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The vice provost of student affairs position, which current interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer will assume in July, was created to produce increased oversight of student life on campus and streamline administrative positions, Provost Carolyn Dever said. Similar positions exist at other institutions, both Dever and president of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Kevin Kruger said. This is only a change of name for Ameer, Dever SEE AMEER PAGE 2
Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer will assume the position of vice provost of student affairs.
LED lights in Leede may to reduce energy by 75-80 percent
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Though LED lights installed in Leverone Field House last summer have not yet reached their target of reducing energy levels by 70 to 85 percent, levels have decreased significantly since installation, energy program manager Stephen Shadford said. The lights come as part of a larger ongoing effort to reduce energy consumption at the College, he said.
“The energy input is way less than before, and the lighting output is greater,” Shadford said. Lighting is the largest energy input for Leverone, followed by heating and air conditioning for the field house. The Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab designed the lighting control interface. The DALI lab created a touch screen display allowing coaches to personally choose the lighting that they require for their practice or event,
Shadford said. Shadford said that there were two primary reasons for planers’ decision to make this change — first, because the original lights in the field house were inefficient, as they were confusing to operate and were arranged in one string of lights, meaning that they could not be individually switched on or off. Second, because officials were waiting for new LED lighting technology to be released. Vice president of product man-
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The Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations model, which focuses on value-based rather than fee-forservice care, is performing as well as or better than anticipated at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and one of the ACO model creators, Elliott Fisher said. The ACO model evidence
agement at the United States Green Building Council Lisa Stanley said an increasing number of universities are implementing similar initiatives and are motivated by the return on the investment, as they save both money and energy. The director of programs at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Julian Dautremont-Smith, said that the College’s efforts are part of a SEE LEEDE PAGE 3
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indicates that the program is nearly universally improving the quality of care, he said. The results stem from DHMC’s participation in Medicare’s new experimental health care payment program, introduced in 2012 as part of the Affordable Care Act. The program reduced costs and improved quality of patient care in its first two years of operation, according to a WEIJIA TANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Political journalist Henry Chu discusses the potential split of the European Union.
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DAily debriefing The Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was recently recognized by three national organizations for its leadership in high-quality patient care, according to a report from DHMC. The recognitions include the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval, recertification as a level one trauma center and a four star rating from Hospital Compare, a public information website aimed at helping consumers to make decisions related to healthcare. The commission awarded its gold seal of approval after stating that DHMC has a “strong and thriving” culture that is demonstrated by its compliance with performance standards. Recertification presented through the American Association of Surgeons will allow DHMC to continue service as a level one trauma center until Jan. 30, 2018 and a level two pediatric trauma center until Jan. 30, 2016. Ten first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth will join 220 other students from across the country to serve as 2015-16 New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows, according to an announcement from Geisel. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in service project development and implementation that address the source of health issues in under-resourced communities while still fulfilling their full-time academic responsibilities. Each project is partnered with a local community organization. This year’s Schweitzer Fellowship projects range from efforts for expansion of primary care services offered in the Upper Valley Haven and other health clinics in the area to the creation of a health education curriculum for middle school students that focuses on substance abuse and mental and physical health. Math and computer science professor Daniel Rockmore and computer science Ph.D. student Keith Carlson, along with and law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law Michael Livermore conducted a computer analysis of the opinions of United States Supreme Court justices using linguistic software, and the study has identified three trends responsible for the decision making tone of the Supreme Court, the New York Times reported. The analysis consisted of approximately 25,000 Supreme Court opinions from 1791 to 2008 and found that justices’ opinions have become longer, less complex and more ill-humored over time. The new study also found suggestive evidence that law clerks are responsible for much of the opinion writing in court cases. –COMPILED BY ESTEPHANIE AQUINO
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Upper administration sees restrucuring FROM AMEER PAGE 1
added, rather than an entirely new position. “Its not actually a change of job, it’s a change of title and a focusing of responsibilities on something that is critically important to Dartmouth,” Dever said. Dever said she conferred with both College President Phil Hanlon and the Board of Trustees about the restructuring, adding that administrators have been considering creating this position since last July. She said that she wanted to create a position that was solely concerned with student wellness, student safety, student development and other co-curricular components of a Dartmouth education. “One thing that I decided to tackle as soon as I started at Dartmouth last summer was reshaping that job so that it was doable and really focused on student affairs,” she said. She said that the move is not an expansion of the administration, but rather a different approach to leadership responsibilities. In addition to moving student life away from the Dean of the College, there have been other structural changes. The pre-health advising program, which supports more than 1,000 students, will move from the Dean of the College’s office to the Dean of the faculty’s office, a shift which program leader and Geisel School of Medicine professor Lee Witters said reflects the program’s academic mission. Dever said that she wanted to wait until she had a better sense of what “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy would entail in order to produce a strong and focused student affairs division to support its goals. While evaluating the creation of the new position, administrators visited a number of college campuses, like Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, that have similar positions in their administration. At Vanderbilt, for example, associate provost and dean of students Mark Bandas oversees the offices of student activities and events, health and wellness and student conduct and academic integrity, among others. Princeton University also has a dean of undergraduate students, but this position is focused both on student wellness and academic life. “We looked at the structures of peer institutions and ultimately decided to create this position focused on student affairs,” Dever
