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The fifth annual C. Everett Koop lecture highlighted corporate threats to children’s health.

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Andrew Davidson, who will serve as the College’s new vice president for development starting Dec. 1, said he feels Dartmouth is positioned for a “terrific stretch.” As an external hire,

Davidson said he will bring both experience and new energy to the College’s advancement division.

His appointment fills a spot that has been vacant for around two years and completes the formation of a senior leadership team in the advancement office.

Former vice president for development Tom Herbert left Dartmouth in 2012.

Vice president for alumni relations Martha Beattie said two vice presidential searches began when senior vice president for advanceSEE ADVANCEMENT PAGE 2

Festivities mark second Latino Heritage Month B y Rebecca asoulin The Dartmouth Staff

A performance by Los Angelesbased Las Cafeteras and two events focused on immigration anchor the College’s second annual celebration of Latino Heritage Month, with programming throughout October.

While academic departments planned many of last year’s events, allowing for a larger overall budget, students took the lead this year, drawing primarily on Council on Student Organizations

A task force of 10 faculty members will explore ways to form a more cohesive graduate program at the College, Provost Carolyn Dever announced last week.

Consolidating a school of graduate and advanced studies will not entail increasing the volume or range of graduate programs, Dever said. Nor will it require constructing a new building, dean of graduate studies and task force chair Jon Kull said, noting that changes will be largely administrative.

Dartmouth offers 10 master’s programs and 17 doctorate programs, enrolling 1,044 students in 2013, according to an online graduate studies fact sheet.

Its graduate programs are tied to the undergraduate departments, and College President Phil Hanlon in-

troduced the idea of a freestanding g raduate school at a general faculty meeting in fall 2013.

The task force will examine how best to separate graduate programs from within undergraduate departments, possibly so they report directly to the provost rather than dean of faculty Michael Mastanduno, as is current practice, Kull said.

Environmental studies professor Ross Virginia, a task force member, said the group will seek to centralize all graduate programs under one administrative umbrella.

“If you want to increase quality and interactions between these different graduate programs, it would be best to have them all under one structure, one dean of graduate studies, so that SEE TASK FORCE PAGE 5

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and the Special Programs and Events Committee funding.

La Alianza Latina treasurer Estefani Marin ’17, who helped organize the festivities, said students struggled to acquire enough funding for larger events with well-known speakers, such as last year’s keynote speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz.

Office of Pluralism and Leadership Latino advising intern Amaris de la Rosa-Moreno ’16 said dedicating a SEE LATINO PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP Students in Dartmouth’s Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation lab have designed an Atrocities Early Warning System to reliably predict potential genocide, according to a College press release. The project — organized with help from government professor Benjamin Valentino — will launch at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum early next year. The website integrates public data from international institutions like the United Nations and the World Health Organization with opinions from experts worldwide and statistical models.

The interactive, color-coded map will display the predicted risk of mass atrocities in each country.

A study by Dartmouth Ph.D. student Michael Logan and colleagues found that lizards that run faster at warmer temperatures have a better chance of surviving climate change, Science Line reported. The study — published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — compared survival rates between two populations of wild brown anole lizards. Researchers measured the speed of two groups of the cold-blooded lizards — one in a cool forest and the other in a warmer location.

Geisel School of Medicine microbiology and immunology professor Robert Cramer and Dartmouth Ph.D. student Kelly Shepherdson collaborated with other scientists to find that changes in metabolism are critical for “trained immunity,” a newly discovered form of immune response, according to a Geisel press release. Traditionally, scientists thought the innate immune system responded to only immediate threats. In 2011, Dutch researchers created the term “trained immunity” to describe innate immune responses that involve memory. Their findings, published in the journal Science, could potentially lead to more effective prevention and treatment of inflammatory diseases.

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Heritage month spotlights immigration FROM LATINO PAGE 1

month to exploring Latino identity is especially important in light of the record number of Latino students in the Class of 2018, though she added that students should celebrate culture year-round.

About 8.4 percent of the freshman class is Latino or Latina, the largest representation in Dartmouth history.

