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More than 60 dry events draw freshmen to Greek organizations By jisu song

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During the Greek Leadership Council’s six-week freshman ban on Greek events serving alcohol, the GLC sponsored more than 60 events with its $25,000 budget, up from $20,000 last year. In an informal poll of 53 freshmen, 90 percent said they had attended a GLC-sponsored event.

GLC accountability chair Sarah Lucas ’15 said the past six weeks allowed freshmen to experience Greek life without the risk of alcohol. This fall marked the policy’s second year.

“We very much want to introduce

freshmen to the Greek houses, but we’re just trying to do that in a different way than it has been done before,” she said. “It’s really an effort to place the focus on not consuming alcohol. It’s readjusting the way that upperclassmen and freshmen interact.”

The GLC has already put on more than 60 events during the first six weeks of the term and expects to hold 12 more events during Homecoming weekend, when the policy still applies to freshmen.

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DDS seeks to halt theft

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Cashiers keep an eye on students at Collis late night, where entry is now restricted to one side.

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Students gathered on Wednesday for a comedy show with Richard Jones.

Last week, late-night visitors to the Collis Café found the rear entrance to the venue roped off, its glass doors shut — new measures to prevent food theft.

The change comes in response to increasing rates of theft, Dartmouth Dining Services director David Newlove said.

He said thefts are particularly common Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights.

“I can’t seem to explain it, but there seems to be a correlation between bad

behavior and alcohol and drug use,” he said.

Monitoring student behavior had become too difficult for the staff, Newlove said, so the doors were closed to provide a “choke point.” With the doors closed, students may only enter or exit from the space behind the cash registers.

The decision to close the doors may be reversed if student behavior changes, Newlove said.

Other precautions DDS has taken to prevent theft include installing cameras at the Class of 1953 Commons, Novack Café and the Courtyard

Café, Newlove said. A manager at the Hop now monitors student lines during late night hours, he added.

Students usually take items that are shelved far from the view of the cashiers, Newlove said, but may be bold enough to steal other items.

“They take milk and juices, even whole entrees if they have their way,” Newlove said. “Anything students consume, they might walk out with it.”

Employees catch around 60 students a day attempting to steal SEE DDS PAGE 2

Firm evaluates locations for third Thayer building

By PARKER RICHARDS

Construction on a new building at the Thayer Engineering School may begin as early as 2017, vice president for campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said.

As part of the expansion process, which is also expected to include increases

in faculty and course offerings, Wilson Architects is evaluating space needs and exploring potential designs and locations for a third building.

The Boston-based architecture firm began work on a design study report in July and will present the document to Thayer dean Joseph

Helble, College President Phil Hanlon and other officials in January.

The school’s space needs will likely increase with planned enrollment and faculty growth. The number of undergraduate students at Thayer has soared in the past decade, from around 60 in 2004 to more than 100 in

2014.

“Right now, interest in engineering is higher than I have seen at any time in my professional career, and I don’t see that abating any time soon,” Helble said.

Hogarty and Helble said Thayer is considering several locations for a new building, which could be attached

to the existing MacLean Center and Cummings Hall. Space immediately in front of the existing Thayer facilities would be too small, Hogarty said, but Thayer’s parking lot is a possibility, as are various areas to the north and west of Thayer’s SEE THAYER PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing Education department hires program director, drops seminar from minor requirements B y EMILIA BALDWIN Mandy Bean will begin as head of the College’s teacher’s education program on March 1, filling a position that will have been vacant for over a year. The education department has also eliminated the culminating seminar requirement from its minor.

Bean, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will replace Rebecca Holcombe, who started as Vermont’s Secretary of Education in January.

Bean, who worked in elementary education in Virginia and North Carolina public schools for around 14 years before beginning her elementary education and teaching Ph.D. program at UNC, said she wants to bring a more traditional teaching approach to Dartmouth’s program.

