VOL. CLXXI NO. 47
FLURRIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Two charges dropped against Gilbert ’16
STRINGING US ALONG
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By MARINA SHKURATOV and MADISON PAULY The Dartmouth Senior Staff
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Danos announces retirement, will leave Tuck in 2015 B y MICHAEL QIAN
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North Haverhill — The defense in the trial of Parker Gilbert ’16, charged with rape, began and rested its case Tuesday without calling Gilbert to the stand. On the seventh day of the trial, the prosecution rested and Judge Peter Bornstein ruled to dismiss two of the prosecution’s eight charges against Gilbert. Without sufficient evidence that physical force had been
used, Bornstein dismissed the charge of oral penetration, as well as one of two charges of anal penetration, but denied the defense’s motions to dismiss the remaining six charges. After these rulings, the defense began its case by calling four witnesses: Gilbert’s former undergraduate advisor, a female friend of his, a sexual assault examination nurse and an acoustic forensic analyst. Gilbert, 21, is no longer enrolled in classes at the College.
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Tuck School of Business Dean Paul Danos stated yesterday that he would not seek reappointment for a sixth term and will step down at the end of his current term in June 2015. His announcement, which follows 19 years of deanship, was relayed by a campus-wide email from College President Phil Hanlon. “In Tuck’s 114-year history, few have had a greater impact on the
school,” Hanlon said in the email. Danos, who was appointed to his fifth four-year term in May 2011, is the school’s longest-serving dean. Under his direction, Tuck introduced research-to-practice seminars, which offer students the chance to closely collaborate on faculty projects, spearheaded a newly revised curriculum and increased its full-time faculty size from 36 to 51. Tuck’s small size, Danos said, allows the school to deliver per-
sonalized instruction, which offers students a “different dimension of analyzing problems.” Tuck senior associate dean Bob Hansen, who headed the search committee that hired Danos, said Danos was originally recognized for his previous work at the University of Michigan. Hansen said Danos focused on two main themes throughout his time at Tuck: technology and SEE DANOS PAGE 2
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Paul Danos has served as Tuck’s dean since 1995.
Students, faculty support Memorial Field renovations Thayer school expansion to boost safety of west stands B y Victoria Nelsen The Dartmouth Staff
Thayer School of Engineering’s proposed expansion is expected to accommodate a growing number of students interested in the field and increase majors’ course schedule flexibility. Students and faculty interviewed said they support the expansion, announced by College President Phil Hanlon last November.
The number of undergraduate engineering majors has grown in the past five years and the department is currently at capacity, Thayer dean Joseph Helble said. Engineering students can face high levels of competition during course enrollment as many required major classes have enrollment caps. Alumni, corporations and foundations will fund the expansion process, which will finish SEE THAYER PAGE 3
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The Alumni Gym and Memorial Field’s west stands will undergo significant renovations in the coming year, financed by the 2014-2015 $54 million capital budget approved at the Board of Trustees’s March 8 meeting. The west stands will undergo roughly $10.5 million in renovations next year. Despite several maintenance projects, Memorial Stadium, built in 1923, has slowly deteriorated due to its stands’
concrete shell structure. By 2006, a structural engineering analysis had recommended that the College replace the old benches. “[The stands] are really nearing the end of their life expectancy,” Purcell said. “Eighty-five years is long enough for a building like that.” The new stands will have steps of equal heights, reducing the risk of falling. The project will also replace the SEE RENOVATION PAGE 3
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DAily debriefing The Geisel School of Medicine will partner with the nonprofit biotech company Aeras to conduct trials for a new tuberculosis vaccine, the Union Leader reported. The vaccine, labeled DAR-901, is related to another vaccine that Dartmouth researchers, led by Geisel professor Fordham von Reyn, showed to decrease rates of tuberculosis in previous studies, known as the DarDar Trials. The vaccine is currently the only one in development to have shown effectiveness in human trials, with a 39 percent chance of success in people with both tuberculosis and HIV. The DAR-901 study will begin in April and will be conducted at Dartmouth with foreign-born individuals. Other trials will take place in countries with higher rates of tuberculosis. Over 8 million people develop tuberculosis each year, and around 1.3 million die of it annually. Von Reyn said that the only way to eradicate tuberculosis from humans is to both create an effective vaccine and attack the existing disease with a mix of antibiotics. Earth sciences graduate student Justin Stroup and professor Meredith Kelly released a paper late last month suggesting that temperature is the major factor in the growth and retreat of glaciers on the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru, formally linking temperature and glacier size in tropic regions for the first time, the New York Times reported. Stroup and Kelly found that while factors such as levels of snowfall and precipitation play a role, temperature has the strongest effect on glacier size. Last year, researchers discovered that an area of the glacier that had taken over 1,500 years to develop had melted in just 25, which they said proved how carbon emissions have drastically changed the natural world. Several other researchers who have also worked on the Quelccaya ice cap, however, said they did not think that Stroup and Kelly made a strong case for their suggestions. Critics noted that the study relied mostly on evidence that came from ice drilling that could be easily misinterpreted and said that glaciers in other tropical regions, such as Mount Kilimanjaro, are controlled by factors outside of temperature. All the scientists, however, agreed that global warming is a problem. The link between temperature and the growth of glaciers had been previously proven in colder regions but had never been connected in tropical regions. The study formally supports formerly held views that the relationship existed.
