VOL. CLXXI NO. 67
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
Small group provides Rally calls for safe campus assault policy feedback
By Victoria Nelsen The Dartmouth Staff
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OPINION
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ARTS
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: THOMAS STEVENTON ’16 PAGE 8
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Presenters discussed Dartmouth’s efforts to combat sexual assault at Tuesday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions, focusing on the forthcoming Center for Community Action and Prevention and the proposed changes to the College’s disciplinary policy for sexual assault. Around 30 people attended the noon session and 11 people attended the evening session, with few students at the first event and none at the second. Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, who said the session’s goal was to reach a cross section of
campus, noted that attendance was light. Johnson started the discussion by providing context about sexual assault nationwide, mentioning President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s effort to spearhead discussion on the issue and Hanlon’s attendance at a February meeting with Biden in Washington, D.C.. Next week, Johnson will present before the White House Task Force on Dartmouth’s behalf, she said. Highlighting four methods of addressing sexual assault — SEE FORWARD PAGE 3
Thefts, car break-ins prompt investigations
By Marina shkuratov The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Hanover Police and Safety and Security are currently investigating a number of thefts and car breakins that occurred across campus over the weekend. Safety and Security is investigating whether the two of the crimes that occurred near Occom Ridge were connected, Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne said. Around 1 a.m. on Saturday, Hanover Police was notified that
various electronics had been stolen from students’ backpacks in the basement of Aquinas House, the Catholic student center, Hanover Police Chief Frank Moran said in an email. Three students had items stolen, including a laptop, Kindle, phone and wallet. At 2:21 p.m. on Saturday, Hanover Police received a report that bags had been stolen from a vehicle parked on West SEE THEFTS PAGE 3
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About 40 students marched around campus during yesterday’s Take Back the Night rally.
B y TREEMAN BAKER About 40 students and community members marched under a dreary, wet sky on Tuesday evening to protest sexual assault as a part of the annual Take Back the Night rally. The march followed a larger gathering, at which speakers discussed the damage that sexual assault causes and ways they hope to combat it. “Stop the violence, stop the hate,” marchers chanted as they wound their way from the Collis Center to the Rockefeller Center and around the Green. “Wherever we go,
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however we dress: no means no, and yes means yes.” Take Back the Night rallies, which have occurred at Dartmouth since 1991, demand a campus where people feel safe from sexual assault. As part of sexual assault awareness month, the rally began in Collis Common Ground in front of a crowd of around 90, with four primary speakers. The crowd comprised students, community members and faculty, and consisted of mostly women. Community members must speak out to support victims, and reporting sexual assault can be dif-
ficult, said Kate Rohdenburg, program director of WISE, a domestic and sexual violence support center in Lebanon. Assistant men’s swimming and diving coach Jenn Verser discussed her experience as a sexual assault survivor and the trauma it caused her, describing the shock, confusion and anger that she, her family and her friends endured. She was so surprised after the incident that she did not allow herself to acknowledge it until a week later, she said. Verser said that sexual assault affects everyone SEE RALLY PAGE 2
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The Box, the solitary food truck often parked outside Silsby Hall, is quickly becoming a fixture on campus. Co-founders Eric Winn ’04 Tu’14 and Mike Parshley Tu’14 are excited that commu-
nity members have embraced the student-run and studentmanaged venture over its first month of operation. During an average lunch shift, The Box sells around 150 to 250 meals, Parshley said. The Box, which serves Mediterranean-inspired food, launched in the beginning of
April, after a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $16,120 from 204 backers, exceeding the $15,000 goal. The food truck opens its serving window each weekday for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and for dinner from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., SEE BOX PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing This year, 17 Dartmouth students and alumni have received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation, according to a College press release. The prestigious grants — awarded to around one in seven applicants in 2014 — are intended to support further study and professional scientific development for graduate students with potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. Recipients of the award, begun in 1952, have included numerous Nobel laureates and notable figures in technology and academia such as Google co-founder Sergey Brin. An additional 19 Dartmouth community members received honorable mentions in fields including physics, economics and life sciences. A study led by Geisel School of Medicine professor Anna Tosteson found that although women whose mammograms falsely indicate breast cancer experience increased anxiety, their overall health is not impacted by a false-positive result, Reuters reported. Tosteson and other researchers compared 534 cancer-free women whose mammograms initially suggested breast cancer with 494 women who originally received negative results. Although anxiety levels differed among the two groups in the study’s first year — with those who had received a false-positive