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Following a meeting of Greek leaders and administrators on Sept. 17, Greek councils and presidents have seen their schedules filled with internal and external meetings on different proposals for Greek life reform. This fall, Gender-Inclusive Greek Council president Noah Cramer ’16 said his weekly schedule has shifted from three meetings to as many as six or seven, in addition to numerous informal meetings with other Greek leaders. “Now, Greek leaders have been put into the role of change agents,” he said. New financial aid policies, the system-wide elimination of pledge term, a website detailing
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Very different 9%
No answer 3%
The same 22%
Moderately different 25%
Slightly different 41%
How different is the Greek system now than at the start of the fall? Did not answer 2%
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Academic honor principle cases increased by 44 percent last year, with 11 more cases referred to the Committee on Standards in 2013-14 than the year before. In 2013-2014, 57 percent of the 63 cases adjudicated by COS were academic honor principle violations, up from 38 percent of cases the year before. Of the 36 honor principle cases, 44 percent involved plagiarism, 39 percent involved cheat-
Did not answer 1% Yes 13%
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Yes 64% No 87%
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After reviewing the Student Assembly’s recent expenditures on customized apparel, a lunch event and a formal that was later canceled, the Undergraduate Finance Committee sanctioned the group. Between now and June, Assembly and UFC advisor Eric Ramsey must approve any purchases over $500. The UFC decided that the Assembly’s spending had violated the spirit of the Student Activities fee — an $83-perstudent termly tuition charge that the UFC distributes — which is to create a “diverse and lively social life,” UFC chair Eli Derrow ’15 said. The expenditures examined by the UFC include a $966.28 invite-only lunch to discuss sexual assault prevention and $1,876 for customized Patagonia jackets for 23 Assembly executives. The UFC also reviewed a proposal for an Assembly-wide formal, which was initially billed as an awards dinner for Assembly members and their dates, then later opened to campus and ultimately canceled. Though the UFC said the catered lunch was an acceptable use of the Student Activities fee due to its potential campus-wide benefits, the jackets, at around $80 each, was not. The formal would have cost “a few thousand dollars,”
Most respondents said they did not want the Greek system abolished.
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ing and 17 percent involved unauthorized collaboration. Recently, allegations of cheating in Religion 65, or “Sports, Ethics and Religion,” have sparked conversations about Dartmouth’s honor principle. On Oct. 30, religion professor Randall Balmer found a discrepancy between the number of students digitally submitting answers to in-class questions and the number of students present. Balmer asked the 43 students who had submitted SEE HONOR PAGE 5
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Program links ’14s to applicants B y Estephanie Aquino
The College’s most recent alumni have begun conducting interviews with its newest applicants via Skype. The pilot program, organized by former admissions office intern Alex Judson ’14, connects members of the Class of 2014 with applicants to the Class of 2019 who live in areas with fewer alumni interviewers. Alumni interviews are never required, but some applicants have not had the option of scheduling one. Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said the pilot program, which will continue for regular decision applicants, aims to interview 100 people in “far-flung places.”
The program will reach prospective students overseas, including applicants from military families living abroad, and remote areas of the U.S. Derrick Smith ’07, assistant director of young alumni and student programs, wrote in an email that, while he has not been directly involved with the pilot program, he believes its virtual nature will expand Dartmouth’s reach during the admissions process. He noted that the young alumni will represent Dartmouth as it “works to expand its global brand recognition.” He acknowledged, however, that online interviews lose the “human element” of in-person meetings and exclude students
without Internet connections. Max Ross ’11, who has conducted dozens of admissions interviews since he graduated, said that while the in-person interviews are ideal, technology is “the way of the future.” Ross is currently the district enrollment director for central New Jersey, a role that requires him to manage the alumni interviewing process for two counties. The University of Chicago, Oberlin College, Wake Forest University and Tufts University offer Skype interviews. Sarah Alger ’80, who interviews applicants from Nantucket, Massachusetts, said applicants may relate better to
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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP Dartmouth researchers are experimenting with “smart spaces” to address problems in visible light communication by ensuring data transmission does not stop when light is blocked, according to a press release published on phys.org. The “smart spaces” track movements and separate shadows so data can flow wirelessly between indoor smart devices. The National Science Foundation recently gave researchers a $500,000 grant. Particular genes allow some organisms to change form following environmental changes, a study from Dartmouth and Indiana University researchers shows, according to a press release published on phys.org. The study, published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, explores phenotypic plasticity. The researchers, including Bruce Stanton and Tom Hampton from the Geisel School of Medicine, looked at how Atlantic killifish adapt their gills to live in freshwater or seawater and use arsenic to identify which genes orchestrate these changes. Old-growth forests are deteriorating faster due to China’s anti-logging, conservation and ecotourism policies, research led by Dartmouth scientist Jodi Brandt found, according to a press release. Researchers used satellite imagery to study change in the forests. The study found that the tourism industry has increased demand for old-growth timber, and highlights a need for increased understanding of how government policies interact with local land management. – COMPILED By Kelsey Flower
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Bowdoin,Tuck to collaborate on course B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff
Tuck Business School and Bowdoin College will offer a collaborative financial accounting course for Bowdoin students in the spring. The course, which will be conducted primarily online, represents an opportunity to experiment with technology, senior associate dean Robert Hansen said. This coincides with a similar collaboration between Yale University and Harvard University, which would make a Harvard computer science course available to Yale students, pending Harvard faculty approval. Bowdoin and Dartmouth began discussing the possibility of the course in early summer, Hansen said. The course passed a Bowdoin faculty vote and received endorsements from two curriculum and policy committees and the economics department at Bowdoin, Bowdoin economics chair Guillermo Herrera wrote in an email. Tuck discussed and approved the course internally, Hansen said. The course, consisting of two sections of 25 Bowdoin students, will be offered in the spring and will fulfill a Bowdoin general elective credit. Tuck accounting professor Phillip Stocken created the course with Bowdoin economics faculty members. Tuck chose Bowdoin due to its proximity, Bowdoin students’ past
enrollment in both the Business Bridge program and the Tuck MBA program and relationships between the two colleges, Hansen said. Hansen said he hopes the program will help bring more undergraduates to Tuck. If the program goes well, Hansen said he expects Tuck will create more collaborative programs with other schools. The course will be conducted online and in person, with Tuck faculty visiting Bowdoin for the first and last weeks of the semester, Herrera wrote. Bowdoin economics professor Greg DeCoster will work through any problems the students may have with the material in weekly discussion sessions, Herrera wrote. Stocken said he modeled the class on a Dartmouth accounting course, adding a few case studies to account for Bowdoin’s longer term, and said he will adjust the class throughout the spring semester. Dartmouth runs another collaborative program, the Business Bridge program, which will expand to Smith College starting in May 2015. The condensed course focuses on business fundamentals. The Tuck program, created in 1997, offers four-week summer sessions open to College students and students not affiliated with Dartmouth. The sessions expose those without academic business background to skills from the field. The program recently added a three-week session in December.
