The Dartmouth 08/08/14

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Gender-inclusive bathrooms to come to Topliff this fall

Arrest made in Hanover’s July 27 assault

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The College will begin installing gender-inclusive restrooms in residence halls.

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As soon as this fall, residential buildings at the College may gain genderinclusive restrooms, starting in Topliff Hall, vice president of campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said.

The bathrooms labeled gender-inclusive are open to any person, regardless of gender identity, she said.

Earlier this summer, the College’s facilities, operations and management office changed the “male” or “female” signs in some bathrooms in the Class of

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1953 Commons and the Collis Center to signs labeling them as “gender-inclusive.”

These first signs are a trial run for a program that will start installing similar signs in buildings across campus, Hogarty said.

Lebanon resident Sean Merrihew, 23, was released on $10,000 bail after being charged with seconddegree assault on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting Mark Cookson, 53, on July 27 by Robert’s Flowers.

Mark Ruppel, 26, and Troy Schwarz, 20, were charged with robbery, second-degree assault and falsifying physical evidence for the July 2 assault on the Green.

Ruppel and Schwarz appeared for a probable cause hearing in the Lebanon’s second circuit court on July 14 and had their cases moved to Grafton Superior Court.

Mer rihew, who will apear in Lebanon’s second circuit court on Sept. 15, was a Hinman Mail Center employee for more than three months before 2011, according to court docu-

ments.

T h e c o u r t o rd e re d Schwarz not to have contact with Hubert Clark ’13, the victim of the assault, Ruppel or Ian Muzzey, who was found with the two men on the night of the assault.

Hanover Police chief Charlie Dennis said that while he did not want to go into detail about the police’s identification techniques, investigators used witness information and checked local businesses to find Merrihew. While initial reports said that witnesses saw both a man and a woman fleeing the scene, Dennis said the woman was not observed physically assaulting Cookson.

Merrihew previously pled guilty to improper conduct after an accident, following a hit-and-run on Jan. 22, 2011.

On July 2, Hanover

The Greek Leadership Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council plan to host more non-alcoholic social events at Greek houses when the GLC firstyear student policy is in effect than last year’s councils did, GLC summer chair Elizabeth Wilkins ’16 said.

Ideas for these events include presports game tailgates and discussions on sexual assault, summer IFC presi-

dent Chase Gilmore ’16 said.

Last fall marked the first year of the policy, which banned freshmen from Greek houses when members served alcohol. Going into the policy’s second year, summer Greek leadership has expressed their desire to welcome freshmen into Greek houses more often than last fall.

Events would allow first year students to interact with affiliated students in alcohol-free settings. The events KASSAUNDRA AMANN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Greek houses will throw more non-alcoholic social events for freshmen this fall.

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DAily debriefing Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ’78, D-N.H., held a roundtable discussion about sexual assault on college campuses earlier this week, the Concord Monitor reported.

Kuster focused primarily on talking about prevention and avoided talking about alcohol, saying that this easily leads to sexual assault conversations getting derailed and turning into blaming survivors. Topics covered included the adjudication process, engaging students on issues surrounding sexual violence and promoting active bystanders. Rachel Funk ’15 and Tufts University student Olivia Carle were the two student participants, while others were university representatives, law enforcement officials and representatives of community organizations. Kuster is a cosponsor of the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which was recently introduced to Congress and would require colleges to provide victim support and both implement and publish the results of annual sexual violence surveys.

A Brattleboro psychiatric hospital must amend safety and treatment protocol to regain “deemed status” for Medicare and Medicaid in order to prevent a loss of federal funding in October, Vermont Digger reported.

While the center had already received a letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, this was not noted by retreat officials when they met at the July 22 Mental Health Oversight Committee. The hospital failed to inform lawmakers of pertinent information when testifying in the past, leading to a loss of deemed status in May 2012, which returned over a year later.

New Hampshire’s business tax and interest-anddividends tax brought less revenue to the state last month than expected, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said in a press release Tuesday, the Concord Monitor reported.

Hassan said the drop was due to changes made by the last legislature, which affected business taxes. With the lowerthan-expected revenue, Hassan has called for a pause in major spending by state agencies. In a statement, Hassan said she hopes leaders will work in a bipartisan fashion to ensure a balanced state budget. Although the state’s revenue for fiscal year 2014 has been reported, Republican state senators are still requesting more information on expenditures, which is expected by Sept. 30.

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The College’s strategic planning process, which began under former College President Jim Yong Kim, never reached its initial goal of creating policy for the College’s future, faculty strategic planning advisory committee chair and sociology professor Denise Anthony said. The recommendations resulting from the process, she said, instead helped inform College President Phil Hanlon when he arrived.

Anthony and dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris, who served as chair of the College’s senior executive strategic planning advisory committee, said the strategic planning process slowed due to the change in leadership after former College President Jim Yong Kim, who served as president from 2009-12, departed before the plan’s completion.