Dartmouth began celebrating Latino Heritage Month, rather than Hispanic Heritage Month, last year.

“Latino is a term that comes from within the community and is embraced, whereas the term Hispanic is one assigned by the government, and can be seen as more of a label,” OPAL advisor to Latino students Rodrigo Ramirez said.

Marin and organizer Oscar Cornejo ’17, co-director of the Dartmouth Coalition For Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, said they attended almost every event during the last year’s month-long celebration. As freshmen, the events helped make Dartmouth feel more like “home,” Marin said.

Cornejo said the month is one way students can honor their identities on campus.

“Back home we live our culture, we speak it, we eat it,” Cornejo said.

“Here we have to celebrate it, but back home that’s not the case because you’re surrounded by it.”

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Ramirez said the student, faculty and administrative organizers tried to include a balance of educational and celebratory events in the schedule. Planning began last May, during a meeting of the Latino Advisory Council, which meets monthly to

“Latino is a term that comes from within the community and is embraced, whereas the term Hispanic is one assigned by the government, and can be seen as more of a label.”

- Rodrigo ramirez, opal advisor to latino students discuss issues affecting the Latino community at Dartmouth.

The meeting served as a “sounding board” for ideas, Ramirez said, and student groups and individuals also planned events and applied for funding independently.

Cornejo said he hopes Latino Heritage Month is institutionalized and gains the same level of recognition from the College community as

other celebrations of identity, like Black History Month.

Former La Alianza Latina president Yaritza Gonzalez ’15 said the events allow students to learn from Latino community leaders with whom they may not otherwise interact.

As a celebration of culture, Ramirez said, the month’s events are open to all members of the College community.

“Everyone has different identities that are important to them,” Ramirez said. “Having times where there is an institutionally concentrated level of celebration of those identities is a great way for people to feel appreciated.”

This year’s arts and music-heavy schedule highlights aspects of Latino culture, de la Rosa-Moreno said, adding that last year’s Junot Díaz talk was “the pinnacle of what we wish Latino heritage month can be like.”

The monthlong celebration opened last Friday with a talk on immigration reform by Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

Other events include an Oct. 15 panel discussion on the intersection of undocumented and queer identities, two film screenings at the Hopkins Center and the 17th annual Noche Dorada, a semi-formal gathering hosted by La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity that includes music and dance performances.

Appointment fills leadership team FROM ADVANCEMENT PAGE 1

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ment Bob Lasher joined the College last July, one for development and one for presidential initiatives and principal gifts.

Vice president for presidential initiatives and principal gifts Michael Kiefer started in early September.

Davidson, currently the assistant dean for resource development and alumni relations at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will be the final addition to the advancement division’s senior leadership team. He will join Lasher, Beattie, Kiefer and chief operating officer for advancement Ann Root Keith.

The division’s development section is responsible for seeking charitable support for the College.

As vice president for development, Davidson and the four teams that report to him will represent Dartmouth in fundraising discussions with alumni, parents, corporations and foundations, Lasher said.

He said that the College’s development program, for which

Davidson will provide strategic oversight, specializes in four areas.

These sections include the Dartmouth College Fund, individual giving, gift planning for alumni

“The team that he will lead is a significant group of specialists that are led by very strong managers and it represents Dartmouth and takes our message and priorities out to the world and encourages them to support them.”

- BOB LASHER, Senior vice president for advancement and parents who want to include Dartmouth in their estates and corporation or foundation support.

“The team that he will lead is a significant group of specialists that

are led by very strong managers, and it represents Dartmouth and takes our message and priorities out to the world and encourages them to support them,” Lasher said.

Davidson has held various positions at Harvard over the past 13 years, including senior fundraising strategist for a $450-million campaign. He also served as the executive director of capital giving in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences spokesperson Paul Karoff called Davidson personable, easygoing and engaged.

“He cares about both the mission of the organization and the people,” Karoff said.

Davidson said that the transition from Harvard has both professional and personal value.

“The opportunity to be a vice president at Dartmouth is a step up in my career and it’s an important step that is exciting for me professionally,” he said. “But also on a personal basis, I think that it’s important to find opportunities where you are going to challenge yourself and push yourself and this is that opportunity for me.”

