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Law enforcement veteran Charlie Dennis will take over as Hanover Police Chief this June, filling the vacancy left by former chief Nicholas Giaccone’s retirement in October, town manager Julia Griffin announced in a release yesterday. The search began in early November, she said, after Giaccone retired due to a stroke. Captain Frank Moran has served as acting police
chief in the interim. Dennis’s nearly 30 years of law enforcement experience, combined with his affability and professional insight, set him apart from the 64 other candidates contending for the position, Griffin said. “He’ll be the kind of chief who will walk down Main Street and talk with people,” Griffin said. “The type who will walk across campus and engage in conversation.” She also called him articu-
While pulling an all-nighter 50 years ago today, former mathematics professor John Kemeny and thenstudent programmer Thomas Kurtz ’63 forever altered the accessibility and prestige of computation. In the wee hours of May 1, 1964, the pair received correct answers to programs run simultaneously on two neighboring terminals. With this innovation, time-sharing comput-
ing and the BASIC computing language — standing for the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — were launched. This afternoon, a series of presentations from Dartmouth faculty, students and national experts will mark the 50th anniversary of BASIC at Dartmouth. The conference’s theme is past, present and future computing, computer science
department chair Tom Cormen said. The afternoon will begin with the premiere of a documentary on the history of BASIC, created by filmmakers Bob Drake, Mike Murray and mathematics department chair Dan Rockmore. After the screening, Dartmouth’s DALI and Tiltfactor labs will host demonstrations. The day’s events conclude with a panel that includes professor Brian David Johnson, a
futurist with the Intel Corporation, Google’s chief technology advocate Michael Jones and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniela Rus, who directs the university’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. The panel will speculate, taking questions on where they think computing will be in another 50 years, Cormen said. BASIC, which was first de-
veloped by Kemeny, who would later serve as the 13th president of the College, and Kurtz. The language quickly became widely popular for its accessibility and ease of use on any computer, though the code was designed mainly for the College, Kurtz said in an interview with TIME Magazine. For students at the time, BASIC and time-sharing comSEE BASIC PAGE 3
Students debate offensive Federal report talks campus nature of canceled ‘Phiesta’ sexual assault prevention
B y CHARLIE RAFKIN The Dartmouth Staff
At the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean affinity house on Tuesday evening, about 25 students discussed the recent cancellation of “Phiesta,” a charity fundraiser planned by Alpha Phi sorority and Phi Delta Alpha fraternity. Throughout the discussion, which was spirited at times, students disagreed about whether
the event was offensive. Some contended that the event reduced Mexican culture to a stereotype, particularly because it was organized by historically white organizations, while others replied that some stereotyping is inevitable and the event was not intended offend. “Phiesta” was canceled last week after students raised concerns about its theme, which they SEE DISCUSSION PAGE 5
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As part of an escalating national discussion of sexual assault on college campuses, the White House released a report Tuesday encouraging universities to better support victims and be more transparent in enforcing policy. Last week, the Department of Justice announced an 11-stop college campus tour that will focus on combatting sexual assault. Dean of the College Charlotte John-
son attended the release of the White House report on Tuesday. There, Vice President Joe Biden said, “Colleges and universities can no longer turn a blind eye or pretend rape and sexual assault doesn’t occur on their campuses,” the Washington Post reported. The report, titled “Not Alone,” announced steps to help universities identify the scope of campus sexual assault, prevent it and respond effectively to support victims. The report also SEE REPORT PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP A recent study published online in the journal of Biological Psychiatry showed that deep brain stimulation in the brain’s white matter can successfully treat for individuals who suffer from treatment-resistant depression. The study, led by researchers at Emory University, Case Western Reserve University and the Geisel School of Medicine, shows that effective deep brain therapy is due not only to changes at the specific site of stimulation but also in regions that communicate with the subcallosal cingulate. Dartmouth Atlas Project researchers have published an article in BMJ that suggests the government should focus on developing risk measurement mechanisms that do not rely on administrative databases and should expand national surveys measuring patient experience, according to a press release from the Dartmouth Institute. Instead of using Medicare’s present indices, which look at the number of diagnoses, researchers said that studying a region’s poverty rate and general health would provide more accurate information. Using anger, not sadness, is a more persuasive advertising tactic for anti-smoking TV commercials, according to a recent study published by the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives conducted by Sunny Jung Kim, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, and Jeff Niederdeppe of Cornell University. The study assessed the responses of over 100 college students following emotionally charged anti-smoking television advertisements and studied how viewers’ emotional response, impression of speaker and empathy affected attitudes toward smoking and the tobacco industry. They concluded that advertisements highlighting sadness did not elicit sad responses, source likability or increased empathy. – COMPILED BY CLAIRE DALY
