VOL. CLXXI NO. 17
MOSTLY SUNNY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Student-designed apps win funding
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Zipcar service expanded to include students 18 and over B y JESSICA AVITABILE
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Joshua Hall ’14 was playing cards at a party when he was struck with the inspiration for an app. Using Bluetooth technology, smart phones placed together on a table could create a digital platform for classic party games. Hall and Kalon Stephen ’14 have created a prototype for spin the bottle and hope to expand to include Cards Against Humanity, regular playing cards and original games. Their new app, Tether
Gaming, is one of eight winning proposals that will receive a grant, technical expertise, development space and design assistance from the Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab as part of The Pitch competition. The apps provide technological solutions to problems that range from finding spring term housing to curing a worldwide epidemic. Over 30 groups composed of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students presented
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Leaving Hanover to dine and shop became easier this winter for students 18 and older, who can now use Zipcars on campus. Few students, however, have taken advantage of the service since it was expanded to include students under the age of 21 last November. Just 24 students under 21 have registered for a Zipcar
membership, parking operations coordinator Robin Guay said. While the Zipcar service has been available to older students since fall 2008, insurance regulations barred younger students from signing up, Guay said. Of students 21 and older, 474 have memberships, in addition to 151 faculty members and employees. Though policies vary by company and region, rental car services in the U.S. often require a surcharge for drivers under the
age of 25. Zipcars were expanded to younger students following concerns that students were too confined and had difficulty exploring the Upper Valley. “We received numerous complaints from parents that their child had no opportunity to use a vehicle besides the bus,” Guay said. “The College decided to go ahead with it as long as parents
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Most students on campus can now access Zipcars.
Website consolidates Hundreds of students take course median data on mindfulness challenge
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As students begin spring course selection, those curious about the level of difficulty of potential classes can check median grades using Median Town, a website that Matthew Marcus ’16 created over winter interim. Using data from the office of the registrar, the website displays trends in class medians
through bar graphs. During the first two days of winter term, the website received 800 unique visitors and 1,100 page visits. It now sees approximately three new visitors every day. Median Town contains information about the median grade and the enrollment size for each class dating back to winter 2008,
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Just 21 days can make or break a habit, according to Dartmouth on Purpose, a student organization that promotes student well-being and self-improvement. About halfway through the group’s 21-Day Challenge, almost 400 students, faculty and staff are participating, striving to live more mindfully. Participants set personal self-improvement goals at the start of the program and follow through by attending several
motivational milestone events, including a free Mighty Yoga session last Saturday and a meditation workshop on Feb. 5. Some students pledged to quit drinking, eat with strangers and live more sustainably, Maria Sperduto ’14, a founder of Dartmouth on Purpose, said. Health professions program pre-health advisor Sarah Berger will lead a workshop on mindful eating on Wednesday, as many students set goals related to nutrition. SEE PURPOSE PAGE 2
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SPEAKING OUT
Professors and students from the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering and the College have developed a new method for making radiation treatment of cancer patients safer and more precise, according to a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center press release. The technique employs the Cherenkov effect, in which X-rays passing through the human body become visible with the help of a linear accelerator. The research, which began in 2011 and progressed from examining the passage of radiation beams to using Cherenkov emissions in both animal and human treatment, has displayed promising signs in clinical setting. Some hotels are more likely than others to generate fraudulent reviews online, according to research by a team of professors, including Tuck School of Business professor Yaniv Dover, Forbes reported. Independent hotels with a neighbor as well as those with smaller owners and management companies are more likely to post positive reviews for themselves and false negative reviews for competitors on travel websites Expedia and TripAdvisor. The authors of the paper, titled “Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation,” said that such activities could have a significant negative impact on sales. The professors added that their work could potentially expose large companies or chains and can affect sites that verify reviews to ensure their authenticity. Dartmouth radiologists and biomedical engineers are developing a new diagnostic imaging tool that combines conventional imaging with near-infrared spectroscopy, according to a Geisel School of Medicine press release. The new technique will target women with dense breasts, who are more vulnerable to breast cancer. The technique may benefit these women by allowing providers increased visibility of obscure areas in the chest, which makes it easier to target lesions. The Dartmouth MRI/NIRS differs from previous inventions in that it consists of eight light-transmitting cables surrounding the breast, rather than parallel plates and custom breast molds. — COMPILED BY MIN KYUNG JEON
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Dartmouth on Purpose offers participants a support network and sends daily motivational blitzes, said Maria Sperduto ’14, one of the group’s founders. “In our hectic lives, we sometimes forget to take the time to appreciate the fact that we are actually bodies, and eating is good for our minds,” she said. Jonathan Brown ’15, a coordinator of the 21-Day Challenge, said the group was pleased that student goals have been characterized by awareness and vows for self-improvement. The degree of difficulty of the challenge is less important than the experience of mindfulness, he said. Brown said that the group did not anticipate the program’s popularity and originally expected student participation to be one of their greatest challenges.
