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New schedule in effect 16X By ERIN LEE
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A new class schedule will be implemented starting in the summer of 2016 as part of a series of recommendations made by the Curricular Review Committee in April 2015. The measure was voted on and approved at the June 1 faculty meeting. The changes include modified class start times to allow for 15 minute
passing periods, compared to the current 10 minute intervals, and new evening class time slots, 6As and 6Bs. The 6A timeslot will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, while 6Bs will be three-hour blocks running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. The College will not formally announce the new schedule until after spring course election
ends on Feb. 18 to avoid confusion, registrar Meredith Braz wrote in an email. The Summer 2016 course timetable will be available on April 22, though the new schedule diagram is posted on the registrar’s website. “We had been waiting until after spring term course election had occurred before we sent out any communication SEE SCHEDULE PAGE 5
On Monday night, the Greek Leadership Council passed two changes to their code of standards and greater bylaws, banning Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head. While the council’s code of standards had previously forbidden houses from engaging in acts of cultural appropriation, the new rule explicitly mentions displaying the Dartmouth Indian head as a violation. Parties who see the Dartmouth Indian on display at a Greek house, or those who otherwise feel Greek houses are engaging in cultural appropriation, can make a complaint to the Greek Board on Accountability, GBA chair Taylor Watson ’16 said. Houses found in violation of the new rule by the GBA will be required to pay a fine, the monies of which will be given to an organization or event agreed upon by the GBA and offended party or individual. The new rules apply to organizational, public displays of the Dartmouth Indian head, Watson said, not to individuals who choose to display the symbol. For example, an individual in a Greek house who chooses to wear a shirt displaying the Dartmouth Indian
has a free speech right to wear that shirt, but if that shirt also encourages students to rush that house, it would be considered a violation, he said. Similarly, those who live in Greek houses can choose to decorate their own rooms as they wish, but the house cannot make public displays showing the Dartmouth Indian, such as a pong table. The change was passed in part as a response to the display last term of a pong table stolen from Theta Delta Chi fraternity displaying the Dartmouth Indian head, Watson said. Other groups had also expressed complaints about Greek houses displaying the symbol, he said. While many of these changes were written last fall, the amendments were not passed until now because additional reforms to the structure of the GBA needed to be made first, Watson said. The GBA was originally proposed by GLC members of the Classes of 2014 and 2015 to give the GLC increased ability to enforce its policies over its constituent houses, Watson said. It can adjudicate issues involving Greek houses in a trial-like fashion and impose SEE GLC PAGE3
CPD online platform connects employers to students By HEYI JIANG The Dartmouth
Since October 2015, more than 500 students and 30 organizations have joined DartmouthCircles, the Center for Professional Development’s new interactive platform. A former trustee based in California introduced the new platform to Roger Woolsey, CPD director. “I was looking for a more
interactive platform that would assist students in finding employment opportunities, such as internships,” Woolsey said. While CPD features a variety of tools to assist students in their search for employment opportunities, DartmouthCircles aims to fill in the gaps within this fabric of existing recruitment platforms, community outreach coordinator Eduardo Najera Ortega ’14 said. On most transactional plat-
forms such as Dartboard, organizations post information about new employment and internship opportunities, and students are expected to take the initiative to search for these opportunities and apply to them before the set deadline. Students then often have to venture beyond the platforms to acquire more information about these organizations and industries. However, on DartmouthCircles, the students and employers interact much
more directly, senior associate director of CPD Monica Wilson said. “Students want to communicate with employers directly to reduce their uncertainty about industries and about employers,” Woolsey said. “DartmouthCircles is a platform that helps both parties reduce their uncertainty.” While DartmouthCircles allows students to get into direct contact with employers or representatives via the platform itself,
it also enables employers to reach out to Dartmouth students. After students have created a profile and uploaded their resume, the platform will match the students with particular opportunities posted on the website. This aims to provide organizations by matching the opportunities they provide with students who appear to be the “best fit,” Wilson said. Moreover, DartmouthCirSEE CPD PAGE 3
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DAILY DEBRIEFING For the third year in a row, Princeton University offered Wintersession, a week-long program that occurs during winter vacation, The Daily Princetonian reported. Classes offered included “Top Gun Bartending” and “Hype 101: Don’t let your memes be dreams; Taking the ridiculous to the mundane.” This year saw an enrollment of about 1,600 students in Wintersession, which far exceeded expectations at the program’s conception.