expressing higher levels — this finding had leveled off after a year. The groups showed no significant differences in overall health levels. Tosteson said these findings suggest that policy makers may not need to include detriments to quality of life in analyses of the tradeoffs of mammograms. In a new working paper under review at the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Tuck School of Business professors Jonathan Lewellen and Robert Resutek argue that the “accrual problem” — a common economic dilemma in which a firm chooses not to write down inventory that may have lost its value — may be less severe than previously considered. Using data on publicly traded, non-financial firms from 1970 to 2012, the authors found that if a firm reports an extra $1 of accruals, around 96 cents of that will behave in a way inconsistent with intentional manipulation. Current models do not seem to reflect reality, the authors said, and manipulation may not be as widespread as the literature currently suggests. The authors expressed hope that their findings may catch the attention of policy makers currently analyzing the issue, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board. – COMPILED BY JOSH KOENIG
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Marchers seek to ‘Take Back the Night’ FROM RALLY PAGE 1
and that no one deserves to live in fear, a sentiment echoed throughout the night. The next speaker, Gabby Bozarth ’17, called on individuals to act against sexual assault, noting that eliminating it will require a significant amount of work. Action, she said, must address the problem’s source — the assailants — by making them uncomfortable about assault. The final speaker, health promotion and wellness office manager Carissa Dowd, spoke about her personal experience with sexual assault and the roadblocks the Vermont justice system creates for victims. After being threatened with a tire iron and sexually assaulted in front of her children, her life seemed to be split in two, Dowd said. She said that although she immediately called the police, who arrested the perpetrator within the hour, she struggled to press her case. The prosecutor appeared apathetic at best toward her case, she said, but she still worked to ensure that her attacker would be convicted and imprisoned. After their loop, the marchers returned to Collis, gathered in a circle
and shared personal responses. Many marchers expressed frustration with a perceived lack of support from campus organizations, but said they were thankful to those
“We had a great energy in the room as people sort of processed survivor stories, and I hope in the future that folks will continue to take that energy forward as we continue to tackle these problems.” - REBEKAH CARROW, SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS PROGRAM COORDINATOR who came. Throughout the rally, speakers emphasized that rape jokes create an environment in which sexual assault is not treated seriously. “I hope people have the con-
fidence, that I feel like this event instills in people, and they have the confidence enough to tell people when they are being wrong, when they make jokes that are offensive and dangerous and when their behaviors are in line with rape culture,” Alice Morrison ’14, who introduced the rally, said in an interview. Sexual assault awareness program coordinator Rebekah Carrow said she was pleased with the number of students who attended despite the inclement weather. “We had a great energy in the room as people sort of processed survivor stories, and I hope in the future that folks will continue to take that energy forward as we continue to tackle these problems,” she said. Carrow noted that the event had ties to past protests and rallies at colleges throughout the country. A DDS employee mentioned that she had not seen signs like those at the rally since she was in college, Carrow said. Take Back the Night is a charitable foundation aimed at combating sexual violence. Similar events have been held internationally and at thousands of locations throughout the country since the 1970s, according to the organization’s website.
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‘Moving Dartmouth Forward’ event addresses sexual assault FROM FORWARD PAGE 1
prevention, response and support, education and accountability and judicial policy — Johnson discussed the College’s efforts to support sexual assault survivors. Recent changes include the creation of a second sexual assault awareness program coordinator position and a sexual assault response team program, which provides survivors with access to campus resources as they recover. She also pointed to the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative as a priority, noting that research has shown bystander programs to be one of the most effective tools to prevent sexual assault on college campuses. Johnson also discussed plans for CCAP, saying she hopes it will centralize prevention efforts and inspire “broad-based mobilization” of campus communities to fight sexual violence. The center, announced in February, will open its doors in the fall. “We want to make sure that, for all who want to get involved or think they want to get involved, there’s a touch point at the center,” Johnson said. College General Counsel Bob Donin spoke about the recent disciplinary policy proposal, which he said was submitted because campus
sexual assault is underreported. Under the new proposal, a trained, external investigator will interview everyone involved in a case before submitting a report. If the investigator finds an offender guilty, a sanctioning committee consisting of the Title IX coordinator, the judicial affairs director and an appropriate dean, will determine the appropriate sanction, not the Committee on Standards. Other schools have adopted the investigator model, but it remains too new to be tested, Donin said. Judicial affairs director Leigh Remy then opened the floor to audience members, who asked about the investigator model, current sexual assault education efforts and support for students accused of sexual assault. In response to a question regarding education about sexual assault at the College, Johnson said DBI overviews will complement educational programs in place for the Class of 2018. The College must also reinforce these trainings later in students’ time at Dartmouth, Johnson said. Audience members recommended that the policy define the term “coercion” and include the concept of “persistence,” when a perpetrator does not accept refusals. Johnson said in an interview that Tuesday’s sessions sought to educate
