The Dartmouth 05/15/14

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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014

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Diversion program participation drops

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Participation in the Hanover Alcohol Diversion Program fell by around 30 percent between 2012 and 2013, dropping from 91 students in 2012 to 62 in 2013. The number of Dartmouth undergraduates taking part in the program — which offers first-time underage drinking offenders an educational alternative to court — nearly halved, with 45 students participating in 2013 compared to 87 students

the previous year.

Diversion program coordinator Elizabeth Rathburn said the drop in Dartmouth student participation may be linked to the Greek Leadership Council’s 2013 policy banning freshmen from Greek houses during the fi rst six weeks of fall term, though she added that it is difficult to identify a definitive cause from a one-year decrease.

“The first week of school during Orientation, we usu-

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Reflecting on race, students talk identity and stigmas B y MICHAEL QIAN

The Dartmouth Staff

Despite growing up in a county where around one-fifth of the population identified as Asian — more than three times the national percentage — Fischer Yan ’14 said she felt like she lived in a white suburb. Before an audience of over 100 people in Collis Common Ground yesterday night, Yan and four other panelists — Saaid Arshad ’14, Karima Ma ’14, Francis

Slaughter ’16 and Maan Tinna ’13 — spoke about their experiences as Asians and Asian Americans both at Dartmouth and beyond.

The stories touched on various themes related to identity, ranging from the intersectionality of race and queer culture to the subtle but still problematic forms of racism that many Asians and Asian Americans face.

The panel tried to highlight the experiences of being Asian on a predominantly white campus

and combat the idea that Asians and Asian Americans do not have a truly racialized experience in America, co-organizer Moulshri Mohan ’15 said.

“Even though Asians and Asian Americans are the largest minority on this campus, there hasn’t been a lot of activism or discussion to talk about what that identity means for people at Dartmouth,” co-organizer Carla Yoon ’15 said,

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Students discussed personal experiences with race.

College to announce French and Italian conference MOOCs this month draws Great War scholars

B y MARINA SHKURATOV The Dartmouth Staff

The College will announce its first four massive open online courses, hosted in partnership with the edX online learning platfor m, later this month.

Though the College originally hoped to launch its first MOOC this fall, followed by three additional courses during the 2014-15 academic year, director of digital

learning initiatives Josh Kim said the College now plans to release its first course early in 2015.

A total of 14 professors from the College and graduate schools submitted proposals to teach MOOCs, and 20 more expressed interest in contributing to the program, interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley said.

Whaley, who works as a liaison SEE MOOCs PAGE 5

B y SARA M C GAHAN The Dartmouth Staff

Following last night’s monologue performance of Futurist manifestos, the French and Italian department will kick off a conference commemorating the upcoming centennial of World War I this afternoon. The conference examines the war’s political and cultural ramifications from a breadth of perspectives.

Along with celebrating the anniver-

sary, conference organizers aimed to draw international experts on the war to Dartmouth, said French and Italian department chair Graziella Parati.

Titled “Specters of the Great War: France, Italy and the First World War Conference,” the conference includes six panels, with two or three speakers of different disciplines presenting on each topic, French professor Lucas Hollister said.

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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES BROWN UNIVERSITY: Of 2,619 students offered admission for the Class of 2018, approximately 1,570 students committed to the university, a yield rate of about 59.9 percent, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The rate is expected to fluctuate slightly over the summer. Last year the admission office reported around a 60 percent yield in May, which settled to approximately 58 percent by September.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Legislation proposed on Monday by New York City Public Advocate Letitia James would require private and public colleges in New York City to report monthly sex crime statistics. The legislation, titled the NYC Campus Safety Act, would increase the frequency of statistics reporting, but would not change the level of detail.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY: A May 2015 court date has been set for a disability discrimination case against Cornell, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. In 2011, Cornell Information Technology employee Jose Zavala sued the university for $1 million for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Protesting a planned satanic mass reenactment, people walked from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Church of Saint Paul in Harvard Square Monday night. At approximately the same time around 70 people demonstrated outside of Memorial Hall, where the ritual had been scheduled to occur.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: On Monday night, officers from the Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department responded to a call regarding a student holding what looked like a toy gun, the Daily Princetonian reported.

