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The six candidates met for a debate last night, the second of four taking place this week.

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Student Assembly must work to address the 14 percent drop in applications this year, presidential and vice presidential candidates agreed in a debate last night. Over the course of the discus-

sion, hosted by the current Student Assembly in Paganucci Lounge, candidates spoke about student unity, finances and public perception of the College.

Presidential candidates Casey Dennis ’15, Jay Graham ’15, Jon Miller ’15 and Yesuto

Shaw ’15 and vice presidential candidates Frank Cunningham ’16 and Harry Qi ’17 took part in the debate, the second of four this week. Matt Robinson ’15, a vice presidential candidate and Graham’s running SEE DEBATE PAGE 3

Dartmouth has received a $100 million anonymous donation to forward the College’s academic offerings, College President Phil Hanlon announced Wednesday. The gift, the largest single outright donation in College history, includes a matching mechanism that could double its amount to $200 million through the end of 2015, senior vice president of advancement Bob Lasher ’88 said.

“This historic gift is an extraordinary vote of confidence as we embark on an exciting journey to ensure Dartmouth remains the preeminent undergraduate institution in the nation; a magnet for human talent; and a college that cultivates a culture of ideas, discovery and solutions to problems that will make the world a better place,” Hanlon said in a press release.

The $100 million gift will be divided into two portions of $50 million each. One will support future academic initiatives, and the second will endow cross-disciplinary

programs.

The gift stipulates that the first $50 million, intended to “strengthen Dartmouth’s academic excellence,” will be left to Hanlon’s discretion to distribute, Lasher said.

In an interview, Hanlon called the gift’s breadth unusual, as large monetary gifts often go toward specific projects.

The stipulation is intentionally broad, Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno said. The College and Hanlon will have more flexibility in allocating funding than with any other donation in recent memory.

“That’s the astounding generosity of the gift,” Mastanduno said.

The additional $50 million will support the College’s faculty cluster initiative, Lasher said. The initiative, open to undergraduate and graduate faculty members, plans to group professors from different disciplines or schools SEE GIFT PAGE 3

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Students breezed in and out of Collis Common Ground, meditating, finger painting and playing with therapy dogs at a mental health fair on Wednesday.

The fair, attended by over 400 students, offered free depression and mental health screenings as well as meetings with counselors and nutritionists.

Counseling and human development counselor Arlene Vélez-Galán said that 288 students filled out depression screening forms

and spoke on-on-one with a counselor.

The office hosted the event to popularize its services to any student concerned for his or her own mental health, or that of a peer, Vélez-Galán said.

“What I really like about Mental Health Fair Day is that it helps students learn different ways how to take care of themselves,” counseling and human development director Heather Earle said.

Event organizers in matching T-shirts directed SEE HEALTH PAGE 2

Heightened security, less crowding and no freshmen posing as prospective students will mark this year’s Dimensions of Dartmouth weekends.

Students admitted to the Class of 2018 will arrive on campus for the first of three Dimensions of Dartmouth dates on Friday, and as of last weekend, close to 1,000 students and family members had signed up for the April programs, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said.

An abridged version of the two-night Dimensions programs of past years will begin Friday, when programming will emphasize the school’s

academic caliber. The schedule also includes a panel discussion on undergraduate research opportunities, a Global Dartmouth open house and a range of campus tours focusing on the arts, sciences and residential life.

Safety and Security and the conferences and events office assisted the admissions office in devising safety measures. Safety and Security will stop by several events and may station some officers at those with large crowds, Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne said.

“We’re very cognizant of wanting to ensure everything goes well and that everyone has a safe and secure time,” Kinne said.

In the event of a disruption, Safety and Security officers will

approach the people engaged in the activity and ask them to leave if they are violating College policy, Kinne said.

Last year’s Dimensions protest did not cause the heightened security measures, Laskaris said, adding that the admissions office has always been concerned about visitor safety. At a performance last year, members of Real Talk Dartmouth walked onstage shouting “Dartmouth has a problem.” They held signs that highlighted discriminatory acts at the College.

Of four prospective students interviewed, two said they had not heard of last year’s protest and two said that it would not impact their decision.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: Brown graduates have the highest average debt of all Ivy League graduates, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The annual report released by the Institute for College Access and Success, a non-profit, revealed that in 2012, Brown graduates left with an average debt of $23,521 per borrower. This marks a 15 percent increase from 2011, when the university’s average student debt was $20,455.

Columbia University: Jiwon Lee, a 29-year-old female student at the College of Dental Medicine, was reported missing April 2, according to the Columbia Spectator. Over $40,000 has been raised online to help Lee’s family hire a private detective for the case.

