The Dartmouth 09/16/14

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Convocation opens new academic year

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The Gospel Choir and Glee Club performed at Monday’s convocation exercises.

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Without planning, New Jersey neighbors Maddie Gilfert ’18 and Tiffany Zhai ’18 arrived at Dartmouth with the same desk lamp and nearly identical sets of blue, yellow, white and gray bedding.

Friends since third grade, the two were one of the first pairs to request roommates this fall, under a new housing policy that allows incoming students to choose who

they live with.

Fewer than 100 students requested a specific roommate, director of undergraduate housing Rachael Class-Giguere said.

Previously, the College assigned roommates either randomly or with the aid of a housing survey.

Class-Giguere said students have expressed a desire to choose their roommates for several years.

The office was concerned that students who selected roommates

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might keep to themselves and socialize less, but she said they are interested to see how it pans out.

The shift accompanies other residential changes for freshmen, including the option to live in four living-learning communities, ranging from the longstanding East Wheelock cluster, founded in 1996 to integrate intellectual and residential life, to the new

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Hanover grapples with rise in deer

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Addressing a crowd of about 750 students, faculty and staff during Monday’s convocation exercises, College President Phil Hanlon started by alluding to a special moment — one where a student’s passion collides with intellectual curiosity.

“It’s the moment when the switch goes on and you decide where you want to make a mark on issues that elude your professors and great

thinkers and policy makers of our time,” Hanlon said.

He went on to evoke the 1882 launch of America’s first central power plant, the Pearl Street Station headed

by Thomas Edison . This breakthrough led to opportunities, but it also presented challenges that people still grapple with and that institutions like Dartmouth are committed to solving, he said.

“It was a way to put on the table, in front of stu-

In Dr. Seuss’s “If I Ran the Zoo,” a tiny deer with long antlers is said to be so cute that hunters cannot bear to shoot it.

The “deer that’s so nice he could sleep in your bed” may be fiction, but the deer roaming Hanover this fall, a population 30 percent larger than usual, pose a real problem.

Following a series of mild winters, Hanover Town officials and residents are grappling with

the increase. New Hampshire’s archery deer hunting season began Monday and will last into December, and the College is collaborating with the Town of Hanover to increase hunting opportunities in the area.

Two sessions held in the Howe Library last week addressed the growing deer problem and forest health management. The first was geared toward forest managers and landowners, while the second was for town residents.

Attendees at the first session were mainly worried about deer

overbrowsing forests, while Hanover residents raised concerns about deer in town and Lyme disease transmission, Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin said.

About 60 people attended each session, Howe Library employee Vicki Smith said.

Griffin noted that mice, not deer, are the main vectors of Lyme disease.

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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Working with colleagues, anthropology professor Nathaniel Dominy has used ancient art to create chronological catalogue of animals in the Nile valley, according to a College press release.

Dominy, his former graduate student Justin Yeakel and their collaborators used artistic depictions in tomb paintings and reliefs carved in temples and other objects to create their catalogue. The researchers published their findings in September’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. The paper examines two “aridification pulses” — extremely dry periods — that may have affected the Nile area for a 6,000-year period. The paper represents the first “high-resolution record” of a growing human population interacting with an “intact Pleistocene community of large mammals,” Dominy said in a College press release.

African American women are 55 percent less likely to have their breasts reconstructed after a mastectomy, according to new Dartmouth research. The researchers published their findings, which were not impacted by where women received their care, in the journal SpringerPlus. The study also found lower likelihoods of breast reconstruction for women of all races receiving care in hospitals that performed fewer breast cancer surgeries and were rural, non-teaching and not part of a cooperative oncology group.

Though hospital type was important, researchers did not find a significant difference in how often African American women and white women used the aforementioned types of hospitals. Researchers hope to understand the factors that contribute to this disparity in the future.

