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Input from alumni helped shape Greek proposal

College studies alternatives to No.6 heating oil

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The College will transition away from No. 6 heating oil — an inexpensive but environmentally harmful fuel source — following last weekend’s approval by the Board of Trustees.

Though a timeline has not been formalized, the College plans to abandon No. 6 fuel by 2018, campus planning and facilities vice president Lisa Hogarty said.

Dartmouth is still considering its options for a new primary energy source, but the best alternative will most likely be natural gas, said New Energy Capital CEO Scott Brown, who has helped the College build models for transitioning.

The Board approved the project’s next phase, which will involve consulting energy companies on regulatory requirements and conducting town and state reviews, Hogarty said. The research will be financed with $1.6 million, she said.

“We would like to diversify our energy

About three weeks ago, the InterFraternity Council and fraternity alumni advisors began drafting a proposal recommending changes to Greek life, addressing areas like high-risk drinking, sexual misconduct, freshman safety, house renovations, faculty advisors and inclusivity. Soon afterward, IFC met with the Panhellenic Council and Gender-Inclusive Greek Council to share a preliminary draft.

Throughout the revision process, fraternity alumni advisors offered advice to undergraduates writing the proposal, IFC president Wil Chockley ’15 said.

When the final version of the document went live on a website titled “Moving Dartmouth Forward — The Greek Proposal” on Friday, it came alongside a letter from Dartmouth Greek Corporation presidents and advisors.

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The College plans to transition away from No. 6 fuel by 2018.

VETERANS DAY The College, which has held Veterans Day events since Thursday, will hold a community observation at 11 a.m., when the Baker Library bells will play hymns.

Tuck Business School students will discuss how military experience shapes views on leadership this evening.

Wopinski ’15 elected register of probate

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In 2012, Paul Finkelstein ’13 ran for Grafton County sheriff and lost. This Election Day, Michael Wopinski ’15 fared better, and was appointed to Grafton County

register of probate.

When he went to vote early last Tuesday morning, Sam Todd ’15 saw no listed candidates for the office of register of probate.

“Mick Wopinski was the SEE WOPINSKI PAGE 2

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Amidon to close Main Street store B y Lauren Budd

Amidon Jewelers will close its doors after nearly 80 years in downtown Hanover, as the local retail market has shifted to cater to tourists, co-owner Steve Doubleday said. The store, which came to Main Street in 1935, will maintain its locations in West Lebanon, Claremont and Keene.

Doubleday said the store will likely close after Christmas, following recent changes in Hanover’s economy.

“Our market is really in engagement rings and fashion,” he said. “Hanover has become, particularly recently, more of a tourist market, and that’s really not what we’re

good at.”

The store sells fashion jewelry like Pandora bracelets, cuff links ranging from $32.47 to $2,032.81 and a wide range of bridal and engagement jewelry.

Increasingly, he said, Hanover residents are more likely to shop in West Lebanon than stay in town. This changing market, as well as diminished profits, has lead to the close of the Hanover location.

He said Main Street used to have many more retail stores, which have increasingly been replaced with restaurants and banks.

“That doesn’t make for the best retail shopping experience,” he said.

College Supplies, with its sundry gifts and greeting cards, announced plans to close last month, after more 40 years of business. Lemon Tree Gifts will opened an expanded store in the space.

Italian and Mediterranean restaurant Salubre Trattoria closed in August after five years in business, replaced by family-style Nepalese restaurant Base Camp Café, which opened in September.

Amidon Jewelers’ West Lebanon location, which opened in 2000, sees more shoppers than the Hanover venue, Doubleday said, declining to specify the differSEE AMIDON PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Government professor Michael Herron collaborated with University of Florida political science professor Daniel Smith to analyze the time it took citizens to vote in Hanover and 10 precincts in Florida’s Miami-Dade County on Election Day, the Valley News reported. The study viewed waiting periods associated with voting as a “time tax” and examined how staff, voting booths and ballot machines are distributed. Charlotte Blatt ’18 and Jon Diakanwa ’16 used a mobile app developed by the College’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science to measure the length of each step of the voting process for individual voters. Some voters waited at Hanover High School for up to eight minutes, while others moved much more quickly, Diakanwa told the Valley News.

A study by Dartmouth researchers found that lung cancer screening in the National Lung Screening Trial meets New England Journal of Medicine cost-effectiveness standards, according to a press release from the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. The screening method uses annual low-dose CT scans to identify tumors early in individuals at risk of developing lung cancer because of their age or smoking habits. The study was led by radiology professor William Black, who also serves as the chair of DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center’s lung cancer screening group.

The study indicates that there are more cost-effective options for screening individuals between the ages of 65 and 75, Black said in the press release.