The student identified at the scene was not taken into custody or charged.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: A 27-year-old Wharton student, Zachary Woods, died after a car accident last week. He was transported to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in “extremely critical condition” and died later that night, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Woods’s death marks the sixth student death since the end of last semester.

YALE UNIVERSITY: On April 30, university president Peter Salovey announced the creation of the Yale Leadership Center, to be located in Beijing, the Yale Daily News reported. The project follows a $16 million donation from three individuals. ­— Compiled by Samantha Webster

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Identities are intersectional,panelists say FROM PANEL PAGE 1

adding that she hoped attendees would leave the event with a better understanding of how diverse Asian and Asian American experiences can be.

Arshad spoke about reconciling the Pakistani and American parts of his identity. Having been raised in America speaking only Urdu, Arshad said he grew up thinking he was just Pakistani.

His mindset evolved after traveling back to Pakistan, he said, where others treated him like somewhat of a foreigner because of his American ties. Upon returning to the U.S., Arshad realized that he could be both American and Pakistani, he said, “without any sort of compromise.”

Acknowledging that others face bigotry on campus, Arshad said his experiences at the College were “very filtered,” adding that he felt supported and was surprised to learn of others’ negative experiences.

Unlike Arshad, who strongly embraced his Asian heritage when he was young, Yan said she did not want to identify as Asian during high school because of associated stigmas and stereotypes. Since coming to Dartmouth, however, Yan said she explored the Asian part of her identity through independent study and groups like Dartmouth Asian Organization and the Women of Color Collective.

After other students on her foreign study program criticized Yan for making a comment that revealed her “gap in racial literacy,” Yan said she began to further educate herself on race and identity through resources available at the College. Her classmates inspired her, she said, to challenge racism and learn more about racial issues.

Slaughter spoke about his identity as a queer person of color who has also been influenced by his Filipino heritage.

People seldom talk about the intersections of different cultures and identities, Slaughter said, and thus many stories are erased.

At Dartmouth, Slaughter said, he sees few other Filipinos on campus.

“I feel like a minority within a minority,” he said. “The Asian American tale on campus is Korean and Chinese.”

Tinna, who identifies as queer and South Asian, said that though he found community in a South Asian clique during high school, his relatives feared that he would not thrive at Dartmouth due to the College’s largely white population.

“It was almost as if I had to prove to the world that I wasn’t dependent on the South Asian community,” Tinna said.

At the College, Tinna said he initially tried to justify racist remarks he heard by their supposedly good-natured intentions, citing the racist pledge name he received at his fraternity as a memorable

example. However, over time, he realized he could no longer justify humor as an excuse for racism.

Ma ended the panel with a discussion of identity, subtle racism and activism at the College.

“From the first few weeks of my time at Dartmouth, my race and my gender have never been more apparent to me,” she said. “I am lucky to not have experienced overt racism or sexism at Dartmouth, but I’m talking about the subtle things.”

Ma listed comments on Bored at Baker, passive-aggressive discourse and the Greek recruitment system as examples of more covertly harmful experiences. She is not surprised, she said, that some Asian students may distance themselves from other Asian students to avoid lingering stigmas.

Eva Xiao ’14 said she and other organizers worked to assemble a geographically diverse panel with a wide array of stories.

“I want the majority of audience members to feel connected to one or multiple panelists,” she said.

Audience members said they appreciated the speakers’ different perspectives.

“I loved it,” Jessica Tong ’17 said.

“It’s the first time I’ve heard Asians stand up for what every other Asian has probably thought or felt but never said.”

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Fewer students participate in Diversion Conference to highlight modernism and trauma FROM DIVERSION PAGE 1

ally get bombarded with intakes,” she said. “This year that did not happen.”

Rathburn said intakes were also not as high as usual once the ban lifted after Homecoming, when freshmen were allowed into fraternities and sororities for the first time.

The proportion of alcohol incidents involving freshmen dipped slighly from 49 to 46 percent of all incidents between fall 2012 and fall 2013, according to data released by The Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program and the Greek Leadership Council in January.

