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The third “Moving Dartmouth Forward” lecture, which took place Monday, focused on digital learning.

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Presenter s at yesterday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions, which focused on digital learning, spoke about the transition from Blackboard to a new online management system,

Canvas, the College’s recent partnership with the online learning platform edX and possible plans to redesign large courses to feel more like seminars. The noon session attracted about 70 attendees, who were mostly staff and faculty.

Calling new lear ning

technologies a “bridge” to improving students’ learning experiences at Dartmouth, the two presenters — director of academic and campus technology services Alan Cattier ’86 and director of digital learning initiatives SEE FORWARD PAGE 3

DOC to offer financial aid for outdoor activities

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A new financial aid program set to launch this spring break will ease the cost of outdoor activities like spending a night at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, renting a Dartmouth Outing Club cabin and hiking through the Grand Canyon.

Based on student need, funding from the president’s office will subsidize 30, 55 or 70 percent of programs that cost over $10. Students can apply for fund-

Longtime biology professor Robert Gross, age 68, died suddenly from a heart attack on Sunday morning.

He will be remembered for his giving nature, deep involvement in the Dartmouth community and successful academic career.

Working with undergraduates and graduate students in the molecular and cellular biology program, Gross taught at the College for 37 years, researching how genes are regulated.

He was well known among students and colleagues for his love of ice hockey. Within 24 hours of moving to the Upper Valley in 1977, Gross bought season tickets to Dartmouth hockey games, recalled Bobbi Gross, his wife.

“He loved it from the minute we got here,” she said.

He developed a love of the sport at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He lacked a team to support at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his doctorate, so Gross threw himself into hockey at Dartmouth. He became the first faculty advisor of the men’s hockey team.

He showed up to every home game and post-game reception, said men’s hockey head coach Bob Gaudet ’81, who played on the team during Gross’s early years at the College.

Gross developed and maintained a website for the Dartmouth men’s hockey team in the 1990s, before teams commonly had their own web presence, Gaudet said. Gross updated the site with team statistics and interviews with team SEE GROSS PAGE 5

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ing if they receive financial aid from the College and are a DOC member.

“The more you choose to be involved, the more you can take advantage of it,” director of outdoor programs Dan Nelson said.

The president’s office has designated an annual total of $50,000 to the threeyear pilot program, Nelson said.

Nelson proposed the idea of financial aid for outdoor trips to College President Phil Hanlon last fall.

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Juniors heard about the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows program at a Monday event.

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Shepherd serves as Hanlon’s ‘gatekeeper’ B y elizabeth smith The Dartmouth Staff

March 1, 2:31 a.m., Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity: A Safety and Security officer received a report of two stolen jackets worth $300 each. Both students declined assistance from Hanover Police.

March 1, 3:54 a.m., Psi Upsilon fraternity: A Safety and Security officer responded to the road in front of Psi Upsilon fraternity as a vehicle had been left running. The officer shut the car off and locked it. The owner, a female member of the Class of 2013, could not be located, and the officer sent her an email.

March 1, 3:59 a.m., Ripley Hall: A Safety and Security officer and Dartmouth EMS responded to a call from a blue light phone. A male member of the Class of 2017 had fallen on the ice and received a laceration to the chin. The officer transported him to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center where he received six stitches.

March 1, 4:05 a.m., French Hall: A Safety and Security officer responded for a Good Samaritan call for a male member of the Class of 2017. The officer transported him to Dick’s House.

March 1, 8:33 p.m., Dowds’ Country Inn: A Safety and Security officer transported a male member of the Class of 2016 from the Lyme inn to Dick’s House at the request of the Lyme Police.

March 2, 12:11 a.m., Zeta Psi fraternity: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Police responded to a disorderly, intoxicated male member of the Class of 2016. The man assaulted a Safety and Security officer and kicked their vehicle. He was arrested by Hanover Police and will be charged with disorderly conduct, unlawful possession and intoxication and possibly simple assault. One officer was taken to the hospital for injuries. He was treated and later released.

March 2, 3:10 a.m., Alpha Delta fraternity: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS, Hanover Police and the fire department responded to a male member of the Class of 2016 who had fallen approximately 10 feet from a railing. He was transported to Dick’s House.

March 2, 2:34 p.m., Class of 1953 Commons: A Safety and Security officer transported a male member of the Class of 2016 to DHMC for a possible broken arm. The student had slipped on an icy patch between ’53 Commons and Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

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“Club highlights education reform” (March 3, 2014): The original version of the article misreported the message of one of the group’s posters, which says that many U.S. teachers come from the bottom third of college graduates. The group corrected the poster to read “many” teachers, not “the majority of ” teachers, on Sunday.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

Waking every morning at 4:30 a.m. to a day of phone calls and as many as one email per minute, Jennifer Shepherd is no stranger to handling busy lives. Shepherd, who in the past worked as an assistant to actor Will Smith, has served as College President Phil Hanlon’s administrative assistant since June.