According to research published by sociology professor Jason Houle, 35 percent of Americans aged 24 to 28 are burdened by debt greater than their assets, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Houle’s research, published in the journal Social Problems, compares today’s 24- to 28-year-old Americans to those from the mid-1970s and those from the late 1980s. Houle found that today’s young Americans have far greater debt than those of prior generations, though the share of young Americans with debt has decreased — from 78.2 percent in the mid-1970s and 76.5 percent in the late 1980s to 75 percent today. Houle used data from the U.S. Labor Department.

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Triangle House, which will focus on LGBTQ issues. The two others open to freshmen are an entrepreneurship community and a global village, both new this fall.

Incoming students who did not request a roommate filled out surveys that asked how they intended to use their room, their preferred sleep hours and how many roommates they wanted. Surveys also noted whether a student preferred to live in single-sex or substance-free housing, ClassGiguere said, adding that the survey questions vary from year to year.

When the housing office receives student surveys, staff members first sort students by whether they were accepted into living-learning communities. After that division, students are automatically sorted into groups depending on their choice of substance-free and single-sex floors.

Staff members then assign rooms based on the number of roommates requested, predicted sleep schedules and study habits, Class-Giguere said.

Finally, if floors contain disproportionate numbers of men, women or international students, the housing staff adjusts the assignments.

They also ensure that no two roommates have the same first name

or attended the same high school, she said.

Class-Giguere said that redistribution does not take into account factors such as race or membership on a sports team.

Research conducted at Dartmouth by economics professor Bruce Sacerdote suggests that freshman roommate assignments can affect students’ academic performance and social choices. His findings show that a student’s academic performance will, on average, improve slightly if he or she is matched with a high-achieving student.

Roommates and fellow residents can also affect students’ decision to join a Greek organization, Sacerdote said.

Sacerdote said that the most effective way to influence student behavior through roommate choices may be through matching students with different backgrounds.

“People do spend a lot of time with their roommates and their dormmates,” he said. “If you care about getting a lot of mixing — of athletes and non-athletes, of people of different races — I would encourage them to mix up dorms a great deal.”

He noted that selecting room assignments to increase student GPAs might not be effective.

“I’m not worried about students’ abilities to get work done and be productive academically,” Sacerdote said. “There’s only so much social engineering you can do.”

In addition to their shared dorm, identical lamps and matching bedding, Gilfert and Zhai both attended the horseback riding Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trip.

“Everybody told us we’d hate each other within two weeks,” Gilfert said.

“But it’s been great so far.”

Zhai said that the decision alleviated a lot of the anxiety associated with going to college, but did not preclude the pair from branching out socially.

“We’re still pretty close with the rest of the floor,” Zhai said. “It’s nice — it’s hard to start from scratch with everyone.”

Zohra Aslami ’18 said she chose to live with her roommate, Chelsea Lim ’18, after meeting her at a Dartmouth acceptance party in Denver this year.

Aslami said that the arrangement has been working well so far, and that they have found largely separate friend groups through their DOC trips.

Others interviewed chose not to select a roommate, citing a lack of prior relationships with incoming Dartmouth students or a desire to get to know someone new.

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dents and the audience, one of the really compelling issues facing the world,” Hanlon said in a post-ceremony interview with The Dartmouth, explaining that he chose the power plant as an example of innovation.

Adjusting his coat after he took off his ceremonial robe in a squash room near Leede Arena, Hanlon elaborated on points from his speech. He said he wants students to be leaders who will take on the world’s biggest issues, and he said he hopes attendees took away the need for big ideas and creative innovation.

“You can’t address these issues as I said through incremental advances — otherwise, they would have been solved by now,” Hanlon said. “It takes out-of-the-box, game-changing ideas, and part of their Dartmouth training is to grow their creative capacity.”

Like Provost Carolyn Dever and student body president Casey Dennis ’15, who also spoke at the ceremony, Hanlon stressed the importance of diversity. He alluded to Scott Page’s book “The Difference,” in which Page posits that diverse groups working together

solve problems more effectively.