said. Kruger said that 90 percent of institutions of higher education have a position similar to that of the newly created vice provost position that provides leadership in a wide range of areas and covers student experiences outside of the classroom. “This position can coordinate a whole range of programs and initiatives under one roof, which can really maximize the way we work with students,” Kruger said. He said that it is not unusual that this position has just recently been created at the College, as historically Ivy League institutions have not always had the same infrastructure in their administration as other schools. “As college presidents realize
“As college presidents realize these issues are very complex and the institution has a lot of liability managing them, I think having a profession level vice provost for student affairs begins to make a lot of sense,” -kevin kruger, student affairs administrators in higher education president
these issues are very complex and the institution has a lot of liability managing them, I think having a profession level vice provost for student affairs begins to make a lot of sense,” Kruger said. Ameer will hold this position for four years, Dever said, with annual reviews and a process at the end for evaluation and renewal, if it is mutually desirable at that time. Dever said that a faculty member will become Dean of the College with the responsibility of leading undergraduate development and academics. In recent history, there has not been a faculty member appointed as Dean. The faulty, however, has expressed interested in playing an active leadership role in the College’s administration, Dever added.
English professor Thomas Luxon said that the Dean of the College position has never been redefined in this way. “To turn it back to a faculty position is bold and it could turn into anything,” he said, though adding that “on the whole it’s a positive thing.” Dever said that the new Dean will play a key role in developing the new residential housing system, expanding student advising and creating an inclusive experience for a diverse student body. “A strong faculty voice in all of those discussions is critically important,” she said. Ameer said that departments of student affairs are major parts of many institutions of higher education, and she said she is glad that the College is labeling the position in this way. “I’m excited to see... that student support services of all kinds, including residential life, campus life [and] student accessibility services, are under that one umbrella,” she said. She said she is eager to have a faculty partner to work with in all of these offices and projects. Women’s and gender studies professor Michael Bronski said that the restructuring “makes complete sense,” adding that Ameer is well-suited for the role. “The Dean of the College has been too much for one job for too long,” he said. Ameer said she does not anticipate any major changes in her day-to-day responsibilities, as the Dean of the College began reporting to the Provost before she arrived to assume the role as Interim Dean of the College. “What I do see changing is a more collaborative approach with a faculty member being the Dean of the College who can work with me and the Provost in advocating for undergraduates in all realms,” she added. She said that students have been an essential part of all of the projects she has worked on since arriving at the College, such as the First-Year Scholarship Enrichment Program, peer advising programs and Kings Scholars, and she hopes to continue working on these initiatives. She added that the emphasis on undergraduates at Dartmouth has given her the opportunity to focus on resources for students, and this is a key reason for taking on the new position. “I’m looking forward to working with the new Dean of the College on ways to integrate the faculty more into the services and the functions that we provide to students,” Ameer said.
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LED lights part of larger initiatives to increase energy efficiency project at the Boss Tennis Center. The tennis facility project, allarger movement of universities though using a different product around the country. He cited an than the Leverone lights, is similar agreement to lower greenhouse and allows the lights to be adjusted gas emissions that was signed by on each individual court. Shadford said that College ofaround 700 institutions. The new lights are wirelessly ficials are constantly trying to imcontrolled and adjustable, and prove heating and air conditioning around cameach one is an inpus as well. dividual “smart Stanfixture,” as op- “It is critical for ley said that posed to work- higher institutions it is important ing as one string for schools to o f c o n n e c t e d to do whatever they take steps to lights, Shadford can to reduce their reduce their said. These new carbon footprints impact and lights allowed the developing College to reach wherever necessary.” these initiaNational Colletives can giate Athletics provide an Association stan- -LISA STANLEY opportunity dards for lighting. VICE PRESIDENT OF for student The lights can PRODUCT MANAGEMENT involvement be dimmed and grouped in any AT UNITED STATES GREEN and to learn more about way, which al- BUILDING COUNCIL becoming enlows them to be ergy efficient. adapted for any “It is critical for higher educatype of event held in the field tion institutions to do whatever house. He said that this means that they can to reduce their carbon lights can be pushed to a high footprint wherever necessary,” brightness level for tournaments Stanley said. Dautremont-Smith said that and important events while being run at lower brightness for normal these efforts are important in higher education because they practices. “The new lights give us tremen- teach future leaders about the value of sustainability and saving dous flexibility,” Shadford said. He said that the planning pro- money. He said that universities can cess at the College always includes more initiatives for reducing take their commitment to sustainenergy consumption, adding that ability a step further by beginning around 10 projects are currently to think about the source of their in the study or implementation energy and trying to use more phase, including another lighting renewable energy. FROM LEEDE PAGE 1
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Incentivizing Aid for Nepal
Criticisms of sophomore summer overlook its distinct benefits.
