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A new addition to a snowy Green greeted passersby throughout the day.

Students back tougher policy

B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Re p l a c i n g D a r t mouth’s current sexual misconduct policy with a zero-tolerance policy for students found responsible for sexual assault has recently gathered momentum on the Improve Dartmouth online forum.

Since a Feb. 10 gathering on the Green, when students met in support after a male student threatened a female member of the Class of 2017 on Bored at Baker, discussion surrounding the policy has grown.

Under the zero-tolerance policy students found guilty of rape

would be separated from the College. The suggestion, proposed on Jan. 23 by Cally Womick ’13, is Improve Dartmouth’s highest voted submission.

Dartmouth’s current policy states that students are prohibited from engaging in any kind of SEE POLICY PAGE 3

Discussing issues ranging from a lack of shared cooking spaces to the need for more student-faculty interaction in residence halls, alumni, faculty and students gathered for the second set of Moving Dartmouth Forward sessions in Fahey Hall yesterday.

Director of residential education Mike Wooten facilitated a lively discussion, collecting feedback on three new housing initiatives: a global village community, an arts and innovation community and a design-your-own housing community program.

These residential options, which offer students with common interests opportunities to learn together outside the classroom, will be instituted by the office of residential life in the fall.

Wooten said that the initiatives match College President Phil Hanlon’s vision for residential life.

The global village community, which will be located in an existing physical plant, will enable students to explore global learning-themed subject matters under the common theme of global learning. The vil-

lage will house the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program, the international residence program, currently located in McCulloch Hall, and students enrolled in various language programs.

Centralizing new and existing programs under the global village umbrella will hopefully encourage “cross-pollination,” Wooten said.

The arts and innovation community will center on the College’s Student Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator at 4 Currier Place, which is expected to be completed by the spring. The design-your-own option allows groups of students to design their own communities around a theme.

After briefly describing the initiatives, Wooten asked the crowd for input.

Students suggested creating a central space within each building for residents to socialize, while others shared positive experiences of living in affinity houses like the sustainable living

SEE HOUSING PAGE 5

More women pursue Network helps partners find jobs degrees in science B y Rebecca Asoulin The Dartmouth Staff

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Though she is currently experimenting with an electromagnetic calorimeter as an intern at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Laura Bergsten ’15 never anticipated studying science at Dartmouth. With encouragement from her freshman advisor and other faculty members, however, Bergsten began to explore beyond her

original interests in government, working as a paid research intern through the Women In Science Project, experimenting with quantitative studies classes and running computer simulations in physics laboratories. She eventually declared a physics and math double major.

Bergsten is one of 25 current students at the College who has declared a major in physics. Women constitute

SEE STEM PAGE 5

When Tyler Bergmeier discovered he would join the College’s financial aid office, he and his spouse, Miranda Bergmeier, were tasked with relocating to the Upper Valley. In addition to expensive housing, limited after-school child care and few options for African-American hair care, for Miranda Bergmeier, one of the most pressing challenges associated with moving to the area has been finding a job.

Human resources senior

recruiter Beau Benson independently runs the Dual Career Network, which works with partners and spouses of the College’s new hires to find staff positions at Dartmouth or elsewhere in the region. Benson is currently working with Miranda Bergmeier to find work in the Hanover area.

“I think in a lot of families now both parents have to work in order to meet the bills,” Tyler Bergmeier said. “Any time one spouse moves for a job-related opportunity, the other spouse has to move, and that in and

of itself makes it difficult.”

Benson said she works with 30 to 40 accompanying partners a year. An accompanying partner includes anyone who has uprooted himself or herself to move with a staff or faculty member to Dartmouth.

Finding a job in any community can be difficult, as word of many open positions spreads through personal connections, Miranda Bergmeier said.

“This is hard to do when you are starting from scratch SEE CAREERS PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Feb. 14, 6:09 p.m., Topliff Hall: A Safety and Security officer met with the community director regarding two females unaffiliated with the College who were found in a vacant dorm room. They were guests of a male member of the Class of 2015 who had invited them to stay in the unsecured room.

They were relocated to their host’s room, and the vacant room was locked.

Feb. 15, 2:18 a.m., North Massachusetts Hall: Safety and Security officers, Hanover Police Department, Hanover Fire Department and the Emergency Troubleshooters responded to a fire alarm. The alarm had resulted from burnt popcorn and there was no fire or damage.

Feb. 15, 4:03 a.m., Fahey Hall: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services transported an intoxicated male member of the Class of 2017 to Dick’s House, where the nurses said he would spend the night. He continued acting in a disorderly fashion, so Hanover Police arrested the student and transported him to Grafton County jail.

Feb. 15, 11:45 p.m., Collis Common Ground: A male medical student approached a Safety and Security officer to report that an intoxicated male medical student had spit beer in a woman’s face and requested the intoxicated student be removed from the event. The complainant would not give any further details about the female victim. The intoxicated male refused Safety and Security transport to Dick’s House for evaluation and became argumentative. Hanover Police was notified and turned the intoxicated male over to a friend.

