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A $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to investigate the correlation between reading performance and neurological changes from intense reading instruction in third grade students in the Lebanon school district.

The grant, which began Aug. 1, marks a joint venture between Dartmouth and the Stern Center for Language and Learning, based in Williston. The grant proposal was co-written by lead investigator and education professor Donna Coch and Stern Center president and founder Blanche Podhajski.

The two-year project provides for instruction for students who

For two years, students from the Lebanon school district will be a part of a education study.

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Global conflict, disease may affect future programs B y CHRIS LEECH

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The future of two planned off-campus programs, an exchange program in Jerusalem and the African and African American studies FSP in Ghana, might be in jeopardy as global conflict and disease present a risk to Dartmouth students.

A exchange program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem planned for this

fall may be canceled because of a State Department travel warning concerning the recent escalation of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, while students on the African and African-American studies FSP to Ghana in fall 2015 would reach Ghana a year after the deadliest outbreak to date of the Ebola virus began in Guinea, another West African nation about 870 miles away.

The College has a travel risk policy in place to ensure

student safety while abroad, Tansey said. The policy states that any proposed Dartmouthrelated trip to countries with U.S. Department of State, the World Health Organization or the Center for Disease Control travel warning may only be approved after a waiver has been granted from the provost’s office. The office consults the College’s international travel risk committee, which includes representatives from Safety and Security in addition to

the Health Services and Risk Management offices, during the process, Tansey said.

He said that waivers are largely used for individual student travel to risky countries, but program-wide travel waivers have been granted on specific occasions.

While some institutions, like the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, have shut down programs similar to the Hebrew University exchange, others, like Northwestern

University, have allowed them to proceed, executive director of off-campus programs John Tansey said. The College is in the process of applying for a waiver to continue with the program.

Lewis Glinert, the exchange’s faculty advisor and a Hebrew studies professor, declined to comment.

The Ebola virus has claimed more than 1,000 lives in this most recent outbreak and has SEE OCP PAGE 5

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College 10th in Forbes entrepreneurship ranking B y CHARLIE RAFKIN The Dartmouth Staff

Forbes ranked Dartmouth 10th on its top-20 list of most entrepreneurial schools in a July 30 report, which employed a new methodology from its previous published rankings. Although the College fell three spots from its seventh-place position in Forbes’ 2012 report, Forbes data journalist and report author Liyan Chen said in an

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interview that the reports should not be compared given the change in research method.

Stanford University led the rankings in both 2014 and 2012, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in second in both reports. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of California at Los SEE FORBES PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing Daniela Pelaez ’16 recently obtained permission to stay in the U.S. for another two years through the Deferred Action for Child Arrival act. She is the first undocumented immigrant granted a two-year stay and extension under this act.

Can you tell me a little bit more about the process you went through to get permission to stay for another two years?

DP: It’s basically a lot of paperwork. It’s a new application that the USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration] website puts up. I had to do all these things — they call it packets — so you have to fill out this packet and have proof that you came into this country at a certain time, that you’re a certain age, that you’re a kind of student. It’s an inconvenience because my family can’t help with anything, so it’s basically me, so that was rough. But on the 22nd of July I got it. They send you an approval notice and you’re just like “Yay, another two years!”

On an emotional level, how was it?

DP: It was like, here I am, having to ask for permission for someone to let me stay here. It’s always that sentiment I have to carry with me that I have to justify my being here. I try not to think about it, because otherwise it consumes you. You have to be grateful. I just have to be grateful I’m here. I guess that makes my Dartmouth experience a little more different. I’m really in love with this campus that gave me the benefit, because they could’ve said no, and a lot of schools I applied to did say no.

At any point were you worried that it wasn’t going to go through?

DP: Yeah, definitely. The Republicans, it’s been very ongoing that they are really opposed to DACA, so at any moment it’s like, well, they could change it and they could just not give it to you.

But again, it’s something that you can’t let consume you, otherwise you just go crazy.

How did you feel when you first heard that you received the permission? What was your reaction?

DP: It was bittersweet. I was really grateful to get two years, but then it was also like, “Oh yeah, two years.” It’s really just a reminder that I’m living my life in two-year increments. And it was just like, “Oh, I’ll have to deal with this again in two years.”

How does this affect your future plans, and what are your hopes moving forward?

