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Hanlon,Deverstress improving faculty diversity at meeting

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In five years, the College aims to have minority and international professors comprise 25 percent of its faculty.

At Monday’s termly meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences, Provost Carolyn Dever and College President Phil Hanlon discussed increasing minority and international faculty at Dartmouth, describing it as a major priority to the around 200 faculty members in attendance.

Hanlon said the College has committed $1 million to recruitment of underrepresented minority faculty.

Dartmouth is “well short of where we need to be,” he DANNY KIM/THE DARTMOUTH

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The Dartmouth Argentine Tango Society hosted the sixth of its 10 fall tango classes Monday.

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Gov. updates sexual Yik Yak reflects campus culture assault regulations B y Chris Leech

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The College will create new sexual violence prevention programs and enhance existing education and outreach to comply with federal regulations published Monday. Among other requirements, the regulations instruct universities to list all possible

sanctions for students found guilty of sexual violence and provide comprehensive information about dating violence, domestic violence and stalking in their annual campus safety reports.

The regulations, which take effect July 1, 2015, clarify language like “rape,” “conSEE REGULATIONS PAGE 2

When the Class of 2018 arrived on campus in September, they brought with them a penchant for a new social media platform, a locationbased forum known as Yik Yak. The app allows users to submit anonymous posts, or “yaks,” that can be seen, replied to and voted up or down by nearby users.

Usage of the app has grown significantly at Dartmouth since

the start of the fall, earning the College its own “peek,” a special tab where off-campus users can read yaks posted by students on campus but not write their own.

Posts range from freshman year advice to complaints about midterms, to comments on fraternities and hook ups.

“Drill must be working since I apparently sent several drunken Snapchats in French this weekend,” one user posted on Sunday, garnering 65 upvotes.

Associate Dean of the College Liz Agosto said she occasionally accesses Yik Yak to “check the temperature” of campus.

She also checks Bored at Baker, an anonymous message board that requires a Dartmouth email address. When Agosto receives reports about Bored at Baker, she follows up with the forum’s moderators to remove offensive posts. In serious cases, SEE YIK YAK PAGE 3

Apple Crunch launches week of food programming B y Noah Goldstein

On Monday, a group of students and community members gathered on the Green to bite into fresh, local apples, kicking off Food Week at the College. The Apple Crunch was the first of eight food-related events that will be held throughout the week, culminating Friday with a feast at the Dartmouth Organic Farm.

Dartmouth Dining Services manager Beth Rosenberger, who helped coordinate this week’s programming, said organizers hope to raise awareness about food injustice, promote support for food workers and encourage healthy diets.

Becky Hoeffler, a sustainabilty fellow who is helping coordinate the SEE FOOD WEEK PAGE 3

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Community members gathered on the Green Monday to savor local apples.

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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP Black patients and those of other races see significant difference in preventative diabetic care, according to a Dartmouth Atlas Project press release. A report titled “Variation in the Care of Surgical Conditions: Diabetes and Peripheral Disease” concluded that black patients in certain regions were seven times more likely to undergo amputation as a diabetes complication than their counterparts of other races.

Incidences of amputation are more prevalent particularly in the rural Southeast.

YouTube can be an effective tool and support network for those with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder, according to a study published in PLOS ONE last week, the Geisel Medical School news center reported. John Naslund, a Ph.D. candidate at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, explained the openness exhibited on the site by those with mental illness, attributing this to a willingness to help others with similar conditions.

Researchers used online ethnography to sort through more than 3,000 comments on videos of self-identified schizophrenic and bipolar posters, concluding that the site serves as a supportive community for those with the disorders.

Researchers, however, admit the limitations of the study as the work was largely exploratory.

Virtual reality tools could be used to improve astronaut mental health on missions, The Independent reported. The research, conducted by Dartmouth’s Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab, is funded by a $1.6 million grant from NASA. Researchers have been focusing on the Oculus Rift VR goggles, owned by Facebook, to manage stress through virtual environments. The goggles will first be used on the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation mission, which will recreate an eight-month excursion to Mars.

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Regulations clarify crime language FROM REGULATIONS PAGE 1

sent” and “unfounded” allegations and require colleges to disclose the number of “unfounded” crime reports it receives each year. The regulations also require universities to increase transparency in the adjudication process, add gender identity and national origin as separate bias categories in hate crime reporting and clarify prevention programs and disciplinary proceedings for all kinds of sexual violence.

Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said the College is complying in “good faith effort” with the regulations thus far and is expanding its sexual violence prevention programming.

