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Associate dean of arts and humanities and art history professor Adrian Randolph, who Northwestern University announced will be taking over as the next dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences July 1, said highlights of his time at the College include strong relationships with students and a supportive environment for his research.

Randolph said his role at Northwestern will be bigger than his current role at Dartmouth, and he hopes to get to know the faculty members and students at Northwestern as “warmly, respectfully and affectionately” as he has at the College.

He said he hopes to play a key role in trying to advance Northwestern’s mission as a university — maintaining old traditions and new initiatives with the same level of excellence, while working with faculty members to create plans

Art history professor Adrian Randolph is Northwestern University’s next dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

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Public Voices Fellowship increases professor presence in media

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The Dartmouth Public Voices Fellowship, an initiative that partners Dartmouth faculty with OpEd Project journalists to increase the quality of professor’s engagement with major media outlets, has been extended for a third year. The fellowship will offer approximately 20 faculty members participation in seminars run by the OpEd project — a social venture dedicated to increasing the range of

voices represented in national media — in addition to year-long coaching and mentorship, according to the project’s application.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence said that 15 faculty members from diverse areas of study participated in last year’s fellowship program, publishing 44 op-eds in various media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. Faculty members who participate in the initiative this year must commit to submitting at least

two op-eds or media pitches over the course of their participation in the fellowship.

Lawrence said that the College has opted to continue funding for the initiative because the missions of the OpEd Project and the Dartmouth Public Voices Fellowship program are important.

“We want to know more about the research and thinking that goes on here among our faculty,” she said.

German professor Yuliya Komska, who participated in the program last

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Growing up in the former Yugoslavia in riverside town on the Italian border — what is now Solkan, Slovenia — economics professor Nina Pavcnik remembers shopping trips across the border to buy jeans and foods that were unavailable due to strict laws imposed by the nation’s trade regime.

These trips sparked her interest in international trade, and on Wednes-

year, said she decided to apply for the fellowship because she wanted to write for a broader audience. Komska noted that the fellowship’s seminars ranged from the basics of how to write an op-ed to more complex topics like pitching ideas to journalists and introducing academic expertise to a wider audience, among others.

“I actually got to work with real journalists who are mentors, and that was amazing,” Komska said. “It was a SEE OPED PAGE 2

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day afternoon, Pavcnik delivered the 27th Presidential Faculty Lecture, highlighting her more than 30 years of research on the effects of changes in international trade regulations on developing countries.

Pavcnik concluded that increases in international trade tend to benefit workers in export-oriented industries or regions while harming those involved import-competing industries or NATALIE CANTAVE/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Students fill out screenings at Student Assembly’s mental health fair in Collis.

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DAily debriefing The six-year completion rate was 55 percent for college students seeking a degree for the first time, according to a new National Student Clearinghouse study. The study covered students who first began college in 2008, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. About 78 percent of four-year public college students in New Hampshire graduated during the time frame. The rate was slightly lower, roughly 75 percent, for four-year private colleges in the state. Both values were above the national average.

The private college graduation rate marks an increase from 2014 data, which showed a roughly 74 percent rate.

The four-year public college rate also increased slightly from the 2014 data, which reported that approximately 77 percent of students at four-year public colleges graduated within six years.

In a visit to Concord on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden accepted an award from the University of New Hampshire Law School and discussed the Obama administration’s economic policies and their attempts to recover from the country’s recession, according to The Concord Monitor. The Vice President did not discuss a future presidential run during his talk. Biden, who also visited a local bakery and praised former New Hampshire senator Warren Rudman, for whom the award he received is named, took questions from students at the end his remarks. He has also recently visited Iowa and South Carolina, two additional states whose primaries will arrive early during the 2016 presidential contest.

Vermont’s House Education Committee — tasked with drafting reforms to the state’s education finance system this year — will soon finalize a draft bill to do so, VT Digger reports. In its current language, the Committee’s draft bill appears set to encourage neighboring school districts to create “integrated education systems.” The committee also appears interested in changing the state’s small school grants program, but the program will remain as is until 2020. Among legislators interviewed on Wednesday about the current legislation, some said the bill was nearly complete while others sounded apprehensive about certain measures or suggested additional issues, such as staff reductions, that needed to be considered.

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lot of insider insights, a lot of great writing advice, a lot of great pitching advice and a lot of reality from a journalist’s world people usually don’t have access to.”