The group kicked off the 21-Day Challenge with an event in Collis Common Ground on Jan. 18 that featured a performance by the Sheba dance troupe and complimentary burritos. Maddy Thornton ’17, a member of Dartmouth on Purpose, said she believes that purposeful living and a balanced lifestyle are particularly important for Dartmouth students due to the fast-paced nature of the quarter system. Participants have responded positively so far, though sometimes they find it difficult to maintain their motivation, Thornton said. After organizing a conference on motivation and self-awareness last spring, Emma Smith ’13 created a student group to continue promoting mindfulness practices. Smith, along with Sperduto, Sam Bauer ’14 and Noah Smith ’15 launched Dartmouth on Purpose in the fall.
Sperduto said she felt that Dartmouth’s hectic academic life often prevents students from being able to focus on themselves and their priorities. “Regardless of your definition of success, by living in line with your goals, you’ll be more proud of yourself, and you’ll just be happier,” she said. “The more you respect and care for yourself, the more you can do the same for other people too.” Christiana Johnson ’17, a member of Dartmouth on Purpose, said partaking in the 21-Day Challenge has helped her focus on her goals amidst the fast pace of campus life. Sperduto said that mindful and purposeful living could have far-reaching effects in the Dartmouth community. “It could reduce a lot of negative things that occur in our community, as a lot of our greatest problems here start due to a lack of mutual respect,” she said.
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Median Town to be integrated with existing course search site FROM MEDIAN PAGE 1
along with the course title and description. Marcus said he created the application because he refers to median grades while picking classes and found the data on the registrar’s website difficult to approach. “The information was there but hard to use,” he said. Marcus said he wanted to work on a side project over the winter break and thought the tool would be helpful for students during course election. Developing the application took about 20 hours of work, consolidating the information and generating graphics, he said. The application is designed to supplement course town, a popular platform for student-generated reviews of courses and professors run by the hacker club, and the inspiration for his new application’s name, Marcus said.
Hacker club co-chair Delos Chang ’14 said the group is currently working on revamping the course town website and is collaborating with Marcus, a member
“I think it’s a textbook case of someone solving a problem that students have. He has shown incredible intuition for what people want.” - Delos Chang ’14 of the club, to integrate Median Town into its existing site. “I think it’s a textbook case of someone solving a problem that students have,” Chang said. “He has shown incredible intuition for what people want.” Though he has received posi-
tive feedback, some people have requested that professors’ names appear alongside their classes, Marcus said. Kevin Moon ’15 said in popular classes taught by more than one professor, medians depend on the instructor. Adding professors’ names is possible but would require looking through each department’s website, as there is no common database for the information, Marcus said. Though students said class content and professor are more important than medians when considering classes, they often look at median grades when choosing classes that fill distribution requirements. Chris Clark ’14 said the website was a useful reference. “I wish it existed my entire time at Dartmouth,” he said. “This information was always available, but it was much harder to use on the registrar’s page.”
