VOL. CLXXII NO. 43
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Yesterday’s announcement of the details for the implementation of the hard alcohol ban, stipulated by “Moving Dartmouth Forward,” spurred discussion and has received mixed reaction from both students and outside experts. The changes to the alcohol policy include harsher punishments for the possession of hard alcohol, while punishments for possession or consumption of beer or wine will remain the same. A student found to be in possession of or to have consumed hard alcohol will face a College probation for a SEE ALCOHOL PAGE 5
A panel of administrators answered student questions about “Moving Dartmouth Forward.”
Asian/Asian-American group will resume in spring
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The Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group, an organization formed to encourage open discussion about what it means to be Asian or Asian-American on campus, will resume with weekly discussions starting next term. The group, created and facilitated by Dick’s House counselors Da-Shih Hu and Sarah Chung, has operated in two previous terms and is
open to self-identifying Asian and Asian-American undergraduate and graduate students. “It’s focused on Asian and Asian-American students having an opportunity to explore aspects of ‘Asianness’ within this largely nonAsian college and largely non-Asian culture,” Hu, a psychiatry professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, said. The Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group was not active this term due to scheduling con-
flicts. Last fall, the group discussed topics such as differences in Asian and Western social and cultural norms, emotional expressiveness among Asians and encounters between Asians and Asian-Americans. Discussions were interesting and commonly overlapped, Hu said. “Largely this was a group for exploration and understanding, not for action,” Hu said. As facilitators, Hu and Chung both share their experiences as well. Hu added that these group
Sexual assault bill aims to protect survivor and accused B y Annie Ma
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A bill aiming to protect the rights of both the survivor and the accused when combating sexual assault on campuses was reintroduced to the Senate last Thursday. The revised bill, titled the Campus Safety and Accountability Act, contains proposals outlining initiatives for campuses to adjudicate sexual assault cases. A bipartisan coalition of six Demo-
sessions are not considered “therapy sessions.” T he Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group first met during the winter of 2014 with about nine members, and the next active term was last fall with about five members, he said. Hu said that after meeting with several students and realizing that they were dealing with these issues, which he had also encountered in SEE GROUP PAGE 2
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crats and six Republicans introduced the bill. Sponsors include Dartmouth alum Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-NY, and Kelly Ayotte, D-NH. The original version of the bill was introduced last summer but never came to a vote before the 113th session of Congress ended. Among the proposals suggested by the bill is one amending the punishment for colleges and universities that TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority hosted a bake sale to raise money for WISE.
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DAily debriefing United States senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, are pushing the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt a Senate bill that will “clean up” funding for the Department of Homeland Security, The Concord Monitor reported. While the House passed a one-week funding bill last Friday to avoid a partial shutdown of the department, a long-term solution still needs to be found. Shaheen said that she hopes the House will vote on the Senateapproved funding bill that will fund the Department of Homeland Security without additional provisions that would weaken Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Ayotte was one of 23 Senate Republicans who voted to approve the funding bill. The two women, however, do not agree on a separate measure meant to block funding for Obama’s actions on immigration, with Shaheen voting against the measure and Ayotte supporting it. Shaheen also said that disagreement over executive action should not put the Department of Homeland Security and its operations at risk. Citing a financing plan that was utilized by Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-VT, in his decision not to pursue single payer health care in the state, the Vermont Workers’ Center and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative said that the single payer option remains a possibility for Vermont workers, the VTDigger reported. While the plan would provide medical, dental and vision insurance coverage for all Vermont residents, it would exclude workers who commute to Vermont from another state. The study proposes using a progressive tax structure, including taxes on income, capital gains and a payroll tax on employers, to provide a universal program by 2017. It also recommends phasing the costs into Green Mountain Care and making the program a public corporation, in addition to liquifing assets from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont to create a reserve fund. The Institute for American Apprenticeships, created by Burlington College in Vermont and the non-profit Vermont HITEC, will begin its apprenticeship program designed to help students join the workforce full time, according to the Associated Press. The program will be funded through grants and by employers affiliated with the program, and the initial focus will be offering programs in advanced manufacturing, information technology and allied health and business services. Students in the program begin by enrolled in HITEC academic programs, earning credits and certificates within the academic programs and through full-time internships. Upon receiving their certificate, students become fulltime employees of the employer-sponsors.
