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Low tuition rise part of trend
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
First MDF policy changes will take effect in spring By Jasmine sachar and Rebecca Asoulin The Dartmouth Staff
SPORTS
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OPINION
YUAN: ANOTHER USE FOR YAKS PAGE 4
ARTS
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The Board of Trustees approved a 2.9 increase in tuition for the 2015-16 academic year.
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Dartmouth’s 2.9 percent increase in tuition for the 2015-2016 academic year — consistent with last year’s increase and the lowest since 1977 — reflects College President Phil Hanlon’s mission to slow the growth of the cost of a Dartmouth education,
administrators report. The slowed cost is in line with national trends, according to experts. Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said that since Hanlon began his tenure he has emphasized the importance of affordability and the cost of higher education. “I think it sends a really
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strong message that we are committed to controlling costs for families,” Laskaris said. She said that families are becoming increasingly concerned with the rising costs of education. Laskaris noted that 2.9 percent increase for the past two years conveys to prospective students that the College is committed to moderating
This spring term will usher in the implementation of several of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies announced on Jan. 29 by College President Phil Hanlon as planning continues for initiatives that will be introduced in the fall. Many students have already voiced concerns regarding the implementation of policies, ranging from dialogue on campus surrounding the hard alcohol policy sanctions to a petition signed by over 50 undergraduate advisors about their evolving role under the policy. Student and expert reaction to details of the implementation of the hard alcohol ban, released on March 3, has largely been negative. The College will implement harsher punishments for the possession of hard alcohol, while consequences for the consumption and possession of wine and beer will remain the same. A student found in possession of or to have consumed hard alcohol will be put on probation for a first-offense, a one-term suspension for a second offense and a twoterm suspension for a third offense. Social chairs and other Greek organization leaders who sign registration forms for events that are found to serve hard alcohol will be held responsible as individuals, in addition to sanctions placed on the organization.
Heavy snowfall and extreme temperatures have made this Hanover’s second coldest February since records began in 1893, Northeast Regional Climate Center climatologist Jessica Spaccio said, with an average temperature of 11.6 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly half the expected average of 23 degrees. Winter reports officially concluded at the close of February and indicate that what began as a relatively mild December climaxed in a great flurry of freezing temperatures and fresh powder,
Spaccio said. The coldest temperature in Concord, the nearest National Weather collection site, was recorded at -21 degrees. In Hanover, February 1934 saw the lowest average temperatures of 8.1 degrees since records began in 1893, Spaccio said. National Weather Service meteorologist Margaret Curtis stated that the New Hampshire capital Concord also experienced an extreme February. Concord’s average for the month was 12.1 degrees, she said. Curtis noted that this month saw temperatures well under half of the average
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The average temperature in Hanover this winter was 11.6 degrees Farenheit.
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DAily debriefing Fast food advertisements targeted towards fail to emphasize healthy foods and do not de-emphasize the toys that many chains offer, which make them deceptive by selfregulation standards in the industry, according to a news release from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. The news comes from a study be researchers at the center, which found that the advertisements promoted the toys enclosed with the food more than food itself. In the study, which asked 100 children aged 3-7 years to share their reactions immediately after watching the advertisements, the children first remembered the food that was advertised less than half the time in children’s ads but noticed it over 70 percent of the time in advertisements aimed at adults. Industry self-regulation, which is conducted by the Better Business Bureau, is meant to ensure that marketing promotes healthy foods and is not deceptive. Though healthy food items were present in ads, the study found that they are not prominent and often not memorable for the children involved in the study. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Cheshire Medical Center in southern New Hampshire finalized their affiliation agreement, according to a news release from Dartmouth-Hitchcock. The New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General and the New Hampshire Charitable Trusts Unit approved the affiliation. Cheshire will serve as a center for population health strategy and practice as part of its ongoing initiatives and will be a regional resource that is expected to alleviate the burden on Dartmouth-Hitchcock and open up more bed capacity for patients in Lebanon. Under the agreement, Cheshire will further coordinate its governance, clinical activity, finances and administration with Dartmouth-Hitchcock, but will remain a separate legal organization with its own board of trustees, management and employees. Cheshire and Dartmouth-Hitchcock have maintained a joint operating agreement since 1998, and the hospital says this new agreement is the next step that will allow both institutions to provide more effective and sustainable health care.
