Members of the Dartmouth Outing Club elected Alice Bradley '11 as president of the club for Spring, Fall and Winter terms and Chris Randall '12 as Summer president. For vice presidents, Athena Aicher '11 and Brannon Cavalier '12 will serve in the Spring, Cavalier and Nancy Dietman '12 in the Summer, Cavalier and Suzanne Kelson '12 in the Fall and Aicher and Dietman in the Winter. Erin Dauson '11 will be treasurer in the Spring, Fall and Winter, with Carsten Hansen '12 serving in the position in the Summer.
Although some university students across the country are planning to spend their spring breaks volunteering in Haiti, several experts contend that such efforts may not be the most effective way for students to aid Haitians, Inside Higher Ed reported Monday. A group of students from the University of Maryland plans to teach Haitians to construct homes using dirt-filled bags, known as earth-bag building, although the students have yet to practice the method themselves, according to Inside Higher Ed. Samantha Giacobozzi, programs director for Break Away, an organization that helps college students plan alternative break trips, said that Haiti currently needs skilled rather than unskilled volunteers like college students, according to Inside Higher Ed. Other student groups, however, are organizing relief efforts based in the United States, Inside Higher Ed reported. The University of Miami School of Law's Health and Elder Law Clinic has organized a system in which students from the University and other higher education institutions help Haitian refugees obtain temporary protected status from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Inside Higher Ed reported.
President Barack Obama last week renewed an executive order that provides federal support for historically black colleges, Inside Higher Ed reported Monday. The order enabled an Education Department office that determines ways federal agencies can aid historically black colleges to continue, and is similar to previous administrations' orders for this office. The office will now increase its emphasis on "enduring" efforts and will take a more experimental, "data-driven" approach, John Silvanus Wilson Jr., who will lead the office, told Inside Higher Ed. The committee includes an greater number of members from spheres of business, philanthropy and education outside historically black colleges than it has in the past, Inside Higher Ed reported.
