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MAV expands to freshmen floors Abuse support
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of Health Promotion and Wellness. The program consists of facilitated discussions on sexual violence. MAV facilitators lead conversations on power dynamics, rape culture, the spectrum of violence and restrictive gender expression. In the past MAV facilitators have led a large number of discussions in fraternities, sororities and co-ed houses, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program coordinator
WISE @ Dartmouth will begin its first support group — a weekly, student-run group for self-identifying women who have experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse or stalking — next week, Caeli Cavanagh ’14, a co-chair of WISE @ Dartmouth, said. The organization hopes that the support group will provide a place where students can be secure in their knowledge that they are not alone and that they support each other, advocates and survivors alike, she said. Students interested in joining the group have been asked to contact WISE @ Dartmouth, a Tucker Foundation organization of students who volunteer at WISE of the Upper Valley. The support group’s meeting time and location will remain confidential for student safety, and once the support group begins, members will have an agreement of confidentiality. “We just want people to have a place where they can talk about what happened to them if they want to,” Cavanagh said. “Because unfortunately, a lot of times when people experience violence, whether it’s stalking or gang violence or sexual assault, they can feel very isolated.” WISE runs an empowerment model in its advocacy, Cavanagh said, meaning that the organization believes that given all of the information and tools they need, survivors can make their own decisions on how they wish to act and move forward, as an expert on their own lives. While the group will help students share
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MAV will expand its programming to include freshman floors, in addition to upper classmen groups.
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Movement Against Violence is set to expand its programming to freshman floors this term, with a curriculum tailored to the dynamics of first-year communities. The initiative aims to address issues of sexual and domestic violence prevention most relevant to the situations first-year students will likely encounter. The new curriculum will
build on the same mentality of preventative steps prior to an intervention and preventing a culture that tolerates sexual violence. The new programming will, however, focus more heavily on gender and how perceptions of gender can contribute to sexual violence, MAV programming director Jill Horing ’15 said. MAV functions as a part of the Sexual Assault Awareness Program, which is under the larger umbrella of the Office
Community college proposal unlikely to affect Dartmouth B y TIM CONNOR The Dartmouth Staff
President Obama’s proposal to provide federal funding to make the first two years of community college free for students nationwide, announced last Friday, could have significant implications for students in Vermont and New Hampshire, where annual tuition for community colleges are some of the highest in the nation. Students in the two states typically pay fees of $7,000 per year, in comparison to the less than $1,500 students pay on average in states such
as California, much of which is covered by government grants. Federal investment in the proposed program, which the White House is calling America’s College Promise, is projected to cost $60 billion over the course of the next 10 years. Eligible students would be required to maintain a grade point average of at least 2.5 and remain enrolled at least half time. The plan is still in its nascent stages, and would require action from both state governments and Congress. Community College of Vermont president Joyce Judy said she was pleased with the conversation that
has sprung up around the president’s proposal and predicted that it will have major implications both nationally and locally. “I think it’s terrific that he has started the conversation about how important post-secondary education is in today’s world,” she said. “If the U.S. is going to be competitive economically — if Vermont is going to be competitive economically — we have to recognize that education beyond the 12th grade is critical.” Tuition at CCV costs $5,568 annually for in-state residents, 75 percent more than the national average of
$3,178 for a two-year institution. In the community college system of New Hampshire, the minimum full-time attendance costs $4,800 plus additional fees, while a higher load of 15 credits per semester costs $6,000 per year, plus fees. Costs are higher for out-of-state students. Dartmouth economics professor Elizabeth Cascio said that Obama’s initiative is unlikely to have a significant impact on Dartmouth’s student body since Dartmouth does not take many transfers from community colleges. She said the proposal may hold greater SEE COMMUNITY PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES Brown University: Beginning on April 1, Cass Cliatt will replace Marissa Quinn as the new Brown University vice president for communications, according to the Brown Daily Herald. During the interim between Quinn’s departure on Jan. 1 and Cliatt’s arrival