A two-year, $579,301 grant from the National Institute for Justice will finance a video game that will attempt to reduce sexual violence being developed at a University of New Hampshire research and training unit at the University of New Hampshire in collaboration with the College’s Tiltfactor laboratory, according to a UNH release. Creators hope the game will reach a greater number of male college students, who according to research spend more time playing video games than female students. The game puts players in scenarios designed to improve bystander skills that prevent sexual violence and stalking.

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Wopinski may join area government FROM WOPINSKI PAGE 1

first person that came to mind,” Todd said.

He said that he galvanized support for Wopinski’s impromptu candidacy by talking to fellow members of Alpha Delta fraternity, who had already planned to go to the polls.

Wopinski received 20 of the 95 write-in votes cast for the position, according to results provided by Betsy McClain, Hanover’s Director of Administrative Services. Other candidates included Keggy the Kegger, College President Phil Hanlon, Saaheb Sidana ’16 and Spencer Blair ’17.

Blair is a member of The Dartmouth’s opinion staff.

No one opted to run for the position of register of probate, a “largely ceremonial” role, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said.

The Ciruit Court Probate Division presides over wills, estates, adoptions and similar matters.

Representatives from the offices of the New Hampshire Secretary of State, County Administrator and state Judicial Branch said they did not know any details about the register of probate’s responsibilities.

Max Parker ’17, who voted for Wopinski, said he would vote for Wopinkski “no matter the position” because of his leadership on the rugby team and contributions to the Dartmouth community.

Todd attributed much of Wopinski’s success to the solidarity of AD. “The house is a vehicle to accomplish goals, whatever they may be,” he said. “Mick’s election shows

that when we are united, we have the power to effect real change.”

He said that although the position of register of probate may not entail significant responsibilities, his quick political success has larger implications for student participation in local politics.

“The election showed me the importance of every vote in elections,” Wopinski said. “Everyone has the possibility to make a difference.”

Wopinski, a double major in economics and Russian, said the position might be more suited to a student with greater interest in government.

“There are so many Dartmouth students interested in politics at a national scale, that we forget about smaller levels of government where they can potentially be involved,” he said.

Wopinski, who will move to New York after graduation, said he has not yet determined if he will accept the position. Residing outside the county for 30 days would make him forfeit the position, the Valley News reported.

The position pays $100 per year.

It was a full-time job until the state reorganized county courts in 2011.

The probate courts merged with the district and family courts, saving the judicial branch around $900,000 in annual salaries for the state’s 10 probate registers, the Concord Monitor reported.

Wopinski is not the first Dartmouth student to run for local office.

In 2012, Finkelstein campaigned for Grafton County sheriff. He said that about a week before the elections, he went to Hanover’s town

hall with friends from his fraternity, Alpha Chi Alpha, and decided that the incumbent sheriff “needed a challenge.”

He said that he was not surprised to lose, but was impressed by the 140 votes he received after just a week of campaigning as a write-in candidate.

“Dartmouth is a major hub of the Upper Valley and it is great for students to get involved in local government,” Finkelstein said.

In 2008, Vanessa Sievers ’10 ran as a Democrat to beat Republican incumbent Carol Elliott for Grafton County treasurer, winning by 586 votes.

After Sievers missed three monthly meetings, however, lawmakers called for her resignation. Sievers apologized to the county’s Executive Committee, but finished her term in office, the Valley News reported.

Sievers could not be reached for comment by press time.

Institute of Writing and Rhetoric professors Richard Abel, a Democrat representing Lebanon, and Wendy Piper, a Democrat of Enfield, were elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Abel said that after a career of teaching leadership studies, he wanted to put those ideas into practice. He said he is interested in raising the minimum wage and supporting education and social programs.

“It is an opportunity to connect the Dartmouth community to the legislature,” he said.

Piper has served as a state representative since her election in 2012.

She did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

DRIVING FORWARD

— Compiled by Timothy Connor

Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

“In the Next Room explores issues of gender, intimacy” (Nov. 9, 2014): Cristy Altamirano ’15 is the assistant director and dramaturg, not the assistant stage manager and dramaturg, of the mainstage production.

“Displaced Theater Company will stage three productions of ‘Art’” (Nov. 9, 2014): Speight Carr ’16 is a former member of The Dartmouth business staff, not a current member.

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Students volunteering at a bone marrow drive outside Novack Cafe pose for a photo on Monday.

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Greek alumni circulate website and proposal FROM GREEK PAGE 1

The website has garnered 1,400 signatures, said Gamma Delta Chi fraternity alumni corporation president John Turner ’04, who coordinated the website’s creation.

Current students comprise about two-thirds of the signatories.

“What’s really impressive is the quality of the responses,” Turner said, adding that many unaffiliated students and alumni have submitted positive comments. “Some people have spent lots of time on well thought out messages.”

Turner said knowledge of the website has spread faster among students than within the alumni network.

Since the website went live, fraternity alumni groups have circulated the letter in an attempt to garner support for the undergraduates’ proposal, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity corporation president and house advisor George Faux ’84 said.

