The Dartmouth 03/25/14

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Geisel ranks 18th for primary care

By CHRIS LEECH

The Dartmouth Staff

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On the heels of a 27 percent increase in applications, the Geisel School of Medicine jumped to 18th in U.S. News and World Report’s 2015 medical school rankings for primary care, rising 13 spots from last year.

The school also improved in research rankings released earlier this month, climbing from 38 to 34.

The school’s ranking for research has held steady in the thirties for the past five years, while the ranking for primary care has fluctuated from 39 in 2011, to 67 in 2012, to 18 this year.

The primary care rankings are determined by external evaluations, average GPA and MCAT scores, the school’s acceptance rate, faculty re-

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sources and the number of students who decide to pursue primary care.

This year, 48.3 percent of Geisel’s graduating class accepted a primary care residency, up from 44.6 percent in 2013, Geisel communications and marketing director Derik Hertel said.

The school’s rural location lends itself to producing good primary care physicians, Geisel Dean Wiley Souba said, because students have firsthand exposure to this type of medical practice.

“We emphasize the importance of primary care — that is one kind of physician that is going to be critical to reforming the health care system,” Souba said. “Dartmouth has taken a stand on

Gilbert trial shifts focus to medical exam

By AMELIA ACOSTA

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

On Monday morning, prosecuting attorneys opened the second week of the trial against Parker Gilbert ’16, accused of rape, by calling further witnesses and relying heavily on medical records and visual aids. The day centered around testimony from Elizabeth Morse ’77, a sexual assault nurse examiner who saw the complainant at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center following her initial examination at Dick’s House.

Gilbert, 21, who is no longer enrolled in classes at the College, is charged with seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against a 19-year-old female undergraduate student and one count of criminal trespass for entering her room uninvited in the early morning of May 2, 2013. As a general practice, The Dartmouth does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

Gilbert, of London, was arrested May 15. If convicted, Gilbert could serve up to 20 years in prison for each count of sexual assault.

Morse, who works both as a Dick’s House nurse practitioner and per-diem SANE at DHMC, said ERIN O’NEIL/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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U.S. News and World Report released rankings this month.

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SAE national council Students recover unused food eliminates pledging

By HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

B y KATE BRADSHAW

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s national leadership announced earlier this month that all chapters would no longer allow members to complete a pledging process before fully joining the house. Instead, members must be initiated as brothers within 96 hours of receiving their the bid. All members, not just new recruits, must participate in educational programming called the “True Gentleman Experience.”

Alex Olesen ’14, former

president of the College’s SAE chapter, called the new policy a rebranding effort, shifting the organization’s public image from pledge activities to brotherhood.

Brandon Weghorst, associate executive communications director of the national organization, said that negative press in the past few years played some role in the organization’s decision to eliminate pledging, but the decision was primarily made to return the fraternity to its roots of full initial memberSEE SAE PAGE 3

During an inter nship last summer at the Upper Valley Housing Coalition , a partnership of local businesses and nonprofit groups that advocates for affordable housing, Adam CharninAker ’16 said he realized that the high cost of Upper Valley housing consumes the majority of some residents’ incomes, often leaving little money for food or basic necessities.

After finishing his work at the coalition, Charnin-Aker decided to found a chapter of the Food Recovery Network, a national nonprofit,

at the College. The chapter, called Dartmouth Feeding Neighbors, delivers leftover food from the Class of 1953 Commons and several local restaurants to the Upper Valley Haven, which redistributes the food to people living in poverty in the Upper Valley.

“I saw a lot of people who are facing hard times,” he said. “They weren’t homeless people, but they needed to put their wealth toward affordable living and couldn’t necessarily provide for their family.”

The group signed a contract with Dartmouth Dining Services in mid-February and has since worked closely

with ’53 Commons staff, Charnin-Aker said. DDS staff members manage the leftover food, following the food safety guidelines of the College. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, members of the organization pick up packaged and refrigerated food from ’53 Commons and local restaurants.

After gathering the packages, members drive to the Upper Valley Haven, where volunteers distribute it according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food donation guidelines.

The Food Recovery Network provides advice to colSEE NEIGHBORS PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Florida governor Jeb Bush spoke about American education models at the Globalization of Higher Education conference in Dallas on Monday, the Associated Press reported. The two-day conference included remarks by the potential 2016 presidential candidates, both of whom said that higher education should be made more accessible and affordable worldwide. In his opening remarks, Bush said that exporting U.S. post-secondary education could resolve these problems. In her speech, Clinton referenced her advocacy for the education of women and girls as secretary of state and her work in education reform as first lady of Arkansas.

