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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Violations to bring sanctions for two houses

Tiltfactor receives NSF grant

By Parker Richards

psychology Geoff Kaufman said.

Students in introductory STEM classes will write fictional accounts of their academic and social experiences as part of the program, according to a Tiltfactor release.

In the proposed software, students control a character and lead it through a fictional life by making decisions at checkpoints throughout the game, Kaufman

Alpha Delta fraternity and Psi Upsilon fraternity, which are respectively suspended and on probation, must adopt new alcohol distribution procedures after their alcohol bans are lifted.

AD has been suspended through March 29, 2015, and Psi U has been placed on probation through Feb. 13, 2015.

During those periods, neither house will be allowed to serve alcohol, though members of Psi U may keep alcohol in their private rooms if they are of legal drinking age, College spokesperson Justin Anderson said.

The alcohol ban at AD will continue through Sept.

14, 2015, and it will include private rooms. In addition to the bans, both houses will have to move to a system of third-party vendors for alcohol or adopt a “bring your own booze” policy after their alcohol bans are lifted.

Fraternities must develop third-party vending and BYOB policies in consultation with the Greek Letter Organizations and Societies office. AD would need to maintain its BYOB or third-party vendor policy through Sept. 2016, while Psi U must continue its version of the policy through Feb. 2016, Anderson said.

“It’s not simply hiring a Dartmouth student to bartend,” Anderson said. “It’s contracting with a third-party licensed vendor or creating a BYOB policy.”

AD president Mike Haughey ’15 and Psi U president Tobin Paxton ’15 did not return multiple requests for comment.

AD’s suspension, handed down on Oct. 2, stems from two incidents earlier this year, Anderson said. The fraternity,

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The Tiltfactor game helps provide a new forum to discuss STEM classroom environment.

B y Lucia Mcgloin A $1,134,208 grant from the National Science Foundation will help develop interactive narrative games to combat stereotype threat — students’ fear of confirming identitybased stereotypes — in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Tiltfactor Laboratory researchers, who work to design and study games that promote social change, will spend three years researching

game technology, developing students’ stories about classroom bias into a fictional game and testing the affect of their work.

Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan and Melanie Green, a communications professor at the University at Buffalo, will lead the project, known as “An Interactive Narrative Technology for Classrooms in STEM.” The program will also run at SUNY-Buffalo, Tiltfactor postdoctoral researcher in

IvyQ wraps up plans Co-op renovation to begin soon before conference B y Sara MCGAHAN The Dartmouth Staff

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In the month before IvyQ , student organizers have turned their attention to fundraising, housing and registration. While the planning committee, headed by Kelsey Weimer ’16 and Akash Kar ’16, has secured contracts for almost all visiting speakers and finalized plans for

social events and venues, organizers have struggled to recruit enough hosts for the roughly 300 conference attendees.

About 120 students have signed up so far to host attendees from other schools, and organizers hope to double that number by November, housing chair SEE IVYQ PAGE 2

The Co-op Food Stores are taking preliminary steps in a $5.3 million renovation to the Hanover flagship store, and store representatives said they hope to break ground within the next week. The renovation, which is expected to finish by July 2015, will include expanding the store by 2,700 square feet, increasing energy efficiency and revamping the 51-year-old building.

The Co-op cannot begin the

expansion until it completes a “land swap” with the College, general manager Terry Appleby said. The College will give up its “right of way” to land going through the building, he said, an arrangement dating back to a time when there was a radio tower on the fields behind the stove. In exchange, the Co-op will give Dartmouth nearby land along the Appalachian Trail.

The project will first expand the western edge of the store, Co-op spokesperson Allan Reetz said. This “bump-out” space

will allow the store to remain open as renovation persists, since different departments can function in the expanded area while construction occurs for their permanent space.

Closing the Hanover store during renovation was not viable, Co-op Board of Directors president Margaret Drye said.

As the cooperative’s “flagship” store, it would have been fiscally irresponsible to shut the store’s doors, she said, as the Lebanon SEE CO-OP PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES

Brown University: Last weekend, Brown hosted the All-Ivy Native Council fall summit, the Brown Daily Herald reported, drawing record attendance from all eight Ivies. The All-Ivy Native Council is an intercollegiate organization that seeks to build community on Ivy League campuses. This year’s theme was “Laugh, Heal, Resist,” to reflect the healing power of art and performance. The summit included workshops, a panel discussion and a comedy show to end the weekend.

