THE DARTMOUTH NEWS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
Assembly to focus on mental health, assault FROM ASSEMBLY PAGE 1
on campus. In an interview, Cunningham said addressing mental health holds particular importance for him. “This campaign is something that’s near and dear to my heart, since I’ve dealt with my own issues of mental health,” Cunningham said. “There are a lot of students dealing with mental health issues on campus right now, and it’s just one of those topics we don’t talk about.” As part of the mental health campaign, the Assembly will host a panel in Moore Auditorium on Sept. 30 in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Week. A campaign to address sexual assault will begin with a roundtable discussion among student leaders next week, in partnership with the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, and will continue with a social media campaign and an event marking National Campus Conversation Week in November. The exact nature of the event is currently undetermined, Casey Dennis said. “That’s for our campaign team to decide,” he said. “Frank and I have many different ideas — we’ve had this planned out for many months — but with so many new members, we’d like to get fresh perspectives.” The report also described a partnership with the National Campus Leaders Council that will focus on collaboration with policy makers to address sexual assault, and pledged to support the Obama administration’s recent “It’s On Us” campaign. Two rotating members, Grace
Mermel ’16 and Evan Read ‘16, will sit on the board for a single term with full voting powers. The Assembly has also named a press director, Reilly Johnson ’16, and its first marketing director, Kyle Dennis ’15. Johnson, Mermel and Kyle Dennis were appointed by the executive pair, while Read applied for his position and was accepted. Johnson will serve as an intermediary between the Assembly and the press, and Kyle Dennis will be responsible for the management of social media on behalf of the group, Casey Dennis said. Kyle Dennis said his goal is to publicize the Assembly’s activities, both on and off campus. Several committees within the Assembly have been redesigned, including the academic affairs committee, which will now include four faculty members, according to the report. The Assembly’s restructuring will include the creation of a campaign committee, a team of 12 students tasked with the management of the mental health and sexual assault initiatives, and a new Greek Life task force which will focus on inclusivity, Cunningham said. “The ultimate goal will be to find solutions to make sure that every student feels welcome and can feel as though they can join the Greek system no matter what,” Cunningham said. Casey Dennis said that, with these new changes, the body will include more than 90 students. The report also includes plans for tailgates and providing students with online subscriptions to the New York Times.
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Printer delays follow Chrome update FROM GREENPRINT PAGE 1
someone sends a file to print that is a paper size that is not available, the job will print anyway, it’s just the margins on the paper will be off,” she wrote in an email. Such efforts have had adverse effects, Ella Ryan ’18 said, noting that she has seen many students in the Russell Sage Hyphen struggle to print essays in the correct format. Josh Alexakos ’17 said one out of every four or five documents he attempts to print through the system fails to materialize. “I come to the station, swipe my card, press to print it, and there’s not paper in it, there’s a malfunction, a jam, and because of the way the system works, I’ve lost that print job,” Alexakos said. “It’s just really inconvenient, and it costs a lost of time and money.” Printers see different use rates, and high volume can affect functionality. To address this, GreenPrint vendor Ricoh redistributed printers across campus during the summer and fall interim, switching printers in high-use areas and low-use areas. The information technology support team is continuing to work with Ricoh to improve printers’
ability to withstand heavy usage and plans to hire students later this term to monitor and resolve basic issues on nights and weekends.
“I come to the station, swipe my card, press to print it, and there’s not paper in it, there’s a malfunction, a jam, and because of the way the system works, I’ve lost that print job.” - JOSH ALEXAKOS ’17 Six of eight students interviewed described recent trouble with GreenPrint, and said they have received little explanation as to why the system malfunctions or for how much longer problems will continue. Sarah Lee ’17 said she has had her study habits altered by an inability to print “Sometimes, I just give up and end up reading the papers on my laptop instead, which is sometime also hard, but I just don’t really want
to go through the struggle of using GreenPrint,” Lee said. Other students have begun to seek out alternative methods of printing on campus. Leila Vicinelli ’18 said her personal printer has become communal, with floormates coming to her for their printing needs. Aniksha Balamurugan ’16 said she prints her documents at the Thayer School of Engineering free of charge. Security changes have also removed GreenPrint accessibility from the “Dartmouth Library Public” wireless network, Young wrote. Her team is troubleshooting, but since most students do not use that network, they should not be affected by the change, she wrote. GreenPrint has seen difficulties since its introduction in 2002, when it was heralded as a newer and more efficient printing system. The system was hacked in 2004 and malfunctioned on Macintosh computers in 2008. Jamming issues with a new model of printers installed later that year brought Dell engineers to campus. Young said the recent Chrome upgrade affected other universities using the same printing system.
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Students cited difficulty printing this week, with some resorting to alternative methods instead.