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Freshmen survey reveals student financial concerns By EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff
to have a diverse faculty to be training those leaders to recognize the value of diversity,” Anthony said. Her goal, she said, is to increase recruitment and retention for underrepresented groups such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian Americans in a variety of fields and women in science. Any time a department does a faculty
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles reveals that current freshmen around the country entered college last fall less concerned with partying and more anxious about job prospects and paying for school. The annual study, titled “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014,” was released last week and delves into various aspects of student life, including experience with drugs and alcohol, anxiety and financial concerns. According to the report, only 11 percent of current freshmen report having spent six hours or more per week partying in high school, a decrease from 23 percent 10 years ago. Managing director at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute Kevin Eagan said the purpose of the study is to provide participating colleges with baseline information so they can develop programs beneficial to the well-being of students. The study, which surveyed 153,000 students at 227 four-year colleges, also found that current freshmen are less happy than freshmen 20 or 30 years ago, with 12 percent reporting feeling less mentally healthy than their peers. Eagan said that current incoming freshmen are more susceptible to stress. “The declining rates of partying in high school, in conjunction with increased rates of studying, unhappiness and anxiety, indicate that students aren’t able to find a good medium to channel their energy,” he said. Students are less occupied with social matters, Eagan
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Vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony hopes to bring in more minority faculty.
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Vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony, who assumed the position last October, has been entrusted to help retain and recruit a diverse faculty at the College. Anthony’s new position was publicized during College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” speech late last month, in which he also said the
College has committed $1 million per year to further this diversity initiative. Anthony, the former chair of the sociology department, has a four-year appointment as vice provost for academic initiatives, and said that faculty diversity is important for students’ education. “To the extent that we are an educational institution and really training the next generation of thinkers and leaders, it is also necessary
Registrar posts textbook prices in compliance with law B y Kelsey Flower The Dartmouth Staff
Following a Columbia Spectator article on the University’s seeming failure to comply with the Higher Education Opportunities Act to provide information on textbook prices during course registration, Dartmouth confirmed it does follow this stipulation, College Registrar Meredith Braz wrote in an email. She said that her office works with
academic departments and programs to comply with the HEOA regarding textbook information. The Columbia Spectator reported on Jan. 22 that Columbia failed to comply with this portion of HEOA after analyzing the spring 2015 undergraduate course offerings. They determined that over 65 percent of courses did not display textbook information. Dartmouth associate general SEE TEXTBOOKS PAGE 3
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DAily debriefing Brown University: Alumni at Brown University, partnered with four current undergraduate students, are working to launch a new app by early April, the Brown Daily Herald reports. The app — titled “Groupies” and initially developed by Rob Gillett, a member of the Brown Class of 2012 — aims to help groups of young adults find other groups interested in participating in similar activities. As Gillett prepares the application for launch, he is also working with business students at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and plans on extending the outreach to include representatives on various campuses. Columbia University: Students at Barnard College will not be required to participate in Columbia University’s mandatory sexual respect education program, Columbia Spectator reported. While Barnard students will be able to opt into programs at Columbia, Barnard’s dean for equity Amy Zavadil said the school will require more information about the program before making it mandatory for Barnard students. Students at Columbia will be required to participate in one of five offered prevention education options before leaving for spring break. Cornell University: The Cornell United Way Campaign has dedicated itself to raising $10,000 a week for the next eight weeks, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The organization, which has raised $720,000 of its total winter goal of $815,000 so far, collects donations from Cornell students, staff and faculty. Funds will be used to provide food for families in need, and donations will be collected until March 31. Harvard University: As of Feb. 10, Harvard University had cancelled classes for the second consecutive day, marking the third snow day this semester, the Harvard Crimson reported. Facing severe winter weather, the University’s decision followed an announcement Monday by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority that services would be cancelled on Tuesday. Important divisions of the school, such as Harvard University Health Services, will remain open for attention to urgent health needs. Princeton University: Princeton graduate students Kimberly Shepard, Catherine Reilly, Yu Deng and Evan Hepler-Smith have been awarded the