Columbia University: Three Columbia students formed the Columbia Atheist and Agnostic Students Society, aiming to start a discussion that includes secularists and decreases the stigma attached to being an atheist or agnostic, the Columbia Spectator reported. Though 36 religious and belief-based organizations exist on Columbia’s campus, this is the first to appeal to non-believers.

Cornell University: Minibar, an alcohol delivery service that originated in New York City, was just launched in Ithaca, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The app, co-founded by Cornell alumna Lara Crystal, makes alcohol available at student’s doorsteps within the hour. Users must place an order of at least $25 and there is no delivery fee, though tips are encouraged.

Harvard University: Harvard affiliates received a death threat earlier this month from a Gmail account of a man named Huy Dinh, the Harvard Crimson reported. Previous emails requested donations and followers on Facebook, but Friday’s mass threat drew the attention of the Harvard University Police Department. Students on campus have met for support, and the police are increasing their campus presence.

University of Pennsylvania: Skylar Grey, singer on “Coming Home” and writer of “Love the Way You Lie,” will perform at Penn’s fall concert. Grey will perform on Oct. 25, with the indie rock band The Lawsuits opening.

Princeton University: Princeton is hiring a Title IX administrator following a Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigation. The new administrator, instead of the university’s faculty-student committee on discipline, will now handle student sexual misconduct cases and investigate Princeton’s compliance with Title IX. Yale University: A group of Yale students seeking to raise awareness about the “Occupy Central” protests in Hong Kong brought the “Wear Yellow for Hong Kong” campaign to the Yale campus this past weekend, the Yale Daily News reported. The nationwide campaign aims to show solidarity with the protesters abroad, who are engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations to gain freedom and universal suffrage.

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A photo display marks LGBTQ history month in Baker-Berry Library.

Dartmouth finishes IvyQ preparations FROM IVYQ PAGE 1

Yejadai Dunn ’16 said.

The Ivy-wide conference for LGBTQ students, held since spring 2010, will bring keynote speakers, workshops, social events and entertainment to Dartmouth on Nov. 6 through Nov. 9. This year is Dartmouth’s first year hosting IvyQ. After Dartmouth lost last spring’s bid to Princeton University, Weimer and Kar reapplied to host the conference last December and was chosen to host this fall. They formulated a planning committee and started the planning process at the start of spring term.

“This conference is a monster,” Weimer said. “It’s such a big thing to plan, a completely student-run initiative.”

The Center of Gender and Student Engagement is providing financial and organizational support for this year’s conference, financial chair Tyler Stoff ’15 said.

Organizers sought to enlist a combination of familiar and new speakers, consulting with the leaders of Princeton’s conference about the most popular speakers from last year, Weimer said. Rachel Hein ’15, Melina Bartels ’15 and Gustavo Mercado Muniz ’16 have coordinated speaker outreach.

“One of the main goals of IvyQ is to empower students to make changes not only in their respective LGBT communities, but also within greater LGBT communities,” Weimer said. “We think the workshop speakers will really empower attendees to catalyze change.”

The committee decided to wait for the fall to conduct registration and coordinate housing “to be inclusive and engage the freshman community,” Weimer said.

In addition to holding planning meetings this fall, organizers have

held open meetings to educate other students about the conference.

IvyQ’s focus has evolved from pre-professional to educational over the years, making raising money more difficult, Stoff said. Although past hosts have been able to rely on corporate sponsors, as IvyQ was the only conference for LGBTQ students, he said, more conferences exist today and many have a more pre-professional focus.

“We’re trying to reemphasize the focus on education, community and activism,” Weimer said.

Google, among other corporate sponsors, donated to this year’s conference, but organizers plan to spend the next month recruiting more corporate support, Stoff said.

Despite the continuing fundraising efforts, Stoff emphasized that the conference is not in a budget deficit.

“If we wanted to put on the conference tomorrow, we could do it, but we want to make it better,” he said. “Money is the way to do that, in many ways.”

The conference costs about $20,000, with most funding coming from the College, including the Provost’s office, the President’s office and the Dean of the College office, Stoff said.

“I was concerned that we weren’t going to get a lot of administrative support, but it was just the opposite,” Stoff said.

Academic departments at Dartmouth, such as the sociology department and the women’s and gender studies program, have contributed money as well.

Hanover’s location makes fundraising difficult, Stoff said. At the Princeton conference, many speakers took day trips from New York City by train, but this year, speakers require hotel rooms and higher travel costs.

Organizers decided to avoid

holding any events in fraternities, as some participants may be nervous about Dartmouth’s Greek system, but residents of Greek houses may host attendees, safety co-chair Olivia Bauer ’17 said.

