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Big Green Bus cancels year’s programming
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This summer, the Big Green Bus will not travel on what would have been its 10th cross-country trek. Due to various logistical issues — including lack of physical transportation and an insufficient recruitment draw — Cedar Farwell ’17, who would have been a member of the 2014 crew, said the organization will not conduct programming this summer. For the last nine years, the biodiesel-fueled, studentdriven bus has traveled across the U.S. to visit sustainable SEE BUS PAGE 5
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Spots for transfer students decrease with higher yield
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After hovering between 60 and 70 percent since 2008, the yield for admitted transfer students dropped to 47 percent in 2013. Despite the smaller rate, the office of undergraduate admissions will not change the process by which it attracts accepted transfer students to the College, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said. Laskaris said she was unsure
about the reasons for the drop, adding that she did not think it was because of the College’s recent media attention. She noted that fluctuations are natural due to the transfer credit process and the small nature of the transfer program. This year, due to the high yield percentage of accepted first-year students, the College will accept 15 transfer students, half of the typical figure of 30 students, Laskaris said, resulting in an acceptance rate of under 3 percent. At 1,210 students,
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kinds of students we want to have in our community,” Laskaris said. “And they would not want to apply as first-year students.” These applicants include veterans and students with non-traditional educational backgrounds, such as those who have gone to a two-year community college or a junior college before coming to Dartmouth, she said. The admissions office’s only transSEE TRANSFERS PAGE 3
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the number of incoming freshmen accepting Dartmouth’s offer of acceptance is its highest ever, producing a yield of 54.5 percent. Laskaris said that although the Class of 2018 is overfilled, it is important to maintain a transfer program. The Class of 2018 currently comprises 90 students above the projected class size of 1,120 students. “I think there are applicants, there are students who apply as transfers that are very much the
Nachtwey shared his experiences covering Afghanistan’s civil war.
A photo of a young Afghan child swinging from the barrel of a tank gun stretched behind internationally recognized war photographer James Nachtwey ’70 as he shared his experience covering Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s. The talk, which took place Tuesday afternoon, featured photographs chronicling his stay in Kabul before the Taliban wrested control of
the city in 1996, as well as his time with the Afghan Northern Alliance, who were fighting the Taliban outside of Kabul. The photo essay shows Kabul as a “moonscape” ruined by civil war, he said. He captured a school with no chairs or desks, as well as an orthopedic hospital full of Afghan amputees injured by mines still present in the city. Outside of Kabul, Nachtwey remembered being yards away from a rocket SEE NACHTWEY PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP
Youth aged 10 to 14 who join sports teams with a coach are less likely to start smoking than those who do not, researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine found in a recent study published in the journal Academic Pediatrics. Involvement in clubs outside of school was found to reduce the chance that participants would start drinking. Lead author Anna Adachi-Mejia, a member of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Research Program, noted that the ways young adults choose to spend their time outside of school is important. Other types of activities studied were non-coached sports, school clubs and music lessons, though these were not shown to affect youth beginning to smoke and drink. Indulgence and willpower are controlled by two separate parts of the brain that are engaged in a constant battle, psychological and brain sciences professor Todd Heatherton and graduate student Richard Lopez found in a recent study, Time Magazine reported. The entire brain does not determine whether a person gives in to temptation, they found, noting that decisions are instead affected by the balance of brain activity in these areas. After looking at pictures of tempting, high-fat foods, participants who had more activity in the region of the brain responsible for control reported better eating habits over the course of the next week. For the past decade, scientists have sought to uncover the turtle’s evolutionary history, a debate that biology professor Kevin Peterson may have helped resolve with a new study published in Evolution and Development. Peterson and his team examined the links between groups of reptile species and found that turtles are more closely related to birds and crocodilians than they are to snakes and lizards, reversing the findings of some studies. The results were found by examining small biological particles called microRNAs, considered strong evolutionary markers. — COMPILED BY THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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that landed and did not explode while traveling in the desert with a group of militants. “Vaporized is the word that came to my mind,” Nachtwey said. His work on the civil war was published in Time Magazine through the decade and helped bring the issue to policy makers’ attention, he said. Nachtwey said he decided he wanted to be a war photographer at a young age, when he saw photographs of the Vietnam War. “Our political and military leaders were telling us one thing, but the photographers were telling us another story,” Nachtwey said. “I found the photographers to be more convincing.” Despite the human sadness and pain he faced taking these photographs, Nachtwey said he kept going because he realized the value of his work. Being cynical or giving into despair, he said, would be “too easy.” “I continually see examples where the worst conditions bring out the best in humanity,” he said. After his talk, Nachtwey said in an interview that he hoped his presentation would give students a sense of empowerment. “There’s something they can do that could make a difference in the world,” Nachtwey said. “You can really choose your own path.” Nachtwey, a Provostial Fellow at the College, said he hopes to create a collection of photographs for academic research at Dartmouth. Although Nachtwey has moved
