VOL. CLXXIII NO.23
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
GLC bans Indian head imagery
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‘“Ice-Cuts” by Vermont-based artist Eric Aho is on display in the Hood Museums gallery.
New schedule in effect 16X By ERIN LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
A new class schedule will be implemented starting in the summer of 2016 as part of a series of recommendations made by the Curricular Review Committee in April 2015. The measure was voted on and approved at the June 1 faculty meeting. The changes include modified class start times to allow for 15 minute
passing periods, compared to the current 10 minute intervals, and new evening class time slots, 6As and 6Bs. The 6A timeslot will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, while 6Bs will be three-hour blocks running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. The College will not formally announce the new schedule until after spring course election
ends on Feb. 18 to avoid confusion, registrar Meredith Braz wrote in an email. The Summer 2016 course timetable will be available on April 22, though the new schedule diagram is posted on the registrar’s website. “We had been waiting until after spring term course election had occurred before we sent out any communication SEE SCHEDULE PAGE 5
On Monday night, the Greek Leadership Council passed two changes to their code of standards and greater bylaws, banning Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head. While the council’s code of standards had previously forbidden houses from engaging in acts of cultural appropriation, the new rule explicitly mentions displaying the Dartmouth Indian head as a violation. Parties who see the Dartmouth Indian on display at a Greek house, or those who otherwise feel Greek houses are engaging in cultural appropriation, can make a complaint to the Greek Board on Accountability, GBA chair Taylor Watson ’16 said. Houses found in violation of the new rule by the GBA will be required to pay a fine, the monies of which will be given to an organization or event agreed upon by the GBA and offended party or individual. The new rules apply to organizational, public displays of the Dartmouth Indian head, Watson said, not to individuals who choose to display the symbol. For example, an individual in a Greek house who chooses to wear a shirt displaying the Dartmouth Indian
has a free speech right to wear that shirt, but if that shirt also encourages students to rush that house, it would be considered a violation, he said. Similarly, those who live in Greek houses can choose to decorate their own rooms as they wish, but the house cannot make public displays showing the Dartmouth Indian, such as a pong table. The change was passed in part as a response to the display last term of a pong table stolen from Theta Delta Chi fraternity displaying the Dartmouth Indian head, Watson said. Other groups had also expressed complaints about Greek houses displaying the symbol, he said. While many of these changes were written last fall, the amendments were not passed until now because additional reforms to the structure of the GBA needed to be made first, Watson said. The GBA was originally proposed by GLC members of the Classes of 2014 and 2015 to give the GLC increased ability to enforce its policies over its constituent houses, Watson said. It can adjudicate issues involving Greek houses in a trial-like fashion and impose SEE GLC PAGE3
CPD online platform connects employers to students By HEYI JIANG The Dartmouth
Since October 2015, more than 500 students and 30 organizations have joined DartmouthCircles, the Center for Professional Development’s new interactive platform. A former trustee based in California introduced the new platform to Roger Woolsey, CPD director. “I was looking for a more
interactive platform that would assist students in finding employment opportunities, such as internships,” Woolsey said. While CPD features a variety of tools to assist students in their search for employment opportunities, DartmouthCircles aims to fill in the gaps within this fabric of existing recruitment platforms, community outreach coordinator Eduardo Najera Ortega ’14 said. On most transactional plat-
forms such as Dartboard, organizations post information about new employment and internship opportunities, and students are expected to take the initiative to search for these opportunities and apply to them before the set deadline. Students then often have to venture beyond the platforms to acquire more information about these organizations and industries. However, on DartmouthCircles, the students and employers interact much
more directly, senior associate director of CPD Monica Wilson said. “Students want to communicate with employers directly to reduce their uncertainty about industries and about employers,” Woolsey said. “DartmouthCircles is a platform that helps both parties reduce their uncertainty.” While DartmouthCircles allows students to get into direct contact with employers or representatives via the platform itself,
it also enables employers to reach out to Dartmouth students. After students have created a profile and uploaded their resume, the platform will match the students with particular opportunities posted on the website. This aims to provide organizations by matching the opportunities they provide with students who appear to be the “best fit,” Wilson said. Moreover, DartmouthCirSEE CPD PAGE 3