Cornell University: Cornell senior Enoch Newkirk will be a contestant on Thursday’s episode of “Wheel of Fortune,” according to the Cornell Daily Sun. Newkirk filmed the episode in Los Angeles in February as part of the show’s annual “College Week.”

Harvard University: Andrew Sun, a sophomore, died at Massachusetts General Hospital from injuries sustained the previous day after he jumped off a building in downtown Boston, the Harvard Crimson reported. The New Jersey native was concentrating in economics. He was a member of Harvard College Faith in Action.

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Fair offers mental health screenings FROM HEALTH PAGE 1

students to various stations offered.

Some opted for the private meditation room with aromatherapy, music and sunlamps. Others headed for student organization tables.

Co-sponsoring organizations, including Active Minds, Dartmouth on Purpose, the Pan-Asian Wellness Initiative and the student Mindfulness Practice Group, hosted different activities during the fair.

Active Minds oversaw a finger painting table that let students “go back to their kindergarten roots,” Active Minds member Jake Donehey ’17 said.

The Pan-Asian Council hosted a table for students to color mandala designs. Tibetan monks create mandalas with colored sand as a form of meditation, working to attain a degree of mental tranquility, Pan-

Asian Council member Michelle Shu ’14 said.

Dartmouth on Purpose presented a community art project called “The Gratitude Board,” on which students could write or draw about what made them thankful.

Maria Sperduto ’14, one of the group’s founders, said Dartmouth on Purpose tries to help students thrive in a way that works for them as individuals.

“What we think could be focused on more is mental fitness, keeping your mood up, not running yourself to the ground and being grateful,” Sperduto said.

Attendee Alisa White ’17 said she appreciated Dartmouth on Purpose’s efforts to promote mindfulness on campus.

Though White did not plan to attend the mental health fair, she said she was attracted by the activities offered.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness states on its website that over 40 percent of students report they feel more stress than an average amount, and 40 percent of college-age students with diagnosable mental health conditions do not seek help, most often due to concerns about stigma.

The National Institute of Mental Health reports that many college students with depression do not know where to go for help or if treatment would work. Aside from fear of judgment from others, students often attribute symptoms to the “typical stress” of college life.

Doug Phipps ’17, who attended the fair, said the event provided a break for students.

“People get so caught up in their schoolwork and extracurriculars that they can forget to take a moment and step back and really live their lives,” Phipps said.

Princeton University: The Food and Drug Administration awarded the meningitis B vaccine Bexsero, which has been offered to all Princeton undergraduates in recent months, a “Breakthrough Therapy” designation in the U.S., the Daily Princetonian reported. Princeton and University of California at Santa Barbara received almost 30,000 doses of the vaccine from Novartis, its creator, when eight Princeton and four UCSB students were diagnosed with meningitis B. University of Pennsylvania: The general manager of a Philadelphia pub alleged that the Penn women’s lacrosse team damaged the establishment on March 29, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Neff claimed that the athletes stole alcohol, broke furniture and smoked marijuana in the pub’s bathroom. Women’s lacrosse coach Karin Brower Corbett released a statement saying that many of the allegations are unfounded or not attributable to team members.

Yale University: Karen Curcio, a former associate administrator in the Yale School of Nursing, has filed a suit against Yale claiming that the university did not adequately respond to workplace discrimination against a physically disabled employee, according to the Yale Daily News. Curcio claims that she herself was fired after refusing to terminate the employment of a fellow staff member, who Curcio said was fired because of a physical disability.

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who are interested in addressing an area of inquiry not already covered by the College.

“We very much hope that cluster teams will represent different disciplines in different schools,” Lasher said. He said that the program would create “unusual combinations of disciplines.”

For a cluster proposal to receive funding through the endowment, the College will have to raise $2 from additional donors for every $1 from the gift.

If a proposal were to cost $30 million, then $20 million would have to be raised in order to receive $10 million from the endowment, Lasher said. This two-toone mechanism is intended to ensure stability in funding for the clusters.

“The endowment provides a foundation for the income which supports the activity of the cluster,” he said.

The Office of the Provost received 29 proposals to the program involving over 100 total faculty members. Proposals were due March 28.

Several faculty members, speaking before Wednesday’s announcement, expressed their support for the clus-

ter initiative. Ron Shaiko, associate director of curricular programs at the Rockefeller Center, said that while the initiative was in its early stages, it had the potential to bring departments together.

“I think [the initiative] could drive the way we fund faculty research,” Shaiko said. “We try to nudge people towards more collaborative work.”

