The Dartmouth 02/15/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.30

CLOUDY

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Five new edX classes planned

CRUISIN’ FOR A CARVIN’

HIGH 25 LOW 18

By HEYI JIANG

The Dartmouth Staff

SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

SPORTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WINS ON ROAD PAGE SW3

OPINION

SZUHAJ: THE PROBLEM WITH PINK PAGE 4

ARTS

FILM REVIEW: ‘BROOKLYN,’ A LOVE STORY PAGE 7

Students gather on the Green to view ice carvings from this year’s contest.

Two named to Thayer Board By ALYSSA MEHRA

The Dartmouth Staff

The Thayer Board of Overseers has elected two new members, Andy Silvernail ’94 and Catherine Sellman ’93. The will each serve a three-and-a-half year term. The Thayer Board of

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Thayer assistant dean of administration Marcia Craig Jacobs described the function of the Board of Overseers as both advisory and philanthropic, with a diverse membership bringing in their professional experience SEE THAYER PAGE 3

SEE EDX PAGE 2

Q&A with Reyad Allie ’11, Forbes 30 Under 30

By MEGAN CLYNE READ US ON

Overseers was established in 1987 and is chartered as an advisory board to the dean of the Thayer School of Engineering and ultimately to the board of trustees, chair of the board Terry McGuire Th’82 said. The overseers provide advice to both the dean and trustees.

On Tuesday Feb. 16, the College’s fourth DartmouthX course will launch officially on edX, welcoming more than 2,000 students into the classroom of “The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century.” Following the launch, five new DartmouthX courses will be created throughout 2016 and 2017: “Question Reality! Physics, Philosophy and the Limits of Knowledge,” “Free Will, Attention, Top-Down Causation and Consciousness in the Brain,” “John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’,” “Materials in Gear” and “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” Since 2014, the College has collaborated with the online learning platform edX to create four massive open online courses. “The American Renaissance” will be led by English professors Donald Pease and James Dobson, who are also team-teaching English 52.04, “The American Renaissance at Dartmouth,” on campus. Dobson said that he and Pease will be bridging the residential course and the online course together. In both settings, the course will employ an

array of technologies, including a digital annotation tool that allows both residential and online students to work with the texts. Pease said that through this online course, he hopes to see how members of the residential classroom will come to recognize the difference between their readings of the great works of American literature and those of students and scholars from across the globe. “Those differences, I think, will be educative on every imaginable level,” he said. Both Pease and Dobson said that the successful production of this DartmouthX course is the result of a team effort, which include the input of people involved in sectors such as media production and public outreach. Pease described the process of producing the course as an incredible pedagogical collaboration between a variety of groups. Thayer School of Engineering professor Rachel Obbard Th’06, will be teaching “Materials in Gear,” a course that aims to

The Dartmouth Staff

Reyad Allie ’11 was recently named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in consumer tech for his work as a global threat analyst at Uber. The Dartmouth spoke with Allie about his time at Uber and how his experience at the College has effected his career. What is your reaction to this accolade of being featured on the Forbes List of 30 under 30? RA: To be honest, I was a bit

surprised at first. After reading the biographies of the other recipients, I was proud and humbled to be part of such a hardworking group of people. Every year I would read the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and think that I needed to step up my game but I never thought I would make it onto this list. It is so cool to be a part of it this year. What does your typical daily schedule look like at Uber? RA: My days are the same. My work depends on what is going

on in the world. Some days I’m looking at the geopolitical situation in Nigeria and the next I’m looking into how to make things safer for riders, drivers and employees in Mexico. My role is to analyze information from a variety of sources to determine how to keep our offices, our executives and our brand safe. I look at political and social situations in cities and countries we operate in so we can understand the level of risk and help mitigate that risk. What do you find most fulfilling about your career in security technology

at Uber? What previous careers did you pursue before starting at Uber?

RA: Working in security has been great, as the work I do has a direct impact on the lives of people around the world. And never have I felt that my work makes more of a difference than at Uber. My work is rewarding because it directly impacts our ability to successfully bring the magic of Uber to new parts of the world. Before starting at Uber, I was part of building the threat analysis and intelligence team at Fidelity

Investments for five months. The opportunity to manage a team was very exciting. Before that, I worked on Google’s Intelligence team for a year where I helped expand the scope of the team. I started my career at Google in People Operations, or HR. My team made sure that there was one high Google hiring bar. I did this for about two and a half years and learned a lot about what Google looks for when it hires people. How has Dartmouth inSEE ALLIE PAGE 5


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