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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014
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Protests echo across campuses nationwide
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Twenty percent of Class of 2014 to graduate with honors B y ZAC HARDWICK
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In recent months, colleges across the country have seen a spate of demonstrations regarding issues of identity, with students demanding greater inclusivity on their campuses. Many resemble Dartmouth’s April “Freedom Budget” protests, when over a dozen students occupied College President Phil Hanlon’s office for two days, demanding a point-bypoint response to a list of over 70 demands regarding issues of
diversity. In the last year, students at Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Mills College, University of Michigan, City University of New York, Mount Holyoke College and University of California at Los Angeles, among others, have initiated protests concerning similar issues. Melissa Padilla ’16, who was involved in the “Freedom Budget” protest, said she communicated with her friends who
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While many rising seniors spend the summer term interning, working temporary jobs or taking classes, Katelyn Walker ’14 toted a Dartmouth-funded camera across towns in Alabama and Georgia, searching for documents in national and regional archives to support her geography thesis on the Tennessee Valley Authority and the
New Deal. Walker, a geography major, will present her findings on May 20, joining over 200 classmates who have completed theses this year. In total, 234 Dartmouth seniors will receive honors credit at this year’s Commencement — a significant increase from last year, when 199 seniors received honors, according to info provided by the Dean of the Faculty’s office. About 20 percent of the Class of 2014 completed
a thesis project. With 23 students completing theses, engineering leads the undergraduates arts and sciences departments in honors credits awarded this year, followed by psychological and brain sciences, English and biology with 19, 18 and 15, respectively. The government department will award 14, twice as many as last year. In other departments, like econom-
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Madeline Parker ’14 presented her geography thesis.
Spread of stomach virus Social card game study draws slows after outbreak participants to local restaurant
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A gastrointestinal virus has spread quickly across campus over the past two months, sending about 20 students per week to Dick’s House at its peak, though many more have likely been infected. The outbreak follows a Jan. 7 alert by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services regarding increased norovirus activity in the state.
Dick’s House has also released a campus alert about viral gastroenteritis, commonly referred to as the stomach flu. The decision to release an alert was based on the jump in student admittance to Dick’s House as well as the New Hampshire alert, Dick’s House co-director Jack Turco said. In the post, Dick’s House states the College’s awareness of the illness and lists
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Surrounded by red walls and decor reminiscent of the Memphis blues scene, teams of students and community members hunched over tables in 3 Guys Basement Barbecue for a card game Wednesday night as part of a paid research study hosted by Tiltfactor Laboratory, an interdisciplinary studio that designs and studies games that promote social change.
Postdoctoral researcher in psychology Geoff Kaufman said study participants played a party card game resembling “Apples to Apples.” The study, he said, analyzes the social impact of this type of game on players. Tiltfactor team member Cooper Thomas ’14, who facilitated the focus group session at 3 Guys, said that the study explores group dynamics within the setting of certain party games. SEE TILTFACTOR PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES
Brown University: A newly-formed task force on sexual assault will submit recommendations by December for improving prevention efforts, campus resources and university policies, the Brown Daily Herald reported. In addition, the university will seek a full-time Title IX coordinator to assume the responsibilities of three existing part-time coordinators. Columbia University: The body of dental student Jiwon Lee was found in the Hudson River on Sunday, the Columbia Spectator reported. The death was ruled a suicide. Lee suffered from depression and had previously attempted suicide before her disappearance, which was reported on April 2. Cornell University: A team led by seniors Ray Li and Michael Ndubuisi developed musical gloves, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The gloves, which allow the wearer to play any instrument, employ sensors and emit prepared loops of sound. Harvard University: At Tuesday’s monthly faculty meeting, members of the faculty of arts and sciences approved Harvard’s first-ever honor code, the Harvard Crimson reported. Soon, Harvard will require students to affirm their adherence to the code, which will formalize expectations of academic integrity. Yale University is now the only Ivy League institution that does not have an honor code. Princeton University: Princeton was named one of 55 colleges under investigation for alleged Title IX violations, the Daily Princetonian reported. The Department of Education released the list of schools on Thursday as part of a White House initiative aimed at reducing the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. University of Pennsylvania: Penn’s Class of 2018 has a yield rate of 66 percent, the highest since the rate for the Class of 2011, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. This marks a slight increase from the 63 percent of accepted students who chose to enroll last year. Yale University: Sarah Mahurin was chosen from a pool of over 80 candidates to be the next dean of Timothy Dwight Residential College, the Yale Daily News reported. Mahurin, the first female dean of the residential college, will replace dean John Loge, who will retire after serving in the position for 23 years. — COMPILED BY FIONA EWING for dartbeat
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Tiltfactor study looks at group dynamics FROM TILTFACTOR PAGE 1