When I first set foot in Hanover in summer 2012, the Green was actually green, the sky was clear and sundresses and salmon-colored shorts abounded. I had not even begun my senior year of high school, but I was sold. As a native of southern Florida, basing my college decision on a single, summertime visit to New Hampshire may seem questionable. Yet to this day, I have no regrets. After participating in the Dartmouth Bound summer program, I was convinced that there was absolutely no other place in which I would rather spend four years. While each season at the College has its own unique beauty, there is something truly magical about a Hanover summer that I think every student should experience. Despite complaints of condensed course offerings and other grievances, sophomore summer is a tradition that the College should never let fail. Perhaps the greatest strike against sophomore summer is limited course availability, which many columnists in this paper have noted. While this concern is valid, this limitation can actually benefit students willing to take an intellectual risk. For many, scheduling summer courses involves a careful calculus of “layups” and more rigorous courses. Indeed, many sophomores each year try their hand at “Exploration of the Solar System” and “Ecological Agriculture.” Though considered by some to be easy ways to fulfill distributive requirements, summer courses like these afford students valuable opportunities to explore outside their major. While afternoons harvesting organic produce and evenings stargazing are memorable experiences in and of themselves, students may discover a new academic passion. What summer course offerings may lack in variety, they make up for by encouraging intellectual risks — regardless of a course’s perceived level of rigor. Objections to the shortage of course offerings are sometimes accompanied by the sentiment that sophomore summer is a wasted term, with fewer opportunities for personal and professional growth. Some students feel that their time would be better served accruing “real-world” experience through an internship. These students, though, fail to recognize all that “Camp Dartmouth” has to offer. Students on campus can work for the College
during class reunions, a unique opportunity to meet alumni, practice networking and potentially land an internship for a future term. Moreover, many organizations on campus offer summer programming, such as the Rockefeller Center’s Summer Startup Experience. Over two days, the workshop challenges students to polish their problem-solving and leadership skills. Moreover, sophomore summer allows rising juniors to assume leadership positions in their teams, clubs and Greek houses. As a transitional period between academic years, the summer term is a crucial opportunity to experiment with leadership styles and ultimately become better leaders. Furthermore, sophomore summer is a invaluable opportunity for members of the sophomore class to reconvene midway through their Dartmouth careers. In the onslaught of papers and exams that accompanies a 10-week term, many students fall out of touch with the friendships they developed during their first year. Spending the summer in Hanover allows students to reconnect with acquaintances and forge new relationships before their junior year through impromptu adventures to Ice Cream Fore-U and afternoons on the river. This is aided by another common criticism of sophomore summer, when only a few residence halls are kept open. While some consider this restrictive, living in such close quarters can promote unity and brings members of the class together. In the same way, students living in Greek houses, living learning communities or affinity housing have an opportunity to become better acquainted with members of their class. Even before submitting my Dartmouth application, I had heard a great deal about sophomore summer. At each alumni event, members of all classes would smile and laugh as they swapped memories of a summer in Hanover. A family friend from back home described it as “the best 10 weeks of his life.” Sophomore summer has been a long time coming, and despite my excitement, I can’t be certain it will live up to the hype. Yet it would be a mistake to simply toss out a tradition that many feel strongly about. Sophomore summer should remain mandatory — and a seminal part of the Dartmouth experience.