Biology professor Lee Witters said the donation represented a significant opportunity for the College in terms of interdisciplinary research, but he added that he was personally uncertain about the effects that research-driven hiring would have on undergraduate teaching.

The family wishes to remain anonymous, Lasher said, declining to answer questions regarding when the administration was approached with the offer.

“This is a family that has been profoundly influenced in their own education by Dartmouth,” he said.

Mastanduno said this gift represents a significant departure from past donations, which have tended to focus on capital infrastructure.

“This isn’t about bricks and mortar,” he said. “It’s about the core academic mission of Dartmouth.”

Kyle Tarantino ’18, who was accepted through the early decision program, said that demonstrations at the College like the Dimensions protest and the “Freedom Budget” sit-in showed him that Dartmouth students hold diverse opinions.

“I chose Dartmouth based on what it was, not something I could change it to be,” Tarantino said, adding that he has sought out current students’ opinions on campus life issues.

Ross Bower, who will attend the Dimensions program on Friday, said that he looks forward to “getting a feel” for the campus and learning more about the D-Plan. Though he followed recent news about the College, he said he believed any prestigious school would receive media attention when unusual events occurred.

So as not to exceed building capacity limits, there will be two “Experience Dartmouth” presentations, held in Collis Common Ground, during the two-day Dimensions event. Half of the guests will watch the show while the other half will participate in an after-dark campus tour, and then the groups will swap. For the first time this year, current students will no longer pose as prospective students before the presentation.

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mate, was absent. Aaron McGee ’14, a Student Assembly member, moderated the debate.

Each candidate present at the debate mentioned the new Improve Dartmouth website as a forum for learning about the needs of the student body and highlighting appropriate solutions.

Shaw and Qi, who is running on a ballot with Miller, both said the application drop reflected deeper issues at the College.

Qi said that he met with dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris last week to discuss the application drop. During the time periods allotted for candidate rebuttals, he repeatedly called on other candidates to propose “concrete” solutions.

Dennis, who is running with Cunningham, said a lack of communication among students has caused discordance. He proposed releasing a regular report of Student Assembly activity to increase the Assembly’s visibility on campus.

Toward the middle of the debate, McGee asked candidates to name a specific item in the “Freedom Budget” that they agreed or disagreed with and urged candi-

dates to explain their answer.

Both Shaw and Cunningham identified the document’s demand for increased retention of minority faculty members as a point they supported. Graham added that holding exit interviews for departing faculty members could help pinpoint why certain faculty left Dartmouth after a short stay at the College.

Miller said that he agreed with calls in the “Freedom Budget” for pro-bono legal assistance for undocumented students. As president, he said, he would aim to increase admissions transparency, especially in regard to students who identify with minority groups, and with recruitment policies as well.

McGee then asked candidates to address how no women are running for president or vice president — a fact he called “the elephant in the room.”

In response, Shaw emphasized that he intends to represent all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic class.

Shaw, running without a vice presidential partner, said his three years of experience in student government at Dartmouth made him uniquely qualified to be president.

When asked to discuss their proposed handling of the Student

Assembly budget, all candidates stated the importance of the Assembly’s two main expenditures — the “take your professor to lunch” program and the readership program, which provides free national newspapers in public locations.

Miller said that although he supported the lunch program, he believed the Assembly should scale back expenditures, as the Undergraduate Deans Office runs a similar program.

Candidates also discussed negative media attention recently received by the College. Graham said he felt it was important not to focus on eliminating protests but instead to ensure that students do not feel the need to demonstrate.

Dennis proposed creating a weekly feature on outstanding students to highlight positive values and diversity at Dartmouth.

“We want to show how Dartmouth students are changing the world,” he said.

Graham said Student Assembly should create programs with longlasting impact, citing an idea to grant physical education credit to students who complete the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative.

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Members of the Class of 2017 expressed disapproval with this decision.

After learning about the changes to this year’s program, the Class of 2017 Class Council surveyed first-year students, receiving over 260 responses.

Students, on average, rated their overall Dimensions experiences as an 8.94 out of 10. Asked to consider how they would have enjoyed the program without “undercover upperclassmen,” survey participants, on average, rated their experience a 5.03 out of 10, and rated the degree to which the presence of these upperclassmen influenced their decision to attend Dartmouth a 7.67.

“While we are well aware that there are numerous motivations for wanting to change the way Dimensions is run, we believe that getting rid of the ‘undercover students’ may have been the result of miscalculation of the prospective students’ opinions and may negatively impact the Dimensions experience for the incoming Class of 2018,” the report by the 2017 Class Council read.