The requirements’ publication concludes a yearlong rulemaking process since Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act in 2013. The reauthorization both expanded the reach of the Clery Act — which requires colleges to disclose information on campus crime, including information about sexual violence incidents and prevention resources — and created a committee of experts to draft additional regulations. The Federal Register published the regulations Monday, following a public comment period on a preliminary draft released in June.

In August, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into possible Clery Act violations at the College.

The investigation came after more than 30 students and alumni filed a complaint against the College in May 2013, alleging Clery violations related to sexual assault, LGBTQ, racial and religious discrimination, hate crimes, bullying and hazing.

Dartmouth’s annual security and fire safety report, released on Oct. 1,

complied with the preliminary regulations by including statistics on dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. The report lists one dating violence incident, four stalking incidents and no reports of domestic violence for 2013. Reported forcible sex offenses increased to 35 in 2013 from 24 in 2012.

Judicial Affairs director Leigh Remy wrote in an email that Dartmouth has been following the rulemaking process closely. In September, the office published a supplement to its existing sexual assault policy to incorporate information and disciplinary procedures for sexual harassment, domestic violence, dating violence or stalking by students and student organizations.

After seeing the final rule produced by the federal committee, her office will revisit its policies to ensure compliance, Remy wrote.

Founder of advocacy group SurvJustice Laura Dunn, who was the primary student negotiator on the Department of Education’s Violence Against Women Act rulemaking committee, said the new regulations will likely lead schools to change prevention programs to incorporate ongoing prevention training throughout the school year.

The regulations also enable both parties in a hearing on sexual violence allegations to elect an advisor, which can be anyone from a parent to a therapist to a lawyer, Dunn said.

Schools, however, have the power to limit how these advisors interact with the judicial process, such as preventing them from speaking to their advisee during a hearing.

Survivors, who now must receive written notification of their case’s outcome and the resulting sanctions, may find it easier to appeal a judicial

decision, Dunn said.

Student activists and community groups should pay attention to the list of possible sanctions for dating violence, domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault that schools must now include in their annual security report, she said.

“We’ve had campuses that have assigned papers or educational videos or just getting counseling rather than a suspension or an expulsion,” Dunn said, adding that she believes suspension and expulsion are the only appropriate punishments when an investigation finds a student responsible of sexual violence.

Alyssa Peterson, a campaign organizer at advocacy group Know Your IX, said the new requirements address a gap in public discourse around sexual assault, which often focuses on assault by acquaintances in an alcohol-fueled setting.

“There’s been insufficient research on the prevalence of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking violence,” she said. “The focus on acquaintance sexual assault does not include all survivors.”

Peterson pointed to intimate partner violence as one overlooked type of sexual violence.

Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus, said the regulations can help an institution go beyond “textbook compliance” and integrate prevention into institutional culture. She emphasized the importance of using ongoing, research-based prevention programming, which the regulations require.

“If we’re going to put the time into education and prevention, we should be doing something that works,” Kiss said.

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Yik Yak chatter turns harmful, threatening at other schools FROM YIK YAK PAGE 1

Agosto said she works with Hanover Police and the College’s computing services department to identify offenders.

While students have yet to report any inappropriate posts on Yik Yak to her, because it is a mobile app, it might be more difficult to identify troublesome posters, Agosto said.

“We can only do so much,” she said.

“A symbolic ban of the app from the Dartmouth server doesn’t impact usage as much.”

If the College tried to remove access to Yik Yak over Dartmouth-provided Internet, students could still easily access the app using cell phone data plans.

Agosto said the College currently has no plans to enact a ban on either Bored at Baker or Yik Yak, adding that any real change to the culture of either forum would have to come from the students.

Nationally, abusive posts have been a problem for users. The app’s developers have erected geo-fences, or boundaries within which the app cannot be used, around middle schools and high schools across the country.

At Colgate University, racist posts on Yik Yak contributed to protests, Inside Higher Ed reported in September. A sex tape posted on Rowan University’s Yik Yak feed led to disciplinary action against several students, and a student at Widener University was arrested after posting a shooting threat on the school’s Yik Yak, the Washington Post and ABC News reported.

Claire Votava ’18, an infrequent user, said that during the first weeks of fall, the forum served as a way for freshmen to find alcohol or parties in dorms.

While posts giving specific dorm numbers are usually pranks, Votava said, posts that direct students to residence halls or floors may indicate legitimate gatherings.

Anonymity, she said, may detract from the quality of posts.

“It’s gotten a lot more crass and less fun to read,” Votava said. “It’s a lot about hangovers and hook ups.”

Votava added that she has seen multiple posts that joked about sexual assault.

