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Five fraternities participated in winter rush this year.

By KRISTINE JIWOO AHN The Dartmouth

Last weekend, five fraternities extended 49 bids during winter rush.

The increase from last year’s 20 bids can be attributed to the lifting of Beta Alpha Omega’s suspension. Number s aside, winter rush was “largely similar” to prior years, according to

Interfraternity Council president James Burton ’17 .

According to Office of Greek Life director Brian Joyce, Alpha Chi Alpha and Sigma Nu extended three bids each, Kappa Kappa Kappa extended six and Zeta Psi extended four. Beta Alpha Omega, which has been suspended for the past two terms, officially welcomed 33

Study examines student debt

By FRANCES COHEN The Dartmouth

A recent study co-authored by sociology professor Jason Houle analyzing the causes of “boomeranging,” which refers to students living in their parent’s home post-graduation, found that there is no correlation between student debt and returning home, among other conclusions.

Houle has worked on several research projects that

focus on the psychological and sociological aspects of young adult indebtedness.

Neil Kamath ’17 is currently working with Houle on a manuscript relating to risk preferences in the context of young adult debt use. Kamath described Houle’s work as an attempt to change current negative conversations about debt.

“Professor Houle seeks to rewrite the narrative and SEE DEBT PAGE 3

new members this winter.

Beta took a large class this term since they were unable to take a class in the fall, Joyce said. Last winter, Alpha Chi Alpha, Chi Gamma Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon extended three bids each, Tri-Kap extended four, Sigma Nu extended two and Zeta Psi extended six, SEE RUSH PAGE 2

Twenty-one percent of Dartmouth students come from families in the top one percent of total income earners, a recent New York Times report on college economic diversity found.

The study, using data from the Class of 2013 , revealed that Dartmouth students have disproportionately wealthy backgrounds, even in comparison to students at other Ivy League and highly-selective schools.

According to the report, the median family income of a Dartmouth student is $200,400, which is the second highest among Ivy League schools and 24th among colleges nationwide. Dartmouth ranks highest in the Ivy League and 11th among all colleges for students from the top one percent of earners, referring to those with a family income of $630,000 or higher per year.

While 69 percent of students come from the top 20 percent of family incomes, only 2.6 percent of students are from the bottom 20 percent. This data places Dartmouth sixth among Ivy League

institutions and 2,315th of all colleges studied for the share of students from the bottom fifth of income brackets. The average income percentile for a Dartmouth student is the 83rd percentile.

For 34-year-old Dartmouth graduates, the median individual income is $76,600, the study found. However, for men in this category, median individual income is $92,700 and for women, it is $64,500. The average graduate has an income in the 77th percentile, though “rich” students’ incomes are in the 78th percentile on average, and “poor” students’ are in the 73rd.

The report also found that 50 percent of students from the bottom fifth of incomes moved to the top fifth as adults, putting Dartmouth at 100th among all colleges but eighth in the Ivy League in the chance lower-class students have to become upperclass adults. Eleven percent of students moved up two or more income quintiles, making Dartmouth fifth in the Ivy League SEE NYT PAGE 3

Morano Gelato repurchased

By ALI STEINBERG The Dartmouth

E a rl i e r t h i s m o n t h , founder of Morano Gelato Morgan Morano bought back the Hanover location with partners Victoria and Richard Simek after selling it in 2013 to Norwich, Vermont couples Pam and Bill Miles and Jennifer and John Langhus.

Morano said that she sold the shop to spend more time outside of it and to consider how she could expand the business, having always intended to

buy back the location. In 2015, she opened a Morano Gelato shop in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2016, she began negotiations with the Mileses and Langhuses about whether they would join the franchise or choose to sell the location back to her, she said.

The Mileses and Langhuses decided to sell.

Although Pam Miles and Jennifer Langhus enjoyed being integrated in the Hanover and Upper Valley community as small business owners as well as the creative process of making gelato,

they did not wish to become part of the franchise and felt it was time to pursue other projects.

Langhus explained that she decided to sell the Hanover shop so that Morano could pursue her franchising goals.

“Gelato is actually not my dream; it’s [Morano]’s dream,” she said. “And the last thing I want to do, because I love it so much, is stand in front of somebody else’s dream.”

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Professor launches mental health app Fraternities extend 49 bids for winter rush and the natural support network of friends and family that surrounds an The Dartmouth individual most of the time, he said.

Proxi, an application developed by While most hospitals are required to Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry assess for suicide risk when patients professor Bill Hudenko in collaboration come in, when those patients leave, with the Digital Arts, Innovation they often lack an established support and Leadership lab, addresses the network.

The app is designed to help people gap between consumer technology and individual mental health care find a support network and provide by seeking to connect individuals, them with constant access to it, Hudenko said. their natural support “Proxi was born networks and clinicians “We all care out of this idea that in one unified network. we need to create a A f t e r w i n n i n g about someone, platform that really a D a r t m o u t h but most of us a person in Entrepreneurial don’t know how engages their own world,” Network Founder’s he said.

