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Six new residential communities based in current residence halls will begin housing students next fall, the College announced in a press release on Monday. Students graduating later than June 2016 will be randomly assigned into one of the communities in February and will have the chance to request up to five students they would like to be in their house next month. Members of the Class of 2020 will be assigned
houses next July when they are given room assignments. The creation of residential communities was announced as part of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative on Jan. 29 of this year. A student advisory committee was formed after the announcement and three working groups of students, staff and house professors were created this fall to contribute to certain aspects of the residential community plan. Dean of the College Re-
becca Biron, who has been overseeing the plans for residential communities, said that all students will be assigned a community, though they may live in alternate housing options, such as Living Learning Communities, off-campus options, affinity houses and Greek houses. Where a student lives any given term is not the same as their house membership, Biron said. While former interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer told The Dartmouth SEE HOUSES PAGE 6
The federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights began investigating Dartmouth for a potential violation of Title IX on Aug. 21, Vermont Public Radio reported in late October. The College has been under investigation for a separate complaint since May 31, 2013. According to a list provided to The Dartmouth by the Office for Civil Rights, other peer institutions with more than one pending Title IX investigation include Columbia, Stanford and Brown Universities. There are 146 colleges being investigated for at least one complaint, with 25 of those having more than one open investigation. Unlike the first complaint filed against the College in 2013, the second involves a complaint made by an individual against the College to the Office for Civil Rights, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The College does not believe that there is merit to the complaint and, at this time,
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the Office for Civil Rights has not found any instance of noncompliance by the College, she said. Adele Kimmel, an attorney specializing in Title IX at the Public Justice Foundation in Washington, D.C., said that procedurally, students are able to file complaints to the Office for Civil Rights, assuming that there is an institutional noncompliance with Title IX. She said that the Office for Civil Rights will only pursue an investigation if research shows probable incidence of noncompliance. Although the Office for Civil Rights’ investigations are only supposed to last for 180 days, some investigations often last longer depending on the case at hand, Kimmel said. Office for Civil Rights investigations are common not only in institutions of higher education but also in many elementary and secondary schools, she said. The Office for Civil Rights also opens investigations without student
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Student Assembly will conclude this term’s installments of its “Stop Hiding, Start Talking” campaign to raise awareness about mental health this week with several panels and a relaxation event. On Monday, the organization hosted a discussion about anxiety and substance abuse at Phi Tau genderinclusive fraternity. On
Wednesday, the Assembly, alongside Counseling and Human Development, will co-sponsor a “Relaxation Fest” at Collis Common Ground. The campaign will culminate in an all-day event on Thursday — “Sticker Day.” Students will wear customizable stickers that allow them to share issues with which they are struggling. Even if students choose not to fill SEE SA WEEK PAGE 5
Dartmouth has announced the creation of an Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement to bring together the sciences and humanities. The institute will be directed by philosophy and physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser. “The goal is to bring the sciences and the humanities into a constructive dialogue,” Gleiser said. The Institute arose out of Gleiser’s desire to create a more comprehensive in-
stitute for cross-disciplinary study. “There’s been a lot of talk about cross-disciplinarity, but there’s very little being done that is effective,” Gleiser said. “There’s the odd course here and there, but you don’t have a truly transfor mative medium where this can be done.” To provide this medium, the institute will have three main functions. First, it will host public dialogues around the country on big questions between scholars from different disciplines. Second, it will bring scholars
in the humanities and the sciences to the College as fellows in residence for up to one term. Third, the institute will create two online courses in conjunction with DartmouthX, the College’s online learning initiative. The public dialogues will be held in large theaters around the country in major American cities such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. There will be a total of nine dialogues, with three each year over three years. SEE ICDE PAGE 3
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DAily debriefing The findings of a new study led by Dartmouth researchers found that the Greenland ice sheet has not lost the amount of surface reflectivity that as was previously thought, according to a College press release. The ice sheet reflects light from the sun and satellite measurements had shown it was darkening, which some studies had attributed to ice darkened from fossil fuel pollution and forest fires. Research from the Dartmouth team suggests the degradation of satellite sensors showed a greater loss of reflectivity. The research team came to its findings by studying snow-pit samples from snowfalls during the 2012-2014 period compared to earlier samples, which did not show a significant change in markers that would indicate fuel pollution or forest fire impurities. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center chief executive officer and president James Weinstein was selected for a Becker’s Hospital Review feature of 100 physician leaders to know, according to a DHMC press release. The list is published annually and consideration is given to nominations. Weinstein was also recently selected for the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations’ Ellis Island Medal of Honor and listed as among the 100 most influential people in the health care industry by Modern Healthcare. — COMPLIED BY LAURA WEISS