Ethan Isaacson ’18 said he downloaded the app by his third week at Dartmouth, after he was drawn in by a post about a fellow freshman’s intoxicated antics.

Isaacson said that, for him, the app is a diversion.

“It’s mostly entertainment — it’s anonymous Twitter,” Isaacson said. “It’s fun to see what people are thinking that they don’t want associated with their name.”

He added that he believes the posts were “95 percent garbage.”

Votava said that she believes Dartmouth’s feed is often more positive than that of other schools.

Isaacson said that, in addition to being more civil, Dartmouth’s posts are also funnier.

“Dartmouth has the strongest yak scene that I’ve witnessed,” Isaacson said.

Isaacson said that because students post anonymously, it may be reassur-

Food Week promotes sustainability, health FROM FOOD WEEK PAGE 1

week’s events, said she hopes Food Week will draw attention to lesser known issues, like food deserts, areas that lack convenient access to a grocery store.

The week’s programming includes a lecture by Mark Winne, an expert on food systems who has worked in agriculture policy, a viewing of “Fed Up” (2014), a documentary exposing the modern food production system, and a “Harvest Dinner” in the Class of 1953 Commons, which will offer locally sourced fare including stuffed portobello mushrooms, grilled apple-glazed pork loin and baked apples a la mode.

Programming culminates Friday, which is also Food Day, a national event established by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which seeks to educate the public and advocate for policy changes regarding health and

environmental issues. Dartmouth began participating in Food Day three years ago, Rosenberger said.

On Friday, students will have the opportunity to tour the Organic Farm and learn about sustainable agriculture.

Dartmouth nutritionist KC Wright, who is also coordinating the week’s programming, said she hopes the week’s events will inspire students to continue thinking about food conscientiously all year.

Winne’s Monday lecture focused on combating food injustices and promoting sustainability, including localizing foods and developing more regional food markets.

Director of Sustainability Rosi Kerr said Food Week highlights the prominent role food plays in the world.

“Food is the way that many of us can have an impact on the sustainability of our planet and also on our own health,” Kerr said.

ing to see other students posting about troubles similar to their own.

Max Zoberman, a sophomore at Emory University, said that when Yik Yak came to his campus last year, posts were largely benign.

The app became less innocuous during the beginning of this school year, Zoberman said, and turned into a forum for hate speech that often targeted minorities on campus.

Zoberman drafted and presented a resolution to Emory’s student government that condemned the app and asked administrators to prevent users from opening it using Emory’s wireless network. The provision, however, was amended out of the bill after students protested the measure as a violation of free speech.

“The ban is not a means to police the student body — they still have access,” he said. “It is action for the student body and the administration to withdraw their support for the app.”

Agosto said that the app ultimately runs a fine line between helpful and hurtful.

“There’s always some value to students being able to communicate in an environment where they’re able to express things without social retribution,” Agosto said. “That said, I am really concerned about how people’s words and language impact the larger community.”

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CONTRIBUTING Columnist jon vandermause ’16

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Reform, Not Replace

Think It Through

Abolishing Greek life will not solve our problems.

On Friday, campus woke up to big, bold font plastered across the front page of this publication calling for the end of Dartmouth Greek life.

Judging by the subsequent flurry of outraged comments and Facebook posts, a vocal fraction of the Dartmouth community did not take kindly to the suggestion.

The proper response to any argument — even one that threatens what we hold dear — is not to plug our ears or shout down the arguer. On an issue this important, we cannot afford sloppy thinking. If we disagree, we should say why and say it clearly.

We should reject the editorial board’s argument because at its core lies a rotten and defeatist logic.

In their view, the beast is too big to be tamed.

The tireless efforts of campus leaders to build a better Greek system are doomed to fail because the task is just too great. We should consign our model for social life to the dustbin, because anything — even boozing in the dorms — is a preferable alternative.

The social maladies the board identifies are real and pressing. Rush slices campus in superficial ways, binge drinking is ritually worshipped in the frats and new members are powerless pledges in all but name.

But this bad behavior is the result of bad choices, not the inevitable byproduct of the system’s structure. The board is mixing up cause and effect. The system does not poison minds — poisoned minds create and sustain bad systems. The thought that binge drinking, sexual assault and racial insensitivity will vanish with the Greek houses is a lazy pipe dream. If we want to improve, we will have to work harder than that.

And that is precisely what Greek leaders are beginning to do. Even the board acknowledges that viable solutions are on the table. But instead of praising students’ efforts, the board belittles their attempts. They sneer that students should be solving loftier problems than those associated with filth-soaked frats. We should be changing the world, not obsessing over social life. Let’s rid ourselves of this scourge and do something

useful for a change.

