The Dartmouth 03/07/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.45

PARTLY CLOUDY

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016

MEN’S HOCKEY IN TO ECAC QUARTERFINALS

HIGH 51 LOW 32

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Stamps Scholars to present today By HEYI JIANG

The Dartmouth Staff

PATRICK IRADUKUNDA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

SPORTS

TRACK AND FIELD, SKIING HEAD TO NCAAS PAGE SW4

OPINION

SHARMA: FINANCIAL LITERACY & DDS PAGE 4

ARTS

‘DREWVIEW’: A REVIEW OF ‘LEGALLY DREW’ PAGE 7

REVIEW: DANCE ENSEMBLE SHOW PAGE 8 READ US ON

DARTBEAT FINALS BINGO: A FUN GAME FOR WEEK 10 FOLLOW US ON

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Men’s hockey wins best-of-three series to qualify for ECAC quarterfinals. See story online.

Alumni stand with Lady Gaga at Oscars By SONIA QIN

The Dartmouth Staff

At the Oscars this year, Lady Gaga performed an emotionally-charged rendition of her song “Til it Happens to You.” Nearing the end of her

perfor mance, she was joined onstage by a group 50 young survivors of sexual violence that included two alums: Nastassja Schmiedt, a former member of the Class of 2015, and Lea Roth ’13. Gaga’s song addresses

the sensitive topic of sexual violence and is featured in the documentary “The Hunting Ground” (2015), a film that specifically addresses sexual violence on American college camSEE OSCARS PAGE 5

The Experiential Lear ning symposium, sponsored by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Lear ning, will take place this afternoon in Baker-Berry Library. The symposium will feature 2016-17 Stamps Scholars Julia Marino ’17, Andrew Nalani ’16, Connie Jiang ’17 and Patrick Saylor ’16, who will be sharing their work and experiences through the Stamps program. Through the Stamps Scholarship program, students are eligible for up to $10,000 grants from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation to pursue co-curricular or academic experiential learning opportunities. The program first started at Dartmouth about two years ago, associate director of the Experiential Learning Initiative Ashley Kehoe said. Previously managed by the Provost’s Office, DCAL now runs the program. Nalani, a religion major modified with women’s, gender and sexuality studies and environmental studies, wants

to go into education. Nalani’s project revolves around redesigning the curriculum of a leadership program he directed in Uganda. After the successful pilot program in the summer of 2014, Nalani began considering how to expand it into an ongoing program by redesigning the curriculum. T h ro u g h t h e S t a m p s Scholarship, Nalani also conducted research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. The program he did in Uganda also involved components of social emotional learning, and Nalani’s research at Yale expanded on how to adapt such learning for different populations, especially minority populations. “The opportunity to be a Stamps Scholar has made my learning experience come alive,” Nalani said. Nalani hopes to finish the curriculum handbook by the end of spring term. Marino’s project centers SEE STAMPS PAGE 2

Warren Belding retires after 43 years with College IT By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

Last Wednesday, manager of IT desktop client services Warren Belding retired from the College after more than 43 years of service. While at the College, Belding witnessed several transformations in technology, and simultaneously saw his own position evolve in order to continue to meet Dartmouth’s technological needs. Belding first joined the College’s IT department in July of 1972 when he was

21-years-old. It was his first major job out of college, and also his first experience working with IT. Most of his training came while on the job, he noted, especially because the field was constantly changing and evolving. O r i g i n a l l y, B e l d i n g worked in the machine room with the mainframe computers. At the time, personal computers had not yet been invented — professors and students at Dartmouth shared a single computer, large enough to take up more than half the floor of the now-demolished Kiewit

Computation Center. Over 100 people could connect to the mainframe at a time via terminals in the center or other buildings on campus, computer science professor Scot Drysdale said. Belding worked to help users run their programs, performing tasks like mounting magnetic tape and getting printouts. After two years working in the machine room, Belding applied to and was accepted for a position as a program librarian. He compared the job to a modern-day software download page: he maintained a collection

of computer programs for people to use if they did not want to write their own. Belding said that while on the job, he was in charge of verifying that user-submitted programs for the collection were not copyrighted and could be used publicly, as well as deciding whether programs were worthy of inclusion in the library. He and his coworkers would also regularly produce a catalog detailing the available programs in the library. In the 1980s, Belding’s role changed once again with the advent of personal

computing. His job became focused on providing user support, a role he has maintained to this day. One of his first duties was helping to introduce personal computing to the Dartmouth campus. Drysdale said that the head of computing at the time, Bill Arms, who is now a computing and information science professor emeritus at Cornell University, was convinced that the future lay with personal computing, rather than with continuing to purchase SEE BELDING PAGE 3


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