Grant , the Proxi to help.”

Hudenko hopes team went on to test Proxi will augment its prototype with the process of nearly 150 beta testers, -BILL HUDENKO, engaging with a Hudenko said. The GEISEL SCHOOL natural network platform integrates OF MEDICINE of people that one a suicide assessment already knows and tool made by WISER PSYCHIATRY trusts.

Systems, a consulting PROFESSOR Computer group for projects science professor using tools to predict human behavior. Hudenko noted and director of the DALI lab Lori the assessment, called Systematic Loeb said that she admired the project Electronic Risk Assessment for Suicide, because it has a real-world impact, or SERAS, has a 0.93 correlation with which she said is one of DALI’s goals.

The DALI lab worked with Hudenko in-person psychiatric evaluations.

Hudenko said that he sought to for almost a year to create a prototype synthesize his background in web of the application.

“It was a perfect project because we design and computer science with discrepancies he saw in mental health were able to get a working prototype treatment. There is a disconnect out that helped [Hudenko] to get to between actual medical treatment the next level, and that’s something

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that we really care about,” she said.

The Proxi app has three components. Proxi Reach seeks to connect users with their immediate circle of friends and family, who can send quick and immediate messages and images. Once a clinician is connected to this circle, Proxi Connect is unlocked, allowing members and the clinician to communicate about the individual as well. Finally, Proxi Assess uses the technology from WISER to monitor users’ mental statuses.

While other forms of social media exist, concerns about privacy and interest in providing secure comfort for users led the Proxi team to create their own app rather than relying on another form of media.

Psychological and brain sciences professor Luke Chang said that he is optimistic about the increasing role technology can play in mental health care. However, he voiced concerns about potential privacy violations, as well as where responsibility would fall in cases in which a support network were to become aware of potential risks of harm but failed to act, either because of a bystander affect or from being underprepared for how to help.

Currently, the Proxi team is finishing up beta testing and expects the app to be released in beginning of February.

“We all care about someone, but most of us don’t know how to help,” Hudenko said. “Proxi allows us to connect with other people and provide that care.”

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Correction appended (Jan. 26, 2017): The original version of the article titled, “Hopkins Center offers many ways for student arts involvement,” stated the current location of the ceramics workshop is across the Ledyard Bridge, toward Norwich, Vt, when in fact it recently moved to the basement of the Hopkins Center during fall 2016. The article also incorrectly stated the name of the workshop is the Davidson Ceramics Studio, when in fact it is known as the Ceramics Workshop. The article has been updated to reflect these changes.

“Some houses didn’t take any new members on in the winter, but some took many,” he said. totaling 21 new members.

Bones Gate, Chi Heorot, Gamma “It probably depends [on] who is Delta Chi, Phi Delta Alpha, Psi rushing and whether they’re a good Upsilon and Theta Delta Chi did fit for the house … it definitely not hold winter rush this winter, varies.”

A lack of potential consistent new members with the or less available previous “Some houses houses may affect y e a r. C h i didn’t take any the rush process, G a m m a but the fit of an Epsilon, new members on individual with a which held in the winter, but frater nity house rush last some took many. It is also relevant, year, did not Leonard said. hold rush this probably depends Burton said year. Sigma [on] who is rushing that winter rush Phi Epsilon participated and whether they’re followed the same procedures as fall in winter a good fit for the rush. Leonard rush, but did house ... it definitely d e s c r i b e d t h e not extend winter rush process any bids. varies. as “very open and D r e w easy to navigate.”

Leonard ’19, Zeta Psi who recently -DREW LEONARD ’19 p re s i d e n t Kev i n joined TriOzoria wrote in an K a p, s a i d email that rush is he rushed more laid back in this winter the winter because because he regretted not using the opportunity it is primarily targeted toward in the fall to “meet other Dartmouth those who could not rush in the students and become part of a fall.

This fall, 316 men joined IFC tight-knit community.” He said that he did not realize that he fraternities.

Representatives of Alpha Chi would regret opting out of the rush process until after fall term, when Alpha, Tri-Kap and Sigma Nu “the campus changed for him as did not respond to requests for comment by press time. an unaffiliated sophomore.”

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21% of students from top one percent Researchers study dynamics of student debt FROM NYT PAGE 1

and 2,004th of all colleges in overall financial mobility.

The College’s admission process is need-blind for domestic students, which means that their financial situation is not considered as a part of their application. However, several external factors cause highly-selective schools like Dartmouth to have disproportionately wealthy students, said Bev Taylor, founder of Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm.

“Wealthy families can send their children to the best high schools,” Taylor said. “They can get the best SAT, ACT, subject test and AP tutoring.

They can hire the best consultants, and when their child is getting an A-, or worse, a B+, they can hire a tutor for that course.”

Taylor added that parents with higher incomes often have college in mind even when considering preschool options for their children.