Jordana Composto ’16 said median grades help her gauge course difficulty in order to construct an academically balanced term. Median Town seems more up-to-date than the course town website, she said.
The hacker club hopes to have the new version of its site, including data from Median Town, up and running by the middle of spring term, Chang said. The hacker club currently has approximately 60 active members.
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their proposals to seven judges and an audience in Loew Auditorium on Jan. 14. The nine winning proposals included an art marketplace that doubles as a fundraising platform and a physics word game. Competition judge Jamie Coughlin, who directs new venture incubator programs, described the structure of the competition as “speed dating for pitching ideas.” Each group had two minutes to sell its concept. Coughlin said that he was impressed by the diversity of participants and ideas presented to the panel, which consisted of faculty from the computer science and engineering departments as well as administrators involved in various entrepreneurship initiatives on campus. One proposal, @Now, would create a cloud calendar accessible to any Dartmouth student to schedule events. Developer Odon Orzsik ’17 said that the concept stemmed from his frustration in receiving Listserv emails that advertise campus-wide events — even during his winter interim in Slovakia. “It’s a smartphone app where people can schedule any event by anybody for everybody,” he said. The judges suggested merging @ Now with Tribe, a mobile app that aims to use the Google Maps location feature to link up users based on their whereabouts. Combined, the two programs would allow for members of the Dartmouth community to connect and make plans, regardless of where
they are in the world. The team, consisting of one developer and three programmers, said it hopes to release the app in early fall 2014. Gurkaran Singh ’15 said he was inspired to create Tribe when, over winter interim, he was stuck in an airport and knew other Dartmouth students were in the same situation but had no way to connect with them. “I’m confident that on the college campus level, our joint collaboration
will be successful because there is a need for this,” Orzsik said. He said the thinks the app has the potential to change how students schedule events and interact, not only at Dartmouth but at other universities. The project will require further development, Singh said. “We’re ambitious, but careful not to set our dreams too high yet,” he said. Delos Chang ’14 proposed Hous-
ingCake, a search service that emails housing options to users based on their reported preferences. He said the idea came from his reluctance to use untrustworthy sites like Airbnb or Craigslist to find offterm housing. After working on the project for less than two months, Chang said he now has over 100 paying users. He said he was surprised at the level of support he has received.
“I am very grateful and humbled by how much Dartmouth has supported me in this venture,” Chang said. “It’s pretty crazy that the DALI Lab was willing to fund me without any equity.” Coughlin directs the Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, an entrepreneurship hub proposed by College President Phil Hanlon in his inaugural address and slated to open at 4 Currier Place later this term.
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During the competition, 30 student groups had two minutes to pitch their ideas for a new app to a panel of judges.
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CONTRIBUTING Columnist Aylin woodward ’15
Staff Columnist Will Alston ’16
Discussing Depression
A Different Kind of Diversity
Stigmatization and lack of support worsen many students’ suffering. Whether it’s competing on a varsity team, taking a four-course term, running three different organizations, taking skiing for physical education credit, working as a tutor for Student Accessibility Services... Dartmouth kids do it all, and we do it well. The pervasive myth that everyone here is perfect creates a culture of merciless, unyielding excellence. Everyone seems to run like a well-oiled machine, balancing the burden of rigorous academics with a plethora of extracurricular activities without breaking a sweat. That utopian world with its perfect students is just a facade. Though we try, Dartmouth students are not superheroes. We are not immune to mental health issues that are, in fact, exacerbated by our perfectionist atmosphere. Perhaps you don’t feel that mental illness is a pressing issue here. After all, who do you know at Dartmouth with depression? But you want to know why no one ever hears about mental illness on campus? It’s because no one talks about it. Our esteemed “culture of excellence” makes issues like depression and anxiety — issues that may