Safety and Security handled 16 percent fewer incidents of intoxicated undergraduates in fall 2013 compared to fall 2012, continuing a steady decline. Safety and Security also received fewer Good Samaritan calls in fall 2013, 37, compared to 48 calls received in fall 2012.

Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services has not yet compiled data from the past year and could not comment on changes in the number of alcohol-related calls it received, executive director Ethan Thomas ’14 said.

When Dartmouth EMS responds to an incident, it will only request the presence of Hanover Police when there are safety issues that Safety and Security cannot handle or if the patient requests police presence.

For strictly alcohol-related calls, Dartmouth EMS will not contact Hanover Police, Thomas said, but if a patient requires an ambulance, Hanover Police will typically accompany the ambulance and take the individual into protective custody even if police presence was

not requested.

“We take privacy and the best interests of our patients very seriously,” Thomas said.

When Hanover police takes an 18- to 20-year-old into protective custody for unlawful possession of alcohol or unlawful possession and intoxication, the responding officer can offer the individual the option of participating in the Diversion program rather than appear in court.

Violators convicted in court run the risk of losing driving privileges in New Hampshire.

In New Hampshire, a first-time offense for unlawful possession and intoxication carries a minimum $300 fine.

Participation in the Diversion program costs $400, which is set to be in line with what an individual would pay if he or she went to court.

Seventeen non-Dartmouth students participated in the Diversion program in 2013, a 77 percent increase from the program’s four participants in 2012. Rathburn said she was unsure what prompted the increase.

Most non-Dartmouth participants are college students visiting their friends at the College or prospective students, Rathburn said.

High school students who live in the area can complete a separate program, which requires more time than the Diversion program and includes a community service component.

In 2012, the Diversion program changed from two days to one day.

Previously, participants attended a six-hour course on Saturday and then returned on Sunday for a oneon-one session with a counselor, Rathburn said.

Each Diversion program has

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eight participants, and Rathburn said the next program is scheduled for July.

Hanover Police has received mostly positive feedback from students, Rathburn said.

“It’s not an all-day lecture about not drinking,” she said. “It’s more productive than that.”

University of Wisconsin at Madison student Spencer Baldwin, who was visiting a friend this February when Hanover Police took him into protective custody for underage drinking, said the six-hour Diversion program at first seemed daunting.

Baldwin, who was the only nonDartmouth student in his section, said his experience was surprisingly positive.

“I expected it to be a repeat of middle school alcohol lessons,” he said. “But it was much more interactive than I expected.”

Baldwin said his daylong program was divided into two threehour parts. First, the program asked participants to talk with one another about the reasons they were taking part in the program and the effects of alcohol consumption.

After lunch, participants had a one-on-one conversation with a counselor for about 30 minutes.

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Panel topics include modernism and World War I, cultural politics, war and trauma, the role of the colonies and the French and Italian fronts.

Hollister, who will chair two panels, said the decision to organize the discussions by broad themes reflects the conference’s interest in addressing big, interdisciplinary issues surrounding the war.

Often, knowledge about World War I is lost in the attention paid to World War II, Hollister said, adding that he hopes the conference will raise campus awareness of the Great War’s impact across disciplines.

This afternoon, author Mark Thompson will deliver a keynote address on the dilemmas of commemoration in Italy.

Tomorrow, Brandeis University history professor Paul Jankowski will deliver a speech titled “An Icon of the War and its Paradoxes: Verdun.”

African and African-American studies professor Reena Goldthree,

the only speaker from the College, will discuss race and the colonies’ role in the war as part of a panel Friday afternoon.

The conference also includes a showing of the French war film “Le Grande Illusion” (1937), directed

by Jean Renoir, which tells the story of two French soldiers in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

The Hopkins Center will screen the film at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The main hall of Baker Library will feature an exhibit of French and Italian perspectives of World War I through the end of the term, showcasing war materials ranging from medals to a German navy officer’s jacket, Rauner librarian Morgan Swan said. The displays will also contain war maps, posters and examples of propaganda.

