The Dartmouth 04/13/15

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Based on faculty turnover and changing student enrollments by department, the College hired 24 new faculty members in the arts and sciences this academic year, associate dean of faculty for the sciences and computer science professor David Kotz said. In addition, Thayer School of Engineering hired one new professor and Tuck School of Business hired five.

Ten of the new faculty members hired joined departments in the social sciences, including economics, government, geography, anthropology and history. Nine faculty

This weekend’s EMS conference brought teams from across New England.

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Nine Bolivian students will participate in exchange program

B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINA The Dartmouth Staff

This week, nine Bolivian students will visit the College, led by Foreign Service Officer Yuki Kondo-Shah ’07 in order to enrich their international business and entrepreneurship studies at Universidad Catolica, an elite English-language undergraduate business school in La Paz, Bolivia. This visit to the College is sponsored by the United States Department of State as part of President Barack Obama’s “100,000 Strong in

the Americas” initiative to improve U.S. relationships with Western Hemisphere countries through student exchanges.

The group of visitors will interact with students and professors at the College and from the Tuck School of Business, along with campus organizations such as the International Business Council. After their visit to campus, students will visit the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. A reception to introduce the Bolivian students will be held Wednesday in the Russo Gallery at 4:30 p.m. and is open to campus.

Kondo-Shah says that her two main goals for this visit are for the Bolivian students to connect with the Dartmouth community socially and academically and to encourage participation in exchange programs to Bolivia.

“I know that while this visit may be short, it will be a life-changing experience for the Bolivian students,” she said.

Though the students are primarily interested in business and entrepreneurship, they will also be guided by government professor and chair of the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies

program Lisa Baldez , Dickey Center for International Understanding program manager of human development initiatives Kenneth Bauer and government department chair John Carey.

Bauer said he hopes the visit serves as both a cross-cultural education and crossdisciplinary experience for participants and for Dartmouth students. He says this visit through the State Department is similar to Obama’s “Young African Leaders Initiative,” in which Dartmouth SEE EXCHANGE PAGE 2

Six students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants

B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

Maia Salholz-Hillel ’15 said she has been fascinated by neuroscience since her freshman year of high school when her biology class spent two days studying the brain. The fact that the brain was the blueprint of everything and yet we only have a minimal understand of how it works blew her mind, “no pun intended,” she said. This fascination led her to pursue work in the field, culminating in her recent receiving of a Fulbright Scholarship to study neuroscience in

Berlin.

As of Thursday, the U.S. State Department has awarded six Dartmouth students and alumni with Fulbright U.S. Student grants to conduct research or teach abroad.

The recipients are Salholz-Hillel, Emily Estelle ’15, Georgia Travers ’13, Jake Levine ’15, Ellen Nye ’14 and Zachary Wenner ’10. Two Dartmouth students, Lucas Katler ’15 and Margaret Allyn ’15, were selected as Fulbright alternates.

Estelle said that the scholarship advising office helped her during the

process as a source of information.

She noted that the internal Dartmouth deadlines ensure that application materials get reviewed several times before the final review. Estelle will be an English teaching assistant in Morocco and said she decided to apply as a natural transition from her mentoring and tutoring work at Dartmouth, such as her work with RWIT. Estelle spent two abroad terms in Morocco through foreign study programs and said she is excited for the chance to work in a professional setting overseas and to improve her Arabic.

She noted that Morocco seems like “many small countries in one,” as it is located between Africa, the Middle East and Europe and is culturally, linguistically and geographically unique.

“It was the first place that ever I traveled outside the country,” Estelle said.

“I kind of fell in love with it then and I feel like I have a special attachment to it as a place. It’s more than just a research interest at this point.”

Salholz-Hillel also formed a connection with the future location of her Fulbright research — Germany. She said SEE FULBRIGHT PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing The New Hampshire Supreme Court is currently declining to review the constitutionality of House Bill 118, which would tie a person’s voting domicile to motor vehicle law, the Concord Monitor reported. The New Hampshire House asked the state Supreme Court to consider the bill and its constitutional merits in March. It is one of several bills introduced this session that address potential modifications to voting eligibility requirements. Factors other than the motor vehicle requirement that can be considered in establishing voting eligibility were suggested in an amended version of the bill. A majority of members on the House Election Law Committee endorsed the amended version of the bill because it would codify and clarify requirements that supervisors of the checklist already take into account. The bill, however, was tabled before the full House held a vote on it. The state Supreme Court has been requested to provide an opinion on the constitutionality of the original bill instead. Justices decided to hold off on giving a definitive answer in part because another pending case raises similar questions.

