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OPINION
KHANNA: PREFERENCE FOR PRIVILEGE PAGE 4
JONES: SAVING AMERICA’S PASTIME PAGE 4
ARTS
REVIEW: ‘LINCOLN IN THE BARDO’ WEAVES HISTORY INTO A TALE OF GRIEF PAGE 7
HBO SERIES ‘GAME OF THRONES’ HAS LEFT A MONUMENTAL LEGACY PAGE 8
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College to enact new Coffin reflects on changing IT security procedure trends in College admissions B y EMILY SUN
The Dartmouth Staff
In a campus-wide email sent on March 28, Dartmouth’s chief information security officer Steve Nyman announced the implementation of two-factor authentication through the security company Duo for all Dartmouth systems. Information, Technology and Consulting plans to use Duo 2FA for all users’ email services beginning on May 13; the rest of Dartmouth’s webbased services will migrate to 2FA by the end of summer. According to Matthew Brabazon , an application infrastructure administrator
for ITC, Duo 2FA was chosen to replace the current system, which relies heavily on security questions, because of concerns that the questions themselves did not provide enough security. He added that the goal is to complete this transition by the beginning of the next school year. 2FA is a system that increases the security of Dartmouth online services by requiring two factors — such as a password for the account as well as a code sent to a cell phone — to confirm the user’s identity. ITC hopes that this change will lead to better security and improve user experiences.
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Phew! West Leb man breaks whistle record B y GRAYCE GIBBS
The Dartmouth Staff
It’s a teakettle! It’s a dog whistle! It’s Andrew Stanford of West Lebanon recently breaking the Guinness World Record for highest note whistled — and it was whistled in Dartmouth’s linguistics lab. His whistle reached 8,372 hertz, eclipsing the previously established record of 7,040 hertz. According to Stanford, son of Dartmouth linguistics professor James Stanford, he
could not whistle as a kid, and only started whistling in high school. He added that his first whistles sounded like highpitched bird calls, and through practice have grown higher and louder. Stanford said that throughout high school, his friends and teachers told him that his whistling was really high pitched — one teacher even thought there was a bird in the classroom after hearing Stanford’s whistle. SEE WHISTLE PAGE 3
For most Ivy League schools, acceptance rates have declined each year over the past four years.
B y WaLLY JOE COOK and Berit Svenson The Dartmouth Staff
With the recent release of admissions results for the Class of 2023, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid Lee Coffin said that ongoing t re n d s m ay n e c e s s i t at e different admissions strategies at the College. Specifically, the changing importance of different geog raphic regions has already resulted in alterations to Dartmouth’s admissions practices, and a court challenge to Harvard U n i ve r s i t y ’s a d m i s s i o n s practices for Asian students could result in a potential threat to the holistic admissions
process the College employs. The College has already changed its admissions strategies with regards to ex p a n d i n g o u t re a ch t o underrepresented geographic areas. “Florida and California — that’s the future,” Coffin said. “That’s where places like Dartmouth need to be present in the next 10, 20 years because the population is shifting that way.” Cof fin said that the admissions office has redistricted F lorida and California to allow for smaller recruitment areas. For example, Coffin noted that more than five admissions officers are dedicated to California alone. He explained that more officers
are necessary because in the West, the South and abroad, admissions officers often need to explain what a liberal arts college is before they can talk about Dartmouth. “Texas, as big as it is, doesn’t have a lot of colleges like this one,” Coffin said. “When you go to a public high school in Texas, most of them don’t have the immediate recognition of liberal arts. Part of the recruitment strategy in all of those states is to pull up and say, ‘Here’s what a liberal arts experience is.’” According to Cof fin, admissions officers embrace a situation-specific approach in order to best inform the SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 5