The Dartmouth 02/08/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.25

PM SNOW HIGH 27 LOW 18

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

No snow sculpture this year

DBI panel presents new findings

By AMANDA ZHOU

The Dartmouth Staff

built one of the first snow sculptures — a snow castle in the middle of the Green. Since then, students have created sculptures ranging from a fire-breathing dragon to the Cat in the Hat. Hall said that warm weather has presented problems with previous sculptures, leading to one case of a sculpture collapsing. Hall was referencing the 1997 sculpture, which was

At a presentation last Thursday afternoon, the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative team reported results from their new pre-recruitment workshop. The event was advertised to Greek presidents, and nearly all of the Greek Leadership council was present. Since May 2014, the GLC has required all students intending to join Greek life to attend a DBI workshop. At Thursday’s presentation, DBI manager Benjamin Bradley presented findings from a Summer 2015 focus group study of the redesigned DBI workshop, which identified the three significant barriers to intervention. Bradley said that they learned that feelings of, “This is not my house or social space, I don’t want to keep anyone from having a good time, and I am a new member,” were the main reasons people felt uncomfortable stepping into a situation. Bradley also explained the group’s process for developing the new workshop. In the spring of 2015, they set goals for the creation of a new DBI workshop. The goals were to make members feel as if they were supported, to identify common barriers to action and to increase understanding of sexual violence and comfort in intervening. During the summer, using three focus groups of affiliated and unaffiliated students, Bradley said they formed the “foundation of [the] workshop.” They ran the demo workshop for 25 unaffiliated students. Using explicit student feedback, Bradley said they turned their “okay”

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With the Green showing more green than usual, the snow sculpture will not be built for carnival this year.

By DANIEL KIM The Dartmouth Staff

A College tradition since 1925, the snow sculpture will not return to the Green for this year’s Winter Carnival, director of the Collis Center, which oversees the Winter Carnival committee, Anna Hall said. The decision was reached right after the winter interim. She added that events such as the dogsled race and polar bear plunge are dependent on next

week’s weather. Other events such as music performances and the ice sculpture contest will proceed as planned. “The main factor obviously was weather — the Green is greener now, there’s not really any snow,” chair of the Winter Carnival Council Harrison Perkins ’18 said. “The second factor was a lack of student support in building the actual sculpture in the past few years.” H. Pennington Haile ’24

Q&A with CNN correspondent Jake Tapper ’91 By ALEXA GREEN The Dartmouth

Jake Tapper ’91, a CNN correspondent, broadcast his show “The Lead” from the Green last Friday afternoon, focusing on student voices in the election and in particular, Tuesday’s upcoming New Hampshire primary. The program, which airs every day at 4 p.m. on CNN, covers top news stories ranging from politics, money, sports and popular culture. The Dartmouth sat down with Tapper before his broadcast to talk about

his reporting the role of the media.

Who will you be interviewing on campus Friday? JT: I’m not going to be interviewing anybody major on campus Friday; most of the interviews will be remote. I am going to be interviewing a couple of women Democratic senators who are in New Hampshire today getting out the vote for Hilary Clinton, but they are in Manchester at the time that I will be doing the interview. I will have a couple panelists: former [Michigan] Governor Jennifer

Granholm will be with me and Republican consultant Phil Musser will both be on set, but everyone else will be spread out around New Hampshire. I know Hanover feels like the center of the universe, but it’s not the center of New Hampshire. There are a lot more candidates in Manchester than there are in Hanover, and I will be doing my show on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from Manchester. The only reason I’m here is because I went here and I love it here. Hanover is not conducive to great bookings.

When you hosted the second

Republican debate, you tried to make the candidates engage with each other. How do you think your experience as a moderator has influenced your reporting? JT: I think it underlined the fact that the stakes are so high. That was the highest rated show in the history of CNN. So the fact that I moderated it and 24 million people watched it reiterates the fact that people are really engaged this year and the pressure is on for not just the candidates, but the media as well. SEE TAPPER PAGE 5


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