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Asian-American group provides support FROM GROUP PAGE 1
medical school, he wondered if this type of organization would be a useful for students. Counseling and human development director Heather Earle said that she thinks it is important that the group facilitators are able to reach students who might not otherwise use counseling services and resources. “I think that one thing that is important to us is to, obviously, see students here at the counseling center, but also to engage in outreach to students, both in giving them psycho-educational information and also to reach out to students in the Dartmouth community who might not find a way down here but still might benefit from our services,” she said. The Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group is different from other ethnically-related campus organizations in that the group is closed to additional members after the third week of the term, Hu said. “The idea is that this allows more continuity and hopefully a greater sense of connectedness in this context and safety for people to maybe explore things more deeply or share things more deeply,” Hu said. “The first time that we did the group, in winter 2014, several of the members were interns at [the Office of Pluralism
and Leadership], and they said that the discussions that they had in this group were on a different level than those they’d had at other places.” Assistant OPAL dean and advisor to Pan-Asian students Shiella
“I think it’s great to have a safe space where you’re with other people that don’t necessarily have the same experiences as you but are coming from a place of understanding and a place of openness.” - SHIELLA CERVANTES, ASSISTANT OPAL DEAN Cervantes said that she thinks that the group is a great space for Asian or Asian-American students to discuss identity and experiences. “I think it’s great to have a safe space where you’re with other people that don’t necessarily have the same experiences as you but are coming from a place of understanding and a place of openness,” she said. “I think that’s really important when you’re trying to
figure out what is important to you. The way you’ve been raised and experiences in life so far informs the way you experience life as a Dartmouth student.” Asian and Middle Easter n studies professor Wen Xing said this organization could be very helpful in that by having students with cultural differences discuss a variety of topics, they may gain a better understanding of their own cultural traditions. For the upcoming term, Hu said that five people have shown interest in joining the exploration group. The maximum number of members the group allows is eight, as Hu said this comfortably gives people room to explore. He added that if the Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group galvanizes enough interest, it may be possible to run two different discussion groups simultaneously. Overall, Hu said he hopes this group will allow students to think about what it means to be Asian or Asian-American and what the implications of that are. “If we only reach 16 students a year, or 20 students a year, how much difference does that make for the campus as a whole?” he said. He said that “just even like a pebble dropped in a pond sends out ripples,” the group may in general promote a sense of awareness of the Asian/Asian-American community on campus.”
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Dick’s House counselors Da-Shih Hu and Sarah Chung are facilitators of an Asian/Asian-American discussion group.
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Sexual assault bill may change reporting policies FROM ASSAULT PAGE 1
are found to have violated Title IX. Currently, institutions found in violation face losing all of their federal funding. In contrast, the bill’s proposals will allow the federal government to fine institutions up to one percent of their operating budget for each violation. Alex Arnold ’10, an organizing member of the sexual violence and harassment advocacy group Dartmouth Change, said that the bill could lead to better enforcement of Title IX and the Clery Act. “There’s basically two options now for penalizing schools for violations,” Arnold said. “It’s either there is no fine or the school loses all of its federal funding, which would be catastrophic for many students who are on federal-funded aid. Having the ability to fine for violations is important because it gives Clery and Title IX more weight.” The bill also proposes requiring colleges and universities to publish results of a biennial climate survey on student perceptions and experiences of sexual assault and related dating violence. According to Arnold, the surveys will provide more insight and data about what is happening on campuses. She said that the data released in Clery reports is often only a fraction of the number of incidents that have actually happened on campus. “We know that the majority of assaults are never disclosed to individuals who report Clery numbers,” Arnold said. “The survey will help get the real numbers, and once you start doing it every couple of years, you can start tracking progress and measuring the impact of different initiatives. You can take a more rigorous, scientific approach to what’s going on on campus.” Dartmouth’s Office of the General Counsel said in a statement to The Dartmouth that while they have not had the opportunity to review the revised bill in detail, it seems to improve on the original version in many ways. They declined to comment further at this time. New Hampshire Sexual Assault Resource Team coordinator Kathleen Kimball said in an email that the legislation’s effect in New Hampshire will depend on the final bill that is passed. New Hampshire has a statewide protocol for “best practice” responses which is amended to stay up-to-date with federal and state legislation. Kimball said that if the bill leads to significant changes in statewide protocol, training must
follow to inform those who would be responsible for implementation. In the most recent update, the New Hampshire SART program conducted over 30 workshops around the state for those working with adult cases of sexual assault. The workshops would likely expand to include campuses and relevant administrators for these updates, Kimball said. One controversial aspect of the bill is the requirement of collegeprovided confidential advisors to guide survivors through the resources and reporting options available to them. While the provision attempts to aid survivors, Arnold pointed to an inherent conflict of interest between aiding survivors and working for the school. “It’s not that the coordinator has different interests, but they report to others,” Arnold said. “There’s friction between supporting survivors and maintaining the reputation of the school, and that’s unavoidable.” Kimball said that she expects the state Attorney General’s Office to work with the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence to craft language for incorporating crisis center victim services and the “confidential advisor” parts of the bill. Government professor Linda Fowler, whose areas of expertise include Congress and legislative politics, said that the bill is unusual in that it comes from a genuine cross-party coalition that is led by women. Fowler said that women in the Senate have been some of the few legislators that collaborate across party lines to achieve compromises that both sides can accept. Inde pendent middle class women are an important demographic to address heading into the 2016 midterm elections, Fowler said. The issue of sexual assault is prominent to them as they are the ones sending their daughters to colleges. The bill has a strong chance of passing the Senate, Fowler said, because both parties want to appeal to that demographic. In addition, both parties need to respond to the sense of concern from universities regarding how to address sexual assault. “What the negotiation is about is finding a balance where the government isn’t exerting the heavy hand over universities,” Fowler said. “That’s something conservatives can embrace because they don’t like regulation, and something liberals can embrace because they don’t like bureaucrats messing with universities.”
