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Students launch Alpha Delta derecognized campaigns for student assembly By LUCIA MCGLOIN The Dartmouth Staff
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Campaigning for Student Assembly elections began today at midnight, and voting will take place next Monday. Frank Cunningham ’16 and Jake Gaba ’16 will be vying for the title of student body president. Julia Dressel ’17 is on the official ballot for student body vice president, while Penelope Williams ’16 will be running as a write-in candidate. Danny Reitsch ’16 is running unopposed for 2016 Class Council president, while Brad Plunkett ’16 will run for 2016 Class Council vice president, both unopposed on the official ballot. Elisabeth Schricker ’17 will run for 2017 Class Council president unopposed. The 2018 Class Council candidates are yet to be announced. Four students — Rui Zhang ’16, Shagun Herur ’16, Tori Nevel ’16 and José Rodarte-Canales ’16 — will run for seats on the Committee on Standards and the Organizational Adjudication Committee. The 2015 Elections Planning and Advisory Committee met Monday night for two hours to finalize election logistics, chair of EPAC Derek Whang ’17 said. Petitions to be on the official ballot were due on April 13. The final candidate list was created after being reviewed by the judicial affairs office, Whang said. Cunningham, the current student body vice president, plans to run for president alongside Dressel. Rallying under the campaign slogan “We Can’t Stop,” Cunningham and Dressel’s platform highlights student rights, ideas for student-initiated social spaces, diversity awareness and the continuance of current mental health initiatives, Dressel said. “I like the concept of fighting for the school,” DresSEE SA PAGE 2
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Alpha Delta fraternity was derecognized by the College in relation to incidents of branding.
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The College has derecognized Alpha Delta fraternity as a student organization, effective April 20, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The decision was related to the branding of new members last fall, when the fraternity was already under suspension. Allegations of branding were first reported by national news outlets in late March,
Panelists talk faculty diversity
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Filling half of Dartmouth Hall 105, the audience at yesterday’s panel discussing issues of faculty diversity was comprised mainly of black students. “This room doesn’t look like Hanover,” panelist and vice president of institutional diversity and equity Evelynn Ellis said, to laughs from the audience.
The faculty diversity panel, which was hosted by Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People Panel, was held in an effort to increase the level of transparency of recruitment and retention processes and generate campus discussion on the nature of faculty diversity at the College. According to the 2014 Dartmouth College Fact
Book, 82 percent of College faculty members are white, while two percent are black or African American, five percent are Asian, five percent are Hispanic or Latino, three percent are international and one percent is American Indian/Alaska Native. Fifty-nine percent of faculty members are male and 41 percent are female. SEE FACULTY PAGE 3
prompting the College confirm its extension of the fraternity’s suspension, which was due to expire this term. College spokesperson Justin Anderson highlighted a three-year history of disciplinary violations — including hazing, serving alcohol to minors and hosting unregistered parties — along with the announcement of the extension, while AD attorney George Ostler labeled the branding “self-expression” and denied that it constituted haz-
ing. The fraternity’s suspension began last September in relation to incidents during the winter and spring of 2014. The Dartmouth Organizational Adjudication Committee determined AD to be in violation of the College’s code of conduct. AD was notified of the derecognition on Monday and has one week to appeal, Lawrence wrote. AD fraternity alumni advisor John Engelman ’68 said that SEE AD PAGE 5
200 students participate in first hackathon
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Computer science department chair Tom Cormen said that in this age of technology, his mantra is “if you can’t compute, you can’t compete.” This weekend, about 200 students — including students from the College and several other schools — put this idea into practice at HackDartmouth — the College’s inaugural student-run hackathon — where they divided into teams to
develop a web or mobile application. Student organizer Colby Ye ’16 said that HackDartmouth received a total of 575 applications, and that all applicants from the College were accepted. Over the course of about 24 hours, the teams created programs ranging from a self-help tip finder to a Facebook newsfeed visualizer. A panel of judges selected the winning hacks based on creativity, SEE HACK PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing Leading a team of researchers, professor of physiology and neurobiology at the Geisel School of Medicine Charles Wira has discovered that certain portions of the female reproductive tract have a higher likelihood than others others to become infected with HIV, according to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. This increased susceptibility is the result of the presence of the lymphocyte CD4+Th17 cells — which are distributed unevenly in the tissue of the female reproductive tract — because these cells are more likely to be infected by HIV than other CD4+ T cells. These cells are also significant for protection against bacterial infections and cancers, and are involved in autoimmune disorders and pregnancy. In an effort to support his work toward creating an imaging system to aid in assessing surgical margins on resected prostates, Beichen Dai ’16 was awarded the Mazilu Engineering Research Fellowship for 2015-2016, according to the Thayer School of Engineering. Dai is a biomedical engineering sciences major with a minor in humancentered design. The Mazilu Fellowship was created to support students for three to four terms of research and is up to $10,000. Dai said he is honored to have received it, and it will assist him in continuing his research in reducing the rate of prostate cancer recurrence. In a study recently published in Psychological Science, professors of business administration at Tuck School of Business Adam Kleinbaum and Daniel Feiler suggest that a person’s friends are likely to be more extroverted than they are, according to New York Magazine. The pair said that due to the fact that extroverts are naturally more social people, they would have more friends and connections than introverts, leading to a higher presence of extroverts in most social networks. In order to test this theory, 284 first-year business students students were presented with a list of all the students in their MBA program and told to check the people they considered their friends. . Researchers found that there was a correlation between how extroverted a student was and how many other students considered them a friend. — COMPILED BY KATIE RAFTER
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Candidates talk campaign platforms FROM SA PAGE 1
sel said about their slogan and her decision to run. “With some of the recent changes, I felt a lot of hopelessness on campus. I want to show the students that we can have a voice in the changes that are happening.” The platform provisions for the first-ever student bill of rights, Cunningham said, with the intention to both involve students in defining their rights and examine areas where administrators may be overreaching. In envisioning new social spaces for students, Cunningham said he and Dressel plan to lobby the College in support of any sorority that wants to localize. Citing BarHop as an example of a successful studentdriven social space, he added an idea for a “shark tank” style presentation for students to pitch ideas to and get support from administrators. An important part of Cunningham’s vision is continuing Student Assembly’s “I’m Here for You” campaign against mental illness, he said. If elected, he wants to work more closely with the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault and facilitate the presence of WISE — an Upper Valley support group for victims of sexual assault — on campus. He also plans to integrate issues and topics of sexuality into discussions and programming centered around mental health through an examination of queer student friendships and relation-
ships. Gaba and Williams are runningmates for student body president and vice-president. Their platform is centered on promoting Dartmouth and helping to improve the College’s image.