The University of Pennsylvania Special Planning and Events Committee announced that it plans on bringing Caitlyn Jenner to speak on its campus this spring, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Jenner, famous transgender figure, reality TV show star and Olympic athlete, will be interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning Penn alum Buzz Bissinger. Bissinger interviewed Jenner for the June Vanity Fair article on her transition. Though their activities remain largely veiled to students and administrators alike, Yale University senior societies and secret societies are still mandated to file taxes with the IRS, The Yale Daily News reported. Through this public information, Business Insider article revealed a list of the seven richest societies in a Jan. 5 article. Yale’s Scroll and Key society topped the list with almost $11 million in total assets. -COMPILED BY TARIKA NARAIN
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cles provides a substantial amount of information not just on the organizations, but also on industries in general. At the same time, as an online platform, DartmouthCircles encourages students to explore industries and network with recruiters regardless of their physical location, Najera said. By raising the visibility of organizations and the opportunities they provide, DartmouthCircles is an “ecosystem” that facilitates student access to company information and helps students make more informed decisions about their employment, Najera added. The information available to students is not limited to company profiles, but also pertains to general information about the various industries, Wilson said. “DartmouthCircles also gives students more opportunities to engage with
alumni and organizations for advice,” she said. In addition, DartmouthCircles is a platform that only connects employers to Dartmouth students. Employers solely focus on recruiting Dartmouth talent, which conveys the message that, “I want to be reached by you,” Najera said. DartmouthCircles is a highly interactive and informative platform that is about “empowerment.” As the platform allows students to raise questions to the employers and receive clarifications, it will make students feel that they are not just another resume, he said. Currently, organizations such as Delta Airline, EF Education First have already joined DartmouthCircles, but the platform is ever-changing, Wilson said. “The landscape for employment has changed,” she said. On Tuesday, the CPD held an
information session about DartmouthCircles, which few students attended. Out of nine students interviewed by The Dartmouth, three had heard of DartmouthCircles. Though previously unfamiliar with the platform, a few students expressed their interest as well as some hopes. “The platform’s automatic job matching and precise job searches make finding jobs much more efficient,” Kun Li’19 said. Although unsure about the formal a platform DartmouthCircles is, Tyler Rivera ’16 said that the platform interestingly takes the idea of an “employer coffee chat” to a virtual level. Yifan Fang ’17, who hopes to work in design, said that platforms such as DartmouthCircles are useful when they include a larger variety of employment opportunities, such as those in the noncorporate professions.
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Houses can be fined for displaying Indian head FROM GLC PAGE 1
penalties, such as financial payments or mandatory community service. However, some GLC members of the Class of 2016 had issues with the organizational structure of the GBA, which necessitated a reworking of the body’s structure, Watson said. Under the current system, complaints about Greek houses can be made to a fulltime accountability chair, who will then formally discuss these events at the next GLC meeting. At that time, members of the GLC executive board can elect to serve on the GBA to adjudicate that particular case, he said. Because these changes to the
GBA’s structure were not made until last fall, the changes to the GLC’s code of standards and bylaws about the Dartmouth Indian were postponed until the winter, Watson said. Gender Inclusive Greek Council president Veri di Suvero ’16 supported the changes to the GLC’s rules, and said they were a great first step in promoting greater inclusivity and awareness within Greek houses. “This is [a rule] I would hope the entire community would want to be accountable for, especially because it helps foster inclusivity among houses and among people who are in these houses,” she said. Last fall, the GIGC passed a resolution almost identical to the one passed by the GLC, di Suvero said. These amendments were passed along to the GLC around the fourth week of the fall term. The GIGC also plans to discuss updating its rules to grant anonymity to those who choose to make accusations, di Suvero said, citing fears of harassment or retribution for students who choose to speak out. She said she would like to see the GLC make similar changes to their own rules. The changes are a positive step in helping ensure students feel safe in Greek basements, Native Americans at Dartmouth historian Bridget-Kate Sixkiller McNulty ’16 said. Noting she was speaking only for herself and not for NAD as a whole, she said that she was glad to see concrete steps being taken to contain racist imagery on campus. “Students should feel welcome and safe wherever they are on campus,” she said. Sadie Red Eagle ’19 said that she thought the GLC handled making the changes well and had a strong connection with the NAD community as they worked to make their decision. The rules strike a good balance between leniency and harshness, she said. One improvement could be setting a consistent amount for financial penalties, she said. Other campus events have also sparked increased dialogue about what role and place, if any, the Dartmouth Indian should have on campus. Last fall, on the federal holiday of Columbus Day, an anonymous group of students distributed flyers encouraging students to buy “vintage” apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian. At the time, 56 Native American high school seniors from across the country were at Dartmouth visiting the campus as part of the Native American Community program. This incident and others like it demonstrate the necessity of campus-wide rules against the Dartmouth Indian, Red Eagle said.