“I hope to join the mind, body and education approach that the department already uses with the classical, practical side of teaching,” she said.

Stephanie Sa ’15, who is majoring in psychology and minoring in education but is not participating in the teacher’s education program, said Dartmouth’s education department is theoretical and focuses on neuroscience, calling it one of the most innovative in the nation.

The teacher’s education program, which is separate from the minor, certifies students in elementary and secondary teaching through work at local public schools.

The department is also making changes to its education minor requirements to make it more accessible, department chair George Wolford said.

Previously, the minor required an introductory course, a culminating seminar and four other courses. Now it requires the introductory education course and five additional courses, but not a senior seminar, Wolford said.

Sa said the department did not inform minors of the changed requirements or update them on the search for Holcombe’s replacement.

About 20 to 30 students minor in education each year, Wolford said, noting that he hopes the changed requirements, which apply to those graduating in 2015 and beyond, will attract more students.

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Students must ‘speak out’ against theft FROM DDS PAGE 1

food across all DDS venues, he said, adding that this number likely represents only 10 percent of total theft.

Of 18 students surveyed informally by The Dartmouth, 11 said that they had stolen from a DDS venue, with ’53 Commons being the most common. All but one said they knew someone who stole an item from a DDS establishment.​ DDS does not track the amount in dollars lost to theft, Newlove said, but noted that the losses often show up in the overall costs of the organization, leading the company to raise prices.

“It’s a substantial sum of money that honest people are paying for,” Newlove said.

Bad behavior in dining halls is not limited to theft, Newlove noted.

During big weekends, Safety and Security monitors ’53 Commons to prevent crime.

“We’ve had students urinate in the middle of the dining room, lewd behavior in the restrooms and fights,” Newlove said.

He added that student employees at Novack Café have also experienced abuse from intoxicated students, leading to early closing

times on some nights.

Newlove said administrators alone cannot thwart misbehavior and that students must get involved to prevent theft.

“Some of the students who see this behavior can stop this,” New-

“Some of the students who see this behavior can stop this. They can say, ‘You just ate three containers of tater tots. Why aren’t you paying for that?’

Students need to stand up and speak out.”

- DAVID NEWLOVE, DDS DIRECTOR love said. “They can say, ‘You just ate three containers of tater tots.

Why aren’t you paying for that?’

Students need to stand up and speak out.”

Novack late night employee Wilson Xu ’16 said theft usually doesn’t occur at the venue. If it

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does, Xu said, students usually take Odwalla juice drinks from the cooler out of view of the cashiers, as well as drinks that have not been unloaded from their cases.

Xu said that he has never had to chase after a thief, but he thinks it is possible for someone to walk out without paying for an item.

Vice president for campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said that while she was not involved with the construction of current DDS venues, the company can take some measures to prevent stealing.

For instance, “grab-and-go” items should be placed near cash registers, so cashiers can keep an eye on them — and so patrons linger near the items, making a purchase more likely.

Hogarty said that theft in campus dining halls should be less common than theft in public businesses.

“If it’s a community that frequents a facility, the level of trust is usually much higher, as opposed to people walking in off the street,” Hogarty said. “I hope there’s a sense that anybody who eats at a DDS venue feels like they’re part of the community, and that part of the community ethic is that you’re not going to steal.”

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Thayer could as much as double faculty FROM THAYER PAGE 1

existing buildings, which border the Tuck Business School.

The parking lot is the most obvious site, Helble said, though it would create a need for another parking facility elsewhere. Both Helble and Hogarty expressed a desire to keep Thayer’s campus compact.

Construction would ideally commence in 2017, Hogarty said, and would be slated for completion in 2019. Helble said timing will depend on funding.

The new building would likely consist of a mix of offices, laboratory space, classrooms, social spaces and design areas, similar to existing Thayer buildings.

“Part of what makes Thayer really special is that they have these mixed uses on every single floor,” Hogarty said.