“We wanted to have an exhibit that would try to represent perspectives on the war from Italian and French viewpoints,” Swan said. “Most people in the U.S. think about World War I from the American perspective, and we are trying to give people a perspective they aren’t used to seeing.”

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Staff Columnist joseph geller ’16

guest columnist susy struble ’93

Rushing with Reason

Analyze and Address

Students shouldn’t feel pressured to join the Greek system.

On Monday, I read the opinion column into any given basement on any given night.

“Rushing to Rush” by Andres Smith ’17. You should also, however, keep in mind In the piece, he discusses the pressures to that joining a house does not by any means rush, the dominance of the Greek scene at require you to be 100 percent devoted to Dartmouth and the idea that “the stigma it. You can spend as much or as little time of not being affiliated is worse than being being involved as you like. You could take part of a system” in which one might not on multiple leadership roles or none, and necessarily want to partake. A wise member you can decide your level of dedication of the Class of 2014 recently told me that and commitment. Just because you rush there is more than one way to do Dartmouth does not mean you must throw away your right, and I believe that also holds true for free time and other interests. participating in Greek life.

In high school I never thought I For some, joining a Greek house is the would rush, but I did. And I have had best decision they a very positive exmake in their four “For some, joining a Greek perience. One of years at Dartmouth. house is the best decision the best things for For others, choosing me about joining a they make in their four years not to rush is their house is that I have at Dartmouth. For others, best decision. Everymade friends who one is different. If I choosing not to rush is their best I would probably could give one piece decision.” never would have of advice to those otherwise. Meeting considering joining the all sorts of people is Greek system, it is that you should not feel awesome, and in many ways, Greek life pressured to join. You should only rush if facilitates those diverse connections. Greek it is something that you want to do. Don’t life also exposes you to new leadership opfeel pressured to have the same Dartmouth portunities such as joining the Interfraterity experience as many of your peers, because, Council or holding a house position, as well like my friend said, there is more than one as philanthropic events such as fundraisers way to do Dartmouth right. for charities. Yes, fraternities throw parties, I disagree that there is an overwhelming but they do so much more. stigma against unaffiliated students. It may My favorite part of Smith’s column was seem that way to freshmen, but as an up- his closing, with which I agree: the idea perclassman I have the utmost respect for that fraternity or sorority letters should not people that are independent of Greek life. define a person. Yet he makes it seem as if I don’t judge them at all for their decision. being proud of your fraternity or sorority If anything, I respect them for having the is a bad thing when he suggests that those courage to do what is best for them in a letters should be one of the last things community where the norm more often to define you. In a sense I agree. I think than not is joining a Greek house. I know things like personality, dedication, values many of my friends feel this way, as well. and morals should all define you. Yet that For those of you feeling pressure to rush, does not mean that Greek life cannot also here are a few things to consider. You don’t be a large source of personal pride. It is have to pledge. Remember that. It is not a for me. requirement for Dartmouth students. This In the end, there is more than one way isn’t the swim test. Besides, Dartmouth’s to do Dartmouth right — do whatever feels houses are inclusive and welcome students best for you.

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Dartmouth should incorporate experts in designing sexual assault policies.

While we continue to take to heart that campus problems are being discussed with the new “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, it’s important to note that the presidential committee formed under this effort is the third presidential committee in four years created to address these issues. Recommendations from other committees have generally been ignored, so it’s hard to believe that this will be any different. As an example, in November 2013 the Committee on Student Safety and Accountability recommended that “the sanction of a student found responsible for sexual assault should extend at least until the survivor has graduated,” yet this was not included in the recently revised sexual assault policy.

While an analysis of what is amiss on Dartmouth’s campus should certainly include representatives of Dartmouth stakeholders like this committee does, it should be defined and driven by an independent group of subject matter experts — including the local rape crisis center, local law enforcement and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees — and incorporate data from a campus climate survey of students, faculty and alumni. Indeed, COSSA specifically requested an external campus climate survey, the same recommendation.

Academic departments go through independent analyses because they recognize the value of outside experts. The concept of independent peer-review is important in academia.