As a result of its findings, the 2017 Class Council proposed keeping the undercover students for at least another year.

Other students, however, said they do not think the change would have a significant impact.

“I thought it was really funny, but I don’t think it’ll take anything away from the show,” Selome Ejigu ’17 said. “It was an added bit of fun, and an element of surprise, but overall if they have everything intact and they do it well, it’s going to be as good as it was last year.”

Laskaris said that allowing current students to act like prospective students does not align with the admissions office’s aspirations for Dimensions.

“It’s really very important as we welcome new students into our community, particularly at the time when students are making choices about where they will attend, that all the interactions that students have while

on campus are based in an honest and genuine communication about who we are, what we offer and why we think students should choose Dartmouth,” Laskaris said.

In the past, Dartmouth offered a two-night, three-day Dimensions program to students considering matriculating in the fall. This year, two one-day programs will take place April 11 and 16, while a two-day program will begin April 24.

Asha Wills ’17 and Caroline Resor ’17, who will host prospective students, said they volunteered because they wanted to make personal connections through the program.

Resor said that although she didn’t attend Dimensions last year, she decided to volunteer after a friend described the program’s effect on her decision.

“After befriending three current students at Dimensions that were generous with their time, wildly enthusiastic about Dartmouth and caring she decided to go here,” Resor said.

“She remains really close friends with all of them and that connection really impresses me and makes me want to have that experience as a host.”

Logan Henderson ’17 said that while separating the Dimensions program across three dates may be necessary for accommodations, it will prevent prospective students from meeting as many potential classmates.

Stephin Littleshield ’18, who said he participated in last fall’s Native American fly-in program, said that he hopes to have a more holistic experience when he attends Dimensions.

“I’m looking forward to meeting classmates, making friends, maybe even getting in on some classes and just finding out what it’s like being a student there,” Littleshield said.

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About 25 students comprised last night’s audience.

Elections Planning and Advisory Committee member and senior class president Chisom Obi-Okoye ’14 said that she felt that the candidates were better prepared for this debate than the last.

Jessica Womack ’14, secretary of the Class of 2014, said that the quality of student questions, which covered topics from Dartmouth’s public image to reasons why students protest, distinguished this debate from Tuesday’s.

The third candidate debate, hosted by the Inter-Community Council, will be held Thursday at 8 p.m.

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The Hop Garage Bar marks one of the first viable non-Greek spaces.

In elucidating their decision to rush, students often cite their desire to meet new people and even find a sense of brotherhood or sisterhood at the College. While I admit that I too had these aspirations in mind when I chose to rush, what ultimately forced my hand was a question for which I never could find a sufficient answer: “What else was there to do?”

On a Friday night at Dartmouth, your average not-yet-21-year-old student has essentially two options for going out and socializing: they can go to a College-sponsored party that is just about as appealing as a dance held in a high school gym or they can go to a fraternity to play pong and guzzle beer. Unsurprisingly, many students choose the fraternity basement time and time again.

With the fraternity as the “obvious” social space, it becomes logical, even necessary, to join the Greek system as soon as one can. At a school where half of all undergraduates, or approximately two thirds of students who are actually eligible to rush, are affiliated with the Greek system, there is little incentive to exclude oneself from all of the “fun” that the majority of campus seems to be having, especially when there is no comparable alternative.

An “alternative” social space is a problematic concept in itself, for here it is stigmatized as merely the next-best thing to the Greek system, the option for those who do not fit into the mainstream. But there is a real demand for legitimate “alternatives” from students who are uninterested in or dissatisfied with the Greek system or those who are simply looking for a change of pace. Supplementing the Greek system with other equally desirable social spaces, therefore, cannot continue to be an afterthought for the College. Non-Greek venues are crucial not only in diversifying social life at Dartmouth, but also in creating safer, non-alienating spaces that all can enjoy on equal footing.

The most problematic element of Greek basements as social spaces is that they are controlled by students. Members of fraternities, i.e. male students with a disproportionate

amount of power, are not sober employees with the obligation to be respectful and watchful of their guests. They have full discretion to be as sexist, racist, homophobic and classist as they please and, worse, gain an unwarranted sense of entitlement over the bodies in their own space. Binge drinking also makes many fraternity members, who ultimately have the responsibility to monitor their basements, less aware of concerning situations (severe intoxication, harassment, impending sexual violence, et cetera) and often hinders their ability to intervene when necessary.