“You’d be amazed at how we get phone calls from parents who are just looking for nursery schools, and the right pre-K, because if they’re not in the right pre-K, my goodness, they might not get into the right kindergarten and the right elementary school,” Taylor said.

Another factor related to this issue,

according to Taylor, is the relatively large percentage of students admitted each year via early decision. Taylor said that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to apply to schools in the early decision round because they don’t have the option to compare their financial aid packages to those from other schools.

Over 40 percent of Dartmouth’s classes for four of the five past years have been composed of early decision students. Significant numbers of these incoming students are more likely to be from wealthy families, Taylor said.

Yet there are also implicit social factors behind the disproportionate wealth gap in highly selective schools, sociology professor Kimberly Rogers said.

“There are certain cultural beliefs that people have about Ivy League institutions,” Rogers said. “People seek out institutions that feel like home to them.”

Rogers added that elements such as family legacy and strong links to preparatory schools provide the social connections that make wealthier students more likely to apply to Ivy League schools.

“There’s a selection effect that happens, where people who are from a certain background seek out people who are from similar backgrounds,” Rogers said. “That’s something

sociologists call homophily. It’s the idea that birds of a feather flock together.”

Rogers said that while many of these issues are societal and out of the College’s direct control, Dartmouth’s large financial aid awards for disadvantaged students are important for helping those students afford the price of education In an email statement, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote that the average need-based grant given out by Dartmouth is $44,580, about $4,000 higher than the average amount given among schools in the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.

“Dartmouth is committed to access, affordability and expanding the socioeconomic diversity of our student body,” Lawrence wrote.

She added that Dartmouth recently joined the American Talent Initiative, an organization aimed at increasing the number of high-achieving, low-income students in undergraduate institutions with high graduation rates.

Although the College uses a needblind admission process, Taylor said highly-selective schools will often look at whether students marked on their application that they require financial aid and whether they are first-generation college students.

“There is no such thing as totally need-blind,” Taylor said.

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try to understand debt use as a way to invest in yourself for the future,” Kamath said.

Both Kamath’s work with Houle and the recent boomeranging study use data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a set of surveys designed to gather information on significant life events and to study young adult behavior, Kamath noted.

T his particular study on boomeranging had four key findings, Houle wrote in an email.

First, the representative sample of young adults does not demonstrate much evidence that student loan debt increases the risk of living at home post-graduation.

Second, the effect of student debt proved to be stronger in black youth than white youth.

In general, blacks borrow money for college at much higher rates than whites, because black students often come from socially disadvantaged families. This is a distant effect of slavery, as well as more contemporary forms of discrimination, Houle wrote.

Black youth are more likely than white youth to have private loans for college and discrimination also exists in the labor markets for recent graduates, Houle wrote.

Dartmouth’s director of financial aid Dino Koff agreed that federal and institutional loans are easier to pay off than private loans.

Federal loans allow more flexibility by providing repayment options that allow students to defer loans or base their payments on their income, he said.

Dartmouth’s graduating loan debt is significantly below the national average, which has a lot to do with

the availability of institutional loans, Koff said.

Some sociologists have referred to student loan debt as “predatory inclusion,” Houle said. This term refers to the idea that minorities that appear to have gained access to higher education have done so only on unequal and unfair terms.

Kamath’s work with Houle did not find a strong race component in the data, but the research did look at the effect of socioeconomic factors on debt repayment. These included parental net worth and parent education levels, Kamath said.

The third finding of the study was that college completion is a strong predictor for boomeranging. In fact, whether or not a student completed college correlates much more with returning home than student debt does.

This finding was surprising because the study’s initial aim was to focus on the effects of student debt, co-author Cody Warner wrote in an email.

Those who do not complete college have a similar experience in the labor market to high school graduates, who have very minimal success, Houle said.

The final finding was that young people’s post-college plans played an important role. Those who had transitioned into adult roles — such as marriage — were far less likely to return home.

This last finding was likely the least surprising one, Houle said.

The study aimed to answer the question of whether or not student loan debt is a crisis. The findings suggest that student loan debt pays off for certain groups of students, but not for others. It runs the risk of reproducing or even enhancing existing racial inequalities, Houle said.

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The New Anti-Semitism

We must embrace differing views — and civility — for a better Dartmouth.

“This House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.” That was a motion passed by the Oxford Union Society on Feb. 9, 1933.

Argued by pro-Soviet students and philosopher C.E.M. Joad, the motion supported a pacifist United Kingdom, one built upon peace and tolerance. It was heartily opposed by, amongst others, Quintin Hogg, later Baron Hailsham of St. Marylebone, later a Conservative Party politician, who refused to shake his opponent’s hand at the debate’s conclusion, because he was so angered by what he saw as an unpatriotic resolution.

