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Coffin appointed as admissions vice provost By AMANDA ZHOU
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When the College announced Lee Coffin as the new vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid last week, Coffin — a first-generation college student — said he called his father and thanked him for the sacrifices his parents made to allow him to go to college. “It changed my life,” he said. Coffin graduated from Trinity College and for the past 13 years has served as the dean of undergraduate admissions and enrollment management at Tufts University.
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The New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed three bills on Feb. 4 to address drug problems within the state. The bills allocated $5.5 million to establish drug courts statewide, provide grants for law enforcement and upgrade the state’s prescription drug monitoring program. A legislative task force recommended these changes designed to address the state’s drug crisis.
A portion of the legislation passed aims to further drug education and support community groups. The bills — Senate Bill 464, Senate Bill 484 and Senate Bill 522 — are currently moving through the House of Representatives. Drug courts target habitual offenders of drug laws and place the offenders into treatment and recovery programs. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported in 2014 that New Hampshire was ranked
second to last among states when it comes to access to substance abuse treatment for addicts. In Manchester, overdose deaths as a result of heroin or other opiates has increased from 14 in 2013 to 69 last year. According to the New Hampshire Department of Justice’s Office of the Attorney General, drug deaths have surpassed traffic-related deaths as of 2010 and are still on the rise. New Hampshire resident Sophie Czerwinski ’19 commented that towns
surrounding her area, specifically Laconia, are affected by the heroin epidemic. “My dad was a doctor in Laconia and frequently dealt with heroin overdoses in the E.R. and he said it was the most common overdose they saw,” Czerwinski said. New Hampshire’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Services confirmed in 2015 the issue when it reported that the life saving anti-overdose drug SEE DRUGS PAGE 5
Q&A with Bloomberg Businessweek’s Paul Barrett
By HEYI JIANG The Dartmouth
Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Paul Barrett came to Dartmouth this week to talk about his new book on the legal battle over oil in the rainforest. The Dartmouth sat down with him to talk about “Law of the Jungle” (2014) and his experience reporting. What made you interested in investigative journalism? PB: I’ve been in journalism full time now for more than 30 years. Most of
that time I spent working at the Wall Street Journal, and then more recently for Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine. And I suppose what drew me to more investigative and narrative journalism is a certain pleasure or joy I get out of challenging people’s preconceptions. I find it very energizing to have the opportunity to take a controversial subject whether it’s race relations or religious relations or industry like the gun industry or the oil industry, all the topics I’ve written books about. And try to challenge the assumptions that the reader will bring to that subject by laying out a more complicated reality.
So what kind of unifies those seemingly very disparate subjects is that they are all topics that people have very strong assumptions about, but often those assumptions are not informed by the facts, and I like going out and asking people questions and so forth.
tion between poor people in Ecuador and the powerful oil company taking place in the rainforest, literally almost a Garden-of-Eden-like environment that has a very strong pull I think on many people and I will be included among them.
What made you want to write about the Chevron pollution case in Ecuador?
What happened? Did the oil company ruin the Garden of Eden such that the innocent residents thereof were harmed?
PB: I have followed the case for many years as a spectator before I plunged into actually reporting on it myself. And there is something about the confronta-
PB: That’s the obvious, easy narraSEE Q&A PAGE 5
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DAILY DEBRIEFING After spending the last month collecting signatures, approximately 40 Harvard Medical School students delivered a petition to Harvard administrators that included demands that the next dean prioritize campus diversity, The Harvard Crimson reported. The student group Racial Justice Coalition created the petition, which now has more than 300 signatures and includes a demand that at least a quarter of candidates interviewed for the new dean position come from underrepresented backgrounds in medicine. Princeton University has received 29,313 applicants for the Class of 2020, a record-high number in the University’s history, The Daily Princetonian reported. This year’s pool features a 7.4 percent increase over the previous year’s applicants, although it is too early to gather specific metrics from the applications, dean of admissions Janet Rapelye said. The university had previously admitted 785 students from early action applications, and this marks the first year more women than men were accepted early action. In an attempt to attract more high-achieving students, the University of Pennsylvania’s Tutoring Center has started a new “professor letters” program, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. In the new program, professors directly email qualified students about the possibility of tutoring for the class. This will accompany the Tutoring Center’s usual advertising through listserv emails. Several students are now calling for the removal of Chan Heng Chee, who serves as Singapore’s ambassador-at-large from the governing board of Yale-NUS, a coalition between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. This comes after Chan delivered a speech at the United Nations in Geneva defending Singapore’s law that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults. This has sparked discussions about LGBTQ rights. While some students have called for her removal, others say it would be inappropriate considering she was speaking as a Singaporean ambassador and not as governor of the college. - COMPILED BY LUKE McCANN
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GUEST COLUMNIST ANNIKA PARK ’18
STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18
Pillaging the Greeks
Experience is Everything
A little party never killed nobody.