“The more talents you bring to the table, the better chance you’ve got to have an idea that’s a winner,” Hanlon said after the ceremony.

Dever, who began as provost on July 1, spoke of her commitment to recruiting and retaining minority faculty and a diverse student body.

“Just as excellence isn’t easy, it isn’t one dimensional,” Dever said.

“The more talents you bring to the table, the better chance you’ve got to have an idea that’s a winner.”

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In his remarks to the Class of 2018, Dennis spoke of a vision — one which he said ignited his campaign last year — of a Dartmouth where individuals understand that they have an important role to play.

“There’s something about you that stood out to those who read your application,” Dennis told the Class of 2018. “Don’t hide what made you different. Bask in it.

Live with it. Conformity is not an option nor was it the reason for your acceptance.”

Manmeet Gujral ’18 said that although the Class of 2018 had heard from Hanlon a few times already, it was good to hear what speakers thought students should garner from their Dartmouth experience.

“We’ve been hearing a lot lately about how to make the Dartmouth experience, but [Hanlon] kind of pushed it a little bit further to say remember to take what Dartmouth gives you and change the world too,” Gujral said.

Calin Mason ’18 spoke of the “spark” image, the merging of passion and intellectual curiosity that Hanlon alluded to, as something that resonated with her most from the convocation speeches.

“Right now the things I really love and the things I am interested in academically are different so I’m looking forward to when those things collide,” Mason said.

Convocation today kicked off Dartmouth’s 245th year.

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Hanover,College join forces to deal with deer FROM DEER PAGE 1

ment experts, also attended.

“This is not a simple, straightforward problem, and there is not a simple, straightforward solution,” Griffin said. “We didn’t come away with one solution or strategy in our minds.”

Dartmouth and the Town of Hanover have taken measures to decrease the number of deer in the area by opening about 1,200 acres of new land to hunters, Griffin said. Most significantly, the Trescott Property — land jointly owned by the Town of Hanover and the College, within walking distance of campus — has been opened to the public for deer hunting.

This property holds reservoirs that supply water to the College and the Town of Hanover. A substantial amount of the property’s land is infested with invasive species, and the large deer population, which has consumed native plants at an increasing rate, restricts forest regrowth, Hanover Conservatory executive director Adair Mulligan said. Hunters are allowed on the property to decrease the amount of deer and aid native plant revegetation.

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Measures taken by local agents have led to a 50-percent increase in the number of deer killed over the past three hunting seasons, but Hanover residents would like to see more action taken, Griffin said.

Duane Follensbee, a custodian at the College, said he remembered seeing a particularly high number of deer last year. This year, he has noticed them again, and several left a mess behind Parkhurst Hall last Friday, he noted.

Some residents were hoping that the state would agree to issue nuisance permits for the area, which would more rapidly fix deer problem, Griffin said. These permits would allow certified hunters to take more deer than allowed under current hunting regulations.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, however, controls all hunting regulations in the state, including the dispensing of nuisance permits.

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The Housing Crisis

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The College must undergo efforts to improve the quality of housing options.

It is gratifying to see that the newest class of Dartmouth students seems to be settling in to the rhythms of campus life with ease. There are, of course, the usual shmobs milling about in search of food, classes and the route back to their dorms (in that order), but as a whole it seems that our newest community members are quickly making it their home. However, the housing crisis caused by the sheer size of this year’s freshman class — the largest ever — is the perfect opportunity for students to demand better and more plentiful housing options.

While living learning communities demonstrate the College’s commitment to providing spaces for students with specialized interests, the broader issue of housing quality remains on the back burner. Continuing to use the River and Choates clusters for first-year housing while other freshmen land swanky McLaughlin or Fahey-McLane rooms creates a tremendous gap in freshman housing quality. Meanwhile, upperclassmen — particularly sophomores — often struggle to find satisfactory housing because of poor room numbers. This situation is untenable, especially when one considers Dartmouth relative to its peers (such as Yale University and Rice University), which tend to boast not only stronger residential communities but also an overall higher quality of housing.

