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Environmental science, opera among MOOC topics selected for 2015
By AMELIA ROSCH The Dartmouth Staff
The College will offer four massive open online courses through a partnership with edX beginning in early 2015, focusing on introductory environmental science, 19th-century American literature, introductory opera and engineering structural forms. Dartmouth is the final Ivy League institution to offer free courses accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Fourteen professors submitted
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proposals to teach a MOOC, and five were selected to teach the four classes. “The idea is not to have tons of courses,” director of digital learning initiatives Josh Kim said. “It’s a new initiative for us. We have to figure out how to develop courses as we go forward.” Next winter or spring term, environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland will teach a MOOC modeled after his
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Following the Board of Trustees’ annual spring meeting this June, Bill Helman ’80, who chaired the College’s presidential search committee in 2012, will replace Steve Mandel ’78 as the Board’s chairman. Based on charter and alumni trustee term limits, which permit the trustees to serve up to two four-year terms, eight trustees who
were elected before 2012 are expected to leave the 26-member Board in the next three years. Among the 24 charter and alumni trustees, there are eight women and 16 men. The two additional members are College President Phil Hanlon and Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., an ex-officio member. Four black trustees sit on the Board, and all other members are white. SEE TRUSTEES PAGE 2
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Institute to explore patient choice By KATE BRADSHAW The Dartmouth Staff
Patient advocates and medical, legal, ethics and policy professionals will come to campus this summer for the 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, discussing the implications of informed consent and patient choice, as well as improvements in health care transparency and patient-based care. Conference participants will discuss how to ensure that “true shareddecision making” occurs
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Senior honors thesis students present their research.
between doctors and patients, said conference manager Arianna Blaine, who will help manage the summer institute. Organizers will try to include patient voices at the conference this year, Blaine said. Three patient advocates will speak, including Dave deBronkart, or “e-Patient Dave,” an activist for participatory medicine and a spokesperson for the e-patient movement that encourages patients to take a more active role in health care decisions. DeBronkart, who has
given a TED talk called “Let Patients Help” and spoken at the Health Infor mation Management Systems Society conference on health care technology, said the summer event is his first that “comes face-to-face with the real problem, which is that it’s just plain unethical to not tell people what their choices are.” A co-founder and cochair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, deBronkart said he began to understand the imporSEE CONFERENCE PAGE 5
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Over the last two years, the number of applications for transfer terms has decreased, in part because students now have to complete a more extensive application to participate, Registrar Meredith Braz said. In 2011, the
College’s non-refundable transfer term application fee increased from $25 to $1,100 for the fall term and $2,200 for the winter, spring and summer terms. In 2012, the Committee on Instruction instituted an application policy and limited the number of students who can participate in a particular transfer program
to an average of five. In 2013, 113 students participated in transfer terms at 49 institutions across 22 countries, according to data provided by Braz. She could not provide data for 2012 or prior years because the Registrar’s Office is busy SEE TRANSFER PAGE 5
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May 23, 7:01 p.m., Alumni Gym: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to two individuals who had sustained lacerations while playing basketball. May 23, 11:41 p.m., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Safety and Security officers transported a member of the Class of 2016 from DHMC to Dick’s House. The individual had been transported by ambulance from the Quechee Inn to DHMC earlier in the evening for a high level of intoxication. May 24, 3:28 a.m., McLane Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a male student who was intoxicated and had entered the room of another student. May 24, 8:46 a.m., The Quechee Inn: The Hartford Police Department informed Safety and Security that they had responded to underage drinking at the Quechee Inn on May 23, at a student organization’s formal. Two students were transported by ambulance to DHMC, and several students were cited for alcohol violations. May 24, 11:48 a.m., Chase Field: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a male cricket player from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after he was hit by a cricket ball. He was evaluated by Dartmouth EMS and transported to DHMC. May 24, 11:30 p.m., Theta Delta Chi fraternity: Safety and Security officers, Hanover Fire and Hanover Police responded to a fire alarm after a fire extinguisher was discharged. May 25, 1:03 a.m., Webster Ave: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Police responded to a complaint that two non-student males were allegedly trying to sell drugs. Both were given trespass letters. May 25, 2:20 a.m. Safety and Security was notified by the Lebanon Police Department that a member of the Class of 2017 had been stopped for speeding and arrested for driving while intoxicated. A second person in the car was charged with possession of alcohol by a minor. Both individuals were turned over to Safety and Security officers and transported to Dick’s House, where they were admitted for the night. — COMPILED BY MARIE PLECHA FOR DARTBEAT
