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General Ham talks Tucker ’15 remembered PTSD, military service

By Hannah Hye Min Chung The Dartmouth Staff

After returning from military service in Iraq, retired General Carter Ham barely talked to anyone. He thought he was “doing

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burst out of his daughter’s house and jumped into his arms, he realized he needed help managing the post-traumatic stress disorder he had suffered from since witnessing a suicide bombing.

Ham also served in various parts of Africa, where he led the U.S. Africa Command, and in Europe. He has engaged in advocacy

and policy analysis on issues that affect the military, like health services and the “don’t ask, don’t

In a public discussion on Jan. 30, the beginning of his two-week residency at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Ham spoke about his interpretation and understandings of African government, security and economics. Johnnie Carson, former assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, also spoke.

Ham then gave a public lecSEE HAM PAGE 5

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Students gathered on Baker Lawn to honor Torin Tucker ’15 on Wednesday evening.

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At the beginning of his freshman fall, Torin Tucker ‘15 emailed a group of students he barely knew: “Hey guys, let’s all go hang out at

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until 10th grade, when he switched to Nordic skiing and moved from Portland, Ore. to Sun Valley, Idaho, because he began outperforming local competitors, his mother said.

The Tucker family decided to move to Sun Valley because its junior Nordic program is one of the nation’s best, placing many skiers in top colleges and on the Olympic team. As a member of the Sun Valley Nordic team, Tucker qualiSEE TUCKER PAGE 3

Alaska rocket to collect space data Haven opens doors to provide warmth

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Within the next few days, two rockets will be sent into space from an Alaska launch site. Dartmouth physics researchers have participated in the mission as part of “Cube

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note read. They responded with a resounding yes, relieved that someone broke the ice.

This is who Torin Tucker was.

Tucker, who died Saturday while competing in a cross-country ski race

in Craftsbury, Vt., is remembered by family and friends for his compassion, inclusivity and outgoing personality.

His journey was one of adventure and accomplishment, talent and tenacity, hard-work and humility.

From the day he was born, Tucker loved being outside, said Kathryn Tucker, his mother. He started skiing both downhill and cross-country as soon as he could walk.

Soon, he fell in love with the sport.

He was an alpine skier

aims to launch low-cost satellites into short-term orbits around the Earth. One of the rockets, carrying College

instruments, will not orbit the Earth but will instead test a new hardware system that may be used in future orbiting satellites, physics professor Kristina Lynch said.

cheaply constructed satellite, consisting of a box containing data-gathering instruments and a device to communicate this data to researchers on the ground.

Although the researchers’

initial plan was to launch a pair of rockets yesterday, both were postponed. NASA delayed the

the moon was too bright Wednesday afternoon, while the second was hindered by snow, Lynch said. The team will try again when conditions improve in the coming days. larger rocket will gather data SEE ROCKETS PAGE 2

By Brian Chalif The Dartmouth Staff

To protect those without a warm shelter from blistering winds and subzero temperatures, the Upper Valley Haven opened a warming center on Jan. 22. After Vermont reduced funding for emergency cold weather programs last year,

Haven staff realized they needed to provide a safe place for people to get out of the cold, volunteer services coordinator Laura Perez said.

The Haven, based in White River Junction, will keep its community services building open from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.,

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DAily debriefing BROWN UNIVERSITY: Brown University’s New Scientist Program is launching its Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Initiative this semester, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The initiative pairs junior and senior undergraduate science majors with graduate students, who will serve as peer advisors and help them prepare for graduate school. The program is currently training 25 graduate students to serve as mentors.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: A student is launching a smartphone application with Columbia University dining hall information, according to the Columbia Spectator. The app, called Dine@CU, will allow students to look up location hours, menus and nutritional facts. Currently in its pilot phase, the application will soon be available through iTunes.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY: Cornell University will begin offering a cross-college minor in demography this semester, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The minor will encompass population-related courses across 24 departments and programs. Students from each of Cornell’s undergraduate schools will be able to select the minor.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Harvard University received 34,295 applications for the Class of 2018, a 2 percent decrease from last year, according to the Harvard Crimson. This year, more applicants requested fee waivers, non-white applications also increased.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: On Monday, Princeton University announced that David Dobkin will step down as dean of the faculty at the end of this academic year, the Daily Princetonian reported. Dobkin has served as dean since 2003 and joined the Princeton faculty in 1981. He will take a yearlong sabbatical before returning to his role as a computer science professor.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: University of Pennsylvania sophomore Elvis Hatcher died on Tuesday, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The cause of his death was ruled a suicide, the university’s second in three weeks.