“When you get a group of people together playing a game, you enter this different space in which the typical norms may or may not be accepted, or people may be more candid than they would outside or perhaps the inverse,” Thomas said. Conducting focus groups at 3 Guys, Kaufman said, targeted participant populations Tiltfactor had not previously reached and provided a more natural setting for group games. Previous studies have been conducted in Tiltfactor Laboratory, Howe Library and elementary, middle and high schools, with subjects mostly consisting of students. A total of 13 people attended the session at 3 Guys, while 16 more attended a simultaneous session held on campus. Wednesday’s session took place during the second consecutive week of focus groups, which comprise different participants each time, Tiltfactor game designer Max Seidman ’12 said. Tiltfactor will likely run several more focus groups based on the strong response it received after advertising the sessions, Seidman said. Though Kaufman could not elaborate on the specific goals of the focus groups for the sake of study con-
fidentiality, he said that other games developed by Tiltfactor concentrate on constructing ways for participants to overcome social bias and explore positive and negative interpersonal dynamics. “Games can be a catalyst for thinking about society or social issues differently,” Kaufman said. “We’re trying to get people to explore issues they might not outside the game.” Tiltfactor interns, fellows and design assistants conceive and pitch research projects, Kaufman said, and the team draws upon crossdisciplinary collaboration to develop each game’s narratives and mechanics before constructing paper prototypes. Afterward, the team tests the game, placing a particular emphasis on measuring its social impact. Tiltfactor is currently seeking subjects to help test its single-player and multiplayer games, and generally compensates its participants at a comparable level to psychology research studies, Kaufman said. Seidman, who interned at Tiltfactor as an undergraduate and has worked there full-time since graduation, said he has focused on developing games that combat gender bias in science, technology, engineering and math fields. He is also developing a game called Luminaries, which por-
trays female historical luminaries in STEM fields to young game players. Awkward Moment and Buffalo, two of Tiltfactor’s existing games, have been successfully shown to reduce bias in a single play, Seidman said. Other ongoing Tiltfactor projects include a digital game combating climate change and metadata games that employ crowdsourcing techniques while contributing to public archives. Seidman added that the 3 Guys study involved both games that Tiltfactor had invented and some they had not. Mariah Capron, of Lebanon, said she decided to attend the focus group on Wednesday after receiving an email about the study because she would get paid for playing games in a restaurant setting. Tiltfactor, created and headed by digital humanities professor Mary Flanagan, develops social games that reduce bias and promote wellness by utilizing psychological principles and empirical research. The laboratory operates out of the Black Family Visual Arts Center and receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation and other research groups.
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ics, theater and education, fewer students are pursuing theses, with 4, 1 and 0 respectively. Small humanities departments — including religion, Russian, sociology, film and media studies, French and Italian and classics — will each award two credits. Some non-departmental programs at Dartmouth also facilitate honors projects. The environmental studies program had 11 students complete projects this year, while Asian and Middle Eastern studies had six. Three senior fellows, who do not take classes during their final year, will also receive honors credit for their projects. While many students complete honors theses, some complete major projects that require an equivalent amount of work, such as an experimental investigation or other creative activity, assistant to the Dean of Faculty Nancy Charbono said in an email. The aforementioned numbers do not include these equivalents. Irvin Gomez ’14, a government thesis writer, said he saw theses displayed in the government department at the end of his freshman year and decided at that moment
to pursue his own project. “I made it my goal to see my name in one of those booklets at the end of my Dartmouth career,” Gomez said. “The thesis fulfilled the intellectual and academic challenge that I wanted Dartmouth to give me — I wouldn’t feel complete without it.” Gomez’s project explores why some countries have higher homicide rates, and the extent to which state capacity determines or influences that number. He said he believes his findings are important because they can help target areas that need development aid, he said. While Gomez originally hoped to research violence in Central America, he expanded his topic at his advisor’s encouragement. His advisor, he said, provided him with constant support, honest feedback and criticism. “I wouldn’t have seen that potential on my own,” he said. “I can say that my project wouldn’t be what it is without my advisors for being really hard on me, on my writing, the content of my writing and their very high expectations.” Annelise Orleck, a thesis advisor in the history department, said she enjoys watching advisees’ projects develop over time. Orleck identi-
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fies students in her classes who may be interested in writing a thesis based on their class performance. The process, while a major commitment, is rewarding for those who take on the challenge, she said. “If you believe that part of the culminating experience of undergraduate college life is to graduate with an original piece of work that is yours and that is big, and that you can be proud of, then you should do it,” she said. “But it’s a serious undertaking.” Orleck said she starts working with advisees during the spring term of their junior year to develop a proposal and seek grant funding for their research. After conducting research over the summer, thesis writers take two classes during the fall and winter terms of their senior year to guide the projects. During senior year, history students write and re-write their theses in preparation for presentations in April and May. While the process takes four terms, summer research and many hours, Orleck characterizes the workloads as “labors of love.” “Psychologically, emotionally SEE THESIS PAGE 5
