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Student Assembly, Palaeopitus senior society and the Office of the President hosted a “Moving Dartmouth Forward” town meeting last night in Filene Auditorium, during which a panel composed of College President Phil Hanlon, Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno answered questions from facilitators and audience members about the plan’s five major initiatives. The event, which lasted about an hour, was facilitated by Palaeopitus member Ashneil Jain ’15 and Student Assembly president Casey Dennis ’15. The facilitators asked panel members questions about proposed changes to residential life, academic rigor, the hard alcohol policy, inclusivity and health and wellness. During the event, Dever compared the proposed residential community system to the four Hogwarts houses in author J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, stating that they will provide an additional layer of identity for students. Mastanduno said that increasing academic rigor, if done properly, will not lead to increases in student stress levels. “It’s not a question of going from un-rigorous to rigorous work, but a question of creating more intellectual challenges and engagement in courses to produce a better learning product overall,” he said. SEE MDF PAGE 2
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The College has clarified and expanded the disciplinary action for violations of the alcohol policies announced by College President Phil Hanlon in late January as part of his
“Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative. Punishments for hard alcohol violations will include college probation and suspension for first- and second-time offenders, respectively. The changes include harsher punishments for the possession of hard alcohol — defined as
alcohol of 30 proof or higher — while punishments for possession or consumption of beer or wine — defined as any alcohol with lower than 30 proof alcohol by volume — will remain effectively the same. SEE UPDATE PAGE 3
Tuck School minority Mock Trial team has programs head appointed successful year
B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff
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The Tuck School of Business recently announced the appointment of Fred McKinney as the managing director of its minority business programs. McKinney has worked for the past four years as the president and chief executive officer of
the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to advancing business opportunities for certified Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American businesses. The minority business program works to consult with minority, Native American and female
entrepreneurs and business owners about how to improve, capitalize on and expand their business ventures. By completing the program, minority business owners can receive certification that helps them connect with larger corporations and investors. The program, which has been SEE TUCK PAGE 5
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The Dartmouth College Mock Trial Society came away with a seventh place finish at the Buffalo, New York, regional tournament last weekend and received a bid to attend this weekend’s opening round championships at Pennsylvania State University — the first round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national competition — marking the
first time in recent years the team has automatically qualified from competition. TThe team will not attend, however, due to scheduling conflicts with final exams, Mock Trial president Courtney Kelly ’15 said. Twenty-six teams competed for eight slots at the opening round championships. Kelly said the team did not rank last year and thus did not automatically SEE MOCK TRIAL PAGE 3
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Investigators from the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, led by engineering and surgery professor at the Geisel School of Medicine Brian W. Pogue and Ph.D. candidates Adam K. Glaser and Rongxiao Zhang, published a paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology which describes how the parts of blue light known as the Cherenkov Effect can be measured and used for safer and more effective therapies, according to the Center’s news release. According to Glaser, light from the Cherenkov Effect is the only current method that can reveal dosimetric information non-invasively in water or tissue. In the study, the researchers measured emissions of x-ray photons, electrons and photons, finding a wide variety of utility. Based in their findings, the team concluded that light emission for x-ray photos would be optimally suited for narrow beam stereotactic radiation therapy and surgery validation studies, among other uses. For electron use, Cherenkov emission would only be useful for surface dosimetry applications and for proton dosimetry, there is little use. The researchers want to pursue further investigation at Norris Cotton Cancer Center to find other applications where the light can be useful, which may include additional clinical trials. Translational genetics researcher at the Geisel School of Medicine Michael Whitfield has earned a Catalyst Award from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust, according to Geisel NewsCenter. The award recognizes Whitfield’s research into scleroderma, a family of autoimmune diseases that affect the skin and, in severe cases, the internal organs. The recognition comes with a $300,000 award. His work is aimed specifically at systemic sclerosis, the most severe form of scleroderma. Whitfield used gene expression techniques to develop molecular “fingerprints” and identify four subgroups of systemic sclerosis, a critical development that helps physicians understand drug therapy better. The subgroups are already being used to inform clinical drug trials and Whitfield’s hope is that they will become part of standard patient care. Systemic sclerosis’s global distribution is largely uniform, which supports the notion that genetic susceptibility is a risk factor. According to the news release, Whitfield’s research may one day lead to development of drug therapies that will be able to identify the cause of the disease and give scleroderma patients the possibility of a longer lifespan. — comiled by kelsey flower
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College President Phil Hanlon speaks to a student at the panel.