DP: Let’s hope that Congress finds some immigration reform or let’s hope that my lawyer finds another way for me to become legalized. I’m pre-med, and I just really want to go to med school, be a doctor and help people. It’s just so hard, and it’s constantly like, I have to look at med schools, but not just any one that I want. I have to look at ones that accept DACA students, immigrant students, undocumented students.

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Forbes uses new method in ranking FROM FORBES PAGE 1

Angeles rounded out the top five in 2014.

This year, Forbes’ research procedure divided the number of students and alumni at an institution who list themselves as founders or owners of a business on LinkedIn over the size of the matriculating class. In 2012, Forbes tracked only the number of people affiliated with an institution who founded a business that employed 10 or more people, again based on LinkedIn data.

Forbes did not publish a ranking in 2013.

The new methodology better controls for the size of each institution, Chen said.

Although the reliance on Linkedin could introduce bias, Chen said Forbes found similar usage of the service across different institutions.

Director of Dartmouth’s new Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator programs Jamie Coughlin said the Forbes report, like any top-10 ranking, marked a “significant achievement.” He credited Dartmouth’s ranking to College President Phil Hanlon’s commitment to entrepreneurship.

In his September inaugural address, Hanlon announced the establishment of a new innovation center aimed at spurring student entrepreneurship.

“I would say, and I witness this on a daily basis, that there is an undeniable excitement around the growing entrepreneurial awareness within the greater Dartmouth community,” Hanlon said in his address.

To improve its ranking, Coughlin said, Dartmouth must increase “exposure,” which means boosting the accessibility of existing resources and introducing new programming aimed at educating community members about

entrepreneurship. It must also existing entrepreneurial projects by leveraging Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN) and providing seed capital.

In the report, Chen wrote that the DEN provided support to student projects.

Shinri Kamei ’16, who founded the start-up Tray Bien earlier this year, said she was heavily influenced by former DEN director and former Tuck School of Business professor Gregg Fairbrothers ’76. She said entrepreneurship at the College “centered” on several important mentors who remain accessible.

“I think that’s the best thing about Dartmouth entrepreneurship,” Kamei said. “There is no barrier to entry.”

Kamei said she appreciated the ranking, especially given what she called Dartmouth’s reputation for being “corporate.”

Austin Boral ’16, DEN associate of external affairs and former vice president of entrepreneurship accelerator Mitosis, said that the rankings show Dartmouth is “up and coming.” Boral credited Hanlon’s tenure as improving entrepreneurial resources at the College.

While some segments of the student body have long been passionate about entrepreneurship, he said, the opportunity to partake in entrepreneurship has now expanded to a larger portion of students.

Economics professor Andrew Samwick, who began teaching a new social entrepreneurship class this term, said the ranking’s methodology was “not necessarily all that reliable” and cautioned against overemphasizing the report.

“I don’t put any stock in rankings like that as an objective,” he said. “What you want here, for entrepreneurship, is for people to understand that it is an extremely valid synthesis for a liberal

arts education. Liberal arts education is what we do.”

Samwick said that the report’s focus on DEN was appropriate, since entrepreneurship requires strong networks.

Fairbrothers, the former DEN director, said rankings “suggest a precision that’s difficult to support,” citing former College President James Wright’s opinions on the matter. But he said that receiving attention bodes well for Dartmouth and noted that the College’s student body was historically highly entrepreneurial.

Fairbrothers said that strong entrepreneurial networks do not necessarily help entrepreneurs, since those who succeed in starting new ventures could succeed with or without help from resources.

Fairbrothers’s departure last spring from the College was highly controversial. In April the College informed him that he would no longer serve as DEN director or as an adjunct professor at Tuck. This termination spurred a petition signed by over 1,300 students, faculty and alumni rallying behind keeping Fairbrothers at the College. Many warned about the future of entrepreneurship going forward without him.

“Everybody’s got to learn somewhere, and everybody can use a helping hand,” he said. “But if you have to do everything for somebody in order for them to succeed, I’m not sure that’s entrepreneurial.”

Next fall, the College will open DEN in Residence as a living-learning community where residents will be exposed to and involved in DEN innovation activities, learning about a wide range of entrepreneurial perspectives.

Boral is a former member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

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“Recruiting participation rises” (Aug. 12, 2014): The print edition misspelled the name of the story’s author, Jessica Avitabile.

“Brooks: Define Your Dartmouth” (Aug. 8, 2014): Brooks’s statement about sophomore summer — “I did two” — was misstated as “I did too.”