Walking around this week, I’ve seen more people wearing their Greek letters than usual. Despite some dismissing the wearing of letters as too passive a mode of protest, it was a reminder to many of us of the news that broke last week: the suspension and subsequent derecognition of the historic Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Over the past year, two of the most controversial Greek houses on campus have been derecognized by the college. Last year, Alpha Delta fraternity of “Animal House” (1978) fame was derecognized and now SAE, infamous after Andrew Lohse’s “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: A Memoir” (2014), has also been dissolved. Students are referring to this recent crackdown on fraternities as part of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan towards more inclusivity and academic rigor. It seems as though in the eyes of the administration, what goes on inside these fraternities on a typical Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night out is abominable enough to be wiped off of campus once and for all. The administration fails to realize the obvious — banning fraternities does not solve the problems that arise from students partying. As many members of the student body have already argued on various social media platforms, suspension and derecognition of fraternities make the social scene more exclusive. Hanover is not New York City. The Greek scene is one of few options for students to “hang out” and have fun. With or without it, students will still find a way to party. But the issue that deserves more attention is that through the removal of Greek life, the administration is destroying what is central to Dartmouth’s school culture. Greek life is less common in the East Coast than in the South and this is especially so amongst the Ivies. Without a doubt, Dartmouth stands out amongst its brethren because of its unique academic environment. Conan O’Brien, in his commencement speech, remarked that, “Dartmouth, you must stand tall and feel proud, because if Harvard, Yale and Princeton are your self-involved, vain, name-dropping older
brothers, you are the cool, sexually-confident lacrosse-playing younger sibling who knows how to throw a party and looks good in a down vest.” Dartmouth is unique among the Ivies, and our Greek culture is a testament to that. Ridding Dartmouth of its Greek life removes a part of our culture. Dartmouth’s Greek houses, contrary to their depiction in the press, provides students with remarkably open social spaces. A Dartmouth student’s identity is a student who works hard and plays hard, and Greek life helps to bolster that persona. That persona may appear unappealing to the administration, but it is a persona that many who come to Dartmouth expect, enjoy and embrace. Hanlon must realize that through his recent actions, he has done irreparable harm to what is arguably the longest-standing social scene at Dartmouth. Many students are already bringing up how the closure of these two houses would negatively affect men’s rush for the Class of 2019. The intense scrutiny placed on Greek houses not only drives dangerous behavior underground, but also further increases hostility between Greek houses. It is with great fear that we imagine a Dartmouth without a Greek scene. If this pattern continues, is likely that a select few fraternities will remain (if they were to remain at all) and alternative social spaces, as in spaces sponsored and run by the College, will take their place. Instead of administration driven alternative social spaces gaining popularity, existing Greek fraternities would gain “social capital.” Fraternities will stop being open spaces and become similar to exclusive and pretentious “eating club,” in which members and non-members are strictly divided. Dartmouth students must fight to preserve our culture. The administration’s overzealous attention to its student’s social lives has left students extremely dissatisfied. As members of this community, we have a responsibility to act. Dartmouth is one a few schools where the majority of the upperclassmen are involved in Greek houses, and it is our job to ensure our legacy stands.
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First term senators have no business running for president.