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Administrators answer student questions surrounding the implementation of “Moving Dartmouth Forward.” FROM MDF PAGE 1
Hanlon said he was pleased with the way the town meeting turned out. “The students were engaged, they were listening and the questions that they brought up were great,” Hanlon said in a post-event interview with The Dartmouth. “I was talking to some of them before and they earnestly want Dartmouth to be a better place, and that’s the most important thing.” During the discussion on the campus-wide hard alcohol ban, Ameer said that sanctions will be stiffer for students caught with hard alcohol than those with alcoholic substances under 30 proof. The College will continue to take safety as seriously as it always has, she said, asking students to prioritize student safety over the fear of negative ramifications for hard alcohol possession. “The Good Samaritan policy is the same on March 28th as it is now — don’t hesitate to call, even if a minor has hard alcohol in their system,” she said. Palaeopitus member Valerie Zhao ’15 said she hopes that the town hall meeting will provide clarity on the details of “Moving Dartmouth Forward” for students. “I hope that people will realize how many changes have not yet been determined,” Zhao said. “President Hanlon has a broad vision for Dartmouth, but students
will have a major role in how that vision is realized.” When asked about the possibility of residential communities replacing Greek houses on campus, Hanlon said that he “doesn’t have a hidden agenda” and is not seeking to abolish the Greek system. Hanlon said that his focus is less on the Greek system as a part of the problem and more on it becoming a part of the solution. “Individual organizations may still be eliminated if they don’t step up to the new standards,” he added. Dever said she was excited about the sense of kinship that the residential communities will provide for students and about the faculty who have applied to become “house professors.” “It’s serendipity about who you’re with,” she said. “You know your house as a freshman, and you remain a member of that house as an alumnus.” Ameer added that residential communities would provide an “anchor” for students amid the constantly changing world of the D-Plan. Jay Raju ’18, who attended the event, said that the structure of the town meeting did not involve enough student input. “I thought the questions were outstanding, particularly the ones that were created by the people in the audience and written at the meeting itself,” he said. “I think
that having more of those questions rather than follow-up questions by the members who were facilitating the discussion may have been more productive in getting the community’s visions out.” Regarding his proposal to add earlier class times, Hanlon said that the effort is an attempt to shorten nightly “party periods” and shift student sleep schedules. As an example, Hanlon pointed to making classes begin two hours earlier. “Probably more healthy activities will take place between 8:30 and 10:30 in the morning rather than between 1:30 and 3:30 in the morning,” he said. Panel members also added that the College is serious about creating an environment where underrepresented demographics can succeed, and that the steering committee is attempting to emulate the strong health and wellness programs at the University of New Hampshire and the United States Naval Academy. Raju said that the members of the panel seemed to be frank with their responses and that he was happy with the meeting overall. “I think that the answers themselves were as a whole very honest, and they didn’t seem to be hiding too much,” he said. “They’re either very good at hiding things or they’re being genuine, and for my own sanity’s sake I choose to believe the latter.” Jain is a member of The Dartmouth business senior staff.
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Students can be suspended for violations Mock Trial wins spot at national competition FROM HARD ALCOHOL PAGE 1
A student found to be in possession of or to have consumed hard alcohol will, for a first offense, face a sanction of College probation, for a second offense, face a one-term suspension and for a third offense, a two-term suspension. Further sanctions will be imposed for each successive incident thereafter. Judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said that it would be “logical” to assume that further infractions could result in longer suspensions or separation from the College. She added, however, that she does not think the situation will arise in which a person is expelled for consumption of hard alcohol. “I think Dartmouth students are smart and they’ll make choices for themselves,” Remy said. “I don’t think we’re going to see an increased number of calls that are coming in or reports that are being written. Ideally it’s going to result in a decrease because people will abide by the policy.” Students providing hard alcohol to others will face a one-term suspension for a first violation and a two-term suspension for a second violation. Organizations — including Greek houses, senior societies and other College-recognized organizations — that provide hard alcohol to students will face harsher penalties than those currently in place. For a first violation, an organization will receive a one-term suspension of recognition by the College, followed by a period in which no alcohol may be served or consumed on that organization’s
premises or at its events. For a second violation, the College will suspend the organization’s recognition for an entire academic year. If an organization commits another violation in a three-year period following its return to recognition from a previous sanction, it will permanently lose its recognition. The Good Samaritan Policy, through which students may call Safety and Security officers for a friend and neither the caller nor the subject of the call will face judicial consequences, will not be affected by the policy, Remy said. The final report from the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee states that the hard alcohol ban is specifically aimed at reducing medical emergencies that result from drinking. Remy later wrote in an email that when students review the sanctions for violations of the alcohol policy, she hopes they revisit the data from the presidential steering committee and “remember the people behind each of those 135 visits to Dick’s House or the hospital,” adding that while students may not agree with the approach to reduce harmful drinking, she has not yet heard an argument against its overall objective to prevent alcohol poisoning. Penalties for consumption of beer or wine have not been substantively altered by the policy changes. For a first violation, a student will be referred to the BASICS program; for a second violation, the student will be issued a warning; for the third, a reprimand and for the fourth, a sanction of College probation will
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The Rockefeller Center hosted a workshop on learning to answer “Fermi problems.”