After Angela Kubicke, a ninth-grader from Peacham, Vermont, wrote a letter her state senator, Joe Benning, R-Caledonia, introducing the idea of adopting a Latin motto, the state has officially adopted a new motto, the VTDigger reported. The motto is Stella quarta decima fulgeat, or “May the 14th star shine bright.” She was inspired

by Latin teacher Roy Starling at the Riverside School in Lyndonville to create a motto and propose it to her state senator. After discovering that Vermont did not have a Latin motto, Kubicke later found a coin from 1785 minted in the town of Ripton, minted before Vermont had become an official state. It included the first three words of the new motto: stella quarta decimal. The coin had been minted as Vermont was attempting to become the 14th state. The new Latin motto will not replace the state’s current motto — “freedom and unity” — and will not go on the state seal or flag.

The Upper Valley Haven has announced the closing of its free clothing room, a space in which visitors to the Haven could come and browse the collection of clothing for free, the Valley News reported. This change will increase the organization’s reliance on partnerships with other organizations that provide free clothing. In the future, those who come to the Haven seeking clothing will be met by a case manager. This case manager will either provide the visitors with a supply of clothing or a voucher to purchase clothing at various retailers. These managers will be available right away and have a clothing supply to distribute in case of emergencies. The organization will also increase voucher programs that make it easy to get clothing from other places, making it easier to match visitors with exactly the type of clothing they need.

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The original version of an April 10 “Fridays with Marian” incorrectly stated that New Jersey senator Robert Menendez pled guilty to 14 criminal charges.

He was indicted for the charges, but pled not guilty.

The original version of the April 9 “Tri-Kap will begin $2.3 million renovation” previously version misattributed information to chair of Tri-Kap’s board of directors James McKim ’83 that should have been attributed to the fraternity’s website. The fact that Tri-Kap considered selling its land and physical plant to the College, which would mean handing over management, and that they also considered simply building an entirely new building, as well as the fact that two new bathrooms will be added to the basement level and the changes to the bar area and wall decorations, should be attributed to the fraternity’s webpage. The Dartmouth regrets this error.

Addendum: Th above article originally quoted McKim as saying that the house’s increased size may allow the fraternity to expand its brotherhood.

McKim later clarified in an email that he was referring to the expansion of programs such as philanthropy, not the size of the brotherhood.

Bolivian students visit the College FROM EXCHANGE PAGE 1

hosts 25 university students from Africa for six weeks over the summer.

“Dartmouth is very lucky to be a part of this, [as] we’re not in [Washington], D.C. or in a big city, and it’s a nice to bring diversity in experiences to the campus and the Upper Valley,” Bauer said. “We are not at the center of the world, but we can bring the world to our campus.”

Kondo-Shah was able to bring these students to the College after receiving funding through the state department and met a contact for the Universidad Catolica in Bolivia while working at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. Kondo-Shah said that the application process for students to participate in the Dartmouth visit was very selective as it was open to all of the university’s undergraduates pursuing degrees in financial engineering and entrepreneurship. The process consisted of a formal evaluation through an application and interview.

Kondoh-Shah’s interest in international relations was first sparked as an undergraduate student at the College while pursuing a degree in government. She said that she now enjoys advising students and demonstrating that there are global possibilities for their careers.

Carey, who specializes in the study

of constitutions, legislatures, elections and Latin American politics, says that his first international undergraduate experience was in Bolivia. He said that he visited Bolivia in 1985 and was able to see some of the country’s first elections.

According to Carey, the political climate in Bolivia is different than that

of the United States because Bolivia has experienced a trend of political instability for most of its history. He said that the differences in political climate create unique methods of perceiving the world, and that Bolivian students and Dartmouth students can benefit from each other’s distinctive perspectives regarding international business.

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High school students participate in this weekend’s DartMUN conference.

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Thayer andTuck hire six professors total to fill vacant positions view of challenges in the world as a result of their travel experiences members joined departments in the and diverse global involvement. arts and humanities, three teach in Laura Ogden, a new anthropolthe sciences and two joined inter- ogy professor, wrote in an email that she was excited both by her disciplinary studies.

“In any given year, there’s usu- colleagues and the students she ally a mixture of faculty replacing taught. She said she was “amazed by people who have retired or departed the thoughtfulness” of the students for some other reason and a few each with whom she met when she visited year that are incremental,” Kotz campus for her interview, adding said. “Obviously most departments that prior to coming to the College, would want to grow, but there’s a she worked for a large university limited set of hires we can manage and taught classes with many students, so she found the opportunity or afford.” to work more Interest in closely with her the computer “Obviously, most students appealscience departing. ment is doubling departments would Ecoand tripling, in- want to grow, but nomics profescreasing pressor Diego Cosure on the de- there’s a limited min, who began partment, Kotz l a s t s u m m e r, said, which is set of hires we can said that he was hiring new fac- manage or afford.” able to experiulty nearly evment with his ery year. The teaching meththree new sci- - ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ods in his macroence professors economics class — one each in FACULTY FOR THE ARTS because students biology, chemwere interactive istry and com- AND SCIENCES AND and engaged. puter science COMPUTER SCIENCE He said that the — were all hired undergraduates to fill vacant PROFESSOR DAVID KOTZ embraced the positions and a p p ro a c h h e started in the fall. He added there are ongoing generally used to teach masters of faculty searches in the sciences and business administration students, eight offers outstanding, some of which allowed for graduate-level case study discussions and a Socratic which are for new positions.

