professor as part of the new residential communities system being implemented next fall. She said the
system aims to enhance bystander intervention and prevention of sexual assault. House professors have not yet formally convened to discuss the AAU report, but talks about preventing sexual assault have been important during the planning stages of the new residential system, she said. Astronomy professor Ryan Hickox, who will be a house professor, said the AAU survey demonstrates that other institutions with residential house systems similar to the one the College is launching still have significant problems with sexual assault. “The residential system by itself isn’t goinwg to ameliorate problems,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for us to tie efforts to combat sexual assault directly into the residential experience.” Computer science professor Xia Zhou noted that faculty often chat with students after class or during office hours, which can help them gauge student opinion on campuswide issues. She said that if faculty voice opinions or express support for students during classes or events, it could make campus safer. Writing professor John Donaghy said more research should be conducted on sexual assault. In particular, he said, he was interested in figures about demographics of the perpetrators and conditions surrounding the assaults. He added that students should take charge of the issue to make sure change actually occurs. “The most important thing is to remember students started [the movement against sexual assault], and students will probably have to be the ones to keep it honest,” he said. Not all professors are eager to help, Schweitzer said, but some faculty want to effect change. “Faculty are already involved, whether they want to be or not,” she said. “We teach students — even though we’re mainly concerned with their academic curriculum — social curriculum plays a major role in how students are able to learn. We as adults also have a part in the maturation process of these young people.” Workshops advising faculty members on addressing reports of sexual assault — which are already offered by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning — should be mandatory during orientation for new faculty, Schweitzer said. Hill said she is hopeful that rising awareness about sexual assault will lead to meaningful change on campus and elsewhere. “I’m glad we’re at a point in the public discourse where it has momentum,” Hill said. “Dartmouth can lead — there are preventative measures we can employ. I hope that happens soon. We have that opportunity.”
is anxiety-inducing for everybody,” Coalition communications representative Julie Peterson said. “What these admissions people felt was that they want students to start thinking about college earlier, because they want to make sure that they are prepared by the time they go [to college], that they have assembled the right classes and the right experiences to be successful in college. [Admissions representatives from member colleges] felt that was better done as a process than a point in time. It would be more of a journey and less of a sprint.” Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde said that part of the goal of the Coalition is to provide a more equitable opportunity for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the admissions process. The Coalition members consist of public schools that have affordable tuition and provide need-based financial aid for in-state students, or private schools that provide sufficient aid to meet the needs of admitted students, according to the Coalition’s website. Coalition schools also graduate at least 70 percent of their students within six years. Sunde said the College has been
involved in talks with the Coalition for about a year. “The idea of the Coalition is to make tools available to students much earlier on,” he said. “So that a student, who perhaps doesn’t have access to lucrative counseling and support that many of our applicants do, can get some guidance and some encouragement, so that by the time that they’re seniors, they’re ready for an applicant pool that’s as competitive as ours.” Michele Hernandez ’89, copresident of Top Tier Admissions and former College admissions officer, a college admissions consulting firm, said the Coalition’s system does not seem equitable to disadvantaged students because the platform relies on computers and technologies, which can be more often difficult to access for that group. Bev Taylor, founder of college admissions consulting firm Ivy Coach, also said the Coalition failed to take into account the school environment of disadvantaged students. “Disadvantaged students will require more counseling, not less,” she said. “Yet disadvantaged students often do not have access to counseling, or they attend public schools that have large student-to-counselor ratios. Also, disadvantaged kids are
generally first generation students... and as such, usually apply to less selective schools that wouldn’t qualify for the Coalition because they have less than a 70 percent graduation rate.” The implementation of the Coalition application in 2016 means that, for the first time in over a decade, Dartmouth will be accepting applications through sources other than the Common App. “When the application comes through the door, all the Coalition applications will be put into a single applicant pool with anyone who chooses to apply through the Common Application,” Sunde said. “We will evaluate students within our pool as simply applicants, not Coalition or Common applicants.” Sunde said he hopes the Coalition will better match students to schools where they might be competitive applicants. “I think that we would hope to end up with students in our applicant pool that might not otherwise consider us, and that those students will be well-prepared,” Sunde said. “Stretch this out a few years — a more socioeconomically diverse group of students in our applicant pool, better prepared to be more successful candidates.”