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STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19
GUEST COLUMNIST BEN PACKER ’17
Trump’s Slump
Pavlov in Politics
There are several reasons for the real estate mogul’s recent defeat. The results of the Iowa caucus dealt Donald Trump and his supporters a pretty heavy blow. Sen. Ted Cruz triumphed over Trump by more than three percentage points. While this was a narrow margin, it was decidedly larger than the one Hillary Clinton managed to gain over Sanders. Regardless of party affiliation, American voters were on the edge of their seats. Clinton’s win was certainly a cause for celebration among her supporters, they shouldn’t have been too overjoyed. The Vermont senator’s remarkably close finish against the former Secretary of State demonstrates that he is a credible threat to her campaign. Although Sanders’ surge was unexpected, Trump’s plunge widened far more eyes on Monday night. His supporters likely contemplated the possibility of foul play, or more realistically, whether their fellow “Trumpeters” (as Sarah Palin called them) failed to show up to the polls. In contrast, Trump’s opponents were probably asking whether his loss was a fluke or the beginning of a longawaited downward spiral. Ultimately, such uncertainties can be traced back to a single question — why did Trump fall in Iowa? Needless to say, there is no straightforward answer. Trump’s dominance and now, decline, are equally enigmatic. However, analyzing current events in the political arena may get us closer to a reasonable conclusion. Trump’s recent endorsement by Palin, just like his refusal to participate in last week’s Fox News debate may have brought about his defeat. Whether Palin’s vote of confidence helped or hurt Trump is uncertain. What is certain is that the former Alaska governor’s endorsement brought even more attention to Trump’s campaign. Unfortunately for Trump, the extra coverage didn’t translate into more votes. Initially, a Rasmussen report indicated that Palin’s endorsement boosted Trump in the polls. However, Iowans may have changed their minds after Trump skipped the debate in their home state. While the
polls are inconclusive, Palin’s support was probably detrimental to Trump’s campaign. The real estate mogul has often boasted about his success in the business world. He’s sold himself as a “winner.” It’s no secret that Palin hasn’t enjoyed the same success in the political arena. Her loss in the 2008 election was decisive and she withdrew from politics soon thereafter. The endorsement of a “winner” by a “loser” probably didn’t help Trump’s case with Iowans. In all likelihood, Trump’s bypassing of last week’s debate contributed to his second-place finish in Iowa as much as Palin’s endorsement. The debate, held only a few days before the Iowa caucus, was a chance for Trump to make his case before undecided voters. In his absence, voters who were on the fence probably threw their support behind a different candidate. By not attending, Trump appeared weak and afraid of playing hardball with the debate moderators. Likewise, he gave every other candidate a free pass to attack him freely on the national stage. While both of these are reasonable explanations, there is a third factor that may provide some insight into Trump’s decline. Perhaps his supporters are losing steam, their enthusiastic cheers replaced by calls for greater reason in Washington. Maybe Trump’s rallies were little more than an outlet for frustrated right-wingers, somewhere to vent their concerns about the direction of the country. They might not have sympathized with Trump’s platform, but simply attended the gathering for experience’s sake. Recent surveys support this idea. According to a recent poll of Iowa Republican voters, “shared values” was the most important criteria in deciding who to support . Perhaps even more tellingly, 38 percent of Iowa voters said their values aligned with those of Cruz. In contrast, only five percent of those polled shared the same sentiment when asked about Trump. With these figures in mind, Trump’s decline has been written on the wall for weeks.
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Break out of your conditioning and create new ways of engagement. If you are like me, you have long known at the apathetic. I have real respect for the decia base, emotional level that the whole policy sion to turn away when confronted with the cycle — agenda setting, development solu- evident uselessness of engaging in politics tions, decision-making and implementation and sheer stupidity of the process. But this — does not involve you. Wars are started, election is different — millions of Americans poverty ignored, the climate thrown out of have collectively recognized their own posibalance and the police/prison system devel- tion as disempowered Pavlovian dogs, and ops without anyone asking you — no survey, realized that, despite the symbolic web that phone call, vote or post card. Not only were makes us feel this way, elections are still, at you not consulted, but in all likelihood no least technically, decided by the people. one you have ever known has ever had any In November, Bernie Sanders was polling impact on any policy outcome (though this at around three percent. is less true at Dartmouth). I said to myself, half jokingly, that he Although what I’m saying comes from could win as long as we all tried really hard. relatively mainstream political science lit- I would have been wrong, unless thousands erature — see the 2014 study from Martin of other people felt the same way. Gilens at Princeton University demonstrat- Since then, I have written code, made ing that, when controlling many calls and interfor the preferences of the “We can think of the acted directly with well economic elite and orgaover a hundred differnized business interests, the 24/7 news cycle as a ent volunteers. I have preferences of the average sequence of Pavlovian witnessed authentic and citizen have virtually no effective self-organizalearning contexts. correlation with policy outtion, participating in comes — most people don’t The subjects (us) are building organizations need academic papers to repeatedly exposed to that will long outlast my know this. They know it involvement with them. simply from exposure to sequences of events I have been interacting the media. with the political proin which two stimuli This is unsurprising. cess through channels are paired, and our We can think of the 24/7 that