be imposed. Those providing beer or wine to minors will receive a reprimand on first offense and College probation for a second offense. Organizations providing wine or beer to minors will not be allowed to distribute alcohol on their premises for a specified period of time. Penalties under the new policy have been laid out in a table online so that students can more easily understand the new policy, Remy said. The table came in response to student feedback following the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” announcement, when some students said that College policy is often written in a confusing way, Remy said. Remy said that students who are at or above the legal drinking age will still utilize off-campus resources including various restaurants and pubs in Hanover that serve hard alcohol, but she said that she does not think there will be a notable increase in off-campus parties or events due to the policy. Students, Remy said, have indicated in discussions with her that the change will not be difficult to accept. “What President Hanlon is trying to get at is not a change to language that we’re putting in the handbook, but rather a change to student choices,” Remy said. “It’s not a policy that gets done to someone. It’s saying, ‘here are the guidelines, here are the outcomes,’ and it’s up to each person to decide what they’re going to follow.” The alcohol policy outlined in “Moving Dartmouth Forward” also includes stipulations about third-party security and bartenders for social events, though further information regarding implementation is yet to be released. Interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer said that it is important to look at the research done on hard alcohol on college campuses and the results of hard alcohol bans at other schools. Based on the research, she said the presidential steering committee found that the hard alcohol ban “could make a significant change to Dartmouth’s campus and climate, to transports and high BACs and all the things that we look at.” Speaking about the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies in general, Hanlon said that he is not surprised that there has not been uniform agreement. “It’s an ambitious undertaking that’s trying to make a really big move in a campus community, and that’s hard,” Hanlon said. He highlighted the importance of student input and feedback in the implementation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies. “We have an opportunity here, and I’m excited about it and would ask everyone to look forward and try to make this work the best it possibly can.”
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The Mock Trial Society qualified for the first round of national competition last weekend. FROM MOCK TRIAL PAGE 1
qualify for a bid. The team did, however, end up advancing to the opening round championships through the open bid system, which allocates slots based on availability for teams who come close to qualifying. Kelly said that this was the best competition the team has had during her four years on the team. Brendan Krimsky ’17 and Kelly each earned an “outstanding attorney award,” and Rachel Shatanof ’18 earned an “outstanding witness award,” she said. Mock trial coach and writing professor Jennifer Sargent said that she usually expects at least one of the two teams to advance to the opening round championships each year, though this year’s team is stronger than usual. On both days of the tournament, teams compete in two rounds lasting about three hours each, portraying either the plantiff or the defense, Krimsky said. Every team is presented with the same case at the beginning of the fall, and team members must decide which theories to pursue and how to allocate roles. This year’s case revolved on an 11-year-old child shooting his or her best friend, raising questions of intentional shooting or negligent parental supervision, Krimsky said. Kelly said that on the first day of the tournament, the team did not perform as well as they expected, tying the first round and losing the second. On the second day, however, the team won every ballot, something Krimsky said is very rare. During each round of competition, two judges — positions held by lawyers or volunteers — fill out a ballot scoring Mock Trial witnesses and attorneys. These ballots determine who wins each round, she said. Kelly said that she is proud of the team for “turning it around” after a difficult first day of trial against top teams.
“Our team has a lot of high morale and stays positive, which is important when things don’t go your way,” she said. Krimsky, who was on the team last year, said that the team was “significantly more successful” this year, partly because of the new freshmen team members. Sargent echoed that the team this year is stronger because of the talent of the entering class, adding that the team had better instruction earlier in the preparation period from herself and other lawyers. Sargent, who is a former practicing attorney and law school professor, said that the team’s ability is comparable to that of law students she has coached. “I have never seen undergrads perform in Mock Trial at the level I see our students perform at,” she said. “The students on the Mock Trial team are incredibly smart, learn extremely fast and work extremely hard.” Kelly said that the team practiced multiple times a week in preparation for the tournament and has been working on the same case since the fall. They attended an invitational tournament at the University of New Hampshire in the fall and hosted them for a scrimmage, Krimsky said. Shatanof said she had never participated in mock trial before, though she had done debate in high school and was exposed to mock trial through her two siblings. She said that she finds the theatrical aspect of being a witness rewarding and added that she enjoyed traveling and bonding with the team during the nine-hour car ride to the tournament. Kelly said that it was difficult to make the decision to drop out of the opening round championships, happening March 6 through 8. She noted that the term schedule put their team at a disadvantage and that not enough members were able to attend the competition.