But, despite the acrimonious disagreement, the debate was a reasoned one, a passionate one and a respectful one. It was mainly respectful and freedom of speech was held up as an essential virtue, even as fascism and communism — and therefore oppression of expression — spread across Europe. When, three weeks after the debate, Randolph Churchill — the son of Sir Winston — tried to have the motion expunged from the union’s records, he was voted down 750 to 138 at a meeting much better attended than the actual debate. To add insult to injury, he was then pursued by gleeful students attempting to debag him before he found that he had been fined by the city’s police for illegal parking.

This — barring any removal of pants or parking offenses — should be our goal at Dartmouth. Intellectually rigorous debate must rage here, but it must be respectful, cordial and exercised between passionate, decent people who express their ideas through words and reason, not through harmful actions. Our campus recently experienced such a debate. Timothy Messen ’18 held a discussion on the Green on the issue of flag burning, a proxy he utilized to highlight issues with President Donald Trump’s policies, including his stances on nuclear weapons, immigration and civil rights.

Messen’s discussion was attended by veterans and bikers, many supportive of Trump, as well as many Dartmouth students who held varying views both on Trump and flag burning. Messen and his opponents spoke about ideas and did not trade insults or outrages. They disagreed, but on the whole they were respectful. We, as Dartmouth students, ought to feel pride that our campus played host to such a reasonable, respectful exchange of ideas, mostly devoid of ad hominem attacks or trite bickering.

And Messen isn’t alone. Conservatives,

liberals, the new left — they’re all engaged in an ongoing and meaningful debates on this campus.

While there are moments when that debate can be harmful to respectful discourse — as when students tore down a display erected by the College Republicans in the Collis Center or when members of The Dartmouth Review destroyed a protest aimed at the apartheid regime in South Africa — most students are at least willing to hear opposing views, even if they don’t like them. Failing to hear opposing views is antithetical to Dartmouth’s being: the idea of openness, of political debate in which all views are welcomed, whether they are right or left, liberal or conservative.

We ought to be an open society, one that embraces respectful civil discourse and pluralism, accepting and hearing many ideas and beliefs.

That is the heart of a liberal arts education.

Diversity of thought is every bit as important — indeed, it is more important — than diversity of class or ethnicity or race or gender. Freedom of thought, open debate and inclusive dialogue are why we go to college. If you only hear your own views reinforced, if you isolate yourself from a conservative position or if you shield yourself from left-wing thought, you are not fulfilling your duties as a student.

One piece of good news to come out of Trump’s election has been a newfound participatory nature in American politics. Not only has Trump inspired millions of Americans who felt left behind by the political system — including many residents of rural areas who feel forgotten and belittled — but he has also energized his opposition in new ways, bringing people of all stripes together, causing Americans to pay more attention to the news and to our government. Love or hate Trump, that is for the best. Our republic is built upon participation and thus it only works when we discuss, when we participate, when we hear each other’s ideas.

In ancient Athens, the lawgiver Draco — from whom our word “draconian” takes its root — gave a speech so brilliant that his supporters “threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated,” according to the Suda. We must not be so quick to praise any leaders today. Instead, let us hear them — and then hear opposition — and so to build a better society through forums for more open debate.

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The U.N. and campus activists are uniting behind the evils of anti-zionism.

The Electoral College affirmed Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States on Dec. 19, 2016. Critics of the president argued that his election would empower anti-Semitism and, unfortunately, those predictions may be correct.

The Southern Poverty Law Center studied 867 hate incidents that occurred in the 10 days following Election Day and classified 100 of those as antiSemitic. Many incidents took place on college campuses. In New York, swastikas were drawn on several suite doors in a residence hall at the New School. A swastika was also drawn in a residence hall at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Anti-Semitic graffiti, including the words “Heil Trump” appeared at a bus stop at the University of California at San Diego. Jewish faculty members have also been targeted. At Oberlin College, a professor found a note outside his home that said “Gas Jews Die” and a professor at Harvard Law School received a postcard that said, “We’re gonna drain the swamp at Harvard Law” and closed with a Nazi-era phrase, “Juden Raus,” meaning “Jews out.”

This overt type of anti-Semitism, however, is not the only threat. Just over six weeks after the presidential election, on Dec. 23, 2016, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution that condemned the building of Israeli settlements in any area outside of Israel’s borders prior to the 1967 Six-Day War and defined the Old City of Jerusalem as occupied territory. The United States abstained from the Security Council vote, which prompted many Jewish organizations to emphasize that the U.N. has historically been anti-Israel and to criticize the Obama administration for failing to veto the resolution. Indeed, in her abstention statement, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said, “One need only look at the 18 resolutions against Israel adopted during the U.N. General Assembly in September, or the 12 Israel-specific resolutions adopted this year in the [U.N.] human rights council — more than those focused on Syria, North Korea, Iran and South Sudan put together — to see that in 2016 Israel continues to be treated differently from other Member States.” And yet Power abstained.

