The Dartmouth 01/10/19

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2019

VOL. CLXXV NO. 110

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 30 LOW 17

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Construction begins on the Arielle Baker west end of campus Gr’19 steps into

policymaking

B y Cassandra Thomas The Dartmouth

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Construction is currently underway on the west end of campus near the Thayer School of Engineering.

B y Blake mcgill The Dartmouth

Gound clearing and plans to excavate the west end of campus have already begun as the College prepares for the construction of a new building that will soon house both the computer science department and the Thayer School of Engineering. Thayer will gain a “new facility which brings together e n g i n e e r i n g, c o m p u t e r

science, the campus entre preneur ship center and the campus electron and microscope center,” provost Joseph Helble said. According to Helble, the College has broken ground on the parking garage and is set to break ground on the building early this fall. The new building is set to be in use by fall 2021. The construction will also include a new building to house the Irving Institute for

Energy and Society. The College has recently seen a sharp increase of undergraduate engineering majors, Helble said. He added that even approximately 50 percent of the students not majoring in engineering h av e t a k e n c o u r s e s i n engineering — for example, in Engineering 12, “Design Thinking,” particularly since the creation of the humanSEE CONSTRUCTION PAGE 2

Hanover hosts Restaurant Week

B y Kyle mullins

The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth Staff

B y Jennie Rhodes

From Dec. 8 to 15, Hanover held the town’s fifth annual Restaurant Week. During this week, restaurants in the Upper Valley created special fixed-price menus or offered special discounts on food items to bring in more customers during the slow dining season.

Restaurant Week began as a statewide event, organized by the Restaurant Association of New Hampshire. However, the association primarily focused on advertising to the major cities in New Hampshire. This left Hanover residents feeling “out of the loop,” according to Hanover Chamber of Commerce SEE RESTAURANT PAGE 3

In two weeks Arielle Baker Gr’19, a PhD candidate in the neuroscience track of the program in experimental and molecular medicine (PEMM), will officially step out of the lab to tackle a completely different challenge: policymaking. A f t e r re c e i v i n g t h e Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship, Baker will have a 12-week position on the Committee of Women at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. One of her projects will be a study that assesses ways in which certain scientific disciplines can recruit and retain women at higher rates. As a graduate student at Dartmouth, before Baker

knew she wanted to pursue an interest in p o l i c y m a k i n g, s h e found ways to make science more accessible to the community. With Emily Stephens Med’17 and other volunteers, Baker led community outreach programs in the Upper Valley to spark an interest in science among middle and high schoolers. “I think that working in policy is, in some ways, kind of a different for m of teaching science,” Stephens said. “When you’re talking to a younger person, you constantly ask yourself, ‘How do I take this very esoteric, complex set of experiments and give it to someone so that they understand it, they don’t feel overwhelmed SEE BAKER PAGE 5

Advocacy group demands sexual misconduct reform The $70 million federal class action that the College faces has incited further action by Dartmouth community members. On Jan. 2, the advocacy group “Dartmouth Community Against Gender Harassment and Sexual Violence,” which includes both students and alumni members, delivered a list of specific

actions to College President Phil Hanlon’s office. The group says the actions must be taken in order to “address both individual incidents and the broader culture that permits sexual misconduct to recur.” The list of demands was released through a letter the day before the College’s announcement of the Campus Culture and Climate Initiative, which aims to address some of

the concerns centered around sexual assault outlined in the letter. The letter also follows an earlier statement of support for the plaintiffs in the pending Title IX lawsuit against the College. That first letter, which called upon the administration to acknowledge a “glaring breach of responsibility” and issue a public apology, was delivered Dec. 6 and signed by nearly 800 SEE LETTER PAGE 3


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