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An assesment by Maclay Architects found that renovating would be more complicated than rebuilding.
B y KATIE RAFTER A local architecture company has recommended the rebuilding of Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, built in 1938, and the College will tear down the Ledyard Clubhouse. Director of outdoor programs Daniel Nelson said student input will be key as plans for the Lodge move forward. Some students have objected to
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the College’s decision to rebuild Ledyard without a residential space. Vermont-based Maclay Architects assessed the Lodge and concluded that renovating would be more complicated than completely rebuilding it. The company concluded that, to bring the building up to date on current building codes, its foundations, mechanical systems and many of the logs
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The Office of Pluralism and Leadership will begin searching for a new director in the winter. Since former director Alysson Satterlund left in July, Center for Gender and Student Engagement director Reese Kelly has served as OPAL’s interim director and the office has focused on filling other va-
cant positions. A search committee comprising students, staff and faculty will convene early next year, associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Agosto said. Agosto said she hopes to include feedback from students who work with CGSE in the search. Interested students will have the
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must be replaced, Nelson said. Replacement has the advantage of requiring a smaller building footprint, requiring less space, a longer life span for building, less costly maintenance and lower energy costs,” Nelson said. An effort would be made to emulate as many of the Lodge’s original features as possible, he SEE LODGE PAGE 3
On Oct. 30, religion professor Randall Balmer discovered that 43 students who had seemingly answered in-class quiz questions using hand-held clickers had not been present in his course, “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” Roughly a dozen Dartmouth courses use these clickers, which are registered to individual students, instructional designer Adrienne Gauthier said. Students use the clickers — small, hand-held devices that must be used within a range of 250 to 500 feet — to answer in-class questions and confirm attendance. Tina Rooks, chief instructional officer at Turning Technologies, which manufactures the clickers used by the College, said the clickers allow professors to involve students without requiring them to spend too much time collecting or analyzing responses. She said the technology cannot be blamed
for cheating. “The solution to cheating is never to blame the modality,” she said. “The solution is to put consequences in place.” Provost Carolyn Dever said she hopes the incident will spark conversations about Dartmouth’s academic honor principle. “Technology facilitates teaching and learning in some ways that we never anticipated before,” she said. “We can’t lose that out of a fear that students will misuse it.” Biology professor Thomas Jack said he used clickers in his “Science of Life” course from 2006 to 2013, then switched to using LectureTools — an online platform allowing students to answer in-class questions on computers or phones. He said that while he never checked, as Balmer did, to see if students were giving classmates clickers to feign attendance, he did not notice large portions of a class SEE TECHNOLOGY PAGE 5
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Brown University: A student who reported being given spiked drinks at a Brown University fraternity party on Oct. 17 tested positive for the date-rape drug GHB, the Brown Daily Herald reported. Results for another student who reported consuming a spiked beverage are pending. One of the two students also reported being sexually assaulted that night. An investigation into both the allegations of sexual assault and the spiked drinks is currently underway. Columbia University: A newly founded student and alumni group, the Fund For a Safer Columbia, will provide grants to student groups working against sexual violence, the Columbia Spectator reported. The group hopes to provide support for sexual assault survivors and to sustain the anti-violence movement. Cornell University: Some students have called on the student health center to expand its services regarding sex and sexuality, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Some concerns include reducing the cost of sexual health treatments and growing initiatives that inform students about consent. Harvard University: Despite an increased focus on student health, many students still suffer from college-related issues such as stress and a lack of sleep, the Harvard Crimson reported. Over 70 percent of Harvard students may be clinically sleep deprived, defined as getting an average of fewer than seven hours of sleep every night. Sleep deprivation can lead to anxiety and depression. The University of Pennsylvania: For the third year in a row, Penn received a record number of early decision applications. The five-percent increase in early applications could be attributed to the growing competitiveness of the early decision pool, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said, as Penn typically fills up to half of its class through early decision, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Princeton University: No one suffered life-threatening injuries after a BMW collided with a school bus on Route 206 on Tuesday, the Daily Princetonian reported. The BMW struck the front bumper of the bus, which contained three individuals.
