The Dartmouth 04/15/14

VOL. CLXXI NO. 61

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Dennis ’15, Cunningham ’16 to lead Assembly

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Casey Dennis ’15 and Frank Cunnningham ’16 were elected Student Assembly president and vice president on Monday.

Dennis garnered 930 votes, 281 votes ahead of write-in candidate Sophia Pedlow ’15, according to a press release from the Election Planning and Advisory Committee. A total of

2,376 people cast ballots in this year’s election, an increase of 531 from last year.

Pedlow received 649 votes; Jay Graham ’15, 609 votes; Yesuto Shaw ’15, 340 votes; and Jon Miller ’15, 265 votes.

Cunningham, who ran on a ticket with Dennis, swept the vice presidential election with 1,108 votes, 473 votes ahead SEE ASSEMBLY PAGE 3

Parkhurst disturbance ends with assault charge for alumnus B y TAYLOR MALMSHEIMER The Dartmouth Senior Staff

David Vincelette ’84, 57, was arrested by Hanover Police Monday afternoon after causing a disturbance in the reception area of College President Phil Hanlon’s office and assaulting Safety and Security director Harry Kinne, Hanover Police chief Frank Moran said. After his arrival, Parkhurst Hall was locked down, College media relations officer Shea Drefs said

in an emailed statement.

Vincelette was charged with disorderly conduct for disrupting the flow of business and simple assault for forcibly shoving Kinne, Moran said. He was released on $5,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in the New Hampshire 2nd Circuit Court on May 19. He has been ordered to remain off College property.

Safety and Security received a call from the President’s Office around 12:45 p.m. and responded with five officers, Kinne

Comment period for sexual assault policy ends

B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Monday marked the deadline for community members to submit comments on the College’s newly proposed sexual assault policy, which was released a month ago.

On March 14, College President Phil Hanlon released a letter requesting feedback, submitted either privately via email or publicly on the Improve Dartmouth

website.

By Monday, four comments — including two by alumni, one by a professor and one by a graduate student, all in general support of the changes — had been posted in a featured discussion about the proposed policy on Improve Dartmouth. No undergraduates had submitted public comments.

As of press time, the Office of SEE COMMENTS PAGE 5

said. Hanover Police received a call from the President’s Office around the same time regarding a man who was “out of control,” Moran said.

Vincelette was acting “aggressive and very disorderly,” Kinne said, and when Safety and Security officers approached him, Vincelette struck Kinne in the chest. Safety and Security officers restrained Vincelette until Hanover Police arrived at SEE VINCELETTE PAGE 5

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David Vincelette ’84 was arrested on Monday.

Computing works to patch Heartbleed vulnerabilities

B y ROSHAN DUTTA The Dartmouth Staff

Though the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in a popular encryption software known as OpenSSL, has had little impact on the College, computing services has worked urgently to patch its servers since last week. The College will inform campus once computing staff secures its servers, and community members should not change their Dartmouth passwords until after the

systems affected by Heartbleed have been fixed.

As of Monday morning, computing services had not seen any successful hacks of OpenSSL yielding the private encryption key for a server, chief information security officer Steve Nyman said in an email. While there have been reports that some usernames and passwords were successfully harvested, these were of systems in which the

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DAily debriefing

Discussion hones in on faculty retention B y KATE BRADSHAW The Dartmouth Staff

April 11, 5:54 p.m., McNutt Hall: Parents of a prospective student reported that they lost track of their son. Safety and Security officers began to look for the individual and located him asleep in Sanborn Library.

April 11, 11:31 p.m., Russell Sage Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to Russell Sage, where a female student claimed that she saw male students yelling at females out the window.

April 12, 12:08 a.m., the Green: A male was located on the Green after suspicious activity in Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The individual misidentified himself before being identified as a temporary employee of the College. He fled the Green, but was found and taken to Grafton County Jail.

April 12, 1:54 a.m., the Green: A Safety and Security officer observed a prospective female student staggering on the Green, and Hanover Police took the student to the police station. Her parents were notified.

April 12, 11:57 p.m., Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity: Safety and Security cleared the house after observing a high number of people at an unregistered event.

April 13, 2:34 a.m., Novack Café: Safety and Security officers located two intoxicated students, who were identified by security camera, in the bathroom of Novack Café. Both were admitted to Dick’s House for their high levels of intoxication.