University’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, the Daily Princetonian reports. The award is given to graduate students who have shown “the highest scholarly excellence in graduate work during the year.” University of Pennsylvania: John Lapinski, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will build on his position as director of the Elections Unit at NBC this spring to launch a new research program, the Penn Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The program will train undergraduates to conduct public policy and elections research and to compile and analyze data. Yale University: According to the Yale Daily News, Yale University saw a slight decline in applications for undergraduate admission this year — a contrast compared to the growth seen by all other Ivy League institutions who have released admissions data this year. Director of outreach and recruitment Mark Dunn, a member of the Yale Class of 2007, said that the University’s admissions office had changed its policies this year to limit the number of admissions materials sent to applicants who did not seem “that into Yale.” - COMPILED BY IRENE COFIE
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Survey shows increased alcohol use FROM SURVEY PAGE 1
added, and more worried about paying for college and finding a wellpaying job after graduation. He also said that he thought that students who had less experience with drinking before college are less likely to engage in risky drinking behavior while at college. Presidential fellow on wellness Maria Sperduto ’14 echoed Eagan’s thoughts, saying that the College aims to take a holistic approach to student wellness rather than just focusing on alcohol intake. She is currently working with Dartmouth Thrive, a College-wide program that aims to help students succeed in and out of the classroom and assists with their personal development. “It’s not just alcohol, it’s about your social, emotional and physical well-being,” Sperduto said. “They’re all related in terms of decision making and doing your best.” She also said that the program aims to help students maximize leadership and to take control of their interactions. Though the College does not yet have a freshmen-specific wellness program, she said that it is making plans to further help assimilate freshmen. Though the 2014 Dartmouth Student
Health Survey did not publish statistics specifically related to incoming freshmen, the report relays higher than average numbers for binge drinking on campus, which is defined as five or more drinks at a sitting. In 2014, 49 percent of Dartmouth students said that they engaged in what they
“It’s not just alcohol, it’s about your social, emotional and physical well-being... They’re all related in terms of decision making and doing your best.” -MARIA SPERTUDO ’14, PRESIDENTIAL FELLOW
considered to be high-risk drinking behavior on campus, compared to 34 percent of students nationwide. Additionally, 11 percent of students at the College reported being diagnosed with and receiving treatment for anxiety, up from nine percent in 2010.
Alana Donohue ’18, who is from New York City, said she felt prepared for Dartmouth’s drinking scene because of her metropolitan upbringing. “I was exposed to a vibrant social culture at such a young age,” she said. “Alcohol is just more prevalent, and we didn’t have the fear of drinking and driving, so drinking seemed more normal and less taboo.” Kimmi Bolsinger ’18 said she does not feel that binge drinking is a freshman-specific problem. “I think that freshmen definitely feel excited when they first get to college because they have so much freedom, but cases of binge drinking due to a lack of experience do not really seem to be the concern,” Bolsinger said. She also said Dartmouth has done a good job assimilating her into college life. Though she said she is not especially close with her freshman faculty advisor, she said that he is diligent about checking up on her and has been very helpful in terms of class selection. “He also helped me figure out how to get into a different math class during my first term which was extremely helpful,” she said, “While I haven’t met with him since then, he seems to be really invested in the well-being of the students that he is advising.”
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counsel Kevin O’Leary said that the law states that information regarding textbooks and their prices should be provided for classes “to the maximum extent practicable.” The College has a system in place to upload the information to the Banner Student website and therefore complies with the act, he said. “Clearly, we are trying to comply because we have this mechanism in place where there is an opportunity for departments to upload their information to the website,” O’Leary said. He noted that the law recognizes that implementation will not always “be perfect.” Schools that receive federal funding must comply with the HEOA, and the Department of Education uses funding as a “stick” to make sure that schools comply, he said. He said, however, that he thinks that if the Department of Education decided that a school was not complying to the maximum extent practical in terms of textbook information, they still would not lose their funding. He said that to his knowledge no students have come forward with an issue regarding the College’s compliance to the Act, but if any have a problem with the level of compliance that should bring it to the attention
of the department, registrar’s office or General Counsel. Director of the Open Education
“To faculty, a book deadline may seem arbitrary, but when they understand that it actually reduces costs for their students, allowing them to shop around and the bookstore to stock more used copies, they may be more willing to comply.” - Nicole allen, director of the open education for the scholarly publishing and academic resources for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Nicole Allen said that textbook information has important student financial implications.