The current Republican presidential in a way that congressmen simply don’t. race features two first-term senators run- When listing his accomplishments durning for the most powerful office in the ing the debate, Rubio made only vague, world. Are they really prepared for the broad claims. Christie would go on during position of commander in chief ? Both the debate to tell Rubio, “You have not been Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are highly involved in a consequential decision where intelligent people, but they have not had to you had to be held accountable. You just make a single consequential decision from simply haven’t.” an executive position. Moreover, their time Congressmen often fall into the trap of in office has been short and without sig- listing legislation that they were involved in nificant accomplishments. The same 2008 writing or passing as an accomplishment. GOP concerns over then Barack Obama’s Indeed, Christie called Rubio out on that lack of executive experience and lack of as well, exclaiming “the fact when you talk time spent in Washington cultivating rela- about the Hezbollah Sanctions Act that you tionships apply to both Rubio and Cruz. list as one of your accomplishments you Both candidates’ non-existent executive just did, you weren’t even there to vote for experience and short it. That’s not leadership, history of holding office that’s truancy.” Cruz, means they would have “Both Ted Cruz and like Rubio, has also done a difficult time bringing Marco Rubio are nothing of consequence people together and in public office – unless would most certainly highly intelligent you count continuously struggle in the White people, but they have attempting to repeal the House. Affordable Care Act or not had to make a Besides Obama, shutting down the govthe United States has single consequential ernment as consequenhad only one other tial. decision from an first-term senator serve Christie further differenas president: Warren executive position.” tiated between the qualiG. Harding. President fications for president of Harding is considered a senator and a governor to be one of the worst succinctly by saying, “It presidents in scholar does matter when the surveys. If elected, Cruz challenges don’t come on would just be finishing four years in the a list of a piece of paper of what to vote Senate upon his presidential inauguration yes or no every day, but when the problems in 2017. He was appointed to the non- come in from the people that you serve.” legislative and non-executive position of There is an incredible truth in Christie’s Texas solicitor general in 2003, and upon reasoning that exposed an overlooked major leaving the solicitor general position in weakness in the Rubio and Cruz campaigns. 2008 he worked at a private law firm in As president, each of these men would Houston. constantly face issues for which they must Rubio, despite also being a first term make quick, unilateral decisions that will senator, has slightly more legislative experi- have broad and lasting policy implications. ence. He served in the Florida legislature as Although it is certainly a difficult job, serva member of the Florida House of Repre- ing in the Senate doesn’t require the same sentatives from the 111th district from 2000 sort of quick, decisive action on an every to 2008. Still, he has not had to lead from day basis. Less than one term legislative an executive office in his career. Indeed, the experience simply isn’t enough when you’re lack of executive history and experience of running for an executive position. Cruz and Rubio has concerned voters and But it seems like Republican voters are other Republican presidential candidates. not too concerned with political or legisla During the Feb. 6 Republican presi- tive accomplishments considering Donald dential debate in New Hampshire, New Trump is leading in the polls. However, Jersey Governor and presidential candidate depth and length of experience generally Chris Christie was asked to discuss his seem to matter for voters in both parties. statement, “Fool me once, shame on you; Trump is a business executive, John Kasich fool me twice, shame on me,” in regard to is an experienced governor, Bernie Sanders electing a first-term senator as president. was a mayor and the longest-serving indeIn response, he differentiated between the pendent in U.S. congressional history and role of a senator and a governor, the lat- Hillary Clinton was a senator, Secretary ter of which is an executive office— like of State and First Lady. For all of these the presidency — that involves making candidates, their extensive experience has consequential decisions regularly. While been an important part of their campaign. a congressman affects change relatively While intelligence is certainly necessary, it slowly and mostly within the strict confines isn’t enough to qualify someone for what is of a codified system, the president’s power’s arguably the most powerful position in the and responsibilities are a lot more vast and world. Experience matters, and as of now, broadly defined. The president needs to be it looks like Cruz and Rubio will face an prepared to take on many roles and think uphill climb in order for either to become outside the box to quickly solve problems the Republican presidential nominee.
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Barrett talks reporting abroad FROM Q&A PAGE 1
tive and there is some truth to that. There certainly was wrongdoing by the oil company, but as you dig into this story, you learn the story is much more complicated than that, and that type of complication is what appeals to me. So the initial lure was the sheer size of the verdict against Chevron, the fact that that verdict was won by an American lawyer working largely by himself. And then the secondary reason that I was drawn it to was all the complications. How had the Ecuadorians who live near the oil operations ended up there? What was the role of the Ecuadorian government? Had there ever been any efforts to clean up the oil pollution? What methods did Steven Donziger use to try to forward the interests of his clients? All of those questions led to greater complexity and opened doors that I thought if I went through and looked around I could shed some light on what had really happened. Could you describe in more detail the work you have done to overcome these difficulties? PB: The first thing I did in connection with my ignorance about Ecuador was pick up and go down there. I made two reporting trips so that I could see firsthand what the oil fields look like, meet people in person who live near and work in the oil industry, meet people in the capital city of Quito and get a feel for what has transpired in Ecuador first-hand. Second I enlisted the assistance of translators and people who could help me find my way around. And third, I did just a lot of reporting, a lot of interviewing with people who have been involved in the story for 10, 15, 20 years, and read mountains of legal materials that describe what had transpired in Ecuador going all the way back to the 1960s. So when
you are starting out without a lot of information, you do your homework, you read the primary materials, in this case a lot of the people who have been involved in this case had testified in one way or the other. There was a lot of scientific evidence to reveal, a lot of cultural material to read over, and over a period of years I digested that stuff and tried to synthesize it in the form of the book.
