WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015
VOL. CLXXII NO. 122
PARTLY CLOUDY
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Climate survey launched to campus
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By KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff
SPORTS
WOMEN’S RUGBY DEFEATS NO. 12 BROWN PAGE 8
OPINION
FISHBEIN: GOING FOR THE GOLD PAGE 4
ARTS
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: KATIE SCHULTZ ’16
SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH
The College held a life sciences symposium on signal transduction in the Life Sciences Center.
The Dartmouth Community Study, an extensive survey about the campus climate of the College that is a key component of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, was released Tuesday morning in a campus-wide blitz from Provost Carolyn Dever. It asks a range of questions about living, learning and working at the College. The survey begins with a list of definitions for words relating to identity and inclusivity, such as “ableist” and “harassment.” Questions in the survey ask participants
to rate how comfortable they feel with the College’s community, whether they have been sexually assaulted and whether they believe the community is welcoming toward minority groups, among other topics. One table, for example, asks participants to rate the College on a scale of one to five on its friendliness to the queer community, veterans, non-U.S. citizens, men, women and other groups. The anonymous questionnaire will adjust automatically depending on how the respondent answers specific questions, working group member and physics graduate student Spencer Hatch said. SEE SURVEY PAGE 3
Students, alums reflect on Susan Taffe Reed decision
B y CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth
The appointment and removal of Susan Taffe Reed from her position as director of the Native American Program has caused discussion among some Native American students and alumni at Dartmouth. Reed was named director of Dartmouth’s Native American
Program in September, and shortly afterwards, tribal officials and Native American alumni began to voice concerns over the perceived dishonesty of her ethnic background and her qualifications for the job. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email last week that the “distraction around Reed’s appointment hindered her ability to effectively do her job, but that she will remain an employee at
the College.” Lawrence did not provide a timeline for the search for a new director. Jeremy Guardiola ’12 will serve as interim advisor for the Native American Program. “It defi nitely isn’t an issue of whether [Reed] is Native or not Native,” Native Americans at Dartmouth treasurer Andrew Shipman ’18 said. “It’s an issue of her lying about being Native.”
In particular, Reed’s position as president of Eastern Delaware Nations, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that is not a federally recognized tribe, brought about some of the strongest criticism. The organization was perceived by some as culturally appropriating the heritage of several legitimate Native American tribes, and Reed herself was accused of having solely Irish ancestry by the blog FakeIndians. SEE TAFFE REED PAGE 3
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NAS off-campus program Hanover startups perform offers rich experience well at competition
B y CAROLINE BERENS The Dartmouth Staff
Nine Dartmouth students, both Native and non-Native, sit clustered together, eagerly discussing and learning about federal Indian law in their Native American studies class. Their professor, Bruce Duthu, explains the historical framework, sources and limits of such laws and touches upon their influence on
everything from economic development to Indian child welfare. Duthu and the students, however, are not sitting in Kemeny or Dartmouth Hall. In fact, they are not even in Hanover. Instead, they are in a classroom at the Institute of American Indian Arts, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Institute is the site of the Native American studies program’s
SEE NAS PAGE 2
B y LEINA McDERMOTT The Dartmouth
By utilizing the College’s strong alumni network, creative work environment and focus on supporting innovation, three Hanover-based startups placed as finalists at the “Rise of the Rest” competition, which took place in Manchester last week. Jack O’Toole Tu’14 and chemsitry professor Joe BelBruno won the competition’s $100,000 prize for their startup FreshAir.
Director of Entrepreneurship and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center Jamie Coughlin organized the event and acted as emcee during the final round of the competition. Coughlin actively participated in bringing the tour to New Hampshire, and is passionate about how the event highlights talented people in “pockets of the country” besides traditional entrepreneurial hubs like Boston, New York and Silicon SEE STARTUP PAGE 5