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Only 7 percent of the student body has downloaded the LiveSafe app, introduced to campus this fall to facilitate students’ seeking help when threatened on campus. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne and LiveSafe engagement partner Maili Neverosky said their goal going forward is a more aggressive marketing plan. The app was first suggested in College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative in January. The initiative said the College would develop a Dartmouth-specific safety smartphone app for students to seek assistance if they ever felt in danger. “Dartmouth is actually being progressive in bringing technology like this to campus to make it safer for students and faculty,” Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said. Features of the app include being able to chat with a Safety and Security officer, report incidents anonymously and directly to Safety and Security and speed dial both Safety and Security and 911. The app also allows a friend to track someone on a map as they go from one point to another if they are concerned about that person’s safety and compiles safety information about the College from various websites into one place. Neverosky said that LiveSafe’s goal with its apps is to make campus a safer place for students to live and learn. “We want to put them in an environment where they are safe, where they’re not worried about everything from active shooters to sexual assault,” Neverosky said. LiveSafe has apps on campuses at over 100 universities in 30 states and is sold to the universities as a safety technology platform. At Dartmouth, only 309 students — 7 percent of the student body — has downloaded the app, Neverosky said. Kinne said that Safety and Security plans to run a marketing campaign soon to try to increase the number of people who download the app so that students use it for next term. Marketing events held by other universities include scavenger hunts and raffles, Neverosky said. Neverosky said that a check-in between the College and LiveSafe is planned soon to discuss ways to hit a 15 percent download benchmark by four to six months after the unveiling of the app. “We like to check back in and say, ‘Hey, how’s it working, what can we do, is there something we can create or do to help support you?’” Neverosky said. Even on a safe campus, the app is useful from a sexual assault standpoint because it helps cover the gray area in bystander intervention, Neverosky said. So far, Kinne and Dennis have discussed the app during a presentation they gave to freshmen during Orientation about safety, sexual assault and
underage drinking on campus, Kinne and Dennis said. Kinne said Safety and Security also talked to undergraduate advisors and asked them to download the app as well. There have been a number of people who have used the app so far to make Good Samaritan calls and to report other incidents to Safety and Security, Kinne said. “It’s been very helpful,” Kinne said. Most of the reports so far have been anonymous, Kinne said. “What is most important is that people have reported things,” Kinne said. Looking forward, Kinne said the app will be updated with new information over time. “We hope that as people become familiar with it, people will find it something that they want to use while on campus,” he said. While the app does not replace someone’s cellphone as a method of communication, Kinne said it could be helpful if someone was in a situation where they had trouble communicating but wanted their location to be tracked, which he said would be “beneficial to first responders.” Kinne said he thinks the Hanover Police appreciate the app as another way to communicate, both with Safety and Security and with students through the 911 feature. Dennis said the Hanover Police heard about the app for the first time at a meeting this summer, where they saw a demo and were asked for input. The Hanover Police Department communication supervisor had one suggestion related to the 911 feature, but other than that the police approved of the app, Dennis said. Out of five students interviewed for this article, four of them had heard of the app but had not downloaded it and one had not heard of it. The four students who had heard of the app all said that they would download the app, but had not yet just
because they had forgotten to or had not thought about it enough because they perceive campus as safe. “Yes I would download it because it’s a safety app, but if it came to the point here I had to call 911, I wouldn’t think about the safety app. I would just call 911,” Shashwat Kala ’18 said. Caitlin Flint ’16 said she has not heard of the app and that she would not download it because of her lack of interest of having apps on her phone in general. “If I need to call [Safety and Security], I have them in my speed dial,” she said. Neverosky said one of the biggest factors in getting students on board with the app is hearing about it from their peers and not just from Safety and Security or faculty. She said if LiveSafe cannot make the app relevant and convince student organizations to buy in and use it, the app will not be used by campus. Neverosky thinks the best way to do this is to find a student group that wants to take the spread of LiveSafe on as an initiative. Tapping into student leadership will also help LiveSafe learn what works and what does not, she said. The app allows students to step in silently and stick up for their friends without having to call themselves out, she said. One of the founders of LiveSafe was the survivor of a campus shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the other was the victim of armed robbery, making the purpose of the app personally meaningful, Neverosky said. This fall, Safety and Security also unrolled two other safety initiatives: DartAlert, which sends emergency messages to cell phones, and DartAlert Desktop Alert, a computer software that will pop up on computer screens if Safety and Security sends out an alert. This November, they will roll out the outside map notification system, which is a set of two speaker siren systems that will be used in conjunction with DartAlert and Desktop Alert if there is an emergency.
