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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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Trustees approve Hood expansion

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Kiefer fills new senior fundraising position

B y ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff

Michael Kiefer, newly appointed vice president for presidential initiatives and principal gifts, officially began his duties on Sept. 2. Kiefer, a former vice president for institutional advancement at Haverford College with more than 25 years of experience working in higher education, will work with deep-

pocketed alumni to raise money for large projects like the creation of faculty clusters and the expansion of the Hood Museum of Art and Thayer School of Engineering.

Kiefer’s role was created this year to better support the advancement division’s senior leadership. The division, founded in 2010 by former College President SEE KIEFER PAGE 2

The Board of Trustees approved a project to expand the Hood Museum and triple its classroom capacity during its September meeting and annual retreat over the weekend. The Trustees also received updates from across the College, including the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee and the three graduate schools.

The Hood expansion will include three new objectstudy rooms that can accommodate a wider range of class sizes. With more than 1,000 students using the Hood for academics every year, the museum is an important part of the College’s “academic mosaic,” Board of Trustees chair Bill Helman ’80 said.

Helman started as chair in early June, replacing Steve Mandel ’78, who was appointed in 2010.

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Dartmouth falls three spots in undergrad teaching rankings

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The College dropped one spot to the 11th best university in the country, and three spots to fourth in undergraduate teaching in the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings released last week.

This decline comes after Dartmouth held the top spot in undergraduate teaching for five years, an accomplishment Dartmouth has highlighted in the past.

Dean of admissions and financial aid

Maria Laskaris said she does not think the change in rankings will affect students’ decision to apply. She said the College is not driven by rankings but is always striving to improve, citing entrepreneurship, experiential learning, off-campus programs, internships and extracurricular activities as hallmarks of Dartmouth’s undergraduate experience.

Dartmouth moved up to number seven in this year’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” SEE RANKING PAGE 3

Index places College 31st for socioeconomic accessibility B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth ranked 31st for socioeconomic accessibility among around 100 colleges with fouryear graduation rates of at least 75 percent, according to a New York Times analysis published last week. While dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris noted a growing awareness of inequality on campus, students interviewed said the College could

do more to promote discussions of socioeconomic status.

The index combines data on cost of attendance and Pell grants received, with higher scores indicating greater accessibility. Vassar College ranked first, earning a score of 3.1, while Dartmouth received a score of 0.8, fifth of eight Ivy League institutions.

The analysis, published on The Upshot blog, determined its rankings using the number of freshmen receiving Pell grants in

the past three years and the net price of schooling for households earning between $30,000 and $48,000 per year that qualify for federal aid.

Socioeconomic status affects the way admissions officers evaluate applications, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said, as students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often come from

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The Upshot index combines data on cost and Pell grants.

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DAily debriefing In August, New Hampshire’s Lebanon College announced that it has canceled all classes and minimized operations for the fall semester. Last month, trustees at the private community college had to use personal money to make its August payroll, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. Lebanon College spent significant money on its facilities before the recent recession, and has not been able to attract enough students to operate, board chairman Arthur Gardiner told NHPR. Several area schools — such as River Valley Community College and Franklin Pierce University — have offered to help students enrolled in Lebanon College transfer their credits.

“Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy,” written by Andrew Lohse ’12 and released on August 26, has garnered local and national media attention. In a book review for the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Rago ’05, called the stories in Lohse’s book “the worst, and least trustworthy confessions in the 16 centuries since St. Augustine’s.” In a review for the Valley News, Rob Wolfe ’12 wrote that the book successfully demonstrates “Dartmouth’s debauchery,” but that the more reflective parts lacked emotional depth. The New York Daily News, The New York Post and Business Insider also covered the book’s release, and Mashable called Lohse a “frat boy turned feminist” in its coverage of the memoir. Lohse, who is currently on medical leave from the College, accused Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of hazing violations in a 2012 column in The Dartmouth.

According to court documents, the defense attorneys for Robert Dellinger, 54, who pleaded not guilty in May to two charges of second-degree murder after his involvement in an Interstate 89 collision, are examining the police account of what Dellinger said at the hospital after the crash, the Valley News reported. Authorities have alleged that Dellinger, a Sunapee resident and former Fortune 500 executive, intentionally drove his pickup truck across the interstate median in a suicide attempt. Defense attorneys have argued that none of the three state troopers who questioned Dellinger reported that Dellinger intentionally drove into oncoming traffic. The police reports have not been made public. Dellinger suffered only minor injuries, while the collision killed Jason Timmons and Amanda Murphy, who was eight months pregnant at the time.

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Advancement office talks year’s plans FROM KIEFER PAGE 1

Jim Yong Kim, is an umbrella office for alumni relations, development and conferences and events.

The main initiatives on the advancement division’s agenda this year are securing money for the Society of Fellows postdoctoral program, faculty clusters and investment in the art and innovation district, Kiefer said. These three projects align with College President Phil Hanlon’s desire to boost experiential learning opportunities, he said.

The Society of Fellows, which will cost $2 to $3 million annually, was created to boost faculty diversity, Kiefer said. The College will invite dozens of postdoctoral students to join the faculty and teach undergraduate classes.

“They will be this cohort of about 20 young new Ph.D. students who help enliven the intellectual environment at Dartmouth and serve as models for the students about what it’s like to be a scholar,” he said.

Kiefer said that if the College is able to acquire the funds, Hanlon hopes to invite fellows to campus in one to two years.

Kiefer’s appointment follows a historic year in College fundraising.

Hanlon announced in April that Dartmouth received an anonymous $100 million donation, the largest single donation in College history.

In 2013, Dartmouth’s donation rate reached 44.5 percent, behind only Princeton University in the Ivy League.

The advancement division’s senior leadership team will also focus on raising funds to create up to 10 faculty clusters, each of which will be supported by a $15 to $25 million endowment, Kiefer said.

The initiative will create interdisciplinary clusters of undergraduate and professional school faculty focused on teaching and doing research on global issues.

The funding will support endowed professorships, research costs, postdoctoral fellows and increased undergraduate opportunities like classes and research.

A donation from William Neukom ’64, matched with a piece of

the anonymous $100 million gift Dartmouth received last year, will support the first cluster. Called the “William H. Neukom Academic Cluster in Computational Science,” it will take a data-based approach to answering questions on topics from genetics to climate change.

The trustees are voting to renovate and expand the Hood Museum of Art and Thayer as well as continuing to build the Dartmouth

“It’s important that we’re out there trying to help alumni, parents and friends support that which the Board, the president and faculty have all agreed are priorities.”

- MICHAEL KIEFER, VICE PRESIDENT FOR PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVES AND PRINCIPAL GIFTS

Entrepreneurial Network, Kiefer said.

These plans require raising a significant amount of money, Kiefer said, though he noted the total is undetermined. While he called this agenda “ambitious,” Kiefer said he believes it will be fully realized within the next five years.

Vice president of alumni relations Martha Beattie said she is confident Kiefer will raise the necessary money because he and the advancement team understand the “true art and science of fundraising.”

“If Michael says it can be done in five years, you can bet your bottom dollar it can be,” Beattie said.

Donor gifts to Dartmouth are typically paid over three to five years — large projects with multiple donors vary more and may take five to 10 years, senior vice president for advancement Bob Lasher said.

“I think the most important thing is this: that the president has

an ambitious vision for Dartmouth over the next decade and he’s eager to realize it,” he said in an email.

Kiefer said he has a clear understanding of how institutions work.

“I think I have a good track record of securing philanthropic support,” he said. “It’s important that we’re out there trying to help alumni, parents and friends support that which the board, the president and faculty have all agreed are priorities.”

Lasher said Kiefer’s experience with both liberal arts and large international research institutions makes him a valuable addition to the advancement division’s leadership team. Kiefer has worked at Amherst College and McGill University.