community members on College action against sexual assault and to solicit community feedback on the new policy proposal. The event differed from other talks on sexual assault such as the recent Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault symposium, she said, because it was shorter, more discussion-based and followed a question-and-answer format. “It was thoughtful feedback,” Johnson said. “It was obvious that people took time to read the policy. The folks who were here were engaged and had good questions, and that will help us as we look at all the feedback and refine the policy before its summer implementation.” The last official day for community members to submit feedback on the policy proposal was April 14, and Johnson said the current plan is to review the feedback, make changes and implement the policy by the start of summer term. “I’m glad the administration is taking diverse means of getting feedback,” said Murylo Batista ’15, who attended Tuesday’s session. Not enough contextual information was included in the session, Batista said, adding that he thought presenters seemed unprepared when questions were asked about sexual
assault education. “I think that it’s really important for the administration to be taking such a strong stance on the issue of sexual assault,” government professor and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies chair Lisa Baldez said. “It’s a very difficult issue, but I think it’s really important to see the administration prioritizing it.” Batista said he was disappointed that more students did not attend. Josiah Proietti, East Whee-
lock community director, said the conversation centered almost completely on adjudication rather than the other components of sexual assault, but stressed that he did not criticize this choice. “I mostly came away feeling appreciative of the fact that the conversation is being brought to the whole community stage,” Proietti said, “and that the resources that are being allocated are pretty substantial.”
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Yesterday’s ‘Moving Dartmouth Forward’ sessions saw low attendance.
S&S, Hanover Police examine campus thefts FROM THEFTS PAGE 1
Wheelock Steet, and that the vehicle itself was damaged, Moran said. Half an hour later that afternoon, police were notified of unauthorized use and vandalism of a vehicle stolen from behind Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. The vehicle was parked there at 10:15 p.m. on Friday, Moran said, but was left unlocked with the keys inside. The vehicle was later discovered outside the Roth Center, located at 5 Occom Ridge, with exterior and interior damage. The victim of the theft outside KDE, a female member of the Class of 2015, said she found her car about
an hour after discovering that it was missing on Saturday afternoon. After searching for the car in A-Lot, the female student said she saw it in a parking lot near Delta Delta Delta sorority. Someone had slashed the passenger seat, cracked the GPS display and tried to remove the car’s ceiling light, she said. Hanover Police also received a report on Sunday that personal items were stolen from a parked vehicle on Gile Drive, Moran said. Kinne said that Safety and Security officers are currently investigating whether the thefts at Aquinas House and outside KDE were connected.
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Just Keep Sinking
Ignoring the protesters’ demands and tactics implies tacit acceptance. I agree that all forms of discrimination and instances of sexual assault at Dartmouth are unacceptable. I disagree with some specifics of the “Freedom Budget” and with the actions of some protestors. These two opinions are not mutually exclusive. However, those who disagree with aspects of the “Freedom Budget” or with the actions of its supporters have been accused of ignoring the bigger picture and supporting the status quo. This false dilemma serves to silence debate around an issue while simultaneously forwarding an agenda without resistance. In the days following the release of the “Freedom Budget,” student response was understandably mixed. The students involved in drafting the document called for reforms that were large in scale and scope, which was difficult for the rest of campus to digest. To be fair, I am sure there were students who dismissed the reforms out of hand. However, many students expressed disapproval to specific aspects of the “Freedom Budget” while affirming their support of the bigger issues and even backing some of its proposals. Yet in the first column addressing the response to the “Freedom Budget,” Becca Rothfeld ’14 (“Downright Denial,” Feb. 28, 2014) wrote “mainstream Dartmouth has showcased its immaturity in harping on the specific details of a document that represents, above all, an important call to change.” While there may be some for whom this accusation is correct, claiming that the response represented mainstream Dartmouth is far from the truth. Campus conversations, discussions and opinion pieces have agreed on the call to change, but the specifics matter. Furthermore, the “Freedom Budget” itself demanded a line-by-line response from the administration, so it is perfectly fair to expect students to respond in the same detail. The student body is right to do so, as many aspects of the “Freedom Budget” are problematic. For example, one of the demands reads “eradicate internal judicial processes for students who break laws, those laws will be reported directly to police.” There are many
