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College accepts 2,092 to Class of 2021
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Geisel celebrates Match Day
By DEBORA HYEMIN HAN The Dartmouth Staff
On March 17, 67 Geisel School of Medicine students celebrated Match Day and found out where they will spend the next three to seven years completing their medical residency training. According to Geisel’s interim senior associate dean for medical education Greg Ogrinc, primary care was the
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most popular specialty choice among Geisel students for the second year in a row, with 29 choosing residencies in family medicine, internal medicine or pediatrics. After primary care, the next most popular specialties were general surgery, anesthesiology and psychiatry, and California, Massachusetts and New York were the most popular destinations. In 2016, 81 graduating students matched,
This past January, history professor Edward Miller and former Secretary of State John Kerry met in Hanoi, Vietnam to track the site of a 1969 Viet Cong ambush . Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran, was determined to visit the site of the ambush, during which he killed a Viet Cong soldier targeting Kerry-led U.S. Swift boats.
Miller, a Vietnam War historian, provided Kerry with reproductions of 1960s U.S. Geological Survey maps of Hanoi and helped Kerry retrace the site of the ambush. Miller’s work with the Vietnam War also includes the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, an oral history program run by Dartmouth s t u d e n t s, f a c u l t y a n d alumni. Each summer, SEE VIETNAM PAGE 2
with 41 students going into primary care and the most popular locations being California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York. “We are very excited about the caliber and strength of where our students matched this year,” Ogrinc wrote in an email, adding that many students matched at top SEE GEISEL PAGE 5
The College offered admission to 2,092 students for the Class of 2021 on Thursday. The College received 20,034 applications and the acceptance rate was 10.4 percent, the lowest rate of admissions at the College since 2013. Ninety-six percent of accepted students from high schools that rank their students are expected to graduate in the top 10 percent of their class. Of the accepted students, 547 are currently ranked as the valedictorian or salutatorian of their high school class, which is a 25 percent increase from the accepted students in the Class of 2020 and an all-time high for admissions at the College. Accepted students’ mean SAT score of 1495 also demonstrated an all-time high, increasing 19 points over last year’s cohort. California is the most represented home state, followed by New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Florida. The group includes 255 students from 63 foreign countries, a 38 percent increase from the accepted students in the Class of 2020 and the
largest cohort of international students ever, another all-time high for admissions at the College. Of international students’ home countries, the United Kingdom, Canada and South Korea are the most represented. Nearly half of international students will be offered need-based financial aid; the College ended its policy of need-blind admissions for international students in 2015. Fifty-one percent of accepted students from the U.S. are students of color, which continues a trend from last year in which 51.6 percent of accepted students from the Class of 2020 were of color, then the most racially diverse class in the College’s history. Fifteen percent are firstgeneration college students and nine percent have at least one parent who attended Dartmouth as an undergraduate, and 10 percent are recruited athletes. Sixty-three percent of accepted students applied for need-based financial need, with initial data placing the average need based grant at $46,237, and the College expects to offer more than $27 million in scholarships for the next first-year class.
