The Dartmouth 04/16/14

VOL. CLXXI NO. 62

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014

Theta cuts formal rush Full prof. gender pay gap to use shake-out system remains League’s largest

By VICTORIA NELSEN The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

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OPINION

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ARTS

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Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority will not participate in the formal recruitment process this fall, instead opting for a more casual “shake-out” process, Theta executives said in a campus-wide email Tuesday morning. They referenced lowering exclusivity and superficiality in the sorority recruitment process and making the Greek system more accessible for female students and members of minority groups as reasons for the change.

Theta’s new recruitment process will resemble frater-

nities’ current system, but it will be more flexible, Theta president Emily Reeves ’15 said. Theta will participate in planned Panhellenic Council pre-recruitment events.

Potential new members who attend Theta’s shake-out events will not be bound to join the sorority.

Two shake-out events will be held, one before formal Panhellenic sorority recruitment begins and one near the end of the process. Potential new members who participate in formal recruitment will have the chance to drop out to attend SEE THETA PAGE 2

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Dan Fagin ’85 earns Pulitzer for non-fiction

By TREEMAN BAKER

Dan Fagin ’85 had forgotten this Monday was Pulitzer Day until his wife showed him the official awards site, which listed him as a winner.

“Dan, I think you won a Pulitzer!”

Fagin, a professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, won the prize for general

non-fiction for his book “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.”

The book, published in March 2013, investigates a New Jersey town where decades of toxic chemical dumping led to high rates of childhood cancer and tells the story of its citizens.

The book uses the incident to look at man’s longstanding SEE FAGIN PAGE 5

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OUR BEST GUESS: WHO’S BEHIND THE $100 MILL?

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Female full professors at Dartmouth make, on average, 82.8 percent of what their male colleagues earn, giving Dartmouth the largest gap in annual wages for full professors in the Ivy League. On average, male tenured professors at the College make $182,500 while their female counterparts make $151,100, according to the 2013-14 American Association of University Professors Faculty Salary Survey published last week by

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This statistic shoes a wider gap than in 20122013, when female full professors were paid 83.2 percent of what their male colleagues earned.

Among the Ivies, Yale University boasts the lowest wage gap, with female full professors making 93.8 percent of what male full professors make. Cornell University and Brown University follow Yale, with female professors bringing in 93.7 and 91.9 percent of male professors’s salaries, respectively. Princeton

University follows Dartmouth in greatest wage difference by gender among full professors, with women earning 89.9 percent of their male colleagues’ salaries.

Full professors tend to be older than associate and assistant professors, visiting assistant sociology professor Kristin Smith said, adding that the wage discrimination that existed in the 1960s and 1970s may persist today. Faculty who receive a promotion to full professor are further along in SEE SALARY PAGE 3

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Organizers of this year’s senior class gift aim to lessen socioeconomic pressure by deemphasizing the goal of having all members of the Class of 2014 donate. The Class of 1964, which has pledged to match donations

two-to-one, will donate three times the total amount raised if the Class of 2014 campaign can break $25,000 on its own. Last year, the Class of 2013 raised $24,785.

As in previous years, the gift will go to financial aid for members of the incoming freshman class.

“Through the 2014 Senior Class Gift, we will help give members of the Class of 2018 the Dartmouth experience that all alumni and students share, regardless of class year and financial status,” said Rohail Premjee ’14, a senior class gift intern.

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Other houses back Theta’s changes

A survey by the University of Pittsburgh and DartmouthHitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that references to alcohol brands in pop music have bred an association between binge drinking and celebrity in the eyes of young teens, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. Musicians are paid to endorse alcohol by respective companies and showcase alcohol and other drugs in music and visual media, exposing young minds to a skewed perception of alcohol consumption, said Geisel School of Medicine pediatrics professor James Sargent, the study’s senior author. Educational programs to limit such references look promising, the research found. According to the survey of over 2,500 people ages 15 to 23, 18 percent of participants admitted to binge drinking.

Marketing campaigns that target audiences based on their identities may backfire, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Science Daily reported. Audiences feel threatened by such advertisements because they thwart freedom in decision-making. Tuck School of Business professor Amit Bhattacharjee, who co-authored the study, said that although some groups better identify with certain products, marketing techniques that link products to identity usurp a consumer’s sense of ownership. A collection of five studies exposed participants to advertisements that either suggested an identity association or overtly linked an identity to a product. Those who placed a greater emphasis on their distinctive identity were less likely to buy a product that explicitly targeted it.