YALE UNIVERSITY: This week, Yale University released its semi-annual report of sexual misconduct complaints, which included the highest number Daily News. The report contained 70 complaints of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and general sexual harassment, a 15 percent increase in complaints from the previous six-month period.

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Rocket to test Dartmouth hardware FROM roCKEtS PAGE 1

about the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. The northern lights are a phenomena caused by the collisions of charged particles just outside the earth’s atmosphere.

Marilia Samara GR’05 is the principal investigator for the larger rocket and is currently at the launch site in Venetie, Alaska. The rocket will measure particles like ions and electrons as well as electric and instruments on board the rocket are complemented by ground-based imaging equipment, allowing the aurora to be viewed from both above and below.

With the launch Samara, who currently works at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, is continuing research she did as a Dartmouth graduate student.

The smaller rocket will only reach an altitude of 5 kilometers before returning to Earth, said Rob Clayton, a second-year Dartmouth graduate student working on the project.

It carries a communications device, a GPS and other instruments from Dartmouth. Although not a Cube Swarm rocket, it will test technology for potential future use, Lynch said.

The Cube Swarm project will

tell scientists how the aurora moves through space in a way that individual rockets cannot. Typically, data is only taken from a single rocket, so researchers are often unable to distinguish between the movement of the rocket and that of the aurora, Lynch said. Because Cube Swarm has more than one point of data collection, it provides more conclusive results.

Cube Swarm rockets will cost less than the “solid-gold Cadillac” rockets researchers are currently launching, Lynch said. Because the “cubes” will only be in space for up to three months at a time, they do not need the expensive features like radiation resistance that satellite parts currently have, Lynch said.

cheap you can make your spacecraft and still get viable science out of it,” Lynch said.

A group of Dartmouth undergraduates started Cube Swarm in 2008 after deciding they wanted to take more direction over their work instead of having to do “a lot of soldering, screwing and bolting,” Lynch said.

“Green Cube,” the predecessor nearby Mount Washington in a high altitude balloon. A later version of this project saw a swarm of “cubes”

down the Connecticut River, Lynch said.

The project will launch third rocket in April, which will be larger

designed to research the aurora, ascending up to 135 kilometers.

In March, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will work with the Green Cube project in a collaborative study on the design of low-cost satellites, Clayton said.

Eventually, the “swarm” will be put into orbit by a rocket about 400 kilometers above earth, Clayton said. The satellites will be released and propelled away from the rocket Students interested in viewing the aurora from Hanover can do so with little hassle, said Lynch. At the College’s latitude, the aurora can occasionally be seen on a dark night with a clear view to the north.

“If you were faithfully watching every night from midnight to 3 a.m., you’d probably see it a couple times this winter,” Lynch said.

A co-investigator on the project, Robert Michell GR’07, also did graduate work at the College. The project was coordinated and run by physics professor Mark Conde of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

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Torin Tucker ’15 celebrated by friends, family, teammates little things were going on to foster us,” Stuart Maeder ’15 said. “He didn’t need to.” those relationships.” the Intermountain division before When Carly Wynn ’15 felt alone Just days before his death, Tucker matriculating at Dartmouth. emailed Major to ensure that Heo- during her freshman fall, Tucker Growing up, skiing wasn’t his only rot’s television was working and food spontaneously joined her in the passion. When he lived in Portland, would be ordered for the Super Bowl. dining hall and was “exuberantly Tucker was an active member of “He never emailed about beer or friendly,” despite not knowing her Explorer Post 58, a group of stu- anything like that, it was more about well, she said. dents that engaged in rock climbing, hanging out together and being with “He had a huge capacity for mountaineering and other outdoor each other,” Major said. wanting to know people, wanting adventures. Upon moving to Sun Since his death, members of people to be happy and wanting Valley, Tucker became a wilder- Heorot have emphasized spending to be around them,” said Karina time together, honoring what Tucker Packer ‘15, a friend and member to climb, his mother said. He also would have wanted, Major said. The of the women’s ski team. became a wilWhile his friends and family fraternity immederness guide diately canceled laud his humility and compassion, and led outdoor “Torin had this joie de all social events Tucker’s coaches and mentors trips run by his vivre and playfulness for the weekend remembered him for not only his high school. and gathered athletic ability, but for how he seamT h ough for dinner on lessly ingrained himself into new Tucker’s extra- His personality and Saturday. They groups. curricular acSun Valley Ski Education Founwalked in kindness burned bright then tivities took up unison to the dation Nordic program director much of time, men’s hockey and coach Rick Kapala said that he still priorigame against when Tucker joined the program tized academics.

