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Twelve selected for Schweitzer Fellowships
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Memorial Challenge will raise funds for cardiac research B y EMilia Baldwin The Dartmouth Staff
Students and community members alike will have the opportunity to participate in the Memorial Challenge this Saturday, an event dedicated to the memories of Blaine Steinberg and Torin Tucker, members of the Class of
2015, who both died suddenly last year due to heart complications. The event, which is centered around physical fitness, encourages participants to challenge themselves with CrossFitand nordic ski-themed exercises as well as raise money for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Heart and Vascular Center. “We wanted to do something different and fun and something that both [Steinberg] and [Tucker] would have really loved,” Jessie Frieder ’15, one of the event’s co-founders, said. Steinberg was on the
Ten first-year students from the Geisel School of Medicine and two first-year students from the College were selected as fellows for 2015-2016 New Hampshire-Vermont Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. The 12 fellows will each receive a $2,000 stipend for 200 service hours over the course of year. In addition, they have on-site faculty mentorship, along with other forms of support including orientation, retreats and meetings. College faculty, Geisel administrators and previous fellows selected the five teams from Geisel and one team of undergraduate engineering students, Fellowship program director Nancy Gabriel said. “We tried to find a range of projects, working with different populations in different parts of the community, and I think we did that,” she said. Marvah Hill Pierre-Louis, one of the 12 fellows, said that upon reading about Albert Schweitzer, a renowned physician for whom the fellowship is named, she was inspired by his values and wanted to continue his spirit by participating in the program. John Mascari, Pierre-Louis’ teammate, said the program will be a rare learning opportunity that will help him throughout his medical career. Mascari and Pierre-Louis will be working with the Vermont Department of Health to help the Good Neighbor Health Clinic implement protocols in the effort to eliminate subjectivity in doctors’ observation
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Harjo discusses activism around Native American mascots B y LAUREN BUDD The Dartmouth Staff
Suzan Harjo’s fight for Native rights began as early as the second grade, when she debated the true details of the battle of Little Bighorn with her teacher and was thrown out a window and into a rosebush. Harjo recounted this experience, for which the teacher was not punished, as well as her lifetime of activism for Native American people, in a lecture held in Haldeman Hall on Monday afternoon. “It’s hard to find a piece of Na-
tive American legislation that doesn’t have her fingerprints on it,” Native American studies department chair Bruce Duthu said in his introduction of her. Harjo said she was invited to the College by Duthu in order to talk to different groups of his students. Her talk focused on the issue of using Native Americans as mascots, detailing the history of the usage of such imagery and the current legal fight to eliminate this occurrence. The use of Native Americans as mascots is an insult to everything actual Natives know and to every-
thing they are, Harjo said. The first school to retire a native mascot was University of Oklahoma in 1970, Harjo said. The mascot, known as “Little Red,” was retired due to increasing demonstrations by progressive student groups and the fact that eventually, no actual Native people were willing to play the role, Harjo said. Though the retirement of Little Red was a positive, Harjo said the mascot’s existence has since been largely erased from the University of Oklahoma’s history. While the retirement of the mascot was a good
step, it is also valuable for an institution to look back upon such mistakes as learning opportunities, she said. “That’s always a positive message, I think, but a lot of institutions feel that it may shake the institution if you confess error,” Harjo said. Several other institutions officially retired their Native mascots relatively soon after, Harjo said, with Stanford University and Dartmouth retiring the “Indians” in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and Syracuse University retiring the “Saltine Warrior” in 1978. SEE LECTURE PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health chief executive officer and president Jim Weinstein received the 29th annual Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, according to a DHMC press release. The award recognizes those who embody the spirit of the United States of America by sharing their knowledge and generosity with those less fortunate. Weinstein was one of 90 honored at a gala on May 9 in New York. Among this year’s honorees alongside Weinstein were U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former Apple chief executive officer John Sculley, New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera and talk show host Meredith Viera. NECO is dedicated to restoring Ellis Island, a symbol of the United States’ immigrant history, and