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its symptoms, preventative and self-care measures and information about when to seek professional medical attention. The student clinic sought to increase awareness of the virus and “make people even more conscientious,” Turco said. Vomiting, diarrhea and cramping abdominal pain are the most common symptoms of gastrointestinal virus, which usually lasts one to two days, according to the Dick’s House alert, and the most effective prevention is good hand washing. Noroviruses are highly communicable and spread via person-to-person contact and through contaminated surfaces. Students with the virus were most often admitted to Dick’s House for dehydration, its most severe consequence, Turco said, adding that many other students likely experienced a mild case of the virus that did not require attention. Several members of Kappa Delta sorority and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity caught a gastrointestinal virus, most likely at a party earlier this term, Karen Wen ’16 said. Wen, a member of Kappa Delta
sorority, said she believes she caught the virus from the party but did not go to Dick’s House for medical assistance. “I figured out I had norovirus from my sorority’s blitz list,” Wen said. Ellen Daily ’14, who also attended the KD and Tri-Kap event, said she believes she did not catch the virus because she did not drink at the party. The College often sees a spike in viral gastroenteritis in the spring, Turco said. “Sometimes we see an uptick when people come on campus after spring break because students have been traveling all over the world,” he said. In the past, the virus has infected Dartmouth in “peaks and valleys,” Turco said. Outbreaks are common in colleges campuses and other locations where people interact with each other frequently, Turco said. Plymouth State University, 45 miles from Dartmouth’s campus, saw an outbreak in the winter, health services nurse manager Edna Merrill said, but the incidence rate slowed in the spring. Colby-Sawyer College and Vermont Technical College, both also within 50 miles of Dartmouth, have not seen outbreaks of gastrointestinal viruses, according to health professionals at the colleges.
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Teaching with Transparency
Discussing Dissent
The recent decision to postpone the vote on course evaluations is concerning. This past Monday, some faculty of the arts and sciences raised concerns over a proposal which would have allowed professors to publicize their past course evaluations with students. Although the meeting was poorly attended by faculty members and thus the concerns expressed may not accurately reflect views of the broader faculty, a few faculty members were quite vocal in expressing not only concern, but flat out disapproval for the proposal. I find it concerning that there is such disagreement. Whereas the Board of Trustees, the Student Assembly Academic Affairs Committee and the Committee on Instruction (which should, in theory, reflect faculty opinion) support the proposal, several faculty members remain resistant. Apparently, though students are graded, it seems that some of the faculty are less keen on the idea of sharing their own evaluations. Let me emphasize that the same proposal which the faculty would not even bring to a vote received unanimous support from the Student Assembly committee from which it came, as well as unanimous support from the Committee on Instruction, and came in part, as Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno mentioned during the meeting, from the Board of Trustees’ desire to increase transparency. The product presented before the faculty of the arts and sciences was a well-polished proposal, the result of many months of hard work and collaboration between Student Assembly and the Committee on Instruction. Some professors voiced particularly ironic responses to the proposal. English professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and English and African and African American studies professor J. Martin Favor both expressed concern about the social implications behind course evaluations. Environmental sciences professor Richard Howarth stated a concern that the “optin” component of the proposal, which allows professors to decide whether or not
to publicize their own evaluations, could become coercive if publicizing became the expectation. Being given the personal freedom to choose whether or not to make one’s course evaluations available would allegedly be too coercive. Instead, it would seem these professors believe it is less coercive to cast a vote which effectively says “I don’t want to make my course evaluations public, and I am going to take away from my colleagues their choice to make their evaluations public, regardless of what they want.” The irony is that they argue in favor of the most coercive measure which could have been taken — the removal of the choice and free will of their colleagues to opt in at their own discretion. I do not mean to suggest that all professors raised claims as contradictory as theirs. Several professors raised important and meaningful issues with the proposal. Religion professor Susan Ackerman pointed out that if students can view this information, then the faculty should as well — a proposition in keeping with the underlying goal of increased transparency. Government professor Deborah Brooks also correctly pointed out that perhaps the way in which evaluations are conducted may be antiquated in several years time. Regardless, the fact that both the Student Assembly and Committee on Instruction unanimously supported the proposal put forth to the faculty of the arts and sciences speaks of its quality. When Mastanduno said that students asked him how long it might be before evaluations were available, he told the audience of faculty that he had responded along the lines of “not knowing, these things take time.” This solicited a roar of laughter from the crowd. It is unfortunate that the faculty is stalling on this measure, because opening the course evaluations is a move clearly supported by the trustees and students alike. Despite resistance, we must continue to push an agenda of transparency.