obstruct our academic success and our busy social calendars — stigmatized. Mental illness is perceived on a personal level as weakness. We can’t admit to ourselves or to others that we have a problem, so we don’t seek help. Paying attention to one’s mental health is perceived as a luxury for those who have the time — time that no one has. Even worse, this reluctance to give mental health issues the serious consideration that they require creates a weak support network available for students on campus. I speak from experience. With junior winter on the horizon, I thought I had my whole undergraduate career under control. Sure, I had anxiety over midterms and papers and my sport, but nothing out of the ordinary, I told myself. My major was almost done, my love life was wonderful, my competition season just starting. But quite suddenly, inexplicably, I found myself in the throes of a deep depression. A depression, ironically enough, that I didn’t
even know I was in until I finally connected with a capable therapist, one I had to find outside Dartmouth, because I couldn’t find the help I needed on campus. It’s true that Dick’s House has tried making significant steps to increase the counseling programs available for students. Its website boasts 11 professionals who specialize in a number of areas. Yet 11 counselors for an undergraduate body of 4,200 are not enough. So, yes, some of the counselors at Dick’s House are capable and able to help, but gaining access to those people in an effectual manner is next to impossible. Getting help is a crapshoot. There can be a two-week wait for an appointment, and counselors can only offers help on a short-term basis, with a set number of appointments until they must refer you to someone else. The office of student health promotion and wellness sponsors Dartmouth’s community of peer advisors in the department’s four designated “primary content” areas: alcohol and other drugs, eating disorders and nutrition, sexual assault and relationship violence and sexual health. These four groups do incredible work on campus providing outreach programs, but there’s a key area of “primary content” that is missing from the equation — a support community for mental health and awareness. There are many resources and contacts available, both online and otherwise, for the aforementioned four groups, but so few when it comes to the serious issues of depression and anxiety. So it should not be surprising that the process of seeking help for mental illness typically results in one of two outcomes: students either blindly flounder in the sea of Dick’s House’s counseling or do not seek help at all. In an atmosphere like ours, students need more than what Dartmouth offers. At a minimum, there should be clear access to a peer advisor group and to a more effective pipeline of professional counseling. I urge Dartmouth, Dick’s House and the student body to take steps toward addressing this gaping hole in the school’s support network.
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The College should focus its diversity efforts on socioeconomic parity.
This past Martin Luther King Jr. Day, students protested what they see as Dartmouth’s implicit cooperation with what they consider institutionalized racism and classism. They took issue with the fact that Dartmouth maintains what they referred to as the “commitment to the illusion of diversity.” While issues of racial equality are important, Dartmouth has actually come a long way in terms of racial diversity. When my mom stepped on campus in the fall of 1973, the campus population was a little over 10 percent female and roughly 90 percent white. When people talk of a stereotypical Dartmouth, one white as the snow that graces the Green, this is the image that pops into my mind. Though the buildings and the scenery remain the same, Dartmouth looks nothing like the school my mom attended. The core principle of liberal arts education remains, but a wider variety of people now bask in its benefits. In fact, fewer than half of the students are white. Forty years ago there were few Hispanic, Asian or international students, but these groups now represent 6, 14 and 16 percent of the student body, respectively. We’re far from the pinnacle of pluralism, but Dartmouth still boasts an incredibly diverse group of students — at least in terms of skin color. To me, though, skin color is a poor measure of diversity and its use as such promotes superficial judgments. A blind commitment to raising the representation of some races ignores other measures of diversity, primarily socioeconomic status. Dartmouth’s efforts to boost racial diversity and minority representation, combined with efforts to keep a healthy number of legacies in the student population, have left the white middle and working class — the largest segment of the American population — woefully underrepresented. This phenomenon is not limited to white people. Only 15 percent of the overall Dartmouth undergraduate student body receive Pell Grants and just shy of 50 percent of students do not receive financial aid (though to be fair, many