The reality is that, in the 21st century, Jews around the world, including in the United States, are still targets of anti-Semitism. Some of that anti-Semitism, particularly in the aftermath of the presidential election, is overt. But much of it is more subtle, like the actions of the United Nations, which attacks the policies of the state of Israel in an effort to delegitimize the broader idea of a Jewish nation-state. This is the “new anti-Semitism” that has erupted on many campuses in the United States and Europe. What is most surprising about this form of anti-Semitism is that it thrives in part because of the widespread desire on campuses to promote political correctness.

At Dartmouth, the new anti-Semitism often manifests in regular discourse that seeks to highlight “oppression” or “inequality.” Often, it is the same students who fight for progressive causes, such as LGBTIQ and women’s rights, who choose to single out and condemn the only country in the Middle East that provides equal rights under the law to both LGBTIQ citizens and women.

On April 30, 2016, the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth invited professor Jasbir Puar, someone who I believe is anti-Semitic, to campus for its “Archipelagic Entanglements” panel. Although the stated topic for the panel was “Gender Matters:

Feminist Ecologies and Materialisms,” Puar used her time to make gruesome and unsubstantiated claims against Israel. Notwithstanding the lack of evidence supporting her claims, which included the baseless accusation that the Israeli Defense Forces have a policy of shooting to cripple or maim Palestinians, Dartmouth allowed Puar a platform to disseminate her anti-Semitic vitriol as the uncontested truth. A Jewish student who sought to film Puar’s remarks was allegedly confronted by the director of GRID, threatened with arrest and required to leave the event. Neel Ahuja, an English professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was also speaking at the panel, said after Puar’s presentation that in attempting to film her, the student had “disrupted … [Puar’s] space” and “that controversy about filming and recording [Puar’s] talk fulfills a certain algorithmic militarism.” This sort of rhetoric is exactly the reason why political correctness is toxic to academia; Puar and many of her peers claim to be committed to social equality when in fact they are committed to ideological repression.

By employing political correctness to silence the critics of self-proclaimed “scholars” like Puar, many universities fall prey to the rising tide of anti-Semitism hidden under the veil of antiZionism. Being anti-Israel is in vogue on many campuses. Because anti-Israel sentiments are popular, they are deemed politically correct. Being pro-Israel, on the other hand, is often described as racist. Political correctness serves as a veil behind which anti-Semitism can hide. When political correctness is promoted by academics and university administrators, it fuels a widespread disdain for Israel and promotes anti-Semitism.

Last October, a University College London pro-Israel organization invited Hen Mazzig to campus to discuss his humanitarian work in the West Bank. When Mazzig began to address the audience, protesters stormed into the auditorium and put an end to the lecture and barricaded Jewish students in a room. In its response to the events, a UCL spokesman said, “We regret protestors took measures to try to prevent the event from happening but stress that the protest was non-violent.” Video accounts appear to belie this statement. It was only after pressure from pro-Israel groups that the UCL administration admitted that they received “allegations of violence and intimidation” and began an investigation.

In initially denying the potentially violent nature of the protests, the UCL administration followed in the footsteps of many American universities, adopting a public relations strategy that appeases anti-Israel protesters and does nothing to make pro-Israel students comfortable with sharing their views. These universities have capitulated to a bizarre political correctness by seldom condemning protesters who align with any supposed progressive agenda. Instead of searching for truth, these universities seek to undermine it.

Academics cannot purport to be taking the moral high ground in a fight to end discrimination when they are discriminating against those who disagree with them. College campuses ought to serve their purpose as forums of intellectual diversity, rather than as spaces of free thought for only those who conform to the views of the most outspoken or to the views of the majority.

Kauderer currently serves as a fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

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Morano Gelato Hanover becomes flagship store FROM MORANO PAGE 1

opportunity to buy back the Hanover location represented the chance for her to return to Morano Gelato’s beginning and to a community that encouraged the growth of her company.

“I started close to seven years ago on the Dartmouth Green, right there, scooping out of a freezer at a farmer’s market,” Morano explained. “And it was the community that really supported me, including the Dartmouth community, that lined up for the gelato and encouraged me and encouraged other people in business, including landlords, to take risks with me and the company.”

Morano Gelato Hanover is now the organization’s flagship location, meaning that new products and flavors, such as gelato pasta, will debut there and affect companywide implementation. Previously, this was done at the Chestnut Hill location, Morano said.

Morano’s ability to work in Hanover allows her to partner with the Simeks, who are based in New London and had signed a franchise agreement with Morano Gelato in October 2016.

Victoria Simek, who has a

marketing backg round, ha d been researching a franchise opportunity to get involved with.

Upon tasting Morano Gelato and then researching the company and Morano, Simek realized that she wanted to join Morano’s franchise and be part of its growth, she said.

After buying the Hanover location, Morano and the Simeks repainted, installed new floors and premiered new gelato cakes and cone sizes in the store. Since reopening the Hanover location on Jan. 14, Morano said that she and the Simeks have received positive response both to Morano’s return and the Simeks joining the Hanover location.

Morano decided to expand the company for the same reason she first opened the store: to introduce people and communities to authentic Italian gelato.

