FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2019
VOL. CLXXV NO. 125
SUNNY
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
College regains ‘R1’ classification
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Andy Harvard ’71 remembered for energy, zeal By ELIZABETH JANOWSKI The Dartmouth Staff
Wo r l d - r e n o w n e d mountaineer, accomplished lawyer and for mer Dartmouth Outing Club director Andy Harvard ’71 brought a boundless energy and infectious zeal to every challenge he took upon himself. Then, at the age of 59, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis dealt him a devastating blow.
Faced with an incurable illness, Harvard confronted the final challenge of his life with the same dignity that his friends and family had come to know him for. “His can-do spirit — his willingness to let us see and walk with him at the end of his life — was admirable,” said Bill Phillips ’71, film and media studies professor and director of “The Final Climb,” a documentary that will detail Harvard’s
career and his battle with Alzheimer’s disease. On Jan. 16, Harvard passed away at DartmouthHitchcock’s Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care in Lebanon. He was 69. In 2008, just four years after being hired as the DOC’s director for outdoor programs, Harvard was abruptly fired on account SEE OBIT PAGE 2
After losing its “R1” status in 2015, the College regained the top research classification determined by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in its latest report. Several factors contributed to the College regaining its R1 status, according to vice provost for research and biochemistry professor at the Geisel School of Medicine Dean Madden. “One of them, frankly has been the capital campaign,” he said. “Resources that have been brought in have been supporting both teaching and research.” Madden said that there has been more financial support for faculty initiatives and hiring. “All of that collectively feeds into the numbers that influence the Car negie ranking,” he explained. Another factor Madden credited was a science strategy review — a faculty-compiled re p o r t t h at ex a m i n e d t h e practices of the College’s science departments — that was delivered in December 2016. “It did a very deep dive ... it helped us to understand where the resources were being
allocated,” he said. “It also did comparisons to peers. All of that helped us to make sure we were doing an ‘apples to apples’ reporting [to our peer institutions].” Madden said he believes that regaining the R1 classification is a positive step for the future of the College. “ Fr o m a s i g n a l i n g perspective, I think it is important that Dartmouth is demonstrating that it does research,” he said. “Almost all the research on campus is being done by students working with faculty members. I think it’s really exciting that we can show that you can do that kind of research and still be competing at the very highest level.” He added that the recognition of the College’s re s e a rch h e l p s p ro m o t e Dartmouth to prospective students and faculty. “Perhaps most important of all,” Madden said, “Restoring the recognition of Dartmouth’s research quality, it is going to help recruit and retain the strongest students SEE R1 PAGE 3
Upper Valley feels effects of government shutdown
B y WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth Staff
Although the debate surrounding the longest federal government shutdown in American history is centered in Washington, D.C., the effects have been felt in the Upper Valley and specifically Hanover, according to Hanover town manager Julia Griffin. “We couldn’t get a hold of our federal partners because they were closed,” Griffin said. “A lot of our social service agency partners that provide supplemental assistance to clients in
the region were beginning to worry about running out of money for federally-funded programs.” On Jan. 25, 2019, President Donald Trump and Congress came to an agreement to end the shutdown. However, the deal is only a short-term solution that keeps the government operational until Feb. 15. Unless funding is allocated for the construction of a wall on the U.S. southern border — one of Trump’s marquee campaign promises — it is likely that Trump will trigger another shutdown.
Griffin named the Women, Infants, and Children service, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Section 8 housing vouchers as some of the impacted programsin the area. “We saw a lot of these agencies having to go into potential crisis management mode in anticipation that they might see their federal funds disappear,” she said. “I don’t know if any of them actually saw their funds disappear, but we’re very worried that if the shutdown continues into month two that they would suddenly lose
access to money which they provide to clients on behalf of the federal government particularly involving food and fuel assistance.” Griffin said that Hanover does not have a plan for addressing another government shutdown. “In the event the federally-funded programs are more depleted because the government was shut down, of necessity, cities and towns would have to dip into their own coffers to provide welfare assistance,” she said. SEE SHUTDOWN PAGE 5