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“We’ll bring together very prominent scientists, humanists and spiritual leaders to talk about questions where a single approach doesn’t make sense,” Gleiser said. “For example, free will. Are we free to chose? Scientists have one way of looking at this question, philosophers and theologians have a different way. I want to bring these people into conversation in a public forum,” he said. The public dialogue will also be aided by question-and-answer sessions with the audience and livestreams of the events on the institute’s website. The day after the dialogues, more intimate workshops of 20 to 30 people will be held to discuss the topic in greater detail. Members of the public will apply to attend the workshops, though five Dartmouth students will be selected to attend, Gleiser said. “Those people [attending the workshops] will be what I call my ambassadors, they’re going to be charged with spreading the word and starting the conversation,” he said. Gleiser intends to transcribe and edit the nine public dialogues into a book which will include his own commentary. Gleiser will also produce a blog on the institute’s website, which he hopes will be similar to his blog for National Public Radio, titled “Cosmos and Culture.” “With my NPR blog, we’ve created a community of people who really talk to one another,” Gleiser said. The fellows program will attract individuals with cross-disciplinary backgrounds and interests for events such as student and faculty lunches and dinners as well as public lectures. “We want philosophers writing about science and vice versa. We want playwrights with plays about science and novelists who are scientists,” Gleiser said. The first online course will most likely run in spring 2017, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning director Josh Kim said. It will be based off Gleiser’s course “Question Reality!” offered at the College last spring, which combined physics, philosophy and religion. The second course’s topic is undecided and will be open to proposals from the College’s faculty. “The idea is that part of the institute’s work is to do outreach and education, and DartmouthX can be another vehicle for that
work,” Kim said. The institute’s goals align well with those of DartmouthX, as both are focused on undergraduate students’ intellectual experiences, he said. “Our main goal with the DartmouthX initiative is to open up an experimental space to improve learning here on campus,” Kim said. The institute will be funded by the College and the John Templeton Foundation of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, which focuses on answering “big questions” through cross-disciplinary work. The Foundation donated $2.5 million, followed by complementary College funding of $1.5 million. The money will mostly be used to pay for speakers, fellows and travel expenses, Gleiser said. “When you want to attract highcaliber people you have to be very generous,” Gleiser said. Philosophy professor and institute steering board member Adina Roskies said that the institute aims to foster dialogue between more technical fields and the humanities. “The goal is to make science more accessible to non-scientists,” Roskies said. “There’s a moral imperative that the world would be a better place if the sciences can talk to the humanities.” For instance, the institute could deal specifically with issues surrounding climate change, the environment and food systems, Roskies said. The steering board of the institute includes academics from institutions of higher education across the nation in a variety of disciplines, often with interdisciplinary backgrounds. Roskies, who holds degrees in neuroscience, law and philosophy, has just such a background. “I’m an obvious person for the steering board,” she said. “I’m a scientist and philosopher.” The steering board also includes recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal and the MacArthur Fellowship. Roskies said that the members of the steering board know relatively little about the specifics of the institute besides its aims. “[Gleiser] hasn’t shared many details with us yet. I don’t even have a copy of the proposal,” Roskies said. Kim said DartmouthX has not started producing the online courses for the institute at this time. “Its really, really early,” he said. “The grant hasn’t even started. There’s nothing even fully planned out yet.”
complaints, as was the case with the 2013 investigation against Dartmouth. While having more than one concurrent investigation is not unique to Dartmouth, the incidence is very rare, John Clune said. Clune specializes in Title IX litigation at Hutchinson, Black and Cook, LLC, in Boulder, Colorado. It is difficult to draw institutional conclusions based on Office for Civil Rights investigations, however, as they are more likely to happen at colleges which have undergone them before, Clune said. Dartmouth Change co-founder Susy Struble ’93 credits the investigation to a disconnect between administrators and students. Dartmouth Change is an organization that connects faculty, alumni, students and other community members to combat sexual violence at the College. “Students are tired of dealing with strategic committees and of working within the system,” Struble said. She said that she commends the student who filed the complaint with the Office for Civil Rights,
adding that she believes the College’s administration has not yet achieved an easy and open way for students to file sexual assault complaints outside of the Collegecontrolled judicial process.
“Students are tired of dealing with strategic committees and of working within the system.” - Da rt m o u t h c h a n g e co-fo u n d e r s u sy st r u b l e ’93 Struble also hopes the new Office for Civil Rights investigation will incite a change in how administrators address sexual assault and Title IX violations on campus. The College must reform itself as an institution now that there are multiple open federal investigations at proceeding against it, Struble said. “There are a lot of words but
not a lot of actions [from administrators], and I think we are seeing the fruit of that now,” she said. This second Office for Civil Rights investigation is the direct result of decades of neglect on behalf of administrators in providing an equal and safe space for students at Dartmouth, Struble said. Because the Office for Civil Rights would not undertake an investigation unless there was considerable evidence against the institution in question, the College having two open federal investigations is indicative of a larger problem at Dartmouth, Struble said. The message of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative constitutes a step in the right direction, Struble said, although she thinks the administration could be more effective in its execution of the program. Administrators continue to encourage a separation between themselves and students, ultimately discouraging students from coming forward with Title IX issues to the College, she said. Dartmouth Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist declined to comment, citing that the ongoing nature of the investigation.