from Franklin and Marshall College, directors from public affairs and university affairs will manage the work usually assigned to the office of communications. Columbia University: In early December of last year, police confronted hundreds of protesters in New York City’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, the Columbia Spectator reported. According to the Spectator, the protesters were responding to a Staten Island grand jury’s decision in the case of Eric Garner. Columbia students participated in marches around the city. Cornell University: In late December of last year, a grand jury indicted 32-year-old Benjamin Cayea for the murder of a Cornell student, the Cornell Sun reported. Cayea was indicted for one count of second-degree murder after Shannon Jones ’15 was found dead on Thanksgiving Day. Cayea confessed to law enforcement officers that he committed the murder. Harvard University: Currier House, a residential house at Harvard University, has welcomed Robert C. Meisner as its new acting dean, the Harvard Crimson reports. Meisner, a clinical fellow in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, replaces former dean Laura K. Johnson. Princeton University: Audrey Dantzlerward ’16, a 22-year old Princeton undergraduate and english major, was found dead in her residence on the morning of Jan. 12, the Daily Princetonian reports. Later that evening, students, faculty and staff gathered in the University’s Murray-Dodge Hall in remembrance of Dantzlerward’s life, according to the Princetonian. University of Pennsylvania: Last week, the Office of Student Conduct at the University of Pennsylvania released missing disciplinary reports from the period between 2009 and 2014, the Daily Pennsylvanian reports. The Daily Pennsylvanian had both reported on and authored an editorial about the missing reports. Yale University: According the Yale Daily News, a man accused of the 2010 homicide of a postgraduate fellow at the University has requested Yale release the victim’s records, including disciplinary and human resources records. The University has asked the New Haven Superior Court to reject the motion. -Compiled by Irene Cofie
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implications for other colleges and universities where it is more common for community college students to transfer. Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote, whose areas of expertise include determinants of college attendance, said that the proposal is likely to cause community colleges to raise tuition to increase their profits. “Every time the government introduces an additional subsidy or raises the Pell Grant, [it] tends to cause higher education institutions to raise prices,” he said. “That’s just basic economics — if you give consumers of college or university a larger subsidy, it provides some scope for the providers to raise price. This is likely to follow that trend, and how large the subsidy is across the board will have some impact on how much or how little they’re able to raise the price in response.” This is not necessarily a bad thing, Sacerdote said, because it might spur community colleges to improve the quality of the education they provide. He then added that the president’s proposal may not affect Americans in the lowest income brackets as dramatically as it will middle-income households. For low-income individuals, com-
munity college costs are often fully covered by Pell Grants, he said. “It might impact lower-middle income families who weren’t getting the max Pell, and it might also provide a large subsidy for folks who could
“There could be spillovers for Dartmouth as a product of having a more educated workforce in the local area.” - Elizabeth cascio, Economics professor already afford community college and now they’re going to get it for free, even though they were perfectly happy to pay for it before,” Sacerdote said. Cascio said that the proposal could have implications for the larger Dartmouth community. “There could be spillovers for Dartmouth as a product of having a more educated workforce in the local area, which could also be affected by this initiative over the longer term,” she said. Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wil-
son School of Public and International Affairs Cecilia Rouse, who served on Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2009 to 2011, praised the proposal in a release published by Princeton, calling it “ambitious.” Rouse stated that the while the proposal will provide incentives for colleges to further develop their educational programs, the incentives may not be sufficient to solicit full state participation. The proposal is also likely to face significant hurdles in a Republicanmajority Congress, where opposition has already been mounting against Obama’s plan. Judy said the proposal would not make tuition at CCV completely free for the 10,000 Vermont residents the college serves each year, but would help alleviate costs and open the door for more students to pursue higher education. “Many of the students who come here come to get started, they need skill-building, they lack the confidence to go on and they can save a significant amount of money by starting with us and then transferring,” she said. “There would still be a gap for students to pay, but the piece that is important is that anytime we can help reduce the cost of college and make it more accessible to all is critical.”