aims to celebrate diversity, tolerance and patriotism. Researchers at the Thayer School of Engineering and Norris Cotton Cancer Center developed a method for performing near infrared optical measurements of cancerous breast tissue during breast conserving surgery to better locate cancerous tissue, according to a Norris Cotton Cancer Center press release. About one in four women who receive breast conserving surgery, as opposed to total mastectomy, need additional surgery to remove cancerous tissue left behind. During breast conserving surgery, only a small volume of tissue around a tumor is removed, and it is often difficult for surgeons to locate all of the cancerous tissue. The new imaging technique would allow surgeons to determine whether margins of resected tissue are free of cancer during surgery and hopefully avoid follow-up operations. Dartmouth researchers engineered cells that secrete antitumor agents from within cancerous tumors, avoiding the toxicity found from typical chemotherapy treatments, according to a Norris Cotton Cancer Center press release. These therapeutic cells are localized and immunoisolated because they are encapsulated, so they can remain in the tumor and be a permanent, renewable source of antitumor molecules to manage cancer for a long period of time. By localizing cancer therapy, treatment is less systemically toxic than chemotherapy. The team is looking to create an array of therapeutic cells that can take cues from their surroundings and release appropriate antitumor substances. Ultimately, these encapsulated cells could stimulate the immune system and activate drug synthesis to combat tumors.
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Fellows will perform community service FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1
of patients. Nayrana Carneiro and Alexander Soto-Edwards will launch a project that offers free medical consulting and service to the residents at the Haven and other members of the Upper Valley. Carneiro said that the goal of their project is to reduce the number of emergency room visits by creating
“We tried to find a range of projects, working with different populations in different parts of the community, and I think we did that.” - NANCY GABRIEL, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTOR a more informed community. She applied to the program because she wanted to make this project sustainable. Soto-Edwards said that becoming a fellow has been an inspirational experience, particularly seeing how all of the different projects will give back to the community and how each of the fellows, as individuals, can make a difference. Ahra Cho and Claire Hogue, another team of fellows, said that they both participated in Teach For America prior to coming to Geisel and conceived this project in an attempt to incorporate their background in education with their
medical studies. Under the project, Cho and Hogue will develop curricula for local middle school students to inform them on issues such as mental and physical health and drug and substance use. Hogue said that interaction with other fellows helped them to further develop their ideas. Cho said that she became interested in the program because she thought it would be helpful for middle school students to have mentors in medical field. “Not only is it a tremendous honor, I think that it’s a great opportunity for our program to grow,” she said. “In terms of the added financial support they give us, publicity they help us with and resources and mentors they connect us to are really invaluable.” Brendin Beaulieu-Jones and Ana Rodriguez-Villa are working on a project to create a supportive network and curriculum for LGBTQ youth in the Upper Valley area. They want to enrich their curriculum with what they have learned at Geisel and expand beyond just LGBTQ individuals to become create a more inclusive support system. Beaulieu-Jones said that the various Schweitzer fellow projects open more options for undergraduate students to get involved and contribute to the community. Continuing a project initiated by former Schweitzer fellow Rachel Glikin ’17, Juergen Buchsteiner ’18 and Madeleine Yi ’18 will teach science and technology to elementary school students through playing with Legos. At the end of the year they will host an exposition, where the elementary school students will display their
Lego works and posters. Buchsteiner said that the team seeks to expand the project by working with more elementary schools and potentially involving students from Hanover High School as volunteers. Fellows from the Univer-
“Not only is it a tremendous honor, I think that it’s a great opportunity for our program to grow. In terms of the added financial support they give us, publicity they help us with and resources and mentors they connect us to are really invaluable.” - ahra cho, Schweitzer fellow
sity of Vermont, University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth comprise the New HampshireVermont chapter of Schweitzer Fellowship, with about six or seven coming from Dartmouth per year. Ashley Hamel and Sumitha Raman, who could not be reached by press time, will provide sexual education to 15 female students from Stevens High School with the goal of giving them confidence and creating comfortable spaces to talk about their experiences.
