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Dartmouth’s first class of its online master of public health program arrived on campus earlier this month.

The two-year program, run by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice,

includes online lectures and projects as well as six residential periods where students reside on campus.

The new program will be similar to the oneyear residential program, which enrolls around 60 students per year, TDI education director Alice

College receives major NIH grant

By KATIE RAFTER

The Dartmouth Staff

Faculty members are developing the iTarget project, an interdisciplinary biomedical research center, aided by a five-year, $12.45 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the College in May. The National Institue of General Medical Sciences administers the Center

Andrews said.

The new, mainly online program aims to make the master’s program accessible to the many interested applicants who cannot take time off from work for a full year.

The program was first

of Biomedical Research Excellence grant received

by Dartmouth. The project will fund junior faculty working on early-stage research focused on cellular processes and the impact of diseases upon the interaction of cells and molecules. iTarget will fund four projects led by junior faculty.

COBRE funding can be renewed over two additional five-year periods.

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In response to a July 21 petition for a more thorough cleanup of Rennie Farm, the College is working on a remediation plan to treat contamination at the site. In the 1960s and 1970s, the College used the 223-acre Rennie Farm as a laboratory dump site to bury animals used in animal testing, and the site has since contaminated a private well.

The petition, submitted on July 21 to College and state officials by residents near the site, expresses “grave concern” about persistent sources of contamination on the site.

“Residents are outraged at Dartmouth’s utter disregard for the environment and groundwater, indifference to the impact on a well-dependent population, and Dartmouth’s neglectful and incomplete response to remedy this spreading contamination,” the petition stated.

The document, coauthored

by Marjorie Rogalski, a resident on Rennie Road, physician Ellen Waitzkin and former chair of

Dartmouth’s radiology department Peter Spiegel, among others, received 36 signatures from neighbors.

Many of the test animals buried on a one-acre site at Rennie Farm, a forested, currently unused College property, were contaminated with radioactive chemicals. The College contracted Clym Environmental Services to excavate the site in November of 2011. Workers found sealed bags filled with animals, broken bottles of chemicals, syringes and other loose waste items, according to a 2013 project report by Clym. Much of the waste and soil removed during the monthlong excavation was found to be radioactive.

Over 20,000 pounds of rats and other rodents were removed from the site in 2011, according to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 2012.

The project also unexpectedly unearthed rusted metal cans “leaking a purple colored liquid with strong solvent odor,” according to the Clym report.

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Remy leaves Judicial Affairs

By HALEY GORDON

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Former Judicial Affairs director Leigh Remy ended her career at Dartmouth after 17 years with the College on July 15. Remy will start in the academic affairs staff at Florida Atlantic University in the fall. Remy will also play a role in a new initiative at FAU called the Mentoring Project, geared towards facilitating student success.

Remy first came to Dartmouth in 1999 as a first-year undergraduate dean. She eventually became an assis-

tant dean to undergraduate students in 2009. Deans serve as advisors on all aspects of student life from explaining the process of planning one’s DPlan to advocating on behalf of students to professors or even Judicial Affairs.

“As a first-year dean and then as an undergraduate dean, my time was often focused on individual students – on who they were becoming and what opportunities could stretch their goals to include possibilities they hadn’t considered,” Remy wrote in an email.

Three years ago, Remy

transitioned from a position as undergraduate dean to the head of the judicial affairs office during a period of staff changeover for the office. That year, 2013, three of the four administrators of the office were new hires, including Remy. Remy initially only planned to stay for a year, but decided to stay an additional two.

At judicial affairs, Remy’s job was to combat actions that “may rend or fray [the] fabric” of the Dartmouth community, she wrote, while still interactSEE REMY PAGE 5

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Robert Donin, Dartmouth’s general counsel, will retire at the end of the 2016-2017 school year, the College announced in an Aug. 12 Dartmouth News article. Donin, who has served in his role for the past 16 years, directs the Office of the General Counsel’s operations, chooses and manages outside counsel, supervises staff attorneys and support staff and oversees the Office of Visa and Immigration Services. Policies that Donin has had a hand in include the College’s program for the protection of minors, the revision of Dartmouth’s intellectual property policy and the creation of the College’s regulatory compliance program. Donin was the attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University before coming to Dartmouth in 2000. The College plans to hire a search firm in the fall in order to search for the next general counsel.

College President Phil Hanlon has joined the Guggenheim Advisory Board, which reviews the Guggenheim Fellowship applications. Guggenheim Fellowships are given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which was created by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife in 1925 as a memorial to their deceased son. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to mid-career artists and scholars who have displayed excellence in their field. Thirtysix former Guggenheim fellows serve for four-year renewable terms on the board, which reviews around 4,000 applications every year.