This collaboration marks the first of its kind for Bowdoin, Herrera wrote. The course should give students a solid background in accounting and give Bowdoin faculty more time to focus on their own material, Herrera wrote. Bowdoin will measure the program’s success through data collection and post-course interviews, he said. The course, Stocken said, should help Dartmouth and Bowdoin further educational online capabilities. Other schools are also experimenting with technological collaboration. The Harvard course could be offered at Yale in fall 2015. Yale computer science department chair Joan Feigenbaum said she wants to introduce the course to Yale to make computer science more accessible to those who do not want to major in the subject. She said many Yale students have expressed interest in a course with real-world applications rather than one focused solely on coding. Like the Tuck-Bowdoin course, the computer science class would combine online and-in person teaching. Students at Yale and Harvard will interact, she said. Though Yale has collaborated with other Ivies on courses in the past, like a language course collaboration with Columbia University and Cornell University, Feigenbaum said, it has been on a much smaller scale.
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Derrow said, though he could not provide an exact figure. The event, which the Assembly canceled independently of the UFC last week, would also have been an unacceptable use of the student activities fee, he said. Student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said the Assembly believed it had permission to spend this money, citing the organization’s UFC-approved budget allowing for $4,000 to be spent on “attire, supplies and other internal expenditures.” Last spring, the Assembly requested $70,500. Derrow said the proposal requested items that did not fall within the standards of the student activities fee. Rather than provide a line-by-line approval of the proposed budget, Derrow said the UFC estimated that $40,000 would cover the organization’s costs for the year. In 2013-14, the UFC allocated the Assembly $58,000, in 2012-13, $69,500, in 2011-12, $76,250. While each student was initially going to pay for a jacket, Cunningham said the Assembly decided against this due to concerns over financial inclusivity. He added that the Assembly intended the jackets to be a token of the executives’ hard work and as a way to display their involvement on campus.
“The Assembly is not like the typical group the UFC funds,” Assembly spokesperson Reilly Johnson ’16 said. “As a student government, we can’t have legitimacy without some type of internal funding. One of the biggest problems is that the UFC sees us as a club.” Derrow said he does not expect the UFC sanction to significantly affect the Assembly’s plans, noting that Ramsey can help the organization navigate approval processes. Student body president Casey Dennis ’15, however, said that the sanctions will hinder the Assembly’s ability to implement campus-wide programming. He said that adding extra steps to the Assembly’s planning process will slow its operations and capacity to react to campus events, especially considering the fast pace of Dartmouth’s 10-week terms. “We believe that the UFC has severely overstepped its jurisdiction yet again and, worse, misrepresented the facts to our peers,” Johnson wrote in a statement. “We frankly hold serious reservations about allowing the UFC, an unelected body, such excesses in power given that their structure diametrically opposes the student body leadership.” Former student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14 said the Assembly’s
differences with the UFC present problems. He said that while the student body elects Assembly representatives based on their platforms, the unelected UFC chair controls funding. “This whole sanctioning episode shows there’s an inherent tension between the Assembly and the UFC — between the students’ interests and the administrators’ interests,” Ferrari said. “The question students need to ask is, ‘Am I satisfied with a student government that’s controlled by the administration, or should students be given more agency to solve their own problems?’” This fall, the Assembly has worked to boost its visibility. The organization grew from 40 to 95 students. One Assembly campaign, labeled “I’m Here for You,” seeks to address the stigma of mental illness. Another, “It’s on Us,” focuses on combating sexual assault on campus — an initiative that included the catered lunch, which aimed to bring together student leaders and promote discussions on prevention methods. The UFC last sanctioned the Assembly in April, following an attempt to incentivize Dartmouth Bystander Intervention training by giving $2,000 in dues-assistance funds to Greek houses with a certain number of members participating.
