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College’s first Stamps GrantsupportsGeiselresearch Scholars start projects

By BRYN MORGAN The Dartmouth Staff

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Studying irrigation canals in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, and climate change and geopolitical issues in the Arctic, among other projects, six Dartmouth students are using their $10,000 awards by the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation to pursue global research. The five juniors and one senior selected as the College’s inaugural class of Stamps Scholars are planning and launching their projects this fall.

The program typically grants merit-based scholarships to students entering their first year of

college but is taking a different shape at Dartmouth. As Dartmouth cannot offer merit-based scholarships, College President Phil Hanlon and his wife, action-based learning programs director Gail Gentes, developed a program that incorporated the scholarship into Hanlon’s experiential learning goals with foundation leaders Penny and E. Roe Stamps.

“Our aim for the scholar awards is for students to be able to pursue a project that stemmed from something that sparked their interest in class, or an experience they had in their first two SEE STAMPS PAGE 2

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In one study, a Geisel professor will evaluate technology to help mental health patients.

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Colleges differ in ‘firstgeneration’ definitions

By Zac Hardwick The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s definition of a first-generation student — one for whom neither parent graduated from a four-year college — is among the most inclusive metrics used by colleges and other institutions.

Although some federal reports, state laws and private scholarships use the term to refer to students whose parents received no educa-

tion after high school, colleges seeking to identify students who could benefit from additional resources often use a more inclusive definition, said Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst with New America’s Education Policy Program.

Though there is no single definition of first-generation status, Fishman said, parents’ educational attainment can SEE FIRST-GENERATION PAGE 3

More than $3 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will support Geisel research on the effectiveness of health care delivery strategies. Geisel psychiatry professor Dror Ben-Zeev received $1.88 million to evaluate new smartphone technology for mental health patients, and Rachel Thompson, a health policy and clinical practice professor at The Dartmouth Institute, received $2 million to study new video and paper comparison tools to help women choose contraceptive methods. Thompson will lead the study with Geisel professor Glyn Elwyn.

With smartphone technology, treatments are more widely accessible and affordable, Ben-Zeev said. Mobile technology to address serious mental illnesses has been developed, but little research has measured its effectiveness, he said.

In his research proposal for the institute’s funding, Ben-Zeev wrote that serious mental illness, if not managed well, increases a patient’s risk of homelessness, incarceration, victimization, hospitalization and suicide.

Little clinic-based illness management is accessible for patients, he wrote.

Working with patients and providers at Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilita-

tion Centers in Chicago, Ben-Zeev will give patients phones and data plans, with a pre-uploaded application to help them self-manage their illness, he said. The app provides pre-scheduled prompts that ask patients to input their symptoms, he said. The app then assesses their answers and provides feedback, suggesting, for example, relaxation strategies and questions to re-evaluate and interpret paranoid emotions. The app can share patients’ usage information with Ben-Zeev’s research team on a secure server.

“Patients are not dependent anymore on a clinician’s SEE GEISEL PAGE 5

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The Native American fly-in program concludes today.

Starting this fall, several Greek houses will work with Sustainability Office intern Malcolm Salovaara ’17 to explore the option of planting permaculture gardens in their houses. The gardens would grow plants and vegetables

that only needed to be planted once and could be harvested each year.

The project will ask for fu n d i n g f ro m t h e G re e n Revolving Loan Fund, part of the nationwide Billion Dollar Green Challenge.

The initiative encourages colleges, universities and

other organizations to invest a total of $1 billion in revolving funds, which are replenished as money is withdrawn, to support sustainable projects.

Dartmouth joined the initiative in 2011.

Salovaara said that the perSEE GARDENS PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing College students graduating this year can expect to see a 16-percent jump in job opportunities, according to a survey conducted

by Michigan State University, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. As the economy improves, employers are dedicating more resources to recruiting undergraduates from a range of majors and are starting to build relationships with underclassmen.

The 5,700 employers surveyed are starting to see more employees retiring and are planning for their companies’ futures, though the job market’s continued growth is still uncertain. The full report will come out in November.