Building more dorms is a no-brainer. Giving students better quality housing where they can build stronger communities in their residence halls benefits student life. First, more vibrant residential life will decrease Dartmouth’s reliance on the Greek system for social outlets while increasing opportunities for students to build the communities they want for themselves. Second, various studies (such as a 2006 report by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) show strong links between quality of housing and quality of life. The same principle applies for students; returning to a dank and bug-filled room at the end of the day is not conducive to a happy or healthy environment. Improving dorms may help students feel better-equipped to tackle the challenges of college life, like late-night study

sessions or interminable thesis papers. Third, improving the quality of freshman housing in particular may help curb high-risk behaviors by creating alternative environments more conducive to social activities in clusters.

Last November, College President Phil Hanlon stated his desire to increase continuity in the residence halls. The aforementioned living learning communities reflect the administration’s dedication to this goal; however, in order to achieve it, the College will necessarily have to create more new buildings for these interest- or affinity-specific spaces as demand for such spaces increases.

Building new dorms would undoubtedly be a costly investment. However, the College is more than willing to spend an undisclosed amount of money on other, much less necessary construction projects (like the window upgrade in the Hopkins Center), so it seems that there is money to spare on projects it deems fit. The money spent on the new windows could have been diverted to building new dorms, or at least enhancing the current residence halls.

Even without immediately investing in new dorm buildings, the College could significantly improve the currently subpar quality of dormitory life with some minor changes. Some small fixes could go a long way toward making even the least desirable buildings more pleasant to live in: remodeling existing buildings, adding air conditioning units to dorms that are open during sophomore summer, replacing single-pane windows with double-pane ones that keep heat in the buildings more effectively and adding built-in light fixtures in older and inadequately lit rooms.

Giving students the best possible college experience is about more than finding the best professors to teach their courses. Providing an environment that lets students live happy, healthy, safe and productive lives should be a college’s highest priority. Putting students in drafty, subpar dorms on the edges of campus does not fulfill that purpose. If the College is serious about improving Dartmouth, then upgrading housing options should be at the top of its priority list.

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Switching to a meatless diet has various health and social benefits.

There is no better time to positively change one’s diet and lifestyle than the start of the school year. While the use of meat and dairy products is typically taught and ingrained in most people’s lives from childhood, students must critically reflect on the consumption of animal products and the implications of that choice.

Factory farming, which produces the vast majority of meat, egg and dairy products consumed in the U.S., promotes inhumane and unsanitary conditions. Factory animals are gravely mistreated — they do not have adequate room to turn around and are loaded with antibiotics due to the rampant diseases endemic to factory farms. The egg industry sends male chicks through grinders right after birth to kill them because they cannot lay eggs and thus are economically useless. Going vegan can save over 100 animals per year, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — even simply cutting out meat once a week is enough to make an impact.

Additionally, meat production is incredibly unsustainable and environmentally damaging.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, animal agriculture negatively impacts both human health and the environment. The livestock sector is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 8 percent of global water usage, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Producing a calorie of meat requires 11 times more fossil fuel input than producing one calorie of plant-based food; animal excrements also produce massive amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Meat is also an inefficient use of resources.

According to PETA, 13 pounds of grain produce only one pound of meat. The global food supply could grow greatly if land currently used for growing food to feed livestock (in addition to the lands used for the livestock themselves) were instead put toward producing plant food for direct human consumption.

Forgoing meat does not only help the environment; it also brings numerous major benefits to human health, including decreased

cardiovascular disease, fewer food-borne illnesses, lower chances of diabetes and longer life spans. Humans also do not need to eat meat for protein. Vegans and vegetarians have access to several sources for protein: beans, tofu, nuts and vegetables. In fact, one cup of cooked spinach has roughly five grams of protein — about the same as one ounce of grass-fed beef. Most nonvegetarians or non-vegans actually consume too much protein, which can cause health issues like kidney problems.