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someone closer to their own age. Alger said young interviewers may be better informed about campus events. “Rather than have us old codgers being the people doing the interviewing, it’s probably a more realistic perspective,” said Alger, who has around 30 years of admissions interviewing experience. This peer-like interaction, however, could also give applicants the sense that the interview is weighted less in the admissions process, she said. Smith wrote the program allows applicants to hear from people whose Dartmouth experiences will most closely resemble their own. “Who else is better to help inform the Dartmouth of tomorrow than the Dartmouth of today?” he wrote. Program participant Michael Klein ’14, who interviewed an applicant from the Midwest, said his interview was surprisingly helpful for the candidate. The two discussed extracurricular and foreign study opportunities, social life and the negative media attention Dartmouth has received recently. Klein said, however, that more experienced interviewers might be better able to evaluate applicants.
“When you’re an alum who has seen hundreds and hundreds of students come through, you get a better sense of what admissions is looking for,” he said. “Not having that experience makes it a little more difficult to give a recommendation to admissions that makes it a more trusted data point.” Klein is a former member of The Dartmouth business staff. Ross who, like Smith, has worked to boost the number of young alumni interviewers, said he agreed that Dartmouth’s youngest alumni can best give applicant practical advice and up-todate perspectives. “At the same time, for all of their operational and ‘on-the-ground’ expertise, the ’14s will lack professional experience and experience in the workforce that is equally informative during undergraduate interviews,” Ross wrote in an email. Ross observed that young alumni have become increasingly involved in the admissions process, both in his area and elsewhere. Laskaris said that most alumni interviewers are around 15 to 20 years out of college, as their employment and residency are more stable. Maria Brenes, Sasha Dudding and Madison Pauly contributed reporting.
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Spreading Science
Fixing Free Speech
Public acceptance of science benefits everyone. Last fall, Jim Gates, an eminent string theorist and a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, gave a talk at Dartmouth and said something that rattled me. This country does not need more people like me, he declared. He was speaking as a theoretical scientist and tenured professor to a room full of undergraduate and graduate science students who dreamed of one day having a career like his. Needless to say, his words were not especially comforting. But his statement came close to ringing true. Whether we need more people studying exotic physics is debatable, but one thing is abundantly clear: the U.S. does not want more scientists. American beliefs about science certainly seem to suggest this. According to a 2014 Gallup poll, more than 40 percent of Americans believe that human beings were created in their present form 10,000 years ago. Compare this with the 97 percent of scientists who hold, according to a Pew Research Center report, that human beings evolved over time. There is a vast gulf between the beliefs of the public and the beliefs of the experts. Biology is not alone in the scrutiny it receives from laypeople. Physics suffers from public skepticism, too. According to a 2014 study from Chapman University on American fears, Americans are about as likely to believe in Bigfoot as in the Big Bang. Why should such a divergence in opinion cause concern? Some argue that both parties can carry on untroubled: the public can believe whatever so long as scientists can continue publishing papers. According to this view, the two communities can run along parallel tracks without colliding. Unfortunately, the situation is more complex. Scientific inquiry is not merely the stuff of idle speculation and ivory towers. While it is surely true that string theory and loop quantum gravity have little bearing on the here and now, a great deal of scientific work is devoted to burning issues that demand public and political attention. Climate science is perhaps the best example. Scientists are shouting with a unified voice about the dangers our practices pose for the environment, but a significant fraction of the American
public — about one in four, according to a 2013 report by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication — thinks they’re bluffing. Climate scientists have laid out a clear and compelling case for action, but many politicians show little interest in change. We continue to pump carbon into the air at a rate that is only accelerating with time. Furthermore, because public opinion has a direct bearing on scientific funding, scientists should take a strong interest in what the public thinks of their work. Lab work grinds to a halt without government grant money. And these funding decisions are made by politicians who are ultimately held accountable to the public. Given such strong disagreement between the scientific community and the public that funds it, it is not surprising that federal funding for research as a percentage of GDP is declining. The public also has a vested long-term interest in supporting science. It is easy to forget that the technology surrounding us exists by virtue of scientific discoveries made decades ago. Thanks to our deep understanding of classical mechanics, we can push satellites into orbit. We would not have cell phones without solid state physics. GPS without special relativity would be unthinkable. The public has science to thank for the conveniences of the contemporary world. Likewise, the revolutionary technology of tomorrow will be the fruits of scientific discovery today — if it gets funded. Disagreement between scientists and the public therefore gives everyone cause for concern. To move forward, both sides need to be proactive. The scientist must spread her work beyond the conference halls. Communicating discoveries to a broad audience should be nearly as important as the discoveries themselves. At the same time, the American public must stop viewing scientists with distrust. They do not aim to cut down religious belief or advance a political agenda; they aim to better understand the world, a goal that benefits everyone. Gates may be right — we may not need more scientists. But we do need a better understanding of science.