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The College needs to correct its habit of hiring more employees each year. Elite universities enjoy a certain privilege when compared to publicly traded companies and stateowned enterprises. Namely, Ivy League universities and their peers are not held accountable to the same external checks on decision-making that other sorts of institutions face. Public companies, whether they are active in the technology, financial or energy sector, have to answer to both customers and shareholders. Bodies that rely on government spending are — at least in theory — subject to taxpayer oversight through legislative action. If poor management leads to inefficiency and underperformance in either scenario, affected parties have recourse to boards or legislators who can exert influence and force reform. This is how organizations improve. In the case of the College, however, no comparable impetus for institutional improvement exists. The College, much like other top-tier schools, has a near-limitless supply of potential students. Dartmouth has the luxury of turning away nine applicants for every person it admits. Astoundingly, almost 50 percent of enrolling students are able to pay the College’s tremendous cost of attendance without financial aid. Because there is no apparent shortage of families willing to pony up for a Dartmouth degree, even in light of continually ballooning costs, the College need not concern itself with pesky little things like organizational efficiency and judicious use of resources. Instead, Dartmouth can afford to gorge on the budgetary equivalent of a never-ending buffet, consuming every dish while a sea of bright-eyed waiters — the students and their families — happily replenish it with their funds. It is a sick cycle. If the College were to throw fiscal restraint out the window — which it certainly has — one would hope that students would at least be the direct beneficiaries of overspending. Many areas of Dartmouth could use more money. Administrators recently eliminated need-blind admission for international applicants. Many buildings on campus, particularly freshman dormitories, are in need of renovation. Faculty compensation, as discussed in this newspaper’s Oct. 30 editorial, is lower than that of the College’s peer institutions, making it more difficult to attract and retain aca-
demic talent. The net effect of these deficiencies is to undermine the much-talked-about Dartmouth experience. Rather than mobilizing the College’s tremendous resources to fix these shortcomings, however, administrators have demonstrated neglect in their decision-making processes. Over the past decade and a half, they have committed a cardinal sin by allowing the ranks of non-faculty staff to expand in size to the point of absurdity. According to the College Fact Book, the College employed 2,408 non-faculty staff in 1999. The corresponding figure for 2014 was 3,503 — an increase of 45.5 percent. It is difficult to see how two additional battalions of non-faculty employees have contributed in a meaningful way to Dartmouth’s overall institutional health. In the past two decades, both our U.S. News and World Report ranking and the participation rate for the senior class gift trended downward. While these statistics are not perfect indicators of performance, they demonstrate that neither the external perception of nor the internal satisfaction with a Dartmouth education has increased in correlation with the number of College staff. The reason for this is that professors — not deans, student life advisors or sensitivity police — are what make the Dartmouth experience great. Students spend four years in Hanover because they want to receive a world-class education in a unique setting that is both collegial and challenging. They do not make the trek up to the New Hampshire woods to be babysat by legions of overpaid bureaucrats. But because the College will likely feel, as discussed above, no real pressure to change its wasteful ways, we can only hope that the highest levels of Dartmouth’s leadership will have the courage to take action simply because it is responsible to do so. The solution is not complicated — stop hiring and start firing. By returning to the staffing levels of the 1990s, Dartmouth can take a stand against bureaucratic excess and become the efficient, focused and affordable institution it should be. Without administrative redundancy weighing down balance sheets, the College can devote more of its efforts to undergraduate education and to projects that directly serve the interests of its students. The buffet must come to an end.
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Foreign experiences suggest that the high U.S. drinking age has downsides. Dartmouth students are often said to live within a “bubble,” and this often insular environment means an outside perspective can be extremely useful. Perhaps the biggest and thickest bubble around here, though, is not just limited to campus — instead, it is the larger American bubble. While I cannot speak necessarily speak for everyone, as an international student the most striking aspect of life within this American bubble has been the drinking culture. It seems the prevalence and enthusiasm for high-risk drinking is enormous and alcohol-induced vomiting — “booting” — is very common. While I come from the Czech Republic, which has the highest consumption of beer per capita in the world by far, and I certainly enjoy having an occasional drink, I have never seen such high-risk alcohol consumption before. The problem, I believe, is that the legal drinking age of 21 years old is higher than almost anywhere else in the world. In this case, it seems stricter is not better. Youth drinking is essentially inevitable, and the appeal of a forbidden fruit is simply so irresistible that it’s almost unbelievable that any law would eliminate underage drinking. The question is how can we reduce, rather than eliminate, the risk of underage drinking. The best solution is to introduce adolescents to alcohol in a safe environment — which is what usually happens in the countries with lower legal drinking age, such as my home country. Many people in Europe start to drink when they are in high school and — at least in my experience — high school partying hardly gets too wild. Parents are glued to their phones checking on their kids every 10 to 15 minutes, people start leaving at 11 p.m. because of their curfews and many partygoers stand around awkwardly as they have never been out before. Lower rates of self-reported intoxication in some European countries seem to confirm this impression. Now, compare this image to an average Dartmouth party. While I will restrain myself from describing the party scene, I do want to point out that none of the signs outlined above are present. Simply put, learning to drink is like learning to ski — you start on a hill with barely any slope, not on a mountaintop cliff on a in the Alps.