Setting aside its condescension, this suggestion is deeply flawed. There are few things more important and more relevant to the lived experience of Dartmouth students than improving our social system. Making Greek life safer and more inclusive is not wasted effort — it is one of the most important projects we can pursue, and we should not have to apologize for pursuing it.

The board sees a fractured limb and concludes that it must be severed, not healed.

Little thought is given to what might replace it.

Will students cease to binge drink without frat basements? Will racial insensitivity no longer plague this campus if Greek houses aren’t around to throw crude parties? Of course not.

Abolishing Greek life is not the easy fix we’re looking for. It would merely create a vacuum to be filled with the same old problems. If we want misbehavior to stop, we must shift our thoughts and attitudes, engage in clear-eyed dialogue about the sources of harm on campus and take practical steps toward reducing it.

Greek life is not the center of all things wretched, and we should be mindful of its virtues before condemning it. Our system is rare. After Homecoming, students can socialize at whatever house they like. Everyone is invited to the big parties. Freshmen and unaffiliated students don’t have to pay a dime to access a vibrant social scene. Few other colleges offer a social scene this open and welcoming. Abolishing Greek life amounts to throwing away a uniquely inclusive system because of flaws that would persist in its absence. We can do so much better.

The editorial board’s publicity stunt did not just stir the pot. It threw the pot’s boiling contents in the faces of hundreds of visiting alumni, transforming a news publication into a campus-wide platform for disseminating controversial views.

Like prophets, the board’s members claim to see beyond the here and now to Dartmouth’s future, guided by ethics that transcend common opinion. Unfortunately, their decrees miss the mark on every count. We should not give up, as the editorial board urges. The path forward lies in focused reform.

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The editorial board fails to consider the consequences of abolition.

Last Friday, this paper’s editorial board published a column titled “Abolish the Greek System.”

While nobody will argue that Dartmouth’s Greek system is perfect, the editorial board’s unwillingness to engage in real dialogue or propose solutions outside of the nuclear option is baffling at best and dishonest resume-building at worst. It demonstrates an appalling inability to explore the many facets of this important issue. The editorial board was clearly looking for an element of shock by printing the editorial on the front page of the paper, rather than its usual location a few pages in. It is also no coincidence that this action was taken the Friday of Homecoming weekend, when thousands of alumni are on campus and the social scene is under heightened scrutiny.

Though editor-in-chief Lindsay Ellis claims that this move was to show “how much is at stake,” in reality all it did was turn The Dartmouth into a poorly-argued soapbox.

The editorial board proposes abolishing the Greek system as the cure to Dartmouth’s social disease, but unfortunately this “cure” is far worse.

If Dartmouth were to abolish its Greek system, administrators would have no real means of regulating the College’s social scene and no meaningful way to work with the student body to enact change.

More than 50 percent of Dartmouth students — around 70 percent of non-freshmen — belong to a Greek house. Does the editorial board think that roughly 2,000 students will simply stop any sort of socializing? Of course not. High-risk behavior will simply move underground — and we know from the freshman policy that this situation creates more risk and less safety. Greek houses’ members are specifically trained to notice signs of unsafe intoxication and to be on the lookout for possible issues that may arise during an event.

If the Greek system was abolished, widescale student-led oversight would disappear.

Furthermore, the editorial board has seemingly forgotten that the Greek system is not just fraternities. They attempt to mask this by citing two sororities’ incidents to provide a semblance of “balance.” However, one of these examples is from 16 years ago, and the rest of the editorial is quite clearly directed at fraternities. Does the editorial

board think that abolishing all the sororities — desperately needed female-dominated social spaces — and the coed houses is a good decision as well? What does the editorial board propose happen to Amarna and Panarchy, our non-Greek undergraduate societies? The rest of the system is reduced to unfortunate collateral damage. You don’t get to say “abolish it” without meaning the whole thing, and the inability — or unwillingness — of the editorial board to consider the entire Greek system rather than just the fraternities reveals a mentality of pointing out problems rather than proposing solutions.

Change has already begun in the Greek system, and ours is, despite its faults, one of the most inclusive and progressive in the nation. Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority abandoned the divisive women’s rush process for the more inclusive shake-out process, and Panhellenic Council expanded its constitution to include individuals who self-identify as women. The Interfraternity Council recently voted 15-0 to abolish the harmful process of pledge term in all its organizations, and the Coed Council reiterated its position that pledge activities have no part in coed Greek life.