Fraternity alumni advisors were “pretty” involved with the first draft, Chockley said.

All five advisors interviewed emphasized that the proposal and its content originated from undergraduates.

“The alumni are just there to basically help us understand where they’re coming from, because obviously the alumni who are 10 or 20 years out of Dartmouth have a very different perspective on the campus social scene,” Chockley said.

Advisors offered insight on “what had been tried in the past and what worked,” Faux said, pointing to the Student Life Initiative under former College President James Wright, which aimed to reduce the Greek system’s influence. He also cited Minimum Standards, safety regulations that began in the mid-1980s mandating a quarterly inspections of Greek organizations, calling the policy “micromanaged and prescriptive.”

“These things tend to be quite cyclical,” Faux said. “Certainly people are taking this last challenge quite seriously.”

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity alumni and volunteer corporation president Herb Philpott ’85 said alumni have “good insight on proposals that would be helpful and proposals that would not ring well,” given their connections with administrators and faculty.

Philpott said he and other alumni wanted undergraduates to spearhead the proposals, a desire that College President Phil Hanlon has also expressed, he said.

All Greek advisors signed the letter, Philpott said, adding that alumni

have largely been impressed by the undergraduate students’ initiatives.

Alpha Theta coed fraternity advisor Geoff Bronner ’91 was contacted by the alumni advisors who wrote the letter after it appeared on the website, said GIGC president and Alpha Theta member Noah Cramer ’16.

During the proposal writing process, Bronner made suggestions about language, especially in the section exempting gender-inclusive houses from the hard alcohol ban, Cramer said.

The alumni letter was drafted primarily by IFC house advisors, Cramer said.

Cramer said that rhetoric on the website and in the alumni letter is not fully consistent with how his council views the proposals, but that the GIGC ultimately values alumni support for policies that they helped craft.

Dimitri Gerakaris ’69, a house advisor for Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, said he thinks administrators’ willingness to hear student proposals will facilitate change.

To Gerakaris, the Greek policy proposal originated last spring, when Hanlon stated “enough is enough” at a summit on improving campus and reducing harm.

“I think a lot of students agreed with this and realized that a lot of really great, decent students were taking the fall for a small handful that were giving them a bad reputation,” he said.

John Daukas ’84, who has served on Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity’s board of directors since the 1980s and created the ad hoc Committee to Support Greek Letter Organizations while president of the Alumni Council, said he hopes the website will channel support for the Greek system toward the steering committee.

“It’s not in competition with what [the Steering Committee is] trying to do, it’s in furtherance of what they’re trying to do,” he said.

Chockley said the document’s creators hope the proposal will match the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee’s forthcoming recommendations. Although some policies could be implemented without administrative support, organizations will wait to institute others until they know the policies will not conflict with larger administrative policies like Social Events and Management Procedure.

Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 could not be reached for comment by press time.

Maria Brenes and Madison Pauly contributed reporting.

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A first-year peer mentor dinner brought students and their designated mentors to Sarner Underground.

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The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund

The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,000 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund

The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the membership programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,700 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund

Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

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DEADLINE: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 or via email to sherry.l.fiore@dartmouth.edu.

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Staff Columnist JON MILLER ’15

Guest Contributors

Censoring Course Reviews

Voces Clamantium

The proposed open course evaluation policy has significant flaws.

The recent faculty vote to open course evaluations ostensibly seems to be a move in the right direction. And in some regards it is — Dartmouth ought to have made course evaluations available to students long ago.

The editorial board’s Nov. 7 Verbum Ultimum discussed some of the proposal’s flaws, but it did not highlight some of the most troubling ones. In addition to the “opt-in” clause, which enables faculty members to open course reviews at their discretion, there is also the more troubling ability for faculty members to cherry-pick responses. Faculty members will have a 10-day window to pore over student comments, pull out ones they arbitrarily deem objectionable and submit them to their dean. The professor, then, could decide to censor student comments. Where is the line between truthful negative comments and ones subjectively considered to be inappropriate?

Censorship is at odds with the idealistic approach Dartmouth purports to take in trusting students. Computer science professor Hany Farid had an excellent proposal during the pre-vote discussion of the course evaluations proposal. Many popular sites allow individual users to like or dislike other user comments. If a comment receives too many negative votes, it is automatically removed. In this way, the student body — the group benefiting from opening course evaluations — could police the comments. Farid suggested this method to control extremely offensive or inappropriate comments. It could also prevent the clear conflict of interest under the current proposal by giving professors and their associate dean the sole power to censor comments on a subjective definition of “objectionable.”

A proposal of censorship based on subjective definitions of “inappropriate” causes a plethora of problems. Thomas Kurtz, an emeritus math professor, expressed concern that students would “game the system.” When asked to elaborate, he said someone might write “I will never take a class with Professor Kurtz again because... ” In Kurtz’s mind, it may seem that such a comment is “objection-

able” — and yet, if a student has such strong feelings about a course or instructor, those concerns may be legitimate.