Brooks spent two summers in Hanover.

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Exchange trip to Israel awaits waiver Students in study will log 50 hours of instruction FROM OCP PAGE 1

The Ebola virus has claimed more than 1,000 lives in this most recent outbreak and has spread to several surrounding countries, including Liberia.

African and African-American studies professor Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, who helped plan the Ghana FSP, said that regional safety was important when planning the trip and cited Ghana’s recent record of political stability as one reason that Ghana would make a good destination.

“Safety was definitely part of the decision-making process, but not the most significant factor,” SackeyfioLenoch said. “It was a logical place to take students. It’s a plain fact that Ghana has many long-term relationships with academic institutions.”

Sackeyfio-Lenoch said that she has been closely watching the recent Ebola outbreak but that she is not too concerned, since the region will have had at least a year to contain the outbreak before the trip will arrive.

The final decision on whether the trip will happen will be made next summer, she said.

Tansey said that the off-campus programs office is monitoring the situation currently but does not yet know whether the outbreak will affect the trip.

From disease outbreak to coups, global events have affected the College’s off-campus programs and have even lead to the cancelation of

programs in the past.

Tansey said that similar safety and security situations have occurred with the 2009 outbreak of avian flu in Mexico, the 2003 outbreak of SARS in China and the economic crisis in Argentina in 2002.

The response to each situation was different, he said. Because the Spanish LSA in Cholula, Mexico had already begun when the outbreak occurred, students were flown

“Safety was definitely part of the decisionmaking process, but not the most significant factor. It was a logical place to take students.”

- NAABORKO SACKEYFIOLENOCH, AAAS PROFESSOR out of the region to complete their studies in Hanover. The Spanish FSP in Buenos Aires, Argentina was moved to Montevideo, Uruguay, while the program in China was canceled.

GlobeMed’s two-month summer trip to Thailand this year came shortly after a military coup that led to martial law and curfews across much of the country.

Lisa Carson ’15 is the trip director of this year’s mission, the latest iteration of a three-year long partnership with Thailand’s Kachin Women’s Association, a group that helps refugees of the Burmese Civil War. Carson said that although organizations at the College such as the Rockefeller Center and the Dickey Center for International Understanding were hesitant to support the trip, the GlobeMed national office encouraged the group to make the journey.

“We just have to have an emergency plan in case something should come up,” Carson said.

Because the travel did not meet the requirements to be “Dartmouthrelated,” Tansey said students likely did not have to fill out a travel waiver.

Carson said that while there were some explicit signs of the coup — including an increased military presence — she has not seen any protesting or violence.

The group was especially wary at the beginning of their trip, Carson said, because organizations similar to the one they volunteered for had recently been raided by government forces.

The volunteers originally worked three days a week to keep their work from being noticed, but now works five days a week and are set to return Aug. 18. They have avoided travelling to Bangkok, where most of the violence is centered. The curfew was lifted before the group arrived.

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undergraduate lab will understand the intervention, while those carrying out the intervention will learn why brain waves involved are important, Coch said.

Research assistants will assist at some intervention periods, Coch said.

A mini-conference with teachers, students, parents and community members will conclude the project by displaying the findings from the study, Coch said. Results will show teachers ways to provide this additional help to students.

The Stern Center, founded in 1983, has executed these types of educational interventions since 1995, Podhajski said.

The idea of connecting neuroscience and education is becoming increasingly common, Coch said, resulting in a new field called “mind, brain and education.” Scholars hope to pool knowledge on how children learn and develop in order to put procedures into practice.

Harvard University offers a master’s program in the field, and a scholarly journal called “Mind, Brain and Education” published its first issue in 2007.

Research assistant Ayesha Dholakia ’15 has been working in the lab for two years. Her job consists of helping plan and run both behavioral and brain imaging studies. She will be one of the main actors in executing the study, by running brain wave studies on the young participants and then performing data analysis.

“I’m really excited about this project because thus far I’ve only worked on studies involving college students,” Dholakia said.

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struggle with learning to read but do not qualify for special education, Coch said.

“Forty percent of children will learn to read no matter what, but 60 percent of children need more instruction,” Podhajski said. “All of these students do not have a learning disability, they just require more structured literary approach” The instruction consists of an intervention — guided by Stern Center employees — that teaches students to decode and read automatically and fluidly, Podhajski said.

This process involves teaching students the rules of English. Students can understand 87 percent of words if the student understands these rules, Podhajski said. The main goal is to explain how words sound, in order to increase fluid reading.