“With some of the recent changes, I felt a lot of hopelessness on campus. I want to show the students that we can have a voice in the changes that are happening.” - PENELOPE WILLIAMS ’16, STUDENT ASSEMBLY VICEPRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE “It is something every student can get behind,” Gaba said. Williams said that she and Gaba want to engage with the effects of recent negative press about student life on campus. She hopes to enhance an understanding of the ins and outs of campus life — either through a society on campus or viral video to disseminate nationally — by featuring the less politically-charged and
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more inspiring pockets of campus. Last year, Gaba grabbed the attention of the student body with a YouTube video, in which he danced and lip-synched to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy,” (2014) across campus. The video has over 109,000 views. Reflecting on the positive reception of the video, Gaba said he imagined even greater success if the project had institutional support. Instead of featuring 100 students, for example, maybe one thousand students could have gathered on the Green, he said. The decision to run was solidified this spring, Gaba said, though he has been considering a campaign for longer. Though yet to participate at Dartmouth, student governance is not entirely new for Gaba, who served as student body president of his high school. Williams and Gaba are in the process of finalizing a platform. “We are okay with non-concrete ideas, with questions and with knowing we won’t be able to solve everything,” Williams said. She said she sees the pair as different from candidates in the past because instead of grounding a platform in promises, they aim to facilitate a critical yet balanced discussion about the environment on campus. Gaba said they received help from friends in the DALI Lab in designing campaign materials. Today, he plans to hand out stickers and post flyers around campus.
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Panelists discuss minority faculty recruitment and retention FROM FACULTY PAGE 1
Dartmouth NAACP chapter president Kevin Gillespie ’15 said that a “mass exodus” of faculty of color has occurred in the past few years, a sentiment echoed by panelists. English professor Aimee Bahng, one of the panelists, noted that the African and African American studies program recently lost its chair. Gillespie commented that the organizing committee aimed to feature professors from a wide array of departments, as well as administrative staff, all of whom are committed to increasing diversity and support for underrepresented groups on campus. The panel began with a video released by NAACP at Dartmouth last fall, which interviewed students about their views on faculty diversity at the College. Dartmouth NAACP Vice President Jonathan Diakanwa ’16 said that with this panel discussion, the NAACP wanted to continue discussion on the faculty side of the issue that the video portrayed and to encourage collaboration between students and faculty. Students in the video voiced frustration at the lack of diverse faces in professor positions. Tramon McZeal Jr. ’16, who was featured in the video, said, “I know that some of my most valuable experiences with professors have been [with] professors that look like me, professors that talk like me, professors that act like me.” Diakanwa, who moderated the event, asked the panelists a series of questions about faculty diversity. Topics covered included the College’s specific struggles with recruiting and retaining faculty of color, what Dartmouth as an institution and its students can do to support faculty and staff of color and steps students and faculty can take toward building a community together. The moderated discussion was
followed by a question and answer session with the audience, which featured questions about specific actions students can take to more actively engage with faculty and administrators on the issue of faculty diversity, as well as more general discussion about underrepresented groups’ struggles in the Upper Valley and in higher education at large. Mathematics professor Craig Sutton emphasized that Dartmouth’s location in a homogenous geographical area is not an excuse for the strive for diversity to be any weaker. The panelists all agreed that the College’s faculty of color often bear a heavier load of mentorship. Comparative literature professor Michelle Warren said this mentorship, which includes one-on-one support and involvement in student groups, should be valued more within academic departments. Warren also emphasized that diversity should be included in Dartmouth’s self-evaluation as an institution. “A failure of diversity is a failure of excellence,” she said. The panelists had a range of advice for students on contributing to improved faculty diversity. Ellis repeatedly urged students to engage the professors with whom they feel closest, echoing Gillespie and Diakanwa’s point on the influence of faculty members in hiring their peers. Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures professor Jonathan Smolin added that institutional guidelines can influence the hiring process as well. Ellis said that underrepresentation of minority faculty can be disadvantageous to all students, as lack of faculty diversity at a higher-education institution will not effectively prepare students for the diversity they will face in professional world. “I think the general student body needs to get more interested in this.,”
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Dartmouth’s chapter of the NAACP hosted a panel yesterday to discuss faculty diversity.