previously did not news cycle as a sequence reaction to the first exist. of Pavlovian learning con- stimulus has no effect On the night texts. The subjects (us) are of the Iowa Caucus repeatedly exposed to se- on the second.” on Feb. 1, I chatted quences of events in which with fellow Ber nie two stimuli are paired, and our reaction to the volunteers online as the results came in. first stimulus has no effect on the manner of Of course, none of us were individually the second. If you remember “Psychology 1” necessary for the near 25 percent climb in at all, the irrelevance of the subject’s response the Iowa polls since May, but we were all to the outcome is what makes Pavlovian (or collectively indispensable. This feeling of classical) conditioning different from operant collective necessity is the opposite of fatalconditioning, in which the subject’s actions ism; instead, it is the emotional character have some influence on the outcome. of a movement, part of the conscious fabric Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist, psy- that makes any collective action possible. chologist and cybernetician, described how I invite you to reclassify yourself as a an individual or culture repeatedly exposed participant — not a spectator — in the to Pavlovian learning contexts could come political process and to attempt to force to acquire a sense of fatalism, defeatism and creative ways of engagement that suit your passively accept any outcome. Such an atti- interests. I understand that this reclastude is the result of a higher order learning sification forces you to leave the safety of process; the subject not only learns the proper blameless personal irrelevance. reaction in each context, but also learns to Realistically, the possibility of success expect contexts where it has no agency. and failure are inherent parts of any situa The political media trains us to feel that tion in which one’s effort actually matters; our only choices are the usual suspects: what each possibility requires the other. However, to watch, how to react, donating to candidates, I don’t think I’ll beat myself up over the and the single binary votes every four years. very real possibility that a few more phone There’s also the new way in town to be a calls would have won Iowa. passive consumer: what to click on. Some I am not asking you to do this out of people stay there, sitting in front of their the goodness of your heart or a belief that television yelling. Others delude themselves it is your democratic “duty.” Instead, I into thinking that is what democracy is sup- want you to avoid the following situation: posed to look like. A growing group is now you are 80-years-old, with a virtual reality taking a third course of action: turning off headset on. A political bell rings on some the television, forgetting about politics and futuristic news show. You salivate, and no embracing political apathy. Maybe some food comes. You take your headset off and get into sports, where at least there is little look around at a world on fire, wondering pretense that one’s fandom actually propels where you went wrong. their team towards victory. If you’re convinced, but don’t know Don’t read this as a scathing critique of what to do, email me.
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Schedule introduces new class blocks, longer passing periods FROM SCHEDULE PAGE 1
about the new calendar’s implementation, since in our experience it can lead to confusion when the start date is a future term,” Braz wrote. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the registrar’s office has been sharing information about the change internally with departments and programs to allow for summer and fall term course planning. Braz wrote that her office is working with computing services to carry out system modifications and aims to be ready by the time departments submit course information for Summer 2016. An online survey conducted by The Dartmouth received responses from 76 faculty members about the new schedule. When asked whether they were satisfied with the way the schedule change was communicated, 38 percent responded negatively, 30 percent responded neutrally and 32 percent responded positively. The Curricular Review Committee includes 13 faculty members from various departments, Braz and dean of the faculty and committee chair Michael Mastanduno. The majority of the committee’s work took place during the 201213 academic year, before College President Phil Hanlon took office, according to the committee’s April 20 final report. The committee’s recommendations were reviewed in detail by faculty committees in 2013-2014, the report stated. Tom Hier, co-founder of higher education consulting firm Biddison Hier, Ltd., said he consulted with the committee on crafting a new schedule from 2012 to 2013. He has been intermittently work-
ing with the College for over a decade on classroom and planning issues, he said. The process was “inclusive,” involving both student and faculty focus groups, he said. Among the faculty surveyed, 51 percent said they thought the new schedule is a positive change. 30 percent were undecided and 19 percent thought the change is not positive. Lawrence said that the committee favored increasing time between classes because campus buildings are now more spread out. “It’s hard to get from the Life Sciences building to say, Thayer, in just 10 minutes, for example,” she said. Seventy percent of faculty surveyed said a student has told them they were late to class because there was not enough time between classes in the current schedule. To accommodate these longer passing periods, class times are extended later into the day. Classes that currently end at 2:50 p.m. (2s) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will end at 3:15 p.m., and classes that end at 3:50 p.m. (2As) on Tuesdays and Thursdays will end at 4:15 p.m. “We had to look at different ways to fit everything in and still have a reasonable end in the day,” Hier said. Another focus for the new schedule was preserving the x-hour but facilitating more efficient use of that time, Hier said. The x-hour was originally meant to be used as an extra slot for review sessions or make-up classes, but some professors regularly use the x-hour as an extra class meeting, he said. “There was a varying need for class time depending on the discipline,” he said. The committee initially pro-