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Financial aid accompanies tuition rise FROM TUITION PAGE 1
the increase of tuition. “It sends a very important message as we seek to recruit the Classes of 2020 and beyond,” Laskaris said. Tuition for the 2015-16 academic year will be $63,744. Of the Ivies that have reported tuition for the upcoming year, Dartmouth’s tuition is increasing by the smallest amount. Yale University increased their undergraduate tuition for the upcoming year by four percent. Brown University increased their undergraduate tuition by 4.4 percent, while Cornell University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania all increased their undergraduate tuition by 3.9 percent. Laskaris said the financial aid budget has been increased by 6.6 percent to just under $89 million for the upcoming academic year. Director of financial aid Virginia Hazen said that the increase in the budget for financial aid for this upcoming year does not bring about any significant changes in the College’s financial aid policy. Hazen said that the increase means that the College will have sufficient funds to remain need blind while reviewing applications. The College is committed to meeting 100 percent of students’ financial needs for all of the four years that they are on campus, and this has
not been changed by the increase, she said. “If they didn’t increase the budget, then something would have had to change,” Hazen added. Center for College Affordability and Productivity director Richard Vedder said that the actual amount that each student is paying for tuition depends on how much financial aid increases alongside the tuition increase. He said that if financial aid increases by a significant amount, the tuition increase would not be as large for students because their needs will still be met, especially at institutions like Dartmouth with generous financial aid programs. While Vedder said that Dartmouth’s 2.9 percent increase is lower than average, he noted that other schools are also lowering their rates and slowing their tuition growth. “What Dartmouth is doing is consistent with what’s happening nationally,” he added. “Schools that a few years ago were increasing tuition by four, five or six percent a year, are now raising them in the three percent range, so Dartmouth is following that trend,” Vedder said. He said that tuition increases have slowed in part because demand for higher education has not been increasing, adding that this has been a more significant trend at public universities.
He added that Dartmouth has not seen a significant decrease in applications this year that could have caused the College to slow the rise in cost. “In general the Ivies and the elite private liberal arts colleges are doing pretty well in terms of applications,” he said. As a result, these institutions can be more aggressive in raising fees, Vedder said. He said, however, that it is still wise for schools to moderate their tuition increases, so that their application rates as well as the quality of the students they admit does not diminish. Vedder said that contributing to the increase in college tuition is the fact that it is common for students to take out federal loans to pay for their education, which gives institutions more incentive to raise their costs of attendance. He added that this issue is not as relevant at schools like Dartmouth with need-blind financial aid programs, though it may still apply in some way. He noted that increased market wages for faculty makes it difficult to decrease costs for students. In addition, Vedder said that as colleges become more than just learning institutions more money gets allocated to areas such as athletics and residential life, to enhance the overall college experience.
Samir Soneji, who works with the DartmouthHitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, has found that U.S. cancer mortality rates have decreased only modestly since 1970, even though spending on cancer treatments has increased drastically, according to a news release from the Cancer Center. The study conducted by Soneji and his research team found that the greater number of deaths averted were more likely to be the result of prevention and screening as opposed to more successful treatment. Cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased by 12 percent since 1970, and this study contributes to an ongoing discussion about the rising costs of cancer treatments as compared to other countries. The researchers determined that the amount spent on cancer treatment in the United States often exceed accepted thresholds for cost-effective medical care. — Compiled by Erin Lee
Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. The March 4 story “Sexual assault bill aims to protect survivors and accused” represented Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, as a democrat. The article has been corrected online.
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The Board of Trustees approved an increase in the financial aid budget of 6.6 percent for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
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Increased snowfall and low temperature not indicative of trend
ing the extra snowfall becomes only “a matter of hours,” requiring an temperature of 24.3 degrees and increase in the hours employees was a tenth of a degree shy of spend driving plows and clearing matching the 1934 record low of sidewalks and driveways, he said. 12 degrees. That makes this Febru- Even though temperatures this ary the second coldest Concord has year were notably lower than those experienced since records began in of previous years, there were less 1868, Curtis said. ice-related problems, he said. Rob In addition to the extremely low erts cited three significant events last temperatures, snowfall this past year when varying temperatures month has exceeded expectations. caused rain to freeze overnight, February snowfall in Concord which creates dangerous conditotaled 42.5 inches, a substantial tions. While there were certain icy increase from last year’s 35.3 inches nights this year, overall the temand more than triple the average peratures were “more consistently of 12.3 inches, according to a below freezing,” which minimized published report from the National the amount of ice, Roberts said. Weather Service. Spaccio said that the extremity While the Northeast Regional of this past month is not necessarClimate Center could not pro- ily indicative of a trend of belowvide information on snowfall in normal temperatures. She stated Hanover, Spaccio said that Union that current New Hampshire temVillage, Vermont, located only nine peratures are just below average and miles northeast that the spread o f H a n ov e r, “We expect a pretty for the weather received 18.5 in the next two good mud season inches this weeks of March February, sig- this year based on indicates that nificantly more the amount of snow, t e m p e r at u re s than the 13.9 are expected to inch state aver- which will compress consistently rise age. above what is the time frame of Though the getting the Green and normal. month of Feb N e w ruary was ex- other areas ready for Hampshire, ceptional, Spac- Commencement.” along with cio said that an the rest of the unusually warm Northeast, is alDecember pre- -frank roberts, ready beginning vented this to experience associate vice winter season above-freezing from approach- president of facilities temperatures. ing previous re- operations and Although there cords. is a chance of The overall management snow at the end average winter of the week, temperature in most of the Hanover was 19.7 degrees, rank- snow should melt by the end of ing as the 42nd coldest on record March or the beginning of April, and marking a slight decrease from Curtis said. the past 30-year average of 22.4 Roberts said that the severity of degrees, she said. this past winter will likely lead to a Annual snowfall in Union Village substantial mud season, increasing failed to match the average of 47.1 the difficulty of preparing for the inches, receiving 40.1 inches so far end of the year. this winter. “We expect a pretty good mud Facilities Operations and Man- season this year based on the agement associate vice president amount of snow,” he said, “which Frank Roberts said that FO&M will compress the time frame of was well prepared to face this past getting the Green and other areas winter. ready for Commencement.” Preparations largely consisted of Despite this year’s particularly making sure that all equipment was cold winter, Spaccio said that the fully operational, such as testing the general trend has actually been hydraulics of the plows and exam- one of consistently decreasing ining the condition of the sanders, temperatures. This year was a he said. FO&M also maintains a notable exception from the norm storage of sand and salt to combat of continued climate warming, she snowfall and ice that was filled to said. capacity at the beginning of the Curtis added that this year’s winter, he said. exceptional cold was specific to Roberts said that FO&M was North America. All of the northern ready to adjust to the large increase hemisphere experienced a relatively in snowfall this year. As long as the warmer winter, with North America equipment is maintained, manag- deviating from the trend. FROM WINTER PAGE 1
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Though this February was one of the coldest on record, the overall winter averages were more mild in Hanover.