Feb. 16, 4:36 a.m., Safety and Security officers and Hanover Police responded to a private residence where an intoxicated male member of the Class of 2015 was attempting to enter the house. After a short foot chase, Hanover Police arrested the male for resisting arrest. A Safety and Security officer transported him to Dick’s House. The male fled from Dick’s House. Hanover Police then took him into custody and transported him to Grafton County Jail.

Feb. 16, 9:40 a.m., Zimmerman Fitness Center: A Safety and Security officer transported a female member of the Class of 2017 to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for evaluation of lower back pain.

She was later transported from DHMC to CVS. Feb. 16, 4:30 p.m., Dartmouth Skiway: Communications received an accident form by fax indicating that a female member of the Class of 2014 had fallen on her right shoulder while skiing on the Upper Chivers trail.

Ski patrol did not indicate any serious injuries. She was evaluated, released and advised to visit DHMC. Feb. 16, 10:22 p.m., South Fayerweather Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report alleging that an individual had entered an unlocked dorm room belonging to a female member of the Class of 2016 while she was away. Safety and Security officers spoke with the female student, who said items had been moved but nothing was missing or damaged.

Hanover Police was notified.

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Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

“Lord ’97 and Miller ’97 write and direct smash hit, ‘The Lego Movie’” (Feb. 17, 2014): The original version of this article swapped the attributions of quotations by Lord and Miller. Chris Miller ’97, not Phil Lord ’97, said he met his work partner and wife at the College, and Miller said that the pair watched movies together at the College. Lord, not Miller, said that their time at the College helped them work on “22 Jump Street” (2014) and that their careers have been impacted by failure.

“Vietnam War veterans visit College” (Feb. 17, 2014): The original version of this article misattributed a quotation to a student who was not interviewed for the piece. The reference to this student and his quotation have been removed.

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New hires must transition with families FROM CAREERS PAGE 1

in a brand new community,” she said.

Benson works with Hypertherm, Creare, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Simbex and the College to find open positions.

The service does not, however, guarantee employment.

Benson begins her work before the partner gets to campus, reviewing resumes and sharing information with potential employers.

“I’m not sending someone to other companies’ websites, I’m sending my clients to other people’s recruiters,” Benson said.

The process of finding employment in the Upper Valley typically takes six months to one year, Benson said, adding that her more successful clients contact her before arriving on campus.

“The people who put the effort into using us as an accelerator to their networking efforts are the people who do best,” she said.

“You can’t sit around passively at home.”

Miranda and Tyler Bergmeier said they consider the program to be an attractive service offered by the College. In the couple’s past transitions, other colleges have

not provided a formal service particularly for this need, Miranda Bergmeier said.

She said that Benson gave her insight into the general employment landscape in the Hanover

“It helps if you see change as an opportunity for good things to happen. If you are the sort who does not welcome change, this would be a pretty rough road to go.”

- Miranda bergmeier area and aggregated information about employment opportunities into one place.

Benson collaborates with Tuck Partners Club, which supports the partners and families of students

at the Tuck School of Business by helping them find housing, employment and child care, among other services.

Dartmouth is also a member of the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, which provides services for job seekers in higher education, including Dual Career-oriented services.

Consortium director Ruth Molina said that job seekers can access the consortium’s site to find employment information for all member institutions.

Miranda Bergmeier said that having a spouse in higher education provides many benefits, like living in or near a college community that values education and provides cultural, educational and employment opportunities.

“It helps if you see change as an opportunity for good things to happen,” she said. “If you are the sort who does not welcome change, this would be a pretty tough road to go.”

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Zero-tolerance policy garners support on Improve Dartmouth FROM POLICY PAGE 1

sexual misconduct, which refers to any form of sex-based discrimination, harassment or nonconsensual sexual contact. Sanctions can be as severe as permanent separation from the College, though Dartmouth is not currently required to separate students who are found responsible for rape, according to the student handbook.

Expelling offenders will decrease the cases of sexual assault and increase community safety, Student Assembly president Adrian Ferrari ’14 said.

Chair of the Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault Will Scheiman ’14 clarified that any zero-tolerance policy would apply only to cases of rape and not for other cases of sexual misconduct.

“Once an outcome is decided and the [Committee on Standards] process finds someone responsible of rape, that person no longer has a place in the Dartmouth community, now or ever,” Scheiman said.

As of Sunday night, the post had received 1,401 unique page views on Improve Dartmouth, said Alison Polton-Simon ’14, who analyzes the website’s traffic. The majority of activity related to the post occurred on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12, the days immediately following the student gathering.

As of press time, the post had 921 up-votes and 24 down-votes, for an overall feedback score of 897 on Improve Dartmouth, which is a crowd-sourcing website for ideas launched by student group Dartmouth Roots last month.