Of those 4,000 applications, the board selects a few finalists to be reviewed by the foundation’s board of trustees, and around 200 people are chosen to receive the fellowship each year. This year, Dartmouth English professor Cynthia Huntington and history professor Darrin McMahon received the award. Other recent Dartmouth faculty recipients include professor of psychology professor Peter Tse ’84, Jewish studies professor Susannah Heschel and recently retired English professor Cleopatra Mathis.

The College will begin construction on the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge this coming fall. The lodge will be closed to the public starting Aug. 22 for the duration of Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips, scheduled to run from Aug. 23 through Sept. 6.

Once trips end, the new lodge project is slated to begin, with the expectation that the construction will be completed by next year’s First-Year Trips program and the lodge will open to the public in the fall of 2017. The new lodge will have similar features as the current, 77-year old one. Some of the wood will come from local forests and logs from the old building will be used in the interior of the new one.

The main floor will have a kitchen for students to cook meals for visitors, a stone fireplace, three private rooms for overnight guests and a meeting room. On the lower level there will be a social space and library, a multi-purpose room and restrooms. Due to increased energy efficiency of the new lodge, it will be able to be used earlier in the spring and later into the fall. It will also be more accessible for those with disabilities. Farewell events scheduled for Aug. 20 and Sept. 7 will feature dancing, sing-alongs, storytelling and dinner. Once First-Year Trips ends on Sept. 6, the construction site will be roped off and hikers will be redirected to an access road.

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The Aug. 12 article “A Helping Hand: Resources on Campus” incorrectly said that OPAL oversees the First Year Student Enrichment Program. In fact, OPAL oversees the First Generation Mentoring Program. The article also said that students can anonymously report bias incidents to the office. In fact, students can report bias incidents to a variety of offices and in order to do so anonymously they must do so online. If students report bias incidents in person, their reports are private, not anonymous.

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On-campus facets for online MPH FROM MPH PAGE 1

conceived two years ago, when TDI director Elliott Fisher and the faculty of TDI reviewed their curriculum in order to improve and expand it.

The on-site weeks in Hanover include weekly meetings with study groups and faculty leaders to discuss curricula, practicum progress and other ideas.

Program participant Maggie Cooke noted that the online component of the program will allow her to synthesize her experiences at her current workplace at a healthcare nonprofit with the program itself.

She described the hybrid program as “innovative” and a “wave of the future,” as well as a way to harness the potential of healthcare professionals who would not have had the opportunity to pursue such a degree otherwise.

Participants said they appreciate that the program allows them the flexibility to continue with their current careers and schedules.

Cooke learned about the program through her workplace, the Rippel Foundation. The organization provides funding to initiatives and programs innovating in the

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Students attend a lecture as part of the online master of public health program.

health care industry to promote system reform. Cooke, who had always wanted to pursue a master’s degree in public health, had previously found it difficult to find a program that would cater to her needs as someone who works full time with a commute and small children.

For Joanna Sullivan, the online component of the course was appealing as it allows her to continue to work full-time while not limiting her to an independent study. Sullivan hopes to apply her degree toward working in global public SEE MPH PAGE 3

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health. Noting current changes in the healthcare system, she said she looks forward to being a part of the field as it evolves.

Participant Amit Desai works full-time as a physician and was thus unable to take time off to pursue his master’s. In addition to his obligations to his patients, he did not want to disrupt his worklife balance or move away from his home in Seattle. The Dartmouth program will give him the ability to critically analyze health information and develop a healthy suspicion, he said.

He highlighted the program’s rigorous approach to learning how to measure populations, and looking at the population as a whole.

Desai said has always been interested in health policy and quality improvement and has followed the work of faculty involved with the program. He was inspired by their work regarding supply-sensitive care and their ideas about how to improve healthcare.

Cheryl Shefchik, another program participant, said that Dartmouth had already been on her radar due to its prestige and strong word-of-mouth. The hybrid aspect of the master’s appealed to her, as she is an active duty army officer serving in the National Guard .

Being an officer keeps her on the road constantly, so she needed to pursue an online program, she said.

Shefchik added that she benefits most from learning from others, especially from in-class discussions.

She was afraid that she would not get the same educational ben-

efits from an online program and dreaded having to go to school in a form she was not excited about and that might not offer the same educational experience as oncampus learning.

Shefchik noted that the Dartmouth curriculum is very structured and weekly live web sessions hold participants accountable, unlike other online learning opportunities where one could simply load the lecture and listen while at the gym or driving. Her physical distance from the program was actually a benefit, she said, as she could immediately begin applying everything she learns to the context of her day-to-day life.

Others interviewed expressed similarily positive reviews of the program thus far.

During Cooke’s orientation last week, she was surprised by the engagement and preparation of her peers, noting that the class possesses common motivations despite their different backgrounds.