Data from the Million Records Project, released Monday, suggests that veterans receiving GI Bill benefits from 2002 to 2010 earned postsecondary degrees at a comparable rate to nonveteran students, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. About 52 percent of the 788,915 veterans in the study graduated from college by June 2013 after starting to use their GI Bill benefits between 2002 and 2010. Fifty-four percent of their nonveteran peers who started college in 2007 were able to earn a degree in six years. On average, veterans took slightly over five years to complete an associate degree and slightly over six years to complete a bachelor’s degree.

While 79.2 percent of these veterans enrolled in public institutions, 10.7 percent and 10.1 percent of veterans enrolled in private non-profit or private for-profit institutions, respectively.

First lady Michelle Obama hosted a roundtable discussion with Chinese professors, students and parents at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. Although the event was not open to the media, prior to the discussion, she spoke about the importance her parents placed on their children obtaining a good education despite not being educated themselves. Their influence was a key factor in her personal success, she said. The roundtable was one in a string of education-themed events, including a speech at Peking University on Saturday that stressed the importance of free speech, information not reported in China’s state media.

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More med students focus on primary care FROM GEISEL PAGE 1

wanting to be an important player at the table in improving the way we deliver care.”

Souba attributed the higher rankings in part to a surge in national interest in the school, pointing to ongoing curricular reform and strong global health program as being attractive to students.

The school’s average GPA and MCAT scores also increased this year, Souba said.

The ranking marks a milestone in the school’s 20x20 plan, launched in 2011, which aimed to make Geisel one of the nation’s top 20 medical schools by 2020. Souba said that the focus of the initiative will now shift toward incorporating data-driven medicine into the school’s curriculum.

Cathleen Morrow, an associate professor of community and family medicine at Geisel, described primary care as “front line medicine.” Doctors see patients who have a variety of health concerns and help refer them to specialists, she said.

Morrow pointed to Geisel’s mentorship programs as another factor driving students toward primary care.

“Geisel makes sure students see good role models and get to work at the point of delivery,” Morrow said.

“That’s an important factor in helping people think, ‘This is important work,

and this is what I want to do.’”

Karl Dietrich, a fifth-year student at Geisel who recently matched into a primary care residency program, and Joe Canarie, a second-year student at the school, both said a class titled “On

“Geisel makes sure students see good role models and get to work at the point of delivery. That’s an important factor in helping people think, ‘This is important work, and this is what I want to do.’”

- CATHLEEN MORROW, GEISEL PROFESSOR OF COMMUNITY AND FAMILY MEDICINE Doctoring” inspired them to enter primary care. The course connects students with nearby primary care physicians.

Matt Sattler ’14, who was accepted into Geisel’s early assurance program and will attend the school next year,

said he hopes to go into pediatrics in part because of the close interaction with patients.

As a future Geisel student, Sattler said that he is happy to see the ranking improve and cites it when encouraging other students to attend. He said he did not pay close attention to the ranking when he decided to apply.

Canarie, however, said he lent credence to the rankings when decided to matriculate.

“It’s definitely a factor that most people look at,” Canarie said. “It’s such an arbitrary scale, so maybe we shouldn’t, but it’s a pretty big deal.”

Souba also said he appreciates the recognition that Geisel is receiving, but added that the rankings are not that important to him.

“You can’t ignore them, because students pay attention to them, and faculty pay attention to them,” Souba said. “But in my opinion, you don’t want to manage to the rankings.”

The metrics for the research rankings, which also rose this year, comprise the amount of research funding per capita, the total number of National Institutes of Health grants, the admissions rate, faculty resources, student scores and selectivity.

Due to Geisel’s small size, it may lag behind larger institutions in some areas, Souba said, adding that it has done well in areas that account for size, like funding per capita.

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“Trustees support new, stricter assault policy” (March 24, 2014): Yesterday’s printed version of the paper included quotations from two faculty members, who opined on the trustees’ support for a zero-tolerance sexual assault policy. The context of the article, however, did not clarify that these faculty members were interviewed before the policy proposal was released. As such, their quotations have been removed from the online version of the story.

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SAE recruits will receive full membership with bid FROM SAE PAGE 1

ship. The pledging process, he said, became more popular after World War II. A loyal and committed membership will now be assembled through recruitment, not the pledge process, he said.