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CONTRIBUTING Columnist KEVIN XIE ’15
GUEST COLUMNIST JAKE LYON ’17
Stand Out from the Flock
Fracking with Purpose
The popularity of Canada Goose jackets reveals the high cost of conformity. In the arctic tundra that many of us now call home, staying warm is crucial, albeit difficult. A reliable winter coat, among several clothing accessories, is a necessity in any student’s wardrobe. For some reason, this winter term has seen a seemingly unprecedented cultural revolution in students’ outerwear decisions at the College. I am, of course, speaking to the ubiquitous Canada Goose parkas that have flooded campus. Its is almost mind-boggling that so many of my peers have decided to invest in such a ridiculous piece of clothing. Canada Goose produces premium outerwear for extreme weather — with “premium” being the key word. While I cannot speak personally to the quality of the coats, I hear they are both light and excellent at keeping their owners warm. They seem to be products of a high quality, and quality must be paid for — but this is when things take a peculiar turn. Considering the popularity of Canada Goose and the fact that nearly half of campus seems to wear its products to class, I would have expected these jackets to bear an affordable price tag. It blew my mind to discover that a single Canada Goose jacket goes for $600 to upwards of $1,000. Coyote fur-lined hoods and a 2013 Sports Illustrated cover with Kate Upton donning one aside, what sets these apart from a North Face or Mountain Hardware jacket, which one could purchase for a fraction of the price? As savvy as Dartmouth students are, many of us fall prey all too easily to consumer trends like the Canada Goose. Many of my peers may have arrived at the same conclusion as I have, and some may realize that these jackets are overpriced status symbols. What is disturbing, though, is that many students seem to have chosen to ignore their common sense in favor of the in-crowd mentality. It seems that no one wants to be the person without the Canada Goose arctic patch on his or her jacket — but why? Would doing so would somehow convey some sort of inferiority? The Canada Goose is but the latest Dartmouth trend that demon-
strates the socioeconomic elitism that comes with conspicuous consumption. L.L. Bean Boots, a mainstay in the College’s culture, are not exactly affordable either — the cheapest pair is $99, and that’s for the style without the Thinsulate or fur lining that Hanover weather essentially demands. My issue is not necessarily about the jackets or the shoes, but rather what they represent about the culture at the College. It seems that status and perception, for many students, are primary concerns. I, for one, do not feel the need to buy a sense of belonging through grandiose symbols of wealth, and many students surely feel the same way. There is, however, an undeniable pressure to do so, especially for younger students who are often eager to assimilate to what they perceive a Dartmouth student should look like. The reality is, however, that not everyone can afford such excesses just to fit in — and the College’s financial aid packages do not cover social status expenses. We were admitted to the College as individuals, not a collective group. So why should we behave according to what the group thinks? If I want to show up to class in a hoodie and sweatpants, I damn well will. It does not make me any less of a person because I did not take the time to dress up for people who judge my character based on appearances — just as not everyone wearing a Canada Goose jacket looks down on those who do not. I am sure that few people will actively sneer at somebody else because of what they do or do not wear — and, frankly, we should not care about the opinion of those who do in the first place. Whether we realize it or not, however, these biases and pressures affect all of us. No one needs to conform to the ideals of being a “proper” Dartmouth student — behaviorally or aesthetically. There is no definition of a “proper” Dartmouth student, and staying true to ourselves wins out in terms of long-term happiness. But please, do not spend $600 on a winter jacket just because everyone else did.
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Fracking offers the best energy choice on the path to a zero-emissions future. Between 2005 and 2013, the oil and gas industry drilled around 82,000 hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, wells to extract shale gas across the country. The seemingly eminent shift to a country powered by natural gas has both active proponents and vocal detractors. Fracking is neither as good nor as bad as those on either side of the issue would have us believe. As more parties become invested in the debate, however, it becomes all the harder to cut through the stigma and whitewashing to get to the truth about fracking. Since 2007, fracking-related gas production has increased dramatically, shifting the American energy landscape. Through the power of fracking, we have been able to extract massive stores of previously inaccessible natural gas from beneath the ground. Currently, fracking has allowed us to access reserves that are two miles beneath the earth’s surface. The most notable reservoir — the Marcellus shale — contains an estimated one trillion cubic feet of natural gas, stretching from New York to West Virginia and encompassing Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio. This new capability and productivity can continue to reduce our reliance on foreign oil, reducing the influence of oil on foreign policy in a way unforeseen 10 to 20 years ago. In 2013, the United States was the top producer of natural gas, accounting for almost 20 percent of global production — and every year total output increases. Energy is becoming more affordable, and with the cheaper prices has come a seemingly more secure energy future. A common environmental concern with fracking is the immense amount of water consumed in the process. Yet a 2010 discussion paper published by the Belfer Center’s Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group indicated that fracking consumes less water per unit of energy produced than onshore oil production or coal mining and washing. The increase in efficiency of fracking compared to conventional drilling allows us to produce more energy with less water. Natural gas produced from fracking also releases nearly half the volume of carbon dioxide when burned compared to an equal volume of coal. Limiting the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the chief contributor to global
climate change — is our best way of slowing the rate of temperature increases in the future. Furthermore, natural gas in its liquified form produces more than twice the energy of coal and at least 25 percent more energy than crude oil per kilogram. This equates to using less fuel and less drilling to satisfy our energy demand. Yet fracking is by no means the end-all-be-all answer to the problems caused by energy production. Natural gas is a non-renewable energy source, and like all fossil fuels it releases harmful greenhouse gases when used for energy. We are at a crossroads — a choice between traditional energy and renewable, carbon-neutral and green energy sources. The time has come for our nation to innovate and move beyond antiquated fossil fuels that pose a risk to human health and to the Earth’s environment. In the best case scenario, we have already put enough carbon dioxide into our atmosphere to cause the global temperature to rise a couple degrees over the next century. Burning fossil fuels in energy plants and cars exposes people to a number of damaging pollutants, including the sulfur dioxides and nitrous dioxides that contribute to smog in cities. We must continue to research and develop sustainable sources like wind, water and solar energy. Fracking is a stop-gap measure at best. The real next step in our energy use will come when renewable energy becomes our primary energy source. In the meantime, it is clear that fracking is a desirable and more efficient alternative to coal and foreign oil. Moving forward, we must be mindful not to let fracking distract us from the ultimate goal of ending human combustion of fuels for energy. Natural gas is the easy short-term answer to our problems — a pill to relieve us from the ethical dilemmas created by rampant mountaintop removal mining for coal and our reliance on foreign oil. Hydraulic fracturing provides a solution to these smaller concerns, but it must not come at the price of sidelining development and investment in renewable energy sources. These two steps taken together will release us from our destructive habit of burning fuel that threatens the Earth and leaves us beholden to the interests of big oil.
