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A week after the conclusion of the Dartmouth Summit on Sexual Assault, national experts and Dartmouth faculty and students interviewed spoke in generally positive terms about the event. Participants and national leaders in the field praised the College for the wide variety of expert
attendees but also urged a continued focus on the dynamics of sexual assault, not just compliance with federal policies and regulations. From its announcement to its completion last week, the College’s summit caught and held the eye of the national media. Reporting on July 15, Time Magazine quoted several speakers, including Representative Ann Kuster
’78 and Catherine Lhamon of the Department of Education’s office of Civil Rights, and noted that Dartmouth is “certainly talking” about the issue of sexual assault. In a longer piece, also published on July 15, Inside Higher Ed noted the summit’s focus both on federal regulations guiding schools in their handling of sex-
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With a large portion of the student body off campus this summer, some Dartmouth community service groups face smaller memberships and cancelled projects, students and administrators interviewed said. While several service organizations are no longer active during the summer, six student leaders from various service groups noted that a lower enrollment and increased focus
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A Hanover police officer outside the Class of 1953 Commons said an assault occured Thursday evening. He declined to comment further. Safety and Security and Hanover Police officials could not comment by press time. When more information is available, it will be added online at www.thedartmouth.com.
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More than 300 members of the Co-op food store attended a meeting on the firing of two long-time employees this Wednesday, held at Hanover High. Members of the Lebanon store debated the decision for approximately two hours. A reporter from The Dartmouth was not allowed entry to the meeting. The Board of Directors decided to allow entry to only one reporter, from a non-student publication, Coop director of merchandising Bruce Follett said. Follet declined to comment
on the meeting. Neither the Board of Directors nor the Co-op management spoke at the meeting. Members received two minutes each to speak while the Board listened. Some members voiced dissatisfaction with manner in which the employees, wine section manager Daniel King and cheese counter clerk John Boutin, were fired without notice from the Lebanon store in June, the Valley News reported. Both King and Boutin, who were fired on June 13, had worked at the Co-op for more than 10 years.
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on activities other than service have made it difficult for organizations to maintain typical levels of involvement. Tucker Foundation program officer for local community service Tracy Dustin-Eichler said that approximately 18 to 19 of the 28 local service programs on campus are still running over the summer. Dustin-Eichler added that schoolcentric organizations, like America SEE SERVICE PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing HIGHER EDUCATION RECAP
The House of Representatives passed two bills addressing higher education Wednesday as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, legislation that guides how government money can be delegated to educational institutions and their students, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The renewal bills call for the government to provide more tailored information to prospective college students, aiming to promote the advancement of competency-based education, which involves student progress being measured by academic performance instead of credit hours and to improve counseling options for student-loan borrowers. The two bills will be considered by the Senate in coming days, where it is not yet certain whether they will receive sufficient support. College libraries are facing steep price hikes for short term electronic textbooks, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported, leading a number of libraries and university consortia to speak out against what they interpret to be an unfair commercial model. The current model forces libraries to sign long-term contracts with publishers, which makes it difficult for them to avoid price increases. In response, publishers have said that the initial low prices were part of a test, and that the price hikes are simply a return to fair prices. University of Maryland at College Park librarian Kelsey Corlett-Rivera, who has researched e-book use at the University, says mistrust has led some academic librarians to take a more aggressive approach in negotiations. A recent report authored by New American Foundation researchers has found that higher education faculty and administrators have played a marginal role in planning and assessing standards for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, Insider Higher Education reported. The Core — which has been adopted by 43 states — intends to aid K-12 students in their academic preparations for College. While the Common Core has been controversial, proponents argue that if implemented properly, it can increase community college completion rates and improve access to four-year colleges. The report proposed ways for higher education experts to become more involved in setting the standards, with a reward of better-prepared students later on. — COMPILED BY ROSHAN DUTTA
Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. Due to a printing error, certain editions of Tuesday’s paper had blank pages replacing pages two, three, six and seven. “Renovations on E. Wheelock Street to alter Hop, Inn” (7/22/14): Due to an editing error, the initial story indicated that the reporter asked College spokesperson Shea Drefs for comment Monday evening and afternoon, when each request was made in the evening.