Second, the problem with such a high drinking age is that by the time they make it to college, some misguided students aim to black out on their first few nights out. This likely comes from the perception that alcohol is meant to mess with your head, and hence one must always desire to experience inebriation to its fullest effects. Most people who are already familiar with the effects of alcohol, however, often agree that the best experience is not achieved when one can no longer walk. In the United States, parents, college administrators and even government officials try to explain this to students, but nearly everyone must experience it to truly understand. It is safer to experience this during your 18th birthday party with your friends — and possibly even your parents — than in a fraternity basement surrounded by strangers. Overall, my impression is that in the people in the U.S. often drink for the sake of getting drunk as quickly as possible. Outside of the U.S., people seem to drink more to get in the mood — some quirky individuals even drink just for the taste of it. I would argue that the latter is preferable. This is not just my impression, however. The statistical evidence is in resounding support. While Europeans tend to drink much more per capita, they experience fewer alcohol-related deaths — excluding the former Soviet republics — than Americans, according to the World Health Organization. This contradiction should serve as a warning sign to the American government, but, surprisingly it often goes undiscussed. Similarly, the economic harm per capita of alcohol consumption in the U.S., as estimated by the WHO, is higher than the weighted average. The cost in America is more than two times higher than the costs per capita in France and Scotland. The solutions to many of the social problems America faces are quite literally beyond the border. Yet inside the American bubble, policymakers often ignore outside evidence. A July 2014 Gallup poll found that 74 percent of Americans continue to oppose lowering the drinking age to 18 — somehow, legislators and the public alike have fallen victim to the false assumption that stricter means safer. Looking abroad suggests that the country needs to reconsider its views.
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out the sticker, Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said he hopes students wear it in honor of the unspoken challenges students face. The sticker can serve as a gesture of support for the several students who, he said, will line up to share personal testimonies related to mental illness at the an event titled “Behind the Mask” in Rollins Chapel that evening. Wearing a sticker can be a powerful statement — it illustrates that the student understands that mental health can be a delicate and challenging subject, Assembly vice president Dari Seo ’16 said. “It’s okay to be vulnerable,” Seo said. “At the end of the day, our main message is to say, ‘I’m here for you,’ and wearing this sticker is our way to show that I want to listen to you.” The Assembly’s events are hosted in partnership with many other campus organizations, including Active Minds, Palaeopitus Senior Society, Counseling and Human Development, Student Wellness Center and the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. Cunningham noted that the diversity of campus bodies involved with the campaign illustrates the scope of the issue.
When addressing the name of the campaign “Stop Hiding, Start Talking,” which has triggered controversy among students, Cunningham said the name did exactly what it was supposed to do. “It got people talking,” he said. Assembly head of health and wellness Speight Carr ’16 said that Assembly recognizes that the campaign cannot completely erase the challenges associated with speaking about mental health. “It’s a grandiose dream for us to think we can completely destigmatize mental health,” Carr said. “But through these discussions, we think we are starting to chip away and get people talking.” As a part of their campaign, the Assembly presented a term-long discussion series beginning in October. The first panel, titled “Sexuality, Identity and Mental Health,” aimed to spark conversation about the struggles of Dartmouth students trying to find their identities. “It’s really cool because [mental health and sexuality are] not really talked about in conjunction,” Xander Johnson ’18, who attended the event, said. “It’s nice to see the two being addressed together.” Willow Pagán ’19 attended the most recent discussion, “Coping
with the Rigors of College Life,” to support a friend who helped plan it. This particular conversation sought to promote understanding of college stressors and available resources. Pagán said she was not expecting it to be so relevant to her life.
“It’s a grandiose dream for us to think we can completely destigmatize mental health.” - Student assembly head of health and wellness speight carr ’16 “When I left, I felt more at ease. I ended up getting a lot out of it,” Pagán said. Both events included small group discussions, which Johnson said promoted more thoughtful dialogue. Pagán said she enjoyed taking a moment to pause and sit and talk with caring people. “I sat with people I never met before. I liked that because I got a
lot of different perspectives,” Pagán said. Many colleges and universities around the country are also increasing awareness of mental health. In the Ivy League, Yale University has undertaken significant work in the past few years regarding mental health issues. For example, their Mental Health and Counseling department has bolstered staff, and Yale announced “The Wellness Project,” which aims to enhance support for mental health services and inspire a culture of holistic wellness. “We’ve taken this into our hands and definitely advocated this as an issue, not only because it’s something we see as important but it’s something that has received a significant amount of campus dialogue,” Yale College Council vice president Madeline Bauer, a junior, said. Princeton University has held an annual Mental Health Week and boosted additional resources and programs. Four years ago, a committee called the Princeton Mental Health Initiative was founded, which aims to improve access to resources, reduce stigma and spark dialogue, Princeton Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng, a senior, said.
“We have another entire committee of 10 to 12 people who focus on projects related to mental health,” Cheng said. During Mental Health Week last year, a professional photographer captured students who shared hopes and stories of loss for the Dear World Project. Princeton also participates in an activity called the Me Too Monologues, originally created by students at Duke University in 2009, in which anonymous students write monologues about their own experiences with mental health. These monologues are then edited, directed and performed by students. Dartmouth and Princeton have taken a more visible approach to raise awareness, but Bauer said the Yale College Council does not seek an awareness campaign. Instead, because the University wants to ensure students feel comfortable speaking about mental health issues, the College Council prefers to work through collaboration with the Yale administration. “The administration is really open to hear what the students have to say about certain issues. They want the students to have the best possible experience when they go and use university resources,” Bauer said.