of our peer institutions are comparable in this regard). I feel this deficiency in socioeconomic diversity deprives students of perspectives that can only be gleaned from interaction with people of substantively different backgrounds. Race may be an indicator of superficial difference but does not guarantee a substantially different worldview. Conversely, one’s socioeconomic status may not be as apparent upon first glance, but it does provide one with a fundamentally different vantage point than from peers of different backgrounds. I’ve lived in a Super Zip bubble for almost all of my life, and my peers were mostly of a similar socioeconomic status despite being of fairly diverse ethnic backgrounds. Most of us were part of the same recreational sports as kids, put ourselves through the same advanced courses in high school and for the longest time, shared a broadly left-liberal political outlook. I had limited experience and substantive understanding of how people outside this bubble of relative socioeconomic parity lived and thought. A diversity of socioeconomic backgrounds naturally alleviates this problem, as people who are part of the top income brackets have substantively different political views than their less well-off counterparts, especially regarding social issues, and have different childhood experiences. Understanding these differences is important in a community that is supposed to cultivate the leaders of the future. While Dartmouth is far from a King-style utopia in racial and gender diversity and harmony, we’ve come a long way from the fairly bland, mostly white campus of my mom’s day. Though the importance of racial issues should not be dismissed, if we are to shape future leaders, we must expose students to backgrounds and upbringings radically different from their own. A rainbow of skin colors isn’t enough to accomplish this. So I feel it’s time that Dartmouth refocuses its efforts on something that hasn’t improved enough on campus since the 1970s — socioeconomic diversity.
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Students can travel out of Hanover with Zipcar FROM ZIPCAR PAGE 1
gave permission.” In order to register for the service, students under the age of 21 and their parents must sign an insurance acknowledgement form. Zipcar is a membership-based carsharing service that allows students and faculty to reserve cars. The three cars on campus are located around main campus and by the Tuck School of Business. Drivers must register online with Zipcar through the College, then they may reserve a car by hour or day. Membership costs $50 per year, plus a one-time $25 application fee. The price includes gas. While not yet a member, Hui Cheng ’16 said she is excited to use the service. “I tried to rent cars in the fall to get off campus and it was very frustrating because there were not services for 19-year-olds, but having Zipcars is super convenient,” Cheng said. Emily Estelle ’15 said the eques-
trian team signed up for a membership last fall so that team members without cars could drive to the barn where they practice. “I think it’s a good system, especially for people who don’t use a car very much,” Estelle said. “If I really needed to go somewhere, I think it’s a good option to have.” Holli Weed ’14 said she and her boyfriend, who purchased a Zipcar subscription, use the service to take trips together. She said that in most cases, the cars were clean and returned on time. In one incident, however, the individual who had rented the car before her failed to return it on time and left the car in a disheveled condition. The service, she said, has provided her with more freedom. “If it were for something completely necessary, like a doctor’s appointment, I’m sure I would be able to find a ride or friend who would take me,” she said. “But having Zipcars definitely allows me to take more fun trips.”
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TODAY All day Library Collections Showcase, Baker-Berry Library
12:30 p.m. Faculty candidate presentation, “On the Long Road to Patient Engagement in Healthcare: Where Patients can, Physicians Must and Healthcare Organizations Enable,” with Marie-Anne Durand of University of Hertfordshire, 35 Centerra, 3rd floor conference room
7:00 p.m. Film screening, “How to Survive a Plague” (2012), Loew Auditorium
TOMORROW 4:00 p.m. Anthropology colloquium, “The Politics of Doubt: Living with Cancer in Contemporary India,” Rockefeller Center 002
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“Tacky’s Revolt and the Coromantee Archipelago: A New Cartography of Slave Revolt,” with Vincent Brown of Harvard University, Carson L01