There has already been some work on Thayer’s facilities, including a recent renovation to the machine shop.

Kayla Davidson Th’15 said the changes were beneficial to students, but said more lab and study spaces are needed for work outside the classroom.

Engineering professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs Ian Baker said that the expansion would have been unexpected even several years ago.

MacLean, a 64,000-square-foot addition, opened in 2006 and increased Thayer’s facilities by more than 60 percent.

Hanlon announced plans to expand Thayer in a November 2013 general faculty meeting.

Thayer also plans to expand its graduate and undergraduate course offerings and its research output, Helble said. While the creation of new tenured faculty posts would depend upon dona-

tions and financing, Thayer could as much as double its faculty size, he said.

“Even in the time I’ve been here, you can tell that Thayer is pretty much at max capacity in terms of classroom space and space for students to work together,” said Matt Bossart Th’15.

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Helble said that Thayer will likely expand undergraduate offerings for those not majoring in engineering.

“I would like to see Dartmouth be the place where every student, regardless of major, has the chance to get a real hands-on engineering experience,” he said.

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STAFF Columnist DAVID BROOKS ’15

A Misplaced Emphasis

Much of Dartmouth’s high-risk drinking occurs outside fraternities.

The presidential steering committee will soon release its proposals on a multitude of issues, including high risk drinking, to the trustees.

High-risk drinking is usually mentioned in the same breath as the fraternities, and, it seems clear that the College believes the Greek system contributes disproportionately to high-risk drinking. However, the constant focus on Greek houses ignores the other areas where high-risk drinking is occurring and could produce some unintended consequences.

There has been a clamp down on fraternities’ behavior recently, as can be seen by the recent punishments handed down to Psi Upsilon, Alpha Delta and Theta Delta Chi fraternities and rumors of more fraternities waiting in the wing. These punishments have been harsher than those previous, and Safety and Security walkthroughs now include enforcements that I haven’t seen in the past, such as counting cans, cases and even cups to formulate the amount of beer the fraternity is handing out.

I am sure many, like myself, have heard that the third-party bartenders that are part of Psi U and AD’s sanctions could soon be applied to the system as a whole.

But I contend that the some of the more dangerous drinking habits are not taking place inside the fraternities. The focus on the fraternities ignores a huge swath of campus drinking. I would argue that the majority of risky drinking actually takes place outside of the basement scene. However, the fraternities bear the brunt of the punishment for alcoholrelated infractions — although students invariably also drink outside of the frats, UGAs and community directors do not suffer the same consequences as fraternities. The frats provide a convenient whipping boy for administrators who can use them to deflect responsibility. In fact, the group of students with the highest risk of alcohol incidences isn’t even a part of the Greek system.

Freshmen overwhelmingly contribute to the alcohol incidences on campus. According to the most recent numbers available, 46 percent of all alcohol incidences come from one-fourth of

the student population — the freshmen. And in an email, a member from the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Project told me, “The incidents tend to go down as the class year goes up. Averaging over [10] years, seniors have the lowest average number of alcohol incidents per month.” If the Greek system is such a large contributor to high-risk drinking, wouldn’t we expect to see the highest rates of incidences among the seniors who actually live in the houses and not among the freshmen who can’t pledge or even step foot in the fraternities for the first six weeks of fall?

The answer is no, and this isn’t surprising for two reasons — students become more responsible drinkers over time and the majority of freshmen aren’t getting drunk in the frats. A freshman comes into a fraternity and eventually may get a light beer. If he or she is lucky, a can.

Maybe he or she will finish the can before being dragged by friends to a different fraternity.

We all know where freshmen are getting drunk — the students know, Safety and Security knows and administrators’ talk of an opendoor policy shows that they too are aware that pre-games are a large contributor to high-risk drinking among our most at-risk group.

As a freshman, I attended many pre-games.