Each student will complete 50 hours of instruction — one hour every school day for 10 weeks, Podhajski said. Before and after the intervention, Coch’s lab will measure students’ electrophysiological effects to determine if they correlate with observed behavioral outcomes, which are primarily based on standardized reading tests.

Most of the grant goes toward paying for the intervention for the third-grade students, since 50 hours of intervention costs about $4,000 per student, Coch said.

Another part of the grant’s funding is dedicated to connecting different areas of study. Through the project, the all-

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SENIOR Staff Columnist KATIE MCKAY ’16

GUEST COLUMNIST LEEHI YONA ’16

We Are Not Sheep

Fulfilling Our Potential

We are more than the privileged drones the media makes us out to be.

Dartmouth students can and should do more to effect positive change.

William Deresiewicz’s recent column in The New Republic, “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League: The nation’s top colleges are turning our kids into zombies,” denigrates American elite education (particularly the Ivy League) and the parents who send their children to these depraved institutions. Beyond the obvious hypocrisy (Deresiewicz is a self-described “sleepwalker” who spent 24 years in the Ivy League, studying at Columbia University and teaching at Yale University), implicit in his moralistic overture about higher education, meritocracy and America’s elite is a critique of our generation — the intolerable “millennials.”

The column is not addressed to the students of the Ivy League, but to the parents who chose to send us here. The entire argument hinges upon a complete rejection of our agency as students and as human beings. We are not sheep, and Deresiewicz is not our new shepherd.

Deresiewicz’s column is just another millennial think piece — a particularly grating and unoriginal journalistic trend — masquerading as an insightful reproach of our education system and America’s elite. He reveals an unsavory resentment for our generation of Ivy Leaguers, characterizing us as slaves to the allegedly soul-sucking industry of elite academia. Such a simplistic take on the Ivy League and the gifted students who attend it does us all an incredible disservice. If anything, it only further contributes to the massive groundswell of pressure that weighs on all of our shoulders, making us — understandably — at least acutely anxious. No longer is it enough to gain admission into these elite institutions, obtain passing grades and go on to work hard at a secure job (and, possibly, raise a family). Now we must be innovators, world-changers and disease-curers. Otherwise our education, our sacrifices and our hard work will be for naught.

Deresiewicz offers us little in the way of advice, save for the suggestion that we transfer to a public institution, which is hardly advice at all. He suggests that we came here because we were swayed by the prestige and status that comes with being a student in the Ivy League.

I hail from Canada — the land of hockey, maple syrup and (most recently) the tar sands.

The Alberta tar sands deposit is the thirdlargest known oil reserve in the world and has recently begun being exploited. These deposits are located in the traditional hunting and cultural grounds of many First Nations, most notably the Athabasca Chipewyan and Beaver Lake Cree Nations. The process that extracts bitumen — think a toxic peanut butter-like sludge — from tar sands is by far the dirtiest and most fuel-intensive oil extraction process in the world.

The tar sands play a significant role in furthering climate change and the U.S. is poised to dramatically influence the development (or lack thereof) of this region.

From Sandy and Irene directly impacting the Upper Valley to a White House report determining that every inch of the country will be negatively affected by global warming in the coming years, it goes without saying that each and every member of the Dartmouth community is connected to climate change in some way. But each and every one of us has the potential to act positively to lessen its effects on society.

Why should this matter to us? As Dartmouth students, we are far more powerful, far more capable of having an impact on this world than we may think.

We have the resources to influence society that others may not. Our alumni hold important positions as leaders and decision-makers.

Take Todd Stern ’73, the United States Special Envoy for Climate Change and the most important delegate at the United Nations climate change negotiations. There are members of our community who have immense power to leverage positive change, and we as Dartmouth students have greater access to them than members of the general public. We must establish relationships with alumni that go beyond networking. Many alumni want to engage with us, so what are we waiting for?

Another resource oftentimes overlooked at Dartmouth is money. While it isn’t always easy

I, for one, came here because I believed that Dartmouth would give me the most resources to become successful and to change the world.

According to Deresiewicz, it seems, not only must we be successful in the grandest sense of the world; we must do so largely on our own, lest we be judged by boomers and Gen X’ers alike.