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Direct cash transfers will help prevent corruption while increasing aid flow. As a Nepali student in the United States, I have been overwhelmed by the support of students and community members for Nepal in the wake of the April 25 earthquake. Fear of government corruption is, however, stifling fundraising efforts. Donors want to make sure their money will make a difference, and there is a simple way for the government to win international trust. Lessons from recent disasters, such as those in Haiti and Sichuan, China, point to direct cash transfers, or DCT, as the most effective way of helping victims. Through DCT, aid is transferred directly to disaster survivors in the form of cash, and the process can help mitigate graft. DCT is the best approach to relief distribution and should play a central role in the Nepali government aid response. First, DTC effectively addresses the varying needs of people in disaster zones. A family of five in Dhading, a small town outside Kathmandu, has completely different needs and priorities than, for example, a couple that lost its home in Kathmandu. Trying to account for these needs at a macro level is a recipe for waste and corruption — provisions ordered at a given moment may not be needed when they arrive, and middlemen may inflate costs to siphon off aid. Transferring funds to the victims allows them to alleviate their own needs and pool resources to support family members and friends. The response to Haiti’s 2010 earthquake indicates popular support for DTC — a 2012 study published in the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine found that 98 percent of Haitian aid recipients preferred cash transfers to in-kind distributions. Nepal is perfectly suited for DCT as migrant labor has created a vast network of channels for remittance distribution. The government must map this migrant network and direct relief funds through it to expedite the distribution of immediate relief to the people that need it most. These transfers often require a fee, so Nepali government officials should work with providers like Western Union and local banks to suspend transfer fees. Though these remittance networks are pervasive, there will be areas that lack access. Here, cash envelopes can be used to distribute aid as they were in Haiti. Nepal’s physical infrastructure will
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take time to rebuild, but communication networks are mostly operational and easier to reestablish. DCT through mobile banking — by the end of 2014, Nepal’s mobile phone penetration rate was 84 percent — and other network-based means will ensure that survivors receive aid. While Nepal’s government should avoid corruption and inefficiency by directly transferring funds to people in need, it does have an important role to play. As one medium-term policy to support DCT, the government should increase financial access by helping the poor open bank accounts. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has prioritized opening bank accounts for the country’s poor, and within a year of him taking office, India has opened 15 million bank accounts under the initiative. Nepal too can work with private and state banks to ensure access to financial services for the poor. This will not only provide survivors with a secure channel to receive aid but also grant them access to loans at lower rates than those offered by local money lenders. Relief aid can thus pave the way for longer-term assistance. Government initiatives must focus on areas where they have a greater impact than private citizens, such as infrastructure development. China recently announced the opening of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Nepal is a prospective founding member, and the Nepali government should propose the country’s reconstruction as a test of this new institution’s commitment to developing infrastructure in the region. Second, the United Nation’s appeal for aid has been vastly underfunded. Nepal’s government should increase diplomatic efforts to gather bilateral and multilateral aid. DTC frees up government resources to focus on these medium-term priorities. People around the world want to help Nepal, but they are unsure that their aid will make a difference. By showing the world that the money will be transferred to those in need directly and efficiently, Nepal’s government will incentivize governments and individuals around the world to give more. Corruption is a justified concern, and international donors must be confident that it is being addressed.
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To the Editor: Much has been said by recent student protestors about apathy on campus with respect to murdered black men. Now, another black police officer and his white colleague are dead in Mississippi. Three black men and one black woman have been charged in connection. Where is student outrage over the murders of scores of police officers of all races committed by people of all races? When will the privileged student protestors shift their attention away from the police and their
criticisms of the College toward engaging all students to fight the root causes of the slaughter of police officers and suspects alike? When will the silent majority be moved to act? Let’s fight poor education and poor health care, not one another. Dartmouth once gave meaning to the word “community” and instilled togetherness and gratitude in her students. Tens of thousands of her alumni took heed and engaged in the real fight to improve the world, while some at Dartmouth today are more committed to denigrating the College and their fellow students than collaborating for the good of all. Dartmouth is and always has been part of the solution, not the problem. — Matt Dwyer ’75
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DHMC shifts toward pay for value model of health care delivery FROM DHMC PAGE 1
report released by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week. About 50 percent of DHMC’s Medicare beneficiaries are under the Pioneer ACO model. Fisher said DHMC is regularly reimbursed by Medicare for providing comprehensive care to patients, rather than charging patients for each individual procedure. Medicare estimates the cost of care for a population of patients and sets benchmarks for quality of care. If the provider saves money, it receives a share of the savings, he explained. He said that cost savings are modest — during the first year, the program reduced costs by three-tenths to half of one percent. Most recent findings suggest that the Pioneer ACO model is saving about two percent annually, which is substantial when compounded over many years, Fisher noted. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Pioneer ACO saved Medicare $438 for each of its 23,500 beneficiaries in 2013, according to the report. Medicare saved a total of $17.7 million in 2012 and $10.3 million in 2013 from a group of five New Hampshire health organizations, including DHMC. DHMC is one of 32 health care organizations participating in the Pioneer program, which saved about $384 million nationwide in its first two years.
Fisher said that the ACO model intends to solve problems experienced with Medicare’s more widely used fee-for-service model. Under
“The ACO model addresses both issues — fragmentation and overuse. It has quality measures and encourages health care organization to keep patients healthy.” -ELLIOT FISHER, DIRECTOR OF THE DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
this model, organizations only felt responsible for the care they were directly providing, so there was no incentive for hospitals to reach out to primary care physicians or specialists to communicate, he said. He added that providers would previously overprescribe services, since they were paid for each procedure performed. “The ACO model addresses both issues — fragmentation and overuse,” he said. “It has quality measures and encourages health
care organizations to keep patients healthy.” Economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan ’88 said that the ACO model has the potential to transform the nation’s health care system. “In economics, you don’t usually get more for less,” he said. “ACOs might be the one place where we can actually get lower costs and better results.” DHMC director of value-based reimbursement models Lynn Guillette said that transforming health care delivery and adjusting payment models are interconnected , and the ACO model fits nicely with DHMC’s goals for the future of patient care. “For DHMC, the ACO model is something that’s in our DNA,” she said. “From the payment perspective, we should follow where clinical care is going, and we’ll go get a payment model that’s more aligned with the system.” Though DHMC earned a $1 million bonus from Medicare in 2012, it did not receive a bonus in 2013, Guillette said. She noted that though DHMC met its quality benchmarks and delivered savings to Medicare in 2013, it did not receive a financial reward. Medical director of DHMC’s center for telehealth Sarah Pletcher said DHMC has focused on improving the quality of its care in the past few years, explaining that this is a long-term investment that might not offer immediate financial returns.