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The May 15 article “Undergraduate Finance Committee funding explained” incorrectly stated that Eli Derrow ’15, the former IFC chair, had started the voting process to determine funding. The process was in place before Derrow’s term as chair. The story has been updated online.
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Ten Geisel Medical School students, in addition to two undergraduate students, were selected for Schweitzer Fellowships.
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Memorial Challenge will honor Steinberg,Tucker
with an event that she said will be both fun and different than women’s varsity lacrosse team other athletic fundraisers. She before concussions ended her said that she did not want to hold career, though she remained physi- a traditional running race, since cally active and enjoyed CrossFit, there are already several running and Tucker was a member of the fundraiser events, like the CHaD men’s Nordic ski team. Carrie Wolf Hero race that takes place each fall ’15, also an event organizer, said to support the Children’s Hospital that the team carefully crafted a at DHMC. challenge that would incorporate Fishman said that it was imporSteinberg’s love for CrossFit and tant to the team to craft a challenge Tucker’s love for skiing. that both Steinberg and Tucker “It’s a CrossFit-style circuit would appreciate. workout, but there are plenty of “The idea was to get together as skiing-specific exercises in all of a community again and to rememthe levels of the challenge,” she ber them by doing something that said. “We really they loved,” he wanted to touch “The nature of said. on both of their Wo l f Dartmouth is just, i n t e re s t s a n d said the varia‘Go, go, go,’ but at passions.” tion within Adam Fish- the end of last winter, the 14-person man ’15, one of organizational the events co- everyone just took a team ref lects founders, said moment to stop and the desired he and a group diversireflect and really think overall of other stuty of the event. dents thought about the people we “A l of the idea for had just lost.” most no one the event last on our team spring followis in the ing the losses -Adam Fishman ‘15 same [Greek] of Steinberg house,” Wolf Co-Founder of the a n d Tu c k e r. said. “We have Fishman said Memorial Challenge at h l e t e s a n d that the event non-athletes. It hopes to bring really reflects together all different facets of the amount of support we are the Dartmouth community in the getting for this event.” name of Steinberg and Tucker. Fishman said over 300 people “The point of this event is to have registered so far. He also said get as many people and groups on that the team is projected to exceed campus to participate in the event its stated $30,000 fundraising goal, as we can,” he said. since the event has raised just over Fishman also said that he hopes $18,000 already. to encapsulate the same feeling of Fishman also said that he, love and community which he said Frieder and others who initially took over campus last winter after thought of the event went into it the two students passed away. with the idea of having events like “The nature of Dartmouth is the Memorial Challenge either just, ‘Go, go, go,’ but at the end annually or potentially termly. of last winter, everyone just took “We didn’t go into this thinking a moment to stop and reflect and it was going to be a one-time thing, really think about the people we so we’re hoping we, and other had just lost,” Fishman said. people behind the cause, can do Fishman added that he feels this again,” he said, adding that the that athletics are something that overwhelming support has made everyone on campus can support, him hopeful that similar events regardless of ability. He said that will be possible in the future. the team was inspired by the an- According to the event website, nual Prouty Event, which takes participants must register before place every summer in Hanover the event, but people who show to support cancer research and up to the event unregistered will care at DHMC. be encouraged to volunteer. Chal Jessie Frieder ’15, another co- lengers must pay $20 at the time founder, explained that the team of registration and must fundraise was inspired by the Prouty event’s at least $50, including the initial ability to rally so much of the cost of registration, by the time Upper Valley community under a of the event. Following the event, common cause. there will be a barbecue catered Frieder added that the team by Everything But Anchovies, one wanted to “cap off ” spring term of the event’s sponsors. FROM MEMORIAL PAGE 1
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Staff Columnist AYLIN WOODWARD ’15
STAFF COLUMNIST ZIQIN YUAN ’18
The Potential of Deliberation
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Residential cluster student governance represents an uncharted opportunity. Last week, I had the privilege of attending the annual Hanover Town Hall meeting as part of an experiential learning element for my class, “Democratic Theory” — we spent over three hours listening to debates over tax rates, multi-use bicycle paths and re-zoning initiatives as Hanover constituents engaged in their annual deliberations. Every person had an opportunity to speak, discussion was moderated and the sense of civic responsibility in the room was almost tangible. This experience, though seemingly far from engaging, actually got me thinking about the applicability of such a town hall exercise to the Dartmouth community — and how it could yield substantive, collaborative results at a time when the constituencies on this campus could not be more divided. Putting aside the student-administrator schism, Dartmouth has a civic problem — we no longer have the means to