Fighting against animal abuse and factory farming is also an important human rights issue. Human Rights Watch has called working in slaughterhouses “the most dangerous job in America.” Factory farms often seek out immigrant and migrant workers and subject them to physically and psychologically unsafe conditions.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, approximately one-third of slaughterhouse workers report illness or injuries annually. Workers at slaughterhouses may also develop desensitization to violence, which can lead to a higher incidence of violent crime, such as child abuse and domestic violence.

Finally, one of the most common concerns expressed with going vegan or vegetarian is that it is too expensive. Certain types of fancy meat replacements are more expensive than conventional options. However, basic vegan staples (such as pasta, grains, nuts and beans) are actually quite affordable. Meat prices are rising dramatically — wholesale pork prices are predicted to increase by 10 to 11 percent, compared to the 5.8-percent increase in the price of fresh fruits over the past year.

All of Dartmouth’s dining halls offer vegetarian and vegan-friendly options. Even without eliminating meat entirely, steps such as adopting Meatless Mondays can have a significant effect on the environment, health, animals and workers.

This term, make a positive change and consider a meat-free lifestyle.

Jennifer Davidson ’15 is the co-president of

the Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group, a student group that collaborates with national animal rights organizations.

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Consecutive mild winters cause deer population rise

Grafton County last year, accounting for about a sixth of the 12,540 needs additional hunting permits. deer killed statewide. This made it Instead, she said, they think allowing the county with the second-highest time to pass and weather to run its number of deer killed.

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Last year, the program worked deer herd,” Griffin said.

The large deer herd results from with the New York wildlife agency to two consecutive mild winters in 2011- obtain a nuisance permit, which led 12 and 2012-13. While the past winter to a 45-percent drop in the campus was not uncharacteristically mild, deer deer population, Curtis said.

Compared to sterilization and density remains high, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game hunting, he added, the nuisance permit has been much more effective at Department website.

Nearly 2,000 deer were killed in combatting the large deer problem.

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One-man show to address social issues

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He has been compared to popular comedians like Margaret Cho and Dave Chappelle. He hosted a show on FX for more than a year. But unless you are tuned into San Francisco’s comedy scene, you may never have heard of W. Kamau Bell, who opens the Hopkins Center’s fall season tonight.

Bell will perform “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour,” which had originally been scheduled for early October but was moved up due to a family medical reason.

Hop student-relations advisor Ryan McWilliams ’14 said Bell was chosen because of his appeal to young audiences and previous experience touring college campuses.

Bell’s comedy focuses on everyday issues that affect society, from street harassment to privilege to religion.

Some of these topics can prove uncomfortable, especially given Bell’s straightforward style, but the comedy removes some of the edge without diluting the message’s poignancy.

“He’s got this great approach to comedy,” Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence said. “He’s not angry, he doesn’t make you feel alienated or isolated. You’re definitely part of the party with him, but he does make you think.”

Bell is the former host of “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell,” a show in which he examined pertinent issues with fellow comedians, celebrities and New York pedestrians. Although this setup may sound like those of other late-night comedy shows, like “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Colbert Report,” Bell’s viewers would agree that his guests and topics distinguished his show from the rest.

Lily Brown ’15, a member of campus comedy group Improv to the People, said that “Totally Biased” featured significantly greater racial and gender

diversity than other mainstream comedy shows.

Bell discussed the trend of white male hosts in late-night television — particularly those named Jimmy — in his first BuzzFeed piece titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of Late Night.”

“Late-night TV is big business and wants the biggest audience possible,” Bell wrote. “And the people who run it believe they have evidence the biggest audience comes with a white guy. And it will probably remain that way… at least until 2042.”

With one person at the front of the room scrolling through a presentation, tonight’s performance may initially look similar to a standard classroom scene or campus lecture, Lawrence said. “[In this show] he’s kind of playing with the idea of being on campus giving a lecture,” she said. “But then what he talks about is completely turning that on its head.”