Interim College President Carol Folt released the plan. Because of Kim’s departure, Laskaris said, the process ended as only a compilation of the ideas and recommendations discussed in working groups and committees, not a plan for the College’s future.

“He happened to leave in the middle of it, which is generally disruptive to those kinds of processes,” Anthony said.

Laskaris also said the results have aided Hanlon, citing his focus on experiential learning and increasing the number of postdoctoral students as connecting to ideas of the strategic planning committee.

The strategic planning process was carried out by a faculty committee, a senior executive advisory committee and a communications committee, which included faculty, staff and students, all responsible to a steering committee.

The working groups gathered student feedback on topics from research and scholarship to pedagogy and teaching over the course of six to nine months.

With the arrival of Hanlon and Provost Carolyn Dever, both Laskaris

and Anthony said that they are unsure whether there are plans to begin the process of drafting a new strategic plan that reflects a new set of goals.

Since Hanlon took office, he launched the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative to gather campus feedback and recommendations.

English professor and presidential steering committee chair Barbara Will wrote in an email that the committee is still gathering information and has not yet entered the evaluative stage.

After the results of the strategic planning process were released in March 2013, community members showed general disinterest in the recommendations. One month after the release, no feedback had been garnered via Twitter, an outlet through which the President’s Office aimed to solicit feedback from students, faculty and alumni.

Alumni outside of Hanover were generally “unaware and uninterested” in the suggestions the following April, former Alumni Association president John Daukas ’84 told The Dartmouth last April.

The report suggested changing the College’s name to Dartmouth University and creating a “College within the College” living and learning community that would involve 10 percent of the student body breaking away from the traditional D-Plan and 10-week terms. The Global Dartmouth working group suggested creating a central office focused on Dartmouth’s engagement with the international community. The working group also suggested hiring more faculty to decrease student-to-faculty ratio to help increase professors’ ability to conduct research while maintaining academic standards to the College’s global profile.

Institutions undergo strategic planning, a time-intensive process during which an institution’s mission and vision for the coming years is formulated, approximately every five years, said John Stevens, president of

Stevens Strategy, a consulting firm that focuses on managing the process of strategic planning.

Laskaris said that planning is essential for a forward-looking institution. “[It helps you] make sure that everything is in alignment with what your broader vision and goals are, whether it’s on the departmental level or the broader institutional level,” she said.

The College’s process more effectively involved the Dartmouth communities, compared to the processes of other universities she examined, Anthony said. She noted, however, that it did not engage everyone in the community.

Stevens said that the process takes a large amount of effort, which makes strategic planning difficult.

“When you do it that way, the campus community, the faculty, the staff, the students, the alumni really do own the plan for the future of the institution,” Stevens said.

Cornell University developmental sociology professor Wendy Wolford, a member of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ strategic planning committee, said Cornell’s process was thorough and democratic.

“We met every two weeks on Wednesdays for two-and-a-half, sometimes three, hours, and everybody had homework,” Wolford said. “We went over every single word of that plan together.”

Wolford added that having a strategic plan is important for maintaining the goals of Cornell as an institution.

“I actually think that it is really valuable to the administration to have some kind of road map,” Wolford said.

Looking forward to future strategic plans, Laskaris said she would like to see committees improve the way feedback and ideas are collected. She pointed to the crowd-sourcing approach of the Improve Dartmouth group as a possible mechanism for data gathering in future strategic planning processes.

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Topliff Hall to use gender-inclusive bathrooms

Hogarty said that FO&M will likely propose expanding the proCenter for Gender and Student gram as part of a comprehensive Engagement director Reese Kelly building renewal package presented contextualized the changes as a part to the College’s Board of Trustees in the next five of a global shift or 10 years. toward open- “Gender inclusivity T h e ing up formerly is just saying that program, she gender-seg reanyone can use the hopes, will be a gated spaces.

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Akash small children Kar ’16, coand individuals chair of IvyQ , who are gender - AKASH KAR ’16, IVYQ an Ivy League non-confor mCOCHAIR LGBTQ confering. ence, said the Ke l l y a l s o bathrooms are noted the importance of the language used in an important step but noted other areas in which Dartmouth lagged the signs.

“People don’t leave their gender behind.

“Until this pilot, we had no multiat the door when they walk into a ‘gender neutral’ bathroom,” Kelly stall gender-inclusive bathrooms wrote. “Gender is ever-present and on campus,” Kar said. “We still it is important that language reflects have no multi-stall gender-inclusive this, which is why gender-inclusive bathrooms in residence halls.”

Kar said that all bathrooms on is a more appropriate replacement.”

The concept should not be new to campus could become gendermost students, Kelly wrote, because inclusive with little to no retrofitting most restrooms in family homes are if they were simply relabeled as such. also gender-inclusive.