to Hanover for the fellowship, he noted that he has not ended his photojournalism career. “I’m still very engaged,” he said. “Everything I produce will add dimension and value to the archive here — I will continue my work in the field and my work here.” Nachtwey has maintained an active connection with Dartmouth since graduating. He spent last year on campus as the first Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar, was awarded an honorary degree in
“Everything I produce will add dimension and value to the archive here.” - PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES NACHTWEY ’70
2010 and spent time in Hanover as a Montgomery Fellow in 2002. At the College, Nachtwey studied art history and political science. Nachtwey was shot at during a violent pre-election protest in Thailand on Feb. 1 while on assignment for Time Magazine. The bullet went through his leg, but Nachtwey was not badly injured and returned to work soon after. After Nachtwey’s talk, attendees discussed the current state of photography, as well as the features that make a war photograph iconic. People consume images faster be-
cause of modern technology, but they may still be able to take in and think about an image, Nachtwey said. Tausif Noor ’14, who is writing an art history thesis about representations of terrorism, said he attended the lecture to see how Nachtwey documented violence and thrust it into the public sphere. He said the photographs Nachtwey presented were very powerful. “We witness a lot of images and sometimes become a little bit desensitized or immune to them,” Noor said. “I think photography still has the power to elicit a powerful emotional response.” Sandra Miller, a community member who attended the lecture because she had seen Nachtwey speak before, said she was inspired by his work. Nachtwey has both courage and humanity, she said, calling his work a “real public service.” Chengetai Mahomva, a Geisel School of Medicine student, said she enjoyed how Nachtwey presented his work, focusing on the historical context for the events in Afghanistan rather than America’s role in the conflict. Mahomva added that she appreciated how Nachtwey was careful to present his work as reflecting his own experience in Afghanistan. “It highlights that there is no such thing as authenticity,” she said. The lecture was held in the Black Family Visual Arts Center and was part of the Times of Crisis lecture series presented by the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth.
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Transfer students say academics, reputation attract them to College National Student Clearinghouse Research Center placed the figure fer outreach is to military veterans, at one-third of all students. Laskaris said, which includes col- Current students who translaboration with organizations that ferred to the College say they chose seek to give veterans educational to attend Dartmouth for various opportunities. The practice of con- reasons. necting with veterans began with John Pessoa ’16 pointed to the former College President James quality of academics and his status Wright, who encouraged injured as a legacy student for reasons he veterans to return to school after applied to Dartmouth, where he completing their military service. transferred from New York Uni This year, students who are part versity. of the Dartmouth undergraduate Andrew Spalding ’14, who veterans group transferred went to Walter “There are students from the UniReed Hospital versity of Richd u r i n g t h e i r who apply as mond, said he a l t e r n a t i v e transfers that are applied to a few s p r i n g b re a k other schools as trip to Wash- very much the kind well, including ington, D.C., of students we George WashLaskaris said. ington Univerwant to have in our T here, they sity and New s p o k e a b o u t community.” York UniverDartmouth and sity. the College’s “The academic op- - MARIA LASKARIS, DEAN main difference portunities, she OF ADMISSIONS AND I can remember said. is that the DartFINANCIAL AID Laskaris mouth applicanoted, however, tion was due a that the first-year application pool month earlier than the apps at was the first priority. The number most other schools,” he said. of accepted transfer students is Because of this, Spalding said contingent upon the space avail- he learned of his acceptance to able after first-year students have Dartmouth before hearing from decided to matriculate, she said. the other two schools. Laskaris said the admissions Saaheb Sidana ’16, who transprocess for transfer students is ferred from the University of need-blind and the College meets California at Santa Barbara, said 100 percent of demonstrated fi- he chose to transfer because he nancial need for admitted transfer was looking for a smaller school students, as it does for first-year with better academic departments. applicants. Sidana added that people might be Two-thirds of all students who unwilling to transfer because of earn a baccalaureate degree attend the smaller number of transfers two or more colleges or universi- at Dartmouth compared to other ties, said Judith Brauer, proposal colleges. developer at the National Institute In 2013, Brown University enfor the Study of Transfer Students rolled 68 transfer students, while at the University of North Geor- 170 students transferred to the gia. A report released through the University of Pennsylvania. FROM TRANSFERS PAGE 1
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Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said she was unsure what has caused the declining transfer yield.