“All of the events are in spaces that we control and can make sure are safe,” Bauer said.

The safety team, co-chaired by Logan Henderson ’17, has focused on ensuring access to gender neutral bathrooms, first aid in the 24-hour safe space, transportation to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and counselors if material upsets attendees or conflict arises between students. The team has also made sure that all events are accessible to all students.

Mauricio Esquivel Rogel ’18, who attended the first planning meeting and has registered for the conference, said he believes planners could better explain and advertise the conference, especially its most prominent speakers, to the Dartmouth community.

“If a celebrity comes, everyone is interested,” he said. “Even though that’s not what the conference is about, I think it’s a good idea to start advertising from that point and go on.”

Though some potential attendees have expressed uneasiness about Dartmouth hosting the conference, Zachary Myslinski ’15, who has been involved with IvyQ since Dartmouth’s first bid attempt in 2012, said he believes next month’s conference will bring “new conversations, perspective and insight” to campus, prompting introspection among students.

“Over the last four years, campus as a whole has been looking inwards towards itself through a critical lens,” Myslinski said. “I think we’re becoming less complacent, more activist, more invested in making Dartmouth something better.”

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Game uses fictionalized stories of STEM students FROM TILTFACTOR PAGE 1

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Alpha Delta fraternity will remain suspended until March 2015 following two incidents earlier this year.

Psi U, AD to adopt new alcohol policy FROM FRATERNITIES PAGE 1

which has been on probation for nine of the last 12 terms, hosted a party on March 1, 2014, at which they had planned to serve beer to guests of legal drinking age.

“There’s evidence that while this event was happening, in addition to beer, bottles of rum, whiskey and vodka and mixers were made available,” Anderson said. “In areas where alcohol was being served, there was no designated server. Guests poured their own drinks and no IDs were checked.”

On Aug. 3, a random Safety and Security check found around 70 individuals at AD. The fraternity had not told the College that it would host such a large event, Anderson said.

The organizational adjudication committee determined disciplinary actions for both fraternities. Six College faculty, six College administrators selected by the College President and 12 students, half of whom are selected by the Dean of the College and half of whom are elected, sit on the committee.

“In reaching their decision, the OAC considered AD’s disciplinary history over the last three years,” Anderson said.

He said that AD has, at various times, been found responsible for hazing, unregistered alcohol and serving minors.

While AD received a hearing, Psi U did not after the organization “basically admitted” to charges of providing alcohol to underage students, not checking IDs and not monitoring the serving of liquor, Anderson said. Psi U was placed on probation on Sept. 26, Anderson wrote in a follow-up email.

While AD is the only house currently suspended, Psi U is joined by “a number of houses” that are also on probation, Anderson said, although he was not sure which those were.

Anderson said that third-party

vendor policies have been used by the College for certain types of events in the past, but he was unaware of the policy being used as a sanction. The use of third-party vendor and BYOB policies have been endorsed by the National Panhellenic Conference and the North American Intrafraternity Conference as best practices, he said.

Anderson said that some other institutions use these polices as “standard operating policy,” not a sanction.

Neither the National Panhellenic Conference nor the North American Intrafraternity Conference responded to requests for comment.

David Hanson, an emeritus sociology professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam and an expert on collegiate alcohol policy, said that he was not familiar with BYOB or third-party server requirements being used as sanctions.

“I’m not sure BYOB would lead to safer drinking,” Hanson said.

He said that minors could likely procure alcohol from those of legal drinking age, but if minors were unable to do so, the policy might be effective.

Third-party servers, he said, are usually sought by fraternities themselves to reduce liability.

“The third-party server would be legally liable for any problems, and that would remove the liability from the fraternity,” he said. “Typically it is desired by the fraternities to protect themselves. I’m unclear as to why that would be a sanction.”

While he said that a third-party vendor may not over-serve students, he did not understand the logic of the two sanctions.

Hanson said that the most effective policy he has seen to reduce binge drinking is a “social norms” campaign, which uses data-driven marketing to inform students that others frequently do not drink as much as individual students may believe.

AD can appeal its suspension and

other penalties until Oct. 9, Anderson said. Psi U opted not to appeal.

Some fraternity presidents said that their houses were considering new policies to reduce high-risk drinking and to reduce risks for the houses.

Zach Queen ’15, Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity president, said that his house was “not nervous” about sanctions or penalties, but that it was aware of the need to limit its risks and liabilities.

“We just understand right now all the fraternities are on the chopping block, so risk management is our number one priority right now,” he said.