posed moving all x-hours to late afternoon to vacate “prime time,” but some faculty raised concerns, according to the report. The solution was to keep x-hours throughout the day but create a range of classes that have different durations to provide schedule flexibility, Hier said. New, longer evening slots — 6As and 6Bs — can provide larger blocks of time for teaching and could be useful for laboratory sessions, the report states. Sixty-nine percent of faculty survey respondents said they would probably not or definitely not use the new 6A or 6B class periods. Eighteen percent responded neutrally and 14 percent responded positively. Government professor Sonu Bedi, who was on the Curricular Review Committee, is planning to teach his “Contemporary Readings on Justice” seminar course in the 6B slot next fall. He wrote in an email that he wants to use the three-hour class period to encourage sustained, student-led discussions on larger amounts of reading, particularly because the course is part of the major’s culminating experience. “Part of the intellectual exercise in my seminar is for students to arrive at a core set of insights organically through reflection with their peers,” he said. “A longer class time better facilitates that process.” In the past, he has used x-hours to build in longer class periods, he said. “I think it’s important to have the option for a three-hour slot, because this signals to students that this class is different from one of my lecture courses,” he said. Bedi said he does not believe the later class time will affect stu-
dent attendance. He noted that spreading out class meeting times decreases scheduling conflicts between courses. “I realize that this will be an adjustment for students but I think for the better,” he said. “By having optional times in the evening, the College sends an important message that classroom and academic instruction is an ongoing intellectual endeavor that does not simply end at 5 or 6 p.m.” Unlike the current schedule, class start times generally will not fall on the hour. Hier said that making sure classes had consistent start times for
each period was more important, particularly to prevent classroom and course overlap. Hier said he has recently consulted with several schools on schedule changes to maximize the efficiency of classroom usage and accommodate changing pedagogical approaches. Teaching now often incorporates more collaboration and a variety of activities, some of which occur outside of class, he said. “Dartmouth is in the vanguard of institutions that are looking at these kinds of issues,” he said. “They’re using schedules that have been around for decades.”
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Dr. Luca Olivier presented his talk “Conversation after Conflict in Pakistan.”
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Students raise awareness for iMPACT, a group that sponsored an activism workshop for students.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:00 p.m.
“Sonic Landscape Listening Room Discography,” 45 minute diffusion sessions of field recordings from global environments, Rollins Chapel
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“Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons,” Marissa Giustina, University of Vienna, Wilder 102
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“The Winter’s Tale,” by Shakespeare simulation in HD, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
TOMORROW 3:30 p.m.
“Responsive Materials for Portable Chemical Sensing,” Assistant chemistry professor Katherine Mirica, Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall
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A screening of 2016 Oscar-nominated live action shorts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Classical violinist Sarah Chang discusses music, early life with and continued working with never seemed to pay too much atThe Dartmouth tention to my age,” she said. “They World-renowned classical violin- never cut me any slack for being ist Sarah Chang started playing the young, and they expected me to be violin when she was four-years-old. a professional on stage, so I think on At age six, she auditioned for and was the musical level there wasn’t much accepted to the Pre-College Division of that prodigy label going on.” of the Juilliard School in New York Chang reflected on the challenges City, which played a major role in her of balancing her burgeoning music musical development. By the time she career with her personal life as a was eight, she had debuted with the child. While still in school, she was New York Philharmonic and quickly also expected to not only go on stage and perform as a professional, but became known internationally. Although she was considered by to also attend dinners, functions and galas internamany to be a “child tionally. prodigy,” Chang “The people who I “That dismissed the term balance — it as a label quickly did start out with and took a while to associated with any continued working juggle both, young artist. and you’re “I think when with never seemed in this world people see some- to pay too much where you’re body who is insanely attention to my age.” eight or nine young onstage and and you’re doing anything in expected to the entertainment -SARAH CHANG be a child, but spectrum, they label then you’re them a prodigy,” dealing with Chang said. Chang noted that her goal from agents, managers, publicists and they the start of her music career was to give you six assistants,” Chang said. be a good musician and to surround “And no one needs six assistants at herself with colleagues who would the age of eight.” enjoy collaborating with her, regard- Ultimately, Chang is grateful that she started playing at such a young less of her young age. “The people who I did start out age, and her more than two decades of
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experience has given her a familiarity with the classical music industry. “I feel that now I can really enjoy my career and be really selective about what concerts I’m playing in and partners I’m working with,” she said. Chang played in a concert in Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center last night as part of the Performing Artists series. Margaret Lawrence, Hop programming director, included Chang in the series because she wanted to provide Dartmouth students with an opportunity to see an artist who is considered to be “one of the greats” by the international music community. “Sarah Chang’s concert is going to be a wonderful opportunity to hear why classical music lovers love the music they do,” Lawrence said. “She’s a blazing, blazing talent. She is an artist who can make us fall in love with music.” Chang performed with pianist Julio Elizalde. Elizalde and Chang attended the Juilliard School together, but did not start playing together until two or three years ago. Elizalde holds master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees from the Juilliard School, according to the Olympic Music Festival website. In addition to performing internationally, he is also the artistic director of the Olympic Music Festival near