The faculty have given her a new perspective on the industry by encouraging “healthy skepticism” among participants, Cooke said. Even after her first week, the program gave her challenged many of her preconceived notions, she said.

Desai said that the program emphasizes teamwork, negotiation and organizational development skills. Before the program, he could not have imagined being so close to his faculty and peers, he said.

He felt that after he knew them fro only the span of the six-day orientation, he already knew them well.

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MPH students during a discussion group, part of the course’s on-campus aspect.

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Funding to go to junior faculty FROM GRANT PAGE 1

The iTarget project is designed to develop a new center of intellectual activity at the College, said Dean Madden, iTarget director, COBRE award principle investigator, and Geisel School of Medicine biochemistry professor.

The process of creating iTarget and applying for NIH grants bean in 2013, Madden said. The grants must fund junior faculty members who have not received major federal funding in the past, he said.

Madden selected biochemistry professor Jason McLellan as an investigator in 2013.

McLellan wrote R01 grants — a type of NIH grant — to be included within the overall application and ran individual research projects.

His research is based around the respiratory syncytial virus, a minor, cold-like condition that can be dangerous in young children.

McLellan said the process of applying for the grants and the beginning stages of his research have provided him with opportunities to work with senior faculty members and receive mentoring on grant writing.

He hopes the five-year grant will provide him with a number of resources for his research.

After the selection of four research investigators, Madden and senior faculty acted as mentors as the team began to present potential research topics and shape them to fit the program. Each investigator wrote a proposal for their research project as part of the larger iTarget program.

The grant was submitted in February of 2014 and reviewed in August of 2014. Due to budget problems at the NIH in 2015 there was a delay in approving the grant, and the College received the grant in May. Even before the College received the grant, iTarget began operating.

Since the process began, three out of the four junior faculty have been awarded individual independent grants for their research.

Madden cited the strong culture of collaboration at the College as beneficial to the program.

“We have relatively small labs compared to some of our peers and yet we have this great infrastructure where students are collaborating with multiple labs and labs are collaborating with each other to really drive research projects,” he said.

The iTarget project incorporates a wide variety of departments and programs at the College, Geisel and the Thayer School of Engineering, making it highly interdisciplinary, Madden said.

In total, iTarget will involve 10 departments.

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Geisel School of Medicine has departments involved with iTarget.

“There’s a real emphasis in the iTarget on bringing together a really strong group of people across campus and having them talk to each other,” he said. “It was so exciting to watch as we were bringing everyone together in these weekly meetings and every was jumping in with suggestions and ideas and we started to already live this interdisciplinary paradigm.”

McLellan pointed to the importance of collaboration throughout the iTarget program thus far.

“It allows us exposed to new experimental approaches that we may not even be aware of that other people are using,” he said.

Geisel biochemistry professor Henry Higgs, a core director for iTarget, oversees the molecular interactions and imaging core for the project. He specifically supports the microscopy needs of the investigators, duties he shares with chemistry professor Dale Mierke.

“There are resources available for them to get their imaging done through microscope work,” he said.

The various investigators have different strengths and can consult each other for support and help, he said. For example, he is a cell biologist and can apply his expertise to the research of the investigators.

“Those interactions give you ideas and knowledge about things other people are doing that could help your own work so it ends up being very synergistic,” he said.

Higgs hopes the program will have positive results. He said it has the potential to launch a number of careers of the junior faculty at the College, which will benefit the faculty base as a whole individual research.

“Its purpose is to support and nurture junior faculty members so that they can be competitive in the highly competitive NIH grant system,” he said.

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Declawing the Tiger

All Voices Matter

A condemnation of Asian parenting philosophies and call for parenting that emphasizes individualism.

We need to encourage open debate, especially with those we disagree with or believe are “unqualified” to speak.