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We must not allow knee-jerk reactions to impede important debates. Earlier this week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined invitation to speak at Rutgers University’s commencement ceremony. Her withdrawal came as a result of the #NoRice campaign, a movement led by a group of Rutgers University faculty members and students, some of whom organized a sit-in of the university president’s office. The group accused Rice of heinous war crimes, citing her involvement in the Iraq War during the Bush administration. New Brunswick is far from Hanover. A commencement ceremony has little in common with a philanthropic event. Still, I cannot help but see similarities between the dilemma at Rutgers and the controversial cancellation of “Phiesta.” Reactions to both events demonstrate an unwillingness to engage critically with an opposing view, instead opting to simply dismiss it. The foregone opportunities of an engaging commencement speaker and funds for cardiac research are linked. They are both symptoms of a larger problem — at Rutgers, at Dartmouth and at colleges and universities across the United States. We must realize that canceling something that conflicts with one’s perspective, rather than using the disagreement as an opportunity for dialogue, is childish, self-centered and counterproductive. At a basic level, Rice’s withdrawal as commencement speaker and the cancellation of “Phiesta” were both responses to offended college students, faculty and administrators. Ostensibly, these students had to earn admission to either Rutgers or Dartmouth, both prestigious institutions. To do so, they had to demonstrate that they could indeed think critically. Unfortunately, the #NoRice campaign at Rutgers and the complaints filed against “Phiesta” have reflected quite the opposite. Only allowing the things that reinforce their world view while censoring what falls outside is a juvenile tactic that does a great disservice to all students. In the Rutgers example, opponents stifled free and open discussion, the lifeblood of any educational institution. To the protesters at Rutgers: Does merely listening to someone with different views compromise the integrity of your perspectives? At Dartmouth, denouncing a charitable event because it offends some students
eliminates its potential benefits. To those who called for the fundraiser’s cancellation: Does a philanthropic event whose name uses a potentially appropriative pun merit cancellation? Advocating the outright removal of potentially offensive content or perspectives, rather than allowing them to provoke discussion, is egotistical. “Phiesta” may not have been the wisest choice of name, but the event itself still would have benefited many. At Rutgers, the small contingent of #NoRice proponents eliminated the prospect of an engaging commencement address and trampled over the rest of the student body who supported the former Secretary of State as commencement speaker. It is absurd that this vocal minority single-handedly eliminated what might have been an enriching experience for many. To be clear, this is not to say that the voice of the minority should not be heard. However, the allegations made by students in the #NoRice campaign were spurious. The former Secretary of State has never been found guilty of war crimes in a court of law. Those supporting the #NoRice campaign are free to advance these claims if they so choose. However, these unfounded accusations should have brought greater scrutiny, not Rice’s withdrawal as commencement speaker. Similarly, the concerns about “Phiesta” should be heard, but the event should not have been canceled. Where are we now? Rice has withdrawn from speaking at a university’s commencement and a legitimate fundraiser has been canceled. However, these occurrences are mere byproducts of something far more egregious — withdrawal from rational, coherent discussion. This is the path of least resistance. Engaging in civil discussion with those of opposing views is far more difficult than resorting to groundless accusations of war crimes and cultural appropriation. This retreat from sensible exchange of ideas is counterproductive, polarizing and alienating. The withdrawal of a commencement speaker and the cancellation of a fundraiser are probably inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. However, these events set a troublesome precedent that has negative repercussions for everyone, regardless of race, gender or political ideology.