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Board to transition in coming years FROM TRUSTEES PAGE 1
While transitions can often present governance challenges to higher education institutions, American Council of Trustees and Alumni vice president of policy Michael Poliakoff said the College appears well-positioned for a change in leadership. “As long as the Board has been actively engaged in developing a strong strategic plan, and that seems to be something that has happened at Dartmouth, it should be a pretty routine transition,” Poliakoff said. “A change in the Board chair should not be a difficult process for the College.” Mandel, first elected chair in 2010, served a year longer than the ordinary three-year term due to administrative turnover at the College. In an email, Mandel said he has worked with Helman and Hanlon over the last two months to smooth the transition. If a new member is elected to the Board this spring, best practices would suggest offering an orientation program, Poliakoff said. “Professional development of boards is a crucial step,” Poliakoff said. “Not just being acquainted with the organizational culture, but also with a wider knowledge of the
problems facing higher education.” Several organizations have published recommendations for the orientation of new trustees. In Feb. 2014, a subcommittee of the American Association of University
“Professional development of boards is a crucial step. Not just being acquainted with the organizational culture, but also with a wider knowledge of the problems facing higher education.” - MICHAEL POLIAKOFF, AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI VICE PRESIDENT OF POLICY Professors’ committee on college and university governance recommended including faculty representatives to work alongside the board in orientation sessions. “Trustees often need an overview particularly in the ways that universities differ from businesses,” subcommittee chair Hans-Joerg Tiede, of
Illinois Wesleyan University, said. “If you’re going to explain the value of tenure, it might be helpful for the chair of faculty advancement to explain it.” Times of transition, Tiede said, offer a chance to implement new practices and changes in structure. Board members have achieved distinction in several different fields, including business, public health and academia. Three trustees — James Coulter ’82, Steve Mandel ’78 and Trevor Rees-Jones ’73 — sit on the 2013 Forbes 400, which lists the richest men and women in America. Boards of trustees often include high net-worth individuals, particularly when these members are highly involved with the institution, Reed College director of development Jan Kurtz said. “The truth is that people give large gifts where they are very involved,” she said. “And members of a board of trustees are certainly very involved with their institutions.” The Board last communicated with the Dartmouth community in a public letter following its March meeting, in which Mandel outlined new budget proposals and highlighted the achievements of several Dartmouth students.
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Dartmouth set to release four MOOCs, last in the Ivy League FROM MOOCS PAGE 1
annual introductory environmental science class. Kim said the discussion about whether the College should offer MOOCs began a year ago in a committee led by interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley. Kim said the biggest consideration was whether offering open online education would enhance the undergraduate experience at the College. Noting that the College emphasizes “small, intimate learning,” they questioned whether it made sense for Dartmouth to take its courses to the Internet, Kim said.
Kim said the College decided to offer MOOCs to experiment with new types of learning and apply what works in online courses to the traditional classroom setting. Materials from the online courses will be available through Canvas, he said, and certain aspects of the MOOCs will enter the College versions of the classes. English lecturer James Dobson, who will teach a MOOC on 19thcentury American literature with English professor Donald Pease, said he hopes the class will alter the way he teaches in a classroom setting. “We have a great feeling about the potential of technology in our intimate learning model,” he said.
“We want the chance to experiment and take risks and bring that back to the undergraduate level.” Pease said he decided to teach a
“We want the chance to experiment and take risks and bring that back to the undergraduate level.” - James dobson , english lecturer MOOC after students expressed high levels of interest in his undergraduate courses at the College. This spring,
250 students are enrolled in Pease’s “American Drama” course, set at an 160-person limit. Kim said he expects alumni and other “lifelong learners” to be the primary audience for the online courses. “These students represent a different population,” Dobson said. “Some have already gone to college, some have advanced degrees, others have never set foot in a university classroom.” Friedland said he expects to be challenged by larger class sizes and the remote location of the students he teaches. “One of the things I really cherish is being able to walk around a room and
look at people’s faces as I’m teaching to gain an understanding of what’s being understood and what’s not being understood,” he said. For those courses online, Dobson said he and Pease will not assign the amount of reading they typically would in a College undergraduate English course. Their course will feature shorter fiction works instead of longer novels, Dobson said. Engineering professor Vicki May and music professor Steven Swayne will teach the other MOOCs. Swayne was not available for comment by press time. May did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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ARTS AT DARTMOUTH AWARD WINNERS The students listed below are recipients of awards and prizes at the "Arts at Dartmouth Awards Ceremony" held this afternoon in the Moore Theater, where Timothy Greenberg '92 is the guest honoree and President Philip J. Hanlon ‘77 will give remarks about the vibrant role of the arts at the College.