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Tuck Bridge preps for winter session B y AIMEE SUNG
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Despite the addition of a new December session that will launch after fall term, the summer Tuck Business Bridge program saw an 8 percent increase in the number of applicants this summer, program director Nicole Faherty said. The program, historically offered over two four-week summer sessions at the Tuck School of Business, is designed to help liberal arts, science and engineering majors without academic business backgrounds learn the mindset and skillset required for the field. Tuck associate professor of business administration Adam Kleinbaum, who teaches organizational behavior in the Bridge program, said this summer’s program is “at capacity.” Faherty said that while a couple of students deferred their acceptances into the summer program to the December Bridge program, the program saw no decline in the number of attendees this summer. Among the 500 to 550 applications the program receives each year — from approximately 65 universities and 20 countries — a total of about 270 attend Tuck as part of the program, with 135 attending each of the two summer sessions, she said. The December session will be open to both Dartmouth and nonDartmouth students, according to the FAQs posted on the program’s website.
It will, however, be catered primarily to students at the College. Dartmouth students typically take up about 18 to 23 percent of the total summer session students. In contrast to the summer programs,
“We’ll bring up the intensity so that at least 90 percent of the summer program will be covered [in the winter program].” - Nicole faherty, Tuck Business Bridge program director the winter session will offer students a choice between the traditional single project and an alternative market assessment project of either a company or a product. Tuck professor William Martin, who oversees the final projects, said that the alternative project may be implemented in future summer programs. “December Bridge will be kind of a laboratory to test it out,” he said. Evan Griffith ’15, a summer Bridge student, said that since the December program not been finalized when he was applying, he could not think over the various merits of the different programs.
“This is a great opportunity because students often look for internships or go away in the summer,” he said. “A month-long break in the winter means we have a lot of free time that other schools don’t give.” When announced in April, the December Bridge program was scheduled to run slightly shorter than the summer programs. This change is still planned, Faherty said. “We’ll have to cut back on the curriculum a little bit, but we’ll bring up the intensity so that at least 90 percent of the summer program will be covered,” Faherty said. Applications for the December Bridge program are split into three rounds over the summer and fall. The December Bridge program expects to see 50 applications, Faherty said. Decisions will likely be released by the 3rd week of August. In the past, students interviewed have said that the program is generally a positive experience. Nathaniel Graves ’14, a music major who participated in the program last summer, said that the program was “beneficial” for career development. This summer’s program wrapped up its first session on July 3. The second session, which began on July 14, will end on August 8. Business Bridge, which was founded in 1997, costs $10,200, while December Bridge will cost $7,000. Roshan Dutta and Amelia Rosch contributed reporting.
Many debate at Wed. Co-op meeting FROM CO-OP PAGE 1
“It just keeps going back and forth and back and forth,” Diane MacDonald, a former member of the Co-op Board of Directors, said. “Someone will give support for the Co-op, then someone will say how very wrong it was to publicly humiliate these two long time employees that many people loved, fire them for no reason, not even tell them the reason and publicly escort them out.” Most of the those interviewed after leaving the meeting said that the majority of members in attendance supported King and Boutin. “One third were enthusiastic, whitewashed supporters of the management, and the rest of us are furious or upset,” Perry Curtis, a Co-op member of seven years, said. “Without apparent cause, there was no transparency about the firings.” Of 12 attendees interviewed by The Dartmouth, only one offered support for Co-op management. Hanover store manager Steve Miller declined to comment. “I was hoping to hear from the Board to know if I had the facts [about the firing] straight,” White River Junction
resident Allen Johnson, a 10 year Co-op member, said. “Are they denying it? Do they have some reason for the firing that they can share? I can’t imagine one.” Johnson said he left the meeting when he realized that the Board of Directors would not be speaking. Visiting English professor William Craig said the controversy did not center on whether the employees were worthy of the firing but the way in which they were fired. He said the decision to fire two employees on the same day seemed primed to “send a message” to other employees concerned about the Co-op’s management. Members also expressed concern over the Co-op’s direction outside of the firing. Craig said the controversy touched on existing feelings among Co-op members, many of whom are unhappy that the Co-op has taken a more corporate approach over the last few years. Others interviewed lamented the loss of community at the Co-op. “A lot of people are standing up and saying, ‘What is a Co-op?’ and whether it’s not big money or it’s corporate, and the answer is it can be both,” MacDonald said. Johnson said he was concerned about the standpoint of the Co-op’s
management. “It’s an absurd attitude — ‘We’re going to do the legal minimum possible to serve our customers.’ That’s not right, and it’s the same thing with the employees,” he said. “To say they’re not legally required to tell them, then to not tell them, is bad, bad management.” To Thetford resident Nicky Carrao, members should hold power in Co-op’s structure. “I liked the idea that, instead of taking your shares and going and shopping somewhere else, we’re the members and we own the store so we should dig in our heals and correct if there’s been a wrongdoing and learn from this mistake and become stronger,” Carrao said. A group “Concerned About the Coop” presented a petition with more than 500 signatures to the Board asking that King and Boutin be reinstated. Liora Alschuler, a leader of the group, wrote in an email that the meeting left her with more questions than answers. “As it stands, the Board feels they can absolve themselves of responsibility by ex fact changing a policy,” she said in an email. Amelia Rosch contributed reporting.