“Gender inclusivity is just saying Depending on feedback, Hogarty said that the program may that anyone can use the bathroom,” continue to be implemented on the he said. “Regardless of your gender, it’s simply a toilet. If there isn’t an rest of campus.

So far, the College has not re- option to have all three — men’s, cieved much feedback, Hogarty women’s and gender-inclusive, said, noting that if the response the restroom should be genderremains muted the program will inclusive.”

Kar said that he does see merit likely move forward.

The impetus for the project in some arguments for having some came from meetings that FO&M single-sex bathrooms, but added had with a campus group called that it should be more important the Dartmouth Action Collective, to feel safe and comfortable in a bathroom.

Hogarty said.

Other Ivy League schools, Hogarty said that between 30 and 40 percent of campus buildings including Brown Universtiy and could be equipped with gender- Princeton University, have posted inclusive bathrooms without any information on the location of construction. In these buildings, gender-inclusive bathrooms online.

The Brown University LGBTQ students would have access to at least one men’s, one women’s and Center lists 115 facilities on its website, excluding those in residence one gender-inclusive bathroom.

The main concerns for any bath- halls.

When the IvyQ Conference room changes, Hogarty said, are national and state laws regulating comes to campus this fall, it will the number of fixtures — toilets, be important for attendees to have showers and sinks — per expected gender-inclusive bathroom options, Kar said. resident.

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Town manager Julia Griffin has spoken with managers at local bars following the assault.

Town establishments look at serving FROM ASSAULT PAGE 1

Police and Safety and Security arrived on the Green and found Clark on the ground bleeding from his face and head, according to court documents. After receiving medical attention, Clark told police he had been walking across the Green when he saw a man. His description of the man matched Ruppel’s appearance. The man then allegedly punched Clark in the face, then continued to punch him as Clark fell to the ground in an attempt to protect himself and held up his wallet, telling his attacker to take it. Muzzey said in a police interview that he saw the attack happen but did not want to be involved and walked in the opposite direction.

Hanover police later located Ruppel, Schwarz and Muzzey in the municipal parking lot behind Molly’s Restaurant. Both Ruppel and Schwarz had obvious blood on their person or clothing, and both men initially denied they had blood on their clothing or persons, then attempted to provide alternate explanations for its presence.

Schwarz attempted to rub away the spatters after he had been detained, according to court documents.

Muzzey said in the police interview that Ruppel did not have money on his person earlier in the night but had cash and tickets in his hand, which Muzzey assumed Ruppel took from the victim, when they were apprehended. Schwarz was also found with two $5 bills, one $1 bill, two tickets to an upcoming Hopkins Center event, a ticket to a recent concert at Fenway Park and a receipt from the Red Sox team store. Clark confirmed that these items were his, and that he could provide proof of purchasing these items.

Clark was taken to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center where he needed stitches from a plastic

surgeon to sew the area between his lower lip and chin, and also had abrasions on his body. Due to significant bruising on his right temple, a CAT scan was ordered to ensure there were not any other significant injuries.

Town manager Julia Griffin said that people were relieved that the July 27 assault was not a random encounter. Overall, she said, town residents have not expressed much concern over the incidents.

In order to ensure that area residents feel safe, Hanover Police increased patrols through the downtown corridor of Main Street and its surrounding area, Griffin said. Additionally, she said, the town had follow-up conversations with some bar owners in town.

Alcohol was involved in both of the assaults, she said, and over-serving could have possibly occurred.

“If you can manage how much alcohol is being served, you are less likely to have people overly intoxi-

cated, and you’re less likely to have people involved in an altercation that they would not otherwise have been part of,” Griffin said.

In the police report, Muzzey, who was found with Ruppel and Schwarz after the assault but was not arrested, said that the three men had gone to Molly’s Restaurant earlier in the evening, and Muzzey and Ruppel had consumed drinks.

A Molly’s manager said that, to her knowledge, the police have been unable to prove that the three men were at Molly’s that night.

Murphy’s manager Nigel Leeming said he called Griffin following a statement she made about over-serving. He said that while some other bars in Hanover do not always abide by state serving laws, Murphy’s has a very strict liquor policy, and said that some work does need to be done in Hanover regarding over-serving in order to make the town safer.

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Verbum Ultimum THE SUMMER EDITORIAL BOARD

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST JON VANDERMAUSE ’16

Strength in Numbers

Upgrading Affirmative Action

The size of a class should not compromise its experience at the College.

Though the Class of 2018 is the largest class in its history, the College prides itself on its small size relative to its peers. The upcoming increase in students may not be drastic — roughly 50 more students will enroll compared to the Class of 2017 — but it raises the question of how prepared Dartmouth is to accommodate larger classes.