“To faculty, a book deadline may seem arbitrary, but when they understand that it actually reduces costs for their students, allowing them to shop around and the bookstore to stock more used copies, they may be more willing to comply,” Allen said. College director of financial aid Virginia Hazen said that textbook information falls under the responsibility of the registrar and faculty more so than the financial aid office. Hazen said she ensures that the office budgets a sufficient amount of money each year for students to get the textbooks they need. The amount allocated for textbooks increases every year, she said. Hazen said that last spring the financial aid office did a survey to determine how much students spend on books, and they determined from the results that the office was budgeting enough money to meet student need. History department chair Robert Bonner said that the history department does have a mechanism to put this information on the Banner Student website. He said that history professors send an administrator information to be uploaded to the website. This process follows the same procedure as all others concerning course information for his department, he said. Bonner said that
professors who do not send their information by a certain deadline receive further prompting. “We do everything in our power short of coming up with the reading list ourselves — only the professor can do that,” Bonner said. He noted that there are legitimate circumstances in which a reading list would not be available. Bonner said that he believes that for most part, faculty comply with this requirement. He noted the financial
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While many students purchase textbooks at Wheelock Books, others look to online retailers or student textbook exchanges.
pressure that buying textbooks can have on students. Chair of the department of psychological and brain sciences Jay Hull wrote in an email that the department does not have a policy on textbook price listings. Yale University school of management professor Judith Chevalier said that Yale is also in full compliance with the law. Chevalier said that the textbook portion of the HEOA may have more of an effect on professors than it does on students. “I don’t know how many Dartmouth students, given the investment they’ve made in their education, will make a class choice based on the price of books,” Chevalier said. She noted that the HEOA forces professors to know how much the books they are assigning cost. “One of byproducts of act is that it raises the probability that the professor is informed when making a textbook price choice,” Chevalier said. Of seven students interviewed by The Dartmouth, five said that available textbook prices or other information had no impact on their course selection. Katie Clayton ’18 said she doesn’t look at the textbooks for a course until after she selects classes. Jacob Stern ’15 said that when there is no textbook information for a class he does not look for price information elsewhere. “We’re taking so few classes and paying so much in tuition that textbook costs are minimal on top,” Stern said. “I pick my classes based on interest or what I need to take.” Autumn Brunelle ’15 said that having information on textbooks does play a role for her in picking classes. She said, however, that she will usually borrow the textbook from someone. “It affects my decision,” Brunelle said. “I can’t afford a $300 textbook each term.”
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The Promise of Foley
Speaking of Enforcement
Foley House demonstrates what the residential house system can achieve. One of the most concrete reforms in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan is the implementation of a residential housing system. The idea makes sense. It does not represent a push to create an alternative to the Greek system, but creates new shared spaces on campus — ones in which students can feel grounded despite the disorienting effects of the D-Plan. Based on my experiences living in Foley House, I strongly believe that these types of communities will improve student residential life. Foley House, known for its nightly dinners and its egregious distance from the center of campus, is a highly successful example of what happens when you throw several students from various backgrounds into a space they must all look after together. On a whim, I decided to move into Foley during my junior fall. Most of my friends had taken off-terms, and I figured I had nothing to lose by testing out this whole “living learning community” thing, despite knowing none of the other residents. Now, almost two terms later, I want to high five my past self for taking the risk to live in a house that I knew almost nothing about. This feeling is not exclusive to me — most of my housemates have expressed a similar sentiment. At the end of each term, Foley’s residents have a shared commitment to a house that is hard to describe to non-residents. Because Foley’s purpose is rather vague and abstract — it is a “non-exclusive, coed household where all residents share responsibilities and decision-making,” according to its website — its residents choose to join for wildly different reasons. In the fall, some of us just wanted to cook, some of us wanted to live farther away from campus and one student was randomly assigned to live there. Strangely enough, I think this diversity is critical to the house’s success. Were Foley to be explicitly interest-based like other LLCs, it would likely attract a more specific type of person. Foley, though, has no one “type” of resident. Dartmouth’s residential houses, too, will have no one “type” of resident. The onus is on both Foley and the housing system to overcome this lack of shared background — though Foley proves that from disparate backgrounds you can