Using foreign aid to alleviate poverty may benefit both the recipient country and the donor country, a recent study co-authored by government professor Yusaku Horiuchi found. In a guest column published by the Washington Post, the study’s authors described recent comments by donor country politicians arguing that foreign aid should only be given to developing countries if the benefactor is rewarded in return. The research indicated U.S. aid combatting HIV and AIDS abroad fosters a positive public perception of the U.S. in recipient countries. The study concludes that “targeted, sustained, effective and visible” foreign assistance can benefit donor countries.

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“Dennis ’15, Cunningham ’16 to lead assembly” (April 15, 2014): The print edition of this story misattributed a pull quote. Casey Dennis ’15, the incoming student body president, said he was honored that the student body voted for him and his running mate, Frank Cunningham ’16.

“Discussion hones in on faculty retention” (April 15, 2014): The original version of this story mischaracterized African and African-American studies professor Reena Goldthree’s statement about the career path of Dartmouth’s Cesar Chavez, Charles Eastman and Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship recipients. Few of these scholars continue onto tenure-track positions at the College, she said, instead going to other institutions. The initial version of this story said that few of these scholars have been offered tenure-track positions.

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Theta, as a local sorority, does not have to abide by national recruitment guidelines.

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Theta’s second shake-out event.

Theta is still working out logistics, Reeves said. As a local sorority, Theta is not bound by national guidelines on recruitment procedures.

In the past, Theta has offered a shake-out option alongside formal recruitment.

Reeves said in an email that the idea to withdraw from formal recruitment came out of a discussion among members of Theta’s Standards Committee at the beginning of the spring. After the sorority’s executives agreed to proceed with the proposal, sorority members approved it unanimously in an online voting process.

Reeves said that the sorority did not decide to change its recruitment process to gain more new members, though she noted that she would be pleased if the policy attracted new members given Theta’s comparatively low recruitment numbers.

She said that Theta’s sisterhood prides themselves on being a small, close knit sorority.

“We’re hoping to increase numbers somewhat, but we would not want to jeopardize that special thing that we have,” Reeves said.

Theta made its decision in light of an “escalating campus climate,” the campus-wide email said.

Recent campus events also motivated the change, Reeves said, noting charges of marginalization in the Greek system and the decision of several Panhell executives to abstain from winter recruitment.

Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 said that Panhell supports the change.

“I think that this is the best

decision for Theta,” Funk said.

“This will just give women another alternative to participating in formal recruitment.”

Funk said the other local Panhellenic organizations, Sigma Delta and Kappa Delta Epsilon sororities, have pledged to partake in formal recruitment. Theta’s decision, she said, will have little impact on recruitment for the other sororities.

“We’re hoping to increase numbers somewhat, but we would not want to jeopardize that special thing that we have.”

- EMILY REEVES ’15 EPSILON KAPPA THETA SORORITY PRESIDENT “There has been a lot of discussion about ways to change women’s rush in order make it a more inclusive and understandable process,” Sigma Delt president Annie Gardner ’15 and KDE president Emily Uniman ’15 said in a joint emailed statement. “As fellow local sororities, we applaud Theta’s initiative and willingness to modify the process to one that can better serve their house.”

Non-Panhellenic sororities will not be directly impacted by the change, as they conduct a separate recruitment process.

Panhell is planning adjustments to the fall’s formal recruitment season, Funk said. Though the council

has not yet officially determined what will change, they will aim to deemphasize the performance aspect of recruitment, level the playing field between sororities and potential new members and increase socioeconomic and racial inclusivity.

Theta will continue to provide input on changes to formal recruitment, Reeves said.

Reeves announced the decision on Monday in a meeting with other Panhell sorority presidents.

Since the announcement, Reeves said she has received support from other sorority presidents and from members of the Dartmouth community.

“We’re open to feedback — we’re open to more ideas, and we’re really invested in making Dartmouth better,” Reeves said.

Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director Wes Schaub said in an email that he supports the creative thinking embodied by the change.

“There are currently many discussions about different aspects of Greek life on campus, all with sets of suggestions and changes,” Schaub said in the email. “I’m open to experimenting with different ways of doing things to find out what works best for the community.”

Funk said that she is unsure if the shake-out process would work on a large scale.

“Panhell really wants this to succeed for Theta, and we’re working in collaboration with them,” Funk said. “They’re very much still a part of our community.”