Queen said Chi Gam was “not currently considering” a third-party vendor option or a BYOB option, but that institutional discussions were ongoing.

Beta Alpha Omega president Chet Brown ’15 wrote in an email that while he was unaware of plans to bring third-party vendors or BYOB policies into Greek houses, “it’d certainly be something we’d be interested in if it appeared to promote safety and cut down on high-risk drinking.”

“We’ve already begun implementing some of our own ideas to mitigate the challenges we face with alcohol,” Brown said.

Beta has established a nightly curfew on alcohol service after which no drinks will be served. The fraternity’s members “make rounds to eliminate all open or available sources of alcohol” after a certain number of people are in the house, he said.

Brown said he was not fully aware of sanctions against other houses.

Daegwon Chae ’15, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity president, said that his house was still discussing new policies internally.

Presidents of other fraternities and local sororities declined to comment or did not respond to requests seeking comment.

said. The game presents students with a general academic or social encounter and prompts them to respond to the situation.

Kaufman said that the team has not set a starting date or developed a specific plan, but he said that the “interactive narrative” format serves as a digital medium for students to craft their own stories.

During the project’s first year, developers will conduct basic research on interactive narrative technology, Kaufman said. The researchers will collect narratives from STEM students about stereotype bias in the classroom to include in the game, Kaufman said.

Kaufman noted reluctance among students to voice stressful or anxiety-provoking experiences, which may cause students to feel isolated. Kaufman said that students and instructors often report a “chilly climate” in STEM classes. The perception that introductory classes will “weed out” weak students, even if unfounded, places pressure on students that researchers hope the game will alleviate.

The program will provide a new forum for discussion about the STEM classroom environment, as students share their stories anonymously with other students and instructors in a potentially more open way, according to the press release.

John Montgomery ’15, a Tiltfactor student researcher, said that interactive narrative helps students build empathy for each other.

Biology professor Roger Sloboda, who supported the project’s grant proposal in a letter, said that despite great interest in STEM fields among students entering undergraduate studies, students often do not complete STEM degrees. Sloboda said that integrating the game platform will improve the classroom environment for everyone, including traditionally underrepresented groups.

As students often underestimate

their own abilities, physics professor Kristina Lynch said, the software would allow them to share their collective anxiety and therefore relieve some of it.

“It is valuable for students to understand that what they think is real may not be real,” Lynch said.

Lynch said that upper- and graduate-level students could use this technology to increase student awareness of their peers experiences.

Flanagan and Green will lead randomized experiments testing the effect of the approach throughout the three-year project, according to the release.

The research will inform how fiction and the fictionalizing of life experiences can potentially improve student life, Kaufman said.

At the end of the project, Tiltfactor will have a finished software platform that can be applied to various arenas where greater empathy or understanding is needed, Kaufman said.

Flanagan has previously developed two games, “Awkward Moment” and “Buffalo,” with funding from the National Science Foundation’s project, “Transforming STEM for Women and Girls: Reworking Stereotypes and Bias,” with additional assistance from the National Girls Collaborative Project.

In “Awkward Moment,” players pick a “Reaction” card to go with a “Moment” card that presents an awkward social situation. The game focuses on instances of gender bias in academic and social settings. According to the Tiltfactor website, initial research suggests that the game both reinforces the association between women and STEM and encourages assertiveness in confronting social bias.

“Buffalo” requires players to associate real or fictional characters with descriptors on cards, including identities such as “female scientist,” which reduces prejudice and encourages greater inclusiveness in players’ representations of social groups.

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CONTRIBUTING Columnist MICHAEL MCDAVID ’15

CONTRIBUTING Columnist WILLIAM PETERS ’15

Give a Rouse

A Mechanism for Change

Singing “Men of Dartmouth” is disrespectful and unacceptable.

The words to Dartmouth’s alma mater were changed in 1988 to reflect the advent of coeducation. The original title, “Men of Dartmouth,” became “Alma Mater.” The lyrics, originally a poem by Richard Hovey (a member of the Class of 1885), were edited to include women. Today, more than 30 years later, many students continue to sing the original lyrics. This practice is detrimental to the College and those who do so disrespect the women who call Dartmouth home, especially given its bitter history.

When taken in a vacuum, this idea might strike some as ridiculous. If men want to sing the version of the song that best reflects them and their experience, why should it offend anyone else? A group of men, after all, includes neither daughters nor sisters.