History professor wins Burkhardt Fellowship
By SONIA QIN
The Dartmouth Staff
Two years from now, history professor Naaborko SackeyfioLenoch will be hundreds of miles from Hanover in Chicago, Illinois, working on her research on Ghana’s transnational alliances formed in the 1950s and 1960s at Northwestern University. Sackeyfio-Lenoch recently won the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars,
which grants her about $95,000 and a year-long residency in 2018-2019 as she completes her next book project, entitled “Global Ghana, Itinerant Citizens and the Making of a New Nation.” This fellowship supports “long-term,unusuallyambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences,” according to the website of the American Council of Learned Societies, which sponsors the fellowship. The expectation is that the fellow produces a major
piece of scholarly work. ACLS director of fellowship programs Matthew Goldfeder said that there were 180 applicants to the Burkhardt Fellowship this year and of those, 22 received fellowships. Sackeyfio-Lenoch’s work centers around West African history, with a specific focus on 20th century Ghanaian history. She said that her first book project, “The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority SEE FELLOWSHIP PAGE 2
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and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950,” published in 2014, concentrated on the social and political history of Accra, Ghana, during the colonial period prior to 1957. Her new book will look at Ghana’s role in global affairs between 1950 and 1970, an era of decolonization and nation-building. “Broadly speaking, my research really explores questions of international history, global studies, decolonization in Africa, Cold War politics as they affected African countries and really looking at new types of African internationalist efforts during the post-independence era,” Sackeyfio-Lenoch said. According to Sackeyfio-Lenoch, her interest in this field of research was generated by personal connections and “intellectual sets of questions that came out of [her] graduate work.” Her mother is from the U.S. and her father is from Ghana, and she was raised in northern Nigeria in a university town, which spurred her interest in global affairs. “As a child growing up in Nigeria, I was able to encounter many different people from very different international backgrounds, both from across the continent as well as from other parts of the world,” SackeyfioLenoch said. “From an early age, I had always been interested in the international world, just from my upbringing.” She added that she developed an interest in African history and African studies in college and graduate school, “largely as a way to understand [her] own personal background and [her] own personal history.” Sackeyfio-Lenoch chose to take up residency at Northwestern University from September 2018 to September 2019. She will engage in colloquia and workshops there and will work on her book project, she said. The fellowship also allots funding for scholars to travel for their research. Formed in 1919, the ACLS is “an organization made up of and made for the humanities,” Goldfeder said, adding that the council aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue in the humanities. The Burkhardt Fellowship supports an academic year of residence at a site that the applicant feels would be the most beneficial to his or her work. Applicants for the Burkhardt Fellowship must write a proposal outlining their project, identifying the “innovative nature of the project and the theoretical approaches, grounding
it in the literature to situate where the project fits in terms of the larger scholarly work that’s been done,” Sackeyfio-Lenoch said. She added that the proposal must be accessible to an audience that does not specialize in the applicant’s research field. For her own proposal, SackeyfioLenoch highlighted her project’s importance in terms of Ghanaian historiography, the history around nation-building, decolonization and post-colonial Africa. She chose Northwestern because its African Studies program “is a wonderful, intellectually vibrant space for people doing work in African Studies.” Goldfeder said that he believes Sackeyfio-Lenoch’s project, while it focuses on a particular region, in a particular time period, has broad implications across time and place. Geog raphy professor and department chair Susanne Freidberg, who was awarded the fellowship in 2009, decided to take her residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Freidberg’s research focused on the politics around measuring the environmental footprint of food. She noted that she appreciated the break from teaching that the fellowship provided, because she could devote all of her time to her research. “In general, for academics, working on long-term ambitious projects, it really helps to have extended periods of time when you don’t have to be thinking about faculty meetings, grading papers and putting together syllabi,” Freidberg said. Freidberg noted that she made lifelong friends during her time at the Radcliffe Institute and gained knowledge in other research disciplines, allowing her “to think in directions [she] wouldn’t have otherwise gone.” “The Radcliffe Institute is an institute for advanced studies, so it brings in fellows from all different disciplines, and just having that kind of interdisciplinary intellectual community to talk to can be really mind-opening,” Freidberg said. Once a scholar wins one fellowship, this is a sign of accomplishment that opens opportunities for that individual to win others, Freidberg said. Sackeyfio-Lenoch said she is looking forward to engaging with others at Northwestern. “It’s really wonderful to be able to talk to people and have them inform the work that you’re doing,” Sackeyfio-Lenoch said.