“It would make sense to me clinically that you would have good years and bad years,” she said. “Overall, as along as quality
“For DHMC, the ACO model is something that’s in our DNA. ” -LYNN GUILLETE DIRECTOR OF VALUEBASED REIMBURSEMENT MODELS AT DHMC metrics are good, hopefully the financials would follow suit.” To improve the Pioneer program, Fisher suggests the inclusion of more attractive and attainable benchmarks for health systems and an easier method to engage with
Medicare patients directly. Guillette said that an adjustment factor needs to be built into the benchmarking system that reflects the range of existing circumstances and resources at different health care centers. Because DHMC has historically demonstrated high-quality, lowcost care, it is more difficult to make improvements that generate significant savings than to improve care, she said. “The model has to evolve over time,” she said. “We’re all learning as we’re going.” In June, DHMC will apply for the newest version of the ACO model, called Next Generation ACO, and is in the process of determining whether it will switch from Pioneer, Guillette said. Fisher said that DHMC’s future reimbursements will likely include a mix of both fee-for-service and ACO contracts.
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Women’s tennis falls to No. 2 UNC FROM TENNIS PAGE 8
nation, in the deciding third set. Ultimately, Mathis ended the anxiety for the Big Green, winning her match in a second set tiebreaker and bringing the team a decisive win in its tournament debut. “If you can keep the other team off the scoreboard, you keep their sense of hope away from the match,” head coach Bob Dallis said. “We were thinking we’re going to get it, No. 3 or No. 6, what’s going on, and we finally got the win at 3.” In its round of 32 match, Dartmouth drew UNC, a perennial women’s tennis powerhouse. UNC’s top six singles players include three players ranked inside the top 20 nationally. The only Ivy League player with a national singles ranking is Dartmouth’s own Ng, who sits just barely in the top 100 at 97. For the Big Green, the occasion did not offer the same sort of pressure that comes with playing a peer institution, but it provided a unique opportunity for the women to cross racquets with a team playing at the highest level of collegiate tennis. In order for Dartmouth to keep reaching greater heights as a program, these are exactly the type of opportunities that will prove invaluable in the team’s collective development
— the chance to compete against the very best and measure the degree of difference. “I didn’t get to see other people playing as much, but I think everyone was just playing their best tennis and I think that was partially a product of the fact that we were the underdog,” Ng said. “All the pressure was on UNC, and we just wanted to put everything out that we had and I think we really did shock them. We draw a lot of confidence from that match. A few changes here and there and we could beat them.” Although UNC clinched the match 4-0, ending Dartmouth’s season, at no point in the contest did the Tarheels walk over the Big Green as their disparate rankings and UNC’s pedigree might have suggested. In a reversal of the Big Green’s opening match, it lost the doubles point by dropping at No. 2 and No. 3. At the time the point was decided, Ng and Mathis were still playing at the No. 1 spot against Tarheels’ No. 1 pair, which is ranked No. 35 in the nation, and retired the match tied at 4-4. UNC clinched the match with singles victories at the No. 2, No. 4 and No. 5 spots, and the remaining three matches did not finish. At No. 2, Yau lost her first set 7-5 in the
tiebreaker and dropped her second set 6-4 against the No. 16 singles player in the nation. Okuda was up 7-5, 4-3 when UNC clinched, and Mathis had just started her third set after splitting her first two against the No. 20 player in the nation. Ng, who will now prepare for the NCAA singles championship, was down 7-5, 2-2 when the match ended. The score was lopsided, but the margin of victory for the dominant UNC team was likely slimmer than many, including the Tarheels, would have imagined. “This year we beat 11 teams ranked inside the top 75, which is really a mark of a very good team,” Dallis said. “Now we’re playing this next level team, so we’re saying, ‘How are we going to stack up, and how are we going to compete to give them a difficult time? What do they do a little better than us and what can we do to improve?’ We were able to walk away from the match and say there’s not a very big difference.” The match marks the end of a successful season for the Big Green, who will lose only Okuda after graduation. Dartmouth will return next year with its sight set on bringing the Ivy League title to Hanover for the first time since 2011, which was the program’s first.