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7:00 p.m. Live simulcast, “Coriolanus,” Loew Auditorium RELEASE DATE– Thursday, January 23, 2014
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Artists reflect on time at Dartmouth B y rebecca asoulin
with the student and the faculty and just had a great time,” Taylor said. At the event, the artists said that Louise Fishman, a former artistin-residence at the College, still they had appreciated the relative remembers how she feared leaving isolation in Hanover as well as the large blocks of time spent devoted New York City for Hanover. “To get in my car and pack up all to their work. “The studio is this sort of fantasmy stuff and go north — I’d been to New Hampshire once camping, but I tic isolated bubble,” Newman said. didn’t know where I was going,” she “One of the things that I really said. “I think there’s a lot of fear of appreciated was that there was a beautiful balance of people being putting yourself out in that way.” Leaving her comfort zone, how- appropriately solicitous and leaving ever, enabled her to enjoy a produc- me alone.” Artists said Dartmouth’s diverse tive change of pace from the studio that she was familiar with, Fishman, resources, especially in such a small space, inspired new projects. Some an abstract painter, said. Moderated by Hood Museum artists explored art mediums like director Michael Taylor, three former ceramics or photography, while othartists-in-residence spoke about their ers, like Newman, ventured down experiences in the program dur- Tuck Drive to experiment with the Thayer School ing a Tuesday of Engineering evening panel, “They were all saying 3D printer. “The Artist-inFishResidence Pro- that art is their life, and man said she gram at Dart- it’s a life well lived.” even ventured mouth.” The into the music event was one of department many talks and - HOOD DIRECTOR across the hall gallery tours as- MICHAEL TAYLOR and would sociated with the sometimes play recently opened “In Residence” exhibit at the Hood, an open piano. “I got all new brushes, a huge which features work from over 80 amount of acrylic paint and rug former artists-in-residnece. The 83-year-old program hosts samples,” Fishman said. “I thought three to four artists a year, who live I could paint on everything I posand work at the College and exhibit sibly could. My experience was one their art in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery. discovery after another.” Artists also engage with students Tuesday’s panel featured Fishman, Linda Matalon, a post-minimalist during their time in-residence, visitsculptor and illustrator, and John ing classes related to their field of Newman, a contemporary sculptor. focus. Luca Molnar ’13, previously “We invited the artists who took a studio arts major and currently an the most advantage of the resources intern in the department, said Mawe had on campus, who tried new talon and Newman gave her helpful things, who integrated themselves feedback about her work during their
time as residents. “By the time you’re a senior, the professors kind of already know your work,” Molnar said. “It’s super valuable to have that outside perspective.” Studio art professor and director of exhibitions Gerald Auten said that students in the arts should seek out the artists-in-residence. In total, a student can have the opportunity to engage with 12 world-renowned artists during their time at the College, he said. “[Artists] cannot teach, but they are required to interact with students,” he said. “I don’t know any other program like that. It’s an opportunity to interact with artists that define their generation.” The panelists said that they benefited from such interactions as well. Fishman said she could form close relationships with a few students and even purchased some students’ work. Matalon said that although she almost deleted the email inviting her to Dartmouth, her eventual exhibition at the end of the residency period, a retrospective of her work going back to the 1970s, remains one of her favorites. “When I came to Dartmouth, I didn’t have the intention of trying new things,” she said. “You never know what’s going to happen. You have to keep your eyes open and your heart open. I feel really fortunate to have been here.” Taylor said that students’ interaction with artist can also open them to the possibility of pursuing a career in the arts, or at least as a life long hobby. “It shows them that art is a life,” Taylor said. “They were all saying that art is their life, and it’s a life well lived.”
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Three former artists-in-residence discussed their experience at the College in a panel on Tuesday.
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Digital music students benefit from the College’s advanced equipment.