bridge the ever-widening gaps between existing student niches. What if we were to lay a foundation for new bridges and construct mechanisms to re-forge the broken bonds amongst ourselves? I assert that effective student governance — incorporating maximum engagement and community deliberation via a town hall method — is the means to do so. As the residential cluster system — one of the biggest changes from the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative — slowly gains momentum, we can see the obvious potential for civic growth on campus. Future vice provost of student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer stated that house communities would have, in addition to a faculty presence, student governance. Therein lies the path to renewing campus political consciousness. We should disband Student Assembly — a defunct black box of an organization marred by dropping candidate numbers and voter turnout rates. It should be replaced by an “Intercluster Council” of representatives. Trade a president and vice president, with their Patagonia scandals and social justice dramas, for a group of students who represent a broader geographic and demographic slice of campus. We should select five students — one from each class, plus one extra — from each of the six clusters to form a council of 30 representa-
tives. Those representatives, who will rotate on a termly basis to prevent not only D-Plan difficulties but also the emergence of political hierarchies, should be chosen in a two-round process — first by lottery, then by voting on candidates within that randomly selected pool. Such a selection process would promote more egalitarian student participation in governance while mitigating the self-selection of candidates. What should this Intercluster Council do? In order to engineer an effective student governance system across clusters, we should seek to create a body that emulates, but does not compete with, the Greek system. The representatives of each house should meet weekly on Sunday evenings, as well as host open meetings for their respective clusters Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. to encourage participation and discussion on cluster matters week-to-week in a transparent way. But the most important duty of these representative boards should be to organize — if I can borrow from renowned political scholar Benjamin Barber — “Deliberation Day.” This would be a day with no classes, when every cluster would host a town hall meeting in which students could decide on representatives for the next term and discern which community issues deserve the most attention. Such meetings would maximize inclusivity and tap into the educative potential of political discussion. If students were allowed to make decisions on substantive matters like a mental health initiative, Student Event Management Procedures, sexual assault adjudication — things beyond intramurals or concerts — I suspect we would see an incredibly high turnout at the meetings as well as the growth of this school’s latent political culture, which is begging to be nurtured. This termly Deliberation Day would be the arena for grassroots social change at Dartmouth, where all students could bring their voice to bear on the issues that matter most to them. The development of an active political culture in the vein of town hall meetings would contribute greatly to College President Phil Hanlon’s experiential learning initiatives, while also spreading information and creating civic solidarity on a campus that sorely needs it.
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Professors should design their classes to keep Green Key stress-free. In the May 19 story “Several classes to have exams over Green Key,” professors discussed their decisions regarding whether or not to consider Green Key in their curricula. Because the registrar’s website does not list Green Key as an official holiday, many professors said that they did not take the weekend into account when scheduling exams and assignments. I believe that professors should, on the contrary, take steps to ensure that all students can relax over Green Key weekend. Some Green Key events were hosted by Programming Board, which also plans other entertainment events throughout the school year. Though Programming Board attempts to plan these concerts, such as the Coffeehouse Concerts, at times that are convenient for most people, it is difficult to make sure everyone can attend. It likewise makes sense that some concerts during Green Key, especially the earlier ones, coincided with some classes’ midterms. Yet there is a difference between scheduling midterms right before Green Key, like many classes did, and scheduling them during or immediately after Green Key. The quarter system is fairly intensive — during one quarter, many students spend most of their time preparing for and taking a constant stream of midterms or writing a series of papers in quick succession. It is reasonable to ask for a break — one weekend when we can relax or even have the option to catch up on accumulated work. This winter, for example, Winter Carnival allowed me to catch up on both my sleep and coursework. After weeks of midterms, it was nice to have a break, however short, to spend some time thinking about things other than work. Since Green Key is at the end of week seven, it is the perfect time for a short break. Most classes have their midterms around Green Key, and it should not be too difficult to move the midterms forward a day or two to prevent them from coinciding with festivities. Of course, in the days leading up to Green Key, we would have a higher concentration of work to do, but for most that would be preferable to having a lot of work during Green Key and the prospect of a midterm looming throughout the weekend.