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Diversity, inclusivity movements at many schools gain momentum FROM PROTESTS PAGE 1
were involved with similar protests at other schools, including New York University and University of Texas at Austin, during the construction of the “Freedom Budget” and the sit-in. Other Dartmouth activists spoke with friends on various campuses as well, she said. The protest at Dartmouth, she said, was not a reaction to movements at other schools but a response to discrimination at the College. “A lot of universities are looking to be more inclusive but are acting very unlike their statements,” Padilla said. “There’s a big gap between their mission statements and the actual reality of being a student on campus.” Across the country students are demanding that administrators make structural changes to better support all students. On April 7, a coalition of students at Oberlin College, in Ohio, wrote an open letter in support of the sit-in at Dartmouth. The letter was posted in the opinion section of “Fearless and Loathing,” an independent website run by Oberlin students. “We recognize the actions of our fellow students at Dartmouth as courageous, necessary steps that must be taken if institutions such as ours — ones that advertise themselves on falsified notions of diversity, inclusivity and dignity — continue to treat ‘dialogue’ as a synonym for structural violence,” the letter states. Oberlin junior Ana Robelo, who has been a member of the coalition since its founding last fall, said several communities on Oberlin’s campus worked together to compile a list of demands for their school’s administration. The demands included increased administrative transparency, divestment from companies that support Israeli occupation of Palestine and scholarship funding for undocumented students. On Oct. 10, a group of Oberlin students took over the Board of Trustees meeting and discussed demands. Oberlin senior Alice Beecher said that
hundreds of students dressed in red as a symbol of solidarity. Robelo said she sensed strong and immediate backlash during the meeting. Student reactions, however, were generally supportive, though some disagreed with the group’s tactics and the demand to divest from companies that support Israel, Beecher said. Since the board meeting, Beecher said that some smaller communities within the coalition have met with administrators to advance individual demands. Beecher said students joined together to create a replica of the wall separating Gaza and Israel, painting it with different representations of borders in society. Students then placed pieces of the wall in front of Oberlin’s main library alongside an audiotape playing students’ personal stories of division within the Oberlin community, she said. Members of the coalition also stood outside a second trustee meeting in December while holding pieces of the reconstructed wall, Beecher said. Robelo said the coalition formed in part as a result of events that took place at Oberlin last spring, including the appearance of someone dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and racist graffiti around campus. The coalition, Beecher said, was reacting to what they perceived as the administration’s nonresponse. On May 1, approximately 10 students sat outside a Princeton University student center wearing black shirts and white opera masks, playing a recording of their manifesto on a boombox, Princeton junior Katie Horvath said. Passersby were offered fliers outlining the group’s 10 demands for change at the university, including revised mental health policies, divestment and a call for more gender neutral housing options, among others. Horvath, who participated in the demonstration but emphasized that she did not organize it, said although the protest stemmed from a queer activism movement, its demands were
“intersectional” and addressed a range of issues beyond gender. Though the Princeton group, called Praxis Axis, placed a stack of masks next to their demonstration as an invitation for passersby to join in, few people followed suit since few knew in advance or had clothing that matched that of the protesters, which Horvarth said became a “barrier to entry.” Horvath said that the Praxis Axis demands felt similar in nature to demands voiced by the “Freedom Budget,” as both were intersectional efforts to address issues centered on identity. Although Praxis Axis members did not work directly with Dartmouth students to compile their demands, Horvarth said she believed demonstrators at various schools would benefit from joining forces. For those at institutions like Princeton, which tend to have less widespread student activism than more urban institutions, engaging with like-minded students at other colleges can contribute to a stronger “protest culture,” she said. On April 2, Princeton freshman Tal Fortgang published an essay titled “Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege” in The Tory, a conservative publication at the school. The piece, in which Fortgang refused to apologize for having privilege and cited examples of difficulties faced by his family, prompted much discussion on the Princeton campus, Horvath said. “It’s been helpful,” she said, “in that it has made people concerned and aware who would otherwise be likely to dismiss the demands of a group like the protest group on May Day as unnecessary or absurd or over the top.” Mount Holyoke, an all-women’s college in Massachusetts, is in the midst of a movement that aims to address discrimination and increase student involvement in college policy, said junior Melanie Wilkerson, an active participant in the movement. The movement, known as “MoHonest,” began after Mount Holyoke student Maya Wegerif, 21, wrote a blog post alleging discrimination by campus
police when she was arrested following an alcohol-related incident. Wilkerson said that many students of color at Mount Holyoke related to Wegerif ’s experience, and the incident sparked much discussion about discrimination and the power of campus police. “We began to form an entity that wanted to specifically represent students of color on campus,” she said. “And even more broadly, those who have faced discrimination on campus or were allowed to suffer discrimination and not receive adequate administrative support.” Members presented a formal list of demands to the administration in April, Wilkerson said, and are currently at a “standstill.” The group’s demands include encouraging more active student participation in campus policy and decisions, increasing institutional support for first-generation college students, updating the policy for reporting grievances and creating educational workshops for students, faculty, staff and campus police. “We’re still negotiating, but we’re a little disappointed with the administration,” Wilkerson said. Wilkerson said that members of the “MoHonest” movement were aware of the “Freedom Budget” and considered the Dartmouth activists’ tactics when brainstorming. The sit-in at Dartmouth, she said, was “successful in its visibility.” Though “MoHonest” protesters considered a sit-in, Wilkerson said they decided against it because some members felt that — unlike at Dartmouth — not enough time had elapsed since the demands had been voiced. Wilkerson said the “MoHonest” movement reflects a nationwide trend of students becoming more vocal about administrators’ lack of support. “MoHonest” has supported related movements at other institutions, includ-
ing Vassar College and Bryn Mawr College, she said. “I feel like the trend is catching on because people across the country are really starting to acknowledge the kind of power young people have,” she said. Though “MoHonest” faced some opposition from students, Wilkerson said it has found a broad base of support among faculty and alumni. “In my three years at Mount Holyoke, I have witnessed people go through some pretty intense stuff in terms of discrimination,” Wilkerson said. “Even in a very liberal, diversity-agenda-pushing institution like Mount Holyoke, there are still fundamental flaws and issues that need to be addressed.” Two student movements have recently arisen at Harvard University, both aiming to increase diversity among faculty, staff and administrators and to improve resources for more diverse programming, Harvard senior Terrance Moore said. The first of these movements, a photography campaign titled “I, Too, Am Harvard,” launched on Tumblr in early March. The pictures show black students holding signs with examples of racial prejudice they have experienced at Harvard, accompanied by the slogan. Once the campaign gained attention, students involved began researching other movements to see how they were successful in creating institutional change, Moore said. The second student movement, known as “The Diversity Report,” spun out of the “I, Too, Am Harvard” campaign, Moore said. Students involved in “The Diversity Report” wrote a list of demands and are currently working with specific administrators to achieve them, Moore said. After contacting them, the students decided to fill out report cards evaluating administrators to hold them accountable.