Some customers told Morano that she should not expand because of the quality decline that many assume inevitably comes with franchising, she said. Morano quelled this idea, expressing that multiple groups should have access to authentic Italian gelato.

“When something is special and unique and has the potential to bring joy to other people in different communities, it’s selfish not to share

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The Morano Gelato location in Hanover is now open seven days a week and will debut new products and flavors.

it,” she said.

M o r a n o e m p h a s i ze d t h at expansion and franchising efforts will not affect the gelato’s quality, and that the company will grow in a slow, controlled fashion.

Within the next few months, the company will be opening a Westfi eld, New Jersey location.

Morano also plans to sign between six and eight franchisees within the year, develop new products and spend more time creating gelato in the kitchen.

Victoria Simek expressed her desire to have a firm foundation in

Hanover and continue to strengthen relations between Morano Gelato and the Dartmouth community.

Over the next three to five years, Simek hopes to own three Morano Gelato franchises, she said.

Morano and the former owners remain on amicable terms.

Po s t - M o r a n o o w n e r s h i p, Jennifer Langhus is the musical director for a middle school musical and plans to open a vocal studio in her house, teach voice lessons, participate in shows with the North County Community Theatre and volunteer in her children’s schools.

Pam Miles has no concrete plans but is currently assistant teaching community Spanish classes at the Rassias Language Immersion Program and is looking forward to spending time with family.

Jennifer Langhus explained that, now that she is no longer a part of the store, she misses her Italian coffee and still goes to the shop to have a cappuccino.

“In fact I’m going in there today,” she said. “Because, if I don’t have a cappuccino, I’m gonna die.”

The Hanover location is now open seven days a week.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sapientia Lecture Series: “Nietzsche’s Psychology of Metaphysics (or, Metaphysics as Revenge),” with University of Kansas professor Scott Jenkins, Thornton Hall 103

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: “Being with Dying” presented by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Rudresh Mahanthappa’s “Bird Calls,” a jazz tribute to Charlie “Bird” Parker, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Bassoon Master Class with John Steinmetz, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

“Two to Tango,” demonstration by Keysi Montas and Noelia Cirnigliaro, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Film: “Nocturnal Animals” with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, Loew Auditorium 104, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Q&A: ‘Top Model’ contestant Whitney Cunningham ’07

By ZACH CHERIAN The Dartmouth

Whitney Cunningham ’07, a native of West Palm Beach, Florida, played basketball and studied sociology at Dartmouth. During her senior year, she was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8.

Now, she works in marketing.

W h a t m a d e yo u c h o o s e Dartmouth?

WC: I wanted to go to the Ivy League. I thought that would be a good experience for someone coming from West Palm Beach.

And I played basketball, and I had always looked at basketball as an opportunity to advance my education and really heighten those experiences that I have from an educational perspective. So playing basketball in high school and then going off to Dartmouth to play was really an opportunity, as opposed to wanting to play professionally — that really wasn’t my objective.

I went to a few other Ivies and had been recruited by a few of them as well, and Dartmouth was the one that stood out to me the most. I

really enjoyed my recruiting visit, and I think that its ability to match individuals to others from similar yet diverse backgrounds is really what drew me to the school. Also, it was in Hanover, New Hampshire, and I thought, “Go for the experience.”

I really enjoyed my time and think quite fondly of it now, all these years later.

Did you end up playing on the basketball team for all four years?

WC: Interestingly enough, I left the team my second year and probably a day later is when I applied for America’s Next Top Model. It’s something I always wanted to do, and I figured, “Why not?” I had taken some time during the summer and tried my hand at modeling, and when I left the basketball team I was like, “Well, let me give it some more thought,” and that’s what inspired me to apply to America’s Next Top Model — lining up my next move.

What was the process like for auditioning for America’s Next Top Model?

WC: I saw the casting call on a commercial in my dorm room. The casting was down in Boston and I had a car, and so I rallied all of my girlfriends to drive down there with me and was like “Oh, we should all audition, we’re tall enough, cute enough, let’s go do it.” They were like, “Yeah, let’s go do it.” I did the application and was trying to rally the troops, but when I woke up the next morning, they had all had a long night, and they didn’t come with me, so I had to drive down myself. Auditioned for the process, submitted my application, and during that summer after school, I got a callback from the company and the casting producers. They said they wanted me to continue the process. So I got to the final round for Cycle 7, and then they decided not to move forward. So I tossed out the ANTM plan and went on to my senior fall at Dartmouth.

So I was back at school and actually at a football game on a Saturday when I got the call from casting. I remember running down the stairs of the stands and out of the stadium — casting was calling me directly, so I’m trying to get out of the roars of the stadium. They

were calling to ask me be a part of Cycle 8. They were saying they really enjoyed my application for Cycle 7, but they thought it was best for me to be a part of Cycle 8. I did not turn down the opportunity. That was Saturday, and by Monday or Tuesday, I was headed to fly out to Los Angeles.

So what did you think of your time on the show?