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Project collects oral histories of Vietnam War era experiences “The Vietnam War,” for several years at the College and is also the program trains sophomore fluent in Vietnamese. students to interview alumni, Edward Miller said that besides current and former faculty and gaining hands-on experience staff, family in doing the members interviews, a n d l o c a l “This is a program students also Upper Valley where the students acquire a deeper residents understanding a b o u t t h e i r who are participating and context experiences in are learning by doing, of oral history the Vietnam the especially learning how throughout Wa r e r a . program. On average, to do oral history.” “This a bout eig ht is a prog ram sophomores where the conduct and -EDWARD MILLER, HISTORY students who are t r a n s c r i b e PROFESSOR participating four to five are lear ning interviews by doing, each year. The especially DVP is led by learning how to three faculty do oral history,” members, Edward Miller E d w a r d said, adding Miller, history that the professor prog ram also Jennifer Miller and Rauner Special teaches the theory and ethical Collections Library archivist issues of oral history. Caitlin Birch. Edward Miller was Birch leads the oral history the main founder of the project, as program at Rauner and represents he had been teaching History 26, the library aspect of the project FROM VIETNAM PAGE 1
t e a m . S h e i s i nvo l ve d w i t h t r a n s c r i b i n g t h e i n t e r v i e w s, making digital presentations of them, making the interviews accessible for research and doing outreach for the program. Birch said she enjoys collaborating with the students and teaching them. “It is rewarding to me to be able to give them skills they did not have beforehand,” she said. Jennifer Miller said that the program raises money through donations and various offices on campus. She added that students are responsible for doing their own research on the people they interview, while the faculty simply help them along the process. Bryan Bliek ’18 , a student who participated in DVP last summer, said he gained a deeper understanding of Vietnamese history and how it fits into broader contemporary history. “ DV P h a s b e e n a g r e a t supplement to my studies in that learning more about the Vietnam War meshes well with my focus on East Asia within my government major and my focus on the history of U.S. foreign policy,” he said.
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GUEST COLUMNIST JAMES DRAIN ’17
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The End of Factory Farming
The Opiate of the Students
We must take greater action against factory farming.
Over the last century, we have seen a blossoming expansion of human rights across race, age, class, sexuality and gender. Once upon a time, three-fourths of all people were enslaved, but human slavery is now illegal in every country in the world. In his tour de force “The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Steven Pinker documents in painstaking detail how the murder rate has fallen since the Middle Ages by almost 95 percent, how child abuse has halved since the 1990s and how the rate at which animals are harmed during the production of movies has fallen by 90 percent since the animal rights revolution in the 1970s. In absolute terms, that last statistic means that around 500 animals have been kept from being hurt. Meanwhile, Pinker is numerically silent on the roughly hundreds of billions of animals that have been raised and slaughtered in U.S. factory farms during that same timespan. Statistically speaking, if you are a land animal born in the U.S., then the odds of you being a privileged human being versus an animal that will will spend its entire life without seeing sunlight breathing ammonia-choked air until the day you are slaughtered for food are one-to-2,000. It is amazingly easy to ignore this injustice. I didn’t make the connection that eating meat caused animal suffering until one of my most inspiring vegan friends made me want to read “Animal Liberation” to see what all the fuss was about. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that crueler farming techniques have increased over the last century in tandem with our removal from face-to-face interactions with farm animals. If you are willing to confront the reality (and unwilling to spend several hours reading “Animal Liberation”), then I recommend you watch the four-minute video “What Cody Saw.” It’s about a man who worked in factory farms as an undercover investigator to see if the horror was as bad as he had heard. (Spoiler: Cody later earned a law degree to lobby on the behalf of farm animals and to star in pro-animal mini-documentaries). While no longer sharing Pinker’s blind spot, I do share his optimism. In one of the few pieces of good news from the election, Massachusetts
outlawed gestation crates and battery cages in a remarkable 78 percent landslide. Most animal activists believe that these kinds of legislative victories are the most promising route to eliminating farm animal suffering. But what can an individual do beyond vote every couple years? The easiest action is simply to eat fewer animal products. Indeed, based on the statistics I mentioned earlier, a vegetarian can expect to spare around 2,000 factory farm animals over his or her lifetime just by virtue of diet. An even more significant action is to donate to animal charities. The effective altruism group Animal Charity Evaluators has evaluated over 200 such charities and written reviews of 30 standout organizations, including groups that are researching wild animal suffering, campaigning for extension of human rights to apes, synthesizing lab-grown meat, conducting undercover investigations and lobbying for legal reform. It’s very hard to quantify how many animals a donor will save by giving an extra dollar to one of these organizations, but ACE has tried. Its 90 percent confidence interval estimates that a dollar donated to top-tier charity Mercy for Animals will spare between 10 and 80 animals from factory farms. These philanthropic opportunities are available because animal charity funds are grossly misallocated: currently 99.6 percent of all animals killed by humans in the U.S. are slaughtered in farms, and yet only 0.8 percent of all donations to animal charities go toward groups fighting for farm animals. Each of us has the power to bring forward the day when factory farming is illegal, when someone is not condemned to a lifetime of suffering merely because she is a fish, pig or turkey. Drain is a senior and a member of the Dartmouth Animal Rights Troupe. The Dartmouth welcomes guest columns. We request that guest columns be the original work of the submitter. Submissions may be sent to both opinion@ thedartmouth.com and editor@thedartmouth.com. Submissions will receive a response within three business days.