During his visit, Bell will also attend a Writing 5 course titled “Biracial Americans” taught by Melissa Herman, a lecturer in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

Herman said she hopes Bell will discuss his writing process as well as how to feel comfortable talking about race and racism.

“Typically my classes have about half multiracial students, maybe 30 percent mono-racial minorities and the last group is usually white students. It’s the first time that most of them have ever been a minority, and it can be a little scary,” Herman said. “I thought that his humor and his comfort with the issue might help everyone feel more comfortable talking about these issues.”

Hop staff have included Bell’s performance in an offer that encourages first-year students to explore the term’s programming by offering free admission to select shows. Up to 400 freshmen can reserve free tickets to Bell’s show.

Bell’s show will begin at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium and contains adult language.

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Beyond the Bubble: Activism art B y Andrea Nease The Dartmouth Staff

With every social movement, an art movement has not been far behind.

Suprematism coincided with the years preceding the Bolshevik Revolution; Dada arose from the chaos of the Great Depression and World War I. While these social events have impacted art, the art typically remains representative.

Activist art, a recent trend, is changing that. Society has tended to conceptualize art as a release, but these days, more artists are using their work to capitalize on social issues rather than simply represent their emotional effect.

The Museum of Modern Art has jumped at the opportunity to engage with activist art through its Artists Experiment initiative, which brings artists and museum associates together to create interactive public works.

The trend serves as a means to an end for social justice and political movement. Tania Bruguera’s “Immigrant Movement International” is a long-term art cooperation that works toward fostering “alternative economies” centered around creative means, not capital gain, according to Bruguera’s website. The movement is a think tank for American immigrants, and sample works include photography workshops, youth music projects, courses on media movements and an

assortment of art classes.

“Immigrant Movement International” is a work of “arte útil,” or “useful art,” a form with less of an aesthetic focus than other activist art styles. Its beauty lies in the progress toward justice and social equality.

It’s no surprise, then, that activist art complicates the conventional assessment process. Its lack of traditional technique and form makes it difficult for art historians and art critics to criticize the pieces. Assessing them is no longer about simply analyzing the hand of the artist and the level of their technique.

One of the first eminent accounts of activist art was “Womanhouse.”

Exhibited in 1972 in Los Angeles, the piece served as an iconic immortalization of the early feminist movement.

The project took form as a house that served as a gallery for works local women from the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts created under the guidance of well-known artist Judy Chicago. The most notable room in the transformed house-made-gallery was the kitchen, which featured patterns of eggs tiled upon the ceiling and upper walls. The tiled eggs bled into images of women’s breasts as they reached the lower walls and finally the floor. For the exhibition’s opening day, only women could enter the gallery. Through the exhibit,

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Chicago brought forth an unfiltered dialogue regarding women’s rights.

Over the years, the activist art phenomenon has transformed art into an entity that gives its viewers more questions than answers, uncertainty over assuredness. The world of fine art no longer contains a set repertoire of mediums. Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art is home to the late Mike Kelley’s “Mobile Homestead,” a precise replica of Kelley’s childhood residence in the Detroit suburb of Westland. The home features a removable mobile façade that travels the country, serving as a public art gallery and service provider to communities near and far.

Activist art recently came to Dartmouth with the Hood Museum’s installation of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,” which opened in late August. It addresses the aesthetic techniques used by various artists to explore racial injustice and proves a perfect example of the genre’s journey to push its viewers to interact with the art, rather than simply receive it.

Activist art is a revolution, a new genre for a new generation. It is the 21st century. The word “taboo” no longer chains down any topic of social movement. With a generation of liberated artists ahead of us, there is no reason for social and political injustice to remain in the shadows.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

TUESDAY LINEUP

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Men’s soccer meets expectations in Sunday win over Hofstra B y JOE Clyne

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The men’s soccer team notched its first win of the season on Sunday afternoon, taking down the Hofstra University Pride (2-2-2) on the road 2-1. The game was an important victory for the squad, halting a two-game losing skid that began the season and suggestive of the Big Green’s potential this year in the Ivy League.