Last term, the College opened the Hop Garage Bar, a venue open on Thursdays that has been attracting hundreds of students each week. The Garage organizes a variety of themes for its events; one, for example, featured the “Tipsy Palette” (model and social drawing stations) as well as a selection of wines and cheeses, all paid for by the College. Its success lies in its creativity, novelty and location in a unique space (it is not, for instance, Collis Common Ground simply dressed up for the nighttime). The Garage is not just an “alternative.” It provides the sort of safe, mature and creative atmosphere that Dartmouth’s social life so desperately needs, and its operation should expand to other days of the week.

As pre-rush events begin this term, I hope that students who question the superficiality, cost, gender inequality, hazing and general values of the Greek system will realize that joining it is not their only option (and, with the College’s increasing interest in providing viable “alternatives,” I am sure there are more legitimate options to come). Affiliated students should also explore these spaces and, at the very least, break away from the monotonous basement scene for once. And while underage students cannot drink at venues such as the Garage, this does not stop them from socializing with upperclassmen on an equal playing field. Now is the time for Dartmouth to truly diversify its social culture, and we students must recognize the unparalleled benefits that new spaces can offer.

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Dartmouth should continue its recently piloted EKG screening program.

This week, the athletic department will decide whether to expand the Dartmouth’s cardiac screening program, according to Kristine Karlson, the director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s sports concussion program. The screening program, piloted last fall, checked incoming varsity athletes for heart defects that increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.

Before last fall, athletes were only required to produce a physical workup from their home doctor before being cleared to compete in a varsity event.

Under the piloted program, all incoming varsity athletes were administered electrocardiograms, or EKGs, a test in which electrodes attached around the body monitor the heart’s electrical activity.

Any abnormal readings are followed up by additional diagnostic testing at DHMC. Of the 250 incoming athletes screened with EKGs, according to Karlson, two were sent on for additional testing and eventually cleared for varsity competition. Nevertheless, it is necessary that Dartmouth expands the program.

Our understanding of sudden cardiac deaths has come a long way since college basketball star Hank Gathers’s death in 1990 shook the sports world and generated national interest in the reasons for young athletes’ sudden deaths. At 23 years old, Gathers collapsed in a nationally televised game and was declared dead on arrival.

His death was caused by a congenital heart defect called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, the greatest culprit in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes. EKG screenings indicate an abnormality in 90 percent of HCM cases.

While sudden cardiac death in young athletes is relatively rare, new studies have concluded that sudden cardiac deaths are more prevalent than previously thought. A 2011 study estimated one death in 43,770 NCAA athletes per year, debunking earlier estimates of around one in 300,000, which relied mostly on news reports. Until recently, widespread EKG testing was presumed prohibitively expensive and inefficient. However, a 2010 study by Stanford School of Medicine researchers estimated that at the cost of $88 per person, EKGs would add over two life years per 1,000 student athletes.

Though larger institutions have had similar screening programs for a few years now, smaller institutions have a harder time funding and statistically justifying these programs’ costs. EKG screening for all varsity Dartmouth athletes may be initially more expensive than the Stanford study estimates, but it would still be cost-efficient.

The incremental cost of screening will still pale in comparison to ancillary athletic expenses such as clothing, gear and travel. Furthermore, the College has an ethical obligation to its student athletes to reduce unnecessary medical risks if doing so is within its capability.

Extending EKG screening to all varsity athletes is an improvement, not a solution, in the fight against sudden cardiac deaths. More medical organizations are endorsing universal EKG testing as the new norm for young athletes. If this trend continues and the cost-benefit calculus holds, the College risks becoming liable for any sudden cardiac death in which it did not administer an EKG to the athlete.

Abnormal EKGs require further testing to rule out false positives, usually from a benign condition called “athlete’s heart.” If an athlete does have a disqualifying heart defect, what is the next step?

Precautions like beta-blockers hinder athletic performance and implanted defibrillators offer no guarantee in high-stress situations. Colleges reserve the right to bar athletes from varsity competition, but what about from club or intramural sports? Is the College liable for anyone in a green jersey?

If the EKG program is expanded, as it should be, then the College will face a number of logistical hurdles. To practically screen 250 athletes, the College needed half a dozen EKGs, Karlson said, but it had one. The College had to hire technicians and physicians from DHMC to administer and read the tests, forcing all the screening to be done in a single weekend at Dick’s House, a space that will not accommodate 750 unscreened athletes next fall. Moreover, if the College moves in the right direction, student initiatives, volunteerism and funding campaigns will be vital to the program’s success. But these are small problems when compared to reducing sudden deaths among our varsity athletes.