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running for 35 years, has over 7,000 accredited graduates, Tuck professor and director of programs for minority-, women- and Native American-owned businesses Leonard Greenhalgh said. “A lot of people at the College and at Tuck don’t even know about this program,” Greenhalgh said. “But it’s expanded so much throughout the years, and it’s helped so many people.” In 2011, Greenhalgh and co-author James Lowry published a book titled “Minority Business Success: Refocusing on the American Dream,” which highlights the importance of training minority businesses owners to help them contribute to the national economy. McKinney said that his work at GNEMSDC included both expanding minority businesses’ access to capital and increasing crucial leadership training opportunities for minority entrepreneurs. He said that historically, there has been a trend toward minorities, especially black and Hispanic workers, leaving the labor work force to pursue their own businesses in search of better wages and conditions. “We still see what I would say is a fairly significant lack of training and management,” McKinney said. “We want these people to have the tools and training to compete on a global sphere, and Tuck is good at providing that training.” Greenhalgh said that he has known McKinney for more than a decade and is excited to work with someone so knowledgeable in how to train and
assist minority business owners. “When I heard he was leaving the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, I knew we had to get him,” Greenhalgh said. “We didn’t want to lose him to a place like Yale [School of Management] or any other institution.” Minority business program development manager Paula Graves said that she is also enthusiastic about McKinney’s arrival on campus next year. “I’m really looking forward to him bringing his perspective and his dynamic personality to our team,” she said. Graves also said that she thinks McKinney is the ideal fit for the position due to his strong leadership skills, extensive experience and engaging personality. “I’ve been here since the beginning of the program, and we’re always looking to move our program forward,” she said. “He can help us do that.” According to a press release by Tuck, McKinney expanded GNEMSDC from three to 16 people during his time working at the organization. McKinney said that he believes Tuck’s minority business program is well-run, but that it could be expanded. “I think the program can grow in terms of the number of participants in the programs, and in the type of support from businesses and corporations, who see this program as important in the growth of minority business owners,” he said. McKinney holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, and has taught at several Northeastern colleges including Brandeis University and the University of Connecticut.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m. “Poseidon the Earth-Shaker, Feasting and the Sea: An Archaeologist’s Perspective,” Hood Museum, second-floor galleries
4:15 p.m. Computer science colloquium with Anshumali Shrivastava of Cornell University, Carson L01
7:00 p.m. “Voices,” V-February performance, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater
TOMORROW 3:00 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse, Dartmouth vs. Sacred Heart University, Scully-Fahey Field
4:00 p.m. “Cross Cultural Education and Service Program in Nicaragua,” information session, Tucker Foundation, Room 105
7:00 p.m. “Voices,” V-February performance, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater
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Tuesday, March 3, 4-5pm Monday, March 9, 5-5:45 pm
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Meetings are offered on a first-come, first-served basis and are held in
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“Voices” will explore female experience at the College
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Now a year after its conception, “Voices,” an original student production created during last February’s V-Week, will return to the College today and Wednesday. “Voices,” which is directed, produced, written and performed entirely by selfidentifying women, will give women a chance to share stories that range from sexuality to body image to sex education. “Voices” co-director Kalie Marsicano ’17 said that the production is meant to start new conversations about what it means to be a woman at the College. “A lot of it is dealing with femininity — what it means to be a woman, female sexuality,” she said. She said that other pieces in the production will deal with more abstract issues, including gender identity, sexual assault and racial dynamics. Mariscano said that unlike “The Vagina Monologues,” “Voices” is completely Dartmouth-centric and
focused more on general womanhood. “It’s a different tone,” she said. “‘The Vagina Monologues’ is very center[ed] around the vagina and comes back to that a lot. ‘Voices’ is broader and more catch-all in how it deals with womanhood.” Students performing in “Voices” gave a range of reasons for why they decided to get involved in the performance, including a desire to meet other women at the College and to perform in an on-stage production. Joanna Millstein ’17, who is performing in “Voices” for the first time this year, said that she decided to get involved after hearing about the performances from her friends. The opportunity to interact with other self-identifying women at the College, she said, was another motivation for participating in the performance. “One thing that I love is having older, female role models,” she said. “I wanted to get involved to see what all the hype was about.” Ellen Plane ’15 mentioned similar reasons, and said that she chose to