Some professors may have other reasons for planning midterms and assignments during or right after Green Key. It is, after all, a big party weekend, and professors may be trying to keep their students as focused on the course as possible. Especially for introductory courses that cover a lot of material at a very fast pace, it is understandable that professors want to keep students thinking. It is not fair, however, to the students in those classes — while everyone else is able to relax because they have finished their midterms, these students must keep studying. Beyond a midterm schedule more compatible with Green Key, many students also would prefer that classes be cancelled on the Friday of Green Key, just like they are for the Winter Carnival holiday. Yet the wisdom of cancelling Friday classes is questionable. Although festivities start on Wednesday or Thursday — some may say even earlier — Green Key itself, especially the concert, essentially takes place on Friday afternoon and evening. It is fair for professors to expect their students to attend Friday classes. Having class on the Friday of Green Key, however, poses another problem — many students simply do not come. At my introductory computer science class last Friday, a huge class of more than 150 people, less than half the students showed up, and I noticed that students in attendance were a lot more distracted than usual. I’m sure professors know that a lot of students might not show up to class on Friday, but professors should not cancel class just because some students cannot make responsible decisions regarding time management and class attendance. Nevertheless, my main point stands — midterms and significant assignments should be assigned and completed prior to Green Key. The College may not consider Green Key a holiday, but nearly all students do. Green Key, with most of its events happening at night and in the afternoon, may seem unrelated to school work, but with midterms winding down and finals on the horizon, students deserve a short break. And even if students do not spend their weekends wisely, a pause from academics still has long-term benefits for many students’ mental and physical wellbeing.
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Harjo discusses “gateway issue” of Native mascots FROM LECTURE PAGE 1
Collectively, Native activist efforts have eliminated over 2,000 native mascots, Harjo said, though they have about 900 more to go. “We’ve already won the societal contest on this issue,” Harjo said. Society is largely on the side of Native Americans, Harjo said, citing commentators Charles Krauthammer and Bob Costas as significant mainstream supporters of the movement. Harjo also added historical context — as part of civilization regulations for Natives passed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States criminalized certain traditional dances for Native Americans, even on their own reservations, she said. “The only people who were dancing as Indians were white guys during sports events on college campuses,” Harjo said. The use of Natives as mascots was not an honor or a statement but a harmful assumption, Harjo said. Using Native people as mascots alongside actual animals served as an example of how society viewed Natives as subhuman and closer to animals than people, Harjo explained. Native people were also featured in the Chicago and St. Louis World’s Fairs in 1893 and 1904, respectively, as examples of “less developed” people and entertainment for white spectators, she said. Though thousands of institutions have retired their Native mascots,
Harjo also detailed her ongoing legal battles with professional sports teams, like the Washington Redskins. She cited that the owner of the Redskins — Daniel Snyder — attempts to justify keeping the name by bringing forward individual Native people to testify in support of the mascot.