Many of my friends and fellow ’15s also attended pre-games, mainly because it was and remains extremely difficult for freshmen to get drunk in a fraternity. If you want to drink as a freshman, you drink in a dorm or at an off-campus house and then you go out. A Safety and Security officer once mentioned to me that when he saw the freshman spilling out of the Choates, he thought, “I’ll see you later on Webster.”

This is not to say that fraternities are not partly responsible for drinking behaviors on campus. In the end, the frats must also change.

Leaders from inside and outside the Greek system should, along with administrators, search for shared interests — we all have a shared interest to end high-risk behavior across the board — and develop new policy. Yet a heavyhanded nature toward the fraternity ignores much of the high-risk drinking at Dartmouth.

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CONTRIBUTING columnist JESSICA LU ’18

Not a Laughing Matter

Jokes about Ebola are not only insensitive, but deeply troubling.

A few weeks ago, I was trawling through Ebola is killing off the weak and less civilized Dartmouth Yik Yak when I came upon one implies cultural inferiority. of the most popular Yaks: “Ebola will strike But almost more troubling than this culPenn first because it’s easier to get into.” It tural othering is our utter lack of empathy had 100 upvotes, and it wasn’t the only Ebola for the situation. Americans aren’t rushing to joke. donate or help. Our dialogue on Ebola focuses I keep hearing comments that attach a almost exclusively on how we are affected. notion of the survival of the fittest to Ebola. Our news media doesn’t report on how grim They imply that the people suffering and dy- the epidemic in West African countries is, or ing from this epidemic are weaker than those how desperately aid workers and funding who are unaffected. These jokes pop up on are needed. Instead, my CNN app sends me social media, but also in person, in casual updates on the details of the case of one U.S. conversation. People joke that when Ebola aid worker in Germany. The life and death spreads, only the hardy Canadians will sur- of one U.S. citizen is more newsworthy than vive, that it’s unsurprising for it to have hit Af- the lives and deaths of thousands of people rica or that we won’t in Liberia, Sierra see an epidemic in “Somehow people don’t Leone and Guinea.

America because Perhaps Americans seem to understand that it is we’re superior. are empathetic now, There is some- unacceptable to make light of a but only because the thing deeply and disease that has killed thousands disease has begun insidiously ethno- of people. Characterizing Ebola affecting us directly. centric about the as an African issue builds on a

Maybe this lack jokes that perpetu- history of white imperialism.” of empathy is due ate that assumption. to the geographic Maybe I was naive distance from the for thinking we had moved past the Social outbreak, but that never stopped us from Darwinism that dominated the 19th century. rallying in the face of other diseases, like But I guess we haven’t, as evidenced by former SARS, in Asia. And a lack of connection to South Carolina GOP director Todd Kincan- the epidemic doesn’t explain the ethnocentric non’s tasteless tweets, with one reading, “The jokes and remarks that are cropping up all people of Africa are to blame for why [the over social media. situation] is so shitty. They could stop eating We don’t make the same jokes about each other and learn calculus at any time.” cancer or ALS — and rightfully so, because Kincannon’s openly derogatory state- we should never make light of a disease that ments display a disgusting attitude of cultural causes people suffering. But while cancer and superiority.

ALS have prompted awareness months and Somehow people don’t seem to understand Ice Bucket Challenges, Ebola has drawn jokes that it is unacceptable to make light of a and fear. Popular media, through medical disease that has killed thousands of people. dramas and the recent movie “The Fault in Characterizing Ebola as an African issue Our Stars,” portrays cancer victims in a way builds on a history of white imperialism. that elicits a sense of empathy that portrayThousands of West Africans are dying not als of Ebola victims do not. Somehow, the due to any racial or cultural reasons, but fact that Ebola’s impact is concentrated in a rather because of their geographic proximity foreign place seems to have convinced some to a deadly disease that still has no associated that dismissive and offensive jokes about it vaccine or cure. Making jokes that suggest are acceptable.