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Slow Art Day at the Hood McFerrin to perform‘spirityouall’songs urges visitors to stop, look B y KATHERINE M cCONNELL

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Slow Art Day at the Hood will run Saturday and offer special tours.

to slow down and look carefully,” B y DONGJUN SUH she said.

Listening to a symphony or The museum has also arranged watching a film, an audience’s a 3 p.m. tour called “Learning to interaction with the piece ends at Look,” which will offer museum the sonata or closing credits. How visitors suggestions about analyzlong, though, should someone ing different works of art. The tour, spend looking at a painting? structured as a conversation rather According to a survey of 150 than a lecture, intends to help visitors to the Metropolitan Mu- visitors develop a more nuanced seum of Art, museum-goers spend understanding of artists’ intent an average of 27.2 seconds engag- and meaning in their works. ing with a piece of artwork. The Hood public relations coordinaLouvre found that visitors to the tor Sharon Reed, who organized Mona Lisa spend just 15 seconds the museum’s appreciation day, looking at the work. said the Hood will not limit visitors On Saturday, the Hood Museum to looking at a few specific works. will take part in Slow Art Day, an inThe museum will be open for ternational one-day event launched regular Saturday hours, 10 a.m.

by Phil Terry in 2010 to persuade to 5 p.m, and will provide special museum-goers to spend more time brochures for visitors who do not appreciating visual art. The Hood wish to go on a tour, Wellman said. will host tours Saturday afternoon While community members and encourage visitors to take have attended similar events in their time touring the past, the Hood the museum. This “Looking at one hopes to draw stuis the third year dents through its [work] is part of that the Hood will doors on Saturday how engaging participate. as well, Reed said.

At 2 p.m., the with art becomes “ I ’v e a l w a y s Hood will offer its been so impressed first tour, featuring more personal or that these students works by 80 artists. meaningful.” are not trying to It will focus on art see everything in connected to New our museum,” Hampshire and - LESLEY WELLMAN, We l l m a n s a i d .

Vermont as well HOOD FOUNDATION “Looking at one as works by con[work] is part of temporary artists EDUCATION CURATOR how engaging with at Dartmouth, a art becomes more testament to the museum’s success personal or meaningful.” at collecting contemporary pieces Aime Joo ’17 , who plans to Lesley Wellman, Hood Foundation attend the event, said its concept education curator, said. intrigued her.

She said she was immediately “I think that it would be a great convinced of Slow Art Day’s ap- opportunity for us students to stop plicability to the Hood. and take a break from our hectic “We’re a teaching museum, lives,” she said. “Viewing art can and what we try to do in all of actually be a very relaxing experiour teaching here is to get people ence.”

Famous for his 1988 Billboard chart-topper, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin has had an accomplished career as a vocalist and conductor, winning 10 Grammy Awards. On Saturday, McFerrin comes to Dartmouth to perform a sold-out evening show in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium.

Known for his impressive vocal improvisations and tendency to perform a cappella, McFerrin will perform the 13 tracks from his most recent album, “spirityouall.”

All of the songs were arranged

by Gil Goldstein, and five songs include original words and music

by McFerrin.

The songs reflect a reimagining and rearrangement of traditional spirituals, accompanied by a band featuring piano, violin, guitar, drums and mandolin. The songs are tinged with folk, rock and blues music, in addition to the classical, jazz and world music influences more common to McFerrin’s work.

McFerrin said some of his musical interests have evolved with time.

Now, he said, he is more interested in “quieter sounds, quieter moods.”

“I think I expected that as I got older I’d lose a little vocal range or flexibility,” he said in an email. “But that’s not the case.”

Though he collaborates with many instrumental performers, McFerrin continues to perform and record many unaccompanied singing tracks, which is rare. In such songs, McFerrin provides percussive effects and makes large jumps in pitch, turning the a cappella performance into a rowdy feat of vocal experimentation.

Audience interaction and collaboration changes how he performs onstage, he said. He hopes audience members will be moved to sing along and express the joy, hope and faith they hear in his music.

McFerrin said he can feel the differences between audiences.

“You can feel differences of culture and mood, and it changes the music making experience,” McFerrin said.

McFerrin said that faith has always influenced his work, calling music a kind of prayer. He emphasized that his shows are not about performance but about sharing his music with a listening community.

“I try not to perform, I try to be myself onstage, to sing the way I sing in my kitchen,” McFerrin said.

“I love following the music where it takes me and sharing that adventure with the audience.”

McFerrin described the album as “just another step on the neverending journey to try to make the music I hear in my head.”