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America’s free speech laws are harmfully broad. Free speech is often cited as a cornerstone of American democracy. Individuals or a group have the right to express themselves and say whatever they want with fairly few restrictions. As long as the speech does not imminently incite violence, constitute slander or libel, or have excessively objectionable content, the speech is allowed. This protects crucial kinds of free expression, like criticisms of the government or U.S. policy, the publication of potentially risqué or provocative works and the ability to mock others for comedic effect. It allows for dissenting but respectful viewpoints critical to our system of democracy: people can be heard even if they have an unpopular opinion, and they have the opportunity to convince people of the virtue of their point of view. That said, this country has gone too far in allowing people to say whatever they want, and should curtail speech that is obviously harmful to society, such as hate speech. Those in support of aggressive civil liberties will protest: What is stopping the government from moving past sensible restrictions on free speech, once they are in place, to something more Orwellian, as in China or other authoritarian regimes? At face value, this is a fair question, but given America’s deeply-held cultural norms and the power of the Internet and social media, such a scenario is highly unlikely. We need only small but significant change to the freedom of speech in this country: namely, the prohibition of unambiguously destructive, hateful speech. This kind of speech, despite being clearly distasteful, has long been upheld as legal in America because of the First Amendment. In the 1992 case R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, the Supreme Court said a teenager burning a cross in an African-American family’s yard — an homage to the Ku Klux Klan — was constitutional. Despite the Supreme Court’s statement that this is “reprehensible,” and the clear violation of basic human decency cross-burning entails, the Court upheld this speech as permissable under the Constitution. The Westboro Baptist Church, known worldwide as a hate group which commonly uses racial and homophobic slurs, as well as protesting at funerals “thanking God”
for the death of the individual, has their hatred constitutionally protected. The abhorrent “rape guide” from this past winter, posted on Bored at Baker? The individual responsible immediately left the College, but otherwise seemingly faced no legal penalties. If someone were to sit on South Main Street catcalling women, that individual’s “right” to do so is legally protected, as it does not incite immediate violence despite being objectively distressing. Free speech, as outlined in the First Amendment and clarified throughout numerous Supreme Court cases, regrettably allows all of these things. This situation is patently absurd. This country is supposedly built on freedom and equality, not on the right to say whatever you want without significant consequences. Our country should not legally sanction hate speech, through which those in positions of social power can disparage others without legal repercussions. Many other countries limit this kind of speech, particularly speech that could cause undue harm (physical or emotional) to a targeted group of people. South Africa outlaws “advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion” and war propaganda. Many European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand, have similar laws regarding racist speech. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that restrictions on free speech are permissible “as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society,” allowing for greater flexibility and adaptabilty in a rapidly changing society. Perhaps the most well-known example of sensible restrictions on free speech is that it is illegal in Germany to publish material denying the Holocaust, and German hate speech law takes a hard line against anti-Semitism. How does America benefit from allowing speech that many other developed and democratic countries have wisely deemed to be against their modern values? A line can be drawn and hate speech can be defined through the democratic process. Many other developed and democratic nations have passed laws and instituted legal mechanisms that are quite simple in nature. America should do the same: hate speech is not acceptable and should not be legally protected.
Vox Clamantis in order to avoid social and professional Greeks: Over It To the Editor: I find it exhausting and honestly quite condescending that we are still having the “should we abolish the Greek system” conversation. There was a debate last spring. It was made clear that the negative psychological, physical and emotional impact of Greek culture (from binge drinking, to exclusion, to rampant sexual assault) did not and could not outweigh the benefits of investing in an inclusive campus culture. What we have now is not working and will never work. Greek houses are ubiquitous. They take up too much space, they cost so much to participate in and students feel pressured to participate
alienation. We know this. The question we need to be asking at this point is what now? Are we brave enough to imagine a campus without Greeks? Can we buy the houses back and turn them into coed living learning spaces? Can we tear them down and build more dorms? We know alumni donations will go down once we abolish the Greek system. But within a few years, the donations will come back up. It’s not that serious. What is serious, however, is how much respect and veneration and deliberation we are giving one group’s recreational activities and “right” to an exclusive social spaces over other students’ bodily safety. Sadia Hassan ’13
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responses but had been absent that day to stay after class on Nov. 11, and judicial affairs director Leigh Remy informed them of possible disciplinary action. Since then, several of their peers have voluntarily reported their involvement, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy wrote in an email, declining to specify how many. These students electronically submitted answers for absent peers and account for 23 of the 43 responses from absent students. All students have requested individual hearings, which the Committee on Standards aims to complete before Dartmouth closes for winter break in late December. The clicker incident has brought increased attention to the purpose and expectations of the honor principle, Dartmouth center for the advancement of learning interim director and government professor Lisa Baldez said. She said this opportunity should not “be taken for granted” and would ideally lead to more conversation among faculty and students. Between summer 2008 and spring 2013, the COS found more than 100 students responsible for violating the academic honor principle, with sanctions ranging from reprimands to expulsion. Two-thirds of students were suspended, and two students with multiple violations were expelled. The committee considered the degree of the violation, the student’s willingness to share information, disciplinary history and compliance when determining sanctions for each case. College President Phil Hanlon said students’ willingness to uphold the academic honor principle creates trust between faculty and students. “I certainly think that maintaining and strengthening Dartmouth’s academic excellence requires strict adherence to the academic honor principle,” he said. “It’s important