Let us set aside our misgivings about stereo- love. As these children grow, their capacity to types for a moment and consider the archetypal innovate suffers, never having had the chance Asian family. Labels for Asian parents, rang- to truly explore the qualities that define them ing from tiger mothers to kyoiku mamas, all as individuals. The cycle only grows worse as describe the same authoritarian strictness. As children eventually become elders themselves. the widespread perception goes, most Asian These children, taught to be betas all their parents relentlessly drive an agenda of aca- lives, find themselves in the position of an demic and extracurricular excellence for their alpha with none of the experience befitting children in hopes of setting them up for future one. Their own children necessarily become success. By necessity, more creative endeavors victims of their parents’ insecurity. are routinely shunned in favor of more time to Born from antiquated ideals and cultures study or practice a new instrument, and social that favor the collective over the individual, development takes a back seat in the quest for many of the philosophies that define Asian higher SAT scores and Ivy League diplomas. parenting ultimately do children a disservice I speak as someone who has lived under by stifling individualism and free thought. such parenting, and knows its intricacies Though Western attitudes on parenting are like the back of my own by no means immune hand. In many ways I also to criticism, neither must “Born from antiquated speak as someone who has we give serious credence benefitted from such parent- ideals and cultures that to the notion that Asian ing, my own acceptance to favor the collective over parenting produces betDartmouth attributable to ter children. We must the regimental guidance of the individual, many of not be shy to point out my family. I am who I am the philosophies that the fundamental failures because of Asian parentof the Asian model, lest define Asian parenting ing. Ironically, it is for that even more of our fellow very reason that I have no ultimately do children students fall victim to its scruples about condemning a disservice by stifling deleterious clutches. it. The frustrations of countSome will leap to less Asian students across the individualism and free the defense of such a United States are my own, thought.” dictatorial means of and I speak for many when child-rearing, claiming I state the dismaying truth that it is an act of love that Asian parenting is an abject failure of a on the parents’ part born from good intenphilosophy. tions. Such an excuse is inadequate in light Asian parenting comes in many flavors, a of the many suicidal students and alienated testament to the multitude of cultures that fall families that result from this style of parenting, under the umbrella term “Asian.” Nonetheless, to speak nothing of the simple fact that these what these variants all have in common is a efforts simply do not translate into improved culture of subservience. Elders are to be re- academic success. If it is an act of love, then spected, their word taken as gospel irrespective it is a toxic love better done without. Love is of the reality. For a younger child to suggest meaningless when it is conditional entirely on the slightest bit of deviance is tantamount to obedience, and even more so when it does not intolerable rebellion, and gives the elder free even yield results. reign to crush the insurrection with whatever I implore Asian families everywhere to tools deemed necessary. Combined with an respect your sons and daughters, to recognize obsession with social hierarchy, the stage is set their status as freethinking individuals and for the sort of tyranny under which so many understand that their convictions are their own Asian students suffer. to follow. To the same, I also give a warning: This method of parenting instills a beta should you fail to recognize your children as mentality in children from the very start. It such, as they inevitably recognize their power teaches them that there is a distinctly correct to forge their own destinies, little can stop way of thinking, and that any move away from them from turning away from the families that this prescribed path is to forsake a family’s forsook them and never looking back.

This past weekend, after an officer shot and this tactic despite its ineffectiveness. Further, killed a 23-year-old black man in Milwaukee many use an even more ineffective method on Saturday, unrest enveloped the city. This — bringing up someone’s background and shooting comes as one of a wave of high using their perceived “lack” of knowledge or profile police shootings this summer. As of qualification against them to outright dismiss mid-August, police have shot and killed close to their arguments and experiences as invalid.

600 people, according to The Washington Post. This shuts down all dialogue, encouraging Last year, I wrote an article titled “Incor- personal attacks on one’s character. rectly Politically Correct,” arguing that being I recently had an argument with another overly politically correct stifles discussion and student about the race-charged controversy shelters us from reality. In over then-New York Police the year that has elapsed, Department officer Peter “Many use an even police brutality and the Liang’s indictment and myriad responses to it more ineffective trial, which saw Liang have come to the fore- method — bringing up sentenced to probation front of the nation’s conafter the 2014 fatal shootsciousness. Movements, someone’s background ing of an unarmed black both at Dartmouth and and using their man, Akai Gurley. After at campuses across the a while, we both realized perceived ‘lack’ of country, have emerged to we had completely difknowledge or discuss racial issues. ferent opinions on the In light of this, I need qualification against issue, but neither of us to update my previous wanted to back down. stance — we have to them to outright dismiss He started to criticize my go beyond just worry- their arguments and background and accused ing about being overly of having done nothexperiences as invalid.” me politically correct. The ing to combat or learn majority of people who about police brutality. By remain silent on issues do targeting my character not do so out of fear, or rather than my argument, due to prior experiences of being shut down he effectively turned the conversation from a by polarizing parties. In debates concerning possible learning opportunity into a personal social movements and racial equality, espe- attack. He quickly apologized after he realized cially in the United States, we must share the nature of what he had said. However, the our opinions, whether they are “correct” or conversation clearly showed me how easy it is not. Rather than shutting down dialogue, as for people passionate about certain issues to activists and reactionists are prone to do, we discount others’ ideas because they perceive must encourage it and discuss all issues openly them as less learned or “qualified” to speak without being afraid. on those issues.