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Geisel School of Medicine’s financial struggles raise questions about the budget. This week, College President Phil Hanlon announced that the Geisel School of Medicine will restructure in response to budgetary problems. Administrators aim to reduce the medical school’s $26 to 28 million annual deficit by diverting funds from the medical school’s weaker programs to its stronger ones. Though some of our undergraduate readers might think that this news is irrelevant or unremarkable, we think students should know that this is not the case — and we call upon all to take more of an active interest in the College’s finances. In part, the present budgetary constraints stem from national trends that have left the College and its peers with fewer dollars for medical research. Administrators have been quick to blame Geisel’s current situation on such national factors, such as the decline in federal funding from sources like the National Institute of Health. Last November, for example, Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier launched a fundraising campaign to garner $750 million against this backdrop of stagnant federal funding. Geisel’s troubles, however, were not entirely beyond the College’s control. Administrators have also distanced themselves from the Geisel 2020 Strategic Plan for Excellence, which set 2020 as a target year to place Geisel within the nation’s top 20 medical schools. Meanwhile, this past year Geisel dropped in the U.S. News and World Report rankings from 34th in research and 18th in primary care to 37th and 29th, respectively. Considering the medical school’s difficulty remaining in the top 30, such an ambitious goal in such a short period of time was unrealistic, and all the College has to show for it is a financial quandary. It is clear that an initiative to raise Geisel’s ranking across the board was not an effective method of improving the school. Specific programs within the school, like health care delivery science, are stronger than the school’s overall ranking would sug-
gest. Striving for excellence in those areas is the most promising way to build a name for Geisel, and the College is right to shift priorities thus under the new budget plan. Yet the underlying assumption of the 2020 plan — that Geisel is not quite where it should be — lingers, and presumably still deserves attention. We are anxious to see if the new trajectory can deliver where the 2020 plan did not. Hanlon has stated the College’s commitment to making Geisel “an academically successful and excellent place,” but talk is cheap. Paying for Geisel, on the other hand, is not. The medical school budget accounts for roughly 30 percent of the College’s expenses, but Geisel students compose just over seven percent of the total student population. To be certain, funding medical research is an expensive undertaking, and it is an investment that may never fully return its original financial investment. Yet this should not mean that the College should continue to spend a disproportionate amount on Geisel, as it exists now, no matter the cost. If we were to allot the present annual deficit run by Geisel — about $28 million — among its student population — reported in 2014 as 422 — the number would be about $66,351 per student. This is just shy of the College’s undergraduate sticker price. As this new budget plan will reduce, not eliminate, this deficit, Geisel will continue to be a significant expense for the College — and thus buoy the College’s high cost of attendance. More broadly, the Geisel announcement has left us concerned about inefficiencies in the College’s budget. Hanlon has sought to control costs, but annual tuition hikes continue to outpace inflation. That is to say, the College collects ample revenue from students. All that money should allow the College to be what we expect it to be — a world-class institution — provided it spends that money well. Students should be confident that their tuition will fund fields where Dartmouth can realistically excel.