In the past 10 years, nine people have died at events connected to SAE, Bloomberg News reported. In 2011, a Cornell University sophomore died after being tied up and forced to drink during a pledge term activity. In 2012, a freshman member of Arizona State University’s chapter of SAE drowned, leading to the chapter’s suspension.

Last year, a freshman at the University of Idaho was found dead after a party at the school’s chapter.

Since the start of this year, at least two chapters of SAE have been suspended.

Dartmouth’s SAE chapter was thrown into the national spotlight in March 2012, when Rolling Stone magazine published an article detailing the alleged pledge term experiences of Andrew Lohse ’12, a former member of SAE. Since SAE is one of the largest fraternities in the U.S., with about 190,000 living alumni, Weghorst said he believes that other national fraternities will take notice of the change.

SAE’s national and local representatives are limited in the oversight they can provide, Weghorst said,

noting that alumni, administrators and members’ families will assist in enforcing the new policy.

“The reality is that we can’t do it alone,” Weghorst said. “Ultimately our members have to embrace the policy and hold each other accountable. We can only step in when people bring it to our attention.”

Though he said the new policy will not solve all the issues faced by SAE and other Greek letter organizations, Weghorst said the fraternity believes that it will address problems like hazing and excessive alcohol consumption.

The prospect of initiation can lead them to engage in reckless behaviors, he added.

Nationally, the response has generally been positive, said Weghorst, though some alumni and individuals at chapters around the country have expressed concern that eliminating the pledging process will make it more difficult to foster loyalty and commitment among brothers.

Current SAE president Daegwon Chae ’15 said in an email that students choosing a fraternity should think about the kind of people they want to associate with above any other consideration.

SAE is not the first fraternity to eliminate the pledge process. Sigma Phi Epsilon outlawed pledging in 1991, which led to both a decrease in chapters and an increase in the fraternity’s overall GPA, the New York Times reported.

Haven receives food from DDS, local restaurants FROM NEIGHBORS PAGE 1

lege chapters and gives up to $500 in funding each term to help cover expenses like gasoline.

Jeffrey Hastings Tu’90, the president of a West Lebanon motor vehicle supply company, worked with the group since it began.

In February, when Charnin-Aker first approached the Upper Valley Haven to discuss his idea, the Haven connected him with Hastings, who had been seeking to help the Haven and was in the process of reaching out to restaurants in the Upper Valley in an effort to reduce hunger.

Hastings said the organization encourages people to both reduce waste and help those in need. In his role, he helps link the organization and restaurants and researches efficient ways to gather and deliver food.

Sumner Kilmarx ’16, the organization’s vice president, said the group provides a way to give back to the community.

“The Upper Valley community supports Dartmouth so well, and if we can support them in return, I think it’s something that needs to be done because there is a need in this area,” Kilmarx said.

Jordan Kastrinsky ’16, the group’s resource manager, said he joined because he has always been interested in food and sought a way to connect his interest with a way to help others.

Dartmouth Feeding Neighbors, which has about 40 students on its blitz list, currently works with Three Guys Barbecue, Murphy’s on the Green and Dunkin’ Donuts, and is seeing to collaborate with additional campus dining halls and local restaurants, Charnin-Aker said.

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The Shame Game

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Anonymous online victim blaming has deleterious effects.

It seems that everyone at the College is at least aware of, if not actively following, the current sexual assault trial involving a former and a current Dartmouth student. Curious about what was being said about the trial, I logged on to Bored at Baker. If I’ve learned anything in my time here, it is that, for better or worse, when something controversial occurs at Dartmouth, Bored at Baker will be bursting with student opinions. I was not disappointed — well, not by the quantity of posts, at least. I was disgusted, however, by the horrifying things written about the alleged victim, not to mention similar comments posted by students and non-students alike on coverage by The Dartmouth and other online news outlets. There are posts blaming the alleged victim: claiming she was drunk or she regretted consensual sex and “cried rape,” claiming she just wanted attention. There are posts calling her a “slut,” judging and denouncing her for the same activities so many other Dartmouth students are also guilty of — indulging in alcohol and attending parties. And perhaps worst of all, posters have even published her name, which remained on Bored at Baker long enough for numerous people to see.

To be fair, I have written columns in support of anonymity, including on Bored at Baker.

However, anonymity is not the entire problem here. I fear that many people would willingly voice these same opinions without the veil of anonymity — and some already have — both in response to this particular case and to many similar situations.