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‘Shantytown’ site marks 30th year B y SARA M C GAHAN The Dartmouth Staff
Around a 25-minute walk from the Green stand three houses owned by David Vincelette ’84, located within the bounds of Hanover but seemingly a world away. Surrounded by trees, shrubs, mounds of plywood and metal beams, Vincelette’s hand-built home is made from recycled materials found at dumps and local construction sites. Even though the main house, a duplex, seems secluded and is made of a hodgepodge of building materials, its interior contains smooth wood floors, Wi-Fi, plumbing, heating, furniture and electricity. Dartmouth students named Vincelette’s property “shantytown” in the late 1980s after Vincelette helped students build shanties on the Green to protest the College’s investment in South African companies during apartheid. Vincelette, who brought discarded building materials to help build the shanties on the Green, used similar recycled materials to construct the main house on his property, where he resides today. After he graduated, Vincelette purchased the property on Mink Brook. He had originally planned to build a house in a more conventional way but did not have the money to both build a house and connect it to the Hanover sewage system, which the Town of Hanover required, he said. Vincelette then learned to recycle, collecting old beams and boards from dumps. Vincelette majored in English at the College but said he spent more time in the wood shop than the library. Upon graduating, he said, he realized that his real passion lay in woodworking. “I wanted to go into the forest and I hoped to build a house, a woodworking shop and do some writing at some point in the future,” Vincelette said. “As time went on, in order to make ends meet, I held onto the property by renting out
rooms.” About 100 tenants and 1,000 visitors, Vincelette said. have stayed in “shantytown” over its 30-year history. Over half of the visitors are Dartmouth professors, students, faculty, staff and alumni. The site is also popular among Appalachian Trail hikers, who camp outside of Vincelette’s main house and bathe in Mink Brook. Swimming and bonfires are popular site activities, he said. Five years ago, Vincelette married one of his tenants, a woman named Anna who had just moved to the U.S. from the Ukraine. Anna Vincelette said that living in “shantytown” is how she imagined America — full of freedom. Today, she makes small ceramic objects, which she hopes to start selling soon, and grows herbs and mushrooms in the woods. Duncan McDougall Tu’87, who lived on Vincelette’s property for more than two years while working as a freelance writer after he graduated from Tuck, described “shantytown” as a “magical place.” “You felt miles and miles away from civilization,” he said. “But you could still walk 15 minutes and find yourself in downtown Hanover.” Five tenants, he said, currently reside in “shantytown”: three current Dartmouth students, a DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center employee and a member of the National Guard. He aimed to build a place where people could come to live without bringing too many belongings, Vincelette said, adding that he hoped to educate residents about the utility of recycling materials. “Bicycles, radios, everything that they would need would be here,” Vincelette said. “You can do a lot with things other people have thrown away.” Vincelette currently works as a selfemployed carpenter, and says he tries to use recycled building materials in his
projects. Many of the materials, like metal beams and plywood, scattered around his property are set aside for this purpose. Vincelette’s environmental concerns extend beyond reusing construction materials. Two weeks ago, he was arrested by Hanover Police after entering the reception area of College President Phil Hanlon’s office. Vincelette said he had hoped to schedule a meeting with Hanlon to discuss “all things affecting the water quality of Mink Brook.” Vincelette was charged with disorderly conduct and simple assault for allegedly shoving Safety and Security director Harry Kinne, though Vincelette contests this charge and is filing a complaint, he said. Hanover Police held Vincelette for two to three hours before releasing him on $5,000 bail. Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin said Vincelette objected to the town’s policy on asphalt waste. The town reprocesses asphalt from roadways, parking lots and other places at a Dartmouth-owned storage facility located on Gile Hill, she said. Asphalt is crushed at this facility and then reused to improve gravel roads around Hanover, Griffin said. Vincelette has expressed concern that some of the broken-down asphalt leaks into drainage ditches surrounding the facility and ultimately pollutes Mink Brook, Griffin said. “Dartmouth has carefully reviewed Mr. Vincelette’s claim of asphalt pollution of the water supply and determined that it does not have any basis,” College spokesperson Amy Olson said in an emailed statement. He took this issue to court in 2012, where the Supreme Court of New Hampshire ultimately deemed the policy appropriate. As part of the court case, Griffin said that water quality tests were conducted and the state department of environmental services authorized the policy.