Spanish and comparative literature professor Rebecca Biron, who was also a fellow in last year’s program, said that she joined the project in order to “discover bridges” between her academic research and a larger public voice.

Biron, who spoke positively about her experience with the fellowship, particularly praised the guidance and mentorship of female journalists from the OpEd project and the positive impact the program had on her work.

“The process of it enriches the way you think about your own academic work,” she said. “So there’s an external value in getting Dartmouth’s expertise out into the world, but there’s also a personal value coming back at you as a thinker.”

Komska echoed Biron’s praise of the program’s positive benefits for her own academic work, noting that the program helped her affirm that her academic studies are relevant to everyday life. Komska also praised the program’s ability to work with

humanities professors, since many do not usually write for the broader media, and encouraged fellow faculty members to engage with the fellowship.

“I don’t think I’m in a position to give advice but if I were, I would say, write and use this great opportu-

“The process of [the Public Voices Fellowship] enriches the way you think about your own academic work” -spanish and comparative literature professor rebecca biron nity,” she said. “It’s hard to find the time in the middle of everything we do...finding the time is a necessity in this case because it translates into rewards for yourself above all.”

Although the stated goal of the OpEd project is to diversify the pool of voices currently heard in the mainstream media by consciously encouraging female academics and other under-represented experts to

share their work, Komska said the program should not be restricted to only certain academic groups.

Noting that intellectual diversity can be understood broadly, Komska stressed that recruiting voices from a broad variety of disciplines, including those that are not often heard in the public media, extends the project’s goals.

Biron said that the program might be particularly useful for those who “don’t think they have any business” publishing in The New York Times.

While Komska said that the College’s decision to extend the fellowship clearly recognizes that what faculty members write outside “the pages of journals” matters to the College and is worth investing in, she did note that op-eds and similar articles “don’t count for anything” during the tenure or annual review process. Adding them, she said, would send a clearer message about whether the College truly values such contributions.

The Dartmouth Public Voices Fellowship is jointly funded by the dean of faculty and the office of public affairs, Lawrence said. Faculty applications must be submitted

by March 13, and the program will officially begin in April.

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What is religion’s role in the wealth and poverty of nations? Is there really a “Protestant ethic” and a “spirit of capitalism?” Or is human prosperity completely independent of religious belief, institutions, and “spirit”? How do Western and non-Western societies reconcile religious traditions with the demands of economic globalization? This course will explore a wide gamut of past and present perspectives on this important, exciting and controversial subject.

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for the next several years. “[Northwestern] is very similar to Dartmouth — they’re both very ambitious institutions that want to serve their students well and be a good environment for research,” Randolph said.

He said he hopes preserve his connection to the Dartmouth community, noting that he wants to maintain a house in the Upper Valley and considers himself an alum.

“Even though I’m leaving, I hope to remain a part of the Dartmouth extended family,” Randolph said.

He said this winter term marks his last quarter as associate dean, adding that regardless of Northwestern’s offer he would have stepped down from the his current role.

He also served as director of the Leslie Center for Humanities, chair of the art history department and director of first-year seminars during his time at the College.

He said his research is focused on 15th-century Italian visual culture, noting that while at Dartmouth, he published a book entitled “Touching Objects” with

Yale University Press as well as a second book of essays surrounding the iconography of 15th-century depictions of love.

Despite “enormous turnover” in senior administrators in recent years, Randolph said it was rewarding to help faculty achieve a

“[Randolph] has been particularly helpful in being an articulate and visionary advocate for the arts and the humanities, not merely at Dartmouth but in higher education generally speaking.”

- steve swayne, music department chair consistent set of goals throughout his time as associate dean. During his tenure, the College has seen a change in President, Provost and Dean of the College.

Dean of faculty Michael Mastanduno said he worked with

Randolph on a weekly and even daily basis, noting that he was a very effective dean and would be a considerable gain for Northwestern. He emphasized Randolph’s consistent sense of humor and creativity in problem solving as particular strengths.

“I think Professor Randolph has great composure, great judgment,” Mastanduno said. “He is an excellent problem solver.”

Mastanduno said that part of Randolph’s strength as dean derived from his relationships with faculty members, adding that Randolph knew the faculty well enough to have their confidence, while simultaneously possessing the ability to make difficult decisions regarding the faculty without losing their support.

“He just had such terrific credibility with the faculty,” Mastanduno said.