In an effort to connect talented low-income high school students with prestigious academic institutions, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation executive director Harold Levy will seek to boost students’ access to online tools. Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor, is partnering with technology companies to build a college search engine and advising site. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation seeks to address “undermatching,” the phenomenon of low-income and first-generation students being less likely to attend colleges that meet their academic standards. Since 2000, the foundation has awarded more than $200 million in grant and scholarship money, but Levy said he hopes the new initiatives will raise its low profile.

Hillary Clinton spoke about access to higher education during a speech at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on Monday night, for which she netted a $225,000 speaking fee, CNN reported.

She spoke about the importance of lowering the cost of college to make it attainable for all students and to reduce student debt loads.

Clinton also criticized “fly-by-night” for-profit universities and predatory lenders that take advantage of vulnerable students, as well as congressional gridlock on the issue. The event sparked controversy after its June announcement due to the 17 percent tuition hike occurring simultaneously at the university. Clinton donated her fee to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Corrections ‘Parajuli: The Republican Diet’ (Oct. 14, 2014): The initial version of the column misspelled the last names of Chris Calkins ’15 and Jake Becker ’15.

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Six students start as Stamps Scholars FROM STAMPS PAGE 1

years at Dartmouth,” Gentes said.

“This really gels nicely, just creating another opportunity for students to engage in another experiential learning opportunity.”

Andres Mejia-Ramon ’16, who applied for the scholarship to further his fieldwork in Teotihuacan, said he thinks Dartmouth’s grant-like model is better than awarding an up-front scholarship.

“Instead of investing in someone you hope will be good, you’re investing in someone who already has a plan,” he said.

Mejia-Ramon has worked in Teotihuacan for two summers analyzing satellite images and conducting geophysical studies to locate and confirm the presence of ancient canals. As most College funding is capped at around $5,000, this scholarship will allow him to continue his work without applying for multiple grants, he said. He also noted how rare it is for an undergraduate to direct an excavation.

“Excavations can be pretty expensive,” Mejia-Ramon said. “The Stamps program has provided more than enough money for me to be able to do more geophysics, to find more possible canals and to be able to fund this excavation.”

Leehi Yona ’16 plans to attend conferences focused on Arctic issues and policy, starting with one in Washington, D.C. this Thursday on the country’s agenda in the region.

She will build on her work as a presidential research scholar with Dickey Center Institute for Arctic Studies director Ross Virginia, who is involved in the youth advocacy organization SustainUs. The scholarship removes financial barriers to experiential learning, she said, and provides valuable connections to scholars at other schools.

“I feel that students at Dartmouth tend to get so absorbed by the bubble

that they don’t realize all the opportunities they have to go out and do things,” she said.

Some projects focused on Dartmouth. Rachel Margolese ’16 analyzed the College’s energy use, and Lucia Pohlman ’15 is working to bring locally sourced foods to campus dining halls.

Twenty-eight students applied to the program, which Gentes said was advertised to juniors with high GPAs, as well as through centers, deans and faculty.

“Instead of investing in someone you hope will be good, you’re investing in someone who already has a plan.”

- Andres Mejia-Ramon ’16, STAMPS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT Gentes, along with interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley, director of undergraduate advising and research Margaret Funnell and the Dickey Center global health initiative project manager Jessica Friedman, read the applications and interviewed around 10 students.

Though the College planned to nominate five students for the scholarship, the committee could not eliminate any of the six proposals it received, Gentes said. The six students received scholarships after interviews with Roe Stamps.

Roe and Penny Stamps established the program in 2006 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, their respective alma maters, before expanding it to institutions across the country. Pro-

gram director Randy McDow said the scholarship program is unique for its variety of schools and participants. As participants pursue diverse interests, there is a broad network of students involved.

The network of Stamps Scholars gathers for biennial retreats, with the third set to take place this April.

Jetson Leder-Luis, a Stamps Scholar at the California Institute of Technology who graduated last June, said the program fully funded his college education and offered an “enrichment fund” to support opportunities beyond the classroom.

Now a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leder-Luis said the scholars have pursued various opportunities — while he used money to study abroad at Cambridge University and conduct summer research at Harvard University, another student filmed a documentary in Korea that explored perceptions of plastic surgery.

Looking at other schools’ Stamps Scholars programs, he said that in addition to the tuition-payment model and Dartmouth’s researchbased model, some schools choose to emphasize community service. Others have more group bonding.