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Danos’s tenure at Tuck to end in 2015 FROM DANOS PAGE 1
globalization. During his tenure, Tuck established the master’s in health care delivery science program, which combines residential and online instruction. Danos also pushed for faculty members to integrate technology in their courses. The “Tuck Global Consultancy” elective course began in 1997, allowing second-year Tuck students a chance to conduct international research to help clients who faced time and financial limitations. In 2011, Tuck partnered with international business schools to form the Council on Business and Society, which aims to study global business-related issues like health care and sustainable development. Tuck also launched the Center on Business and Society in 2012, which focuses on providing community engagement opportunities to students. “The next wave is going to be to have a requirement that every student do something outside of the United States,” Danos said. Several of Danos’s colleagues highlighted his supportive personality and community-oriented vision as reasons for Tuck’s continued success. “He’s calm, he’s thoughtful, he’s deliberate and he works like a dog,” Hansen said. “And he’s selfless. He
put everything, his whole life into this institution.” Tuck associate dean for the faculty Matthew Slaughter cited Danos’s commitment to improving the student experience, engaging with alumni and hiring high-quality faculty and effective staff as key factors in building the school’s reputation. In 2013, The Economist ranked Tuck as the world’s second-best full-time MBA program, behind the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Currently, Tuck faculty receive more citations per author than do their peers at any other school. “A lot of other business schools have gotten off track, not focusing on the core education mission, and fortunately that never befell Tuck,” Slaughter said. Slaughter, who began his career at Dartmouth teaching undergraduates in the economics department, said Tuck mirrors the College’s dedication toward outstanding teaching. Corporate communication professor Paul Argenti said Danos has personally supported his endeavors to make interactions with students and faculty a key part of Tuck curriculum. Danos meets with each faculty member every year, Argenti said. “He supports you in terms of getting interested in the work that we do and that’s an incredible gift,” Argenti said.
Though he still intends to keep in touch with the Tuck community, Danos, 71, said he is ready to “let the next generation take over.” He added that, after working for 55 years, he looks forward to having more unscheduled time for writing and teaching. He said his successor should understand the school’s unique nature and the tight-knit nature of its community. “I think today, and 20 years ago and 50 years ago, people always said Tuck’s experience was one of the best they’ve ever had,” Danos said. Danos’s colleagues lauded his continued efforts to build connections at Tuck. “Sometimes this noun gets overused, but there really is a Tuck community that creates a fabulous learning environment,” Slaughter said. “Danos had a clear eye on this.” A board member at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center and General Mills, Danos said he plans to continue serving in both roles. Hanlon will work with incoming provost Carolyn Dever to form a search committee for the next Tuck dean, he said in the campus-wide email. Tuck plans to announce a new dean in early 2015. “[Danos] is thoughtful, caring and I could not imagine a better dean,” Hansen said. “It’s going to be a challenge to replace him.”
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Thayer expansion sees broad approval FROM THAYER PAGE 1
over the course of the next decade, Helble said. Although the exact scale has not yet been solidified, Thayer and its programs are conservatively expected to expand by 50 percent, he said. The expansion will involve significant increases in faculty, research opportunities and design course offerings for non-engineering students, as well as an expansion of Thayer’s entrepreneurship-related programs. Hanlon’s broad vision for the College, Helble said, emphasizes innovation and entrepreneurship, increases in experiential learning and improving classroom technology use. Thayer’s expansion will help fulfill this vision, Helble said. Dartmouth currently limits the number of students who can take advantage of Thayer’s resources, Helble said, noting that its entrepreneurially-focused Ph.D. Innovation Program admits no more than five students per year. The number of undergraduate engineering majors has grown to 85 in 2013 from 66 in 2004. “Dartmouth students are entering a world that is and is going to be dominated by technology,” Helble
said. “Engineering is the language the helps you understand a world dominated by technology.” Thayer professors interviewed said that the expansion is a positive step. Engineering professor Brian Pogue said the expansion is necessary to compete with peer institutions. Dartmouth has one or two experts per engineering field, while competitors like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have as many as 20. Thayer currently has 51 permanent faculty members. “We’re pretty paper-thin in terms of coverage of the field of engineering,” Pogue said. Since engineering is one of the largest undergraduate majors at Dartmouth, growing the program is a logical step, Pogue said. Although critics of the expansion are concerned that it will weaken connections between faculty and students, Thayer professor Tillman Gerngross said he does not expect the expansion to have this effect. Last winter, many students had trouble enrolling in “Systems,” a prerequisite for higher-level engineering courses, engineering major Callan George ’16 said. The department
expanded the class limit from 40 to 70 students, but some interested students still could not enroll, she said. Since interest is growing, the expansion seems natural, she said, calling it a “great idea.” Course enrollment is particularly challenging for engineering students because they must structure their D-Plans around major prerequisites and requirements. Claudia Pham ’15 said her engineering class on biomaterials is taking place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 to 10 a.m. due to lack of classroom space during the 10A and 2A class periods. Vipul Kakkad ’13 said that when he took introductory courses several years ago, there were fewer students in the program and he did not face difficulty enrolling in classes. Planning his major was still challenging, he said, because certain classes are not offered every year. An expansion would ease engineers’ schedules, Kakkad said. Andrew Berson ’15 said he thinks Hanlon has emphasized the expansion because of the demand for engineers in the U.S. and the major’s focus on experiential learning.