Yet those older — and self-proclaimed wiser — should be wary of casting the first stone. As aptly noted by Joshua Rothman in his takedown of Deresiewicz in The New Yorker, the anxiety and insecurity that Deresiewicz claims is characteristic of the current legion of Ivy League youth is actually more of a product of modern society than anything else. Indeed, what Deresiewicz mischaracterizes as a symptom of floundering elite education and the moral failures of a generation spoiled by privilege is actually one of a larger issue — and, Rothman argues, an unavoidable one at that. Our malaise arises from being confronted with the realities of modernity and of adult life, of coming to age in an era when the commoditization of our minds and our selves is to be expected. Such malaise, if anything, shows that we are willing to grapple with and think critically about our lives and our world. As Rothman writes, “if you’re feeling uneasy about life, then you’re doing the reading.”

Deresiewicz criticizes our generation of students for mindlessly playing by the rules. We may not like the world we live in, but we are taught that we have no choice but to conform if we ever want to have the resources and opportunities necessary to eventually change it. By denigrating us for being ambitious and high-achieving, he fails to understand our generation. We are constantly accused of being privileged, complacent and self-absorbed — of not understanding hardship and not caring to.

But we know better. Deresiewicz alleges that his students were “content to color within the lines” of soulless academia. I find that hard to believe.

To say that we do not yearn to color outside of the lines is to radically underestimate our grit, our spirit and our character. And to do so under the guise of concerned advice is to insult us.

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to obtain, significant funding is available for us to pursue international or extracurricular experiences. This potential resource, combined with the Dartmouth name, gives students more opportunities to affect the global community than they may have years beyond graduation.

Considering these resources, taking action on broader issues such as global warming should be a no-brainer. We have a moral responsibility to our fellow Americans, to fellow global citizens affected by climate change and the human combustion of fossil fuels that is behind it.

We also have a responsibility to both our own and our future generations. What kind of world do we want for ourselves and for our children, if we choose to have them?

Our College’s mission statement asserts that Dartmouth’s aim is to prepare us for a “lifetime … of responsible leadership.” I cannot think of a situation where that rings more true than the climate crisis. In fact, following a community call for the College to examine the feasibility of divestment from the top 200 fossil fuel companies by proven reserves, the Board of Trustees issued a statement in which they asserted “Dartmouth supports … a sense of responsibility for each other and for the broader world. The use and management of Dartmouth’s resources are to advance this mission and these values.”

We as a Dartmouth community should uphold values of human dignity, compassion, responsibility and respect. Caring about communities such as those near tar sands development should matter to us because we are all affected by global warming. We are all inherently a part of the system that consumes fossil fuels. Living up to Dartmouth’s mission is about using these two realities to empower us rather than discourage us.

We can do so much more to rise to the climate challenge and to engage with our local and national communities. We can do better.

And we must.

Leehi Yona ’16 is an organizer of the Divest Dartmouth fossil fuel disinvestment campaign.

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Kira Garden showcases sculpture by Upper Valley artists B y Lindsay keare The Dartmouth Staff

A sliver of sunlight gleamed off “Arabesque,” created by Michael Kraatz and Susan Russell of Canaan. The stained glass reflected the reds and greens of the nearby ceramic plants. A small patch of purple flowers had sprung up next to the sculpture, their bright petals contrasting against the rusted steel framing the glass. A small group of bees buzzed around the overturned bird house sculpture a few yards away, made by Campton’s Phil Lonergan.

These works of art are currently on display in Kira’s Garden, an outdoor sculpture garden at the Alliance for the Visual Arts Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon.

“Arabesque” joins nearly a dozen other works of art in the Garden, each of which was submitted by an Upper Valley artist.

Kira’s Garden was a gift from Benjamin Schore, and he dedicated the space to his wife, Kira Fournier Schore, who passed away in 2002. AVA executive director Bente Torjusen said that Kira Schore was a well-known sculptor

in the Upper Valley, and that the couple had both been long-time supporters of the arts in the Upper Valley.

After his wife’s death, Benjamin Schore approached the gallery’s directors with the idea of creating a sculpture garden in her name.

While the garden was originally created in 2008, several construction projects delayed the ultimate progress of the exhibition space.

AVA exhibition coordinator Margaret Jacobs ’08 said that while the garden has seen a successful summer, it began slowly when the initial opening of the exhibit was rained out and had to be rescheduled. Jacobs said that this marks the second year the gallery has placed a large call for submissions from artists.