Some groups are starting to promote such In the end, a middle ground needs to exist dialogue. The website Letters for Black Lives — one where we can discuss issues without notes that it is “a set of crowd sourced, multilin- being afraid of judgment or critique. To do gual, and culturally-aware this, all sides of an isresources aimed at creating “Those passionate sue need to cooperate. a space for open and honest about the issues must Those passionate about conversations about racial the issues must attempt justice, police violence, attempt to look at the to look at the subject and anti-Blackness in our subject through an through an uneducated families and communities.” stranger’s eyes and deStarted by Asian Americans uneducated stranger’s termine a way to explain and Canadians, it features eyes and determine a their reasoning to them letters from across the without being derogaway to explain their world. Such a space builds tory, dismissive or holiera coalition of support for reasoning to them than-thou. Those in the social movements and en- without being center, whether modercourages the people within ate on issues or simply these movements to look derogatory, dismissive uneducated about them, at others not necessarily as or holier-than-thou.” must be unafraid to ask outsiders, but as potential questions and learn, partners. changing their opinions Yet we must go even further. Such sites are as they gain insight. In this way, we can work effective at building support for movements, to understand each other’s perspectives when but instead of blindly supporting such move- discussing complex issues like racial violence ments, we need to recognize the issues within and cultural awareness. Dartmouth, a liberal them as well as those within the opposing side. arts college with students from all over the poThis is when the openness to competing ideas litical and cultural spectrum, is an ideal place comes into play. to start doing this work. It is an ideal place to In order to change someone’s mind, one challenge the extremely liberal, the extremely cannot shut down their opponents ideas conservative and the moderates. It is an ideal without ever giving them a chance. Many place to learn how to discuss polarizing issues people fighting over polarized issues still use effectively and respectfully.

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Petition expresses ‘grave concern’ FROM CLEAN-UP PAGE 1

A test of the burial site in April 2012 detected the chemical 1,4-Dioxane in groundwater at 190 parts per billion, many times the state standard of 3 parts per billion. The chemical is classified as “likely to be carcinogenic to humans” by the Environmental Protection Agency and is known to increase risk of liver cancer.

Last September, four years after the 2011 excavation, Deb and Richard Higgins’ residential well, close to Rennie Farm, was found to have levels of about six parts per billion of the chemical, double the state standard.

The College advised the Higgins family to avoid ingesting the well water and has been providing them with bottled water to use. Mediation proceedings with the Higgins, which began in February, are currently ongoing, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence said.

Waitzkin said that she and other neighbors were shocked upon learning of the existence of the Rennie Farm burial site and the Higgins’ plight. Despite living in the area since 1999, Waitzkin said she had not been aware of the 2011 excavation.

“I think that observing all this, we lost a great deal of confidence in Dartmouth’s ability to do the right thing,” she said.

A site survey in early June revealed buried waste and animal carcasses that had not been removed during the 2011 excavation. The discovery prompted the College to propose a plan to remove any remaining waste and treat the contaminated water.

The resulting work plan was submitted on July 25 and approved by the state Department of Environmental Services and Department of Human Health Services on Aug. 4 and Aug. 9, respectively. . The plan proposes a 30-by-30 foot excavation, on-site radioactivity monitoring and soil sampling to test for chemicals.

Associate general counsel for

campus services Ellen Arnold said the plan was drafted based on prior data collected and its scope was identified before the neighbors submitted their petition.

The neighbors are asking for a much larger scope of excavation and monitoring. The petition asks for the College to remove the entire acre of burial site removed and replaced with clean backfill, in addition to more rigorous testing and sampling

“I think that observing all this, we lost a great deal of confidence in Dartmouth’s ability to do the right thing.”

-ELLEN WAITZKIN, RENNIE ROAD RESIDENT to track the spread of contamination and more transparent dissemination of information to the public.

The group is cognizant of the issue’s urgency, as the contamination continues to spread and migrate as time passes.

“The force of entropy [is] spreading it into the environment, like a cancer,” Waitzkin said. “The cancer’s going to keep growing until it kills the patient, and we didn’t want this to keep growing until it killed our neighborhood environment.”

The petition is the result of three to four months of research through reading documents and consulting legal and environmental experts. Once neighbors began reaching out to each other and discussing the problem, it started a “chain reaction,” she said.

The College responded on Aug. 12 in a letter signed by director of environmental health and safety Maureen O’Leary and Arnold. The letters states that the College believes it can address a number of the concerns

raised by the petitioners.

“We probably haven’t done as good a job in the past as we could have in communicating, but we’re very committed to trying to understand what their issues are and address them and listen,” Arnold said in an interview.

The College will submit a remediation plan on Sept. 1 that will include a pump and treat system to decontaminate the water. The goal is to install the system by the end of the year, Arnold said.

“We know what direction the contamination is moving in and are feeling comfortable that this proposed pump and treat system will be effective,” she said.

Lawrence wrote in an email that more than $5 million has been spent on cleanup at Rennie Farm so far.

“I can’t speculate on the final figure,” she wrote. “However, the College is committed to spending whatever is necessary to address the contamination expeditiously and effectively and to protect the health of the neighbors.”