Shepherd spends her day scheduling and organizing Hanlon’s meetings, trips and other engagements. At the office by 7:30 a.m., she usually works until 5 p.m., when she leaves to pick up her 6-year-old daughter, but on other days, she stays until 6 or 7 p.m.

Shepherd came to Dartmouth eight years ago, after discovering that she enjoyed the pace of life in the Upper Valley and began working for the Dartmouth College Fund. Her fatherin-law, former Dartmouth Professor Jack Shepherd, pestered her to work at the College, she said.

She then took a job as an administrative assistant in the executive vice president’s office, before becoming house manager for former College President Jim Yong Kim. Prior to Dartmouth, Shepherd worked in Los Angeles for 10 years in the film and television industry, where she spent two years as Will Smith’s assistant. She then moved to Boston, where she worked as the administrative assistant for the chief operating officer of Parexel, an international biotechnology pharmaceutical company.

“The type of job that I do can transfer to any company,” Shepherd said.

“Her job is to make sure that I’m as effective as possible,” Hanlon said, adding that she is “the best he’s seen” at ensuring that he is prepared to do his job.

As the “gatekeeper” to the president’s office, Shepherd said each of her days is unique.

In addition to organizing the president’s schedule, Shepherd ensures that Hanlon can meet impromptu requests that come up every day. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members visit the office regularly, presenting a challenge.

“It’s dealing with a puzzle all day, and every day that puzzle gets thrown up in the air, and I have to put it back together again,” Shepherd said.

“That’s what I do all day, but it’s fun.”

The two joke that Hanlon’s schedule resembles a game of Tetris, she said.

Though the number of tasks that must be completed in a short time span can be anxiety-inducing, Shepherd said her work does not usually faze her.

“I don’t get stressed very easily,” Shepherd said, “and neither does Phil, which is awesome.”

Even when working on something of great importance, Shepherd handles obstacles and interruptions with ease, special assistant to the president Mad-

eleine Overman said. She noted Shepherd’s upbeat, welcoming personality, calling her “the face of the office.”

“She’s welcoming, organized, has a great sense of humor,” Overman said.

“She’s unflappable.”

Shepherd said the best part of her

“It’s dealing with a puzzle all day, and every day that puzzle gets thrown up in the air, and I have to put it back together again.

That’s what I do all day, but it’s fun.”

- JENNIFER SHEPHERD, Assistant to College president phil hanlon job is meeting a range of people she otherwise would not have the chance to interact with.

“I work with smart people — they care, they’re funny, don’t take them-

selves too seriously and they just want to do what’s best for the College,” Shepherd said. “From my working experience, that is huge because I think egos get in the way a lot of the time, and that’s not the case.”

Another perk to her job is the Upper Valley lifestyle, she said. While living in Boston, she commuted to work on a bike but was bothered by the fumes and traffic. She said she enjoys gardening and composting, activities that her Boston neighbors considered strange.

To relax, Shepherd enjoys running.

She also raises dogs, cats and chickens.

When she’s not at work, she spends her time playing with her daughter.

“There’s something about being around a kid that requires honesty,” Shepherd said. “So you’re just totally yourself.”

The large reception office where Shepherd works is clean and white, dotted with a few pieces of brightly colored artwork. Green chairs and couches encircle a table piled high with national newspapers and Dartmouth publications.

“I’ve worked with four executive assistants, all of them outstanding, but Jen is far and away the best,” Hanlon said. “She really is.”

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Jennifer Shepherd said College President Phil Hanlon’s schedule is a daily puzzle.

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Discussion examines tech in College classrooms FROM FORWARD PAGE 1

Kim stressed that the innoJoshua Kim — discussed the Col- vations can only be successful lege’s progress on digital learning through a unified effort, adding initiatives as well as possible ways that the ultimate goal is to bring students and professors closer to improve offerings.

“There is no specific technol- together.

Kim noted that while many ogy, there is no magic bullet that we’re recommending, but we students have strong opinions about campus are suggesting social issues, they that a focus “There is no specific are generally less on the learner vocal and more really could technology, there is accepting when c o n ti nu e t o no magic bullet that it comes to classput Dartroom matter s. mouth into a we’re recommending, Thinking critiposition it’s but we are suggesting cally about techalways been that a focus on the nology and how in, which has it can improve been a leader learner really could lear ning is esin teaching,” continue to put sential, Kim said.

Cattier said.