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Dartmouth students should help fight New Hampshire’s opium crisis. Four hundred and twenty-two New Hampshire residents died of drug overdoses in 2015, the second-highest rate, in percentage terms, of any state. Nearly 500 died from overdoses in 2016. Our state’s residents are dying painful deaths, and the primary driver of these deaths are opioids. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, one of the premier hospitals in northern New England, plays a significant role in treating these patients. The teaching hospital’s physicians and researchers are vital in fighting an increasingly deadly epidemic. Yet within Dartmouth’s campus, the drug problem in the Upper Valley community — and even on campus — is rarely discussed. Many Dartmouth students want to change the world. We aspire to be lawyers, doctors, government officials, nonprofit leaders. Even those entering less altruistically motivated professions spend hours each term laboring over philanthropic events for campus organizations and Greek organizations. We’ve shown, through events such as the Prouty and the CHaD Hero, that we can pull together as a community to support important national and local causes and make lasting impacts in the lives of many people. Yet, most Dartmouth students appear unconcerned about the opioid epidemic that rages so close to our campus. Towns like White River Junction, Norwich and Lebanon frequently experience heroin overdoses. Even in Hanover, our local high school has taken to keeping stocks of Narcan —an overdose reversal agent — on its grounds. Since the start of 2017, there have been numerous opioid-related arrests in these towns alone. DHMC, as one of the only well-resourced hospitals in New Hampshire and the state’s only Level I Trauma Center, plays a critical role in addressing New Hampshire’s opiate crisis. The hundreds of substance abuse deaths in New Hampshire may seem relatively trivial when compared to the millions killed by heart disease, cancer and diabetes, among others, but these numbers are just a tiny fraction of the total volume of people impacted by opiate addiction. Most addicts, of course, do not die from overdoses. But addicts — dead or alive — are not the only victims. Many have children. Nearly all have families and friends. The networks of opiate addiction are far-reaching, and within the Upper Valley community, few outside the rarified walls of Dartmouth’s campus can say that they do not know someone who is suffering from addiction or its specter. But the relatively small number of deaths — and the immediacy of this crisis — present an opportunity for us as conscious community members. Dartmouth students can step up alongside DHMC doctors and researchers to make real contributions in the fight against opiate addiction. Instead of investing time and money in organizations, many of which have noble causes but operate far away from the Upper Valley, to whom our contributions could be just a drop in the bucket, we can use our voices and philanthropic resources to help those suffering from opioid addiction in our immediate community. We would not be alone in this fight. Treatment for drug addiction is one of the few issues with bipartisan support in New Hampshire. Gov.