“I expect a net growth of faculty class structure that encourages disin the sciences for next year,” he cussion between students and the professor. said.

Computer science department Comin was one of three economchair Thomas Cormen said that ics faculty members who joined the department hired three new at the beginning of this academic year, according to an email from faculty memeconomics debers this year, partment chair two of which “There’s a strong sense Bruce Sacerdote. deferred their He said that the start date to of community [in the de partment’s next fall. He chemistry department], most recent hiring noted that season was unusu187 prospec- and collaboration ally successful. tive members Associate dean of the Class naturally falls out of of the faculty for of 2019 have that.” the social sciences expressed inand economics terest in comprofessor Nancy puter science, - CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR Marion wrote a number that in an email that is significantly MICHAEL RAGUSTA faculty searches higher than in are authorized in previous years.

New chemistry professor Mi- August. chael Ragusa said that the hiring Marion wrote that a method the process at the College moved College uses for identifying strategic quickly compared to other institu- faculty hiring priorities is the cluster tions to which he applied. He said hiring method, as part of College that the chemistry department President Phil Hanlon’s cluster offered him a position a week after initiative to build interdisciplinary faculty teams. She said that of six he interviewed last March.

Ragusa said that he chose to clusters currently in development, come to the College because it only the Neukom Cluster in Commatched his interests and the size putational Science has obtained of the department is uniquely small. funding.

“There’s a strong sense of com- Kotz said that the Neukom munity, and collaboration naturally search committee is currently making offers to candidates right now falls out of that,” he said.

New engineering professor John after two months of interviews, and Zhang said he appreciated the dean of the Thayer School of Engiopportunities Thayer offered for neering Joseph Helble is negotiating working with other researchers and with the top candidate. He added interacting with students. He said that it is promising that one or two that the students in his “Systems cluster searches will be conducted Engineering” class had a broad next year.

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The College hired 24 new faculty members in the arts and sciences this year.

THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

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Staff Columnist William PEters ’15

CONTRIBUTING Columnist NICOLE SIMINERI ’17

The Time is Right

Anti-Choice, Anti-Women

The baseball team has the talent and ability. It’s time to win another championship.

Before I begin, I want to state that I did not seek or receive opinions from any affiliate of the Dartmouth baseball team. These opinions are my own, formed through research and observation of the team’s performance.

Baseball is a sport of brains and brawn, similar to life as a Dartmouth student. Whether it’s braving through the winter cold after an all-nighter to get to that 8 a.m. final or attempting an epic throw save, we all put our minds and bodies to the test.

We should all demand some kind of glory at the end of each term. Personally, I’d like to see that in the form of a Ivy League Baseball Championship.

Maybe it’s because I’m from Boston, where I have enjoyed a decade and a half of championship success across professional sports. Maybe it is because the College has taught me to demand more. Regardless, the fact remains that the College has not seen the baseball team win an Ivy Championship since 2010. Moreover, it took head coach Bob Whalen 19 seasons to lead the team to its first championship. Given that there are eight schools in the Ivy League, ideally, the Big Green should win at least about once every eight years. Though the College, with help from Whalen’s fundraising efforts, built Red Rolfe Field — arguably the best facility in the Ivy League — to boost quality in recruitment, the Big Green has only gone to the National Collegiate Athletic Association regional tournament twice in the last 24 seasons.

I’ve heard the argument defending Whalen’s success. His 507-474-1 record and his 10 Red Rolfe Division — an Ivy subdivision comprised of Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard and Yale Universities — titles, as of 2014, make him one of the most successful coaches in recent Ivy history. Yet, being satisfied with finishing as best of four — rather than eight — teams is settling for mediocrity.

Whalen has his fair share of accolades during his time here at Dartmouth. Aside from winning the division seven years in a row, he is well liked by his players and their families and has a wellknown presence throughout the community. He has taken great measures to assist players in their post-college futures. He also has mentored several current professional players, such as Cole Sulser

’12, Mitch Horacek ’14 and Kyle Hendricks ’12, who pitches fifth in the starting rotation for the Chicago Cubs. This depth of talent, however, shows that the team has been long capable of championship-level success, and Whalen’s Red Rolfe record cannot be used as a shield from the demand to bring home an Ivy League title.

Whalen’s troubles are highlighted by two recent Ivy Championship matchups. In 2013 Sulser, Horacek and Mike Johnson ’13 were drafted, and Kyle Hunter ’13 was signed as a free agent. Despite this talent, the Big Green lost the championship to Columbia University in two games that year.