The website team provides biweekly reports to College President Phil Hanlon on site activity, including visitor demographics, popular ideas and actions resulting from the ideas, co-moderator Esteban Castano ’14 said. The group submitted its most recent biweekly report, which included the zero-tolerance policy proposal, to Hanlon last Tuesday, said comoderator Gillian O’Connell ’15.

In July 2013, SPCSA recommended specifying in the student handbook that students found responsible for non-consensual sexual penetration will be expelled.

Scheiman, however, said he believes that most students found guilty of rape or sexual assault are not separated from the College.

The current policy’s breadth makes it unlikely that Dartmouth would feel confident enough in its legal standing to expel a student who violated the policy in any way, former head of the Center for Gender and Student Engagement professor Giavanna Munafo said.

“When somebody’s found re-

sponsible for being a predatory rapist, I think that’s the kind of incident that the person wouldn’t be allowed to return to campus,” she added.

Munafo said discussion of a zero-tolerance policy has become more prominent due to the Title IX investigation and alumni activism.

Discussion on Improve Dartmouth included a suggestion for a negotiable expulsion policy that would protect a survivor from unwanted legal proceedings that could arise if expelled students decided to pursue defamation charges.

Matthew McFarland ’16 noted that implementing a zero-tolerance policy requires there to be no doubt that the individual committed the offense.

This addresses Dartmouth’s use of a “preponderance of the evidence” standard, which states that a person is responsible for an offense if the Committee on Standards finds that it is more likely for the violation to have occurred than not.

Concerns regarding the preponderance of the evidence are important, Munafo said. Alternative decision-making standards and motivations of the current policy should be discussed, she said.

One problem with a zero-tolerance policy is the lack of control it grants the survivor, Scheiman said, adding that he believes all survivors should have control with regard to reporting and the COS process. Yet because some survivors choose not to go through the COS process out of fear that their perpetrator will not be removed from campus, the policy may have a positive impact, he said.

Students have raised similar questions at peer institutions.

Over the past decade, Yale University has faced several investigations into its handling of sexual assault cases. In the first half of 2013, six Yale students were found guilty of non-consensual sex.

None were expelled and just one was suspended, sparking national outrage.

Harvard University’s policy has also been strongly criticized, The Huffington Post and The Crimson reported in partnership.

At Harvard, penalties for sexual harassment depend on the nature of the offense and range from reprimand to dismissal.

Unlike many American universities, including Dartmouth, Harvard does not have an affirmative consent policy. Affirmative consent defines sexual assault as occurring in the absence of enthusiastic verbal or physical consent. It must not be given as a result of physical coercion or threat of bodily harm.

Dartmouth’s sexual misconduct policy, in contrast, states that “one should presume that there is no consent in the absence of a clear positive indication of consent.

Likewise, non-consent or lack of consent may also be communicated in a variety of ways both verbal and nonverbal.”

Harvard and Princeton are currently the only Ivy League schools without the preponderance standard.

In April, students at Swarthmore College filed a Clery Act complaint against their school, alleging that administrators did not support those who reported

sexual harassment.

Swarthmore is reviewing its sexual misconduct policy and currently has an interim sexual assault and harassment policy, which places all responsibility for investigating and taking appropriate action on Swarthmore, not the complainant. ​

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Staff Columnist andrew shanahan ’14

contributing columnist joseph geller ’16

Normalized Nonsense

Life’s Not Fair

The College’s deeply ingrained party culture must change.

When things are normalized, they are tolerated — even in clearly problematic cases. The recent discussion about sexual assault has made me, and hopefully others, think critically about where we as a community and culture go wrong with our obligation to treat others as we wish to be treated. I believe that the national obsession with a normalized and destructive party culture, one that prioritizes unhealthy substance use and casual sexual behavior, contributes to the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. This infatuation with unrealistic and demeaning behavior is an ugly truth that spawns many of the problems that exist at Dartmouth and beyond.

Ever since high school, the stats that I hear the most outside of a classroom have to do with two personal numbers: drinks consumed and people hooked up with. Go to any high school homeroom on Monday morning, and you will hear guys and girls brag about how many shots were taken and how many people took off their clothes. This phenomenon only increases in intensity once young adults head to college. Because of increased independence and access to drugs and alcohol, idealized reckless social behavior is attainable and normalized to those at college.

The campus discussions in the past month have covered sexual assault, mental health, alcoholism, gender relations, academic seriousness and personal respect. Many blame the various aspects of the collegiate party culture — binge drinking, drugs, hookup culture, Greek life, et cetera. Various commentaries have brought up important ways to pursue social progress. That said, when students come to college expecting a certain intoxicated party experience, problems will occur, regardless of attempts to expel all the lemons through judicial methods or provide aid to those suffering from the effects of a culture that emphasizes unhealthy behavior.