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in January that the system would begin with the Class of 2019 and current ’16s, ’17s and ’18s could be given the choice to opt-in to a community if they would like, Biron said she was unaware of any announcements that the community system would not include all students on campus next year. Students will not be able to change which house community they are in after random assignments, Biron said. “Everybody’s membership is permanent, it’s lifelong, and we hope that people will build those ties and keep them post-graduation,” she said. Engineering professor Jane Hill, comparative literature professor Dennis Washburn, biology professor Ryan Calsbeek, mathematics professor Craig Sutton, sociology professor Kathryn Lively and physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox were selected for four-year terms as house professors in May. Mathematics professor Sergi Elizalde, though not announced in May, will also serve a four-year term as house professor. The professors’ terms began July 1. Each house professor will be assigned a home near campus “within a short walk of their house community,” according to the press release. The six houses will have up to 700 members each. Gile, Streeter and Lord Halls will make up Allen House, led by Hill. Ripley, Woodward and Smith Halls will become North Park House, with Calsbeek as house professor. School House will be comprised of Massachusetts Row and Hitchcock Hall under house professor Sutton. Topliff Hall, New Hampshire Hall and the Lodge will make up South House with house professor Lively. Fahey, McLane, Butterfield and Russell Sage Halls will become West House, and Hickox will serve as house professor. The current East Wheelock cluster will become East Wheelock House, led by Elizalde. Comparative literature professor Dennis Washburn has been chosen as faculty director of McLaughlin Cluster, which will house living learning communities when the house system is implemented. Students living in LLCs will also be given part of one of the six house communities. Washburn will also work with academic affinity communities that will not be housed in McLaughlin, such as the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies house and the Sustainable Living Center. Five of the seven professors selected to oversee communities work in science, technology, engineering and math — or STEM — fields. Biron said while one goal of the house professor selection process was diversity of field, others included excellence in teaching, enthusiasm, energy levels and dedication to students. The house professors be using their abilities as professional intellectuals
in this role more than they will utilize knowledge specific to their disciplines. Incoming students, beginning with the Class of 2020, will continue to live in designated first-year residence halls, which beginning next fall will include the Fayerweathers, Richardson Hall and Wheeler Hall, along with the River and Choates clusters. East Wheelock and McLaughlin will also house some first-year students. As part of the house community plan, some residence hall social spaces will redone, and temporary structures will be constructed by next August as community areas for houses. One structure is planned to serve Allen and School Houses as a two-level building with a snack bar and outdoor area between Gile and Hitchcock. The other is planned to be build on the two tennis courts closest to Memorial Field, leaving three courts open. The second building is planned to be a “sprung structure,” which generally consists of a metal arch frame with an all-weather membrane over it, and to serve South House and North Park House. The Allen and School House structure needs to be approved by Hanover’s planning board. A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, according to the press release. Hanover’s planning board is meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and the meeting agenda lists an application for site plan review by the College’s trustees for a structure that would last for five to ten years on North Main Street, according to the town’s website. Houses will each have programming budgets as well, for events from field trips, social gatherings and performances to service, house dinners and athletics, according to the press release. Biron said the exact budget for each house has not yet been determined, since which functions will be funded centrally or by each house community remains undecided. Overall, she said Hanlon has committed $1 million to residential life programming. Biron said that students in house communities will have input when deciding which types of events their houses will hold. “The goal is to have a whole range of things from just hanging out in social space in your house community in student residence to just hanging out at the house professors’ houses, all the way up to more formal events with world leaders in the arts and academia,” she said. Students will still be affiliated with their assigned housing communities even if they choose alternate housing options, such as off-campus housing, Greek houses or LLCs. Senior apartments will also be available as alternate housing. House names may change if the College receives gifts to support the communities, according to the press release.
MAGNA
On the 800th Anniversary of the Great Charter
CARTA A Conference at Dartmouth College
Saturday, November 7, 2015 Rockefeller 001 • Free and Open to the Public Panel One: 9–10:30 am
Magna Carta in Historical & Comparative Perspective Panel Two: 11–12:30 pm
Magna Carta & Contemporary Debates about Due Process of Law Panel Three: 1:30–3:00 pm
Magna Carta & Religious Liberty For more information: kelly.l.palmer@dartmouth.edu • (603) 646-3378 Cosponsored by Daniel Webster Project, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, The Ernest Martin Hopkins Institute
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World Music Percussion Ensemble performs on Wednesday
B y MAYA PODDAR
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
With a program ranging from Coldplay’s “Clocks” (2002) to recreational Malian dance music, the World Music Percussion Ensemble’s fall show will cover a breadth of styles. The show will combine West African and South American traditional music styles, Hopkins Center media relations coordinator Rebecca Bailey said. The group is directed by ethnomusicologist and music professor Hafiz Shabazz, who is a “master West African drummer,” Bailey said. Shabazz has played with various improvisational jazz groups, most notably Wind and Thunder. The program will showcase music from a range of non-Western cultures and will be an engaging performance, Bailey said. The ensemble performance will feature members of Viva Quetzal,
an Andean-influenced world music group. Viva Quetzal uses a variety of North and South American instruments including Peruvian panpipes and Venezuelan cuatros, an instrument from the guitar family. The ensemble has not yet practiced with the members of Viva Quetzal, but will do so on Tuesday night, Andrew Siegel ’19 said. “We are going to have our dress rehearsal [Tuesday] night, which will be the first time we’re working with Viva Quetzal,” he said. The show is Seigel’s first, he said, and he’s excited about the range of music covered in the program. The program order will be announced from the stage and will include the pieces “Mazacote” (1959) by Mongo Santamaria, Afro-Cuban traditional “Abakwa,” “Pampa Lirima” by Jose Miguel Marquez, Venezuelan traditional “Montilla,” “El Cumbanchero” (1946) by Rafael Hernandez and “Pagode Jazz Sardinha’s Club.” Mongo Santamaria was a rumba
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quinto leader most well-known for day’s show in the past. Their spring his standard “Afro Blue” (1959), show featured “Clocks,” “Abakwa,” “Montilla,” which was re“Mazacote” and corded by John “We are going to have “Pampa LiriColtrane in ma.” 1963. “Abakwa” our dress rehearsal T h e and “Montilla” [Tuesday] night, which group includes are both trawill be the first time both students ditional pieces and non-stufrom Cuba and we’re working with dents, though Venezuela, re- Viva Quetzal.” some students on spectively. “El the program are Cumbanchero” no longer part of was created by -Andrew Siegel ’19, the group. Rafael HernanPercussionist “I’m dez, a composactually not part er of popular of the percussion Puerto Rican ensemble anymore,” Joshua Lee ’19 music. The ensemble has performed said when asked about the performany of the pieces from Wednes- mance.