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Summit working groups look to future programs FROM SUMMIT PAGE 1
and summit participant Bruce Duthu said he has heard mixed reactions ual crimes and on troubling cultural on campus. Some people felt it was trends impacting college campuses. meant primarily for representatives The summit was also covered by The from other institutions, he said. Associated Press and The Christian Outgoing Dean of the College Science Monitor, whose article was Charlotte Johnson said the conferrepublished by Yahoo News. ence accomplished many of its stated Occidental College professor objectives, which included gatherCaroline Heldman, who helped form ing different institutions, involving Faculty Against national experts Rape, a network and establishing of faculty mem- “Having been in this working groups bers across the work for 15 years, this is to begin a more countr y who nuanced invesare working to really what we’ve been tig ation into combat sexual trying to do.” sexual assault’s violence on colmore challenglege campuses, ing aspect. wrote in an email - ANGELA EXSON, T h e that the summit STANFORD UNIVERSITY c o n f e re n c e ’s “certainly made working groups, OFFICE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT Johnson said, will a difference.” “It’s a great AND RELATIONSHIP meet over the start on what will next six to eight ABUSE EDUCATION AND be a long path to months to crecompleting all of RESPONSE ate recommenthe best practices dations on best research we need practices. to make effective reforms that interExson noted that the list of rupt broader rape culture, prevent speakers at the conference appeared rape before it happens and generate comprehensive. fair outcomes during adjudication,” After the working groups deshe wrote. velop their white papers, they will Angela Exson, assistant dean of be presented at a second conference, the Stanford University office of Johnson said. This event will convene sexual assault and relationship abuse with the purpose of compiling receducation and response, said that ommendations and finalizing them although she could not attend the for release. The organizers are still summit, she plans to meet next week looking for a school to host the conwith Stanford community members ference, Johnson noted, adding that who did attend the conference to hear several have already approached her their impressions. Speaking generally, indicating interest. she emphasized the importance of “The idea is to make sure we’re all gathering national experts to discuss at the table, at the same time, looking issues surrounding sexual assault on at the same issues,” she said. college campuses. Josh Koenig contributed reporting. “Having been in this work for 15 years, this is really what we’ve been trying to do,” she said. “There are so many folks who have been doing this work, representing their respective fields and interests, so any time we can bring these people together it is A front row seat to a scientific absolutely helpful and essential.” breakthrough—the launch of the Large Hadron Collider. Melora Sundt, executive vice dean at the University of Southern CalitoNiGHt fornia’s Rossier School of Education, said that while she did not attend the conference, she was skeptical about its outcomes from the media coverage she read. Reached via email because she was on vacation, Sundt wrote this media coverage indicates participants were focused primarily on compliance issues, the “typical” higher education response to sexual assault. “If those characterizations are Discussion follows with Physics generally true, that’s predictable and Prof. Robert Caldwell disappointing,” Sundt wrote. Fri | jul 25 | 7 PM Sundt said that she has yet to hear loew | $9 | DartMoutH iDs $5 the summit discussed in informal hop.dartmouth.edu | 603.646.2422 conversations. Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH Native American studies professor
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For our study abroad programs to thrive, serious revisions are required. Newly announced off-campus programs in Ghana and Sante Fe, New Mexico mark exciting additions to Dartmouth’s study abroad opportunities. With historical student participation rates of over 50 percent, studying abroad is as part of Dartmouth as the Homecoming bonfire, Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips and mozzarella sticks at Late Night Collis. Yet the practice faces an uncertain future — enrollment dipped significantly with the Class of 2013. To reverse this trend, the College must reassess its approach to study abroad programs. We welcome efforts to make studying abroad more feasible for majors in smaller disciplines, like the new programs will do for students in the Native American studies and African and African-American studies programs, which in 2013 graduated eight and four majors, respectively. Though many existing programs struggle to reach sufficient enrollment, which often ends in cancellation — as was the case with the Arabic FSP in Morocco — we’re willing to give the new programs a chance. The Ghana FSP and the program in New Mexico will expand the number of opportunities available to students involved with these academic programs. As we have argued in the past, however, increasing the quantity of opportunities alone will not improve our study abroad programs. According to Dartmouth’s fact book, even as the number of programs has increased, total enrollments have declined by more than 50 students since 2009. Even as we expand smaller study abroad options, other programs, like the government FSP in London, receive many more applications than there are spots. The College needs to address existing issues, including the imbalance in demand that leaves some students with no study abroad options, to ensure that all students interested in studying abroad can do so. Financial concerns have contributed to low enrollments. Uncertainty about prohibitive costs abroad, from travel costs to daily living expenses, discourages participation. Transfer terms require an extensive application procedure and additional fees ranging from $1,100
