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Coffin appointed as admissions vice provost By AMANDA ZHOU
The Dartmouth Staff
When the College announced Lee Coffin as the new vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid last week, Coffin — a first-generation college student — said he called his father and thanked him for the sacrifices his parents made to allow him to go to college. “It changed my life,” he said. Coffin graduated from Trinity College and for the past 13 years has served as the dean of undergraduate admissions and enrollment management at Tufts University.
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The New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed three bills on Feb. 4 to address drug problems within the state. The bills allocated $5.5 million to establish drug courts statewide, provide grants for law enforcement and upgrade the state’s prescription drug monitoring program. A legislative task force recommended these changes designed to address the state’s drug crisis.
A portion of the legislation passed aims to further drug education and support community groups. The bills — Senate Bill 464, Senate Bill 484 and Senate Bill 522 — are currently moving through the House of Representatives. Drug courts target habitual offenders of drug laws and place the offenders into treatment and recovery programs. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported in 2014 that New Hampshire was ranked
second to last among states when it comes to access to substance abuse treatment for addicts. In Manchester, overdose deaths as a result of heroin or other opiates has increased from 14 in 2013 to 69 last year. According to the New Hampshire Department of Justice’s Office of the Attorney General, drug deaths have surpassed traffic-related deaths as of 2010 and are still on the rise. New Hampshire resident Sophie Czerwinski ’19 commented that towns
surrounding her area, specifically Laconia, are affected by the heroin epidemic. “My dad was a doctor in Laconia and frequently dealt with heroin overdoses in the E.R. and he said it was the most common overdose they saw,” Czerwinski said. New Hampshire’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Services confirmed in 2015 the issue when it reported that the life saving anti-overdose drug SEE DRUGS PAGE 5
Q&A with Bloomberg Businessweek’s Paul Barrett
By HEYI JIANG The Dartmouth
Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Paul Barrett came to Dartmouth this week to talk about his new book on the legal battle over oil in the rainforest. The Dartmouth sat down with him to talk about “Law of the Jungle” (2014) and his experience reporting. What made you interested in investigative journalism? PB: I’ve been in journalism full time now for more than 30 years. Most of
that time I spent working at the Wall Street Journal, and then more recently for Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine. And I suppose what drew me to more investigative and narrative journalism is a certain pleasure or joy I get out of challenging people’s preconceptions. I find it very energizing to have the opportunity to take a controversial subject whether it’s race relations or religious relations or industry like the gun industry or the oil industry, all the topics I’ve written books about. And try to challenge the assumptions that the reader will bring to that subject by laying out a more complicated reality.
So what kind of unifies those seemingly very disparate subjects is that they are all topics that people have very strong assumptions about, but often those assumptions are not informed by the facts, and I like going out and asking people questions and so forth.
tion between poor people in Ecuador and the powerful oil company taking place in the rainforest, literally almost a Garden-of-Eden-like environment that has a very strong pull I think on many people and I will be included among them.
What made you want to write about the Chevron pollution case in Ecuador?
What happened? Did the oil company ruin the Garden of Eden such that the innocent residents thereof were harmed?
PB: I have followed the case for many years as a spectator before I plunged into actually reporting on it myself. And there is something about the confronta-
PB: That’s the obvious, easy narraSEE Q&A PAGE 5