All other Panhell sorority presidents did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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Gender segregation by department may contribute to pay gap FROM SALARY PAGE 1

their careers, explaining the lower disparity among male and female associate professors, who tend to be younger.

Dartmouth conducts an externally commissioned survey every few years to determine if there are any systematic biases in the wage process, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences Michael Mastanduno said. The school has conducted three surveys in the past decade, the most recent one occurring last year. Last year’s results showed no systematic biases in the wage process, he said.

In comparing the College to other Ivy League institutions, Mastanduno said that Dartmouth’s particular mix of professional schools contributes to it having the largest wage gap. Because the College is smaller, the school only has a few hundred full professors.

Therefore, if two or three full female professors leave, it skews the numbers more dramatically than at other institutions.

Smith said she believes that because the wage gap numbers are public, some prospective faculty members may question whether the College would be a good fit.

If candidates receive offers from

Dartmouth, Harvard University, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they may view the other schools as a more welcoming place for female professors, she said.

“Personally,” she said, “I think it’s a reason to take pause and look at these numbers more carefully.”

The gender wage gap, however, narrows for newer professors. Female assistant professors make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, the survey found. This gap is narrower than the College’s peer institutions.

Sociology professor Janice McCabe pointed to the possibility that wage gaps reflect salary differentiation at the time of hiring. Because salaries are largely determined by percentage increase each year, whether in the form of a bonus or cost-of-living wage, inequalities that exist when professors are hired only increase over time, she said.

In academia, Smith said, women and men tend to pursue different disciplines, for which wages differ.

Sociologists tend to be women while economists tend to be men, Smith said. Looking at salary compensation for sociology professors versus economics professors, economists across the board make more, Smith said.

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McCabe said the process of salary negotiation differentiates the wages men and women receive in the general labor force. Women are less likely to negotiate, and when they do, she said, they are judged more harshly. Because it goes against gender stereotypes, women are seen as aggressive when negotiating, whereas men are viewed as assertive.

Determining salaries varies by individual, Mastanduno said, so the range of salaries among full professors is relatively large.

Important variables for determining pay include age, field of study and productivity, which includes teaching effectiveness and research work, Mastanduno said.

For example, computer science and economics will typically pay more than Spanish literature.

Furthermore, departments with higher salaries, like the economics and computer science departments, tend to have more men than women, Mastanduno said, adding that Dartmouth employs more male professors, and they tend to stay in rank longer than female faculty.

Mastanduno also pointed out that the data from the Chronicle of Higher Education includes Dartmouth’s professional schools,

where faculty tend to have higher salaries than professors in the arts and sciences.

“If we have a business school where salaries are a lot higher, and there tend to be a lot more men, that’s going to skew the data,” Mastanduno said.

About 41 percent of College of Arts and Sciences faculty are women, the number dropping to 36 percent among tenured faculty.

At the Tuck School of Business, about 25 percent of faculty are female, and 12 percent of tenured faculty are. At the Thayer School of Engineering, around 18 percent of faculty are women, dropping to about 10 percent for women. At the Geisel School of Medicine, women comprise about 41 percent of faculty members, and 17 percent of tenured faculty, according to the College fact book.

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Choates cluster residents discussed the first-year advising system with their dean.

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contributing Columnist CARSON HELE ’16

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST SPENCER BLAIR ’17

An Ill-Conceived Initiative

Go With Gillibrand

The neighborhoods initiative will not fully boost residential life.

Board of Trustees chair Steve Mandel ’78 recently indicated that the College plans to implement a “house system” to build community and a “dorm-based sense of identity.” Many of Dartmouth’s peers already offer more comprehensive dormitory systems that, beyond providing students with convenient and consistent housing, give them a social network. Yet the proposed house system risks becoming a failed initiative.

Residential education director Mike Wooten confirmed that the existing separation of first-year students from upperclassmen would continue under the neighborhoods system. Although some view their freshman floor as a key feature of their Dartmouth social experience, floor bonding varies greatly due to the more or less random nature of room assignments. Simply tacking on a neighborhoods option to students’ remaining three years at the College will not guarantee the type of social community found in other residential college systems. According to Wooten, neighborhoods would allow students to recognize familiar faces after off-terms, yet fostering familiarity is not the same as building community. The proposed neighborhoods must differ from the current clusters.