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resources and share information within a group setting, she said, the support group will be driven by those who attend, allowing them to choose whether they would like to talk or ask for information. “However the survivors in our group want to be supported, that’s what we’ll do,” Cavanagh said. WISE @ Dartmouth advocates — students who have undergone 30 hours of training at WISE and work answering WISE’s hotline or at its training center — will facilitate the support groups. WISE assistant director Abby Tassel, who has advised WISE @ Dartmouth on how to run the group, has also provided training on support group facilitation to advocates. Student-led support groups, Tassel said, can be particularly helpful so that there is not a “topdown feeling” that students might get with experts or professionals. WISE @ Dartmouth will also consider forming support groups for students that do not self-identify as women if there is interest, Cavanagh said. The organization is currently offering the group for only selfidentifying women because statistics indicate that there are more survivors of sexual, emotional and physical abuse or stalking that identify as women, she said, and because it is hoped that keeping the group to self-identifying women only will help make those students feel more comfortable.
It is easier to create a safe space when an entire group consists of people who identify with one specific gender group, Tassel said. She added that this does not indicate only one gender suffers from violence. Tori Nevel ’16, a WISE @ Dartmouth member and chair of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, originally proposed the idea for the support group. Nevel noted that the group will fulfill one of SPCSA’s recommendations directly and will contribute to another by strengthening ties between the College and WISE. “I just thought, first of all, no one should ever have to go through something like this alone and second, how powerful of a group something like this could potentially be,” Nevel said. The College operates support groups through its Counseling and Human Development department. In the past, these groups have included support groups for general counseling, for survivors of sexual violence and for depression management, according to the department’s website. Cavanagh said that she does not believe most Dartmouth students know about any other support groups available on campus. “Dartmouth is a community, and that’s something we really strive to be,” Cavanagh said. “Just like every other college, we have people that are assaulted on our campus. And I think it’s our responsibility as a community to support them.”
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015
Staff Columnist ISAAC GREEN ’17
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MICHAEL M c DAVID ’15
The Fault in Our Sororities
Correcting Our Vision
Sororities should go local to improve rush and the Greek system overall. This is a column about sororities, written by a man who is not in a sorority. I have spent countless hours over the past year speaking to friends who have diverse relationships with sororities, and I have been left with one overall striking impression — national sororities on our campus are problematic. I want to stipulate that Dartmouth’s fraternities are problematic as well, and I do not suggest that national sororities are single-handedly to blame for the problems surrounding the Greek system. I recognize that I cannot provide first-hand, personal criticism of these organizations, but I’m going to use my soap box here to declaim my informed belief that all national sororities at Dartmouth should sever ties with their national organizations. These sororities should go local, and the College should provide the funds required for this transition. A while ago, I sat at lunch in Class of 1953 Commons talking to a friend in one of our national sororities. She was recounting to me the façade she and her sisters were putting on for their national representative, who was conducting an unannounced visit — read: inspection — of their chapter. It was clear from what she told me that this visitor simply did not understand the forward-thinking women in her sorority. My friend said her national representative’s antiquated ideas even made her uncomfortable, like when the representative encouraged her to help rush “the right kind of girl.” Another friend of mine, in another sorority, chimed in at this point, adding that her sorority puts on the same kind of annual show for their national representative. They even go as far as covering up the door to their basement and pretending it doesn’t exist. In my mind, foremost among the problems with the Greek system on our campus are the consequences of the old-fashioned rules national sororities impose on their chapters. This manifests itself in many ways, from the impersonal and shallow rush system that women have to endure, to the fact that the vast majority of Greek social spaces on campus are male-dominated. While I believe the exclusivity and superficiality surrounding rush are pernicious to the self-esteem of every participant, the system for women seems
