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The College announced Thursday that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 academic year. The online courses will be taught by Dartmouth faculty, who will receive support from academic computing and library staff to create and manage their online course content, according to a College press release. The College’s MOOCs will be open at no cost to any interested student with access to a computer and the Internet. -L@ Q[ I VWVXZWÅ \ WZOIVQbI\QWV \PI\ []XXWZ\[ MOOCs from over 30 institutions worldwide. MOOCs are taught in self-paced modules and include assessments and interactions with other students. Upon completion of some courses, students may apply for an identity^MZQÅ ML KMZ\QÅ KI\M WN KWUXTM\QWV College President Phil Hanlon, a former member of the MOOC provider Coursera’s advisory board, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership. “By joining edX, we enable our faculty to pave the way for the future, discovering new ways to teach that will take Dartmouth’s classrooms to the world,” Hanlon said in a statement. Interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley said he was hopeful that the courses would help professors explore

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After a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the revocation of his offer to become Tucker Foundation dean, the Right Rev. James Tengatenga started his position as a presidential fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. this month.

Last August, Dartmouth rescinded its appointment of Tengatenga, then serving as diocesan bishop of Southern Malawi, due to concerns among students, faculty and staff about his views on homosexuality. The Very Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the

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been the driving goal behind Fagin’s entire life and career, he said. “There is absolutely no question in my mind that life on Earth is something that I would be willing to leave behind for a future on Mars,” Fagin said. Physics and astronomy professor Kristina Lynch, head of the Lynch Rocket Lab where Fagin worked from 2008 to 2013, called Fagin “fanatical” about Mars. “He is very interested in

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divinity school, said she hopes Tengatenga will take advantage of the institution’s academic resources and discuss social justice issues. Disapproval of Tengatenga’s selection as Tucker dean stemmed in part from accusations that he had criticized the appointment of the Right Rev. Gene Robinson of N.H. as the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion. In 2011, he stated that Malawi’s Anglican dioceses were “totally against homosexuality,” according to The Boston Globe. Tengatenga released a statement expressing his support for LGBTQ equality and same-sex marriage two days after the announcement of his appointment sparked concer n, but disapproval did not abate. Dartmouth’s NAACP chapter circulated a petition objecting to the selection, over 30 faculty and staff members signed. College President Phil Hanlon met with Tengatenga to revoke his appointment on Aug. 14. Ragsdale said the Episcopal Divinity School selected Tengatenga for the fellowship because it believed the College mistreated him. “Our understanding was that he was completely slandered at Dartmouth,” Ragsdale said. “The

allegations were false and were a great personal cost to him.” She added that although the Malawi Council of Churches, which Tengatenga once chaired, took an anti-gay stance during his tenure, she thinks his beliefs differed from those of the council and that Tengatenga has been a strong advocate of LGBTQ rights. Her school, she said, supports LGBTQ equality and would not have named Tengatenga as a fellow if it thought he opposed homosexuality. Religious and spiritual life director Rev. Nancy Vogele, who received a degree from the Episcopal Divinity School, said the institution has always been at the forefront of social justice issues. She added that Tengatenga will have a lot to contribute given his background in pro-democracy work and working with children whose births are unregistered. Ragsdale said Tengatenga received the fellowship due to his experience organizing social movements in Malawi. His background would give the school a fuller picture of effective methods to institute social change, she said. Reflecting on the controversy, Tengatenga said he does not want to revisit the memory of his brief appointment at Dartmouth because he feels he was “shut off ”

from campus. “You should understand that in many ways, not only professionally but also personally, it was an injustice and humiliation,” he said. In a previous interview, which Tengatenga said still reflects his views, he said his stance on homosexuality had changed over time and that he has consistently denounced violence against LGBTQ individuals. At the divinity school, he said he hopes to contribute to the development of new religious leaders in the world and engage the community with the gospel. Women’s and gender studies professor Michael Bronski, who was a vocal critic of Tengatenga’s appointment last summer, said he opposed Tengatenga’s appointment to the Tucker deanship because Dartmouth is a secular institution. Since the Tucker dean is supposed to uphold the “moral consciousness” of the College, Bronski said he believes the person occupying the position should represent broad campus values. “There is no doubt that he is highly regarded in African political and religious circles,” he said. “So rather than demonizing Tengatenga, I think we should recognize the key point, which is that he was just a bad fit for Dartmouth.”