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West stands renovation to cost millions FROM RENOVATION PAGE 1
seating area and press box. The project is expected to start in November and end by September 2015, so as not to interfere with next year’s football season. Renovation was originally going to start in November 2008, but the project was postponed due to financial concerns in the wake of the recession. The new stands will add 262 seats with backs, but the total seat capacity will be reduced, for a total of 4,788 seats. The stands will comprise 4,500 bench seats and 26 handicap accessible seats. Football player Will Konstant ’16, a defensive back, said he hopes the project will encourage more students and alumni to attend football games. The renovations will be attractive to prospective
recruits, he said, helping to boost the team’s performance and the chances of winning Ivy League championships. “The new west stands will bring a new atmosphere and a better perception of football in the region,” quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 said. When recruits decide which college to attend and play for, they look at the stadium, the weight rooms and overall athletic facilities, wide receiver Victor Williams ’16 said. He added, however, that he believes students will be more attracted to wins during the season than to new stands. Students interviewed said that the renovation may attract more fans to games. The renovations may also improve public perceptions of the College and its athletic programs,
David Cordero ’16 said. “High quality facilities tend to show a great side of the College and it shows that the College values sports, athletes and their contribution to campus,” he said. The roof over the Karl Michael Pool in Alumni Gym is currently being renovated and is slated for completion by fall 2014, project management director Matthew Purcell said. Rising water vapor had saturated the dry wall and compromised the roof ’s integrity, he said, and nets were placed under the pool’s ceiling as a precaution. The roof ’s deficiencies were discovered during a project that began during the mid-2000s, which replaced the roof ’s mechanical systems and changed the ceiling from slate to metal. These repairs, however, have proved insufficient. Routine inspections are performed to ensure there is no immediate ceiling failure, he added. The pool will remain closed until the fall while renovators drain it, build scaffolds and restore the roof, but the Spaulding Pool will remain open, allowing graduating seniors to complete the required 50-yard swim test. Patrick O’Hern, who is overseeing the Karl Michael Pool renovations, was not available for comment by press time.
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Staff Columnist Katie wheeler ’15
Contributing columnist Kyle bigley ’17
Acting with Integrity
A Race to the Bottom
To combat the College’s issues, our actions must reflect our beliefs. During Mentors Against Violence discussions at fraternities and sororities (and, beginning this term, other student organizations), facilitators run a brief circle exercise and ask students to, among other things, step forward if they have ever heard a peer tell a rape joke. In most cases, nearly all students present step forward. Facilitators then ask if they, after hearing said rape joke, voiced any objection to it. In most cases, no student steps forward. During the ensuing conversation about rape culture at Dartmouth, most students tend to agree that rape jokes are completely inappropriate. Why, then, do they fail to speak out when someone makes one? As a MAV, I often observe a similar phenomenon with regard to slut-shaming. Most women I work with agree that they would never want to be called a slut (and those that have been affirm that it is extremely hurtful), yet most admit that they say nothing when they hear another woman being called a slut and, worse, have called women sluts themselves. Dartmouth students have repeatedly come under fire for their general apathy to issues regarding sexism, racism, classism and homophobia at the College, and it is indeed true that many fail to display any empathy for or even awareness of the challenges faced by their peers. But what I find more frustrating than this apathy is the fear that pervades our campus. It is the fear of deviating from the norm, the fear of being perceived as an aggressive funkiller, the fear of being alienated and deemed “extreme” for voicing any criticism (let alone having the audacity to actually call for change). This fear silences and induces conformity in students who do in fact recognize the problems of Dartmouth’s culture and existing structures but cannot seem to muster the courage to do anything about them. I once received a blitz from a student who said he agreed with a column that I had written in which I criticized fraternities’ illogical and extremely harmful ideology surrounding pledge term. Yet he insisted — in fact, he repeatedly pleaded — that I not tell anyone that he had said
so, which I would not have done regardless. I was baffled, mostly because he chose to remain in a community that was apparently hostile to his true beliefs and that he was content — or had convinced himself that he was content — in doing so. In fact, I have had a significant number of peers approach me in secret and tell me about certain criticisms they have of the College and the behavior of their peers. When I ask them why they do not speak up, they rattle off some excuse regarding their desire to avoid controversy or refrain from offending others. But if we live solely to keep our heads down and accommodate others, then we live a sad existence. And if we live to either actively or passively perpetuate something that fundamentally goes against our beliefs, then that existence is even sadder. This column is not for the students who are satisfied with the Dartmouth status quo. It is for those of us who ultimately believe that Dartmouth and its culture must change. Too many of us are silent, afraid or caught up in the idea that we must be a socially acceptable degree of “moderate,” and so we, perhaps unwittingly, sanction oppression and cruelty on this campus. We need to vocally object to the rape joke, need to stand up for the girl being labeled a slut, need to challenge the use of the word “faggot,” need to call out the student wearing the shirt bearing the face of the Dartmouth Indian mascot, need to openly condemn rush and criticize pledge term, et cetera, if those are issues that we truly believe to be problematic. Furthermore, we must actively support structural, non-superficial change that abolishes — not mitigates — aspects of our culture that inspire and condone these more obvious manifestations of oppression, malice and brutality, which are not individual but systematic phenomena. Finally, we must implement changes in our own language, behavior and affiliations that align with our beliefs. For if we compromise and fail to see our beliefs through, we cannot hope to see true progress and certainly cannot hope to respect ourselves.