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Assembly sees greater participation B y LUCIA M c GLOIN The Dartmouth Staff
Participation in Student Assembly doubled this year to 95, and the executive board expanded from seven to 15 members. This growth, along with two campus campaigns and smaller initiatives, like a debate on the D-Plan and dinner between student leaders and the Board of Trustees, mark highlights of the Assembly’s fall term. A relaxation fair in Sarner Underground, co-sponsored by Dartmouth Cares and Active Minds, will cap the Assembly’s “I’m Here For You Campaign” on Thursday. The project, launched to lessen stigma associated with mental illness, comprised student panels and coordination with Dick’s House about depression-screening resources throughout the term, student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said. The Assembly plans to continue with a social media campaign, he said. The Assembly’s campaign against sexual assault included a student round table, where 60 student leaders discussed sexual violence on campus, and a pledge to combat sexual assault, which received over 100 signatures in one night, student body president Casey Dennis ’15. The Assembly is producing an “It’s on Us” campaign video, similar to videos released by Stanford University and George Washington University. Dennis said that the video features the voices of student leaders to show that “there is no place on campus for sexual assault.” Chief of staff Thomas Wang ’16 said that the Assembly received an above average number of applications this term. Dennis said that despite general success, the Assembly has faced inevitable
challenges such as managing members’ academic and curricular schedules along with the brevity of the 10-week term. Cunningham, Dennis and Wang typically spend around five hours is meetings on Sundays, according to Wang. Cunningham said that the Assembly has also faced unanticipated “fires” this term, pointing to the “explosive” debate over the Greek system, which demanded a shift in the Assembly’s fall trajectory. He said the Assembly has met frequently with a spectrum of College leaders and students about the Greek system. “On such significant issues, we need to make sure that we are representing the whole student body to the best of our abilities, no matter what your stance may be on the system,” Cunningham said. The Assembly saw an $18,000 funding cut from last year and was granted $40,000 of the requested $70,500 from the Undergraduate Finance Committee earlier this year. Treasurer Forrest Beck ’15 said the reduced budget has not changed the Assembly’s policy goals, but necessitated certain concessions, such as not fully catering events. Beck said that the Assembly wanted to bring a guest speaker to discuss mental health in Greek organizations, but could not afford the speaker’s $4,000 fee. To accommodate the reduction in finances, the Assembly has shifted to co-sponsoring events, collaborating with the athletic department and a number of student organziations, he said. Programming chair Gabriella Grangard ’16 said the Assembly was able to fund and execute its main initiatives for this term, but that budget considerations prevented it from hosting
more frequent smaller events. She said that she anticipates the budget will be a bigger issue in future terms. Dennis said that the term’s smaller scale initiatives have included the continuation of the student-professor lunch programs that provides students with a $30 Molly’s voucher, securing online access to the New York Times for students and the establishment of a “Profiles in Excellence” seminar at the end of the term to highlight two outstanding faculty members. In addition to campus campaigns and events, the Assembly organized a dinner between students and trustees and held weekly office hours, which Wang said more than 100 students attended throughout the term. A number of students interviewed said they were unaware of the Assembly’s programming. Didi Peng ’16 said that he had viewed Assembly posters and emails in passing, but did not follow their activities. “With so much happening on campus, it is hard to grab a person’s attention for very long,” he said. Ben Howard ’15 said that he did not immediately associate Student Assembly with the mental health and sexual assault awareness campaigns, calling it a largely “thankless job.” Cunningham said that the Assembly will release a campus climate survey concerned with student opinions on the state of campus and the role of student government, but a date has yet to be set. Dennis said that he hopes the survey will help inform the direction of the Assembly’s winter agenda. “The mental health and sexual assault campaigns were our initiatives, but we need to make sure we are responding to what students want as well,” he said. “The efforts we put in don’t mean as much unless we get students to participate.”
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chance to meet candidates and ask them questions at meals, open presentations or other interview opportunities, she said. Before hiring a new director, she wanted to make sure to first fill positions that provide direct support to students. After OPAL filled all vacancies with interim or permanent staff in September, the office turned its attention to hiring new program coordinators. Most recently, Sebastian Munoz-Medina joined the office’s staff as CGSE program coordinator on Nov. 3. CGSE was founded in 1988 as a part of OPAL, but then split off to help connect CGSE with the women’s and gender studies program. This fall, CGSE was reabsorbed into OPAL. As a result of the combination, Kelly said, a position was needed to reflect both offices’ work around gender and sexual diversity. The position provides general support for students and staff, showing them how to access different campus resources and helping them affirm their identities, said Munoz-Medina, who will work on events like V-Week and Pride Week, as well as intersectional programs like Crossing the Line. Munoz-Medina, who holds a Master’s in Education from the University of Florida, plans to bring experience as a transgender
activist and advocate for healthy relationship awareness and body positivity to Dartmouth. MunozMedina will assist Men’s Project fellows, who spend a year developing projects related to issues like male sexuality and mentoring male youth, and will work with a student coordinator to boost the OUTreach peer mentoring program. Pan-Asian advisor Shiella Cervantes, who recently joined OPAL after working as a pan-Asian American community house director at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in an email that she has “been taking this term to get a feel for the school.” “The students have been incredibly inspiring and the diversity of student life rivals that of many other larger institutions,” Cervantes wrote. “I’ll be honest though — I do miss the food scene in Philly.” Students have expressed a desire for a more cohesive pan-Asian campus community and increased co-curricular activities, she wrote. OPAL is currently seeking a permanent advisor to black students and program coordinator for the Native American Program. Interim advisor to black students Dia Draper, interim student and community program coordinator Jeremy Guardiola ’12, who also serves as interim advisor to first-generation students, and panAsian advisor Shiella Cervantes joined OPAL this fall.