Princeton Uni- his freshman year of high school, In high school, versity, sitting he immediately became part of the Tucker missed team’s social fabric. together. one question on “He was able to, in a very disarmIn his his SAT test, was a National Merit memory, Heorot plans to create a ing way, make everyone around him Torin Tucker Award. The award feel comfortable,” he said. “He was every college to which he applied, will commemorate the values he open to everything that was there in his mother said. front of him.”

At Dartmouth, Tucker majored and a genuine passion for building Kapala recalled that Tucker posin both economics and physics and community at Heorot. The award sessed an innate curiosity. When his studied Arabic. But it was his humil- will be presented annually to the teammates would ask him why he ity that distinguished him, his mother - was asking so many questions, he said. ues. They also plan to plant a tree in would respond asking, “Well, how “He had these amazing gifts, but the spring and keep Tucker’s picture am I supposed to learn if I don’t he was super humble,” she said. ask?”

“He had this innate humility that I Major said.

Tucker could be funny in many could live three more lifetimes and Major is a member of The Dart- ways, Kapala added. He came to not have.” enjoy baking at one point, and would mouth staff.

Tucker loved literature. His freshFriends and family said one of often bring a cake with him to a man year, he sent an email to some dinner party or to a friend’s house, Kapala said. his compassion. list of favorite books. Over 50 novels Tucker was not self-conscious During his sophomore summer, long, the list included everything Tucker and a few friends decided like others his age, which made him from “The Count of Monte Cristo” to participate in The Prouty’s 100- stand out, Kapala said. to works by Ernest Hemingway and mile bicycle ride, “ H e Charles Dickens. He had read them an annual event was at times a all. quirky, funny that raises monDuring Homecoming weekend ey for patient both as a learner and dude, and at his freshman year, he ran into the s e r v i c e s a n d athlete, and he was the same time McLaughlin residential cluster cancer research he was such a dedicated in seeing sporting a Speedo and a wide grin. at the Dartunique character, freed from mouth-Hitchwanted everyone to know it, said cock Medical the typical teenOlivia Field ’15, a friend of his. age angst,” he Center’s Norris “Torin had this joie de vivre and Cotton Cancer said. “He was a really special C e n t e r. A p - excelling in academics said. “His personality and kindness proaching the or sports, there wasn’t guy.” burned bright in our lives.”

H i s halfway mark, A member of Chi Heorot fra- two members mother said ternity, he lived in the house his of the six-man was going to leave on he was a parsophomore summer. Members of t e a m r a c e d ticularly deterthe fraternity highlighted Tucker’s ahead, leaving mined, driven emphasis on spending time together, others behind. individual. She saying he would leave a lasting legacy Tucker unselfsaid that, from on the house. a young age, ishly navigated “When he was around and had between the two Tucker had been some time to spend with us, he really groups, supporting those behind as extraordinary, exceeding in academwanted to get that sense of broth- they ascended tough inclines while ics, athletics and everything he set erhood and community,” Heorot encouraging the leaders to wait for his mind to. More importantly, she president Austin Major ’14 said. the rest of the team. stressed, he pushed himself to the “He just wanted to make sure the “He was choosing to ride with best of his abilities.

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Hanlon, Johnson speak at memorial

On a blustery, snowy day, one that Nordic ski team member and avid outdoorsman Torin Tucker ’15 would have relished, around 700 members of the Dartmouth community gathered in Rollins Chapel for a service to honor and celebrate his memory. Tucker, who died Saturday while competing in a cross-country ski race in Craftsbury, Vt., is remembered for his ever-present smile, rosy cheeks and generous, ebullient nature.

The Rev. Nancy Vogele ’85 began the service by welcoming guests. College President Phil Hanlon then took to the podium to reflect on Tucker’s time at Dartmouth.

Tucker embodied the ideals that parents and teachers hope for in a son and student, Hanlon said, adding that he will be dearly missed.

After Hanlon’s remarks, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson recited Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and Rick Pinkston ’15 read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Success.”