As the gardens are an outdoor exhibit, Jacobs said the weather is a constant factor for the display of the exhibition. Because Hanover often receives extreme weather, some of the works cannot be displayed year-round. Other pieces, Jacobs said, are left in the garden so viewers can the environment’s effects on art.

“We like to leave sculpture out

so that viewers can come in the fall the winter and there’s still the option to see stuff something beautiful,” she said. “The work interacts with the environment in a different way when there’s a foot of snow on the ground.”

“It’s a cool thing to show because it’s a little less formal than inside of a gallery, so you can be a little bit more playful, you can take different kinds of risks.”

- MARGARET JACOBS, AVA EXHIBITION COORDINATOR Torjusen said the unpredictable and often harsh weather adds to the majesty of an outdoor art space, recalling a specific example of the effects a snowy day followed by a warm day had on a sculpture of a poem carved into a tree trunk.

“When it just began to melt in the morning hours, the poem stood out against the white and it was incredibly striking,” she said.

This combination of the art and its environment is a new development for AVA gallery, which did not have an outdoor space prior to Kira’s Garden.

Once accepted into the exhibition, the pieces remain on display for one year. Jacobs said the idea behind the Garden was to provide a constant rotation of works to display different artists from the area.

“We’re a community gallery, but we show a lot of different levels of community artists,” she said. “Some artists are seen here, become a hit and get picked up to show in places such as Provincetown or Boston,” she said.

Sue Katz of Meriden, whose sculpture “Botanical Invention” is currently on display in the Garden, said this community of local artists is one of the greatest parts of working with the gallery.

“When I first moved here from New York state, I discovered AVA gallery and started getting involved immediately,” she said. “I met a

lot of other local artists there. It’s been a great place to show my work and meet others in the area who are working on similar projects.”

Sculpture allows artists to experiment in ways that “indoor” mediums like painting and drawing don’t always let you do, she said.

“It’s a cool thing to show because it’s a little less formal than inside of the gallery, so you can be a little bit more playful, you can take different kinds of risks,” Jacobs said.

The addition of a sculpture garden aligns with the Gallery’s mission of helping community members appreciate art, Victoria Nevel ’16, who worked at the AVA Gallery during high school, said.

The gallery plans to expand its sculpture division, recently buying more property across the parking lot to house a sculpture workshop.

There are also several green roofs and other patches of grass that could contain sculptures in the near future.

“The word is getting out that we’re a place that can show outdoor pieces on a rotating basis,” Jacobs said.

‘Burning’ exhibit, by Montgomery Fellow Celaya, explores identity B y Macy Ferguson The Dartmouth Staff

From July 12 to August 10, a bronze boy wept in the Hood Museum of Art. The statue was a part of artist and Montgomery Fellow Enrique Martínez Celaya’s exhibition “Burning As It Were a Lamp.” Along with the statue, the exhibition included fragments of a mirror and two paintings of angels, one captioned “I remember nothing” and the other captioned “I remember everything.”

The combination of different mediums and themes in the exhibition gave it strength, said Hood deputy director Juliette Bianco ’94.

“I think what was unique about the exhibition was that as an installation it had multiple components and elements,” she said. “You had this multimedia presentation that worked as one installation, and I think it was nice to be able to focus on one piece and enter that space.”

Bianco said that she and Hood Museum director Michael Taylor first saw Celaya’s work in Miami at the end of 2011 and for the next two years worked to nominate him as the Montgomery Fellow. “Burning” is Celaya’s most recent exhibition, and premiered at the end of last year.

“We were really struck by how so many different disciplines are synthesized in his work,” Bianco said. “We

knew the multidisciplinarity of his work would be perfect for Dartmouth students to be able to relate to because he brings together so many ideas in his artwork.”

The exhibition contains four primary pieces, each one representing the overall theme of self-reflection, represented in the mirrors and the pool of tears at the feet of the bronze statue. The mirrors in the exhibition are fragmented, which Bianco says refuses the viewer the possibility of viewing themselves in one complete image.

These questions of personal identity and isolation run throughout each of Celaya’s pieces.

The variety of disciplines and knowledge reflected in Celaya’s work come from his background in science, Bianco said. Before becoming an artist, Celaya worked as a physicist.

During his residence, Celaya met with two introductory drawing classes and two government classes.

Celaya interacted with students by maintaining an open studio in the Hop Garage so that students could come by and ask about his work.

“We pick fellows based on how they present or talk about what they do. It’s very important that their work is accessible,” Montgomery Fellows program director Christianne Wohlforth said.