April 13, 2:59 a.m., Goldstein Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a call for a violent intoxicated male in Goldstein. He was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

April 13, 3:56 a.m., East Wheelock: Safety and Security officers assisted Hanover Police with two male students. One was transported to Dick’s House for intoxication, but he fled. Officers located him but were unable to return him to Dick’s House because of his condition. He was taken to the police station and subsequently Grafton County Jail. The other individual was sober and not retained.

April 13, 7:26 a.m., Goldstein Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a female student found asleep under a coffee table. She was taken to Dick’s House for her high intoxication.

— Compiled by Doug Phipps

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Dartmouth’s difficulty in recruiting and retaining minority faculty members may derive from a preexisting lack of minority professors, tenure prospects and additional mentorship responsibilities these faculty members take on, students, faculty and staff said at the fifth set of “Moving Dartmouth Forward” discussions.

Facilitated by Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno and Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Joseph Helble on Monday, the sessions focused on issues surrounding faculty recruitment and retention.

As of last fall, the College had 397 tenure and tenure-track faculty members, and about 41 percent were female, according to the College Fact Book. About 20 percent of College faculty self-identify as minorities, Mastanduno said.

Each year, departments search for 30 to 35 faculty members and eventually recruit 20 to 25, and attracting members of underrepresented minority groups can prove difficult, Mastanduno said. Dartmouth demands high-quality teaching skills and research experiences from potential faculty, he said, and as a result, the College often faces nationwide

competition from the largest and most prestigious universities.

Various factors influence potential faculty’s decision to come to Dartmouth, Mastanduno said. Hanover’s cost of living, he said, is often cited as a drawback over its weather or rural environment.

The living cost in Hanover is 32 percent higher than the national average, Helble said.

Limited local jobs for faculty members’ partners, Matsanduno said, is another disadvantage. Despite Dartmouth’s “partner policy,” which requires the College to help find employment for a recruited faculty’s partner, many face fewer options in Hanover than they would in urban settings.

Mastanduno also mentioned what he called the “playmate problem,” when faculty members want to work with intellectual peers who are interested in the same subject matter. Dartmouth has a relatively small number of faculty compared to some research universities, so professors are often the only ones in their specialty.

Faculty members who attended the second session indicated that faculty retention is just as crucial as recruitment.

English professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina said that some junior

faculty members, especially those from underrepresented minority backgrounds, may feel overburdened with the mentor relationships they take on for students from similar backgrounds.

The minority faculty members she has witnessed depart from the College, Gerzina said, listed a range of reasons for leaving, including marriage prospects and preference for city life.

“Perhaps there could have been a way to keep some of them,” Gerzina said.

Several faculty members in attendance agreed that Dartmouth needs a “critical mass” of minority faculty members across departments to motivate more minority faculty members to remain at the College.

African and African-American studies professor Reena Goldthree emphasized the role of “pipeline” programs, like the Mellon Mays Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, in recruiting minority scholars. She said that though 72 recipients have earned Dartmouth’s Cesar Chavez, Charles Eastman and Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowships at Dartmouth since 1992, few have been SEE FORWARD PAGE 3

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High turnout marks Assembly elections Retaining faculty poses ongoing challenge FROM ASSEMBLY PAGE 1

of Matt Robinson ’15, who ran with Graham. Harry Qi ’17, who ran with Miller, received 240 votes.

Both Dennis and Cunningham, who will replace Adrian Ferrari ’14 and Michael Zhu ’14, expressed their excitement at the large voter turnout.

“I am honored that the student body came out and voted for us,” Dennis said. “We truly want to make a difference at this school.”

Dennis said that his priorities as Assembly president will include increasing student engagement and Assembly transparency, partially through weekly office hours and a termly “state of the student body” video. Dennis also said he hopes to mandate Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training during freshman Orientation.

Cunningham said that turnout reflected enthusiasm for their platform, “Take Back Dartmouth,” and goal of re-energizing the student body.

Miller said that he was “flabbergasted” by the allocation of votes.

“I think the results show that the traditional way of campaigning might not be the best option,” Miller said, adding that he, Graham and Shaw all pursued similar campaign strategies.

Graham, Pedlow, Qi, Robinson

and Shaw did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Chase Mertz ’15 was elected 2015 Class Council president. Danny Reitsch ’16 and Victor Muchatuta ’16 will serve as 2016 Class Council president and vice president, respectively. Paul Ghazal ’17 and Elisabeth

“I am honored that the student body came out and voted for us.

We truly want to make a difference at this school.”