But the alma mater is a historical artifact and must be considered in light of its historical baggage. Dartmouth became coeducational in 1972, but real movement to change the lyrics to reflect the change in the student body did not begin until the ’80s. At Commencement in 1980, all-female senior society Cobra proposed a third, gender-inclusive verse to be sung along with the originals. For the next few years, a mélange of committees and alumni groups wrestled with the undeniably gendered issue.

Commentators framed the debate as a contest between men and women. In the pages of The Dartmouth, Jay Baxter ’81 urged “the women’s movement” to “be graceful in both victory and defeat” rather than continue what he saw as the College “tearing itself apart.”

At a time when women struggled to be a part of Dartmouth, a time when undergrads were singing demeaning compositions like “Our Cohogs,” our official song did not include them.

The change in lyrics effectively required a presidential fiat. In 1988, fairly unpopular then-College President James Freedman organized a group of male and female students to compose the lyrics we now have. “Sisters” now stood by “brothers” and not only the men but all of “Dear old Dartmouth” was

exhorted to give a rouse.

Why, among a group of men, should any of this matter? Because the alma mater stands for Dartmouth as a whole, not just the people singing it at any given moment or in any given space. And the original lyrics exclude members of our community. The intention behind the original lyrics is irrevelent. The school from which the words draw their power has changed, so the words must change too.

For the first 16 years of coeducation “Men of Dartmouth” stood as a reminder that women were new to the College, that many campus institutions had needed to serve men and only men for more than 200 years. Clearly, it made some women feel unwelcome, and singing it now can have the same effect. It voices the opinion that any departure from tradition is to be resisted in the same way. Singing this outdated song suggests that Dartmouth is for men and men only — why should we need to accommodate anyone else?

While I am sure only a handful of students would still actually oppose coeducation, the fight for gender equality at Dartmouth rages on. Women continue to face greater disadvantages than men. Some departments, especially some STEM programs, can feel overwhelmingly masculine. The networks that so many Dartmouth students use to help find career opportunities (such as corporate recruiting) feature men much more heavily than women. And as we’re all familiar with, much ink has been spilled on gender inequities in Dartmouth’s social scene.

The discussion is not over, and it probably never will be. We can and must always try harder to do right by all the members of our community. Those who sing the original lyrics to “Men of Dartmouth” ignore how their words suggest that women have less of a right to being a true child of Dartmouth.

In so many ways, Dartmouth is still adjusting to coeducation, 42 years after the fact. Singing “Men of Dartmouth” strikes many — myself included — as hostile to the presence of women on campus. Don’t do it.

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Eliminating the Greek system would do more harm than good.

Since the beginning of term, listening to conversations from members of the Greek system has left me with one impression: affiliated students are genuinely concerned that their organizations will be eliminated.

So far, the Interfraternity Council has officially eliminated “pledge term” — all persons who shook out and are granted bids are now immediately considered full-fledged members. House leaders are stepping up their game to maintain the teeming social scene that keeps so many students occupied in the middle of nowhere. In reality, the Greek system is one of the things that has made Dartmouth’s location more enjoyable.

Perhaps Greek life has dominated social life at the College thanks to its remoteness, and in turn, has created a culture that is dependent on tails, pong and sweaty dance parties in sticky basements. The houses have become apparatuses for consistent togetherness, and now they might be on the verge of extinction.

But despite the need for reform, ridding the College of the Greek system entirely would also rid it of a key mechanism for change.

Right now, administrators are cracking down on drinking, directing Safety and Security officers to diligently seek out as many infractions as possible. The nature of the fraternity scene essentially guarantees that if they look hard enough they will find something. Perhaps administrators are conducting a gradual approach — one that will build cases, allowing violations to pile up, enabling them to take out houses one by one and say, “We told you so.” If elimination is the end game, why won’t administrators just pull the plug? Why bother wasting so much time and commissioning a steering committee?

These are the questions on my and many other affiliated students’ minds. Both house leaders and members are listening to administrators’ concerns and charging each other with more responsibility so they may save their houses — their homes. Moreover, Greek houses are not ignorant of what’s at

stake. At least two fraternities (Psi Upsilon and Alpha Delta) have recently seen the consequences of violations. Other houses are looking to them as an example of how some of the Old Traditions must fail. In the past year, individual houses across campus have held forums to discuss sexual assault, drinking and race and gender inequality.

These efforts show that Greek organizations are looking to meaningfully change the culture that has perpetuated these issues for so many years. In short, administrators have the eyes, ears and more cooperation than ever from relatively unified members of Dartmouth’s Greek life.