Ellis said. Liza Wemakor ’18 said that the discussion would provide perspectives from the faculty, and such discussions are important because many students on campus do not engage with the issue of faculty diversity. Gillespie said he thinks the panel, in the context of “Moving
Dartmouth Forward,” occurred at a pivotal time for the College and hopes that such events will encourage students and administrators to pay more attention to faculty diversity. Last night’s panel occurred a few weeks before the release of the Affirmative Action Plan, which, according to Ellis, will be released
around the end of the month. The plan is produced by the office of institutional diversity and equity and is submitted to the College President and Board of Trustees for approval before being distributed to other College faculty. The .lan features statistics on the demographic makeup of all of the College’s employees.
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College Hillels should exercise their power to widen debate of Israeli issues. A recent movement called Open Hillel has risen up on college campuses in response to Hillel International’s “standards of partnership,” which state that “Hillel welcomes, partners with and aids the efforts of organizations, groups and speakers from diverse perspectives in support of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” Unfortunately, Hillel International’s idea of supporting Israel as a Jewish and democratic state does not extend to forms of support that challenge Israel to live up to that ideal. College Hillel organizations that wish to host speakers that are critical of Israel’s policies and support the “boycott, divestment and sanction,” or BDS, strategy are unable to do so under the Hillel name. Many college Hillel organizations have bravely hosted speakers who challenge young students, Jews and non-Jews alike, to challenge Israeli policies when they no longer align with their own personal values. Last year, for example, St. Louis Hillel at Washington University made the contentious decision of sponsoring a talk by former Israeli soldier Oded Na’aman that criticized Israeli military policies. In doing so, these organizations have brought a spotlight to both the civil rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli government and to the gross censorship of any ideas that challenge Israeli policies traditionally supported by established American Jewish voices. The very existence of these rules for a Reform Jewish organization is ridiculous. The Jewish tradition in which I was raised does not condone institutionalized censorship. If Hillel wants to continue to represent the Jewish youth of this nation, they must create an environment where we can exercise the commitment to justice and the critical thinking and power to effect change, all of which are enshrined in the Jewish tradition. For me, these standards of partnership encapsulate my problem with the attitude of the United States Jewish establishment toward Israel. We raise young Jews in hopes of teaching them to think critically, to defend the downtrodden and — most importantly — to question everything. The Jewish tradition emphasizes these values, and they are passed down in religious schools and summer camps across the nation. Yet the message to young
Jews on Israel seems to encourage suspending their critical thinking, their questioning and their concern for justice. By unspoken consent, powerful American Jewish organizations like Hillel International have marked out Israel as a no-fly zone for the very critical thinking that is so central to Jewish faith and culture. Apparently, criticism of Israel is simply too dangerous to be permitted, and so open dialogue and a plurality of opinions can only extend to our own country and social issues. Israel, though — which we are expected to defend with our checkbooks, votes and words — cannot be questioned. Hillel’s belief that it must protect us from hearing opinions that are not in line with its beliefs is almost an insult to young Jews. That’s not the way a democracy functions, and its certainly not the way Reform Judaism should function. Now is the time to have discussions that include diverse perspectives on Israel, including those that might make us uncomfortable. The rhetoric of Israeli politicians has become more radical, and the peace process remains stuck on the back burner. Laws continue to privilege Jews over all others living in the land of Israel, and settlement building continues on contested land, displacing thousands of Palestinians annually and furthering hostilities. Resolving the issues facing Israel requires an open debate on Israeli policy — one that asks, rather than censors, the tough questions. BDS should be a part of that debate. It is trumpeted by some as a means of pressuring the Israeli government to strengthen democratic rights and the peace process. Jewish leaders like Rabbi Lynne Gottlieb who support these policies have a right to be heard at Hillel-sponsored events. Many of the Hillels at our peer institutions have taken a stand against Hillel International — the Hillel organizations at Swarthmore College and Wesleyan University have voted to become Open Hillels, while Hillel at Harvard University has hosted controversial speakers. I call upon our own chapter to continue its tradition of encouraging open, inclusive dialogue on this campus by declaring itself open to leaders and thinkers whose ideas might challenge our own and catalyze much-needed dialogue.