In addition to blatant censorship, the original proposal had three qualitative questions crafted by Student Assembly. These were changed to make them more neutral following concerns that they might lead to misinformation, according to dean of faculty Michael Mastanduno. The example questions he gave were about fair grading and what students would want to know about the course.

The idea that questions like these would “misinform” is laughable. They would in fact lead to the opposite — helpful and accurate information for students. Instead, the faculty has decided to water down these questions to “How did this course influence your core academic experience at Dartmouth?” and “Comment on the methods of evaluation in the course.” These new questions, in their ambiguity and vagueness, will actually create confusion and “misinformation.”

Not only can faculty members opt-in to allowing the course evaluations — they also can cherry-pick what years of course evaluations are available. Originally, course evaluations back to 2006 would be made available. Now, professors decide which years to release, which leads to more censorship. If one year has too many negative comments, and the associate dean does not agree with the faculty member that they are “inappropriate,” a professor can choose to release evaluations only from after that year, effectively barring students from seeing negative evaluative comments — even if the associate dean considered the comments to be fair.

This proposal, as passed by the faculty, will not provide nearly as much useful information to students as it could have or as open course evaluations should. At a place that purports to value transparency, freedom and intellectual exchange of ideas, it is concerning that the faculty would work so hard to water down this proposal and enable biased censorship.

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has zero patience for it. Gov. Perry was chosen overwhelmingly by an electorate that believes he My younger brother is a Dartmouth graduate, reflects their world view. The same goes for most so I believe I have some skin in this game and of the other governors from middle America, wish to comment. which I’ve seen derided by myopic liberals on I cannot believe how low either coast. we have gone that this kind The Ivy League is quickly of thing — asking Gov. Rick “Such behavior losing its glitz for most AmeriPerry, R-Texas, for anal sex only underscores cans because of this kind of to score a political point — how intellectually thing. Although my daughter happens at what was once dishonest and attends a university, I offer up considered such an august immature they are — the opinion now to my son and institution of collegiate educaand poorly prepared frankly to anyone engaged in tion. That these students think for the real world.” this debate, that an institution it is intellectually admirable to of higher education such as at disrespect a state executive in Dartmouth is good money thrown after bad. such manner is beyond my comprehension.

I will encourage my son to attend community I hope you pass on to them for me this admocollege, get his bearings, and then move on to a nition: that such behavior only underscores how university to finish up. Or join the military where intellectually dishonest and immature they really he’ll first learn the value of respect and teamwork are — and poorly prepared for the real world. before getting a degree.

They may get giggles at cocktail parties or progressive forums with this kind of behavior.

Thomas Shafer But for the most part, the real world of business Seattle non-exclusive, as many of our peer schools The Greek Proposal for Reform have done. How can the College legitimately Although many of their proposals have claim to welcome all members of the commerit, Greek leaders at Dartmouth have munity while at the same failed to address the time support a social sysmost disturbing and “One of the charges of tem that is exclusive and anachronistic charac- the ‘Moving Dartmouth discriminates by gender? teristics of their social Forward’ committee is The Dartmouth reportstructure: discriminato find ways to make the ed that the Panhellenic tion and exclusivity. campus more ‘inclusive.’

Council, leadership of the Under the proposed sororities at Dartmouth, “new social contract,” An important step in this Greek houses will still be direction would be to make commented that a draft of recent proposal from permitted to arbitrarily all Greek organizations the Greeks noted the exclude their peers coed and non-exclusive, as benefits of all-female orfrom membership. The many of our peer schools ganizations, which it said majority of these orga- have done.” provides “safe spaces for nizations would also women.” Inherent in this remain segregated by ironic statement is an alarming problem that gender even though the College adopted the “silent majority” of Greek supporters co-education in 1972. have simply chosen to ignore.

One of the charges of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” committee is to find Peter Hackett ’75 ways to make the campus more “inclusive.”

Avalon Foundation Professor in the An important step in this direction would be Humanities to make all Greek organizations coed and

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Students continue to urge Jewelerystorecitesmarkettrendsinclosure fossil fuel divestment FROM ENERGY PAGE 1

Com m ittee m em ber A bh i Parajuli ’15 said the committee is sources,” she said. “We need to reviewing academic literature to engage with the community both determine the ethical, financial at the town level and the state level and logistical implications of dito talk to them about opportunities vestment. to look at creating a facility where “Within the subcommittee I’m we could bring in natural gas and fairly confident in saying that a lot other types of renewable sources.” of us are totally on board with the Switching to natural gas as a argument that climate change is a primary energy source would lower significant threat facing the planet air toxin emissions, require less and we need to do something about fuel oil storage in Hanover and it,” Parajuli said. “What we’re less eliminate a significant amount of sure about, and this is why we do truck traffic downtown, Brown this research, is divestment the said. right angle?”