that each student accepts the responsibility to be honorable on his own as well as support the principle as it applies to others.” In a survey emailed to campus Monday morning, about 30 percent of 160 respondents reported that they had cheated at Dartmouth. About 26 percent of respondents reported having participated in collaboration where it was not expressly authorized, 16 percent reported cheating on a homework assignment, 8 percent reported cheating on an exam and 1 percent said they had intentionally plagiarized. About 45 percent of respondents said they think about the honor principle one time or less frequently per term and over half said they think about it twice or more. Faculty interviewed said the case offers an important chance to reflect on Dartmouth’s standards. Philosophy professor Timothy Rosenkoetter wrote in an email that the honor principle establishes trust within the Dartmouth community. “Precisely because there is an honor code, professors can — and, I would argue, have some obligation to — treat students as participants in a community in which one’s word is to be taken at face value,” he wrote. English professor Michael Chaney, who has taught at Dartmouth since 2005, said incidents of student misconduct on campus surprise him. “That surprise brings with it an obligation to talk to my students, the students whom I may believe are incapable of such atrocities, to talk about the ways we’re all human, and to talk more about not just academic honesty, but also a kind of culture of competition,” Chaney said. English professor Thomas Luxon said he tried to reduce the temptation to cheat by making students choose their final paper topic in the first week of class, enabling them to work on the paper throughout the term. Religion professor Susannah
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Heschel said she believes fear of failure can motivate cheating. She said that she tries to reduce her students’ anxiety by working with them on papers. “I explain to them that writing an essay or research paper is an opportunity for them to express themselves and to express their ideas and to think for themselves, and I want to know how they think,” she said. “To cheat on something is to deny yourself a great opportunity.” Engaging students on a personal basis can be difficult in large classes like Balmer’s, Luxon said. He noted that few courses in the humanities with large class sizes have good attendance. In large classes, professors tend to give assessments that don’t require professor feedback. “That breaks the very important bond between the teacher and the student — a bond of trust, a bond of knowledge and familiarity upon which learning is based, and if you lose the trust and you lose the familiarity,” Luxon, who has taught at Dartmouth since 1988, said. “I’m not surprised that people stopped coming to class.” Baldez said the large size of Religion 65 reflected the attractiveness of the course and did not lead to cheating. She noted that clickers can make large classes more interactive and provide the instructor with instantaneous feedback from students. The course, however, misused the technology, she said. “Every class when you do something innovative and new, you run the risk of some kind of unanticipated consequence,” Baldez said. “In Professor Balmer’s case, what he’s created is an ironically obvious teachable moment in a case of widespread cheating in a class on ethics. What better time is there to talk about ethics?” Like Dartmouth, Princeton University uses an academic honor code based in trust. Harvard University will adopt an honor code in fall 2015, following a large-sale cheating incident in 2012-13.
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Fall term sees reforms of and proposals to Greek system
call back additional potential new members. policy proposals and faculty dissent Panhell also implemented a dominated campus dialogue about survey to assess rush participants’s views after reports of bias in its rethe Greek system this fall. At the mid-September meet- cruitment process. Panhell president ing attended by College President Rachel Funk ’15 said at the time that Phil Hanlon, Board of Trustees the group hoped to see if “rumors chair Bill Helman and “Moving that rush is racist and privileges Dartmouth Forward” presidential certain types of women” were true. steering committee chair Barbara In late October, the Greek Will, Hanlon charged Greek leaders Leadership Council changed its representation with reforming policy so each of their organizaPanhell’s eight tions’ policies on “I think the change is sororities now freshman safety, that now we’re trying has 1.875 votes, hard alcohol, while each of the adult oversight to put the Greek 15 IFC fraterniof social spaces message forward and ties and three and new mem- reform the system GIGC houses ber probation from within.” will continue to periods. have one vote. In a survey DartThe Dartmouth mouth’s faculty emailed campus - Herb Philpott ’85, voted 116 to 13 Monday morn- sigma phi epsilon ing, students ALUMNI AND VOLUNTEER to eliminate the Greek system overwhelmat a meeting on ingly expressed COUNCIL PRESIDENT Nov. 3. Biology support for the professor Ryan Greek system as Calsbeek, who made the motion it stands. Of 279 respondents, around 87 in the faculty meeting to abolish percent said that the Greek system the Greek system, warned against should not be abolished, and 86 per- superficial reform. cent said that Greek organizations “You end up with the possibility should not be required to become of it looking like you’re making coeducational. About two-thirds of progress when in fact nothing real respondents said national sororities is being done,” Calsbeek said. “We should be incentivized to disaffiliate need to avoid that at all costs.” Respondents to Monday’s survey from their national organizations. Among the respondents, 57 per- were divided on whether the changes cent identified as male, 43 percent made to the Greek system this fall as female. Twenty-eight percent said were positive, negative or neutral. they were members of the Class of When asked how much they believed 2015, 29 percent members of the the Greek system changed over Class of 2016, 22 percent members the course of the term, 42 percent of the Class of 2017 and 21 percent of respondents said it was slightly members of the Class of 2018. different, 25 percent said it was Thirty-eight percent of respondents moderately different and 8 percent said they are not affiliated with a said it was very different. TwentyGreek organization while 62 percent two percent of respondents said the system has remained the same. said they are. Interfraternity Council and Pan- On Nov. 7, the GIGC, IFC and hellenic Council voted to eliminate Panhell released proposals detailing pledge term, granting new members recommended changes to policy the full rights and privileges of cur- areas affecting the Greek system, including high-risk drinking, sexual rent members. Fifty-six percent of respondents misconduct, freshman safety, house said they approved of this decision, renovations, faculty advisors and while 35 percent opposed the move. inclusivity. Half of those surveyed said that the The proposal, released through a ban was somewhat effective, while website titled “Moving Dartmouth an additional 15 percent said it was Forward – The Greek Perspective,” very effective. Thirty-one percent called on students and alumni insaid that the pledge term ban was vested in the Greek system to sign their names in support. not effective. Before the beginning of Panhell Fraternity alumni advisors consorority rush, Panhell announced sulted with students as they drafted that no member would need to work the proposal. “There have been voices that for financial aid for membership dues. Rush reforms announced by have been complaining about Greek Panhell in the spring saw mixed life, and we haven’t really been success this fall. Although Panhell putting our message forward,” said asked houses to invite back addi- Herb Philpott ’85, Sigma Phi Epsitional members to the second round lon fraternity alumni and volunteer of parties, two sororities did not council president. “So I think the FROM GREEK PAGE 1
change is that now we’re trying to put the Greek message forward and reform the system from within.” Among other measures, the document included commitments by the IFC and Panhell to work toward meeting 100 percent of the needs of members in aid and to introduce more stringent sober monitoring policies in houses. Greek leaders have already ordered numerous pieces of apparel to easily identify sober monitors at parties. “I think it is important that we’re now taking a serious look at the safety and health and well-being of the students who are involved in the social scene,” said Connie Gong ’15, president of The Tabard coeducational fraternity. “I think that it’s about time we put the health of the students first.”