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and intellectually, it’s so different to graduate with an original piece of research and scholarship of your own than it is not to,” she said. Walker said the prospect of creating an original piece of work excited her. The goal of a thesis, she said, is for students to immerse themselves in topics they feel passionate about. Everyone should think hard about his or her motivations before taking on the task, Gomez said.
“If you just want the honors next to your diploma, I’d say it’s not worth it,” he said. “You really have to enjoy writing and doing research.” While honors in the major are not indicated on the diploma, they are listed in the Commencement program, Charbono said, with honors or high honors in the major entered on a student’s permanent record. Other institutions vary in the percentage of students who complete senior theses, with some
colleges requiring their students to complete thesis or comparable projects. At Princeton University, all bachelor of arts students — and many engineering students — are required to write a senior thesis. At Brown University, 33 percent of humanities concentrators, 35 percent of life and medical sciences concentrators, 25 percent of physical science concentrators and 13 percent of social science concentrators completed theses and graduated with honors last year.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m. “Transforming Markets to Mitigate Environmental and Social Impacts,” Class of 1953 Commons, Paganucci Lounge
4:00 p.m. Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth lecture, “Hidden Abode: For a Gender-Sensitive Conception of Capitalism”, Rockefeller Center 001
6:00 p.m. Workshop, Bash the Trash, Hopkins Center, Room 60A
TOMORROW 3:00 p.m. Sapienta lecture series, “Utopian Thinking in Kant’s Ethics and in Everyday Life,” Thornton Hall 103
3:30 p.m. Physics and astronomy colloquium with Dr. Jean Dupius, Canadian Space Agency, Wilder 104
4:15 p.m. Humanities summit, “The Humanities Now,” Filene Auditorium
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Barbary Coast to recognize seniors B y Margarette Nelson The Dartmouth Staff
As the opening notes of Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra’s “Moten Swing” sounded on Thursday evening last week, conductor Don Glasgo was at ease. Only a close observer could notice the slight motions of his wrist keeping tempo — a contrast to the stereotypical conductor armed with a baton, elaborately motioning through the rhythms. Through the opening passage, guitarist Zack Cutler ’14 anchored the chord progression with a walking bass line provided by Andrew Shea ’17. Floating on top, pianist Becky Zegans offered variation. Suddenly, there was a blitz of brass which stopped as quickly as it started. The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble was rehearsing in preparation for its 35th annual “Senior Feature” concert on May 10 in Spaulding Auditorium. This year’s concert will feature seniors Cutler, Alex Lessard ’14 and Ryan McWilliams ’14 as well as Hanover High School senior Zegans. Seniors have the privilege of selecting the song they will be featured in, Glasgo said. Lessard will be featured on flugelhorn for Cootie Williams and Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight,” while “Angel Eyes,” composed by Earl Brent and Matt Dennis, will showcase Zegans, who will both play piano and sing. Cutler and McWilliams elected to perform original compositions. Cutler’s “Get Out” has a rock flavor, Glasgo said, reminiscent of works by John Mayer. “Being able to play guitar and sing for the Barbary Coast is going to be very exciting,” Cutler said. Although Cutler is a member of the Dodecaphonics and lead singer of campus band Toast, he has yet to sing in a Hopkins Center ensemble. As a composer, Cutler gave freedom to individual artists. The parts of the rhythm section — bass, guitar, drums and piano — are not written, but instead will “work out on their own” from his direction in rehearsals, he said. Inspired by the New Orleans brass band tradition, McWilliams composed “Senior Sprung,” for which he will perform sousaphone. Glasgo described the piece as “get up and dance kind of music.” “The best part about this kind of music is that is it’s malleable,” McWilliams said. McWilliams said that he plans to continue working on his piece after Saturday’s performance and hopes that in the future all parts will be played from memory. “Reading off stands kills the vibe of the music,” McWilliams said. Jazz is known for improvisation and individual expression. Lessard said the ensemble’s rehearsals reflect the genre’s “laid-back, fun atmosphere.” Back at rehearsal, musicians laughed