problems with this one demand, the most glaring being that it would violate the College’s requirements under Title IX. In cases of sexual discrimination, sexual harassment or sexual violence, the College must complete an internal investigation even if there is a corresponding police investigation. This illustrates a shockingly poor understanding of the law, as some of the same people involved in initiating the Title IX investigation against the College are now asking the College to violate Title IX. For space, I cannot address the other, lesser issues in the “Freedom Budget,” but I would like to acknowledge that there are some points with which I agree. I agree with items such as recruiting and retaining minority professors, expanding Dartmouth’s language program, eliminating the student contribution for students on financial aid and other proposals. Those who care about these issues should discuss the specifics. They should be educated on what they entail and willing to attempt to discern the proper course of action. During the protest at Parkhurst, the same accusations were levied against those who called into question the protestors’ tactics. In their column (“The Bigger Picture,” April 4, 2014), Carla Yoon ’15 and Eliana Piper ’14 claim that the responses to the protest were “quick to criticize and miss the bigger picture.” Those who accuse individuals who speak out against the protest and its methods as trying to silence the protesters are plainly incorrect. Criticizing the demonstrators’ tactics does not constitute silencing. Trying to tie responses to the document’s demands (or the protest itself) to the approval or disapproval of greater issues is ludicrous. Yoon and Piper go on to write “[w]e may not agree with the specifics, but many can agree that Dartmouth has underlying issues,” and I agree. I have met many wonderful and caring people who are involved with the “Freedom Budget.” However, neither their demands nor their tactics are above criticism, and these issues are too important to be met with tacit acceptance.
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To combat poor admissions trends, the College must listen to its students. As we head toward the final Dimensions weekend and “commitment day” for high school seniors everywhere, the question on every Dartmouth student’s mind is: Will our yield rate follow the pattern of the recent application rates? Will we miss out on some of the best and brightest students? This past year has seen both a decline in applications to Dartmouth and an increase in our acceptance rate. Yet the administration continues to display its ignorance of everyday student life around campus, acting seemingly independently of popular opinion. While our admissions numbers have suffered in recent years, what exactly have administrators done? Despite a minute slowdown for the upcoming academic year, they have continued to increase our tuition, making us the second most expensive Ivy League school. They have effectively allowed Dartmouth Dining Services to coerce the student body into paying more and more money in a monopoly system. They have done away with giving credit for AP and IB test scores. And, most recently, they have broken the Dimensions program, considered highly successful by common opinion, into multiple days and prohibited Dimensions performers from posing as fake prospective students. It seems like all the administration has done is come up with shortsighted solutions to serious problems or take a hammer to systems that need no fixing. Further, the things that a seemingly large contingent of the student body wants have been ignored: a better printing system, serious and comprehensive improvements to mental health care and other Dick’s House services, changes to DDS policies such as DBA rollover and takeout restrictions. As a student, things are looking bleaker by the day. And though I keep trying to tell myself to have hope and “just keep swimming,” I cannot help but feel that Dartmouth is struggling to stay afloat, sinking ever lower. Administrators appear to be scratching their heads and wondering how they can “fix” Dartmouth, yet we stand here loudly and firmly telling them what we, the actual students who live our daily lives here, think could be amended.
Of course, we have learned that there is one way to get the administration to appear, at least outwardly, to listen to our opinions. That method is to make a big enough commotion that the media gets involved, leaving the College with no choice but to act for fear of being cast in a negative light by outsiders. Though there may be work done behind the scenes, to the average student, the administration appears to be driven by profit and political correctness, rather than what is appropriate for the situation and best for the community. From what I can perceive, it is the everyday student who loses out. We need both increased action and more transparency from the administration. There has been one small bright spot on the otherwise dismal horizon. The recently introduced website Improve Dartmouth, created by students with funding from the President’s Office, allows members of the Dartmouth community to propose, vote on and provide feedback on ideas before receiving administrative responses. The underlying concept is promising: combining student suggestions with some degree of increased administrative transparency. Looking at the difference in quantity and scope between the suggestions marked completed, under review and in progress offers encouraging insight, but at the same time reveals just how much can still be done. A small victory: FoCo has a new clock. We have now reached a pivotal moment for Dartmouth, on the heels of being awarded a $100 million donation and holding two summits focused on redirecting Dartmouth, one led by administrators in combination with members of Dartmouth Roots and one by students. Now is the time for the administration to turn things around and start changing Dartmouth by listening to the concerns that students agree upon, because many initiatives, from the simple to the complex, have widespread student support. Now is the perfect chance to turn the tide and hopefully ride the waves of improved public opinion to a better future. The students are ready and willing to just keep swimming. The only question is whether the administration is ready and willing to join us.