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Staff Columnist ZIQIN YUAN ’18
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST NICOLE SIMINERI ’17
Another Use for Yaks
An Arm and a Leg
Yik Yak is more than just a forum for cyberbullies. Yik Yak, an app that allows you to send anonymous messages to a public feed, has grown increasingly popular at the College and other colleges across the country. It is anonymous by design — the only personal information required by the app is the user’s geolocation. With its promise of anonymity, it may at first seem like an attractive forum for cyberbullies — the people who attack others and write vitriolic comments on social media when they think nobody can identify them. A quick scroll through the comments of any Beyoncé music video on YouTube reveals hundreds of these rude remarks. Even columns on The Dartmouth’s website can garner comments that attack the author. A March 8 New York Times article highlighted the dangers of Yik Yak — at Eastern Michigan University last fall, students had been using Yik Yak during class to target the professor with “dozens of posts, most demeaning, many using crude, sexually explicit language and imagery.” When the professor reached out to university officials to request disciplinary action, the university couldn’t do anything because they couldn’t determine who the students were. Such stories give the impression that Yik Yak has fallen into the trap of most other anonymous social platforms, becoming a space for people to freely insult others. This image, however, is not always accurate. It may be true that Yik Yak enables cyberbullies to post crude and defaming remarks about others. To say that the rest of the population endorses such verbal abuse, though, does not give the rest of us enough credit. With its built-in system that removes negative comments, Yik Yak outsources the moderation of offensive messages to its users, who can vote posts up or down. When a post reaches a net score of fives downvotes from users — in other words, when the number of people indicating disagreement with a post exceeds those in agreement by five — it disappears from the app’s main feed. On campuses with hundreds of active Yik Yak users, it doesn’t seem difficult to bring a post down to minus five. The promise of anonymity has benefits, too — people who may be too afraid to call out rude people in public might be more willing to do so in private, without fear
of retribution. Browsing the College’s Yik Yak feed proves my point. Though there are occasional posts about campus celebrities and other persons of interest, most of them are not harmful, and those that usually meet pushback in subsequent replies. I have watched as malicious posts — especially when they attacked a specific individual — were quickly voted down and then removed. In a sense, the whole campus can work together to rebuke rude, insensitive posters and cyberbullies. We should not forget about Yik Yak’s encouraging features. Strangers often come to the aid of a student who shares that they are having a bad day. Posts about loneliness and stress commonly inspire thoughtful and genuinely helpful replies and tend to get positive votes, demonstrating that other students may feel the same way. On a campus where many appear outwardly happy, this positive feedback may give the author, as well as the hundreds of other students who see it, a concrete sign that they’re not alone. For people who may not have a strong support system or who may not feel comfortable telling their friends, having the support of strangers who do not need to take the time out of their day to write thoughtful comments may greatly impact them in a positive way. Unfortunately, unsettling incidents like the one in the New York Times article happen on every social network. It is well known that students sometimes bully their peers on Facebook and other networks, and users don’t even have a shield of anonymity in those cases. In an ideal world, cruel posts would be so socially unacceptable as to never occur. In reality, however, there will always be those who fail to uphold this ideal. Yik Yak and its anonymity are a double-edged sword. The builtin checks against posters who abuse the network to target individuals and spread hate ensure that Yik Yak’s desirable qualities prevail. The College’s feed contains many funny posts, some whiny ones, others sad — but very few truly abhorrent posts. That may be Yik Yak’s greatest strength — in a completely anonymous community that relies on its contributors to self-moderate, people end up doing their job remarkably well.
