The Dartmouth 02/07/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 24

MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH 24 LOW 5

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014

At UNC, Folt reacts to scandal

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Student panel reviews mental illness, stigma

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By BRYN MORGAN

By PRIYA RAMAIAH

The Dartmouth Staff

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OPINION

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has not upheld its commitment to educate student-athletes, former Interim College President and current Chapel Hill chancellor Carol Folt said in a statement to the University’s board of trustees late last month. Since Folt assumed the chancellorship last summer, she has faced criticism of the university’s handling of deep academic fraud, which came to light in 2011. Her response to the most recent allegations, a finding by instructor and academic counselor Mary Willingham that 60 percent of 183 Chapel Hill student-athlete study SEE UNC PAGE 3

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Depression can feel like staring down from the top of a precipice, said Wei Wu ’14, speaking in a student panel on anxiety and mental illness Thursday evening. Asking for help early, she said, is key. At the panel, four students shared personal stories of anxiety, depression and the stigmas associated with mental illness. The event, hosted by Active Minds, was designed to increase awareness of mental illness at Dartmouth by providing a forum for students to talk about often-unvoiced problems. Active Minds member Jake Donehey ’17, who organized the panel, said that the panel aimed to give audience members an improved understanding of the multiple dimensions of mental illness, as well as an increased interest in conversing about the issue. The panelists brought varied perspectives, Donehey said. “Each speaker had their own unique perspective, so I just hope that this had a meaningful impact on how people talk about mental health,” he said. At the event, panelist Amara Ihionu ’17 said it was difficult for her family members to accept and

Participants chip away in an ice-carving competition.

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‘V-February’to display NH ranks second-least religious various campus voices B y Heather szilagyi The Dartmouth Staff

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After students approached the Center for Gender and Student Engagement objecting to past V-Week programming, saying that events like the Vagina Monologues failed to represent an adequate range of student perspectives and identities, the CGSE decided to expand the week-long program of past years into month-long campaign known as “V-February.” The revised programming will center on the theme “V is for Voices” and will spotlight global perspectives on

feminism, aiming to empower Dartmouth community members to share their own experiANTHONY CHICAIZA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF ences, acting assistant CGSE director Michelle Hector said. In past years, V-Week has used the themes of victory, violence and vaginas in its campus campaign to raise awareness of violence against women. The new program aims to provide a space for underrepresented, marginalized and silenced voices to speak out while highlighting experiences outside of traditional gender and sexuality binaries, accordSEE FEBRUARY PAGE 5

New Hampshire is second only to Vermont as the least religious state in the country, according to an annual Gallup poll released Monday. Yet students who participate in campus religious organizations said that while they believe there is a stigma attached to being religious at Dartmouth, most students are accepting. Based on attendance at religious services and how important respondents said religion was to their daily lives, Gallup found higher levels of religiosity in the South than the Northeast.

Mississippi took the number one slot, with 61 percent of respondents saying they consider themselves “very religious,” as opposed to 22 percent of respondents in Vermont and 24 percent in New Hampshire. Religion professor and Episcopal priest Randall Balmer said that religion is not as much a part of the culture in New Hampshire or Vermont as it is in the Bible Belt. Southern churches and religious communities can provide a network of friends and social opportunities that are not deemed as important in New England, he said. “I am struck by what I have seen in various parishes

in Vermont,” he said, citing services with only five or six attendees. Clarisse Benoit ’14, a member of Aquinas House, the College’s Catholic student center, said that while the Dartmouth community is generally respectful of religion and her personal choices, she feels religion is often viewed as nonintellectual. “It can feel intimidating if faith is also something that’s an important part of your life,” Benoit said, adding that she tries not to let this influence her faith. “It’s about living my faith in my own life and not being apologetic or SEE RELIGION PAGE 5


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