WC: I thought my time on the show was pretty much life-altering.

That was my expectation when I went on the show — for a lifealtering experience. I really do give Dartmouth a lot of credit for supporting me and making it easy for me to have that experience and go on the show, and even just the student body’s reaction when I came back. They were really lining me up to have a life résumé, and that’s something that I think is so important for young candidates as they’re entering the workforce: creating a life résumé. I think that in the past we’ve always looked at career résumés. Those things are great, but it’s the life experiences that are all a foundation for your

long-term growth. I think creating a lot of different experiences to give you those perspectives made all the difference for me in going on that show. And it also created opportunities.

After coming off the show, Dartmouth’s support helped me to get my first job as a result of being on ANTM. My experience on the show was everything that I had hoped it to be. I think I made my parents proud. It was really an opportunity, and I was overwhelmed and empowered by the opportunity to use my voice to positively impact somebody who was watching. I was a plus-sized model, I was the Ivy League girl, I was a black woman, and the response I got from women and men about how I might’ve touched them in some way — that was really the bridge that created my career track. Ever since then I have taken that mission to use your voice to positively impact the needs of an audience and made it my career. So that is my biggest takeaway from the show, and I have nothing but positive things to say about it.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Rudresh Mahanthappa to perform ‘Bird Calls’ selections tonight

By KYLEE SIBILIA The Dartmouth

Rudresh Mahanthappa’s newest album, “Bird Calls,” may have started as an homage to his lifelong hero, renowned saxophone player and icon Charlie “Bird” Parker, but since its inception, the record has evolved into a fusion of jazz, bird-like motifs and Mahanthappa’s own Indian heritage.

Mahanthappa, an accomplished alto saxophonist, will perform a selection of songs from “Bird Calls” tonight at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium. While Mahanthappa composed all of the songs on this album, his performance tonight will be accompanied by Josh Evans on trumpet, Thomson Kneeland on bass, Matt Mitchell on piano and Dan Weiss on drums.

While all of these musicians have received high praise for their work, this particular collaboration is not the group that performed on the original recording of “Bird Calls.”

However, Mahanthappa praises the unique sound quality of the new combination.

“Everyone’s energy always adds something different to the spirit of the music, so it’s always exciting for me to pair up different people,” Mahanthappa said. “It’s always fun to see how those combinations play out.”

Mahanthappa certainly knows his way around new combinations, having collaborated on 11 different

albums with numerous musicians.

In addition to his strong background producing music, Mahanthappa also has experience teaching his craft. In 2016, Mahanthappa was named the director of jazz and the associate director of the program in musical performance at Princeton University.

As part of his visit to Hanover for this performance, Mahanthappa taught a master class in saxophone playing in Faulkner Recital Hall on Wednesday.

After playing solo for a few minutes, Mahanthappa taught a collection of students how to learn a new solo by ear rather than by transcription.

“It sounded like a structured chaos,” Zoe Guttendorf ’17 said, regarding Mahanthappa’s solo portion of the lesson. Mahanthappa combined several different forms of music for this section, creating a dynamic combination of sounds.

In this respect, Mahanthappa teaches the way he plays — he combines different forms of music to create an entirely new piece.

Mahanthappa remembers the exact moment of the inception of his interest in putting different sections of music together.

“I was working on [Charlie Parker’s song ‘Donna Lee’] with a student of mine about twenty years ago, and we were taking little bits of the melody kind of in isolation,” Mahanthappa said. “And we were talking about how, taken out of context, these little snippets can sound

very modern.”

It was this moment, then, that also eventually led to Mahanthappa’s interest in reviving the work of Charlie Parker, a famous American jazz saxophonist and composer known for his contribution to the development of the bebop movement during the 1940’s.

“It had always been in the back of my mind that maybe there was a way to reexamine Charlie Parker and kind of put all the great things that he gave us in a very modern context, and I think that’s what the album really does,” he said.

Parker’s nickname, “Bird,” led to Mahanthappa’s interest in bird-like motifs. However, despite his influence on the album, Mahanthappa did not cover any of Parker’s songs in the recording. However, Mahanthappa explained that Parker’s influence still permeates the inner workings of each song on the album.

“Every piece on the album is literally tied to a piece of his or a solo of his,” he said. “Are [audience members] going to hear it? I don’t know if they’re going to hear it, but I think I could probably break it down and explain it in a way that somebody would understand.”

With a post-perfor mance discussion following the “Bird Calls” performance, listeners will have an opportunity to question Mahanthappa and other band members on the nature of their music.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” Laura Walk ’20 said. “It’s really great when a performer gives you an element to listen for during the performance.”

Downbeat named “Bird Calls” its number one album of the year, and it tied for the same honor in National Public Radio Music’s 2015 Jazz Critics Poll. Mahanthappa, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2015 United States Artist Fellow, is excited for young people to hear jazz and appreciate its vivacious qualities.