Each college I toured emphasized the “work hard, play hard” ethos. Dartmouth was no different. Before freshman trips were over, I had already heard about fraternity circuits, pledge term binge drinking, the “Dartmouth Seven,” the “Dartmouth Decade.” Add to this the intense insistence on drinking and casual sexual activity

that is so prevalent in today’s youth culture, and tell me that this does not contribute to individual actions that are unhealthy, risky and thoughtless.

Entitlements are hard to take away from people, and make no mistake — many students feel entitled to partying recklessly. There is an abiding belief that going to college is synonymous with bacchanalia. Our culture is so saturated with images of the vaguely pornographic, drunken fun to be had at college that it makes sense that students would strive to achieve that aim. Unfortunately, the problems associated with drinking, hooking up, drugs and any combination of the aforementioned inevitably lead to the social issues decried here daily. Nearly all sexual assaults happen when there is alcohol involved. Many mental health issues college students face are inexorably linked to party culture. Expectations of unhealthy sexual practices lead to a denigration of personal worth and respect for partners.

So what is to be done? I am not advocating a puritanical response that puts the kibosh on sex and beer. I just believe that it’s about time that people begin to acknowledge how the roots of campus problems develop from an insistence on a certain form of partying and social behavior.

Even if working against “ragey” social behavior changes the nature of college, is it not a worthy goal to make the lives of students better? Maybe instead of glorifying drunken hookups with strangers and endless drinks, we should strive for social interactions that challenge the party ideal that our culture provides.

I think that when people consider how to reform Dartmouth, how to make our reputation more salient and how to better students’ experiences, changing social expectations from cheap imitations of the “American Pie” franchise to more meaningful interactions should take center stage. By being truly countercultural, challenging unhealthy norms of personal and group behavior and holding ourselves and others to higher levels of self-respect, we can start to eliminate the problems affecting this campus. Or we can continue the spectacle of nonsense until nobody looking for an enriching collegiate experience applies here.

The choice is ours.

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A little bit of rejection is normal, even healthy.

One of the hardest parts about life is learning to deal with rejection. Everyone experiences it, and, much like failure, we must learn from it and move forward. The bottom line is that you cannot always get what you want. That is the way that life works. Get over it.

Let’s talk about what we have going for us. We all have the privilege of getting an education, an Ivy League one at that. Most of us do not have to worry about where our next meal is coming from, and we are not in much physical danger here in Hanover.

I could go on and on, but that is not the point. The point is that the problems that most of us have are first world problems.

While those are real problems, maybe we should take them a little less seriously.

Now that we have noted the relative insignificance of our problems, let’s talk about how life is not fair.

I first realized this after growing up with an older brother. He and I fought all the time, and because he was two years older, he would always win. I did not like that.

In fact, I hated it, but there was nothing I could do about it. It sucked.

In high school, I saw constant disappointment among my peers because they either did not get elected to class council or were not chosen to be a prefect or did not win some award that they had been eyeing since freshman year. Every disappointment reaffirmed the lesson that life is not fair.

College acceptances soon rolled around.

I witnessed countless deserving classmates get rejected from Ivy League schools. And while most of them still ended up going to great colleges, some were devastated because they thought their hard work and dedication meant they deserved to get into their first choice pick.

The disappointments do not stop in high school. Within Dartmouth, there are numerous clubs, social groups and societies, some of which you have to apply for, some of which you do not. Greek life is a popular

topic on campus, so I am going to use it as an example. Greek houses are selective, and not everyone gets into to the house that he or she prefers. Now I want to be clear that I understand that there are issues with the women’s rush process, which leaves many females unaffiliated or in a house that was not their first choice. Additionally, there are, albeit a smaller number, many men that do not get into their house of choice either. It sucks to be rejected and feel like you are not wanted, but eventually, you have to get over it. Greek life may be a big part of the social scene here on campus, but at the end of the day, is it really going to matter?

The same thing goes for the countless other groups like a capella, secret societies, et cetera. Life is not always going to proceed according to your plan, and while it may dampen your mood and make you question your ability and self-worth, you have to move on.

Life only gets more difficult in the real world, especially regarding the job market — something with much greater importance and significance than being a part of a club or a social house here on campus. Tons of people cannot find jobs, and even more do not get the job they want. Additionally, employers will not comfort you, telling you that it’s okay and that you’ll do better next time. You either get the job or you don’t.

Once something is done, it is done. Make the most of what you have because sulking and feeling sorry for yourself will not accomplish anything.

Whether we like it or not, rejection is a part of life. It has been a part of life since we were kids, remains a part of life at Dartmouth and will continue to be. Rejection exists everywhere. We must learn to deal with it and stop complaining. There is nothing wrong with rejection here. If anything, it can help us prepare for and deal with the disappointment that we are bound to experience in the future.

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STEM departments College considers adding neighborhoods support female students FROM HOUSING PAGE 1

FROM STEM PAGE 1

about 30 percent of all physics majors at Dartmouth.