This is not the Dartmouth of “Animal House” (1978), it is not the Dartmouth of Andrew Lohse’s fiction and it is not the Dartmouth that the editorial board would have you believe. There are problems, yes, but those problems are being meaningfully addressed. Some may think change is not coming quickly enough — but it is better to have a mechanism for change than none of either.

I call upon the editorial board to use its position for something better than just saying “screw it.”

You have been successful in causing controversy, but you have been unsuccessful in proposing any actual solutions. Think about these complex issues rather than just trying to claim the moral high ground. Dartmouth does not need more division. We need unity, we need strength, we need honest conversations and we need a willingness to compromise for the betterment of the whole College. Abolishing the Greek system does none of that. It is not a real solution — and it causes more problems than it solves.

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Dever calls on faculty to develop recruiting strategies for minorities FROM FACULTY MEETING PAGE 1

told the gathering.

Currently, 17.5 percent of Dartmouth’s arts and sciences faculty are minorities or foreign citizens.

The figure has changed little in the past decade, having stood at 17.5 percent in 2003.

According to the College Fact Book, 17 percent of arts and sciences faculty identified as members of one or more minority groups in 2013, though the document does not record international faculty numbers.

Among undergraduate students, 9 percent are international, 34 percent are minorities, 8 percent are of unknown race or ethnicity and 49 percent are white, according to the 2013 College Fact book.

Dever said she did not want herself or her colleagues to have to be in the position of “explaining to a student why there’s not a faculty member here who looks like him or her.”

The issue sprang to prominence with the departure of several high-profile minority faculty and administrators over the past year in what music professor Steve Swayne noted others have referred to as “the black exodus.”

T he College will work to bring minority faculty to campus through current faculty who may have connections at other institutions or in graduate schools, and will work with potential recruits and new faculty hires to build an inclusive community at Dartmouth.

“We need you to identify the most talented underrepresented faculty out there and develop recruiting strategies,” Dever told the assembled faculty.

While Dever said data on last year’s faculty departures is not yet available, there is a “widespread concern” that the College is falling further behind in its efforts to

recruit minority faculty.

Swayne said he does not believe African-American faculty are departing Dartmouth at a greater rate than faculty of other races, though physics professor Stephon Alexander disagreed.

“Because of the nature of the Dartmouth community, we, minority faculty, especially those of us that are not married, for example, or have spouses elsewhere, [face] a real challenge, and we really especially rely on our colleagues and our community of minority faculty for support and for a social life.”

- STEPHON ALEXANDER, PHYSICS PROFESSOR “Because of the nature of the Dartmouth community, we, minority faculty, especially those of us that are not married, for example, or have spouses elsewhere, [face] a real challenge, and we really especially rely on our colleagues and our community of minority faculty for support and for a social life,” Alexander said.

Alexander, who called Dever’s presentation on diversity “music to my ears,” emphasized the role of current faculty in recruiting more individuals of underrepresented backgrounds to the College.

“I am very proud that this institution is taking leadership in this national issue,” he said.

The College is still developing strategies to recruit and retain

minority faculty, Dever said. Denise Anthony, who began as vice provost for academic initiatives earlier this month, will work with Dever and the faculty to recruit minority professors.

Dartmouth is also working to diversify its staff, Dever said, noting that 10 percent of the College’s non-academic staff are minorities or international. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Hanover is 77.5 percent white and New Hampshire is about 94 percent white. Nationally, 77.7 percent of the population is white.

Since the College cannot advertise a position directly to specific racial or ethnic groups, administrators and faculty will instead “pound the pavement” to ensure applicant diversity, Dever said after the meeting.

Though discussion of faculty diversity accounted for the bulk of the hour-long meeting, Hanlon also discussed the College’s budgeting process for the coming years. He said budgeting will focus on transparency, which he began emphasizing when he arrived at the College in 2013.

In the spring, Hanlon, executive vice president Rick Mills and chief financial officer and vice president for finance Michael Wagner taught a mini-course on the College’s budget. The course, which was

over enrolled, will likely be offered again in spring 2015.

Hanlon said that the College expects to report lower endowment growth in future years. The 19.2 percent growth reported in fiscal year 2014 is unlikely to be matched

“We need you to identify the most talented underrepresented faculty out there and develop recruiting strategies.”

- CAROLYN DEVER, COLLEGE PROVOST consistently, Hanlon said. When drafting its budget each year, the College currently assumes that it will receive at least an 8 percent return on its endowment, but Hanlon said the endowment will likely earn a 6 to 7 percent return.

He did not specify reasons for the potential decrease.

The endowment funds more than 20 percent of the College’s operating budget, meaning the slight dip expected in endowment return could require financial restructuring.