The oft-referenced house system at Harvard also separates first-year students from upperclassmen, but its situation is not comparable to Dartmouth’s. Unlike Dartmouth, Harvard has an existing culture that treats housing as an important part of campus life. Upperclassmen and freshmen alike are actively involved in the housing process. At Dartmouth, it will take more than an administrative decree to break the cycle of student apathy toward upper-class housing.

Currently, it is unlikely that residents of, say, Wheeler feel attachment to their building — let alone the “Fayerweathers, Ripley/Woodward/ Smith, Wheeler and Richardson” cluster. I doubt any strong sense of identity will suddenly emerge under the new house system, even if students can return to the same cluster or neighborhood after off-terms.

To differentiate from clusters and promote greater interest in upper-class housing, neighborhoods should focus on student involvement and

dorm-based social programming. The IM sports boards in older residential buildings show that competition among dorms once existed at the College and was even rewarded with public recognition. Competitive athletic or social activities between neighborhoods would allow students to see their fellow residents as teammates and provide them with shared experiences. Students would then be more inclined to see their neighborhood as a legitimate social network, rather than just the place where they sleep.

If the College believes that neighborhoods will create any kind of viable “competitor” to the Greek system, however, it is mistaken. The Greek system itself renders the Harvard-style house system an unusable model for the College to emulate, because it mutes, if not removes, the incentives to invest time or energy in any potential neighborhood programming. Many freshmen will continue to view the Greek system as the natural source of relationships with upperclassmen, making neighborhoods significantly less relevant. Most upperclassmen have already found meaningful communities through their Greek houses, so they have no pressing need to invest in dorm-based relationships and activities.

Because a majority of students would view their dorm community as a secondary and ultimately unimportant piece of Dartmouth’s social fabric, a house system would always be overshadowed by the Greek system.

Rather than turning to neighborhoods as yet another Band-Aid in its series of residential life initiatives, the College should reassess the fundamental setup of our dorm system. A house system that lasts all four years would be more effective at building dorm-based identity than the proposed neighborhoods, even if to a limited extent.

Neighborhoods can never fully compete with the social spaces of Greek houses, so they must instead appeal to students as an effective way to meet new people, especially from other class years.

Although specific details of the proposed change remain unclear, the College should keep in mind that a house system without that social appeal ultimately cannot be a useful complement to the Greek system or a successful program overall.

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The Senate should not have filibustered the Military Justice Improvement Act. Last month, senators from both parties filibustered and effectively derailed the Military Justice Improvement Act. The act, proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y., sought to combat the military’s sexual assault epidemic by removing the prosecution from the military chain of command. The bill had co-sponsors as ideologically diverse as senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, but it ultimately fell a few votes short of the 60 needed to attain cloture.

The military’s sexual assault epidemic is particularly frightening because its members are generally expected to be more honorable, trustworthy and obedient of the law than the typical American. Yet the military has a high sexual assault rate. In 2012, a Department of Defense annual report found, an estimated 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact.

Though the Senate passed a toned-down version, proposed by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., there are a few key provisions missing from her bill that were present in the MJIA. Adjudicating sexual assault must be removed from the military chain of command because the current judicial process discourages survivors from seeking justice. In 2012, as the Sexual Assault Prevention Report Office found, less than 10 percent of military sexual assaults were reported, a decrease from previous years. Furthermore, because military commanders can decide whether to prosecute a case and to overturn a jury’s decision, a much smaller proportion of survivors are given the chance to pursue legal action. McCaskill’s bill partially strips commanders of this power, but the stigma against reporting remains.

The commander’s power to prevent or reverse justice is not the biggest problem. The most troubling element of the military’s sexual assault crisis is the widespread retaliation against survivors who choose to report their assaults. Those who have come forward are frequently harassed, threatened and ostracized. In fact, 62 percent of survivors who reported their sexual assault reported having experienced some form of retaliation. Often, these individuals end up leaving the military. For some survivors, the trauma of coping with their assault combined with a hostile, retaliatory environment

is too much to handle. Further, some survivors are told leave the military by higher ups. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of these assaults, many of whom have authoritative positions over their victims, remain in the military unpunished.

Gillibrand’s bill would place a survivor’s quest for justice in the hands of an unbiased, independent military prosecutor. Such a prosecutor would have a strong and up-to-date understanding of legal issues surrounding sexual assault, which may not be the case for military commanders.

Military commanders face a fundamental conflict of interest when approaching sexual assault cases that impedes nearly all hope for justice; the MJIA would alleviate that incompatibility and give survivors the chance for justice they deserve. As a result, more survivors would feel comfortable speaking out against their assailants, and we could slowly begin to erode the culture of sexism and silence that plagues the U.S. military.

