VOL. CLXXIII NO.17
CLOUDY HIGH 35 LOW 17
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Panel discusses Black Lives Matter course
Sweet remembered as leader
By SONIA QIN
The Dartmouth Staff
was sick.” During his time as president, Sweet represented more than 500 painters, custodians, maintenance workers and dining employees. The union representative for all negotiations between the College and workers, Sweet was a leader and a mentor to many union officers, SEIU Local 560’s vice president Chris Peck said. “He helped build our union
Yesterday, five faculty members spoke to a full Filene Auditorium about their perspectives on the Black Lives Matter course first offered last spring. The event, part of the ongoing Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations, was sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and featured geography professor Richard Wright; lecturer of geography and women, gender and sexuality studies Treva Ellison; English professor Aimee Bahng; geography professor Abigail Neely; and mathematics professor Craig Sutton. The BLM course, introduced last spring, was dedicated to considering race, structural inequality and violence in both a historical and modern context. Over 100 students signed up for the course, which was capped at 30. Twentyone professors taught the course. The panel began with an introduction by Wright, who opened with a presentation detailing neighborhood racial segregation and diversity in the United States, topics he covered in the course. In his slides, he showed data demonstrating the degree of segregation in Northern and Southern cities in the U.S. He showed how black residential segregation leads to isolation from jobs, the creation of a disadvantaged social geography, segregation from the black middle class, “missing males” in the black community and a persistent housing wealth gap. Wright introduced the audience to a website he developed, mixedmetro.us, which displays patterns of racial
SEE SWEET PAGE 3
SEE PANEL PAGE 5
SPORTS
SKIING WINS AT COLBY CARNIVAL PAGE 8
OPINION
BEECHERT: TIME FOR A CHANGE PAGE 4
ARTS
REVIEW: “OF GODS, ROYALS, AND SUPERMAN” PAGE 7
READ US ON
DARTBEAT GREEN KEY ARTISTS RANKED DARTMOUTH CRIME: CAMPUS BLOTTER FOLLOW US ON
TWITTER @thedartmouth COPYRIGHT © 2016 THE DARTMOUTH, INC.
Courtesy of Karen White
Earl Sweet, left, poses for a photo with Chris Peck, SEIU Local 560’s vice president.
By JOYCE LEE The Dartmouth Staff
Earl Sweet was a straightshooter, a union president who demanded fairness and a vibrant personality who tenaciously fought for service employees at Dartmouth, according to the many individuals who worked with him in his 35 years as the leader of the Service Employees International Union Local 560.
Sweet was 70 when he died on Jan. 18 in the comfort of his home in Lebanon, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He had been fighting his illness while still doing his work for the union, his daughter Karen White said. “He was very passionate as the union president,” she said. “He just wanted to make [working conditions] better for the workers and he didn’t realize how liked he was. He just enjoyed it, even when he
Student Wellness Center shifts focus to prevention By Heyi Jiang
The Dartmouth
As winter rolls on in Hanover, the Student Wellness Center remains a place of warmth and welcoming spirits. Renamed in the fall from the Student Health Promotion and Wellness Center to the Student Wellness Center, the wellness center looks forward to further enhancing its existing programs in the winter through creating a focus on preventative care, the director
of the wellness center Caitlin Barthelmes said. While the wellness center used to primarily focus on responding to high-risk behaviors, such as binge drinking and sexual violence, it is now looking to “truly embrace the spirit of prevention,” she said. Barthelmes said that while the wellness center will still address high-risk behaviors, its new focus is to get to the roots of these issues and prevent them from happening in the first place.
She added that one of the new initiatives is the expansion of the network of providers for the BASICS program. BASICS is a confidential oneon-one meeting with a staff member from the wellness center designed to address decisions around drinking. Newly appointed assistant director for health improvement Mary Nyhan said that the wellness center takes a very holistic approach in order to achieve preventive wellness. “My goal for the student
wellness center is that we will create and support the conditions under which students can be well, whatever that means to them,” she said. Since the reorganization, the center has placed emphasis on the “seven roots of wellness,” a concept that encourages students to thrive intellectually, financially, physically, environmentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually. P ro g r a m s t h at h ave emerged include the wellness
breakfast check-in sessions every Saturday. The breakfasts create an environment that allow students to actively reflect on their wellness and connect with other students, Nyhan said. The breakfast sessions are facilitated by wellness peers, who have been trained in “motivational interviewing” skills to engage with the students. She added that similar programs have allowed the wellness center to integrate the spirit of wellness SEE WELLNESS PAGE 2