Hanlon also discussed funding issues at Geisel Medical School.

While he did not elaborate on the institution’s financial difficulties, he noted that Geisel’s “expenditures significantly exceed revenues.”

Geisel posted a $5.5 million deficit for the 2014 fiscal year and must make $10 million in budget cuts.

Hanlon reaffirmed his confidence in interim Geisel Dean Duane Compton, who replaced Wiley “Chip” Souba in June.

“It’s crucial that we have a successful medical school on campus, so we’re going to get that done,” Hanlon said.

He noted that Dartmouth fundraising had a banner year in 2014, raising around $255 million in cash gifts, including an anonymous $100 million donation, the largest single gift in Dartmouth’s history.

Hanlon said the coming year will be devoted to executing the priorities he announced at his first general faculty meeting last fall, including expanding Thayer Engineering School, growing experiential learning and developing Dartmouth’s online learning presence in partnership with edX and Khan Academy.

The newly created Society of Fellows, a research program for postdoctoral students, received 1,744 applications for five to six spots, Hanlon said.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m.

“Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters,” with Eitan Hersh of Yale University, Silsby 119

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SPORTS continued

Volleyball beats Princeton, falls to Penn

3:30 p.m.

Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar, Wilder 111

4:30 p.m.

“White Earth to Picardy: Native Americans and the First World War in France,” with Gerald Vizenor, Rockefeller Center 001

TOMORROW 4:30 p.m.

“The Energy Crisis in Ukraine: What it Means for the U.S., Europe and the Arctic,” Haldeman 041

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Washington, D.C. policy speaker series with Judge Thomas Griffith, Rockefeller 003

7:00 p.m.

“Perfect Strangers” documentary and Q&A with director, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

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Alex Schoenberger ’15 awaits the set from Stacey Benton ’17 in Saturday’s game.

FROM VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

going more earlier, the middles on the other side may have some issues closing to the pin.”

She also pointed to the team’s passing and serving as areas to work on.

Penn beat the Big Green with an extremely balanced attack. Five different Quakers tallied at least seven kills.

While Dartmouth had three players notch double-digit kills, the Big Green also made 10 more errors than the Quakers, a sloppiness that ultimately doomed Dartmouth.

Morgan Dressel ’18 pointed to a

few key adjustments that could help the Big Green take down the Quakers next time.

“I think we should definitely remember what their tendencies are, but also just sort of play a more readand-react game,” Dressel said. “I think we’re really good at seeing and reading, especially with the hitter’s arm or a server. Sometimes we get too much tunnel vision of, ‘Oh, we saw this on video, this is exactly what’s going to happen,’ instead of relying on the fact that we’re really good athletes and we know how to react to things, and we’re smart, and we’re quick.”

Dartmouth has now played every team in the Ivy League once and will face each once more before season’s end. With four Ivy wins, the team has a chance to post the first nine-win Ivy record in the last decade.

“The first half of the season, was very, I mean, we’ve been doing really well, it’s just been very physical,” Benton said. “It’s been a battle, all these teams are very good this year. So this is not going to be an easy championship to get.”

The Big Green next takes the court Friday at 7 p.m. in Cambridge, Massachusetts against Harvard University.

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Beyond the Bubble: Video games as artistic expression

senior curator of architecture and design, Paola Antonelli, was critiThe Dartmouth Staff cized in 2012 after announcing the If someone asked you what museum’s acquisition of 14 video art is, what would you say? Art is games, including “Pac-Man” (1980) harder to define than you thought and “Tetris” (1984). Antonelli it would be, isn’t it? A friend posed intended to display the games as this question to me the other day, examples of “interaction design,” and my response was a jumbled list but various critics bashed MoMA’s decision. of names.

“Van Gogh, Picasso, da Vinci,” “Sorry MoMA, video games I said. “Monet, Michelangelo, et are not art,” read the headline of a Jonathan Jones piece in The cetera ... I think?”

In my elementary school art class Guardian.

I was introduced to a number of According to Antonelli, regardworld artists and from that introduc- less of their label, video games are design, and tion on, I, like design is everymany others, “Art could potentially where. But is came to believe design art? Her that art was the encompass all that conclusion was skillful applica- is creative. But n o t c o n c re t e tion of paint on how often do we enough for me. a canvas.

