VOL. CLXXIII NO.53
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TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016
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Dartmouth offered 2,176 acceptances to the Class of 2020, a group that includes the highest ever percentage of students of color. The number of applicants totaled 20,675 — representing less than a 1 percent increase from the Class of 2019 — bringing the 2020 admission rate to 10.5 percent. Of the admitted students, 51.6 percent identified as persons of color, 14.7 percent as first-generation college students, 8.1 percent as legacies and 10 percent are recruited athletes. Forty-eight percent of
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the admitted students qualify for need-based financial aid, with an average scholarship of $43,915. Earlier this month, the Board of Trustees approved a 3.8 percent total increase in undergraduate tuition, mandatory fees and room and board for the 20162017 academic year. Geographically within the United States, 27.3 percent of admitted students come from the West, 18.8 percent from the South, 9.7 percent from the Midwest, 22.1 percent from the Mid-Atlantic region and 13.6 percent from New SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 2
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Hopeful Trip leaders and Croo members are not evaluated on their dancing skills, but if accepted to volunteer for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, those skills will most likely be used as they welcome freshmen and spend time in the outdoors this coming fall. Applications for both Croo and leader positions for the Trips pro-
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About 60 people attended the fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault on Monday.
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gram were due last Wednesday. Although the Trips directorate did not count the number of applications submitted, assistant director Anna Gabianelli ’16 said she approximates the number of applicants to be similar to last year’s count of 575. She said this year’s directorate did not count the number of applications because they did not think the information SEE TRIPS PAGE 5
Yesterday’s fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault, held in Collis Common Ground and hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, aimed to gather feedback on the College’s new sexual violence prevention and education program. The four-year sexual assault education program, implemented under College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, is slated to begin in the fall.
About 60 students, administrators and faculty attended the event and participated in small group discussions to provide commentary. “We felt like this was a good opportunity for getting community and student feedback,” committee member and organizer Katherine McAvoy ’17 said. “A lot of times the people who are often involved in this work have the same ideas, so this symposium tends to have a wider reach.” Assistant director for violence prevention Amanda Childress pre-
sented on the ideology and progress of the College’s new four-year sexual prevention program following opening remarks from Hanlon. Childress said the U n i t e d S t at e s N ava l Academy’s sexual education program — the only other four-year prevention program at a college — has served as model for Dartmouth’s pilot program. Yet while the Naval Academy’s program provided an example of a long-term sexual education curricuSEE SPCSA PAGE 2
History professor Udi Greenberg wins book award By CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth Staff
History professor Udi Greenberg’s own family history helps to explain why he chose his field of study. His grandparents were refugees from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa. In the process, his family went from racially persecuted Jews under the Nazis to
elite whites under the apartheid regime. His parents, objecting to the racism in South Africa, then left for Israel. Growing up in Israel, Greenberg himself never thought of himself as white, as race was not talked about because people mostly divided themselves by religion, he said. “I think that’s what really sparked my interest in history,
of trying to understand why the same family would have a totally different social role and political role based on the historical moment in which we live.” Greenberg said. Greenberg recently received the 2016 European Studies Book Award for his debut book, “The Weimar Century: German Emigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold
War” (2015). The book looks at a number of individuals, products of Weimar-era Germany, who went on to influence the reconstruction of a democratic post-war Germany as well as American foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War. “Studying history ultimately is trying to understand why everything that seems obvious and normal is not,” he said.
“The belief of historians is that everywhere you look some process and choices by people led you to be there,” he said. Greenberg was not even aware he was in contention for the award. When submitting a manuscript of the book he was told to list some awards his book could potentially be nominated SEE GREENBERG PAGE 3