If these efforts from the students are disregarded and Greek life is eliminated from Dartmouth’s campus, that apparatus for togetherness disappears. Destroying Greek life is not the solution, and in fact the machine that has enabled some of Dartmouth’s problems can be used to fix them. Without the Greek house, Dartmouth has no mechanism to effectively navigate social issues.

Greek houses are social waypoints, where literally thousands of people go to socialize and create a community. And though these communities can be sources of Dartmouth’s well-publicized issues, they are not their only cause. As we saw at the beginning of the term, a significant number of alcohol-related incidents involve freshmen outside of Greek spaces. Prohibiting freshmen from Greek life proves that harmful behavior can still manifest elsewhere. Eliminating Greek life would very likely reduce reported incidents on campus, but at the same time, we would forfeit the infrastructure to protect students and police the campus.

The administrators have gotten the attention of affiliated students. It is time to stop hanging abolition over our heads, and start working with us — the people who have shown that we care. We don’t simply want to save our houses. We also want to see Dartmouth be better and use our organizations as positive tools of change.

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New products, green initiatives to hit Co-op FROM CO-OP PAGE 1

Co-op would not have been able to maintain the customer volume if the Hanover store closed.

Unlike other Co-op locations, the company owns both the Hanover store’s building and the land it is on, making it the cooperative’s largest asset. In order to take care of the facility, certain upgrades are required.

Many heating, ventilating and air-conditioning units are currently or almost expired, and some of the first floor decking beams support loads that exceed their weight capacity. Additionally, some walls, ceilings and floors are worn and cracking from age, and windows are outdated.

Making these upgrades now, instead of waiting to renovate, will save the Coop money, Reetz said.

The renovation will also help the store reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a proposal guide.

Changes will include adding doors onto their dairy cases, installing LED lights and updating their refrigeration system to become more energy efficient.

Additional changes will include new prepared foods departments, such as a hot food and sushi bar, more entrances and indoor café seating. The Hanover store’s shelves may also add some new food products.

In April, 88 percent of Co-op members supported the renovation, Drye said.

Those who voted against the project may have been concerned about the timing or expenses of the renovation, Drye said.

“Concerned About the Co-op,” a group of Co-op members displeased with the Co-op’s direction, has questioned whether the renovations align with the cooperative’s overall values and goals, citing concerns of corporatization.

Appleby noted, however, that constant growth was one of the coopera-

tive’s founding principles.

Drye said that many Hanover Coop employees are excited about the renovation and pleased that the store’s members supported the project.

Co-op employee John Manion said the renovations will open up a new clientele for the Co-op and keep existing members happy. He added that the changes will “liven up” the store.

“I’m happy to kick up the pace and change the Co-op for the better,” he said.

The Hanover Co-op’s most recent renovations occurred in 1973, 1985 and 1994, with the store remaining open during the last two.

The 1994 renovation brought 4,000 square feet of new retail space. Despite the renovations taking half the parking lot out of commission for their duration, sales jumped by 5 percent as customers came in to keep track of the store’s progress, Appleby said.

“While construction may reduce sales some, we think that a number of members will want to see the renovations on a weekly basis,” Appleby said.

Town of Hanover senior planner Vicki Smith ’78, who has been a Co-op member since she attended the College, said that the town has had a limited role in the renovation process. She noted that town inspectors and the fire department will inspect the building.

Local architect Chris Kennedy, a member of the 11-person Sustainable Hanover committee, said that the Co-op has had a “long track record” of environmental awareness. Co-op sustainability coordinator Amanda Charland also sits on the committee.

The Co-op’s sustainability efforts follow a recent push to make Hanover more eco-friendly. The town was recently named New Hampshire’s first “Green Power Community” by the Environmental Protection Agency and is launching a solar energy project called “Solarize Hanover” later this month.

Nick Vernice contributed reporting.

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Organizers hope to break ground on the $5.3 million project this week.

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014

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Matreyek tells Earth’s story in dreamy multimedia, animation B y HALLIE HUFFAKER The Dartmouth Staff

Combining animation, music and a moving silhouette of her own body, artist Miwa Matreyek tells the story of the earth’s creation in two Friday shows at the Hopkins Center’s Bentley Theater on Friday. With elements both natural and fantastical, the artist will light up the black box theater with an array of images, sounds and dance.

Influenced by her experience working in collage, Matreyek wanted to integrate performance with digital art to create a unique audience experience, she said. Matreyek began creating performance pieces as an undergraduate at the University of California at Santa Barbara, then refined these pieces as a graduate student at the California Institute of the Arts.