to $2,200. Although the off-campus programs office boasts that financial aid will cover cost increases from studying abroad, it also notes that students must cover transportation costs. Off-campus programs director John Tansey himself has cited financial costs as a major deterrent to participation. The College should lower the transfer term fee to $25, its pre-2012 level. For students on Dartmouth programs, it should provide more supplementary financial aid — covering plane tickets and increased meal costs for students already receiving aid — perhaps through funds from the $10 million donation made by Frank J. Guarini ’46, which the College plans to use on its off-campus initiatives. Academic constraints further impede higher study abroad participation. One solution would be to add more exchange programs like the University of Copenhagen program, which allows participants to pick courses from a variety of social science departments. Another solution is to offer study abroad programs that cater to generalized subject areas rather than to specific departments. A social sciences or a humanities FSP without specific departmental prerequisites would provide participants with a more interdisciplinary academic experience and would encourage students with a variety of interests to apply. Students majoring in departments with fewer study abroad opportunities, such as economics or mathematics, as well as students from smaller departments, would benefit from an interdisciplinary FSP. Such programs would certainly attract a wide swath of the student body and would therefore put the College’s resources to more efficient use. Associate dean of the faculty for international and interdisciplinary studies Lynn Higgins said at May 12’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” event that she does not foresee “a radical change among foreign study programs,” but that may be precisely what we need. If the College wishes to halt declining enrollments, it must not forget that students seeking cheaper and interdisciplinary study abroad experiences deserve options too.
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The College’s latest construction project is misguided.
Apparently the windows in the Hopkins Center are being replaced because they hemorrhage heat like the College does money. After completion, students and visitors will be able to overlook the Green through windows that, while identical in appearance to their predecessors, are more energy efficient. Such technology, of course, could be fiscally beneficial as well as environmentally friendly — energy efficiency cuts down on the monthly bill by reducing consumption. For those who would like to see the College make intelligent financial decisions, this renovation could be good news provided that the projected savings generated by the new energy efficient windows exceed the cost of construction. As reported in The Dartmouth on July 22, however, the College could not provide figures for either the cost of the project or the estimated savings it will generate. One can reasonably infer that the replacement of the Hopkins Center’s windows is not projected to save enough money to merit the construction costs. I would be thrilled to be informed otherwise. The general lack of transparency surrounding the cost of this project is reason enough for frustration. Like all endeavors funded by the College’s facilities budget, the window replacement is paid for, in part, by tuition dollars. If this expenditure and others like it were supported completely by private donations, it would be unnecessary for the College to release cost figures. Yet families paying tuition deserve to know how their money is spent. Moreover, it should not be necessary to have to request this information at all. A detailed breakdown of the project’s projected costs should be made public as a part of any press release. The College would satisfy the right of tuition-paying families to see the fruits of the substantial checks they send. As an added bonus, it would also discourage wasteful or excessive spending by subjecting the College’s expenditures to public scrutiny. Even if the College will not disclose the financial specifics of its construction endeavors, one would hope that, in private, Dartmouth
has begun to allocate its construction budget wisely after it blew $41 million renovating the Hanover Inn. Replacing perfectly functional windows at high cost, however, is not a fiscally worthy project if there is no significant anticipated financial benefit. Assuming from the College’s silence on the matter that this replacement may not be financially sound, what, then, could be the College’s motivation? While the College spending money simply for the sake of it might not be outside the realm of possibility, perhaps Dartmouth simply wishes to present itself as eco-friendly. However admirable, one can imagine other less expensive and less intrusive ways to chip away at energy consumption, like cutting down the number of lights that are left on around the clock. But doing so, of course, would not be as flashy an approach. Thus, it is likely that the College is looking to generate some small amount of positive, green publicity for itself by undertaking the project. But when there exists the possibility of financial loss in order to bring about meager improvements, the costs of the windows become difficult to justify. That said, other projects would justify a dip into the facilities budget. Certain dormitories on this campus, particularly the Choates and River clusters, are barely suitable for human habitation. At the very least, they could use a substantial facelift. Ideally, both clusters would be torn down and replaced with buildings that the College could actually display in an admissions pamphlet. The music facilities in the Hopkins Center — which, incidentally, are located in the building’s basement and therefore have no windows of which to speak — are both ugly and largely insufficient. Acting on these projects would satisfy current students and attract potential applicants. Prospective students don’t care about whether the Hop’s windows are energy efficient, but they do want living quarters that won’t welcome them to campus with mold-induced illnesses. Such projects, which would produce more tangible results as well as generate positive publicity for the College, would be a wiser investment.