Goals by Robin Alnas ’15 and Alex Adelabu ’15 propelled the Big Green (1-2, 0-0 Ivy) to a win.

Dartmouth’s win came on the heels of back-to-back losses in South Bend, Indiana, to the last two NCAA soccer champions. On Sept. 6, the Big Green fell to the defending national champion the University of Notre Dame. The second-ranked Fighting Irish beat Dartmouth 4-1 in Dartmouth’s third three-goal loss since 2011.

“The biggest thing going into the tournament is that we had the expectation to compete,” head coach Chad Riley said. “We were trying to get up to speed in those first two games and

I thought we did it really well. Even against Notre Dame, they scored fluky goals and we had a weird own goal, some of the mental errors that you can turn around as the season goes on.”

Dartmouth then took on the University of Indiana, another ranked team, on Sept. 8. This game was a tighter battle, but the Big Green ultimately fell to the Hoosiers 1-0.

The Hoosiers scored in the opening minutes, but could not relax against a penetrating Big Green attack.

Though the Hoosiers held on for the win, the Big Green’s stalwart performance bodes well for easier matches in Ivy League play.

“Those first few losses showed us, even when you’re good, when you’re playing with the best teams, you can’t make mistakes,” Adelabu said. “Good teams will punish you for those mistakes and that’s what happened in the tournament, although we played well.”

Against Hofstra, the Big Green jumped out to an early lead on the strength of an Adelabu goal in the 15th minute. Tyler Dowse ’18 passed to Adelabu, Dartmouth’s leading goal-

scorer for the past two years. Adelabu flicked the ball over a defender and headed it past Hofstra’s goalie, junior Patric Pray.

Holding a one goal lead, the Big Green refused to let up, keeping the pressure on Hofstra. Alnas came on as a substitute in the first half and quickly contributed, scoring in the 39th minute.

“The goal came after a transition on our part,” Alnas said. “We had the ball in our half, and put together a few passes before we had a long ball down the line to [Hugh Danilack ’15] who hit it to me.”

Alnas’s tally came at the tail end of a terrific half for the Big Green.

Dartmouth doubled Hofstra’s shot total in the first half, with 10 to the Pride’s five. Both of the Big Green’s shots on target found the back of the net.

Halftime, Alnas said, allowed Hofstra to adjust and get organized.

“In the first half we were pretty dominant and it didn’t seem like they were happy at all,” he said.

Then, Hofstra Coach Richard

Nuttall adjusted his lineup at halftime, swapping sophomore goalie Brian McPartland for Pray. McPartland did not allow a second-half goal, saving Dartmouth’s two shots on target.

Hofstra ramped up its attack in the second half, attempting to close the two goal deficit to earn at least a draw, but could only sneak one shot past Dartmouth’s goalie Stefan Cleveland ’16. In the 53rd minute, sophomore Hofstra midfielder Joseph Holland slotted a goal into the left corner of the net off an assist from senior Elliott Firth that narrowed the gap to one.

“They started hitting longer balls and really pinning us back,” Alnas said.

“It’s a very mental game when you’re up 2-0. We really have everything to lose while they have everything to win.”

The Pride’s attack continued after the first goal, but the team could not break through for an equalizing effort and fell to Dartmouth 2-1.

“Hofstra is similar caliber to Ivy League teams that we’ll be facing,” Riley said. “There’s good soccer in the Northeast, and I won’t be surprised when they win their conference and

when they play in the tournament.”

Hofstra started the season fairly well, but proved a much easier matchup for the Big Green than the Fighting Irish or the Hoosiers.