As for Randolph’s vacant position, Mastanduno said that the faculty will be going through their standard process, soliciting nominations from all professors in the arts and humanities division. A new associate dean will be selected by July in time for the next academic year, he said.

English Professor Jonathan

Crewe spoke highly of Randolph’s professional skills.

“He really is a person who upholds very high standards, because he’s very professional and quite prominent himself, he knows what good work is,” Crewe said.

Music department chair Steve Swayne said that Randolph had the ability to emphasize the importance of arts and humanities in the context of an educational system that increasingly emphasizes the STEM fields, as well as entrepreneurial endeavors. “[Randolph] has been particularly helpful in being an articulate

and visionary advocate for the arts and the humanities, not merely at Dartmouth but in higher education generally speaking,” Swayne said.

Swayne said that Randolph served as an excellent voice for the arts and humanities on campus, making valuable connections between administrators, departments and other parts of the College such as the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum, as well as meeting with trustees, potential donors and alumni.

“He is a mensch,” Swayne said. “He will be greatly missed at Dartmouth.”

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Transitioning to Average

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Competition in a more intense environment makes us better students.

On a campus tour this past week, a visiting parent had a thoughtful question about his daughter’s college choices. He asked if she — one of the best students in her high school class — would become “average” at an institution like Dartmouth.

Within any academic environment, there will obviously be individuals who will emerge as more successful students relative to their peers. If all students performed equally well, grades would be dispensable. In the Dartmouth Class of 2018, 93 percent of those who provided a class rank were in the top 10 percent of their high school class. In college, however, there isn’t room for each student to repeat that achievement. My point is self-evident — most high-achieving high school students will become “average” Dartmouth students, at least in terms of grade point average.

This doesn’t mean that Dartmouth students become underachievers after matriculating. For the 2014 fall term, the average grade point average among Dartmouth students was 3.443, well above a B. Still, being just another student — as opposed to one of the best in the class — can be frustrating for many.

The transition to collegiate academics is not an easy one. Aside from the increase in workload and expectations, an incoming freshman is suddenly studying alongside some of the country’s — and even the world’s — best students. Jonathan Busam ’17 recalls being “curious about how living in such an ambitious community would affect my identity.” When he matriculated last year, Drayton Harvey ’17 did not set expectations for what his classes would entail or how the new academic environment would go. Rather, he said that he observed that “many of those around me crashed and burned for coming in with too many expectations for their first term.” Christopher Park ’17, echoed similar experiences, attributing this “sad reality” to the fact that not all high schools are equal in terms of rigor or expectations from their students.

Regardless of your individual high school experiences, it is rare to be overqualified for Dartmouth. Being surrounded by others who are also intelligent and driven is a good thing, and being in a challenging environment is exactly

what the academic experience should be about.

First, there is the sense of intellectual camaraderie that one often develops with his or her classmates. For the information you do not pick up during lectures and class meetings, you will probably find someone who understands it well enough to explain it to you. There is this free exchange of information and ideas between classmates, lab partners and members of a study group — an exchange that is unique to a community where everyone takes their academics seriously. Busam talked about the “intellectual growth” he feels when he listens to his classmates ask questions about class material, and said that his peers often ask questions he had not previously considered and thus enable him to consider the concepts more thoroughly. I agree with this, and believe that there is value in the frustration that often accompanies learning. Breaking down difficult concepts to understand them makes us better thinkers, and doing so collaboratively allows us to view these concepts from various perspectives.

Second, we benefit from certain resources by being at Dartmouth. Park mentioned the opportunities for research around campus, such as the programs in the Undergraduate Advising and Research office. He said that these resources would not be here if the student body was not interested in them, arguing that “the students want to do research and care about putting their studies to practice.” Moreover, professors and teaching assistants are widely accessible for help and the Tutor Clearinghouse offers many academic support services for students — free of charge for financial aid recipients and varsity athletes.

Finally, the competitive environment at Dartmouth paves the way for higher-level intellectual attainment. I am not saying that grades do not matter — they very much do for many post-grad plans. Yet, while many of us are “average” relative to each other, we are becoming better learners and more intelligent adults along the way. We must not forget the ultimate goal of learning when we pull all-nighters in the library for finals in a few weeks.

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Should Greek houses go local? If so, should the College mandate it?

I do not think all Greek houses should go local.