“This is a person who understands that gifts of this magnitude really are achieved in partnership with the individual and the family who are directing their charitable contribution to the institution,” Lasher said.

Kiefer said that it is important for the advancement division to match alumni interests with College priorities. Kiefer said the advancement division’s priority is to engage potential donors in conversations with Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever and other administrators.

While Beattie said that the alumni relations and development divisions have “distinctly different personalities,” both Kiefer and Beattie agreed that the two operations are an integrated unit.

The level of connection alumni feel with the College is one of the main reasons the advancement division is optimistic about the upcoming year, Kiefer said.

“There’s so much promise and feelings of hope about Hanlon’s presidency,” he said. “Everybody feels that we got the right guy, and now’s the time.”

The College is also seeking a vice president for development, who would join Lasher, Kiefer, Beattie and chief operating officer for advancement Ann Root Keith on the advancement division’s senior leadership team, according to a job positing on the website of search firm Isaacson, Miller.

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Drop in undergrad teaching rankings follows five years at No. 1 FROM RANKING PAGE 1

ranking, based on methodology that compares academic quality with the price for students who receive an average level of need-based financial aid.

Last year, the school placed eighth. “[The ranking] speaks to something this country is very focused on right now — value that a school is providing to its students,” College spokesperson Justin Anderson said, adding that Dartmouth is ranked fifth out of national universities in terms of least debt carried by graduates, up from number 12 last year.

The College highlighted these improvements in its press release, noting changes in overall and undergraduate teaching rankings briefly.

Rankings for best undergraduate teaching are based on a peer assessment by faculty and administrators, according to the U.S. News website.

College presidents, provosts, admissions deans and other academics are asked to nominate schools that have faculty with an “unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”

U.S. News and World Report chief data strategist Bob Morse said the organization surveys about 750 people at national universities. He said the response rate for this question is below 50 percent.

“It’s true that this system is not the

most sophisticated because it is based on how many top 10 votes a school gets,” Morse said. “But it does provide some indication that at least there’s a widely held belief that the ones that made it care about undergraduate teaching.”

Unlike other Ivy League schools such as Harvard University, Yale University and Columbia University, the College has far more undergraduate students than graduate or professional students, with about 4,200 undergraduates and 2,100 graduate students. Dartmouth identifies its strong commitment to undergraduate education throughout its website, press materials and admission process.

Annie Huang ’18 said educational quality is mostly dependent on the people at an institution itself, since academic funding can only go so far. She said she is excited for Dartmouth’s undergraduate education because many of her peers seem “intellectually curious” and professors seem to truly care about their students.

English professor Barbara Will said the College derives teaching excellence from the relationship between students and teachers, both of whom are passionate about scholarship. She added that many other institutions sacrifice teaching in lieu of scholarship.

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“To my mind, at its best, teaching is the most exciting work that a professor can do,” Will said. “But it has to be fed by research, otherwise it’s superficial.

There has to be a balance between the two, and Dartmouth is one of the few elite liberal arts institutions to honestly strive for that balance.”

Will also said the College should focus on quality education and not worry about small changes in rankings, as it is still one of the best schools in the nation.

Students interviewed expressed varied opinions over the meaning and impact of rankings like those provided by U.S. News and World Report. While some did not care at all, others, particularly while apply-

ing for colleges, said they turned to rankings as a resource.

Subur Khan ’17 said whenever she does not know anything about a school, she looks at U.S. News to get an idea of a school’s “relative academic standing.” Speaking specifically about Dartmouth, Khan said she was surprised that the College placed fifth in least debt carried by graduates due to its high tuition.

Tuition, room, board and mandatory fees at the College reached $61,947 for 2014-15, among the highest in the Ivy League.

As a recent applicant, Huang said rankings provide useful information about key data like selectivity, but she said small changes in rankings

would not affect her perception.

Strong publicity would probably be more influential in shaping opinions of Dartmouth, she said.

Dana Wieland ’17 said the new undergraduate teaching rankings have caused her to question what Dartmouth lacks compared to the three schools ranked above it.

Princeton University took first and the College of William and Mary and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, tied for second. She said the change would not have affected her as a potential applicant, but said she would be concerned if the College’s ranking in this category continued to drop.

Rebecca Asoulin contributed reporting.

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CONTRIBUTING Columnist ABHISHEK PARAJULI ’15

STAFF Columnist JON MILLER ’15

Destined to Stagnate

Not Just for Farmers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely fail to jump-start India’s economy.

If a country is lucky, every generation has a rock star leader who seems capable of actually making a difference. Hopes are high for what Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver after winning the most resounding electoral victory in recent Indian history. But if his first 100 days in office are a sign of things to come, Modi will fail to deliver. Bad infrastructure, bureaucratic lethargy and pervasive corruption will ensure that India continues to stagnate.

Infrastructure is India’s Achilles’ heel. When Modi visited Japan this month to cajole Japanese firms to invest in India, most companies pointed to the terrible state of Indian infrastructure as a key constraint. Just how terrible is Indian infrastructure? In 2012, a daylong blackout left nearly 700 million people in North India in complete darkness. This was only a glimpse of a problem that plagues much of India: its power grids are among the most inefficient in the world. Its roads are the most dangerous in the world, with India accounting for 15 percent of the world’s fatal road accidents despite being home to only 1 percent of global motor vehicles, according to the International Business Times. It also ranks lower in key health care metrics than impoverished Nepal and Bangladesh, having the highest infant mortality rates listed in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors 2010 Study.

Modi has tried and failed to solve this problem. His government facilitated the issue of infrastructure bonds, but the autonomous central bank banned Indian banks from buying these bonds, which limits the depth of the bond market. With these limits, the odds of raising the billions needed for India’s critical infrastructure needs are bleak; foreign direct investment flows are too erratic for India to rely on them exclusively.

India’s lethargic bureaucracy is another key limitation. The World Bank lists India 134 out of 189 countries for ease of doing business.

In 2012, the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy ranked the Indian bureaucracy the worst in Asia. However, Modi has done more than pay lip service in this area. In his first Independence Day address, he abolished

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the Soviet-style Planning Commission that had directed the Indian economy since 1950. But this is not enough. The Indian Administrative Service, which sends district level administrators to all of India’s 675 districts, should be the next target. A vestige of the colonial days, IAS and its officers today wield tremendous power and little functional value. If Modi could loosen their stranglehold on the country, innovative, bottom-up policies may emerge to complement business needs. Removing the IAS, however, is so unfathomable that any Indian reading this column is probably chuckling at my naiveté. The bureaucracy is basically too powerful to curtail, crippling India’s potential for growth.

Corruption is the final hurdle. Transparency International ranks India 94 out of 177 nations in its Corruption Perceptions Index, and foreign businesses often cite corruption as motivating their unwillingness to work in India. Many countries have laws, like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, that ban companies from working with corrupt entities. Indian foreign direct investment regulations require foreign firms to partner with Indian companies; however, corruption runs so rampant in India that it is impossible to meet FCPA requirements with most partners.

Corruption must be controlled if Indian firms need global partners to grow.

Just because Modi will likely fail to jump-start the Indian economy does not necessarily mean he is a total failure as a leader. In fact, he has achieved more in his first 100 days than any prime minister before him. His foreign visits have allayed fears of neighbors (such as Nepal) who are tired of Indian interference in their domestic affairs. His recent visit to Japan brought in more than $34 billion in aid. The reality, however, is that much of this is window dressing. Modi seems incapable of tackling the true bottlenecks to growth. A group that is crucial to India’s growth remains unimpressed with him: global businesses.

Until Modi institutes policies that dramatically improve infrastructure, cut bureaucratic red tape and fight endemic corruption, India is destined to stagnate.