build a residential community that is arguably more cohesive than many Greek houses. As a result, Foley is distinct on this campus. Much of Dartmouth’s campus, I find, is bereft of the type of respect that Foley’s residents have for the space. Freshmen floors may grow close, but some of their physical spaces are trashed on weekends. Greek-affiliated students care for their houses, but nonresidents often disrespect the space. Upperclassmen housing, currently a very transient system, almost encourages a detachment from our physical spaces. It seems that other LLCs fail to generate the same mutual respect and care amongst their residents that Foley does, as they are not responsible for the entirety of the space themselves. Foley is already a successful residential space on this campus, one where deep connections are organic and inevitable. This is because Foley-ites, as residents are known, care deeply about their shared living space. This unparalleled level of care is a direct result of shared responsibility and chores — each resident has a vested interest in the house. Administrators should therefore look at Foley as a model — a tried-and-true residential community — as they implement the new housing system. My experience in Foley makes me optimistic about the system “Moving Dartmouth Forward” has proposed. If more students cared about the spaces they inhabit, I am confident more students will treat each other with respect. If students sense that they have a shared ownership over their living space, then they will be more conscious of the impact their actions and interactions with others have on the community around them. Granted, this is not the guaranteed outcome — the details of the housing system are yet to be fully worked out. There is no way to know now whether it will successfully foster a sense of community among residents. That is why I urge administrators to maximize the potential of the new residential system to foster cooperative and invested groups of students as they continue to develop the details of the proposal — and this will only be achieved by considering existing models of community.
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Relaxed beer and wine policies should accompany the hard alcohol ban. Over the past few weeks, it has become increasingly clear that the College’s attitudes toward alcohol and underage drinking are misinformed. I would like to believe that this institution — more focused on the undergraduate experience than many of its peers — would have taken the lead in putting students first. Alas, the tenor and rhetoric of administrators lead me to believe that those making policy decisions are either primarily concerned with public image or are shockingly unaware of the way that college-aged people interact with each other and alcohol. A hard alcohol ban has potential, as I wrote in my Jan. 30 column after the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan was announced. The College’s current trajectory in terms of alcohol policy, however, is far from helping to realize this potential and instead seems doomed to make things worse. Nicole Simineri outlined the potential consequences of a blanket ban on hard alcohol in her Feb 9. column, including a greater imbalance in the power dynamics between upperclassmen and underclassmen — particularly in favor of upperclassmen males — and an overall increase in exclusivity. While I agree with many of Simineri’s conclusions, I believe many of them only apply if the hard alcohol ban is enforced in the wrong way. Colleges across the nation cannot flout state laws prohibiting minors from imbibing, but their disciplinary policies regarding alcohol do not need to enforce state law, either. In fact, some colleges — such as Stanford University, which in 2010 received an exemption from a Santa Clara County underage drinking ordinance — have “open door” policies, where drinking beer and wine is acceptable in dorms or common spaces provided that authority figures can walk by to ensure that everyone is being safe. Other colleges that have instituted hard alcohol bans — including Bowdoin College and Colby College — combine those efforts with decreased consequences for drinking other forms of alcohol. Dartmouth would do well to look at these schools as examples when forming alcohol policies over the next several months. Unfortunately, alcohol policy enforcement
at the College seems to be going in the other direction. College President Phil Hanlon both espouses the need for a hard alcohol ban and reiterates the College’s commitment to curb underage drinking of any kind. He has mentioned requiring undergraduate advisors to perform rounds, increasing the number of Safety and Security officers and mandating bartenders and bouncers at social events. Perhaps worst of all, his attitude seems to suggest that with aggressive enough enforcement, underage drinking can be prevented on this campus. This is patently false, but will no doubt trickle down through the institutional ranks. As long as there are stores that sell alcohol within reach of campus, all students — including those underage — will likely continue to drink. Even if administrators significantly decrease the ease with which students are able to drink, the cost of such actions — to the student experience and personal liberty, to prospective students and to the inclusive social scene that Dartmouth has always touted as one of its biggest strengths — would be far too great to justify the benefits. Assuming that President Hanlon is open to working with students rather than against them, I would stress to him that the College cannot couple a hard alcohol ban with an enforcement campaign against all forms of drinking and expect to succeed at eradicating high-risk drinking. Instead, the new policies will likely drive drinking off-campus and into private spaces and destroy what inclusivity there is in our social life and the progress the College has made in protecting students from harm when they drink in excess. It would make more sense to ban hard alcohol and make sanctions for being caught with it severe, while also making it easier to serve and consume beer and wine at events. This would give individuals, as well as clubs, teams and Greek organizations a much greater incentive to follow this ban. Pragmatic College policy would recognize that underage drinking will not be eliminated. If President Hanlon wants Dartmouth to be a national leader in addressing binge drinking, then he should focus on reducing harm, rather than decreeing that it go away.