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James will retire as Hopkins Center director in August
said that he works closely with the directors of those individual The Dartmouth Staff departments and helps to provide Wi t h s o m a ny a c a d e m i c a creative environment for their departments and extracurricular respective programs. Additionally, offerings in the arts at the College he said he also spends his time on a day-to-day basis, from fundraising for the Hopkins Center student ensemble groups to film among the College’s alumni and theater performances and community and has built up the crafting workshops, the Hopkins program’s membership by at least Center is like a well-oiled machine. 30 percent since arriving at the Behind any machine, of course, College. is a mechanic responsible for Hopkins Center director of overseeing its productivity. For the programming Margaret Lawrence Hop, the man behind the machine said that James has been ambitious for the past 10 years has been about wanting to build upon the Jeffrey James who will be retiring successes of the Hop and further in the summer. engage students and audiences. After succeeding the Hop’s “[James] has a great vision for fifth director Lewis A. Crickard what he feels an art center should in 2005, James has been working be on a campus,” Lawrence said. at the heart and soul of the Hop’s Three years after being named programming to ensure success director, James was named the in upholding its mission and inaugural Howard L. Gilman ’44 advancing arts at the College. director after the Howard Gilman Following heavy consideration Foundation donated $5 million to upon his time at the College as endow the director’s position in well as his collective 40 years spent 2008. working in various organizations James said this endowment was associated with the arts, James special on multiple levels, as the gift announced his retirement as the not only funds the job but allows the Hop’s director on April 20. director to try new initiatives and James said that he and his programming possibilities. He said husband spoke frequently about he used some of last year’s funds his fierce commitment to his to evaluate potential strategies professional life and considered to start BarHop. Other funds what he has missed out on in his from the endowment have gone personal life. toward creating the Claflin Jewelry “This is really about having Studio at the Hopkins Center and the chance to take what could acquiring new art commissions. turn into a complete retirement or “I liked that it had a focus and what we’re adolescently calling a was about experimentation and gap year,” James said. “I can have trying adventurous things,” James a chance to stop and think about said. if there is something more that I James’ position also entails want to do or not.” serving as the College’s senior As its director, James said that representative in Major University he oversees the Hopkins Center’s Presenters , a group of 20 leading programming university-based events, which arts presenting i n c l u d e a “This is really about programs, distinguished having the chance including the v i s i t i n g Annenberg p e r f o r m i n g to take what could Center for the a r t s e r i e s , turn into a comple Performing Arts nearly 200 film at the University retirement or what exhibitions of Pennsylvania annually and we’re adolescently and Stanford simulcasts of calling a gap year. I Lively Arts the the New at Stanford Yo rk C i t y ’s can have a chance to U n i ve r s i t y. I n Metropolitan stop and think about 2010, the Hop Opera and a two-day if there is something hosted London’s symposium in N a t i o n a l more that I want to association with T h e a t e r , do or not.” MUP on “The as well as Arts Center of the site-specific 21st Century,” p r o g r a m s -jeffery james, which focused on such as the lear ning about director of the College’s the dynamic nine different Hopkins Center for appearances s t u d e n t the Arts of future arts perfor mance centers through ensembles panel discussions and workshops in woodworking, and presentations by renowned ceramics and jewelry-making. He artists and practitioners .
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T h e s y m p o s i u m ’s t h e m e transitioned perfectly into the College’s “Year of the Arts,” which took place during the 2012-2013 school year in honor of the Hop’s 50th anniversary. The celebration included several presentations such as the co-commissioning of an opera honoring American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla by Jim Jarmusch and Phil Kline, entitled “Tesla in New York.” During his time at the College, James also approved much-needed renovations to the Hop by converting former visual art studios to practice spaces for the student ensembles following the construction of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The Hopkins Center’s renovations, which began in January of 2013, included increasing practice spaces, upgrade older aspects of the building and promote more multidisciplinary art. The Year of the Arts was aimed at promoting the arts and their visibility on campus. Programs associated with the year included the “Igniting Imagination” show, the opening of the VAC and a range of special guest performances and exhibitions. Hopkins Center associate director and general manager Marga Rahmann ’78 said that the best part of working with James is the fact that he has understood the different complexities of the center from the beginning of his tenure as director.
“Having someone who not only values all of the programs and understands how difficult is to keep everything in balance and successful is a big job,” Rahmann said. “We’re all very grateful for his work these past 10 years.”