Many students have heard of the Dartmouth Organic Farm, but the property is underutilized. Although classes in environmental studies, such as “Ecological Agriculture,” use the property, a wide range of classes and student activities could take advantage of the farm as well. While the Outdoor Programs Office could certainly do more to promote student involvement in and awareness of the farm, departments other than environmental studies must consider how their classes might benefit from its resources. Additionally, increased usage of the farm will educate students about local and sustainable agriculture.

One example of how a class outside of the environmental studies department might use the organic farm is Studio Art 65, or “Architecture I,” which I took last fall. We went to the farm, surveyed parts of the land and designed architectural projects for ways to improve the farm. Students in the class came up with ideas ranging from a waterside amphitheater to an ice house. Traveling to the farm made the class more varied and interesting than time spent inside studying lecture slides or learning to use new software. There are many non-traditional ways in which even more classes could use the farm, and professors should take advantage of them.

The farm is a sprawling resource that can be used to educate students not only in environmental and agriculture practice and policy, but also in business and design (as was the case in my architecture class). Moreover, it is more efficient for the College to take advantage of already existing resources such as the organic farm, rather than try to create new resources on the same scale from scratch.

For example, the organic farm has a sugar house where people can make maple syrup each spring. After talking to both people involved with the farm and those who have taken the ecological agriculture course, the consensus is that the sugar house has not been used to its full potential for several years. It is surprising that more maple syrup production has not been

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done on the farm, since Vermont and New Hampshire are known for producing some of the best maple syrup in the world. Students are likely interested in learning how to create one of the products that defines this area of the country. Classes revolving around local industry, business and agriculture should incorporate syrup production into their curricula. This would be more engaging for students who all too often sit in class after class of PowerPoint presentations, while also reinvigorating the ignored sugar house.

Funding does not seem to be an issue.

The College has shown its generous financial support of the farm on numerous occasions.

In 2012, the College invested in a new barn, able to function as both a classroom and study space on the property. The updated property also has several greenhouses and a vast amount of tillable land adjacent to the Connecticut River, perfect for those interested in gardening or organic farming. The College is clearly willing to support the property. However, more departments must incorporate the farm in order for it to reach its full potential of having an array of students use it for multiple educational purposes.

Finally, the farm is also an important resource for the very reason it exists — to produce organic and local food. Many people are unaware that organic foods in supermarkets are often sourced from thousands of miles away.

Though such food is organic, it is far from sustainable. When classes use the organic farm for whatever reason, students will in turn learn more about the benefits of local and sustainable agriculture.

I do not think it is fair to say that student interest in environmentally friendly agriculture has dwindled or does not exist. Students are not uninterested in the organic farm — instead, they are largely unaware of the opportunities available. The Dartmouth Organic Farm should actively reach out to all corners of campus, and more classes should find ways to creatively include its resources in their curricula.

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Trustees tour new center in weekend on campus FROM TRUSTEES PAGE 1

Currently, the Hood’s only classroom, the Bernstein StudyStorage Center, can accommodate 18 students. Architectural changes will also make the building more energy-efficient.

The Hood received $10 million, its largest-ever donation, to support these expansion efforts in June.

The donation was the museum’s largest single gift since its 1985 opening and brought the Hood to $28 million of its $50 million goal, museum director Michael Taylor said at the time.

In a previous interview, Taylor said he hoped to have half of the $50 million goal in the bank and 85 percent pledged by April 2016, when the renovations were expected to begin. The renovated Hood should open by fall 2018.

Taylor could not be reached for comment by press time.

Over the weekend the trustees also visited the DEN Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, set to open Oct. 1. The new center aims to promote student innovation while furthering College President Phil Hanlon’s goals of experiential, hands-on learning.

“Dartmouth has always had an innovation and entrepreneurship focus,” Helman said. “I think the new center and these initiatives formalize an approach to it. It’s exactly what we need.”

Hanlon announced his plan to create an innovation center in his inaugural address last September.

The center, located in the renovated 4 Currier Place, was initially set to open early last winter, but faced delays during the construction permit approval process.

The “DEN in Residence,” a living learning community, is home to its first group of 30 students this term.

Resident Ke Zhao ’17 said she is most excited to meet fellow entrepreneurs. A supportive but intellectually challenging environment is key to the successful execution of ideas, she said.

The Board also discussed the upcoming expansion of the Thayer School of Engineering, which is set to begin soon depending on fundraising, Hanlon said. He noted that Thayer is small relative to other engineering schools. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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Steering committee presented feedback to Board over weekend Presidential steering committee chair Barbara Will presented feedStanford University and University back from students and faculty on of California at Berkeley engineer- campus life, including Greek life, ing schools, ranked top three ac- drinking and sexual assault. cording to U.S. News and World Helman said high-risk behaviors Report, enroll between 4,000 and are the largest problem currently 5,000 students, compared to fewer facing the College. than 500 at Thayer.

John Damianos ’16, a student Another session at the weekend representative on the steering meeting focused on the Geisel committee, praised Will for being School of Medicine, as academic attentive to student input. medical centers face changing “I’m most excited for the buzz funding and priorities from the and dialogue within the student federal governbody,” he said. ment. “ Fo r a l o n g “It’s bold, it’s The search time, there have for a new dean transformational been adminiso f t h e Tu c k and it’s also very trative pushes School of Busifor change with ness is also well complex.” some success underway, Hanbut often withlon said. out student - COLLEGE PRESIDENT Current backing. Profesd e a n P a u l PHIL HANLON, ON THE sor Will listens Danos will step NEW NEIGHBORHOODS to students on down in June the committee 2015 at the con- RESIDENTIAL SYSTEM and takes us clusion of his seriously.” fifth term, makT h e ing him the school’s longest-serving steering committee is scheduled dean. to release recommendations in the Interim Dean of the College coming months, he said.

Inge-Lise Ameer and campus planWill could not be reached for ning vice president Lisa Hogarty comment by press time. gave a presentation on residential Hanlon said the Board’s Seplife concepts, including the neigh- tember meeting generally focuses borhood system, which would as- on long-range plans, not specifics. sign students to a residential cluster He expects the Board’s November from the beginning of their time meeting to focus more on steering at Dartmouth similar to a house committee recommendations and system. changes to residential life, along This new residential system is with academics. in “active planning,” Hanlon said.

Helman also expressed admira“It’s bold, it’s transformational and tion for Hanlon and his vision for it’s also very complex.” the College.

Mandel announced the living “Boards are a place to support a learning communities and neigh- leader,” he said. “That’s the critical borhood system in a campus-wide test of this year. We can always get email on March 21. better and that should be our goal.”

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In June, the Hood Museum of Art received its largest donation, totaling $10 million.

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14 The women’s soccer team has not lost in 14 games at Burnham Field.

190 Kayden Cook ’16 has 190 assists this season, far and away the most on the Big Green.

12-0 The women’s soccer team outshot St. John’s 12-0 in a 2-0 win on Sunday.

16 Points by the women’s cross country team in a win at the Dartmouth Invitational.

24:25.30 Time run by Curtis King ’16 to win the Dartmouth Invitational.

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The men’s and women’s cross country teams entered this season without some familiar faces — stars Abbey D’Agostino ’14 and Will Geoghegan ’14 graduated in June, and women’s head coach Mark Coogan left the team for New Balance.

But on Saturday, the teams did not skip a beat, cruising to victories in the Dartmouth Invitational. The women finished one-two-three-four-six for a near perfect point total of 16. Brown University came in second with 51 points. The men finished with 21 points, well ahead of Brown’s 46. The wins were the first for both teams at the Dartmouth Invitational since 2011.

Dana Giordano ’16 had the race from the gun, finishing with a time of 21:14.50. The entire Big Green, the defending Ivy League champions, opened the race together at the front.

Running as a pack was the team’s strategy, new head coach Courtney Jaworski said.