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Provost to add faculty diversity FROM PROVOST PAGE 1
search, that department works with the dean to create a search committee. The $1 million in annual funds will go in part toward increasing resources for department search committees, such as websites and literature on unconscious bias that search committees can utilize before they commence a search, she said. These resources will be available to any department. Success for the program would mean an increase in the number of underrepresented faculty and in their retention, along with the full engagement of those faculty members. Anthony said that she has been receiving suggestions and feedback from a variety of faculty members. The College has been looking at other universities for inspiration, although Anthony declined to name any specific institutions. Prior to her appointment, Anthony headed the faculty advisor committee for the College’s strategic planning process and served as research director for Dartmouth’s Institute for Security, Technology and Society, a College-affiliated group that pursues research in information privacy and security.
Anthony said she meets with faculty and staff from the Geisel School of Medicine and the
“We live in a big world...We are expected to go into that world and make changes, and if we can’t represent some [part of] that world here and get a diversity of views vand representations then students aren’t very well prepared to face the global-wide community.” -GRETCHEN GERZINA, ENGLISH PROFESSOR
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rican American studies program and English professor Gretchen Gerzina, who has been teaching at the College for 10 years, said that she thinks faculty of color leave Dartmouth for a variety of reasons — the relative isolation of campus, the inability for the partners of some professors to secure a job in the area and the draw of bigger institutions who might have attributes, such as a multitude of graduate students, that the College cannot offer. “If Dartmouth wants to keep somebody, they have the means to do it,” Gerzina said. “The question is if the reasons people are leaving are personal reasons that Dartmouth can’t address.” Dartmouth’s faculty across all schools is 84 percent white and 61 percent male, according to the Fall 2013 College Fact Book, the most recent year available. The Geisel School of Medicine’s faculty is 89 percent white, while the faculties at the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business are 82 and 75 percent male, respectively, according to the Fact Book. Gerzina said that having a diverse faculty helps expose students to other important viewpoints. “We live in a big world,” she
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said. “We are expected to go into that world and make changes, and if we can’t represent some [part of] that world here and get a diversity of views and representations then students aren’t very well prepared to face the global-wide community.” Assistant professor of physics and astronomy Chandrasekhar Ramanathan said that acknowledging the issue is the first step in addressing the problem. Ramanathan said that, for him, the College environment is comfortable, but added that the lack of diversity makes it harder to form connections with a broader community. A large part of encouraging the recruitment and retention of minority faculty is providing
a comfortable environment on a work, living and community level, Ramanathan said. Between 2006 and 2013, Yale University had a faculty diversity initiative, which focused on increasing the number of underrepresented minority faculty members and women in science. The initiative set the hiring goal of 30 minority and 30 female professors from 2006 until June 2013. As of February 2013, the University was able to retain 22 minority and 18 female faculty members, one year after the university hired 56 minority and 30 female faculty members. Anthony’s academic initiatives also include international objectives, such as global programs and research activities.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:15 p.m. “The Secular Bible: Biblical Scholarship and the University in the 19th Century,” Rockefeller Center, Room 002
4:30 p.m. “Ebola in West Africa: Lessons from a Global Health Crisis,” Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium
4:30 p.m. “Venture Formation,” Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network startup boot camp with Errik Anderson ’00Tu’07, Top of the Hop
TOMORROW 3:00 p.m. “Use of a Superconducting Synchrocyclotron for Proton Radiation Therapy,” lecture with Dr. G. Townsend Zwart ’86, Wilder 104
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Glee Club will perform love songs for Valentine’s Day concert B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff
Any student who walks into the Hopkins Center on Saturday afternoon will be greeted at the door by the sound of the Dartmouth Glee Club singing classical love songs and Beatles arrangements. Glee Club director Louis Burkot said that while the choice of this concert’s theme — love songs — was obviously linked to the date of the concert, choosing the songs required more deliberate thought. He said that he aimed to find songs that had messages with which the singers could identify so that they could better convey the emotion. “There are a lot of love songs, but some of them are difficult to project,” Burkot said. Their song selection will include love songs spanning multiple eras, from the 1800s to the modern day. The program will begin with a selection from two waltzes by Austrian