Because much of student life depends on Dartmouth’s small size, larger classes like the Class of 2018 face challenges that should not go ignored.

Guaranteeing the quality of a Dartmouth education regardless of class size, of course, is a primary concern. Many students are drawn to the College for its academic excellence. Since larger class sizes affect academic departments and programs, students may end up with a different academic experience than they imagined when they clicked “enroll” on Banner Student and committed to Dartmouth. In contrast to introductory calculus courses and other popular lecturebased courses that can take on more freshmen, seminar or discussion-based courses may have to turn away greater numbers of students or create waitlists to remain small.

Disappointments and frustrations over access to courses can easily mount with more students on campus. Course enrollment limits, then, should be re-evaluated to allow in as many students as possible without undermining the quality of the course.

Life outside the classroom plays an equally important role in shaping our time at the College. Yet it too is tailored to the current total number of undergraduates, so we must consider whether a larger class will feel included and welcome on campus. Traditions like Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips, for example, can only handle so many participants. According to program director Gerben Scherpbier ’14, the record-breaking 1,080 participants almost filled every trip to capacity. With more participants, it becomes more difficult to maintain the program’s environment of intimacy. By being aware

of the effects of class size on trips, involved students can ensure that the program’s benefits are not diminished and, if necessary, address any problems by adjusting the scale of trips in the event of another large class.

When freshmen begin their Dartmouth careers, joining social groups assists them in finding their place on campus and provides them with valuable friendships. Selective extracurricular activities like performance groups, however, generally have a fixed number of new spots each year. Accomplished students make up every class that comes to the College, so in a larger class like the Class of 2018, this means that more otherwise qualified or talented individuals may be unable to join groups due to lack of space. Dartmouth student groups should keep in mind that failing to account for a larger-than-usual class will restrict existing opportunities for campus involvement and impair our ability to help freshmen adjust to college life.

Another defining feature of Dartmouth social life — the Greek system — risks becoming more exclusive if it also cannot absorb increased demand. Data from recent years suggests this could occur — the Dartmouth Fact Book states that in spring 2013, 714 affiliated members of the Class of 2013 made up 70 percent of their class, yet 729 affiliated members of the Class of 2015 made up 66 percent of their class. Sororities in particular, many of which already have large memberships, could encounter difficulties dealing with all interested members of a larger class.

It should give us pause that Dartmouth’s Greek system, often touted for its inclusivity, may promote additional competitiveness and division among members of a larger class.

This fall, there will be more new students to welcome than we’re used to. It will take extra work to help extra students feel at home. Ultimately, we as a community have a responsibility to make sure that members of the Class of 2018 — all of them — can enjoy all that Dartmouth has to offer.

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The College should give a selective advantage to applicants from low-income families.

Affirmative action is one of the Supreme Court’s latest targets. In a decision issued in late April, the Court upheld Michigan’s constitutional amendment barring affirmative action at public universities. While the decision officially pertains only to the state of Michigan, the conservative justices of the Supreme Court have effectively given a nod of approval to other states considering similar measures. As skepticism over the legitimacy of affirmative action intensifies, universities will find themselves searching for alternative methods of ensuring diverse student bodies.

Class-based affirmative action, which involves extending a selective advantage to low-income applicants, is one alternative that warrants serious consideration.

Such a strategy would be particularly welcome at Dartmouth, where many students come from well-off families. This, at least, is the tentative conclusion that can be drawn from the scant data the College releases on the socioeconomic backgrounds of its students. In the College’s profile of the Class of 2017, for instance, you will find a concrete breakdown of the class’s geographic, ethnic and academic backgrounds that flatteringly paints the Class of 2017 as a diverse community of high school scholars. What you will not find, however, is the socioeconomic distribution of the class. How many students grew up below the poverty line? How many grew up in luxury?

The answers to these questions are just as relevant as the number of students who come from the Mid-Atlantic (27 percent) or graduated as valedictorians (30 percent of students with rank). The conspicuous absence of publicly available data on students’ socioeconomic backgrounds suggests that the College is sweeping ugly facts under the rug.

Sure enough, obscured beneath the flattering data that the College publicly touts are indirect indicators of students’ socioeconomic backgrounds that reveal a more sober assessment of diversity, as similarly demonstrated in a January 2012 column in The Harvard Crimson critiquing Harvard’s socioeconomic composition. According to the Dartmouth Fact Book, 54 percent of students received aid in the 2012-13 fiscal year. This fact

implies that a staggering 46 percent of Dartmouth students come from families who are able to pay over a quarter-million dollars in tuition, room and board over four years without assistance from the College. Furthermore, Dartmouth’s Financial Aid Calculator, which provides an unofficial estimate of the aid a student can expect to receive based on the income of his parents, suggests that grant and scholarship assistance stops flowing for households with incomes above $140,000, which is right around the 90th percentile of household income earned in the U.S. If we assume that the number of American Dartmouth students requesting aid is close to the overall average of 54 percent, the upshot of all of this is that nearly half of American Dartmouth students come from families in the top 10 percent of U.S. income earners. Even worse, applicants request aid at a greater rate than admitted students do, which suggests that the richer applicants who can pay their way are more likely to be offered admissions slots.