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Inviting Innovation

The NFL Has a Problem

MOOCs will energize the traditional university, not replace it.

Armed with little more than video cameras and an Internet connection, a handful of innovators are tearing down the cloistered gates that have long enclosed elite higher education. Their strategy is simple: unite the pedagogy of a talented teacher with the ubiquity of a wireless signal.

But could an online course ever reproduce the depth and breadth of learning that goes on at the world’s best universities? This question would have provoked scoffs five years ago, but recent innovations have demonstrated that the virtues of the classroom can be matched online.

Enrolling in a university is by far the least costeffective way to receive an elementary introduction to the academic disciplines. Virtually all of the material covered in Economics 1 or Math 3 at Dartmouth — courses that cost thousands of dollars in tuition — is laid out free of charge in bite-sized modules at Khan Academy, a website with hundreds of videos covering dozens of disciplines. And unlike your Math 3 professor, Sal Kahn has been praised by the likes of Bill Gates.

Suppose instead that you’re interested not in breadth, which is available at a public library, but in depth. It is true that abstract algebra, advanced econometrics and effective field theory are sophisticated topics that are taught best by Ph.D.’s, but that’s no reason to shell out $40,000 per year in tuition. Since the rapid rise of massive open online courses in 2012, accessing experts has required little more than opening a new browser tab. Recorded lectures from Harvard, Yale and Stanford courses on topics ranging from general relativity to the philosophy of death are now available to all at no cost.

Anyone who has participated in a university seminar will object that I have neglected the most important feature of a quality education. College is about much more than coldly accumulating information. It’s about batting around ideas, discussing lofty problems and placing values and assumptions in the crucible of heated debate. The best colleges facilitate interaction between students and faculty. That is how critical thinking is honed.

But this, too, is being recreated by online platforms. The Minerva Project, a for-profit venture that went live this August, is proposing to

strip college down to the core. Classes composed of fewer than 20 students are conducted online, and lectures are eschewed in favor of 45-minute seminars that embrace science-backed pedagogy.

By Minerva’s philosophy, class time should not be used to present information. There’s a MOOC for that, and students can watch it on their own time. Instead, classes become forums for dialogue and debate, and thinking well is prized over rote absorption. Perhaps most troubling for administrators, Minerva offers a selective four-year education at under half the cost of an elite degree.

A pressing question looms large over the rising tide of online learning platforms, one that should concern guardians of old traditions: how do universities fit into this shifting landscape? What does a university offer that the web cannot?

At its best, college offers fertile ground for scholarly exploration. Surrounded by the brightest minds, students are provided the rare opportunity to peer out at the cutting edge of human knowledge. The best colleges are centers for creativity, sustained by a community of scholars working collaboratively to better understand the world.

Universities offer the facilities, communities and connections that can be read about online but certainly not replicated there.

MOOCs do not threaten this calling. They offer the tools to better achieve it.

For the first time in history, the university’s mission is no longer tethered to the task of delivering pre-packaged intellectual content. With the aid of MOOCs, professors can spend less time preparing lectures and more time blazing new trails and tackling hard problems. The interactions between students and faculty no longer need to be dominated by one-way monologues that idly rehash well-worn ideas. Class can become a period of exploration rather than stagnation, where professors and students work together to solve new problems rather than waste time recounting old solutions.

Online learning platforms do not spell doom for brick-and-mortar universities. They offer a path forward, one leading away from tired old traditions toward energized and immersive scholarship.

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The criminal behavior within the NFL is unacceptable.

The consistent failure of the National Football League and the football industry in general to hold its players and representatives to a higher standard is tragic. Recently, the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal and allegations of child abuse against Adrian Peterson have spurred these failures into the foreground. The frequency and severity of these incidents speak volumes about the current state of the league — an organization that once had such honorable figures as Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana and Joe Namath. While the NFL has continued to make more and more money through TV deals and endorsements, the league’s character has not risen in kind. While public outcry encouraged the NFL to increase Rice’s punishment, football fans must continue demanding a higher standard of character from the sport’s representatives — and heavier repercussions for those professional athletes who betray the public’s trust.