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added. “Consulting architects had lots of ideas for ways in which some of the ambiance and features of the current Lodge that mean so much to people could be retained in a new building,” he said. Maclay Architects presented these findings last weekend to the Moosilauke advisory committee, as well as some representatives of the Dartmouth Outing Club advisory committee and DOC leadership. Nelson said these groups agreed that replacing the Lodge would be a more logical and sensible option than renovating it. He said, however, that the decision is not final. Because the Lodge is a College structure, the Board of Trustees must approve any suggestions before further steps are taken. He said he did not know whether the issue would be discussed at the Board’s next meeting in March. “The Moosilauke advisory committee and DOC advisory committee are just that, advisory committees,” he said. Rebuilding would not begin immediately. Vice president of campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said that there are many steps to a project like this, and the planning stage is incomplete.
Hogarty added that fundraising will be an important factor. She said the project’s overall cost has not yet been determined, but noted that any fundraising campaign must be “very ambitious and successful.” Hogarty emphasized the importance of student feedback. “As soon as we’ve got the green light,
“They heard loud and clear feedback that they really value the atmosphere and connection with Dartmouth traditions and history.” - DANIEL NELSON, DIRECTOR OF OUTDOOR PROGRAMS students will be an integral part of the planning progress,” she said. Nelson also spoke to the importance of student involvement at the Lodge, and said that it has been conveyed to Maclay Architects. “They heard loud and clear feedback that they really value the atmosphere and connection with
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Dartmouth traditions and history,” he said. DOC first-year trips director Peety Kaur ’15 said that while some people may be upset about the prospect of the Lodge — which has long welcomed students during trips — being torn down, it could bring new possibilities, like more space for dancing and other activities during Trips. The College also plans to rebuild the Ledyard Clubhouse. The clubhouse, which used to house a few students, was vacated last fall following water intrusion and mold buildup. Hogarty said the College will eliminate the residential component when Ledyard is rebuilt. Club member Anne Muller ’18 expressed her disapproval with the plans by posting a suggestion on Improve Dartmouth, arguing that “we need more residential social spaces on campus — not fewer.” As of press time, the post had received 561 agree votes and one disagree. Improve Dartmouth co-founder and Ledyard member Esteban Castaño ’14 wrote in an email that he believes the post demonstrates how much Ledyard means to the College as a home and a community. He wrote that since residents were made to vacate the clubhouse in October 2013, the building has become less of a social space.
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Don’t Ban Bored at Baker
The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is meant to incite conversation. In its most recent issue, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine published a letter in which John Barchilon ’60 wrote: “The College accepts too many politically combustible women and minorities who fail to grasp that they were admitted to an elite traditional institution older than the United States. Instead of saying, ‘Thank you,’ they try to change the majority of Dartmouth students and traditions in ways that attract an endless stream of politically incorrect wisecracks.” In a reactionary petition, Kaili Lambe ’09 and more than 400 signatories condemn the magazine for publishing this letter. While I am sympathetic to Lambe’s revulsion, I take issue with her petition and the support it has received. The letter was not printed as an endorsement of Barchilon’s views, but rather because it incites dialogue. Lambe’s petition argues that DAM is “turning back the clock by publishing a racist and sexist admonishment.” She calls for an apology from the magazine, saying editors “should have better judgment than to publish racist and sexist letters that are intended to offend.” I have interned at DAM for several years, and have been impressed by the magazine’s integrity. Good journalism is about raising eyebrows and shedding light on cobwebbed corners, about asking the tough questions and printing the answers — even when they’re sexist, racist, homophobic or otherwise embarrassing and unpretty. DAM has a history of sparking debate. The most recent example that comes to mind is a letter by Richard Owen ’93, who in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue berated the magazine for its “promotion of homosexual lifestyle and choice” in articles featuring gay alumni. “I am fully aware that a portion of the United States has accepted nontraditional lifestyles and values,” Owen wrote. “However, as a Christian with a traditional family, I feel it is neither appropriate nor in the interest of our alma mater for the alumni magazine to get involved in this controversial debate.” Letters to the editor such as these fairly raise the question: is publishing these opinions the ethical thing to do? Ascertaining the answer requires diving fur-