Claims that removing the prosecution of sexual assault cases from the military chain of command would weaken the military’s power or undermine its hierarchical structure are baseless.

In fact, MJIA would result in a fundamentally stronger military. Survivors of sexual assault could access the resources they need to overcome trauma and continue contributing effectively to our nation’s defense. Greater accountability for perpetrators of sexual assault would disincentivize these crimes, resulting in fewer victims and a military that is mentally and physically stronger.

Finally, more individuals, particularly women, who might otherwise be uncomfortable with the military’s sexual assault culture, would enlist. Meanwhile, the fundamental principles of hierarchy and authority so central to the military would go untouched; there would be a stronger system in place to prevent and punish abuses of power.

Dartmouth students regularly witness the devastating effects of sexual assault, and it is often hard to imagine institutions with a more troubling sexual assault culture than the American university. However, the military has that culture, and the Senate turned a blind eye by blocking the Military Justice Improvement Act.

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Fagin nabs Pulitzer for second book Interns will not stress total participation in class gift FROM FAGIN PAGE 1

quest to determine the environment’s impact on our health, Fagin said. When he became a professor at NYU, he found the opportunity to examine both the macro and the micro of environment-related health issues.

“I knew I wanted to write a book to help people understand environmental epidemiology, which just means interpreting patterns over space and time,” Fagin said.

Twice a Pulitzer finalist for his work as an environmental writer at Newsday, Fagin began working on “Toms River” in 2006 and conducted over 100 interviews.

He explores the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services’s 1997 finding that Toms River, N.J., had significantly higher rates of childhood cancer than expected. This finding led to a lawsuit and settlement between impacted families and the massive chemical plants under scrutiny, followed by a cleanup of the 1,400 acre site.

Not everyone in the town immediately welcomed the prospect of a book, as many wanted to move on from what they viewed as a black mark in their town’s memory, he said. As he spent more time in

Toms River, citizens became more comfortable with the idea.

“They don’t want to feel like what they went through was for nothing,” Fagin said. “I think they see the book as a way of preserving their legacy so that other people can learn from it, including their own kids.”

There are at least three effective ways to avoid incidents like that of Toms River, Fagin said, including ensuring independent scientific product testing, improving environmental and health data mining and increasing public action — which was the impetus for change in Toms River. ​Fagin also warned against only blaming the chemical companies, which try to earn as much money as possible. Instead, he said, people should focus on changing the system when it leads to damage.

“Toms River is special because it is not only the story of a town but it is a narrative of gross negligence,” said Ryan Doherty, Fagin’s editor for “Toms River” at Random House.

Doherty said the book focuses on the individuals who uncovered the crimes of the corporations as well as the science both behind the cancer and attempts to prove culpability.

Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, as critics found that the

book turned normally staid scientific concepts into a thriller.

Books like “Toms River,” Doherty said, serve an important purpose because corporate chemical dumping continues to affect the environment. As long as people buy products produced by these companies, factories will continue to produce them, he said.

Fagin majored in government at the College, imagining himself as a future political journalist. Later, Fagin said, he found that political reporting was too focused on winners and losers instead of thoughtful writing.

Alison Frankel ’85, Fagin’s wife and a journalist for Reuters, said that even at Dartmouth, Fagin seemed to be a more sophisticated writer than many other students, recalling an introduction he had written for a special issue of The Dartmouth in 1984.

“Toms River” is Fagin’s second book. He previously co-wrote “Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health,” which was originally published by Common Courage Press in 1997.

Fagin is a member of The Dartmouth’s Board of Proprietors.

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as well as personal reflection for the seniors, Klissurski said.

While the Class of 2013 set a “We want to stress that when College record for total amount you’re making a gift there’s really a raised, they saw a decline in overall purpose,” Klissurski said. “We want participation. Roughly 70 percent to respect senior year.” of graduating seniors donated in Given recent events on campus, 2013, compared to 80 percent in Arakelian said she believes this year’s 2012 and 82 percent in 2011. In campaign should promote equity.

2010, participation peaked at over Donating to the Dartmouth Col99 percent, according to the senior lege Fund, and especially to the senior class gift website. class gift, is a more direct way of giv The campaign team — including ing back to students than donating to interns Anoush Arakelian ’14, Georgi the endowment, Klissurski ’14, Arakelian said.