“Having someone who not only values all of the programs and understands how difficult it is to keep everything in balance and successful is a big job. We’re all very grateful for his work these past 10 years.” -Marga rahmann, hopkins center associate director and general manager James is no stranger of the art world, thanks to his history of involvement in the arts and a visionary look for its future. Before coming to Dartmouth, his extensive backg round in administration included serving as the chief executive of the Cunningham Dance Foundation,
vice-president of the California Institute of the Arts and the founding president of the International Foundation for the Canadian Centerfor Architecture. He also served as a member of senior management, fundraising and marketing assignments at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the New York Philharmonic and the University of California at Los Angeles. While the College conducts a national search for the Hop’s seventh director, Rahmann said that she will serve as its interim director, starting this August. Rahmann said the Provost of the College will assemble a committee to conduct the search, but that she does not know much about the criteria for the next director. The director must be able to monitor the Hop’s budget and be aware of what the center needs to operate successfully in case any changes are made, Rahmann said. James said the search for a new director can take several months. He said that his own process of being named director in 2005 took eight months to fully complete. Since many of his previous jobs have entailed travel, James is looking forward to relaxing in retirement. “For me, it will be enjoyable not to travel,” James said. “Maybe eventually I’ll start to revisit that idea, but I want to enjoy what life in New England could be if you have time to enjoy it.”
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Jeffrey James’s tenure as director of the Hopkins Center included expansions and commissions of original new art.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015
SPORTS
TUESDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Track and field struggles at Heps Women’s tennis wins one at NCAA tournament
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The Dartmouth Staff
After months of training and preparation, the men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this past weekend in Philadelphia. After two days of intense competition, the men finished fifth in the team standings with 67 points, while the women finished in seventh with 57.5 points. At the top of the scorecard, Princeton University won the men’s title with 161 points, and Harvard University took the women’s title with 157 points. While the overall team scores may have left the Big Green off the podium, both received stellar performances, including multiple individual victories on both the men’s and women’s sides. “The Heps is a very long competition, and the weather conditions were very rough [in Philadelphia],” men’s head coach Barry Harwick said. “But overall, it was a successful meet for us.” Some of the top finishes included the men receiving a 1-2 finish from Jacob Shippee ’16 and Jim Budzinski ’14 in the javelin. For the women, Dana Giordano ’16 and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 both defended their Heps titles from last year. Giordano won the 1,500 meters in 4:19.55, and with her win, the Big Green women have now won the event for four consecutive seasons. Whitehorn also repeated her Heps title, winning the high jump to become the second woman in Dartmouth history to win the women’s high jump twice, as well as in consecutive years. The men had a strong showing on the first day of competition. On Saturday, in addition to the 1-2 finish in the javelin, Max Cosculluela ’17 placed third in the pole vault in what Harwick called one of the best pole vault finishes in College history, setting a new personal best in the process. Colin Minor ’18 also placed third in the hammer throw. Later in the evening, Curtis King ’16 claimed second in the 10,000 meters, finishing in 29:51.37 and earning All-Ivy second-team honors. Although he was hoping to return to Hanover a Heps champion, King was pleased with his performance. “With one lap to go, I took the lead and dropped the pace down significantly,” King said. “I ran my last lap in 59 seconds, which is four seconds faster than any previous final [10,000 meter] lap that I’ve run. But [Princeton’s Matt McDonald] closed in 58.” The women also saw impressive performances on Saturday with a third-
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The Dartmouth Senior Staff
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Dana Giordano ’16 repeated in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 4:19.55.
place finish in the javelin from Moriah Morton ’17 and a sixth place finish in the pole vault by Kaitlin McCallum ’16. In the final event, Claudia Pham ’15 placed fifth in the 10,000-meter by running a 35:09.45. Much of the teams’ scoring, however, took place on the second day of competition. The men received strong performances from Brett Buskey ’15, who placed third in the 100 meters and fifth in the 200 meters, as well as from Jeremy Birck ’15, who placed second in the high jump by clearing 6-9.5/2.07m. Alex Frye ’17 was fifth in the 110-meter hurdles. Edward Wagner ’16 placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles in 52.34, while Corey Muggler ’17 also placed fourth in the triple jump. His jump of 49-8.5/15.15m was a new personal best, according to Harwick. “When someone sets a new [personal record] it’s very rewarding to see both for the athletes and the coaches,” Harwick said. For the women, Allison Frantz ’18 had a strong showing, placing fifth in both the heptathlon and the high jump. Teammate Miranda Lawson ’17 placed sixth in the heptathlon just behind Frantz. Molly Shapiro ’16 was third in the triple jump, while Jennifer Meech ’16 scored in the 200 meters, running 24.27 to take fifth. Reid Watson ’16 placed fourth in the 5,000 meters, completing the distance in 16:52.08. The women also received strong performances from their relay teams, with the 4x400-meter and 4x100-meter relay teams — both of which women’s head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said ran their fastest times all season and the second-fastest times in school history — placing fourth, and a fifth-place finish by the 4x800-meter team. The 4x100meter relay team had to be shuffled last minute, as Anna Kikut ’16 could not compete with a hamstring injury. As a
result, the team that competed had not practiced the crucial baton exchanges before racing. “This is one of those cases where we hold our breath and pray that the exchange happened,” Ford-Centonze said. “They ran well, and it was the fastest time this season and the secondfastest in school history.” The weather conditions proved to be a major factor throughout the meet. With temperatures in the upper 80s and high humidity, many of the distance races were especially slow. One of runners in the women’s 10,000-meters had to be rushed to the hospital due to heat exhaustion, Harwick said. With three weeks between Heps and the NCAA Regional Championships in Jacksonville, Florida, many athletes will look to focus on getting qualifying performances to the regional championships and fine-tuning their events. “Fifty-nine seconds wasn’t good enough for Heps, so it certainly won’t be good enough for Jacksonville,” King said. “It gives me something to work on over the next three weeks.” Next weekend, the teams will send a contingent, consisting mostly of sprinters and field athletes, down to Princeton, New Jersey, to compete in the ECAC/ IC4A Championships. A large group of distance runners will travel to Lowell, Massachusetts, to compete at the New Balance Twilight Meet and chase some fast times in the last weekend to qualify for NCAA Regionals, Harwick said. The next few weeks will provide a chance to regroup. “You gear up for it starting in September, and the talk is always Heps,” Ford-Centonze said. “But we have to just move forward — track is a sport of a short memory. You have to forget about it and come back ready for the next one. It’s the nature of the sport.”