ther back than 2013. DAM’s editorial freedom was first brought into question in 1982, when then-College President David McLaughlin dismissed the magazine’s editor, Dennis Dinan ’61, as “part of an effort to project more good news in articles written about Dartmouth College,” according to the New York Times. Dinan’s dismissal brought up the question: was this magazine an open forum, or a propaganda vehicle of the administration? The magazine’s charter, signed by the trustees in 1983, codified the answer by setting out the purpose of the magazine: to “provide editorial content that relates to the shared and diverse experiences of Dartmouth alumni.” DAM is one of the few alumni publications in the country editorially independent of its college. If DAM censored divisive content, it would forsake its integrity and do the alumni body a disservice. The magazine should make its readership uncomfortable sometimes. This is something we should take immense pride in, not attack. My favorite place to study is in front of the panel of Orozco’s mural that depicts a skeleton birthing a fetus, symbolizing stillborn knowledge. The world beyond the ivory tower burns red, but scholars stand oblivious, captivated by these stillborn ideas. This panel thrills me. It makes me proud to be part of Dartmouth to have this harrowing condemnation of academia within the heart of our library. I see DAM as a similar venue of healthy criticism. Letters like Barchilon’s don’t make me proud, but DAM’s decision to print them does. What Lambe and her signatories may fail to understand when they call for the magazine to “move the conversation forward, not backward” is that the magazine is moving the conversation forward in bringing Dartmouth’s darker sides to light. The letter’s reprehensible content is the problem, not the magazine’s decision to run it. Lambe misguides her petition — in demonizing the magazine and its decision to share alumni opinion, her petition perpetuates the closemindedness she seeks to attack. But this is just the take of one politically combustible Dartmouth woman.
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We should not punish the masses for the actions of the few.
On Oct. 24, the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault released recommendations based on feedback from its symposium on sexual assault and information gathered from students at various “town hall” meetings. The seventh item under the “prevention” heading recommends a ban of the notorious website Bored at Baker, with the justification that “Bored@Baker sends a message of intolerance of communities, online and otherwise, that perpetuate cyberbullying and violence by explicitly targeting individuals and identities notably women, people of color and LGBTQIA. SPCSA recommends banning Bored@Baker from Dartmouth’s sever [sic].” As apologists for the website have pointed out consistently over the past four years, most complaints about Bored at Baker come from people who demonstrate a pungent lack of familiarity with what the forum is, what type of and how many people use it, what the vast majority of the posts are about or even the basic details of how it works. Rather, one hears of a name or threatening message being posted about a student, and that is enough information for the brain of a Dartmouth student to grasp the whole essence of the matter and publicly recommend obliterating something he or she does not use, care about or even remotely understand. Bored at Baker and its community (yes, there is one) are indescribably dear to me. Although I am relatively alone in vocally defending it, I am hardly an exceptional user. As of writing this sentence, nearly 400 unique visitors have logged into Bored at Baker in the past 24 hours. That number goes as high as 700, even 1,000, during peak periods of the week and the term. Protected by anonymity from the flash identity judgments that paralyze authentic discourse in real life, students discuss their love and sex lives, campus events, commiserate over the stress of the present and future, share philosophical insights and make jokes — often really funny ones. I have seen users talked through heartbreak and suicidal ideation by anonymous strangers alongside some of the most beautiful declara-
tions of hopefulness and love I’ve ever read. Yet a lazy mind, more invested in being on the right side of an issue than actually being right, will synonymize and reduce the website in its entirety to the relatively rare instances in which individuals are targeted or problematic sentiments articulated. It is irrelevant, I suppose, that these errant posts are largely ignored by the Bored at Baker community, except when they are especially egregious — in which case they are fiercely vituperated by the multitude and deleted. I suppose it is also irrelevant that the horrendous “rape guide” posted last winter was removed almost immediately, and that for the next 48 hours, the top posts on Bored at Baker were, without exception, expressions of outrage at the perpetrator. Banning Bored at Baker is the definition of the band-aid-on-a-broken-arm fallacy of policy. The ban would worsen, not prevent, its stated object. Moreover, it is emblematic of a wrongheaded approach to improving the community of Dartmouth that has steadily gained a disturbing degree of traction in recent years. No one wants to be complicit in a community that produces hideous instances of moral crime. It is, however, time-consuming, difficult and frequently fruitless to excavate the root causes of these acts and rectify them. Far easier is covering up the symptoms and announcing the underlying disease to be cured. Eliminate the Greek system, for instance, and high-risk drinking will disappear — from sight only. My dream for Bored at Baker is the same as my dream for Dartmouth. Instead of living in three camps — the wrongdoers, the righteous few who make a career of castigating them and the large mass of apathetic idlers — each one of us participates in the community by making positive contributions. Our standards of conduct should not be the sort of thing that are only evoked in the event of a moral catastrophe; they should be vivid and omnipresent in their daily, positive exemplification within our culture until violence is unheard of — not because it is underground, but because it is not done at all, and not done at all because it is unthinkable.