As it turns out, then, class-based affirmative action already has a role in Dartmouth’s admissions process, but it is the rich rather than the poor who receive preferential treatment. Through elite private schools, SAT prep courses and “lifechanging” overseas vacations, applicants from rich families can buy themselves acceptance letters while equally intelligent applicants from poor and middle class families are turned away. There may, of course, be more than a mere opportunity gap between the rich and the poor at play here. Dartmouth has a direct incentive for admitting students who can pay full tuition. Not only will they keep the College’s massively bloated budget afloat in the short term, but when they take lucrative professions by storm in a couple of years, big alumni donations will quickly follow. The children of the wealthy get admitted, receive an elite, unparalleled undergraduate education while networking with other children of the wealthy and then proceed to go off and accumulate more wealth — some of which returns to the College. It is time to put an end to this vicious circle, which only serves the rich and perpetuates societal inequality. If the College truly values diversity, it must recruit and admit more lower- and middle-class students.

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Events aimed at inclusivity, summer council representatives say FROM POLICY PAGE 1

would also increase awareness for efforts to eliminate sexual violence and allow students to show support for community members, such as athletic teams, Gilmore said.

With individual Greek houses and the GLC cosponsoring these events, Wilkins said the council seeks to introduce incoming students to the Greek community in a more positive way.

“There is a misconception that this policy means we don’t want freshmen in our houses at all, we want to keep them away, keep the Greek system as a big secret, and that’s not the goal at all,” she said.

Wilkins said that the College will grant a budget to sponsor these events and that Greek houses are still in the process of finalizing event details.

Echoing the goal of dispelling the misconception that freshmen are not welcome at Greek houses in

“What we are trying to continue for fall is showing the ’18s that Greek life goes beyond the basement.”

- CHARLOTTE KAMAI ’16, SUMMER PANHELL PRESIDENT the beginning of fall term, summer Panhell president Charlotte Kamai ’16 said that Panhell plans to hold social events for first-year students.

Inviting freshmen to sorority houses is a vital part of these events, Kamai said, since most female firstyear students never get to socialize in sorority houses before they rush.

“What we are trying to continue for fall is showing the ’18s that Greek life goes beyond the basement,” she said. “We are definitely focusing on community and philanthropy.”

Gilmore said that the policy helped show that Greek life involved more than just drinking.

Implementing this policy helps first-year students realize that alcohol is not necessary in having a good time, Kamai said.

The record-low number of highblood-alcohol-concentration incidents this past fall coincided with the implementation of the GLC policy, said Caitlin Barthelmes, alcohol

and other drug education program coordinator. This fall only saw seven cases compared to 36 in 2010. This data, however, does not conclude

“It was very hard getting feeback from freshmen that is constructive.”

- Elizabeth Wilkins ’16, Summer GLC President that the policy caused the decrease in incidents, she said.

“What we are looking at is whether or not there could be a correlation between two events happening,”

Barthelmes said. “And what I can say is that GLC made a big, dramatic change that supported the health and safety of students on this campus.”

Wilkins said the GLC is aware that a single policy cannot dictate how first-year students drink and thus data might not accurately reflect the policy’s impact. To better understand the impact of the policy on freshman drinking habits, the GLC will reach out to members of the Class of 2017 for feedback, she said.

“It was very hard getting feedback from freshmen that is constructive,” Wilkins said.

Wilkins said this policy is an established part of the GLC constitution and is not on a trial basis. She added that the GLC has not discussed renewing the policy nor changing its duration.

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Film screening, “SlingShot” (2014), Loew Auditorium

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Lazarus to give special Civil rights artwork comes to Hood screening of new film B y LUKE MCCANN

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Taking its name from the weapon that David uses to face the giant Goliath, “SlingShot” — a new documentary directed by Paul Lazarus ’76 — follows the story of inventor Dean Kamen, who invented the Slingshot water purifier to tackle the lack of clean drinking water across the globe.

The film will have a special advanced screening tomorrow in Loew Auditorium, followed by a discussion session with Lazarus.

The documentary follows Kamen’s work on the purifier — from its conception to its full realization as viable technology. Currently, 3.4 million people die each year from water-related diseases, the World Health Organization says.

A water purifier is not new technology, but the device’s novelty lies in its ability to recycle energy required to heat the liquid in the distillation process.

Slingshot runs on a fraction of the power required for other water purifiers, producing 10 gallons of clean water on less than one kilowatt of electricity. Its compact size and low number of moving parts also make it more accessible to remote villages with limited exposure to electricity and technology.