Chris Sununu, a Republican, refused to support President Donald Trump’s recent health care overhaul, largely because it could take away substance abuse treatment support currently in place under the Affordable Care Act. Colin Van Ostern Tu ’09, Sununu’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 gubernatorial election, campaigned to increase funding to combat New Hampshire’s substance abuse as well. Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, puts “combating the heroin and opioid crisis” first on her list of legislative priorities, while her predecessor, Republican Kelly Ayotte, also pushed for treatment and recovery. But inside the Dartmouth bubble, there is little mention of this epidemic among our neighbors — and just as little discussion of drug use on campus. A ranking of colleges with the most drug and alcohol arrests from 2009-2011 showed that though Dartmouth has few arrests in comparison to most colleges, within the Ivy League, the College was comfortably in first place with 1.30 drug arrests and 12.53 alcohol arrests per 1,000 students on average. Yale University came second in both categories, with 1.09 drug and 2.27 alcohol arrests per 1,000 students. Our lack of action stands in stark contrast to many Dartmouth students’ supposed goals — as liberal arts scholars and well-intentioned people — to act as beneficial agents to the world after graduation and for the rest of our lives. As students at an elite institution, we are uniquely able to help our neighboring communities and leverage our talents — whether through research, fundraising or aiding open discussion — to support treatment. It is important to raise money for large charities and organizations such as the Girl Scouts. Yet diseases such as cancer, which the Prouty fundraises for, are better funded and have the benefit of endless media attention and the support of many hospitals across the world working toward treatments. Opioid addiction and substance abuse, on the other hand, are issues extremely close to home, and one on which media and medical attention has only recently focused. With DHMC nearby and a wealth of additional resources, including access to Dartmouth’s potential donor pool and qualified researchers, Dartmouth students could help make an impact in our immediate neighborhood by focusing philanthropic efforts on countering New Hampshire’s opioid and substance abuse epidemic. If we aren’t willing to support treatment for drug addiction outside our campus, we should at least support it among our peers. If nothing else, there are two simple ways we can start to combat the problem. One, we can foster an environment where candid discussion of substance abuse in a non-judgmental setting is possible and where getting treatment is destigmatized. We can also use our influence in college organizations to raise funds for and support local hospitals, including DHMC. As residents of the Upper Valley, albeit temporary ones, we have a responsibility to help fight the opioid epidemic, the most pressing issue in our state. The editorial board consists of the opinion staff, the opinion editor, both executive editors and the editor-in-chief.
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Geisel students celebrate Match Day FROM GEISEL PAGE 1
academic programs in all geographic areas. Match Day — which falls on the third Friday in March each year — is a communal celebration at Geisel, according to Lovelee Brown Med’17 and Asia Peek Med’17 . While other schools simply disperse decision envelopes and open them together, Dartmouth has many special traditions. Each Match Day, Geisel students begin festivities at noon, which include comedic sketches written by the graduating class. This year’s performance included a “Westworld” parody and other dedications to students. In a random order, students are called to the stage to receive their envelope — walking to a song they chose prior to Match Day — in front of faculty members, peers, family members and other guests. Each student called up places a dollar in bowl until the last student, who receives the money, is called upon. The event is also live streamed so that family members unable to travel to Hanover are able to take part in the celebration. While students can choose not to reveal their match results publicly, Brown said almost all do. In order to match with a residency, students must apply to the Electronic Residency Application Service, which is overseen by the American Association of Medical Colleges, in September of their fourth year of medical school. Students are then invited to interview at hospitals and other facilities, after which both students and medical centers create a ranking list of their match preferences. The lists are then entered into an algorithm that yields the best match according to the preferences. The algorithm gives more weight to the students’ preferences, and the student does not necessarily have to be the facility’s first choice in order to be assigned to it. Students are notified that they are matched prior to Match Day but do not know to where they are matched until Match Day. Brown and Peek were both assigned to their top choices — University of California, Los Angeles for internal medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a program affiliated with Harvard Medical School, for psychiatry, respectively — and were the final two called at this year’s event. “Matching was truly the culmination of my wildest dreams realized,” Brown said. According to Peek, however, there is currently a bottleneck in the matching system, since there are more applicants than there are spots available for residencies. The number