- Casey Dennis ’15, student assembly president-elect Schricker ’17 will serve as 2017 Class Council president and vice president.

Janelle Bullock ’15, Taylor Cathcart ’15, Chase Gilmore ’16, Grant Mortell ’16, Muchatuta, Daniel Pham ’16, Julia Pomerantz ’16 and Andrew Zhu ’16 were elected to serve on the Committee on Standards or Organizational Adjudication Committee.

Since 2011, EPAC has used an approval voting system to conduct Assembly elections. Instead of voting for one candidate, students may vote for as many candidates they feel are qualified.

On Sunday morning, Ke Li ’16 sent out a campus-wide email asking students to participate in a survey on voting systems. An academic project, the survey aimed to compare the results of “approval voting,” in which individuals can vote for as many candidates as they like, with “majority judgment,” in which voters rate candidates and whoever earns the highest median score wins.

The survey also tried to determine if student knowledge of a candidate’s platform influences election results.

Professor emeritus of mathematics and social sciences Robert Norman, who is Li’s research advisor, said that he believes the approval voting system is the most effective system for Student Assembly elections and reflects student opinion most accurately.

Elections were held from midnight to 8 p.m. on Monday.

Miller and Muchatuta are members of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

Cunningham is a member of The Dartmouth business staff. Dennis is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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offered tenure-track positions.

Goldthree suggested that Dartmouth faculty and administrators research and develop best practices for faculty retention.

“We have to use the same skill set we were trained to use as scholars to tackle this issue,” Goldthree said.

Instead of relying on anecdotal evidence, Goldthree proposed regular surveys measuring faculty quality of life and exit interviews with all faculty who choose to leave Dartmouth.

In the wake of the recent $100 million donation to the College, Mastanduno and Helble plan to draw new faculty to campus based on academic clusters.

The clusters, an initiative launched

by College President Phil Hanlon

last fall, will establish issue-based interdisciplinary partnerships on specific topics, such as digital arts or sustainability, to foster interdepartmental research.

Several students said that a lack of transparency surrounding the tenure process and the presence of few faculty of color on selection committees may contribute to lower minority faculty retention.

Kaila Pedersen ’14, who attended the evening discussion, said she was concerned about minority faculty retention, adding that she frequently discusses the issue in the Inter-Community Council and the Women of Color Collective.

Mastanduno said he plans to use the information from the discussion to plan for continuing and expanding recruitment.

College amps up online security defense FROM HEARTBLEED PAGE 1

credentials were not encrypted, he said.

The Heartbleed bug was discovered earlier this month. When successfully exploited, the bug allows outside users to decipher encrypted data, enabling those with malicious intent to access private information, including passwords, emails, instant messages and other communications.

Given the difficulty of exploiting the coding flaw and various defenses that Dartmouth has in place, the College’s overall exposure to the bug is low, Nyman said in an email. Once the vulnerable servers at the College have been fixed, he said, community members will be encouraged to change passwords as a precaution.

Noting that many large companies are quickly working to resecure their websites, Nyman said that students should check to see which have fixed the leak and then change their passwords to protect personal and financial data.

Nyman compared the vulnerability to a situation in which students pass coded notes in class while an onlooker — the hacker — tries to decipher the code.

A hacker exploiting Heartbleed would only receive “random fragments” of information at any one time, Nyman said. If the hacker succeeded at reassembling the fragments, he or she could plausibly de-scramble the code, creating a key that could then be used to decipher the remainder of the communication. While it is technically possible to crack the code, he said, it is difficult and potentially timeconsuming.

“This onlooker student could stumble on the correct info rapidly or could sit forever trying to capture and piece together the code needed to create the key to unlock the coded text,” Nyman said. “Similarly, whether within days or weeks, someone might develop a program to accomplish this efficiently. That’s why this is a serious vulnerability that must be fixed now.”

The Heartbleed bug, computer science professor Sean Smith said, is the most recent and most damaging of several vulnerabilities uncovered in SSL encryption software this year.

“Any data you might have at a vulnerable SSL server — anywhere, not just at Dartmouth — may potentially be compromised,” Smith

said, adding that if a laptop has the security flaw and an individual clicks a supposedly secure link to a malicious website, an outside party may gain access to the computer’s contents.

Students can protect their information by ensuring their personal computers’ client software is up to date, Smith said.