Between 15 and 27 transfer students enrolled each year in the College between 2010-13. “It might be harder to assimilate,” Sidana said. Hayley Adnopoz ’16, who
previously attended Connecticut College, said she appreciated how much simpler the Common Application essay was for transfer applicants than for first-year applicants.
“It basically just asked why I wanted to transfer, so I didn’t have to worry about being super different or creative,” she said. Adnopoz is a member of The Dartmouth staff.
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Guest Columnist Robert Herbst ’16
Guest Columnists Mayer Schein ’16 AND Adam Schneider ’15
Buried Alive
Setting Things Straight
Musicians at Dartmouth are essentially on their own. One would think that having the Courtyard Café in the Hopkins Center would increase students’ interaction with art. As long as we are physically close to Beethoven, we might as well have studied his oeuvre, right? The reality is that campus largely views the Hop as a veritable white noise of exhibits, performances and demonstrations that are enjoyed by a niche within a niche. Lost in the shuffle is the literal sub-culture of classical music, to the detriment of both the dozens of musicians who live in the Hop and to campus at large. Consider this a crash course in Dartmouth music. We have one recital hall. Practice rooms are acoustically impotent and scarce. A handful of professors are lucky enough to have windows in their offices. Musicians joke about living in the basement beneath the Hop, but some keep sleeping bags in their lockers. The weight of the Hop above us sags on our psyche, like we are treading water fully clothed. The effort it requires to polish musical skills or prepare for a performance easily surpasses the hours spent writing a paper or studying for a midterm. We carry on diligently; sometimes we even find true guidance and inspiration from faculty and peers around us. But this happens on a person-by-person basis. We are each responsible for creating our musical sphere, and our success as musicians is entirely dependent on what that sphere looks like. Oftentimes we find exactly what we need — the right instructors, the right instrument parts and the right friends. We are nonetheless trapped in our corner of the universe, which feels about a million miles a way from the fries whose smell permeates the building. There is no loneliness like the Hop basement. Many of us enter Dartmouth asking, “Why are we bringing our instruments to this place?” and “What is the point of studying music?” The lack of a suitable response perhaps is the reason why music majors without a second major or modification are rare to the point of almost extinction. A career in
music is not something one stumbles into, yet the onus is put entirely on students for determining what they want out of music and how they will achieve it. Students maintain an oral tradition of the music major, telling underclassmen which classes to take with which professors. We fight tooth and nail to keep our world alive, for the loss of a single violist, a single French horn player, can have devastating consequences for our own prosperity. Every advertisement for visiting artists and every exhibit that is not student work blinds campus to what we do. I hear more about theater productions from my fraternity than from my academic peers. When you eat in the Hop, the looping video of the next chamber group you won’t see drowns out the noises of real rehearsals happening just feet away, while we fight for visibility and credibility at every corner. Meanwhile, some students even abandon their instruments within the first week of freshman fall. At a school where students nail down their primary extracurricular involvements before it snows, we simply do not have time for people to casually discover what awaits downstairs. The arts bureaucracy suffocates us with platitudes like “activating neutral spaces.” I posit that every person on this campus who played an instrument in high school and who doesn’t know the location of Faulkner Recital Hall is a victim of administrative negligence. What we do is not a side dish. Music and the arts should be a central part of any liberal arts education. Administrators need a vision for a self-sustaining arts culture. We need better infrastructure — practice and performance spaces are rare, underfurnished and downright unpleasant. More importantly we need support. The Hop should be a champion for student art, not a patchwork of guest artists and amorphous collaborations. Until that day, our sound will be stifled by our concrete tomb as fellow students eat above us.