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Some service groups see decline in summer participation FROM SERVICE PAGE 1
Reads and Outdoor Leadership Experience, do not run during the summer because school is not in session. This means that students cannot participate in about a third of local service groups. During the summer ter m, Dustin-Eichler said, she expects volunteers to perform about 6,000 to 8,000 hours of community service. In a typical fall term, she said, 12,000 hours are logged. Sara Trautz ’15, a member of Dartmouth’s Habitat for Humanity group, said that as her organization witnessed less student involvement, several organizational activities had to be canceled. “It was difficult — Habitat expects [a certain number of people],” Trautz said. “They’re used to it. When we had to cancel because only one person signed up, they said, ‘Okay, send us more next week.’” Growing Change co-chair Nina Dewees ’16 said that her group, which focuses on introducing fourth graders to healthy, sustainable lifestyles through gardening, is also experiencing a shortage of volunteers over the summer. “During the year we get to work
with the kids and not having that in the summer has really made it difficult to get volunteers to come to meetings,” she said. “Even without
“Service is very difficult to organize, but for me, and many people I know, having SEAD was a great way to take place of normally scheduled activites.” - Laura vang ’15 the kids there, we have to take care of the gardens over the summer but we’re having a serious difficulty getting our active volunteers to help.” Groups like Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth that see increased involvements over the summer help students maintain service. “Service is very difficult to organize, but for me, and many people I know, having SEAD was a great way to take place of normally scheduled activities,” Laura Vang ’15 said.
Vang said that while service organizations must face the reality of a less committed student body, some programs, particularly through Tucker, have been well-staffed. “Tucker programs continue on, and they get enough applicants that they turn people away,” Vang said. Greek organizations participation was also seen as a factor in helping to maintain commitment to service. Trautz said that Habitat for Humanity was heavily dependent on Greek organizations to send out volunteers en masse. The Haven Cooking Program co-chair John Burgoyne ’15 echoed this sentiment, noting that Greek organizations allow students to bring a close-knit group of friends and feeling of community to service. Keeping sophomores involved in service over the summer, Burgoyne said, was vital to maintaining institutional memory. Burgoyne said the best way to get students involved was to foster an informal setting with an emphasis on group fun. “Summer, with such a small number of people on campus, is such an opportunity for growth because we can try to reach more people, thereby raising awareness with a higher percentage of people
on campus,” Burgoyne said. “Then if we succeed, we will have a 2016 class that can help encourage service
in the fall term.” Sean Connolly and Amelia Rosch contributed reporting.
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Baseball ’16s forego 14X to play ball B y KATIE JARRETT The Dartmouth Staff
For baseball players at Dartmouth, the summer season matters — though the college baseball season ends in the spring, players often look to get behind the plate and continue playing ball over the summer through one of dozens of collegiate summer leagues across the country. For the baseball players of the Class of 2016, the decision between staying on campus for sophomore summer and playing on a summer league team was simple. “Baseball is a year-round sport,” said Nick Ruppert ’16. “And you have to play all the time if you want to be competitive. It’s just the way it works.” Hanover’s sunny summer pastures might make a particularly inviting landscape for a baseball player, but nearly all of Dartmouth baseball’s sophomores chose to spend the term off campus. Instead, collegiate baseball players are encouraged to play collegiate summer league baseball, rather than return home or stay on campus. Excluding those nursing injuries, all members of the baseball team in the class of 2016 have been playing baseball in these leagues since the end of spring term. Center fielder Nick Ruppert ’16 is playing for the Mystic Schooners in Mystic, Connecticut. Ruppert is taking the field with Big Green teammates Louis Concato ’14 and Michael Concato ’17, all of whom will join three other Dartmouth teammates playing in the New England Collegiate Baseball League: Thomas Roulis ’15, Matt Parisi ’15 and Adam Frank ’15. Pitcher Duncan Robinson ’16 has played in Newark, Ohio for the Licking County Settlers. Catcher Adam Gauthier ’16 is also playing summer
ball in Ohio, donning the Chillicothe Paints’ jersey. In contrast, infielder and designated hitter Joe Purritano ’16 began the summer in the Cape Cod Baseball League but switched teams, now suiting up for the Amsterdam Mohawks in New York. Playoffs will begin in early August. Purritano’s team currently has a record of 30-9 and clinched a spot in the playoffs, while Gauthier’s Paints are currently sitting in first place in the Prospect League with 32 wins and 15 losses. The Mystic Schooners, currently in fourth place in their division
Excluding those nursing injuries, all members of the class of 2016 on the baseball team have played baseball in these summer collegiate leagues since the end of spring term. with an 18-14 record, also may rank among the four to emerge from their division. But playing over the summer is no vacation. The Schooners play five to six games per week with one or two offdays. For Robinson, off-time comes “few and far between,” he said. While Gauthier said he has enjoyed his experience playing across the Midwest, he noted the amount of traveling required for each game — between two to nine hours.