Computing departments at peer institutions have also made announcements regarding the Heartbleed vulnerability. Cornell University’s IT department said that the impact on its systems has been small. Harvard University issued a similar statement, saying that while the bug did not significantly affect its systems, users should change their Harvard account passwords if they use the same one across multiple websites.

Computer science professor Sergey Bratus said that the potential fallout from the bug reflects the dangers of society’s dependence on software.

“Software for critical infrastructure must be as simple as possible,” Bratus said. “Instead, we depend on huge code bases that try to cater to all possible uses at once.

This approach gives tremendous advantages to attackers.”

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The fourth “Moving Dartmouth Forward” session looked at faculty retention.

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Contributing Columnist ABHIshek parajuli ’15

Guest columnist Susy Struble ’93

A New Threat to Peace

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Technological advances pose challenges to international cooperation.

Our world is about to become a lot more dangerous. While we have not seen outright conflict between major powers since World War II, a key technological change will make conflict between China and the U.S. more likely.

One important force sustaining world peace since the war is economic interdependence. Take the iPhone. Its parts are made in several countries and assembled in China.

So, while Apple is an American company, its main factories are located in China. This global production method makes war less likely because a war between the U.S. and China means the U.S. will not only lose the Chinese market for iPhones, but also a large chunk of its production capacity. China, on the other hand, needs to maintain steady employment levels to avoid internal unrest, and since approximately 28 percent of its national income comes from exports, it works hard to make sure American markets stay open to its products. This interdependence is great for peace, because it raises the cost of war for both sides and thus makes leaders less trigger-happy. Unfortunately, automated manufacturing is about to bring this to an abrupt end by weakening economic interdependence.

Automated manufacturing may sound like science fiction, but it’s already transforming manufacturing. Robots using artificial intelligence and 3D printers, which can print out scaled objects, are replacing human workers.

As the printers grow more complex, they will be able to print objects with moving parts like watches or smartphones. Intelligent robots can be programmed to do delicate work that could previously only be done by humans and can also be reprogrammed to do other types of work as new needs arise. Are they for real?

Yes. Tesla Motors, which produces 95 percent of its components in-house and uses less labor per car than traditional carmakers, builds its cars with multi-tasking robots. At General Electric, an engine fuel nozzle that was previously made by assembling 20 com-

ponent parts from several countries, is being 3D printed as a single unit in the U.S. Other products already being 3D printed include bionic ears, guns and rocket parts for NASA. Why does this matter? The happy trade relationship between the U.S. and China will collapse as manufacturing is automated for three reasons. First, once these technologies achieve scale, the cost and time lost in transport will make China redundant in the global supply chain. If you can “print” your smartphone in California, shipping it across the Pacific makes no sense. Second, these technologies are poised to take off rapidly because firms have incentives to embrace them: aside from lowering labor and transport costs, automated production helps inventory management — a key business problem. Machines can be switched on and off or reprogrammed faster and more efficiently than workers can be hired, fired or retrained. Finally, China will not be able to cope with this technological revolution because its education system is largely geared toward vocational training. As manufacturing is automated, human labor will have to shift toward design and innovation, and the Chinese will find themselves hard-pressed to learn these skills via rote learning.

Not only will automation hurt China-U.S. trade, it will also threaten stability within China. As masses of ill-trained workers find themselves unable to compete in a design and innovation economy, the Chinese Communist Party will have to adopt a more aggressive external posture by stoking nationalism to hold power. The Chinese leadership will likely become more aggressive to maintain control, and American leaders will have less to lose if they go to war with China. This seemingly far-fetched reality needs to be taken seriously for the simple reason that war has often come when it seemed least plausible. Before World War I, for instance, many thought a war was improbable.

There is a clear fissure emerging in the economic bonds supporting peace, and the world should take notice.

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The new sexual assault policy leaves room for improvement.

I am encouraged by Dartmouth’s efforts to improve its sexual assault investigative process.

The guidelines to better identify and remove perpetrators show responsiveness to longstanding community requests. While experimental, the proposed investigation-only model of resolving complaints has shown promise on other campuses.

In combination, the proposed changes will help create a safer environment for all Dartmouth students. The President and the Board of Trustees are to be commended for this significant step.

However, the draft published last month needs revision. In February College President Phil Hanlon attended a meeting of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, but the proposal he and the Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson released points to a lack of understanding of the regulatory landscape and what is being discussed in that task force.

The College needs to create a policy that is as supportive of survivors as it is of perpetrators. The proposed policy encourages the survivor to make a “timely” report of the assault. In contrast, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights addresses the promptness of a school’s obligation to investigate and resolve reports of sexual assault.