While there are certain advantages to localizing, being national has its own advantages. Alumni relations, fundraising en masse for one important cause and the history and traditions that come with a national identity are appealing to many students. We should not forget these benefits, among others, when we discuss the problems that come with national Greek chapters. I also believe that meaningful social change on campus will not depend on the distinction between local and national Greek houses. We already have both options on campus, yet the problems persist.

— Reem Chamseddine ’17 If sororities are to become viable social spaces on campus, then they must go local. National regulations keep the doors of many sororities closed to other students and create barriers to sisters from hosting social events — even from inviting non-members to the house. If femaledominated social spaces are to be as viable as the existing male-dominated ones, we need to make our sororities local. If the College wants a truly inclusive social scene with safe spaces for all, local sororities are a step in the right direction.

— Jessica Lu ’18 The College should not mandate that houses go local. This undermines the freedom of the students to determine how they would like to run their houses on their own. Being part of a national network provides many benefits, including a strong alumni network and a long institutional history, which would not exist to the same extent in a local house. If the College mandates that all house much be local, they are forcing students to forsake these benefits.

— Jon Miller ’15 As a member of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, I love being in a local sorority because of the flexibility, autonomy and empowerment that comes with not having to listen to national organizations — and being able to hold your own pong table.

Presently, male-dominated fraternities hold hegemony over nightlife at the College. As a consequence, students who want to engage in the mainstream social scene are left with few, if any, alternatives to fraternities. Localizing sororities will level the playing field between the sexes by providing legitimate female-dominated social spaces to counterbalance fraternities. This reversal of power dynamics can even potentially lower the risk of sexual assault by giving students, especially females and self-identified women, more spaces where they can feel comfortable and safe.

Though going local has its benefits, no Greek house should ever be mandated to go local. Some students enjoy having access to a national organization and all the benefits that includes, such as a national network of alumni. Likewise, not all Greek affiliates want to have an open house or take on the risk of what that means, including the possibility of dealing with a dirty basement and drunk strangers. The wish to remain a national should be respected. At the same time, the College should help Greek houses — especially sororities — that want to go local by making that possibility a financially feasible reality.

— Nicole Simineri ’17

Local sororities do everyone in the Dartmouth community a favor. Because they do not have to answer to national organizations — almost all of which limit the serving of alcohol in chapter houses — local sororities can claim a bigger stake in the campus social scene. This benefits fraternities, too, since spreading the scene means spreading the risks and costs associated with it. More importantly, a vibrant and inclusive sorority scene gives all students — affiliated or not — more options on Friday and Saturday nights. While the College should not mandate that sororities go local — we’ve surely experienced enough administrative meddling in student social life recently — it should make the transition as attractive as possible by absorbing the financial risk involved. Such an investment would be well worth making.

— Jon Vandermause ’16 For reasons very well-known, there are significant advantages provided — particularly to sororities — by being a local versus a national organization. More autonomy, less stringent social and recruitment policies and the ability to host all-campus parties and events with alcohol are just a few. Certainly such advantages indicate that it may be in the College’s best interest to financially incentivize “going local” for those Greek organizations on campus that remain tied to a national.

This is especially salient in light of the ongoing quest for more female-dominated social spaces to parallel the fraternities. Having more local sororities may very well be a mechanism to balance a party scene that disproportionately occurs in fraternity basements. That being said, there is no need for the College to mandate localization. The decision to shift away from a national is weighty one and should not be dictated by an external actor — whether a fraternity or sorority would rather prioritize more social freedoms over, say, an affiliation with a national network of alumni is completely that organization’s prerogative.

— Aylin Woodward ’15 I think that it would be great for the College to support the localization of Greek houses, particularly sororities, whose national rules often curtail their social activities. This would allow them to hold open events with alcohol, making them more viable social spaces for their own members and the larger community. This is important for a number of reasons, primarily that putting sororities on an equal playing ground with fraternities may be a key to reducing the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. Allowing women to host more open social events would also help equalize the distribution of control of the College’s social scene. With only three coed houses and three sororities with open basements — as compared to 15 all-male fraternities with the same — social spaces at Dartmouth are overwhelmingly maledominated. This means that women are often guests at — rather than owners of — the social spaces they occupy on weekends. Fraternities’ dominance also makes it easier for first-year men to find upperclassmen friends and role models, when in comparison, first-year women have less access to members of sororities that do not have regularly open basements.

— Lorelei Yang ’15

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regions. She noted that farmers in countries such as India tend to suffer economic loses with increased global involvement.