to me — based on many conversations I have had with my friends who have participated in it with varying outcomes — far worse. While the best that can be said for the rush process for men is that you have the chance to spend time in houses and preserve your autonomy by deciding where to shake out, there seems to be few things that can be said in favor of the process for women. One sorority had the courage to reject this system this year, and I believe they did so with great success. Epsilon Kappa Theta held shakeouts, instead of the traditional rush process for women in the fall, and is doing so again this winter. While this system is not a cure-all, it seems that if every sorority were to follow Theta’s lead — and also open their basements to the general public — women who are interested in joining sororities would have greater autonomy in rush and could advocate for themselves, reducing the chance of superficial interactions and disappointment. Alas, this is not possible because of the rules of national sororities — the same rules that prevent many sororities on campus from hosting parties or inviting the general public into their basements. This leads to fraternities hosting the majority of Greek social interaction. Sigma Delta sorority, Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and Theta are the three notable exceptions to this, and they serve an important role on campus, providing active female-dominated social spaces where anyone can congregate on a given weekend. For this exact reason, the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault recommended that sororities go local to combat sexual assault at Dartmouth. If every sorority went local, social spaces on campus would be more equitable and safer for women. The College ought to do everything it can to remove the obstacles impeding sororities from going local, which often include a substantial amount of debt to national organizations. If the College were to assist them financially, I believe and hope that many sororities would take advantage of the opportunity and make the switch. Those of us who believe the Greek system should continue to exist at Dartmouth need to work proactively to make it the best that it can be. Local sororities will get us closer to that goal.
We cannot solve social issues if we never look beyond our own experiences. Anticipation can be a strange thing. Soon the Board of Trustees will vote on the Moving Dartmouth Forward steering committee recommendations. For some, I suspect these feel like the last days of freedom to continue the harmless fun they have always enjoyed. For others, perhaps, this feels something like the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The committee and its recommendations, like the Greek system it will surely seek to reform, are divisive. It will be tempting for some to reject any sort of proposed policy changes, while others may be inclined to ignore the very real deficiencies of the committee’s methods. We must avoid the tendency to see the situation solely in terms of right and wrong. Instead, what we can do — and what we must do — is work harder to understand the experiences of those with whom we disagree. All too often we limit ourselves to the immediate circumstances of our lives when we consider reforms to systems that affect us. This is, in many ways, very understandable. We have to use some metric to make judgments. We need to consider how change will affect people, and we do not know anyone as well as we know ourselves. This happens all the time in hot-button discussions — someone makes a point, and we disagree because we have had contradictory experiences. “I’ve never felt uncomfortable in that situation,” or, “Every time I’ve spoken with those people, we’ve gotten along.” “I’m a part of one of those organizations, and it’s never been a problem for me,” the thinking goes. How can someone disagree with me, when my lived experience proves the truth of my position? Our individual experiences, however, can differ vastly. Does Greek life need reform? It can be easy to say “no,” if Greek life has been nothing but a safe space that has given you a warm welcome and access to an ever-flowing stash of cold, cheap, American light beer. It can also be easy to say “yes,” I suspect, if Greek life never caught your interest — if
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you have never felt that this side of campus was for you. It is much harder to find an unbiased answer that holds true regardless of your own experience. Hard as it may be, we owe it to the College to accept Greek life as the complex, nuanced issue that it is — and most importantly we owe it to each other. It would, of course, be silly and problematic to pretend that my own experiences do not affect this very column. I am a fraternity brother and a beneficiary of many of the ingrained social traditions at Dartmouth. When I think about the issues that face Dartmouth today, I cannot help but do so through the lens of my own experiences. To ignore this would be to ignore a fundamental reality of my own opinion. I say this not to hold myself up as the final arbiter of what is fair and unfair. Rather, I want to express the limits of my own experience. It is not easy to think beyond myself, but it is necessary. That means, though nearly every time I go into a fraternity I feel comfortable and safe, I must understand that there are those who don’t. Conversely, I hope this means that those who don’t feel safe, who feel singled out in fraternities, try to understand that there are many reasons — some admittedly more valid than others — why so many affiliated students fight to keep their organizations alive. If we keep talking past one another then we will never reach a consensus on what to do. After the trustees decide on what happens to the steering committee’s recommendations, we, the students — who best understand student social life — may just end up bickering about them. No good will come of that. Only if we are willing to think beyond ourselves — to consider and accept the experiences of those who are different than we are — can we progress. When you finally read the steering committee’s recommendations, take a moment. Think about how they might affect the person directly opposite from you. Then, perhaps, we’ll actually be moving Dartmouth forward.