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The College is not on the right track to improve residential life. On April 10, The Dartmouth reported a decrease in applications to living learning communities from 844 to only 575 — a drop of more than 30 percent. We should question why there was such a precipitous decline in applications for a relatively new program. I suspect that some of the 575 applicants were first-time applicants — which raises the possibility that a sizeable number of students decided not to continue living in these communities. This inability of the program to maintain application numbers warrants a broader look at residential programming at the College. Many elements of the LLCs are similar to the residential community program outlined in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan, which is supposed to transform the student social experience on campus. One of the most insightful columns to run last term was professor emeritus of anthropology Hoyt Alverson’s March 30 “Rethinking Residential Life,” which correctly argued that some of the largest barriers to building true community in dorms remain unaddressed. Alverson wrote that students’ reports in his anthropology course “documented pervasive discontinuity in student life, much like that often found in backpackers’ hostels.” He ultimately identified the year-round calendar and the D-Plan as some of the biggest obstacles to a stable, continuous community. Frankly, I couldn’t agree more. When the DPlan was sold to me as a unique calendar system that allows students to bond with classmates more personally for a summer and find internships in less competitive times of the year, it sounded great. Yet this approach completely ignored the system’s many drawbacks, which hugely outweigh its benefits. The reality is that the D-Plan disrupts social life. Incompatible schedules may cause a friendship formed freshman year to be followed by an absence of more than two years. It also fails to open up many opportunities for internships — several companies tailor their internship programs to the traditional schedule used by the vast majority of other universities. Of course we won’t be competing with students for internships in the fall and spring, a time when many companies do not offer internships period. During sophomore
summer, many academic departments not only reduce the number of courses they offer but also the number of classes taught by tenured faculty. Students are required to be in Hanover, but the majority of senior faculty seem to go elsewhere and leave summer classes to be taught by junior faculty or visiting professors. If there is one winner of the D-Plan, it is the College. At a time of year when there should be almost zero demand for student housing, the College can charge all students electing to live on campus full rent — which equates to $900 per month for a small dorm room. The D-Plan, though it might be a boon to the College’s finances, comes at an extremely heavy cost to student life. In my experience, Alverson’s criticisms of the centralization of student life on campus — namely, the College’s use of only one dining hall — are also accurate. Cornell University, where I spent my first year of college before transferring to Dartmouth, had created a west campus housing system with smaller dining halls in each of the houses. This arrangement definitely went a long way in creating a sense of community in some residential halls. If administrators want a sense of community to grow naturally in residential settings, they should also consider opening several smaller dining halls, rather than a mass-use centralized venue like the Class of 1953 Commons. From a student perspective, I agree with Alverson’s assessment that the residential community plan fails to tackle systemic shortcomings of residential life. Instead of reaching for the easiest quick fix, the College needs to take a hard look at the broader structure on campus. It must consider doing away with the D-Plan if it is really serious about maintaining continuity and stability within these communities. Without more fundamental change, the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” residential initiative is bound to fail to create any substantial change in campus life, and it will not sustain student interest. We need look no further than the decline in applications to LLCs, despite strong publicity by the College, for a reminder that administratively-planned programs are not the solution.
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AD will appeal its derecognition FROM AD PAGE 1
the fraternity will be appealing the decision. “I don’t want to speculate on whether the appeal will be successful or not,” Engelman said. AD president Ryan Maguire ’16 wrote in an email that the fraternity is “disappointed” by the decision and is exploring other available options, including the appeal process. Ostler declined to comment. Interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer — acting under authority given to the Dean of the College by Greek Letter Organizations and Societies policy — is independently reviewing the same evidence from the OAC hearing to determine if it is “in the best interest of the Dartmouth College community” to derecognize the fraternity, independent of the outcome of any OAC appeal process, Lawrence wrote. Privileges of GLOS-recognized organizations include the potential to receive College-approved residential status and the ability to accommodate students in compliance with town ordinances, host and register social events with alcohol, recruit other students, request funding from College sources and organize with other Greek organizations to address issues of common interest or organize interorganizational events, according to the GLOS handbook. Additionally, AD will no longer be policed by College Safety and Security. Derecognition implies a loss of these privileges, among others. AD will not attempt to continue off-campus, Engelman said. “There is no talk along those lines, and it probably couldn’t happen even if we thought it was a reasonable idea,” he said. “There are probably too many problems, I think, associated with that.”
Engelman said, however, that the alumni corporation, which owns AD’s house and the property on which it is situated, has no intention of yielding or selling the property to the College. Engelman also said that the alumni corporation is debt-free and has “a substantial amount of money” invested. “There’s no contemplation of selling the house or turning it over to the College,” he said. Hanover zoning bylaws prevent more than three non-related people to simultaneously reside in a house in areas not zoned under “institution” zoning. While affiliated with the College, AD maintained “institution” zoning. Fraternity derecognition is not unprecedented in the College’s history. Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, Beta Theta Pi — now known as Beta Alpha Omega — fraternity and Zeta Psi fraternity have all been derecognized for periods of, in some cases, more than a decade before eventual reinstatement. The College derecognized Beta in 1996 after multiple incidents, including a violation of the fraternity’s suspension in the summer of 1996. The derecognition was termed permanent at the time and followed multiple periods of probation, including the closing of the fraternity for a year in 1994 after incidents of hazing, disorderly conduct and violating College alcohol policy. In 2008, it returned to campus as the local fraternity Beta Alpha Omega, operating initially during a trial period. The College derecognized Phi Delta Alpha fraternity indefinitely in 2000, with the decision lasting until at least the fall of 2002, following allegations of the fraternity allowing a student to rush during their first year, serving underage students alcohol, allowing drug use, giving the College false information and using
peer pressure and coercion during pledge term, as well as a failure to take internal action after four members of the fraternity set curtains and a table on fire and stole a refrigerator at Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity. The College re-recognized Phi Delt in 2004. During its period of derecognition, Phi Delt — which owns its house — leased the space to graduate students for housing purposes. The College derecognized Zeta Psi fraternity in 2001 after the publication of “sex papers,” which circulated within the house and detailed the sexual exploits of members. Deemed a permanent derecognition at the time, Zete was later re-recognized formally in 2011 after two years existing as a colony organization, part of the two-year process for College re-recognition. Zete continued to operate outside of the official authority of the College for at least part of the period during which it was derecognized. The fraternity recruited new members from the beginning of its period of derecognition. At one party, more than 50 students filled the fraternity’s basement. The College overturned the derecognition of Chi Heorot fraternity in 2001 following an appeal by the fraternity, instead enforcing three terms of social restrictions when the fraternity did not meet two minimum standards after a winter review. Like Beta, AD was on probation for an extended period before its suspension began in the fall. AD was on probation for nine of the 12 terms before its suspension began, and has currently been suspended for more than two terms. Currently, the house plans to appeal the College’s decision, but Engelman would not offer further comment on the matter or the house’s future plans.