Seattle. “It has the romantic side with the Chang describes Elizalde as an Brahms and the Franck, and an edgier “amazing pianist” and a “fifty-fifty side with the more contemporary partner who is not afraid to try new Bartók, and you get the fireworks and stuff and explore the entire musical the whole showpiece with the Ravel,” library with [me].” she said. Having never Chang p e r fo r m e d at “I feel that now I can noted the imporDartmouth beof musical really enjoy my career tance fore, she had the flow and a cenfreedom to choose and be really selective tralized storyline her program from about what concerts in uniting the difthe entire specferent pieces of a trum of her reper- I’m playing in and recital program. toire and selected partners I’m working She strives to put some of her favortogether a prowith.” ite pieces. Chang gram that is not played Bartók’s only enjoyable “Romanian Folk -SARAH CHANG for the audience, Dances” (1915), but will also hold Brahms’ “Sonata their attention for No. 3 in D minor, the duration of Op. 108” (1888), Franck’s “Sonata for the concert. Violin and Piano in A Major” (1886) Although the pieces Chang usually and Ravel’s “Tzigane” (1924). plays tend to be “the big Romantic “The Bartók is a fairly new piece, warhorses,” she tries to incorporate but I’ve completely fallen in love with at least one new piece in her concerts. the piece,” Chang said. “It’s such a Christine Lu ’16 had heard dramatic and fun piece to play. And Chang’s rendition of Sibelius’ “Violin the Ravel is just an all-time showConcerto in D minor, Op. 47” (1904) stopper.” before and attended Chang’s recital The pieces by Brahms and Franck at the Hop. are also a couple of her all-time favor “I’ve heard and loved a number of ites. In choosing the pieces she would her interpretation of pieces in the past, be playing, Chang sought to create a and I’m absolutely enthralled by the well-balanced program that spanned opportunity to see her at Dartmouth,” a range of musical genres and moods. she said.
Dartmouth Idol semi-finalists to perform this Friday By ELISE HIGGINS The Dartmouth
The semi-finals of the annual Dartmouth Idol competition will be hosted this Friday in Spaulding Auditorium. The 20 students taking the stage on Friday were selected on the basis of an a capella audition. Walt Cunningham, music director of Dartmouth Idol, said that there was “no predetermined number” for how many students will compete in the semi-finals. Rather, the judges look for performers with strong voices and a desire to be in the competition. The winners of this round, selected by a combination of judge and audience votes, will continue on to the finals on Friday, March 4. In the final round, the winner will be chosen solely by the audience. In addition to receiving the title of Dartmouth Idol, the winner also gets to record a demo of two songs and a $500 prize. The first and second runners up receive $250 and $100 respectively. In recent years, Cunningham said that he has also been recording music videos with the winner because of the increasing importance of videos in the music industry. Although Dartmouth Idol is
still a competition, many previous participants talked about the encouragement and support they received from both other contestants and students around campus. Last year’s winner, Tara Joshi ’18, said that competing in and winning Dartmouth Idol was a fantastic experience for her and that she “felt more and more integrated into Dartmouth.” Virginia Ogden ’18, a member of the Subtleties, an all-female a capella group, and The Harlequins, a musical production group, is competing again this year. “The team at Idol is so incredibly positive and supportive,” she said. “They want everybody to be the best they can possibly be.” Joshi agreed with Ogden, saying that she especially appreciated the advice she got from older students. “I was surrounded by upperclassmen who were involved with [Idol], and they were so encouraging to me and welcoming,” Joshi said. This positive environment is exemplified by the fact that many previous contestants want to be backup singers even when they are no longer in the competition. Although Ogden only made it to the semi-finals last year, she par-
ticipated in the finals as a backup Ogden noted that this type of show singer. Although Joshi will not com- is “not done at other colleges.” pete again in Dartmouth Idol, she Another key feature of Dartsaid that she hopes to participate in mouth Idol is its supportive envithis year’s competition as a backup ronment and the fact that so many students perform in it year after singer. In addition to backup singers, year. there many students make up Idol’s David Clossey ’16, business manager of the Aires, says that he support team. Cunningham said that the Idol has competed in Dartmouth Idol process is really “all hands on every year since his freshman year deck.” Students participate beyond because he truly enjoys it and feels competing as band members, that he has “grown as a singer and backup singers, dancers, judges, as a performer every year.” While hosts, prosome of the ducers and “The team at Idol is so students who costume incredibly positive and perfor m in designers. Idol are in C a r i n a supportive. They want volved with a Conti ’16, capella groups A a r o n everybody to be the best o n c a m p u s, Cheese ’18 they can possibly be.” many are not. and Nick O gd e n s ai d Vernice ’18 that when will host the -VIRGINIA OGDEN ’18, SEMIshe first ausemi-finals. FINALIST ditioned for A mixture Idol, she “did of current students and Dartmouth alumni, not think of [herself] as someone Nathaniel Graves ’13, Kaitlyn who could sing mainstream music” Sheehan Ramirez ’09 Tu ’16 and because her background consisted Jake Gaba ’16, will sit at the judges mostly of musical theater. Clossey also noted the variety table. The level of student involvement of experiences among the particimakes this competition unique. pants.
