VOL. CLXXVI NO. 118
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020
Rise Together! events Dartmouth majors yield wide at College honor MLK range of salaries, per federal data B y AMBER BHUTTA The Dartmouth
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A f t e r n e a rl y a ye a r of preparation, the Rise Together! celebration brought together the Dartmouth community yesterday to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to vice president for institutional diversity and equity Evelynn Ellis explained, this year’s theme of “Rise Together!” was chosen to inspire optimism and hope. “The energy that we’re
trying to put into it is to provide the opportunity for people to heal, to restore, to feel hopeful even though the news doesn’t give them a place to be hopeful,” Ellis said. “Given the situation that we as Americans find ourselves in right now, there is no leadership to help us rise. I think it is going to be the total responsibility of American people, ourselves, the general public — and I mean all groups — to pull
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Two-day PE camping trips no longer offered B y ANDREW SASSER The Dartmouth
The College will no longer offer two-day camping or hiking trips for physical education credit. According to College spokesperson Diana Lawrence, these trips will no longer be offered until the Outdoor Programs Office establishes administrative oversight of PE credit offerings. According to senior associate athletic director of physical education Joann Brislin, the department offers many options for those want to take PE classes. Brislin said that while some
students wait until their senior year to fulfill their PE credits, no student has been unable to graduate due to the lack of availability in PE classes. “We’ve never had a situation where we couldn’t take care of a senior,” Brislin said. “There’s always space in some classes.” In order for an activity to be eligible for PE credit, certain activities must meet a set of regulations. According to Brislin, the activities run at least twice a week for eight weeks. For a student to earn credit, they must be enrolled SEE PE CREDITS PAGE 2
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Majors at Dartmouth that yield the highest average salaries after graduation tend to be the most popular.
B y SOLEIL GAYLORD The Dartmouth
A Dartmouth graduate’s average salary can range from $38,900 to $100,500, while student debt at the College ranges from $7,500 to $17,007 depending on a choice of major, according to data published in the Wall Street Journal. The data, released by the U.S. Department of Education last fall, is unique in that it distinguishes earnings by major. Previously, the DOE released single, school-wide statistics irrespective of degree. In total, 15 percent of colleges in the data set showed a debt average higher than their earnings average, and elite institutions like those within the
Ivy League consistently had the highest earnings-to-debt ratio. The most popular majors at Dartmouth, respectively, are economics, government, computer science and engineering. The highestearning majors, which correlate with those majors, are, in descending order: computer science, economics, engineering and government. This trend is somewhat mirrored for majors with the lowest debt –– engineering majors were shown to have the lowest debt, along with biology, computer science and neurobiology/neuroscience majors. Computer science majors top the salary rankings at Dartmouth, ear ning an average of $100,500 yearly. In
comparison, computer science graduates at Cornell University make $116,300 in their first year, while those at Brown University make $141,000. Dartmouth students graduating with an economics degree make $84,200, while economics majors at Cornell and Yale University make $67,500 and $81,400, respectively. Dartmouth gover nment graduates are the highest paid among government majors at comparable institutions: they earn $59,000, compared to $45,100 at Cornell and $49,100 at Yale. The data confirm a reality assumed by many Dartmouth students regarding which majors SEE SALARIES PAGE 3