While the staff T h e p a i r Dartmouth into a working on these said they are position it’s always initiatives may working to been in, which has be well-ver sed restructure in faculty opinlarge lecture been a leader in ion and research cour ses, fo- teaching.” in digital learncusing specifiing, they want cally on classto ensure that es that serve as - ALAN CATTIER students’ voices prerequisites are heard, Kim to higher-level ’86, DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC AND CAMPUS said. courses.

Holly Ceplikas T h ro u g h - TECHNOLOGY SERVICES ’13, a presidenout the pretial fellow who sentation, works in the ofCattier and Kim posed questions to audience fice of the president, agreed that members, asking if students feel some courses at Dartmouth could academically supported at the be redesigned to be more handsCollege and in what class they felt on.

She contrasted an introductory the most engaged.

The pair said they hope to pin- psychology lecture class enrolling point effective teaching methods over a 100 students to a smaller at Dartmouth and apply them to class at the Tuck School of Busiclasses that may not inspire much ness, which was more interactive and contained a mix of group excitement in students.

Their goals include changing projects and lectures.

Students interviewed described the design of classroom spaces to incorporate group interaction, various digital learning technolointegrating programs like Khan gies in the classroom, including Academy, a website with instruc- online lectures and language tional videos, and introducing a programs.

Sam Farid ’15 said that his biolgreater number of degree and ogy class on gene expression and non-degree blended programs.

Dartmouth’s decision in Janu- inheritance uses online lectures.

“It’s nice because you can pause ary to offer classes through edX, a platform for massive open online it and take notes, but they tend to courses, represents one of its latest be kind of boring and not very steps in digital learning, Cattier interactive, so it’s a trade off,” said. Dartmouth will offer four Farid said.

In introductory French classes, online classes through edX. The College is also transitioning Katie Milligan ’15 and Tory from Blackboard to Canvas, which Wallace ’15 said they used the Cattier described as more efficient. online platform “Connect” by Canvas, he said, provides greater McGraw-Hill for weekly grammar opportunity for student-professor and vocabulary assignments, essay prompts, videos and voice recordinteraction.

Instructional designers and ings.

The next “Moving Dartmouth other staff members, including librarians and media services Forward” discussion will take place employees, help professors use on April 7 and focus on professional development initiatives.

Canvas, easing the transition.

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With the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, what Walter Benjamin was to call ‘the age of mechanical reproduction’ was inaugurated in France. Since then, the photograph has become a seemingly natural part of our every day practices, closely connected with the critical and literary discourse.

This course studies the impact of photography on French literature by exploring its intersections with fiction but also with autobiography and history. We will look at the relation between image and text in the writings of Duras, Modiano, Pérec, Le Clézio, Tournier, Ernaux and we will read theoretical writings on photography by Baudelaire, Benjamin, Barthes and Hirsch.

Students will also do projects on the work of individual photographers, such as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Calle and Lorie Novak.

Prerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: Art; WCult: W.

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Contributing Columnist Kyle Bigley ’17

Contributing Columnist Joe Geller ’16

Dartmouth’s Decline

In All Fairness to DDS

Negative press explains Dartmouth’s application decline.

As you may have heard, applications for the Class of 2018 are strikingly low. The news has reverberated far and wide as commentators — some qualified, and some less so — speculate about the 14 percent drop in applications. The administration, quick to put its spin on the situation, pointed to uncontrollable national demographic shifts as the cause. A college press release cited the smaller number of students applying to college to account for the change. The decline in applicants has coincided with recent negative publicity. This media coverage of Dartmouth, not demographic change, tuition or AP tests, has been the driving factor behind this shift.

The nationwide demographic shift, of course, would also cause a decline in applications to other Ivy League schools, which, except for the small decreases at Harvard University and Columbia University, has not been the case. In fact, the University of Pennsylvania even saw a 14 percent increase in applications.

Explanations for Dartmouth’s admissions issues run the gamut. An admissions office survey suggested that high tuition, concerns about the College’s social life and Dartmouth’s rural setting may have been factors. The Washington Post opined that the College’s decision to no longer accept AP credits led to this year’s dearth of applicants.

By the Washington Post’s estimation, Dartmouth’s decision to stop accepting AP credits for the Class of 2018 onwards merits “a prize this year for cluelessness in American higher education.”

While a discussion of the merits and drawbacks of AP credits is perhaps necessary, arbitrarily pointing to this change in policy to explain the 14 percent decline holds little water. Many other colleges accept only select AP credits, yet they have not seen a great backlash. Once admitted, applicants may examine the College’s AP policy and determine the cost, which would not account for such a drop in risk-free, non-binding regular applications. Of all the determinants in choosing a college — campus, academic reputation, social life, affordability — AP scores alone are simply not significant enough to sway thousands of would-be applicants.