of residencies available versus the number of medical students is incongruous in part because residencies are determined by federal funding, whereas medical schools and programs are formed independently. Thus, as the number of students seeking medical residencies increases, the number of spots available to them does not necessarily follow suit. Additionally, Brown recounted how difficult the match process itself was, including having to decide a specialty, determining which rounds and rotations to take part in and deciding who to approach for a letter of recommendation. Students receive mentoring and guidance from faculty members within their specialty of choice and Geisel deans throughout the entire process. Brown said many faculty who have connections in the students’ desired facilities will call on students’ behalf to “help push the needle” toward getting an interview. Assistant dean for medical education Susan Harper said that she assists students in the procedural matters of matching but also focuses on other variables in finding residencies, such as what students want to do while they are in residency, how close they want to be to their families and how they will manage their relationships if they are in any. “We want to ensure that the student has a good balance in their life in addition to their careers,” Harper said. Brown said that students at other institutions she met during the interviewing process were surprised by how well Geisel students match. “That was something surprising to hear from people who are potentially people who I may work with but also potentially people who were vying for the same spot I am,” she said. “So it was a huge compliment to have that being said from a colleague at another institution.” Brown said Geisel helped her realize her medical aspirations through exposure to Geisel faculty, who she said were “great clinical thinkers and compassionate practitioners who don’t just think about the biomedical sciences and the clinical sciences, but about the person that they’re treating and the family and the network.” Brown and Peek also mentioned a unique capstone course most take in their final year of medical school, which helps them understand the real-world applications of medicine, including Medicare, Medicaid and “big questions that you don’t learn when you’re learning the Krebs cycle,” Brown said. “It really impresses upon budding physicians like ourselves how complicated it is to not only treat a patient but treat an entire community and help to improve the health of a society,” she said.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium: “Testing Bell’s Inequality,” with MIT professor David Kaiser, Wilder 104
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
“La La Land” (2016), a film by Damien Chazelle, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Performance by violinist Hillary Hahn and pianist Robert Levin, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
TOMORROW 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Puppet troupe performance: “Made in China,” presented by Wakka Wakka Productions, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts
SUNDAY 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
“Toni Erdmann” (2016), a film by Maren Ade, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Violinist Hilary Hahn, pianist Robert Levin to perform tonight By BETTY KIM
The Dartmouth Staff
Tonight at 8 p.m., world-famous virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist, musicologist and composer Robert Levin will perform a rich selection of repertoire in Spaulding Auditorium. The performance will be Hahn’s first concert in the Upper Valley. The program features both major classical sonata repertoire and modern pieces. According to Levin, he and Hahn arranged the program based on each others’ strengths and with their respective interests in mind; Hahn received acclaim for performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s renowned works, and Levin is known for playing music from the Classical era, so their program will also contain pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert. “Bach and Mozart are also central figures in my life as an artist, and the Schubert has been one of my favorite pieces for violin and piano,” Levin said. “From my point of view, this is an ideal program.” In addition to the relatively standard repertoire of Bach’s “Sonata No. 6 in G Major,” “Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E-flat Major” and Schubert’s “Rondo in B Minor,” which are all chamber works for violin and piano, Hahn and Levin will perform modern solo works specifically written for the performers themselves. Hahn commissioned Spanish composer Antón García Abril for
six partitas, pieces of music for one instrument, from him after he wrote “Third Sigh” for her 2013 Grammy Award-winning project, “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores.” Each polyphonic partita includes a single movement, and the titles spell out her name: “Heart,” “Immensity,” “Love,” “Art,” “Reflexive,” and “You.” The last partita, Partita for Solo Violin No. 6, “You,” premiered in 2016 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with Levin. Hahn frequently commissions works from modern composers. During the creation of her “In 27 Pieces” project, Hahn held a contest in which composers submitted encores for piano and violin to be recorded and performed on tour by her. “My initial goal was to expand the encore genre to embrace works of different styles,” wrote Hahn on her website. “Because I was planning to play the commissioned pieces myself, it was important that the composers’ writing spoke to me in some way.” According to Hahn’s website, her goal in holding the contest was to increase visibility of modern encore pieces. “She’s extraordinary because she obviously has a brilliant musical technique, but also because she really stands up for contemporary composers,” Margaret Lawrence, director of programing for the Hopkins Center of the Arts, said. “She really takes a stand for new work and supports living composers.”
COURTESY OF MICHAEL PATRICK O’LEARY
Violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn will perform a repertoire, including Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Sonata No. 6 in G Major.”
The story behind Levin’s solo piece — “Träume (Dreams)” for solo piano by Romanian composer Hans Peter Türk — is a particularly moving one. Levin and Türk met at the Mozart Festival in Cluj, Romania, and immediately became friends when Türk gave Levin a melody on which to improvise. They were highly impressed by each other’s compositional and
COURTESY OF HERB ASCHERMAN
Robert Levin will perform a piano solo piece written for him by Romanian composer Hans Peter Türke.