Pavcnik, who has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Department of Labor and the World Bank, said that she sought to make her lecture as comprehensible as possible without compromising the research behind it.

“When you put together this lecture, one thing that you need to think about is how do you present to the audience of academics who are not economists,” Pavcnik said in an interview after the lecture. “I hope what I have done is that I presented at the level that showed the rigor of the research underlying the results [and] still be accessible.”

In the lecture, which took place in the Hood Auditorium, Pavcnik discussed the ongoing debate between economists who argue that international trade promotes growth and inherently reduces poverty and those who contend that international trade perpetuates poverty by enabling corporations to exploit low-wage workers.

Her research is intended to provide policymakers with a better understanding of mechanisms for the reallocation of resources within a country and to allow them to identify the winners and losers in global trade.

College President Phil Hanlon praised Pavcnik after the lecture for her enthusiasm as a teacher and her influence in her field.

“Professor Pavcnik is one of

our most distinguished faculty members, and her work is highly influential across the world of policymakers,” Hanlon said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

“She’s a passionate teacher, and she’s kind of the ideal teacherscholar that we strive for at Dartmouth.”

Pavcnik discussed the effects of the liberalization of trade policy in India, Vietnam and Colombia.

She found that Vietnam has experienced extremely positive growth since the 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, which allowed Vietnamese businesses to export to the U.S. much more easily by reducing importation taxes from 23.4 percent to 2.4 percent.

She said that trade reform in Colombia has done little to change employment across industries.

Indian families living in districts more exposed to foreign competition faced lower industrial and agricultural wages and higher rates of poverty.

Pavcnik said that her lecture was built upon many years of research during her 15 years at Dartmouth.

Most of her research has looked at the effect of trade policy changes on low-income countries and their inhabitants.

“I go from one study to another,” she said. “Often, when you work on one study, you get ideas for the following study, so it’s all connected and continuous.”

Jake Marston ’15 and Kirill Savolainen ’15, who attended the lecture, said that their experiences as students in Pavcnik’s international economics seminar this term have been positive and informative.

“It was really insightful to hear her come and talk very generally

about 30 years of trade, winners and losers, and who it’s affecting,” Marston said. “In class we dive into a lot of these papers in a ton of detail, and so I personally enjoyed zooming out a little and hearing what she had to say to the general audience about some of the big takeaways of international trade.”

Savolainen agreed that it was helpful to look at the bigger picture instead of at “tiny details” within the papers they read in class.

Pavcnik also examined the link between international trade and child labor, citing the decline of child labor by about 2.2 million

children in Vietnam during the period of trade liberalization in the 1990s. Half of this, she said, was a product of changes in the price of rice while the other half was a product of increased international trade.

She cited India as a counterexample, where increases in trade have led to declines in schooling and literacy and increases in child labor. She also noted that the caste system in India is a limiting factor on hierarchical mobility among workers.

Economics professor Alan Gustman said that Pavcnik was

successful in framing her research in the lecture.

“What she was able to do was to translate the complicated economics and the importance of having data on individuals into this beforeand-after, discuss the complexities of what happens when trade policy is affected individually and talk about where people can lobby and affect it as opposed to finding instances where the structure of the trade change was imposed on the country so that the balance wasn’t effective,” he said. “She’s really a talented teacher, there’s no doubt about it.”

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Economics professor Nina Pavcnik gave a lecture on international trade in developing economies.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m.

“Is There A Queer Santería?” public lecture by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz of American University, Carson L02

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Women’s tennis, Dartmouth vs. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Boss Tennis Courts

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“Upstaging Stereotypes,” student-created performance, Collis Common Ground

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“This Thing Called ‘Oil’: A Technical and Business Perspective” with Dr. Miguel Mora Glukstad, Steele 007

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“National Gallery” (2014), film special, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

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“Romeo and Juliet,” student production, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater

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On Friday evening, Dartmouth students will have the opportunity to travel to London’s Trafalgar Square and see paintings by artists ranging from Da Vinci to Vermeer. No plane ticket is required — students only have to walk to the Black Family Visual Arts Center.

Hop Film — the film exhibition division of the Hopkins Center that presents movies to community and campus — will show a special screening of “National Gallery” (2014). Directed

by Dartmouth Film Award-winning Frederick Wiseman, the three-hour documentary is centered on the famous museum of the same name, which is owned by the British government and requires over 600 people working 361 days a year to operate smoothly. Hood Museum of Art director Michael Taylor will give a talk before the film screening.