“What makes Dartmouth Idol so special is that there are kids from a cappella groups, but there are also kids who haven’t really sung at all at Dartmouth,” Clossey said. He said that this welcomes students with a “wide breadth of musical experience and musical activities.” Cunningham says that he pushes the performers to bring out the best in them. He said that he finds Dartmouth students “like to be stretched and taken to different levels of challenge.” Clossey said that “as a performer, [Dartmouth Idol] pushes you outside your comfort zone,” but his and many others’ repeated involvement with the program proves that the experience is a rewarding one. Cunningham believes that many students are drawn to the competition because it allows students to be themselves and focus on performing individually, rather than performing with a group. General admission tickets for the semi-finals of Dartmouth Idol are on sale for $10 for the public and $5 for Dartmouth students. The competition will be in Spaulding Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m.
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SPORTS RIDING THE PINE WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT
The boys at Riding the Pine have already started their countdown to 2017. The parties are over. The confetti has been swept up off the street. A third Thai restaurant has opened in Hanover, giving the home of the College on the Hill the highest Thai restaurant to person ratio outside of Bangkok. You can lie on your back, fall asleep and snore so loudly you shake the walls in “Meditation and Relaxation” once a year and get a free pass. Now that Henry’s fallen asleep a second time in as many classes, he’ll have to start searching for more creative ways to get his P.E. credit. We’ve quickly fallen into a familiar trap. After comforting our 2015 selves with the hope that 2016 would provide a newfound solace, it took less than 50 days for us to realize that 2016 is nothing but a mirage. The pot of gold actually lies ahead, just 315 days away, in 2017. However, we still have more than ten months of 2016 to go.
Ten months of struggle. Ten months of misery. Ten months of pushing the rock up the mountain. Ten months of reaching for the grapes that will forever remain out of reach. Ten long months. The only things keeping 2016 remotely interesting are the trials and travails of the only man who shares our burden, the only man who understands how we feel. Jeb Bush. Like us, Jeb has taken his fair share of shots across the bow. After entering the Republican primaries as a surefire favorite, Jeb Bush has fallen from the sky like a lead zeppelin as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz soar on eagle’s wings toward the political heavens. We went to Jeb Bush’s town hall at the Hanover Inn on Tuesday. We looked deeply into his eyes and saw nothing but mirror images of ourselves. As our core readers know all too well, Riding the Pine has two major themes: perseverance through even the most trying of circumstances and
the profound transformative power of romantic love. Only one candidate embodies both of these principles. That is why we here at Riding the Pine are endorsing Jeb Bush. This is not the endorsement anyone asked us to make. We are not in the pocket of the super PACs, the Koch brothers or the goddamn NRA. We are just two boys standing here in front of a former governor, asking him to lead us. We never intended to be political columnists, but when we are called by our Muse, we have no choice but to follow wherever she may lead. The only other story in the news this week that can do anything to raise us from our persistent malaise is Super Bowl 50. The first ever Super Bowl clash of two number one pick quarterbacks also features a pair of quarterbacks at the opposite ends of their sterling careers. Even after the Denver Broncos quieted some of the naysayers with their close win over the New England Patriots, the money continues to stack up against Denver as bets pile up on the Carolina Panthers. The smart money is on the Panthers. Needless to say, we have bet
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the house on Denver. As a match-fixing scandal rocks the tennis world, all eyes are turned to that sport once known for chivalry and courtesy. With eyes averted from his devious acts, there is little doubt that the NFL’s wily, whiny, slick and slimy commissioner Roger Goodell will do everything in his power to award the Super Bowl to Babylon’s corrupted golden idol, Peyton Manning. Call us crazy, but we’re betting on Denver to take home the Lombardi trophy because the outcome of the big game has already been decided by the suits behind closed doors. Plain and simple, the League is getting that Nationwide Insurance kickback. While the admittedly catchy Nationwide jingle may seem purely innocent, it rattles in our mind like the shriek of a screaming banshee, representing the deathly corrupted stench at the heart of the National Football League. Manning’s story this year seems too good to be true. It unfortunately is. With the puppeteers in the League office determining the intricacies of
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each and every game, it is simply too easy for Goodell to achieve his preferred outcome. Eighty-five percent of money bet on the Patriots-Broncos game was bet on the Patriots. Eightyfive percent of the money bet on the Panthers-Broncos game has been bet on the Panthers. Between the Vegas casino thugs and the Nationwide Insurance pencil-pushers, the pressure on the NFL is far too great. There is simply no way that the Panthers can win. Nothing has any meaning anymore. Even the Super Bowl is a joke this year. But when we’re feeling constrained by the surly bonds of Earth, beaten down and all but conquered by the petty demands of the flesh or even of the heart, we’re reminded of a quote from a man who inspires us daily, whose eye for the fantastical has never failed him, even in his lowest moments. “Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?” Keep pushing the rock, Jeb. Don’t give up the ship.