“We’ll be focusing on that in our workouts and practices,” he said.

After Giordano’s finish, Sarah DeLozier ’15, Ellie Gonzalez ’18 and Reid Watson ’16 finished second, third and fourth with times of 21:18.70, 21:34.60 and 21:43.00, respectively.

Leigh Moffett ’18 finished sixth.

“I’m really impressed with our team,” Giordano said. “We had a couple freshmen up there which is also a nice surprise.”

Brown freshman Natalie Schudrowitz was the only non-Big Green athlete in the top 10. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17, Alison Lanois ’15, Meggie Donovan ’15 and Sarah Bennett ’16 placed seventh through 10th in the race, all finishing around the 22-minute mark.

This dominance is an encouraging sign in spite of the abbreviated time the team has had during preseason, Jaworski said. After the older athletes spent a week together at the Second College Grant, they joined the freshmen last week for full squad practices.

“Over the summer they’ve been doing a lot of good workouts and we’ve only had two weeks of preseason,” he said. “This race is based a lot on that

summer work. They’re very fit and had a great race day overall.”

While the loss of D’Agostino is a challenge, the team is not letting it damper their high expectations for this season, Giordano said.

Jaworski noted that the team is deep enough to handle the loss of such a quality runner without a hiccup.

“Obviously any team in the country would love to have Abbey on it,” he said. “The cool thing about this team even last year is that it is very deep. Four of the five Heps runners are back. It’s kind of the same team, just less Abbey.

And our freshman class is the strongest we’ve had in 10 to 15 years.”

The Dartmouth men also dominated their home course.

The Big Green’s point scorers placed first, second, third, seventh and eighth for a total of 21 points. Curtis King ’16, Silas Talbot ’15 and Nat Adams ’17 paced the field, finishing first in 24:25.30, second in 24:27.30 and third in 24:30.00, respectively.

“We’re following in the footsteps of a lot of guys who have won this race and who have been top five in this race,” King said. “We always race well at home, and it’s good to see that continue this year.”

Anthony Anzivino ’16 and Matt Klein ’16 tied for 10th, and Pat Gregory ’18 and Kyle Dotterrer ’18 crossed the finish line in 12th and 13th, respectively.

The men’s race was 8 kilometers long.

“The first race is always a great experience because when you don’t race cross country for a while, you forget it’s painful,” head coach Barry Harwick said. “And for the younger guys who are used to running 5ks in high school, it’s nice to get experience on the longer course. This is a pretty low-key meet and it’s nice to get the ‘W,’ but we’re looking forward to a much bigger race in two weeks in Boston.”

The Dartmouth men also graduated star power in June — Geoghegan, Steve Mangan ’14, John Bleday ’14 and Henry Sterling ’14 had stellar fall performances, scoring at the NCAA Cross Country Championship Meet last year in Terre Haute, Indiana. These seniors were the workhorses of the team that placed third at last year’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

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“I think that this is a team that’s going to be underestimated this season, and we’re going to have a chip on our shoulder because of it,” King said. “Just because we lost four seniors who were great runners doesn’t mean we don’t have more bullets in the chamber ready to fire. You’ll see a lot of guys who are great runners get their day in the sun this season.”

One of those runners is King himself, who burst onto the scene after a 21st place finish in the 5,000-meter race

at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor National Championships held at the University of Oregon in the spring.

To Harwick, Curtis is a great example of the team’s strong upcoming runners.

“I think they’ve progressed a lot from last year at this time, and we’ll have a good squad this year,” he said.

Both the men and women are back in action in two weeks at the Boston College Invite in Franklin Park in Boston.

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The men’s cross country team won the Dartmouth Invitational this weekend.

Women’s soccer cruises to victory over St. John’s

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As students returned to campus on a crisp 55-degree sunny, fall Sunday, the women’s soccer team tallied its first victory of the season, defeating St. John’s University 2-0 in a fullgame effort.

“This was our most complete game of the year as far as our possession, and defensively, we were pretty sound through the 90 minutes,” new head coach Ron Rainey said.

The Big Green controlled the pace for the entire game, outshooting the Red Storm 12-0 and generating five corner kicks to none for the Red Storm.

After generating a series of opportunities throughout the first half hour, it was only a matter of time before the Big Green broke through.

“When you get scoring chances like that and you play with confidence, you’re going to end up finishing on some shots,” Rainey said.

Just past the 36-minute mark, forward Corey Delaney ’16 sent a ball through the box that was deflected by a St. John’s defender only to fall right at the feet of a charging Meredith Gurnee ’17, who had come on as a substitute less than 10 minutes earlier.

Gurnee drilled a one-timer into the back of the net to give the Big Green the only lead it would need for the rest of the afternoon.

“Everybody was on the same page,” Delaney said of the team’s

successful first strike.

For Gurnee, the goal was her first tally of her Dartmouth career after playing in eight games as a freshman and coming away empty-handed.

Delaney, who led the Big Green in assists last season, was at the center of the Dartmouth attack all afternoon, tallying her team-leading second assist of the year in addition to six shots on goal and countless interceptions across the field. Delaney was also a key piece of the team’s set-piece offense, taking all five of Dartmouth’s corner kicks in the game.

“That was one of our main goals coming in as an offense, to possess the ball higher up the field and create chances that way,” she said.

“It was something that we really improved on over the last couple of games.”

While the offense was successful at generating most of the game’s opportunities, the back line repelled any attempted pressure from the Red Storm and held the visitors shotless through the game.

“I don’t think I’ve ever done that before,” co-captain Laura Thurber ’15, who has played on the back line since her freshman campaign said with a smile. “I’m definitely proud of that. Our back line is solid this year. We cover for each other well and talk well, so it was a great way to show that we’re tight this year.”

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Volleyball goes 3-1 in tournament, moves to 6-1 on season B y jehanna axelrod The Dartmouth Staff

The volleyball team had a successful weekend at the Jack Kaiser Tournament in Queens, New York, where it placed third out of five teams after two hardfought wins on Saturday afternoon to earn a 3-1 tournament record. The Big Green (6-1, 0-0 Ivy) won three matches in five sets, going the distance to defeat St. John’s University, St. Francis College in Brooklyn and the University of New Hampshire. The Big Green’s lone setback of the tournament — and the season so far — came in three sets at the hands of Fresno State University.

After dropping the first set against the Red Storm 25-10, the Big Green battled back to take a close second set 25-21.

With the score 20-19 Big Green, the Dartmouth women went on a four-point run to take control. St. John’s took the third, but the Big Green took the final two sets 25-22 and 17-15, respectively.

Emily Astarita ’17 added 17 kills in the game, helping her remain tied for the team lead with 74 on the season.

Kayden Cook ’16 continued to run the Big Green attack, as her 48 assists in the game were a team high. The junior now has 190 for the year.

But the Big Green could not carry momentum into its second game against Fresno State. The Bulldogs dominated from start to finish — the Big Green failed to score more than 14 points in

any set, something which had not occurred this season before that game.

The adversity did not seem to bother the Big Green on its second day of action, however, bouncing back to win two games in five sets against St. Francis and UNH. In the first set, Dartmouth fell behind St. Francis after the Terriers recorded six out of seven points togo ahead17-11.

The Terriers coasted to a 25-18 set win.

“A lot of times that first game is kind of an opportunity for us to get a good understanding of some of the tendencies of the team that we’re playing,” Lottie MacAulay ’17 said. “We just try to come out and play our game as strong as we can, but also try to learn as much as we can about what we’re going to be getting back on the other side of the mat.”

The loss did not appear to affect the women in the next set, however — the team came out strong and took it 25-16.

“In practice we’ve been working on a lot of games to 25, so we’re used to taking it one game at a time,” Alex Schoenberger ’15 said. “We did a really good job of not letting what happened in the game before affect us moving forward.”