Lazarus, a director whose repertoire include numerous TV series such as “Pretty Little Liars” and “Ugly Betty,” said the idea of about making the documentary came in 2006, and he began shooting the next year. It wasn’t until 2011, however, when Lazarus and his crew began filming in earnest.

That year, Coca-Cola began sponsoring Kamen’s work on Slingshot. As one of the world’s largest distributor of beverages, Coca-Cola could exponentially increase the likelihood of the machine being implemented around the world, potentially curing a mass global problem, Lazarus said. This was when he said he became more serious about pursuing the project.

“It certainly helped that Coca-Cola entered the story, but it was a leap of faith on my part because I was self-financing,” Lazarus said.

Lazarus followed Kamen across 12 states and three different continents, including Africa, during the course of filming the documentary. One of the most memorable scenes included in the film, he said, is the sight of seeing children in rural Ghana drink the distilled water for the first time.

Through “SlingShot,” Lazarus said he hopes to spread awareness of the use of the device, inspire children about technology and readjust attitudes toward water.

“There is a moment [in the film] where the golf course gets watered, and I wanted people to feel queasy when they saw that,” he said.

In terms of technology, the Slingshot is only at its beginning stage, comparable

to the first brick-like cell phone that is on its way to becoming a smartphone, Lazarus said.

For the most part, Lazarus’s past 20 years of directing consisted of capturing planned stories with scripts. Filming “SlingShot” was an entirely different experience, because the story develops according to “what you bump into,” Lazarus said.

“You don’t know that you’re going to go interview people in Ghana, and meet a young woman who’s going to be unbelievably articulate and want to be a doctor,” he said. “And then you realize she’s how you want to start understanding Ghana, and want her to be the voice to tell the story of Ghana, not even Dean Kamen.”

“SlingShot” was not Lazarus’ first attempt at documentary, nor was it his first collaboration with Kamen.

Lazarus had produced several short films covering Kamen’s various initiatives, from Segway to FIRST Robotics Competition. One of these shorts, “FIRST Robotics,” covered a high school robotics competition Kamen created to inspire and encourage young aspiring engineers.

Lazarus described Kamen as an “energy bunny on steroids” who focuses on his work until everything else melts away.

As a feature documentary, “SlingShot” was created on a different scale from these past productions. It took seven years and involved the efforts of hundreds of people.

A short, condensed version of SlingShot was released before the full-length documentary was completed. Watching this brief overview was enough to capture the attention of Hopkins Center film manager Sydney Stowe, who said he found “SlingShot” to be especially relevant.

“For this instance, there were so many connections,” Stowe said.

“Lazarus is an alum, the documentary’s about Dean Kamen who has over 400 inventions to his name and lives an hour away, and it’s about water, an easy idea to sell to people.”

“SlingShot” will definitely be an eyeopener, Stowe said, and a chance to get acquainted with Kamen, an inventor who drives his own jet to travel around the world and lives in a house laid out with secret passages.

“Water issues are so embarrassingly huge, not one movie is going to come close to dealing with the issue,” he said.

“But SlingShot’s going to be a good way to start for people who have no idea what’s going on.

Film professor Joanna Rapf called Lazarus “intuitive” and “insightful”.

Lazarus refers to his comedies as balloons with anvils, or comedies with the lightness of balloons but with substance and weight, and although SlingShot is not a comedy, it uses balloons as an element of humor to carry the audience along, Rapf said.

In Joe Overstreet’s painting “The New Aunt Jemima,” a 7-foottall woman usually seen on syrup bottles is portrayed atop a structure mimicking the pancake-mix box .The image shows Aunt Jemima smiling as she blasts a machine gun, pancakes flying like shrapnel.

The Earth is painted at her feet as Overstreet reclaims the image of Aunt Jemima, whose minstrel show roots trace back to darker days of American race relations.

This piece will join more than 100 works of art at the Hood Museum of Art this fall in an exhibition titled “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.” The collection comes to Hanover after recently finishing its debut at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, where its four-month run finished July 13.

In development for several years, the exhibition was created to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, said Kellie Jones, art history and archaeology professor at Columbia University, and one of the original curators for the show’s premiere in Brooklyn.

“Witness” showcases the works of 66 artists in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and a piece made completely of lights. Jessica Womack ’14, one of the Hood curators for the show, began working on the piece as an intern for the museum her senior year. She said the show includes work from artists of various of races, nationalities and backgrounds.

“Several of the artists in the show are examining the intersectionality of identity,” she said.

“This show isn’t only about race, but about examining other aspects of identity, like gender or class.”

The exhibition is split into eight thematic sections, including “Sisterhood” — exploring the role of women in the civil rights movement — and “Black is Beautiful,” which addressed Eurocentric ideals of beauty and the reassertion of blackness as beautiful.