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What do the responses to the AAU campus climate survey say about Dartmouth? The responses to the Association of American Universities campus climate survey certainly put the College above national norms or expectations regarding sexual assault awareness and reaction. Our campus is known to have a high incidence of sexual assault — this could either mean that we have more assaults than other schools or that assaults on our campus are reported more often than elsewhere. Either way, the recent survey responses prove that Dartmouth students, on average, are relatively more receptive to and likely to take action in the case of sexual assault or misconduct. These statistics and our status in relation to national averages, however, cannot make us complacent or distract us from our mission. Just because we are doing better than other schools does not mean we are doing well. Just because our students are more aware of, more likely to act on and even more likely to report sexual assault or misconduct, does not mean that we have reached our goal. We need to force ourselves to act without regard to our relative status. Receptiveness and awareness of sexual assault is not another Ivy League numbers game. It is not about competing with schools across the nation — it is about competing with ourselves. The survey gives us a good perspective on where we are, but it should not distract from where we are aiming to be. — Ioana Solomon ’19 A statistic showing that 33.8 percent of senior undergraduate women experienced attempted or completed “nonconsensual sexual contact by force or incapacitation” would prompt an administration taking those numbers seriously to take extremely drastic action quickly, since those are statistics that look like they are coming out of a war-torn developing country. Alternatively, one could interpret the lack of College response as indicating that Dartmouth is full of incredibly callous administrators who are entirely indifferent to the issue of sexual assault, but since the College has taken numerous steps to institute sexual assault prevention, it seems unlikely that this is the case. Given that administrators have demonstrated that they do actually care about sexual assault, the fact that there has been no demonstrated plan for fast, decisive action in light of the AAU results seems to imply that it does not think the results are valid. At a glance, it seems there are good reasons to believe there may be substantial flaws with these numbers thanks to the survey’s methodology. The language the survey employs could be construed as counting many things as sexual assault, such as drunk dancing at parties — even between parties who appear to be consenting to others — that many people would consider objectionable but would not necessary qualify as assault. Criticism of these numbers and the methodology behind them does not, and should not, imply dismissal of the issue at hand. Sexual assault is an incredibly important problem, and both administrators and the student body recognize this — this is why getting serious numbers on the issue is so important. — William Alston ’16
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At Dartmouth, 13 percent of students reported experiencing completed or attempted nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force
or incapacitation since matriuclation, one percent above the Association of American Universities campus climate survey average. The students at risk are overwhelmingly women, and in particular undergraduate women. Fifty-six percent of students indicated that they have been the victims of sexual harassment, 8 percent above the AAU’s average. The students at risk for both are usually women and non-binary individuals. Do you see a trend here? On our campus, more than at many others, we and our peers are at risk of sexual violence. We can no longer say “Dartmouth is not any different, our problems are just generic college campus problems.” One percent may not seem like a lot, but one percent of our student population is 62 people. We pride ourselves on excellence, but clearly we have failed in this realm — our campus is far from the safest. The one silver lining of this report is that our bystander intervention rate — 31 percent — is significantly higher than the average of 23 percent. Rape culture stems from a societal sense of entitlement to sex, and to others’ — particularly women’s — bodies. It is not something we can change in a year. Something we can change in a year, though, is the rate in which bystanders choice to intervene. Thirty-one percent is still far too low, especially since 61 percent of “students reported they had witnessed a drunken person heading for a sexual encounter.” We should all be intervening 100 percent of the time. The College is making some moves in the right direction by requiring Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training for entry into the Greek system and for student athletes. DBI training, and other measures to encourage bystander intervention, are a far more effective method of preventing sexual assault than attacking the Greek system, which has felt like administrators’ focus for the last few years. If we want to see real and meaningful change in our next AAU survey, we need to each take personal responsibility for keeping our campus safe and take action before assault can take place. — Jessica Lu ’18 In most regards, sexual assault at Dartmouth is just as bad as the next campus. Our overall rate of attempted or completed nonconsensual sexual contact across four years is about the same unacceptably high level as other colleges. But one trend stands out — both a warning and maybe a glimmer of hope. The risk of nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacitation from physical force or incapacitation significantly lowers from first-year to senior year. Responses that cited experiencing this rose from 13.7 percent to 14.7 percent from first-year to sophomore year, before dropping to 8.3 percent junior year and rising again to 10.7 percent senior year. This means underclassmen shoulder greater responsibility both in terms of guilt and need to change. But this also hopefully means that respect can be learned over four years. Maybe it is due to students’ growing maturity and responsibility, but maybe it is that being immersed in Dartmouth’s culture can actually be a catalyst for positive change. If culture can promote sexual assault, culture can also be a tool for fighting it. — Steven Chun ’19
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Clery reporting shows increased reports of rape FROM CLERY PAGE 1
Although the number of reported rapes and other forced sexual contact have risen, Lindkvist, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne and Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault chair Tori Nevel ’16 all said the rise in reporting is positive. “That indicates that the College is doing a good job of recording when reporting happens, and that students feel comfortable going forward when they’ve had an experience,” Nevel said. “But the Clery numbers still aren’t really high enough. We would like to see Clery numbers matching the number of people who have experienced assault, because we want people to feel comfortable reporting it to the College.” Hanover Police chief Charlie Dennis said the vast majority of rapes and sexual assaults go unreported, and the recent American Association of Universities campus climate survey indicated that roughly 34 percent of senior female Dartmouth students experienced sexual assault during their time at the College. “I think there’s a narrative that an Ivy League degree sets you up for a great future after graduation, but if one third of women are assaulted before they graduate, what does that really say? What are the costs to an Ivy League degree?” Nevel said.