Yona said Dartmouth’s Stamps Scholars have only had one meeting, noting that some students are currently off-campus. She said the group had dinner with Penny and Roe Stamps at Hanlon’s house last month.

Dartmouth is the first Ivy League university to join the program, and only five or six others have similar Stamps Scholarships.

“Hopefully students involved with our program will be able to bring their experiences back to the classroom,” McDow said, “so that it’s enriching students that are not only directly involved with the Stamps program, but also the other students at partnering schools.”

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About 30 Dartmouth students participate in FYSEP each year FROM FIRST-GENERATION PAGE 1

influence a student’s risk of dropping out.

The question of how to identify first-generation students gained visibility with a Oct. 9 article by Beckie Supiano in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Institutions that keep statistics have shifted away from simply counting those whose parents enrolled in college, Supiano reported.

Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said that when deciding how to identify students first-generation status, the College arrived at its definition by considering if parents had a four-year college experience similar to that of a current Dartmouth student.

When Dartmouth admissions officers consider degrees from nonAmerican universities, if it is clear that a parent’s degrees comes from a four-year university or professional school, the officer does not consider that student to be first-generation, Laskaris said.

At some institutions, if a student’s parents attended college at all, he or she is disqualified from first-generation status. Princeton University defines a first-generation college student as the first person or generation in one’s nuclear family to

pursue a bachelor’s degree, according to its website.

Others — including Brown University, Cornell University, Harvard University and Yale University — consider students first-generation if neither parent graduated with a bachelor’s degree, according to information provided by their admissions offices.

Many institutions struggle to find the best and most useful definition, First-Year Student Enrichment Program director Jay Davis said, adding that he believed Dartmouth’s is broad enough to include everyone who could possibly qualify.

“That is one of the more inclusive of the definitions because it includes parents who have completed one or two years of college but did not finish and parents who have completed a community college degree,” he said.

First-generation student enrollment at the College has hovered between 10 and 11 percent for the past four classes, Laskaris said.

The Class of 2018 contains the largest percentage of first-generation students in Dartmouth’s history, the College reported in May. Among those admitted to the Class of 2018, 12.4 percent were considered to be first-generation college students.

Tracking first-generation status

is important, Davis said, because a degree from a four-year college or institution comes with a set of societal advantages.

“There are particular challenges that students who are the first in their families to attend college face,” Davis

“There are particular challenges that students who are the first in their families to attend college face.

First-generation often means low-income families as well, but not always.”

- JAY DAVIS, FYSEP DIRECTOR said. “First-generation often means low-income families as well, but not always.”

Writing in response to Supiano’s article, University of Southern California graduate student Desiree Ross pointed to a dearth of support or guidance for students who are among the

first in their families to attend college.

This lack of resources, she wrote, is a more important question than the definition of “first generation.”

Davis said Dartmouth has taken steps in recent years to not only identify first-generation students, but provide them with support when they matriculate.

“It’s one thing to bring students here,” he said. “It’s another thing to say we’re going to help you thrive in whichever way you want to go when you get here.”

Of Dartmouth’s first-generation students, between 30 and 35 are invited to participate in FYSEP, which was founded in 2009 and provides academic support, social programming and one-on-one peer mentoring, according to the program’s website.

With more students entering higher education than ever before in the past 20 years, Fishman said, colleges have attempted to target their resources so that most students graduate.

If an institution wants to use the broadest qualifiers — usually for the sake of determining participants for a program, choosing recipients of a scholarship or targeting resources toward students who often struggle through college — then it would

probably use the standard of having parents that have never graduated from any post-secondary education institution, Fishman said.

Michele Hernandez, a former Dartmouth admissions officer and founder and CEO of Hernandez College Consulting, said that although being a first-generation student wasn’t officially tracked as a data point, admissions teams consider it when holistically reading an applicant’s profile.

When Hernandez was an admissions officer, she said, the admissions office used a “North Country” designation to flag students from non-college backgrounds from Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Although it wasn’t something the admissions office reported, they tracked students internally and sometimes granted their applications an extra read, she said.

Admissions officers consider everyone’s test scores and grades in context, she said.

“Dartmouth has always tried to be compassionate and give students a break,” she said. “Admissions officers have always read people differently.”

Admissions representatives from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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Battling Binge Drinking

Opinion Asks

Lowering the drinking age would lead to safer practices.