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Profs talk clicker, technology use in class FROM TECHNOLOGY PAGE 1
missing or a visible over-reporting of attendance. Jack said he initially only used clickers to administer in-class questions, but later began using them to gauge attendance after noticing the number of responses to in-class questions dropped as low as half by the middle of the term. He said the response rate rebounded after he instituted an attendance policy. Dartmouth is not the first to see an incident with clickers misuse. In 2011, students at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln allegedly used the same technique as Balmer’s students to feign attendance. Brad Buffum, a professor at the University of Nebraska’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film who uses clickers for classes of about 250 students, said he “always assumed” that students were using the devices to cheat. Policing clicker use, he said, is not worth the amount of energy it would take. “People cheat no matter what you do,” he said. Most Dartmouth courses that use clickers are in science, technology, math and engineering fields, Gauthier said, although some large humanities and social sciences courses also use them. Typically, clickers are employed as part of a “think, pair, share” curriculum, she said. Senior instructional technologist
Barbara Knauff said that, in “the ideal pedagogical scenario,” a professor would pose a challenging question to students, who would then answer using their clickers, discuss the question with peers, then submit a final answer. A clicker typically costs $30 at the computer store, sales assistant Carleen van Gulden said. She said the store will buy clickers back from students for $10 if they are returned in working order. Gauthier said that this is the first cheating case she has heard of involving clickers in her two years at Dartmouth. “The cheating issue is not really a technology issue,” Knauff said. “It’s individuals making a choice to not behave ethically, and that could happen using clickers, using pen and paper, using your voice.” Earth sciences professor Xiahong Feng, who uses LectureTools in her “Elementary Oceanography” course, said she believes students can take advantage of the system, but does not find the problem to be substantial. “I’ve heard that people answer questions while not coming to class, but I don’t think that there are a lot of them,” she said. “Occasionally I feel that there are more answers than there are students in class, but mostly it’s okay.” The LectureTools system is also used in other earth sciences courses, Feng said, and students have responded positively to it on surveys she has used to gauge approval of her various teaching
methods. Feng said the larger issue is students’ use of computers, which can often prove distracting during class. While clickers cannot prevent all cheating, time-stamping and location restrictions provide a level of protection against misuse, Rooks said. Each response is time-stamped, allowing professors to see both how long questions take students to answer and whether some students’ answers are more delayed, which could indicate that their devices were given to a friend who first used his or her own clicker to respond to the question, she said. Students are inclined to cheat in various ways, from writing notes on their arms to using advanced digital techniques, and blaming the technology involved is not usually effective, she said. “If you’re cheating by writing on your arm, you would never cut the arm off the student,” Rooks said. Using technology like clickers or LectureTools is up to each professor, Gauthier said. Cheating will always be a part of academic life, Dever said. To address it, Dartmouth policies must be understandable and the honor principle visible, she said. “I’m concerned about technology, but we have to trust each other,” she said. Taylor Malmsheimer and Sasha Dudding contributed reporting.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m. “The Four Pillars of Brazil’s Musical Culture in the 20th Century” with Dario Borim, Rocky 001
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Film students will screen final projects
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Documentary films and found footage films involve incredibly disparate processes. While documentaries are based on presentating fact, found footage films are based on distorting and altering pre-existing footage. Where one is logical and informative, the other is whimsical and entertaining. Tonight, two film classes — Film Studies 30, “Documentary Videomaking,” and Film Studies 47, “Found Footage” — will screen their term projects in Loew Auditorium. The unifying force behind the screening of these distinct film genres is film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff, who teaches both courses. Ruoff said the two classes are composed of a diverse group of students, ranging from members of the Class of 2018 with no experience in film to film majors who are more familiar with the subject. The documentary films in tonight’s screening depict a wide range of topics. “A Fort Night” profiles The Fort, sometimes referred to as “Fort Lou’s,” a 24/7 diner in Lebanon. In “Bred to Herd,” student filmmakers depict border collie training at Vermont farms and the relationship between humans and animals. Another group focused on the College’s Native American House in a film called “A Way of Being: Breaking the Stereotype.” Bennie Niles ’15 worked in his group to tell the story of David Vincelette ’84, who built a community called “shantytown” in Mink Brook. “In the film, we give a portrait of the place and some of the struggles that he has been going through financially and with the law,” Niles said. “We’re trying to humanize this guy and give him a chance to have his story told.” For her project, Amanda Herz ’18 created a music video to the song “Heart of a Lion” by The Griswolds, set to footage of Dracula. “It’s this black and white, old, cheesy horror movie set to an upbeat song,” Herz said, adding that she paired the two to demonstrate that, according to modern standards, the film is not scary. Caroline McKinnis ’18 said her found footage film uses footage from videos depicting android women to explore patriarchal fantasies of the “perfect woman.” Because of the various experience levels within the classes, Ruoff said, the way in which each student negotiates the learning curve of film production is unique. “There are a lot of different skills that go into the creation of a film, like editing and sound design, and students learn what they need to know as they reach each new step in the process,” he said. Ruoff said that the nature of the classes resulted in a difference in creative