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MAV expands reach
diverse than freshmen floors. This relative homogeneity does not bring in as Amanda Childress said. New members many perspectives and can result in less of Greek organizations are required productive conversations, he said. Watto go through MAV facilitations upon son cited experiences where combined joining. She said that as the program MAV discussions between fraternities has become more established, it has and sororities led to a broader array been looking for ways to expand of perspectives, simply because both its presence on men and women campus and will “As the College were included. thus move forThe diverhas taken on more ward to freshmen sity of freshmen floors. Childress initiatives on sexual floors, as well as said that the pro- violence, the program the added comgram’s student fort of close-knit leaders have just has been tailoring its floors, will hoperecently finalized discussion to fill any fully lead to more the new curricuproductive congaps and to continue lum and aim to versation, Watbegin leading fa- the conversation from a son said. cilitations in the peer level.” In previous coming weeks. terms, UGAs for Freshmen unfreshmen floors dergraduate ad- - AMANDA CHILDRESS, have been envisor Taylor Watcouraged to host son ’16 said that SEXUAL ABUSE AWARENESS MAV facilitations the main goal of PROGRAM COORDINATOR as part of weekly MAV facilitations floor meetings. is to invite people Horing said that to think about sexual and domestic MAV has been in contact with Firstviolence in real terms, rather than in Year Residential Experience to depercentages and statistics. Watson said velop the best way to add to existing that while athletic teams and Greek programming for freshmen. houses have seen success with the MAV Horing also said that because facilitations, they also tend to be less freshmen floors are coeducational,
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MAV facilitations will not be as genderspecific as they are in fraternities and sororities. The new curriculum has a more specific structure aimed at addressing issues freshmen are likelier to encounter, as opposed to the general curriculum used in Greek houses and with other campus organizations. “When we go into the Greek houses, we think of them as people who are leaders on campus and who have
control of some social space and how can we address their role in preventing sexual violence,” Horing said. “Clearly, first-years don’t have that power over a space, but as individuals they do [over situations].” Childress also emphasized the constantly evolving nature of MAV’s programming and the importance of continuing these discussions. “As the College has taken on more
initiatives on sexual violence, the program has been tailoring its discussion to fill any gaps and to continue the conversation from a peer level,” Childress said. “Students first experience these conversations as freshmen, and if they join a Greek house later on they will see a different iteration and second connection with MAV that will hopefully continue their learning on preventing sexual violence.”
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“Poseidon” exhibit to Raaz, Sugarplum to perform at open at Hood Museum HopStop this weekend B y owen shepcaro The Dartmouth Staff
Poseidon: shaker of the earth, bringer of storms, tamer of horses, ruler of the seas. Beginning on Jan. 17, the Dartmouth community will be able to explore the spiritual and secular majesty of the Greek god Poseidon at the Hood Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult and Daily Life.” The exhibit, which contains more than 100 pieces of various art forms — ranging from large marble statues to small pieces of pottery — was curated by Seth Pevnick ’99, the acting director, chief curator and Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art. Pevnick, who was a Hood Museum intern during his time at the College, said that he had thought of the idea for an exhibition revolving around Poseidon even before he began working at the Tampa Museum of Art. He said he was inspired by a statue of Poseidon in the Tampa museum, which he described as the “biggest and best-preserved” in the United States. “I hadn’t heard of any big shows that had been done focusing on Poseidon and the sea, so I decided that it would be a great show to do in an area that is on the sea like Tampa,” Pevnick said. “And they hired me and asked me to do the show.” The works in the exhibition, which first opened in Omaha, Nebraska, last winter, evoke three different themes — the myth, the cult and the impact that Poseidon had on daily life, Pevnick said. The themes of myth and cult will illustrate Poseidon’s role in the religion and tradition of ancient Greece, while the theme of daily life will show the role the sea played in the secular happenings of Greece, he said. He said that one of the goals of the exhibit is to make aspects of the religion surrounding Poseidon more accessible. “[The myth and cult] are composed of a collection of stories about Gods that most people don’t believe in anymore, so that all seems very, very different and hard to relate to,” Pevnick said. “But when you get to the last section of the show about daily life, it’s seafood and seafaring and that’s something that people see all of the time and can easily understand.” Classical studies professor and archaeologist Julie Hruby said that art and archaeological details are important in understanding civilizations of the past.