The legal drinking age has been under fire experienced (and mostly concerned with getting since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act drunk). If the drinking age is lowered, alcohol of 1984 raised it to 21. Rather than try to fight can enter the household in controlled quantities the act through legal or social means, many before young people go off to college. By the time young people simply choose to ignore it, hap- they arrive at school, young people will be more pily consuming alcohol despite its illegality. For adept at handling alcohol-related situations. evidence, you don’t have to look any further than Turning 18 in the U.S. essentially means adultour own campus, where dozens of Good Samari- hood in every aspect except drinking. If you are tan calls come in every term — and since most legally an adult, you should be able to exercise a students are underage, these calls are likely due right that almost every other adult in the world to underage drinking. Whether we like it or not, does. Some argue that an 18-year-old brain is drinking is an integral part of the social culture not ready for alcohol, and I agree — just like here at Dartmouth, much like it is at most col- 18-year-old lungs are not ready for a cigarette, leges. Though the school and 18-year-old arteries is constantly forming new “If we want to change aren’t going to benefit policies to curb alcohol the culture surrounding from a cheeseburger. consumption and promote high-risk drinking, we Lowering the drinking alternative social activities, age should be coupled must increase the money a larger issue is being iga similar effort to dedicated toward education with nored. The legal drinking the one we have seen surage in the United States concerning alcohol rounding tobacco use: should be 18 instead of consumption and enable a tax should be added 21, because the current parents to teach their to increase the price of drinking age is both sense- children about responsible alcohol, and the revenue less and hypocritical. should go toward educatdrinking at home rather Despite our high drink- than letting them learn in an ing people — especially ing age, the U.S. has a unsafe environment.” young people — about higher rate of binge drinkthe dangers of excessive ing than any other country consumption. in the world, and the problem is greatest among Alcohol is undeniably dangerous when underage drinkers, Mic reported. Because many handled improperly. However, 18-year-old men non-American cultures include beverages like and women in the U.S. should be able to drink beer and wine as part of family life, dangerous legally, like our peers in most other parts of the behavior like binge drinking is not as prevalent. world do. Here at Dartmouth, we see this culture By the time young people reach legal drinking of irresponsible binge drinking almost every age, they understand the complicated nature weekend. Dick’s House will continue to fill up with of alcohol consumption — and how to handle students mishandling alcohol, and no Safety and themselves safely when drinking.

Security crackdown or freshman fraternity ban Since the drinking age in the U.S. is 21, most is going to curb that. If we want to change the people cannot drink in front of their families until culture surrounding high-risk drinking, we must they are well out of the house. Their formative increase the money dedicated toward education experiences concerning alcohol, then, are rushed, concerning alcohol consumption and enable secretive and probably excessive. When your first parents to teach their children about responsible glass of wine or beer is surrounded by concerned drinking at home rather then letting them learn and caring family members, it will probably be a in an unsafe environment. Arbitrarily keeping the much more positive experience than if you are drinking age high does nothing but harm those surrounded by friends who are also largely in- it nominally aims to protect.

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Should Dartmouth improve graduate student-undergraduate interaction?

Dartmouth should not expend resources on fostering stronger undergraduate-graduate interaction. I am not discouraging this sort of interaction — I have gotten to know several graduate students through extracurricular activities, and I find it to be very rewarding. Rather, I simply feel that it would be antithetical to Dartmouth’s inherent small-college nature and mission of undergraduate focus first to divert precious funds away from the undergraduate experience in favor of creating a building or a program to stimulate relationships that can — and should — develop naturally.

— Spencer Blair ’17 Dartmouth should expand its funding of successful programs to bring graduate and undergraduate students together, like presidential scholars. These programs are successful because they provide funding directly to the students for doing research, which is a favorable arrangement for both the undergraduates and the labs or faculty for which they work. In addition to bolstering current research programs, there should be more of an effort to make graduate students more visible on campus. As it currently stands, it is rare to see graduate students in Collis, the library or dining halls. Perhaps this situation could be improved by creating more affordable graduate housing on and around campus. More visibility would naturally lead to more interaction among graduates and undergraduates.

— Jon Miller ’15 With the exception of our standalone schools, the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine, we simply do not have strong enough programs to warrant College President Phil Hanlon’s increased focus on them when our undergraduate reputation is in jeopardy.