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the College’s master’s in health care delivery science program. The program uses Canvas – which will soon replace Blackboard as the College’s learning management program – to allow students to spend nearly all of the program off-campus. While the program spans eighteen months, only six weeks of the course are spent on campus. HarvardX spokesperson Michael Patrick Rutter said he was pleased _Q\P \PM ÅZ[\ aMIZ WN KW]Z[M[ I\ HarvardX. The group’s mission is to teach faculty to use technology in new ways and advance education research. “Institutions new to edX and MOOCs have to consider how they will set up a structure to best support their broader goals beyond just producing courses,” Rutter said in an email. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard recently released a report examining online courses offered by MITx and HarvardX, the institutions’ subsets of edX. There were over 800,000 registrations from nearly 600,000 users across the 17 courses provided in 2012. About 5 percent of registrants earned KMZ\QÅKI\M[ WN KWUXTM\QWV IVL IV additional 4 percent viewed over half of the course material, according to the study.

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ties, registering 14 and 12 assists. Union’s unbalanced offense is accompanied by a weak defense. Its power play defense has relinquished a goal 21 times out of 84 chances. Dartmouth men’s hockey travels to Troy, N.Y., to take on RPI (8-104, 3-5-3 ECAC) Friday evening at

7 p.m. RPI’s last win was a 5-2 rout over Princeton on Dec. 7, 2013. RPI has changed since it defeated Dartmouth 7-1 in November. The preseason favorite to win the ECAC Hockey title is currently in the midst of a four-game losing streak and six-game winless streak that dropped it from national rankings. In the Engineers’ last game,

conference leader No. 7 Quinnipiac University blew out RPI 6-2. Six different Bobcats skaters scored goals against RPI. Despite allowing three power play goals against Quinnipiac, RPI has a stingy power play defense, allowing only 18 goals in 91 opportunities this season. However, RPI hasn’t been as opportunistic on offense, scoring on 18 power

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plays in 89 chances. The Big Green enters Friday night coming off an emotional two-game weekend against two of the nation’s hottest teams, losing the first 4-1 to Colgate in its most physical game of the season before tying previously No. 12 Cornell University 1-1. The team had strong offense and defense, aside from missing a few opportunities and allowing Colgate to score power play goals, Brandon McNally ’15 said. “We just need some more work,” he said. “Get more shots. Stay in front of the net. We’re really close, but it’s not enough sometimes.” Dartmouth was dealt major blow when the ECAC announced Monday afternoon that it would suspend Eric Neiley ’15 for two games after a scrum at the end of Saturday night’s overtime game against Cornell. Neiley was assessed a five-minute major penalty for charging and a game disqualification, but upon further review by the ECAC, he is suspended for both this Friday’s game against RPI and next Friday’s game against Quinnipiac. “That hurts a lot but we’re going to go out and play with the team intensity and passion that we played with against Cornell,” head coach Bob Gaudet said. “We didn’t win the game but we raised the bar, playing 65 strong minutes.”

Neiley is Dartmouth’s leading scorer with 10 goals and four assists, double Charlie Mosey, the second-highest scorer with five goals. Neiley’s two-game absence further strains a Dartmouth roster already decimated by injuries. Dartmouth has been forced to play with a fluctuating line-up, including using natural defensemen as forwards. Despite the losing record, Gaudet deserves credit for constructing line-ups that have kept Dartmouth competitive and in the hunt for a home playoff game. Unfortunately for Dartmouth, Tyler Sikura ’15 and Eric Robinson ’14, two of Dartmouth’s captains, are out for extended periods with injuries. Sikura might return from his knee injury in time for the ECAC playoffs. Robinson will not play at all this season. Gaudet will likely make a gametime decision as who to start in goal. The player he chooses will be pressured all night in the goal by junior Ryan Haggerty (18 goals, 9 assists), Brock Higgs (13 goals, 9 assists) and Matt Neal (9 goals, 12 assists). The puck drops for the women at 7 p.m. in Thompson Arena Friday night when the women play RPI and Saturday’s game starts at 4 p.m. The men start their game at RPI Friday at 7 p.m.