“It’s so directly an homage to my dad, who made his own great album singing the spirituals,” McFerrin said. “But of course he’s always been one of my biggest influences.

And it’s different because these songs talk about prayer and God and faith.”

Nate Graves ’13, a graduate assistant and artistic associate at the Hopkins Center, said he attended a performance of McFerrin’s “spirityouall” in Boston last year. Graves, a longtime admirer of McFerrin’s work, said “spirityouall” gave him a new appreciation for traditional spirituals.

“Just hearing the different melodic and harmonic adaptations that [McFerrin] infused into the songs really brought so much life to the spirituals,” Graves said.

Born in Manhattan to two singers — his father was the first black person to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company — McFerrin grew up around music.

He released his first album in 1982 at the age of 32.

In 1987, McFerrin performed the theme song to “The Cosby Show” and music for a Cadbury chocolate commercial, but his career took off the following year, when he released megahit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” the first a cappella piece to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts.

He has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and the Vienna

Philharmonic and founded an experimental vocal choir, Voicestra, in 1989.

McFerrin delved into conducting orchestras in 1994, accepting a creative chair position at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Music professor Bill Summers, who is teaching a class in American music this term, said he has encouraged his students to attend McFerrin’s concert.

McFerrin last came to campus in the spring of 2005 as a Montgomery Fellow. He said he enjoys visiting campus and the opportunity to work with college musicians.

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GABRIELA MONTERO piano This Venezuelan-born artist’s Hop concert includes Brahms’ Three Intermezzos, Op. 117, among his most personal and moving compositions; and Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17, considered a defining Romantic work. She’ll also offer her fascinating improvisations based on audience-suggested tunes that she transforms into impromptu “classical” compositions.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

THURSDAY LINEUP

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Baseball gets pair of one-run wins including walkoff vs. Holy Cross B y Gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

The Big Green baseball team’s offense began to show signs of life this week in non-league, midweek victories.

The wins follow a slow season opening in which Dartmouth struggled to display the strength with which it trampled the Red Rolfe Division last season.

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The Big Green looks to continue its winning ways this weekend against Yale.

Dartmouth (7-16, 2-6 Ivy) defeated the College of the Holy Cross (10-19, 3-3 Patriot League) 8-7 on Wednesday with a late-game rally, one day after taking down Boston College (10-22, 2-13 ACC) in a 2-1 victory. The Tuesday win was aided by an exceptional outing by Chris England ’15, who allowed one run on four hits in six innings.

The team started off the game against the Eagles with two runs in the top of the first inning, when Joe Purritano ’16 batted in Thomas Roulis ’15 and co-captain Jeff Keller ’14 to give the Big Green an early lead. The team would go on to allow just one run on

just six hits over nine frames, pitched by England, Adam Frank ’15 and Chris Burkholder ’17. “[England] pitched great,” Keller said. “He threw strikes, competed well and pitched with confidence. Our pitching is a little thin, and we had two midweek games and a lot of guys injured.”

Though the team stranded eight Eagles through the game, Dartmouth left nine of its own men on base, three of which came in the seventh, when the Big Green loaded the bases but could not bring the men home.

“We did the same thing yesterday and today,” Keller said. “We scored first and didn’t come up with the hits later in the game. We’ll have some good innings and go silent for a while and that’s how you lose momentum.”

Upon its return to Hanover, Dartmouth jumped to an early lead against the Crusaders, putting up four runs in the first, cycling through the length of the Big Green order before Holy Cross could get out of the inning.

The Crusaders started to chip away at Dartmouth’s lead, tying the game at four in the sixth. The team, Dustin

Selzer ’14 said, will have to learn to better navigate lulls in at bats instead of resting on early runs.

“It’s going to be a combination of just executing from top to bottom, from Jeff to whoever is doing the film that day,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re the best player or not playing much, you need to buy into the fact that it’s about the team and bringing everyone together and staying with it every single inning.”

As the game entered the ninth, the Crusaders capitalized on wildness on the mound from Duncan Robinson ’16 and Frank that grew its lead to 7-4.

Down by three, the Big Green came out firing in the bottom of the ninth, kicked off by Roulis who started the inning with a single, barely beating the throw to first in a dead sprint. He was followed immediately by Keller and Selzer, who walked to load the bases. The Crusaders’ inconsistency continued as Purritano then walked to drive in a run, cutting the deficit to two.

The stage was set for veteran thirdbaseman Lombardi, who slammed a double deep into right-center, bringing home two more base runners to tie the game at seven. With one out and after catcher Matt MacDowell ’15 was intentionally walked, shortstop Matt Parisi ’15 came up to bat. Parisi, with an 0-2 count, smashed a walk-off drive deep into left, meeting his team in celebration

at the center of the diamond.