Biology professor Lee Witters, who voted to abolish the Greek system at the faculty meeting, highlighted gender diversity and lack of inclusivity as his main issues with the Greek system in its current form. “We’ve tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it, and I don’t think these are sufficient to fundamentally change the way our students live together,” he said. Witters said the Greek system has not notably changed since he began teaching at Dartmouth 30 years ago, and the faculty’s desire to abolish it has changed little during that time as well. Calsbeek said that while he believed the Greek system is not solely responsible for various social ills at Dartmouth, replacing it with other options, like more college-organized
social events and a “burgeoning campus bar scene,” might solve certain problems on campus. Dimitri Gerakaris ’69, the alumni advisor for Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, said that the reforms implemented this fall were part of a string of positive changes since the early 2000s. “There’s really a groundswell right now to make things much better,” Gerakaris said. Gerakaris said he believes that continued change must come from students, not administrators, adding that negative perceptions of the Greek system results from the behavior of relatively few students. Funk and IFC president Wil Chockley ’15 did not respond to repeated requests for comment, nor did Panhell or IFC presidents.
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Concert to pay tribute to Beyond the Bubble: Expand the Arts the life of Anne Frank By Andrea Nease The Dartmouth Staff
By Kourtney Kawano The Dartmouth Staff
The Handel Society will perform a moving concert on Tuesday that will convey drama and inner despair. The group will channel the tragic life and death of Holocaust victim Anne Frank through the raw emotion of British composer James Whitbourn’s 2004 piece “Annelies,” alongside works by Johannes Brahms. “The texts from all the pieces have a symbiotic relationship,” Handel Society artistic director and conductor Robert Duff said. “Many of them have a theme of shared suffering.” Duff said that he wanted to complement “Annelies” with a classically styled work and that Brahms’s romantic and dramatic style, as well as the relationship between the pieces’ messages, inspired him to bring the two composers together. The 100-member choral-orchestral group, made up of students and faculty as well as Hanover residents, will begin with Brahms’s “Schicksalslied, Op. 54” , a piece inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem “Hyperion’s Song of Destiny,” which focuses on Greek fatalism and humanity’s existence in the universe. To contrast the poem’s somber end regarding mankind’s unknown destiny, the orchestra closes with a minimal and tranquil statement. The society will perform “Rhapsodie, Op. 53” and “Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89” to continue the historical expedition of Brahms’ works. The heart-wrenching “Rhapsodie, Op. 53” will feature an alto solo by vocal coach and music department lecturer Erma Mellinger. Mellinger will sing alongside the group’s men, who will split into a four-part harmony. The piece’s anguished tone depicts Brahms’s pain in losing his relationship with Julie Schumann, the daughter of fellow composer Clara Schumann, after learning of her impending marriage to another man. “Rhapsodie,” Mellinger said, shows ideas of acceptance and being an outcast. “It’s a very dramatic piece,” Mellinger said. “The men plead to a higher power to let the music reach the lost man’s heart and save his soul.” Closing the first half of the performance, the choir will sing “Ave Maria, Op. 12,” a composition written specifically for women. This piece’s four-part harmony reflects the detail Brahms put into composing group music and his comfort in knowing how to assemble different voices into a full tone. Audiences fond of classic and romantic works, Duff said, will enjoy the Brahms repertoire for its grand and majestic nature. The second part of the concert transcends time to honor Anne Frank
through “Annelies,” a 75-minute choral and orchestral piece. The composition features a soprano solo by Elissa Alvarez and is divided into 14 movements with names that bring Frank’s story to life: “The capture foretold” and “Devastation of the outside world,” for example. “Life in hiding,” the work’s fifth movement, is especially moving, Handel Society member Noah Lee ’18 said. The following movement, “Courage,” bridges the gap between hope and the overwhelming despair associated with the Holocaust. The movement reflects what Duff said is the concert’s overall theme: hope in terrible circumstances. “Annelies,” Handel Society member Kristin Winkle ’18 said, is powerfully written. “The audience will enjoy the intentionality of the piece,” Winkle said. “Hearing Anne Frank’s diary set to music is absolutely incredible and moving.” After practicing separately for most of the term, the choir and orchestra met for two rehearsals on Sunday and Monday to work on the timing and balance between the vocalists and the instruments. To provide the best experience for each audience member, Mellinger said, the choir has rotated through four different seating arrangements to ensure that those sitting in the back rows will hear a cohesive blend of voices representative of the entire society, not just the soprano and bass voices. “There’s a notable difference in the sound of the inter-generational singers,” Duff said. “But the blend of the society is fabulous.” Tonight’s concert will begin at 7 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium.
