The Dartmouth 02/24/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.37

WINTRY MIX HIGH 37 LOW 35

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Students attend 1vyG

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Assembly releases Bill of Rights By THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

COURTESY OF JAY DAVIS

SPORTS

WOMEN’S AND MEN’S TENNIS DOMINATE PAGE 8

OPINION

BACH: TWEETED FOLLY PAGE 4

ARTS

ALUMNUS Q&A: EYAL PODELL ’97 PAGE 7

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Dartmouth students attended the Inter-Ivy First-Generational student’s conference.

By RACHEL FAVORS The Dartmouth Staff

Three-hundred and fifty college students, administrators, alumni, experts and community partners from around the country came together at Harvard University to celebrate the first-generation college student identity during the second annual Inter-Ivy First-Genera-

tion Students’ conference last weekend. The conference, hosted by the 1vyG student organization that spans the Ivy League, featured student-guided discussions, breakout sessions and panels led by corporate representatives and experts in educational inequality and first-generation student experiences. Prudence Carter,

a sociology and education professor at Stanford University, delivered the keynote address. Coming off of the momentum of the inaugural conference at Brown University, the first-generation student experience has received “relatively new coverage” and a greater number of SEE CONFERENCE PAGE 5

Student Assembly unveiled a first draft of its student Bill of Rights today via a campus-wide email, following a Feb. 10 announcement of the document’s creation. The draft of the bill of rights, which is also viewable online, outlines its three main purposes: facilitating communication between students and College administration, increasing transparency of College policies and further defining sections of the student handbook to retain student rights and privileges. The Assembly hopes to incorporate amendments and suggestions. The five-article document addresses different areas of student rights including academic affairs, judicial affairs and Safety and Security. The document also states that any future amendments must be ratified by the Student Assembly General Body as well as any administrative party involved. In academic affairs, the Bill calls for professors to provide academic accommodations for

students facing an injury or other personal emergency, as well as inform students of all course policies on their syllabuses. The Bill states that Safety and Security must not engage in coercive activities such as verbal or physical intimidation. The document also calls for all Safety and Security protocols such as walkthroughs and Good Samaritan calls to be published online and printed in the student handbook so that Safety and Security abides by the established protocols and does not misrepresent protocols. The Bill draft also calls for the establishment of a “twostrike policy” whereby Safety and Security does not have the grounds to enter a room after one noise complaint unless they have probable cause in the form of visual or olfactory evidence that a prohibited activity is occurring. However, if Safety and Security is summoned to the room again, officers may enter the room and disband the gathering. On Thursday, the Assembly SEE BILL PAGE 5

Alumni design ‘Wanda’ device improves security vibrator for women By JOSEPH REGAN The Dartmouth

By EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

After hearing about her midwest conservative upbringing, one might be surprised to learn that Elizabeth Klinger ’10 created Lioness, a company focused on creating a vibrator for women, with her business partner James Wang ’10. Wang said that the market is not geared towards women because the niche emerged as a result of men

deciding to incorporate vibrators into their sex lives during a lull in a longterm relationship. He also pointed out that many of the current vibrators on the market have features that men think women want. “These things are loud and a lot of the time have a bunch of different vibrations, which, if you walk into a sex shop, are things that you might think you SEE VIBRATOR PAGE 3

Computer science doctoral student Tim Pierson’s new device may seem to many like a magic wand. Better known as “Wanda,” the programmed wand allows users to securely connect wireless devices to a Wi-Fi network with a tap, removing a number of security risks in the process. In the abstract of his recently published paper “Wanda: Securely Introducing Mobile Devices,” Pierson identified three main goals of the device: to configure devices to local

Wi-Fi networks, to partner different devices together such as a glucose monitor and insulin pump and to ensure these devices are connected to the relevant personal or organizational account intended by the user. Wanda is currently a working prototype that has met each of these goals. The invention can securely send information such as the password of a Wi-Fi router to other devices wirelessly, securely adding them to the shared network. To connect a device to the network with Wanda, a user simply points the two-antenna

wand at the device. Pierson said this idea came from his desire to help patients in small health networks such as a home or doctor’s office without an IT team. Doctors and patients are often unable to use the latest technology because they are not technologically savvy, he said, which the device will help address. Wanda also boosts security by deterring wireless eavesdropping by relying on properties of how radio waves propagate through space. SEE WANDA PAGE 5


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