“One of the things we want to do with the program is provide students with examples of successful, creative

individuals that lead full lives. Having them here in person, the students really get to see them as a full person.”

Art history professor Mary Coffey said she was also struck by the intellectual nature and teaching potential within Celaya’s work.

She noted the artist’s background in poetry, philosophy and science sets him apart from many contemporary artists.

“His paintings are very serious and his installations are dealing with larger cultural and political forces and the relationship with the mundane and more meaningful questions like ‘who am I?’ and ‘how does my personal and cultural history impact my identity’” Coffey said.

Celaya was born in Palos, Cuba, and spent several years in Spain and Puerto Rico before eventually coming to the U.S. as a physics student.

This idea of mobility and the importance of physical space is played out through several of Celaya’s works, said Wohlforth.

“He doesn’t just create paintings, he creates environments,” she said. “The more time you spend with it and see the juxtaposition of the sculptures to the paintings and read about his intentions behind it and what influenced it, the more you understand the experience of the works.”

While the bronze statue and the paintings of angels command attention when walking into the exhibit, the

full effect of the exhibition cannot be revealed to the viewer until they are surrounded by the fragmented mirrors in the exhibit.

“Burning” incorporates a participatory aspect, where the viewers must interact with the images of their own reflections.

Bianco said the exhibition was well received and that viewers could connect to both Celaya’s artistic approach and the way he openly discussed his work.

“Our main criteria for exhibitions are those that contain those great moments for teaching and learning for both students and professors,” Bianco said. “A work like Enrique’s that spans

so many different disciplines is a winner for us. It helps complement a diverse schedule.”

While meeting with students, Celaya discussed his decision to leave his career as a physicist and pursue art professionally. Wohlforth said that in this discussion, Celaya spoke about the pressure to do what you’re good at and how he felt trapped by his success in physics.

“I felt that students really connected with that pressure to do what you’re good at,” Wohlforth said. “We’re all told to ‘play to our strengths’ and Enrique was saying that you have to ask yourself if you’re doing what you’re doing because you’re good at it or because you truly love it.”

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Freshman Athlete Preview

Ahbe looks to make an impact on the ice By josh Koenig

The Dartmouth Staff

After a win in the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey Under-18 Women’s World Championship in Hungary, the U.S. team gathered in the lockerroom and danced — to Miley Cyrus’s hit “Party in the USA.” The team, forward Brooke Ahbe ’18 said, was determined to celebrate in style on its way to an eventual silver-medal this spring.

Back in the U.S., fans and supporters of the Big Green women’s hockey team are hoping that Ahbe will have a few more reasons to celebrate over the next four years. The standout recruit from Colorado, who has been open about her desire to represent her country in the 2018 or 2022 Olympics, will arrive in Hanover with four invitations to play with the national team camp under her belt, in addition to her appearance with a competitive U.S. squad last March.

“Everything we got back from her school was what a great person in the classroom, a leader, a hard worker she was,” head coach Mark Hudak said. “Any coach — I think any school — wants something like that.”

Hockey runs in the Ahbe family.

Her father, a former collegiate player in Ontario and current coach, first taught her to skate at the age of 3, she said. Ahbe soon moved on to wearing her brother’s hockey equipment around the house, and experienced a major moment in her career at 7 — when a member of the national team visited her rink in Colorado before a game against Canada.

“That’s probably really when the dream started,” Ahbe said. “I went to their game too, and it was just such a cool environment. It just really looked like the job was awesome, to travel around the world to play hockey.”

By the time she reached high school, Ahbe had established herself as enough of a standout that she could do some traveling of her own, leaving Colorado after her sophomore year to suit up for Shattuck-St. Mary’s school, a national hockey powerhouse.

Director of girls’ hockey at Shattuck-St.Mary’s Gordie Stafford said that he was immediately impressed

by Ahbe’s work ethic and drive.

Ahbe, he said, was as hard a worker and as dedicated an athlete as any player he had coached in his career.

“When she came to Shattuck, I don’t even know that she was necessarily on USA Hockey’s radar,” Stafford said. “And she ended up making the U-18 national team.”

Hudak said that Ahbe had been on the Big Green’s radar since her freshman and sophomore years. Her competitive spirit, he said, initially caught the eye of the Big Green.

“It’s a huge piece of competing at this level,” Hudak said. “There’s a lot of players out there who work hard, but there is a difference between the kid who works hard and the kid who is really competing out there. That was something we noticed right away.”