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Pat Metheny to perform jazz show
B y Kourtney Kawano The Dartmouth Staff
approach. Students in Film Studies 30 work in groups of three to create a single documentary, while students in Film Studies 47 are expected to complete several assignments individually. Niles said the process of creating a documentary film in a 10-week term is complex. Groups began by writing a “treatment” and presenting their idea to the class, he said. “Going from there, we had to get comfortable with the camera and editing software we used to make our documentary, and then we actually had to go out and get the shots we needed for the film,” Niles said. “We finished by making a series of edits to refine the film and to try to tease out the nuances of the story.” Niles emphasized documentary film’s profound ability to portray various forms of information. Film Studies 47 is a very different class, largely due to its use of pre-existing footage. “We experiment with the concept of using different footage that has already been produced and focus on editing and manipulating that to create something original from it,” Herz said. “It’s incredibly easy to change the meaning of an image based upon how you edit it or what sound is playing in the background.” The screening will begin at 7 p.m.
Returning to Dartmouth after performing a solo concert in 2011, Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny will grace Spaulding Auditorium’s stage for a lively show on Saturday. This time, he will be leading and playing as a member of the Pat Metheny Unity Group, a five-man troupe consisting of Metheny, saxophonist Chris Potter, drummer Antonio Sanchez, bassist Ben Williams and all-around performer Giulio Carmassi. The performance is part of the group’s month-long tour for its 2014 album “Kin (<-->),” which was recently voted the jazz album of the year in the 79th Annual DownBeat Readers’ Poll. “Kin (<-->)” features nine tracks that redefine the sounds typically associated with Metheny as a solo jazz guitarist. Although most pieces are lengthy improvisations characteristic of jazz tunes, the Unity Group organized the sounds of each instrument not only to complement each other but also to give the songs a groove that cannot be defined by one genre of music. The group’s members are not only incredible musicians, but also pioneers, Hopkins Center student relations advisor Ryan McWilliams ’14 said. “They push boundaries in everything they do,” McWilliams said. “Audiences will hear a bit of everything:
swing, fusion, rock, world music, you name it.” “On Day One,” the first song on “Kin,” is approximately 15 minutes of Metheny’s traditional guitar playing with complementing saxophone and synthesizer sounds and elaborate improvisation. Contrasting the smoothness of the opening track, the song “Kin (<-->)” incorporates typical jazz sounds
“Audiences will hear a bit of everything: swing, fusion, rock, world music, you name it.” - Ryan McWilliams ’14, Hop student relations advisor with electronic dance beats. Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble flutist Leif Harder ’15 said he looks forward to seeing how Metheny performs with others in a live setting. The group kicked off its tour on Nov. 11 with a performance in Burlington, Canada, before making its way to Hanover. After Saturday’s performance, audience members can talk to Metheny before he leaves for Worchester, Massachusetts, the next stop of his tour,
which ends on Dec. 7 in New York. Three years after making his recording debut in 1974, Metheny experimented with playing in an ensemble and founded the Pat Metheny Group, with whom he won 11 Grammy Awards from 1983-2006 for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Rock Instrumental Performance. During this period, he also wrote film scores for awardwinning movies such as “The Taste of Others” (2000) and “A Map of the World” (1999). After a short hiatus from performing with the group, Metheny dabbled with the sounds of a quartet ensemble in 2012 and formed the Pat Metheny Unity Band with Potter, Sanchez and Williams. The band ultimately found success in the year after its inception, as Metheny won his 20th Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album with the group. In 2013, Metheny was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame, becoming the youngest musician to receive such an accolade. That same year, Carmassi joined the troupe, bringing with him a proficiency with multiple instruments, including the French horn and the vibraphone. The quartet was renamed to replace “band” with “group.” Metheny is a great virtuoso who is “constantly reinventing his music,” Hop publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said. The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
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Set in the late 19th century but with a very contemporary feel, this gem of a play (Tony Award nominee for Best Play in 2010) is a provocative and entertaining story concerning a Victorian-era doctor’s obsession with treating his patients’ “hysteria” with a novel new device.