The year prior was more tragic. Facing Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, starter Adam Frank ’15 pitched arguably the best five innings of his life, holding the Big Red to one run. Frank was replaced in the fifth by closer Thomas Olson ’15, who was known for his precision pitching. Olson held his own for six innings, while Johnson — the would-be 14th-round draft pick — warmed up in the bullpen. He never faced a batter. Whalen decided to keep Olson in the game into the 11th, and with one out, he surrendered a line-drive single to right-center. Instead of putting in Johnson, Whalen allowed Olson to stay on the mound.

The next batter he faced smashed a fastball over the right-field wall for a two-run walk-off home run and another Ivy Championship loss.

Baseball is off to a great start this season. If the we do not win a championship this year, I am not saying that the College should ask Whalen to leave. I do want to point out, however, that coaching positions should not be treated as though they are tenured — Whalen must use the talent and capability of his team to bring in the championship that we are able to achieve. Since the renovations of Red Rolfe Field in 2009, Whalen has been able to bring in players that are more talented and garner more wins. For the past five years, he has led a team of skilled players to win a lot of games — but not enough. This is Dartmouth, and we do not accept mediocrity — not in our classes and not on our fields. Our team swept all four games at Yale this weekend, and we clearly have the talent to win the championship. Red Rolfe titles alone are not enough.

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Anti-choice laws attack the women they were meant to protect.

The American justice system is anything Even if the false feticide charge was but just when it comes to people of color — founded, it makes no sense when combined and the same holds true for women. This past with the child neglect charge. Feticide is the year alone, several politicians have proposed termination of an unborn fetus, while child anti-choice bills that would limit abortion in neglect is failing to care for a baby that is such ways as banning all abortions after 20 born alive. If Patel had committed feticide, weeks of pregnancy and requiring any woman then there would have been no living baby to seeking an abortion to first procure the nota- neglect. The two charges are fundamentally rized consent of the child’s father. On March incompatible. Moreover, the child neglect 30, the justice system further impinged on charge was made on the basis of a scientifiwomen’s reproductive rights when 33-year-old cally discredited test called the lung floating Indiana resident Purvi Patel had a miscarriage test, in which whether a fetus was born alive and was sentenced to 20 years in prison as a or stillborn is determined by nothing more result. With this, the anti-choice campaign than the buoyancy of its lungs. has transformed into more than just a flawed This is not the first time a woman has been movement for protecting the unborn — it is arrested for miscarrying a fetus in Indiana. In now a movement for punishing the pregnant. 2011, a pregnant Bei Bei Shuai was suffering First, I would like to note that not all people from depression and attempted suicide. She with vaginas identify as women, and that not did not die, but the attempt did terminate all those who identify as women necessarily her pregnancy. Instead of giving Shuai the have vaginas. The term “women” is used only mental help she needed, authorities arrested in the interest of space her for feticide. The and readability. arrests of Shuai The tragic story “With this, the anti-choice and Patel reflect began when Patel was campaign has transformed a system founded rushed to the emer- into more than just a flawed on inter nalized gency room for loss movement for protecting the misogyny and a of blood and doctors unborn — it is now a movement complete disregard discovered a severed for women’s rights for punishing the pregnant.” umbilical cord. Patel and health where admitted that she had pregnant women miscarried, putting the stillborn fetus in a are guilty until proven innocent, thereby dumpster to hide it from her very conservative discouraging women from seeking muchIndian parents. Immediately, authorities ar- needed help from medical professionals and rived on the scene and arrested Patel. She was authorities. convicted for feticide for having attempted to There is also a racial component. Before abort the fetus, and then for child neglect for Roe v. Wade, one out of four childbirth-related failing to care for the fetus after the abortion deaths for white women in New York City attempt failed. was due to abortion. For women of color, These convictions, however, are based on this statistic was one in two. Considering this, unfounded assumptions. The only evidence it seems like no accident that both women that Patel had attempted an abortion came tried for feticide in Indiana have been women from text messages, in which she mentioned of color. As Sally Kohn astutely points out, ordering abortion-inducing drugs. Yet, when “the result is that sexist infanticide laws are toxicology tests were conducted, no signs of exacerbated by economic inequality and racial drugs were present in either Patel or the fetus. bias such that women of color are disproFurthermore, legal abortion is permitted in portionately penalized.” With this ominous Indiana, so how could Patel’s attempts to precedent, women who have abortions and terminate her own pregnancy be considered those who experience miscarriages alike can be less valid — especially considering that Patel’s subjected to investigation and incarceration, home in Mishawaka is about 145 miles away with women of color being even more likely from the closest abortion clinic in Indianapo- to experience such clear overreaches of state lis? This is not an issue of legality. This is authority. an issue of accessibility — an issue it seems Women face a disturbing reality in which anti-choicers have very deliberately created to their rights to their bodies are constantly being make it more difficult for women to exercise defined and denied by policymakers — most their rights over their bodies and thereby put of whom will never experience pregnancy women into uncomfortable, distressing and themselves. As Amanda Marcotte wrote in even fatal situations. a Feb. 4 article for Slate, the laws that have This feticide charge is especially glaring supposedly been created to protect pregnant when considering the law’s actual text. Indi- women, are being twisted to instead “punish ana’s feticide law criminalizes the “knowing [women] for failing to meet a social ideal of or intentional termination of another’s preg- pregnancy more than any actual crime.” Pronancy.” Yet if Patel had attempted to terminate life is thus nothing more than a euphemism any pregnancy — a debatable claim — it was for anti-choice. I am pro-life, too, but that her own and therefore should not fall under means pro-a woman’s life and everything that this law. With this conviction, the anti-choice entails, including her physical, emotional and movement has reached its inevitable conclu- financial well-being — a sentiment that the sion as not a quest to protect fetuses but, justice system clearly does not share. Time is rather, an outright war on the women who moving forward, but women’s rights are only carry them. falling more and more behind.