B y Angel carrillo Leal Back when Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were the big names in American music, Dartmouth hosted the world’s first competition in electronic music. Yes, you read that right. Under the direction of former music professor Jon Appleton, the College opened its first electronic music studio in 1968. Located in the Hopkins Center, the Hardy Broadcast Studio included a Moog synthesizer and allowed students to take electronic music composition classes for the first time. Dartmouth’s current studio, Bregman Electronic Music Studio, is located in Hallgarten Hall. Undergraduate and graduate students use the computer workstations and digital equipment to compose and research digital music. Access is restricted to undergraduate students who have taken digital music classes, but after completing this course, they are allowed to use the space for creative work. Students can record projects in the Bittrax recording room, and a technical director or graduate student can offer assistance. Music professor Spencer Topel said the studio includes faculty offices, a post doctorate room, graduate room and other workspaces where students can work on publications, research and compositions. The studio also puts on multimedia installations, he said. While most programs are tailored to graduate students, undergraduates can take some graduate courses, Topel said. In the fall, students taking advanced sound design and digital musics graduate students together put on the Sound/Unsound exhibit. “It was a joy to see graduates and undergraduates come together collaboratively to solve technical and
artistic problems and to present their results publicly to the community,” Topel said. Sebastian Bierman-Lytle ’15, a student who uses the studio, said he appreciated interacting with visiting artists and composers. “A visitor to the composers forum showed how he created a turntable from a bicycle and a tape player,” Bierman-Lytle said. “He improvised a piece, then allowed us to play around with his instrument.” Currently, there are six students enrolled in Dartmouth’s Digital Musics graduate program. These students explore the relationship between music, design and computer science. Carlos Dominguez, a student in the program, said he enjoyed the installation shows put on by people who use the studio, such as the Sound/ Unsound exhibition. Andrew Sarroff, a computer science Ph.D. student, said he uses the space for researching music computation.
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As Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” played over the speakers, John Gilmore ’17 took to the ice in Thompson Arena, displaying all the swagger of Joel’s 1980 hit, tossing his hat and throwing his tie over his shoulder. The figure skating team hosted its annual Winter Ice Spectacular on Sunday, skating in Hanover for the first time this year, returning after a third-place finish behind the University of Delaware and Boston University at the Nov. 16-17 Cornell Invitational. “It was great to see so many of our friends and faculty out here,” Maddy Thornton ’17 said. “It’s really nice to be supported.” Skaters crafted their routines at the beginning of the term and had three weeks to practice them for the show, according to team co-captain Caroline Knoop ’15. The team, she said, is building for a strong season. “Starting off with a show program really builds endurance, and then we build to our competitive programs later in the season,” Koop said. “It just gives us a chance to perform in front of a crowd without some of the pressures of competition while providing performance experience.” The team came in second place at the U.S. Figure Skating Intercollegiate Team Competition last year, which the team hosted at Thompson Arena in April. Overall, the Big Green has won six national titles since it launched the team 17 years ago, including five in a row from 2004 to 2008. The team’s most recent national crown was in 2012. After Gilmore’s performance, Iris Yu ’14 skated to “Hearts without Chains,” followed by Thornton, who performed a steady, graceful dance to John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Her only mistake occurred when she leaned too far backward and slid on the ice, but she bounced back up and finished strong. Elana Folbe ’15, Alyssa Mahatme ’17 and Knoop also performed in the first half of the show, skating to Michael Jackson’s “Bad,” Suzie McNeil’s “Believe,” as well as Demi Lovato’s “Let it Go,” respectively. After a brief intermission, Christiana Johnson ’17, Clara Guo ’17, Pinar Gurel, a Geisel School of
Medicine student, co-captain Jojo Miller ’14 and Katie Bates ’16 took to the ice. After a running start, Miller slid on his knees toward the audience, a highlight of the show. Armin Mahbanoozadeh ’17 finished the string of individual performances with an impressive display, surprising the crowd by successfully finishing three triples, the only triples of the afternoon. The team then lined up on both ends of the ice for the final performance of the afternoon, a synchronized skating routine set to Owl City’s “Good Time.” During the routine, the skaters formed a circle in the middle of the ice and jumped around, pumping their arms in the air and eliciting cheers from the crowd. “Our group number was pretty epic,” Knoop said. Skaters each selected their songs, according to Esther Wu ’16. Many
of the songs were ballads, including “Hearts without Chains” by Ellie Goulding, but other more upbeat songs provided some measure of contrast, including “I Don’t Wanna Be” by Gavin DeGraw and Michael Jackson’s “Bad.” Sunday marked the team seniors’ final performance for the greater Dartmouth community. “The Dartmouth Skating Team has been very near and dear to my heart, and I’m glad that I’ve devoted four years of my time to them,” Miller said. Now, the team will prepare for its upcoming competitions at Liberty University Feb. 28 - March 2. From there, the team will compete on March 22-23 at the University of Delaware and, if it qualifies for Nationals again, the U.S. Intercollegiate Team Championships hosted at Adrian College in Adrian, Mich., April 11-13.