Premjee and “We’re not going to “ W e Kate Thorstad make people feel guilty need to focus on ’14 as well as where the money 44 volunteers — about not donating. is going,” she will not solicit It’s going to be a much said, “especially funds from stuwhen people dents who say cleaner campaign than don’t want to dothey do not plan in the past.” nate to a college to donate. when they don’t In the past, feel like they’re class gift fund- - AnOUSH ARAKELIAN ’14, being listened raising cam- Senior class gift intern to.” paigns at the

Of six College and have students interdrawn criticism for pressuring stu- viewed, all said they believe donating dents to donate, including in 2010, is a straightforward way of showing when only one student did not donate. support for the College.

“We’re not going to make people Former senior class gift intern feel guilty about not donating,” Ara- Angela Dunnham ’13 said that kelian said. “It’s going to be a much keeping track of student participacleaner campaign than in the past.” tion is crucial but difficult given the The class gift team designs a campaign’s fast pace. four-week fundraising campaign, “My advice to the class of 2014 is creates and implements a media and to really have fun with it,” Dunnham communications plan and solicits gift said. “This is the last big thing that donations from classmates. This year, your Dartmouth class gets to do as the team is also coordinating more a whole, so take the opportunity to activities to facilitate bonding among make a lasting impact.” volunteers, Premjee said.

The class gift team will launch the This year’s campaign will empha- month-long fundraising campaign size education about philanthropy with a kick-off barbecue on April 28.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 2:00 p.m.

Physics and astronomy seminar, with Nia Imara, Ph.D., Wilder 102

3:00 p.m.

“Climate Change, Food Production and Societal Collapse,” with Alexia Smith of the University of Connecticut, Silsby 317

3:30 p.m.

40th Annual Francis W. Gramlich Memorial Lecture, Filene Auditorium

TOMORROW 4:00 p.m.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month “Clothesline” project, Center for Gender and Student Engagement, 6 Choate Road

4:00 p.m.

Annual William W. Cook Lecture, “My Beautiful Elimination,” Stephen Best, Sanborn Library, Wren Room

4:30 p.m.

James Hoffman Memorial Lecture, “Photographic Interference,” Haldeman 041

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Montero to mix classical and improvisational music in show tonight

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with a Mandolin.” The painting, created from earthy tones, uses The Dartmouth Staff sharp angles to depict a woman Play Picasso’s “Girl with a playing a mandolin.

Mandolin.”

“The woman is beautiful but Improvise the slow movement perturbed,” Montero said. of Beethoven’s “Pathétique.”

She began playing in a way that Play helplessness. resembled the plucking of mandoThe requests put in for pianist lin strings, and the audience could and social activist Gabriela Mon- hear the angularity of the work of tero’s improvisation session on art.

Monday night at 13 East Wheelock “It’s a wonderful thing to be able Street, or the “White House,” flit- to share,” Montero said. “I need ted from the visual to the auditory an audience to give [my music] to the emotional. to, and it becomes a collaborative Tonight, however, Montero will piece.” start her Spaulding Auditorium A student then asked her to use performance in a more traditional Beethoven’s “Pathétique” for her manner, playing Brahms’s Three improvisation. She began playIntermezzi ing the slow, (Op. 117) and “You hear about n o bl e t u n e, Schumann’s then speedFantasie in C someone you know ing the pace Major (Op. 17). that just died and then to conjure the After, she will 1 9 2 0 s. T h e you have a concert take audience song ended suggestions for at 7:30 — a concert on a cheerful improvisations. feels so unimportant note. “ M u s i c “I acis powerful,” then, but at the end of tually was Montero said as the day, it’s about the speechl ess,” she sat down to said Susan people.” the piano to beBrison, phigin Monday’s losophy properfor mance, - GABRIELA MONTERO, fessor and “and it acts as East Wheea host for our PIANIST lock faculty conversation.” d i re c t o r. “ I The conversation began with had never heard a classicallya smartphone propped up where trained pianist improvise the way I the musical score usually goes. had heard jazz pianists improvise, Displayed on the phone was Pi- just so inventively and so fluently. casso’s famous Cubist piece, “Girl It was full of surprises, yet it all

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cohered.”

Montero’s talent emerged at seven months old, when she began to play on a toy piano in her crib.

By the time she was a year and a half old, she could play all of her mother’s lullabies.

“It’s not always what I wanted,” Montero said. “But I always knew.”

She never studied music theory or harmony because she “wanted to do it [her] own way,” and she said she quit many times because she wanted to do something that was “useful.” She committed to music in her 30s after encouragement from Argentine pianist Martha Argerich.