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Unpaid internships impede class mobility and equal opportunity. Like a lot of other college kids, I have nervously begun to glance at the calendar and wonder about my summer plans. Like even more college kids, I’ve scanned for opportunities to earn some extra cash. That’s where the search for a job ends and the hunt for an internship begins: for an increasing number of college students and graduates, unpaid internships are the only chance to get their feet wet in the job market. Of the 63 percent of students who participate in an internship at some point in college, the Boston Globe reported anywhere between one-third and one-half of their internships are unpaid. However, unpaid internships harm our economy and effectively constitute a race to the bottom. We have an image of the unpaid intern as someone who waits on every behest of his or her employer — picking up dry-cleaning, going on coffee runs, grabbing food for the office or running enough copies to keep Kinko’s in business. If this stereotype reflects the reality of an internship, then an internship is a glorified waste of time — this experience enhances the ability to perform thoughtless tasks. If, however, the internship is truly instructive and consists of meaningful work, then do the interns not deserve compensation for their efforts? As many Dartmouth students who have worked in top companies can attest, the days are often long, and the work is tiring. Worked-to-the-bone interns should get paid for their work, just like any other adult would be. No matter which experience is true, unpaid internships do not provide the goods. The existence of unpaid internships takes away work that could be done by older people who have families to feed and bills to pay. Since companies or government offices can tap into unpaid labor in the form of internships, they can keep costs low by delegating work for which they would otherwise have to pay interns. With millions of Americans unemployed or underemployed and others struggling to stay afloat, there is a dire shortage of well-paying jobs. Although the concept of getting young people job training and skills has merits, so does the concept of creating jobs for unemployed or underemployed Americans.
Unpaid internships have increasingly become tenable for only wealthier Americans. Generally speaking, internships are clustered in major cities. If a potential intern neither lives near a major urban center nor receives a stipend or any sort of compensation for his or her work, the money required for travel, housing and food must come out of pocket. In major cities, where prices for food and housing are generally high, the prospect of paying for these expenses is unacceptable without disposable cash. More and more college students — their budgets tighter than ever in the midst of a recovering economy and rising tuitions — simply cannot afford to give their labor away for free. Who, then, can afford to fill unpaid internships without stipends? Fortunate Americans with money. As a result, the well-to-do individuals who can take unpaid internships can get on the inside track to lucrative jobs. Both sides of the current political debate, now using their platitudes and vapid rhetoric about “expanding opportunity,” should see unpaid internships as further impeding class mobility. The concept of unpaid internships hints that future members of the labor market must do more and more to present themselves as employable, a larger trend in today’s workplace. You only speak English and Spanish? Learn Mandarin. You only interned for Goldman? Try Google. The phenomenon of resume padding is not inherently disconcerting — learning a new language or acquiring a useful skill is certainly worthwhile and fulfilling. But where do we draw the line? Without evoking the image of a slippery slope, I wonder when this race to the bottom will end. As is increasingly common, will unpaid internships be something for recent graduates instead of ways to pass summers? Will the notion of “employability” one day require that a graduate work an unpaid job two years to boost “job skills”? Throughout history, we have had different names for the status of individuals who work without pay, and while students do not necessarily have to take internships, the point stands: doing work without receiving any sort of compensation is unequivocally wrong.