The actual “Nakba” catastrophe is Palestinian unwillingness to achieve peace. In their May 5 piece “A Taboo Term,” Feras Abdulla ’17 and Reem Chamseddine ’17 present a view of the Palestinian “Nakba” and a history of the Israeli-Arab conflict that was most shocking not for the seeming atrocities it depicted but rather for the high level of selectivity with which the authors cherry-picked “facts” to support their argument. Throughout their op-ed, the authors relied almost entirely on a combination of half-truths and outright falsifications to provide a revisionist history of this tragic conflict. From their initial descriptions of the Palestinian “Nakba,” or “catastrophe,” the authors depict an image of incoming Israelis driving Palestinians from their homes in 1948 to supplant them with foreigners. Yet they failed to mention that most Palestinians were not expelled by Israeli forces but rather fled on their own during the 1948 war or left their homes at the urging of their own leaders when the surrounding Arab nations attacked the nascent state of Israel. The Palestinian inhabitants were assured that they could return to their homes after the Jews living in Israel were to be run into the sea by the invading Arab armies. In fact, the authors did not mention the war itself that led to the Palestinian refugee problem — a war started when the Arabs of the region opted for violence, not coexistence, by rejecting the United Nations Resolution 181 to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. In contrast, the Jews at the time overwhelmingly accepted this proposal that could have entirely avoided the war. Continuing on in their incomplete recounting of history, the authors wrongly claimed that the death of the Oslo peace process came when Israel confined Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat to his compound. They failed to note, however, that this was only after Arafat chose to walk away from a historic
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peace offer from Israel in 2000, which included Palestinian control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem within their new state, to instead embrace and fund a campaign of terrorism against Israeli civilians as part of the Second Intifada. Furthermore, they also left out that the 2009 Israeli assault on Gaza was in reality a counteroffensive to put an end to the hundreds of rockets fired at Israeli cities during the prior week by the terrorist organization Hamas. Even their column’s core proposal that condemns Israel for firing on “Nakba” demonstrators neglected to note that the violence only occurred after protesters in 2011 broke across the militarized border from Syria and invaded Israel, thereby eliciting Israeli forces to respond to defend their borders. The plight of the Palestinian people over much of the past century has without a doubt been tragic and catastrophic. However, this catastrophe is not the “Nakba” of the creation of the State of Israel, as understood by the Palestinian narrative and depicted by Abdulla and Chamseddine. Rather, the catastrophe has been the Palestinian leadership’s perpetual unwillingness to realize its own people’s aspirations for self-determination by refusing to make peace with Israel. Though no side has been without blame in this conflict, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been clear in his commitment to come to a peace and address the Palestinian refugee tragedy by achieving two separate states for two peoples. While Israel has shown itself willing to accept such a solution as far back as 1937, the Palestinian leadership has time and again walked away from Israel’s repetitive offers of peace and coexistence to instead opt for perpetual conflict and violence. Recognizing the Palestinian refugees’ suffering is not taboo, but dropping the blame for it entirely on the creation of Israel instead of on the Palestinian leadership’s continued intransigence is simply wrong.
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To the Editor: To quote the great Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” On Monday, College President Phil Hanlon announced the membership and agenda of the Presidential Steering Committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward. According to the Office of Public Affairs, “The Steering Committee is tasked with making recommendations that will combat the root causes of extreme behavior in the critical areas of sexual assault and high-risk drinking, and will also seek to foster more inclusivity on campus.” If this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Exactly two years ago, in response to the faculty uproar over the now infamous Rolling Stone article, then-College President Jim Yong Kim announced the membership and agenda of the Presidential Committee on Student Safety
and Accountability. Kim said that the group would “reach out broadly” to different sectors of campus to gather input about hazing, sexual assault and binge drinking on campus. In the two years since that disturbing magazine article, Dartmouth continues to experience sexual assault, fraternity hazing and other dangerous anti-social and discriminatory behaviors. Without referencing any of the findings of the now published COSSA report, Hanlon recently proclaimed, “Enough is enough,” and promptly formed yet another committee. Is this constant obfuscation really “moving Dartmouth forward”? How many more presidential committees will have to meet before the College finally provides students with a campus environment free from the threat of sexual violence?
Peter Hackett ’75, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Professor of Theater