Nevel later clarified that she was also referring to the eight percent of men who reported that they had been sexually assaulted by senior year in the AAU survey. Awareness and student action may have aided the increase in rape reports, Lindkvist said. In addition to new requirements for preventative training on sexual assault on campuses instituted through the Violence Against Women Act’s amendments to the Clery Act, the four-year sexual assault prevention program planned through the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy changes announced last winter may increase reports in the future, she said. Lindkvist praised programs like the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative for their ability to promote student intervention in situations in which sexual assault may be occurring or could potentially occur. “The best resource we have is our students,” Kinne said. SPCSA member Lily Fagin ’16 and Lindkvist both said the splitting of the “forcible sexual offenses” category into the separate fields of rape and fondling was a good idea because it leads to more accurate reporting. The “non-forcible sexual offenses” category in the report was also split into statutory rape and incest. Dartmouth did not have any reports of either offense.
“What the feds have done is split it out so that we’re no longer using those umbrella terms, which is advantageous because it paints a more accurate picture of the statistics on campus, and in terms of the language it’s more appropriate for campuses,” Lindkvist said. Fagin said counting “dating violence” and “domestic violence” separately in the report also contributed to more accurate data because the former term is more applicable to college campuses. There were 12 reports of dating violence at Dartmouth in 2014, up from one in 2013, and no reports of domestic violence in either year. Reports of stalking jumped from four to 17. A large number of new stalking reports relate to cyberstalking, Lindkvist said. Most stalking incidents involve both cyberstalking and conventional stalking, Kinne said. For the first time, the 2015 report was required to include a section on “unfounded crimes,” or crimes that a law enforcement official investigated and deemed to be baseless. In total, 19 anonymous reports of rape were found to be baseless by Hanover Police. The new category was instituted through amendments to the Clery Act made through the Violence Against Women Act, Lindkvist said.
The number of crimes reported declined in some areas outside of rape and sexual assault, according to the report. There were no reports of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, negligent manslaughter or aggravated assault at Dartmouth in 2014, consistent with the prior two years. Incidences of robbery and burglary were relatively comparable to previous years. Dartmouth experienced one robbery in 2014, up from none in both 2013 and 2012. There were 19 burglaries at Dartmouth in 2014, down from 27 in 2013. Kinne said the bulk of burglaries at Dartmouth occurred in unlocked rooms and lockers, a problem he and Dennis spoke about to the incoming Class of 2019 during Orientation. “I would encourage people to take the same precautions as they would at their own home to reduce any crime that might occur,” he said. “It is an idyllic place up here, but it is also part of society. We may not have the same frequency, but periodically we will have the same types of crimes.” There were five instances of motor vehicle theft in 2014, up from three in 2013. There were no instances of motor vehicle theft in 2012. At least two of the 2014 incidents involved golf carts, Kinne said. The College experienced fewer cases of arson this year than in years past. No arsons were reported at Dartmouth in 2014, down from three in each of the preceding two years. The reporting process for arson — which must be confirmed by local authorities — is more complicated than other crimes, Kinne said. The number of liquor-related arrests on Dartmouth property or related to the College remained the same at 100. The number jumped from 16 to 100 the previous year due to a shift in
reporting practices recommended by consultants, Kinne said. The new policy now includes many local educational or diversion programs under the category, he said. An additional 336 incidents occurred in which students were referred to other services for disciplinary action following a liquor law-related violation, up from 243 the previous year and 83 in 2012. A footnote on the report indicated that the “increase does not reflect a change in behavior on campus,” due to a change in reporting. Arrests relating to drug laws declined slightly from 22 to 21 — there were 16 such arrests in 2012. Incidents in which drug law violations were referred for disciplinary action rose from 20 in 2013 to 51 in 2014, which Kinne attributed to a greater willingness on the part of students to admit to smoking or otherwise consuming marijuana. There were no reported instances of illegal weapons possession at the College, consistent with previous years. Dartmouth experienced four reported hate crimes in 2014, of which three occurred on campus and one occurred off campus. One involved a rape “characterized by sexual orientation bias” and the three others involved intimidation, characterized either by sexual orientation, race or national origin-related bias. There were 10 hate crimes reported at Dartmouth in 2013, and two in 2012. Like sexual assault incidents, hate crimes are highly underreported, Kinne said. “I think that we’ve seen an increase in people’s awareness,” he said. “We look at every incidence where it looks like it’s been targeted at an individual or group, and we investigate that and make that determination as to whether or not it becomes a hate crime based on how the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] records that type of information.”