THEATER David Birney Award for Excellence in the Theatre Arts Catherine Darragh '13 Victoria Fox '15 George W. Schoenhut Service Award Victoria Fox '15 Margot Yecies '15 The Benjamin & Edna Ehrlich Prize in the Dramatic Arts Award Nicholas J. O'Leary '14 The Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition Michael C. McDavid '15 The Warner Bentley/Henry B. Williams Fellowship Endowments Diane D. Chen '14 Nicholas J. O'Leary '14 Amber H. H. Porter '14 The Rodney W. Alexander Theater Fellowship Christopher J. Gallerani '15 Emma S. Orme '15 The Ruth and Loring Homes Dodd Drama Prize Robert A. Esnard '14 The Clifford S. Gurdin 1964 Memorial Award To be announced at the ceremony The Susan DeBevoise Wright Fund Genevieve M. Mifflin '14 Camille M. Van Putten '14 Stanley Wallace Technical Theatre Internship Cristy A. Altamirano '15
The Robert H. Nutt '49 Fund Robert A. Esnard '14
FIlM & MEDIA STUDIES Maurice H. Rapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Rena Y. Sapon-White '14 Shelby A. Ramirez '14 Alison R. Helzer '14 Gardiner Kreglow '14 Jeremy Thibodeau '14 Katie G. Kilkenny '14 James Joseph Kaplan Filmmaker of the Year Award Guillermo Rojas '13 Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award Features First Place: Spencer Janes '15 for Dessert People Second Place: Tory Tiano '16 for Division
Gerald Tracy Memorial Scholarship Prize for Piano To be announced at the ceremony
STUDIO ART POD (Perspectives on Design) Sera Boeno ‘14 Danelle K. Finnen ‘14 W. David Dance 1940 Fine Arts Award Katherine Drexler ‘14 Isabelle Verwaay ‘14 Julian J. MacMillan ‘14
Charles S. Fleet 1953 Prize Louis J. Wheatley '14 Culley Concerto Competition Grand Prize Nicholas D. Graham GR Brass Division First Place: Steven R. Povich '16 Second Place: Jeremy M. Baskin TH String Division First Place: Orestis D. Lykouropoulos '17 Second Place: Ellen J. Kim '17
Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize Melinda Marlén Agron ‘14 Ryan F. Hueston ‘14 Samantha G. Lindsay ‘14
Woodwind Division First Place: Kevin G. Chen '15 Second Place: Fred Kim '17
Honorable Mention: Alexander Stockton '15 for Illegal Invisible Ignited
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Eugene Roitman 1943 Memorial Award Michael R. Blum '15 Zeviel A. Kane '15 Zachary W. Cutler '14 Evan J. Griffith '15
William B. Jaffe Award Jane O. Cavalier '14
Erich Kunzel Class of 1957 Award Zeviel A. Kane '15 Michael R. Blum '15 Julia Kannam '15
Handel Society Chorus Award Jonathan K.Y. May '14
Robert Read Prize Renee Lai ‘14 Thomas W. Ford ‘12
Melissa Brown Hurlock-Hobson 1993 Award Gabriel Barrios ‘15 Janine Leger ‘15 Frank Uzzi ‘15
Macdonald-Smith Prize Sarah Wang '14
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Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award Madeline G. Zeiss '14 Tausif Noor '14 Graylin Harrison '14 Art History Department Award Jessica R. Womack '14
The Christina Porter Award in the Arts for Achievement in Vocal Music Lauren Gatewood '14 The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Gavin Huang '14 Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund Sean W. Hammett '14 William K. Jewett '14 Peter D. Smith Initiative Awards Cooper S. Stimson '13 Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Achievement Awards in the Creative Arts Arts Administration Amber H. H. Porter '14
Senior Symphonic Award Mitchell B. Jacobs '14
Dance Genevieve M. Mifflin '14
The Whiteley Band Spirit Award Mitchell B. Jacobs '14
Ensembles (Instr.) Sarah Wang '14
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Film and Media Studies Gavin Huang '14
Lazarus Family Musical Theatre Program Fund Amber H. H. Porter '14
Music Ryan McWilliams '14
Mark L. Lebowitz 1977 Memorial Prize in the Performing Arts Music Alexander T. Arnold '14 Jonathan K. Y. May '14
Studio Art Sean W. Hammett '14
Theater Nicholas J. O'Leary '14 Amber H. H. Porter '14
Workshops (Jewelry) Victoria D. H. Stein '14
Theater Maxwell F. Gottschall '15 Sudler Prize in the Arts To be announced at the ceremony
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contributing Columnist carson hele ’16
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Risky Business
A Misplaced Priority
Ending high-risk drinking requires an attitude adjustment. The Improve Dartmouth chalkboard cube requests input on how “to end high-risk drinking.” At first, I couldn’t immediately think of an answer because I was unsure of what exactly high-risk drinking entailed. Is it “blacking out”? Is it the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition of binge drinking, which results in a BAC of .08 or higher? Apparently, there is some point at which otherwise normal drinking becomes risky. Yet when we focus on “high-risk drinking,” we never question our love affair with alcohol. The “high risk” is built into our basic attitudes about drinking. The student who drinks a few beers one night could conceivably take it too far the next and end up in the hospital — and we don’t find that particularly alarming. Perhaps the term “high-risk drinking” escapes easy definition because we repeatedly fail to acknowledge the dangers of alcohol. Somebody suggested on the cube that Dartmouth “boot and rally” to end high-risk drinking. Many would view this as an amusing, if crude, response. But it points to a broader tendency among students to trivialize the consequences of drinking. At Dartmouth, I have rarely encountered somebody express shock or grave concern over