The Dartmouth 04/10/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 57

SHOWERS

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Divestment proposal receives alum support

HOTEL MODERN: NO VACANCY

HIGH 53 LOW 38

By Kelsey Flower The Dartmouth Staff

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MIRROR

DINING CLUB FOR SCHOLARS PAGE M4

YESTERDAY’S CHARTER, TODAY’S PROBLEMS PAGE M8

OPINION

VERBUM ULTIMUM: OPEN DOOR POLICY PAGE 4

SPORTS

MEN’S BASEBALL FALLS TO BOSTON PAGE 8

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Hotel Modern recreated World War I using toys and household objects.

Professors apply for houses B y Noah Goldstein The Dartmouth Staff

Over 20 professors applied to be one of six house professors in the new residential cluster system being implemented in 2016 as a part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initia-

tive, senior assistant dean of residential life and director of residential education Michael Wooten said. The College’s goal is to announce the selected professors by the end of this month, interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said.

Fewer students apply for LLCs

B y KATIE RAFTER

The Dartmouth Staff

The number of students who applied to live in living learning communities for the fall decreased from 844 last year to 575, but assistant director for living learning and academic initiatives Katharina Daub said that she hopes this means more students will be placed in their first-choice community. The deadline to apply was April 8.

Daub said that last year about 200 more students applied for LLCs than were spaces available. The decrease in applications will allow placement be a more inclusive process, she added. Including spaces in the East Wheelock cluster, the College can provide 400 upperclassmen beds in the permanent LLCs and 105 in the design-your-own communities. SEE LLC PAGE 5

Interested professors first wrote a letter of intent to Provost Carolyn Dever, in which they detailed a vision for their respective houses and their qualifications for the position. Professors are now undergoing an SEE HOUSE PAGE 2

Seventy-nine Dartmouth alumni hope to up the pressure on College administrators to divest fossil fuels through an open letter addressed to College President Phil Hanlon, the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, originally released on April 2. The letter urges the College to make headway on the divestment of its financial portfolio from fossil fuel companies and informs the school that the undersigned alumni are donating to the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund instead of the Annual Fund. Last December, Divest Dartmouth joined with divestment groups from 16 other colleges to create the Multi-School Fund. The fund aims to puts pressure on the involved universities to divest from fossil fuels by collecting tax-deductible donations that will be given to the universities only if they divest from fossil fuels by Dec. 31, 2017, according to the Fund. Divesting investments in fossil fuels has two steps, according to

the Fund’s website. Universities must both immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies and divest within five years from current holdings in these companies. The student-run Divest Dartmouth alumni coordinator Morgan Curtis ’14 called joining the Fund a “catalyst for getting together the alumni group” and that sending the letter was a way to take their support to the next level. Following a conference call, several College alumni decided to publish the letter to push the College to publish a report by the ACIR when it is finished, though it was promised to be completed by February, Curtis said. The report, commissioned by Hanlon in September 2014, is supposed to look into the pros and cons of divestment as a whole and its effect on the College. “We were hoping to add the alumni voice urging the College to keep moving through that process,” Curtis said. Hanlon responded to the SEE DIVEST PAGE 2

Dimensions program launches

B y SEAN CONNOLLY

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

An inch of snow coats the Green today as dozens of prospective students stroll along its muddy walkways for the first session of Dimensions of Dartmouth, an annual program that offers a slate of events for prospective students. The College will welcome approximately 350 guests this weekend, including 150 potential members of the Class of 2019, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said. Today’s event, which of-

ficially began last night when approximately 100 prospective students stayed with undergraduate hosts, is the first of three Dimensions events that will occur throughout the month of April. This is the second consecutive year that the College has hosted Dimensions in multiple sessions as opposed to the singular multi-day event of past years, Laskaris said. She added that the change allows students to choose the program that best fits with their schedules and contributed to a greater attendance last year, which she said she views as a success.

The increased attendance is noteworthy, she said, because students who attend Dimensions programming have historically matriculated at a much higher rate than those who did not attend. She also said that she believes increased attendance contributed to the last year’s yield rate. “We had a very, very strong yield, and I think that our expanded Dimensions is clearly one factor that led to increased yield last year,” she said. The yield rate for the Class of 2018 last year was 54.5 SEE DIMENSIONS PAGE 3


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