PAT METHENY UNITY GROUP
with chris potter, antonio sanchez, Ben Williams & Giulio carmassi Legendary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny returns to small-combo performance with the Unity Group, a band gifted enough to keep up with the full range of his forty years of musical explorations. No surprise that with this band, Metheny won his astonishing 20th Grammy in 2013.
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
THURSDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Women’s basketball preps for season B y EMILY WECHSLER
The women’s basketball team and its second-year coaching staff are set to kick off the season at home Sunday, against the New Jersey Institute of Technology — the Big Green’s first opening game in Hanover since the 2009-10 season. The Big Green finished at the bottom of the Ivy League last year but tied for sixth in a media preseason poll, five points above last-place pick Brown University. Head coach Belle Koclanes said she and her staff are excited for “chapter two,” building off last season, when the team went 5-23, 2-12 Ivy. The Big Green will likely look to Fanni Szabo ’17 and Lakin Roland ’16 to boost its offense this season as the two led the roster in points last year. Szabo, who scored a team-high 13.2 points per game, spent this summer playing for the Hungarian U-20 team. “She brings more maturity to our team because of that experience, and definitely physicality,” Koclanes said of Szabo. Koclanes and her staff have also welcomed their first recruiting class, five freshmen who together can cover all the positions on the court.
No captains have been selected for the team, but Koclanes said she wants leadership to come from every player. “Really we expect everyone in our program to learn leadership skills and to demonstrate leadership,” Koclanes said. “We all have a role to play, in the big picture, and really if we can each embrace what that role is, then leadership is not really about titles.” Players have been using an online mental training, called Positive Performance, to strengthen their mental game, focusing on the word “competing.” “When you talk about the differences in the athletes from high school to college to professional to Olympian,” Koclanes said, “it really has to do with your mental training.” The team also raised its standards for strength and conditioning this summer, hoping to increase its tempo. “From the practice standpoint, we’re talking X’s and O’s and building our offensive systems, our defensive systems, our skill development systems,” Koclanes said. “We’re building a program, we’re building a team.” Last season, Dartmouth beat NJIT 48-45 in a tight battle on the road. The win came during the toughest stretch of the season for the Big Green, when the
team dropped 10 of 11 games. Though Dartmouth’s record last season was far from impressive, the team showed marked signs of improvement by the season’s end. In the team’s first 21 games last season, it notched just three wins and all but one of its losses came by double digits. The last seven games showed improvement against Ivy League foes as the Big Green won two games and lost two more by six or less. The main hole that Dartmouth will look to fill from the last season comes after last year’s starting point guard Nicola Zimmer ’14 graduated. Zimmer finished third on the team in points per game and led the squad in assists last year. With five freshmen and just three returning starters, the Big Green will look to its youth for important contributions. In particular, if Amber Mixon ’18 can step up at the point guard position, Dartmouth has a chance to exceed expectations. The Big Green starts the season with 14 non-conference games, five at home and nine on the road before Ivy League play starts Jan. 10, when Dartmouth will battle last season’s Ivy League runnerup, Harvard University, on the road. The game against NJIT tips off at 2 p.m. Sunday.
IVY LEAGUE PREVIEW: WOMEN’s BASKETBALL By JOE Clyne
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Here, we look at our picks for the top four. See thedartmouth.com for a full run-down.
Princeton UNIVERSITY 2013-14: (21-9, 11-3 Ivy)
University of Pennsylvania 2013-14: (22-7, 12-2 Ivy)
Last year, the Tigers came within a single game of winning the Ivy League and qualifying for the NCAA Tournament. Fresh off that heartbreak, Princeton seems well-positioned to take the league title this season. The Tigers lost just two seniors from last year’s team and return three of their four leading scorers. The program has dominated recently, winning at least 20 games in each of the last five seasons and winning four of the last five Ivy League titles.Led by last year’s first team all-Ivy selection Blake Dietrick and head coach Courtney Banghart, Princeton seems poised to return to its perch atop the Ivy League.
In the final game of last season, the Quakers ended Princeton’s dreams of an Ivy League fivepeat. While Penn still stands as one of the conference’s top teams, it will face a more difficult climb to a conference championship after losing last season’s Ivy League Player of the Year, Alyssa Baron. Last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Sydney Stipanovich, delivered a remarkable debut performance, tallying 12 points and nearly four blocks per game, but will have to deliver an even better performance this year to return the Quakers to the NCAA tournament. The Quakers open their season against the University of Tennessee. If Penn can keep that game within even 20 points, it will be a promising sign for the team’s title hopes.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2013-14: (22-8, 11-3 Ivy)
YALE UNIVERSITY 2013-14: (13-15, 7-7 Ivy)
Perhaps only in the realm of women’s basketball is Harvard perpetually overlooked. The Crimson has finished second or tied for second in the Ivy League every year since the 2007-08 season. After finishing in a dead heat with Princeton last year, Harvard is looking to reload. Still, it seems as though the Crimson may fall short yet again. Harvard lost its leading scorer, Christine Clark, who averaged 16.5 points per game and had put up double-digit points per game in each of her four years at Harvard. The team will need strong performances at guard, particularly from senior Ali Curtis, if it hopes to jump Princeton and Penn.