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m. “Beats by Dr. Dre: Beating the Ecosystem with Hard and Software,” Raether Hall, Frantz II Classroom
4:30 p.m. “Legacy of Social Class in the Transition to Adulthood” with Annette Lareau of the University of Pennsylvania, Silsby 28
5:00 p.m. Lecture by Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faculty Lounge
TOMORROW 6:30 p.m. “The End of the Tour” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2015), HD simulcast theatre, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
9:00 p.m. “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
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Women’s soccer blanks the University of Maine 3-0
B y james handal The Dartmouth
The women’s soccer team beat the University of Maine 3-0 in Saco, Maine, on Tuesday evening in its second to last non-conference game this season, extending its unbeaten streak to eight games. Goals by Melanie Vangel ’18, Jessica Lukas ’17 and an own goal by Maine secured all three points to put the Big Green 7-1-2 overall and 0-0-1 in the Ivy League. “In the first half we created some chances which was nice to see,” head coach Ron Rainey said. “We also played 19 people in the first half. I think being able to give some people breathers and get some fresh legs out there helped after playing an overtime game Sunday.” In the first half, Dartmouth came out aggressive and put pressure on the Brown Bears, taking 10 shots compared to Maine’s three. The Big Green finished the half strong and had a three-two advantage on corner kicks. Dartmouth, however, did not manage to convert any of its scoring opportunities, and the two teams entered their locker rooms at the half tied at 0-0. “In the first half, we were moving the ball really well, and they did not get many touches on the ball,” Jill Dayneka ’16 said. “So a
lot of the progress we made in the first half was where we really just ran them ragged, which led to the second half opportunities.” To start the second half, the Big Green players stepped up and controlled possession-making combinations, which resulted in the women scoring the first goal of the game in the 54th minute. Vangel received service from Brittany Champagne ’18 and then placed her shot out of the Maine goalkeeper’s reach. The Big Green, looking for a second tally, kept the pressure on the Brown Bears. In the 80th minute, a Dartmouth corner kick deflected off a Maine player into the Brown Bears’ net, giving Dartmouth the 2-0 edge with 10 minutes left to play. A few minutes later, Lukas caught the goalie in no man’s land and chipped the goalie to secure the victory. “The group did really well at the start of the second half, some people made nice runs that were good combinations and then the difference was just finishing on some of the chances,” Rainey said. “We’ve created probably a little more chances than in the first half, but then finishing a couple goals put them on their heals.” Casey Cousineau ’17 recorded five saves and improved to 7-1-2 in
goal. The Big Green’s possession, combination play and shot volume resulted in quality goals. Over the duration of the contest, Dartmouth outshot the Brown Bears 18-7, with a 9-4 advantage in corner kicks. The women’s soccer team is back in action against Princeton University on Saturday at 7 p.m. at home on Burnham Field after the men’s soccer’s team takes on the Tigers earlier that day at 4 p.m. “[Princeton is] a good team, and [to beat them] the team just has to play your best game of the year, and I think we’re in a situation where we probably will have to do that,” Rainey said. “[Princeton will] have a lot of confidence, and [they] have been scoring a lot of goals lately. I think we’ll probably have to defend the most sophisticated attack we’re playing against all year.” In its first Ivy League game, the Big Green drew level with Brown 0-0, and Princeton enters this weekend after blanking Yale University 3-0 in its Ivy League opener. Despite Princeton’s stronger conference start, several indicators lean toward a slight favor for Dartmouth in the contest. In its last four meetings with the Tigers, Dartmouth holds a 2-1-1 edge. On the season, Princeton has a positive-11 goal differential while Dartmouth has a positive-23 differential. If Dartmouth’s offense
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Dartmouth enters its home Ivy opener with a stellar 7-1-2 record on the season.