The Department of Environmental Services will sponsor a public information sessions at Dartmouth on Sept. 13, during which College and state officials will respond more completely to the neighbors’ concerns.

After 17 years, Remy leaves for Florida FROM REMY PAGE 1

ing closely with students.

Typical issues handled through the office include allegations of violations of the academic honor code, sexual assault, violence of any nature, substance abuse and hazing.

The office supervises the Committee on Standards and the Organizational Adjudication Committee, which focus on student misconduct and misconduct within organizations, respectively.

Remy steered the office with an agenda of strengthening sexual assault policy and increasing personal interactions with students on campus. Remy and general counsel Robert Donin — who also recently announced he will leave the College — wrote a sexual misconduct policy, incorporating language regarding stalking, dating violence and sexual harassment that had previously been omitted.

Remy also set a goal of increasing transparency within Judicial Affairs, intending to expand student understanding of the judicial proceedings without compromising the privacy of individual cases.

Some examples of clarifying measures include participation community forums, letters written to incoming students, the development of an advising guide and making the annual report publicly available.

Remy served as director during the implementation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative put forth by College President Phil Hanlon, requiring her to implement the new hard alcohol ban and other policies.

She served as a co-chair of the community citizenship working group, which drafted a new Dartmouth College Pledge of Conduct, written to affirm Dartmouth’s core values as defined by the MDF platform. The pledge was first signed by the Class of 2019.

During her time at Dartmouth, Remy was involved in various student outreach programs including orientation, the first-year curriculum and undergraduate advising.

Remy described Dartmouth as “an important part of [her] identity” after her 17 years at the College, but wrote that it was time for her to move on.

She will begin teaching a first-year seminar at FAU on Monday.

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Summer term sees formation, development of student groups

By SOPHIA SIU

The Dartmouth Staff

With fewer students on campus than any other term, the summer leaves student-run dance and musical groups shorthanded. To make up for the deficit, many established groups have traditionally held auditions for summer-specific additions in order to bolster numbers and maintain an active presence on campus.

Including a host of new talent does not stop revamped dance and a cappella groups such as SHEBAlite, Summerphonix and Splendaplum from drawing crowds. In addition to the summer versions of already well-known dance and music groups, this term has also seen the emergence and development of newer performing acts that have used the summer as a time to experiment within the campus music and dance scene.

Point of Contention, a student band comprised of Sid Mehra ’18, James Detweiler ’18, Max Fliegner ’18, Tara Joshi ’18, Joe Finkelstein ’18 and Charlotte Kamin ’18, formed in mid-July. The band has had two shows so far — one hosted at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and another on the Collis center porch during Sophomore Parents’ Weekend.

Although Point of Contention plays a range of covers mostly in the pop, rock and funk genres, Fliegner noted that each member of the band’s unique talents complement those of the other members, allowing each person to incorporate his or her own personal technique and style to the songs, regardless of the genre.

Fliegner had not known the other members of the band besides

Detweiler and had never played bass in a band before. However, he has found the experience of being a member of Point of Contention to be an extremely eye-opening and rewarding experience.

“It’s giving me some exposure to what being in a band is like. We all have a lot of differences musically, so it’s fun to put those all together and see it goes. It’s kind of unpredictable, which gives it a really cool, exciting element,” Fliegner remarked.

Fliegner said that the band hopes to stay together after the summer, but differences in D-Plans will make it hard for all members of the band to be on campus at the same time.

“We’d like to do our best with the remaining members to stay together and do what we can,” Fliegner said.

Many people are familiar with seeing Angie Lee ’17 in Dartmouth’s dance groups SHEBAlite and Street Soul, but Lee has also used this summer to explore DJing at dance parties around campus.

“As a dancer, I appreciate good music to dance to, and whenever I would to go dance parties, I would be like, I could probably do this better,” Lee said. “And maybe that’s being cocky, but I think because I listen to a very wide range of music when I was younger, I had that opinion, and so I have a big library of songs.”

Lee picked up DJing after taking some lessons from Kirby Spivey ’16, and DJed her first dance party at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority earlier in the summer after getting in touch with the EKT social chairs.

Lee also DJed another dance party at Sigma Delta sorority last week, and plans to continue DJing after

the summer.

“I really like doing it and I think I’m getting better and more things are more instinctive. I’m still working on it, and still learning,” Lee said.

While the summer provides a great opportunity for some student dance and musical groups to debut, other relatively new groups use this time to prepare and plan for the fall.

A dance group that has decided to utilize the summer as a time to practice and workshop sets is Raaz, Dartmouth’s South Asian fusion dance team. The team modeled Raazberries after the summer editions of other dance groups on campus.