The World Music Percussion Ensemble consists of nine members and often partners with other world music groups. There will be six members from Viva Quetzal joining the ensemble. Chilean musician Roberto Clavijo will be playing panpipes. Abe Sanchez will be playing both the piano and the cuatro. Jon Weeks will be performing the saxophone and flute, and Rudi Weeks will be on bass. The guest sextet also includes Joe Belmont on guitar and William Rodriguez on congas and vocals. Viva Quetzal also performed with the World Music Percussion ensemble in the spring. The World Music Percussion ensemble’s show will be on Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium.
FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DARTMOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS Complete Guidelines & Applications online: hop.dartmouth.edu (hover over Students link)
The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.
The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.
The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund
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A discussion of the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed” in Kemeny.
The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,800 to support student-initiated projects.
The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.
Applications & Guidelines Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.
DEADLINE: Thursday, November 12, 2015 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 or via email to Sherry.L.Fiore@dartmouth.edu.
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MEN’S SOCCER VS. NORTHEASTERN 7 PM
Men’s soccer seizes control of Ivy League with OT win
B y RAY Lu
The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s soccer team travelled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this Saturday to take on Harvard University at Jones Field. After 98 scoreless minutes, Dartmouth (9-4-1, 5-0 Ivy) took the victory against the Crimson (7-6-2, 3-2 Ivy) when Amadu Kunateh ’19 headed in a corner kick from Justin Donawa ’19 to end the overtime period with a 1-0 win over the Crimson. “We knew it was going to be a tough game,” head coach Chad Riley said. “A lot of credit to Harvard, they’re a good team.” Stefan Cleveland ’16 recorded a season-high in saves with seven, parrying away many threatening Harvard shots and coming away with his seventh shutout this season. A minute before Kunateh scored the deciding goal, Harvard senior Jake Freeman drilled a shot to the bottom
right corner. Cleveland was forced into a diving save but safely corralled the ball. The senior made two stunning saves in the overtime period, and in the end Dartmouth was able to knock in its first shot on goal of the period. “They had a great long range shot at the beginning of overtime,” Riley said. “Cleveland focused and caught that well, and then we knew we needed to attack the flanks and [that] ended up creating a couple of corners for us. On the second one, Justin Donawa delivered a great ball and [Kunateh] rose up and finished off the game for us.” Kunateh almost scored the deciding goal in the 83rd minute on a tricky free kick by the Big Green. Lined up outside the box, Kunateh ran over the ball, Donawa faked a kick and Kunateh curled back around to shoot. The attempt almost caught Crimson goalkeeper Evan Mendez off-guard, but the senior was able to bat the ball away.
“It’s definitely the best Harvard team I’ve seen in my four years,” Cleveland said. “We knew they were going to be good. We knew it was going to be a battle.” One of Dartmouth’s best looks came from Noah Paravicini ’19, who had two attempts on goal in the 68th minute. “[Paravicini] got through their defense with a good through ball from Alberto Gorini [’16],” Riley said. “The keeper saved his first shot, but he got his rebound and actually beat the keeper with his follow-up shot. But the Harvard player on the goal line saved it for him.” Harvard had a scoring opportunity shortly before halftime, when a couple of Crimson players were able to pass the ball around the box to find an open angle. Senior forward Michael Innocenzi drilled a shot to the right side of the goal, but Cleveland was able to make a spectacular save. With the victory, Dartmouth is now in the driver’s seat to pick up its second
consecutive Ivy League title. The team leads the standings with 15 points on five wins. Brown University is in second place with 10 points and a 3-1-1 Ivy record. If Dartmouth beats Cornell University in its next Ivy League game, the Big Green will win the Ivy title. “Going into overtime, we knew it was do or die,” Cleveland said. “The entire mentality of the whole week was that this was pretty much the Ivy League championship game.” Sound defense has been the story for the Big Green this season. All five of the team’s Ivy League wins have been decided by one goal, and all but the 2-1 victory against Columbia University were 1-0 victories. Of the 10 goals that Dartmouth has allowed this season, only one has come in Ivy League play. Cleveland manned the net for his seventh shutout of the season. This mark puts him on the heels of the all-time Big Green record of nine shutouts in a season, held by Sean Milligan ’09, who
set the record in 2007 across 18 games. With three regular season games and a likely postseason trip to come, Cleveland has a chance to surpass the record. The Big Green returns home this week after playing its last two games away. Northeastern University will visit Burnham Field tonight at 7 p.m., and Ivy League play continues this Saturday with Dartmouth hosting Cornell University at 4:00 p.m. “We’ve got a game tomorrow, a big Tuesday game, that we’re focusing on now and just trying not to worry too much about the future,” Matt Danilack ’18 said. “We know what’s at stake this weekend, but we’re just trying to take it slow and take it one game at a time.” After Cornell and Northeastern, the Big Green has one final road game scheduled against Brown on Saturday, Nov. 14. With Brown currently second in the Ivy League, it is the only team with the chance to upset the Big Green for the Ivy title.