Donning a green mohawk and pink highlights, Silas Talbot ’15 and Karina Packer ’15 then spoke, reflecting on their experiences as Tucker’s teammates and friends.

Physics professor Hans Mueller and men’s crosscountry ski team coach Ruff Patterson also spoke in memory of Tucker.

Recalling an important physics project, Mueller said Tucker had submitted his work as an attachment to a The crowd laughed.

After these remarks, guests took part in a responsive reading of “We Remember Them,” an adaptation of the poem by Sylvan Kamens and Rabbi Jack Riemer.

The Dartmouth Aires then sang “Dartmouth Undying,” and guests exited the chapel to an organ postlude of “Largo.”

As students and other mourners filed out into the snow, ushers, members of Chi Heorot fraternity, passed out candles. Led by Tucker’s family and the ski team, the crowd convened on Baker Lawn for a candle-lighting ceremony. Ushers made their way around the circle, lighting candles. Guarding quivering flames from the snow and wind, mourners stood in silence. After a reading of a poem, the Baker Library bells rang 20 times, once for each year of Tucker’s life.

Following the service, family and friends made their way to Collis Common Ground for a reception. A slideshow of photos played while guests wrote reflections on note cards for Tucker’s family. His mother, Kathryn Tucker, spoke briefly, encouraging those who knew her son to share memories.

“He had a lot of gifts both as a learner and athlete, and he was dedicated in seeing that his potential was reached,” she said. “He went after it. Whether it was excelling in academics or sports, there wasn’t a bit of potential he was going to leave on the table.”

She paused. This desire, this drive, she said, in a way contributed to Saturday’s devastating event.

Tucker had a structural anomaly in his heart, unbeknownst to him or his parents, which under normal circumstances would never have been a problem.

“Because he subjected himself to the extraordinary stress of being an elite competitive athlete, he had a sudden death from just going so hard,” she said.

During the race, his mother said, Tucker had been in the lead, far ahead. He had reached the last 8 kilometers of the 50-kilometer course.

“He was pushing to have an in the tank and the stress of that caused his sudden death,” she said.

“But he didn’t have an awareness beforehand, and he didn’t suffer.”

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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

contributing Columnist Kyle Bigley ’17

Misguided Malice At one telling point during the question-andanswer session that followed the recent debate between Dinesh D’Souza ’83 and Bill Ayers, a a silver lining in imperialism, colonialism and slavery. As the student spoke, a woman in the crowd yelled, “Go back to Korea!”

In this horrid “like it or leave it” moment, a local resident demanded that a student, who brought up legitimate concerns in a polite manner, leave the country because she dared to criticize an apologist for some of history’s worst mistakes.

Several days later, a Coca-Cola commercial, one of the most highly discussed of the Super Bowl, featured Americans singing “America the Beautiful” in seven different languages — an embrace of a multinational and multicultural American ideal. Yet this trite pitch celebrating the “salad bowl” ideal (the melting pot no longer receives much favor because it emphasizes dissipating cultural identities, rather than preserving a multitude of them) provoked the ire of people on the Internet and implacable conservative commentators. Glenn Beck voiced his displeasure, while Fox News’s Todd Starnes illegals crossing the border. #americaisbeautiful.”

As the Coca-Cola commercial suggests, we should celebrate diversity. Cultural diversity does not somehow dilute or distort “traditional” identity. Rather, they enrich one another, serving to accent and highlight cultural nuances, which help establish national distinctiveness.

I believe that we learn more when we are surrounded by people different from ourselves.

To those of us who embrace diversity like I do, the idea of recoiling at a company’s promoting acceptance of different national backgrounds is cringe-worthy. However, there is a subtle irony that Coca-Cola — a company that keeps about $10 billion in countries other than the United States — is touting an American ideal. And Coca-Cola is one of many traditionally “American companies” that have moved multitudes of jobs out of the country in recent years.

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Not only should we celebrate this American ideal ourselves, we should also be conscious of efforts of companies that both outsource formerly American jobs and still exploit this American image. These companies tout themselves as American and advertise based off that identity, yet they outsource and offshore, sending both money and jobs overseas. Chrysler, American credentials in a commercial featuring Bob Dylan — a countercultural icon in an ad for an Italian-owned company with the signature line “America’s import.”

Both the reaction the Coca-Cola commercial prompted and the outburst at the D’Souza-Ayers debate point to anxieties over a changing America. While xenophobia and nativism deserve nothing less than censure, such general concerns about change in America are legitimate. However, those who target immigrants or multiculturalism misplace their anger.