“It was great,” Parisi said. “We’ve been waiting on that big hit and that big situation all year, and today it felt like it was bound to happen.”

When the Dartmouth baseball team took the diamond in Ithaca, N.Y., to start off the Ivy League season two weeks ago, hopes and expectations for the six-time Red Rolfe Division defending champions were high. With the first half of League play completed, Dartmouth’s surprising record puts it three games back from the division-leading Yale University Bulldogs, who it will take on at home in back-to-back doubleheaders this weekend.

The team resumes Ivy play this weekend in Hanover when it hosts the Bulldogs. The games will help determine who will take the Rolfe Division title and venture forward to the Ivy Championships. Yale, who is coming off of two losses at the hands of Fairfield University, was beaten by Holy Cross in three of four games in late March.

The team is using these weekday games as a launching point to take on and defeat the Bulldogs, Selzer said.

“Tomorrow is going to be a heavy work day,” he said. “We will work on things we need to work on and keep doing things well that we need to do well.

We’re feeling very confident because we control our own way from here on.”

Equestrian team jumps rivals for Zone win, shot at national title

B y emma willems The Dartmouth Staff

A weekend win at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone I New England Equitation Championships brought the Big Green equestrian team one step closer to the 2014 IHSA National Championships, the first time the team has qualified in its history as a varsity sport. Last weekend’s competition, held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., matched Dartmouth against teams from Tufts University, Mount Holyoke and the University of Rhode Island. The team earned a spot in the 2014 IHSA National Championships, which will be held May 1-4 in Harrisburg, Pa. “I think I’m still a little bit in shock,” coach Sally Batton said. “We had a fantastic season and we were hoping to go on to Nationals, but there’s a lot of luck in the draw.”

Riders Janna Wandzilak ’14, Alexa Dixon ’15, Lindsay Seewald ’16, Meg

Rauner ’17, Meaghan Haugh ’17 and Justin Maffett ’16 attained first-place positions for five out of the eight events they entered. Dartmouth beat out Mount Holyoke, which has won three national championships, 45-41.

“It was interesting because since we were only competing against three other teams, all the points were really close,” Wandzilak said. “It was very exciting, but also stressful, because nobody could pull ahead that much.”

In addition to actual performance, the team’s success depended on factors including the horses they drew to ride and judges’ personal preferences, Wandzilak said.

The team benefited from the new talent, Batton said. Three of the six who competed are new to the team this year.

The team has worked hard in workouts and practices, including a training trip over spring break to Florida. Riders have participated in clinics at other schools to get used to riding different

horses in unfamiliar arenas.

“You get used to showing in your little pond at school that you are familiar with,” Batton said. “It’s different to go to Zones because it’s a bigger venue and there are different horses

IHSA ZONE 1 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TEAM STANDINGS

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from what you’re used to.”

In addition to bringing a six-person team to Zones, the Dartmouth equestrian team had four riders qualify for individual events. Although none of these individual riders will move on

to Nationals, highlights included a fourth-place finish by Emma Waugh ’16 in the Novice Flat event.

Wandzilak came in seventh in the Open Fences and Open Flat events.

“I went into my individual round first and didn’t have a great round, but the team is who I really wanted to do well,” Wandzilak said. “It’s so much more fun than winning as an individual to have a whole team that is so excited.”

Anna Knowles ’16 qualified for the IHSA Scholarship Challenge at Nationals based on her score on a timed online test. She will participate in a challenge that assesses riders’ practical knowledge against 15 other riders at the national competitions.

In Harrisburg, Dartmouth will compete against 15 other colleges for the national title. These 16 colleges are the top performers out of the hundreds of colleges and universities in the IHSA. “When you get to Zones, the caliber

of riders is really high,” Wandzilak said.

“The competition at Nationals will be even harder.”

Dartmouth is a member of Zone I, which contains four regions that each include about 10 teams.

Although only six riders will represent Dartmouth at Nationals, individual riders’ scores are factored into the team’s qualification for Zones.

“Even though only a smaller team is participating, throughout the season everyone on the team has competed,” Haugh said. “We wouldn’t have made it to Zones or Nationals if we hadn’t had everyone on the team to point block.”

Before competing at Nationals, the Big Green riders will hold regular practices to prepare for the event. The team will also travel to Cornell for the Ivy League Championships on April 19.

“I think we’re basically going to keep doing what we’re doing,” Batton said.

“I think this team will be very strong.”