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After early success, Box founders are optimistic for future FROM BOX PAGE 1
operates on a schedule that will “continue to evolve,” Parshley said. Last Wednesday night, The Box drove to Webster Avenue for its first late-night shift. Food sold out by 1:45 a.m., Winn said. Operation times and menu items will remain flexible, Parshley said, an approach that ensures customers are satisfied and the business is sustainable. The food truck’s student-heavy employee base — over 25 undergraduates and Tuck School of Business students work for The Box — distinguishes the food truck from other local dining options, Parshley said. Executive chef Tyler Harvey said that, during the first week in business, food kept selling out before shifts ended. Harvey said The Box’s managers were pleasantly surprised but had to adapt to meet demand, including simplifying the menu. The first month has been a learning experience, she said, adding that many aspects of The Box have been modified since its launch given the number of “moving parts” the team had to deal with initially. Based on the results of the first few weeks, Parshley said he is optimistic
about The Box’s long-term future. Ninety percent of customers purchased an entree and additional sides, like pita chips or a chocolate-chip salted oat cookie. The falafel and pulled pork sandwiches are particularly popular, Parshley added. Next week, The Box will launch a gourmet BLT sandwich and a vegetarian option with mozzarella. The team hopes to introduce salad options for summer, and Harvey said she plans to use produce from local farms. Harvey said she was pleasantly surprised at how excited students were about the food’s health component, she said. “I think with awareness of food and different facets of food like environmental awareness and sustainability, people of our generation are a lot more invested in working with food,” Harvey said. The Box has already found its way into campus tours, as tour guides use its presence to exemplify the relationship undergraduates have with Tuck students. “We could not be happier with the team we have between Dartmouth students and Tuck students,” Winn said. “They are making this a reality and making this a great experience for
the campus, and they should get a lot of that credit.” Winn and Parshley believe they have created a working environment in which all members feel comfortable voicing opinions and suggestions, they said. Box employee Cecelia Shao ’16, who has participated in the business since its inception, said workers write down ideas or suggestions on notepads during each shift. Implementing these ideas “on the fly” makes The Box unique, Parshley said. Shao is a former member of The Dartmouth staff. Winn said The Box offers a unique opportunity for students to learn about business. “Spending an hour on the truck, you learn more about how to run a business than any other hour you’ll spend in college, and I think that’s a really powerful opportunity for everyone involved,” Winn said. Harvey noted, however, that serving food in a truck brings its challenges. “We’re doing everything from scratch, and it becomes really difficult when you’re not in a brick-and-mortar restaurant to do all the things the way we wanted to do them and also have a expansive menu,” Harvey said.
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The Box’s Mediterranean-inspired fare has drawn crowds since coming to campus.
The Box shares its kitchen with Dartmouth Dining Services, she said. Thirteen students interviewed were generally intrigued by The Box, but noted some limitations. Many considered The Box’s prices a drawback, since it does not accept DASH or DBA. “It’s a treat,” Jovalee Thompson ’14 said. “I had it once, and if I’m fed up with DDS, I’ll eat there, but I wouldn’t eat there every day.” Thompson mentioned a lack of diverse meat options as a drawback. Cathy Liebowitz ’15 said that while she thinks the truck expands food options and offers an experiential learning
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opportunity for students interested in business, she finds it more convenient to eat at DDS locations that accept DBA. Although he would like to sample The Box’s offerings, James Brofos ’15 said that he never finds himself near Silsby during lunch hours. Monica Erives ’14, who has eaten at the food truck twice, said it is refreshing to get “a prepared, healthy, unique meal.” Parshley said the team is working to make eating at The Box an “allencompassing experience.” “Its about the students making this their community,” Winn said.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:15 p.m. “Marriage as Blind Spot: What Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy Doesn’t Say about LGBT Parenting,” Rockefeller Center 003
4:15 p.m. Computer science colloquium, “Bear — Embracing Nondeterminism,” with Dr. Stephen Taylor of Thayer School of Engineering, Steele 006
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Crew teams see mixed results in weekend regattas on road B y jehanna axelrod The Dartmouth Staff
In a weekend that included inclement weather, tough conditions and location changes, the men’s and women’s crew teams saw mixed results. The women’s crew team competed in a two-day Clemson Invitational, faring better on the second day. The men’s lightweight team failed to win a race as it struggled against Yale University in the Durand Cup and Columbia University in the Subin Cup. The men’s heavyweight team fell to Boston University and beat Rutgers University. The weekend started bright and early Friday for the women, who caught a 7:30 a.m. flight out of Manchester to Clemson, S.C., for a 21-team competition. The first varsity eight kicked off
the regatta with a sixth-place finish in its heat and a time of 7:17.2 for the 2,000-meter race. “We were off our game,” Annie Gardner ’15 said. “The conditions were pretty rough, and we didn’t handle that nearly as well as we could have.” The second varsity eight did not fare any better, finishing last in its heat with a time of 8:00.4, the same place as the first varsity four, which claimed seventh with a time of 8:55.7. “Our coach talked to us and was like, ‘Snap out of it, ladies!’” Gardner said. “We went over what we could change for our next races, and we were able to turn it around.” The women’s crew team saw more success on Sunday. The first boat took third in its heat with a time of 6:55.9, just over four seconds behind heatwinner Cornell University. The second