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Disclose the Debt
More Than Sadists
All colleges must release detailed information about student loan debt. For the majority of American college students, the soaring price of a degree requires sinking into debt. To increase transparency, all colleges should be required to release detailed and publicly accessible data about student debt. According to a report released in November 2014 by the Institute for College Access and Success, 69 percent of students who graduated from private or public nonprofit colleges in 2013 did so with debt from student loans. The average borrower owed $28,400, a two percent increase from the year before. Regrettably for students in the granite state, New Hampshire topped the report’s list of “high-debt states,” with average student loan debt at a whopping $32,975 — right around the average price of a brand new car. The situation was not always this bleak for incoming students. Consider the 1981 to 1982 school year, when many of the parents of current students went to college. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal organization that collects and analyzes data on American education, the average yearly cost of tuition, room and board and various fees at a four-year institution was $9,554 in 2011 to 2012 dollars. A full-time summer job paying minimum wage — $3.35 per hour at the time, or about $8.61 in today’s dollars – could cover nearly half of a college student’s expenses for the year. If that student worked part-time for the rest of the year, she could pay the full price herself — without the need for loans, financial aid or family assistance. In the 33 years since, the possibility of paying your way through college has become a pipe dream. The average cost of tuition and room and board has more than doubled while the minimum wage in inflation-corrected dollars has stagnated. Without a generous financial aid program or a family with the available funds and willingness to foot the bill, accumulating thousands of dollars of debt is the only option remaining for students seeking a four-year diploma. According to an article by Cornell economist Ronald Ehrenberg, there are several independent pressures pushing college costs upward, including federal policies that reduce financial aid and
shared governance between administrators and trustees that makes overspending easy. Ehrenberg also mentions the rankings rat race, in which many colleges fund just about anything to get ahead of their peers — even to the point of parody. At Texas Tech University, for instance, $8.4 million was blown on a water recreation complex. This kind of arms race harms everyone. Students are lured into four years of school that many will spend decades of their life paying off. Colleges, by increasing expenditures rather than efficiency, lose sight of their primary purpose — to educate, not to serve as a glorified four-year resort for 20-year-olds. A government mandate that requires colleges to publish hard numbers on student debt is one way of increasing awareness of loan debt among prospective students, and it may incentivize colleges to cut costs and improve aid. As the Institute for College Access and Success report notes, average debt varies widely across schools and states. If every university were to publish the average debt of students in each income bracket, affordable schools would become more visible and attractive, while the schools that saddle its students with a disproportionate amount of debt would likely be viewed as sharks rather than respectable institutions. The pieces are already in place to carry this out. In 2013, President Barack Obama rolled out a college scorecard website that displays information on student borrowing rates. The data, however, is too crude to be useful. Look up Dartmouth’s scorecard, for instance, and all you will find about student debt is the median borrowing amount and the loan default rate. Of far greater use to prospective students would be a detailed breakdown of the relationship between loan debt and parental income. Higher education is a high-stakes marketplace — the student buyers make a decision that will affect the rest of their lives. If they will be required to swap a sizeable slice of their future income to attend a school with a water park, they should know that going in, not 10 years down the road when debt collectors come knocking on their door.