Would you like to summarize briefly the biggest revelation you got from writing this book? PB: One of the main insights that I got from working on the book was that the legal system, whether it’s the U.S. legal system or the Ecuadorian legal system or the international legal system that links the judiciaries of various countries, the legal system, while it has certain strengths, it also has institutional weaknesses, and it is not necessarily a foolproof institution for sorting out something as complicated as the dispute over who is responsible for the sideeffects of the industrialization of the rainforest. So the potential weakness of the legal system. A second insight is that while it may be difficult to hold a corporation accountable years after its misconduct in an environment like the rainforest, the corporation itself is in the best position in the first instance to avoid the whole dispute simply by behaving in a responsible way. One of the big lessons here is that through relatively commonsense steps, the oil company could have prevented most, if not all, of the contamination in the first instance. A third revelation was the role played by the Ecuadorian government in Ecuadorian society. This was not a situation that was taking place in the dark of night or in secret. The Ecuadorian government invited Texaco to come to the country to exploit the oil resources; the vast majority of the proceeds from the oil industry remained
in Ecuador. And after Texaco was forced to leave the country in 1993, the Ecuadorian oil industry took over. The national oil company sadly became every bit as bad a polluter as the foreign oil company had been, and this is an illustration of the fact that if there’s been a contamination problem it’s not enough to simply blame the foreign actors and shake your fist at them. You have to take responsibility for the situation, and if the national oil company has become every bit as bad a polluter as the foreign oil company was, that’s gonna make it difficult to assign liability for what’s been left behind. Would you like to share your take of the current landscape and possibly, the future of pollution cases that involve American firms or organizations? PB: One of the sad legacies of this story, because of the fact that Chevron was able to prove that the case brought against it was itself polluted in figurative terms by corruption, is that I think large corporations are going to follow Chevron’s model, and when confronted with accusations such as those Chevron faced in Ecuador, are going to follow the same strategy of attacking the plaintiff’s lawyers and seeking to prove that the plaintiff’s lawyers have bent the truth in their effort to vindicate the rights of the local populace. And that strategy, if there have been corners cut, if there have been liberties taken that shouldn’t be taken by the plaintiff’s lawyers, will distract everybody from the underlying pollution problem, and I believe that this strategy will now become more common, and sadly, by any means, the necessary strategy that the plaintiffs took in this case I think will undermine the credibility of similar cases should they be brought elsewhere in the world. This article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
Bills on heroin pass state Senate FROM DRUGS PAGE 1
Naloxone — commonly known as Narcan — has been administered by the county in more than 2,000 incidents. The actions taken give departments access to Narcan so that they can administer the drug to people experiencing a heroin overdose in the field, Hanover Chief of Police Charlie Dennis said. The New Hampshire community is trying to educate the public and professionals about addiction, emergency overdose medications and support services, Dennis said. Dennis also said that the drug epidemic has not hit Hanover to the extent of other towns, cities and
counties across the state. The Hanover Police Department had a total of 38 drug cases in 2015, resulting in 19 arrests. There were also two incidents of heroin overdoses. Marwan Zelmat ’19 said that he did not think Dartmouth had a heroin problem. “I keep hearing that it’s a problem throughout the state, but personally speaking, here at Dartmouth, I have never seen or heard of anyone doing heroin,” Zelmat said. “It is rarely brought up unless in the context of, ‘We have a huge rampant problem.’ But, when I hear that, I wonder, ‘What is rampant?’ If I don’t see it at all, is it really that rampant?” Jeff DeFlavio ’14 founded Recover Together, a company that provides
opiate addiction treatment and group therapy, as a medical student at Dartmouth because there were few affordable, effective treatment options for patients in rural areas. DeFlavio said that since the medical practice opened, the group has grown to seeing over 500 patients per week at locations throughout Maine and New Hampshire, establishing their model in the region. “We’ve also demonstrated that our innovative model is more effective and cheaper than the existing alternatives,” DeFlavio said. His project builds supportive communities to combat addiction and is one of the examples of the New Hampshire community’s resilience in the face of the drug epidemic.