“Art, as a subset of archaeology, is vitally important in understanding civilizations of the past,” Hruby said. “However, art definitely has holes and without the context of other archaeological findings it can be hard to understand. But if you can excavate other artifacts and find context in them, you can answer just about any question there is to ask.” Along with the exhibition, the College will host lectures about ancient Greek archaeology. The lectures will begin on Friday, with a talk given by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research specialist Brendan Foley about the Antikythera Shipwreck, an archeological site that has been a major source of ancient Greek artifacts including statues and jewelry. The Hood will also host a symposium about the exhibit on Jan. 30 and 31, which will be highlighted by a keynote speech by Pevnick. Hood Museum senior curator and the symposium’s organizer Katherine Hart said that the event was designed largely based on input from professors in the classics department. “We brought these potential speakers into the classics department, and they chose the speakers that they were most interested in having their students hear and that they were most fascinated by,” she said. “Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult and Daily Life” will run from Jan. 17 through March 15 in the
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Members of Raaz and Sugarplum will take the stage in Alumni Hall Saturday at 11 a.m. to teach Upper Valley children about Indian dance and ballet. The event is part of the Hopkins Center’s monthly HopStop series, which aims to introduce school-aged children in the Upper Valley to the arts, Mary Gaetz, the Hop’s outreach and arts education coordinator, said. “Our purpose is to introduce our youngest community members to the arts in a way that’s really fun and accessible and makes them want to get up and dance or sing or play an instrument,” she said. For this event, Gaetz said she reached out to Raaz and Sugarplum due to the groups’ unique styles — South Asian and contemporary ballet, respectively — which the audience members could compare and contrast. The two groups will perform separately, each having time to showcase their skills and lead the audience members in basic moves. Sugarplum co-president Valerie Zhao ’15 said that the group will start with fundamental ballet positions, then transition to jumps and movements that she enjoyed doing when she was young. “For kids, it’s basically just about creative movement, giving them a chance to get up, move around and get introduced to dance,” she said. Arati Gangadharan ’18, a member of Raaz, said that her group will be teaching audience members some sim-
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pler moves from a popular Bollywood song “1 2 3 4 Get on the Dance Floor.” Both groups have tailored their sets with the audience in mind. The customization necessitated more practices for the groups in the first two weeks of the term, Gangadharan said. Sugarplum needed to adjust its set in order to accommodate the change in floor space, as the dancers are accustomed to performing on hardwood floors, Zhao said. She added that the Hop staff was very open and easy to work with while organizing the event. While groups involved in HopStop events receive a small stipend, they also have the opportunity to perform for a different audience. Dance groups at the College tend to perform in Greek houses or on stage for an audience comprised of peers, while at HopStop performances they can entertain a crowd composed of a different demographic. Gaetz said she most enjoys the energy and variety of different performances. She said that she remembers a previous HopStop, where a musician was able to engage the audience. “This one little girl just jumped up and was rocking out in the front row, and she was just going to town,” she said. “Just that energy and that spirit is so rejuvenating and exciting to see, and to know that the Dartmouth students can bring that kind of joy to complete strangers on a Saturday morning in January is really exciting.”