Dartmouth film society director Johanna Evans said that while “National Gallery” is long, its length will give the audience a deeper look at the museum.

“The film is rather long compared to other films,” she said. “It might be a barrier to some...but the nice thing about a documentary of this length [is it] gives you access to things you wouldn’t find on the internet.”

The film is a careful study of the intricacies in the inner workings of that landmark that humanizes the workers who skillfully handle day-to-day operations and draws attention to the amount of dedication and care put into maintaining precious pieces of art, Hop Film manager Sydney Stowe said.

“It’s the beating heart,” Stowe said. “[Wiseman] finds the beating heart of an institution... that’s what makes his work so good.”

Evans said that Wiseman explores aspects of the museum that many people might overlook.

“I really like the behind-the-scenes approach,” Evans said. “You don’t think a lot about all the operations and personalities behind the scenes who are determining which paintings go up and how to restore them.”

Wiseman has focused on providing an intimate look at inside operations of large scale in his previous films like “La Danse” (2009), which centered on the Paris Opera Ballet Company.

“This is a chance to see a movie by a guy who takes his time and makes something you never give a second thought about much more interesting” Stowe said.

Wiseman visited Dartmouth in 2010 when he was won the Dartmouth Film Award.

Stowe said that they often try to include Wiseman’s works in Dartmouth programming, as his comprehensive and considerate style is unique in documentaries. While other documentarians try to shine a light on a particular idea

or topic for 90 minutes, Wiseman is unafraid to take his time with a project to explore a fuller story, Evans said.

Stowe said that, like many of the films the center chooses to screen, “National Gallery” is a smaller and lesser-known film that might be otherwise passed over. “‘National Gallery’ is a perfect example of a movie that’s not going to play at a local theater,” Stowe said.

“We’re too small a town.”

Stowe compared the center’s programming choices to the shelf at a local bookstore with staff-recommended picks.

“We like to say, ‘You know what, we’re going to put it on our calendar,’” Stowe said. “Trust us. We love this. We do some of the work so you don’t have to.”

“National Gallery” was also chosen with a nod to the Hood Museum, Stowe said, adding that they are interested in the new trend of exposition series.

“Are audiences going to turn out for that?” Stowe said. “If you heard that there was this famous impressionist museum in Paris that you knew you were never going to get to, but you could pay 10 dollars and spend an hour and a half touring the museum and listening to people talk about it, and seeing this work up close, would you do it? We don’t know.”

The majority of the programming takes place in Loew Auditorium, although some larger events are held in Spaulding Auditorium.

The Center screens four to five films per weekend, Stowe said. The programming runs from Thursday to Sunday, with Sunday shows following a theme determined by the Dartmouth Film Society. Stowe and Evans choose the rest of the movies shown throughout the week.

“We show everything from films about Africa and Muslim fundamentalism to ‘American Sniper’ [(2014)],” he said. “We try and provide the most comprehensive program.”

Both Stowe and Evan place an emphasis on variety of genre as well as topic, which they say is important to students seeking wider exposure to the world of film.

Javier Garcia ’18 said that he appreciates the variety offered by the Center.

“I would normally only watch a documentary if the topic is of interest to me,” he said. “I think it’s good that the Hop offers a variety of options.”

In addition to variety, Stowe and Evans must consider the potential audience appeal and quality of each film.

“A lot of times when we’re deciding… it comes down to do we think people will want to see this in a movie theater, with a community around them,” Evans said.

“National Gallery” will be shown at Loew Auditorium on Friday at 7 p.m., at five dollars for students and eight dollars for community members.

B y mac Emery

The Dartmouth Staff

A trinity of American classics will flood the Spaulding Auditorium with distinctive American style, vigor and sound at the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra’s winter concert on Saturday.

The DSO will perform a trio of American or American-inspired classics. The night will begin with “Buckaroo Holiday,” a section from the ballet “Rodeo” (1942) by American composer Aaron Copland. The orchestra will then follow with George Gershwin’s classic “An American in Paris” (1928).

After a brief intermission, the event will conclude with an enduring favorite — Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, commonly dubbed “The New World Symphony” (1893).

DSO violinist Lindsey Lam ’15 said that while the pieces are distinct in their own right, the concert’s program centers on an American theme that will present challenging classics that appeal to a broader audience.

“Buckaroo Holiday,” the first piece of the night, firmly stamps this American theme onto the event. The piece combines both folk and modern elements, cellist Eddie Pyun ’18 said.