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Coffin’s vision shaped by personal experience FROM ADMISSONS PAGE 1
Coffin said that his own experience as a first generation college student informs his job in enrollment and admissions. “Those pieces of who I am come through in conversations I have about financial aid policy, work study, loans and financing higher ed,” he said. “I think it gives me credibility when I talk to trustees and faculty about [resource management].” Coffin said that during his 13-yeartenure at Tufts, applications increased 37 percent and the last few years saw record high numbers of applicants. He said the Tufts admissions office was strategic in their data analysis to find out where the university was strong and where they could grow. Coffin also said that in his time at Tufts, the university gained a stronger presence on the West Coast, shifted towards a mainly online recruitment strategy and the admission rate decreased from 27 to 16 percent. He said he will continue to keep the applicant voice central to the admissions process. “As the volume goes up, how do you make sure the narrative of each student is part of the conversation as you shape a class?” he said. His position as both vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid, will be connected to the work of student affairs, enrollment, institutional research and athletics in “a more macro context,” he said. His work will also reflect elements of the traditional role of dean of admissions. Coffin added that he actually asked that the dean of admissions and financial aid be a part of his role since “it’s been my professional work for over 20 years.” “I think it really important to have this person be present in the day to day workings of the admissions and financial aid staff both to lead it and understand what’s happening at the grass roots.” University of California, Los Angeles education professor Patricia McDonough said Coffin’s position is likely tied to a new concept in admissions known as “enrollment management.” She said that enrollment management is a way to ensure students’ success in college. The concept focuses not just on getting people in the door but coming out the other end successfully. McDonough added that the person who oversees enrollment management usually works higher up in the administration, and is tasked with asking the questions, “Are we even successful at getting [students] in, are we putting out the right financial aid packages, are we loosing students [to other institutions]?” McDonough said that she thinks the position is necessary. “I think it’s an important thing to do because in too many institutions today, we admit students who may be at great risk of rapidly going out the door or
may not have an adequately successful negotiations with the financial aid office,” she said. Coffin said he was attracted to the position partially because Dartmouth is need-blind and because there was an opportunity to work at an NCAA Division 1 college that had an undergraduate experience connected to its graduate schools. “I see my job [like] I’m a chief storyteller,” Coffin said. “How do I rep the work of Dartmouth faculty and students to an external community that has high aspirations for academic excellence?” He said that his first-year project will likely be participating in that conversation, identifying the authentic Dartmouth story and finding creative ways to communicate that to potential applicants and parents. “I think my first several months are going to be dipping into the institutional narrative,” he said. “I know there are already conversations with trustees about what narrative Dartmouth wants to be.” Coffin said he wants to use position as dean of admissions and financial aid as a way of transparently talking to families about what matters in admissions and financial aid. “Admissions in the Ivy League is hyper-competitive and students and their parents are anxious about admissions and what’s required,” he said. “In my experience, those families who come from lower socioeconomics are intimated by the price tag without realizing that the financial aid will make the education not only affordable but remarkably so.” He noted he also looks forward to digging into the data to understand what kind of people are coming to the College and identifying the types of students who are not attending. He added that a significant change in the college admissions process is the increase in international applicants. He said that when he started at Tufts, the majority of the application pool was American. “I think the biggest change I’ve witnessed is the rise of social media as a piece as the admissions process,” Coffin said. “Websites today are much more robust than they were ten years ago and they’ve opened the conversation to parts of the world where we weren’t seeing applicants.” Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, who lead the search committee for the new enrollment, admissions and financial aid position, wrote in an email that Coffin proved his ability to navigate the rapidly changing profession of admissions in higher education. She added that Coffin understands data-driven methods of identifying and recruiting students and is committed to collaborating with partners across the College to ensure students’ success throughout their careers at Dartmouth.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m.
“X-Ray Observations of Supernova Remnants as Probes of Progenitor Evolution,” Harvard University professor Dan Patnaude, Wilder 202
4:00 p.m.
“The Role of Representations in the Mind/Brain,” Harvard University professor Alfonso Caramazza, Haldeman 41
4:30 p.m.
“The Life and Legacy of Ota Benga,” panel discussion moderated by art history department chair Mary Coffey, Hood Auditorium
TOMORROW 4:00 p.m.