Similarly, suggesting that tuition hikes caused the decline does not stand up to scrutiny after considering the costs of other Ivies and higher education trends. Columbia, for instance, costs more than Dartmouth and only saw a 1.5 percent drop in applications. Meanwhile, the cost of college has steadily been on the climb. Another year’s increase is no surprise.

Moreover, since regular decision is nonbinding, an applicant has nothing to lose and everything to gain by applying. If his or her financial aid package underwhelms, an admitted student could certainly turn down acceptance to Dartmouth, but cost alone cannot explain a 3,000-applicant drop. If tuition hikes were actually the issue, then it would most likely coincide with a decline in binding early decision applications, yet early decision applications saw a rise.

Other purported factors, like the rural setting, are nothing new and would not explain the drop.

Dartmouth’s reputation, however, has been sullied in recent years. The infamous Rolling Stone article came out in 2012, the Dimensions protests and backlash occurred in April 2013 and investigators from the federal Department of Education have visited the College as part of a Title IX investigation.

I do not wish to use this column as a space to make clichéd, divisive platitudes one way or another. I don’t want to accuse the Greek system of perpetuating a classist, racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, heteronormative environment or pretend that we can bury our heads in the sand and ignore allegations about the Greek system.

The phrase “Dartmouth has a problem” has become extremely divisive, but Dartmouth does have an objectively legitimate problem attracting applications.

Like it nor not, the press coverage reflects Dartmouth. The College should heed this drop in applicants as a warning and take steps not to merely mobilize its PR campaign, but rather address genuine grievances that have warded people off. Whether or not the bad publicity is warranted, Dartmouth needs to change something, or else it risks becoming obsolete compared to its peer institutions. This is its wake-up call.

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DDS isn’t perfect, but it isn’t all that bad, either.

Reading yesterday’s column (“Demands more dining options and keep its existing for DDS,” March 3) by Jon Miller ’15, I was options open. Obviously I have not seen the a bit surprised at the first sentence: “Despite DDS financial statements, but outside of student body dissatisfaction, Dartmouth meal times, most dining halls are relatively Dining Services seems unwilling to improve empty. Multiple food trucks would exacerthe dining plans or the quality of food served bate this problem. Furthermore, allowing to students.” Although DDS does have its students to spend DBA in local restaurants flaws and could stand some improvements, would also take business from DDS. If all I, for one, am not dissatisfied whatsoever. In of Miller’s suggestions were put into effect, fact, I know plenty of people who are also could DDS stay open? I don’t know, but relatively pleased with the food options on regardless, the school needs dining halls, campus. I believe that DDS works to please and DDS cannot afford to lose money. everyone by offering a wide variety of meal The idea of rollover DBA sounds great, doesn’t it? Sure, but how many people ever plans and food options.

Although I disagree with parts of his piece, have leftover DBA? I know I never do. In I agree with Miller’s assertion that students August, DDS Director David Newlove said that on average, should be able to students overcharge use more than one “Despite its flaws, DDS is pretty their DBA by about meal swipe per meal darn good. We have an all-youperiod. Nothing is can-eat option as well as pay-as- $200 per term. And if FoCo didn’t exworse than ending you-go options.” ist and everything a week with extra were pay as you go, meal swipes, which is why I switched to the BlockChoice45 plan I would be even more negative in DBA than this fall from SmartChoice20. The plan I usually am, and I know I am not alone. eliminates the meal swipe problem because Despite its flaws, DDS is pretty darn it consists of $925 in DBA and allows swipes good. We have an all-you-can-eat option as well as pay-as-you-go options. Many of to roll over from week to week.

Yet I can’t agree with all of Miller’s my high school classmates complain about claims. Dartmouth is a small school, and how expensive their dining plans are because DDS cannot afford to lose money and stay they are all a la carte. Without FoCo, many open at the same time. The school’s size students would spend more DBA than allotmakes it difficult to add private vendors and ted by their meal plans. Athletes and hungry franchises, more food trucks and allowing people in general would spend more money student DBA use at off-campus restaurants. on food if there were no all-you-can-eat A place like Subway might be cheaper option. than the Courtyard Cafe, but its options The beauty of DDS is that those who are more limited. The food truck coming don’t like FoCo don’t have to eat there. We to campus soon, The Box, is still an experi- have choices. Ultimately, my point is that ment, and no one knows exactly how it will the current dining system is a good one. work out. While I do think that The Box will Nothing is perfect, and DDS is no exception. ultimately be successful, DDS cannot just Dartmouth students should appreciate that add multiple food trucks to campus because DDS has tried to accommodate all of our those trucks would draw business from the preferences. And if you really hate every Hop, Collis, the Class of 1953 Commons single option that much, cook for yourself or eat out. I know the rest of us would apand Novack.

Dartmouth is simply too small to open preciate the shorter lines.