I suppose I shouldn’t be so shocked. First, there were the Real Talk protests. Then, there was the infamous “rape guide.” And now this.

Last year, I did not want to believe the Real Talk claim that Dartmouth perpetuates a so-called “rape culture.” My friends and the people I interacted with would never condone such a thing — so where were all these supposed victim blamers? I now see that they exist. And although I wish I had never stumbled upon this segment of our community, now that I have, I cannot ignore it. My conscience will not allow me to sit by idly as a fellow student is lambasted for daring

to report that he or she was violated. And it is disturbing to think that behind those demeaning anonymous comments are actual Dartmouth community members who truly believe the majority of reported sexual assaults on college campuses can be attributed to attention-seeking or regret.

I am ashamed to call these people my peers.

I’ve written recently about placing too much blame on Dartmouth and other institutions in regards to sexual assault, which is arguably a societal issue. To that end, I agree that, beyond Dartmouth, a relatively strong contingent of society believes it is acceptable to publicly blame victims. So take this not only as a condemnation of victim-blaming and –shaming in Dartmouth’s culture, but as a condemnation of a society in which it exists and is tolerated by a sufficient portion of our population. Still, should Dartmouth not, as a venerated institution of higher learning, set an example for society to follow?

When will we learn our lesson? How many more students must be disgraced before we realize something needs to change?

In these situations, the harm extends beyond the directly affected individuals. Adverse responses to a victim seeking justice foster the negative stigma associated with reporting sexual assault. This makes it less likely for future victims to seek help and file reports. In turn, perpetrators could get away with assault, increasing the possibility of repeat offenses.

Until — and even after — a verdict has been reached, speculation attacking the alleged rapist is not constructive. However, to shame and castigate an accuser in the face of a not guilty result can easily be just as disgraceful. Even if an accused individual is found not guilty, such a verdict does not always necessarily mean “innocent;” it simply means the prosecution could not prove the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

Unfortunately, the vile comments posted about this particular alleged victim have already done considerable damage. My only hope is that, someday soon, no other student will have to feel vilified by the very community that should offer the most support.

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Attending sports events would boost campus community.

Over break someone asked me, “If you could change one thing about Dartmouth, what would that be?” I thought about the various possibilities: get rid of x-hours, put air conditioning in the dorms, renovate West Gym, et cetera. But ultimately, I realized that if I could change one thing, I would want to improve the lackluster student sections at sporting events. In my opinion (this is an opinion piece after all), support at sporting events, especially at games against other Ivy League schools, indicates school spirit, and whenever I sat in the silent, practically empty stands at basketball games this winter, I was thoroughly unimpressed.

Sure, there are other barometers to measure school spirit, but sporting events are one fun and exciting way to represent our school. Don’t get me wrong — there is no college or university that I would rather attend, but I still long for rowdy, lively fan sections. Besides hockey, our sports games generally lack enthusiastic student support on the sidelines or in the bleachers.

Maybe it comes as a result of the fact that Dartmouth is a relatively small school in a small town. Maybe it is not a realistic goal for a small school to have animated student sections, because we simply cannot draw crowds like big schools do. Yet even so, we have the potential to attract fervently animated crowds. I went to a small high school that regularly had vivacious student sections for most sporting events, and I played against plenty of other small high schools that had equally spirited, fan-filled bleachers. Maybe everyone here at Dartmouth is too busy studying. Maybe we’re too busy on BuzzFeed and Bored at Baker. Or maybe everyone just does not enjoy sports as much as I do and therefore has different priorities. That’s fine — to each their own.

But organized and dynamic student sections would add another dimension to social life here at Dartmouth for both the students in attendance and the student-athletes.

Many of my friends at other schools in bigger sports conferences across the country attend a variety of sports games regularly.

They even must pay to go to games, whereas sporting events are free here at Dartmouth.

Yet they pack the stands with their fellow students and support their classmates, even if they do not know them personally. The fans get decked out in their school colors.

They cheer in unison and heckle the opposing teams’ players. At one school, thousands of students bring newspapers to the games, and they sit in the student section and pretend to read while the other team’s starting lineup is being announced — just one example of all the crazy, interesting things we could do at our own sporting events.

Just because we are not in the Big Ten or the Big East does not mean that we also can’t have large groups of students packing the gym, wearing body paint, making posters and heckling other teams’ players.

Yes, this is a time commitment, but it is a fun one. Game day could be a big deal here, too. Tailgating and sports games could replace — or complement — a night out at the frats. We could have just as much, if not more, fun as a unified fan section than we might have on a Friday night on Webster Avenue. Packing the stands would still be something new and different, especially for those less involved in Greek life.