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Big Green Bus cancels trip, cites low application numbers In the past, the program has received over 80 applications, but businesses and organizations. last summer’s group said it wanted Past and current crew members to make sure that students were highlighted several prohibitive not just in it for the road trip, 2013 issues: the vicrew member ability of the Krystyna Miles physical bus, the “We wanted to be ’16 said. application, low transparent about the This student interwork level. It’s a huge, year’s applicaest and a high tion was longer concentration huge undertaking that and included an o f f r e s h m e n has to come from very outline of the among appliprogram’s misdriven, passionate cants. sion and goals. T h e b u s students.” “ W e broke down at wanted to be the end of last transparent summer, 2013 - Krystyna Miles ’16 about the work crew member level,” Miles Jordan Kastrins a i d . “ I t ’s a sky ’16 said. huge, huge unThough it was repaired in Cali- dertaking that has to come from fornia, it was ultimately deemed very driven, passionate students.” unsuitable to be running by the Kastrinsky said the revised apGreyhound Company, the group’s plication contributed to the lower partner, Kastrinsky said. application numbers. FROM BUS PAGE 1
Additionally, upperclassmen are already involved in various programs, which may contribute to the lack of applications from older students, Miles said. No longer having a viable Greyhound bus has also raised additional questions, Farwell said. Kastrinsky said acquiring a new bus without Greyhound’s support would be challenging. “They would have to find someone who would be able to donate the bus, they would have to find a donatable bus and then on top of that they would have to retrofit it and spend a lot of time with that,” he said. “If none of them are necessarily mechanics or engineers of any sort, that would be pretty hard.” During this process, Farwell said, next year’s bus crew was aided by leadership from previous bus members. Prior participants spoke with this year’s group about the history of the bus and its potential future, but the current group did not make
a plan as to how it would move tournaments bought a bus and, after forward, he said. painting it green and getting it to “We definitely could have used run on waste vegetable oil, began more direction from upperclassman their road trip. leaders,” he said. Although the original team Miles noted, however, that each talked about the merits of using year’s crew is waste vegetable responsible for “If none of them are oil as fuel, the determining the bus’s message program’s focus. necessarily mechanics soon grew into a Her crew spent or engineers of any broader sustainmonths leading sort, that would be ability-related up to the proplatform, with gram conceptu- pretty hard.” each summer’s alizing the miscrew altering it sion, she said. slightly. A p p r o x i - - Jordan Kastrinsky ’16 L a s t mately five choyear’s bus route sen participants brought particifor the upcoming summer were still pants to over 20 stops around the actively involved early this term, country. At each stop, the 12 students Farwell said. and alumni focused on storytelling, The bus has had a varied history understanding other communities in terms of its programming and and inspiration, not education. mission. In 2005, a group of 15 Meegan Daigler ’14, the bus’s ultimate frisbee players who sought 2013 general manager, declined to an environmentally way to travel to comment by press time.
Government Honors Thesis Presentation 2014 Friday, May 9, 2014 3:00 Harrison Weidner Social Justice and Libertarianism: A New Moral Center Advisor: Swaine Second Reader: Murphy Monday, May 12, 2014 9:00 Tyler Kuhn The Quality of Mercy (Un)Strained: A Study on the Crime Rate and Gubernatorial Pardons Advisor: Nyhan Second Reader: Fowler 12:00 Don Casler Brasher With The Bomb? The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on Interstate Aggression Advisor: Press Second Reader: S Brooks 3:00 Mark Andriola 'It's Not Their Fault They're Gay or Disabled': Immutability, Essentialism and the Masking of Societal Prejudice Advisor: Bedi Second Reader: Swaine Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:00 Emily Hoffman Keeping Hold of Mass Destruction: The Security and Management of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons During Political Instability Advisor: Press Second Reader: Lind 3:00 Joseph Singh Commitment Problems?: Assessing Public Attitudes Towards a U.S. Withdrawal from Korea Advisor: Valentino Second Reader: Lind Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:00 Alex Judson Understanding Hezbollah: A Systematic Analysis of How the Party of God Responds to Threats Advisor: Freidman Second Reader: Press
3:00 Reuben Hurst Financial Inclusion and Political System Support in Brazil Advisor: Carey Second Reader: Chauchard Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:00 Ala’ Alrababa’h The Price of Protest: Explaining Regime Repression in Response to Nonviolent Protests. Advisors: Valentino/Sa’adah 12:00 Keshav Poddar The Price of Fear: Geopolitical Favoritism in U.S. Security Alliances Advisor: S Brooks Second Reader: Wohlforth 3:00 Irvin Gomez State Capacity and Homicide Rates: A Cross-National Analysis Advisor: Baldez/Carey Second Reader: Horowitz Friday, May 16, 2014 2:00 Andrew Longhi The Politics of the Paper Trail: Senate Polarization and the Quality of Lower Federal Court Nominees, 1987-2012 Advisor: Fowler Second Reader: Nyhan Monday, May 19, 2014 3:00 Tina Meng The Art of Persuasion: A Study of Supreme Court Judicial Rhetoric Advisor: Herron Second Reader: Lacey Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:00 Yon Soo Park Animal Rights and Human Rights Advisor: Valentino Second Reader: Carey