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puting made playing with and using computers much easier. John McGeachie ’65 Tu’75, a co-founder of the Dartmouth Time Sharing Software, said the innovations cut down wait times that characterized the card computing systems. “You didn’t have to drive some place to pass your program in,” he said. “You could do all that in 10 minutes.” Time sharing, created by Kurtz, allowed a system’s processing power to be used by several people at one time, so separate programs could run at once. McGeachie, who currently works in software engineering, said that before coming to Dartmouth he did not know what he wanted to do. He said he knew he found his passion when he began working in the Dartmouth system. “That changed my life — it was absolutely fabulous,” he said. “All I wanted to do was work with computers.” McGeachie said the use and proliferation of BASIC had an observable effect on Dartmouth students at the time, noting that it was not uncommon for students to use these machines for classes or to write programs for fun. “I think the impact was to prove that
ordinary people could use computers,” he said. “Very quickly, high school students were using it.” Cormen said Kemeny and Kurtz’s innovations paved the way for people to interact with computers. “No one had a computer,” he said. “Just the idea that you would have access was hilarious.” Describing their work’s long-term influence, Cormen cited the popularity and portability of computer science today. Students can program anywhere, no longer restricted to a computer center in the basement of a college building. DALI lab executive director Lorie Loeb, noted Dartmouth’s historically significant role in computer science innovation, which she attributed to strong faculty-student relationships. Simone Wien ’16, a computer science minor and Tiltfactor intern, said her classes have given her a strong foundation and allowed her and others to use technology creatively. Students often create projects from classes, she said. “We have people who are computer science majors who show that connection. It really enhances the idea of gaming and play.” Kurtz did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
late, bright, kind and thoughtful. During the selection process, she said, Dennis’s confidence and professionalism won over the sixperson interview panel. Dennis currently leads the police department in Reidsville, North Carolina, and has worked in departments across the country, but Hanover will be his first college town. He has also worked in Texas, Arizona and Idaho, in places ranging from a suburban metropolis of over 230,000 to a rural town of around 2,500. Dennis began his law enforcement career in 1984 in Garland, Texas and then moved to Idaho in 2001, where he worked in county government. He served as the Chief Deputy for the Boundary County Sheriff ’s department in Bonners Ferry for four years and then as Undersheriff for the Bonner County Sheriff ’s department in Sandpoint for three years. Dennis later ran the Page, Arizona, police department for four years. Griffin said the selection committee, which included Safety and Security director Harry Kinne, was particularly interested in his expe-
rience dealing with alcohol and with designing effective methods of enforcement, since the Hanover Police Department commonly encounters alcohol-related incidents. Both Griffin and Dennis mentioned his past job in Arizona, where tensions exist between city establishments that serve alcohol and the neighboring Navajo reservation, which is dry. “He’s someone who’s come in with sensitivity around law enforcement,” Griffin said. “It’s helpful to have an understanding of the alcohol enforcement world, the prevention world and the support world.” Dealing with sexual assault should accompany an understanding of alcohol, Griffin added. She added that the selection committee was pleased that Dennis had experience working with racially diverse populations, noting that it is a perspective not often seen in northern New Hampshire. Dennis did not name any specific challenges he is anticipating in his new job, but did say he anticipated working closely with Safety and Security. He said he and Kinne “clicked” well together. “We’ll see what we can do to
help Dartmouth be crime-free,” Dennis said. Griffin said Dennis’s record of introducing innovative law enforcement techniques will be an asset to Hanover. Dennis, who said his breadth of experience will help him as police chief, said he was first drawn to Hanover by its “quaint” New England community, which grew on him as he progressed through the interview process and met the town manager, town department heads and business owners. He also cited the long tenures of Griffin and Giaccone as indications of Hanover’s desirability. “It looked like it would be a great place to not only live but also work,” Dennis said. Dennis earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from California Coast University and attended the FBI National Academy and the FBI Command College. He is an active member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, amongst other state and national law enforcement organizations. Dennis finishes in North Carolina on May 21, and will start in Hanover the first or second week of June.
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Unfair Assumptions
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Accusatory rhetoric dominates Dartmouth’s social justice movements. Last week, some students expressed concerns to administrators regarding the theme of a fundraiser for cardiac research. The Office of Pluralism and Leadership told Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority, who had spent months organizing the event, to cancel the fundraiser because of opposition to its theme. This message was relayed to the campus groups via Greek Letter Organizations and Societies. The nonsense regarding the perceived racism of the “Phiesta” was discussed on these pages yesterday (“Hawley: A Frightening Precedent,” April 29). Opposition to this charitable event is symptomatic of a larger phenomenon of anti-privilege rhetoric at work on Dartmouth’s campus that is rooted in misdirected anger and intellectual hubris. Over the past year and a half, a small group of students have convinced the larger American public that Dartmouth students are racist, homophobic and sexist — charges that the school has acknowledged. According to the ”Freedom Budget” proposal, “Dartmouth epitomizes power being isolated to rich, white males,” while other communities suffer “economic oppression at the hands of rich, white power structures.” OPAL’s decision to encourage the cancelation of the charity event speaks volumes about how this radical message has taken the College hostage. When I try to engage with peers sympathetic to the discussions about the issues affecting the non-white-males on campus, I get variations of the following sentiment — “How could you ever understand — look at yourself.” When I attempt to voice opinions about my experience, a member of the Dartmouth Real Talk group told me “I understand your ignorance since you’ve never had to face true systemic adversity.” In those interactions I am rendered a passive, ignorant observer of the enlightened movement toward social change, as if because of my essentially privileged qualities I have nothing to add to the intellectual discussion. My options are to fully agree or be wrong. An email sent Thursday afternoon encouraged recipients to “report [the ‘Phiesta’] as
either a Bias Incident or (preferably, because there are more consequences) email Wes Schaub.” This email was sent before the Greek houses organizing the event heard of any issues with the fundraiser. This indicates that campus radicals do not seem interested in conversation. Seemingly convinced of the superiority of their position, they do not call for compromise or an exchange of ideas with those who may disagree. The siege mentality of these groups contributes nothing to actual understanding and growth. The existence of mean-spirited people with racist beliefs is an unfortunate reality that the incredibly vast majority of students want to combat. The fact that, for this column to be published, I must include this caveat is an insult to the intelligence and morality of the students of this school. Because Dartmouth is not a racist institution. The Dartmouth student body is not racist. The “Phiesta” was not a racist event. Telling me my privilege precludes me from the discussion insults my intelligence and my own sense of ethics. Yes, racist incidents occur at Dartmouth just as they occur everywhere. But the difference between Dartmouth and nearly every other place in the world is that in this bubble there are roughly 5,000 smart, capable and wellinformed young people who are supremely committed to creating a safe and accepting community. We, as a school, do not tolerate racism. I do not tolerate racism. Yet, for some reason, we have been told that we are the definition of racism. The student body at large cannot empathize with campus radicals because of a perceived illegitimacy to demands illustrated in expressions like the “Freedom Budget.” Arguments about the evils of Dartmouth as a community and institution are mired in academic jargon unfamiliar to most students. A fluid understanding of intersectionality is not needed to be well informed. If any perceived campus problems are to be corrected, the campus must first be united in seeing a problem. Otherwise, this accusatory and dismissive rhetoric will continue to dominate campus discourse.