“Every year, we have the expectation that we can win the Ivy League,“ Cleveland said. “Although the Ivy League looks good this year, we expect not just to win the Ivy League but to dominate the Ivy League. We want to get in the NCAA tournament and get deep in the tournament. Once you get deep, anything can happen.”

Dartmouth hopes to bounce back from a disappointing 1-6 record in Ivy League play last season.

Dartmouth’s defense has been particularly strong through the first three games of the season, though the statistics may not reflect that yet, Riley said.

Through three games, the Big Green has allowed six goals, twice as many as the team allowed in the first three games of last season.

The Big Green next take the field at home 7 p.m. Friday against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Following strong spring campaigns, tennis poised for success

B y Hayden Aldredge The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s tennis team heads to Princeton University and the women to the College of William and Mary this Friday following strong 2013-14 seasons, defined by last-second victories, crushing defeats and unprecedented success. Though no team tournaments take place in the fall, the individual outings can serve as important practice for the winter and spring.

Last season, the men’s team placed as high as 33rd in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings, the highest ever in program history. Its 5-2 Ivy League record marked its best performance in league play in more than 15 years, and its 18 victories set a program record.

But the season ended in surprise disappointment for the Big Green: the men found themselves sitting on the wrong side of the bubble for the NCAA tournament, one of the last teams not included in the tournament’s 32-team field.

There was some vindication in the form of postseason awards. Dovydas Sakinis ’16 was named Ivy League

Rookie of the Year, the first such award for a Dartmouth tennis player since the award’s inception in 1988.

Sakinis was also awarded first team all-Ivy League, after going 14-6 in singles play. Dartmouth also had two first team All-Ivy doubles players.

The team enters the fall with the 12th best recruiting class in the nation, according to the Tennis Recruiting Network.

Two players in this highly regarded class arrive from England. Aman Agarwal ’18 and Paul Midgley ’18 bring more international talent to a team already featuring Australian, Colombian and Lithuanian players. Ciro Riccardi ’18 from California and Max Fliegner ’18 from Michigan round out a very promising class. Riccardi comes in ranked as high as 9th in the nation.

The fall is highlighted by six individual tournaments, as far away as Alabama — important preparation for full team competitions in the winter and spring, which is when year’s true challenges begin.

George Wall ’17 said winter and spring matches against the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Texas Christian University and Florida State University will be

especially challenging.

“We’re trying to build on our narrow miss of NCAAs last year,” Blake Niehaus ’17 said, noting that the team sees itself as a top-30 program and hopes to win the Ivy League.

Max Schmidt ’17 said the team has worked hard during the off season and the freshmen are impressive.

The women’s team also had a successful 2013-14 campaign, finishing the season with a 4-3 Ivy League record and ranked seventh in the final ITA Northeast region rankings. Overall, the Ivy League sent two schools, Columbia University and Princeton University, to the NCAA tournament.

Yale University and Dartmouth were the two best Ivy League women’s tennis teams to miss out on the tournament.

The women certainly face tough league competition, but stand prepared for it, having lost just one senior from last year’s squad.

Taylor Ng ’17, last year’s team’s most valuable player, was also honored with second team All-Ivy. She went 6-1 in Ivy league play as a freshman.

Katherine Yau ’16 was the women’s team lone first team All-Ivy selection.

Yau was appointed co-captain by head coach Bob Dallis along with Akiko

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Dartmouth’s women’s tennis team seeks to follow up on a successful spring.

Okuda ’15.

The team welcomes three members of the Class of 2018 this year.

Alexxis Kiven ’18 hails from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and is a five star recruit ranked as high as 51st in the national recruiting class. Kristina Mathis ’18, enters Dartmouth from Greer, South Carolina, as a promising player. She has been ranked as high as number 23

in the nation for her age group, and has competed in WTA Futures events.

Julia Schroeder ’18, from Winnetka, Illinois, rounds out the class. She has been ranked as high as 52nd nationally in the past year.

The fall season features five competitions for the women, wrapping up with the Big Green Invitational in Hanover from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.