No matter the personal capabilities of the individuals on this committee and their commitment, history tells us that their diligent efforts are likely to lead to little. If the administration and trustees want the community to come together on the problem of sexual violence, it must acknowledge the inefficiencies and mistakes of the past, work in more transparent and truly inclusive ways — including genuinely listening to people and subject matter experts whose views differ from that of the administration — and provide assurances that this time will be different.

Administrators and trustees could help on this count by explaining how this committee will work with transparency and inclusivity.

How will the list of “leading experts in each area of focus” be determined? How will all community input be broadly shared to help reinforce the precepts of community? How will the feasibility of recommendations be determined and tested? The committee should also be permitted to directly present its unedited findings to the Board of Trustees.

Lastly, the administration should stop repeating the unsupported claim that Dartmouth is a national leader in addressing sexual assault.

Dartmouth Change has spent several years trying to make the campus safe for all students. We are an informed group of over 700 alumni, faculty and students, with an informal advisory board of national experts in sexual assault research, prevention and institutional responses, and we are ready to be a useful resource to this new committee.

We very respectfully suggest that this new committee consider the following actions.

First, we suggest that the committee request an immediate campus climate survey and make all unedited data public. The College has the infrastructure to do this easily, and our organization has relationships with nationally recognized experts who could help with its planning and implementation. We respectfully suggest this information should be used as an essential resource as the committee evaluates and assesses the recommendations it gathers.

Further, the committee should make an inventory of all recommendations from previous committees and commissions and determine whether the College acted appropriately on those recommendations. If it has not, it should determine why not and how these problems will be avoided in future efforts.

It is essential to be efficient and thoughtful moving forward. Hope and confidence in our community springs eternal, but so does critical thinking.

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

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First massive open online courses to launch in 2015

proving the College’s already effective “intimate learning model,” between edX and Dartmouth, said he said.

The College decided to partner the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning will begin with edX and release MOOCs to developing the first MOOC this promote experimentation with new summer. A total of four classes will technologies, Kim said. Online be produced in the coming year and courses foster the use of new highat least one or two will be offered quality digital material, he said, online in the next 12 to 18 months, which can be adapted to “active experiential learning” in classroom he said.

Creating each course will involve settings.

The edX consortium will also faculty members, an instructional designer, a video production crew provide a large amount of anonyand a project manager, Whaley mous data from its hundreds of said. People currently working at thousands of users, Kim said, which the College have the expertise to can indicate what works and what fill these positions, Whaley said, does not.

Director of academic and cambut videography may be outsourced pending the needs and schedules of pus technology services Alan Cattier said that in addition to improving College employees.

“Part of our challenge is mak- educational opportunities, MOOCs ing sure we can use our existing have potential to make a global infrastructure in a way that’s not impact by bringing Dartmouth to competing with other needs that people in places it has never before reached. we have on cam“Part of our challenge Whalpus,” he said. ey s a i d t h at De pending is making sure we participating in on the sucedX also gives cess of the first can use our existing faculty the opfour offerings, infrastructure in a way portunity to Kim said the gain additional prog ram will that’s not competing exposure. continue with with other needs that Acaapproximately we have on campus.” demics at othfour new online er institutions cour ses each have quesyear.

- LINDSAY WHALEY, tioned whether The CenMOOCs may ter for the Ad- INTERIM VICE PROVOST “undermine vancement of the academic Learning will measure the courses’ success based mission” by potentially replacing on faculty members’ experiences people with technology, Whaley and evaluate whether the MOOCs said, adding that Dartmouth prowere helpful in improving academ- fessors understand the program’s ics at the College. If the experiment underlying goals.

“We actually see this as a way to does not lead to innovation on enrich what we’re already doing, campus, Whaley said.

Faculty interest in the program not to replace it,” Whaley said.

The College has also been has varied, with some professors considering it a positive opportunity working on a separate initiative for to experiment and others worrying “gateway courses,” or high-volume, that the time commitment would be introductory lecture-style classes, too extensive, Whaley said, adding Whaley said.