improvisational talent, respectively. When Türk’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, Levin offered her immense moral support via text message. When she died a year and a half later, Türk composed “Träume” for Levin in her memory in 2012. Levin debuted Türk’s composition in 2014. The title of the piece evokes the dreams and hallucinations that Türk’s wife experienced in the last days of her life, according to Levin. It is an atmospheric, dolorous, lonely, lamenting piece with an outbreak of heartache at a critical point, ending with the tolling of the bells she heard in her final days, according to Levin. Regarding the difference between performing solo repertoire and performing in a chamber setting, Levin said that chamber music is particularly stimulating because of “the interaction of personality and ideas about music.” “Each performance will have a particular character,” Levin said. “The greater sense of risk and spontaneity makes a performance a lot more exciting for the listener because they can get a sense that there’s something improvised about the character of the performances.” Levin also gave advice to student musicians, saying that young musicians should make an effort to “look into their hearts” and “develop their personal voice.” “Their responsibility is to make this music so immediate, so powerful, so full of suspense that the listeners realize that the reason that one should play the music of dead white men is because it’s about us,” Levin said. “It holds a mirror up to our
own faces and tells us things about ourselves that we desperately need to know.” However, benefits of seeing classical concerts are not limited to classical musicians or even musicians in general. According to Lawrence, the Hop has been attempting to reach out to students who may not be accustomed to attending concerts like Hahn’s and Levin’s for any number of reasons, especially an unfamiliarity with the rules and convention of attending classical performances. “From knowing nothing to knowing everything, there’s a place for everyone in classical music,” she said. “For an hour, it can really provide a whole different world outside the rest of your worries and your studies and your stressful deadlines … you can just enter in this beautiful auditorium, sit in a comfortable seat, close your eyes and be completely transported.” Since she has been on campus, Hahn has given a class visit to Music 6, music professor Matthew Marsit’s “Masterpieces of Western Art Music.” She explained the basics of the structure of the violin, answered questions about her performing life and demonstrated techniques such as polyphony, which involves musical textures and multiple melodies, by playing parts of her program. The class visit was arranged through the Hop, which helps give students the opportunity to see the “human” behind the music, Marsit said. Levin will also be leading a post-performance discussion after tonight’s concert.
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
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Equestrian team to host and compete in regional show By SABENA ALLEN
The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth’s equestrian team is sending 11 riders, nearly half of the entire roster, to compete at the Regional Championship this Sunday, April 2, at Morton Farm. The competition was pushed back one day due to an impending snowstorm. At regionals, the team members will compete individually, where the top two in each class will advance to the Zone Championships on April 8 and will vie to qualify for the National Championships on May 4 to 7. The Ivy Championship will be hosted by Cornell University on April 23. “I hope that we get a good showing, and of course I’m hoping that some get through from zones to nationals,” head coach Sally Batton said. “But that’s really hard. There are 12 riders at each class at zones. It’s the top riders from all of New England, and traditionally, New England is one of the toughest zones in the whole country.” Dartmouth’s 11 athletes will compete in 10 different classes at regionals, representing the largest number of qualified riders from any team in the region, according
to Batton. In Intercollegiate Horse Show Association competition, regularseason performances contribute points to a rider’s running total — seven points for a win, five points for second and four points for third. Once a rider reaches 36 points in her discipline, or 28 points in the case of the open class, she “classes up,” moving from intermediate to novice or novice to open, and automatically qualifies for regionals, where they compete in that respective class. The team returns from a spring training trip in Florida, where riders trained with well-known trainer Kim Burnette, who also works with private clients and the University of Florida team. At the facility in Ocala, the Big Green riders had a chance to ride a number of well-bred horses, a change from the 10 horses Dartmouth has at Morton Farm. “Here at the farm, we basically get the winter off,” Batton said. “The far m is six miles from campus, but it’s kind of a world away because it’s up a mountain. Between the snow and the cold temperatures, my athletes pretty much have the winter off, so it’s good to go down and get trained in
The midweek Roundup
WOMEN’S Golf
Compiled by gayne kalustian
The women’s golf team finished fourth out of 11 teams on Monday at the Babs Steffens InvitationalinDeLand,Florida.St. Leo University, Boston University and host Stetson University outpaced the Big Green. Two St. Leo golfers, Amanda Jakobsson and Marie Coors, shot 4- and 3-under-par, respectively. Jamie Susanin ’17 tied for third place at 5-over-par after hitting one of the best opening rounds of 71. Jessica Kittelberger ’18 tied for 13th place at 10 over, finishing with 13 birdies over the course of the weekend, the best of the tournament’s 62 competitors. The Big Green will continue its spring season with the Harvard Invitational at Sarasota, Florida this weekend.
