The Dartmouth Newspaper 1/29/2016

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VOL. CLXXIII NO. 19

SNOW HIGH 37 LOW 26

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016

Trustees approve new graduate school

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Awards honor social justice

By NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

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The College’s Board of Trustees approved a motion to establish the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at a meeting in New York City on Wednesday. The motion was approved by the faculty in a November vote after it was raised in a town hall event in October. The motion was based on the recommendations of a task force chaired by Dean of Graduate Studies Jon Kull, although not all of the recommendations were incorporated. The new school will streamline administrative oversight of the over 800 Ph.D., M.S. and M.A. students at the College, in addition to about 200 postdoctoral students. There is no plan to increase the number of graduate students, nor is any large reallocation of resources planned, Kull said. Consolidating the graduate programs and their administration into a school will also establish a central area for funding from new sources, according to a release by the College. The dean of SOGAS will be reporting directly to the provost. Kull described the decision to create a new graduate school as a bold signal, adding that the formation of a graduate school demonstrated the College’s commitment to supporting the research conducted by faculty. Kull said that the new graduate school will provide institutional support for post-doctoral students, in addition to being ideally situated to support programs that traverse departments and schools. “Graduate students are already part of the Dartmouth community and they have been for a long time,” Kull said. SEE GRAD PAGE 2

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Audience members of the Social Justice Awards mingle at the reception that followed.

By ALEXA GREEN The Dartmouth

On May 23, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. lectured to an overflowing audience in the basement of Dartmouth Hall on the state of social justice in America and the ongoing civil rights movement . Thursday evening, Dartmouth’s Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards aimed to echo his message 54 years later.

Held in Filene Auditorium, the 15th annual ceremony was co-sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the William Jewett Tucker Center, the Dartmouth Center for Service and the Geisel School of Medicine. “The awards were created to find those people in our community, both local and at Dartmouth that were doing

work in social justice, environmental justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. committee co-chair Sara Campbell said. “We’re looking for the people that were doing their life’s work and looking to change the world. That’s the message Dr. King gave us.” Six awards were granted to honor those “constantly seeking to make the world a better place,” vice president SEE AWARDS PAGE 5

Sonic Landscapes course transforms Rollins Chapel

By ALYSSA MEHRA The Dartmouth

On Wednesdays, the “Sonic Landscapes” class transforms Rollins Chapel into exotic places through sound — a rainforest, an Antarctic shore, a Siberian tundra. The interdisciplinary course, taught by music professor Theodore Levin and film and media studies professor Carlos Casas, explores the intersection of music and media studies. The class examines different areas of the world, watching movies and listening to soundtracks from different

places each week to expose students to diverse perspectives and cultures. “It’s about breaking definitions and actually analyzing music and films and just seeing what music is,” Isis Cantu ’19, one of the 25 students in the class, said. She said the first class was built around everyone’s personal definition of art and music. Cantu’s academic advisor recommended she take the class because of its uniqueness and the professors, she said. This past week, the class explored the sonic and visual material in Russian republics of Tuva and Sakha. The first

American conducting ethnographic field work in Tuva, Levin recorded a soundtrack in 1987 that features xöömei, a type of traditional multitonal throat singing. The Tuvan people he recorded harmonize with the sounds of the river and other animals around, Levin said. The class focuses on sensory ethnography, expanding writing to film, sound and art, Levin said. “These are extraordinary opportunities to take a sensory journey to parts of the world that very few people here have seen,” he said. “It is opening a window to a certain kind of reality

that we hope will attract people as they go on.” The course requires students to attend showings of different movies in the Black Family Visual Arts center on Monday evenings and to discuss the films and visual culture during class on Tuesdays. “I enjoy going to the movie sessions because immediately after it, Professor Casas and Professor Levin are discussing it and asking questions, and it’s really nice to have it immediately after when it’s all still fresh in your mind,” Cantu said. SEE SONIC PAGE 3


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