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Defense rests case in Gilbert trial FROM TRIAL PAGE 1
He was arrested May 15. Following Tuesday’s dismissals, he is charged with five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against a female undergraduate student, 19, and one count of criminal trespass for entering her room uninvited early in the morning of May 2, 2013. As a general practice, The Dartmouth does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault. If convicted, Gilbert, of London, could serve up to 20 years in prison for each count of sexual assault. The state, Bornstein said, failed to present sufficient evidence that Gilbert engaged in sexual penetration of the complainant’s mouth by overcoming her through the actual application of physical force, physical violence or superior physical strength. The complainant’s testimony last week, he said, demonstrated that the evidence was insufficient for the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was the actor in oral penetration. The two acts of physical force brought up by the state — that the defendant pinned the complainant’s arms behind her back and that he placed his fingers into her mouth while pushing her head back — occurred after the incident of oral penetration, Bornstein said. Bornstein also granted the defense’s motion to dismiss the charge of anal penetration through the actual application of physical force, physical violence or superior physical strength. While the complainant may have been frightened and intimidated during the alleged anal penetration, he said, such circumstances are insufficient. The complainant’s alleged pain at the time of penetration, Bornstein said, is also inadequate proof of the use of force. The judge denied the defense’s motions to dismiss the additional six charges: vaginal penetration through force, vaginal penetration through concealment or by the element of surprise before the alleged victim had an adequate chance to flee or resist, vaginal penetration when the alleged victim was physically helpless to resist because she was sleeping, vaginal penetration without free consent, anal penetration without free consent and criminal trespass. The defense then began its case, calling Amanda Winch ’16 to the stand. Winch, one of Gilbert’s close friends, said she saw Gilbert at Theta Delta Chi fraternity early in the morning of May 2. Winch said she and Gilbert, who seemed “quite intoxicated,” danced with a group of friends. He was “goofy and smiley,” she said, and seemed fine despite his intoxication. Winch is a
member of The Dartmouth staff. The defense’s next witness was Charla Jamerson, a forensic nurse and expert in sexual assault nurse examination from Fayetteville, Ark., who said she reviewed medical records and photographs of the complainant prior to testifying. Jamerson, who was paid $150 an hour by the defense, said she was aware of the complainant’s allegation that Gilbert put his fingers into her mouth and that she engaged in fellatio on the morning of May 2. Jamerson said that in light of these allegations, she would have expected to see some injury to the complainant’s tongue or gums. The records did not reveal any injury to the mouth, she said. Robert Cary ’86 then showed the witness a series of photos taken during the complainant’s examination. The pictures were displayed on a small screen visible to the witness and the jury but hidden to those seated in the gallery. Jamerson identified skin discolorations and irritations in various places on the witness’s body. Skin irritations could have various causes ranging from acne to bug bites, she said. Photos showed redness but no tears, abrasions, lacerations or bruises, she said. During her cross-examination by Saffo, Jamerson confirmed that her evaluations were based solely on medical records, not on the alleged victim’s interview with the Hanover Police. Jamerson also confirmed that she never examined the complainant personally, and thus could not testify as to whether she winced or flinched during the examination. Defense attorney Cathy Green, of Green and Utter, then questioned Gianna Guarino ’15, Gilbert’s former undergraduate advisor. Guarino recounted a party at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority in February 2013, during which she observed a female student, whom she later identified as the complainant, dancing with Gilbert. The defense’s next witness was Bruce Koenig, an expert on audio and video forensic analysis, to the stand. Gilbert’s attorneys hired Koenig to conduct audio testing in a two-room double structurally identical to the room in which the alleged rape occurred. Using samples of the complainant’s voice taken from her police testimony and whispering samples from a database, Koenig played each clip from a small speaker placed in the outer room of the two-room double. He recorded the clips using two microphones in the adjoining room, one placed on a desk analogous to where the complainant’s roommate said she studied and one in a location analogous to her bed. Koenig then analyzed each recording’s intelligibility and audibil-
ity, he said. The analysis showed that all samples were audible in the adjoining room. While the samples were slightly less understandable from the bed than from the desk, only the quietest whispering in both locations had “very limited intelligibility,” his analysis showed. The complainant’s former roommate testified on Thursday that while she was studying at her desk the night of the alleged attack, she heard heavy breathing, which she associated with sexual intercourse, but she did not hear anyone fall to the floor. She said the only distinct statement she heard was “don’t push me.” To preserve the complainant’s anonymity, The Dartmouth has not identified this witness or other floormates of the alleged victim. The former roommate is a member of The Dartmouth staff. Saffo opened her cross-examination by asking Koenig if his analysis presumed that someone was actively listening. “People, depending on the person, can ignore the acoustic environment around them,” he said. The defense then rested its case. Court will resume at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS
THE DARTMOUTH COMICS
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TODAY 11:30 a.m. Workshop, “Tools and Techniques for Facilitating Groups,” Rockefeller Center, Class of 1930 Room
4:00 p.m. Physiology and neurobiology seminar with Michael Williams of the Geisel School of Medicine, DHMC, Auditorium G