Equestrian wins fourth Ivy League Championship
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Entering the final event of the Ivy League Championships on Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., the equestrian team trailed by just one point. Justin Maffett ’16 was up to the challenge, earning the Big Green’s only individual win of the day and giving the team its fourth ever Ivy Championship title. The Big Green has won previously in 1997, 2007 and 2010, but this was the team’s first League title won away from the Upper Valley. The team defeated hosts Cornell University by six points. Brown University came in third in the competition, which featured representatives of every Ancient Eight school except Harvard University and Columbia University. This was the team’s first chance to compete against many of its Ivy foes, as it competes against schools in its own region for the rest of the season. Since the competition was away from home and out of the region, the Big Green riders competed on horses they had never seen before. A road victory is especially difficult, Janna Wandzilak ’14 said, because of the randomness of the draw and unfamiliarity with the horses. The day began with preliminary rounds to determine who would make the various championship competitions in the afternoon. Wandzilak finished third in the open fences championship. Lindsay Seewald ’16 placed third in the intermediate flat competition and fifth in the intermediate fences championship. Catherine Conway ’17 had a strong day, placing third in the novice flat championship
and fourth in the novice fences championship. Meg Rauner ’17 placed fourth in the walk-trotcanter championship before Maffett took home first in the walk-trot championship. The competition’s set up, where the advanced riders compete before the novice riders, puts pressure on competitors in the walk-trot, the last event of the day, Alexa Dixon ’15 said. Despite only one individual win by the Big Green, the team accumulated enough points to win the overall championship thanks to picks for point riders by head coach Sally Batton, Wandzilak said. Before any competition, the coach decides which riders’ scores will count toward the team’s overall score. “One of the things that has made our team so strong this year is that we’re so deep, so we have multiple riders in each event that can score points,” Wandzilak said. As a walk-on sport, the team’s strength varies each year, Seewald said. The team heads to nationals in two weeks and hopes that its success this year will translate into a top-10 finish in the 16-team competition. “We’ve kind of been the underdogs all season,” Wandzilak said. “We didn’t have really high expectations going into this year, so we’ve just been taking it one step at a time.” The team upset perennial powerhouse Mount Holyoke College at the Zone 1 Championship, so many schools have been cheering for it, Dixon said. The team travels to the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pa., for the national championship in two weeks.
varsity eight placed second in its heat and the varsity four narrowly missed a top-three finish, crossing the line just 0.4 seconds behind third-place Cornell in its heat. In the second session, the first varsity eight bested the Big Red but fished fifth overall with a time of 7:13.1. The second eight fell back to sixth place in its afternoon race, and the varsity four also regressed in the afternoon, coming in seventh. On Saturday, the men’s lightweight team went head-to-head with Yale in Derby, Conn. Though originally scheduled to take place in Hanover, the race was moved due to inclement weather. All three of Dartmouth’s boats fell to the Bulldogs. The first varsity eight dropped the 2,000-meter race with a time of 5:38.49, a little over seven seconds behind Yale. “We started off on a bad foot and we never recovered,” lightweight coach Sean Healey said. “We were able to prevent Yale from just rocketing out, but looking at the race, I think there’s a lot that could be improved upon.” Its second boat did not fare better, finishing nearly 12 seconds after Yale with a time of 5:47.96. “They were actually having a phenomenal race until about the halfway mark when they caught a digger, which is when someone gets their blade stuck in the water,” Healey said. “They recovered okay from that one, and then they just proceeded to catch a lot of those.” The team’s third boat lost by a
slightly smaller 10-second gap after finishing its race in 6:17.11. The lightweight team was again swept on Sunday in the Subin Cup in Leonia, N.J. The first eight finished the 2,000-meter race in 6:35.5, about nine seconds behind Columbia. The second boat completed the course in 6:43.8, about 14 seconds off the Lions’ time, and the third varsity eight crossed off the line over 42 seconds off the lead with a finish time of 7:24.1. The four also had a tough showing, finishing the race in 8:07.6, 25 seconds behind Columbia. “For the first 1,000 meters of the race, we’re right there going stroke for stroke with Columbia, then things unraveled,” Healey said of the second varsity boat. The heavyweight team’s race was also moved due to inclement weather, forcing the Big Green to travel to St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., for the Bill Cup, which pitted the team against BU and Rutgers. The team is tired of traveling, Ryan O’Hanlon ’17 said. The heavyweight team came second to BU in all four of the races. The first varsity eight finished the 200-meter course in 6:34.0, just under 13 seconds behind BU. “Given where we think we are and where we’ve stacked up with competition, we shouldn’t be losing by 12 or 13 seconds,” O’Hanlon said. “We did have a tough race, but it’s also a sign that we need to be improving.”