“Speculative Wonder at the World’s End: Rethinking Invasive Species,” Anthropology Professor Laura Ogden, Life Sciences Center 201
5:00 p.m.
Screening of the 2016 Oscar nominated animated shorts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m.
Screening of the 2016 Oscar nominated live action shorts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Gregorio Uribe to headline annual Barbary Coast concert By JOYCE LEE
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Latin jazz bandleader and songwriter Gregorio Uribe will be headlining the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble in its 40th annual Winter Carnival concert this Friday. Joined by percussionists Jonathan Gómez from Colombia and Marcelo Woloski from Argentina, Uribe is rejoining the ensemble after performing with them in the 2013 Winter Carnival concert. Uribe said that he found the experience of working with students pleasant and joyful. Although most of the students in Barbary Coast are not music majors, Uribe said that he found it impressive that they were able to catch onto his style of music so quickly, as if they had been rehearsing with him for longer than a week.
“[Playing with many non-music majors] has a refreshing aspect to it because they seem to be more open and very quick at internalizing my suggestions or my changes, whereas if someone has much more experience in playing music in the real world, they might be very set in their ideas on what work and what doesn’t,” Uribe said. Uribe describes his music style as Latin jazz with a Colombian rhythm. “What’s been interesting for me over the years is that depending on what the listener has been listening to in their lives or who they are or what influences that they’ve had, they’ll define my music in a different way,” Uribe said. “So some people will consider it Latin jazz, some people will consider it Colombian traditional music, and some people might even confuse it
with salsa, which is similar.” Uribe said that he thought of his work as different than traditional Latin jazz, as Colombian rhythms were not commonly combined with big band music. However, he said that there was a common compatibility between his music and both traditional American and Latin jazz because the Carribean provided an important cultural and historical connection between all three styles. Elements of big band in New Orleans would be very similar to a porro band in Colombia in its reinterpretation of the Creole and African indigenous musical influences, Uribe said. His music places special emphasis on improvisation, Uribe said. “In that sense, what I try to do is reassess [Colombian big band music]
in a post-60’s way, with current ideas and contemporary thoughts,” Uribe said. Uribe started working on big band music in the United States, where he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he said. At Berklee, he not only learned the big band music style but also rediscovered more traditional Colombian music, he said. “It’s interesting because my professional career has been in the U.S., so that’s why those two [styles of music] have been parallel, because they’ve been born from this idea of having a foot in both worlds,” Uribe said. The combination of these two styles has helped define him as a musician in the U.S., Uribe said. Uribe’s performance with the Barbary Coast will include mostly original
music from his debut album, “Cumbia Universal,” that was released last year, as well as a cover of The Beatles’s “Come Together,” Uribe said. One of the songs, “¿Por Que Se Ira Mi Neño?,” will be performed as an homage to Alan Gottesman ’13, who played tenor saxophone in the ensemble and passed away last November. The performance will be dedicated to him, Barbary Coast director Don Glasgo said. “Gregorio wrote the song specifically about Colombian tradition on how they react to the death of a child,” Glasgo said. Uribe said that every song will have space to feature one or two musicians to showcase individual talents. Matt Metzler ’15 Th’16, a trumpet player in the ensemble, said that solos give the musicians a platform to express themselves individually. “It’s really to convey your own ideas about the music,” Metzler said. “It provides each person individually a way to convey their feelings about the piece and the way they play music in a non-verbal medium.” Metzler said that he was very excited to have a chance to play with Uribe this year. “He’s been absolutely wonderful,” Metzler said. “He knows so much about this Colombian music — cumbia, salsa, fandango — and what’s really great is that for him, this music comes from the heart. You can tell that from the way he feels the music, that it all comes from his soul, and he does a great job of helping us to feel the music the right way and get the many different kinds of rhythms.” Isabel Hurley ’19, lead alto saxophone in this concert, said that it was interesting to see Uribe back on campus and to see him work with students who have played with him before. “[With Uribe], we work on rhythms that are natural to him and natural to lots of other cultures, but not necessarily natural to us, so the challenge is in making it sound natural and comfortable even when it’s not,” Hurley said. Hurley said she enjoyed the energy in Uribe’s style of music, because it requires musicians to both stay on top of and push the beat in the music. Uribe said that through his music, he wants to bring a sense of a carnival celebration to the audience, as winter is the season of celebrations including Carnival de Barranquilla , Colombia’s most important folklore celebration and one of the biggest carnivals in the world. “What we’re trying to do is bring some warmth to these days of winter and showing an inclusiveness of music, so that even [these musicians] who’ve never heard of Colombian music and have never met me, can make this music sound great, almost as if they’ve been playing it for many months,” Uribe said. “[I want people] going away with happy feet. With a smile and wanting to dance.”