I decided to look A f t e r p ro - give attention to at the design viding my own unconventional ‘art,’ process for andefinition of swers. art I was asked like the geometric

In my what prevents display of a Tetris research, I kept something from seeing words being art. I did game?” such as sketch, not have an andesign, artists, swer, and that got me thinking: can anything be art? From poetry to medium. A video game is born from cartoons, architecture to pottery, a story, just like a movie. Then a art could potentially encompass all team of writers, artists and designers that is creative. But how often do expand the storyline. The developwe give attention to unconventional ing storyboard calls for character “art,” like the geometric display of sketches, which are tweaked to perfection before being scanned and Tetris game?

Eventually, my friend asked, “If built into digital exoskeletons that everything can technically be classi- prep the character for animation fied as art, then would the world of capacity. digital invention, and more specifi- So a video game is built off a cally video games, classify as art?” narrative, like a novel — an art No, I said, as if there was no form. A video game is designed possible way a video game could and sketched on paper, like Mibe art. “Call of Duty 4: Modern chelangelo sketched drafts before Warfare” (2007)? “Halo: Combat beginning work on the Sistine Evolved” (2001)? “Dark Souls” Chapel — undoubtedly an art (2011)? Art? I don’t think so — or form. Furthermore, a video game employs these graphics and narrather, I didn’t at first.

The Museum of Modern Art’s rative through skilled coding and

B y Andrea Nease

digital design mastery.

Not only is the creation of a video game full of artful technique and creative skill, but also, just as art serves as a method of expression for a painter, a poet or a screenwriter, a video game provides an expressive outlet for a digital designer.

The documentary “Indie Game: The Movie” (2012), explored “Braid” (2008) developer Jonathan Blow’s experimentation and developmental process as he attempted to put his “deepest flaws and vulnerabilities,” as he says in the film, into the game’s very design. Throughout history, artists consistently fought to put themselves into their work.

Video games, like other art forms, seek to express certain philosophies.

Forbes contributor Jordan Shapiro writes of video games, “the actions

a game demands implicitly make some sort of moral argument.”

“Braid” employs hand-brushed visual technique and unexpected narrative twists that fight typical gaming clichés. Its rhetoric pushes for the value of the game’s journey over its final destination. Using digital animation medium, Blow threads together a love story with an ending that is considerably more artistic than some novels I’ve read.

Romantic rhetoric is not rare within the art world. Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” (1907) serves as an expression of the pressures of love, and just as the narrative of “Braid” allows for various interpretations, “The Kiss” gives viewers the same interpretative freedom. Art is an individual’s expression of how they see something. “Braid” is Blow’s

expression of the ambiguity of love just as “The Kiss” is Klimt’s expression of lovers’ unity.

There is an advocate for and artist of the gaming genre in our community at Dartmouth. Digital humanities professor Mary Flanagan is dedicated to the research and development of digital art, which ranges from “game-based systems to computer viruses, embodied interfaces to interactive texts,” according to Flanagan’s bio.

The art of the video game is not the delusion of a teenager “wasting” hours playing “The Elder Scrolls V; Skyrim” (2011) in his or her basement. It is an academic discussion that should be taken as a serious debate — one that could call for the reevaluation of our generation’s definition of art.

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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SPORTS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014

TUESDAY LINEUP

MEN’S TENNIS ITA NORTHEAST REGIONALS FLUSHING, NY

Crew teams take on fierce competition at Head of the Charles B y KELLY chen

The men’s and women’s championship eight boats finished 26th at the 50th annual Head of the Charles Regatta over the weekend, marking a fall from last season when the men placed 25th and the women finished 20th.

Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Head of the Charles Regatta was the first of the season for the Big Green, serving as a litmus test for what the teams can expect going forward. The crew teams are only slated to compete in a few regattas in the fall before the season begins in earnest in the spring.

The Big Green entered four boats in the regatta, one in each of the men’s championship and lightweight eights categories and in the women’s championship and club eights events. This is

the first year that Dartmouth qualified to send two women’s boats, due to a top-20 finish last year.

This year’s Head of the Charles presented a number of challenges for the Big Green. Both the men’s heavyweight team and women’s team were competing in their first regatta with new head coaches. The teams also had to fit out boats with more underclassmen than usual, as many experienced rowers were on off-terms.

Margo Cox ’15 also said that the rowers dealt well with adverse weather conditions.

“The conditions were very windy, and the water was rough,” Cox said.

“We haven’t had much preparation for that, but we handled it confidently and rowed through it.”

The men’s heavyweight team fin-

ished seventh of 11 Ivy League-affiliated boats while the lightweight boat finished seventh of nine Ancient Eight boats.

The women’s championship team finished ninth of 11 Ivy League boats and the club boat came in second out of three conference foes.

The Big Green adapted well and made progress from last year in a few areas. The lightweight men’s team finished 10th, an improvement over 13th place last season. The women’s club eight, which did not compete last year, placed an impressive 13th. They qualified for next year by finishing in the top half of their event.