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Financial aid at Dartmouth is insufficient for the hefty price tag. As many students and their families are well aware, attending this college is not cheap. A report by The Chronicle of Higher Education for the 2014-15 academic year listed Dartmouth as the eighth most expensive college in the U.S. by sticker price. Given the College’s rural location, the steep price of a Dartmouth education compared to elite, urbaninstitutions,suchasHarvardUniversity,seems puzzling. Still, this is America, the land of where “be born rich or stay poor,” so college tuition nationwide is high and continues to rise. Yet what makes the College’s tuition unacceptable is not only the high price tag, but also the meager financial aid packages that often make attending an institution that supposedly meets “100 percent of demonstrated need” stressful — even impossible — for all but the richest of students. ParticularlyaggravatingistheCollege’sinclusion of loans and federal work-study as components of financial aid packages. For a student with $30,000 in demonstrated need, for example, less than 80 percent of this is covered with grants and general scholarship assistance. The remaining cost is split between loans and work-study, which are automatically included in financial aid packages. Loans, however, are not aid — they are bandages used to temporarily hide issues that clearly need stitches. The inclusion of loans is particularly ludicrous at an institution like the College, which attracts the world’sbrightestandmostambitiousstudents,many of whom will go on to pursue graduate school, only to burden them with undergraduate loans that will accumulate interest once they’ve graduated. On its website, the College boasts that the “average student debt for all four years combined [is] $16,339.” Administrators should not be proud of this — they should be ashamed. Work-study faces similar issues. The College claims to value “academic excellence” in its mission statement, a sentiment that administrators have reiterated in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan to strengthen academic rigor. Yet forcing students to cover the cost of their tuition with work-study inevitably pulls them away from their studies and limits the time available to pursue the “comprehensive out-of-classroom experience” advertised in the College’s mission statement. A student who knows
that a portion of their tuition hinges on their ability to work will likely feel considerable stress on top of academics. Indeed, financial aid requirements can have negative consequences for health. A recent study showed that adults with a higher student loan debt are more likely to report symptoms of depression. The 2014 “The American Freshman” study found that U.S. freshmen today are less happy and report greater concern about the cost of college than those of previous decades. Administrators need to address the root causes of mental health issues on campus — including anxieties caused by financial aid policies. The College’s financial aid policies do not consider enough factors. The financial aid office prides itself on giving free tuition to students whose families make less than $100,000 and possess typical assets. Even in this income bracket, however, anything beyond a roof over your head might be counted as a liquid asset and factor into aid consideration. The College also does not adjust for varying costs of living, with no distinction between incomes that sustain families in the most and least expensive cities in the U.S. The result is a system that squeezes out middle-class families who make too much to qualify for generous aid packages but too little to comfortably afford tuition out of pocket. Moreover, resources that could go to providing more financial aid to needy students fund projects like “Moving Dartmouth Forward” — something not all students actively support. Yet these arguments will not stop the 2.9 percent tuition increase announced by the Board of Trustees.ThoughtheCollege’spositivespincomparesthe increase to historical rates and increases elsewhere, this will not significantly alter our ranking as one of the most expensive institutions in the country. The 6.6 percent increase in financial aid, touted as an accomplishmentthatdemonstratescommitmentto students, does not excuse the tuition hike. I can only hope that the College will use this boost to provide more real aid rather than loans. A Dartmouth education should be accessible to students of all income backgrounds, but the College will need to do more than a slight increase the financial aid budget to achieve that goal.
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MDF policy changes met with student petition, working groups FROM MDF PAGE 1
The College has yet to announce further information regarding the specifics of the policy requiring bartenders and bouncers at events hosted by College-recognized organizations. Under the new alcohol policy, the College will require undergraduate advisors to complete inspection rounds of residence halls on “likely drinking nights” — Wednesday through Saturday. In response to this policy change, over 50 UGAs have signed a petition voicing their concerns with what the new role could entail. Some of the concerns broached in the petition are beliefs that the increase in rounds will work to “erode” the sense of community on floors and will put too many demands on UGAs. Senior assistant dean for residential life and director of residential education Michael Wooten will hold a meeting today with UGAs to discuss and clarify what the new rounds policy will entail. The petition also states that UGAs were not adequately consulted in the formation of the new rounds policy. Wooten could not be reached by press time. Jess Ma ’16, who signed the petition, said that as a freshmen UGA, her role has been to create a environment where residents can come to her as a friend. This new policy sets up the UGA as an authoritative figure from the start, she said, and can thus inhibit community-building. Ma also voiced concerns over how effective the new rounds policy would be, since residents can hide their alcohol and UGAs cannot enter and search rooms if
no alcohol is visible. The petition mentions that UGAs have not been notified of any increases in their compensation, even though this new rounds policy will ramp up hours on the job. Clara Wang ’17, a UGA who signed the petition, said that no UGAs have any details yet of what the new rounds policy will entail, as these specifics will be discussed at the meeting today. She said she signed the petition mainly out of the concern that implementing frequent rounds could affect the relationship she has with her residents. “When you have residents that like to party, it’s hard to maintain the role of someone they can come to, and by instituting rounds, it changes the UGA role to more of a monitoring role rather than someone who gets along with their residents and who is there for their residents no matter what,” she said. Wang later followed up saying that she was not making a commentary on the exact policy changes. Undergraduate advisor Claire Pendergrast ’15 said that she hopes to find out the details of what will be expected of UGAs at the meeting tomorrow, though she declined to comment further until after the meeting. In anticipation of the implementation of a slate of new social policies, three working groups focused on student and organization standards and review, social event and alcohol management and community citizenship began meeting in the final week of February. Each working group consists of two chairs as well as additional College community members including students and staff who