In the last few years, the number of graduate students — especially those in arts and sciences programs — has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, higher enrollment has not yet resulted in higher quality. A recent Dartblog post used U.S. News and World Report data and found that the College is last among the Ivies in several

major science divisions, including chemistry, psychology, engineering and computer science.

While we of course should work to improve those programs, making them phenomenal is not a realistic goal.

Dartmouth should, however, make an effort to use graduate programs to more meaningfully support our undergraduate experience. While some departments involve graduate students in instruction, their role is often limited to serving as a teacher’s assistant or teaching certain introductory courses. Because there is a wide variety in the teaching ability of some graduate students, this does not really aid the experience of undergraduates — and unfortunately, on occasion, actively compromises them, as I experienced in Math 8 two springs ago. One of the primary focuses of a Dartmouth graduate program should be learning how to be an effective communicator and teacher, which does not happen by immediately throwing graduate students at introductory courses as assistants or having them instruct the courses themselves.

Improving graduate-undergraduate relations does not mean increasing the size of the graduate program or taking our focus away from the undergraduate experience. It means making a careful assessment of how to effectively encourage teaching and learning from both sides. It means encouraging undergraduate enrollment in lowlevel graduate classes to increase interaction and understanding. It means having graduate students present to undergraduates about their own research. It means encouraging more social interaction between the two levels, so connections can be made outside the walls of academic buildings. It means having undergraduates do research with graduate students as well as full professors, if they so desire. ​Right now, our graduate and undergraduate programs are directed solely at their respective populations. Diversifying their aims will help graduate and undergraduate students alike and lead to better interaction, cooperation, and understanding between the two groups and their respective programs.

— Zach Traynor ’16

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With Salovaara, houses to start gardens Faculty research to study birth control methods FROM GARDENS PAGE 1

maculture garden project aims to be a way of “edible landscaping.”

While the plants cultivated will be a food source, he said he hopes to make them look aesthetically pleasing, too.

Designed to be low-maintenance, the gardens are meant not to infringe on the houses’ activities.

Each Greek house must choose what it wants to grow in its garden and how it will look, and Salovaara will advise them on what is feasible.

One sorority wanted to grow kale, he said, but this would have been too complicated.

Salovaara said he also aims to boost community through the gardens. Salovaara will visit each house each week, and he said he expects to motivate members to join him in the process of creating the gardens. He added that houses could use produce from the gardens to cook meals together.

“Food is the original cohesive thing that unites people,” he said.

The project can expand Greek houses beyond the house’s four walls, he said.

“For some houses, the lawns are the space that never gets used, that things never happen in,” he

said. “Changing that and making the outdoor space a place where memories are created is something I hope will come out of it.”

He hopes that in the future, each building cluster will create its own permaculture garden.

Alpha Xi Delta sorority sustain-

“Food is the original cohesive thing that unites people.”

- Malcolm Salovaara ’17, Sustainability Office Intern

ability chair Katie Williamson ’15 said that she hopes the garden will enhance her sorority’s weekly dinners and serve as an alternative outdoor space where members can spend time together.

Sustainability program manager Jenna Musco said that when Salovaara applied, he had to suggest an idea that would tackle an existing problem and strategically advance sustainability on campus.

First, Salovaara started a per-

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maculture garden at Dartmouth’s organic far m alongside other students involved with the farm.

Musco said the project came from an interest in bringing the organic farm’s model to campus, where it would serve as a visible sign of sustainability to students who had not made the trip.

Musco noted existing attempts to bring gardening to campus, citing the Sustainable Living Center’s vegetable garden, but unlike permaculture, vegetable gardens must be planted every year.

For now, the project’s first phase consists of weekly one-hour house analyses by Salovaara. He will then study the space that will be used for the gardens and encourage Greek house members to join the effort.

In the winter, the houses will design the gardens and decide which crops they want. In the spring, they will plant them. Salovaara will be responsible for maintaining the plants.

The houses adopting or considering the gardens are Alpha Chi Alpha, Chi Gamma Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities, Alpha Phi, AZD, Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta Epsilon and Sigma Delta sororities and Tabard coed fraternity.

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case load, but can access intervention strategies whenever they like,” BenZeev said.