A blue-collar job could once promise a prosperous life. Now, however, there is less certainty. While the older generation of Americans has seen a dramatic change, cultural diversity is not the culprit. Instead of lashing out at different types of Americans or scapegoating immigrants, we should turn our attention to companies responsible for this change. They — not demographic changes — have eroded job opportunity.

These anxieties are not uniquely American.

Across Europe, new populist political parties have risen in numbers thanks to fear mongering on immigration. But people looking for better lives in America, or anywhere, are not enemies. They hold the same common dream as all previous generations. We should, however, be cognizant of companies that promote the American image when they bear some responsibility for the loss of good-paying jobs. Rather than shouting at students or scapegoating immigrants, we should look past the commercial, at the companies that hoist the American elsewhere.

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A Pernicious Culture To the Editor:

express both dismay and fury over yet another round of cruelty and violence displayed on Bored at Baker. And I write, to be clear, not only in response to this incident but also to decry and condemn a culture of hostility and violence that produces and reproduces such immoral and sickening incidents.

I received emails from several students on Tuesday informing me of a Bored at Baker posting that names a member of lives and urges readers to rape her. The email I received included a screenshot of the post, which had been removed by the time I had subscribed and visited the site. The post, by now probably known about in every corner of campus, is being referred to as a “rape guide,” and it is, indeed, just that: a step-by-step guide to The appropriate administrators are doing their jobs to investigate this matter and provide support to the student. I have no such responsibility, so I am responding as a member of our community.

The students (and several other faculty members) who contacted me called for action. Speaking up is one form of action. I urge every student leader, every and every administrative leader to do at least that: publicly condemn such hostile acts and recognize them as symptomatic of the broader sociocultural problem of sexism and its many manifestations in our community. Dartmouth has harnessed a great many resources in recent months to combat sexual assault, and this is, indeed, a good thing. But it is not enough. No bystander training program, no commitstaff positions will stop rape or transform

a culture that accepts and even promotes it.

What will move our campus toward such a transformation is for each one of us, harnessing the positions of authority and moments of opportunity available to us, to adopt a zero-tolerance stance in the face of bigotry, harassment and assault. Our responsibility is to recognize and resist not just sexism but all forms of bias and discrimination, bullying and hostility. People of color, queer people, people from poor communities, indeed all of us who do not conform to default community, have been or are at risk for being targeted.

As Bored at Baker makes quite clear, many people cheer on the haters as others stand with those attacked. We are not faced with the problem of isolated incidents or rogue individuals gone off on rampages.

Institutional report after report, incident after incident, campus outrage after campus outrage make plain that Dartmouth has a broader and more complex problem than such characterizations would suggest.

I close by reminding us all that the U.S. Civil Rights is investigating Dartmouth’s compliance with Title IX. Any member of this community can talk with them, or gender related discrimination. The investigators, I have been told, also welinformation about bias or discrimination related to, as their materials outline, race, color, national origin, disability, age and religion.

Use whatever tools available to do the right thing: speak up, act out, resist.

GIAVANNA MUNAFO WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES PROFESSOR FORMER DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR GENDER AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

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Psi U volunteers at shelter Ham discusses overcoming PTSD FROM HAVEN PAGE 1

according to the warming shelter’s works to help those struggling with poverty by providing food, shelter, education, clothing and support.

Members of Psi Upsilon fraternity have manned the warming center this term. Fraternity members have volunteered at various Haven programs over the past year. go above and beyond and show our commitment to the Haven, solidify our relationship and, most importantly, help out the community,” Psi U president Luke Suydam ’14 said.

The fraternity ensures that there is a volunteer at the warming shelter every day, whether it is a member of Psi U or another Dartmouth student.

When David Lerner ’14 and Benjamin Weill ’14 began as Psi U programming chairs last spring, they aimed to chose the Haven, Lerner said.

Although Psi U has raised money for the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, the fraternity wanted to build connections with the individuals they were supporting, he said.

“We did not feel like we were giving back on a personal level,” Lerner said.

“It is a homeless shelter, so we have more opportunities to interact and

work with people individually, instead of just fundraising.”

The warming shelter has received local attention due to the efforts of Rev. Steve Gehlert, a Lyme pastor who slept outside his church every night for a week in January to raise awareness for homelessness. Gehlert faced temperatures as News reported. gation about the Haven’s volunteer opportunities and warming shelter.