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m. Lecture, “The Physiological Effects of Exercise,” DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, Auditorium G
4:15 p.m. Electrical engineering seminar series, “Microrobots, Microinductors and Other Microfabrication at Thayer,” Cummings 202
4:30 p.m. Lecture, “Privacy: Now What?” Steele 006
TOMORROW 12:30 p.m. “Transforming Markets to Mitigate Environmental and Social Impacts,” Class of 1953 Commons, Paganucci Lounge
4:00 p.m. Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth lecture, “Hidden Abode: For a Gender-Sensitive Conception of Capitalism”, Rockefeller Center 001
6:00 p.m. Workshop, Bash the Trash, Hopkins Center, Room 60A
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Glee Club to sing classic choral songs at spring show
Many students join to continue improving their technique under Burkot’s The Dartmouth Staff instruction. Lauren Gatewood ’14, After a winter show that featured whose first time singing classical music modern Spanish music, the Dartmouth was at Dartmouth, said she had to adjust College Glee Club will return to the clas- her voice from the musical theater songs sics at its Friday evening spring concert at that were more familiar to her. the Top of the Hop. The group will sing Gatewood described Burkot as an mostly Renaissance music by Franco- intense and skilled conductor who Flemish composer Orlande de Lassus, makes learning the challenging music French composer Pierre Passereau and enjoyable. Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, “What’s great about Glee Club is as well as one modern choral song by that it’s full of students who really care American composer Morten Lauridsen. about the music and who not only have While the works by Lassus and good voices, but understand technique Passereau feature light, dance-like songs and theory,” she said. about music and love, Monteverdi’s Ben Rutan ’17, another group “Lamento d’Arianna” tells the story member, said he is looking forward to of a pastoral tragedy, and Lauridsen’s singing music that was considered very song warns of the sorrow interwoven “avant-garde” for its time. with passionate love. Directed by music “The Monteverdi piece has some professor Louis Burkot, a total of 31 parts where you initially hear the chord singers will perform. and it sounds out of tune and wrong, but The performance’s location will al- as the chord progresses, it settles in,” he low for dynamism in the show, Burkot said. “The listener is constantly evaluatsaid, as members will move around the ing the music, and that constantly keeps space and perform in different areas of them on their feet.” the hall. Cali Digre ’14 said she joined to find “There is a very pure aesthetic about the choral community that surrounded Renaissance music. It has the sense of her in high school. The rehearsal atmobeing very structured and very spatially sphere is typically professional, she said. oriented,” he said. “I’m excited to use the The group breaks into sections durTop of the Hop and as many different ing rehearsals to allow men and women physical configurations as possible to to practice separately, Digre said. This find places in the hall that make these allows for finer attention to detail and a pieces sound the best for the audience.” more cohesive final product when they About half of the concert’s reper- come back together, she said. toire features French lyrics, while the Orme said that a large part of other half features Italian. The accents producing a unified sound comes from and intonations can prove challenging listening to other members. for non-native speakers, but they are “What Louis likes to say is that you important to singknow physically and ing the music as it “There is a very muscularly what it was meant to be feels like to produce pure aesthetic about the sound you need enjoyed, he said. Emma Orme Renaissance music. to produce, but you ’15, who joined the can’t think about the It has the sense of group her freshactual sound that man year, said she being very structured you are producing is excited to sing a and very spatially because you need repertoire “harto be focusing on kening back to oriented.” the people around traditional choral you,” she said. roots.” - louis burkot, gospel Gatewood called “For traditional the spring concert choral music like choir director “fun, informal and this, it is all about intimate.” She decreating a unified blend,” Orme said. scribed the group’s post-concert ritual “No one person can stick out, and that is of singing traditional Dartmouth mustic the most fun challenge for me, singing at while standing in a circle and linking a really high level and trying to produce arms as a performance highlight. The a really high-quality, communal sound.” group will take the opportunity to say Burkot said that despite the difficult farewell to its seniors, though they will repertoire, students have learned his perform once more at Commencement. instructions very quickly. Through “One of the songs, ‘Pea Green trial and error in rehearsals, the group Freshmen,’ has a verse for every class, achieved the “light, delicate texture” and when we are singing about a certain that he looked for in many pieces. class, those people are dancing around “We have been experimenting with in the middle of the circle,” Gatewood using fewer voices at some parts to get said. “The last verse slows down and that effect,” Burkot said. “We try to mentions the ‘grand old seniors,’ and make the pieces sound the best for this that’s the time when we really send off particular voice grouping.” the seniors.”
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Nathan Lehrer ’14
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Though an engineering major, Nathan Lehrer ’14 will play a senior show on the piano.