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Gross remembered for Pilot program gives fin. aid to DOC giving, cheerful nature FROM DOC PAGE 1

programs for processing molecular biology data. members, even adding animated His coworkers remember his thrones on the web page when the giving and jovial personality fondly. team won two games in a weekend.

Biology professor Mark McPeek “He was a great professor, a great described how he and Gross person, a dear friend, who just gave bonded over their shared love of so much of himself,” Gaudet said. blues music.

Gross’s balance of time with the “Coming from the South, I loved hockey team, his scientific work the blues, and we had a some great and his family life was exceptional, conversations,” McPeek said.

Gaudet said.

Biochemistry professor Con“Even though he was a high-level stance Brinckerhoff recalled how professor, guys on our team got Gross had helped her learn moto know him on a personal basis lecular biology when she came to as a good person, a good man,” Dartmouth as a young professor, Gaudet said. “This is a guy that saying he helped launch her career. would drop anything to support Gross is survived by his wife, students at Dartmouth, not just Bobbi, and their three grown student-athletes, not just hockey children, all of whom were born players.” with familial dysautonomia, a rare Whether he taught non-majors genetic condition that affects the in a class on genes and society development of the nervous system. or engaged with H e biology majors “Even though he was served on the in his research Ada high-level professor, Scientific on RNA splicvisory Board ing and compu- guys on our team of the Dystational biology, got to know him on autonomia Gross loved workFoundation, ing with students, a personal basis as a which suphis wife said. ports research, good person, a good “He oftencare man. This is a guy that medical times came home and families and mentioned would drop anything of those with how special his to support students at the disease. students were “We’ve and how much Dartmouth, not just been faced he learned from student-athletes, not with lots of them, too,” she medical chaljust hockey players.” said. l e n g e s ove r Gross was a the years, and dedicated pro- - BOB GAUDET ’81, Bob has been fessor, said Iris so loving and Yu ’14, another MEN’S HOCKEY COACH supportive student of his. all the time,” “He genuinely his wife said. cared about his students, pushed “The children adore him.” us to challenge ourselves and was He met his wife at RPI, and the always available to help,” she said couple married in 1968. in an email.

They celebrated their 45th wedGross was an avid outdoor ding anniversary in September with photographer, documenting his a trip to Baltimore, where Gross trips to Yellowstone National Park, earned his Ph.D. in biophysics at Yosemite National Park and Acadia Johns Hopkins.

National Park. His favorite photoHer husband’s death came as graphs were of the leaves changing a total shock, his wife said. After in the fall, his wife said. undergoing pancreatic surgery In a meeting with Gross earlier on Thursday, Gross seemed to this term, Yu said that she and be recovering well on Friday and another student saw his photos of Saturday. He emailed his students Yellowstone and launched into a saying he was on the mend and long conversation about the biol- would be in class soon. ogy of the park’s hot springs and His wife described their last photographic encounters with moments together as a family on moose.

Saturday evening as typical of their At Dartmouth, Gross directed life together. the Center for Biological and Bio“What were we doing,” she said, medical Computing, and his lab “but listening to the final regular developed computer algorithms season game of men’s hockey on used to identify regulatory DNA the radio.” sequences. With his wife, he coA memorial for Gross will be founded Textco Biosoftware, a held on March 10 at 12:30 p.m. in company that develops computer Rollins Chapel.

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The financial aid office will evaluate students’ eligibility for the pilot program, and students’ financial information will remain confidential from the DOC. Nelson said he believes Dartmouth has a unique tradition and history related to outdoor activities.

Every student at Dartmouth, he said, should be able to take advantage of the College’s outdoor resources and access to the environment. He said that working in the undergraduate dean’s office for over 20 years showed him that students are limited by their financial resources.

Participating in outdoor activities gives students new skills, fosters connections with the community, leads to new friendships, provides leadership experience and offers adventure, he said.

Graham Findlay ’14, who has

been involved in the DOC since his freshman fall, said he believes that financial aid for outdoor programs is necessary because all students should be able to participate.

“I think it’s psychologically satisfying to have a sense of context about where you are,” Findlay said.

Although the DOC has awarded financial aid over the last two years from its own budget, funds are limited, DOC president Mac Murphy ’15 said. The cost of trips has made it difficult for club members to participate in past activities, Murphy said.

In the past, Cabin and Trail has offered financial aid with money from the DOC’s reserve fund, Findlay said.

When he was co-chair of Cabin and Trail last fall, the group awarded $4,000 in financial aid to students participating in winter break DOC trips, he said.

Findlay said he expects the new program to bring new members

and increase involvement by active participants in the DOC. Historically, students who participate in large-scale trips, which are the most expensive, tend to remain involved in the DOC, Findlay said.