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The Islamic State is motivated by brutal and threatening ideology. On the evening of Feb. 26, the Islamic State released a video that featured militants using sledgehammers to smash several priceless artifacts held in a museum in Mosul, Iraq, to pieces. What is most disturbing about these actions is that the pieces were not targeted with the intent of random, gratuitous destruction, but rather with a more specific and honed religious mission — to establish a global Islamic polity — in mind, as a representative of the Islamic State says at the beginning of the video. The Islamic State is more than a Middle Eastern terrorist group — it is a group motivated by a collectivizing, brutal and fundamentalist theology that poses a real threat to safety and stability throughout the world. In a recent report on the Islamic State published in The Atlantic, Graeme Wood advises the world not to be fooled by the group’s seemingly irrational extremist exterior. He suggests that we are misled to believe that “jihadists are modern secular people with modern political concerns wearing medieval religious disguise.” He argues that, on the contrary, the Islamic State has charged itself with the goal of establishing a worldwide order rooted in Islamic theology. The Islamic State is to be feared not because they may appear simply violent and dangerous, but because they take their religious goal seriously — this is a group whose acts of violence and destruction follow logically from its beliefs. The battle against the Islamic State cannot be isolated from religion and ideological conflicts. Although many peacefully adapt the practices of Islam to the modern world, the religion also has a darker history. This is not just the case for Islam — in the past, other Western religions doctrines have advocated violence. In a March 2010 story by NPR, Baylor University history professor Philip Jenkins points out that the Bible is very violent — in fact, the story ends by noting that scholars can agree that all three Abrahamic religions call for a lot of violence. The first step in combating the Islamic State is understanding the laws of its militant adherents. Discussing the group often elicits responses that isolate it from mainstream Islam — often quoted as “a religion of peace” — as if the Islamic State
were a rogue group that is not actually Islamic or is mistaken about its religious affiliation. Yet, the Islamic State is a religious group. The fundamentalist and outdated reading of Islamic texts and Muhammad’s doctrines separates them from the modern, peaceful practice of Islam — but violent punishment for alleged crimes is endorsed by antiquated schools of Islamic thought. One may interpret the Islamic State beheadings as a twisted way of proving the group’s fortitude to the world. The group was, however, also acting within the bounds of a Muslim doctrine known as takfir, wherein a Muslim can use evidence to declare a non-Muslim or an apostate an unbeliever — and is used to justify religious executions by extremists. The Islamic State’s desire to “cleanse” the world through mass killings demonstrates its commitment to their interpretation of the takfiri directive to execute apostates. The destruction of cultural artifacts in Mosul may have been a dramatic demonstration intended to shock the Western world, but it is also a religiously-charged attack on objects that symbolize values they consider odious to their own. Most of the artifacts destroyed dated back to the Assyrian and Akkadian empire — and as an extension of its attacks on ethnic and religious minorities under its jurisdiction, the Islamic State has decided to violently erase any signs of diverse cultural heritage by destroying these prized examples of history. The graphic nature of the videos that the Islamic State posts online are often shocking, but this does not mean that the group’s sole concern is shock value. Regardless of how outdated their ideology sounds or how gruesome their crimes may be, we should not ignore that the Islamic State has a distinctively zealous tone — one that makes them that much more dangerous than a collection of cruel sadists. If anything, it is a religious cult that will stop at nothing in its aggressive pursuit of establishing a fundamentalist Islamic order. We must accurately understand the ideological nature and the totalizing aims of the Islamic State to truly fathom how such an incomprehensible and inhumane group could attract so many to take part in its globally destructive mission.