And I’m not just talking about sports like basketball and football. Nor am I just talking about men’s sports. We should support all of our peers in their athletic endeavors, because they represent Dartmouth on the fields, courts, slopes. Most people don’t understand how much time and effort student-athletes put into their respective sports, and the least we can do is give them a great environment in which to play. And if we could make bigger, more exciting crowds that are fun for everyone involved, we all win — and who doesn’t like winning?

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Gilbert trial resumes with testimony from nurse, forensic analyst FROM TRIAL PAGE 1

she first examined the complainant on the afternoon of May 2.

Morse walked the jury through SANE protocol, starting with a patient’s options for reporting sexual assault. During a medical examination, a patient may choose to include his or her name and report the assault to the police. He or she may also be assigned a number and undergo evidence collection anonymously while deciding whether to report. A patient may also choose to simply receive medical care.

The complainant chose to report anonymously, and during the complainant’s visit, Morse heard her account of the alleged assault.

County prosecutor Lara Saffo asked Morse to read through her notes from the recorded medical history.

The complainant told Morse that she had gone out with friends at 11:55 p.m. on May 1 and “had a little bit to drink” but “was lucid,” according to the records. She recalled seeing a “boy with a black baseball cap” who tried to get her to talk to his friends. She returned to her residence hall soon after, feeling sad about a family dog that was to be euthanized. A female floormate stayed over and shared her bed. The Dartmouth has not identified this individual or other floormates to preserve the complainant’s identity.

Around 3 a.m. a male friend who lived down the hall heard banging on his door and opened it to find a man wearing a black baseball cap.

The complainant told Morse she thought he had been looking for her.

The complainant reported being “dead asleep” and waking up to Gilbert raping her. When she asked him to stop, she had said to Morse, Gilbert allegedly responded, “No, no, say that you like it.”

The complainant told Morse she then responded in the affirmative because she “wanted him to stop.”

She told Morse that Gilbert held her hands down and continued to rape her vaginally, then anally.

According to the account, Gilbert pushed the complainant to the ground, where she told Morse she had crouched because she was in pain. She said Gilbert then forced her to engage in fellatio, which took about five minutes. Gilbert was unable to ejaculate, according to the complainant’s medical history.

During the alleged assault and after Gilbert left the room, the complainant said she could not wake the friend sharing her bed.

The alleged victim fell asleep, woke at 8 a.m. to silence her roommate’s alarm and then slept until 10:30 a.m.

On the medical report, Morse noted that the complainant was articulate, made eye contact and

“expresses disgust when describing experiences last night.”

Saffo then asked Morse to walk the jury through her examination of the complainant. Morse said she did not collect a blood and urine toxicology sample because it is only used in cases where an assault may have been drug-assisted.

Morse said she collected three pairs of underpants from the complainant, one of which the complainant said she was “almost sure” she had worn during the alleged assault, another which had been lying on her bedroom floor and a third which she wore to DHMC. The underpants were tested for semen and other material, Morse said.

Morse said she collected various samples including oral, anal and vaginal swabs and smears. Morse also detailed whether the complainant had done anything to affect the evidence, including showering or brushing her teeth.

Moving to the medical exam, Morse explained each abnormality she had noticed on the complainant’s body, including multiple bruises of varying sizes. She went into similar detail with the complainant’s genital examination, noting that the normally gentle technique caused pain for the complainant.

Saffo then showed the jury several photographs Morse took during her examination. The pictures were displayed on a screen tilted toward the jury box, visible to the judge and defense but not to those seated in the gallery. With Saffo’s prompting, Morse explained each picture.

In his cross-examination of Morse, attorney Robert Cary ’86, of Williams and Connolly, called attention to several inconsistencies in Morse’s examination. Though she had noted that the complainant’s fingernails showed potential protein deposits, the SANE kit did not include any fingernail scrapings. Morse said this was a mistake.

Cary also insisted that “pain” is subjective, questioning Morse’s assertion that the complainant felt pain upon genital examination.

The complainant had not asserted that any of the bruises Morse noticed were painful, nor did she complain of pain until Morse began traction, Cary stated.

In a space designated to note weapons or threats used on the medical forensic examination form, Morse recorded the complainant as saying that Gilbert had addressed her with a derogatory epithet. Cary asked Morse whether this constituted either use of a weapon or a threat.

