The Dartmouth 02/16/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.31

RAIN HIGH 50 LOW 30

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Students build ‘rogue sculpture’

Carnival sees 52 incident reports to S&S By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

at the implication that students were apathetic about building the sculpture. “I just didn’t feel like that was the case,” he said. Rover added that it was easy to recruit students, as many were eager to help with the project. He sent campus-wide emails and asked members of Cabin and Trail, a Dartmouth Outing Club subgroup, to help. Lauren Bishop ’19 said she

An unseasonably warm winter followed by a sharp drop in temperatures over the weekend did little to slow down Winter Carnival festivities. Classic events like the polar bear swim and the human dog-sled race went on with some modifications, while Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that the department received 52 incident reports during Winter Carnival weekend. In the spring of 2015 Safety and Security received 51 calls during Greek Key weekend from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. For the 2015 Homecoming weekend, the office received 52 calls beginning Friday morning. From Friday to Monday, Safety and Security responded to calls about “a little bit of everything,” Kinne said, including medical emergencies involving alcohol and injuries. Eleven students were taken to Dick’s House, he said, though he was not certain that all of those students were admitted. In addition, one person was taken to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, though Kinne did not believe that they were affiliated with the College. Kinne said he thought the number of “significant” incidents was lower than in the past, though not substantially so. He also said he believed the number of arrests made was lower than in past years, though he did not have an absolute number for comparison. As preparation for the weekend, Safety and Security

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Thomas Rover ’16 organized students to build a snow sculpture despite its official cancellation.

By ERIN LEE The Dartmouth Staff

When Thomas Rover ’16 heard that there would be no snow sculpture built for his last Winter Carnival, he said he was devastated. Last Thursday night, Rover and a group of about 30 other students took it upon themselves to build a “rogue” snow sculpture of the Cat in the Hat’s red and white headpiece on the Green. Construction took about six

hours, lasting from 9 p.m. last Thursday night to 3 a.m. the following morning, Rover said. In a previous interview with The Dartmouth, Winter Council chair Harrison Perkins ’18 said the committee decided not to organize the building of a snow sculpture. He cited the lack of snow due to warmer temperatures in addition to difficulty getting students to help with construction in prior years as the main reasons. Rover said he “took outrage”

House professors discuss new residential system

By SONIA QIN

The Dartmouth Staff

On Feb. 26, Dartmouth students will gather in Baker-Berry Library at 8 p.m. to attend Founders’ Day, where they will get sorted into their respective housing communities. The library will be separated into sections for each house community and students will break off into receptions to meet the other members of their new communities. At a house council meeting on Monday, the house professors for the communities as well as members

of the administration discussed the upcoming fall implementation of the house system. Thayer School of Engineering professor Jane Hill will be the house professor of Allen House, math professor Sergi Elizalde will be with East Wheelock House, biology professor Ryan Calsbeek will be with North Park House, math professor Craig Sutton will be with School House, sociology professor Kathryn Lively will be with South House, physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox will be with West House and Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Dennis Washburn will lead

the living learning communities. Student working groups were formed this term to help set up a basic platform for how the housing communities will function. Groups have themes such as house identity, programming and social media. In the fall, there was also a working group on student governance to better understand how the governance in the houses will work, Hickox said. Hickox added that working groups aim to show that the responsibilities of the housing communities, including programming and budget, will largely fall to the students rather than

being imposed in a top-down fashion. Elizalde and Sutton are faculty members of the student working group on programming, facilitated by associate director of residential education Jeff DeWitt. These groups generate ideas for programming and look at campus groups to determine “what works and what doesn’t” and what motivates students to participate in events, Elizalde said. No specific events are planned for any of the houses yet, Sutton said, but SEE HOUSE PAGE 5


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