Implying that survivors are obligated to make a timely report also goes against the spirit of Title IX. A survivor should be able to report whenever he or she is ready. In fact, even criminal law has done away with this “prompt complaint” requirement, as Michelle Anderson, CUNY School of Law dean, explained in a 2004 Boston University Law Review article titled “Legacy of the Prompt Complaint Requirement, Corroboration Requirement and Cautionary Instructions on Campus Sexual Assault.” Dartmouth’s new proposal does not do enough to ensure the school fulfills its own obligation to timeliness. The proposal offers a 60-day limit for the investigation but no time limit for the disciplinary process as a whole.

Additionally, the proposed policy fails to adequately deal with confidentiality. The policy states that “if possible and appropriate,” anonymity will be protected. As written, a survivor could not make an informed decision about to whom he or she could make a confidential report. Clarifying

confidentiality around reporting is a key issue being addressed by the White House Task Force as well as the OCR, and both will soon publish significantly updated recommendations.

Moreover, the College must make an equally vigorous commitment to removing the social and cultural supports of sexual violence at Dartmouth.

The College seems to act impressionistically rather than comprehensively, lacking a clear, thorough and public understanding of the root causes of sexual assault and harassment at Dartmouth and how these policy changes will address these root causes. For example, how might this mandatory expulsion for perpetrators of a limited range of sexual assaults — which prima facie sounds promising — have a chilling effect on reporting and increase survivors’ burdens if people still believe that survivors are rarely truthful? How can the College move forward with this proposal without a concurrent and significant update to its sexual harassment policy to include related behaviors like cyber-bullying, stalking and gender-based hate speech?

This is a monumental proposal. The higher education regulatory landscape is under revision, with important updates to the Clery Act and new regulatory guidance to Title IX about to be published. We strongly urge the College to take more time to craft the right policy and work with outside resources who have the requisite expertise on these issues, including Title IX and Clery Act legal experts, local law enforcement, the county prosecutor and the local rape crisis center.

As a member of Dartmouth Change, a coalition of alumni, faculty, students and community members that advocates more effective action against sexual violence on campus, I am confident that the College can rise to the challenge of crafting an effective policy that supports survivors. We at Dartmouth Change will publish our detailed comments on the policy proposal on our website at www.dartmouthchange.org and have submitted them to the private email address provided by the College. We look forward to the next revision and another opportunity to help.

Susy Struble ’93 is an organizing member of Dartmouth Change.

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Struble said.

Susy Struble, FOUNDER Hilary founder of the Miller ’73, who nonprofit group submitted feedDartmouth Change, said that since back on the policy in an open letter to the College published its revisions Hanlon, said the option of submitting to the sexual assault policy, her or- written feedback felt comfortable, ganization has gathered comments especially considering the sensitive and forwarded them to the specified nature of the topic. email address.

Miller, a practicing attorney, said Comparing the existing policy that the policy demonstrates lack of with the proposed policy is a daunting fundamental due process protections task, especially as students may not for alleged offenders. know about or understand the differ“I would be very troubled if it ent federal and state laws by which went into effect in its current form,” Dartmouth must abide, Struble said. Miller said.

She added that a lack of knowledge The proposal, however, shows FROM COMMENTS PAGE 1

Vincelette ’84 has lodged complaints against town FROM VINCELETTE PAGE 1

the scene.

As he was escorted out of Parkhurst, Vincelette exclaimed, “Dartmouth is the polluter.”

Hanover Police is still investigating Vincelette’s motivations, but Moran said Vincelette has an “ongoing dispute” with the Town of Hanover over the use of recycled asphalt on town roads.

In the past, Vincellete has stated concerns regarding the pollution of Mink Brook and other waterways.

“We don’t know with certainty that that was the topic,” Moran said. “But that has been his concern of late.”

Vincelette, who owns property on Lebanon St., has expressed concerns that run off from recycled asphalt and snow dumps containing salt and sand are polluting

local waterways, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said. He has identified Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s snow dump located east of Jesse’s Restaurant, in particular, as a source of contamination, she said.

Though she did not know Vincelette’s reason for visiting Parkhurst Monday, Griffin said it was “not unusual behavior for [Vincelette].”

At a meeting last week, Vincelette presented complaints to the Hanover Conservation Commission.

“The town’s position is that we’re in compliance with state regulations,” Griffin said.