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Nick Ruppert ’16 takes a swing this spring for the Big Green.
Playing summer ball has meant missing sophomore summer, for several other players. Gauthier said he does miss being at Dartmouth with his friends, but he knew that missing sophomore summer came with the nature of the game. “I’ve always heard that sophomore summer is a such a cool time and a time for the class to bond, but you don’t really have a choice with baseball,” Purritano said. Ruppert noted that baseball players must practice year-round to remain competitive. He emphasized, however, that playing summer baseball in particular justified the experience. “Summer ball is so much fun,” Ruppert said. “It’s not like you’re going to work everyday instead of being on for sophomore summer.” Chillicothe packs 2,000 fans into the stadium at every game, said Gauthier, who has been enjoying the extra playing time after the college season. He noted that because the spring baseball season is relatively short, summer ball helps prepare players for the next year’s games. After the summer season ends, the athletes will be free until the beginning of fall term. For some Dartmouth players, that means returning home for the first time since winter break. Gauthier, Ruppert and Purritano live with host families during the summer. Robinson is staying with an aunt and uncle in the area. Ruppert has enjoyed living with his host family. “I’m like a superstar to them,” Ruppert said. “Even when I have a bad day, after the game, they’re still so fired up to see me.” Other players took the term off to recuperate from injuries. For pitchers Beau Sulser ’16 and Michael Danielak ’16, this summer has been set aside for injury rehab back home. Sulser, who had Tommy John surgery in June, said he has focused on strengthening his arm and returning it to full range of motion, in addition to working at a sporting goods store and enjoying his hunting and fishing at home in San Diego. Danielak, a Chicago native, has recovered from knee surgery for patellar tendinitis. He is going through a three- to four-month process of rehab, aiming to be fully recovered when he returns to campus. For Danielak, even though he could not play this summer, the choice not to stay on campus for 14X was easy. “My goal this summer was strictly to get healthy,” Danielak said. “I wasn’t thinking about playing ball.” Pitcher Adam Charnin-Aker ’16 is the lone sophomore to have stayed on campus this summer, as he has taken time off from baseball to recover from labrum surgery.
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WITH PATRICK CALDWELL ’17
B y jOSEPH KIND The Dartmouth Staff
This week, The Dartmouth caught up with Patrick Caldwell ’17, a member of the men’s crosscountry ski team who is taking classes this summer and training for the upcoming season. Skiers often have strange D-Plans, often completing “the 12-year plan,” Caldwell said, during which skiers register for classes every spring quarter (the time of the year closest to an off season) for 12 years. Other skiers take classes every spring and summer quarter. Caldwell’s academic schedule, however, has its own quirks. Caldwell sat down with The Dartmouth to discuss his unusual arrival to Dartmouth, his plan for the next few terms, and what he has been up to since winning The D Sports Awards’ Best Freshman Athlete designation this past spring. What exactly have you decided to do with your DPlan? PC: I was actually supposed to be a ’16 but I deferred. I graduated from Stratton High School, a ski school, in 2012. In the [following] fall and winter I trained and competed in cross-country skiing, went to Europe and raced there, raced in the U.S. Then I got back in March and started taking classes. 13S was my first term. I came back for 13F, started as a ’17 and went on trips. Trips was awesome, a really great experience. It was funny having already taken classes going into trips, as you can imagine, but it was super fun. And then I did winter, spring, and summer, so this is my fifth term. What does the rest of your DPlan look like? PC: I’ll be off in the fall, undecided about the winter, and on in the spring. The spring is our off-season, if we were to have an off-season. That’s a really good time to take classes. It’s our one time to really focus on academics. Beyond that I don’t really know, it all depends on how skiing is going. My plan right now is to take the fall off and most likely be on in the winter so I can ski for Dartmouth. But down the line it’s hard to tell. What was it like to start classes in the spring? PC: It was crazy. I did my last race of the season and moved into my dorm that night, I remember. I lived in French on the fourth floor. The funniest thing was moving into the freshmen floor. This group that’s