“Jazz is very much a living art form,” he said. “I think there’s a sense that jazz is your grandfather’s music, and I think it would be great

if [Dartmouth students] could come to the show and see how jazz is just as relevant to them as it is to anybody else.”

Attendees of tonight’s performance will be exposed not only to the lively sounds of jazz music but also to the fascinating personality of Mahanthappa, who treated those who attended his master class to a glimpse of this charisma while explaining the importance of working hard to perfect one’s musical craft.

“We should all be the best at what we’re trying to do, whether that’s playing the saxophone or making chocolate cake,” Mahanthappa said.

“It’s worth being great at something.”

COURTESY OF JIMMY KATZ

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will perform in Spaulding tonight.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017

SPORTS

TODAY’S LINEUP

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL v. COLUMBIA 7 p.m.

Basketball coaches, players see promise in Ivy tournament

By SABENA ALLEN

The Dartmouth Staff

On March 10, 2016, the Ivy League announced its decision to implement a four-team postseason tournament for men’s and women’s basketball. The Ancient Eight is the last of the 32 Division I leagues to switch to a postseason tournament to determine its guaranteed NCAA championship bid.

At the tournament, the No. 1 team will play the No. 4 team, and the No. 2 team will take on the No. 3 team.

The winners of that round will face off to decide who gets the NCAA bid. “[It’s] historic,” men’s basketball head coach David McLaughlin said. “It’s a nationally renowned conference, the Ivy League, and now you have a league tournament which is going to be a historic weekend.

There are a lot of basketball fans out there, and all eyes across the country are going to be on this tournament this year.”

Previously, the NCAA bid winner had to be the best team outright, which meant that teams with a slow start and several early losses could be out of the running very quickly.

According to women’s head coach Belle Koclanes, the new tournament style gives teams room to grow.

“Your fate [had] been determined in the past earlier in the year,” she said. “So, let’s say you don’t start off the Ivy League season very well, but

then you’re playing better towards the end of the season. It’s a little too late for that at times. Now you have a little bit more room to progress and show that progression throughout the Ivy League season.”

The tournament format also makes regular-season games more important.

“You always have the chance — every game really matters now and especially later on into the season,” McLaughlin said. “So all league games, not that they weren’t all vitally important, but now they just play a major role in terms of vying for a spot to be one of those four teams.”

Teams could now have as many as four to six losses and still qualify for the post-season tournament, according to men’s player Miles Wright ’18.

The new format also shortens the season. Each team will now play 27 games instead of the 28 they had played in previous seasons. The 27-game limit allows for more prep time between games and a game-free weekend during the season, Wright said.

The league reached the decision to implement the playoff over the course of several years, according to athletic director Harry Sheehy.

“The men’s and the women’s basketball coaching groups vetted this within their own groups and then came forward to the athletic directors with a formal proposal,” Sheehy said.

“After some tweaking [which] took

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The Dartmouth men’s basketball team, currently 0-2 in the Ivy League, is vying for a spot in the postseason tournament.

place over a couple of years, they came back and then we took the proposal to the presidents who passed it.”

Coaches and players alike have expressed satisfaction with the new tournament system.

“I think the biggest benefit with be the competitiveness towards the end of league play,” Wright said. “I know a lot of teams, after you get those first two losses you kind of are disqualified from that number one spot. A lot of

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The Dartmouth women’s basketball team is currently 5-12 overall and 0-2 in the Ivy League.

teams just kind of trail off, and you’re I’m looking forward to for our players playing for pride, but if you’re playing to experience. Now we’ve got to earn for postseason chances, there’s a lot the right to be there, top four.” more to play for.”

The 2017 women’s and men’s The possibility of a postseason tournaments will be held at the chance has also improved morale University of Pennsylvania on March among Big Green players.

11 to 12. UPenn’s home court, “Once you the Palestra get those first — which has couple losses, “That experience is played host to u s u a l l y y o u incredible. It’s high more college would just basketball energy, it happens in know like you’re games than any not making it March during March other arena — to the NCAA Madness, so that’s was chosen tour nament,” for its historic Wright said. certainly going to be a significance, “Which doesn’t benefit that I’m looking according to mean you don’t Koclanes. forward to for our play hard, and T h e you still come players to experience.”

Big Green to work every m e n’s a n d day and bring women’s teams everything you -BELLE KOCLANES, currently sit at have, but [the WOMEN’S BASKETBALL sixth in the tournament is] Iv y League HEAD COACH something to standing, look forward to respectively. at the end of the Despite the season.” slow start, Wright said Big Green Koclanes stressed the tournament players have their sights set on as a unique student experience.

Philadelphia. A berth in the men’s “Our student-athletes have never NCAA tournament would end a had the opportunity to compete in a 57-year drought for Dartmouth, the conference tournament,” she said. longest of any Division I team which “That experience is incredible. It’s has been to the Big Dance. high energy, it happens in March “It’s like a goal at the end of the during March Madness, so that’s road, and you’re just pushing to get certainly going to be a benefit that there,” Wright said.