Montero has performed with many of the world’s major orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics. She performed with Yo-Yo Ma during President Barack Obama’s inauguration and toured last month in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Montero found a way to combine music and social justice when she posted an original piano and orchestra composition called “ExPatria” on YouTube in August 2012 . The work protested how the Venezuelan government treated its people, citing the 19,336 murders that occurred in Venezuela in 2011.

More recently, too, Montero has become an outspoken voice for Venezuelan students as they have protested the policies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government. She said she is not

a politician but a defender of hu- spired by helplessness. Jose Burnes man rights, creating “bridges of Garza ’17, who attended the show, empathy” with the audience over commented on recent events in Venezuela.

Venezuela and “ Yo u h e a r “Art is a protest, a how, to a lesser about someone the rest reaction. In Gabriela’s extent, you know that of Latin Amerijust died and case, the audience is ca faced similar then you have a aware of the gamut of problems with concert at 7:30 gover nment — a concert emotions people are corruption. feels so unim- forced to deal with.” “ Yo u portant then, can’t help but but at the end feel helpless,” of the day, it’s - SAM McELROY, OPERA Burnes Garza about the peo- SINGER AND MONTERO’S said. ple,” Montero Burnes said. “I’m not HUSBAND Garza is a meman entertainer. ber of The I’m an artist.”

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Protests began this February, Montero countered that with and Montero said that violence helplessness comes frustration but has only heightened since the also empowerment. She began government began to attack and her piece with loud, cacophonic detain students when they took to melodies that quieted to more the streets. melancholy tones, lifting toward “Art is a protest, a reaction,” said hope.

Montero’s husband, opera singer Ke Deng ’17 said this piece was Sam McElroy,. “In Gabriela’s case, her favorite because it went beyond the audience is aware of the gamut just the music. Montero, Deng said, of emotions people are forced to conveyed emotion through sound. deal with. It’s okay to confront Deng recommends that the suffering and cry.” audience provide suggestions for Brison said Montero made a Montero’s improvisations tonight. case for how she, as an artist, does She hopes to see Montero react to not perform to distract, to make a long, complicated story. her audience forget about what “I’m most curious to see if is happening in the world. For [Montero] can stay within the Montero, Brison said, the two go boundaries of the original compostogether. ers for the first half of the show The most poignant conversa- on Wednesday,” Deng said. tion from Monday’s performance Montero will perform at 7 p.m. this was Montero’s improvisation in- evening in Spaulding Auditorium.

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Participants practice their steps at the Dartmouth Argentine Tango Society’s class on Monday night.

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Women’s lacrosse drops third straight 9-8 to Hofstra at home B y blaze joel

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

In the women’s lacrosse game Monday, Hofstra University’s goalie Kelsey Gregerson stopped two shots in the final 30 seconds to secure a 9-8 Pride (6-8) win. The Big Green (5-7, 2-3 Ivy) was done in by a 1-3 day in free position shots and 12 turnovers in its final non-conference game of the season.

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“Turnovers have been our biggest issue over our last couple games,” co-captain Kara Lehman ’14 said.

“Each game, we’ve been trying to limit them, but it just hasn’t really happened.”

The loss was the third in a row for the Big Green, while Hofstra ended a six-game skid with the win.

The game was close, and accepting that the Big Green could have won, rather than that the other team was significantly better, is difficult to do, Lehman said.

“Losing closely is better than getting blown out,” Lehman said.

“Knowing we can stay in these games is a positive.”

Neither team could take the lead by more than two. The Pride led for less than five minutes of game time but scored when it mattered to escape Scully-Fahey Field with a win. The visitors trailed the Big Green 8-7 with

7:46 to play, but Hofstra turned up the defensive pressure, not allowing the Dartmouth women to take another shot until only 27 seconds remained.

The Big Green broke through first with a goal by Jaclyn Leto ’16 just under two and a half minutes into the game. The Pride responded with two but could only hold the lead for

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32 seconds before Sarah Byrne ’15 tied the game with her first of the afternoon.

The teams traded goals until the 1:37 mark, when Leto put the Big Green up 5-4. Co-captain Liz Calby ’14 scored with two seconds to play in the opening frame to open up a two-goal advantage at intermission.

The lead did not last long, however, as the Pride roared back to tie the game at six just three minutes into the second half. Over the next 10 minutes, Leto and Byrne each scored their third of the afternoon to give the Dartmouth women an 8-7

lead with about eight minutes left of play.