The student performers said that they are excited to work with the children on Saturday. “Kids are perfect to teach because all they want to do is learn,” Gangadharan said. “They rarely accept failure and always ask questions.” The Hop hosts the HopStop events one Saturday a month throughout the school year. HopStops are recommended for children aged three and up, and families are encouraged to attend together, she said. The events are free and open to the public. The event was formerly held in the Faulkner Recital Hall, but was moved to Alumni Hall as the program began attracting a larger audience, Gaetz said. While the stage has become more formal, the event itself remains relaxed and interactive. “There are no formal seats,” Gaetz said. “You can sprawl out on the carpet if you want to, you can bring snacks, you can bring a book, you can even get up and run around for a little bit.” Past HopStop events have featured both professional artists and Dartmouth student groups. Previous College groups that have performed at HopStop include the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, the World Music Percussion Ensemble and the Gospel Choir. Events scheduled for this year include the Fred Haas Jazz Quintet, The Nile Project and Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015
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Kaitlin Whitehorn excels across events
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The Dartmouth women’s track and field team has found a veritable gem in Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16. Less than a year after making history as the first woman to win both the 100-meter dash and high jump at the 2014 Ivy League outdoor Heptagonal Championships, Whitehorn isn’t showing any signs of slowing down as she continues to dominate across events in the 2014-2015 indoor season. Although the women’s track and field team has only seen action in four meets this season, Whitehorn — “K.O.” as her teammates and coaches affectionately call her — has already established herself as a double-threat. At the 2015 Dartmouth Relays this past weekend, Whitehorn took first in the high jump (5-8.50 ft/1.74m). On Dec. 13 at Northeastern University’s Jay Carisella Invitational, Whitehorn delivered a meet record-breaking performance with a 7.49 seconds finish in the 60-meter dash. “Finishing first in the 60-meter dash was a great start for the winter season,” Whitehorn said. “But I fell short of breaking my personal best so I need to work on getting my form as close to perfection as I can.” Whitehorn’s never-ending desire for perfection and improvement began long before her arrival at Dartmouth. Now, with two years of collegiate track experience under her belt, Whitehorn has found her niche as a multi-event athlete. Whitehorn’s path is somewhat convoluted, but fairly common among track and field athletes. Whitehorn initially developed her passion for sports by playing soccer as a child, but she eventually followed in her older sister’s footsteps and converted to track and field in the seventh grade. By the tenth grade, her high school coach at Elwood-John H. Glenn School in Elwood, New York noticed her natural talent for jumping and suggested she focus on the high jump in order to develop her form. By doing so, Whitehorn qualified for the state track and field championship in New York as a sophomore and was eventually recruited to Dartmouth as a high jumper. High jumping, she said, became her pride and joy. “It’s what got me to Dartmouth and is what I’m known for in the Ivy League,” Whitehorn said. Due to the razor-slim margins of the sport, success in track is highly dependent on superb technique. Whitehorn
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Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 has stormed out of the gates for the indoor season.
brings a composure to practice that allows her to tweak the minute aspects of her form and shave critical tenths of a second off her time or add height to her jumps. However composed she may be, Whitehorn — like many great athletes — brings a heightened level of intensity to competitions. “Kaitlin understands that practice is an opportunity to hone her skills and work on her weaknesses,” women’s jumps coach Timothy Wunderlich said. “During competition, however, she really shines.” Through training for high jump, she developed raw strength and the ability to accelerate quickly, which improved her sprinting so much that she became the top 60-meter and 100-meter sprinter on the team. Her talents not only put her at the head of Dartmouth’s own team, but she also became the first woman in the Ivy League to compete in the high jump and short-distance sprints during the outdoor season. Whitehorn’s sprinting success is especially impressive due to her lack of starting block experience prior to her freshman year. Explosion off the starting blocks is critical to maximize speed in sprinting events. “Kaitlin still seems like a novice sometimes in the sprints, but always
rises to the competition,” women’s head coach Sandra Ford-Centonze said. “She has the ability to turn up the intensity when she needs to.” Currently, Whitehorn is looking to improve her finishes from last year’s indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championship, where she placed fourth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.55 seconds and 11th in the high jump (54.50 ft/1.64m). Even though she’s an outdoor specialist, Whitehorn believes she can finish first in the high jump and 60-meter dash at the indoor competition before attempting to defend her titles at the outdoor championship. “I’m stronger now than I was last season,” Whitehorn said. “If I can combine my strength with an improved form, then I should do extraordinarily well.” When Whitehorn isn’t busy training for her next meet or studying for an upcoming exam, she is conducting research and lab work at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center or singing with the Handel Society of Dartmouth College. Whitehorn and the women’s track and field team are preparing to host the University of Vermont and the University of Maine on Saturday, Jan. 17.