4:15 p.m. Computer science colloquium, “Sensing Vehicle Dynamics for Determining Driver Phone Use,” Steele 006
TOMORROW 10:30 a.m. Chemistry colloquium, “Coupling of Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide at Low Valent Metals,” with Wes Bernskoetter of Brown University, Steele 007
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The Mundane Madness
Anthony Chicaiza ’17
Performance, “La Edad de Oro,” with Israel Galván, Hopkins Center, Moore Theater
7:30 p.m. UGA information session, Carson Hall, Room L01
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Crew teams impacted by icy weather on return to Hanover
B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff
The heavyweight crew team piled on a bus for its annual 1,000-mile trip to Oak Ridge, Tenn., this spring interim, escaping Hanover’s icy weather to row on a flat 2,000-meter course for five hours every day. The Oak Ridge course, heavyweight co-captain Stuart Maeder ’15 said, is one of the best in the country. And Dartmouth’s quarter system meant the Big Green crew team had the water to itself for much of the trip. Yet upon its return to the College, the team found a challenge waiting. As winter lingers in Hanover, the Connecticut River remains frozen. Despite the potential setback, John Strizich ’14 said that the team remains undeterred. While he said his freshman year the team rowed between sheets of ice on
the Connecticut, the ice has melted by the start of spring term the past two years. The team considered training on the Charles River in Boston, but after learning that the river is already filled with teams practicing, it amended its plans and will travel to Hartford, Conn., this weekend. The lack of open water, Strizich said, may hurt the team this spring. Alternative training methods like rowing tanks and ergs, both Strizich and Maeder said, are inadequate for the technical training the team needs. While an erg can measure output, it leaves room for poor technique. Similarly, the rowing tanks, Maeder noted, fail to mimic actual conditions that the crew would face in a race. The teams, John Cresap ’16 said, need to improve technically to compete. Though the Big Green’s team members
Chaw ’17 shines at bat in early softball season
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Every time she steps up to the plate, Karen Chaw ’17 performs the same small routine. “Measure out the plate, twirl my bat a little, swing and hope I hit,” she said. Chaw said she puts on “a game face” to hide any worries from the pitcher, and focuses intently on hitting the ball. Whatever it is, it seems to be working. As one of just two players to start all 23 games this season, Chaw is tied for the lead in home runs and is the outright leader in RBI. “She’s a great player and has a lot of composure, especially for a freshman,” head coach Rachel Hanson said. “I’m able to really rely on her in crunch time at the plate.” Chaw has an aura of quiet intensity at the plate, friend and teammate Morgan McCalmon ’16 said. Chaw plays beyond her years, McCalmon said, remaining unfazed under pressure. “In the game, she’s a little more focused but she still brings this attitude of having fun, having a blast, smiling all the time,” she said. “You can see it right before she steps into the box or the outfield, but she’s still able to maintain her focus.” Chaw’s bat has generated 21 hits, 16 RBIs and four homers. Her .288 batting average, .338 on base percentage and .493 slugging percentage have made her a force in the middle of Dartmouth’s lineup. Chaw started playing softball when she was 7, and started competing in tournaments at 9 in Castro Valley, Calif. She grew up playing catcher and third base and was recruited by the Big Green
to play these positions. Team needs, however, have forced Chaw into the outfield, a role she graciously accepted. The team has 13 players rostered as either catchers or infield positions, as opposed to only four outfielders. Chaw’s position switch has helped the team because it allows her to bat more often since she is able to play more in the outfield rotation. “I think that’s a testimony to her athleticism and her ability to adapt to change,” McCalmon said, noting Chaw’s willingness to ask questions. “She acts like she’s been playing outfield her whole life.” One of the biggest challenges, Chaw said, of has been maintaining focus in the outfield. While the catcher touches the ball every pitch and infielders remain fairly active fielding grounders and pop-ups, outfielders must be ready to sprint at a moment’s notice for an incoming ball, which requires them to maintain focus during long periods of inactivity. The highlight of playing softball, Chaw said, is spending time with her team. “They’re my first family,” she said of her teammates, “and by far my closest.” Chaw plans on majoring in environmental science with a minor in studio art. After a high school ceramics class, she became interested in studio art, which she has further explored through both a sculpture and drawing class at the College. Since Tuesday’s game against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell was canceled due to weather, Chaw next takes the field on Friday against Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., hoping to propel the 10-13 Big Green to a win in its first Ivy League game.
generally have a similar level of fitness to the athletes they race against, he said, their technique is lacking. The heavyweight A boat finished 25th in the Head of the Charles regatta last fall, while the lightweight and women’s boats finished eighth and 20th, respectively. In the next regatta in Princeton, N.J., a week later, the heavyweight A boat finished 36th,
the lightweight A boat 12th and the women’s A boat ninth. With a new term underway, the crew team is looking to solidify its lineup. The roster is often interrupted by the DPlan, disrupting the chemistry between the rowers and coxswain, Maeder said. “It does become a gut instinct to row with someone,” he said. “It has to become a natural motion, so right
when you make a switch, the boat will get a little bit slower. It’s the most clichéd thing to say, but people call it the ultimate team sport.” The spring season for the heavyweights begins on April 5 with the Alumni Cup race against Columbia University, the College of the Holy Cross and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Overpeck Park, N.J.