“She felt threatened, in my view,” Morse said. “But I am quoting her.”

Cary closed by highlighting that

the complainant told Morse she had three beers the night of the alleged assault.

“Did she tell you about the vodka she drank that night?” Cary asked.

When Morse said no, Cary asked if she had performed either urine or blood tests to measure the complainant’s blood alcohol level.

Morse said she had not.

In her redirect examination of Morse, Saffo asked if the complainant seemed hung over or suggested that the alleged assault occurred because she was drunk. Morse replied that the complainant had not.

The prosecution then called Susan Faith, a criminalist at the New Hampshire State Police forensic laboratory. Faith explained that her job is to examine samples for body fluids such as blood, seminal material and saliva, and to perform a DNA analysis.

Faith was responsible for analyzing the kit containing evidence from Morse’s SANE examination of the complainant. A swab from the left anterior chest showed a weak positive for saliva, but the remaining external swabs, as well as the rectal, vaginal and external genitalia swabs and smears all came

back negative.

Using DNA from buccal swabs of both the complainant and Gilbert, Faith ran an analysis to determine the source of the saliva on the left anterior chest. The test determined that the saliva came from multiple sources, and she could not rule out Gilbert, she said.

Saffo asked if Faith would expect to find sperm if someone did not ejaculate, to which Faith responded in the negative.

For its final witness of the day, the prosecution called Alexandra Jarvis ’16, a friend of the complainant. Jarvis said she had been with the complainant at Beta Alpha Omega fraternity the night of the alleged assault, but she left before the complainant. Jarvis said she did not remember the complainant being upset that night or hearing her discuss Gilbert.

Jarvis said she and the complainant met for lunch the next week, describing the complainant as “crying and emotional.”

Jarvis said she observed a change in the complainant’s demeanor following the alleged assault, including during Green Key weekend, noting that she seemed stressed and withdrawn.

In the cross-examination, defense attorney George Ostler of DesMeules, Olmstead and Ostler showed Jarvis a picture from her Facebook account posted over Green Key weekend, featuring herself, the complainant and another female student.

He also asked Jarvis to read from a statement she had previously given Hanover Police chief Frank Moran where she stated the complainant told her Gilbert “never ejaculated” and “eventually just kind of left and she went to bed,” and that “because she’d had something to drink” it “might have inhibited her from fighting back as much as she could and hence why she just went right back to bed afterwards.”

In the re-direct, Saffo also asked Jarvis to read from a statement she had previously given Moran, saying that the complaint was “handling it pretty well” but had moments where she got “very upset,” especially because her “best friend was right there” and didn’t wake up during the alleged assault.

Court will resume tomorrow at 10:30 a.m., when the prosecution will call its next witness in the case against Gilbert.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014

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Bo ’13 creates new work for Hop rotunda display

B y Yasmeen Erritouni

said.

Bo managed to dominate the Immersed in a pool of wood rotunda’s space with quite a small chips, the bust of a human figure sculpture. stares out from behind a curved “Lin is letting the large volume glass wall. “Sculpture,” by Lin Bo of that space exist with that small ’13, is the newest instillation at the head,” Auten said. “It’s powerful.

Hopkins Center’s Barrows Rotunda. It’s like how you feel in a cathedral: The title complements the artwork’s there’s so much space. That little simple yet captivating nature. head just commands [the rotunda].”

Bo was selected as one of four in- Bo included wood strips and terns for the studio art department’s wood shavings carved from the 2013-2014 post-graduate internship original log in the piece, which he program. Studio art interns assist said raises questions about the relawith undergraduate classes and are tionship between the sculpture and provided with studio space and a what surrounds it. Some parts bend, stipend to work on their own projects. while others are straight or curl into The Barrows Rotunda, the spirals. large exhibition case that greets The individual chisel marks on the visitors to the Hopkins Center, is a sculpture, convey the artist’s labor: space notorious among studio art stripping pieces of wood to reveal interns. Creating artwork that takes the bust underneath. The narrative full advantage of the space can be of Bo’s sculpture, in a way, is the daunting. To better fit the space, Bo, creation of the sculpture itself. who is accustomed to working with Bo said he stripped the human oil paints, felt the need for a new face down to its essentials to present medium. it in its simplicity. Although gender, “I was worried about having an race and age are difficult to discern, exhibition since the beginning of the the form is easily recognizable as internship, since I’m a painter and human. The lack of specific features paintings don’t prevents viewers really look good from relying on “I minimized how in that space,” preconceptions much specificity Bo said. to describe the B o b e g a n there is to the face. subject of the experimenting, sculpture. first trying plaster This project wasn’t

