VOL. CLXXV NO.66
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
TDI professor resigns Visa changes may affect following inquiry international students
BY ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth Staff
OPINION
ALLARD: A PROPER EXHIBIT PAGE 4
VERBUM ULTIMUM: CRISIS AVERTED, CRISIS ONGOING PAGE 4
ARTS
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: OWEN O’LEARY ’19 DIRECTS HIS FIRST PRODUCTION PAGE 7
SPORTS
ONE-ON-ONE WITH KATIE SPANOS ’20
H. Gilbert Welch, a professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, resigned on Sept. 13. His resignation follows a College-conducted investigation spanning over 20 months that found him guilty of having committed plagiarism regarding his authorship of a 2016 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The article in question, entitled “Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness,” detailed findings
that mammograms are likely to lead to unnecessary treatment through the discovery of tumors that will never become life-threatening. It was ranked in the top one percent of all research articles with similar subjects. Welch had taught at the College since 1990 and served as a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, an adjunct public policy professor and adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business. He is also an esteemed health policy scholar in the United States, SEE PLAGIARISM PAGE 5
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College endowment returns at 12.2 percent By RACHEL PAKIANATHAN The Dartmouth Staff
Strong U.S. equity markets, venture capital and private equity returns were all factors that propelled positive returns on the College’s endowment for the 2018 fiscal year. Dartmouth’s endowment reached an all-time high value of $5.5 billion for the 2018 fiscal year. The endowment returned a net 12.2 percent, earning the College $591 million in investment gains, in
addition to $183 million in gifts and other net transfers. For the past five, 10 and 20 fiscal years, the endowment yielded annualized returns of 10.6 percent, 7.6 percent and 9.8 percent, respectively. According to a College press release, Dartmouth’s investment goal is to generate inflation-adjusted investment returns greater than distribution and operational costs. SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 2
COMING THROUGH
The Office of Visa and Immigration Services assists students in a variety of ways.
By ABBY MIHALY The Dartmouth Staff
International students may need to be even more careful in the coming months, following a new federal policy issued by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. The policy, which went into effect on Aug. 9, changes the way “unlawful presence” is calculated for students on the F, J and M visas. Though the implementation details of the policy remain unclear, should students accidentally violate their visa status through any number of small errors and
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begin accruing unlawful status, they have the potential to be barred from re-entry to the U.S. for three or 10 years, depending on the length of the overstay. Prior to this policy, unlawful presence began to accumulate only after a status violation was formally found by an immigration official or an immigration court. Following this finding of status violation, the nonimmigrant would be given a certain number of days to leave the country and only accrue unlawful presence should he or she fail to comply.
Director of the Dartmouth Office of Visa and Immigration Services Susan Ellison said that under the new rules, after a status violation, unlawful presence can begin to accrue “whether you know or don’t know that you have violated your status, and whether that violation was intentional or unintentional.” Status violations for student visas include failure to report an address change within 10 days of a move, accumulating more than 20 hours of work in a week or SEE VISAS PAGE 3
Dartmouth updates IT policy
By WALLY JOE COOK
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In response to criticism from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Dartmouth will update its Acceptable Use Policy for IT resources. FIRE, an education nonprofit that defends individual rights at
Americanuniversities,downgraded Dartmouth to a “red light rating” in Jan. 2018 because of its Acceptable Use Policy. According to the organization’s website, this title is reserved for universities with policies that “both clearly and substantially restrict protected speech.” “We give policies that are clear
restrictions on free speech a red light rating,” Laura Beltz, a senior program officer at FIRE, said. “[The College’s policy] bans things like the posting or transmission of speech that is harmful, offensive and hateful,” she continued. “These are all very SEE FIRE PAGE 3