“Even if he comes up with 100,000 individual Indians, it’s not the same as every single national organization saying, ‘Get rid of these racist mascots.’” -SUZAN HARJO, ADVOCATE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS “Even if he comes up with 100,000 individual Indians, it’s not the same as every single national organization saying, ‘Get rid of these racist mascots,’” Harjo said. The impetus behind academic institutions retiring their mascots was those institutions’ focus on student health and safety, she said, particularly concerns over how a mascot may affect groups of students and whether it will cause a confrontation. Professional sports organizations, however, are moti-
vated by money and profit, Harjo said, which has made the process more difficult. This issue has significant implications for a wide variety of students, Harjo said in an interview after the lecture. The repercussions of such lawsuits on trademarks and trademark registration are significant points of learning for economics students, because her current case is the first to call for a cancellation of an existing trademark, Harjo said. “Everyone thought before the case that you could only object to new registrations,” Harjo said. “They didn’t know that you could attempt to cancel them.” Harjo went on to say that the mascot issue had implications for those focusing on history, law, anthropology and communications as it is a “gateway issue” for understanding centuries of Native American history. “Dartmouth has a rich history in this area, and I bet a lot of people don’t realize it,” Harjo said. Brooke Hadley ’18, secretary of Native Americans at Dartmouth, said she came to the talk because she thinks Harjo is an influential figure in the Native American community and wanted to hear her opinions. Hadley also said she is considering pursuing a Native American studies minor or major, which made the talk especially relevant. Helen Thomas ’18, one of NAD’s social chairs, said she had a personal connection to the topic — Thomas, a Sioux, hails from the same town as the University of North Dakota,
which recently retired the Fighting Sioux as its mascot. “This is a personal topic for me and something I had to go explaining my entire life why it’s offensive and defending myself as a Native person in a non-Native community with a Native mascot,” Thomas said. Hadley added Harjo had just received the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, rendering the talk particularly relevant. Thomas said she was impressed by the talk, especially by how Harjo integrated the use of Native mascots with cultural context. Hadley said Harjo’s hierarchy explanation, which detailed how American society viewed Native Americans as subhuman, was particularly impressive.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:15 p.m. “When, Why and How Multiple-choice Tests Can Serve as Tools for Learning,” lecture, McLaughlin Cluster, Occom Commons
4:00 p.m. “Vice Media ‘po-russki’: A Guide/Online Documentaries & Russian Protest Movements,” lecture, Reed Hall, Room 108
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Pinkas will premiere “SyncopaXiones”
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Pieces by beloved classical composers such as Beethoven and Schubert will mix with the premiere of Dan Román’s “SyncopaXiones” (2012) at music professor and current pianist in residence Sally Pinkas’ piano concert tonight. Pinkas will begin the night with Schubert’s “Fantasy in C Minor” (1811), which was written when the composer was only 14 and lay undiscovered from 1811 until the 1960s. Music professor Gregory Hayes described the Schubert piece as “one of the real tour-de-force pieces of the Romantic repertoire.” Pinkas will then move onto Beethoven’s “Rondo in G Major” (1798) and Shostakovich “Sonata No. 2 in B Minor” (1943). The Shostakovich piece, which was written after he was evacuated from Leningrad during World War II, is dedicated to the composer’s former mentor, Leonid Nikolaev. Pinkas said that she discovered the Shostakovich piece while she was in London for the music foreign study program last spring and wanted to play the piece. She said that she chose the Beethoven piece as a filler. “It’s a very small and sweet piece,” she said. “It’s not central.” Pinkas said that Román, the composer of the last piece, “Syn-
copaXiones,” sent her the piece a year ago. She said that she wanted to premiere it, thanks to her close relationship with Roman. She said that while she would usually meet with the composer before premiering an original work, her schedule did not allow for it this time.