Though the number of female faculty and majors in the sciences has more than doubled since the 1990s, gains are unevenly distributed among different fields, according to data provided by assistant director for undergraduate advising and research Kathy Weaver.

Undergraduate women now outnumber men in the life sciences but still remain a minority of physics, engineering, math and computer science majors, department chairs said.

In the Class of 2014, women comprise about 25 percent of engineering majors, 25 percent of physics majors and 24 percent of computer science majors.

In the earth sciences department, approximately 55 percent of majors over the past four years have been women, department chair William Dade said.

In 2010, roughly 20 percent of computer science and engineering degree recipients in the U.S. were women, as were about 40 percent of physical sciences B.A. candidates, according to data from the National Science Foundation.

Chemistry department chair Dale Mierke said 46 percent of Dartmouth’s current chemistry majors are women, a 9 percent increase from 2010.

Computer science department chair Thomas Cormen, the women in computer science club advisor, said his department has taken several steps to support its female majors, including sponsoring student attendance at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, an annual conference in October that includes technical talks and career mentoring workshops. In 2013, the department spent $35,000 to send 26 students to the conference, Cormen said.

Sucharita Jayanti ’14, a computer science and math double major, said she found a job through the conference, which she has attended for the past two years. Once she graduates, Jayanti intends to work at Amazon as part of a cloud storage team in Massachusetts.

Computer science professors and students said the department could focus on strengthening academic support for students by increasing the number of female faculty it employs and improving student-to-faculty ratios.

Bergsten said she believes math and physics classes are small enough that students feel comfortable approaching professors directly for help. As the former president of Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association

for Women in Mathematics, Bergsten said she hopes to create a community of women in the math and sciences because she thinks female students can feel isolated in some of their science classes. They may then quit or not participate as a result.

“Often times, people like myself feel uncomfortable in a classroom that’s mostly guys,” Bergsten said.

“My internship in the fall had very few women scientists, and that made me feel not as comfortable speaking up or asking questions.”

Mathematics professor Carolyn Gordon, who served as president of the National Association for Women in Mathematics, said women need role models and contemporaries in their fields.

Gordon said women, along with other underrepresented groups, should be encouraged to continue with mathematics.

“I don’t mean to be stereotyping,” she said, “but society gives women the message that they are not as qualified a lot more than it gives men, and that gets internalized.”

Gordon said Dartmouth’s student chapter of the association seeks to build a community through events with faculty and mentorship programs.

Chemistry professor Jane Lipson said the presence of more equal numbers of men and women in chemistry provides adequate peer internal support for students in class, though further institutional support encourage women to continue their studies.

Physics and astronomy department chair James LaBelle said the department actively tries to attract female graduate students by establishing personal contact with applicants.

LaBelle said about 25 percent of physics faculty at the College are women.

Nationally, 13 percent of physics faculty are women, according to an American Institute of Physics report published last July.

Earth sciences professor Meredith Kelly said she thinks women are wellrepresented in her field until they reach the level at which they would take on a faculty post.

“That’s the clog in the pipeline,” Kelly said. “It’s hard because you’re older, you may be married or have kids, or may want to be married or have kids, and a faculty position requires that you are able to move wherever.”

Kelly added that she has observed that among her colleagues male assistant professors are more likely to be married, while women are more likely to be single.

“It’s a tough road, and it takes some sacrifices,” she said.

center.

Faculty and staff proposed finding ways for graduate students to get involved in the future living learning communities.

Wooten also gauged student reactions to a potential residential life initiative to create “neighborhoods,” which he said would bolster continuity in students’ residential experiences and improve the campus community.

According to the tentative model, first-year students would move from their freshman clusters into a neighborhood, where they would remain for their next three years at Dartmouth, Wooten said. As of yet, ORL does not yet have a definite timeline for the project.

The neighborhood system will take longer to implement, Wooten said, as ORL hopes to renovate existing buildings on campus to ensure equity in housing quality. In addition, ORL will have to ensure that this planning aligns well with the College’s other projects, he said.

“We introduced the term neighborhood mainly because we believe that the order and the map of campus will change,” he said. “Cluster doesn’t have the sort of gravitas to it, but we all come from neighborhoods, and that means something to us.”

Alisa White ’17 said she attended

the event because as an EcoRep, she has been interested connecting sustainability and community at Dartmouth.

Different spaces on campus impact students in different ways, she said.

Drawing a binary between learning and social spaces is unwarranted, Wooten said.

“Learning and social interaction are all mashed up together in mysterious ways,” Wooten said. “Where we gather and hang out is indeed where we have our learning experiences. Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom.

That’s what we are trying to do – to rethink categories that we default to.”

Felicia Jia ’16 said she was satisfied with the discussion and noticed many recurrent themes in students’ opinions about campus housing options.

“When I initially heard of the living-

learning communities, I thought that those were exactly what Dartmouth needed,” Jia said. “I used to go to a boarding school, and after coming to Dartmouth, I really missed having close relationships with faculty members outside the classroom.”