After receiving its first bid to the NCAA tournament in program history, the women’s tennis team defeated No. 49 College of William and Mary in the opening round before falling to No. 2 University of North Carolina, last year’s runnerup for the title. The first post-season win for the Big Green provided a culminating end to a season that saw the Dartmouth tennis program reach new heights, despite falling short of the Ivy League title. “Obviously, the goal is to win [the Ivy League title] next year, but with what we’ve accomplished this year, we’ve achieved so many of our goals that it almost didn’t matter that we didn’t win the Ivy League,” Katherine Yau ’16 said. “We’re just going to set the bar higher next year.” The weekend saw the team play its final match of the spring, but Taylor Ng ’17 will return to competition on May 20 at the NCAA Singles Championship in Waco, Texas. Ivy League Player of the Year Ng went undefeated in conference play at the No. 1 spot, which earned her automatic qualification for the championship — one of only 15 players in the country with a guaranteed spot. Ng will be the first Dartmouth women’s tennis player to compete in the singles championship. “For the NCAA team tournament, our team mentality was to win the whole thing,” Ng said. “My mentality for [the NCAA singles championship] is to win the whole thing. It starts the first match, I just want to represent Dartmouth well and play confidently and play with the pride I always do for Dartmouth.” On Saturday, the women kicked off their tournament run at the UNC Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a 9 a.m. match against William and Mary (16-7). While the contest was the Big Green’s tournament debut, William and Mary enjoyed much more tournament experience as it was competing in its 20th NCAA tournament. Though new to the tournament, the Big Green was familiar with the William and Mary team, having opened its fall season on William and Mary’s campus in the Tribe
Invitational. At the invitational, Dartmouth went 3-2 against William and Mary in singles with a notable three-set loss for Ng at the one spot to Tribe senior Jeltje Loomans, who has been ranked as high as No. 54 in the nation in singles. The Dartmouth team that William and Mary encountered in the fall, however, was not the same one that went on to be ranked as high as No. 18 in the nation on the back of a 11-match winning streak and a firstever ECAC championship and not the same Big Green team that ended the Tribe’s NCAA tournament run in the first round this past weekend. On Saturday, the Big Green stole the doubles point from a Tribe lineup that included the No. 67 doubles pair in the nation and finished the job in singles, clinching the match at 4-1. Dartmouth got easy 8-2, 8-3 wins from its No. 2 and No. 3 doubles pairs, respectively, which gave it the early 1-0 advantage going into singles. At No. 4 singles, Jacqueline Crawford ’17 wasted no time in giving the Big Green its second point of the day, dropping only one game in the match. Julia Schroeder ’18, who had found herself in a position to clinch a match victory several times in the spring season, bucked that trend and came off the hard courts shortly after Crawford with a 6-2, 6-1 win of her own. “[Crawford] and [Schroeder] really took care of business, and that gave us an extra push that made us want to keep fighting and keep competing so we could be the one to get that fourth point,” Ng said. “It was really cool to see not only that they won, but that they won definitively.” Up 3-0, the Big Green found itself on the precipice of history, but it was unclear which player would secure the final win. Yau lost her match at No. 2, granting the Tribe a slimmer of hope with its first point of the day. At No. 3 and No. 6 respectively, Kristina Mathis ’18 and Akiko Okuda ’15 were both up a set, but locked in tight matches. Mathis had won her first 7-5, and Okuda had scraped out her first in a well-played tiebreaker. As their matches inched toward conclusion, Ng found herself down 4-2 to William and Mary’s Leeza Nemchinov, ranked No. 53 in the SEE TENNIS PAGE 6