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Non-alcoholic Greek events cater to freshmen

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An a cappella group performs at a GLC-sponsored event.

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have included dance parties, crafting events and daytime musical shows.

While some were more reflective, like Wednesday night’s “What I Wish I Knew” panel at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, during which affiliated and unafilliated women shared their thoughts on Greek life, others have seen freshmen carving pumpkins and dancing to ’90s music.

Allotted to the GLC by the Dean’s Office, the $25,000 budget will likely have been exhausted after the weekend, Lucas said.

In an informal survey of 53 freshmen, including 30 women and 23 men, 48 said they had been to one or more GLC-sponsored events, and the majority had attended three or more.

Thirty-two found the events enjoyable or extremely enjoyable, and 33 said they felt comfortable or very comfortable with Dartmouth Greek life.

None of the students surveyed said they had been to a Greek house while alcohol was served, though Lucas said the GLC heard cases of freshman violations. She declined to comment on the number of reported violations.

The ban, announced in May 2013, was designed to create a safer environment for freshmen and mitigate the risks that Greek houses face when hosting them. It also aimed to encourage freshmen to explore alternative social scenes, bond with their classmates and join clubs and other activities.

Nathalie Ferneau ’18 said she enjoyed GLC-sponsored events like musical performances, while many of her friends also enjoyed the fraternity dance parties. Looking to the policy’s benefits, Ferneau said freshmen became closer to each other while spending time in their rooms.

Still, she said that not being allowed into all fraternity and sorority events had its drawbacks.

“When you go to larger events you’d get to meet more people from other grades, and I really feel like I haven’t gotten to meet upperclassmen yet,” she said.

Other students also cited flaws with the GLC-sponsored activities. Anthony

Marquez ’18 said that many of the dance parties were too crowded because everyone was trying to squeeze into the same event, though he said he supported the goal of promoting first-year unity.

“You get to know people outside of a fraternity setting, and you get to spend more time with a tighter group of friends that you may meet on your floor or whatever it may be,” he said.

Marquez said, however, that he does not think the GLC policy successfully increased freshman safety at the start of fall term.

“Drinking still happens, and it happens I think in a less safe manner because you drink in a dorm room with other freshmen who may not be experienced or know how to handle their alcohol,” Marquez said. “It’s unrealistic to expect freshmen to not drink, I think the best way is to realize what’s going to happen and to help it happen in the most safe way possible.”

The proportion of alcohol-related incidents involving first-year students decreased from 49 to 46 percent between fall 2012 and fall 2013, according to data released in January by the GLC and the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program.

Richard Berman ’18 said he recognized the importance of promoting class unity but also saw downsides to the policy. He said he believes it “encourages furtive drinking” and separates freshmen from upperclassmen.

“It can isolate the class, and it’s not only important to have unity within your class but within the school,” he said.

He pointed to a similar but more lenient model like that of Northwestern University, which has a two-week freshman ban at fraternities and lets students rush during winter quarter of their first year.

Members of the Class of 2017 interviewed just before the ban was lifted last year also said that while they appreciated the class bonding, drinking remained prevalent.

Last year, the GLC attempted to moderate expectations by sending a campus-wide email noting “the week after Homecoming is usually a relatively calm week and freshman should not anticipate large parties being held.”

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Hood events explore the civil rights movement through art