B y michaela ledoux The Dartmouth Staff
Growing up in New York City, Nathan Lehrer ’14 remembers having a passion for music since an early age. As a child, hearing music made him break out in dance and boogie around his house to his favorite tunes. Noticing his interest, his parents enrolled him in an elementary school where music instruction made up one-third of the curriculum. Lehrer took up the piano in kindergarten and worked with the same instructor through high school, he said. “My teacher was really tough, but I think that was good,” Lehrer said. “She gave me the gift to be able to play the piano and I’m really grateful for that.” Though an engineering major, Lehrer has played classical piano all four years at Dartmouth, taking lessons with music professor Gregory Hayes and traveling to London with the music department’s foreign study program during his sophomore spring. He will play a senior piano recital on May 17. Lehrer described the patterns and logical structure to classical music as similar to thinking for engineering, but to him, music serves as an important expressive outlet. Lehrer plans to complete the Bachelors of Engineering this spring, finishing the program in four years as opposed to the common five-year sequence. “I have really enjoyed being able to get into my piano since I’ve come to Dartmouth, more so than I ever have before,” Lehrer said. “I have a lot more self-direction on what I
spend my time doing, so I block out a little extra time to do piano.” One of Lehrer’s favorite engineering class projects was to design a digital radio, which allowed him to incorporate the science of sounds and engineering. The project sparked his interest in possibly pursuing a career in sound engineering. “I found it really cool because it involved sound and frequencies, which music is all about,” he said. Lehrer also plays on Dartmouth’s ultimate frisbee team, which recently qualified for the national ultimate championships this weekend in Ohio. Hayes described Lehrer as “quietly industrious,” with a good attitude toward hard work and practice. He called Lehrer curious, constantly thinking beyond the printed notes on a page. “One of his strengths is that he learns music carefully,” Hayes said. “He is very careful with his initial encounter with a piece of music. He is more aware than other students of the nuances and the composer’s specific directions.” Lehrer said the music FSP was a highlight of his time at Dartmouth. As a solo musician who had not taken many music classes, the opportunity integrated him into a community of musicians that he had previously lacked, he said. Lehrer said he also enjoyed group trips to performances, which were built into the program. Liliana Ma ’14, a violin and piano player who participated in the FSP with Lehrer, said she has been impressed with Lehrer’s ability to balance music and engineering and excel in both. Ma, an engineering
and music double major, called this balance challenging but rewarding. Receiving Hayes’s instruction has helped him study music more seriously, Lehrer said. He has been working on the material for his hour-long senior show since the fall, and the repertoire will reflect his passion for classical music. “Sometimes you think, did I really get to know this piece as I should have or could I have gone deeper?” Lehrer said. “We have been able to dig really deep into the music. We have been able to get into all of the nuances of the pieces.” Lehrer said he likes to play music by composers who were also pianists. These composers are often innovative when writing for the instrument and produce material that is fun to play. He will be performing pieces by Schumann and Debussy for his senior show. Though he does not plan to pursue a career as a professional musician, Lehrer hopes to keep music a part of his life after graduation. “[Music is] not a career goal, but it enriches my life, and I like doing it for fun,” he said.
the final word with Nathan Lehrer ’14
If I could visit one country: I would go back to London or Ireland for a more natural setting. The first music I purchased on my own: I remember downloading a bunch of Beatles songs and being blown away by them.
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SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014
WEDNESDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Women’s rugby finishes fourth at ACRA sevens nationals B y jake bayer
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The women’s rugby team finished fourth at the American College Rugby Association sevens championship this past weekend. Hot off the heels of winning the Ivy League sevens championship the previous weekend, the team culminated its sevens-only spring season with the tournament. The Big Green went 3-0 in its pool but dropped both Sunday games to fall to fourth place. “I think we came out really strong on Saturday, and it was really good to see all of our hard work come together,” Michaela Conway ’15 said. Saturday’s pool play pitted Dartmouth against the U.S. Air Force Academy, Iowa State University and the U.S. Naval Academy. The teams traded scores against the Falcons to start off the day. Dartmouth won that tough first match 1712, with tries from co-captain Diana Wise ’15 and Audrey Perez ’17, who scored two. Conway converted one try. “Air Force came out with a really
strong defense that was really hard to match,” co-captain Allie Brouckman ’15 said. Dartmouth then dispatched the Cyclones 26-7. Wise continued her strong performance, scoring all four of the Big Green’s tries. Conway converted on two while Tatjana Toeldte ’16 kicked one more through the uprights. Wise’s performance in the tournament earned the junior all-tournament first team honors. The 19-10 win over the Midshipmen secured the Big Green the top seed in its pool and a 3-0 record. Wise, Perez and Leandra Barrett ’15 all contributed one try, and Conway had two conversions. On Sunday, Dartmouth lost to Rutgers University, the second seed from its pool, 15-12. “I think on the first day we came out really strong and ready to play,” Conway said. “It really showed how much we had been practicing. [On Sunday,] we had the same drive but all the factors didn’t fall into place.” In the rematch against Air Force, the Falcons’ defense dominated. The team shut out the Big Green 12-0. “Air Force was formidable on
both days — they have speed and athleticism,” head coach Deb Archambault said. “And they got better with every match they played. We were organized, aggressive and had great handling on Saturday, but we came out flat on Sunday morning.” Brouckman said that the players went into the season unsure of what to expect, but excelled. “We came away from this season with an Ivy League title,” she said. “We also had the first national tournament for our program.” The club’s spring season was traditionally a mix of sevens and 15s play, but this year the team focused on sevens play for the entire season. The sevens game offers more spacing and focus on the individual, which pushed the team to develop critical ball-handling skills and greater fitness levels, Brouckman said. Playing sevens this season, Wise said, was good for the team. “A lot of us didn’t have much sevens experience prior to this season,” she said. “We had to make some adjustments because some things didn’t work and some things did, so having a whole season to just focus
on that was nice. Our fitness levels and our handling skills have gotten a lot better, and we’ve gotten a lot more confident.” The spring result follows a strong fall season in which the team made the Elite Eight in the ACRA 15s Championships. Only one senior played on its ACRA rosters, giving
Archambault hope for future success. “I am looking forward to adding more sevens into our winter and spring schedule, and I’m very interested in seeing how the skill improvement and increased speed gained during our sevens season affects our team play in 15s this fall,” she said.