The fight to elevate the arts is nothing new. For centuries, painting, drawing and printmaking were not even included in the academic definition of the liberal arts. To this day, many intellectuals like to claim that if numbers and textual support are absent in a subject, then it cannot be considered knowledge. Elite universities across the country are making their mark to promote the fine arts in the context of higher education. Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, the University of Chicago ... the list goes on. Many of these institutions are pushing for the advancement of the arts on their campuses, aiming to inspire the student body and enhance what Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates called the “cultural wealth” of their communities, the New York Times reported. As a country, we need to implement daily art interaction by renovating campus museums and expanding art collections. Art is an academic principle that should be taken just as seriously as theories of calculus. There is nothing lesser about the discipline, and it is about time our country’s elite institutions began to realize that by renovating facilities and expanding access. Elite institutions are giving the arts a never-before-seen spotlight, and the public seems split. Some, like director of Princeton’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Stanley Katz, believe the aforementioned renovations are a waste of money and space, more of a “beautification project” than an academic investment. Others appear to believe, as I do, that high-caliber arts renovations like these give students an opportunity to experience greater cultural exposure. Most importantly, these
renovations raise the bar for institutions everywhere. Elevating the position of the arts is expensive, and many public universities simply cannot front the bill. This lack of financial feasibility brings to mind an even deeper-rooted problem — efforts to increase contact with the arts are confined to the elite populations that attend these elite institutions. Not only do public institutions struggle, but more importantly, the public largely struggles as well. The University of Chicago has stepped toward highlighting the arts for its student body and increasing access to the arts for its surrounding community. The university opened its arts facilities to the long overlooked, deprived neighborhoods of the South Side and has had positive outcomes thus far, the New York Times reported. The strides in development of elite institutions’ arts departments is a great start to fostering a new appreciation for the fine and visual arts in the world of academia. Fortunately for the Dartmouth community, our very own Hood Museum has already been long aware of the centrality of the arts in academics. The Hood began to build its permanent collection in 1772 and currently has around 70,000 works. Yale’s renovation in the 1990s seems to note an early commitment to the arts, but Dartmouth was a step ahead, opening the Hood back in 1985. Now Dartmouth students can look forward to the Hood’s next expansion, set to begin in spring 2016. The expansion will include the development of a learning center for the museum, which is being funded by an anonymous $10 million donation. The importance of these renovations transcends the idea of investing in beautification. Art for the sake of art is a meaningful concept rooted in the pleasure people receive from visually
alluring works. Many elite universities boast endless collections of this and that artist, which emphasize the material value of their recent art expansions. However, the greater importance lies in recognizing the arts as something more than a passively engaging visual. The arts provide a universal language of expression that breaks down economic, political and social inhibitions. They offer the opportunity to create, participate and understand, at least to some degree. Most impressive, however, is the correlation between arts education and exposure and enhanced academic achievement. The College Board published a study in 2005 showing the association between the amount of time a student spent studying the arts and his or her average SAT scores. The results showed that for a student who is exposed to arts education for around six months or less, the average SAT score is a 485 in the verbal section and a 502 in the math section. Compare those scores to those of a student who is exposed to arts education for around four years: 543 in verbal and 541 in math. Art gives people a reason to voice their opinions and can help many to better articulate their ideas through practice of analysis. Some academics claim that art does not benefit a student’s overall academic excellence or performance because, despite the studies and the evidence proving otherwise, they overlook the key concept of linking the arts to other disciplines. The universities’ renovations give more attention to the presence of fine arts on their campuses without looking at arts in a singular light. They show how the arts can interact with a college’s atmosphere as a whole. Expand the arts. Integrate departments. Watch students soar both creatively and in the traditional academic sense.