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State voters should reject Scott Brown’s embarrassing Senate candidacy. For political junkies, one of the most exciting elements of attending Dartmouth is living in a state where politics are truly local. Between New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary and its enduring status as a swing state, Dartmouth students have access to a swath of candidate interactions and political organizing opportunities. New Hampshire’s engaging and fiercely independent political environment has proven too tempting for former Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, who has decided to challenge incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., despite lacking legitimate ties to the state. Born in Maine and raised in Massachusetts, Brown first won his U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts in a 2010 special election against a flawed opponent and amidst a national political climate moving quickly toward the right. After failing to defend his seat in 2012 from progressive favorite Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Brown has worked tirelessly to keep his name in the media and remain politically relevant. Following in the footsteps of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Brown took a job at Fox News and floated the possibility of running for a variety of political offices, including President in 2016. After months of refusing to give a clear answer, Brown finally announced in March that he would form “an exploratory committee” to run for Senate in New Hampshire by touring the state and meeting with local business and political leaders. A mere three weeks later, Brown decided he had learned enough about the state to represent it and officially declared his candidacy. However Brown frames his credentials, he remains completely ignorant to the needs of New Hampshire voters and has no ties to the state beyond occasionally frequenting a fancy summer residence in Rye. In fact, an embarrassing incident occurred recently in which Brown labeled the Affordable Care Act a “monstrosity” while speaking at the home of Republican State Representative Herb Richardson, only to be subsequently ridiculed by Richardson. The representative explained his Obamacare success story, and his wife remarked, “Thank God for Obamacare.” Brown has even admitted that he is
poorly qualified, residentially speaking, to represent New Hampshire: “Do I have the best credentials? Probably not. ‘Cause, you know, whatever,” he told the Associated Press. “But I have long and strong ties to this state.” This hilariously inarticulate, politically devastating and painfully accurate response reveals a man who should not be running for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Beyond his flagrant carpetbagging, New Hampshire voters should reject Brown’s candidacy for myriad other reasons, all rooted in the fundamental theme that Brown does not care about New Hampshire voters. For example, Brown refuses to sign the same People’s Pledge to keep dark money out of the race that he asked Warren to sign in 2012, despite repeated requests from the Shaheen campaign. Brown felt that Massachusetts voters deserved better than a race driven by special interests but will rely on these out-of-state, third party groups in his campaign. While Shaheen has brought many growth projects to New Hampshire and expanded the state’s political, economic and social capital during her time as senator as well as her six years as governor, Brown’s allegiances lie with the Koch brothers and big oil. Shaheen devotes nearly all her free time to meeting with constituents around the state, including Dartmouth students. Meanwhile, Brown’s campaign Twitter reveals a candidate who spends most of his time exercising, playing guitar, pandering to the media and misspelling prominent New Hampshire towns and businesses. These missteps may seem trivial, but they demonstrate Brown’s lack of effort in understanding the state and the “service” he would provide. Prominent political leaders have rallied to Shaheen’s defense and echoed the nearly endless criticism of Brown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., joked that, “the Constitution guarantees every state two senators, but the Constitution does not guarantee every senator two states.” New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter has characterized the race as one between a workhorse and a show horse. New Hampshire voters, including Dartmouth students, should reject Brown’s self-serving candidacy and keep New Hampshire politics local.
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said appropriated Mexican culture. The decision to call off the event has sparked intense campus discussion, as some students and outside observers have argued that it was not offensive. Daniela Hernandez ’15, who brought forward a complaint about the event’s theme and poster, reported being targeted online, while Noah Smith ’15 said he filed a bias incident report after he said he had a drink poured on his “Phiesta” Tshirt in Collis on Saturday night. After canceling the event, A Phi and Phi Delt used a crowdfunding website to raise more than $7,700 for a cardiac health charity — over seven times the event’s initial goal. Tuesday’s conversation, which was announced that afternoon by La Alianza Latina, began by addressing events surrounding the fundraiser’s cancellation. Students said that Hernandez did not ask for the event to be canceled but had raised concerns about its theme and poster, which featured an image of a Corona bottle and other references to Mexican culture. Several attendees referenced Cinco de Mayo parties organized on campus in past years, which included students dressing up in costumes with sombreros and mustaches, they said. Students stressed that no single person or identity can represent all Latinos or Latinas. About halfway through the session, participants considered whether Oktoberfest or St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are equally offensive as the Cinco de Mayo parties that occur on college campuses nationwide. When several students noted that Irish people had suffered historical discrimination in the U.S., others responded that the inherent power dynamics involved with race might make “Phiesta” more offensive.