“The regatta had a great, positive atmosphere,” Cox said. “Usually, we don’t get spectators, but there were people lined up all the way down the race course, which is three miles long.”

Women’s head coach Linda Muri said that this regatta demonstrated the women’s technical strength, as they maintained their form throughout the race.

“Both boats looked very strong, especially toward the end of the race when everyone is tired. We were still working hard,” Muri said.

Muri also said that the regatta was a valuable opportunity to race some of the best schools and countries in the world, and for younger rowers to gain racing experience, as seven members of the Class of 2016 are currently off-campus. “[Their] absence forces younger women to step up, both athletically and in terms of leadership,” Muri said, noting that three members of the Class of 2018 rowed in the championship boat.

Cox also pointed this out, and said

that qualifying two women’s boats strengthened the team by allowing more rowers to gain experience.

Kate Griffiths ’18 was one of six freshmen on the women’s team who raced this weekend. Three members of the Class of 2018 rowed in the club eight, and another three competed in the championship event. She said the women rowed skillfully despite coaching changes and upperclassman absences.

This race, the season opener, served well to motivate the team, Cox said.

“The race was a good launching point for the team. It showed us that the league is very competitive, and we’re ready for the Princeton Chase next week,” Cox said.

The Big Green men and women next take to the water at the Princeton Chase on Oct. 26.

Volleyball splits two Ivy games over Homecoming weekend

By Joe CLyne AND EllIE Gonzalez The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s volleyball team split its two games over the weekend, beating Princeton University in a five-setter on Friday before falling to the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Big Green followed up its impressive win over the Tigers with an error-filled game against a Quakers squad playing its best volleyball of the season. After the weekend at home, the Big Green (13-5, 4-3 Ivy) now takes to the road for five straight Ivy League away matches.

The Big Green started quickly in its game against the Tigers (9-8, 4-3 Ivy), taking both of the first two sets 25-19. Dartmouth showed great ability to close out sets, winning the final six points of the opening set on the strength of kills from Paige Caridi ’16 and Alex Schoenberger ’15.

The third and fourth sets were less favorable for the home team.

Princeton took both, winning the third by three points and the fourth by seven, sending the match to a decisive fifth set.

Right off the bat, the Big Green found itself in trouble. Princeton’s junior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin, the Ivy League leader in kills with nearly 300, notched four quick kills and the Tigers took a 5-3 lead in the set. Dartmouth battled back from the early deficit and held a precarious

11-9 lead as the set wound down.

At this point, head coach Erin Lindsey substituted Sara Lindquist ’18 into the game and the freshman made an immediate impact. With a block and a kill in the final four Dartmouth points, Lindquist helped carry Dartmouth to a 15-11 set win and a match win.

Though the Big Green could not fully control Princeton’s Peterkin, who tallied 28 kills and 11 digs, good individual efforts from Caridi, Emily Astarita ’17 and Stacey Benton ’17 led to an impressive Dartmouth win.

“Our passing was really good, so we could get in system and our focus was to limit the swings that the other team’s player, number 13, Kendall Peterkin had, because she’s their best player by far,” Caridi said.

“And I think we were able to slow her down enough where it wasn’t an easy win for them.”

After beating Princeton, the Big Green took on the Penn Quakers Saturday at Leede Arena. The fourset loss to Penn (6-12, 3-4 Ivy) was a setback for a Big Green squad that had the chance to move into a tie for second place in the Ivy League.

A fairly even first set went the Quakers’ way by a narrow 25-21 margin partly due to 10 errors by the Big Green. Though Dartmouth had more first-set kills than Penn, the team ultimately dropped the set.

The second set was even tighter than the first as the Big Green man-

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Kayden Cook ’15 leaps high in the air for the set at Leede Arena. Cook had 32 assists in the weekend’s two games.

aged to sharply reduce its number of miscues. Dartmouth had taken a 21-19 lead in the set when a Penn time out seemed to change the momentum in the Quakers’ favor. The Quakers promptly rolled off a 6-1 run to take the set 25-22.

Facing elimination in the third set, Dartmouth fought back and kept

hope alive. The Big Green seemed poised to continue its momentum after closing the third set on an 8-2 run.

The fourth set was a major disappointment for Dartmouth as the team lost its most lopsided set since dropping a set to Yale 25-16 on Oct. 4. With the loss, the Big Green

dropped to a tie for third in the Ivy League while Penn moved into a tie for fifth.

“Penn is arguably the best blocking team in the League and they blocked really well against us,” Caridi said.

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