The initiative would allow faculty that some believe their classes would not benefit from participating in a members to meet with the Center for Advancement of Learning to MOOC. Kim said the primary audience discuss ways to meet their goals for Dartmouth’s online courses will within the context of a gateway be “lifelong learners” including course. Some of these changes may alumni and those working full-time involve technology, Whaley said, jobs. Dartmouth students will not but the program will not focus exbe the primary users, Kim said, clusively on technological solutions.

“Nobody here believes technolbecause they already have access to a high-quality education at the ogy can solve every problem,” Whaley said. “But in some cases, College.

One of the challenges with technology can be very helpful.”

Professors, Whaley said, are MOOCs is the hype they have garnered, Kim said, as some believe currently submitting proposals to the courses will change education participate in the initiative and will ideally teach three or four newlyentirely.

Dartmouth’s MOOC program, designed gateway courses during in contrast, is geared toward im- the 2015-16 academic year.

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SPECTERS OF THE GREAT WAR: FRANCE, ITALY, AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Conference organized by the French and Italian Department

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

The Mundane Madness

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014

Anthony Chicaiza ’17

TODAY 1:15 p.m.

Conference, “Specters of the Great War: France, Italy and the First World War Conference,” Haldeman 041

3:00 p.m.

Biological sciences department special seminar, “Evolution of the Animal Face,” Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center 200

4:00 p.m.

“The Occom Circle Project,” Baker Library, Class of 1902 Room

TOMORROW 9:00 a.m.

Conference, “Specter of the Great War: France, Italy and the First World War Conference,” Haldeman 041

4:00 p.m.

Lecture, “Feminism and Abolition: Extending the Dialogue,” Angela Davis of University of California at Santa Cruz, Filene Auditorium

7:00 p.m.

Department of music Tracy Piano Competition, Hopkins Center, Faulkner Recital Hall

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Focusing on high classical music, Handel Society to play Mozart

B y Andrea Nease

The Handel Society will perform Mozart’s Mass in C Minor (K. 427) this weekend. The 100-voice choir will be joined by tenor Dann Coakwell, baritone David McFerrin and sopranos Julia Steinbok and Janinah Burnett.

Music professor Robert Duff, the choir’s conductor and director, said he chose Mozart for this

term’s performance because he wanted to bring students through the major periods of classical and contemporary music. This year, the choir is focusing on high classical music.

Mozart never finished composing his Mass in C Minor, but Harvard scholar and musicologist Robert Levin took up the task, completing it in 2005.

Duff said he wants the audience

to experience both Mozart and the nature of Levin’s attempt at Mozartian style and composition.

“I want the audience to understand the pathos of Mozart and his more mature style in writing,” Duff said. “I would want them to have a clear understanding of when Mozart puts down the pen and when Levin picks up the pen.”

Duf f noted that Mozart’s “varied” writing has many “high points.”

Countertenor Jonathan May ’14 said that the piece contains a large number of fugues, repetitions of a single subject or theme at different pitches and sung by different voice types.

“That’s pretty challenging for the chorus to master,” May said, “because to do it successfully you have to not only be flexible in terms of technique and in terms of getting all the notes right and getting the pitches correctly, but you also have to listen more to the other voice parts and interact with them.”

Writing fugues is challenging, May said, because the composer has limited material to work with.

He said that as a result, singing fugues well can prove gratifying.

“You have to employ what you

have to work with in very clever ways to make it work and to make it sound interesting at the same time,” May said.

Performance preparation started this winter and spanned 20

“I think it’s a really good experience to have feedback from professional artists who are working in the field, to get a fresh perspective from someone with whom you don’t work usually.”

- Jonathan May ’14 weeks, with approximately two and a half hours of practice each week. The four soloists joining the Handel Society will practice with the choir for the first time today.

Duff said the soloists’ arrival will energize the rehearsal.

McFerrin said that for soloists, the preparation process varies by

piece and how extensive each part is. Depending on a solo’s length and difficulty, performers may pursue options ranging from solitary practice to personal voice coaching.

Though he is not extremely familiar with it, McFerrin said he is excited to perform a piece that some say epitomizes Mozart’s work.

In addition to the rehearsal, members of the Handel Society were invited to attend a master class on Wednesday with two of the soloists, Coakwell and Steinbok.