take part in “Voices” because of the chance to meet other women and hear and share new stories. The opportunity to become involved in a type of performance art, she said, was another drive for her to participate since she had not had that experience before. Kit Hattier ’18, who also performed in “The Vagina Monologues,” said that she wanted another opportunity to involve herself in the feminist movement at the College. Much like the range of reasons for participating, the pieces that these women will perform cover a diverse array of topics. Millstein said that her piece, a performance she wrote called “My Rough Draft,” explores what it is like to be a 20-year-old adult who does not to have her entire life planned out yet. “I wanted to write a piece that is about kind of how I see myself,” Millstein said. “I was overwhelmed with what to share with just one particular topic because it is so binding. I wanted to talk about how I don’t have anything figured out and that
everything is up in the air.” Hattier said that she is performing two pieces, one that she wrote herself and another that was authored by a friend. Her friend’s piece, which is called “A Feminist Dilemma,” explores the tension between wanting to participate in and engage with the College’s social spaces while continuing to uphold feminist values. Hattier’s piece, “The Birds and the Bees Revisited,” discusses sex education and how it has become a replacement for real conversations about sexual interaction and health. “It’s about [sex education] taking the place of what a parent should do,” she said. “We’re not talking to kids enough about sex and what it means. It’s almost mechanical in how we’re explaining it.” Mariscano said that she hopes audience members gain a new perspective on what it means to be a woman at the College and a better understanding of general womanhood after watching “Voices.” “People should look forward to seeing something entertaining and meaningful,” she said. “They should
Beyond the Bubble: Television is the New Book
B y andrea nease The Dartmouth Staff
Many people hold literature in high esteem — they praise the complexity of history’s great literary works, unreachable by any other sort of medium. “Novels are characterized by their intimacy, which is extreme, by their scale, which is vast, and by their form, which is linguistic and synesthetic,” Mohsin Hamid, author of New York Times bestseller “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” said in a 2014 interview with The New York Times. “The novel is a kinky beast.” The untouchable nature of the novel has more recently begun to weaken, however, allowing for a glimpse of the potential that comparable mediums could hold, such as television. If someone came up to me just five years ago and said that TV shows are the possible future of literature, I would have questioned their sanity, but nowadays, it no longer strikes me as ludicrous, ignorant or impossible. The issue I encounter when trying to think critically about the literary merit of television shows is moving past our cultural ideas of TV. When I think of TV I think about watching “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (2007) as a high school freshman, weekly episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” (2005) or season after season of “American Horror Story” (2011) on Netflix. I do not consider these shows literature — I consider them a way to pass time, a mindless entertainment that requires almost no effort on my part. These examples of shows are
not the novelistic counterparts of TV literature, but that does not mean that some shows do not bear legitimate literary merit. There are TV shows that offer such sophisticated writing and compelling novelistic elements that they make it hard to deny that television may be offering us the literature of the future. The most well-cited example of a TV show that is much more than 60 minutes of mind-numbing, stereotypical TV amusement is “The Wire” (2002-2008). The Guardian even likened “The Wire” to a modern day Charles Dickens’ novel, which seems completely over the top until you sit down and give the critically-acclaimed show a go. Television used to be unwieldy in its attempt to create a gripping visual work that could touch upon the human condition in a way novels have for centuries. The development of the TV serial has resulted in the type of character depth and integrity that traditionally only books could provide. “The Wire,” for example, delves into the socio-economic disparity and educational inequality from which inner city schools typically suffer in such a culturally-relevant manner that it feels unfair to label David Simon’s creation as “just a show.” Television’s success as a visual narrative has been rooted in its scale of time. Films are praised for their qualities as a visual production but, by nature, have certain limitations that television does not. A film must condense narrative in order to make a profit, because who is going to watch a 10- or 20-hour movie?