been so close for the whole year, it was pretty hilarious, them looking at me wondering, “Who is that kid living in the corner room?” I really enjoyed getting to know the people on my floor. Was it weird getting to know your teammates after the conclusion of the college ski season? PC: I have two cousins that were on the team at the time. I felt I knew a lot of guys and girls on the team. I don’t think I could have done it without those connections going into it. They basically facilitated my meeting most of my friends and new people. So that was really incredible. It wouldn’t have worked out had they not been so welcoming. I showed up. It worked. It went really well. Do you think it’s hard to get to know people outside of your sports team? PC: It’s definitely easy to only hang out with your respective sports team, but I think that there are so many diverse groups at Dartmouth. It’s always good to branch out of your groups. Our sport takes a lot of time, so I think inherently we’re spending a lot of time together. How have you liked being on campus this summer as a ’17? PC: It hasn’t felt weird being a ’17, I guess. Because I started in the spring with the ’16s, I feel like in some ways that’s the class I’m closest to — some of my closest friends are ’16s. It’s also been fun reconnecting with some people this summer. What has training looked like for you this summer? PC: Training over the summer is mostly dry-land, a lot of volume, a lot of hours. A lot of roller skiing, running, biking. It’s a lot of time — we love it — but it’s just a big time commitment. Skiing is a year-round sport. What are you looking forward to next season? PC: The ski team goes to western Canada for two weeks. It’s an amazing trip with lots of races. Next season, I’m looking forward to going back. Everyone sort of does their own thing in the spring, and most people aren’t here over the summer. It’ll be fun to have everyone back together training soon. This interview has been edited and condensed.
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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2014
Frost and Dodd student play festival to show new works
B y ANNIE SMITH and LAURA WEISS The Dartmouth Staff
In the small pitch-black theater, students glide through the audience and across the stage, settling in rocking chairs for one scene or bursting through the bare screen door in another. They have been fixing the details, swapping out scarves and timing effects. In front of a lit screen that shifts between pinks, blues and reds, they utter words written by Bobby Esnard ’14, perfecting the performance of a script he first wrote more than a year ago. As they rehearsed on Thursday, their first big audience would witness the production in just two days. The Hopkins Center stage will come alive this weekend with the works of two playwrights, Esnard and Michael McDavid ’15, whose plays will debut in the annual Eleanor Frost and Ruth and Loring Dodd play festival. Each spring, undergraduate playwrights can submit original, unproduced one-act plays to the Eleanor Frost and Ruth and Loring Dodd playwriting contest. The creative possibilities are endless — except, of course, the one-hour time limit on the submitted work. Just three plays are selected for the festival, with one Dodd award and two Frost awards offered. Esnard’s play “Inheritance” was selected as the winner of the Dodd award, while McDavid’s two plays, “Locust Walk” and “Place Your Bets,” were selected for the Frost award. Only “Locust Walk” will be read so that McDavid can focus on the production. Dodd recipients will see a full production funded by the award, while the Frost designation supports staged reading. Celebrating student playwrights’ new works, theater director and professor Jamie Horton said, is one of the best things the departments does. As part of Horton’s drama and performance class this summer, students act, stage-manage, design, choreograph and act in various roles in the Frost and Dodd productions. As part of Horton’s class, Sam Van Wetter ’16 got involved with the production of “Inheritance,” taking on the role of sound designer. Van Wetter has compiled Cuban music and determined when in the show it
would be appropriate and interesting to include music, he said. The festival is an opportunity that the theater department seems to wholeheartedly support, he said. Creating a story Esnard’s work began as a final assignment for theater professor Joe Sutton’s advanced playwriting class more than a year ago. Assigned to
“It has been extremely rewarding not only to see my play come to life but also to learn about and contribute to all of the dramatic elements that make a live production so exciting.” - Bobby esnard ’14, ruth and loring dodd award winner find a play written in a unique style that tells a story of his own, Esnard chose “blu” by Virginia Grise, which uses plural, simultaneous dialogues to tell stories from different time periods. “Inheritance” portrays multiple generations within one family of Cuban-American immigrants. The play shows the effects of immigration and assimilation on the family, while also exploring social norms. Esnard said he hopes the work will invite the audience to question their values. Esnard, who is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent, said successive generations have questioned the narrative of Cuban-American immigration during and after the Cuban revolution. “I wanted to use the nonlinear storytelling style to show how those histories and memories are both challenged and reproduced by successive generations of CubanAmericans,” he said. In the process of writing and producing the play, he said he used cultural elements that were accessible because of his family. Having studied various elements of Cuban and Cuban-American history and