will meet regularly and will submit final proposals by the end of spring term. Assistant dean and director of case management Kristi Clemens and Taylor Watson ’16 chair the social event and alcohol management group. Watson said that his group is still in the early research phases of looking at old policies, and will not release its recommendations until late spring. The community citizenship working group is chaired by director of judicial affairs Leigh Remy and computer science department chair Tom Cormen. Greek Letter Organizations and Societies Standards and Management assistant director Sam Waltemeyer, along with Collis Center director of student activities Anna Hall, will chair the student organization standards and review working group. All chairs were selected based on recommendations from the Dean of the College’s office. Announcements before the end of spring term will include the appointment of professors who will serve in each of the six new residential communities. Applications for the four-year position were due to the Office of the Provost by March 1. Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne has said that enforcement of alcohol policies would not see any major changes. He noted that officers will confiscate hard alcohol wherever they see it including if it is in the possession of those 21 years or older. Safety and Security will also break up all parties serving hard alcohol. Kinne has noted that the Good Samaritan policy will remain the same, while students have expressed concern that the ban would lead to
more underground drinking and make students hesitate to use the Good Samaritan policy. Student Assembly, Palaeopitus senior society and the Office of the President held a town meeting on March 2 to address questions surrounding the policy. The panel was comprised of Hanlon, Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the Faculty Michael
Mastanduno. A March 3 panel on academic rigor featuring many of those who served on the presidential steering committee for “Moving Dartmouth Forward” attempted to address some student concerns regarding making campus a more intellectual environment. Rebecca Asoulin is an undergraduate advisor and did not interview or report on any undergraduate advisors for this story.
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Over 50 UGAs signed a petition against the “Moving Dartmouth Forward”changes.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m. Space plasma seminar with Iver Cairns of the University of Sydney, Cummings Hall, Room 200
5:45 p.m. “Multi-Faith Conversations,” dinner discussion, Tucker Foundation, Room 105
6:00 p.m. “Department of Music Senior Recital: Felicia Wilkins ’15,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faulkner Recital Hall
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Baseball goes 1-3 on Florida trip FROM BASEBALL PAGE 8
it’s made me lot more of a finesse pitcher.” The team saw an uncharacteristic outing from rotational ace Duncan Robinson ’16, who started his season by throwing five scoreless innings against then No. 14 Texas A&M University in the season opener on Feb. 27. In the first game of the tournament on Friday night in Port Charlotte, Florida, Robinson took the mound and threw a scoreless first inning before being handled by the Indiana University Hoosiers, who scored seven runs before Robinson could take himself out of the next inning. Despite the devastating second inning, Robinson was left on the mound to recompose himself and take the team deeper into the game without tiring the bullpen, during which he threw three more scoreless innings. Keeping Robinson on the mound after a tough inning, captain Louis Concato ’14 said, provided the junior pitcher with good training for the upcoming season. “I mean it’s not easy but I think that’s why coach wanted [Robinson] to do it,” Concato said. “We’re going to have games which always don’t go well and are easy, so early on in the season is really where you want to work on bearing down and minimizing innings, work through jams and keep your team in the game, which [Robinson] ended up being able to do by throwing three more shutout innings.”
The team, who rallied with a four-run third inning and a tworun fourth inning came within a single run of the Hoosiers, but failed to gain the lead and gave up one final run in the seventh. Chris Burkholder ’17, who threw well through two innings last weekend before giving up four runs to the Aggies, closed out the game in 1.1 innings and allowed no hits. On Saturday, the Big Green fell behind in the opening innings against both Ball State and Northwestern Universities. The Concato brothers, Louis Concato and Mike Concato ’17, took the starts, Louis against Ball State and Mike against Northwestern. Saturday’s game was Mike Concato’s first appearance this season after not playing in Texas the weekend before. The brothers gave up four and five earned runs, respectively. Burkholder was called to close out the game against Ball State and threw a single hitless inning after Marc Bachman ’18 took over for Louis Concato in the fifth inning and went for four frames, surrendering one run on three hits. Offensively speaking, the Big Green has been seeing definite signs of life, averaging just over five runs per game against opponents in the Snowbird Classic. Designated hitter Joe Purritano ’16, who was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year as a freshman before hitting .265 as a sophomore in a season he identified as “a struggle,” is hitting .393 this season in his 28 at bats. Of course, the sample size is again very small, and the suggestion that
a player could maintain a near .400 average through an entire season is absurd. For a player who came out of high school and hit .343, though, it’s not quite out of reach to expect some good competition from Purritano in the box, especially considering the mental impact a less-than-ideal season can have on a player. To come back and make an impact, he said, he’s been working on both the mental and physical aspects of his hitting. “For my mental approach [I was] swinging at bad pitches, being overaggressive at the plate, not working deep in the counts,” Purritano said. “Physically I felt like my swing got a little bit long. I am a little bit top heavy and was using a lot more of my upper body than my lower body.” With a current 1-6 record, this start isn’t out of the ordinary for the Big Green, who tends to stack its preseason after spending the winter cooped up indoors. Illusions of perfection, though, would not serve the bigger picture for the Big Green. The team — after having one of its slowest offensive seasons in recent history and still needing to work out its pitching rotation and figure out, among other things, how to manage having two fairly capable catchers and new faces on the right side of the infield — is a work in progress. That, however, is what the preseason is for, and that’s part of the beauty of baseball in the Northeast. Even if icy Hanover is not quite ready for baseball, baseball is coming anyway, in whatever way it can.