Unfortunately, the Rice scandal is not an isolated incident. In 2012, many people in the New Orleans Saints organization were discovered to have rewarded players for injuring their opponents, a scandal known as “Bountygate.”

Michael Vick, currently playing for the New York Jets, was sent to prison in 2007 for his role in organizing a dog-fighting ring. Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers has been accused multiple times of sexual assault.

The NFL team in Washington, D.C., still uses a racial slur as its team name and mascot.

Allegations of homophobia have surfaced in both the Miami Dolphins and the Minnesota Vikings organizations. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was just fined $11,000 for dropping the n-word during an altercation with an opposing player. Aaron Hernandez, formerly of the New England Patriots, has been indicted on three charges of murder. The list borders on endless, and it is as appalling as it is long.

Compounding these problems is the consistent failure of the NFL and its commissioner to meaningfully punish players who commit serious offenses. Rice was initially suspended

for only two games. In light of the scandal, the NFL drafted a new domestic violence policy, which includes a six-game minimum suspension for first offenses. The new minimum — still too short by far — is four times the former average length of punishments for domestic violence, according to data compiled

by FiveThirtyEight. Note the context here: the NFL routinely suspends players for upwards of four games for marijuana possession and related offenses. Why is having a small amount of marijuana even in the same order of magnitude as assault? Indeed, if there hadn’t been the level of public outcry on social media and other outlets in response to Ray Rice — if there hadn’t been an actual video of the horrific assault — he would probably be playing next Sunday.

One would hope that the league’s fans would hear of these crimes and demand lasting change. Though fans did demand justice in Rice’s case, its resolution took a lot longer than it should have. The country deserves better from an organization that holds such a visible position in our society. The league needs to make clear to its players and fans that conduct such as Rice’s and others’ will absolutely not be tolerated. Any violations of basic standards of conduct must result in significant punishment. Though the NFL has made some changes to its domestic violence policy, this is not nearly enough. It is a sad fact that it is only a matter of time before an incident like Rice’s happens again. The punishment should not be six games. It should be a season, and quite possibly an indefinite suspension. We cannot wait for the next tragedy to occur, for the next cycle of news reports, shameful behavior and victim-blaming. The NFL is currently lagging far behind the curve in the standards it holds for its representatives, and this is unacceptable.

Lately, the NFL has only meaningfully responded when its public image took serious hits — that is, when fans have been loud enough. As fans, we must demand better character from the NFL — from its players, coaches, sponsors and leaders.

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Graduate school would consolidate programs

necessarily think it should be Dartmouth’s focus or its main funds could be expended more goal — it’s an integral part of the efficiently, so that new interdis- College, and being separate gives ciplinary programs might spring it a little more freedom and a little more naturally because people can more flexibility than it currently has.” interact more directly,” he said.

The task force will meet for the Virginia said he hopes that the first time on Oct. 17. Kull said he task force will develop a plan that expects the team to meet three allows the College to better attract times before Thanksgiving and qualified students to its graduate another four times in the winter. programs.

The task force will then aim to put The task force discussions follow together a report by the beginning a similar recommendation made of spring term that offers a struc- during Dartmouth’s strategic planning process begun under former ture for the new school.

The task force is focused on College president Jim Yong Kim. graduate programs outside the A 29-member working group focused on graduThayer School ate education, of Engineering, “I hope that we have which included Tuck School of faculty and Business and a robust discussion graduate stuGeisel School about the place of dent represenof Medicine, graduate education on tatives, met 10 which are altimes and invitr e a d y s e p a - this amazing campus ed a consulting rate. and I think that group from the P h . D. s t u National Cound e n t B r i t n ey involves discussion cil on GraduTa p p e n s a i d of the significance of ate Schools to alth o u gh th e research in the lives draw comparigraduate comsons with other munity is in- of faculty, staff and schools. Among cluded at Dart- students — what other suggesmouth, it may tions, the group be overlooked we mean when we recommended due to the Col- commit ourselves to Dartmouth lege’s focus on excellence in teaching that create a cenundergraduate and research for the tral g raduate teaching. school.