composer Johannes Brahms, he said. The selection will be accompanied by two students on the piano. “Brahms was interesting because he was very successful in his professional life but not in his personal life,” Burkot said. “A lot of his songs have this underlying tone of unrequited love.” While the Brahms pieces are in German, members of the Glee Club have experience singing songs in other languages — the group had learned a selection of songs in Spanish during the fall term as part of their visit to Cuba. Glee Club member Hallie Reichel ’18 said that the hardest part of learning a new language is becoming comfortable with the sounds. “When you’re singing in another language you focus on the notes at first,” she said. “But as you move on you focus more on making the language sound natural.” Glee club member Connor Regan ’18 said that while learning how to
sing in another language was challenging, Burkot helped the members learn. After the Brahms pieces, the Glee Club will perform Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep,” which is set to a poem by poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. Burkot said he wanted to break up the program with another theme, this time focusing on dreams. “A lot of times a whole program of love songs can be a little monotonous, so I thought I’d change it up by introducing the whole idea of lovers and dreamers,” Burkot said. The concert will conclude with four Beatles songs — “And I Love Her” (1964), “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1964), “Eleanor Rigby” (1966) and “Yesterday” (1965). Burkot said that the “timeless” feel of these classic songs made it easier for the students to learn the arrangements, as most had some experience with them before. “I was happily pleased to find that all the members of the group were familiar with the songs,” Burkot said.
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“Nowhere to Go” lecture explores the 2010 Haitian earthquake through multimedia.
He said that the next step for the group was working on isolating the emotions of each piece and “zeroing in on the mood.” He said that he began planning for this event following the fall concert, which he described as a “big blowout” concert involving a hired orchestra and featured solos by students. To offer a more diversified training, Burkot said that he decided on having the
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Enjoy a musical Valentine as this enchanting chorus sings music of dreamers and lovers, including Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, selections from Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer (Love Song Waltzes) and choral arrangements of The Beatles’ best-loved songs.
DARTMOUTh COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE an eVeninG in metropoLis • mattheW m. marsit conductor
Accompanying a 30-minute version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film masterpiece Metropolis, the ensemble performs Thomas Miller’s Suite and debuts Richard Marriott’s concerto, based on his own score for the film. Adam Gorb’s high-intensity evocation of a modern metropolis and Michael Daugherty’s homage to bygone days in the city of Las Vegas round out this evening powered by the driving energy of the modern urban center.
feB 20 & 21 8 pm
ROMEO AND JULIET by WILLIAM ShAkESPEARE
feB 22 & mar 1 2 pm
We all know the story of Shakespeare’s iconic romantic tragedy—or do we? In this production, actors are interviewed, they audition, rehearse and perform sections of Romeo and Juliet, all in an effort to discover the true story of the star-crossed lovers.
8 pm
$5
DartmoUth theater Department
feB 26-28
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hop.dartmouth.edu • 603.646.2422
Dartmouth college • hanover, nh $5 for Dartmouth students
other two concerts of the year focus on other techniques and genres. He said that winter term has a distinct feel, due to the loss of several members of the club due to their D-Plans “I program for the specific group of singers I have at hand,” Burkot said. “Winter term over the last seven to 10 years I would say tends to be now the smallest group of students on campus, and that’s usually reflected in the population of the group.” He said that while the drop from 40 singers in the fall to 32 in the winter might not seem significant, it does change the group’s composition and sound. “That actual number does change what the group sounds like,” Burkot said. “It allows them to sing things with a little more intimacy to them.” The venue choice reflects this sense of intimacy, as Burkot chose the Top of the Hop over a more traditional concert hall setting. Hopkins Center publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said that she thinks the location of the concert will draw in potential audience members. “Once you set foot in the building you’ll hear this glorious music just pouring all over the place, and we hope that people will hear that even if they don’t know about the concert and be drawn to go see it,” she said. The Glee Club features students from all classes, with a nearly equal distribution between both classes and vocal parts. The strength in this group has been their intuition concerning the music, Burkot said. “There’s a certain quality about the singing that’s very natural. They understand very clearly what I’m asking for. What you’re probably going to see is a really strong communicative effort,” Burkot said. Overall, the concert will have a very positive mood with a positive message about love, Reichel said. “I think people would like to come to this concert because it’s very classic Valentines Day,” she said. The Dartmouth College Glee Club’s concert will begin at 4 p.m. at the Top of the Hop with no charge for students or the general public.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
THURSDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled.