He noted that other possible opParajuli is a member of The tions for fuel include biomass and Dartmouth opinion staff. wood chips, but they require more If Dartmouth were to divest, it storage and truck transport, given would be the first in the Ivy League the College’s remote location, to do so. In August, Yale University wh i ch wo u l d decided against boost costs. divesting from Sam Parker “It’s about recognizing fossil-fuel com’15, who works where we can change panies. Stanin the sustainford University ability office, that system, thinking announced in said she agrees about how do we May that it that natural no lonhave an impact on the would gas is the most ger invest die c o n o m i c a l l y world, whether it’s rectly in coal feasible choice where our fuel comes mining compabut wants the nies, following College to use from and what our a recommendaa “basket of en- investments do.” tion from the ergy options.” school’s responNatural gas has sible investment its downsides, - LEEHI YONA ’16, DIVEST and licensing too, she said. advisory panel.

DARTMOUTH MEMBER Divest Dart“It’s mouth, a stuabout recogdent group nizing where calling on the we can change College to withthat system, draw its investments in 200 publicly thinking about how do we have traded companies with the largest an impact on the world, whether known fossil fuel reserves, is cir- it’s where our fuel comes from or culating a petition for divestment where our investments come from that has nearly 1,200 signatures. and what our investments do,” Earlier this year, Hanlon tasked Leehi Yona ‘16, who is involved the Advisory Committee on In- with Divest Dartmouth, said. vestor Responsibility to write a Chris Leech contributed reporting. report explaining advantages and This article has been revised to disadvantages of divestment. The reflect the following correction. group met for the first time in late Correction appended (Nov. 11, September.

2014): The report is expected to be The initial version of this article completed by the end of the term included an off-the-record portion and will not make any recommen- of an interview, which has been dations, committee member Ben redacted. We apologize for the Daly Tu’15 said. error.

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Hanover store employees will continue to work for other branches of Amidon Jewelers following the store’s closure.

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ence. Many Hanover shoppers are out-of-state tourists visiting family members at Dartmouth or potential students, he said. Neither group, he said, is likely to buy engagement rings.

Amidon is having a closing sale to clear out inventory. Its Hanover employees will continue to work at other locations, Doubleday said.

Of six Dartmouth students surveyed, none had shopped at Amidon

Jewelers, nor knew any students who had. Only two had heard of the store.

“I know students are pretty thrifty and don’t have a lot of money to spend, but I also know Hanover is a high-end community, high-income, but I don’t know if there is a big demand for jewelers,” Marc Sasso ’15 said, who has never been to Amidon.

Maddie Gilfert ’18 said she thinks people who visit Hanover may be the type to look for fine jewelry as a souvenir.

“This is a high-caliber institution

that attracts people with refined taste,” she said.

Von Bargen’s Jewelry, also located on South Main Street, opened in 2003. Gemologist and sales representative Sabrina Davis Leonard said the store specializes in ideal cut diamonds, custom jewelry design and artisan jewelry. A manager was unavailable for comment by press time.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin did not return requests for comment on Monday.

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Beyond the Bubble: Whitney ’95 publishes first poetry book Decline of music videos B y MICHAELA LEDOUX The Dartmouth Staff

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Why do we watch music videos?

Are they just advertising, or can they tell an insightful narrative?

Take the music videos from two songs on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 list – Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” number one, and Hozier’s “Take Me to Church,” number 10. Swift’s video was uploaded in mid-August and has more than 250 million views, while Hozier’s video, uploaded in September 2013, has 22 million views.

You may be thinking, “So what, Swift has more views — what are you saying?” First, the views differ by a power of 10 – 200 million views.

Second, these numbers illustrate viewers’ preference for in your face, gaudy and special effects-laden videos over those with an authentic narrative.

Swift’s video centers on her own awkward dance moves. Hozier’s song calls attention to violence against LGBT-identifying persons. Sure, Swift’s song is hyper-shareable – her dancing was well described by Forbes Magazine as “quirky and hard to dislike,” and the tune is catchy.

But is there something sinister to this? With a few notable exceptions, music videos today communicate less commentary about relevant social and political themes than those from 10 years ago. More broadly, I’d argue that the music video as an art form is largely declining.

To start, take the top five mostwatched music videos on YouTube today: Psy’s “Gangnam Style” (2.13 billion views), Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (1.1 billion views), Jennifer Lopez’s “On the Floor” (790 million views), LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” (768 million views) and Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” (764 million views). None of these songs provides a social or political statement — rather, they promote bread and circuses.

Just in the last year, popular videos have relied on artificial “wow” factors — special effects, costumes and makeup ­— to entertain. Katy Perry, for example, portrays ancient Egypt with scantily clad girls and blue-tinted men. What Yeezy was attempting to portray in “Bound 2” confounds me, as does the popularity of Ylvis’s “The Fox” (What Does the Fox Say), except for its absurd and perhaps parodist portrayal of club music.