drunkenness, blackouts or even a trip to Dick’s House. More often than not, these become funny tales to reminisce about at a later date. Among those who drink, this is the prevailing attitude, held by both the highrisk drinkers and those who drink “acceptable” amounts. The statistics on drinking expose America’s destructive relationship with alcohol. According to the CDC, one in six U.S. adults binge drinks about once a week. Those under 21 consume 90 percent of their alcohol by binge drinking. Binge drinking is not confined to college campuses, as 70 percent of binge episodes involve those 26 or older. Many Americans evidently like to get drunk, and most are not alcoholics. They do not exist in some separate world of high-risk drinking. Rather, they develop drinking habits alongside moderate and light drinkers. At a place like Dartmouth, this means that everybody who does not try to stop dangerous drinking is
complicit in the prevalence of high-risk drinking, regardless of their own sobriety. Interventions, of course, happen infrequently. American college students think inebriation is too much fun to stop. Some say lowering the drinking age will remedy the current drinking culture. In the long term, this could yield a slight reduction in college binge drinking, but it would certainly not come close to ending high-risk drinking on college campuses. Nations like Canada and the U.K., where the legal drinking age is either 18 or 19, still suffer disturbing rates of binge drinking. A 1999 study found that 41 percent of American students versus 35 percent of Canadian students who live on campus had engaged in heavy alcohol use in the past month. A World Health Organization report found that over one quarter of all Britons had engaged in heavy alcohol use in the past month. A lower drinking age in the United States would not guarantee a significant drop in risky drinking. Ultimately, the College — or the American government, for that matter — cannot hope to eliminate high-risk drinking when students equate intoxication with fun. We do so against the good sense that we should expect of ourselves. Alcohol exacts enormous costs on its users. Many students literally pay in the form of fraternity and sorority dues that secure access to copious amounts of alcohol. We also bear untold social costs. At best, intoxication can strain friendships, academic success and overall happiness. At worst, it creates an environment of social dysfunction that normalizes harassment of other students, sexual and physical violence and harm to our own bodies. A Dartmouth without drunkenness would see a lower incidence of the “extreme behavior” that College President Phil Hanlon decries. Unfortunately for our well-being, that Dartmouth is but a delusion. If we followed the CDC’s levels of appropriate drinking, nobody would play more than two games of pong in one night. Until we stop seeing that as an absurd and laughable suggestion, the goal of ending high-risk drinking will remain out of reach.
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Exclusivity is not on the same plane as high-risk drinking and sexual assault. Since I was accepted to Dartmouth, I’ve read and heard various admissions materials and welcome speeches that emphasize that my classmates and I were chosen for our accomplishments from a large, strong applicant pool. In effect, Dartmouth underscores how so many talented students are turned away in order to help us conceptualize the incredible opportunity we have earned. Like its peer institutions, Dartmouth thrives partially due to its ability to select the individuals it most wants as members of its community. In other words, Dartmouth is exclusive. Micro-communities within Dartmouth function similarly. If Dartmouth’s research programs and fellowships took all who applied, they would lose their academic prestige. If our a cappella groups accepted all who auditioned, their performances would be mediocre at best. If the Dartmouth Outing Club allowed all members to lead outdoor trips without proving their competence, students on trips would not be guaranteed a physically and emotionally safe experience. And if Dartmouth’s Greek organizations took all those who rushed, houses would not have nearly as strong group dynamics or campus presences. Exclusivity on campus is acceptable when everyone who wishes to engage in an activity or join an organization has an equitable opportunity to try doing so. When this is not the case, when some potential members have stronger chances due to factors outside their ability to contribute effectively to the organization’s purpose, reform is warranted. For example, I commend the Panhellenic Council for its recently announced reforms partially intended to combat the inherent biases in women’s recruitment, because a woman’s fit for a given sorority should determine her chances of getting a bid — not her demographic information. Exclusivity becomes most problematic under one or more of three conditions. First, no organization should practice exclusivity solely for the sake of leaving some people out, rather than for the purpose of preserving the organization’s strength. Second, we must do everything we can to eradicate exclusivity applied on the basis of unfair criteria, like race, gender or sexual orientation. This