Skiing comes in second while hosting Winter Carnival B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff
With only one carnival left before the NCAA Regional Championship, the ski team, ranked No. 5 in the SYNC ski coaches poll, continued its streak of second-place finishes at this past weekend’s Dartmouth Carnival. Despite competing in familiar territory as the host team, the Big Green finished with 841 points and once again fell short to the No. 4 ranked University of Vermont, who earned 926 points. “For the ski team to win overall, all four teams have to perform their best on the same weekend,” director of skiing and women’s alpine coach Chip Knight said. “We’re still working on that.” Opening the carnival on Friday, the women’s alpine squad dominated the giant slalom race at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme. Libby Gibson ’18 and Foreste Peterson ’18 established themselves as the duo to beat in the event after claiming the top two spots yet again, finishing 19-hundredths of a second apart from each other at 1:58.18 and 1:58.37, respectively. Gibson had the fastest first run with a time of 1:01.30 and the second-fastest second run with 56.88 seconds behind Vermont’s Ellie Terwiel, who finished third overall. Adding to the superb effort by the team, Lizzie Kistler ’16, Abigail Fucigna ’15, Kelly Moore ’18and Maisie Ide ’16 gave Dartmouth six of the top eight finishes. The Big
B y RICH SHEN & AUSTIN LIM The Dartmouth Staff
With March Madness approaching, people are beginning to pay attention to college basketball. With a few exciting powerhouses this year, the tournament is shaping up to be as exhilarating as ever. This week, however, marked the unfortunate passing of one of college basketball’s most iconic figures. Most people have heard of Mike Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino and Jim Boeheim. The man who revolutionized the game and made it possible for these men to emerge onto the scene, though, was Dean Smith, who passed away at the age of 83 this
Green defeated second-place Vermont by 28 points in the event with a total of 138 points. Placing six starters in the top eight, Knight said, was a testament to the hard work everyone put in the week beforehand by participating in a crash course in skiing down the hill with limited repetitions. “We only had four days on the hill before the event,” he said. “I’m very proud of the way the team handled itself and met the challenge.” In the men’s giant slalom, Kevyn Read ’18 scored 44 points for the alpine team with a fourth-place finish and a time of 1:55.67, while Brian McLaughlin ’18 added 37 points with a sixth-place finish in 1:55.79. Sam Macomber ’16 completed the race in 1:56.73 for 13th-place, and Ben Morse ’14 finished behind him by two-hundredths of a second for 14th. With 105 points, the men’s alpine finished third in the event, and the Catamounts took first with 122 points with Middlebury College in second. On the first day of the carnival, the Nordic team competed in a classic sprint at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont. The men’s squad placed second with 100 points, and the women took third with 89. Fabian Stocek ’17 led the men’s team in the sprint in third behind Vermont’s Jorgen Grav and Cole Morgan. Silas Talbot ’15 finished in 11th place, and Zach Goldberg ’17 earned 14th. On the women’s side, Corey Stock ’16 was the lone Dartmouth finisher
atop the podium with a second-place finish in the sprint. Emily Hannah ’16 placed 16th, and Mary O’Connell ’16 finished 24th. “The Nordic team didn’t have as great of a race because of one of the races was a sprint, and we’re not a strong sprinting team,” Jan Ketterson ’17 said. “UVM skied really well, but as a whole, it was fun to ski at Craftsbury which is kind of our home course.” The women’s alpine team had another stellar day with an additional 1-2 finish in the slalom race, this time coming from Ide and Kistler. Ide had the fastest first run and the third-fastest second run for a combined time of 1:45.52, putting her atop the podium with teammate Kistler, who finished second with 1:45.21. Moore finished in 1:48.52 for a 10th-place finish, helping the team to its first top finish in the event this carnival season. The Catamounts placed second, scoring 116 points to Dartmouth’s 128. The women’s alpine squad, Ide said, capitalized on its home hill advantage. “It helped to train on the race hill the week before the race,” Ide said. “We carried the momentum from the previous day’s giant slalom results.” Among a field of 71 athletes, including members of the U.S. and Canada Alpine Ski Teams, Morse finished in 10th in the men’s slalom with a time of 1:38.96. Macomber finished in 1:39.40 for 13th, and Read claimed 16th in 1:39.80. It was a difficult event for the men’s alpine team, who placed fourth overall with 95 points.