Jia said she hopes the session will help students and other community members clarify their grievances and desires regarding housing.

Wooten said attendee feedback will be incorporated into the office’s current planning process. Students are part of a working group that is spearheading these initiatives, he said.

Senior associate dean of the college Inge-Lise Ameer hosted the first session with Wooten, which took place from noon to 1 p.m. Wooten facilitated the second session, held later that evening.

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Jack Neustadt ’17

TODAY 3:00 p.m.

Special lecture, “Innocent in Prison” with Fernando Bermudez, Filene Auditorium

4:00 p.m.

Pathology research and review seminar, “T Cell Responses in Influenza Infection: Help or Hindrance?” with Richard Enelow, Borwell 658W

TOMORROW 3:15 p.m.

Music department colloquium, “Matter vs. Maker: Chaos and Creative Practice,” with Dr. Ashley Fure of Harvard University, Faulkner Recital Hall

4:00 p.m.

Physiology and neurobiology seminar with Dr. Giovanni Bosco of Geisel School of Medicine, DHMC, Auditorium E

4:15 p.m.

Computer science colloquium, “Beyond Experts and Engineering: Exploiting Data for Automated Control,” with Martha White of the University of Alberta, Steele 006

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Winter DHMC gallery Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood sell out Hop highlights local talent B y Apoorva dixit

mix of media on display,” Fortier B y margot byrne said. “No two artists are alike.”

The Dartmouth Staff Matt Brown designs and sells As part of its rotating exhibition original woodblock prints in galprogram, Dartmouth-Hitchcock leries throughout northern New Medical Center introduced a host England. He makes prints in the of new works by regional artists traditional Japanese hanga method, this January, including paintings, using multiple hand-carved blocks, photographs and woodblock prints. one for each color, and printing The program, launched 15 years with a hand-held baren. He uses ago, was reinvigorated in 2008 the baren to firmly press the paper after the New England Foundation against the inked woodblock so that for the Arts awarded a $10,000 it absorbs the ink’s pigment. public arts grant to DHMC and Brown has previously submitted its co-applicant, AVA Gallery prints to DHMC’s permanent coland Art Center in Lebanon, to lection and said he was excited to develop a comprehensive art plan work on a “self-chosen” display for for DHMC’s Lebanon campus. the hospital.

Organizer Marianne Barthel “The hospital makes for a great said exhibitions at DHMC enhance place to exhibit artwork, as it is a the hospital’s community environ- well-lit, spacious venue used by a ment and boost patient and staff variety of people, especially those morale. who are often there experiencing “Whether it puts a patient on particularly challenging or meantheir way to a test at ease, soothes ingful moments in their lives,” a caregiver visiting a patient or Brown said. brings a smile to an employee’s Photographer Donna Allen, a face, the arts and member of The music are here to “I believe that the Lone Mountain uplift,” she said.

Artists coalition arts are what make DHMC partbased in New ners with local us civilized and Hampshire, artists, art gal- bring us together composed her leries and assopieces from sevciations to pro- as a community by eral mediums, mote art at the allowing us to be such as photoghospital and in a p hy m i x e d aware of how others rwith the region. The watercolrotating exhibits see the world.” ors, pen, ink and last three months pastels. and are installed Her work is inby Barthel and - LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER spired by her the artists. Artindependent DONNA ALLEN ists are selected photography of for shows on a animals, flowers rolling basis, and past pieces have and landscapes, she said. She used included visual and performance digital art to create two of her four works, Barthel said. pieces in the show and watercolors Three visual artists displaying for the others. work said that they became involved Art at DHMC serves the interests with the program after participating of artists and the larger community, in other Upper Valley arts projects. she said.

Painter Amy Fortier, whose work “I believe that the arts are what is displayed in the show, has previ- make us civilized and bring us toously had her art exhibited at the gether as a community by allowing Converse Free Library in Lyme, us to be aware of how others see the Howe Library in Hanover and the world,” Allen said.

New London Hospital.

While Fortier set up her exhibit, Inspired by mosaics, mandalas she said she spoke with patients, and mehndi, a form of henna tat- friends of patients and some too art, Fortier designed a process DHMC staff members. They told she calls “fauxzaics,” where she her that the art was a positive change creates mosaic-like pieces from from the stark white walls usually paint instead of tile, since she said associated with hospitals. making mosaics can be messy and “It was a nice reminder that art time-consuming. She also used isn’t just pretty things on a wall, but colored pencils on paper for some that it can also really help people in of her DHMC pieces. other ways,” she said.

Fortier said she is impressed by The art, on display through the distinct styles of the DHMC March, is for sale, with 25 percent exhibition’s artists. of proceeds benefiting the hospital “I have really enjoyed the other and 75 percent going to the artists, artists and the fact that there is a Barthel said.