Near the end of the discussion, students assessed the backlash that canceling the event has created online, agreeing that Internet targeting is unacceptable. Attendees interviewed expressed general approval of the discussion. Jose Rodarte-Canales ’16 said he was surprised by the high turnout, adding that he appreciated that participants realized the importance of compassion. “It’s not necessarily me against you,” Rodarte-Canales said. “It’s more understanding our different realities.” Rodarte-Canales said he was hurt by the “Phiesta” theme, which he said displayed a lack of understanding of Mexican culture. Alejandro Gomez-Barbosa ’14 stressed that campus polarization demands a “moderate middle,” which he said will help achieve progress. Gomez-Barbosa said he was not offended by the event’s theme, and that canceling it because some considered it offensive could create a “slippery slope,” citing the Christmas tree erected on the Green each winter. Geovanni Cuevas ’14 said the fundraiser should be considered through the lens of “space and place.” “When you take things that are stereotypes, and you layer them on top of each other, you create a space that invites racial epithets,” he said. “You create a space that invites people to behave in a certain way that is embarrassing and disrespectful.” Nick Blanco ’14 said he did not find the “Phiesta” theme insensitive, and he wanted to attend the dialogue to demonstrate that the offended parties do not represent all Latino and Latina students’ views. The sensitive campus atmosphere, he said, contributed to the intensity of campus discussion after the event’s cancellation.
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addressed transparency in federal enforcement efforts. The document was prepared by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, created in January. Because sexual assault is chronically underreported, the 20-page document cites campus climate surveys as a method to measure the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. The government has also launched a website, NotAlone.gov, to centralize resources and track enforcement efforts. Aurora Matzkin, director of health promotion and student wellness, said she was “pleasantly surprised” by the report’s relevance and practicality. The report’s stipulation that victims should be able to speak confidentially with someone who does not have to report all the information contained in the conversation was useful, Matzkin said, as was the information on campus climate surveys. Occidental College professor Caroline Heldman, a co-founder of End Rape on Campus who led a Title IX complaint against Occidental, said the report provides a solid framework for the government to monitor sexual assault
prevention and reporting on college campuses. “Now that we have a blueprint for national standards, schools will have a much harder time staying out of compliance with Clery rules as the details unfold over the next year,” she said. Susy Struble ’93, founder of nonprofit advocacy organization Dartmouth Change, said she was “heartened” by the report, especially the speed with which it was created. Because the task force plans to teach schools to develop and conduct campus climate surveys, she said, Dartmouth now has no excuse not to conduct one before the Class of 2014 graduates. “There’s no way of judging effectiveness without data,” she said, adding that Dartmouth Change has been calling for such a survey for years. “Without a campus climate survey, we’re boxing at shadows.” The College plans to launch a campus climate survey this fall. Though he said the mandatory campus climate survey part of the report is useful, mathematics professor Alex Barnett said the document sets a low bar for future change because it does not mention permanent separation for rapists, the prevalence of repeat offenses,
alcohol or other drugs as tools used by perpetrators or the Greek system. Alex Arnold ’10, a Dartmouth Change member , said that while campus climate surveys are important, they are not preventative measures. She added that collaborations with local groups like WISE will better support sexual assault victims. The report suggested that institutions forge partnerships with local law enforcement and non-profit organizations, like rape crisis centers, to form a community network. On April 23, the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women began its weeklong college tour to raise awareness of campus sexual assault. The 11 institution stops on the tour are all grant recipients under the office’s Campus Program, which supports colleges’ efforts to implement comprehensive responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. Since 1999, the office has funded about 400 campus-based projects. The College’s revised sexual assault policy, proposed in March and opened to public comment for a month, is expected to go into effect in June.