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Basketball, captain Tyler Melville ’14 said, is in his blood. His dad was a captain for Princeton University. He and his brothers bonded over the sport, and Melville played against one of them, a player at Colgate University, three times. His mom played basketball in high school, too. Born in Philadelphia, Melville moved around until the seventh grade, putting down roots in Colorado, Texas, Iowa and Connecticut, before eventually settling in Plano, TX. Basketball was a constant — he started playing at age seven. In middle school, he played on an AAU team sponsored by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban that included nine future Division I players. Going into ninth grade, Melville participated in the People to People Sports Ambassador Program, spon-

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B & SASHA NANJI Sasha Nanji ’13, a former Big Green hockey player, will write a column every other week about her life post-Dartmouth as a professional hockey player in Canada. The roar of passionate Dartmouth fans and the face that women’s hockey head coach Mark Hudak made every time I touched the puck remain clearly entrenched in my mind. I played defense for the Big Green women’s hockey team as I UMUJMZ WN \PM +TI[[ WN and last summer I was selected 12th overall by the Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League draft. The CWHL, a professional women’s ice hockey league, _I[ NW]VLML QV IVL QVKT]LM[ Ă… ^M \MIU[ ¸ <WZWV\W 5WV\ZMIT Brampton, Calgary and Boston. On senior night, last February, I was gunning for a hat trick against St. Lawrence University. After scoring two goals, I suffered a serious ankle injury, robbing me of competing in the playoffs that season. After two surgeries, and a third in waiting, I thought my career as a PWKSMa XTIaMZ _I[ Ă… VITTa W^MZ The sport had been part of my NIJZQK [QVKM IOM [W 1 _I[VÂź\ ZMILa \W OQ^M ]X _Q\PW]\ I Ă… OP\ ,ZQ^MV by the passion and love I have for the game, I knew it was an uphill battle, but I was determined to get there. After returning to Toronto from my summer internship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., I couldn’t wait to get back on the ice. That summer I had worked on strengthening and stabilizing my ankle. When tryouts came in early September, I prepared myself for _PI\ _W]TL JM Ua Ă… Z[\ M`XMZQMVKM back on the ice. I walked nervously into a packed dressing room, not really noticing any familiar faces. It was all business — a far contrast from freshman year at Dartmouth, where everyone was welcoming and

friendly. I was well aware, regardless of which team drafted me, that I had to earn my spot and my teammates’ respect. .WTTW_QVO \PM Å Z[\ \ZaW]\ [SI\M I was in a lot of pain and my ankle was severely swollen. And I was out of shape. I worked with the team trainer on my ankle after each skate to get the swelling down. For the Å Z[\ \QUM QV Ua KIZMMZ 1 _I[ ]V[]ZM whether or not I would make a team. After three tryout sessions, it was time to meet the coaches. I hoped for the best but braced for the worst, knowing how much I had struggled on the ice. Girls left their meetings with the coaches some sporting Furies gear and a smile, others with heads down in disappointment. Then it was my turn. I walked out clutching my new blue and white gear, feeling proud and fortunate to have made the team. I was one of seven defenseman selected, but was the only rookie blueliner. I did my very best at each practice and knew that, if given a chance, I would prove myself worthy of a roster spot. As the season opener drew near against Calgary, I wondered if I would dress for the game. My hard work had paid off, as I stood dressed in my No. 24 jersey, tears streaming down my face, as the national anthem played. The rink _I[ [WTL W]\ NIV[ WN ITT IOM[ Å TTQVO the stands. ,]ZQVO Ua Å Z[\ [PQN\ WN \PM OIUM I stepped up on a play on the blue line, intercepted a pass, decked a couple of players and passed it to my center, who sniped it into the \WX KWZVMZ \W OQ^M W]Z \MIU I TMIL UIZSQVO Ua Å Z[\ +?04 XWQV\ It felt good to make an immediate impact on the team, and even sweeter defeating my fellow Dartmouth buddy, Jenna Cunningham Ÿ Following the game, younger girls waited in line to collect players’ autographs. We happily obliged.

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