Classical violinist Joshua Bell has performed across the globe in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a subway station in Washington D.C. An Avery Fisher Prize recipient, Bell performed incognito in the station in 2007 for a Washington Post story examining art and context, an article that earned its writer a Pulitzer Prize.

Bell will play a concert in Spaulding Auditorium this evening, his third in Hanover, yet local interest in his music has not abated. Tickets for the show sold out before classes began in the fall, Margaret Lawrence, Hopkins Center director for programming, said.

“One of the Hopkins Center’s steadfast goals has been to bring artists at the pinnacle of their career, so that students get a chance to see some of the most important artists of their generation,” she said.

Bell will be accompanied by pianist Sam Haywood, an accomplished performer who has won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Isserlis Award. More recently, he performed on Frederic Chopin’s Pleyel piano to celebrate the artist’s bicentennial year in 2010.

Bell and Haywood will perform three pieces, Giuseppe Tartini’s “Vio-

lin Sonata in G Minor,” Ludwig van Richard Fu ’13, a classical music Beethoven’s “Violin Sonata No. 10” student relations advisor at the Hop, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Divertimento.” said Haywood remains approachable Haywood said his favorite may to younger artists. Fu met Haywood be Beethoven’s sonata. Dedicated to when Haywood performed with Bell on Beethoven’s patron campus in 2011 and and student, Arch- “It’s been really again when Fu was duke Rudolph of on the music Foreign Austria, the piece gen- enriching for me Study Program in erates a dialogue be- to talk to Bell in London. tween the violin and [Bell ‘music language.’” and“Watching the piano through the Haywood] pervarious movements, form live is very differending on a deeply - ACCLAIMED PIANIST ent from a recording cheerful note. because they bring SAM HAYWOOD “ B e e t h ov e n’s you closer to the mupiece is so unique sic,” Fu said. “You can and intimate,” Haywood said. “That’s feel the energy of their performance.” what I love about it, that it’s so personal.”

Such a high caliber performance Stravinsky’s “Divertimento” has a should appeal to all students, though “magical” quality, Haywood said. Writ- trained musicians may also pay attention ten for his one-act ballet, “Le baiser de to Bell’s superior technique and sound, la fee (The Fairy’s Kiss),” Stravinsky’s Fu said. piece is an homage to Tchaikovsky. The Lawrence said she most enjoys ballet premiered at the Paris Opera in Bell’s unpredictablility as an artist. She November 1928, the 35th anniversary remembered a past Bell show, when the of Tchaikovsky’s death. concert was near its end and the entire Haywood and Bell have performed audience took to its feet for a standing together on and off for four years, and ovation before Bell emerged for a final Haywood is looking forward to col- encore. laborating at the Hop. While Bell has achieved national “What’s wonderful about chamber and international fame, he maintains music is the dialogue between the piano a humble attitude, Lawrence said. and the violin,” Haywood said. “It’s Whenever he performs, he “immerses been really enriching for me to talk to himself in the music, really searching Bell in ‘music language.’” for the core of the music,” she said.

Elizabeth Lee Agosto

Associate Dean of the College

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 PA R K H U R S T 1 1 1

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D’Agostino sets Dartmouth record

B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

With a time of 8:51.91, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 set a Dartmouth record in the 3,000-meter race this weekend, coming away with the fastest time in the nation this year and the fourth-fastest indoor time ever run by a female collegiate athlete. Racing at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday, she came in fourth, behind professional athletes, and broke the record she set last season by three and a half seconds.

“I knew it was going to be a competitive meet going in and was excited for an opportunity to run PR and just compete,” D’Agostino said. “The goal was to run in the 8:40s because that’s what we thought the pacer and top runner would run. It ended up not working out that way but it was a good race with the exception of a few moves. We always say you can’t be upset with a PR, so overall it was a good race.”

For her performance, D’Agostino was named the female athlete of the week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, an accolade she has received three other times in her career. D’Agostino now holds the fastest indoor time in the country this season for the mile, 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter, as well as holding top-four all-time record in each.

D’Agostino was one of only two collegiate runners competing in the event. She bested her competitor, Iona College sophomore Kate Avery, by over four seconds.

The rest of the Big Green track and field team competed at Boston University’s Scarlet and White invitational.

On the women’s side, standout performances came in the 800-meter run. Both Megan Krumpoch ’14 and Meggie Donovan ’15 ran sub2:10 times. With a time of 2:06.36, Krumpoch finished second, less than a second behind the winner and the top collegiate runner. Donovan earned a top-five overall record with her time.

Jennifer Meech ’16 ran a new personal best in the 400-meter race, finishing fourth with a time of 55.52.

“I talked to a couple of sprinters about trying to get a better time,” head women’s coach Sandy FordCentonze said. “I told [Meech] and the 400-meter runners to go out hard, especially on the first lap.”

The women excelled in the shot

put. Emmaline Berg ’13 won, followed

by Corinne Romano ’15 in third and Melissa Dunham ’17 in fourth. The Big Green athletes threw 14.39 meters, 12.5 meters and 12.35 meters, respectively. Berg also finished sixth in the weight throw.