Arati Gangadharan ’18, a summer co-captain of the Raazberries team, said that Raaz seeks to spread awareness about Indian culture on campus by holding events and taking part in dance shows. Although Raazberries is not performing in any shows this term, the team of dancers teach and develop Bollywood, bhang ra, fusion and hip-hop routines in low-pressure workshops that occur twice a week.

Gangadharan said that Raazberries allowed her friends who joined the dance team for the summer to share in a part of Indian culture that they wouldn’t have seen or experienced otherwise.

When the original team returns in the fall, the group will be performing during orientation as well as traveling to other college campuses to perform over the term.

Music in Color, a coed a cappella group that formed last fall, did not hold shows over the summer but decided to use the time to prepare and practice their repertoire for the fall.

COURTESY OF MICHAEL AABERG

Point of Contention, a student band formed this summer, plans to continue performing as a group in future terms.

COURTESY OF MICHAEL AABERG

Max Fliegner ’18 performs with Point of Contention at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity.

Janice Fidalgo ’18 created the group with the intention of bringing together songs from people of color.

“It exists specifically with the purpose to have songs that are not white-centric and to move away from the pop songs that are always sung in a cappella groups, with a specific focus on music from people of color,” said Lydia Freehafer ’18, who joined the group in the winter.

As Music in Color does not focus on any specific genre, the sets include songs from a range of artists, including Esperanza Spalding and Drake.

Freehafer noted that in the fall, the group might sing a mix of more popular, modern songs and older songs.

“It’s been really great. I’ve had a lot of fun and I’ve met some people who I’ve become super close with that I wouldn’t have otherwise,” Freehafer said. “It’s exciting that it’s a new thing that’s getting started and it’s cool to be a part of that, and I’m excited to see where it goes.”

Music in Color will perform as part of the a cappella showcase for freshmen and will hold auditions alongside the other a cappella groups in the fall.

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OSHER is exhibiting Barbara Newton’s Japanese paper collages of New England.

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Abbey D’Agostino ’14 and Dartmouth Olympians wrap up Rio

By RAY LU

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Abbey D’Agostino ’14 made national headlines this past Tuesday after tripping over fallen New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin in the preliminary round of the women’s 5,000-meter race and helping her back up. D’Agostino and Hamblin fi nished the race and were advanced to the final by default, but D’Agostino was forced to withdraw from competition with a torn ACL and meniscus. D’Agostino finished the last mile of the race despite her

injuries.

“This whole time here [God’s] made clear to me that my experience in Rio was going to be about more than my race performance — and as soon as Nikki got up I knew that was it,” D’Agostino said in a statement released Wednesday

by USA Track and Field.

D’Agostino’s gesture and determination earned her the praise of the general public, with many calling the moment one of the most memorable of the Rio Games.

At Dartmouth, D’Agostino became the most decorated athlete in

Ivy League history, winning several NCAA titles.

Other Dartmouth Olympians wrapped up competition this past week.

Anthony Fahden ’08 and the United States lightweight fours finished in fourth place in the B final last Thursday with a time of 6 minutes, 36.93 seconds.

Madison Hughes ’15 and the U.S. men’s rugby team defeated Spain 24-12 last Thursday to claim the ninth place title.

Alexi Pappas ’12 came in 17th in the final of the women’s 10,000-me-

ter race last Friday. Pappas, who was competing for Greece, finished in 31:36.16, setting a national record.

Last Friday, Josh Konieczny ’13 and rowing partner Andrew Campbell, Jr. finished in fifth place in the finals of the men’s lightweight double sculls. The duo finished in 6:35.07, less than four seconds off the bronze medal time and less than five seconds behind the French, who took home gold.

On Wednesday, Sean Furey ’04, TH ’05 and ’06 finished 35th in the qualifying round of the javelin throw on Wednesday with a throw

of 72.61 meters. Furey did not qualify for the final on Saturday.

Earlier in the Olympics, cyclist Evelyn Stevens ’05 placed 12th in the women’s road race on Sunday, Aug. 7, finishing the 85-mile competition in 3:52:43. Stevens also competed in the women’s individual time trial last Wednesday, coming in 10th place with a time of 46:00.08.

The last Dartmouth alumni to earn a summer Olympics medal was Dominic Seiterle ’98, who won gold in the 2008 Beijing Games with the Canadian men’s eights rowing team.

Home and Away: NBA stars’ participation in the Olympics

By VIKRAM BODAS and SAM FORSTNER The Dartmouth Staff

Each week Vikram Bodas ’18 and Sam Forstner ’18 will tackle a controversial issue in the sports world. Much like home field in baseball, each week one of the writers will take their stance first (“away”), allowing the other to respond with an argument of their own (“home”). This week they will be debating each other as to the participation of elite professional basketball players in the Olympics.