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Students will use Fulbrights in five different countries FROM FULBRIGHT PAGE 1

that she spent four days in Germany before attending Dartmouth and immediately felt connected to the place — even in the pouring rain. SalholzHillel spent her freshman summer in Berlin and found herself impressed by the “science scene and general landscape” in the country. She noted the accessibility of lectures and the abundance of scientific foundations and centers.

When she began her neuroscience research at Dartmouth she discovered that her initial gut feeling about the quality of research in Germany was right — it is a leading country in the field, she said.

Salholz-Hillel plans to complete a masters degree at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and will be doing research in a lab focusing on decision making. The work combines her interest in language and neuroscience, she said, as it focuses on the how native language and learned language affect the decision making process.

“It’s not the day-to-day that attracts me to research, but the bigger picture,” Salholz-Hillel said. “The idea that we can explore a question and go through a process and get to at least a tentative answer. And we can take that tentative answer from basic science and bring it to practical applications in the world.”

Travers said she applied because of the mission of the Fulbright scholarship to foster communication and cultural exchange between the U.S. and other countries. She said she decided to do research in Morocco because it seemed like a good place to improve both her Arabic and French language skills.

She received a James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study after graduating from Dartmouth in 2013 and spent the following year in

Muscat, Oman working with female entrepreneurs. She noted that she built skills through that program that she will apply through her Fulbright research working with and examining the effectiveness of several sustainable ecological agriculture projects.

During her time at Dartmouth, Travers began to explore the issue of how agriculture relates to social and political dynamics, she said. She credited several professors, including anthropology professor John Watanabe and history professor George Trumbull, with cultivating her interests.

Wenner will be working in Bulgaria focusing on “the nascent ecosystem” of impact investors and social entrepreneurs in the country. He will be looking at how international and domestic actors use socially-driven capital to address social problems through market-based approaches. In particular, he will be focusing on efforts in the agriculture sector because of its potential to be a “tool for economic security.”

He decided to do his work in Bulgaria because he said the country is at an interesting crossroads — it joined the European Union in 2007 — and is looking towards innovative approaches to create a better environment for low-income vulnerable populations.

Wenner noted that he did not initially aim to go into this type of work, but became interested when he was exposed to creative thinkers applying for-profit ideas to social issues while working at a financial firm after he graduated from Dartmouth. He then transferred to a research role and currently works at a policy research organization in Washington, D.C. “I have been doing a lot of this from behind a desk, reading policy statements and looking at complex transactions as an observer looking in,” Wenner said. “I see this as my chance

to get my hands dirty and be a part of things that I have been studying and researching about from afar.”

Levine said that he was inspired to apply for the scholarship after completing the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program in the Marshall Islands last winter. On the program, Levine taught algebra and coached rugby and discovered how much he enjoyed doing both, he said. The program director, education professor emeritus Andrew Garrod, was instrumental in his application and decision to apply, he said.

Levine will be working as an English teaching assistant in Colombia. He said he decided to work in Colombia because of his previous travel experience in Latin America. He noted that he was particularly interested in the service element of the Fulbright scholarship. Levine will attend medical school after completing the scholarship and said he plans to work in a health clinic in a hospital while in Colombia.

Nye will be doing research in Turkey. If they are selected as scholars, Katler will be in Italy focusing on drama and Allyn will be teaching English in Thailand.

The U.S. Student Program is a subsidiary of the Fulbright Program, an international educational exchange program sponsored by the

U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Since the program’s founding in 1946, over 300,000 students, professors and professionals have traveled to more than 155 countries.