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first offense, a one-term suspension for a second offense and a two-term suspension for a third offense. College organizations that provide alcohol to others will have their recognition suspended for one term following the first offense and face a one-year suspension following a second offense. If another incident occurs within the three-year period following the one-year suspension, the organization will permanently lose recognition. Director of the division of epidemiology and prevention research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Ralph Hingson, a member of the external “Moving Dartmouth Forward” review panel, said that he believes that whenever a university tries an innovative approach to address alcohol problems with college students, it is worth evaluating. While he has not met with the new review board yet and cannot speak for them, he did offer his personal take on the new policy implementation. Hingson said that since the policy is not eliminating alcohol altogether, some may be skeptical that changing the type of alcohol students drink will solve issues. He added, however, that the policy is worth implementing and evaluating. “I think that there are questions that ought to be resolved and evaluated and I think that Dartmouth has some excellent researchers that can undertake that evaluation,” Hingson said. Evaluation methods that Hingson said are important include surveying student opinion and measuring disciplinary actions before and after the ban. With the right evaluation, he said he thinks Dartmouth can “improve its programming and help other colleges
and universities grappling with the same issues.” Three outside alcohol policy experts criticized the ban and remained doubtful about its implementation. “I have some concerns about this approach because students can get drunk and experience serious harm if they drink too much wine or beer as well as with distilled spirits,” Traci Toomey, an epidemiology and community health professor at University of Minnesota, said. “I am not sure if policy will greatly reduce harm when looking across a whole range of alcohol-related problems.” Toomey said that she hopes the College will evaluate the many potential positive and negative consequences of the policy as it plays out. David Hanson, an expert on collegiate alcohol policy and a professor emeritus of sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, said he thinks that there is “plenty of reason to believe that the policy won’t work.” Hanson said he thinks that when something is prohibited it “doesn’t really prohibit the consumption, but rather changes the venue and drives people underground into very unregulated environments where there is no control.” He thinks that this may exacerbate high-risk drinking instead. Hanson believes that other policies that have had positive effects in the past could be pursued instead. He suggested social norms marketing as an alternative strategy, which can help people realize their misconceptions that other people drink more than they do and then choose to drink less themselves. He also suggested a system that other colleges use where an outside company monitors and takes legal and financial responsibility for policy violations that occur at a specific event.
The company then has an incentive to make sure people do not overdrink, he said. Adam Barry, a health education professor at Texas A&M University and the chair of the American College Health Association’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Coalition, said he thinks that the ban is a “little shortsighted” because there are health consequences resulting from all types of alcohol, not just hard liquor. “Eliminating hard liquor will not eliminate alcohol-related consequences. You do run the risk of students getting innovative with how they drink, what they drink, where they drink,” Barry said, adding that he is not sure if a policy like this can truly keep students from consuming hard liquor. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said he does not believe there will be many changes in Safety and Security’s role in regards to enforcement, as they already enforce the current alcohol policy. He said, however, that what will change is that they will confiscate hard alcohol and take appropriate action if they see it, whereas now they will not confiscate hard alcohol from the room of a student who is 21 years old or older. Safety and Security will also terminate all parties where hard
alcohol is being served. He does not foresee any large problems resulting from the policy change. He said that since students are learning about the policy a month in advance, they will hopefully have time to make adjustments in their behavior. Kinne also said that he would encourage people to read the policy emailed out and the attached frequently asked questions. He said that students should give Safety and Security a call if they are confused, adding that “they would be glad to answer any questions related to the policy.” Kinne said several times that the Good Samaritan policy will not be changed by the new ban. “Our most important thing is that we are concerned about health and welfare of students,” Kinne said. He said that he encourages students to still call Good Sam if there are concerns about the health of a student. Student opinion about the ban and the details of its implementation are generally negative. Of 10 students surveyed, nine had negative reactions to the policy. Several students were concerned that the new policy will drive drinking underground and make people less likely to use the Good Samaritan policy.
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“I think if drinking hard alcohol goes behind closed doors it will be a bigger problem because there will be more binge drinking and people won’t want to go to Dick’s House if it was from drinking hard alcohol,” Koryn Ternes ’16 said. Wafaa Ahmed ’17 said she thinks students are concerned the policy will not change the amount that students drink, but rather just change the substance. She echoed the belief that students will be less likely to utilize the Good Samaritan policy. Three of the 10 students surveyed said they do not drink, but two of these three were still not satisfied with the new ban. Other students had mixed opinions about the policy’s effectiveness. “At least it’s something, they are trying something to curb harmful behavior,” Ethan Canty ’15 said. He said, however, that he thinks the consequences are too severe. Cecelia Shao ’16 said she does not think that the ban is the most effective route. “I think you have to change the mentality surrounding alcohol as opposed to banning it,” Shao said. James Detweiler ’18 said that he is not hopeful for the policy. “This is going to create more problems then it solves,” he said.
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Student Spotlight: Stephanie Abbott-Grobicki ’15
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Stephanie Abbott-Grobicki ’15 is not a stranger to the stage. She began to study ballet at the age of four, and because her family moved frequently during her childhood, including to South Africa and France, Abbott-Grobicki said she was able to find some stability in dance. Her transition to acting began many years before she came to the College. After being introduced to a theater organization while still dancing, her spotlight on stage eventually evolved from dancing to acting. In high school, including time at boarding school, AbbottGrobicki continued to explore her interest in theater. At Dartmouth, beyond her classes as a theater major, she has participated in many studentproduced and theater department shows, including this winter’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” where she played a variety of roles including Friar Lawrence and Lord Capulet. In the spring, AbbottGrobicki will be completing a senior project, an as-of-yet untitled solo performance that she said explores “the process of moving on from death and losing someone you love.” “It’s a little strange,” AbbottGrobicki said. The final version will be a piece that reflects her own struggle “to
keep those that we love around us, but also move on,” as well as looking at death more generally, she said.