Gear and passes can be expensive and could deter students from participating in DOC programs, said Jonathan King ’15, who will be DOC vice president next year.

For a student planning an overnight hike, renting a two-person tent, first aid kit, trangia stove, frame pack, sleeping bag and sleeping pad from the DOC would cost over $40. Renting the same gear for a weeklong trip would cost over $100.

King said the DOC’s programs are valuable and should be accessible to all.

“I think outdoor programs are very relaxing, very healthy,” King said. “They provide a helpful social mindset and a good physical one too.”

Charlotte Johnson Dean of the College

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

Lightning Frightening

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

Jack Neustadt ’17

TODAY 2:00 p.m.

ENGS 18 symposium, “System Dynamics in Policy Design and Analysis,” Hinman Forum

4:30 p.m.

“Leaks, Secrecy and the Surveillance State,” with Scott Shane, Haldeman 041

7:00 p.m.

Concert with The Spring Quartet, Spaulding Auditorium

TOMORROW 1:00 p.m.

Introduction to engineering final presentations, Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall

4:15 p.m.

Computer science colloquium, “Reasoning and Decisions in High Dimensions ­— A Unified Approach,” with Qiang Liu of the Univeristy of California, Irvine, Steele 006

8:00 p.m.

Theater honors project, “The Alchemist,” Bentley Theater

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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

Sherman Art Library

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Students study in the reading room of the Sherman Art Library.

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Above the fireplace in the Sherman Art Library’s reference room sits a dragon-like emblem of Francis I of France, which displays a salamander, thought to be able to magically survive fire. Visual arts librarian Laura Graveline encourages students to visit Sherman, the College’s art research library, to see the expansive collection for themselves.

Sherman houses catalogs from art museums, galleries and image databases. The library also includes the Art Special Collection, which displays collections of artists’ handmade books, facsimiles and other rare items.

The Sherman Art Library was built as an extension of Carpenter Hall in 1929, connected to Baker-Berry Library

by Berry’s circulation desk. Over time, the library has expanded to include two additional floors below the reference floor as well as the special collection.

Altogether, the library holds around 240,000 items, including over 1,000 journals in both print and electronic formats, Graveline said.

The Sherman collection primarily supports the art history and studio art curricula. Acting as the library’s liaison to academic departments, Graveline works with the faculty and Hood museum curators to acquire new books and resources to supplement the curricula.

Sherman’s collection includes rare, seminal art publications, like the catalog for the exhibition at the 1913 Armory Show, the first large exhibition of modern art in the U.S. that is credited with changing the course of American art, Graveline said.

Leandra Barrett ’15, who worked at the art library this summer, said she curated an exhibit from the Special Collection with complete freedom to draw inspiration from the library’s manuscripts and rare books.

Librarians want to boost awareness of the library’s content, she said.

“Most people are not aware that Sherman has a collection of rare and expensive art books, similar to the books

found in Rauner Library,” Barrett said.

After looking at the resources that Sherman had, Barrett decided to focus her exhibition on the art of tattoos.

Barrett said that the sheer number of resources Sherman contained on the subject surprised her. After picking and choosing the collection’s most “intriguing” resources on tattoos, Barrett arranged the materials, which focused on the social changes of tattoos through time and across cultures.

The Sherman special collection also displays other exhibits showcasing rare items that the library can hold within a limited time frame. The library is currently showing a spring flowers exhibit, with accordion artist books featuring flowers of bright colors and designs.

Sherman previously possessed 12 facsimile volumes of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codice Atlantico,” and formed an exhibit around them. According to Sherman’s database, the collection of Da Vinci’s notes and drawings is the largest ever assembled, consisting of 1,119 individual sheets, 1,750 drawings and 119 pages of notes.

The library’s distinctive ambiance helps separate it from Dartmouth’s other libraries and study spaces, art library supervisor Joseph Wright said.

The wood-paneled reference room is surrounded by large windows. “[In Sherman, students] can feel slightly more alone, and the bottom level seems even quieter,” Wright said.

Wright said that while Sherman is generally known as an art library, students from various subject areas have recently begun to use the space.

One year, economics and government students seemed to crowd the library, he said, while the next it was mainly used by psychology and neurology students.

This year, Wright said, the crowd has been more mixed.

“Although I’m not an art major, I’ve taken several studio art classes, and the library is a great resource to find inspiration for artwork,” Barrett said. “You can go down the stairs to the stacks and basically pull any book off the shelf, and it’ll have some interesting and beautiful image.”

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Students await Spring Quartet concert B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

Several students sat outside Hartman Rehearsal Hall on Monday afternoon waiting for rehearsal with instruments on their laps and The Spring Quartet’s Tuesday concert on their minds. Barrett Clark ’17, a trombone player in the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, pressed fellow musician Erin Huffer ’17 to come to the 7 p.m. concert. A real “jazzer” would see the Spring Quartet, he insistsed.

