The Dartmouth 10/22/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 133

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Town hall announces plans for grad school By CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth

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CARIDI ’16 LEADS VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

OPINION

FISHBEIN: VOTING IS NOT ENOUGH PAGE 4

ARTS

CONCERTS TO HONOR CHRISTIAN WOLFF PAGE 7

Professors and graduate students gathered in the Rockeller Center yesterday for a “town hall” style meeting to hear dean of graduate studies Jon Kull announce a plan for a new, administratively independent School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at the College that would report directly to Provost Carolyn Dever. The new graduate school would centralize the administration of graduate programs to make communication and coordination easier, encourage the creation of interdisciplinary programs and help with graduate student and faculty recruitment, he

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said. Presently, the office of graduate studies — which supports the 770 students enrolled in masters and doctorate degree programs, not including those in professional schools — is part of the college of arts and sciences, despite the fact that Dartmouth’s graduate programs span different schools, Kull said. The office of graduate studies, for example, administers graduate programs in engineering, quantitative biomedical systems and the program in experimental and molecular medicine, shortened to PEMM, while the Thayer SEE GRAD SCHOOL PAGE 5

Admissions turnover unlikely to affect apps By JOYCE LEE The Dartmouth

As the admissions office prepares for a swell of applications in the run-up to the Nov. 1 early decision application deadline, college counselors and prospective members of the Class of 2020 said that they do not anticipate that the transition from former dean of admissions and

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financial aid Maria Laskaris’s leadership to the new interim dean Paul Sunde will affect this year’s admissions process. Former dean Maria Laskaris left her position to become the special assistant to the provost for arts and innovation, Provost Carolyn Dever announced on Aug. 27. SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 2

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Community members listen as a guide speaks about the Hood Museum’s current exhibitions.

“All for 1”starts at the College

B y BARBARA OLACHEA The Dartmouth

“All for 1,” a nationwide campaign recognizing the issue of mental health problems on college campuses, will soon be launched at Dartmouth, Karen Wen ’16, who is involved with the project on campus, said. Students will be asked to tell their own personal experiences with mental health issues, Wen said, and the anonymous sto-

ries will be posted online, among other efforts. Students at each of the colleges involved have also taken pictures with the All for 1 campaign shirts in iconic locations on campus. Dartmouth’s photo features two students embracing in front of Dartmouth Hall with the words “1 in 4 Americans will have a diagnosable mental health condition this year” and “On this campus, who will it be?”

In addition, each campus will write an open letter to their respective college administrators regarding the mental health resources available on campus and how they could be improved. Boston University student and student leader for the campus’ All for 1 campaign Emily Parks wrote in an email that the purpose of the letter was not to reprimand the inSEE ALL FOR 1 PAGE 5

Liz Stahler brings experience, “warmth” to new position B y KELSEY FLOWER The Dartmouth Staff

When Liz Stahler was 16, she was a sexual health educator on an AIDS action committee. After her sophomore year of college, she interned at a California prison, focusing on supporting female prisoners. Following a brief stint as a folk song writer and singer, she entered graduate

school for social work, where she interned at Wellesley College in the counseling department. This August, Stahler joined the Dick’s House staff as a counselor devoted to supporting survivors of sexual assault, a new position at the College. Coming from a fellowship in the counseling office at the University of California at Berkeley, Stahler said that the position at

Dartmouth gave her the opportunity to do exactly the kind of work she wanted. Despite having moved across the country three times in the last five years, “the next thing I knew I was putting my poor cat back on a plane,” she said. Stahler fits into a greater network of sexual assault resources on campus that includes the wellness center, Dick’s House coun-

seling and human development, the judicial affairs adjudication process and Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist. She said she has spent her first few months at the College settling in and figuring out how things work here. Stahler said a lot of her time so far has been coordinating with these other resources. She said she is trying to figure out how to both interface with the

community and do outreach work while also preserving the privacy of what happens within the walls of her office. Stahler said her job is going to be about 70 percent talking to students, running support groups and overseeing the sexual assault peer advisors. Another portion will be organizing outreach and education SEE STAHLER PAGE 3


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