culture, including the immigrant experience, Esnard already had a grasp of the plot’s background knowledge. Esnard works when his ideas form, rather than writing without knowing where the story will go. He said he employs the same technique when writing poetry, as he did for Soul Scribes at the College. “For me it sort of came in spurts in the sense that I would thoroughly develop the plot in my head before even attempting to find the words for the scenes,” he said. One of his biggest challenges while writing was self-created, Esnard said. He chose to emulate Grise’s “blu,” so he had to use a non-naturalistic storytelling method while writing a realist dialogue. Esnard noted that he is thrilled Dartmouth is producing Latino theater. He hopes to see the College continue to produce Latino theater beyond just student works, he said. “It has been extremely rewarding not only to see my play come to life but also to learn about and contribute to all of the dramatic elements that make a live production so exciting,” he said. Esnard has taught some of the actors Spanish and coached them on a particular dialect. After winning a Frost award last year for his play “Our Fathers” and acting in one of the other productions, McDavid submitted two works to this year’s contest. “Locust Walk” was chosen to be read, he said, because it was better developed. Set in Philadelphia City Hall, the show is a political drama. McDavid wrote “Locust Walk” over three months when he was off campus last fall, and has also spent about a month rewriting his script. “I didn’t have any particular inspiration, but I knew I wanted to write something explicitly set in Philadelphia,” he wrote in an email. “In a lot of ways the play is about careers and professional success, which has definitely been on my mind as I entered the second half of my time at Dartmouth.” Because his production is a staged reading, McDavid will be able to continue rewriting up until show time. “It’s never been performed before, and I really don’t know what to expect,” he wrote. “The most fruitful thing for me as a playwright has been listening to the extremely
talented actors reading my work aloud, because in the end you don’t know what you’ve written until you hear it performed. So the reading, where everything is turned up a notch because of the audience, will be when I really find out how my writing holds up.” Horton, who is directing “Inheritance,” said some playwrights in the festival have gone on to become professional writers, while others have not continued to pursue their works. “Seeing one’s work come alive with a group of actors is a very special experience for the writer,” he said. “So going forward, what we hope they take with them is the sense of having written a piece, having seen that piece brought to life and whatever they do with that play — whether or not they go on to become playwrights — that that process of collaboration is not something that they will go on to forget.” When the two playwrights see
“Going forward, what we hope they take with them is the sense of having written a piece, having seen that piece brought to life and whatever they do with that play — whether or not they go on to become playwrights — that that process of collaboration is not something that they will go on to forget.” - jamie horton, theater professor and “Inheritance” director their plays on stage in front of an audience, Horton expects that they will want to develop their pieces further. He would be surprised, he said, if McDavid and Esnard did not rewrite their works in some capacity based on what they see. For his part, Esnard said he has
had many thoughts on how he might expand the script to a full-length play. He might experiment with those ideas before deciding if he is done working with the “Inheritance” script. “My understanding of the world of the play is much richer because of this experience,” he said. Putting on a show Bringing the scripts to a product has proved a creative effort in itself. Horton called directing “Inheritance” a “really exceptional” process. Esnard’s play features a significant dance component, which has been a particular element in producing his work, Horton said. Lillian King ’07, who will direct “Locust Walk,” said she was asked by Horton to become involved in this year’s festival, having participated when she was a student. A recent graduate from Boston University’s School of Theatre, King will bring experience working on Broadway to her direction. Working on a new play is especially exciting, she said, because the director and actors can work with the writer, instead of only having words in front of them. McDavid has written four different drafts of “Locust Walk” during about three weeks spent staging the reading. “He’s been working really hard and clarifying,” King said. “It’s not a mystery, it’s a political drama, so there’s a lot of nuance and secrets and scandals.” King said she has focused on acting and character work while developing “Locust Walk.” The Frost award remains primarily an opportunity to workshop a writer’s script, so the audiences can expect seven actors at music stands, with “nothing fancy about it,” King said. Horton said the work becomes an “intrinsically shared experience” between audience and creators. For a new work, he said, this is a “critical” part of the journey. At 8 p.m. on July 25, performers will read “Locust Walk” at Warner Bentley Theater, with a discussion to follow. The curtain will rise on Esnard’s “Inheritance” in the theater at 8 p.m. July 26, also followed by discussion, and the festival will conclude with a staged reading of “Locust Walk” and a production of “Inheritance” starting at 7 p.m. July 27.