In 2012, Vincelette unsuccessfully sued the Town of Hanover in Grafton County Superior Court regarding asphalt waste contamination.

Vincelette could not be reached for comment by press time.

that Dartmouth is serious about prosecuting sexual assault, Miller said, noting that one encouraging aspect is the plan’s provision for an outside investigator.

Yoon said SPCSA assisted the College in gathering feedback by hosting a symposium on sexual assault, which featured a question-and-answer session with both Hanlon and Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson. All feedback collected from the community will be compiled and submitted to director of undergraduate judical affairs Leigh Remy.

SPCSA representatives have met with Remy, Dartmouth’s general counsel Robert Donin and members of the Greek Leadership Council and Student Assembly to provide detailed feedback, Yoon said.

Of 10 students interviewed, six were not aware that the proposed policy had been open for public comment.

Eric Tao ’16, who knew about the comment period, said that he thinks most students are against sexual assault, calling the comment period “political fluff.”

Matthew McFarland ’16, who commented publicly about implementing a zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual assault on the Improve Dartmouth website, said in an email that he has not submitted any feedback about the new proposal. He said he feels uncomfortable about the College’s use of a “preponderance of the evidence” standard for serious infractions and does not think that the new proposal represents a significant change from current policy.

Sera Kwon and Min Kyung Jeon contributed reporting.

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Michael Blum ’15 releases first jazz guitar CD, ‘Initiation’

B y MArgarette NELSON The Dartmouth Staff

Though the son of two musicians, Michael Blum ’15 did not plan to pursue a career in music when he arrived at the College. Blum has studied music most of his life — his father was his first guitar teacher — but it was not until he played in the orchestra for the College’s production of “Hairspray” his freshman year that he considered pursuing music professionally, he said.

In the two years since, Blum spent thousands of hours practicing guitar.

He released his debut album, “Initiation,” in February. The jazz album, performed by The Michael Blum Quartet, is a mix of standards from The Great American Songbook, originals by Blum’s instructor and Berklee College of Music professor Jim Stinnett and a track by Blum called “Six Weeks.”

At the College, Blum is a music and cognitive science double major, and he sings with co-ed a cappella group, The Dodecaphonics. He has also played in the pit bands for student productions “Hairspray” and “Spring Awakening.”

Blum said his technical acumen on the guitar took off during his sophomore year, when he began taking lessons with Stinnett, who had previously taught Blum’s father. Blum travels to Stinnett’s home in Candia for these

lessons, which he credits with helping him take a “clear path and concise path” to musical mastery. “[Stinnett’s] entire teaching philosophy is grounded in the perspective that you can’t learn to play jazz without learning the language of the masters,” Blum said.

Blum said he has learned much from transcription, an exercise where a musician practices playing a recording note for note, preserving its original rhythms and inflections.

“You hear it, you play it,” Blum said.

“There’s not that much in between.

It trains your ears and improves your technique.”

Blum said that he has mostly practiced playing works by guitarists Grant Green and Wes Montgomery, whom he counts as influences to his own work. He also listens to guitarist Ed Bickert and pianist Red Garland for inspiration, he said.

Blum also benefited from Stinnett’s network of musician friends to help him record his album. Stinnett played the bass on the recording and organized for Arizona State University music professor and drummer Dom Moio to fly in for the recording session.

Stinnett had pianist Brad Smith from Bedford join the group as well.

Once they were all assembled, they rehearsed briefly and began

Courtesy of Michael Blum

Michael Blum ’15 was not interested in a career in music until he played in the orchestra for Dartmouth’s “Hairspray.”

recording extremely quickly, with the entire recording completed in two sixhour sessions at Chase Productions in Methuen, Mass.

“With [Stinnett’s] guidance and help, we hired some extremely good musicians who made the recording process very easy,” Blum said. “As long as you are well versed with the language [of jazz], you can sit down with anyone and speak it.”

Jazz pianist Grant Neubauer ’13, who met Blum his freshman year, described Blum as “very eager to play” whenever possible. Blum and Neubauer have performed together at the Hop Garage and Canoe Club Restaurant over the last two years.

He said he was impressed by Blum’s improvement and dedication.

“If he can keep up this path, he’s going places,” Neubauer said. “From playing with him two and half years ago to hearing the album, I’m pretty blown away from the amount of growth.”

Music professor and jazz musician Fred Haas said he was impressed with Blum’s ability the first time he heard him play a solo transcription at a music department workshop. Since then, the two have performed a duet together at Canoe Club.