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‘Transform’ challenges Performance to mix biology, music gender identity binaries B y Margarette Nelson The Dartmouth Staff
behind the curtain to watch each other perform. The Dartmouth Staff “Backstage, everyone was pump Rainbow fishnet stockings, white ing each other up,” Townsend said. button-down shirts, pink skin-tight “We were all just so happy and dresses and black bras were among everyone was really supportive of the outfits modeled at Tuesday’s each other.” Transform fashion show, which Jeremy Dickerson ’17, who took took place last night as part of Pride to the runway as Deadly Bloom, Week. The gender-bending fashion said he heard of Transform through event drew a large crowd to Collis Caalim while dancing with her in Common Ground. Ujima and volunteered to partici The show was divided into pate. three acts, with Ujima and Sheba “I wanted to be a character, to performing during the two intermis- be something new,” Dickerson said. sions. “Doesn’t hurt to try on a dress.” Randi Young ’15, president of The show opened up with the Dartmouth Fashion Council and Dickerson’s short solo act, fola co-organizer of the event, said that lowed by each participant walking participants, rethe runway to gardless of the “There are all these the music’s beat. gender or sexuParticipants put rules about what it ality with which together their they identify, means to be men and performances, sported outfits women, but the show selecting cloththat they would ing, props and not wear on a is all about challenging music and dedaily basis. The that.” ciding how to event was about carry themself-expression selves. and challenging - Randi Young ’15 Durbinaries, Young ing the show’s said. first act, Caalim “There are all these rules about walked onstage wearing jeans and what it means to be men and a dark, boxy sweater. At the end of women, but the show is all about the runway, Caalim peeled off the challenging that,” Young said. “This sweater, revealing a shirt underisn’t really cross-dressing because neath. Then Caalim removed both [cross-dressing] implies there’s a the shirt and jeans, uncovering a certain way that a person should skin-tight dress. dress.” Each of the outfits was either As the show opened, the par- borrowed, assembled from the ticipants were introduced by the participants’ personal closets, or emcee with words they identified lent to participants by Revolution, themselves with, such as “activist,” a vintage clothing store located in “non-conformist,” “wallflower,” White River Junction. “artist” and “frat brother.” Nancy Huyl, a Revolution repre Sandi Caalim ’13, an event sentative, said that she has enjoyed co-organizer, said in an emailed helping out with Transform. The statement that the show pushes event, she said, allowed people to against society’s definition of gender “explore whatever character they norms and that the show seeks to want to be.” use art to communicate that there Beyond the clothes and the makeare no rules for self-identification up, participants said that Transform and expression. communicated something beyond Victoria Townsend ’14 said that the tangible ways of expression. she chose to participate in Trans- Rin Kominkiewicz ’14 said that form at the request of Caalim, her Transform was a “refreshing” outlet friend. She anticipated that the for people to express themselves. event would push her out of her “Everyone’s coming out expresscomfort zone, she said. Townsend, ing themselves, being who they who said she began to question wanna be. And there’s clearly no norms of gender identity through judgment in this room,” Kominkieher involvement in the Diversity wicz said. Peer Program, said she’s grown to Ryan Hueston ‘14, a participant, appreciate “pushing the boundaries said that the event created a comof gender norms” during her time fortable space, without labels. at the College. “I don’t come from a place Though the participants did not where labels are as necessary as meet one another until 5 p.m. last Dartmouth,” Hueston said. “I think night, Townsend said, they quickly here, through this event, you don’t became close to one another, swap- even need to discuss things like ping clothing and peering out from that.”
B y Aimee Sung
The processes of microbial evolution, for many, would not inspire art. Yet this is precisely what composer Fay Kueen Wang used to create “STEM Arts: Music and Biology,” a composition she will perform tonight in the Oopik Auditorium in the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. Commissioned by the Hopkins Center with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Wang has composed a piece bridging the oft-persistent gap between science and the arts. The grant also funded last year’s commissioning of an opera about inventor Nikola Tesla in conjunction with the Thayer School of Engineering. Last April, shortly after the success of the Tesla project, Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence reached out to biology professor and department chair Elizabeth Smith about collaborating, Smith said. Over the summer, Lawrence identified Wang as someone who could carry out this collaborative project. Wang said that the novel nature of the project drew her to accept. “I thought it could have a lot of space and a lot of potential,” she said. Wang, who studied at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music and Yale University’s School of Music, is currently a DMA candidate at Boston University. She began composing formally in high school and said she seeks to work with various styles. “I don’t just write the same music over and over again,” Wang said. Her three-movement “Monodrama Series,” for example, “combines all kinds of musical genres and musical languages,” she said. Composed at Yale, the piece served as a ”key point” in her career, she said. For this project, Lawrence said Wang made several visits to Dartmouth, each spanning about two days. Wang visited several biology classes and spoke with biology and Geisel School of Medicine professors to learn more about the field. A visit to the neonatal care wing proved to be “a really memorable moment” for Wang, who saw how cell resistance affects newborn babies with disease. Ultimately, Wang narrowed in on the field of microbial evolution for her composition. Biology and computer science professor Olga Zhaxybayeva, a microbiology specialist who spent time with Wang during her visits, said she recognized the artistic potential of microbiology.