Off the ice, both Hudak and Stafford were effusive in their praise of Ahbe’s personal qualities. Stafford, who taught Ahbe in American literature at Shattuck-St.Mary’s and also served as her senior advisor, said that he was continually impressed

by Ahbe’s excitement for learning, calling her a “catalyst for discussion” in class. Stafford also praised Ahbe’s genuine excitement for learning.

Looking to the future, Ahbe said that she hopes to hit the ground running in her first year at Hanover.

Among other goals, Ahbe said, she hopes to maintain consistency in her play and become an impact player.

In addition to Ahbe, the Big Green will gain four additional recruits this fall: Elena Horton ’18, a forward from Cincinnati, Hailey Noronha ’18, a defenseman from Ontario, Casey Nunnelly ’18, a Massachusetts-based goalie, and Morgan Turner ‘18, a forward from Chicago.

Captain Karlee Odland ’15 said that the team hopes its new members, including Ahbe, will have a quick impact on the team.

“I think our whole team is really pumped about meeting these girls,” Odland said. “We’re looking forward to this year.”

ONE ON ONE

WITH DANIEL HAZLETT ’18

By Zac hardwick The Dartmouth Staff

This week, The Dartmouth sat down with incoming men’s soccer player Daniel Hazlett ’18. In his senior year, Hazlett led the Hanover High School men’s soccer team to an undefeated season and a Division I state championship. He was also named the Gatorade New Hampshire Boys Soccer Player of the Year for the fall season. He’ll join the varsity soccer team after his Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trip: hiking three, through the White Mountains.

What does winning the New Hampshire Gatorade player of the year mean to you?

DH: It was really nice. It feels good to see all your hard work pay off at the end, and it was at the perfect time senior year after winning the state championship with a great group of guys. I couldn’t have done it without them, but it was a great way to top it all off.

You led your team to an undefeated record and a Division I state championship. How did you guys do it?

DH: It was a long time coming. Hanover has always had a great soccer program, and we were actually in Division II for many years just because of our class size. Two years ago they moved us up to Division I, and, in our first year, we lost in the finals. Everyone was surprised because they had no idea we’d be that good. Then this past year, we were just really good from the back line all the way up to the front. It was just a group of seniors who had been playing together since we were 10, so we had that click, and we had good chemistry. The best part was that our coaches never really cared about the results. All they wanted us to do was play for each other and have fun out there. That helped a lot.

You were recruited by a number of schools. Why did you decide to come to Dartmouth?

DH: I’ve always wanted to go to Dartmouth since I was 2 years old. Since I’ve lived here, I’ve been watching them for a long time. It was something I’ve just wanted to do since I was really young.

DH: Everything man, there’s a lot. I’m so excited to be there with a few friends from high school, and obviously it’s a very good school academically. There are a ton of things I’m looking forward to, I think it’ll be a lot of fun.

How is the team looking this year and where do you see yourself fitting in?

DH: The team is looking pretty good. A lot of very good freshman are coming in who are all very good players, and we only lost six seniors last year. For me, I won’t be participating in pre-season so I’ll be going on my freshman trip, and then during orientation is when I’ll join the team.

Where are you living in the fall?

Do you know your roommate?

DH: Yeah, I’m living in Berry in McLaughlin. I got very lucky, I hear, with a really good dorm. I actually just hit up my roommate on Facebook the other day. I don’t know much about him other than his name, so I’ll just have to meet him.

How did you spend your summer?

DH: I’ve actually been working a lot at a farm in Norwich. Its been a new experience because I’ve never done it before. I was interested in doing it because I went to Costa Rica over spring break and one of the days was dedicated to visiting a farm and seeing how it works. We worked there the whole day, and we got to eat whatever we picked and made. I thought it was really cool, so I wanted to try it out this summer.

What about Dartmouth are you most excited about?

What did you think about the World Cup and Team USA? DH: Nobody expected them to do that well, to be honest. No one thought they would get out of their group with Germany, Portugal and Ghana.

So I think they performed pretty well for what they were given. I think the future is looking really good, there are a lot of young guys playing over in Europe that will be really good in two to three years. Next World Cup hopefully we’ll be going a little further.

Who’s your favorite player?

DH: That’s an easy one. Ronaldo.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

AMANDA GEDULD/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Daniel Hazlett ’18 looks forward to starting his Dartmouth career.