clicks on Burnham as it did in Maine on Tuesday night, the Big Green will have a solid chance to earn three conference points. “We are taking the season day
by day, practice by practice and game by game, which has been working well to realize that every moment is an impression to put on a team,” Kozlov said.
Shoot for It with Alex Lee ’16 and John Beneville ’16
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This week, John and Alex provide their hot takes on the injury-prone Derrick Rose.
B y alex lee and john beneville The Dartmouth
Alex Lee ’16 and John Beneville ’16 are back again for the third week of “Shoot For It.” This week we’ll be weighing in on Derrick Rose, who continues to struggle to stay healthy. After recovering the from a torn ACL and meniscus for the last few years, Rose suffered a left orbital fracture after taking an elbow to the face in practice. Although Rose has had surgery and is expected to return to practice in two weeks, this is terrible news for Chicago Bulls fans who have seen this
tree before. According to a tweet from “SportsCenter,” Derrick Rose missed 103 games in the last 2 seasons, while Tim Duncan has missed 97 games in his 18-year career. Because of all his injury questions, this year “Sports Illustrated” ranked Derrick Rose 60th out of the top 100 players. Not too long ago, the Bulls superstar was considered to be the league’s best point guard and perhaps the most explosive guard of all time. Now Derrick Rose is dealing with yet another injury. Will Derrick Rose be able to shed his injury-ridden label or will 2015-2016 be more of the same?
This week we discuss what to expect from Rose in the upcoming season. John’s Take: When news of Derrick Rose’s injury came into our war room I can’t say I was surprised. Rose has managed to break almost everything in his body in the last few years, and I guess his face was next on the chopping block. I mean seriously, this dude brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, “A bull in a china shop.” Rose would try and pick up a stack of tea cups and break both wrists. Has the guy heard of vitamin D? Calcium? Raloxifene? At this point he’s like an old woman with osteoporosis and should probably check into a nursing home — ask Steve Nash for some recommendations. I do feel for Rose though, it must be tough to have to sit on the couch and rake in the $60 million that he’s made over the last few years. My advice to Rose? Buy several hundred TempurPedic mattresses, get Empire Today to install them as wall-to-wall carpets and don’t leave the house ever again. Truth be told, I’ve been very optimistic about Rose’s future over the last few years. This time, though, I’m not so sure. Besides the massive quantities of ice and Advil that he’ll be taking to the dome over the next few weeks, I don’t know what lies ahead for the former star. Rose has been dealing with some
serious issues off the court, and some of his critics have questioned his resolve to return from the injuries that he’s had in the past. It’s never a good sign when a player’s work ethic and love of the game is questioned, and this makes me think twice before casting my lot in with Rose. Alex believes that Rose will have a comeback season, but I’m predicting he’ll be spending more time in a courtroom than on the basketball court. Alex’s Take: I’m going to be honest — I’ve never been a big fan of Derrick Rose. Even when he won MVP in 2011, I thought LeBron James deserved it — but I concede that this is coming from a LeBron “fanboy.” His entire career, Rose has relied on violent, unpredictable slashes to the basket. His overwhelming combination of strength, speed and athleticism pushed him to the upper echelon of the league for several years, but this came at a cost — both of his knees started degenerating and his entire career came into question. Players like Derrick Rose, Tracy McGrady and Amare Stoudemire that over-rely on their athletic gifts are bound to decline in their early 30s when father time finally catches up. Without his physical dominance, Derrick Rose is just another point guard with below average skills. Despite all of this, I think that Derrick
Rose is going to have a good season. In his preseason interview, Derrick Rose said that the only two things he has on his mind are his son and the upcoming season, a statement which hints at the importance of his financial success. Poor Adidas. How many “comeback” marketing strategies can one company employ before people start blaming their shoes for players’ injuries? Though it remains unclear how much motivation Rose has when it comes to winning championships, nobody doubts his commitments to his family and money. Rose has obvious financial motivations to perform well the next two seasons in order to secure another max contract during the summer of 2017. Furthermore, the Chicago Bulls are a much better team than they were during Rose’s prime years, and not having to carry the entire load will help moderate his minutes. The ascendance of Jimmy Butler, who is essentially a younger, more athletic Luol Deng, and the emergence of under-the-radar point guard Tony Snell will draw defenses away from Rose, freeing him to move in the lane unchallenged. Given Rose’s financial incentives and general improvement of his team, I expect Rose to have a moderate comeback season, but the Bulls will yet again lose to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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SPORTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