form of exclusivity — more appropriately called discrimination — has no place at Dartmouth. Finally, those perpetuating exclusivity must not do so in a way that is mean-spirited, demeaning or irrevocably damaging to one’s self-worth. For the most part, however, we should accept exclusivity as an unfortunate but inevitable reality of life. College President Phil Hanlon’s recently announced steering committee targets three forms of “harmful behavior” that take place at Dartmouth, particularly in social spaces: sexual violence, high-risk drinking and exclusion. Placing exclusivity on the same level of social malady as high-risk drinking and sexual assault delegitimizes the need to combat the latter two problems. I find it insulting to victims of sexual assault at Dartmouth and colleges across the country. Unlike exclusivity, high-risk drinking and sexual assault are not “inevitable realities of life,” and we must treat these epidemics with considerably more energy and urgency than the ambiguously defined and perpetually mystifying problem of exclusivity. I remember the first time that I consciously stepped out of my all-inclusive-all-the-time mindset. In high school, my class dean announced that every candidate who had run in our class elections would jointly serve as class president as a reward for running. Though this is absurd and would probably never happen at Dartmouth, I find it relevant. My frustration did not stem from the inefficiency of having five class presidents, but rather from the way in which it undermined my high school’s mission of preparing students to thrive in and beyond college. Working so hard to prevent us from experiencing disappointment is counterintuitive and leaves us unprepared for real-world rejection. Dartmouth should prepare its students to effectively overcome the exclusion rife within post-college life rather than insulate them from it. Every Dartmouth graduate will face some form of rejection, whether from a potential employer, a romantic interest or a social group. By overemphasizing the eradication of all exclusivity, not just forms that are mean-spirited or discriminatory, the College risks cushioning graduates and fails to target more troubling social problems.
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Following policy change, fewer students apply to transfer terms FROM TRANSFER PAGE 1
preparing for graduation. The number of students participating in transfer terms rose steadily in the years before the application process was implemented. Five percent of students in the Class of 2009 received transfer credits while 10 percent of the Class of 2013 did so, according to the Dartmouth College Fact Book. Kayla Kesslen ’15 said she had hoped to take a transfer term in the winter of 2013, but she changed her mind after the 2012 policy shift made her uneasy about traveling with so few Dartmouth students. She decided to find a program that
met her interests in environmental studies and economics and enrolled at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Copenhagen, in fall 2013. There she received two major credits and one distributive credit. Kesslen said her program gave her more time to travel and the ability to take a wide range of classes, unlike Dartmouth-sponsored programs. “There definitely were a lot of barriers, but I was willing to push through them,” Kesslen said. “It definitely took a lot of effort and advance planning on my part to get it done.” Committee on Instruction chair Hakan Tell said the committee changed the application process to ensure academic rigor and increase
Patient advocates will speak at summer institute
topic and will include interactive sessions and discussions. On June tance of informed consent after 25, participants will discuss the he was diagnosed with stage IV consequences of keeping patients kidney cancer in 2007 and faced a in the dark. The second day’s prognosis of 24 weeks. He survived discussions will focus on recognizafter receiving laparoscopic sur- ing the full extent of the current gery and participating in a clinical problem. The last day will consider trial, which he said many patients solutions at both the patient and never hear about. systemic level. “I survived because I had the The Dartmouth Institute’s sumoption,” he said. “I assert that mer conference began in 2007 and the only ethical way to practice convened yearly with a group of medicine is to give a desperately invited individuals through 2012, sick person as many options as you Blaine said. This year’s summer can to save their institute, conlives.” vening after a “I assert that the only DeBronkart one-year hiaethical way to practice said his remarks tus, will become w i l l r e v o l v e medicine is to give a more interdisaround the slo- desperately sick person ciplinary and gan from his as many options as you open, transiTED talk, and can to save their lives.” tioning from an cited a 2001 invitation-only, study by the week-long for- DAVE DEBRONKART, Institute of mat to a threeMedicine study, PARTICIPATORY day session with w h i c h f o u n d MEDICINE ACTIVIST open registrathat knowledge tion with a fee from clinical AND E-PATIENT of $395. trials takes an SPOKESPERSON T h e average of 17 in s titute w il l years to be imlikely transition plemented. to a biennial format, Blaine said, Blaine said she expects ap- and TDI has begun to think about proximately 150 people at the its 2016 session, when it hopes conference, which will also feature to discuss the ethics of informed relevant Dartmouth speakers. consent and shared decision makDale Vidal, medical director of ing on broader organizational and the Center for Shared Decision executive levels. Making at Dartmouth-Hitchcock This year’s conference, “The Medical Center, said she will share Legal and Ethical Implications of Dartmouth’s strong legacy of Keeping Patients in the Dark,” is patient-based care in her presenta- co-sponsored by the Dartmouth tion. Center for Health Care Delivery Vidal said she hopes that both Science, the Informed Medical the ethical and legal imperatives Decisions Foundation, the British of informed consent will be clear Medical Journal and the American to participants. Society of Law, Medicine and EthEach day will address a distinct ics. FROM CONFERENCE PAGE 1