“You can hear mathematical qualities in the way patterns are used. He also uses rhythmic and melodic patterns throughout it as well.” -rebecca bailey, Hopkins center publicity coordinator on “SyncopaXiones” “He knows me,” she said. “He’s very trusting and has a lot of faith in me. I’m curious to hear what he has to say.” Román, a Puerto-Rican composer and music professor at Trinity College, said that the piece was inspired by composer Frederic Rzewski’s piece, “The People United
Will Never Be Defeated!” (1975) and is made up of seven sections and over 40 variations around a central piece of music. The piece includes various Caribbean piano styles, including the salsa, mambo, rumba and guaracha. Hopkins Center for the Arts publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey described “SyncopaXiones” as “Latin-Caribbean minimalism.” “You can hear mathematical qualities in the way patterns are used,” she said. “He also uses rhythmic and melodic patterns throughout it as well.” Pinkas described playing the Román piece as “very interesting.” She said that she enjoys getting to create her own version of it. “The beauty of music is interpretation,” she said. “Each performer plays each piece with a different interpretation.” Bailey said that while Pinkas has rich musical friendships with many composers around the world and especially in New England, the relationship she shares with Román is particularly strong. The two met when Pinkas performed at Trinity, and her group Trio Tremonti has performed pieces of his in the past. Bailey said that she is excited to see how Pinkas combines the eclectic sounds of Román with the more traditional pieces by Schubert and Beethoven.
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Students performed with Alvin Lucier last week in the Top of the Hopkins Center.
“We’ll have to wait and see,” she performance. said. “Her programming is always Kong said that she believes that so rich and exciting. You can’t an- Pinkas will be able to make the ticipate what the pieces will be like pieces she plays accessible to all until you hear them.” audience members. Pinkas’ students emphasized her “She conveys emotion that you strength as a player and the emotion don’t often feel or don’t associate she can bring to the pieces she plays. with some composers if you’re not Sarah Wang ’14, who took les- really familiar with them,” Kong sons with Pinkas for all four years said. “She provides a very accesshe was a student at the College, sible way to understand the music said that Pinkas has a unique style that she’s performing, whether and technique. it be Beethoven or Schumann or “She’s a Shostakovich.” Wa n g mu l t i - d i m e n She conveys emotion said that Pinkas’ sional pianist,” love of music is Wa n g s a i d . that you don’t apparent in her “She’s involved often feel or don’t playing. in a number of “She’s activities, not associate with detailed-orientjust her own solo some composers ed, incredibly work. if you’re not really musical, and Emily Kong you see that ’16, who has familiar with them. through everytaken classes She provides a very thing that she from Pinkas plays as well as since her fresh- accessible way to the way the she man fall and understand the teaches,” she was on her music that she’s said. “You can music foreign tell how much study program performing, whether she cares about in London, de- it be Beethoven the music she scribed Pinkas plays, and that’s as “extremely or Schumman or the heart of a insightful.” Shostakovich.” true musician.” “She’s very Bailey musical and said that Pinkas knows how to -emily kong ’16, a is able to effecexpress some- student of pinkas tively capture thing in music the emotions of that you try to express through words,” she said. the pieces that she is playing. “She’s very good at interpreting “Her playing is the journey of what the musician is trying to convey moods,” Bailey said. “She can go with whatever piece that they are from turmoil to joy, since she has such an expressive style of playing.” working on.” Hayes said that Pinkas is the type The concert will be held at 7 of performer who is able to get to p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium. the heart of the music she plays. Tickets will be between $10 and He emphasized the difficult nature $27 for students and $17 to $27 for of her repertoire for Tuesday’s community members.