FRIDAY LINEUP
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. PENN 7 PM
Undefeated football team prepares for Ivy opener at Penn
B y alexander agadjanian The Dartmouth Staff
For a team with Ivy League title aspirations this season, the football team now lies a day removed from its time of reckoning. Out-scoring opponents 80-17 through two games, the Big Green have pummeled their way through a soft early out-of-conference schedule. Another non-conference foe awaits in two weeks, but before then, Dartmouth (2-0) will commence its Ivy League slate, opening at University of Pennsylvania (1-1) this Saturday. Tabbed to finish sixth in the conference by the media preseason poll, the Quakers entered 2015 without Al Bagnoli, the coach who won nine Ivy titles in his 23 years as coach. So far, the team has endured very different outcomes in their first two games. In its season opener, Penn fell behind to Patriot League opponent Lehigh University toward the end of the first half and were eventually routed 42-21 by a balanced and effective run-pass offense. The Quakers’ subsequent Thursday night game brought about one of the bigger surprises in the Football Championship Subdivision so far this season. Playing at their crosstown rival, the fourth-ranked Villanova University, the Quakers dominated early on, taking the first drive for a touchdown and scoring the first 17 points of the game. A 90-yard fumble recovery with under seven minutes left in the fourth quarter secured the monumental upset victory for the team. The magnitude of such a performance, however, slightly diminishes when considering Villanova played without its starting quarterback who was the 2014 FCS player of the year. With the Quakers now on the horizon, Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 said that their accomplishment would not alter how his team prepared for the game. “We’re not really focused on that too much,” he said. “To get caught up in that, that’s extra stuff. [We need] to focus on ourselves, and it should take care of itself. We need to make sure as an offense we get better, and if we get better every week, there’s no one that can stop our offense.” Penn junior signal caller Alek Torgersen leads an offense that has found more success through the air this year, as evidenced by a 23-16 passing to rushing first-down distribution. Through two games, Torgersen has exceeded the 500
passing yard mark and ranks second among Ivy quarterbacks in total passing yards. The quarterback has also scored the lone rushing TD for the Quakers, to go along with sophomore running back Tre Solomon who has notched 140 yards at a 5.4 yards per carry clip. Facing the Quaker passing game, the Big Green secondary will have the added challenge of facing wide receiver Justin Watson, who has enjoyed a prolific start to 2015. Through two contests, the sophomore has caught the ball 15 times for 230 yards — the second most receiving yards in the conference — and has added three touchdowns. He will now encounter a Dartmouth pass defense which, cornerback Vernon Harris ’16 said, will try to bottle him up. “You definitely key in on him a lot more than all the other players, but that doesn’t mean you take any other guys lightly,” he said. “It’s just understood that you got to know where this guy’s on the field at all times… Usually for every team that loves to throw the ball or wants to establish the passing game, there’s always one go-to receiver… So that’s the guy we focus on the most, in terms of knowing where he’s at, know what they do when he’s in different positions.” Harris also pointed to the physicality that the Quakers have exhibited during his time at Dartmouth, and the tight contests that have resulted. “Since I’ve played Penn here, they’ve always been a very tough and aggressive team,” Harris said, “It’s always come down to the wire. My sophomore year, it was the longest game in Ivy League football history, it went to four overtimes… A lot of teams are more aggressive than others in terms of what they do after the play. Penn in the past has always been one of those teams that keeps it going a little bit extra, so that’s one of those things we definitely look forward to.” On the other side of the football, despite a two-game effort that has forced four turnovers, the Penn defense has shown inconsistency and weaknesses defending the run. The unit has yielded 170.5 rushing yards per game— the worst total in the Ivy League — and a total of four TDs to opposing runners. Lehigh did the most damage against the Quakers, who conceded 245 yards on the ground in their first game. Williams emphasized the familiarity in facing this Penn defense, as well as the need to develop the offense in the early going.