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Swim and dive teams drop final dual meet in New York City By MAX ZHUANG
The Dartmouth Staff
In the final meet of the dual meet season, the Big Green men and women’s swim and dive teams were defeated by Columbia University. The men won six events while the women won four, The men’s team lost by a total score of 172-127 and the women’s team lost 189-111. “The Columbia men were pretty good, but we still kept the meet really close,” head coach Jim Wilson said. “About two-thirds of the way through we were only five points back. And for the women’s team, it seemed like almost every time we lost, it involved the other team wearing tech suits which we didn’t wear to compete.” In the 200-yard freestyle, Misha Tovmashenko ’18 gave the Big Green its inaugural first place finish of the meet (1:40.72), followed by Tony Shen ’18 in third (1:43.42). James Verhagen ’16, currently one of the strongest backstrokers in the League, won the 100-yard backstroke (50.68) by almost a full second and, a few events later, took the 200-yard
backstroke (1:51.37), finishing almost four full seconds ahead of the nearest swimmer. Tovmashenko would go on to win another event later in the day, the 100-yard freestyle (46.67), outtouching his second-place competitor by less than two-tenths of a second. Though the Big Green was unable to produce a top-three swimmer in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke, David Harmon ’17 placed first in the 200yard butterfly (1:54.65) by just one one-hundredth of a second, keeping the Big Green in the competition. Logan Briggs ’16 finished in second in the 500-yard freestyle (4:45.78), while Shen touched right after him in third (4:46.17). Wrapping up the meet, the men’s 200-yard freestyle relay team comprised of Aaron Athanas ’16, Brandon Boval ’18, Tovmashenko and Henry Patrick ’19 finished in second place (1:24.13), devastatingly close to the first place finisher, Columbia’s A team, that finished just half a second ahead of the Big Green’s A team. “As a team we were pretty happy with the result,” Briggs said. “We
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Hank and Fish talk the end of electricity, Derek Fisher and their love of Coldplay.
RIDING THE PINE WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT
Even the best fall down sometimes. The Carolina Panthers fell victim to the fix we correctly anticipated. Jeb got whooped by Kasich, 2016’s first benefactor of the “Gates Lucas bump.” Hillary fell to Bernie “the Butthead” Sanders by a margin of more than 20 points in the Granite State. In this broken and chaotic world devoid even of the organizational capacity necessary to erect a simple snow sculpture on the Green, we, the
boys from Riding the Pine, bruised and battered, find ourselves with no choice but to pick up the pieces and keep moving forward. Sometimes you have to return to your roots before you can make any progress at all. For us, we had to look no further than to Sanborn Library, the closest thing this campus has to an architectural coffin. Encased in its wooden walls, completely impervious to the harsh light of day and the harsh realities of the surface world,
did better than last year, and we had some good swims. I think we’re all very excited for Ivies as well.” For the divers, Brett Gillis ’16 started the meet by securing second place in the 3-meter dive to Columbia’s sophomore top diver, Jayden Pantel, who now has 22 consecutive first place finishes in the event. The two would later meet again in the 1-meter dive with Gillis finishing on top this time. Gillis was victorious by less than one full point, 331.50 points to Pantel’s 330.53 points. With diving events split by Gillis and Pantel, both individuals contributed 13 points to their respective team totals. Finding similar success in the 1-meter dive, women’s Allison Green ’19 finished in first place (262.20). Gillis said he has known Pantel since the two competed together in Saskatchewan, Canada at a young age. “[Pantel has] been doing really well lately, and he definitely got me on the 3-meter, but the 1-meter went really well for me,” Gillis said. “I just relaxed a little and did a lot better.” The women’s side found success
early in distance swimmers Haley Winter ’18 and Olivia Samson ’16 in the 1000-yard freestyle with Winter taking first (10:36.15) and Samson finishing second (10:36.15). Winter pulled out the win after falling behind early and swimming an incredible second half. The Big Green women’s team would receive another first place ten events later in the 500-yard freestyle with another one-two finish by Annclaire MacArt ’18 in first (4:57.86) and Amber Zimmerman ’19 finishing second (5:01.90). Megan Crook ’19 continued her strong rookie season with another victory to her name in the 100-yard IM (58.99). She was also the only swimmer in the event to finish under the one minute mark. Ending the weekend, the women took second and third in the 200yard freestyle relay, with the A team finishing in 1:37.05 and the B relay touching soon after (1:38.10). “It was a tough meet, but we’re really excited for Ivies,” women’s swim captain Charlotte Kamai ’16 said. “I know, as a team, we talked a lot about our personal goals and our