Each fall, students and young professionals seeking Fulbright grants submit applications to the J. W. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, whose members award grants to

over 1,500 American students and recent graduates. The board sends out notifications of acceptance between January and June. Currently, not all countries have notified candidates of acceptance to the program, so more Dartmouth students and alumni could be receiving Fulbright grants in the coming months. Last year, 13 students and alumni were awarded Fulbright Scholarships.

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Fulbright scholar Jake Levine ’15 will work as an English teaching assistant in Colombia.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m.

“Recalculating Wall Street Rationalities: A Rethinking of Financial Risk,” Rockefeller Center, Room 002

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“Second Annual Edible Book Festival,” festival with prizes, BakerBerry Library

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“Latinos, Republicans, and the Art of Diversity,” Haldeman Center, Room 041

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“Basic Laboratory Plasma Experiments Relevant to Fusion and Space,” Wilder, Room 111

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“Looking Beyond the Internet: The Rise of Software-Defined Infrastructure,” Carson L02

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“Are CEOs Overpaid?” with Lucian Bebchuk and Steven Kaplan, Moore Building, Filene Auditorium

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the frustrations of dealing with smalltown bureaucracy, and I had the exact same issues. I started writing about these issues and I thought, this could actually turn into a story. Of course, everything that someone writes is always a mix of fact and fiction — when you are writing fiction there is always an element of the creative but also something that you see every day.

So the story is not nonfiction, but it was very directly influenced by the work that I was doing.

Do you have a weekly schedule for writing? How do you fit it in with balancing a full-time job?

DS: I wish I had a weekly schedule for writing — it was one of my New Years resolutions. To be honest, my schedule is very dependent on when my schedule syncs up, and it surprisingly takes very long to send a piece out that is worthy for publication. I say surprisingly because when you think of these people that are writing, you think that it seems so easy for them, but it takes time. So what that means is that I do not write as often as I wish I could or my pieces are not polished exactly when I want them to be, they can take longer. Whatever I have published so far, it’s been very sporadic. [For example], the story that I just wrote, I wrote in December and it came out in March. It’s very much about when my schedule frees up or when I find something interesting to write about. There are so many things happening around you all the time in New York, but for me it seems that everyone always writes about New York so that does not interest me as much. So I wait for the next inspiration and whenever that happens I write more.

I don’t think that I could handle that pressure, really — of being a writer who has to write all the time. For me it has to be an experience that I

live before I can put it on paper. So if writing was my job, I think that I would have to find some other avenues for inspiration.

“There are so many things happening around you all the time in New York, but for me it seems that everyone always writes about New York so that does not interest me as much.

So I wait for the next inspiration and whenever that happens I write more.”

How do you know decide when a story will be ready for publication?

DS: I think that there is not one standard method for knowing — it’s more just like I have edited a piece so many times that I cannot think of anything new to put in. That is an indication that maybe you should sit back from the story for a little while and then come back to it. I am a very impatient person so I can’t let my story sit for too long — so I leave it for maybe half a day or a day and then come back to it — and even that can bring a new perspective. And even if after all that time you think “I like this,” then that’s when you know you can send it in...I’m not worried about people saying it’s awful, which inevitably happens. You will send a story out to many publications and maybe one or two will come back to you with some sort of response and maybe one or

two more will say “I think you can work on this,” but most will probably either not respond or say no.

What would be your advice to young alums or current students like yourself who are trying to balance a passion in the arts with passions in other fields?

DS: I would say to try to promise yourself that you will write, because the anxiety of not being able to write but still wanting to write is worse than the anxiety of writing bad stuff.

Don’t be afraid of what you are going to churn out and just do it. I think that I am fortunate because my job allows me the time to do this. There are terrible days when I am coming home really late and do not have time to write, but there are other days when I get home at seven o’clock or six and those days I can easily write.

So make sure that you get some work done those days, because that is the reality of living and writing in New York. You will not always have those days, so when you do you should make a committed effort to try to get something done.

Do you have a favorite author or one who influences your work?

DS: I do have a favorite author! I love Junot Diaz and I also love Salman Rushdie, but neither of their work is reflected in mine because they have a very different style of writing.

An author whose style [also] really inspired me was Kate Chopin, especially “The Awakening.” That is one of my favorite stories, and I think that her descriptive style is so amazing to read because you feel like you are in Louisiana by the water. I really try to put that [level of imagery] on paper.

What are your future plans and goals for your career and your writing on the side?