The Pride tied the game just 18 seconds later and took the lead with 4:24 left to play in the game.

With 27 seconds remaining on the clock, Leto stepped up for a free position shot, but Gregerson turned it aside. Danielle Lisovicz ’16 picked up the ground ball and fired another shot with just 13 seconds to play, but the Hofstra goalie came through in the clutch to preserve the win.

The Hofstra women played aggressively and stalled the ball, cocaptain Bailey Johnson ’14 said.

“They executed their game plan really well and scouted our team,”

she said, “and it threw us off a little.”

Byrne and Leto dominated the stat sheet, each putting the ball in the net three times. Byrne added an assist for her game-high fourth point.

Calby put in one goal and two assists in the losing effort. The Pride’s offense was balanced, with goals from eight different women.

Goalkeeper Kristen Giovanniello ’14 stopped five shots in the loss before she was pulled in favor of the extra attacker with 1:23 to play, keeping pace with Harvard University sophomore Kelly Weis to lead the Ancient Eight with 103 saves on the season.

Leto’s three goals gave her 31 on the season and 52 for her career. She

leads the team in goals and ranks fifth in the Ivy League.

After the game, the team talked about the number of challenges it has faced and overcome this season.

“We’re working on letting that go and going into these next two weeks more open than we have been,” Lehman said.

Currently, the Big Green is tied for fifth in the Ancient Eight, just one game behind Cornell University and Harvard University for the final playoff spot.

Dartmouth will take to the road this weekend to play the Princeton University Tigers Saturday at 1 p.m.

Macy Ferguson contributed reporting.

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The women’s lacrosse team travels to Princeton on Saturday, hoping to end a three-game losing streak.

Men’s golf places third, women sixth at weekend tournaments

B y jake bayer

The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s and women’s golf teams finished third and sixth in their respective tournaments last weekend.

The men’s golf team rode a strong performance by Jeffrey Lang ’17 — 13 birdies and a -7 weekend — to a third place finish at the Princeton Invitational, while the Big Green women finished sixth out of 12 teams at the Brown Invitational. Both teams have just two tournaments left in the season, one this weekend and the Ivy League Championship at the end of the month.

The men’s +2 score was good

enough for a comfortable third. Harvard University and Yale University distanced themselves from the field, shooting -20 and -17, respectively.

Columbia University finished fourth with a +12 total. The Big Green hung within six shots of the Bulldogs through the first two rounds, but Yale’s -11 third round pulled it away.

Men’s head coach Rich Parker noted strong performances by Lang, Charles Cai ’16 and Dylan Rusk ’16.

In the final round of the Princeton Invitational, Lang carded the second best round of the day with four birdies and 14 par for a four-under 67.

Charlie Edler ’15 also had a strong weekend — -3 going into the final

day — but shot a frustrating 78 (+7) in the final round to fall and tie for 21st.

Rusk finished at +1, tying for 14th, showing the strength of some of the squad’s new golfers. Cai finished out the scoring, shooting +18 for a t-67 performance in his first action of the spring season. Cai came back from an opening round 82 to shoot a 73 the final day to move up the leader board.

The team played well, even though the Dartmouth course has not been open for practice yet this season, Parker said. As the Ivy Championship approaches, he will select the top five golfers who he expects will perform best at the venue.

“This is a championship venue,” he said. “You have to hit the ball out there and manage your nerves.”

The women made it to the middle of the field in their event at Brown, thanks to a t-4 performance by Jane Lee ’15. The junior shot the third best score the second day, carding a 78.

The team faced high winds, making the tournament particularly challenging, Sarah Knapp ’14 said.

Knapp was second for the Big Green and tied for 15th overall with a 164 total on the par 71 course.

Tara Simmons ’17 backed up Lee and Knapp as the Big Green’s third strongest golfer, tying 37th. Lily Mor-

rison ’16 and co-captain Kathryn Kennedy ’14 rounded out the scoring for the Big Green women.

The Dartmouth women finished third out of three Ancient Eight teams competing in the tournament. The Crimson, a favorite to win the Ivy Championship, won the tournament by 20 strokes over Boston University.

Brown University finished fourth, 18 shots clear of the Big Green. In its last tournament, the Dartmouth women finished 15 strokes ahead of the Bears.

The men head to the Yale Invitational next weekend while the women play at the University of Hartford in a one-day tournament.