“You can see especially in Copland that notion of incorporating folk music into a more modern style,” he said.

“In the ‘Buckaroo Holiday,’ Copland

just outright uses some American folk melodies. But again, he incorporates that into his own style.”

Copland interweaves these American folk tunes into the ballet score with jubilant, unabashed pride, Lam said, adding that this evokes the Wild West fantasy that captivated imaginations during the period.

The next piece of the night, Gershwin’s famed “An American in Paris,” continues the same overarching “American” theme. The piece refers to Gerhswin’s own trip to Paris while a community of expatriate American artists, including Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso resided there. The piece merges bluesy rhythms with innovative instrumentation to conjure images of the thriving Paris streets, Lam said.

Pyun said that while the piece portrays a foreign locale, it maintains a distinctively American verve and style through its blues quality and evokes the glitz and frenzy of the 1930s.

“It does try to capture an American essence, to define itself as distinctly American music,” Pyun said.

Though Dvořák’s “New World Symphony,” which will finish the concert, is the one piece not by an American composer, it connects to the concert’s theme of America — the Czech composer’s sojourn in the United States inspired what would become his ninth symphony, and attempts to integrate

Native American musical themes into the symphony, Lam said.

DSO clarinetist and student manager Kevin Chen ‘15 said that Copland’s depictions of the American landscape and Gershwin’s urban sounds were possible because of Dvořák’s development of the American compositional voice.

Historically, Dvořák played an important role in the formation of a distinctively American music, so it may only be appropriate that his enduringly popular 1893 classic appears alongside later successors of the tradition of American composition.

Dvořák influenced American composition during his tenure as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City during the 1890s, Chen said. Rubin Goldmark, who studied under Dvořák, influenced both Copland and Gerswhin.

This year’s winter concert follows a recent DSO tour through Europe over the winter break that included Budapest, Belgrade and Sarajevo. The experience of performing in front of receptive audiences provided continued inspiration to the DSO’s mission for excellence and brought the DSO closer as a community, Lam said.

The concert will occur at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Spaulding Auditorium.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015

THURSDAY LINEUP

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. UMASS 5 PM

Softball opens 2015 season with upset over No. 16 Auburn

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Last season, the softball team won the Ivy League championship for the first time in 20 seasons.

B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff

After winning its first Ivy League Championship in 20 years and welcoming new head coach Shannon Doepking last year, the softball team opened what looks to be another exciting season for the program at the University of South Florida’s Wilson-DeMarini Tournament in Tampa, Florida, this past weekend.

The Big Green opened the tournament with a 4-2 upset over No. 16 Auburn University, but lost its next four games for a 1-4 record on the weekend.

The first weekend, Doepking said, was a good indicator of where the team is and what areas need improvement.

“All in all I was really impressed on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively,” Doepking said. “I liked what we showed and what we brought.”

In Friday’s doubleheader, the Big Green defeated Auburn University (171, 0-0) 4-2 but lost to Marshall University 9-0 in six innings, kicking off the first of its 27 non-conference games this season.

Dartmouth struck first in the top of the opening inning against Auburn with a score by Katie McEachern ’16, who earned a walk to first and made it home off of hits by Karen Chaw ’17 and Maddie Damore ’17.

In the second inning, Chloe Madill ’17 added another run for the Big Green. After hitting a double to right field, Madill advanced to third off an errant pitch by Auburn’s Marcy Harper, and Alyssa Jorgensen ’17 sent Madill home with a single RBI. Auburn answered in the bottom of the second with a two-run homer to tie the game

at 2-2.

Those were the only runs Dartmouth’s defense allowed for the remainder of the game. In a pivotal fourth inning, the Big Green scored two runs, another by Madill and one by Kathy Dzienkowski ’16.

With Madill at first base off a walk, Dzienkowski hit a single to left field before Jorgensen earned a walk to load the bases. Madill scored after an illegal pitch by the Tigers’ relief pitcher Lexi Davis, and Dzienkowski followed after Davis’ next pitch hit McEachern.

Dartmouth’s solid defense combined with Kristen Rumley’s ’15 tough pitching limited the Tigers to three hits and six players left on base in the remaining innings. Auburn came close to scoring in the bottom of the seventh inning after the Tigers loaded the bases with only one out.

The Big Green buckled down and managed to tag the lead runner at home before Damore ended the game by tagging out a runner at first base.