The Big Green took seven of the set’s first eight points, which included three kills, all assisted by Cook.

“Kayden is really talented at making the other people on the court and her hitters feel really good about what

they’re doing and really confident,” head coach Erin Lindsey said.

The teams traded points at the beginning of the third set. With the score tied 8-8, Dartmouth began to pull away thanks to two kills from MacAulay and three attack errors from St. Francis.

The Terriers clawed back after taking five of the next six points, bringing the score to 13-14, but two attack errors and two kills from Astarita gave Dartmouth a comfortable lead. The team held on to take the set 25-17.

The two teams stayed close in the fourth set, and the score was tied 2121 after 15 kills for the Big Green, 12 of which Cook assisted. Dartmouth took the next two points thanks to a St. Francis service error and an ace from Stacey Benton ’17. The team could not manage to record another point, however, and St. Francis took the set 23-25, setting up its second five-set match of the tournament.

“We have a good amount of talent now, and we have a pretty big roster, so we’ve had really good competition in practice, which then allows whoever’s starting for us to feel comfortable performing under that kind of competitive pressure,” Lindsey said.

The Big Green came out strong, taking the first three points due to a attack error and two service aces from Cook.

“When we find ourselves in a fifth-set situation it’s really important to come out dominant really, really fast because

you only go to 15,” MacAulay said.

The team did not allow St. Francis to get comfortable, as Dartmouth won the set 15-9, and with it, the game.

Paige Caridi ’16 finished the game with 17 kills and 19 digs, and Julia Lau ’17 had 29 digs.

The second game of the afternoon started poorly for the Big Green. After Dartmouth took the first two points of the first set, UNH took 12 of the next 13 points, making the score 12-3.

Dartmouth could not get its footing, and dropped the set 25-13.

Team members kept their heads clear and battled into the second set.

Dartmouth took the set’s first two points on aces from Cook and did not look back. UNH did not hold the lead at all during the second set, as the set ended 25-21 in favor of Dartmouth.

“We had a lot of two-a-days this preseason, so I think that conditioning-wise, we’re in a really good place,” MacAulay said.

The Big Green started the third set strongly, again taking the first two points. But the team could not hold UNH back. The Wildcats scored six consecutive points to make the score 10-6, and bested Dartmouth 25-15.

“Playing through pressure is something that, as a team, we’ve been working really hard on,” Schoenberger said.

“We’re working on getting to the point in terms of trust and having each other’s back that we’re not worried about what

our team is going to think if we mess it up. There’s a sense of team support, which kind of frees everyone from the pressure.”

With the game on the line, Dartmouth delivered.. The team recorded 15 kills and also profited from service and attack errors by the Wildcats.

The Big Green took the set 25-20 and punched its ticket to a second fifth-setter of the day.

“We’ve been spending a lot of time on discussions about being really aggressive and playing our game really well and not worrying so much about what the outcome is going to be, but instead really focusing on executing the process,” Lindsey said. “That’s allowed us to be really successful.”

The two teams stayed close in the final set, and the score was tied 11-11 before Dartmouth took four consecutive points and with them, the match.

The Big Green was one of three teams that tied for first place in the tournament with a 3-1 record, but the tie-breaker sent them home in third.

“I’m really pleased with where we are,” Lindsey said. “We definitely still have some things that need work, but I think that the work we’ve been doing so far has been good, and the team is really coming together.”

The team hits the road again next weekend for the Seton Hall Tournament, which kicks off Friday at 5 p.m. in South Orange, New Jersey.

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single corner kick to the visitors. St. John’s star forward junior Rachel Daly, who leads the Red Storm with 5 goals and 10 points, was severely limited by the swarming Big Green unit and was only a threatbriefly throughout the game.

Rainey credited the defense for not allowing St. John’s to have clean looks behind their line and keeper Tatiana Saunders ’15, who snuffed out a few developing opportunities.

Dartmouth struck again in the 66th minute when Jackie Friedman ’16 launched a long pass from a free kick in front of the Big Green bench that was headed in by Lindsay Knutson ’18 at the far post for her first collegiate score. The shot ricocheted off the post across the goal-mouth before eventually finding the side netting to extend the lead to two.

Friedman was active all game, charging up on runs down the right side from her right-back position, often helping generate transition offense for the Big Green and pressuring the visitors through the midfield.

“We want her going forward,” Rainey said. “We want Brittany Champagne [’18] on the other side going forward. A lot of time, there’s space there for those outside players

if we’re able to keep good possession. If we can do that and get both of them in the attack, it’s just going to allow us to get more numbers in the box and get some more finishing opportunities.”

Dartmouth kept up the attack, managing eight shots in the second half alone, keeping the visitors off balance and thwarting any Red Storm attempts to go on runs of their own.

The game also marked Rainey’s first win with the Big Green since he took over the helm at the start of the season after leaving the University of Iowa.

With his team in control but

only ahead by a single goal, Rainey stressed getting the next goal to seal the victory.

“There were some really good moments through the middle third where we were able to keep it, and then it just allowed us to have them back on their heels,” he said.

“I really think a one-goal lead in soccer is not much, and you want to keep pushing as you’re in the first part of the second half to get that next goal, and it’s really nice to do that.”

The Big Green finishes its threegame home stand on Friday with a 5 p.m. matchup versus Northeastern University.

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The women’s soccer team extended its home unbeaten streak to 14 games.

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The women’s golf team came in third in the Dartmouth Invitational, the team’s only home tournament this season. Jane Lee ’15 and Isabelle Kane ’18, who respectively tied for seventh and 12th, led the way to the bronze.

Lee shot a two-day total of 151 (+7), cementing her place at the top of the team. Going forward, she said, she looks to improve her putting.

“I had two good rounds, but there were a lot of chances for me to play better,” she said. “I missed some short putts, but I had a few birdies too.”

Kane teed up this weekend for her first collegiate tournament and managed a 154 (+10) over the two days, playing in the second spot for the Big Green.

But in her head, she said, “it was just another round of golf.”

“I wasn’t trying to put too much pressure on myself,” she said. “It was a long day with the rain, but I just stuck with the process and tried to not overthink the situation and do what I know I can do.”

Boston University won the tournament with a total of 595, 22 shots clear

of the Big Green. Boston College placed second, just four strokes ahead of the Dartmouth women. The Big Green had three first-year students playing of their five scoring golfers, which Kane said shows the team’s depth.

“Having a bunch of great players on our team promotes competition that you might not have had if you have just one or two good players,” she said.

The weather difference between the first and second days was immense — Saturday was cold and wet, while Sunday was sunny. Despite the much improved conditions, the team only managed to shoot one shot better — 308 versus 309 on Saturday.

But Lee said that the mental difference was great.

“Even not wearing as many layers made me feel better,” she said. “Not having to worry about my clubs or my bag getting wet helped me on the course.”

The team next heads to Annapolis, Maryland, for the Navy Invitational.

“The freshmen will get a little more settled and get used to college,” Lee said. “They weren’t able to perform fully at this tournament, and their scores were a little better this summer.”

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all ate together. It was really fun.