Before the 1992 Games, only amateur athletes were allowed to be on men’s Olympic basketball rosters. Dubbed the “Dream Team,” the 1992 United States team is often considered the greatest basketball team ever assembled. Featuring hall of famers Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing among others, the U.S. team dominated the entire tournament on its way to gold in Barcelona. Since then, NBA superstars have continued to participate in the Olympics at varying rates. This year in Rio, the U.S. team still boasts by far the deepest roster in the tournament, but the two preeminent talents in today’s game, Steph Curry and LeBron James, chose not to participate in this year’s competition. Although Team USA has surprisingly looked shaky in a few group stage games, they still remain as the odds on favorite to win gold as they prepare to play Spain in the semifinals on Friday night. In recent years, the roster construction of Team USA has been a hot button issue. Some feel that as the dominant basketball playing nation in the country we should send our best players. Others argue that the Olympics should be a time when young

and upcoming players get a chance to show their skills on a big stage. This year’s team can almost be considered a hybrid between these two perspectives.

So the question is what should the Team USA basketball roster look like in future Olympic games?

Sam (Away): Let me get straight to the point: yes, elite players like LeBron and Steph should play in the Olympics.

By opting not to compete, they are ensuring that USA Basketball will not put its best roster on the floor, and since Olympic basketball is (in theory) highly competitive, this does the country and its Olympic program a disservice.

Further, Olympic athletes are asked not only to be competitors, but also to be ambassadors on a world stage.

Whose face is more likely to resonate with people in Brazil and around the world and make them think “USA,” LeBron’s or Harrison Barnes’? Come on.

Vikram (Home): Although, obviously, having LeBron and Steph on the roster would make this U.S. team more talented, I think that Team USA should prioritize desire to play in the Olympics over talent. Just look at the 2004 U.S. team in Athens, which was led by 2001 NBA MVP Allen Iverson.

Throughout the tournament the team was undisciplined on offense and lazy on defense. As a result of this and the ever improving global basketball talent pool, the U.S. was unable to even reach the gold medal game and was forced to settle for bronze. The lesson to be learned from 2004 is that the U.S. has enough basketball talent that it should target the most motivated players, not necessarily the most gifted.

Sam (Away): I’m intrigued by your emphasis on motivation over ability

when it comes to selecting the team.

While I certainly agree that no one wants a team full of lazy, disinterested players, I think that your response may create more questions than it answers. Namely, why are players not motivated to play in what is the pinnacle of international sport? My gut reaction is that the lack of parity or competition that you touched on could be one factor. But if that’s the case, who wouldn’t sacrifice a few weeks for such a high probability of a gold medal (Brazil-specific concerns aside)? If the reason is that, in fact, the U.S. is so dominant that the Olympics isn’t even worth their time, where do we draw the line? I could see a scenario in which the U.S. assembles a team of top college players, who would presumably be not only extremely motivated, but would also still have a very good shot at gold. However, if the team is sticking with professionals, it seems misguided not to send superstars — from both an athletic as well as a publicity perspective.

Vikram (Home): I would like to draw your attention to some recent comments made by DeAndre Jordan and Carmelo Anthony, who have essentially stated that winning a gold medal is worth the same to them as an NBA Championship. What do Jordan and Anthony have in common? They both have never really even been close to hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy despite their star status in the NBA. More than any sport really, NBA players care deeply about their legacy, and winning gold for Team USA is seen by many players as another way to improve the way their careers are remembered by future generations.

USA Basketball should leverage this by targeting star players who have yet

to win a championship, in the hopes of picking a roster that is filled with both highly skilled and highly motivated players like Anthony and Jordan. Of course, the entire roster cannot be built using this methodology, but at least the core of the roster can be constructed while still keeping this in mind.

Sam (Away): It seems to me there is a reason players like Jordan and Anthony have come up short of an NBA championship — despite their abilities, they have less of an impact on the success of their teams than players who have won championships. If I was a coach putting together a team, maybe I would think twice before I loaded up on guys like that. Finally, I think it is important how this question is framed. Your arguments, for the most part, have centered on questions of what USA Basketball should do

when selecting its team. And that is an interesting question, as the front office and coach obviously have the ultimate roster control. But from the perspective of the players, I believe I have made my case. If the team doesn’t want champions or “undermotivated” players, fine. But they should at least throw their hat in the ring.

Vikram (Home): Wow Sam, I think we are actually in agreement for once. I will concede that players like LeBron and Curry should play, but if they choose not to for whatever reason, then USA Basketball officials should approach picking their roster by focusing on the method that I have outlined in this debate. Although agreeing with you in some regard leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I won’t revert to using ad hominem attacks against you like usual.

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Sam Forstner ’18 and Vikram Bodas ’18 face off again in this week’s column.