“My pieces are very much for the audience’s interpretation,” Matreyek said. “It is a conversation between science and art, like a child’s science encyclopedia — the elements are surreal, but real ideas are coming across.”

Matreyek will perform two pieces set to music in her Bentley shows.

Her newer piece, “The World Made Itself,” was inspired by her travels around the world, especially her experience looking down at the country’s landscape from an airplane window.

Her second piece, “Myth and Infrastructure,” is more playful, she said. The pieces differ in the way she integrates animation and her body movements, Matreyek said.

“Most of the scenes from the ‘Infrastructure’ piece are of my body in the center of the frame and the world moving around me,” she said. “In ‘The World Made Itself ’ it becomes more cinematic, as my body comes and goes in and out of the frame.”

To create her pieces, Matreyek compiles pictures that she has taken and layers them together, adding different textures of light, movement and particles. The process is arduous — it takes months for her to put together the digital aspects, and longer to make the silhouette poses match.

Besides her solo work, Matreyek is a founding member and corecollaborator of Cloud Eye Control, a three-person collaborative performance group. Interested in animation, multi-media and performance, the group members met during their time at Cal Arts.

Matreyek said that the projects she does for this group is less theatrical and richer in animation than her solo work. Working with co-collaborators helps, too, to inspire other solo projects, she said.

Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence said she was interested in the way Matreyek’s work could open up Dartmouth students’ minds.

“She’s a part of a generation of artists who are really pushing the edges

of technology, but she’s found a way to stay in that slippery place between digital technology and live theater,” Lawrence said. “Today it’s easy to go all the way into technology, but she’s interested in remaining present

“The elements are surreal, but real ideas are coming across.”

- MIWA MATREYEK as a live performer in her work, and that gives it a real human quality and immediacy.”

Film and media studies professor Jodie Mack described Matreyek’s

work as a novel integration of live elements and digital form.

Her tedious work process is another attraction to the show, Mack said.

“Sometimes you need to take 24 or 30 photographs and drawings per second,” Mack said. “It’s so laborintensive that it’s really special to watch inanimate things come to life through this very special process.”

Lawrence said the perfect timing of body movements, music and moving images can have a mesmerizing effect.

“She plays with perspective a lot, so one minute you are underwater and the next you are zooming up over the landscape, things that are not humanly possible,” Lawrence said.

“She’s got this limitless imagination that makes her pieces very fun but also quite beautiful.”

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Artist Mima Matreyek spoke to students in a lighting design class on Wednesday.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014

THURSDAY LINEUP

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Dartmouth equestrian team preps for upcoming season B y JEHANNA AXELROD The Dartmouth Staff

After wrapping up its best season in history last spring with a 10th-place finish at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championship, Dartmouth equestrian looks forward to starting its 2014-15 campaign this weekend. The team is rushing into the new season with two shows, one Saturday at the University of Vermont and a second Sunday at Middlebury College.

But team leaders note the changed face of the fall riding squad.

“We lost a lot of good seniors last year, and we have a lot of good people who are on off-terms,” co-captain Alexa Dixon ’15 said. “It’s hard to keep up the quality that we had last year, but I think we’ve done it by getting really good new members during tryouts.”

Although it is a varsity sport, the team does not recruit due to competition organization. At every show, teams need a rider in all levels from walk-trot

beginners to experienced showers in open fences, so it is not in the team’s best interest to try to bring experienced riders to Dartmouth.

“I had been keeping track of a few that I knew were coming, and I knew about their riding experience, but we have some that I hadn’t been tracking that were a good addition, too,” head coach Sally Batton said.

This fall, nine of 17 riders — five freshmen, one sophomore, two juniors and one senior — are new to the team.

Batton said, however, that the team has not noticed any hiccups in its training.

“They’re really fitting right in, and they’re great team members,” Batton said. “It’s all one team, which I like to see.”

Last year, the team took first in Ivies, Regions and Zones, before taking 10th at Nationals. But before zeroing in on making it to Nationals, the team is focusing on what’s directly ahead.

“First, we just want to focus on having good results at these individual regular season shows so that we’re

placed well in the region,” Dixon said.

Last fall, to start off its record-setting season, the team took first place at both of these shows.

“Obviously we did really well there last year, but you never really know until you get there what the other teams are going to look like,” co-captain Emily Tregidgo ’16 said.

Saturday’s show at UNH will allow Batton to evaluate where the team stands in terms of skill, ability to perform under pressure and ability to perform with an unfamiliar horse, as the home team supplies horses and mounts, Tregidgo said.

“You can do a lot of training at home, but you can’t really replicate getting on strange horses that you don’t know and competing against other riders,” Batton said.