Ryan Tibble generations ahead.”

Dever ’14, who is pursaid she hopes suing a masimproving ter’s degree in - Carolyn dever, graduate studchemistry at the provost ies infrastrucCollege, said ture will help he is optimistic but not entirely certain about the the College better support its students. potential outcome.

“I think that Dartmouth gradu- “I hope that we have a robust ate studies is somewhat overlooked discussion about the place of gradby the greater public, and I think uate education on this amazing that this task force kind of gives campus and I think that involves the College the opportunity to re- discussion of the significance of ally focus in and try to understand research in the lives of faculty, what they could do to strengthen staff and students — what we mean graduate studies here,” he said. when we commit ourselves to excel“Personally I think that it should lence in teaching and research for be a separate entity, but I don’t the generations ahead,” she said.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m.

“Personal Branding and Career Stewardship,” with David Uejio of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Rm. 208

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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President Hanlon invites you to

Open Office Hours For students: Tuesdays 4-5 pm For faculty: Fridays 3-4 pm

Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar, Wilder 111

4:15 p.m.

Computer science colloquium, Moore B03

TOMORROW ALL DAY

“Seen and Unseen: Picturing Race, Gender, and the Enemy in WWI Posters,” Baker Library Main Hall

3:00 p.m.

Hanover farmers market, the Green

4:00 p.m.

“Hospitality and Treachery in James Joyce’s Ulysses” with professor James Heffernan, Haldeman 41

Meetings are offered on a first-come, first-served basis and are held in the President’s Office, Parkhurst 207.

Please note: there will be no faculty office hours on October 10th, and faculty hours on October 17th will be held from 3:15-3:45 pm.

Please check dartmouth.edu/~president/officehours for any changes in the schedule.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT is my favorite.”

Music has presented Westenberg Erica Westenberg ’15 is a familiar with a number of opportunities, from face at the Hopkins Center. A fourth- playing in The Dartmouth Vibes, a year violinist in the Dartmouth Sym- short-lived pop string group that perphony Orchestra and Dartmouth formed songs by Adele and Michael Chamber Music Program as well as Jackson, to playing at three weddings a trip manager for DSO’s December sophomore summer. Westenberg said trip to Eastern Europe, the group’s she has enjoyed meeting new people first since 2008, Westenberg has been through music, especially other musiinvolved in the arts throughout her cians. college career.

“It’s a really interesting journey, In high school, Westenberg took you don’t really get to mingle like that private lessons with a chamber mu- anywhere else,” Westenberg said. sician, and she has been passionate Westenberg also served on a Hopabout playing this type of music kins Center task force her sophomore since. Chamber music is composed year that worked to boost attendance for small groups of instruments, at concerts on campus. and the arrangements are typically This year, she has played a critical tailored to specific players. role organizing the DSO’s 10-day “You get to play with an intimate trip to Eastern Europe in December. group and really live the music The group will perform Brahms, with other people and get a good Beethoven and Mozart in Serbia, understanding Hungary and of the piece,” Bosnia.

Westenberg said. “Music is able to reach

After a T h o u g h a so many people. It year of planning, string instruWestenberg said m e n t p l aye r, has a deep connection she is excited to Westenberg has with people, and bring music to branched far people respond to it the region. outside the string “Given quartet, playing in a lot of emotional the recent turwith a clarinet ways. It’s very human.” moil in that area, trio, horn trio, it’s a place that’s piano quintet really looking for and string trio - erica westenberg ’15 classical music,” while at DartWestenberg said. mouth. Each Music group presented unique challenges professor and director of Dartand opportunities, she said, like mouth’s performance lab in chamber balancing the sound between instru- music Alex Ogle described Westenments. berg as extremely skilled, with “strong She said this adjustment proved musicianship and considerable skills most difficult with the horn trio. as an instrumentalist.”