Why do I remember watching Blink-182’s “All the Small Things” circa 2000? I was in awe of its critique of the success of boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and ’N Sync as well as pop princesses like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Even if the music video helped shoot the band to success, at least it was witty and fun

as it parodied pop culture.

Sure, not every music video can be as great as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” or Weezer’s “Buddy Holly.”

But many recent productions lack a meaningful narrative, choosing to pan over outrageous party scenes and disjointed flashes of the unrelated but gaudy — Lady Gaga’s lipstick gun and papal attire in “Judas,” for example, jumps to mind.

Our generation caused this phenomenon, a sad but true fact.

Symbolic videos with meaningful narrative are an anomaly in the age of short-attention spans and digital viewership. Videos with ridiculous, tangential dancing and stereotypical club floor raves have one purpose — consumer targeting. These videos get disinterested young adults to click on their Facebook newsfeed.

Large sticker price videos are also not an economically viable way to promote songs in the age of digital pirating. In a spoof video from 2012, comedian and filmmaker Brian Firenzi plays Michael Destiny, a purported MTV network executive, advising bands that they are better off operating a free Twitter account than investing lavish amounts of money into a music video. Though the clip mocks MTV’s switch to reality content, his character’s advice is good. Low budget videos that generate clicks, not reflection, are the norm, especially as fans will pay less and less money for content.

Perhaps artists can get corporations to split the cost through product placement, though that hardly bodes well for artistic integrity. Sure, one could imagine Swift splitting the music video cost with Keds or Perry with CoverGirl, but who will promote a hard-thinking artist like Hozier?

Fortunately, we’ve seen members of the Dartmouth community produce meaningful music videos. Jake Gaba ’16, Yesuto Shaw ’15 and Jeremy Thibodeau ’14, for example, produced a version of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” in the spring that gave the campus something to smile about.

In the video, scenes of students, faculty and staff dancing and lipsynching — with various levels of talent ­— around campus captured joy and passion for being at Dartmouth.

Many of the shots mimic those of superficial mainstream productions, but the video aimed to reach out and draw smiles as the winter months were finally wearing away.

The ridiculous dancing and crosscampus journey isn’t a disconnected dance compilation like “Shake It Off.” Rather, the music video reaches out to a specific audience and encourages the community to feel good without any ulterior motives.

Writer, poet and yoga instructor Diana Whitney ’95 juggles writing and teaching yoga as owner of the Core Flow Yoga and Sport studio in Brattleboro.

Her first book of poems, “Wanting It,” was published earlier this year, the product of 15 years of work.

How were you involved with the arts at Dartmouth?

DW: Dartmouth was an amazing place that nurtured my writing career. One of my first three classes was my freshman seminar with [creative writing professor] Cleopatra Mathis. It was an amazing class. We wrote these really powerful, long, very intense memoirs, and that was the beginning for me with the love of creative writing.

From then on, I took every creative writing class in the department. I was an English and creative writing major.

It wasn’t just the academics, but it was a sense of community. The professors were gods and we looked up to them.

I also did a little writing for The D. I helped start a women’s newspaper called “Spare Rib” — it was a really exciting time to be a woman and feminist on campus.

What did you do after graduation?

DW: I applied for the Rhodes Scholarship, and I didn’t think I was going to get it. It was really a stroke of good fortune that I got it. I went from this amazing, supportive community at Dartmouth and off to Oxford [University] — it was actually really hard for me there.

It’s a very different academic system.

That sense of community that I had at Dartmouth I didn’t have there.

I ended up meeting a handful of

other poets, and we formed a poetry group. That’s what kept creative writing alive for me. Oxford is very traditional where there was a focus on literary analysis. By the time I finished my finals exams at Oxford, I was ready to be just a normal person and not a student. I moved home, and I coached rowing at Williams College. Then I moved to northern Vermont, which was the opposite of Oxford. I lived in a tiny cabin and was really roughing it. I loved that, and it was a very magical time.

I eventually went on to do a [Master of Fine Arts] in poetry at Warren Wilson College. I actually never ended up finishing that degree. I got sick and became depressed. I took off time, and it was the first time in my life that I hadn’t been the perfect student. Things happen in your life that you’re not expecting and it can be a real roadblock.

How did your career evolve to include both writing and yoga?

DW: I’ve always been a physical, kinetic person, and that’s what I’ve struggled with — the action of writing — it’s very sedentary. I’m a lifelong athlete.

I started yoga at Dartmouth as a gym class. At one point, I was training to be on the women’s national skiing team. I got really into yoga as a counterbalance for the intensity of athletic training for skiing. Eventually, the spiritual aspect of yoga became more important to me. I started teaching yoga while I was doing my MFA. People ask me how the two things interact. It’s not a fully integrated act. Yoga keeps me grounded and keeps my anxiety down, and I think it’s important for managing depression.