Men and women’s Nordic both placed third in the 10K freestyle races. Stock found herself atop the podium for the second time with a third-place finish in 31:30.4. Julia Harrison ’15 scored 25 points for the team after claiming 15th in the race, and O’Connell added another 23 points with an 18th-place finish. Overall, the women’s Nordic scored 92 points in the event, and the University of New Hampshire won with 116 points, with Middlebury again taking second. Stocek, who won the 10K classic at the St. Michael’s Carnival, led the men’s Nordic squad again but was unable to make it atop the podium
past Saturday. Smith was the head coach at the University of North Carolina for 36 years, and leaves a legacy that includes an Olympic gold medal, 2 NCAA D-I basketball championships, 11 Final Four appearances and a 77.6 winning percentage. When he retired, Coach Smith left with the most wins of any men’s college basketball coach in history, as well as with the ninthhighest winning percentage. Smith also coached some of the most famous athletes to ever play the game, including Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Sam Perkins. Despite his lengthy list of impressive accomplishments, Smith will
be remembered for the monumental impact he had on college basketball as a whole. Dean Smith cared about his players. Sure, he wanted to win. He loved coaching and was clearly successful at it, but Smith cared about the people who he interacted with. Smith’s number one rule was that if a player ever needed to talk, he should interrupt Smith no matter what he was doing. He wanted to be there for his players, regardless of the situation. He was the first to implement the now commonplace gesture where a scorer will point to a passer as an acknowledgement of appreciation. This attitude, where people must thank others for the help they have provided, exemplifies how Smith believed people should live. Smith’s program led to 96 percent of his players graduating from college, an astonishing number considering it’s higher than most graduation rates for entire colleges today. In fact,
it is higher than the current 81 percent four-year graduation rate at UNC. Smith once said, “You should never be proud of doing what’s right. You should just do what’s right,” and his life was the epitome of this quote. Smith was a prominent democratic figure in North Carolina at the time, and firmly opposed segregation. In 1966, he chose Charlie Scott, a high school valedictorian from New York to be the first African American to play on a college basketball team on athletic scholarship. Scott said “Coach Smith never treated me like the first African-American to go to the University of North Carolina. It was all any person would want to be treated like — like everybody else.” Smith actively pushed for civil rights, both through the political landscape and through his personal actions. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Smith attended a previously segregated restaurant with an African American
at Craftsbury. Instead, Stocek settled for sixth place with a time of 26:50.6. Talbot claimed ninth place in 27:00.5, and Luke Brown ’18 placed 10th with a time of 27:01.7. Overall, the men’s Nordic scored 94 points in the event, dropping to UVM and UNH for the second straight week since Patrick Caldwell ’17left to compete in the Under-23 Championships in Kazakhstan This coming weekend, the ski team will end its carnival season at the Middlebury Carnival held at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and Rikert Touring Center in Vermont from Feb. 13-14.
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The skiing teams placed second in their only home carnival event of the season.
athlete he coached and the pastor of the town. His devotion to promoting social equality and justice was truly admirable, and Smith left a legacy that extends far beyond the limits of the hardwood. Dean Smith was truly a coaching legend, one of the all-time greats in the history of men’s college basketball. Not only were his accomplishments on the court great and manifold, but his contributions off the court were ahead of their time as well. Coach Smith was one of the few coaches who could be considered a mentor both in basketball and in life — he cared about teaching his athletes life skills just as much as teaching them basketball skills. A man who emphasized the process more than the results and the person more than the stat line, Dean Smith will be a man sorely missed in the basketball community, but one whose legacy will also live on through the many people he reached.