mix of equity actors, Northern Stage Theater actors, Dartmouth students and a local youth, said director OlThe Dartmouth Staff ivia Scott ’13, who works on North As if an imaginary fist from ern Stage’s community engagement behind the frame had punched team. The slightly abridged script through the foil of Jack Whitten’s will focus on “the hopes and dreams “Birmingham 1964” (1964), a hole of the family” and “the heart and appears like an artifact of violence, the relationships” of the characters, a documentation of the civil rights she said. movement. The hole is a window, While a reading does not entail offering a view of an old newspaper the costumes, set or props of a fullphoto. A stocking mesh prevents a scale production, the performance clear view of the image. will produce the “same great emo “I did all of these works out of tion,” she said. necessity,” he wrote in May 2013, in “When you have a text like ‘A a statement to accompany the piece. Raisin in the Sun’ you get lost in “It was getting something out of my the words,” she said. system. The pressure was intense. I Overall, the “Witness” exhibit was in such a rage.” includes more than 100 pieces, “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in including paintings, photos and the Sixties” is on display in the Hood sculptures. It took about two years Museum through Dec. 14. The ex- to organize, Carbone said. hibit, marking the 50th anniversary “We really cast a pretty wide net of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in terms of media,” Carbone said. was organized “We wanted to by the Brooklyn “Art is not something include the phoMuseum and tography that that is derivative of co-curated by was so imporBrooklyn Mu- social movements but tant to the civil seum’s Teresa actually offers its own r i g h t s m ove Carbone, Anment.” drew W. Mel- expansive vision of

Almost lon Curator of what’s possible.” every work is American Art, from the 1960s, and Columbia with the excepUniversity art - Reena Goldthree, tion of a few history and ar- African and Africanpieces from cheology profesthe early ’70s, sor Kellie Jones. American Studies Carbone said, On Tuesday, Professor adding that the the Hood held curators were the first public “very interested event associated with the exhibit, in that moment as an entity.” a lecture by African and African- At the Brooklyn Museum, American studies professor Reena where “Witness” ran from March 7 Goldthree titled “Black Power’s through July 13, the exhibit evoked a Global Vision: Decolonization thoughtful and emotional response, Movements in Latin America and Carbone said. the Caribbean.” Her talk focused on “A lot of people were really surconnections between the U.S. Black prised by how many artists did work Power Movement and worldwide supporting racial equality,” Carbone black liberation movements. said.

“I hope that people understand Since the winter, Hood staff the ways in which artists are re- members have been working to ally crucial contributors to social formulate different programming movements,” Goldthree said. “Art is opportunities with the exhibit. In not something that is derivative of the winter, deputy director Juliette social movements but actually offers Bianco ’94 and curatorial assistant its own expansive vision of what’s Jessica Womack ’14 launched possible, and I think the ‘Witness’ student focus groups to hear what exhibition demonstrates that.” students wanted to see in “Witness” Wednesday’s artist talk featured and to discuss possible accompanyJae Jarrell, who has two works dis- ing events. played in the exhibit, and her hus- “When we were putting together band Wadsworth Jarrell. Both are the programming, our goal was to among the founders of AfriCOBRA, think about multiple paths into the a coalition of black artists formed in material,” Bianco said. “So thinking Chicago in 1968. The urbanity and about what an exhibition has to say graffiti that often characterizes Afri- for itself, looking at the artwork, but COBRA’s aesthetic shines through then looking at people’s interests, in “Urban Wall Suit” (1969) and from a historical point of view, or “Beloved Community,” Jae Jarrell’s a sociological point of view, or from contributions to the exhibit. watching a play, to help people con Thursday’s “A Raisin in the Sun” nect with it on different levels.” reading in the Hood will feature a Bianco and Womack also worked

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to find connections specific to the College to expand upon the works and ground the exhibit at Dartmouth.

Many of the “Witness” events have been planned as part of a partnership with the Tucker Foundation’s “Conversations That Matter” program. Different campus groups, including Greek houses and students involved in the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, have taken part to discuss the artwork’s themes and how pieces connect to their beliefs and values, Womack said.

These programs often begin with a discussion of the successes and unfinished work of the civil rights movement, pointing to the idea that the civil rights movement is not over,

Womack said.

“We’ve been very careful when we’ve been talking about the anniversary that it’s marking the anniversary, not celebrating the anniversary,” Bianco said. “We’ve been careful not to use that word in terms of distancing ourselves from any work that needs to continue.”

For Womack, making a safe, productive space for these conversations to take place on campus has been an important goal of the “Witness” programming.