oversight. Students should choose to take part in a transfer term when they cannot find courses or a Dartmouth program that meet their academic needs, Tell said, citing an example of a female student who went on a transfer term to complete an honors thesis on a Native American language not offered at the College. The Committee on Instruction began implementing changes when members noticed that many students enrolled in the same programs for social reasons, Tell said. The program cap was set to discourage this type of “social decision making” and encourage students to think about how a transfer term could meet singular academic needs, Tell said. Former chair of the Committee on Instruction Catherine Cramer said the limit was set to parallel Dartmouth-affiliated programs that send small groups abroad with a Dartmouth professor. Tanya Budler ’15, who studied at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, last fall, said the enrollment cap did not impact her experience because few students were interested in her transfer program.
“There is a lot of beauty in learning how to be alone,” she said. “All my close friends were Arab — none of them were American. I had no safety blanket to fall back on which was great.” Budler said obtaining accreditation for her transfer credits was frustrating, noting that she did not know if she
“There definitely were a lot of barriers, but I was willing to push through them. It definitely took a lot of effort and advance planning on my part to get it done.” - KAYLA KESSLEN ’15 would receive credit for some of her classes until after she returned. Students can transfer up to four credits to Dartmouth. Dartmouth financial aid is not available for transfer terms. The Committee on Instruction has requested the transfer term application fee be reduced or eliminated, Tell said. The decrease in students partici-
pating in transfer terms has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in Dartmouth study abroad programs. While 54 percent of the Class of 2009 participated in a College off-campus program, only 43 percent of the Class of 2013 did the same, according to the College Fact Book. In 2003-04, 599 students enrolled in a Dartmouth abroad program. This number increased to 653 in 2007-08 and has steadily decreased since. The number has remained at around 530 students for the past three years. Off-campus program director John Tansey attributed this decrease in part to concerns over cost, though he noted that study abroad programs offer financial aid. Tansey said his office is working to better address the individual needs of students — such as those who want to take courses in a number of different departments on one term abroad — and is in the process of adding new programs like Spanish programs in Peru and Santander, Spain, a program in Ghana, an exchange program through Hebrew University and a Native American studies program in New Mexico. Sean Connolly contributed reporting.
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4:15 p.m. Computer science colloquium, “Computation Privacy and Regulatory Compliance Mechanisms for the Cloud,” Steele 006
TOMORROW 3:00 p.m. Lecture, “Tell Me How This Ends: Russia and the West in An Era of Renewed Confrontation,” Moore B03
7:00 p.m. “Bare: An Open Gallery Art Show with Nothing to Hide,” Hop Garage 132
7:00 p.m. Student documentary and Q&A, “Paradisius: Jewish Identity in Poland Today,” by Rena Sapon-White ’14, Loew Auditorium
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Hop Garage exhibit will showcase artwork inspired by bodies
none of my clothes fit me the way I wanted them to,” she said. The Dartmouth Staff That day, Freese decided to face Tomorrow evening, BARE, “an her insecurities by eschewing clothopen gallery art show with nothing ing altogether. She said she realized to hide,” will open, featuring sculp- that her inhibitions would likely tures, videos and works of other strike a chord with many women. artistic media that explore different Ruth Cserr ’88, a landscape artist, aspects of the human body. also drew on themes relating to the A major in studio art, organizer female body. Taking four separate Callista Womick ’13 said her inspi- studies of a single photograph and ration for the exhibit came from mounting them on handmade paper, a project that she had worked on she created “Bare Knuckle Studies as a senior in a May 2014,” a sculpture class. piece that she “I made an “I was interested in the said considers iron cast of my body as an ornament, the parts of a own vagina, and woman’s flesh it was a really and just playing with it that are convenaffir ming ex- and putting something tionally forbidperience,” she den from public out there that you said. “After that, view. I reached out to weren’t supposed to “I was a number of dif- put out there.” thinking about ferent groups on things like how campus about