Each artwork displayed was created in the 1960s and carries some message of social activism or reform.

“Every one of these artists was an activist during this time, and their artwork was their voice,” said Juliette Bianco ’94, deputy director of the Hood and curator of “Witness.” “This variety of artists were not only responding to the events of the civil rights movement, but really knew their creativity and artistic voice was an important part of forwarding the cause.”

Bianco said students may be

surprised at some of the bigger names they’ll see, including Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell.

Hood director Michael Taylor said the museum saw the possibility of showcasing “Witness” as an opportunity to engage the student body around the themes it presents.

“This exhibit has the double whammy of showing extraordinary artwork that anyone would want to see, but also having a subject matter with such a deep resonance with its viewers,” he said.

Bianco shared the same enthusiasm for the exhibit’s potential for

“This exhibit has the double whammy of showing extraordinary artwork that anyone would want to see but also having a subject matter with such a deep resonance with its viewers.”

- MICHAEL TAYLOR, HOOD DIRECTOR teaching and facilitating conversations. The Hood has reached out to several faculty members, hoping to provide moments that can be taken out of the museum and into the classroom, she said.

While details are still being finalized for the upcoming term, the Hood is planning several events on campus to engage the public with the artwork. Jae Jarrell, an artist and activist, will visit campus during the exhibition to speak about the works and themes “Witness” presents.

Jarrell’s “Urban Wall Suit” is included in the collection, a multicolored two-piece suit that invokes images of graffiti and signs plastered onto a brick wall.

The Hood is also working with the theater department and local theater groups to organize a live

reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s play “Raisin in the Sun” in the exhibition space, Bianco said.

Jones, along with Teresa Carbone, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum and fellow curator of the original exhibition, will also be visiting campus to speak to the general public.

Engaging students and finding how these images resonate with student life will help the Hood facilitate conversation around these topics on campus, Womack said.

“Students can come into the museum and have conversations about the art in a respectful manner,” she said. “Then, they can bring these discussions and themes the exhibition elicits and continue them in their own spaces and groups.”

The theme of education runs through several works in the exhibition and is an integral part of the civil rights movement, Jones said.

One notable piece is “The Door (Admissions Office)” by David Hammons. A wooden door stands upright with “Admissions Office” on the glass panel in large, black letters. Under the letters, again in black paint, is the imprint of a body pushed up against the door, unable to enter, a commentary on school segregation.

“Young people and students have always been an integral part of the civil rights movement and social activism as a whole,” Jones said. “It’s exciting to see these pieces being brought back again to engage another young audience with these themes.”

For just over three months, students and the general public will have the opportunity to explore this wide breadth of artistic mediums and contemplate the personal, raw themes it encompasses.

“This exhibition has the capability to reach beyond the artistic section of campus, and really resonate with people all over campus,” Taylor said.

“Witness” will be on display in the Hood Museum from August 30 through December 14.

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Winner of multiple Audience and Grand Jury awards on the festival circuit, this is a remarkable snapshot of Segway inventor (and NH resident) Dean Kamen and his 15-year quest to solve the world’s water crisis. Discussion with director Paul Lazarus ‘76 follows.

fri | aug 8 | 7 PM | loew auditoriuM | $9 | dartMouth ids $5 hop.dartmouth.edu | 603.646.2422 | Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH

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Football ranks third in preseason Ivy League media poll

B y macy ferguson The Dartmouth Staff

The annual Ivy League football season media poll ranked Dartmouth’s football team third for the first time since 1997. The team earned 91 points in the poll, but received no first place votes.

Princeton University and Harvard University ranked first and second, with 128 and 127 points, respectively. The poll was one of the areas discussed at Tuesday’s Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference.

The team’s place in the poll generated excitement, offensive lineman Jacob Flores ’16 said.

“It’s good to get some recognition from the media, and for them to essentially say that Dartmouth is going to be a force to be reckoned with this year,” he said.

Though the team is excited by the media’s positive opinion of the team, players won’t let the poll affect their main focus: physically prepar-

ing for the season, Flores said.

The Big Green were ranked in the middle of the Ivy League prior to the 2013-14 season, but they surprised critics by finishing the season ranked third. The ranking can be an indicator of a trend in the positive direction for the program, but everyone understands that the ranking after the conclusion of the season is more important, Flores said.

The teleconference during which head football coaches preview elements of the upcoming season kicks off the 2014-15 football season.

The conference gives the media a one-stop shopping point for talking to Ivy League football coaches and discussing areas of interest in the League, varsity athletics communications director Rick Bender said.

During his segment, Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens answered questions ranging from administrative expectations to the development of the game in the Ivy

League.

Bruce Wood from the Big Green Alert asked Teevens what the team’s biggest strengths and challenges would be for this year.

Teevens said that the Big Green’s linebackers are the team’s biggest strength and the open tight end position is its biggest challenge.