May, one of four undergraduates selected to sing with the soloists during the class, said he appreciates that Duff and the music department provide students with access to professional singers.

“I think it’s a really good experience to have feedback from professional artists who are working in the field, to get a fresh perspective from someone with whom you don’t work usually,” May said.

During one of countertenor Reginald Mobley’s visits to Dartmouth, May said he had the opportunity to rehearse with him.

The choir’s performances will take place on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014

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Whitehorn ’16 wins Heps titles across range of disciplines B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

At the Ivy League outdoor Heptagonal Championships at Yale University last weekend, Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 was everywhere.

Running back and forth between the track and the high jump, she competed six times over the course of the weekend. After competing in the 100- and 200-meter preliminaries Saturday, she woke up Sunday with four events ahead of her: the 100- and 200-meter finals, the 4x100-meter relay and the high jump.

Whitehorn started the high jump at 11 a.m., competed for less than an hour before having to check out and run the 4x100-meter relay, finishing in second, and then returned to the high jump after the race was completed. Whitehorn cleared 1.78 meters to win her second Ivy League title in the high jump.

She didn’t have time to celebrate, however, with the 100-meter dash in less than two hours. After winning the 100-meter dash over those with faster seed times, Whitehorn’s

day still was not complete. The 200-meter dash loomed ahead less than an hour later.

In total, Whitehorn contributed 28 points to the team score and was named the Northeast Credit Union athlete of the week.

“When I’m high jumping I just try not think about anything else that isn’t high jumping,”

2014 IVY LEAGUE OUTDOOR HEPS HIGH JUMP

School

Finals Height

1. Whitehorn (DART) 2. Giebelhaus (HARV) 3. Nizdil (HARV) 4. Morrison (HARV)

1.78m 1.75m 1.75m 1.71m

Whitehorn said. “Trying to think about refocusing doesn’t help me refocus.”

To anyone who has heard of her success in the sprints this year — Ivy League champion in the 100-meter, Dartmouth record holder in the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter dash — it may come as a surprise

that last year Whitehorn did not compete in sprinting events, but focused on the high jump instead.

“I like high jump more than running,” Whitehorn said. “I would say that high jump has more of a mental emphasis, not that running doesn’t, but if you raise the bar a centimeter it can mess with your mental game.”

Starting with sprinting in middle school, the high jump was where Whitehorn first realized that she could have a future in track. She joined track in seventh grade after being the fastest on the soccer field, following after her sister, who also ran and played soccer.

It wasn’t until sophomore year of high school that everything came together. During junior and senior year Whitehorn started competing at a high level in high jump and began to receive recruitment letters.

When Whitehorn arrived at Dartmouth last fall, she had to adjust to the Division I quality of the program. She said she learned the necessity of planning time for courses, practices and travel.

Whitehorn saw success freshman year competing as a high jumper, highlighted by an Ivy League indoor title. At an outdoor meet last spring, the coaches did not want anyone to compete in the high jump due to inclement weather, according to jumps coach Moose Akanno, so they decided to have Whitehorn try the 100-meter

2014 IVY LEAGUE OUTDOOR HEPS 100-METER DASH

School

Finals Time

1. Whitehorn (DART) 2. Collinsworth (HARV) 3. Ali (PENN) 4. Barbian (HARV)

11.74 11.78 11.81 11.92

dash, opening up new doors.

“The way we train [for jumps] we do a lot of speed work anyway,” Akanno said. “So we just had to add in a little technical work.”

Whitehor n started adding sprinting races regularly this indoor season, competing in the 60-meter dash. The addition of the sprints to

her high jump training was not too difficult, she said, but did increase her work, making practices longer and more frequent.

It did not take Whitehorn long to prove that she could compete as a sprinter, setting a new record in the 60-meter dash of 7.60 seconds indoors in early February at the Boston University Valentine Invitational, followed by a record in the 200-meter dash in the spring.

But she solidified her high level of athletic ability at the Ivy League Championships this spring when she became the first Ivy League woman to win both the 100-meter dash and high jump titles, completing the feat in a single weekend.