Men’s hockey drops two straight to No. 11 Harvard University
B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s ice hockey team (0-2, 0-2 ECAC) dropped its two season-opening games against no. 11 Harvard University over the weekend, losing 7-0 at home on Saturday night and 5-2 at Harvard on Sunday night. Harvard (2-0, 2-0 ECAC) was powered primarily by a dynamite offense — shaping up to be one of the top packs of forwards in the NCAA — and managed to keep the Big Green offense in check by taking away its centering pass option and keeping Dartmouth off balance in the paint. On Saturday, Dartmouth struggled in open play and on both the man advantage and disadvantage, failing to kill its three penalties and scoring on none of its power plays. Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 said he felt he let his team down and took them into a game he hadn’t prepared them for. “[Harvard was] better than we were in every facet of the game from the drop of the puck,” Gaudet said. “It’s my responsibility to get the guys ready, and they weren’t ready to play…. They got up on us, and we didn’t respond as well as I’d like.” While facing two back-to-back losses over the weekend wasn’t the outcome anyone on the team would have liked
to see, Gaudet said that the goal now is to make sure the team is better prepared next time they take to the ice. The important part, he said, is that this was only two games and the season is a process. “We have a good group of guys, and I just have to get them better prepared. It’s my responsibility,” he said. “They were outcoached and outplayed, and I got to do a better job.” The Big Green came out against a competitor with whom they have had some experience as the Crimson returned captain Jimmy Vesey to the ice. The Crimson player took home four points on Saturday night, one coming from a second-period goal. The skill of the forwards on Harvard’s team lead to a damaging assault on even the smallest of mistakes perpetrated by the Big Green, who were faced with an incredibly opportunistic team with incredible transitional play. The Crimson put themselves on the board early in the game, finding the back of the net just over seven minutes into the game. The Big Green barely had time to rest, though, as Harvard managed to increase their lead to 2-0 less than a minute after the first goal, this time on a player play. Already with a comfortable lead over the Big Green, Harvard would score one additional power play before
the end of the period, heading into the second with a 3-0 advantage. “I don’t think we were nearly as physical as we could have been tonight, and we definitely need to be more physical going forward,” captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 said about Saturday’s game. Dartmouth’s play rose somewhat as the game progressed, despite the increasing goal differential between the two teams, aided by the change in goalies to Devin Buffalo ’18. Buffalo saw his first NCAA minutes on Saturday night, allowing two goals in nearly 30 minutes of play. “It’s really good for my confidence to play a top team like Harvard,” Buffalo said. “They have a lot of skilled guys so it was good to just go out there and see the puck and get some experience. They move the puck really well, and it was exciting to play this caliber of players.” The improved play wasn’t enough to close the gap, though, and Harvard continued to put another three goals on the board during the second period. Only 49 seconds into the third period, the Crimson slotted their seventh, and last, goal of the night, leaving the scoreboard at its final tally of 7-0. Sunday night’s game saw slightly improved results for the Big Green,
though the men still fell to the Crimson 5-2. On Sunday, Dartmouth jumped out to a 1-0 lead thanks to a goal from Nick Bligh ’16 less than seven minutes into the opening period. The poised Crimson offense battled back, however, with two even-strength goals in the first period, giving Harvard the lead just after the opening 15 minutes. Dartmouth’s defensive effort improved in the second and third periods, and the Big Green only allowed five shots on goal over the final 40 minutes of the game. Unfortunately for Dartmouth, three of those shots beat goalie
Charles Grant ’16. Dartmouth notched a second goal in the second period, but could not muster enough offensive firepower to keep up with the Crimson. The Big Green’s penalty kill was also much improved in Sunday’s game as Dartmouth managed to kill four of Harvard’s six power plays. On its own power play, Dartmouth still failed to execute and did not score on either of its two man-advantage opportunities. The Big Green next takes the ice at home on Friday night against Brown University and will play again Saturday night against Yale University at Thompson Arena.
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An overmatched Dartmouth defense allowed 12 goals over the weekend.