To reach Nationals, Dartmouth must first take the top spot in Regionals, a division consisting of 10 to 12 teams, and then first place in Zones, a show of four teams. Dartmouth beat out perennial powerhouse Mount

CECELIA SHAO/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

The Dartmouth equestrian team looks to build on last year’s surprising success.

Holyoke College at Zones last spring before surprising with its 10th-place IHSA Championships finish.

Despite the team’s unprecedented success of the 2013-14 season, no one views it as unrepeatable.

“Based on the quality of the team, which I think is equal or better than we had last year, we have a shot,” Dixon said. “But it’s always so hard, and there are so many things that go into it, so it’ll definitely take a lot of hard work.”

Savage ’15 leads Big Green field hockey team on and off field

B y Kelly CHEN

For Ali Savage ’15, athleticism runs in her veins. The tri-captain’s father was a track and rugby star, while her mother swam and played field hockey.

But today, Savage is an accomplished athlete in her own right.

In Savage’s last four games, she has tallied six goals and four assists. She leads the Big Green field hockey team (3-6, 2-1 Ivy) in goals this season with seven.

Savage has also made Dartmouth history: on Sept. 27, she notched two goals and an assist in a 6-1 victory over Brown, becoming the fourth Dartmouth player to reach 100 career points. With 44 career goals, she is also Dartmouth’s third highest goal-scorer of all time.

Savage made an impact upon arriving at Dartmouth. As a freshman, she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times, more than any other player. She was also named to the

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Ali Savage ’15, the Big Green’s scoring leader this year, shot for goal against Bryant.

All-Ivy League second team.

Savage, who started playing when she was 6 years old, has been a unanimous first team Ivy League selection for the last two seasons. She is the only player on the Dartmouth squad to have ever made first team all-Ivy. Savage is also one of just four seniors on this year’s Big Green squad, providing veteran leadership as the team looks to bounce back from last year’s 7-10 record.

“Ali is a bit like a parent, in the ‘eat-your-spinach’ type of way,” Laura Donald ’18 said. “It’s hard in the middle of drills to stay motivated, but she makes you realize it’s all worth it and that every day counts. She brings a contagious hunger.”

As a child, Savage was encouraged to try many different sports: water polo, swimming, track and snow sports. Both of her siblings are also accomplished athletes.

“Both of my parents played a lot of different sports,” Savage said. “I grew up in an environment where in our free time, we were always doing something active, so I fell naturally into sports. The competitive spirit runs in the family.”

Savage hails from Australia and said her decision to come overseas for college came only after her visit to Dartmouth.

“I had not thought really though

about coming to college in America, but then I heard from Dartmouth and on the visit, I was blown away by the facilities and the people that I met,” Savage said. “It was a no-brainer for me, to be able to continue my sport at a very high level and receive a great education.”

Savage has earned recognition in the academic realm as well. Last year, she won the Class of 1948 ScholarAthlete award, and she describes the recognition as one of her proudest accomplishments.

Despite her recent success, Savage’s athletic career has had its lulls.

“Freshman year was very intense,” Savage said. “I wasn’t ready for the intensity. I struggled a lot at first with minor injuries and a severe ankle roll that I still receive treatment on today.

But with training, I’ve gotten so much stronger, I don’t face injuries like I did when I first came in.”

In three of her four seasons, Savage has started slowly, not scoring more than a goal in the team’s pre-Ivy League schedule. But Savage has rebounded to consistently strong finishes. As a freshman, she scored in 11 of the last 12 games, as a sophomore, she scored 13 points in the last five games of the season, and

as a junior, she scored nine points in the final five games of the season.

Savage points to her field awareness and her longevity in the sport, not any natural gift, as the cause of her success.

“I understand the game, and I think that’s one of my greatest skills,” Savage said. “I grew up playing field hockey from a young age and so I was exposed to it a lot longer. It’s a very popular sport in Australia, it’s part of the culture.”

Savage’s resiliency and perseverance have served her well at Dartmouth, head field hockey coach Amy Fowler said.

Fowler noted that over the past four years, Savage has worked tirelessly at her personal fitness.

“When fatigue starts to set in for players, she’s still effective.” Fowler said.

Her teammates, too, point to Savage’s work ethic as the cause of her success.

“She’s the most driven person I’ve ever met,” Donald said. “I’ve never met someone so serious about field hockey. She’s so committed to getting better, and she’s always working the hardest. She’s also always cheering other people on, encouraging people to go a little further than they thought they could go.”