DS: I love to write, so I would love to continue doing that and maybe get more structure, but I do not know how possible that will be given that I work in bursts, but I am going to try to change my process. I moved from novels to short stories and I was so terrified of short stories because I thought that it was too hard to get your message across in so few words, but I think I am going to try to continue working on short stories but also maybe go back to the novel that I wrote for my thesis and see where that can go. I think that would be a very long-term goal of mine to rework my thesis and edit and revise. Short term I would like to keep writing, and over time I have gotten more comfortable with the publication process, so I would like to take advantage of that comfort and get more pieces out there.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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“It Follows” (2014) follows no formula B y andrew kingsley The Dartmouth Staff

I don’t know what’s scarier — modern horror films themselves or the current state of the horror genre, which has become a factory for lazy and unoriginal pabulum. In most contemporary films, frightening has become a formula — a veritable cinematic slot machine, where audiences pay their money to watch a string of classic icons, like the possessed child, clown or abandoned house. Even worse, many nascent directors have taken to using horror as a springboard for their careers — the films are cheap, don’t require professional actors and just need bad lighting and a broken music box to get the ball rolling. Like visitors to Atlantic City, modern horror audiences are destined not to be satisfied. But luckily, there are exceptions to the rule. “It Follows” (2014) is just that — the rare breed that waits, lurks and lets your mind do the scaring.

The film begins in an apple-pie suburban neighborhood, which quickly loses a slice as a teenager speeds away from her home and is found on the beach the next morning with her right leg snapped gruesomely backward.

Yes, we’re in familiar scared teenagers territory, but director David Mitchell is too smart to fall for the same tropes as the prepubescent minds behind most high school flicks. Shocking and unjustified, the grisly corpse sat in my mind, festering, breeding maggots of uncertainty and fear.

Mitchell quickly moves the film along to introduce Jay Height (Maika Monroe) and her boyfriend Hugh (Jake Weary), whom the film finds waiting in line at a theatre — a familiar scene to audience members only 20 minutes removed from buying their own tickets. Jay and Hugh grab dinner and have steamy sex in his beat up car, and all seems to be going well, until Hugh starts suffocating her. When Jay wakes up tied to a wheelchair, Hugh is waiting... for “It.” But this “It” is far scarier than the rather hokey, fanged clown conjured

by Stephen King in his 1986 novel of the same name. Instead, Mitchell’s “It” is a murderous, shape-shifting succubus, perpetually shuffling zombie-like toward Jay. Imagine the woman from “The Shining” (1980), if she just kept walking out of the bathroom and into your life. This is the curse passed on through sex and now visible only to Jay (metaphors for sexually trasnmitted diseases and rape abound) that will now relentlessly pursue her, at school and in her home, until she can pass it on to someone else or is killed.

“It” flies in the face of most boogie men, refusing to hide behind corners and then jump out in an adult version

of peek-a-boo. Instead, Mitchell gives us agonizing long shots in which we see “It” long before Jay does, watching powerlessly as “It” lurks slowly behind her, wracking our nerves with every step. Here, Mitchell lets us generate the scare — nothing in the scene threatens us directly, no 3D-axe comes flying out into the front row — but our anxiety stretches over the film’s 100-minute run time as “It” refuses to give up, displaying a tank-like determination. “It Follows” is admirable in choosing this slowburn strategy — instead of opting for the cheaper gratification of jump scares and sudden cuts, now rampant throughout contemporary horror, Mitchell trusts that our worries of the near future will be the true monster.

In doing so, Mitchell reveals himself as a true craftsman. Technically, the young director gives a virtuoso performance behind the camera, employing dizzying 360-degree pans (a technique used brilliantly in “Paranormal Activity 3” (2011)) which begin with an empty room and return with “It” now marching squarely toward us. The score — like Hans Zimmer meets “The Shining” — further adds to the film with rumbling, visceral dissonances that steadily assault our ears in an ideal analog to “It.” Perhaps most importantly, the film’s greatest strength is capturing the abject — a term used in horror to describe a state of debased sublimity, the perfectly traumatic that occludes proper language for expression and leaves us stammering, cowering and covering our mouths. After all, no one can see “It” besides Jay. It can be your mother or a decaying, urinating prostitute — the virgin or the whore.

It personifies the ideas behind Freud’s essay “The Uncanny”: it is the infinite double, a faux-human, endlessly repeating walking and raping, while foregrounding repressed Oedipal and Electral desires. It is both overdetermined and indeterminable. We know nothing more about “It” at the end than at the beginning. “It” is the perfect boogie man, or, if I may coin a phrase, “boogie it.”

Although “It Follows” unravels slightly as it draws toward its close, following the teenagers as they plot an elaborate Scooby Doo gang scheme to catch the monster, Mitchell’s third film will stick with you long after the credits. Like its monster, “It Follows” will stay right behind you, getting under your skin and surely slip into bed with you as you fall asleep, its abject thoughts lurking out of your unconscious and into the fore of your nightmares.

Rating: 9/10 “It Follows” is in theaters in Lebanon and will arrive on DVD soon.

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Book Arts Workshop rings in 25-year anniversary with exhibit

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The Book Arts Workshop is celebrating its 25-year anniversary, highlighted by an exhibit in Baker Lobby.