Since the album’s release, Blum, who is off campus this term, has focused on promoting the album. He has reached out to individual jazz writers

and applied to U.S. and international jazz festivals, he said. He is also working on a tribute to jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. After graduation, he hopes to pursue a career as a performer.

“Right now I’m trying to make the connections and set a path for myself,” Blum said. “That’s partially the reason I record. It’s important to have a calling card.”

the final word with Michael Blum ’15

My favorite campus dish is: the Buffalo Tender Bob Marley, a tender bob with buffalo sauce and a hash brown.

If I had the chance to perform with one artist, dead or alive, I’d choose: pianist Oscar Peterson.

The best concert I ever attended was: the Christian McBride Trio show at the Village Vanguard in New York.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014

TUESDAY LINEUP

BASEBALL VS. UMASS-LOWELL 3 PM

SOFTBALL AT HARTFORD 4:30 PM

Track shines at UNH, George Mason B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

The track and field teams competed in two meets this weekend, with some athletes attending the George Mason Spring Invitational and the majority of the teams heading to Durham for the Wildcat Invitational at the University of New Hampshire.

In Fairfax, Va., at the George Mason Invitational, six Big Green men competed against 21 other teams, many from the Atlantic 10 and the Ancient Eight, placing 14th overall. The women placed 11th out of a field of 20 from a variety of conferences, with just six runners competing.

Highlights at George Mason included an impressive performance by Megan Krumpoch ’14, who finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:07.22 and third in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 59.18. The senior was the second collegiate finisher in the hurdles.

As Krumpoch transitions from the indoor to outdoor season, women’s head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said, she can improve in the 800-meter run.

“There are only two laps outdoor, so things happen a little bit quicker,” Ford-Centonze said. “Can’t really let little mistakes happen. It’s a learning curve, so I expect her to correct a few things going into the next meet.”

Other standout performances included Jennifer Meech ’16, who finished in ninth place in the 400-meter run with a time of 56.41 and 16th place in the 200-meter run with a time of 24.89.

Elizabeth Markowitz ’16 finished eighth in the 1,500-meter run, crossing the line in 4:26.01.

On the men’s side, Edward Wagner ’16 led the team. The sophomore earned two personal bests, winning the 400-meter hurdles in 52.40 and the 200-meter run in 22.03. He finished 25th in the 200-meter column.

Three Dartmouth men competed in the 1,500-meter run. Steven Mangan ’14 led the Big Green with a sixth place finish in 3:46.46, followed by Silas Talbot ’15 in 11th in 3:48.25 and Tim Gorman ’16, two seconds back in 13th.

Chances to run regional qualifying times in early meets are important because conditions can vary later in the season, men’s head coach Barry Harwick said.

“Getting a fast time takes away some of the mental pressure,” Harwick said.

“When you get to a championship meet, you don’t know how fast the times will be, even if you run great. It gives you

confidence to have the time.”

The team sent a much larger contingent to the Wildcat Invitational at UNH. Both teams turned in strong performances in Durham, as the men placed third overall with four first-place finishes, and the women ended competition in second, with nine trips to the top of the podium.

The women’s 800-meter run was the highlight of the weekend, with six Big Green runners placing in the top seven. Arianna Vailas ’14 won the race in 2:10.67, followed by Meghan Grela ’17 in third in 2:12.41. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 finished two seconds back in fourth, with Jennifer Cunningham ’17, Abby Markowitz ’16 and Emily Grotz ’16 placing fifth through seventh.

Grela, who was racing for the first time since a injury from the indoor season, said she was nervous but that the other Dartmouth runners helped her with pacing and comfort.

“I was really nervous for the race in general,” Grela said. “When you haven’t raced in a while, your confidence isn’t that high, and you don’t know how you’re going to feel.”

The Dartmouth women went one-two-three in two races — the 1,500-meter and the 5,000-meter. Sarah DeLozier ’15 won the 1,500 in 4:38.27, while teammates Reid Watson ’16 and Sarah Bennett ’16 were not far behind.

In the 5,000-meter race, Claudia Pham ’15 won by almost a minute with a time of 17:23.56. Ashley Ulrich ’15 and Erin McConnell ’17 rounded out the

top three with times of 18:22.89 and 18:34.86, respectively.

Ulrich is a member of The Dartmouth senior staff.