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The women’s rugby team went 3-0 in pool play but 0-2 in the playoffs.
Women’s 4x1,500 relay set to succeed at Heps after Penn performance
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Abbey D’Agostino ’14, Dana Giordano ’16, Meggie Donovan ’15 and Liz Markowitz ’16 did not expect to set a new record when they took to the Franklin Field track at the Penn Relays on April 25. But the quartet managed to beat the previous Dartmouth, Ivy League and New England records for the women’s 4x1,500-meter relay on the second day of the event with a time of 17:20:87, over 24 seconds better than the previous Dartmouth record from two seasons ago. Their time was good enough for third overall in the race, the oldest and largest track and field competition in America. Villanova University took first with a time of 17:16.52, followed by Stanford University’s 17:16.74. “Penn is crazy because there’s so many fans and that’s something we don’t have at our meets typically,” Giordano said. “I think the four of us performed really well considering the amount of pressure.”
The quartet’s achievement is even more impressive considering that this was the first time the four had run a relay together. “We were really excited because we had different levels of experience competing at this high of level, and those who didn’t have as much experience really rose to the occasion and the ones that did served as mentors,” D’Agostino said. “Overall, a great group that really valued working as a team.” D’Agostino had the fastest individual time of the four, running her portion of the relay in 4:08.0. Giordiano had the second fastest individual time of the four with a 4:16.4 split. If the race was individual, D’Agostino would have broken her own record by nearly four seconds and Giordano would rank fourth in program history. While the team was about four seconds behind second place, the runners were almost 15 seconds clear of the fourth-place team from the University of New Mexico. Donovan highlighted the importance of recognizing the competition’s talent but not getting intimidated by
other runners. “It was a good experience for going up against high-caliber runners and knocking elbows with runners that are really fast so that you get that assurance that you belong,” Donovan said.
DARTMOUTH 4X1,500 METER RELAY Runner 1. Markowitz 2. Giordano 3. Donovan 4. D’Agostino TOTAL
Time 4:27.4 4:16.4 4:29.1 4:08.0 17:20.87
The four runners individually came into the race as the competition to beat. D’Agostino is a six-time NCAA Champion and a 13-time Ivy Champion. Giordano started her sophomore campaign strong with All-American honors at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indi-
ana, this fall. Her success continued in the winter, when she won the Ivy title in the 3,000-meter race at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships and earned two All-American honors at Indoor nationals. Markowitz finished second to D’Agostino in the mile at indoor Heps in the winter and was part of the winning 4x800-meter relay team with D’Agostino and Donovan. At nationals, the sophomore earned All-American honors for her eighth place finish in the women’s distance medley relay. In addition to the 4x800-meter win, Donovan finished sixth in the 800-meter race at indoor Heps. The Penn Relays draw competitors and spectators with more than 10 different levels of competition present. The Dartmouth quartet’s 4x1,500meter relay was a part of the College Women’s Championship of America bracket, which brings together the top competition in the country. “The great and hard things about Penn Relays is that it’s fun to do a relay, but it’s like you either win or it’s just not a big deal,” D’Agostino said. “We ran a
great time, but we didn’t get first. That time would have won any other year, so it was a competitive year and we can’t complain about that.” Going forward, the four will use their experience at the Penn Relays to inform their training for the upcoming Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. To D’Agostino, the race was a boost in confidence. “All the season successes have allowed us to prepare for Heps with comforted, confident mindsets,” she said. “And being so successful with the 4x1,500, I know we can kick butt with the 4x800.” D’Agostino said that the new record emphasizes how far Dartmouth and its individual runners have come as a distance team and that they are finally seeing it manifested in their performance. “Just to go out there and race for fun and enjoy the team aspect of it — that’s the best way for record- breaking to happen,” D’Agostino said. The Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships will take place in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 10.