“ I and metal before about the social part wanted to avoid discovering his putting in a spe[of art], it was about knack for wood cific, adult face, carving. The elm transforming the because I would tree that once wood.” have to make so stood between many choices the Hopkins concerning genCenter and Wil- - Lin Bo ’13 der and other son Hall inspired things,” Bo said. him to work with “There’s a lot of the medium. After the tree fell during social baggage that comes with those fall term, it was sawed into logs and categories. I was trying to make given to the studio art department. it simple. I minimized how much Bo considers himself lucky to have specificity there is to the face. This found wood as a new material. project wasn’t about the social part “Even though I’m a painter, I hate [of art], it was just about transformoil paint because of the fumes,” Bo ing the wood.” said. “I liked having such a simple Even the expression on the sculpand natural [medium]. That was an ture’s face is plain, Auten said, renattractive reason to work with wood.” dering the viewer unable to discern Exhibition director and studio the enigmatic figure’s inner thoughts. art professor Jerry Auten noted Bo’s “It’s not sad, it’s not happy, it’s intuitive talent in carving. not him,” Auten said. “While it looks “He knew how to best use the male, it doesn’t necessarily have to material,” Auten said. “The size of be. It’s not precise, but it behaves in the chisel he used, where the crack is, light and space like a human face all of those things are orchestrated. behaves. There’s so much ambiguWhile some things were accidental, ity.” he kept them and worked around Studio art professor John Lee said them.” the work “is tapping into something Bo retained many of the tree’s about us.” original features in his piece, as his “He’s using the work in order to sculpture pays homage to the elm. help us ask questions of ourselves,” “One message that I hope comes Lee said. “There’s definitely a mesthrough subconsciously, not neces- sage. The best part is that we get to sarily overtly, is sustainability,” Bo choose what it is.”

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Softball team earns eight wins on training trip to California B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff

During its spring break trip to California, the softball team won eight games and lost six.

The 10-day trip packed in games against tough opponents to help the team prepare for the sprint of the Ivy League season.

Though playing so many games in a short time span is difficult, the team was able to learn a lot, Morgan McCalmon ’16 said.

“We were able to come close together, being tired, knowing that we had to push through and pick up our teammates,” she said. “I think we all stepped up a lot.”

From March 14 to March 16, the team competed in the Gaucho Classic II hosted by the University of California at Santa Barbara, winning back-to-back games on Sunday.

The tournament setting allowed the team to prepare for the grueling Ivy League schedule that includes four games in two days each weekend.

“From start to finish, we were a much improved team,” head coach Rachel Hanson said. “We improved our ability to sustain a high level of performance throughout an entire game against a high level of competition, to understand the full requirements of focusing in on every pitch and every at-bat and performing during every pitch.”

Dartmouth started strong, defeat-

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The team hopes the trip prepared it to return to the Ivy Championship Series.

ing Portland State University 11-5 in the first game. Kristen Rumley ’15 earned the win, pitching the first four innings and surrendering only one run. At the plate, the team generated season-bests with 18 hits and 11 runs, getting on base in every inning.

The next day, Dartmouth lost the first game of its Saturday doubleheader 2-1 against Utah State University before rebounding that evening with another crushing 11-2 win over Portland State.

Dartmouth finished the Gaucho Classic II with another twin bill that included a 5-1 win over Monmouth University and a 9-2 victory against Santa Barbara.

Dartmouth returned to action

Wednesday, defeating the University of San Diego 9-6 in a dramatic extra-inning game. In the top of the eighth with the score tied at six, Katie McEachern ’16 hit a three-run home run to left field to give Dartmouth the victory. Rumley, named the Ivy League pitcher of the week during the trip, pitched the last two and twothirds innings, contributing three hits and an RBI at the plate.

Then on Thursday, Dartmouth lost both games 5-6 to Monmouth and University of California at Riverside. Against Monmouth, the Big Green jumped out to a four-run lead through the first two innings before giving up the lead during a five-run fourth for the Hawks. Dartmouth was

done in by another five-run inning in for her seventh win of the season. the next game as UC Riverside scored In the second game, the team five in the bottom of the seventh to dropped a rematch against Canisius take the come-from-behind win.

4-2 as the Big Green offense was unDartmouth’s slate continued able to climb out of a hole after the with Friday games against Bethune- Golden Griffins scored three in the Cookman University and Canisius top of the first.