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Members of the “Women in Business” club met for a routine meeting on Monday afternoon.
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Hackathon planners hope to create“hacker culture”
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College students worked this weekend on projects at the Hackathon. FROM HACK PAGE 1
usefulness, technical complexity and form, awarding top finishers a total of $8,250 of prizes. Henry Wilson ’18 and his two teammates, Robert Sayegh ’18 and Kooshul Jhaveri ’18 designed Swipr, a program that allows students to access meal plan information via Pebble smartwatch, in the hackathon. Although Wilson said his team had no idea what to do going into the hackathon, they ultimately won the competition. “It was a really fun environment,” Wilson said. “It was something I had never really done before, making something really quickly, surrounded by a lot of other people who have the same interests.” Student organizer Colby Ye ’16 said his planning team had three main goals — to give students an opportunity to apply the skills they learn in the classroom, to increase exposure to careers in technology and to foster a kind of “hacking culture.” “I don’t think Dartmouth has been historically known for having a very strong hacker culture,” Ye said, describing such a culture as one that embraces creativity and elegant solutions, in combination with technology. Student organizer Martin Moon ’16 echoed Ye’s sentiments, adding that HackDartmouth provides an avenue for creativity and could help change the tech culture at the College, which he said currently lags behind that of some other schools. “We had a pretty strong showing from some universities, but again, nothing compared to other hackathons,” Moon said. All other Ivy League schools have already hosted hackathons. Looking forward, the organizers said they hope that HackDartmouth will become an annual event. The event’s programming included opportunities to speak with representatives from companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Palantir and Pebble. Several sponsors also offered prizes to teams that did the best in specific categories, such as “Best Hack for Social Good” or “Best Google
Hack.” Wilson said the networking options seemed more focused on supporting education than recruiting. Cormen, who helped judge the various projects, said that understanding computation is important because of its pervasive and often complex use. He said that according to a Boeing computer services employee, for example, a modern jetliner runs programs written in 72 different computing languages. “Dartmouth students are going to become leaders,” Cormen said. “And they’re going to be helping to frame decisions that affect a lot of people, and a lot of these decisions are going to have some technology component. And it’s important to understand something about the technology.” Ye emphasized that HackDartmouth was a Dartmouth community effort, and not just a “tech people” initiative. The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, the Thayer School, the computer science department, the DALI Lab and the Neukom Institute partnered with the HackDartmouth team to run the event. “My vision for it is to make it a better event — to strengthen the mentoring,” Ye said, speaking of the future. “I think that’s what Dartmouth does best. We are a small school that really prizes the strength of the relationships between students and between students and faculty.” The number of computer science majors at Dartmouth has been following an upward trend over the past few years, Cormen said, representing a growing interest in the field. Some courses, such as “Introduction to Programming and Competition,” have recently been capped for the first time due to large enrollment. Moon said he was initially unsure about HackDartmouth because he did not know what to expect. Both Moon and Ye, however, said they were happy with how the event went based on student feedback and that they did not encounter many problems. “It was worth all the late nights of crunch time,” Moon said. Ye is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
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Track notches strong performance FROM TRACK PAGE 8
event, as Alison Lanois ’15 led a
1-2-3 finish with Sarah DeLozier ’15 and Sarah Bennett ’16 for the Big Green. Lanois completed the distance in 16:45.22, with DeLozier and Bennett finishing just four and seven seconds later, respectively. “From the gun, the three of us took the lead in the race and separated from the field,” Bennett said. “It was a great opportunity to operate as a team, switching the lead around and helping each other with pacing, and we were able to run at a pretty consistent pace.” The relay team of Marissa Evans ’18, Katy Sprout ’17, Erica Hendershot ’15 and Anna Kikut ’16 combined to win the 4x400 meter relay in 3:46.70. Not to be outdone, Evans, Kikut, Jennifer Meech ’16, and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 combined their efforts to bring home another relay victory for the Big Green, finishing first in the 4x100 meter relay with a time of 46.33 seconds. Whitehorn, whose season this year has included setting a new school record for the high jump and winning the event at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship earlier this year, also took the top spot in the high jump at George Mason, clearing 5-8.0/1.73m on her first attempt at the height. She capped
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off her stellar day with a seventhplace finish in the 100-meter dash in 11.94. “I was happy with my performance in the 100 [meter] dash preliminaries,” Whitehorn said. “I had a great start out of the blocks, however, I didn’t run my fastest because I cut my drive phase short.” Meech anchored the winning 4x100-meter relay and the 4x400 meter-relay, as well as placing well in the 400 meters and the 200 meters, Coach Ford-Centonze said. In the 400-meter hurdles, Evans and Sprout placed fourth and fifth, respectively. Stephanie Brown ’16 and Marina Plesons ’15 tied for fifth with four other competitors in the pole vault, as all six cleared 10-11.75/3.35m. Molly Shapiro ’16 placed fourth in the triple jump, jumping 395.75/12.03m. Corey Muggler ’17 had strong performances in the triple jump and long jump, placing second and sixth, respectively. His 48-2.0/14.68m performance in the triple jump was just 0.32 meters short of the triple jump champion, Devin Wynn of the University of Mar yland Eastern Shore. Harwick attributed some of the team’s success to a successful training period.