“Live music always sounds better,” Clark said. “And you can never get enough jazz.”

The Spring Quartet features drummer and National Endowment for the Arts jazz master Jack DeJohnette, Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, Grammy Awardwinning bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding and Argentinian pianist Leo Genovese.

The group comes to Hanover after a Feb. 28 performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble director Don Glasgo said that part of the group’s appeal comes from its multi-generational nature. At 71, DeJohnette is a highly influential jazz drummer who was a member of the Keith Jarrett Trio and performed with renowned musicians like Miles Davis

and John Coltrane. Spalding joined the scene in 2011 when she won the Grammy Award for best new artist and adds a freshness to the group, Glasgo said.

The Spring Quartet has an “in the moment” approach to music, creating sounds on stage as opposed to just reproducing music from the past, Glasgo said.

“It will be more creative than most jazz concerts,” Glasgo said. “The concert is a lot less predictable, and so an audience member is more a part of it and can join in. That environment is what the best jazz is about.”

Glasgo says that it is uncommon for a group composed of such high caliber jazz musicians to go on a major international tour. Lovano performed at the Hopkins Center in 2003, and DeJohnette performed at Dartmouth in 2005.

“To see that fluidity and creativity in a major tour is relatively rare,” Glasgo said. “It’s not stuff I’ve heard before. I stay home if it’s stuff I’ve heard before.”

The group appealed to Clark because of the generational range of its players, he said, noting that Spalding, in particular, is a fascinating musician.

“I’ve never heard of a bass player who sings while they play,” Clark said.

“The bass is the foundation of the chords and singing is the melody. That’s a really interesting juxtaposition.”

Juliana Baratta ’17 said that Spalding inspires her because so few female jazz artists work in the music industry.

“The best way to learn jazz is to listen to it live,” Baratta said. “It’s really great to see a female professional jazz player leading the way.”

Music professor Fred Haas, who teaches performance laboratory classes in jazz improvisation, said that jazz brings people from different backgrounds together, “one of the real beauties” of the genre.

Haas requires students in his course on the history of jazz to attend two to three concerts at the Hop during the term. Haas said that students should not miss the opportunity to attend exceptional performances at a discounted price.

Rebecca Bailey, the Hop’s publicity coordinator, said she expects the show to sell out. Bailey said in an email that programming director Margaret Lawrence tried to book The Spring Quartet two years ago once she learned of the group’s formation.

Glasgo said that no one, not even the artists themselves, knows exactly what tonight’s concert will be like.

“The music tonight will truly be in the moment, as living and artistic as it gets,” Glasgo said.

The Spring Quartet performs tonight at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

Join us for the Imposition of Ashes Ash Wednesday Services March 5, Noon and 7pm

St. Thomas Episcopal Church (between Theta Delta Chi and Psi Upsilon) www.saintthomashanover.org

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

SPORTS

Figure skating second at Liberty Invite B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

Sporting fluffy green stick-on mustaches off the ice, the club figure skating team placed second at the 2014 Liberty University Intercollegiate Competition in Lynchburg, Va. this weekend, behind only the University of Delaware. The team finished with 105 points, three points ahead of Boston University, but 36 short of the Blue Hens’ 141.

Dartmouth sent 18 skaters to the competition, earning a total of 18 medals in 16 events.

“Nearly all of our competitors scored points for Dartmouth, which was amazing,” team member Clara Guo ’17 said.

Early on Saturday, Dartmouth led in team points, which are awarded to skaters who place in the top five.

Maddy Thornton ’17, Jojo Miller ’14, Caroline Knoop ’15, Alyssa Mahatme ’17 earned silver medals in their respective programs.

Katie Bates ’16 also finished third in the senior ladies long program.

Armin Mahbanoozadeh ’17 dominated the senior men’s short program, sweeping ordinals, while Thornton won the novice ladies long program, landing a double lutz-double toe combination to the music of Santana.

In the dance events, Kelsey Anspach ’15 placed third in the junior solo dance and first in the novice solo dance. Pinar Gurel, a Ph.D. candidate at the Geisel School of Medicine, placed second in the intermediate solo dance, and Victoria Rackohn ’14 and Iris Yu ’14 placed second and third, respectively, in the juvenile solo dance.

Despite leading for most of Saturday, Dartmouth fell behind at the end of the day, trailing Delaware 76-93 after the high team maneuver event, in which Dartmouth’s team of Mahatme, Mahbanoozadeh, Knoop, Kirsten Seagers ’15 and Gurel placed second.

On Sunday, Thornton, Guo and Miller competed in the intermediate team maneuvers, earning gold.