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Joe Purritano ’16, batting .393 on the season, recorded a career-high four hits in Saturday’s loss to Northwestern University.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
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Film screening will display student animations
B y mac emery
The Dartmouth Staff
Te n u n d e r g r a d u a t e a n d graduate students will screen animations tonight that they have been creating over the past several weeks of the term as part of the culminating experience for Film Studies 35: “Animation, Principles and Practices.” Film and media studies professor Jodie Mack, who teaches the class, said that the screening will represent the huge range in possibilities in animation and put an emphasis on independent art films. “An animator is definitely a performer in many ways,” she said. “You’re just using a different vessel to execute the performance. All the different works really run the gamut of the possibilities that are present within the realm of animation.” Mack, who has had her films screened at venues including the Rotterdam Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, said that the purpose of the class and tonight’s screening is to prove to her students that they have the potential to be future filmmakers and to give them the “fuel” to consider future funding. She said that the class focused on aspects of creating animated films beyond simply the animation,
such as how to gather funding and distribute a piece.
“An animator is definitely a performer in many ways. You’re just using a different vessel to execute the performance. All the different works really run the gamut of the possibilities that are present within the realm of animation.” -Jodi Mack, Professor of “Animation, PrincipLEs and Practices” “All these stages of the process prepare the students for the mini version of the process an actual filmmaker might go through,” she said. Lizzy Rogers ’16, the class’s teaching assistant, said that the projects are about two to three minutes long, although there are a variety of lengths. She said that the screening will allow the students to experience their work in a more
traditional setting. “I really hope that the students put out work that they are proud of,” she said. “They worked really hard, and I hope they enjoy seeing their work on the big screen. It’s really exciting and fun.” Mack said that the screening will show the audience how traditional objects and techniques can be imagined in new ways. “I think that the draw for the audience centers around absolute and complete wonderment and the awe-inspiring re-imagination of materials,” she said. Rogers said that there will be a large range in types of animation shown at the screening, though all of it will be hand-drawn. Kyle Kaplan, a digital music graduate student who is currently in the class, said that students had the opportunity to explore and use different techniques for their final films. “Everyone’s project is really different conceptually, as well as in terms of technique,” he said. Mack said that she purposefully served as a producer and facilitator for her students, rather than giving them specific and limiting rules that to follow for their final piece. “I definitely gave the students free range as opposed to giving strict guidelines as to the content and form that their piece should take on,” she said. Kaplan said that his piece uses
a rotoscope animation technique, which will make it look like each frame in the film is painted, creating a type of “moving portrait.”
“I really hope that the students put out work that they are proud of. They worked really hard, and I hope they enjoy seeing their working on the big screen. It’s really exciting and fun.” -lizzy rogers ’16, teaching assistant for “Animation, Principles and practices” Rogers, who has both taken Mack’s class and acted as her teaching assistant in the past, said the techniques that students in the class explored ranged from simple hand-drawn animations to cut-out and stop-motion techniques. She said that the biggest challenge that the students face is the amount of time that animating requires.
“Not only have I fallen into the trap of waiting until the last minute, I’ve seen students do it as well,” she said. “The hardest thing about the class is realizing how much time needs to be put into it.” Mack described the overall process of the final projects as “uplifting and inspiring” because they show how much her students have learned in the past nine weeks. She said she believes that some of the pieces her students have made are professional enough to be entered in contests and competitions. “Students come out with this piece that they can use as examples of their work capabilities for many different opportunities to come,” she said. “And I think that a lot of them could go on to screen and student film festivals, but it’s all up to how much you want to polish your project.” Kaplan said that he has enjoyed getting the chance to rekindle his “creative self ” in preparation for the final screening. Mack said that in addition to tonight’s screening, she is also planning to set up a gallery with the students’ work in a room above the VAC’s digital lab throughout the spring. The screening will happen at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium and will be free for both students and community members.