“In a lot of ways, any of these dynamic processes could be implemented in music,” Zhaxybayeva said. “We can tell a lot of stories about bacterial communities.” Wang noted that this project was unlike any other that she had completed. “I work with filmmakers and choreographers and writers,” Wang said, “but I’ve never worked
“They use totally different parts of your brain, but exercising one part of your brain helps the other part of your brain.” - Elizabeth Smith, Biology Department chair with a scientist.” The project allowed Wang to explore different approaches as a composer and a musician. Whereas her previous compositions were fully notated, for this piece, only the pitch is predetermined, the timing and rhythm of each note left to the discretion of the performer. To form a chord, performers will play their note as they hear one another, Wang said. She likened this to a biological process in which a trigger cascades a number of other signals and mechanisms. The musicians in Wang’s en-
semble will play on electric guitars, electric keyboards, drums and pianos. Wang, who is both a conductor and a vocalist, also hinted at the possibility of a spoken word component to the performance. The biology department, Lawrence said, understood how arts could both “enrich the experiences of their students” and assist “their faculty [in telling the] stories they were trying to tell.” Lawrence said that Smith was very engaged in the 2012-13 Year of the Arts at the College. Smith served on a panel about the incorporation of arts into science, technology, engineering and mathematics at an October 2012 New Hampshire arts and education conference. Arts and science, she said, are not mutually exclusive. “It’s like cross-training,” Smith said. “They use totally different sides of your brain, but exercising one part of your brain helps the other part of your brain.” In different ways, both artists and scientists serve as observers of the natural world and require creativity and pattern recognition, Smith said. Artists are interpreting what they see, while scientists form hypotheses, she said. Lawrence said she hopes that more collaboration between the Hop and non-arts departments will follow. “We want to see how many nonarts departments we can partner with in very deep ways,” she said. Wang will perform tonight at 6:30 p.m.
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How does science inspire music, and vice versa? Emerging composer Fay Wang, whose work has been played by everyone from the China Philharmonic Orchestra to Bang On A Can All-Stars, leads a musical ensemble in the premiere of a Hop-commissioned work created in collaboration with Dartmouth’s Department of Biological Sciences. This year, as Dartmouth microbiology scientists shared their view of life through a microscope, Wang created a work capturing the beauty and intricacy of the biologist’s world.
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BASEBALL VS. SIENA 3 PM
Baseball sweeps to force one-game playoff against Yale at home B y Brett Drucker and gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff
Thanks to a grand slam and 14 runs in two games, the baseball team swept Harvard University on Tuesday to keep hopes alive for its seventh consecutive Red Rolfe Division title. The Big Green beat the Crimson on its senior day 9-0 in the first seveninning game before finishing with a 5-3 victory in the nine-inning game later that afternoon. Playing from behind this season, first baseman and co-captain Dustin Selzer ’14 said, builds a “never give up, never quit” mentality. Since the team’s current seven-game streak began April 20, every game, cocaptain Jeff Keller ’14 said, has been a “do or die” situation for Dartmouth, which backed itself into a corner by opening Ivy play with a 4-6 record, forcing a perfect finish if the team hoped to return to the Ivy Championship Series. “This is one of the scrappiest teams I have ever been a part of,” Keller said. “We’ve basically been eliminated a couple of times this season when we thought we weren’t going to have a chance, and every time we’ve just scraped by. This is a team that is used
to being with its back against the wall, and we’re continuing to get better, and I like the way we’re playing right now.” In the first game on Tuesday, the starting pitchers, freshman Nick Gruener and Mike Concato ’17, battled on the mound and held the opposing lineups scoreless for five innings. The Big Green broke through in the sixth, tallying nine runs on four hits and cycling through the lineup in the frame. Gruener allowed Matt Parisi ’15, Keller and Nick Ruppert ’16 to load the bases on a walk, single and hit by pitch. A single by Thomas Roulis ’15 brought in both Parisi and Keller, leaving two men on until Selzer reached on a fielder’s choice, bringing in Ruppert. Still with no outs, Roulis on second and Selzer on first, a single by Joe Purritano ’16 loaded the bases again. Nick Lombardi ’15 forced in a run on a four-pitch walk. A fielder’s choice for Patterson scored Selzer but left Purritano out at third. Parisi was hit by a pitch in his second at bat of the inning, reloading the bases. Harvard pulled Gruener in favor of a relief pitcher as Keller walked into the box. Keller crushed a grand slam out of the park on a full count, bringing in the final four runs of the inning to give Dartmouth a 9-0 advantage.
“I had fouled a couple off beforehand, and I’d gotten out in front of them and they were up a little bit, so I was hoping to get a fastball down in the zone that I could get on top of, and that’s exactly what I got,” Keller said. Mike Concato, true to his dependability this season, went the distance, throwing just 82 pitches and striking out three over seven innings. “You could tell from the first inning that Mike Concato had his good stuff, and when Mike has his good stuff, he’s tough to hit,” Selzer said. “We knew that at some point we were going to break through and hopefully get a couple of runs for him because he was kind of dominating their hitters.” Dartmouth jumped out to an early lead in game two when Purritano tallied the first run of the game in the second after being walked to start the inning. Harvard knotted the score in the bottom of the third, forcing head coach Bob Whalen to swap pitcher Chris England ’14 in favor of Duncan Robinson ’16 in the fourth. Despite the fresh arm, the Crimson took a 2-1 lead before the Big Green could close out the inning. The short-lived Crimson lead came to a screeching halt in the next half-inning when Parisi, singling to get on base with one out, again started a
critical set of at-bats for Dartmouth. With runners on the corners and two outs, back-to-back singles by Roulis and Selzer scored both Parisi and Ruppert before a double from Purritano plated Roulis and Selzer to cap the four-run inning. Dartmouth retook the lead 5-2. Robinson continued his strong performance, stifling the Crimson hitters and only running into trouble in the bottom of the eighth when an unearned run cut Dartmouth’s lead to two. After allowing the run, Robinson struck out junior shortstop Jake McGuiggan on three pitches to strand a Harvard runner at third and end the threat. “Duncan’s been phenomenal all
year,” Keller said. “He’s pitched in every situation imaginable. We knew that with one game to win, he was going to be in the game at some point and it was probably going to be early and that’s what happened and he did a great job.” Robinson pitched the final six innings, surrendering only four hits while striking out five. After a midweek nonconference game against Siena College on Wednesday, the Big Green play a one-game playoff in Hanover this weekend against Yale University to determine the Red Rolfe Division champion. Dartmouth went 3-1 against the Bulldogs when they visited Hanover earlier in April.