“Using this exhibition and its themes to provide a space for students who really want to engage in these sorts of conversations and to feel ownership over the space is something that is a really big motiva-

tor for me,” Womack said.

On Oct. 24 and 25, Jones and Carbone will come to campus for a special celebration. Other upcoming events associated with the show include workshops, lectures and tours.

The exhibit and the events surrounding it have been planned and thought out with the whole Dartmouth community in mind, Womack said, rather than a particular population.

“I hope that students would see that this isn’t just a black American, black Dartmouth student issue,” Womack said. “These programs are not for a specific subset of the Dartmouth community. They really are for everyone, and everyone has a stake in them.”

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.

hopkinS Center hop.dartmouth.edu • 603.646.2422 Dartmouth College • Hanover, NH for the ArtS

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014

THURSDAY LINEUP

MEN’S TENNIS ITA REGIONALS ALL DAY

WOMEN’S TENNIS REGIONALS ALL DAY

Crew teams open season in Boston B y jehanna axelrod The Dartmouth Staff

The crew teams will travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this weekend for the 50th Head of the Charles Regatta — the largest two-day race of its kind, attracting entrants and spectators from across the globe. Thanks to its top-20 finish last year, the women’s crew team will send two boats to the race for the first time, a championship eight and a club eight.

Last season, the Dartmouth women finished 20th, the heavyweight men placed 25th and the lightweights finished eighth.

Women’s head coach Linda Muri is not entering the Head of the Charles with the same unfamiliarity as her team. Despite it being Muri’s first season with the Dartmouth women, she has spent 16 years coaching in the Ivy League and has sent boats to the competition almost every year.

Muri already faces a challenge in her first race: compiling top boats without the whole team on campus — seven team members in the Class of 2016 are currently on off-terms.

“That’s a big impact on the program, not having them around,” Muri said. “It does set us back just a little bit, so we have to adjust our expectations a little bit for the regatta this weekend.”

The team must finish in the

top half to qualify for next year’s regatta. Instead of going by previous lineups to determine who is competing, Muri tested the rowers herself — checking their fitness on the ergometer, through seat racing and time-trial results.

“I’m trying not to look back too much at last year’s results, and specifically I haven’t looked up any of the lineups for last year for either the fall or the spring,” Muri said. “I want to be able to give everyone on the team this year a fresh slate.”

The men’s heavyweight and lightweight teams went about selecting their lineups in similar ways, and the heavyweight first-year head coach Wyatt Allen has, like Muri, spent time getting to know his rowers.

“I’ve been with the team now basically four weeks, so they’re still very new to me,” he said. “I’m still very new to them, but things have gone well so far.”

Allen is sending a team to the Head of the Charles for the first time.

“I’m looking for these guys to have a solid run down the course,” he said. “It certainly depends on how our coxswains do steering-wise — if we stay clear of some collisions and have a clean run down the course.”

The team has also been practicing well this fall even without many of the junior rowers, Allen said.

“It certainly is a little bit of a disadvantage, but what it does is

provide opportunities for a couple of the younger guys to step into what currently is the top boat,” Allen said.

Allowing underclassmen to compete in a large regatta could help the team in the spring, he said, as the eight will row against many of the teams that it will see come April.

“This is really about measuring where we are at this point in the year,” Allen said. “Our season won’t be made or broken by how we do at the Head of the Charles, but we’ll use it as a stepping stone toward, hopefully, a successful spring season.”

Lightweight head coach Sean Healey also sees the Head of the Charles as an opportunity to see how the team stacks up against other crews.

“Whatever we’ve done inside practice has been in a very controlled environment,” he said. “We simply don’t know how we’re going to compare against the competition.”

Despite not having a perfect gauge of where the team stands, Healey remains confident that it has the potential to show well.

“I’m pretty excited about what we’ve done so far,” he said. “I think we’ve taken some good steps forward, I think we have a number of older guys returning that are doing the work they need to do.”