and joked between runs. Minor errors were met with a bit of self-deprecating but good-natured humor, and Glasgo ran the session with a casual air. “Be more relaxed,” Glasgo said, offering advice to one of the musicians about his part on “Moten Swing.” “The groove was good. Just try to feel more.” When the music resumed — this time at a section with a greater brass presence — the individuals within the saxophone section had precisely coordinated their dynamics. As the trumpets from the back led the crescendo, drummer Moises Silva ’16 underpinned the growing volume expanding throughout Hartman Rehearsal Room with his own fills. “Moten Swing” is just one of the concert’s swing tunes. While typically the guest artist’s repertoire dictates the ensemble’s concert program, the spring concert is traditionally reserved for graduating students. Due to this year’s relatively small group of seniors, Glasgo seized the opportunity to center the remaining program on swing, he said. When selecting the program for this show, Glasgo said he sought to stay true to the original arrangements. “I want to be as authentic as I can
when doing more historical material,” he said. Although the ensemble is not playing Moten’s original 1932 arrangement of “Moten Swing,” the group will play the widely-recognized arrangement by Ernie Wilkins. While this particular concert is without a guest artist, the seniors unanimously cited the residency program as one of the most valuable aspects of performing with the Barbary Coast. “It’s been really cool getting to play with people who are so talented,” Zegans said. “It pushes you to try harder.” Lessard said he connected with a past guest artist in Shanghai, where he said he plans to move after graduation and hopes to join a jazz community. While graduation will pose new musical opportunities for each senior, the “Senior Feature” concert will celebrate the progress that each musician has already made. Ellen Daily ’14, who has attended several Barbary Coast shows in the past, said she enjoys the atmosphere the ensemble creates at performances and looks forward to “seeing how their musicianship has grown over the last four years.”
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Don Glasgo led the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble in a rehearsal Thursday.
hopkins center for the arts FRI
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Love, LaMents anD LiBations | LoUis BUrkot director French and Italian madrigals and songs of the Renaissance, featuring works by 16th-century masters Claudio Monteverdi, Pierre Passereau and Clément Janequin. Janequin and Passereau are best known for their captivating chanson, or songs written for multiple voice parts; while Monteverdi was a fearless innovator whose madrigals and operas brought him fame far beyond his native Italy.
BarBarY coast JaZZ enseMBLe
senior featUre concert | Don GLasGo director The Coast honors the talents of four graduating seniors with an evening of classic swing and Latin jazz. In this annual celebration, every senior in the Coast gets to choose his or her own “senior feature” number. The concert will focus on music by Duke Ellington, Tito Puente, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk & Thad Jones plus original compositions by two of the seniors—leading to a show that’s eclectic, high energy and BIG fun!
hanDeL societY of DartMoUth coLLeGe MoZart MASS IN C MINOR | roBert DUff conductor
Mozart never finished his two greatest choral masterpieces. Fortunately for us, the brilliant Harvard pianist and scholar Robert Levin did, “completing” Mozart’s Requiem in 1991 and his Mass in C Minor in 2005 (“a glorious, fully Mozartean vision of a complete Mass…as inspired a guess as we’re likely to hear”—The New York Times). In this concert, Dartmouth’s 100-voice chorus is joined by tenor Dann Coakwell; baritone David McFerrin; and sopranos Julia Steinbok and Amy Shoremount-Obra.
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BraZiL anD More | hafiZ shaBaZZ director
Yes, there are the samba and bossa nova, those rhythms that flooded northern hemisphere airwaves in the 1950s and still define Brazilian music for the outside world. But so many other unique forms have evolved from European, African and indigenous roots in that vast hothouse of musical styles. This concert includes timeless sambas but also such lesser-known Brazilian styles as choro, frevo and forró, guaranteed to move hearts and feet.
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS Best Male Athlete WILL GEOGHEGAN ’14
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Cross country, track and field Mile, 3,000 meters, distance medley relay Will Geoghegan ’14 has had a highly successful three seasons in his final year at Dartmouth. In the fall, the senior led the cross-country team to the NCAA championship for the first time since 2005. At the championship meet, Geoghegan won All-American status, taking 14th place, the best finish for a Dartmouth runner since 2002. In the winter indoor track season, he ran a 3:58.04 mile at the January Boston University Terrier Invitational to set a Dartmouth and Ivy League record. “It’s been one of my biggest goals since I was in junior-high so finally accomplishing that was really special for me,” he said. “Sixty years ago a lot of people thought that it was physically impossible; it’s such a big part of our sport.” Geoghegan also anchored the Ivy League Heptagonal-champion distance medley relay team and earned another All-American honor in the indoor mile after finishing fifth at NCAA indoor championships. “Will put the distance running team on the map at the national level and brought attention to the program when he took the all-time Ivy League record,” said Barry Harwick, the men’s cross country and track and field head coach.