It keeps a clear flow of energy through the body, which is amazing.

What inspires your work?

DW: I am drawn to powerful, personal,

women poets who write really deeply and who are tackling tough subjects.

I love myths and fairy tales. They are beyond the normal everyday realm that is kind of forgotten, and you can delve into that through poetry. I write a lot about desire and longing, loss, love, impossible love or childhood things.

What themes do you explore in your book of poetry?

DW: “Wanting It” tells a story of selfdiscovery through love and desire. It really explores our longing, longing for connections, for nature, for something vaster with some mysterious otherness that we can’t put into words. It is about a love affair with nature where the speaker of the poems is inhabited with the natural world. She really feels a part of it, and it is a part of her.

You also wrote a prose column for a couple of years. How did that happen?

DW: My dad passed away just before I had my first child. Those two experiences caused me to go mute. When I did start writing again, I started writing these prose essays, which I called “Split Milk.”

It turned into a parenting column that I wrote every week for four years. It was dealing with these questions of mothers judging each other and perfectionism and trying to bring a sense of humor [to that]. Sometimes it went into some darker material.

I only started writing poetry again in 2012, [when I became] a part of a great writing group. That community of writers inspired me to write again.

The next project is to get “Spilt Milk” out as a collection of essays. I would call it a memoir of personal essays. I got a great response from it, so I’m trying to compile it and look for a publisher.

This interview has been edited and condensed

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Artist-in-residence and music professor Sally Pinkas, a pianist, performed in Occom Commons on Monday.

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Men’s hockey upsets Union, falls to RPI Volleyball extends streak gayne kalustian to six with 0-2 weekend By

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When defending national champions Union College notched three unanswered goals against the Big Green on Friday, the team threw a challenge down on the ice. Union dared the green and white to show up, score a goal, defend itself.

What the team did not know was the then-No. 8 Dutchmen (5-4-1, 0-3-1 ECAC) set the stage for an incredible four-goal comeback victory by the Big Green (1-1-1, 1-1-1 ECAC).

With just under two minutes left in the second period, alternate captain Eric Robinson ’14 changed the contest’s momentum with a goal from the top of the right circle off assists from Brett Patterson ’16 and Tyler Sikura ’15.

“It was huge,” forward Tim O’Brien ’16 said. “We really needed a spark and it got us going a little bit, and it especially got us going in the locker room. There was definitely no doubt in our mind that it could be done.”

The momentum carried into the final frame, when a goal by Sikura 4:40 in cut the Dutchmen advantage to one.

Then, with a single minute left on the clock, Dartmouth snapped Union’s lead. Brad Schierhorn ’16 came off the bench and connected with Jesse Beamish ’15, who fielded a pass to Schierhorn at the 50-second mark, knotting the score at 3-3 and pushing the two teams into overtime.

The Big Green scored on its only shot of the extra frame. Beamish won a faceoff in Dartmouth’s offensive zone to feed O’Brien for the winning goal. O’Brien collected the puck and fired from the circle, seeing it ricochet off a defender and into the back of the net.

Union outshot Dartmouth 5-1 in overtime but could not get past the goaltender James Kruger ’16, who posted a staggering 32 saves in Schenectady, New York, for his second career victory.

Kruger has started and finished all three of Dartmouth’s conference games this season, already seeing more than half as many minutes between the posts as he saw in the entire 2013-14 season. Kruger was slated to play behind Charles Grant ’16, sidelined by a hamstring injury after the team’s opening exhibition match against the University of

Alberta.

Kruger’s save percentage, though pulling from a sample size of just three games, has jumped from .876 to .918, tying him at seventh among ECAC goaltenders, .001 behind sixth. In this three-game opening stretch, Dartmouth has played only road games and has faced two of the four ECAC teams to average at least three goals per game, Harvard University and Union. In those two games, he posted his two highest save counts since suiting up for Dartmouth, 34 and 32, respectively.

“Kruger has really stepped up,” Sikura said. “He’s given us a chance to win every game, so we’re feeling confident with whoever we have in goal.”

The team then headed to Troy, New York, for a Saturday match against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, eventually falling 2-1 .

Beamish notched a first period goal to give the Big Green the lead, but the team could not hold on. The Big Green led until an RPI (4-6-0, 3-1-0 ECAC) score during the fifth minute of the third period, but the game was flawed from the start, Sikura said.

“I’d say it was [lost] kind of from the beginning,” he said. “We didn’t

come out the way we wanted to. We scored first and then we were up, but we just let them hang around and didn’t capitalize when we needed to and which they ended up taking advantage of that.”