The Head of the Charles kicks off at 8 a.m. on Oct. 18.

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This weekend, the men’s lightweight crew team looks to improve on last year’s eighth-place finish at the Head of the Charles.

B y rich shen and austin lim Every great athlete has to pass on the reins. Sometimes stars try to hang on to their waning moments of glory (see: Brett Favre), and, though we love these athletes for what they’ve given us, we also realize that it’s time to call it quits. Earlier this term at the Hop, Joe Clyne ’16, aka Fish, sat across the table from me. You could see it in his eyes — he was done. After years of wear and tear from the game he loved, exhaustion had consumed his body. I knew what was coming before he even spoke — it was a proverbial passing of the torch. The wily veteran was ready to spend his remaining years wasting away on a golf course (or editing the sports section), and the up-and-coming star was prepared to take his place. And so begins a new era of “Riding the Pine” which henceforth will be called “Any Given Thursday”.

We think a few introductions are in order. We are both ’17s with limited experience writing a column. We’ve been at the same school for more than seven years now, and first started talking about sports and sports statistics around three years ago after joining the same fantasy football league. What we lack in experience, however, we make up for in fandom. What began as a simple fantasy league soon spread to other areas of interest: the MLB, NBA, PGA, the CFL and the ICC (International Cricket Council for the uninformed). Now that we’re both at Dartmouth, the two of us can often be found watching whatever sport is currently in season on the Collis TVs. Now that you know who we are and understand why we’re doing this (for the girls, right?), we’re ready to reveal our first topic. Drumroll please. After scrolling through our predecessors’ work and discovering one of the most, let’s call it “interesting,” predictions we’ve seen in a while, we’ve decided to right their wrongs. Prepare for our NFL Super Bowl predictions!

I’ll admit, we have an advantage over poor Hank and Fish: we’ve watched the teams play. Having said that, the Bears? Really? Jay Cutler has thrown as many games with multiple interceptions than games without.

Unfortunately, Rich was unavailable this week, so this prediction is

solely mine. I wanted to go bold — after all it’s not fun if you don’t — so I decided to avoid the top five teams in ESPN’s recent NFL power rankings. For you numbers geeks, here are some stats (if numbers make your eyes glaze over skip this paragraph).

This team ranks first in passing yards per game at 328.7 and first in total offense, averaging a whopping 444 yards per game. It also ranks first in total points, at 31.5 points a game (which is almost double what the Jets are averaging. J-E-T-S. JETS, JETS, JETS, or something. Ha, they’re awful. We may be Patriots fans). The most important stat is the team’s field goal percentage. When it comes down to the wire, you need a kicker who can come through in the clutch, similar to that EBA’s guy who shows up at your door at 2:15 a.m. This team has a 100-percent conversion rate (which is higher than what even EBA’s can claim). Have any guesses? If you said the Patriots you’re an incredibly biased New England sports fan! The correct answer was the Indianapolis Colts. Note that Rich objects to the Colts choice, but since he was too lazy to write this week, we’re going with it.

While admittedly the team’s defense leads much to be desired, we all know that offense wins championships (see Super Bowl XLVIII Seahawks v. Broncos). After a tough opening two weeks against two of the best teams in football, the Colts have bounced back with four straight wins, averaging 34.5 points per game, while allowing just 18.75. They have a veritable star in quarterback Andrew Luck, who seems to always find a way to get the Colts in the game with two minutes left, and an emerging talent in T.Y. Hilton, who shattered the hopes of some fantasy owners this week by posting a ridiculous nine-catch, 223-yard performance. While the Colts’ defense may not be the best in the NFL, the team ranks fourth in turnovers, which come playoff time could be a decisive factor.

This team is poised to win some big games and, I believe, the Super Bowl.

We hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe Homecoming, and if you happen to flip on the Colts game this Sunday, don’t be surprised to see them succeed.