In her research proposal, Thompson wrote that she hopes to help women make more informed decisions about contraceptive methods. Currently, many women do not use the contraceptive method that best suits their lifestyles, she wrote.

In the U.S., more than half of pregnancies are unintended, Thompson wrote. Thompson aims to help women better communicate their contraceptive needs to clinicians and receive the most appropriate contraception method.

“Nearly half of these unintended pregnancies occur among women who have a contraceptive method but use it either inconsistently or incorrectly,” wrote Thompson, who is in Australia, in an email to The Dartmouth.

Thompson will test two strategies.

In one, women will view a brief video in the waiting room that discusses questions patients can ask as they choose a contraceptive method. The second will use a set of paper tools called Option Grids, a single-page tool that helps women and providers compare contraceptive methods to evaluate the patient’s specific needs.

The study will test women of all reproductive ages.

Thompson’s research will survey 3,000 women on how they chose

their contraceptive method, which contraceptive device or method they chose and whether it fits their lifestyle and needs. Six months later, the same women will be asked follow-up questions relating to their satisfaction with and use of the contraceptive device.

Women receiving care that integrates the video, Option Grids or both mechanisms will receive a contraceptive method better tailored to their individual needs, Thompson wrote in her proposal.

Interim Geisel dean Duane Compton said that these areas of research will help expand Geisel’s grant portfolio in comparative effectiveness research, which is concerned with “real world” applications.

The institute supports comparative trial research to determine different health care approaches’ effectiveness.

Rather than centralize solely on patient symptoms and treatment outcomes, as many clinical medical trials do, the organization focuses on more patientcentered treatment experiences, media relations associate director Christine Stencel said. These can include patient energy levels and ability to go to work, sleep and take care of their families as well as access to treatment.

Selected from a pool of 490 research proposals, Ben-Zeev and Thompson’s research projects were among 46 proposals approved. The 46 projects approved received a total of $102 million, according to an institute press release.

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Concert to feature video, collaboration

will begin purely with the group’s vocals and then introduce an A Saturday concert showcasing instrumental backing, a technivaried voices — including current cal challenge that Orme said was and former members of Gospel atypical for the group.

Choir, the Rockapellas and Glee After the Rockapellas, soloist Club as well as former Dartmouth Talene Monahon ’13 will deliver Idol participants — will take the a rendition of “Getting Married place of the Gospel Choir’s tradi- Today,” from the 1970 musical tional fall concert.

“Company.”

Gospel Choir director Walt “It’s an extremely, extremely Cunningham organized the event, difficult piece,” Cunningham said.

“Dartmouth Sings!” The choir Following this, former Dartchose to work with the two other mouth Idol participants will sing vocal groups to bolster interdisci- a 10-minute medley arranged by plinary collaboration, Cunning- Cunningham, inspired by the pop ham said. verve that has helped the competi “On campus, I don’t think we tion gain popularity on campus. do enough collaborative types Some of these former Dartof artistic events like this,” Cun- mouth Idol performers are also ningham said. current or “When we do for mer Gosinitiatives like “On campus, I don’t pel Choir and this, my big- think we do enough Ro c k a p e l l a s gest goal is for members and people to learn collaborative types will sing with the essence of, of artistic events like b o t h g ro u p s. the power of, Among these this.” diversity.” performers are Rockapellas Grace Carney member Emma - gospel choir director ’17 of the RockOrme ’15 said apellas and Jershe agreed that walt cunningham emy Whitaker collaborations ’15 of Gospel are too rare among campus vocal Choir. groups.

Next, choir members will show “[The Rockapellas] function off their own brand of spirionly with one another,” she said. tual music. Dozens of the group’s “And we pretty much never get alumni will join the performance, external resources or external said Nate Graves ’13, an artistic opinions on our sound beyond consultant to the project. audience members.”

Following Gospel Choir, the Glee Club will begin the concert show will debut a music video with a cappella performances of featuring Dartmouth Idol para spiritual and a classical piece, ticipants. Cunningham said the Cunningham said. The Rockapel- show’s organizers “went all out” las will follow with a rendition of to put together the video. a surprise piece that Cunningham A finale will bring the three pardescribed as modern and recogniz- ticipating groups and Dartmouth able.

Idol competitors together.