team goals for the meet.” The Big Green swim and dive teams are now preparing for the Ivy League Championships as they begin to taper and focus on swimming their best times. As a team, they plan on having as many swimmers as possible make NCAA cut times to be invited to the NCAA championships. Notable swimmers to look out for to swim their best times to make the cuts include Verhagen, Tovmashenko, Athanas and Harmon. Briggs said he is also looking forward to ending his career in the 400-yard IM and making the NCAA B cut time for consideration to be invited to the NCAA Championships. With his eye on the gold ever since he took the silver in the 1-meter dive in his sophomore year, senior Gillis is looking to put it all together for his last Ivy League Championship. The Big Green teams will separate to compete in the championship meet. The women will head to Princeton, New Jersey Feb. 18 to 20, and the men will wait one more week before going to Providence, Rhode Island from Feb. 25 to 27.
in as blissful a repose as if we were already 6 feet under, we can finally muster up the strength necessary to craft incisive commentary on the crumbling world around us. It’s time for us to tell it like it is. No more pussyfooting around the real issues. Riding the Pine is going full Donald Trump this week and we don’t care if we offend a few of the lily-livered among you. First, electricity is overrated. The few peaceful hours of pitch darkness on this campus were exactly what the doctor ordered. We need a return to the days of candles and lanterns, days when even the biggest partiers were forced into bed by 9 p.m. at the hands of the strictest curfew-keeper of all: God. College President Phil Hanlon, don’t listen to the haters. It’s time to cut the cord on this campus for good. Keep on keeping on. Second, Coldplay was absolutely electric. In a Beyoncé-Bruno Mars sandwich, Coldplay was the delicious mayonnaise holding the whole thing together. “Yellow.” “Viva la Vida.” “Sky Full of Stars.” What more could we ask for from the world’s preeminent soft rock divas? Thank you Chris Martin. You truly sent us to “Paradise.” Third, we’re sending prayers up for our man Derek Fisher. The former head coach of the New
York Knicks was canned by the Zen Master over the weekend after a five game losing streak by Kristaps Porzingis and the boys. Rumors are abound that Fisher’s firing came not due to the team’s underperformance but due to Fisher’s dalliance with another NBA player’s estranged wife. While the Zen Master stands in firm opposition to such extracurriculars, we here at Riding the Pine have no choice but to nod our head in solidarity with the inflamed and embattled coach. From one Fish to another, you’ll be in our hearts. Finally, we were force-fed an unfortunate truth on Sunday. Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware broke free in the backfield play after play. The Denver Broncos’ elite defensive duo made the NFL’s most mobile quarterback look entirely helpless as Cam Newton ended the game with two fumbles, an interception and six sacks. After watching Miller and Ware do the same thing two weeks earlier to Tom Brady, we did everything we could to hold onto our misguided belief that Superman Cam would expose the Broncos’ D as an empty Trojan Horse. Instead, we witnessed the death of the dab, televised in real time for an entire nation to behold. We’ve finally learned the most powerful lesson of all: Defense wins cham-
pionships, substance beats style, steak surpasses sizzle. This is truly a hard lesson to internalize for us, the two most sizzling and stylish men on Dartmouth’s campus, but we’ll continue trying our best. Now that the Super Bowl is over, we are left in a veritable sports wasteland, with only the Golden State Warriors’ all-but-inevitable march to the NBA Finals to keep us company until baseball starts up in the spring. Fortunately for our readers, this means a radical increase in Riding the Pine’s non-sports coverage in this section. We know some of our more loyal readers have grown impatient with the amount of space dedicated to persuasive and insightful sports writing. The final three weeks of this term will mark a triumphant and manic return to the babbling incoherence that our fans desperately desire. Until then, we’d like to leave you with a few select words from legendary playwright Tennessee Williams that seem particularly poignant as we approach our antepenultimate installment of Riding the Pine of the term. “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”