“I love the people in [the Rude Mechanicals.] I love being able to do a play every term, and I love that it is completely studentrun.” -stephanie abbottgrobicki ’15, executive director of the dartmouth rude mechanicals Abbott-Grobicki said that she is currently in the process of writing the piece and also plans to quote poems, books and monologues within it. In addition to student-produced shows and her senior project, Abbott-Grobicki has been involved in theater at the College through the Shakespeare g roup, the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals — the only theater group on campus that is completely student-run — and currently serves as the group’s
executive director. She said that she joined the Rude Mechanicals after hearing about the organization from a fellow actor she met through the fall mainstage production her freshman year. “I love the people in it,” AbbottGrobicki said. “I love being able to do a play every term, and I love that it is completely student-run.” Although the theater department will occasionally help with productions, the students in the g roup have complete control over all aspects of the Rude Mechanicals’ day-to-day production, she said. Of the many productions in which Abbott-Grobicki has performed during her time at the College, two of her favorites have been “The Winter’s Tale” and “Macbeth,” which were performed in the fall of 2013 and 2014, respectively. She said that while “The Winter’s Tale” is less well-known that other Shakespeare plays, she enjoyed the overall experience. She said that working with Luke Katler ’15, another actor in the Rude Mechanicals, was one of the highlights of being in “The Winter’s Tale.” “We turned an obscure play into a really fun experience,” she said. Abbott-Grobicki said that playing Lady Macbeth in last fall’s production of “Macbeth” has been one of the most enjoyable roles that she has played during
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Charli Fool Bear-Vetter ’15 performed “CFB” in last night’s “Voices.”
her time at the College. She said that Lady Macbeth is one of her favorites of Shakespeare’s female characters, because of her depth and complexity. “If I could play one part for the rest of my life, it would be her ,because she’s evil and crazy and wonderful,” Abbott-Grobicki said. Emily Everhard ’18, who is a member of the Rude Mechanicals, said that one of Abbott-Grobicki’s strengths is connecting with the
“Being a freshman, I was really intimidated and nervous, but [AbbottGrobicki] made me feel so welcome. She’s just a fun person to be on stage with.” -emily everhard ’18. member of the dartmouth rude mechanicals
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Stephanie Abbott-Grobicki ’15 dreams of moving to London, where she studied for the theater foreign study program.
group’s new members. “Being a freshman, I was really intimidated and nervous, but [Abbott-Grobicki] made me feel so welcome,” Everhard said. “She’s just a fun person to be on stage with. Everhard said that the “Macbeth” show was one of her favorite experiences as a member of the Rude Mechanicals so far because of her interactions with Abbott-Grobicki. “She has this crazy scene at the end, right before Lady Macbeth kills herself,” Everhard said. “It was really fun seeing how she is so different from her character
and fun to see the different sides of her.” Naomi Lazar ’17, also a member of the Rude Mechanicals, said that Abbott-Grobicki is dedicated to the Rude Mechanicals, especially during tech week — one of the most stressful times of being in a production. Although pressure is high and it’s difficult to balance slee p and homework, Lazar notes that it’s the little things that Abbott-Grobicki does during those times that show her caring personality. “The hardest week for a theater group is the week before the show,” she said. “We are rehearsing all night every night up until a performance. [Abbott-Grobicki] still took the time to celebrate my birthday with me after rehearsal was over.” As the executive director of the Rude Mechanicals, AbbottGrobicki said that she is responsible for essentially all aspects of running the group. “I’m in charge of organizing rehearsals, choosing shows, voting, looking for new spaces,” she said. During her time at the College, Abbott-Grobicki also went to London on the theater department foreign study program. After graduation, she plans to take some time off from both academics and theater to travel. She said that she hopes to spend time in Kenya and Tanzania, where she wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro , before returning to London, where she plans to focus on theater, audition for shows and eventually attend graduate school. The final word with Stephanie Abbott-Grobicki ’15 Favorite study space: Sixth floor stacks Favorite thing to get at KAF: Soy chai and apples Favorite piece of flair: Her batman dress.