Both Akanno and head women’s coach Sandra Ford-Centonze said they have yet to determine the extent of Whitehorn’s athletic capability.

“She is definitely a nationalcaliber athlete,” Ford-Centonze said. “She is capable of doing very well at NCAA regionals, and as she gets older and more mature, she will have a chance to make her mark and hopefully be on the podium.”

Club cricket team continues two-century Dartmouth tradition

B y mitch huang

Dartmouth’s roots in American cricket tradition extend back to the late 1700s, when one of the earliest recorded games of cricket in the U.S. was believed to be played on the Green. Since then, faculty and students have routinely gathered for casual matches, forming an informal group in the 1990s. In the past couple of years, the Dartmouth College Cricket Club has enjoyed a considerable amount of growth and recognition.

When president Faizan Kanji ’15 joined the club in 2011, there were only three regular members. Kanji made it his mission to improve membership when appointed vice president in 2012.

“My main goals for the club were to rebuild it into the dominating force it once was and to just further promote cricket on campus,” he said.

The club now boasts around 15 to 18 regular members, many of whom travel with the team to matches. Secretary and outreach

coordinator Angad Kapur ’16 said he has been pleased with the diversity of the club’s players, who come from a range of countries, including Pakistan, South Africa, Nepal and India.

This past fall, American College Cricket League, a national organization of cricket clubs, officially recognized the Dartmouth club as a member of its 13-team Northeast conference. The Big Green started its first season in the league with two losses against Boston University and Harvard University. However, the team still feels encouraged about its overall performance and the nature of these early losses. Against BU, the Big Green was missing half of it regular starters, which Kapur cites as a recurring issue for the team.

“We’re a small school and compared to a lot of our peers, we have a small international population,” he said. “It’s hard to make sure that we’re fielding our core starters at every match, and when we don’t, the less experienced players have to really step up, which is difficult.”

Despite its struggles with start-

ing lineup continuity and a limited pool of experienced players, the underdog Big Green has put together strong performances against some of the premier clubs in the region. Dartmouth’s loss against the historically strong Harvard was a record-setting match that garnered the attention of the national organization and a mention on the league website’s homepage.

Dartmouth gave up 265 runs in the Crimson’s 20 overs, but responded with 264 runs in its own 20 overs, falling just short of an incredible comeback.

“We were able to turn a potentially one-sided encounter against a much more experienced team into a thrilling and nail-biting showdown,” Khizar Hussain ’16 said, encouraged by the result.

The close match was the latest installment of a budding rivalry with Harvard. In the past year, the Big Green and the Crimson have met four times, splitting the matches. In one of the most memorable of these meetings last spring, Dartmouth upset Harvard,

the then-defending American College Cricket champions, and gained the league’s attention and consideration for membership.

Dartmouth hopes to build on its recent successes in its upcoming match on Chase Field on May 24 against the top-ranked Massachusetts Institute of Technology club, the team’s first home match in over four years. The Big Green, ranked eighth out of the 13 teams in the conference, is still looking for the first win of the 2014 season.

The team expects a tough match, but has faith in its ability to compete, Kapur said.

“We have been competitive in all our matches and we’ve played against some of the strongest teams in the area,” he said.

The current season will continue through the fall term, with an undetermined number of games left to be played. The clubs in the conference schedule their own matches with other clubs with the goal of playing as many matches as possible before the season ends.

At the end of the fall, the top clubs

in the conference will be invited to play in a single-elimination bracket in which the winner advances to the national tournament. Although Dartmouth believes it can win a spot in the postseason, the immediate focus is on winning games. The most important goal is to get to .500, Kapur said.

“We’ve been improving a lot,” he said. “We have a good core of players, and we can really start to build around that.”

In addition to finding more regular starters, the team looks to develop beginners and new players. At each practice, the more experienced members take the time to teach the fundamentals to new members, some of whom have no background or knowledge of the game, aiming to nurture and spread an appreciation for cricket, Kanji said.

“After all,” he said, “cricket is the only sport in the world where we have a ‘tea break’ in the middle of a match and there are fielding positions called ‘silly points’ — how can this game not be fascinating?”