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MEN’S HOCKEY VS. HARVARD 7 PM
Women’s basketball wins OT thriller Women’s XC heads back emily wechsler to nationals this weekend By
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The women’s basketball team beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology Sunday in overtime 68-63 in its season opener at Leede Arena, despite shooting under 37 percent from the field. “The roller coaster ride that was a first game? Awesome. I mean, it’s basketball season,” second-year head coach Belle Koclanes said in a postgame press conference. Lakin Roland ’16 was the game’s hero, converting a quick-release shot at the buzzer to tie the game and send it to overtime. Dartmouth never trailed against the Highlanders (0-2) until the final minute, when a NJIT three-pointer gave the visitors a 54-53 lead . The lead was never more than 10 points. Both teams had scoring opportunities, and with just seconds left and the game tied, NJIT senior point guard Alyssa Albanese put her team ahead 57-55. After referee review, 0.6 seconds were left on the clock. Dartmouth inbounded the ball with a baseball pass that sailed past halfcourt and was knocked out of bounds by NJIT. Dartmouth was given 0.4 seconds. Milica Toskovic ’15 started a beautifully designed play with a lob pass from in front of the Dartmouth bench that sailed across the court to Roland at the far post. Roland jumped up, caught and released the ball in one motion, scoring as the backboard lit up for the end of regular time to force the extra period. “It was unbelievable, I can’t believe it worked,” Roland said in a post-game press conference. “Coach told us to have fun and we’ll see if it works, and it did.” The Big Green outscored the Highlanders 11-6 to take the overtime win. The extra frame began
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scoreless, as neither team could convert for the first two minutes of overtime. But a 7-3 run over the next 2:20 secured the win for the Big Green. Last season, the Big GreenHighlander matchup ended in a close Big Green win as well, one of just five wins for the Dartmouth women that season. NJIT head coach Steve Lanpher said in a press conference the Highlanders talked at half time about focusing on defending Fanni Szabo ’17 and Roland. But the extra attention could not slow the Big Green duo. Roland earned a double-double, scoring 18 points and 11 rebounds, outdone only by Szabo, who had 21 points on the day. Toskovic also posted a double-double for the game with 14 points and 11 boards. Koclanes said the team had worked on playing a fast-paced game earlier in the week. It showed Sunday, as players drove to the net on the attack. While Dartmouth’s defense caused several NJIT shot clock violations, the Big Green offense did not
come close. The aggressive attack featured Amber Mixon ’18, who took over for Nicola Zimmer ’14, who graduated, at the point. Mixon scored two and earned three rebounds and an assist in her collegiate debut. “She’s our little Muggsy Bogues,” Koclanes said at the press conference. “She brings this composure that we need. It’s hard to find freshman point guards who have that.” The other freshmen all entered the game as well, with Olivia Smith ’18, Kate Letkewicz ’18 and Emily Slagle ’18 logging a total of 45 minutes on the court combined. Koclanes said she was proud of the team’s effort in its first game of the season, both on and off the court. “The bench was awesome, staying involved, calling out actions and then everyone contributed,” Koclanes said at the press conference. “That’s what teams do. Everyone steps up.” The Big Green hosts the College of the Holy Cross Thursday at 7 p.m. Last season, the Crusaders defeated the Big Green 84-59 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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The women’s basketball team opened its season with a 68-63 win over NJIT.
MEN’S soccer to host opening round of ncaa tournament thursday at 5 p.m. against Fordham university, winner to play providence college Dartmouth defeated Fordham 2-0 at Burnham Field earlier this season.
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For the second year in a row, the women’s cross country team qualified for the NCAA national championship meet in Terre Haute, Indiana. The team received one of 13 at-large bids after finishing third in the Northeast Regional meet with 136 points. “As a team, I don’t think we had our best race at regionals – we didn’t qualify automatically,” Dana Giordano ’16 said. “But we’re definitely looking to improve on our team performance from last year.” This marks the first time the program has reached the national meet in consecutive years since 1997, which was part of a streak of six straight appearances that began in 1992. Last season, the team finished 16th with 369 points. Head coach Courtney Jaworski said the team altered its training regimen to peak for this race, noting that runners delayed lifting and mileage so athletes stayed healthy until the end of the season. “I think the team definitely saw this coming a little bit,” Jaworski said. “If you look at the returning athletes and the fitness of this team, this was definitely a goal that was achievable.” This season’s team has thrived because of its depth, with several runners scoring in every meet. After Ellie Gonzalez ’18 went down with an injury, for instance, Claudia Pham ’15 filled in as the team’s fifth-point winner in the NCAA regional meet. All seven runners placed in the top 100, with all those earning points placing in the top 51. “It’s great to have numbers,” cocaptain Sarah DeLozier ’15 said. “This is such a unique team, and it’s all coming together for us, especially at the end of the year. In the day-to-day, we’re always pushing each other. If our number nine is pushing our number seven, that makes everyone better.” Jaworski and Giordano said the team’s pack strategy is a key to its success. “We have to start out fast and be okay with starting off fast,” Giordano said. “You have to start out quickly and then find your teammates immediately and work them or else you will not find them during the race.” Giordano and DeLozier have stood out on the team this year. The two have been partners since the beginning of the season, finishing one-two
in the September Dartmouth Invitational. At the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship meet that Dartmouth won, Giordano finished second overall in a time of 20:28.1, and DeLozier nabbed third in 20:36.1. At regionals, both finished in the top 10, Giordano crossing the line in eighth and DeLozier in ninth. “It’s been great and awesome to have a workout partner and we really help each other out,” Giordano said. “It’s really inspiring having a team that has so many in close packs during races that you can run for someone more than yourself. It just gets you going a little more.” Both women will be in the running for All-American performances, which Giordano won last season alongside standout Abbey D’Agostino ’14. “Having Sarah right on Dana’s shoulders the entire season bodes well for her chances of snagging an All-American,” Jaworski said. “I think for those two, it’s definitely within their reach on the right day.” The team has excelled in the first year of Jaworski’s tenure, the first year since D’Agostino graduated, repeating as Ivy League champions and qualifying for nationals. Four from last year’s NCAA meet returned this season and will be racing at nationals . “It speaks a lot to our depth and our team culture,” DeLozier said. “We honestly feel like it’s a privilege to put on the uniform and it’s a really, really fun team to be on.” DeLozier said that the team set a top-15 NCAA finish as a preseason goal. The Big Green remains a young team. Only two seniors earned points in the regional meet. Gonzalez, Reid Watson ’16, Sarah Bennett ’16 and Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 have been mainstays this season for the team. Dartmouth was the only Ivy League team to qualify for nationals, and one of four from the Northeast region. The Big Green joins automatic qualifiers Iona University and Providence College and fellow at-large bid recipient Boston College. The NCAA Championship takes place Saturday. “The field is extremely talented,” DeLozier said. “Just having a confidence that we do the same training that the other girls do and we prepared ourselves all season for this race, and it’s no different from any other race.”