College in the Loyola-Marymount On Sunday, Dartmouth dropped University Invitational II. both games of a double-header to Ashley Sissel ’17 and McCalmon conclude the tournament, losing 7-0 had strong performances in the circle to California Polytechnic State Unifor the Big Green in the first game versity and 9-3 to host LMU. Sissel with a two-hit shutout against Bet- crushed her first career home run hune-Cookman. against LMU, Sissel started “We were able to tying the game the game and in the second come close together, p i t ch e d i n t o before LMU ran the fifth inning, being tired, knowing away with the where she al- that we had to push victory. low her first two T h e singles of the through and pick up team was able day. McCalmon our teammates.” to learn from was perfect in its losses, which the remaining will help players innings, earning - MORGAN McCALMON ’16 when they face the win when Ivy League comDartmouth petition, Karen scored its four runs in the fifth.

Chaw ’17 said in addition to bonding Dartmouth’s pitching rotation and building trust. stayed strong as Rumley pitched The team was scheduled to play its a one-hit complete game shutout home opener against the University against Canisius, striking out 11 of Massachusetts at Lowell today, batters and allowing just a single as but the game was canceled due to Dartmouth won 2-0. weather conditions. Dartmouth will Dartmouth split its two Saturday begin Ivy League play this weekend games, defeating Riverside 3-1, in with a Saturday doubleheader at what would turn out to be Dart- Cornell University and a Sunday mouth’s final win of spring break. doubleheader at Princeton UniverRumley allowed one run on two hits sity.

Sailing teams open spring season with series of team races

B y Jake bayer

The Dartmouth Staff

The sailing team spread out across the Eastern Seaboard for a series of competitions over the break, racing for the first time this season in team regattas. In the team’s last tournament of the fall, the Atlantic Coast Championships, the coed team came in fifth and the women finished first, giving the team momentum into a new season.

On March 22, the team finished 10th of 20 at the Southern Series 1 race hosted by Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, tied for eighth of 10 at the Admiral Moore team race hosted by SUNY Maritime College, finished seventh of 10 at Tufts University for the Jan T. Friis Trophy and seventh of eight

at Old Dominion University for the Aaron Szambecki team race.

The team split across the East Coast the previous weekend as well, taking second place at the St. Mary’s Women’s inter-conference competition and the Veitor Trophy hosted

by Salve Regina on March 15. The team also took seventh out of 16 teams at the Graham Hall team race hosted by the Naval Academy and fifth at the Ike Geiger Team Race Trophy hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The team was “rusty” to start, Matt Wefer ’14 said, but improved at each competition.

Most regattas were team races, unique to the spring season in college sailing. Each team sends three boats, with two teams competing at

a time.

Pat Floyd ’17 said he enjoys team racing because it employs more boat-on-boat tactics than fleet racing and requires strong teamwork and communication.

“It’s a lot of fun to get to compete alongside some of your teammates and work together in more of a team mentality,” Wefer said.

Dartmouth ranks 13th in the country, according to the most recent College Sailing team race rankings.

In the Admiral Moore Team Race, led by skippers Ian Storck ’15, Charles Lalumiere ’17 and Robert Floyd ’17 the team finished 5-13, notably splitting with No. 3 Georgetown University. In the second round, the team had a

highlight win over the University of Pennsylvania thanks to consistent communication between the boats, Floyd said.

The Jan T. Friis Trophy regatta, scheduled to be hosted by Tufts University, was moved to Harvard University because Mystic Lake was frozen. The Big Green tied for seventh but held the tiebreaker over Yale University.

In the first round, the Big Green defeated only Harvard and the University of Vermont. On the second day in the bottom bracket, Dartmouth found its stride, having the fastest boat in all three races and winning two, including the tiebreaker against the Bulldogs.

In the final team race, the Big Green traveled to Old Dominion

and finished seventh, just one win behind the fifth place Naval Academy and sixth place Georgetown.

Led by some of the team’s best sailors, including ACC champion Deirdre Lambert ’15, the Big Green swept the Midshipmen head to head. Dartmouth also had the fastest boat in two of its three races against the Hoyas.

The Southern Series 1 Regatta at Salve Regina was a two-division race, like those of the fall season.

Dartmouth’s B-division boat finished seventh, placing the team 10th overall.

In terms of training, the cold weather poses a challenge for the team. While Mascoma Lake remains frozen, the team will practice in Boston or at UVM.