The seventh inning, Doepking said, was nerve-racking.

“I was super happy for the kids,” Doepking said. “It was a great win, and they deserve all the credit in being as poised as they were.”

The upset win, McEachern said, shows the amount of potential in the team’s skills.

“I’m proud of the team,” McEachern said. “I think we performed extremely well.”

Later that day, the Big Green challenged the Thundering Herd (11-3, 0-0), who took an early lead with two runs in the first inning. Though Dartmouth played aggressively in the bottom of

the first, Marshall’s starting pitcher Jordan Dixon struck out Jorgensen, McEachern and Chaw.

In the second inning, Marshall extended its lead to 4-0 with another pair of runs. Damore almost scored in the bottom of the second after walking to first and stealing second but got tagged trying to steal third, closing the inning at zero hits and runs for the Big Green.

Dartmouth struggled to provide a response to Marshall’s pitching. Damore earned the lone hit of the game for the Big Green in the fourth inning, but it was not enough to get Dartmouth on the scoreboard.

Marshall, however, struck again in the fourth and sixth innings, with three and two runs, respectively, resulting in the enforcement of the NCAA mercy rule to end the game after the sixth inning. The Thundering Herd led the Big Green in hits, 10-1.

Being more aggressive with strikes, McEachern said, is something Doepking told the girls to remember going in to the tournament’s remaining games.

“She reminded us to stick with our approach and what we do well,” McEachern said. “She emphasized how we needed to attack the zone.”

On the second day of the tournament, Dartmouth lost to host team South Florida 5-0, and fell in its rematch against Auburn 6-3.

Florida (8-7, 0-0) scored big in the opening inning with a three-run homer for a 3-0 lead. In the third inning, Jorgensen and Megan Averitt ’15 hit singles.

McEachern was hit by a pitch to load up the bases, but the Big Green couldn’t convert the situation into a

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Softball opened its season in Tampa, Florida, this past weekend with a 1-4 start.

score. The Bulls extended their lead to 5-0 with two more runs in the bottom of the fifth, and neither team managed to score again for the remainder of the game.

Later that day, the Big Green was set to face off again Auburn — who eventually won the tournament — and opened with another strong showing in the first inning.

After Jorgensen reached first base on a fielding error, McEachern hit her first home run of the season to give Dartmouth an early lead over the Tigers, 2-0. Chaw added another run in the first with a walk and advancements off a single by Damore and walks by Morgan McCalmon ’16 and Madill.

Auburn fought back and gained the lead with consecutive two-run homers in the second and third innings to go up 4-3. The score remained at a one-run differential until the sixth inning.

In the bottom of the sixth, Auburn smacked two single-run homers to grab a formidable 6-3 lead with only one inning remaining. Dartmouth couldn’t get a hit in the seventh and lost its rematch to Auburn.

Dartmouth ended its tournament on Sunday with a rematch against Marshall.

The Big Green played a much tighter game with the Thundering Herd, but once again proved unable to get on the board, losing 1-0.

Both teams played two scoreless innings before Marshall managed the lone run of the game in the bottom of the third. Rumley threw a season-high seven strikeouts and did not allow another hit after the third, but the lone RBI in the third proved to be the difference.

Marshall earned another win over the Big Green in a low-scoring affair.

The mental toughness that the team developed during its difficult pre-season conditioning, Doepking said, contributed to the closer result in the second game against Marshall.

“In the first meeting, they sped us up a lot and we weren’t ready for it,” Doepking said. “But recalling the pressure situations from conditioning in January definitely paid off this weekend.”

Despite dropping four games, the softball team remains positive about its ability to compete for a consecutive Ivy League title and an NCAA berth, crediting its strong focus and preseason training.

Winning another regional, Rumley said, is realistic because of the work the team already put in.

“It’s been rougher,” Rumley said.

“But that gets us more excited knowing we’re more prepared than we have been in the past.”

Continuing its weekend tournament play, the team will travel to Austin, Texas, to play in the University of Texas Invitational with games against Lamar University, Texas Southern University and the Longhorns.

To prepare for the upcoming weekend, Doepking said, the team will work on returning to its disciplined aggression approach offensively and its routine “catch, throw, receive” plays defensively.

“We need to work on doing what we need to do rather than letting the opposing pitcher dictate what we’re going to do,” Doepking said.

The Big Green will face Lamar on Friday at 12:30 p.m. before challenging the host team at 3:30 p.m.