Seagers and Knoop placed second and third, respectively, in the junior ladies’ championship long program.

“This competition showed us the depth of talent on our team, and it was inspiring for us to watch each other skate,” Miller, a co-captain, said.

The team has placed in the top three for the past two competitions and has a good chance to qualify for the national championships, Knoop,

compete again, this time at the Unithe other co-captain said.

“We are a team that improves versity of Delaware.

Dartmouth is developing a small throughout the season, and this weekend set us up nicely for the rest of the rivalry with Delaware. Last season, Dartmouth defeated Delaware in fall season,” she said.

Each season, the three colleges with 2012 by 14 points. Delaware would the most points in each conference are go on to avenge its loss with wins over invited to compete at the U.S. Intercol- Dartmouth in March 2013, 125-117, legiate Team Figure Skating Cham- and in the national championships, 98-93. Prior to pionships. This that, Dartmouth year, the national competition will “This competition won nationals in be hosted by showed us the depth 2012 and was Adrian College of talent on our team, the runner-up in 2010, behind in Adrian, Mich., and it was inspiring for BU and came from April 11-13. us to watch each other In November, in second place skate.” behind Delaware the team placed third at the Corin 2011.

T o nell University - JOJO MILLER ’14 Intercollegiate qualify for the national champiCompetition, 10 points behind Boston University and onships, Dartmouth must remain in the top three schools in the Eastern 35 points behind Delaware.

The team has improved since the conference. If Dartmouth places third fall competition, Miller said. or better at the Delaware competition, “We’re starting to find our footing the team will qualify and return to on the ice,” Miller said. “There were nationals.

“I don’t want to jinx anything,” a lot of breakthrough performances from our younger skaters who are Yu said. “But I think we are pretty becoming more and more confident hopeful.”

Mahatme and Mahbanoozadeh are on the ice.”

Later this month, the team will members of The Dartmouth staff.

KELSEY KITTELSEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

The figure skating team finished second at the Liberty Invite, improving on a third at Cornell.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

TUESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

MORE THAN A GAME B y maddie garcia and abby cohen

that the ranking can be arbitrary in many cases. In the past 10 years alone, The Dartmouth Staff two teams ranked 11th have made it With spring break just around the to the Final Four and every time an corner, we know everyone’s thinking underdog goes far, people latch on to about that new bikini they ordered for the team as the story of the tournaPunta Cana and finally having time ment.

That any given team can win any to catch up on “House of Cards.”

But spring break also brings the start given day is why we love sports so of March Madness. With Selection much. March Madness is all about Sunday fewer than two weeks away, the underdogs. Sure, everyone likes it’s time to make predictions, pick who to see a team that has won all season will be this year’s Cinderella team and keep winning in the postseason, but decide who’s the most trustworthy it’s a lot more exciting to see a team one in the friend group to organize that just squeaked into the tournament beat basketball powerhouses. the bracket pool.

We understand that a sports While Harvard University is normally considered an column about adversary in the March Madness regular season, would normally “So while we gave you Ivy Leaguers put entail predic- no advice, and actually aside their usual tions, but we will probably just made you rivalries during be the first to realize how much of a the tournament tell you that our crapshoot it really is to for the sake of guesses are as fill out a bracket, we Ancient Eight good as yours. still encourage you to pride.

Maybe worse. join a pool. Everyone at Sports For years, Madfans got their fill die filled out her Dartmouth is competitive over the last two bracket by look- and investing in the and a half weeks ing up which tournament’s outcome watching hours teams had better makes it a lot more of Olympic uniform colors meaningful. Bragging rights coverage. Now or the coolest are on the line. Choose they’ll have time m a s c o t , a n d wisely!” to recharge and surprisingly this prepare for the strategy never barrage of firstleft her worse off than if she had done some “better” round games played over just two days. research. Abby and her dad filled it Some of these games will be blowouts, out together, but we rarely picked but others could become some of the the teams that ended up in the final. most exciting and unexpected perThere isn’t a foolproof way to fill out formances of the tournament. With a bracket. In fact, the odds of picking smartphone apps streaming every a perfect March Madness bracket are game and providing live statistics, fans one in more than nine quintillion. can watch every minute of every game.

So while we gave you no advice, Good luck.

A No. 1 seed in the tournament and actually probably just made you means something, as last year’s win- realize how much of a crapshoot it ner University of Louisville entered really is to fill out a bracket, we still the tournament with a top seed. But encourage you to join a pool. Everyit was the only No. 1 team to make one at Dartmouth is competitive and it past the Elite Eight. Since 1979, investing in the tournament’s outcome there has only been one Final Four makes it a lot more meaningful. Bragthat was played entirely by teams with ging rights are on the line. Choose their region’s No. 1 ranking, proving wisely!