The Rockapellas performance Graves said he is excited to

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showcase the breadth of Dartmouth’s musical styles.

Rockapellas member Jess Fan ’17 said she expects the concert’s stylistic breadth will attract a larger audience than what each group typically anticipates.

“We are trying to foster an interdimensional musical experience, and I think it’s going to appeal a lot to incoming freshmen, for example,” she said.

Orme noted that such crossover experiences are helpful developmentally, as they provide singers with insight from musicians outside their areas of expertise.

The concert will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

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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Gospel Choir, pictured last winter, will perform with two other groups on Saturday.

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SPORTS

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WEDNESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

Miscues mark Big Green 3-1 loss to #22 Boston University B y Nick HARRINGTON

The Big Green lineup that started in Tuesday’s 3-1 loss to Boston University looked very different than the team that dominated Yale University and Penn University at Burnham Field earlier this season.

Dartmouth (7-3-1, 2-0-0 Ivy) left many of its senior starters on the bench to start the game, including three of its top four point-scorers: Alex Adelabu ’15, Robin Alnas ’15 and Hugh Danilack ’15.

Colin Heffron ’15 and Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14, both regulars in the lineup, did not play.

And the Terriers (9-2-1, 4-0-0 Patriot) got off to a quick start, scoring two goals in the first 10 minutes and adding a third goal in the last minute of the first half.

Danilack credited the variety in the lineup to the general wear-and-tear of a physically demanding season.

“We have been playing a lot of games, so guys have some injuries, some fatigue and we have been resting

guys mid-week, and we’ve been doing that the past couple weeks,” Danilack said. “Guys have been really stepping up.”

Head coach Chad Riley felt comfortable with the changes in the lineup, pointing to the number of strong leaders on the team.

James Hickok ’17 started in goal for the Big Green, his third start of the season. Hickok originally split time in the first few games of the season with Stefan Cleveland ’16.

The Terriers’ first goal of the game came after a free kick opportunity just outside of the goalie box. After the free kick created a bit of chaos, sophomore Felix De Bona found the back of the net within a mass of Dartmouth defenders.

BU’s next goal came nine-and-ahalf minutes into the first half. Freshman Bjarki Benediktsson crossed the ball over to fellow freshman David Amirani, who found the top right corner of the net from the 18-yard line.

Boston’s third and final goal of the night came in the final minute of the first half. A defensive miscommunica-

tion between Hickok and Dartmouth’s defenders led to an empty net opportunity for BU senior Parker Powell.

While Riley said he felt the goals were unfortunate, he said they were not entirely indicative of the team’s performance.

“The third goal was a moment of insanity,” Riley said.

Midfielder Gabe Stauber ’15 was also reluctant to point to the team’s starting lineup as a source of the difficult first half.

“We just mixed up the squad, got guys some minutes and unfortunately we let up some tough goals in the first half, but it was nothing that we weren’t prepared for,” Stauber said.

In the 28th minute, the Big Green received a major boon, as BU senior defender Kelvin Madzongwe received a red card for elbowing Dartmouth midfielder Stefan Defregger ’15, while jockeying for position inside the box before a free kick.

Defregger would leave the game for the rest of the half but would go on to play the second half.

Dartmouth saw the red card as a major opportunity.

“It’s exciting when you’re up a man because you know that you’re going to have time and space, but I think the main thing for us was to stay focused and not alter our game plan,” Stauber said.

Dartmouth pressured the Terriers for the rest of the game, using the man advantage to make some lineup adjustments going into the second half.

“They had a red card, they were tired and I think the decision in the second half was get some guys who are fresh out there and see if we could push it and try and get some goals back,” Danilack said.

Riley also acknowledged the boost in Dartmouth’s second-half offensive performance — the Big Green had 10 shots to the Terriers’ one. Dartmouth finished the contest with a 14-4 shot advantage over BU. “In the second half, we honestly made enough chances to win the game, as crazy as that sounds,” Riley said.

The Big Green capitalized on a

corner kick to take its first and only goal of the night.

Defregger took control of the ball off the corner, and passed it to Ricardo Gomez ’17, who scored his second goal of the season.

Riley acknowledged that although every game is important, the team still has a long season ahead.

“You’ve got to let it sting tonight, but the sun will come out tomorrow and then you’ve just got to be so focused on preparing for a big weekend on Saturday,” Riley said.

