The Dartmouth Newspaper 2/26/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.39

MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH 28 LOW 8

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Student arrested in Assembly hosts town hall connection with arson By THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

The Hanover Police Department arrested Vikram Naidu ’18 today on felony charges of arson and reckless misconduct in connection with the fire that occurred in Streeter Hall at 2:49 a.m. on Feb. 18, according to press release from the department. Two trash cans were intentionally set on fire during the incident. Naidu was arrested on charges of one Class A felony count of arson and one Class B felony count of reckless conduct. Naidu was released on $5,000 cash bail as well as $25,000 on personal recognizance. His arraignment date is set for April 4 at 8:15 a.m. at the 2nd Circuit Court Lebanon Division. The police are conducting the ongoing investigation with the New Hampshire State Fire Marshall’s office.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne wrote in a campus wide email last Thursday that the incident had been labeled a felony arson. New Hampshire criminal code RSA 634:1 classifies two categories of arson, Class A felony and a Class B felony. A Class A felony includes damaging property that is an occupied structure, which the actor was aware of, or a historic structure. Class B felonies include arson of either the actor or another’s property done for the purpose of collecting insurance on damaged property. Arson that involves real estate being damaged or loss in excess of $1,000 falls under the Class B category. Other arson is classified as a misdemeanor. This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

DartMUN to take place this weekend By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

With the surge of high school juniors and seniors, one might think it is a holiday weekend full of families touring campus. In fact, the 400 high school students crowding Dartmouth’s campus over the next few days are part of the 11th Dartmouth Model United Nations Conference. The conference, planned entirely by Dartmouth students, will last from today through Sunday afternoon. Students will participate in one of 13 committees, ranging from five conventional General Assembly committees — which operate following the protocols and procedures of the corresponding United Nations

body — to crisis committees, historical committees, special committees and an ad-hoc committee. Dartmouth students who act as committee directors are given creative discretion in terms of creating their topics and scenarios, DartMUN secretary-general Andrew Wolff ’18 said. Committees are not completely based on U.N. bodies, granting students more flexibility and the opportunity for a bit more fun, said Emily Choate ’18, undersecretary general of special committees. “We put a lot of effort this year into coming up with really unique, novel topics,” Choate said. SEE MUN PAGE 3

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Around 30 attend the town hall on Student Assembly’s Bill of Rights Thursday night.

By SONIA QIN The Dartmouth Staff

Last night, Student Assembly held a town hall event to present its Bill of Rights draft and answer questions from students, faculty and staff interested in the document. Around 30 students and several members of the administration attended the event. Jeffrey Fastow ’18, student affairs committee cochair, said that the student affairs committee noticed that throughout the past terms, there has been a “noticeable” spike in student issues with Safety and

Security as well as concerns over increased academic rigor. The committee also noted a disconnect between the College’s administration and students’ rights in judicial processes and hearings. After studying the College’s student handbook, he said that his committee realized there were many gray areas, prompting the decision to develop the Bill of Rights. Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 emphasized that the bill as of now is only a draft version and that the point of this town hall was to get

student and administration feedback. “I think this document has started a conversation, and that was my intention,” Cunningham said. The next step for the Assembly will be to revise the document with the feedback they have been getting and then work with administrators to actually implement the Bill of Rights, Student Assembly communications director Jessica Barfield ’16 said. She said that the earliest the Bill of Rights would go into effect would be by the SEE BILL PAGE 5

Lecture discusses liberal arts By SUNGIL AHN The Dartmouth

Yesterday afternoon, the Leslie Center for the Humanities held a forum called “STEM and the Liberal Arts” focusing on the interaction between liberal arts and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Key-

note speaker and history professor Cecilia Gaposchkin spoke to an audience of 20, mostly comprised of deans and professors from various disciplines. Gaposchkin pointed out that the humanities and STEM fields are separated and called for the need to develop a “common vocabulary” between the

fields. Identifying a rising call to promote STEM education and cut liberal arts funding, Gaposckin cited Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s comment during a debate that, “We need more welders and less philosophers.” People were quick to point SEE STEM PAGE 5


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