This past Monday marked the conclusion of the inaugural college football playoff, featuring a thrilling back-and-forth game between two of the top teams in the nation. Oregon University and Ohio State University faced off in a game that will undoubtedly go down in the annals of history. Despite turning the ball over an obscene amount of times, Ohio State proved to be the better team in the end, winning by more than three touchdowns. While Rich and I were watching the game, however, a much more urgent issue — or, to be more exact, person — occupied our attention. You’ve all met this type of person at some point — loud, unwilling to stop talking and completely unable to understand what’s going on in the game. This fan got us thinking about the most obnoxious personalities guaranteed to be at any sports venue. Here is a list of our top three. The yeller: This is probably the most commonly known fan who everyone hates. Loud and expressive, this person makes you want to shove needles into your face. They scream about plays that don’t matter, they scream about plays that do matter, they scream about literally everything. To make matters worse, it’s unbelievably likely that this person will have one of the most annoying voices you’ve ever heard. It makes the game unenjoyable for everyone, and this person manages to unite both fan bases to the common goal of duct taping this person’s mouth shut. The worst part: These people are usually the most childish people at the game, and asking them to be quiet would just exacerbate the problem. The only option you have is to relocate to a different viewing location. The know-it-all (the “Rich Shen ’17”): “Did you know that’s just the fourth time in seven years that Peyton Manning has thrown a pass against a team led by a former Michigan State coach that was caught by his receiver, who then proceeded to pick up 4.5 yards after the catch and be tackled out of bounds by a safety with an odd numbered jersey?” Like literally nobody cares, Rich. Shut
up. Just, please, please shut up. This person is the kid who spews useless information like he thinks knowing these random stats will somehow make people like him. Typically this person makes you wonder how much time they must have spent to acquire so much information, and how they thought it would be useful to learn it all. The worst part: They know so much it’s like a broken record. They can’t stop, they won’t stop and you feel kind of bad asking them to. So you let them just drive you insane with information that even Google would find useless. The “Ben Rutan ’17:” Although this type of fan is much less common than the others, the Rutans of the world are much worse — by far — than either of the previous two. These sports fans transform obnoxiousness into an art form, spewing the most absurd arguments and observations imaginable, and why shouldn’t they? After all, the “Ben Rutan” sports fan — unlike the other two — isn’t annoying because they are unaware of how they are acting, but because they are fully and completely aware of exactly what they’re doing. The Rutan fan is the one who sits down to watch March Madness and won’t stop talking about preseason baseball (not because he knows anything about preseason baseball, but precisely because he knows nothing about preseason baseball). The Rutan fan is the one who eloquently — and inaccurately — monologues about the nuances of curling. The Rutan fan will sit down next to a Patriots fan and go on about the 2008 Super Bowl, sit down next the Red Sox fan and consistently remind them that he’s a Yankees fan from Boston or sit down next to a golf fan who’s watching the masters and change the channel. IT IS STILL TOO SOON TO TALK ABOUT SUPER BOWL XLII, BEN. IT’S STILL TOO SOON. The worst part: Everything. Literally everything. With the Super Bowl in a few weeks, we hope that we’ve provided the tools for you to identify these fans and avoid them at all costs. We hope that you enjoyed this installment of AGT. Stay warm and keep reading!