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After winning its first two games of the season, the Big Green will face the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on Saturday.
“They run the same thing [as in previous years] with two high safeties,” he said. “They’re going to try to help run support with their safeties… just standard coverages. We just have to protect our front, establish our running game and build a rhythm in the passing game.” It’s hard to extract much out of two early season non-conference games, but the last two weeks have still lent some indication about the Big Green’s offensive temperament. While the running game has been a constant with 145-yard and 147-yard outputs, the passing attack displayed tremendous improvement from the first to second game. A strong third quarter in the season opener against Georgetown University could not offset a substandard 138-yard passing performance, but Williams and company rebounded explosively a week later. The senior threw for 313 yards and a touchdown on 21-28 passing — six completions of which went for at least 30 yards — and connected with Victor Williams ’16 for 178 yards and the touchdown. Dalyn Williams felt that this marked an important step especially for his receivers’ development. “We have a lot of speed as a receiving corps, and I would say we have a lot of experience,” he said. “[For Victor Williams], this is his fourth year.
Emory [Thompson ’18] got some playing time last year so he feels a lot more comfortable. He’s one guy that’s gotten a lot better from last year, it’s really jaw-dropping actually… [Jon Marc Carrier ’17] has matured, he’s been playing since his freshman year, Houston [Brown ’17] has been playing since his freshman year, so we’re reaping the benefits of those guys having to play young a couple of years ago. Furthermore, Dartmouth particularly succeeded in exploiting the press man coverage that Sacred Heart University employed, from both quarterbacking and receiving standpoints. Williams felt his unit reacted to this type of defense well, but said it is one the Big Green will not see much more often this season. “We definitely can take away that we know we can beat man [coverage],” he said. “But going forward, we’re going to see less man. Guys know about Ryan [McManus ’15], he was the best receiver in the league last year. You’re not man covering Ryan if you’re smart. And then Victor [Williams] almost had 200 yards… We know now that we have to do a good job finding the holes in zones. We’ve always have seen zone, but guys are definitely going to give us cushion going forward.” Defensively, the team continued its overpowering play in constraining the opposing offense to 10 points or less for
the second straight contest. In addition, the unit has forced eight turnovers and scored three defensive touchdowns in the early 2015 season. Harris credits a lot of the early success to the plethora of experienced players and how they have cooperated on defense. “We’ve done well communicating with one another,” he said. “I think as a team, we really focused on coming out strong in games, and the chemistry is a lot better this year than it’s ever been in the past. We love one another, it’s obvious when we play out there, we really want to see each other succeed.” A point of emphasis for the team during its pre-conference schedule has been to treat each game as if it were an Ivy matchup. Such maintenance of focus and intensity will assuredly help smooth the transition into the conference slate for the Big Green, but head coach Buddy Teevens recognizes the change that will come starting with Penn. “They all count, [but] these count more because they’re in-conference,” he said. “Everybody’s got a goal at the end of the season, and to achieve that goal, success in the league is the critical point… There’s a lot of competitiveness in the league, and really it’s just [being] the best team on Saturday. There’s added awareness, and we want to improve every week and I expect us to.”