nipples are alhow maybe I - RUTH CSERR ’88 ways X-rated could create an on women, and opportunity for yet they can go other people to out in public on explore their own bodies in their men, and I was also thinking very own or similar ways.” much about how women’s bodies Womick had previously worked are so completely objectified — with the Center for Gender and often, not always — but then they Student Engagement, which is are policed,” she said. “So we say, sponsoring the exhibit, to develop ‘Oh, this nude body is so sexy and a pregnancy support program for sensual, but you can’t show it.’” undergraduate students. In addition What Cserr did, then, was take to offering her advice and admin- multiple images of the same female istrative assistance for the BARE torso and combine them to create project, the center hosted a series of a pattern. The result, she said, took “making sessions” at its Choate Road on a decorative quality, reminding offices last week, giving visitors the her of a William Morris print. space, time and materials, including “I was interested in the body as plaster for body casts, necessary to an ornament, and just playing with create work for the exhibit. it and putting something out there Between the sessions and that you weren’t supposed to put out Womick’s calls for art over Facebook there,” Cserr said. “This pattern of and over email, she said she has body bits becomes itself a different received “a couple dozen” submis- kind of ornament.” sions, spanning different media. Ezra Teboul, a student in Dart“We have a sound piece, a video mouth’s digital musics program, of a performance, photo, painting, created a piece from the noise that sculpture,” she said. “It’s a really Pop Rocks make in people’s mouths. eclectic show.” In his art, he said, he works off Although making work for the ex- of common concepts and methods. hibit required no prior artistic expe“Starting with a term as ubiqrience, many who have contributed uitous as ‘pop rock,’ I immediately identify as artists. Samantha Freese, a thought it would be interesting and private school teacher from Canaan fun to get a few people to use the who plans to become a full-time candy as an instrument,” he said. artist, said she will display a work Ultimately, Womick said she called “Dressed to Form,” a portrait hopes the exhibit fosters compelling of a woman measuring her waist in conversation. a mirror, her body “obstructed from “I think we have a diversity of the viewer by a dress form.” work, and some are quite provocaOften turning to the human form tive, so I hope that people who visit to explore either issues she struggles the show will come away asking with or those faced by the world questions of themselves and of one at large, Freese said that this piece another,” Womick said. “It wouldn’t “shows the struggle that nearly every be a good show if that didn’t hapwoman faces to fit into what society pen.” has deemed the perfect body.” Submissions will be accepted until “When I created this piece, I was the Hop Garage runs out of room, feeling a little insecure — earlier in Womick said. The show will be on the day I was getting dressed, and display until June 9.
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Hannah McGehee ’15 contributed a sculpture to BARE, the upcoming exhibit at the Hop Garage.
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SPORTS Best Moment
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WEDNESDAY LINEUP B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
This year provided countless highlights for the Big Green. Dartmouth was also lucky enough to play host to many of these memorable moments in front of a rowdy home crowd. This spring, we started a new tradition, The D Sports Awards, that have honored Nejc Zupan ’14
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as the best male athlete, Kristen Giovanniello ’14 as the best female athlete and Patrick Caldwell ’17 as the best freshman. This week, our fourth and final installment in the series looks at the best moments, competitions and games in Hanover this past year. Vote for your favorite on our website before noon Sunday. We’ll announce the winner Monday on our website.
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Football vs. Princeton
Men’s Hockey vs. Princeton
Women’s Basketball vs. Penn
When Princeton University stepped onto Memorial Field in late November, its team was trumpeted as one of the best in Tiger history with the Big Green as the only holdout to a perfect Ivy League season. “They were the most prolific offense in Ivy League history,” co-captain Bronson Green ’14 said. “We knew we were basically out of contention for the Ivy League Championship, but we felt that we deserved to be in that same conversation, so to us, it was a championship game.” As snow flurries began to blanket the field, quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 scored on a 17-yard run to take a 28-21 lead for Dartmouth with less than five minutes left in the third. The Tigers clawed their way to the 1-yard line in the fourth quarter, crumbled against the Big Green’s defense, who twice stopped Princeton on third and goal after a false start sent the Tigers back five yards. After a Garrett Waggoner ’13 interception with 24 seconds on the clock sealed the game, Dartmouth walked off the field with a 28-24 victory over the Tigers, winning the last game for many seniors and ruining Princeton’s spotless Ivy record — all amid drifts of snow.
