Yoeli '12, Sankar '12 elected to lead Student Assembly
Amrita Sankar '12 was elected student body vice president with 906 votes, beating Brian Holekamp '12, who received 510 votes, EPAC announced.
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Amrita Sankar '12 was elected student body vice president with 906 votes, beating Brian Holekamp '12, who received 510 votes, EPAC announced.
Limonthas, a write-in candidate currently at home in Texas on an off term, participated via Skype and cell phone methods that, at times, impeded the flow of the debate.
Will Hix '12 will campaign as a write-in candidate in the election for student body president, despite his ineligibility to run under rules determined by the Election Planning and Advisory Committee and upheld by a Student Assembly vote last week, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Monday morning.
Aaron Limonthas '12, who served as the 2010 Summer term student body president, announced his intent to run as a write-in candidate for student body president in an interview with The Dartmouth just after midnight Monday morning.
Following the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee's Wednesday deadline for petitions, Amrita Sankar '12 confirmed her intention to run for student body president in an interview with The Dartmouth, joining the race against Will Hix '12 and Max Yoeli '12, who announced their candidacies last week. Brian Holekamp '12 will run for student body vice president, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Will Hix '12 and Max Yoeli '12 will run for student body president in this year's Student Assembly election, they announced to The Dartmouth on Wednesday.
In light of the 5.9-percent increase in tuition, room, board and fees for the 2011-2012 academic year announced Monday, one audience member asked Kim why the College raised costs at a disproportionately higher rate than inflation, making Dartmouth the second-most expensive Ivy League institution.
The Elections Programming and Advisory Committee announced three major changes to the elections process during an informational meeting Tuesday night. A new rule will prevent students who have been suspended by the College from running for president or vice president of the student body, although students who have been suspended will still be permitted to run for all other positions. The instant run-off voting system that Student Assembly currently uses will be replaced by approval voting, whereby "voters say yes to candidates they like and no to those they don't," according to EPAC Chair Harry Enten '11. The new system will allow students to vote "yes" to an unlimited number of candidates. EPAC will also switch to the Helios Voting System, an online system, that was created at Harvard University and is currently used by the Princeton University's student government. EPAC increased spending limits for student body president and vice president campaigns from $125 to $200, $50 of which EPAC will reimburse. Campaign spending limits for Class Council president and vice president were also raised from $35 to $60, $35 of which EPAC will reimburse. All other positions Student Assembly class representatives, Committee on Standards representatives, Organization Adjudication Committee representatives and Green Key Society members have a $35 spending limit. The Assembly also unanimously approved funding for a round-trip bus to New York for spring break. Tickets will be sold for $50 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 11 and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. the following Monday. A Diversity and Community Affairs proposal to create Get Involved an initiative that will consolidate all student organizations into a regularly-updated, searchable website connected to the Assembly portal was allocated discretionary funding capped at $1,000. The Assembly motioned to postpone legislation to pay for a new computer to use for organizing the Cutter-Shabazz Library catalog at the suggestion that the Library's catalog which is currently in excel spreadsheet form be posted online and accessed from student laptops.
When the newly-renovated Class of 1953 Commons opens for Fall 2011, the dining halls will feature a new pay-per-meal dining plan, according to Director of Dining Services David Newlove. The new "hybrid" plan will enable students to either swipe their Dartmouth ID cards at '53 Commons for an all-you-can-eat style meal, or use their Declining Balance Account at any other dining facility on campus, Newlove said.
Student Assembly Accessibility Committee members Emily Broas '11 and Rebecca Gotlieb '12 recommended the addition of two new administrative positions an assistant director for Student Accessibility Services to specialize in outreach and an accessibility advisor in the Office of Pluralism and Leadership to "provide emotional support" and be "a linchpin for a community of awareness" at Tuesday's General Assembly meeting, Broas said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The committee also recommended accessibility education for faculty, additional resources for diagnostic testing and streamlining the process for accommodations appeals and requests for medical leaves, according to Broas. The Assembly also voted to order 55 subscriptions of The Wall Street Journal for Spring, Fall and Winter terms and 15 subscriptions for Summer term at a cost of $3,600. Nick Judson '14, a member of the External Relations Committee, proposed that $10,000 of the Assembly's budget fund the creation of an interactive virtual tour in collaboration with the Admission's Office. Members of the committee chose to allocate $5,000 to the project's completion. Manasi Desai '11, co-chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, said the committee is compiling median grades and will continue to evaluate the Assembly's Course Guide, which was reinstated by the Hacker's Club on Feb. 9.
During the early Winter Carnivals, five horses towed groups of skijoring students down Wheelock Street. At night, figure skaters took to the ice on Occom Pond, and College officials crowned the Carnival Queen. In the 100 years since the inaugural Carnival, these traditions, and a number of others, have been discontinued, but the fraternity parties and musical performances live on.
Groups of four Green Team student members will be present at social events to identify and help individuals who appear to require assistance, Akrami said. An individual approached by a Green Team member may accept or deny assistance without sanctions.
The new online program would assign students a 10-minute window, based on their priority number, to select housing. The program would allow students to search for available rooms by criteria including type and location, give students the ability to view floor plans and update vacancy status in real time as rooms are chosen.
Students called for greater transparency regarding acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears' decision not to be considered for permanent deanship in a letter e-mailed to campus on Tuesday morning. The letter, which also includes an online petition, was sent to campus with the signatures of 354 students.
Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 said that the new format will revolve around student conversations with high-level College officials rather than resolving trivial matters. Tanner confirmed that upcoming General Assembly meetings will feature discussions with College President Jim Yong Kim, Chief of Staff David Spalding, Director of Dartmouth Dining Services David Newlove and Athletics Director Harry Sheehy. Tanner is still waiting for a response from Provost Carol Folt and acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears, he said.
The recent overhaul of the Student Assembly structure which included the implementation of seven specialized committees focused on policy-based improvements instead of the previous four-committee structure has shifted Assembly operations away from programming and towards broader policy initiatives, Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The changes have resulted in fewer meetings and a smaller budget, Tanner said.
The lecture drew from Menzel and D'Aluisio's latest books, "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" (2007) and "What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets," released in August. Both books are photographic studies that supplement compelling photographs with written descriptions to represent the diets of families and individuals around the world.
During the 1970s, the College began deliberately increasing its accessibility to prospective students of minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds. Over the course of the subsequent decade, the focus shifted to diversifying the faculty, an issue with which the College still struggles, according to Vice President of Institutional Diversity and Equity Holly Sateia '82. By the 1990s, the process of building a diverse student body and faculty was underway, and the College was devoting itself to creating communities and encouraging dialogue across campus, Sateia said.
Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College.
SustainX, a technology company that develops energy grid systems, announced on Wednesday that it was named a Global Cleantech 100 company, an honor reserved for those private clean-technology companies that experts predict will have the largest market impact in the near future, according to a company press release. SustainX grew out of the Thayer School of Engineering in 2007 and is now based in West Lebanon. The 100 companies that made the list are from 14 different countries and were drawn from a list of 3,138 nominees, the release stated. SustainX is developing utility-scale energy grid systems that use electric air compression rather than fuel. The company's technology uses electrical energy to compress air at near-constant temperature, stores the air above ground and then generates electricity by expanding the compressed air.