the warmer weather and on some really nice horses.” In previous years, the season has been split into fall and spring with one final regular-season show in the spring. This year, to avoid practicing and competing in unfavorable winter weather, all shows in the region occurred during a five-week period in October and November. The demanding schedule included three weekends of back-to-back shows, a format Batton said was tiring to all teams. After this season’s experiment, the schedule will return to normal during the 2017-2018 season, with seven fall regular-season shows and an additional one in the spring. The equestrian team had a strong fall season, during which it narrowly lost the regional title to the University of Vermont. Although the Big Green began the season without a show victory, the team hit its stride midseason, finishing with four consecutive wins. Erin McCarthy-Keeler ’19 attributed the improvement to the adjustment period for the team’s seven new riders. In college riding, teams must ride horses provided by the host school, instead of showing with their own horses.
“Especially for riders coming in from non-college riding, it’s a pretty big adjustment, because even the most beautiful rider can get put on really terrible little ponies,” McCarthy-Keeler said. “Our new riders had to adjust to that, and then once they were able to do that, and once we started figuring out who should be representing us in terms of the team points, it kind of settled in more.” Among the team’s standouts in the fall were Olivia Champ ’19 and Sophie Lenihan ’20. Champ won the region as high point rider, qualifying her for nationals where she will compete with the best riders in the nation for the Cacchione Cup. Lenihan qualified for regionals in open fences, an impressive feat for a first year. As one of two riders who qualified for regionals in open fences, Lenihan will automatically move on to zones. Other star performances in the fall season came from Storey Dyer Kloman ’17 and Cristiana Salvatori ’17, who racked up team points in the novice category. Both will look to continue their success at Sunday’s championship. A l t h o u g h re g i o n a l s i s a n individual competition, there is still
a strong team mentality, according to McCarthy-Keeler. “The farthest we get in the competitions is usually on an individual basis,” she said. “When one of us gets ahead, it’s still a big moment for the team.” Hosting the competition poses another challenge for the team. Dartmouth’s riders run the show by keeping score, caring for horses, making announcements and calling in riders. Not all team members will be riding though, McCarthy-Keeler said, making the show easier to manage. “It’s definitely an asset because we get to use some of our own horses, but I think that for this show in particular we are only using four of our own, and we are still bringing in a lot [of horses],” Salvatori said. “So it ends up, in terms of riding our own horses, [that] it’s not going to be a huge advantage. It’s definitely [somewhat of an advantage] because we do know some of the horses, and we know some of the ones that are coming.” Batton said she is optimistic about the show on Sunday, and Dartmouth is in a good position to qualify riders for the Zone Championship, which will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
WOMEN’S Lacrosse Courtney Weisse ’17 and Elizabeth Mastrio ’19 stole the show on Wednesday in Loudonville, New York, netting five and four goals, respectively, against hosts Siena College. The duo each netted a goal in the opening minutes of the game, and the Big Green never looked back, finishing 16-6 over the hosts. Just over 10 minutes into the game, Dartmouth found itself ahead with seven unanswered goals, the final of which was Weisse’s 22nd of the season. Only in the final minutes of the game did Siena go on any sort of streak at all, scoring three goals within the last six minutes. In the last minute, Dartmouth extended its lead with two more goals. Draw controls told the story of the day. The Big Green outdrew the Saints 21-2, led by 12 from Kathryn Giroux ’18. On the season, Dartmouth enjoys a 129-82 draw control advantage over its opponents. Good defense kept Siena away from goalie Charlotte Wahle ’19, who faced only 14 credible threats in the 60-minute match. The Big Green, meanwhile, hurled 14 off-target shots to Siena’s nine and committed 12 turnovers — one more than the hosts. The Big Green, who still dominated play in New York, will look to improve on the finer points of its game this weekend against foe Harvard University.
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baseball’s ranking in the first New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association poll of 2017
softball’s record this season, one of the worst starts in program history
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draw controls by women’s lacrosse player Kathryn Giroux ’18 against Siena College on Wednesday, a Big Green record
latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranking for women’s tennis, down from No. 20 earlier in the season