Among the middle-distance runners, Elizabeth Markowitz ’16 finished the mile in 4:48.29, good for fifth overall, and Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 won her mile heat in 4:54.10, seventh overall.

“I tried not to think about Heps too much because I didn’t want to stress myself out, but I definitely thought about it a little,” Schlachtenhaufen said. “The race went out pretty normal and then slowed down a little.

The last 400 I felt pretty good, and it was my fastest part of the race.”

The men’s team was led by strong performances from freshmen and sophomores in all disciplines. Alex Frye ’17 won the 60-meter hurdles in a time of 8.33, followed by Danny Katz ’16 who finished fourth in 8.63 seconds. Frye also finished second in the high jump by clearing 2.04 meters.

The freshmen throwers performed well once again, as Jonathan Beering ’17 finished second in the shot put with a distance of 15.7 meters and

Tim Brennan ’17 who threw 13.69 meters, coming in fifth place.

Joey Chapin ’16 ran a very strong 8:10.74 in the 3,000-meter race, finishing in sixth place. Connor Clark ’17 was the top Dartmouth finisher in the mile with his time of 4:16.73, good for tenth.

“A bunch of sophomores have been having breakthrough seasons which is good to know that when the seniors leave there will still be a bunch of guys,” Clark said. “It is fun to be a freshmen and have so many successful guys to look up to.”

For many, it was the last chance to compete during the indoor season, as the Big Green now heads into championship season. Others used the meet as a final tune up before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, Ford-Centonze said.

“It’s always a good thing to have this last meet and last chance to run faster times or jump a better distance,” Ford-Centonze said.

Some athletes moved up in the rankings thanks to their performances in the meet, she added.

The Big Green have next weekend off before returning to Leverone Field House March 1-2 for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

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Abbey D’Agostino ’14 ran the fourth-fastest time in NCAA history in the 3K this weekend.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014

TUESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

MORE THAN A GAME B y maddie garcia and abby cohen The Dartmouth Staff

Olympic recaps feature the latest controversial finish or result almost every day. Athletic competitions are always contentious — that’s just the nature of sports — but on such a grand stage, a minor glitch can easily become an international debacle. In Sochi, these controversies have ranged from humorous to crucial to the competition itself.

Before the games even began, a tiff among Russian authorities over a few thousand Chobani Yogurt cups made headlines. Russian authorities refused to let the U.S. import them for its athletes, citing a lack of an approved veterinary certificate, prompting references to a “yogurt cold war.” Are you kidding me? What is wrong with Americans that we care about this, and yet can overlook the results of the games? The lack of yogurt will not impact the performance of American athletes in Sochi, and will instead be used to feed the homeless in New York. As the games have progressed, other, more meaningful controversies have deserved our attention.

If the yogurt incident didn’t add to the tension between the U.S. and the host country, Saturday’s men’s ice hockey match-up between the two certainly did.

Late in the third period, the Russians seemingly scored the go-ahead goal before international rules kicked in. The goal was called back because the net moved while the U.S. goalie was tried to make a save. You can watch the video clip 1,000 times and still not know whether the U.S. goalie moved the net on purpose.

However, if you are a Russia fan, one replay is enough for you to show that goalie Jonathan Quick deliberately knocked the net off its moorings. The U.S. team won the game in a shootout, and the Russians are decrying it a scandal.

One of the officials is American, which doesn’t help our case, but it definitely makes the story more interesting.

Qualifying for the Olympics is fraught with its own bag of tricks.

Take American Ashley Wagner, who finished in fourth place at the U.S. National Championships and was still one of the three women figure skaters invited to Sochi.

Wagner is one of the strongest women in the sport, but her invitation to the Olympic team still seems unsettling. Her performance over the past four years propelled her to Sochi, but the controversy left U.S. National Championships third-place finisher Mirai Nagasu in the dust.

Controversy has been a part of these games since the International Olympic Committee selected Sochi, thanks in large part to the games’ location in southern Russia.

From Russian President Vladimir Putin’s homophobic remarks to the glitch during the Opening Ceremonies, Russia has lived up to its controversial reputation.

Americans are eating it up.

Controversy is always magnified on a big stage (Janet Jackson halftime show, anyone?). Whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a political fiasco, we feed off controversial news. It both gives us something to talk about and highlights flaws in people who are seemingly faultless.

Controversy sells tickets, increases ratings and fuels our desire to have an opinion.

You’re out of luck if you win gold on the same day that a controversy blows up. Televisions across the U.S. will show replays of these events, such as the RussianAmerican hockey game, not your amazing finish. What a shame.

We think controversy makes things exciting, but when a hyped-up episode overshadows the competitors’ achievements, we should reevaluate our priorities.

Controversies hold our attention, but the exciting athletic competition should be able to do that, too.