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SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015
WEDNESDAY LINEUP
MEN’S LACROSSE VS. SACRED HEART
3 PM
WOMEN’S LACROSSE vs. BOSTON UNIVERSITY
5:30 PM
Individuals shine for men’s and women’s track teams at Heps B y CHRIS SHIM
The Dartmouth Staff
After months of training and preparation, the men’s and women’s track and field teams capped off their indoor seasons at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this past weekend at Harvard University. At the end of the weekend, the women finished in fourth and the men claimed sixth in the overall team standings. The teams accumulated numerous top-10 finishes along with two individual champions and two new school records. The only competition during the indoor season that brings all eight Ivy League teams together, Heps is unlike any other track and field meet across the country. “You don’t really understand the energy of the Heps unless you’ve been there,” women’s head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said. Both teams had some luck on their side and benefitted from stellar performances across the board. Dana Giordano ’16 was a standout for the Big Green, taking home victories in both the mile and the 3000 meters. Giordano also anchored the second-place distance medley team with Elizabeth Markowitz ’16, Anna Kikut ’16 and Bridget O’Neill
’18 . “I was hoping to win the mile and [3000 meters], but I knew it would be challenging with the trials and finals,” Giordano said. “The [distance medley relay] was very fun as well because we held on for second even with a very tired team.” Allison Frantz ’18 also had an impressive weekend, placing second in the pentathlon with 3,912 points and setting a new school record in the 60-meter hurdles in the process. Frantz also competed in the high jump, in which she placed second to teammate Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16, who jumped 5-7.25/1.71 meters. This marked the second time in three years that Whitehorn has won the event at Heps. “In my first event of the day, I ran 8.74 in the hurdles – that was totally unexpected,” Frantz said. “My personal best before that was 8.98, so it was a huge [personal record] for me as well as a school record.” Jennifer Meech ’16 finished third in the 400 meters and fourth in the 200 meters, and the athlete anchored the second-place 4x440-yard relay team with Marissa Evans ’18, Sara Kikut ’16 and Erica Hendershot ’15. Their 3:43.18 performance, when converted to the more commonly run 4x400-meter relay,
was a new school record. Hendershot also placed sixth in the 500 meter dash. Other strong finishes came from Reid Watson ’16 and Sarah DeLozier ’15 , who placed fourth and sixth in the 5000 meters, respectively. On the field, Marina Plesons ’15 placed fifth in the pole vault, and Molly Shapiro ’16 placed fifth in the triple jump. The men’s side also featured some excellent performances, including two individual champions. Nico Robinson ’17 won the heptathlon with 5,342 points, edging out defending champion Peter Rhodes of Brown University by only five points. Curtis King ’16 also had a great weekend, winning the 5000 meters on Sunday and leading a 2-3 respective finish with teammate Joey Chapin ’16 in the 3000 meters. “Going into the meet, my coach and I both knew I could contend for the [5000 meter] win,” King said. “I had a little doubt going in because I had focused on the mile and [3000 meter] for most of the season, and this would be my first [5000 meter] of the season. That said, after coming in second in the [3000 meter] I felt confident.” Alex Frye ’17 claimed second in the high jump, as well as claiming fifth in the 60-meter hurdles final. Adding to the Big Green’s success, Max Cosculluela
can build off of.” Playing in his home state of Texas, Robinson dominated the mound, tossing five scoreless innings in the Friday night opener, allowing just two hits against 17 batters. Former co-captain Dustin Selzer ’14, a Big Green alum who hails from the Lone Star state, attended all three games in College Station. He said he’s looking forward to an incredible season from Robinson. “I think [Robinson] is going to have a monstrous season,” Selzer said “He’s just a really, really good pitcher, and he’s a year better, a year smarter [and] a year more mature.” Robinson helped guarantee the Big Green was more than competitive against Texas A&M on Friday night, leaving after his fifth frame with the team holding on to a three-run lead against the Aggies. The lead came in the first inning, sparked by shortstop Matt Parisi ’15, who singled up the middle in the team’s first at-bat of the season. After being moved over to second by centerfielder Nick Ruppert ’16, Parisi was batted in on a double down the left line, cracked off the bat of third
baseman Nick Lombardi ’15. Two more runs in the third inning, scored by Ruppert and Lombardi and achieved partly through errors and a walk, rounded out the team’s lead. Chris Burkholder ’17 came out of the bullpen hot in the sixth inning to replace Robinson, but surrendered four runs in the eighth off two two-run homeruns. He was pulled with two outs left and relieved by Sam Fichthorn ’18. Finishing Friday’s game was the first of Fichthorn’s two appearances in the series, with the second coming when he pitched the final three frames of Sunday’s lop-sided 10-4 match. Sunday’s loss for the Big Green was decided much earlier in the game, as the Aggies had managed to bring home 10 runs by the end of the fifth. Fichthorn threw three shutout innings on Sunday, collecting seven ground outs and allowing three hits — all singles. “[Fichthorn] did really well,” head coach Bob Whalen said. “You prepare kids the best you can but you also look for situations — particularly early in the careers — where you’re pretty sure they can be successful.”