“Training has been going well, and we were able to get on the outdoor track very quickly, unlike last year,” Harwick said. Jacob Shippee ’16 posted a 2091.0/63.72m in the javelin, good for third out of nearly 30 competitors and a personal best, according to Harwick. Harwick also noted that Shippee’s throw in the javelin should be good enough to qualify for the NCAA regional meet in late May. Alex Frye ’17 placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles and seventh in the high jump. Brett Buskey ’15 placed fourth in the 100 meters, and Ed Wagner ’16 was fifth in the 400-meter hurdles in 53.62. The team will look to build upon these strong early season per for mances next weekend, when the team will split up into three squads. The majority of the team will be competing at the at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell on Saturday, while select squads will travel to Princeton for the Larry Ellis Invitational and to Walnut, California, for the Mt. Sac Relays, Harwick said. “I think we walked away with some good performances, and we still have three more weeks to get some work done before Heps,” Ford-Centonze said.
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Edible Book Festival celebrates literature, food and puns
B y amelia rosch
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
“The House of Seven Bagels.” “The Dartmouth Alumni Marzipan.” “The Road to Tiramisu.” These titles were among several literary-themed puns that inspired desserts, including cakes, bagels and a collection of brownie crumbs, on display in Baker-Berry Library yesterday. This showcase of literary arts meeting the culinary arts celebrated one of the library’s newest traditions — the second annual Dartmouth College Library Edible Book Festival. The winners of the festival were not available by press time. Education and outreach librarian and chair of the library’s marketing and communications committee Andrea Bartelstein, who oversaw this year’s festival, said that the library decided to start holding the Edible Book Festival as a celebration of warmer weather and sunnier days that come after a long winter. “We did it just for fun, to do something fun in the spring,” she said. “We wanted to celebrate that finally, we’re in the spring, just to get people into the library.” Bartelstein said that anyone in the wider Hanover community, along with students, staff and faculty, is welcome to participate in the event. She said that the only requirements for entries to the are that they be at least 75 percent edible and inspired
by a book, author or character. She said that participants must also choose whether or not they want their submission eaten at the end of the festival. “They can really do anything,” she said. “Puns are very popular.” Graduate student in the MALS program Sara Decker, who is studying literature and literary theory, submitted an edible creation — inspired by Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” — that included a pair of briefs and a clock made out of Rice Krispies Treats. Decker said she came up with the idea with help from her wife. “We’re both kind of punny,” Decker said. “Jen picked out the book, and we decided to do a pun on it, and this is the thing we came up with.” Decker said that she and her wife began with the concept of incorporating briefs into their design and from there decided to add a clock to represent time and history. She said that she ultimately had to change the design because of logistical issues involving the briefs. “The original idea was to lay out the clock, because it’s kind of melting right now and the Rice Krispies are kind of collapsing,” Decker said. “But the briefs were too big, so we smushed it together.” She said that the biggest challenge of working on her piece was the materials they used. She said that she assumed working with Rice
Krispie Treats would be easy, but the material’s inherent stickiness led to unexpected problems. “As soon as I got hold of the Rice Krispies to try to form it, my hands would stick together and I couldn’t help but crush the Rice Krispies,” she said. “It was very messy, Rice Krispies everywhere, marshmallow goo everywhere.” The task of building a book that was both edible and stable enough to maintain its shape was not the only challenge that the festival faced. Bartelstein said that it was difficult for the library to spread the word about the event. She said that the library placed ads in the Dartmouth Dining Services facilities and around town, as well as advertising the event on the library’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Information access assistant at the Dana Biomedical Library Katie DeFord, who also volunteered for the festival, said that she was in charge of live tweeting the event in order to boost its publicity. Bartelstein said that the timing of the festival, which was determined by the spring interim period, made it more challenging to effectively advertise the event. “People are on break, and we don’t want to tell them before break because they’re focused on finals, and then, you know, they’re focused on school again,” she said. Bartelstein said that while the turnout was on the lower side, she
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Inspiration for the second annual Edible Book Festival came from a range of books.
enjoyed the festival’s entries. She said that her two favorite pieces were “Dartmouth Alumni Marzipan,” and “Gone with the Wind,” which was made of an empty plate with some crumbs left on it. “It’s always hard to choose a favorite because there are really good ones,” Bartelstein said. “This year, there’s some really cute, really clever ones.” DeFord said that her favorite piece this year was “The House of Seven Bagels” because of its cleverness and wittiness. Last year’s winners included “Green Eggs and Hamlet” in the funniest or punniest category, “Booklava” for most the creative and
“Rainbow Fish” for people’s choice. The International Edible Books Festival was created in 1999 by Judith Hoffberg and Beatrice Coron, and the first festival was held in 2000. It celebrates the birthday of French food writer Jean-Anthelme BrillatSavarin and is currently celebrated in at least 20 different countries each April. Bartelstein said that she hopes that people will enjoy the festival enough to allow the library to hold it again. DeFord said that she plans to continue working with the festival. “I want to keep working with this,” she said. “This is a great event. It’s been a ton of fun. I think it’s great to see people’s creativity out there.”