“I had to come up a lot and the “She has tremendous experihorns had to be quieter without ence and technical skills, and this compromising tone,” Westenberg is coupled with a personal sense of said. “The adjustments and working responsibility not only to the music together are the most fun part for me. but to the people she’s playing with,” That’s probably why chamber music Ogle said. “[She has] wonderful

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people skills that she brings to every chamber music encounter.”

Alice Wang ’16, a fellow DSO violinist, called Westenberg a talented musician and close friend. She said she is already dreading the group’s spring concert, which will send off members of the Class of 2015 like Westenberg.

Though she spends countless hours in rehearsals, individual practice sessions and concerts each term, Westenberg is a neuroscience major and German studies minor who plans to pursue a career in medicine. After graduation, she hopes to conduct research at a German neuroscience laboratory for a year, then attend medical school.

She hopes to continue playing the violin in a medical school chamber group, she said.

In the future, Westenberg said she would like to play more pieces by Bartok, Beethoven and Shostakovich.

She said Mendelssohn’s piano trio is one of her favorite chamber pieces.

Westenberg said she most admires musicians who use music to reach audiences on a deeply personal and emotional level. She cited Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who performed as the Berlin Wall was being torn down, as a role model.

“He was very humanitarian with his music and an incredible cellist with a technique that is distinctly

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Russian,” she said. “Music is able to reach so many people. It has a deep connection with people, and people respond to it in a lot of emotional ways. It’s very human.”

the final word with Erica Westenberg ’15

My Late Night Collis order: S’mores ice cream.

My favorite TV show: “Bones.”

My favorite World Cup memory: I was in San Diego doing research at the USCD Morris Cancer Center. I was in this British pub with my cousins, and everybody went crazy during the final game.

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DARTMOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS

Complete Guidelines & Applications online: hop.dartmouth.edu hover over Dartmouth Students

The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund

The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,000 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund

The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the membership programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,700 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund

Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines

Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu/studentfunding) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

DEADLINE: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 or via email to margaret.c.burnett@dartmouth.edu.

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After dropping its first five contests of the year, the field hockey team is revving up at the right time as it begins Ivy League play.

The team’s offense kept rolling in a 5-3 win over the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The team had 4-0 lead at the end of the first half, with co-captain Ali Savage ’15 and Anna Rowthorn-

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PENN

3

Apel ’18 each scoring two goals.

“It was a great win against an Ivy opponent,” Savage said, noting that the team kept up its successful short passing game and made good decisions during the contest.

The team (3-5, 2-1 Ivy) boasts 14 goals in a three-game winning streak. After starting the season 0-5, the team is gathering momentum as Ivy play ramps up, sitting with just one fewer win in the Ancient Eight than all of last season.

The team seems to be returning to form after a down year last season. After posting third- and second-place Ivy finishes in 2011 and 2012, the team fell back to fifth last season.

“We’ve had a few shutouts against us, and I think our kids have really battled to find ways to be creative and find a way to put points on the board,” head coach Amy Fowler said. “We started that trend against Brown, and were able to do that the last three games in a row.”

In the first 35 minutes, goalkeeper Ellen Meyer ’15 made four saves and shut down the Quaker’s offense. She would go on to make five more saves in the second half, three in the last five minutes. The keeper has 23 saves over the last three games.

Fowler cited Meyer’s development from the beginning of the season as one of the team’s major strengths.

The game started off closely, but Savage broke through the Quaker defense and got Dartmouth on the scoreboard in the 13th minute. She scored again in the 20th minute for her seventh goal of the season.

Rowthor n-A pel scored 10 minutes later off a penalty stroke and notched her third goal of the season just under two minutes after that. The freshman is one of nine Big Green players to score this season and one of three with multiple goals.

Dartmouth held on to the fourgoal lead until the 58-minute mark, when three Quakers scored within

1:02. Fowler called this 62-second defensive breach a disappointing “mental lapse,” but also something that would build character for the team in the future, especially in Ivy League play.

“We let them get in behind us a bit in the second half,” co-captian Janine Leger ’15 said. “But we turned the game back around and finished strong with the last goal of the game.”

