The Dartmouth 05/04/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 73

MONDAY, MAY 4, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Students protest in solidarity with Baltimore events

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By HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

KATELYN JONES/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Carrying posters bearing the phrases “Black lives matter” and “We can’t breathe,” as well as the Dartmouth-specific “Where are our black profs,” roughly 150 students participated in a protest on Friday afternoon in response to recent events in Baltimore. The following day, a group of about 20 students protested outside of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s annual Pigstick party and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority’s Derby event, chanting “There are two Dartmouths, and they’re right here,”

A group of about 20 students protested police brutality outside the annual Pigstick and Derby parties.

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Pride Week highlights diversity of experiences

B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff

PRIDE Week, a week-long celebration dedicated to raising awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender issues, wraps up today with a talk by keynote speaker and prominent transgender activist Janet Mock. Highlights of the week included an HIV screening in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday, a cookout on the Collis Center patio on Thursday and a series of lectures and discussions

throughout the week. Gustavo Mercado Muñiz ’16, one of three PRIDE committee chairs, said that the goal of this year’s PRIDE week was to highlight the identities and experiences that are normally ignored in mainstream media. He noted that he hoped the programming of this year’s events helped raise awareness of the movement for people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Francis Slaughter ’16, who served as co-chair for this years’ event programming, added that although he

believes there is a general consensus on campus that gay rights are important, he wanted programming to highlight other issues that are over looked. He said that every event was intentionally planned to achieve this goal. “It was important for us to complicate the conversation so that more voices were heard, specifically persons of color and other marginalized identities,” he said. Both Slaughter and Mercado said attendance and participation has increased during their time at Dart-

#DartmouthIAmHere campaign aims to showcase socioeconomic diversity B y Rebecca Asoulin The Dartmouth Staff

Ramtin Rahmani ’16 said he keeps thinking back to one anecdote submitted as part of the #DartmouthIamHere campaign — a new project using student submissions to showcase socioeconomic diversity on campus — where the student wrote about how at the end of each College tour he gives, he mentions that he is

the first person from his family to attend college. This act, Ramtin noted, is this student’s way of expressing that there is diversity on campus. This project, which Rahmani helped organize through his role as co-director of Dartmouth Quest Scholars, was spearheaded by Hui Cheng ’16 and Quest SEE CAMPAIGN PAGE 5

mouth. Slaughter said that as a freshman he was not aware of PRIDE Week’s existence, but that he credits recent years attendance growth to the emphasis the programming committee has placed on creating greater awareness through advertisements. “Honestly, I think that PRIDE has grown in as an event in people’s consciousness and attendance to our events and support has definitely improved,” SEE PRIDE PAGE 2

A MAN’S HOME IS HIS BOUNCY CASTLE

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Weekend festivities included a bouncy castle on Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity’s lawn.


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