Beyond the Bubble: Architecture, the Art That Surrounds Us B y andrea nease The Dartmouth Staff
We are taught in our elementary school art classes that red is a warm color, that blue and orange are complementary colors and that if we mix red and yellow we will end up with orange. We learn about pointillism, cubism and impressionism. We learn that art can make us feel things, affect our emotions and give us goose bumps. I know that staring at a Monet is going to make me feel more at peace than staring at the warm, almost violent, palette and destructive brush strokes of a work by Egon Schiele. Quite recently I have stopped applying this understanding of aesthetics to solely painting because, in reality, paintings or works in a museum are not the type of art we most frequently engage with and should not be viewed as the only emotionally impactful type of art. Another, bigger art form it is subject to our daily engagement, and it is the most soft-spoken influence in our lives — architecture. The
physical structures around us are more important than most people care to realize. Red chalk-like brick walls accented with white shutters and a tin roof, tinted glass walls welcoming in the sun, wor n wooden stairs creaking under your weight — not one of these descriptions is longer than a few words, yet each description provides a feeling. Within architecture, the power of color and style we learn in elementary school is working on a scale exponentially larger than a painter’s canvas. Every aesthetic element of a building contributes to its function and the feeling of its space. It amazes me that more energy is not put into educating students on the power of architecture and its relevance as a form of commonplace, even, inescapable art. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was a catalyst for a generation of more artistically-aware architects and saw the importance of buildings as art, writing that an ideal home is, “a complete work of art, in itself as expressive and beautiful and more intimately related to
life, than anything detached such as sculpture or painting,” in 1955 for the magazine House Beautiful. Few people think of how walking through an old wood door differs from walking through a polished glass door with stainless steel handles. On the flip side, we all know that the feeling of a Eugène Delacroix battle scene differs from the feeling of a soft and classical nude by Sandro Botticelli — for us distinguishing feelings between paintings is intuitive, whereas feelings about architecture seem automatically ignored. These seemingly mundane architectural choices are capable of producing a spectrum of feelings and emotional responses just like painting and sculpture can. Architects decide how a structure will interact with its environment and how its interior will facilitate the building’s pur pose while remaining faithful to the unified feeling. Buildings are much more than we give them credit for — each design choice was purposefully made, resulting in the environment in which we currently reside.
Architectural design accounts for textiles, furnishings, wallpaper and paneling, material choice of almost every surface, lighting, spatial delineation and, what we are most aware of, the structural integrity and purpose of a space. A home versus an office, a museum versus a university — each space attempts to manipulate these design choices to evoke a feeling, an aesthetic and a style. Dartmouth is about to witness the architectural design process and its impact on student interaction up close with renovated spaces in the coming years. The Hood Museum of Art will soon begin to undergo an expansion, which will require the additional renovation of the adjacent Wilson Hall. The College has called the expansion a solution for housing the Hood’s growing collection of almost 70,000 works and a step toward creating a unified and welcoming Arts District. The Hood plans on increasing space while making the area more student-friendly through its architectural choices. With the current architecture, only one percent of the museum’s works can
be shown and its only classroom holds 18 students. By identifying the impact that structural elements have on the attitude and feelings of students towards the Hood, the museum and Dartmouth at large are ultimately identifying the intimate importance architecture has on us each day. So while we are waiting for the Hood’s new look to determine what sort of impact it will have on our environment, let’s think about how the varied architecture present at Dartmouth already influences our daily lives. Think about how the Black Family Visual Arts Center has a different feel than Dartmouth Hall. Think about Baker compared to Berry. Why do we feel more comfortable in certain buildings? Is it because the windows are positioned a certain way or the color palette feels at perfect harmony? Buildings give more than structure. It is more than shelter. It is the most relevant form of impactful — yet overlooked — art that you encounter nearly every minute of every day.
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
TUESDAY LINEUP
MEN’S DIVING NCAA ZONE DIVING AT BUFFALO 12 PM
Baseball gets first win of the season after six straight losses B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
The baseball team’s first win of the season was a victory in every sense of the word. The pitching, fully commanded by two freshmen, Patrick Peterson ’18 and Sam Fichthorn ’18, left the Bucknell University Bisons scoreless through nine innings. In the final game of the Snowbird Classic in Florida, the team’s offense spread its eight runs across four separate innings, and with the exception of a single fielding error — compared to Bucknell’s five — on the very first at bat of the game, the defense seemed nearly flawless. Peterson and Fichthorn, who threw five and four innings respectively, allowed three hits together against the Bison (6-3), who have averaged 7.6 runs per game thus far this season. Fichthorn has not allowed a single run in his short tenure, making three appearances and pitching for a combined 7.2 innings in the two weekends the Big Green has played. The athlete
remains the only Big Green pitcher this season to preserve the opening season 0.00 ERA with more than one appearance. Fichthorn has collected half his outs on grounders, reflecting his tendency to search for the bottom of the strike zone, he said. “The changes that the coaches have made in my mechanics have kept me a lot more down at the knees, which is where I want to be,” Fichthorn said. “I haven’t been throwing a lot of strikeouts, but I’ve been making them hit the pitches that I want them to hit rather than their money pitches.” Having been a closer in high school behind two starters who both had sub-one ERAs, he said, coming in on the back end or for long relief poses no problem for him in terms of where he perceives his role on the team to be. Still, Fichthorn’s success is a product of several factors, not the least of which being the small sample size from which to draw his statistical information. Despite his impressive performances, it is, after all,
hard to get a complete image of his potential after only two weekends. Being successful in collegiate baseball in the long run, he said, will take a continuing effort from him and his coaches.