Spring Term 2014 Check out these courses for Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies! ****************************************************** LACS 23: Testimonio and Truth: Spring 10A Professors Rebecca Biron and Pati Hernández How do you know what's true in ‘true stories‘? Experiential learning: Explore personal life stories from marginalized people—some socio‐political victims, others victimizers, in recent Latin American history. Our analysis of truth and trust in life‐writing includes helping to tell other people's most urgent stories. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. LACS 66/ENGL 53.23/AAAS 83.6: Caribbean Lyrics and Literature: Spring, 2A, Professor Sam Vásquez Whether exploring topics such as colonialism, exile, sex and sexuality, Caribbean politics, or tourism, Caribbean writers and musicians have long been implicitly in conversation with each other. This class uses a historical range of music—from folk songs to contemporary calypso, reggae, and dancehall selections—as the critical lens to examine literary masterpieces from a range of Caribbean islands. In this way, we will explore both the cultural connections and differences that exist between countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Antigua. Authors and artists will include, Jamaica Kincaid, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Mighty Sparrow, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott.Dist: LIT;WCult: CI. Do you want to write to your abuelita en Puerto Rico or your primos en La Habana?
SPANISH 15 Intensive Writing Workshop for Spanish Speakers Prof. Silvia Spitta and Writer Kianny Antigua 10A (room 104a Dartmouth Hall) This course is designed for bilingual and/or bicultural students with a background in Spanish who wish to enhance their skills in writing and composition. Course materials will reflect a multi-media approach to understanding the cultural experiences of U.S. Latino/as and the Spanish-speaking world. The course will focus on structures related to languages and cultures in contact, review key grammatical concepts, and move to advanced stylistics. As with Spanish 9 this course serves as prerequisite to Spanish 20.
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Galván to showcase FSP offers practical learning in LA flamenco with a twist B y ASHLEY ULRICH
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
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When Hopkins Center programming director Margaret Lawrence first saw flamenco dancer Israel Galván perform at a festival in Montreal, she was enthralled by his mastery of movement. Lawrence immediately knew that she wanted to bring him to Dartmouth, especially to perform his popular solo piece, “La Edad de Oro,” onstage at the Hop. “[Galván] is forging his own path in flamenco and pushing the envelope so far, and he is creatively quite daring,” Lawrence said. “He is a brilliant mover, doing these percussive steps and incredible spins that we associate with flamenco dancers, but is distinctly modern about it.” Hop audiences will experience Galván’s blending of traditional flamenco and modernist experimentation when he performs this evening and Thursday at Moore Theater. Galván has performed “La Edad de Oro” internationally over 200 times since he choreographed the piece in 2005. Yet Galván described the piece as evolving with each production. “It is like a house that you’re changing some elements of the decor, some furniture,” Galván said in an email. “It is my lab where I experiment and prove things, the original atmosphere of the work always remains.” In the piece, Galván attempts to pay tribute to three essential elements of flamenco — song, guitar and dance — while experimenting. The title of the piece refers to the golden age of flamenco, the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, when aspects of flamenco performance and culture flourished. It also invokes Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film, “L’Age d’Or” (1930). “I face flamenco face to face and can dance freely,” Galván said. “I visit the different styles of flamenco, presented in a very naked way, creating a connection between the three people who are on stage. And for me it is a way to say that every artist has their own golden age.” The staging for “La Edad de Oro” is simple: no set, black costumes and just three performers. There are moments without accompaniment that highlight the percussive power and precision of Galván’s footwork. Other portions feature Galván dancing to music performed by two virtuosic
brothers, singer David Lagos and guitarist Alfredo Lagos. Although Galván typically performs alone, which he attributed to his shyness, he said that he has enjoyed performing with other dancers in “La Edad de Oro.” The minimalist set is intentional so viewers focus on his movements. Born to two performing flamenco dancers in Seville, Spain, a haven for flamenco, Galván originally hoped to be a soccer player. In his late teens, however, he had a change of heart and began intensely training and performing. He choreographed his first solo piece in 1998 at the age of 25. Galván said he finds inspiration for his dances in all aspects of life, so long as he looks. “All that moves, and that which does not move; dolls, lights, animals, movies — there is dance in all these things, also in the absence of movement,” he said. “I absorb all that and filter it through flamenco, which is my instrument, my form of expression.” Galván most recently performed the American debut of his absurdist piece, “La Curva,” at the Flamenco Festival in New York City that ended March 24. The show received positive reviews in The Guardian, The New Yorker and The New York Times, with reporters describing Galván as a challenging, experimental dancer looking to shake up the established flamenco tradition. “Each work I’ve done has changed my body a little and how I dance,” Galván said. “They are like fingerprints left on my body. I cannot dance the same way as before.” Galván is currently collaborating with Akram Khan, a classical Indian dancer in the kathak style. Galván said he is trying to cultivate a conversation between kathak and flamenco for a future performance. Spanish professor Paloma Asensio invited Galván to visit her advanced Spanish class as a person with “a certain cultural background, a certain accent and very interesting things to say about his life.” Due to a recent injury, however, Galván had to cancel events outside his Hop performance, including a lunch with La Casa members. Asensio lauded the Hop’s outreach to professors and attempts to bring visiting artists into the classrooms across disciplines.