The TV serial does not condense because it doesn’t have to — the TV serial can continue infinitely, taking the idea of a full-length narrative from novels and expanding it. Shows such as “The Wire,” “Mad Men” (2007-2015), “Girls” (2012-present), “The Sopranos” (1999-2007) and “Battlestar Galactica” (2003-2009) are able to hold their own as literature because their writers have more time to create in-depth characters. They are craftsmen of a narrative art form in the age of technology — the age of visual literature. The progressive maturity of the TV serial story line and quality of writing puts television in a place where no one can really deny its novelistic merit. Therefore the question is not if can we liken the TV serial to literature — the question is whether or not we should. Should we risk deprecating the prestige of the novel in an attempt to elevate this new medium of digesting well-prosed narrative? I think that the literary merit is there, and I think that television has evolved into this unexpected art that can have just as much emotional impact on us as a Jane Austen novel. I do not, however, find it fair to claim that TV is the sole future of literature. It may be a part of the future, but the experience of reading a novel and watching a TV show — no matter how well-written — will never be the same. Their artistic elements, while comparable, are unique and praiseworthy in their own right and cannot be reduced to a competition of which is better “literature.” It is important that we do
not lose sight of how impactful novels have been throughout our cultural development. That being said, it is equally important to note the significant rise of the intellectually-driven and compellingly novelistic TV serial. Television can be studied as literature, but diminishing the value of traditional literature in comparison is secondary and unnecessary. I never thought I would see the day television was studied as a literary art form but I suppose you should never say never. Next term, English 53.34, called “The Wire,” will analyze
walk away thinking and talking about things differently. It should start a conversation.” “Voices” was created last winter after students at the College raised concerns that “The Vagina Monologues,” which has been performed at the College for the last 17 years, is not inclusive of the diverse experiences of all women. “Voices” was added to the Center for Gender and Student Engagement’s annual “V-February” events — which aim to help raise awareness about and end violence aimed at women — in response to this these concerns. Last year’s performance covered topics ranging from the College’s hookup culture to personal identity and what it means to be a woman at Dartmouth. Both today and Wednesday’s performances will be at 7 p.m. in the Moore Theater. Tickets are free for students and will cost between nine dollars and $10 for community members. Marsicano is a member of The Dartmouth staff.
the show as literature, reaffirming the evolution of the medium into something more than Saturday morning cartoons. The course offering shows that Dartmouth is taking the next step forward regarding in accepting nontraditional narratives, adding to the current offerings that include a highly popular course in graphic novels and another on Victorian children’s literature. My mother once told me I would lose brain cells watching television, I dare say she was very wrong about that.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
Men’s basketball sweeps weekend B y Ray lu
The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s basketball team extended its winning streak to three games, besting Columbia University 84-71 and Cornell University 56-45 this past weekend. The Big Green (12-14, 5-7 Ivy) trailed their opponents for under 13 minutes over the entire weekend, demonstrating cohesion and dominance on both sides of the ball. With the two wins, Dartmouth avenged an overtime loss to Cornell (1315, 5-7 Ivy) two weeks ago and swept the season series against the Lions. “We played both these teams not last week but the week before, so we were pretty familiar with them,” co-captain Alex Mitola ’16 said. “It was a quick turnaround.” Columbia (13-13, 5-7 Ivy) finished last weekend with wins against Yale University, currently tied with Harvard University for first in the Ivy League, and Brown University. Cornell was also coming off an upset against Harvard. Against Columbia on Friday, the first half was a tightly contested shootout. Dartmouth shot 61.5 percent compared to Columbia’s 42.9 percent, but the Lions stuck around by hitting six three-pointers, finishing the night with nine on 34 attempts. The Big Green opened the game 6-0, led by a pair of layups from co-captain
Gabas Maldunas ’15 and another basket by Miles Wright ’18. Seven of Columbia’s first eight shot attempts from the field were deep balls. The strategy helped the Lions take their largest lead of the night, 20-15,with 11:14 remaining in the first half after Columbia junior Maodo Lo drained his third consecutive triple. The Lions, however, would fail to make another from beyond the arc for the rest of the half, missing their next seven attempts. Dartmouth only converted three-for-eight from deep in the first half butwas buoyedby13-for-18ontwo-point field goals to take the halftime lead 40-38. The Big Green led by as much as 18 in the second half on the strength of a season-high 60.4 percent shooting for the game overall. A pair of free throws by Malik Gill ’16 put Dartmouth up 78-60, capping off a 10 minute stretch where the team outscored its opponents 27-9. “We won the first game against [Columbia] pretty confidently, and we knew that we could beat them again,” co-captain said. After a three from Columbia tied the game at 51-51, Dartmouth rattled off nine unanswered points, starting with a pair of baskets by Connor Boehm ’16. Gill capped that run with his only three pointer of the night. Mitola had a team-high 18 points for the game, including half of Dartmouth’s six triples. In addition to his 14 points, Gill
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After a victorious weekend, Malik Gill ’16 was named an Ivy League player of the week.