B y maya poddar The Dartmouth Staff

Tucked away down a hallway connecting the lower level of Baker Library to the Sanborn Library basement, the Book Arts Workshop, called “Dartmouth’s best-kept secret” by the Dartmouth College Library, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Programming in honor of the anniversary, highlighted by an exhibit in Baker Lobby titled “The Secret Revealed — The Book Arts Workshop at 25 Years” included an open house and reception held last

Friday. At the open house, students viewed examples of student-made work, took in a lecture by studio art professor Louise Hamlin and created their own postcards using a pearl-press — a small, foot-powered press — Barbara Sagraves, the exhibit curator and head of preservation services at Baker-Berry Library, said.

“The center of the book arts is hands-on, is experiential” Sargraves said.

Dennis Grady, a web support and graphic arts specialist at the College library who helped Sagraves put

together the exhibit honoring the Book Arts Workshop, said that the exhibit contains materials gathered entirely from the College, ranging over different periods in the College’s history, Grady said.

“We looked at a lot of material that Rauner Library has, which is a lot of historical material,” Grady said. “For the more recent stuff, there were a lot of recently-made books and broadsides...that people have made in the workshop.”

The Book Arts Workshop — housed in the same location once used by the College’s graphic arts

program, which was run by profes- Arts Workshop. sor emeritus Ray Nash between “I spent a lot of time in the 1937 and 1970 — was founded by book arts studio for that project,” three former students of Nash’s Petzinger said. in 1990. The workshop provides Grady, when asked about the students with access to a letterpress Book Arts Workshop’s lack of studio and a bookbinding studio, visibility on campus, said that the and students can also mix their workshop’s “out of the way” locaown inks, create posters and cards tion might be to blame for its low and learn how to set type, Kelsey profile.

Sipple ’16, who works at the Book “It’s kind of hidden away down Arts Workshop, said. there,” Grady said.

Eva Petzinger ’15, who also Sagraves takes a slightly differworks at the Book Arts Workshop, ent view as to why the Book Arts said the workshop was “an unusual Workshop is not as well known as resource.” While other schools do other on-campus studios. have similar studios, Sipple said, the “I think Dartmouth students are Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth just so busy that they think, ‘Well, I’ll receives less just do this when I exposure than have more time,’” many of these “If you like anything Sagraves said. studios.

T h e about words or text “Bob Book Arts WorkMetzler, who and how we shop is open to is our letter- experience those, all students after press instructhey complete there is not really tor, for years an orientation has described anything cooler you session, Sipple [the Book Arts can do” said. There is Workshop] as no fee to use the ‘our best kept workshop’s stusecret,’” Sa- -eva petzinger ’15, dios during open graves said. hours, and workBook Arts Workshop Many stushops are also d e n t s w h o Student employee free. All Dartwork at the mouth commuworkshop disnity members are cover it through a class, Petzinger eligible to use the workshop, though and Sipple said. Both said they were preference in registration is given introduced to the workshop through to undergraduate students at the “The History of the Book,” a class College. offered in the College’s comparative “If you like anything about words literature department. According or text and how we experience those, to Petzinger, the final for the class there is not really anything cooler involved a component in the Book you can do,” Petzinger said.

Sharma ’13 talks balance, meshing writing with work

B y hallie huffaker The Dartmouth Staff

Divyanka Sharma ’13 exemplifies the meaning of “doing it all.” A young alumna originally hailing from India, Sharma balances budding success in short fiction with full-time work for New York City-based Locus Analytics, working to apply functional classification systems of enterprises to the developing world. An English major at the College, Sharma worked for Reserve Bank of India during her time at Dartmouth and credits English professor Thomas O’Malley

for helping her publish her first ever published piece, the short story “To Benares.”

How did you first get into writing?

DS: I actually started writing at Dartmouth. I went on the English foreign study program in Dublin, and I joined the literary society at Trinity College, Dublin. I was on the analytical, critical side of the major and had never really done any creative writing for school before, no

prose. But in Dublin I started writing, and there I got the idea for my thesis, which ended up being a novel.

Ever since that happened, I haven’t stopped writing.

Given your love for creative writing, what encouraged you to pursue a career other than a full-time career in the arts?

DS: I think it was almost a given for me that I would not be looking for a career in the arts. I was interested in pursuing development econom-

ics after school, and I was also an international student. It’s harder for internationals if they want to stay in the United States to look at career in the arts — it was almost as if I did not consider a career in the arts for these logistical reasons. Also [it was] because my career interests were solidly in developmental economics — and I think that reflects in the writing that I do. For example, one of my most recent pieces was something I wrote when I was doing a project in India. The work that I do really influences and impacts my writing.

Can you give an example of how you brought in your trip to India to your latest story?

DS: The actual story was pretty directly related to what I was doing in India. The story is about a young woman who travels to this town and finds another interesting young woman, and that gets her to start asking questions about her identity.

The story was set in the city that I was working in. The character has SEE SHARMA PAGE 7