Track and field challenges skills at invitational meet in Boston
By CHRIS SHIM
The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s and women’s track and field teams took a break from team competition to chase strong individual performances at the Boston University Terrier Classic at the BU Track and Tennis Center in Boston this past weekend. Both the men and the women took advantage of an atmosphere conducive to fast racing to notch some new personal and season bests. The women traveled down to Boston to compete last Friday, Jan. 29, while the men competed separately on Saturday, Jan. 30. “The [BU] Terrier Classic is a meet that all the guys really look forward to, especially the distance runners, since it’s a national class meet in a great facility,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick ’77 said. “I think it gets people really fired up to run well.” Joey Chapin ’16 and Curtis King ’16 turned in strong performances in the 3000-meter. Chapin placed fourth in the national-caliber field with a new personal best of 7:57.12, while King finished shortly behind in 8:00.53 to place seventh. Chapin’s performance places him fourth all-time in Dartmouth track and field history in the event, according to Harwick. Chapin credited the strong pace and the race atmosphere as reasons
for his strong performance. “We were lucky enough to have a good pacer and a really strong heat to keep the race moving through the first 2K so we could just get pulled along for the most part,” Chapin said. “We ended up both closing our last 1000 [meters] really strong, playing exactly to the race plan, and leaving us with a little confidence for the latter half of the season when races get a little more tactical and we’ll have to be able to close really hard to place how we want to at [Ivy League] Heps.” The men’s distance runners also had strong performances in the mile, where Pat Gregory ’18 placed 17th in a new personal best of 4:05.51. In the 5000-meter, Brian Masterson ’16 and Nat Adams ’17 finished ninth and tenth in nearly identical times of 14:13.44 and 14:13.56. In the other track events, Amos Cariati ’18 had a strong performance in the 500-meter, crossing in 1:04.29 to place seventh, while Reed Horton ’19 finished 10th in the 1000-meter with a time of 2:27.73. The lone athlete for the Big Green men competing in the field events was Max Cosculluela ’17, who placed third in the pole vault, clearing a height of 16-0.75/4.90-meter. On the women’s side, Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 placed second in the high jump, clearing 5-7.0/1.70m.
Kaitlin McCallum ’16 also performed well in the field, placing fourth in the pole vault, clearing 12-5.5/3.80m. Despite her strong performance, Whitehorn said she felt somewhat disappointed with the result. She mentioned that she is making modifications to her jumping approach. “I placed second, but I didn’t jump well for myself,” Whitehorn said. “I am still figuring out how to run a new approach with 10 steps instead of 8.” On the track, Jennifer Meech ’16 performed well in both the 200-meter (eighth, 24.40) and the 400-meter (ninth, 54.89). In the 800-meter, Bridget O’Neill ’18 placed tenth at 2:09.83 and Abby Livingston ’18 placed 12th in 2:10.17. “My goal this weekend was to just see what I could do at this point in the season,” O’Neill said. “BU is a great track, so it was a good opportunity for the team to run fast! I was pretty pleased with how it went, and I’m excited for my next meet, which will be back at BU for the Valentine [Invitational].” The coaching staff was pleased with how the meet went. “Everyone went in and ran faster than we expected,” women’s head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said. “We were really happy with the women’s 800 — they both set new personal bests in their events — and
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Two pole vaulters, Kaitlin McCallum ’16 and Max Cosculluela ’17, placed in the top five.
Jen Meech also ran a great double [in the 200 and 400].” While many of the track and field athletes competed at the Terrier Classic, the team also sent a group of throwers to compete at the University of New Hampshire. Notable performances for the throwers included strong performances from Lucas Ribeiro ’19, who won the shot put, throwing 16.32m, as well as from Colin Minor ’18, second in the shot put (15.04m) and third in the weight throw (16.66m). Tim Brennan ’17 also did well, finishing in second in the weight throw (17.15m).
Many of the jumpers and throwers will return to action next weekend at Leverone Field House for the Dartmouth Indoor Classic. Harwick noted that many of the distance runners who did not compete at the Terrier Invitational would race next weekend as well. Many of the athletes that competed at the Terrier Invitational will train through this weekend and return to action in two weeks at the Valentine Invitational, also at BU. The Dartmouth Indoor Classic kicks off next Saturday, Feb. 6 at 12 p.m. in Leverone.