The second varsity eight came in with a time of 6:37.9, almost 20 seconds behind the Terriers. The third boat finished in 6:57.5 and the fourth varsity in 6:53.0, 23 and 15 seconds, respectively, after BU. After BU’s top boats dominated Rutgers, Darmouth’s first three boats took on the Scarlet Knights. The heavyweight team swept the competition, easily winning all of its races. The first boat notched a race time of 7:02.8, about 16 seconds better than Rutgers. The split between the second boats was even wider, with Dartmouth finishing in 6:49.2 and the Scarlet Knights in 7:32.3. The third boat won by nearly 26 seconds, coming in with a time of 7:22.6. The team expects to continue to improve now that the Connecticut River has thawed. “There would be giant icebergs floating down the river and insane currents that would move the boat backwards,” O’Hanlon said of previous training conditions. The women are back in action this weekend, as are the heavyweights. The women face off against the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University for the Class of 1984 Plaque, and the heavyweight team will be back on the water this Saturday in Providence, R.I., to compete against Brown University in the Atalanta Cup. The lightweights have a week to train before hosting Cornell on May 3.
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Spring DHMC exhibit features artists, staff
B y MARGARETTE NELSON The Dartmouth Staff
A woman stood up from her waiting area chair on the third floor of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Faulkner Building to inspect a photograph. On the wall before her were over 20 images captured by Vermont photographer Hunter Paye. “Wow, so pretty,” the woman said, leaning in to bring her face within inches of one photograph. Paye, along with local painter Georgina Forbes and contemporary digital artist Gloria King Merritt, are featured in DHMC’s spring rotating exhibition program, which will remain on view through July. Artwork by 40 employees and volunteers will also be hung in the hospital’s hallways and rotunda exhibition spaces. The spring exhibit, which will open April 29, is one of five rotating shows throughout the year. The program has existed “in some format” for the past two decades, DHMC arts program coordinator Marianne Barthel said. “We look for any type of art that will provide a positive and uplifting environment,” Barthel said. Merritt, who has 13 pieces of digital art on display, described participating in the exhibition as a particularly fitting way to launch her career in digital art. A few years ago, Merritt, a lifelong painter, broke a tendon in her right hand and was left without a full range of motion in her thumb. Merritt underwent surgery and subsequent occupational therapy at DHMC. While in occupational therapy, Merritt said she was encouraged to practice moving the tip of her thumb as often as possible. After success experimenting with a stylus pen on a tablet, she soon progressed to other software to create digital art from layers of patterns. “What’s the difference between painting with something you smear on a board and making it digital?” Merritt said. Merritt said she enjoys making digital art and no longer desires to return to painting. Though artists typically apply to participate in the rotating exhibit, Barthel contacted Paye after seeing his photographs online. Barthel said that because Paye was only living in
the area for a limited amount of time, she wanted to display his work this season. Paye said his relationship with the camera grew from his “documenting of passing sites” over the past few years to a “full love for photography itself.” A singer-songwriter who has spent “thousands and thousands of miles” touring over the past decade, Paye draws inspiration from his travels, he said. The exhibit marks the first time Paye has printed his photographs for display, he said. He also made his first sale last week, he said. “It’s world of firsts, like learning a new language,” Paye said. “I know how to do this in the world of music, [and] now [I’m] doing it in photography.” Submissions for the rotating exhibition have increased in recent years and there is a yearlong wait to participate in the program, Barthel said. Most artists live in the Upper Valley, Barthel said, but DHMC has displayed work by artists from as far as New York City and Maine. Barthel described the program as a “win-win” that lets artists display their works while creating a healing and uplifting environment, in line with the program’s mission. Barthel said she routinely receives positive feedback from families and staff members who view the exhibits. “[Patients] walk with their IV poles to see the art,” Barthel said. The works are placed in various display areas. Forbes’s abstract landscapes are hung on a wall in the fourth-floor endoscopy hallway, where they are brightly lit by natural light. Merritt’s work is featured in a spacious fifth-floor rotunda space. “To actually stand back and see a piece from a distance is a hard space to get,” Merritt said. “The light is great.” Paye noted that receiving positive feedback from DHMC patients has been particularly rewarding. When Paye visited the hospital last week to hang his art, many visitors walked straight up to inspect his works’ details, he said. Works by Forbes, Merritt and Paye can be purchased through each respective artist, and the DHMC arts program will receive 25 percent of the proceeds from any sales.