Beyond the Bubble: Environmental advocacy and the arts
B y andrea nease The Dartmouth Staff
Few people would question the assertion that art can have an impact on social change, but, as can be expected, some changes are easier to address than others. We have likely all seen works that call attention to gender inequality or racial injustice, for example, but how often do we see art about environmental concerns? According to the World Wildlife Fund, deforestation efforts destroy an area of trees equalling roughly 36 football fields every minute, while the Food and Agriculture Organization reports that about half of the world’s tropical forests have been cleared. In addition to these appalling statistics, even more disturbing is the United States’s position as the world’s largest trash producer, at an annual 1600 pounds per person, according to research from the University of Southern Indiana. While the U.S. represents only five percent of the world’s population, it is responsible for 40 percent of global waste. Making art about humans’
irresponsible behavior toward our natural world may feel shameful and critical of our actions in a way that doesn’t encourage change, but rather encourages denial. There are artists, however, who have found a resolve, and there are museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, that have found a solution. Many artists have found success in producing works that are primarily fueled by first-hand, science-based experiences, as well as works targeting a youth audience. To facilitate hands-on experience with climate change and environmental deterioration, British artist David Buckland c r e a t e d t h e C a p e Fa r e w e l l projectwhich sends artists and scientists on joint expeditions to observe climate and environmental change. I find that there is immense value in informing artists as Cape Farewell does, but I personally believe that reaching out to younger generations is the most valuable method of information dissemination. An installation such as “Sandstars” — which features
over a thousand found objects from the Isla Arena, Mexico, trash repository arranged by artist Gabriel Orozco — presents an image of a polluted natural world in a way that is both visually appealing and potentially impactful for youth who see it. A child looking at the amount of waste Orozco displayed on the floor of the Guggenheim Museum may feel a greater urge to change than older generations.Experiencing the MoMA’s “Rain Room” presents the opportunity to spark a child’s interest in the natural world while creating a bonding moment within families. By making art that interests younger generations, artists have the potential to incite environmental lifestyle changes that take advantage of family dynamics. There is a range of plays, music ensembles, dance groups, films, fine art and other various installations that explore our ecological relationship with the earth. Groups such as the United Kingdom-based Nutmeg Puppet Company are dedicated to educating children on the
environmental issues that plague our planet. Nutmeg Puppet Company offers workshops and shows available for schools that feature puppets and masks crafted from recycled “junk” or natural materials. Paulo Grangeon is a French sculptor whose work rouses youth interest in a straightforward approach. In his piece, “Pandas on Tour,” 1600 papier-mâché panda bears are displayed for all to see. These inanimate sculptures represent the diminishing number of pandas that remain on earth, their declining population due to human disregard for the natural world and our impact on animal populations. Grangeon’s sculptures are yet another example of welldesigned work that speaks to undesirable environmental effects without shaming his audience into becoming more eco-conscious. Other groups, such as The Nile Project, are utilizing music as a medium for their environmental concerns. The Nile Project is devoted to creating awareness about the Nile River Basin and the
necessary changes in sustainability practice and conservancy that must happen in order to preserve the ecosystem. The Nile Project prides itself on its family-friendly performance style and its resulting widespread inspiration to change the way children, students and adults interact with the Earth. The group will be holding a family-friendly concert in Spaulding Auditorium on 2:00 p.m. and a full-length concert at 8:00 p.m. that same night, followed by a concert Saturday at 11 a.m. If their noble mission and the nature of environmentally conscious art hasn’t already peaked your interest, the Nile Project has said that their goal is to transform the conflict over the Nile through educating and inspiring a global network of students who focus on sustainability of their individual ecosystem. As the Project says on their website, “The project’s model integrates programs in mu s i c , e d u c at i o n , d i a l o g u e, leadership and innovation to engage students across disciplines and geographies.”