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015
TUESDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Softball season ends with two losses in NCAA Tournament
B y daniel lee
The Dartmouth Staff
The No. 95 softball team lost both of its games in the NCAA Regionals, falling to No. 7 Florida State University (48-12, 20-3 ACC) and No. 30 University of South Carolina (38-22, 10-14 SEC), ending a season which saw the team win its second consecutive Ivy League title and qualify for the NCAA tournament. Over the weekend, the Big Green (25-18, 16-4 Ivy) struggled offensively and was unable to capitalize on scoring opportunities. Facing a top-10 program in Florida State, Kristen Rumley ’15 struggled to find her rhythm early in the first game of the tournament as she allowed two hits, a walk and two earned runs in the bottom of the first. Unrepresentative of her regular season performance, the three-time Ivy League Pitcher of the Year allowed hits in each of the six innings she pitched for a total of 10 hits over the course of the game. She also struck out five Seminoles batters, but walked two batters and gave up five earned runs. The game was close for the majority of the day, and the Big Green sat within striking distance at the bottom of the sixth. With two outs in the bottom of the sixth and the Big Green down 3-1, however, Rumley allowed a single
to center field followed by a home run, which put Dartmouth too far behind to stage any comeback in the seventh. Seminoles starting pitcher Lacey Waldrop also struggled with her pitch control and issued six walks through 3.2 innings. After allowing a single to Rumley in the top of the second inning, Waldrop threw two wild pitches and walked Kelsey Miller ’16 and Chloe Madill ’17, loading the bases with one out. Waldrop got out of the jam after the Seminoles second baseman snagged a liner hit by Tiffany Dyson ’18 and touched second base for an inning ending double play. The Big Green loaded the bases again — this time with two outs — in the top of the third inning after Katie McEachern ’16 walked, Megan Averitt ’15 reached on a fielding error and Karen Chaw ’17 walked. Waldrop forced a Rumley ground out, and Dartmouth was unable to capitalize on back-toback bases loaded opportunities. After a 3 hour and 42 minute rain delay in the bottom of the third, Waldrop walked Miller to lead off the fourth inning and forced two ground outs that moved Miller to third base. Waldrop’s day was cut short that inning after she issued a walk to Brittany Mann ’18. Seminoles pitcher Jessica Burroughs replaced Waldrop, inheriting runners on the corners. McEachern then hit a historic
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Dartmouth loaded the bases twice in its game against Florida State, but was only able to plate one run in the game.
single, scoring Miller and batting in the first ever NCAA Tournament run in Dartmouth history. “Honestly, I didn’t even know that or realize that,” McEachern said in a post-game press conference. “When I was up at the plate, I was just thinking about getting on base since that’s been a lot of my role this year, just getting on and keeping the momentum going. It is pretty exciting and that’s a fun thing to do, but I wish there had been more. We had so many opportunities.”
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Despite the eight runs allowed in NCAA Tournament play, Dartmouth’s pitching still stood out as a squad strength this season.
McEachern’s single, however, proved to be the only hit Burroughs allowed as she struck out four batters in the next three innings to close the game 5-1. In the second game of the tournament, Rumley would take the mound once more, but struggled in the first inning of the game yet again, allowing a bunt single and a double to open up the scoring for South Carolina. She was quickly able to settle in and return to her usual excellence, allowing one run on four hits over the next five innings. The offense was unable to provide any run support early in the game, as Gamecock starting pitcher Julie Sarratt limited the Big Green to one hit over the first five innings. Dartmouth would get on the scoreboard in the top of the sixth inning after McEachern and Averitt hit back-to-back singles that were soon followed by an RBI single by Chaw that plated McEachern for the first run of the afternoon. The Big Green had an opportunity to save their season after being down two in the top of the seventh inning as Miller doubled to start the inning and Dyson reached on a catcher’s interference. Claire Bird ’18 would pop up and McEachern would ground out for the final outs of the game. “I think it’s a hard way to go out, but South Carolina is a good team
and they play in a great conference. We had our opportunities early on,” head coach Shannon Doepking said in a postgame press conference. “I think the biggest thing is that [Rumley] gave us a chance to win, and in these moments it comes down to timely hitting and we had six runners left on base, a couple hits here and a couple hits there and it changes the momentum of the game. I like the fight we saw at the end of the game with our kids. It definitely shows the kind of kids that we have and that we are never going to give up, which is exciting.” Facing two of the toughest lineups of her season, Rumley concluded her historic run as arguably the best Dartmouth softball pitcher to ever take the mound. She leads the program in career wins, strikeouts, shutouts, complete games, has pitched a no-hitter this season and is second in ERA (minimum of 80 innings pitched) behind Danica Giugliano ’04. “From where we were my freshman year to where we are now, I am so excited to see where the team is going to go,” Rumley said in a postgame press conference. “We’ve made some huge improvements the past four years and only gotten stronger. We may not have won regionals this year, but next year we can bring it to them. That will be fun to watch, and I will definitely be here to watch.”