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The figure skating team hosted its annual Winter Ice Spectacular on Sunday.
junior is now 3-1 in his last four matches, losing only in the 9-0 rout last week The Dartmouth Staff against Trinity College. The women’s team (2-5, 0-3 Ivy) The men’s and women’s squash teams split their matchups this past played two matches on Saturday, testweekend, both defeating Bates College ing its players’ endurance. The No. 8 Big Green fell to at the Yale Round the No. 7 CardiRobin in New HaDARTMOUTH (M) 6 nals (4-4) 6-3. The ven, Conn. The wins for the Dartmen also faced off BATES 3 mouth women against the Unicame from their versity of Western WESTERN ONTARIO 6 sixth, seventh and Ontario, and the women squared DARTMOUTH (M) 3 eighth players. In a long 3-2 battle, off against Stanford University. DARTMOUTH (W) 7 Lydie McKenzie ’16 won in the sevBoth games were BATES 2 enth spot to start losses for the Big of the day. Four Green. The No. 11 Big STANFORD 6 matches against the Cardinals Green men’s team DARTMOUTH (W) 3 went to a decisive (2-6, 0-3 Ivy) won fifth set, but three its first match of the weekend against the No. 13 Bob- of these matches resulted in losses. “We faced two teams that are closely cats (8-5) 6-3. Dartmouth took care of business with Bates, only losing at ranked to us, so we knew going into the the number one, two and seven spots. matches that they were both going to Sophomore Ahmed Abdel Khalek be tough,” captain Kate Nimmo ’14 and freshman Ahmed Hatata swept said. “Up and down the ladder, there the Big Green’s one and two, Xander were incredibly close matches on an Greer ’16 and Nick Harrington ’17, individual basis. Unfortunately, we just respectively. Chris Jung ’14 and Mark couldn’t close out those tight games.” The second match of the day for Funk ’15 both crawled out of deficits to win their matches in five sets. The the Big Green women was against No. most impressive show came from James 12 Bates. The Big Green defeated the Fisch ’16, who swept his opponent in Bobcats (8-5) 7-2. In the Big Green’s two losses, its players were swept. In the the number eight slot. “I think all weekend we saw some other seven games, only Bates’ second good performances,” head coach Hansi player extended her match to five sets. “I think our performance is a testaWiens said, highlighting on Fisch’s strong game. “We lost to some good op- ment to our fitness, which is definitely ponents, but for the rest of the matches something that we have been focusing on,” Nimmo said. “The double and we were pretty much in control.” The men’s team then lost to No. 9 sometimes triple practices we had Western Ontario (13-4) 3-6. Greer’s over interim prepared us for days like first weekend back from injury resulted Saturday.” Unlike the Stanford game, the in two losses by the Big Green number one. On Sunday, he lost 3-1, falling match against the Bobcats was characquietly with an 11-1 loss in his fourth terized by dominance. Scott rebounded from her earlier loss with a 3-0 victory game. “They were ranked ahead of us, in the third slot, as did Helena Darling and we knew it was going to be tough, ’15 in the number six game. Wiens noted that wins against but we had some great performances,” Columbia University and Brown Wiens said. Though the Big Green lost its top University could place the Big Green five matches, Harrington and Kyle women in the top eight by nationals at Martino ’16 played their matches the end of February. The men and women continue closely, falling in narrow 3-2 defeats. Martino jumped out to a comfortable their road trip, traveling to Columbia 2-0 lead, but fell in the next three games. University and Cornell University Funk continued his hot streak, this weekend. They play the Lions on sweeping the number six player. The Saturday and the Big Red on Sunday.
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