This week, I sat down with Do you have any team tradiKendall Kraus ’15, the co-captain tion you do every preseason? of the women’s soccer team, before KK: We make posters for the the team’s Sunday’s win against freshmen before our first home St. John’s University. So far this game, so they got those the other season, the Big Green is 1-2-1, night, and that’s nice. When we with losses to No. 14 University get back from our away trips, the of Portland and to the University juniors put welcome home posters of Washington. A 0-0 tie against on everyone’s dorms. We have Albany University last week and a something coming up, but its still 2-0 win over St. John’s University a secret to the freshmen. on Sunday extended the team’s unbeaten streak at Burnham Field Do you have any predictions to an impressive 14 games over the right now for how the season is going to go? last three seaKK: I think if sons. So far this “I think if we keep we keep playing season, Kraus the way we’re has not regis- playing the way we’re playing and gettered a point, playing and getting ting better each but has three better each day, because that’s been d ay, b e c a u s e shots on net. that’s been a a huge part of our huge part of What are your preseason, I think we’re our preseason, thoughts on definitely hoping to win t h i s y e a r ’s the Ivy League. We have I think we’re definitely hoppreseason? the potential and we ing to win the K K : S o f a r, Ivy League. We we have been can do it as long as we have the potenplaying really are growing every day.” tial and we can w e l l . We ’ r e do it as long as all really hap- kendall Kraus ’15 we are growing py with [new every day. head coach Ron Rainey]. The H ow h a s i t atmosphere has been really good. We’re all pumped been for you being a senior up. The team is just bonding really on the team this year? well, and we’re all on the same KK: It’s really cool. It’s definitely kind of weird. I think all of us page, so it’s been awesome. can agree that you have to assume How did your recent trip to more of a leadership role and just embrace it way more than before, Seattle go?

KK: We played two pretty tough but it’s been pretty cool. Ron is teams: Portland and UW. We great with communicating, and played really well even though we so all that has been good. lost both. It was good competition, and we were proud of ourselves Do you have any personal suat the end of the weekend. It was perstitions or have any game day rituals you always do? good — we learned a lot.

KK: Yeah, kind of. I always lisDid you get to do anything fun ten to a few of the same songs other than playing while you beforehand like “Let it Rock” by Kevin Rudolph, “The Middle” by were there?

KK: We did. I don’t know if you’ve Jimmy Eat World and “Harder to heard of Pike Place [Market]. On Breathe” by Maroon 5. And then our off day, the team went down in the locker room, a few of us have this bouncy ball type thing there and did some shopping. that’s green with white stars and What has been your favorite just kind of juggle it in the middle of the locker room before every part of preseason?

KK: We went to Camp Merriwood home game. And then I always one day. It was an off day. It was put my shoes and socks and everythis camp that people go to for thing on the same way — the right weeks in the summer and we all shinguard, then the left, then the just went on paddleboards, got right sock followed by the left, then really good food and it was just the right shoe followed by the left. super relaxing. Everyone just kind This interview has been edited and of did their own thing and then we condensed.

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As the new school year comes to Hanover, we at The Dartmouth wanted to acclimate you to what should be an exciting slate of sports action this fall. In this season primer, we’ll introduce you to some fall teams and offer our thoughts on what the season has in store.

Football After two consecutive third-place seasons, the Big Green was picked to take bronze once again. This year’s prediction, however, was the team’s highest rank since 1997. The Ancient Eight seems to be a three-team race this season, with Harvard University, Princeton University and Dartmouth vying for the title.

Coming off last season’s 5-2 League record, Dartmouth is poised to either repeat or surpass its performance. Both of Dartmouth’s losses last year cut deep: a four-overtime thriller at the hands of the University of Pennsylvania and a three-point loss at Harvard. All but two of the Big Green’s games (a 56-0 thumping of Columbia University and a 34-6 win against Cornell University) were decided by one score, and in those eight contests, Dartmouth posted a 4-4 record.

Despite the loss of several of the team’s stars — particularly running back Dominick Pierre ’14, linebacker Michael Runger ’14 and safety Garrett Waggoner ’13 — the Big Green returns talent on both sides of the ball. This starts at the quarterback position with Dalyn Williams ’16, who ranked in the top five for rushing and passing yards last year. He will be helped on the offensive side of the ball by the return of Ryan McManus ’15, Victor Williams ’16 and Kirby Schoenthaler ’15 at wide receiver, all of whom missed time last year. On the defensive side of the ball, expect

cornerback Chai Reece ’15, linebacker Will McNamara ’16 and safety Stephen Dazzo ’15 to be impact players.

Cross Country The women’s and men’s cross country teams got their fall campaigns off to strong starts by winning Saturday’s Dartmouth Invitational. The women are the defending Ivy League Heptagonal champions, but suffered a major loss with the graduation of Abbey D’Agostino ’14, now running with former Big Green coach Mark Coogan and New Balance in Boston.

Dana Giordano ’16, Saturday’s winner, Sarah DeLozier ’15 and Reid Watson ’16 are poised to help fill the void, and a standout performance by Ellie Gonzalez ’18, who placed third, will help.

This team’s depth will be its strength as the season progresses, and the extra experience should help the Dartmouth women be a force to reckon with once again come championship time — both in the Ancient Eight and on the national stage.

The men’s team lost some firepower as well, as All-American Will Geoghegan ’14, Henry Sterling ’14, Steve Mangan ’14 and John Bleday ’14 all graduated. The runners’ strong performance on Saturday was keyed by first- and second-place runners Curtis King ’16, who made the 5,000-meter national championship race last season for outdoor track, and Silas Talbot ’15, who will fill the void. A strong recruiting class and remarkable depth in the lineup should bolster the team’s chances moving forward as it defends its third-place finish at last season’s Heps.

Men’s Soccer The men’s team returns to the field after a disappointing season in which it went 1-6 in the Ivy League. In his sophomore season with the Big Green, head coach Chad Riley is looking to improve on his first campaign and

has the Big Green playing a tough non-conference schedule. The team currently sits at 1-2, but played No. 2 University of Notre Dame and No. 12/17 Indiana University tight in two games in South Bend, Indiana.

Sten Stray-Gundersen ’16 and Emory Orr ’16 should bring some experience to a back line that lost standouts Colin Skelly ’14 and Justin Rosner ’14. In the first two games, James Hickok ’17 and Stefan Cleveland ’16 split time in the net, and both are viable options for Riley’s squad. Last season, Hickok went 4-4-2 with 1.05 goals against and Cleveland posted a 2-3-2 record while allowing 1.34 goals per game. Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14, Alex Adelabu ’15, Stefan DeFregger ’15 and Colin Heffron ’15 should provide the spark for this team as it moves into the Ivy schedule in early October.

Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team is coming off a strong season in which it went 8-6-3 and 4-3 in the Ancient Eight.

New head coach Ron Rainey is hoping to guide the Dartmouth women to the team’s first NCAA Tournament berth since 2005. In order to do that, the team must continue its dominance at Burnham Field, where it went 7-0-1 last season. The biggest challenge for the Big Green will be on the offensive side of the ball, as half of last season’s offense — Emma Brush ’13, Chrissy Lozier ’14 and Marina Moschitto ’14 — graduated last year. Corey Delaney ’16, Lucielle Kozlov ’16 and Tasha Wilkins ’15 will have to carry the weight on the offensive side of the field while Jackie Friedman ’16 and Jill Dayneka ’16 will anchor the Big Green back line. And a bonus — star Tatiana Saunders ’15 is returning in the net for the Dartmouth women. This young team could be poised for greatness if the offense finds the net consistently.

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schools with fewer resources, limited counseling and fewer academic and extracurricular opportunities.

Socioeconomic status also affects standardized test scores, and admissions officers take note if a student worked to support themselves, their family or a relative, she said.

“We think holistically about applicants,” Laskaris said. “We understand the context of the student and are mindful of the resources and opportunities available to them.”

Laskaris said 28 percent of the Class of 2018 come from families with annual incomes below $100,000, while 14 percent received Pell grants.

The average scholarship awarded was $43,938.

Around 47 percent of students receive need-based assistance from Dartmouth, while around 55 percent receive some form of need-based aid, Laskaris said. The College awarded more than $24 million in need-based scholarship to the Class of 2018.

Dartmouth’s financial aid website advertises that admission is need blind.

Laskaris said she believes students, faculty and staff are discussing “the hidden costs” of college and the experience of low-income students more frequently than they have in past years.

Sociology professor Janice McCabe said socioeconomic diversity informs her classroom discussions.