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The basball team has won seven in a row to force a playoff with Yale for the division.
Women’s rugby takes Ivy Championship, heads to sevens nationals B y josh koenig
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In its first spring season dedicated solely to sevens, the women’s club rugby team turned in a dominating performance to win the Ivy League Championship on Saturday in New Jersey. The team defeated Princeton University in the final by a score of 34 to 7. With the win, the Big Green advanced and will compete in the American Collegiate Rugby Association’s women’s small college national sevens tournament May 3-4 in Michigan. Over the course of four games against Ivy League foes, the Big Green outscored its opponents by a combined score of 89-41. The Big Green failed to win just one match — a 17-17 draw with Yale University. “It felt like the culmination of a month of work,” Leandra Barrett ’15 said. “This is our first season that we’ve just played sevens and not 15s in the spring, and everything started to click.” The Big Green started the tournament slowly against the Bulldogs in the
first game of pool play. Despite strong performances from Yejadai Dunn ’16 and Barrett, the Big Green could not prevent Yale from putting points on the board, walking with a tie. After taking a 12-0 lead, the Big Green gave up 17 unanswered to the Bulldogs before scoring in the final minute to tie the game. Dunn, Barrett and co-captain Diana Wise ’15 scored the three tries for the Big Green in the game. “In the first game we were still getting our bearings,” Barrett said. “It wasn’t that we weren’t prepared, it was just that not all of our engines were firing.” The Big Green showed its defensive prowess in its next game — a hardfought 7-5 win over Princeton. In a match that featured only two tries, the Big Green secured the number one spot in its pool and advanced on to the semifinals. Peety Kaur ’15 scored the only try of the game for the Big Green, scooping up a pass from Michaela Conway ’15 and turning the corner, before diving across the line under the posts. Conway converted the try to put the Big Green up 7-0.
Princeton crossed the try line in the second half, but failed to convert, giving the Big Green the win. As pool play drew to a close, the Big Green knew exactly what improvements would be needed to suceed in the knockout rounds, co-captain Allison Brouckman ’15 said. “If we could keep possession of the ball, we would win,” she said. “And we really, really turned it up for the last two games.” Thanks to tournament scheduling, the Big Green received a break between pool and knockout play that its semi-final opponents, the University of Pennsylvania, did not. Stepping on to the pitch just 20 minutes after the conclusion of pool play, Penn struggled to match the Big Green’s fitness, which Brouckman said boosted the squad throughout the tournament. “This year, our fitness at the end of the day was really good compared to other teams,” Brouckman said. “We were really able to turn up the steam and the aggression.” Penn scored first, then Wise took over
the game. The junior scored back-toback tries, including one off the resulting Penn kickoff to negate any momentum the Quakers had built. Tries by Audrey Perez ’17, Kaur, Tatjana Toeldte ’16 and Dunn, as well as a 3-6 day on conversions by Conway allowed the Big Green to pull away from the Quakers for a 31-12 victory. The victory set up a rematch with Princeton for the Ivy League title. Because the Big Green had seen the Tigers before, the squad had a clear match plan, Barrett said. “In the first Princeton game, it was really low scoring, and part of that was just that we kept the ball,” she said. “That’s what we wanted to do in the second game as well.” This same strategy led to an offensive explosion for the Big Green in the final, thanks to a dominating performance by Perez, the tournament’s most valuable player. With strong support from her teammates, Perez notched the first three tries of the game, two of which Conway converted to give the Big Green the 19-0 lead at the half.
“Audrey definitely stepped it up for the last game,” Brouckman said. “We would work as a team to get wide, and then she would just go. It was the nail in the coffin for Princeton.” Barrett, Wise and Becky Marder ’15 all contributed tries in the second half, and the Big Green cruised to the 34-7 victory. Princeton’s only points came on a quick-tap penalty when the score was 24-0 Dartmouth. The Big Green looks forward to its first shot at a national sevens title. Traveling to Michigan next weekend, the Big Green will face the United States Air Force Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy and Iowa State University in pool play. If successful, the Big Green will face either the University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, Lindenwood University or reigning champion Norwich University in the knockout rounds, depending on results from that pool. Wise said that the team has been improving each week of the spring season and is hoping that this upward trend continues in the national tournament.