The Big Green next takes the field Saturday when it will host Ancient Eight rival the University of Pennsylvania at 7 p.m.

“It’s very important. We don’t lose on Burnham Field,” Danilack said.

“Tonight that didn’t happen, but we’re looking out for Saturday and we’re planning on getting a win. Penn is a very good team, it is going to be a battle, a good competition but hopefully we come away with the win. We’re excited for it, and it is huge for the Ivy League title.”

Williams ’16 takes a leap forward to lead Big Green football B y RAY LU

Dalyn Williams ’16 is undoubtedly a special player. In his third year as a Big Green starting quarterback, Williams has taken a large leap forward, leading Dartmouth to a 2-0 start in the Ivy League while putting up some of the best stats of his career.

Williams has primarily been known as a running quarterback in the past, but this year, he leads the Ivy League in touchdown-to-interception ratio with eight touchdowns to just two interceptions.

“He’s extremely elusive, extremely

quick, and you know, as a defense, it is basically impossible to tackle him,” captain Sean Ronan ’15 said.

Having a dual-threat quarterback has opened the Big Green’s offense, helping Dartmouth average more than 30 points a game this year.

“It really helps me out in the running game, because they don’t know what we’re doing,” running back Kyle Bramble ’16 said. “He can keep the ball and run with it, or he can hand it off to me or he can throw it.”

Williams’s skill on the field isn’t the only thing that’s endeared him to his teammates. His sense of humor has

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Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 has NFL dreams.

also helped him in his role as a leader for the Big Green.

“I think it was the Penn game, we were out on the field, we were winning so it was just good times, and all the offensive linemen were in on it too, but the other team was calling out, ‘Taco!

Taco!’ for one of their plays,” Bramble said. “All of us just started laughing and saying things like, ‘Watch the enchilada’ and all this stuff. Dalyn was the main guy in that and made the defense mad, and all the offense was cracking up.”

From the moment he stepped onto Memorial Field, Williams has made a difference.

In his freshman season, he contributed in all 10 games, racking up 10 touchdowns and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors against Cornell in his first start ever. Williams became Dartmouth’s seventh-ever Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

He calls a 35-run during that first Cornell game as “one the most exhilarating runs of my career.”

Last season, Williams showed even more promise. He was named All-Ivy League honorable mention at quarterback, posting 16 touchdowns and more than 2,000 yards of total offense.

Williams attributes his strong

performance this season to a sense of urgency toward reaching his ultimate goal: playing in the NFL. Ronan, who has blocked for Williams the past three years, can attest to the quarterback’s determination.

“He’s definitely matured the past couple of years. Work ethic-wise, he’s definitely one of the hardest workers on the team. He loves what he does and he really strives to be the best that he can,” Ronan said. “I think whatever he puts his mind to, he’ll be able to accomplish.”

Williams has racked up 13 touchdowns and more than 1,000 yards of total offense through four games this season. Williams is on pace to throw for 20 touchdowns, putting him in range of the Big Green record of 25, set by Jay Fiedler ’94. Fiedler was the last quarterback to be drafted from Dartmouth into the NFL, and he holds virtually every single passing record for the Big Green.

But Williams has his eyes set on those numbers.

“I want to leave Dartmouth as the best football player to ever play here,” Williams said. “I want to leave here with all the passing records, all the individual records, and most importantly, the last

couple of years, I want to help Coach Teevens and the coaching staff and all of my teammates win a couple Ivy League championships.”

Dartmouth has not claimed the Ivy League title in football since 1996, the year most of today’s freshmen were born. Headed into the team’s Homecoming game, the Big Green boasts a 3-1 record.

“We fell short last year, and actually the last couple of years,” Williams said. “It’s just gut-wrenching because it comes down to a couple of plays ... we’re fed up with it.”

Born in Houma, Louisiana, Williams says his ideal situation would be to learn from New Orleans star quarterback Drew Brees.

“To be able to sit behind him while he ends his career and learn from him and be able to, you know, pick up after him as he leaves would be mindblowing and a dream come true,” Williams said.

The last player to get drafted to the NFL from the Big Green was Casey Cramer ’04, who went in the seventh round to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Big Green will look to continue its success against Holy Cross this Saturday at 1:30 p.m.