Speaking about the issue in class, she said, allows students to talk openly in

an academic context.

Of eight students interviewed by The Dartmouth, all said students rarely talk about socioeconomic status.

Socioeconomic status can often be “an invisible part of someone’s identity” and a taboo subject on campus, said a female member of the Class of 2016, who requested anonymity because of her financial aid status.

“I am entirely dependent on financial aid, and it blows my mind that some of my friends pay $65,000 a year to come here when that’s more than my dad makes in a year,” she said.

“There is a pressure to not publicly discuss your socioeconomic status if it’s not at a level associated with paying full tuition and not having to think twice about the cost of an FSP.” Maddie Gilfert ’18 said she believes wealth is visible on campus, while a lack of wealth is not as obvious.

Tori Nevel ’16 said she has been surprised by the number of students who self-identify as middle or uppermiddle class instead of upper class, when nearly half of the student body does not receive financial aid.

She added that she feels pressured to dress, speak and act a certain way on campus.

Forming a community of people of lower socioeconomic status is difficult when people are scared to admit they are on financial aid, Nevel said. Often, she added, low socioeconomic status disappears among other measures of diversity.

Nevel, who receives financial aid, said she was shocked in her freshman

year when other students called her “lucky” for receiving aid.

Receiving a degree from Dartmouth, Nevel said, will increase her socioeconomic status, a change she will have to process.

Laskaris said the admissions office recruits students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

On recruitment trips to disadvantaged communities, the first question is often about the cost of attendance, she said.

“They may feel like the door has been closed already and there is no way their family can afford the cost of Dartmouth,” Laskaris said, adding that officers emphasize the College’s financial aid offerings.

Anthony Choquette, a sophomore at Vassar College, said that discussions about socioeconomic diversity are a major part of campus discourse.

While some students are content with the high ranking Vassar received, others believe more progress is necessary.

While Vassar received the top ranking, Choquette said, “this is not even close proportionally to what I think the real world is like and what I think colleges should represent.”

The net price of the College for low-to middle-income students is $4,900, with an average of 13 percent of freshmen receiving Pell grants in between 2012 and 2014, according to The Upshot. Dartmouth’s endowment per student is $660,000, 13th in the rankings, while its net price for lower- to middle-income households is the fourth lowest.

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Woody Allen’s latest falls short of magic Christgau to publish memoir in early 2015 B y ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff

“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/Seem to me all the uses of this world!”

Hamlet, literature’s most famous pessimist, finds his cynicism born anew in Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), the wallowing, egocentric prestidigitator of Woody Allen’s latest film, “Magic in the Moonlight” (2014). The character is nothing new to Allen’s films — Allen played similar “artist” personalities himself in “Annie Hall” (1977) and “Manhattan” (1979), notable for their neuroticism and hopelessness.

Channeling the sardonic wit of vintage Allen, Stanley sets out to disprove the powers of claimed clairvoyant Sophie Baker (Emma Stone). A magician himself, Stanley scoffs at warnings from his colleague (Simon McBurney) that Sophie is the real deal and monomaniacally pursues the endearing, red-headed Moby Dick of deceit.

If you’re familiar with Allen, it doesn’t take a bloodhound to sniff out the potential for romance here. The film begins with a classic screwball comedy skeleton — a busybody man is engaged to a rigid, bland wife until he meets a bubbly, uninhibited woman who throws his world off its axis. While it worked well in screwball classics like “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) and “His Girl Friday” (1940), Allen is surprisingly unsuccessful at using this frame to deliver laughs.

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son’s fundamental tenet of humor was that the “mechanical encrusted upon the living” prompts laughter. Stanley is mechanically one-track minded, while Sophie is a lively flapper girl — throw them together, and Bergson predicts comedy should ensue. Yet in “Magic in the Moonlight,” audiences view only a budding romance.

The responsibility for this failure falls on Firth, who cannot deliver his part’s pessimistic jibes with the same comic punch as Allen playing Alvy Singer or Isaac Davis. Firth is no nebbish, neurotic schlemiel, and audiences have been conditioned to take him too seriously since his performances in “The King’s Speech” (2010) and “A Single Man” (2009).

Sophie’s exuberance and seemingly legitimate psychic and telekinetic abilities chisel away at Stanley’s inflexible, hardened psyche. The misanthropic crusader transforms into a lovestruck, rose tinted glasses donning romantic.

Stanley admits, “I came to unmask her, but she unmasked me.”

Notorious for his agnosticism, Allen uses Firth as his own medium, weaving his Nietzsche-esque “God is dead” sermon throughout Stanley’s existential diatribes. But if there is a universal theme that unifies Allen’s films, it is that love provides a safe haven from life’s senselessness. Stanley desperately wants to join the human race, but he cannot due to his crustiness. Sophie is his portal, his medium, into the mystery and magic of life. She is, as Stanley says,

“proof that there is more in life.”

This film boils down to an off-brand version of “Annie Hall,” adding magicians and subtracting the big laughs.

Though the film includes its own magic trick, pulling the rug out from under audiences near the end, the effect of this device cannot compare to magician movies like “The Prestige” (2006).

What Allen lacks in comedy he tries to make up for in cinematography and setting. The faded urban landscapes of “Annie Hall” are replaced with views of sprawling vistas and catalogue-worthy country mansions, sumptuous glimpses of 1920s Jazz Age Berlin and England.

Having begun his directorial career not knowing which way to point the camera in “What’s New Pussycat?” (1965), Allen now flexes his cinematic muscles in his 44th picture.

Ultimately, however, the film is a cocktail of past Allen themes, worked into a plot that features magicians. Following the momentum of New Wave Woody hits (films not starring himself) like “Midnight in Paris” (2011) and “Blue Jasmine” (2013), “Magic in the Moonlight” feels like a step backward.

This isn’t entirely unwelcome as Allen’s illustrious past deserves some revisiting.

When you’re pumping out a new movie each year, not all are going to be hits.

The film itself is classic Allen: pessimistic yet romantic, unfulfilled yet silver-lined.

Rating: 8.0/10 “Magic in the Moonlight” is currently playing at the Nugget Theater.

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people have said, because I don’t care about getting there first. I’ve never cared about that. I want to get it right — not first, but right for me. Then I wait [for] some detail or turn of phrase or what seems to me to be an interesting angle or idea that really reflects what it is that has attracted me to record, that’s made me think it was worth writing about. I wait for the language to come — sometimes it comes easily. Usually it doesn’t. And I sit there until it’s done. Generally, a consumer guide review represents two to three hours of writing. Then I rewrite a lot — I rewrite constantly, finding better language, and I try not to repeat myself — that’s important to me.

Who are your favorite artists?

RC: There are two different ways to answer it: what do you listen to, and what do you think is best? It’s not quite the same thing, because they’re different kinds of listening. Most of the listening I do is in a social context, especially with my wife, a good critic herself who is publishing her first novel in March.

Her name is Carola Dibbell. One thing I do is I play music that she likes, and her tastes are like mine, but it does make a difference.

But artists: Chuck Berry, Thelonious Monk, James Brown, The Clash, the New York Dolls. My favorite album of the year is an obscene hip-hop bootleg called “Black Portland” by Young Thug and Bloody Jay. You might find it vile — it is a little vile, but it’s sonically amazing.

My favorite alt band these days is a band called Wussy, who I’ve been trumpeting for nearly 10 years and are finally getting a little traction. I’m crazy about an artist you’ve never heard of called Withered Hand, from Edinburgh, Scotland. My favorite singers are Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. My favorite rock singer is John Lennon. And Chuck Berry always is in there.

I think Louis Armstrong and James Brown are the most important musicians of the 20th century. It took me a long time to come to them, though — I wouldn’t have said that in 1969; I wouldn’t have put Brown there until ’85 or ’90. Armstrong I got into in the late ’70s early ’80s. I liked him. In fact, I saw him at Dartmouth in January of ’59, and I thought he was great until all of my hip friends told me he was corny.