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Men’s golf struggles on second day of Princeton Invite B y JASPER BINGHAM The Dartmouth Staff
For the second week in a row, the men’s golf team could not maintain a consistent performance throughout a two-day weekend tournament. This past weekend, the team traveled south for the annual Princeton Invitational, ultimately tying with Cornell University for 10th place in a field of 13. The Big Green finished the first day of competition in sixth, but fell four positions after shooting 26 over par Sunday as a group, sliding them far out of reach of a top finish. Rather than playing at host Princeton’s home course — the Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, New Jersey — the men traveled to the Keystone State, competing at two different courses in the Philadelphia area — Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square and Merion Golf Club in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Merion, an internationallyrecognized club that has hosted five U.S. Open tournaments, was also the home course for two Big Green golfers in high school — Sean Fahey ’17 and Scott Jaster ’17, the team’s top performer. Jaster did not compete due to a wrist injury sustained last weekend when he hit a tree root with his club. Five other
Ivy League schools also attended the invitational, with only Harvard and Columbia Universities not represented. The first day at Aronimink saw Edric Wung ’18, the only Big Green athlete competing as an individual, put up the best numbers on the team, as he scored one over par and finished fifth overall. Among the team competitors, Fahey was at the top, shooting a 72 on the 6970-yard, par-70 course, which put him in 10th. He was followed by Charlie Edler ’15, tied in 18th with a 74, Ian Kelsey ’18, tied at 26th with a 75 and Charles Cai ’16, who finished with a 78 to tie in 40th. Jeffrey Lang ’17 got off to a slow start, rounding out the group with an 82. Although the Big Green would golf on a course nearly 500 yards shorter on Sunday, they could not take advantage of the change in venue, and the team’s position in the top half of the field slipped away. Fahey, who anchored the team on the first day, shot 20 over par, putting him out of the scoring and dropping him 54 spots in the individual standings. Cai showed the best performance in the second round for the Big Green, recording a 75 — five over par. He was followed by Edler with a 76, Lang with a 77 and Kelsey with a 78. Wung could not quite repeat his
impressive individual play from the first day, turning in a 79 at Merion and dropping to 24th overall. Head coach Rich Parker was surprised to see the discrepancy in Fahey’s play between the two days, but said the team as a whole could have put on a better performance. “You just never know what’s going to happen when you go to your home course,” Parker said. “[Fahey] just got off to a bad start, and it turned into a snowball effect for him… [but] it’s not [his] fault we played bad… we didn’t make any putts, and it’s a team game.” The results at Princeton were disappointing for the team, who just last weekend experienced a similar letdown after dropping from first place on the opening day of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of the Lehigh Valley Collegiate Invitational to eighth by Sunday evening. There, the team carded a 296 in the first round — tied for the best score in the field — before turning in a 315 in the second, the worst overall score. Parker noted that some of the team’s recent struggles can be attributed to a lack of effective practice space, particularly for chipping and putting. “Our course won’t be open again this year until the season’s over, and the
outdoor range at Fore-U [Golf Center] just opened,” Parker said. “These aren’t excuses, they’re just facts. My kids are getting frustrated, I can sense the frustration, but we just need to buckle down.” Lang agreed, noting that there are tangible decreases in performance that result from having to practice at Leverone Field House. “What you get in Leverone is artificial turf where you can practice your stroke and practice technically — but you really can’t get a feel for anything you would see out on the course,” Lang said. “A lot of the guys who are rusty will lose anywhere between three and five strokes a round just from lack of feel that you can’t get inside.” Edler, on the other hand, did not credit the team’s performance to the importance of the practice restrictions, remarking that the team is usually rusty at this time of year. “Being confined to Leverone definitely plays a small role in our performance in the spring, but I think a bigger part of it — with all Northeast schools really — is just coming off of the winter break,” Lang said. “I think we’re still just brushing off the rust, I’m not really worried about our performance going forward — it’s just part of the winter.”
The team looks to make a strong showing next weekend against North Carolina State University in a head-tohead matchup in Raleigh before the Ivy League Championships, which start April 24 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lang hopes the tournament against NC State will be an effective final tuneup for the Big Green before they square off against their conference foes. “It’s a good place and a good setting to prepare for Ivies, and that’s the point because Ivies is obviously our Holy Grail — it’s what we work towards every year,” Lang said. “Heading to NC State, getting to play with some good competition, some warm weather, get some reps in…it’s a good way to prepare.” Edler also commented that the matchup in North Carolina is an unusual opportunity for the team to see how it fares against non-regional competition, particularly because this marks the first time the team is playing in this tournament. “We usually stick to the Northeast in the spring and try to keep the traveling nice and simple,” he said. “We’re trying to get out of our comfort zone, play some teams in the South, play some players we aren’t used to playing and just see how we stack up nationally.”
Track and field teams have successful meet at George Mason
B y CHRIS SHIM
The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s and women’s track and field teams continued their outdoor seasons this past Saturday at the George Mason Spring Invitational in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted by George Mason University. While the meet was a non-scoring event, both teams put together strong performances, including multiple first-place finishes and several other athletes who finished in the top of their events. Since the teams transitioned from competing indoors, the athletes and coaches said they were looking forward to traveling south, where the weather provided a much-needed respite. “We were hoping to go somewhere with decent weather, especially after getting four inches of snow on Wednesday night,” women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze said.
With many of the events consisting of more than 50 athletes, the meet featured teams from across the East Coast and southern United States, including schools from the Colonial Athletic Conference, the United States Naval Academy and fellow Ivy League competitors, Brown and Columbia Universities and the University of Pennsylvania. Both the men’s and women’s teams relished the new competition by sending more athletes than in previous years. “Last year, we only took 10 athletes to this meet. This year, we decided to bring 45,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick said. “As it turns out, the weather was really nice, and the nighttime conditions were perfect for the distance events.” Victories in both the men’s and women’s 5000 meters were highlights of the Big Green’s performances at George Mason, as well as first-place finishes by the
women’s 4x100m- and 4x400mrelay teams. Julian Heninger ’17 took first place in the men’s 5000 meters, completing the distance in 14:32.78. Dylan O’Sullivan ’15 finished less than six seconds after Heninger, a time that earned him fourth place in the event. “Everyone ran phenomenally,” Joey Chapin ’16 said. “[Heninger] ran a pretty big personal record — he won his race and was really smart about it. He stuck with the chase pack for a while, working with Dylan O’Sullivan, chasing a couple of Navy guys.” With about 800 meters to go, Heninger and O’Sullivan made their moves, Chapin said. Navy’s top finishers placed fifth and eighth in the event behind both Heninger and O’Sullivan. The women’s team mirrored the success the men showed in the same
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The Big Green found particular success in distance events and relays this weekend.