DOVYDAS SAKINIS ’16
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Tennis No. 1 singles, No. 2 doubles After being forced to sit out his freshman year due to NCAA rules surrounding his transfer from Lithuania, Dovydas Sakinis ’16 has established himself as a major force on the men’s tennis team. “When you play number one you play the best that every team has, and every team has a good number one player even teams that we beat easily so to carry that load through the year,” head coach Chris Drake said. The sophomore started at number one singles and took home the title Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Sakinis was the first Dartmouth player ever to win the award. He was also named first-team All-Ivy, the first Dartmouth selection since 2008. Overall, Sakinis points to just being able to play as a personal highlight of the season but he also took home a key victory against then-No. 79 Francisco Dias from George Washington University and the deciding victory in a dramatic third-set tiebreaker to defeat then-No. 59 Princeton University in Hanover. “It was really close and really exciting,” he said. “I was dreaming about this experience at some point and it happened.”
SILAS TALBOT ’15
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Cross country, track and field, Nordic skiing 4xmile relay, 800 meters, 1,500 meters Silas Talbot ’15 demonstrated his flexibility by contributing in three varsity sports, at least two of which qualified for NCAA championships. His 29th-place finish at the NCAA cross-country regional meet helped the team qualify for NCAAs for the first time since 2005. “It was sort of the year where I stepped up and made it to the team that contributed to the points,” Talbot said of his experience on the cross-country team this year. “When we were driving back from our regional meet it was a question of whether we were going to be the first team out or the last team in, and we were on the phone with people, and we found out that we made it, and it was a really cool moment.” In the winter, he transitioned his endurance abilities to the snow in a ski season that culminated with an 11th-place finish in 20-kilometer freestyle race at the NCAA skiing championships. He also earned winter academic All-Ivy recognition. This spring, Talbot helped break a 26-year-old Dartmouth record in the 4xmile relay at the prestigious April Penn Relays.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014
THURSDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
This year saw major achievements for the Big Green across the athletic spectrum: three Ivy League titles already — women’s cross country, equestrian and softball — and baseball is playing in the Ivy League Championship Series this weekend along with the track and field teams heading to outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal
Championships. Here at The Dartmouth, we wanted to commemorate the achievements of Dartmouth athletes and teams this past year, which is why we’re introducing the first annual D Sports Awards. Every Thursday in May we will present nominees in a different category, starting this week with the best male athlete. Vote on our website before noon Sunday, and we’ll announce the winner in Monday’s Sports Weekly.
DALYN WILLIAMS ’16
NEJC ZUPAN ’14
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Football Quarterback While the football team officially left the pre-season with two options under center, Dalyn Williams ’16 took control of the starting job early in the season and recorded one of the most productive offensive campaigns in Dartmouth history. Only a sophomore, the dual-threat signal-caller notched 2,685 yards of total offense — the fourth-highest tally in Dartmouth history behind two seasons from ex-NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler ’94 and one from former Arena Football League quarterback Brian Mann ’02. He also finished fifth in the Ivy League in passing and rushing yards per game which earned him an honorable mention All-Ivy. “He’s a dynamic athlete and is very talented,” passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chris Rorke said. “He has all the leadership characteristics and a good work ethic as a sophomore. He’s just ultra-competitive, he’s going to leave it all out there and I think the players really respond to that.” Williams’s personal highlight of the season was the team’s win over thenunbeaten Princeton University, he said. “They came in expecting to be called the best team in Ivy history after going undefeated,” he said. “It was really exciting to come out and win that game.” Williams threw for 92 yards and one touchdown in the game in addition to rushing for another 57 and two scores.
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Swimming 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard IM, 200yard medley relay, 400-yard medley relay Nejc Zupan ’14 concluded his historic Dartmouth career with another season full of championships and pool records. The senior was named Harold Ulen Career High Point Swimmer at the Ivy League Championships for tallying 361 points in four seasons at Dartmouth. He defended his title in the 200-yard breaststroke and added an Ivy Championship in 100-yard breaststroke for his sixth and seventh career Ivy titles. “It was sort of a closure to the four years of competition I had with the team,” he said of his competition in the 200 breaststroke at the Ivy championships. Both times marked new pool records at Harvard University’s Blodgett Pool. Zupan also finished 13th in the 100-yard breaststroke at NCAAs despite missing the A final after falling in a swim-off for the eighth spot. He finished 18th in the 200-yard breaststroke. Zupan also won academic All-Ivy honors. Head coach Jim Wilson said Zupan “moved us to a position to be competitive in the Ivy League,” noting that the team had perennially been in last place, but that Zupan inspired the team to continue to improve.