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Kaitlin Whitehorn ‘16 won the high jump for the second time in three years.
’17 placed fifth in the pole vault, Dom Filiano ’14 placed fifth in the weight throw and Ben Colello ’18, Zachary Plante ’18, Amos Cariati ’18 and Phil Gomez ’17 combined to place second in the 4x440-yard relay. What made each of these performances even more impressive was the fact that many athletes were competing in multiple events. Both King and Frantz emphasized the importance of taking it easy and staying relaxed between events. “There really is no way to recover between events — it’s a matter of convincing yourself that you are not as exhausted as it seems,” Frantz said. Both the athletes and coaches emphasized the energizing atmosphere of the Heps and the resulting camaraderie.
“When I came around onto the home stretch I saw the Dartmouth section and knew I had it,” King said when describing his victory in the 5000 meters. “The next 50 meters were some of the happiest steps I have ever taken.” Most of the team will take some time to rest and recharge before their spring break trip, where they will train and compete in the South Carolina sun. Some athletes, however, will be competing at the ECAC/IC4A meet next weekend in Boston, looking to get in one last competition before the outdoor season. Giordano said she will be the team’s lone representative at the NCAA National Championships on Mar. 13-14 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she will compete in the 3000 meters.
Baseball returns winless from opening series against Texas A&M
B y GAYNE KAULSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
You can always tell when it’s the first weekend of a baseball team’s season. The pitchers’ ERAs are largely goose eggs or more similar to their own shoe sizes. The batting averages of a few hitters are impressive, some almost unreal, while others are closer to BACs after a few games of pong. Drawing from just about the smallest sample size you can, the numbers often feel wild and erratic. So what can be done to make sense of the team’s 0-3 series against No. 14 Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, this past weekend? “Duncan [Robinson ’16] pitched really well Friday night and Dustin [Shirley ’18] had a good weekend at second base,” captain Louis Concato ’14 said. “I thought for the most part we did a good job defensively. We did a lot of good things throughout the weekend, but there’s always room to improve. Obviously, we would have liked to have won all the games we played or even some of them, but there were some important things that I think we
While Fichthorn didn’t see much time on the mound on Friday night, Whalen said that the pitcher’s performance was what convinced him to give Fichthorn another chance on Sunday to show what he could do pitching over a longer time in the game. “[Fichthorn] came in, good delivery, stayed within his delivery and threw strikes,” Whalen said. “[Friday] was his day — his arm was well rested and he was fine. I wanted to give him the opportunity on Sunday because the opportunity arose in the game which was kind of a low leverage situation, and I thought getting him back on the mound again would help his development.” It’s important for the Big Green, who is looking for reliable starters to eat innings and relievers who can clench wins or close games, to seek and identify talent on the mound during the preseason. Fichthorn, who threw just 47 pitches across three days and 3.2 innings, has the potential to be an important player for the Big Green. The pitcher has not had the opportunity to showcase his endurance, but with only one weekend behind the team, more opportunities
will present themselves. Concato came out and posted a 3.60 ERA for the weekend — exactly the same one he ended with last year— as if in a nod to his consistency on the mound. Playing the place of injured cocaptain Thomas Roulis ’15 was Shirley. While, as Selzer pointed out, “no one can replace Roulis,” Shirley showed the ability to make some defensive plays and could emerge as the team’s second baseman. “Shirley played second base, a position that he’d never played in high school,” Whalen said. “He was only in there a couple of times in the preseason because we didn’t anticipate that being a position that we were going to need. Then he goes out, and he plays great. These things happen and you [have to] roll with it.” The Big Green, will be returning to the South to play in Port Charlotte, Florida ,this weekend. The team will take on Indiana, Northwestern, Ball State and Bucknell Universitites in Florida Friday through Sunday at the Snowbird Classic.