The Big Green went one-two in the 400-meter dash, as Aliyah Gallup ’17 ran 58.36 and Maria Jarostchuk ’17 crossed the line in 1:00.99. Anna Kikut ’16 won the 200-meter dash in 25.13.

The Big Green men had numerous individual champions, as Corey Muggler ’17 won the long jump and Jeremy Birck ’15 won the high jump.

Colin Quinn ’15 and Jacob Shippee ’16 finished first and second respectively in the javelin, and Dom Filiano ’14 and Tim Brennan ’17 finished first and second in the discus.

On the track, Alex Frye ’17 and Danny Katz ’16 placed second and third in the 110-meter hurdles, while John Abraham ’16 finished third in the 100-meter dash.

Ford-Centonze said that because of the protracted outdoor season, the athletes have a sense of urgency when they compete.

“Outdoor season is so short that every competition is important,” she said. “Everyone is really intent and determined with what we’re doing.”

Members of the track team will participate in five different meets between now and April 26. Next weekend some athletes will compete across the country at the Mt. SAC Relays, when others are at the Larry Ellis Invite in Princeton, N.J., or the Yale Invitational.

The team heads to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays in two weeks.

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Last season, the women’s track team finished first in its first meet. This year, it finished second.

B y phoebe hoffmann I walk to the locker room precisely three and a half hours before each game. And every time, my hands start to shake, and questions begin racing through my head: Is my team ready?

Am I ready? How will the game turn out?

Stress is probably a familiar emotion to most Dartmouth students. Picture students fumbling through notes to cram in a few last-minute equations before an exam, hearts pounding.

But what’s the point of worrying when there are some things that cannot be controlled?

I’m still trying to figure this out, but pre-test or pre-game, I’ve learned that the first step is getting in the right mindset.

There’s no doubt that being a student at Dartmouth has its fair share of stressors, and sports can be a big one for student-athletes. The Dartmouth Peak Performance program has a growing repertoire of resources to keep our muscles and minds in tip-top shape.

When it comes to mental health, Mark Hiatt, DP2 psychologist, is at the helm in helping build a strong mindset for each individual on a team. According to several athletes who have met with Hiatt, his techniques include visualizing scenarios and fostering connections among teammates.

Visualization is key for many athletes, preparing them to handle onthe-field situations instead of entering panic mode. The composure allows for easier decision-making and a leg up on the competition. When minutes feel like seconds, every little moment counts. In a less technical way, Hiatt guides teams in exercises to get to know each other on a deeper level. The root of a well-oiled machine is knowing what it takes to make each piece run smoothly and being prepared if any cog breaks down. These activities seem like common sense, but the right mentality can be the difference between an all-star team with great athletes and a championship team with players whose talents and tight bonds foster a winning program.

After several experiences with DP2’s leadership program, many athletes have been ingrained with

mental toughness. In the fall, the field hockey team and several other teams were put through an incredibly taxing eight-hour experience in the woods around the Dartmouth Skiway in the pouring rain, during which we were all reminded that mental toughness is all we have left when physical strength gives way. Athletes can spend countless hours in the weight room, but it is just as important to build and maintain strong mental health for many reasons. Players cannot reach their maximum potential if factors such as fear, anxiety or lack of focus are clouding their vision. Fear is the biggest obstacle — it can inhibit every step an athlete takes.

The pressure is always on. At practice, players constantly balance building their teammates up while competing with them for a spot on the field come game day. Competition day brings a whole new set of stressors.

Whether it’s putting on gear in a specific order, eating the proper food at the right time on game day or something simple like having a good warm-up, the part of the day before a game can bring out a wide range of nervous habits, irrational fears and mind games. While your physical fitness will not change in one day before a game, your mental preparedness can. There are many ways to psych yourself out, and it is vital to develop coping mechanisms.

However, game day is not the only time athletes need to be on top of their mental game. Like other students with commitments that extend past the classroom, athletes have to worry about balancing academics. Some professors are incredibly supportive when teams are on the road; others are not. Some coaches understand that academics should come first; others do not. The decision to stay up in Baker until closing time to finish a paper before the next day’s huge game is just one decision that student-athletes (varsity, club and the ever-so-dedicated intramural athletes) must make all too often. Unless your academic-sports-social (if you’re lucky) scale is balanced properly, it is easy to fall into a harmful cycle. Prioritizing mental health is key to a balanced lifestyle.

Inside the Locker Room is a weekly column, alternately written by Phoebe Hoffmann ’15 and Sarah Caughey ’15.