The Dartmouth 1/8/19

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VOL. CLXXV NO.108

SNOW HIGH 35 LOW 19

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2019

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Advertisements contribute to Students receive consumption of sugary cereal congratulatory

emails in error B y LORRAINE LIU The Dartmouth

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KHANNA: DUTIFUL KIDS, SPINELESS ADULTS PAGE 4

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The purpose of the research was to confirm assumptions and fill existing gaps in science literature about the impact of advertisements directed at children, according to Emond. The team decided to conduct a longitudinal, observational study of 624 preschoolers and conducted their research by having parents closely monitor what television channels their children watched and then

Shortly before Christmas, the “Dartmouth Memes For Cold AF Teens” Facebook group started to buzz with memes about receiving three citations for the fall term. Such animation came from a series of emails sent by the undergraduate deans office on Dec. 20, originally congratulating students for receiving citations, but later asking students to disregard the congratulatory emails. Christine Dong ’19 received six emails from the undergraduate deans office — three of them congratulating her on obtaining three citations for the three classes she took last term and three telling her to disregard the previous emails. According to the ORC/Catalog, citations are issued to students who “have made particularly favorable impressions on members of the faculty.” According to a 2017 article by The Dartmouth, citations comprise only 2.4 percent of total grades. Dong said she was originally confused about the emails. “I don’t think I remember having a term when I got three citations for all of my classes, so I was confused,” she said. “I thought it was probably a glitch.” Behind the batches of puzzling emails was a clerical error made by the undergraduate deans office, according to Brian Reed, associate dean for student academic support services and dean of undergraduate students. Reed explained that when the office sent the congratulatory emails this year, the undergraduate deans office did not filter appropriately in the data warehouse that it uses to communicate with Banner — the College’s student information system — on the back

SEE CEREAL PAGE 2

SEE CITATIONS PAGE 3

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Marketing aimed at young children contribute to their consumption of sugary cereals, according to a study.

B y Anne George The Dartmouth

According to a recent study, children aren’t pestering their parents for sugary cereal just because of the taste — a team of researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine found that flashy television advertisements aimed at young viewers are contributing to preschoolers’ consumption of high-sugar cereals.

“After years of research, I’m not sure parents truly appreciate how powerful m a rk e t i n g i s t o k i d s, ” biomedical data science and pediatrics professor and lead author of the cereal study Jennifer Emond said. “As parents, we have a choice: we can shield our children from this marketing through controlling what we show our kids, or we can demand better guidelines,” Emond said.

College debuts Campus Climate and Culture Initiative B y Elizabeth Janowski The Dartmouth Staff

The Campus Climate and Culture Initiative, or C3I, will take effect immediately, with mandatory Title IX training for faculty and staff beginning this week along with plans to present a unified policy on sexual misconduct to the faculty by the end of the term, according to provost Joseph Helble. T he initiative, which was announced by College President Phil Hanlon through an email

on Jan. 3, comes in the midst of an ongoing sexual harassment class action against the College. Three professors in the psychology and brain sciences department — who have since retired or resigned from their positions — are accused of sexually harassing or in some cases, assaulting female students repeatedly over the span of 16 years while College administration took no action, according to the lawsuit. Among the reforms outlined in Hanlon’s statement, the College will now undergo an evaluation by an independent external advisory

committee, conduct climate reviews of each academic department, revise its sexual misconduct policies, mandate access to multiple advisers for all g raduate students and increase investment in mental health resources. A working group overseen by Helble will investigate other areas for policy reform and compile a report by the beginning of the summer. The climate reviews, on the other hand, are anticipated to take several years to complete. A c c o r d i n g t o H e l b l e, t h e initiative was largely inspired by

recommendations outlined in a 2018 report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine that analyzed the damaging effects of sexual harassment on women in STEM-related fields. “I’m proud that Dartmouth is taking these steps to address and confront this challenge and to make Dartmouth’s environment even better for students going forward,” Helble said. T h e C o l l e g e d eve l o p e d t h e initiative in consultation with the Title IX office, according to Title IX SEE C3I PAGE 5


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