Where can you watch actors in a $100-million Hollywood blockbuster spar in front of a green screen, catch a meal with “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Shonda Rhimes ’91 or Oscar-nominated director Buck Henry ’52 all while attending classes with Dartmouth accreditation? As the 16 students who participated in the film department’s first winter foreign study program can tell you — Los Angeles, of course. On the program, students enrolled in two lecture-style classes, “Topics in Television” and “Race and Place and Los Angeles Media,” and an independent study. The classes were taught by University of California at Los Angeles and University of Southern California professors, while film and media studies professor Mark Williams organized the students’ independent studies. Students also worked two days per week in an internship tailored to their professional interests, including working at talent agencies, production studios and entertainment-focused law firms. For many, this was a first chance to break into the often opaque workings of the entertainment industry and try out entry-level positions. Katie Kilkenny ’14 interned at The Gersh Agency, a talent and literary agency with an office in Beverly Hills, Calif. Though she had heard of some seniors planning to go on the FSP, Kilkenny had expected to be on campus for winter to work on a thesis until visiting film and television studies professor David Ehrlich convinced her to give the program a shot. Kilkenny was a student in Ehrlich’s fall class on Asian animation. “I let go of the thesis to do this program and the experience,” Kilkenny said. “It was really conducive to getting into the film industry.” Kilkenny’s internship involved reading scripts, evaluating their merits and writing synopses. The Gersh Agency matches writers with actors and actresses, mostly working with established talent, Kilkenny said. She would typically read a script in the morning and write a four-page summary in the afternoon. “I got to see everything — I read a Western, a lot of dystopian, ‘Hunger Games’-type scripts,” Kilkenny said. “All scripts pass through agencies — agencies cast film, television, digital web series. Everything starts with the
work my way up in this ridiculously script.” Kilkenny also completed a reporting conniving industry and try to make a fellowship for Indiewire that involved name for myself ?” reporting and writing movie criticisms Though busy balancing work and their studies, students went on Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival. Kilkenny is a former member of and Saturday excursions planned by Williams, visiting the Academy Film The Dartmouth staff. Emory Orr ’16, who said he has Archives in Hollywood and touring always wanted to work in film, interned the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, for “X-Men” franchise producer Hutch Calif., among other trips. At Warner Parker at his Santa Monica office. Bros., the group viewed an early version Orr answered the phones and helped of “The Lego Movie” (2014), written coordinate interactions between agents, and directed by Phil Lord ’97 and Chris directors and actors as well as prepared Miller ’97. Hannah O’Flynn ’15, who worked script summaries for agents. Orr learned about ways a producer in Nickelodeon’s press and communicacan have a strong creative influence on tions department, said she enjoyed using a film’s script and aesthetics. Interac- free time to explore the city, often while tions with Georgia Kacandes, executive running. A member of Dartmouth’s producer for Martin Scorsese’s “The track team, O’Flynn completed the Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) and sister of LA Marathon with Kelsey Sipple ’16, another student comparative liton the FSP, on erature professor “I got to see March 9. Irene Kacandes, everything — I read Some demonstrated of her other fahow a producer a Western, a lot of vorite memories must have a fine dystopian, ‘Hunger included trips to eye for the costliThe J. Paul Getty ness of a movie, Games’-type scripts,” Museum, Veneven down to the Kilkenny said. “All ice Beach and price per page of scripts pass through Six Flags Magic scripts. Mountain in “A producer’s agencies.” Valencia, Calif., role is not disO’Flynn said. cussed as much as “I got actors’, directors’ - katie kilkenny ’14 to have some reor writers’,” Orr said. “I wanted to learn what a producer ally incredible experiences, not only does — having strong interpersonal from planning by our professors, but relations, managing a crew and a cast.” especially on our own,” O’Flynn said. Eddie Zapata ’14, who previously “[Sipple] and I went on runs from went on the film FSP to Scotland, said Santa Monica to Venice Beach, and he enjoyed the Los Angeles trip’s focus on days off, for cross training, we hiked on the industry’s behind-the-scenes the Hollywood sign.” workings. The Scotland trip was fo- Mac Simonson ’16, who worked cused on film production, he said, with for a small legal firm specializing in classes covering digital cinematography copyright law for entertainment, said production and film festivals, history he learned the most about the industry from talking with alumni. Some of the and theory. Zapata completed an internship most memorable meetings included at M3 Creative, a small studio that meals with Rhimes, Henry, Lord and produces teaser trailers and behind- Miller, he said. the-scenes footage for major studios. Other experiences on the trip could Zapata transcribed interview footage only happen in Los Angeles, Simonson and helped tag video clips for the group, said, such as sitting a row ahead of which is currently working on three author Jeff Goldberg at an early screening of a new Jim Jarmusch movie or projects for Marvel Entertainment. “Before [the FSP], I thought I attending a free concert in the Natural wanted to be director of photography, Museum of Los Angeles’s dinosaur hall, in charge of lighting and sets,” Zapata he said. said. “But now, I realize that there are “At [the Academy Film Archives],we so many more jobs, so many creative saw all the shooting material from old ways to be involved behind the camera. Hitchcock movies and got to hold an I’m stuck right now. Should I continue Oscar,” Simonson said. “It was borderworking on my own videos, or try to line touristy but a lot of fun.”