“You can’t make [as many] mistakes in college ball,” Fichthorn said. “I had experienced [pitching philosophies like Dartmouth’s] before, but I wasn’t really taking them to heart. I was more throw
as hard as you can in the general area of the strike zone, but that’s not going to work now. I’m spotting up a little bit at the cost of a few miles per hour on my fastball, but SEE BASEBALL PAGE 6
COURTESY OF MARCIA RAPPOPORT-NADLER
Big Green baseball earned its first win of the season shutting out Bucknell University, 8-0, on Sunday afternoon.
Softball captures two shutouts while dropping three games
B y DANIEL LEE
It was a mixed weekend for the softball team as they traveled south to Charleston, South Carolina, for the Holy City Showdown Tournament. The team lost both games on Friday — each by a single run — against Liberty University and College of Charleston, but proceeded to shut out Loyola University Chicago and South Carolina State University on Saturday. Despite a tremendous pitching performance and lively offense in their third and fourth games, the team’s weekend would end with a third loss after a walk-off three-run homerun by Jacksonville University’s Ashley Simon in the bottom of the eighth inning of Sunday’s game. The first game of the tournament against Liberty started with a fourinning shutout by Morgan McCalmon ’16 who left unscathed after allowing six Flames on base. In the third inning, Lourlin Lara ’18 scored the first run despite a throw home on a groundout by Megan Averitt ’15 and put the Big Green on the board. After a scoreless fourth inning for both teams, however, it proved to be a disastrous top of the
fifth for the Big Green as Ashley Sissel ’17 allowed three hits and a sacrifice bunt to open the inning, before being replaced by Kristen Rumley ’15. Sissel would be charged with all three runs and after another three hits and a passed ball, Rumley would be charged with two. Down 5-1 by their fifth at-bat, the Big Green led a furious three-run rally, but was unable to capitalize on the following opportunities. After two hits and a hit-by-pitch in the bottom of the sixth, the Big Green was unable to score with runners posted on second and third. This inability to solidify a run continued in the bottom of the seventh. With Kathy Dzienkowski ’16 on third and Rumley on second, Lara would strike out for the final out of the game and leave the Big Green behind by one. Liberty’s Chandler Ball pitched a complete game with four strikeouts on 10 hits, one walk and two unearned runs. Rumley started for the Big Green in the following game against the hosting College of Charleston, but a costly error in the bottom of the fourth by Kelsey Miller ’16 after a force-out would lead in two unearned runs. Katie McEachern
’16 would hit a solo homerun in the top of the sixth to cut the deficit to one run, but missed opportunities would continue to hurt the Big Green. In the top of the seventh, Dzienkowski would get on first base on a one-out single, but would not make it back to the base in time after Karen Chaw ’17 lined out to third base. Rumley was charged with the loss after pitching six innings and striking out three on eight hits, no walks and no earned runs. The Big Green would perform like an entirely different team on Saturday as they shut out both opposing teams, Loyola-Chicago and South Carolina State, and scored a total of 14 runs. Rumley dominated Loyola-Chicago with perfect second, third, fourth and fifth innings, pitching a seven-inning shutout on four hits, no walks and six strikeouts. Maddie Damore ’17 hit a homerun to lead off the second inning, which was followed by two doubles from Rumley and Claire Bird ’18. Tiffany Dyson ’18 plated Miller and Bird on a bases-loaded single and opened the Rambler’s floodgates as the Big Green would pick up their first win of the weekend in a decisive 5-0 win. The second game of the day
would prove to be even better as the women scored nine runs in the first three innings against South Carolina State. Dzienkowski and McEachern provided a deadly 1-2 punch for the Big Green, combining for seven RBIs. Dzienkowski went 3-3 at the plate with five RBIs, hitting a single in the first, a two-run homerun in the second and a three-run homerun in the third. McEachern was also a perfect 2-2 at the plate with two RBIs, walking in the first, hitting a single in the second and hitting a two-run homerun in the third. “We were more aggressive on Saturday and we took big swings,” Dzienkowski said. McCalmon and Breanna Ethridge ’18 would combine for an extraordinary two-hit shutout against the Lady Bulldogs, each allowing a single hit each, for a final score of 9-0. In two games, the Big Green pitchers allowed no runs in 12 innings of work and recorded nine strikeouts. “Going into the second day, we met together as a team and talked about increasing our intensity and focusing on individual goals that are smaller as opposed to being outcome based and result oriented,” Rumley said. “Our
coaches created a little poster board for us so that we would start focusing on quality at-bats, and we each came up with an individual goal for each at-bat.” The team also did not commit any errors in the two games, a problematic issue on Friday and at the Texas Invitational the weekend before. “We had more communication,” Dyson said. “We were all on the same page and had more focus on the routine plays.” The final game of the weekend against Jacksonville would go into the eighth with the score tied 1-1 after Madison Smith ’18 hit her first collegiate homerun. With runners in the corner, Dzienkowski flied out to left field and scored pinch runner Brianna Lohmann ’16. Rumley would be one out shy of closing out the game in the bottom of the eighth, but walked a Jacksonville batter. With runners on first and second, Jacksonville’s Ashley Simon three-run walk-off homerun to close out the game. The team will head to New York March 18-22 to play against Hofstra, St. John’s and Long Island Universities as the start of their spring break trip.