If any team can make the jump to the tier of championship contenders, it will be the Yale Bulldogs. Last season’s mediocre record masked a difficult schedule and an occasionally explosive offense that ranked third in the Ivy League. Junior Sarah Halejian finished third in the Ivy League in scoring last year and is the highest scoring returning player across the league. Though the loss of senior Janna Graf will hurt the team, a strong performance from Halejian and a few lucky breaks could propel Yale beyond the middling ranks where preseason pundits have damned the squad.
B y AUSTIN LIM and RICH SHEN Think about what you could buy with $10 million (Three cups of coffee from KAF, three mozzarella sticks and two tenders from late night?). That was the first-place prize in the 2014 World Series of Poker championship Tuesday. In an enthralling final table, with nine players from a field of more than 6,500, Martin Jacobson emerged after more than 300 hands as the winner, taking home quite the payday. Jacobson played solid poker, staying alert and consistently outplaying his opponents. The biggest moment of the tournament occurred when Jacobson, with a marginal hand, immediately called Jorryt van Hoof ’s bluff, and took a massive chip lead on the table. In a crazy turn of events, the favorite, van Hoof, was dethroned. This year’s main event was particularly exciting, truly a boon for the sport. The first person to lose at the final table was Mark Newhouse, who also came in ninth place last year. The odds of this re-occurring were astronomical, and one can only imagine the frustration Newhouse feels after coming so close the jackpot in two straight years. Then you have the two lovable characters at the final table, Bruno Politano and Billy Pappaconstantinou (Pappas for short). Though their personalities are polar opposites, Politano excitable and boisterous where Pappas is stoic and reserved, they both will increase the sport’s popularity, as people watching found two relatable characters. Since poker is rarely televised, and the main event is the only event that gets worldwide attention, it is important for the event to be captivating and entertaining, and this year’s final table was everything you could ask for. I had written this much of the column in a Google doc by myself, but once I called poker a sport, my erstwhile co-writer Rich Shen decided to show his mug and help out. I’ll let him take over for a little while and make his case. Rich: Before I read this column, I was touring European landmarks, a happy man unburdened by the idiocy of my former friend, Mr. Lim. Things had been going well enough so far without me, but I had to stop Austin when he decided to call poker a “sport.” Something you sit down to do does not qualify as a sport. Fine, I’ll refine my argument: unless your “sport”
requires some sort of physical exertion and technique, it doesn’t count. Football attracts and showcases some of the best athletes in the country, designated hitters in baseball need the reaction speed and power to drive baseballs into the grandstands and even race car driving requires highly refined reaction speed. Poker players might need to be able to read other players and succeed under pressure, but you can’t claim they need any special athletic skill. Austin: First off Rich, nice to know you’re still alive, and you’re actually going to contribute to this article. Your first argument about “sitting” is simply asinine. In NASCAR, they sit for the entire race. In football, you’re sitting for half the game. In baseball as a DH, I don’t even feel like I need to explain that one. Next argument. I’ll go to an even more basic point, if poker isn’t a sport than how can you explain ESPN.com listing it under its “More Sports” tab? Another way to evaluate a sport is by how handsome the male players are. Let’s look at a few examples. Soccer: David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo. Football: Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski. Basketball: Chandler Parsons. Poker: Martin Jacobson. Poker is therefore a sport. This follows the Callan-Symanzik equation of sport quantitivity. Rich: I explain ESPN’s classification the same way I explain a lingerie football league. If there’s a paying audience for it, someone will try to make an easy buck selling it. [Disclaimer: This comment in no way is meant to approve of the existence of the Lingerie Football League. It merely states the fact that it exists, and that people pay to watch it.] I’m not sure on which part of that last statement I should comment: the fact that you managed to include a physics equation in a sports column, or the fact that apparently you’ve invented a new science (and new word!) of “sports quantitivity.” In response to your attractiveness argument, on the other hand, I have two words: THE BROW. Austin: Seems to me like I just won the argument. As a final point, I’d just like to point out that Jacobson made $10 million. When was the last time someone made that much outside professional sports in one go? I rest my case. Rich: I concede to your “flawless” and “insightful” logic.