RPI drove the final nail in with just 19 seconds left in play, handing Dartmouth its first conference loss this year. The Big Green knew, Kruger said, that RPI would come out hard after Dartmouth knocked the team out of the postseason last year. This year, RPI has been up and down, with a streak of five-straight three or more goal losses and victories over then-ranked University of Notre Dame and back-to-back wins over Union. O’Brien said this reflects the long-known adage in hockey that any team can win on any given day.

Kruger said he is not fazed by the loss to RPI. The team, starting off with much more momentum than it had last year, feels like a different team to him, but he said this feeling is not accompanied by complacency or blind confidence.

Dartmouth will host its home opener against Yale University Friday at 7 p.m. in Thompson Arena before taking on Brown University at the same time and place on Saturday.

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An overtime goal by Tim O’Brien ’16 upset defending national champion Union Friday.

Last season, the Big Green lost to Union 3-2 on the road and 7-2 at home.

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In its final two away matches of the 2014 season, the women’s volleyball team suffered back-to-back sweeps to the University of Pennsylvania, 25-22, 25-16, 25-21, and Princeton University, 25-18, 25-19, 28-26, to extend its losing streak to six.

This has been a season of streaks for the Big Green (13-10, 4-8 Ivy), who raced out to a 11-2, 2-0 Ivy start before dropping eight of its last 10 contests, including a 1-6 record on the road.

The Big Green struggled with kill percentage and floor defense this weekend, posting a combined .195 kill percentage over both contests.

“We don’t convert digs to points as well as other teams,” captain Paige Caridi ’16 said. “If we can capitalize on good passing, our offense runs like it should.”

The Big Green began its weekend play Friday with a game against the Quakers (8-15, 5-7 Ivy), who defeated Dartmouth 3-1 earlier this season in Leede Arena.

“I was disappointed we weren’t able to have a better showing,” head coach Erin Lindsey said. “The team competed hard but ultimately we had too many unforced errors to win.”

A kill by Emily Astarita ’17 put the women up 0-1 in the first set before Penn went on a 3-0 run off of Dartmouth errors that Astarita ended with her second kill of the night. The Big Green had a 3-0 run of its own to tie the game at 6-6 with a kill by Caridi and a combined block by Sara Lindquist ’18 and Kaira Lujan ’16. Astarita’s fourth kill and a service ace by Stacey Benton ’17 put Dartmouth in the lead, 11-9. The Quakers quickly caught up and regained a one-point lead before Alex Schoenberger ’15 slammed two consecutive kills to give the Big Green a slight edge once more at 13-12. The teams took turns scoring and tied the game six more times before Penn closed the set.

Hoping to bounce back, Dartmouth scored first in the second set off of another service ace by Benton. The Quakers responded with an early 3-0 run that Schoenberger ended with her sixth kill of the contest. Penn dominance characterized the second set as the Quakers went on a 7-0 run to bring the score to 20-13 before Caridi answered with a kill.

The Big Green could not catch up, and

Penn claimed the second set, 25-16. Kill percentage made the difference — the Big Green killed at a rate of .100 while the Quakers converted .429.

Emily Patrick ’17 opened the third set with a kill, and, like the first set, the Big Green and the Quakers traded points and had several early ties before Penn found success in the closing points off of a 4-0 run, ending at 25-21.

The Big Green finished with 40 kills, including 11 from Schoenberger, nine from Astarita and five from Caridi.

“The coaches told us to stay aggressive,” Caridi said. “We needed to take advantage of free balls from our opponents and set up good plays for ourselves.”

Looking to bounce back after Friday’s loss, the women focused on upsetting the Tigers (13-9, 8-4 Ivy) at their own Dillon Gymnasium after defeating them, 3-2, only two weeks before in Hanover for the team’s last win.

Princeton started the first set with a 3-0 run before a combined block by Morgan Dressel ’18 and Lindquist put the Big Green on the board. Dressel teamed up with Astarita for the next point to bring the score to 3-2. But the Tigers did not let up. A kill by Lindquist brought the Big Green within four points of Princeton, but the Tigers made a 3-0 run late in the set to increase the gap, closing it at 25-18.

Princeton only improved in the second and third sets. Both featured lengthy runs by the Tigers that the Big Green could not answer. A late surge by the women in the third set, however, tied the score at 21-21 after kills by Schoenberger and Caridi as well as a service ace by Linquist. Seeking a chance to extend the match, Dartmouth momentarily seized the lead at 22-21 after an attack error.

The teams exchanged points and tied five more times before Princeton closed the game, 28-26, off of a 3-0 run.

“We didn’t play to our potential, which was disappointing,” Benton said.

“But we have to move forward.”

The team returns to action Friday at 7 p.m. against Cornell University and Saturday at 5 p.m. versus Columbia University, with an additional slot to honor the team’s seniors. Both will be played in Leede Arena. Columbia ranks seventh in the Ancient Eight and Cornell is last. Earlier this season, the Big Green fell to Columbia in four sets before beating Cornell in straight sets the next night.