I was still 16 — give me a break. He wasn’t corny, he was great.

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From playing street performances in Provincetown, Massachusetts, to attending screenings at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Dartmouth students engaged in various summer arts activities.

Grace Carney ’17 sang weekly solo performances at a Provincetown drag variety show and performed on the town’s streets with her band, Grace and the Carnivore, comprised of herself and her two brothers, several times a week, she said.

Her “jazzy, indie, pop-rock” band plays original songs as well as covers of songs by bands like The Beatles, Jason Mraz and The Weepies, Carney said.

A highlight of Carney’s summer, she said, was the band’s show at T.T. the Bear’s Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the show, the band played original songs from its EP, Out of Context, released last November.

The band has started to make more recordings, and Carney and her brothers, students at Northeastern University, plan to play on campus soon, she said.

Actress Emma Orme ’15 worked this summer as a production assistant to playwright Sibyl Kempson at the New York Theatre Workshop, a theater in the East Village neighborhood of New York City that focuses on producing new works. Artists from the theater visit Dartmouth each summer as part of a residency program that allows them to develop works in progress.

Orme also served as assistant director for experimental director Marina McClure ’04, who is currently working on a play for the Edith Wharton Project.

Orme felt she had the opportunity to be a “creative contributor” to the production, which rehearsed in Brooklyn’s JACK theater.

Although Orme has performed in numerous productions at Dartmouth, her positions this summer allowed her to explore other creative roles, she said.

“I see myself as a theater-maker in general, rather than an actor,” Orme said.

Several students participated in productions at the New London Barn Playhouse, a summer stock theater, as well.

Dartmouth has a close relationship with the theater — Carol Dunne, producing artistic director at The Barn, said that more than 50 Dartmouth students have participated in its productions during her seven years working at the

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Max Gottschall ’15, far right, performed at the New London Barn Playhouse.

playhouse. The result is “constant crosspollination,” she said, between campus theater and The Barn.

Dunne is also artistic director at the Northern Stage theater in White River Junction and a senior lecturer in Dartmouth’s theater department.

Actor Max Gottschall ’15 participated in the Acting Intern Company at The Barn, which performed six shows, four of them musicals, during the theater’s three-month performance season. Victoria Fox ’15 spent her summer at The Barn as a props designer and assistant stage manager, and Cristy Altamirano ’15 was stage manager for the Junior Intern Company, an acting group for middle- and high school-aged actors.

Student participants described life at The Barn as extremely busy. Altamirano navigated simultaneous rehearsals for three shows with overlapping cast members, while Gottschall spent mornings on tech duty and helped with the stage changeover between shows.

“It’s an all-hands-on-deck kind of approach to the show,” Gottschall said.

Dunne said that The Barn facilitates participants’ career development in addition to improving technical skills. She emphasized that artists should cultivate an array of skills in order to be successful professionals.

“I certainly walked away with a renewed appreciation with how much work and passion and blood and sweat and tears goes into a theatrical production,” Gottschall said.

Jazz guitarist Michael Blum ’15 spent the summer preparing to record his quartet’s next album, a tribute to the late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Blum said he spends about 60 hours a week

playing his guitar.

Blum’s quartet released its debut album, “Initiation,” earlier this year.

He plans to record about 10 new tracks with his quartet in November.

Students attended summer foreign study programs in the arts, including the theater department’s program in London and the film and media studies department’s program in Edinburgh.

Students on the theater FSP studied at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art and participated in an intensive, conservatory-caliber experience along with students from around the world. Classes included instruction on movement, dance and voice, and students attended several local performances each week, participant Katelyn Onufrey ’15 said.

Theater professor James Rice, who led the program, described the curriculum as a “combination of the very practical and the observational.”

“Living in London is an incredible opportunity with the history and culture and fabulous museums,” Rice said.

Onufrey said attending the local shows was her favorite aspect of the program’s curriculum. Students also gathered on Sundays for a seminar in Rice’s flat, where they discussed the shows, she said.

The film FSP in Edinburgh was planned to coincide with the annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, one of the longest-running and most renowned in the world.

Students used facilities at the Screen Academy Scotland to produce original short films as well as music videos for local bands, said film and media studies professor Mary Flanagan, who led the FSP.

Robert Christgau ’62 is the definitive music critic for rock ’n’ roll. He began his career as a music columnist for Esquire in 1967 and was a music editor at The Village Voice for 37 years. He is best known for publishing “capsule reviews,” or short album reviews, in his “Consumer Guide” columns from 1969 to 2013.

Christgau currently teaches at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University. He has published five books and three record guides based on his “Consumer Guide” columns. His memoir “Going into the City” will be published in February.

When did you first become interested in rock ’n’ roll?

RC: The question of when one gets interested in music is a complicated one.

Was it when I sang “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” on a post office desk?

Or was it when I fell in love with Bing Crosby’s “Swinging on a Star”? Or was it later, when I got interested in listening to Jack Lacy’s top 40, which was before the rock ’n’ roll era? I would say that by 1953 when I was 11, I was a pretty serious pop music fan. That’s very much same way I was with baseball — I was interested in the details, I was interested in the numbers. But like many New Yorkers of my generation — I grew up in Flushing, Queens — I definitely underwent a kind of conversion experience with Alan Freed, probably the person who named rock ’n’ roll — certainly the person who publicized the name (the phrase existed long before him) — whose so-called Moondog Matinee, a name that had to be changed to, I think, “rock ’n’ roll party” in 1954 or 1955, when he moved here to station WINS from Cleveland where he was putting on interracial dances as early as 1951.

Only they weren’t really interracial, they were mostly black, but they were interracial. There were other rock ’n’ roll disc jockeys and every locality has their own special heroes, the ones who were important to them. But it seems to me that Freed was the most important.

He was certainly the person who made me a rock ’n’ roll fan and who instilled certain values in me.

Freed refused to play what were called cover versions, which meant white people recording R&B songs. He made

us aware, without ever saying, “this is a black person singing.” Nevertheless, we all knew what he meant, and we all knew which one we liked better. We liked Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis better than Pat Boone, the McGuire Sisters, et cetera, et cetera. Cover versions continued.

In the wake of the segregation decision — and as a baseball fan, for me, in the wake of my adoration for Willie Mays — these racial distinctions were something I was very conscious of as a white kid growing up in a completely white suburb who had no black friends and whose high school was at most only 10 percent black — and they were tracked away from academics, as I discovered when I worked [on my memoir] there.

I remained a serious rock ’n’ roll fan until I graduated from high school, which was in June of 1958 when I was 16. I was the youngest member of my graduating class. At that moment, I switched to first folk music and then jazz, because I was in with a hipper, almost entirely Jewish — I was brought up an evangelical Christian — crowd, who liked those musics. I didn’t stay with folk music very long, but I was a jazz fan in college. What I knew about rock ’n’ roll between ’58 and ’62 was completely random: what I heard on the jukebox while I was busing tables at the college snack bar, what I heard as a Parkie in the summer of ’59, trying to make friends with the hoodlums who dominated the park where I was working.

What’s your writing process?

RC: The basic trick is, I listen to music all the time. I listen to music between 12 to 16 to 18 hours a day. I don’t write a consumer guide review of anything I haven’t heard five times.

That doesn’t mean I’ve listened to it five times, it means I’ve played it five times in my presence. So it sinks in, the way music on the radio sinks in, and I see what sticks. I see whether an album sticks the same way a song sticks on the radio. I’ve done it 10, 12, 14,000 times.

[For] the full reviews, of which I’d guess there are probably 10 or 11,000, I don’t write about anything I haven’t heard five times, and there are many cases where it’s 10 or 15.

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