“With the tight end position, there’s currently not a lot of experience with that position, but we feel that we have some athletes that can add to it,” Teevens said at the conference.

Cornerback Vernon Harris ’16 said that the large number of the team’s returning starters will add depth and experience to the team.

“The amount of returning starters is going to play a huge role this season,” Harris said. “For myself, this will be my third year as a starter, and having a big amount of ’16s who have been starters since freshman year will be huge because they bring a lot of experience to the team.”

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Defensive coordinator Don Dobes addresses his linebackers

A major area of interest at the conference was the career and retirement of University of Pennsylvania head football coach Al Bagnoli (232-91), who will depart the team after the 2014 season.

During his segment, Teevens commended Bagnoli on his consistency and ability to adapt as a coach to various situations.

“Anytime you line up against Al you know what you’re gonna get,” he said Tuesday.

Dartmouth will start off the 2014 season at home on Sept. 20 against Central Connecticut University.

The Big Green is slated to play five home games this season and will host College of the Holy Cross for homecoming on Oct. 18th.

Hockey team sends six players to NHL summer camps B y henry arndt and JOE CLYNE The Dartmouth Staff

Six Dartmouth hockey players attended NHL development camps over the month of July as undrafted invitees, looking to hone their skills in the hopes of playing hockey at the highest level.

NHL teams traditionally invite between 30 and 40 players to their development camps in an attempt to identify and train young talent. The camps traditionally have both on-ice and off-ice elements as well as a few high intensity scrimmages.

Though the Dartmouth hockey team struggled last year, earning a 10-

20-4 (7-13-2 Ivy) record, the number of players sent to NHL development camps showcased the talent on the team, goalie Charles Grant ‘16 said.

“It’s just like a feather in the cap of our organization to get the recognition we feel we deserve,” he said.

For forward Brandon McNally ’15, this summer marked his second time attending an NHL development camp. He attended the Tampa Bay Lightning development camp after freshman year.

“You’ve worked so hard so it’s an honor to get invited, but it’s still just another step in the process of reaching your full potential to make it to the NHL,” McNally said. “It was a huge

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Brandon McNally (#15) tears up the ice for Dartmouth College

learning experience my freshman year, and I was just really happy and excited to be there. This time I really wanted to prove I belonged and could play well.”

Most invitees to development camps are draft picks, but the front office of organizations can pick several free agents to invite.

Though it is an honor to be invited, McNally noted the camp is “just another step” in making it to the NHL. “It was a huge learning experience my freshman year and I was just really happy and excited to be there.

This time I really wanted to prove I belonged and could play well,” he said.

Most invitees to development camps are draft picks, but the front offices of organizations can pick several free agents to invite.

“Throughout the week, there’s no apparent differences from the mentality side between being an invitee and being a draft pick,” Opperman said.

“It’s almost a confidence booster to be invited as a free agent because it means they saw something that they like and they weren’t just inviting you because you were drafted a few years ago.”

Going to camp as a free agent can be more difficult since invitees

from outside the organization may not know each other beforehand, McNally said.

Every organization offers a teambuilding day, providing an opportunity for players to have fun and get to know each other away from the rink. The Minnesota Wild took Opperman and the rest of the invitees paint-balling.

“One guy on my team shot me on accident from two feet away, and for some reason that turned out to be a good icebreaker,” he said.

Throughout the course of the week, the players spent a lot of time both on ice and in the weight room, with days beginning as early as 8 a.m.

After breakfast, one team of players went to the weight room, and the other team went to the rink, Opperman said.

The workouts exposed the invitees to some new workouts, but mainly aimed to mirror the standard routines of NHL players, Opperman said, noting that the ice sessions leaned heavily toward instructing and developing the players rather than challenging them physically.

“The ice sessions would vary, but they were actually more instructional than physically challenging,” Opperman said. “They had a skating coach, a skills guy and a shooting guy. There was lots of emphasis on learning

throughout the week and experiencing the organization.”

At the Wild’s camp, each day ended in a scrimmage or three-on-three tournament, which represented the biggest boon of the camp to Opperman because it allowed him to practice outside of the college season.

After a week of training, developing and showcasing, the players got a chance to sit down with the organization’s player development personnel and coaches for an exit meeting, McNally said.

“They talk to you about how they think your camp went and how they think you did,” McNally said. “That meeting was really important to me because they got to watch me really closely over the week. The Canadiens said they’d keep in contact and watch me over the year.”

For the rising seniors on the hockey team, the upcoming season represents a critical portion of their college careers as they face mounting pressure and look to sign NHL contracts.

“Hopefully I’ll have a good year and the chance to get signed,” McNally said. “It’s really not as important to look that far ahead as much as it is to have a good year and focus on accomplishing our goals as a team and let everything else take care of itself.”