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Thomas Steventon’16 B y DONGJUN SUH
The Dartmouth Staff
Having spent his whole life loving film, it seemed only natural that Thomas Steventon ’16 might also try writing screenplays. His freshman year at Dartmouth, Steventon wrote a play called “Friday Night” for the student-produced 10-Minute Play Festival and took his first screenwriting classes with film professor Bill Phillips. As a sophomore, Steventon, a double major in economics and film and media studies, began writing screenplays and submitted an entry to this year’s Ivy Film Festival screenplay competition. His screenplay, “Gaijin and Courtesy of Thomas Steventon Samson,” was recently selected as a finalist. The screenplay is an Thomas Steventon ’16 wrote a screenplay recently selected as a contest finalist. action-thriller about a samurai and hardboiled American detective year, Steventon also played on the skill while remaining fun to read. “His characters are crazy, and who come together to investigate men’s rugby team. a mystery. Before Dartmouth, Steventon his plots are even crazier, but that The screenplay was inspired traveled around the world to study never detracts from the quality of by movies he enjoyed during his film. Whether visiting Los Angeles, his work,” Jones said. “When I’m adolescence, Steventon said. Paris or Oxford, he seized any in the mood for a cohesive story that’ll take me on a wild ride, I’ll “Films written by Quentin chance to pursue his passion. Tarantino, ‘The Usual Suspects’ Steventon’s future career, how- read some of his stuff.” [(1995)] by Christopher McQuar- ever, may not be in the arts at all. As busy as Steventon has been rie and the ‘Lethal Weapon’ series Over the summer, Steventon was with rugby, he spends much of by Shane Black made me want to playing rugby at home in New his free time writing scripts. Most write an original story that would Zealand when a coach for one recently, he finished a historical be both gripping of the coun- script, inspired by a class, about and comedic,” top club Otto Skorzeny, a Nazi SS officer “We would joke about try’s Steventon said. teams spotted who led a mission during World Less formally, how he seemed to him. He said War II to track down and rescue Steventon has know everything about he would like Benito Mussolini. written skits and to try to play Steventon said he has taken plays all his life. everything.” professionally advantage of Dartmouth’s range His parents proin the future of film and media studies offervided feedback and has spent ings, including playwriting and - bill phillips, and encouraged the last few screenwriting classes, and plans his passion, he film professor terms playing to continue to do so in the future. said. rugby in New “Dartmouth has a wealth of opportunities from playwriting to He emphaZealand. sized the im P h i l - screenwriting that you can take portance of using research to lips called Steventon a thoughtful, advantage of,” he said. “If you create a sense of authenticity in engaged student who always had are passionate about something, screenplays. “very cogent things to say about just stick with it.” “There’s an intricacy to the everyone else’s work.” Steventon characters in a script that you don’t also has an extensive knowledge really get unless you go through of film, Phillips said. intensive research to set the piece “We would joke about how and the cultural background,” he he seemed to know everything said about everything,” Phillips said. with Thomas Steventon ’16 At Dartmouth, Steventon hosts “Clearly, he’s well-read, he’s seen a morning show called “Straddling a lot of movies and he does a lot My favorite place at Dartmouth is: the Black Family Visual Arts Center. the Line” for Dartmouth College of research.” Radio. During the winter, he pro- Fellow screenwriter Jaquille My favorite food on campus is: the duced and hosted the Dartmouth Jones ’16 described Steventon’s barbecue tender queso at the Idol overflow show. His freshman scripts as exhibiting creativity and Courtyard Café.
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