One of the most storied sports rivalries on campus, the men’s hockey game against Princeton University is always a show. “If you’re not fired up for that game, you should probably check your pulse,” forward Grant Opperman ’17 said. On Feb. 1, the two teams met for the third time that season, the first time in Hanover, to take the ice in front of a sellout crowd.Before winter break, the Tigers twice edged out the Big Green in overtime. As the puck dropped in Thompson Arena, Dartmouth started aggressively, scoring three times in the first period and opened up a four-goal lead early in the second. But the Tigers fought back, collecting three goals in the second to loosen Dartmouth’s grip. The Big Green went into the second intermission up 4-3. “Right before the third period, we went back into the locker room,” Opperman said. “The guys said, ‘We’ve been here before. We know how it feels. We know what to do here, buckle down and step on their throats. We’re a better team.’” Dartmouth kept its lead for the entirety of the game, sealing the win with a power-play goal in the third and sending the Tigers back to New Jersey with nothing but a loss and a handful of tennis balls.
In front of one of Leede Arena’s most energetic crowds all year, Dartmouth took down the University of Pennsylvania for its first season conference win on Feb. 22. The Quakers, who had handed the Big Green a 71-53 loss earlier that season, took the Ivy League title with a 12-2 record. The team came into the game looking for revenge, co-captain Nicola Zimmer ’14 said. Dartmouth, who led the visitors 26-17 at the half, gave some ground to the Quakers as the second half dragged on. The early success gave Dartmouth a competitive edge, Zimmer said. “We were bringing it,” she said. “We all started feeling at that moment that we could do this.” With 47 seconds left, Penn took a 50-49 lead for the first time all game. With 21 ticks remaining, Zimmer swished a perfect lay up, giving the Big Green a one-point lead. A Penn turnover with five seconds left put Lakin Roland ’16 under the net for one last lay up, cementing the team’s 53-50 win and causing the arena to tremble underneath thunderous applause. Dartmouth, in one night, extinguished Penn’s nine-game winning streak and became only one of two teams to defeat the Quakers in the Ivy League all season.
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Track and Field Indoor Heps
Baseball vs. Yale
Softball vs. Yale
For the first time in four years, Dartmouth hosted the Indoor Heptagonal Championships in March. The women’s track and field team posted a second-place finish, its best since 1996, while the men finished sixth. “That was really special just to have the energy of the entire Dartmouth community in support of us,” distance runner Abbey D’Agostino ’14 said. A packed Leverone Field House roared throughout the two-day event as the Big Green women improved from last year’s fifth place finish, led by national star D’Agostino. In her final home meet, the senior brought her total of Ivy League titles to 12 with wins in the 5,000-meter race, mile and 4x800-meter relay with Meggie Donovan ’15, Liz Markowitz ’16 and Megan Krumpoch ’14. Janae Dunchack ’14 also made history, winning her fourth indoor pentathlon title. Dana Giordano ’16 won the 3,000-meter race, and Jennifer Meech ’16 won the 200-meter. On the men’s side, Steven Mangan ’14 set a new meet record with a time of 4:01.69 in the mile, and the men’s distance medley relay took home the title by just over a second.
With six consecutive Red Rolfe titles, Dartmouth baseball came into the 2014 season with high hopes and even higher expectations. But the team started League play a little slow. Down in the standings 5-9 in League play after dropping a doubleheader to Brown University, Dartmouth’s situation became, in every game, do or die. “We were expecting to go out there and win three out of four and we didn’t,” infielder Nick Lombardi ’15 said. “To come back like we did was crazy.” With no room for error, the Big Green finished with a perfect 6-0 division record, setting up a one-game playoff in Hanover against Yale University. The first few innings were tough, as the Bulldogs built a tworun lead after the second, and Beau Sulser ’16 went down on the mound. But out of thin air, the Dartmouth lineup caught fire in the third, tallying seven runs on its way to an 11-4 victory, securing a spot the Ivy Championship Series and the seventh consecutive Red Rolfe title. The win kept alive the longest division winning streak since the League split in 1993.
After splitting the first two games of the Ivy League Championship Series against the University of Pennsylvania, the Big Green found itself on the wrong side of a 3-0 slant going into the fifth inning of the deciding match-up. The Big Green entered the bottom of the fifth in need of a jump. Second baseman Kara Curosh ’14 crushed a two-run homer to put Dartmouth on the board. The home run motivated the team, pitcher Kristen Rumley ’15 said. “At that point, we were thinking, ‘Okay, we’ve got this. We can really come back from this.’” In the next inning with two runners on, Rumley doubled into left-center, giving Dartmouth its first lead of the game. The hit started a five-run onslaught punctuated by a run scored on a wild pitch and two more runs brought in by Katie McEachern ’16 to reach the final score of 7-3. Rumley sent the visitors down in order in the seventh, ending on a grounder back to the circle, the ninth Quaker batter out in a row. With the late-game victory over Penn, the team team claimed its first-ever Ivy title and the right to compete in the NCAA tournament.