Leger struck back with her first tally of the year in the 62nd minute to widen the Big Green’s lead to 5-3.

Despite having three penalty corners and four shots in the last five minutes of the game, the Quakers’ offensive pressure was not enough to earn another goal.

In practice, Fowler said she will encourage players to make consistently intelligent choices during games, to prevent future midgame breakdowns.

The field hockey team will next face off against the University of Maine at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Orono, Maine, before returning home to face the University of Albany on Saturday.

Sarah Tabeek ’18 said the team is hoping to keep up its momentum in the coming games.

“I think our team is playing the best we’ve played all season,” she said.

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The field hockey team, which plays the University of Maine today, won its third consecutive game on Saturday 5-3 over Penn.

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

True to its storied Ivy League dominance, in a weekend double header the Big Green men’s first 15 (4-0 Ivy) sent the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (0-4 Ivy) back winless in conference play with a 44-10 victory before silencing any potential lingering questions about which team stands atop the conference, handily beating the last remaining undefeated team, Princeton University (3-1 Ivy), in a 54-5 match.

With rain coming down on the pitch all Saturday, conditions were less than ideal. Head coach Gavin Hickie said Saturday’s performance did not reflect the team’s ability.

“Overall, to be honest with you, I left Brophy on Saturday feeling frustrated and irritated by our inability to execute the basic skills,” he said. “It was one of those days where things didn’t come together for us. For whatever reason, we weren’t mentally where we need to be. Having said that, it’s hard to be upset with your team when you win fairly decidedly.”

The team, closing in on its seventh-straight Ivy pennant and its 12th since the turn of the century, hopes to use the Ivy games to prepare for matchups against nationally-ranked opponents. The team competes each spring in the Varsity Cup against other top collegiate programs, and fell to last year’s tournament champion, Brigham Young University, during the super regionals. These matches, Hickie said, need to be on players’ minds every time they take the pitch.

“I’ll say it modestly: we have been dominant in the Ivies in the last few years and we aim to continue that,” he said. “But we also know that we played BYU last year in the Varsity Cup and they put up 70 points on us.

We’re not as good as some of those teams nationally, but we’re aspiring to be.”

The finer points of the game that kept the team humble on Saturday night may have propelled the team to its big victory over the Tigers on Sunday. The Big Green came out hot against Princeton and dominated the flow of the game. The team controlled possession for almost the length of the match, taking every

opportunity to get back on offense by stealing several line outs and a handful of scrums.

The overwhelming victory, which co-captain Peter Savarese ’15 said showed improvement on the day before, was almost a complete shutout until Princeton scored a try in the closing minutes of the match.

Savarese identified “becoming an 80-minute team” as a goal moving forward.

Despite not being completely satisfied with its play over the weekend, Dartmouth is still a dominant Ivy force.

Its defensive prowess is unrivaled in the Ivy League, which as a collective has been unable to break through the Big Green wall more than twice in any given match — Harvard unable to score at all. The lopsided scores that come at the end of a Dartmouth rugby match, Savarese said, do not reflect a complacent team.

“It’s not easy,” he said. “It obviously is fun to win and win big, but it certainly comes with a lot of hard work from the front end. That’s one of our mottos — to do the work on the front end. We want to come in big early.”

That work on the front end is coming at a much higher cost recently with the temporary departure of co-captain Madison Hughes ’15 for Team USA competition. While Hughes is “irreplaceable,” Jake Levine ’15 has been filling in as scrumhalf well, Savarese said, but isn’t the only Dartmouth player to be cycling in to the first 15. While Dawit Workie ’17 took some rest on Saturday, Curtis Oberg ’16 and Ollie Engelhart ’18 both saw action this weekend, which speaks to the depth of Dartmouth’s back pocket, Mike McDavid ’15 said.

“Dawit is an important part of the team’s machinery,” he said.

“There’s definitely an element of timing and connection that can be disrupted when you change personnel, but if Dawit needs a rest day, Curtis can come in. There’s always guys chomping at the bit to get in the game off the bench.”

The team looks to remain undefeated next weekend on the road at Yale University.

McDavid is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.