added a game-high six assists. Four other players were in double-digits, including Maldunas with 12, Boehm with 11 and John Golden ’15 and Tommy Carpenter ’16 with 10 each. The 84 points were the most in a game for the Big Green since the team posted 87 in a win against Cornell last March. “It was a total team effort,” Mitola said. “We had six guys scoring in doublefigures, and we had so many guys make big contributions.” After setting a season-high in offense on Friday, Dartmouth cameoutstrong on the other side of the ball against Cornell, setting a season record on defense by limiting the Big Red to 45 points, including just 14 in the first half. A suffocating effort by the Big Green gave them a 26-14 halftime lead. At just over eight minutes left in the half, though, the Big Red maintained a 12-11 lead over the Big Green. After falling behind, Dartmouth unleashed a three-point barrage, hitting five from downtown — two of those coming from Gill — to take the commanding lead. Down 47-27 with 7:35 to play, Cornell attempted a comeback, scoring 12 unanswered points to cut the lead to single-digits for the first time in the period. The Big Red, however, would not get any closer to closing the lead, as the Big Green hit five of its last six free throws. “They made a little run, but we stayed together and made sure we won that game,” Maldunas said. Gill and Mitola led the team with 14 points each, and Maldunas added 13 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. While the game was a low-scoring affair, the team finished 48.6 percent from the field. The Big Green’s defense was able to offset a season-high 20 turnovers. “The keys to success this weekend were a great team effort on defense and just sharing the ball on offense,” Gill said. “We had a lot of assists and a great team effort on defense — a lot of great defensive plays.” The team has the opportunity to post a .500 record for the first time in 16 years next weekend by winning games against Brown on Friday and Yale on Saturday. Both games tip off at 7 p.m. in Leede Arena. “We just need to come with the same energy we came with last weekend and keep up the same great defensive effort,” Gill said. Brown and Yale are the two best rebounding teams in the Ivy League, and the key to extending the Dartmouth’s winning streak, Mitola said, will be keeping them off the boards.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015
TUESDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Women’s hockey ends season with loss B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff
The women’s ice hockey team fell to No. 1 seed Clarkson University in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament this past weekend. The No. 8 seed Big Green lost the first two games against the Golden Knights by a score differential of 10-1 in the best-of-three round. Dartmouth (13-15-2, 9-11-2 ECAC) and Clarkson (22-9-3, 16-4-2 ECAC) played each other two previous times in the season, which resulted in 3-0 and 2-1 losses for the Big Green. The closeness of the most recent 2-1 loss on Feb. 20 gave the team hope that they could beat their top ranked opponents if they played with their strategy in mind, Lindsey Allen ’16 said. On Friday at 7 p.m., the Golden Knights struck first, scoring two goals in the first period within a minute and a half of each other. The initial goal came during a Clarkson power play six minutes into the period, and the second came shortly after. Dartmouth goaltender Robyn Chemago ’17 managed to save 15 shots in the period, while the Big Green offense had only three shots on net in the same time. Clarkson’s addition of several offensive players who had been out due to injury in their last matchup changed the dynamic of the team’s offense, Chemago said, and made defending against them more difficult. In the second period, the Big Green offense continued to struggle. While they increased their shot count to 10 on net in the period, the team still had no success in finding the back of the net. Clarkson dominated offensively and struck again with a goal just under five minutes into the second. A roughing penalty against Dartmouth gave Clarkson another power play opportunity, and the Golden Knights converted again for a 4-0 lead. Dartmouth’s deficit was increased to 5-0 at 17:34 after the third Clarkson goal of the period. During the third period the Big Green’s defense shut the Golden Knight’s offense down for all but the last 20 seconds. The game ended after Clarkson scored its final goal with 16 seconds left on the clock to seal the win at 6-0, blanking the Dartmouth squad. On Saturday at 4 p.m., the women faced off against Clarkson for the third time in two weeks. Despite the final score of a 4-1 loss for Dartmouth, the two
teams played a relatively even contest until the third period. The first period was scoreless for both teams. The Clarkson team brought the same energy and skill they had the whole season, and the match-up found equal footing. Both women guarding the nets were tested in the opening period, with Chemago making 18 saves and Clarkson’s goalie making nine. In the second period Clarkson broke the scoreless tie at 16:21, by tipping a rebounded puck into the net and past Chemago. The teams headed into intermission with Clarkson leading Dartmouth 1-0. Clarkson blew the game open in the third period, scoring three additional goals, two of which came on a power play advantage. Karlee Odland ’15 got Dartmouth on the board in the third period, snagging a rebound from teammate Olivia Whitford ’16 and sinking it in the back of the Clarkson net for the final goal of the game. Chemago made a career high total of 51 saves against Clarkson. “Over the season I’ve learned to settle down and [try to] execute on a daily basis,” Chemago said. Chemago’s personal goals over the season were to improve control over puck placement and rebounds and work on the little things, she said. Laura Stacey ’16 had the most shots on goal in the game for the Big Green, with a total of six. “It was a tough weekend in the sense that we didn’t want to be out of the playoffs so early,” Stacey said. “We played a lot better on Saturday. We really gave it every single thing we had left in the tank. It was a really close game and we walked away from it knowing we did our best and fought hard.” Allen said that while the Saturday game ended in a 4-1 loss, the statistics did not reflect the quality of her team’s effort. “They had four goals and a lot of shots, but a lot of their shots were not quality chances,” Allen said. “We limited them to shooting from outside and a bunch of our chances were a lot closer than the score shows.” With the final loss to Clarkson, this weekend marked the end of the team’s season, and the women will have to wait until next year to take on the Golden Knights again. The Big Green finished the season with a 13-15-2 record.