At the shelter, volunteers work sixhour shifts, during which they check in residents, explain the rules and manage the shelter over night. The Haven does not have staff to perform this job.

The Haven is open all year and does not charge for it services. Last year, the Other services include providing clothing and academic opportunities. weekly or bi-weekly basis throughout

“The conversations I’ve had with the people at the shelter over dinner will be some that I never forget,” Psi U member Nikhil Arora ’16 said.

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ture on Monday, explaining cultural transformations in the military in the

to open up about his hardship, Ham said he began talking to an Army chaplain.

“I started to feel better about myself and started to talk to my wife,”

of service.

As part of a panel discussion on Wednesday, he talked about the

in talking to soldiers and families.”

Ham said the military has rec-

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sharing his own experience with the PTSD and introduced equipment to disease, observations on the evolution prevent brain damage. The military has also adof its management opted policies by the military to assist serand opinions on about myself and vicemen with how it could be the disease, like started to talk to my improved. keeping better Ham said he wife. And I have found track of soloriginally thought diers exhibitcounseling and ing symptoms. medical support soldiers and families.”

Ham only applied to said he thinks junior soldiers. Sethe military nior officers, he must to work recalled thinking, on creating an should be strong atmosphere in enough to withwhich service stand psychologimembers can cal hardship on seek help without reluctance. their own.

Lanphord Cao ’16 said he thought After returning to the U.S., Ham began working in a new position Ham’s anecdotes about overcoming at the Pentagon but said he felt as PTSD helped him understand the though he was not achieving anything disease.

During his visit, Ham has visited and wanted to rejoin his comrades in classes, dined with students, met the

Dickey Center’s postdoctoral fellows and spoken with various campus Dartmouth students to be knowledgeable and intellectually engaged.

Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin, a former ambassador, said the State Department and thought Ham’s expertise would be an asset to the College.

“He rose from being an enlisted infantry man to a four-star general — such stories are quite rare,” Benjamin said. “He has seen an enormous amount of change and evolution in military and that by itself is extremely interesting.”

Benjamin added that, considering Africa, Ham’s insight was valuable.

Feyaad Allie ’16 said he attended a dinner with Ham and spoke to him about the prospects for African politics and security, Libya’s current situation and the effectiveness of the African Union.

“I didn’t feel intimidated at all, and I think he was very candid, which made me really comfortable in interacting with him,” he said. “He very much spoke on a level for us to understand where he is coming from and give us background for what he talked about through his experience.”

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Guest artists to swing in Carnival with help of Barbary Coast

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British Columbia natives and popular jazz musicians Ingrid and Christine Jensen will join director Donald Glasgo and his Barbary Coast Jazz ensemble to kick off the 38th annual Winter Carnival Concert this Saturday.

Barbary Coast will perform pieces written by Christine Jensen. Joel Miller, her husband, will accompany on clarinet and tenor

saxophone.

Raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the Jensens were introduced to jazz by their mother, a pianist. As Ingrid Jensen learned

Christine Jensen studied the jazz saxophone.

“Growing up, there was not a lot of pop music in our household,” Christine Jensen said. “It was more Oscar Peterson and Freddie Hubbard.”

Nanaimo, the hometown of jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall, had a rich swing-band tradition, Ingrid Jensen said.

“It’s a coal-mining town, so there was really a need for light and festivities,” she said.

After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1989, Ingrid Jensen went from playing the trumpet on New York subways to working with groups such as the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. A

clinician and instructor at McGill University, Christine Jensen has traveled around the world leading the award-winning Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra.

Glasgo, a trombonist and jazz composer, said that the Jensens’ work has a theatrical nature.

“Everything they do musically, whether composed or improvised, tells a story with a beginning, middle and end and takes you on a journey,” he said.

Christine Jensen said that she tries to write melodic material that resonates with audiences.

“I sometimes like to think of short stories and transfer them to my music,” she said.

Both sisters said that jazz’s raw culture of experimentation has waned in recent years. A social and street-based art form, jazz needs better funding and a way to draw musicians without betraying its roots, Christine Jensen said.

To promote the arts, the community must back elementary school music education programs and student groups like the Barbary Coast, Christine Jensen said.

Earlier this week, the Jensens guest lectured at three courses on jazz history, improvisation and oral tradition musicianship.

The concert will be held on Saturday at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

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No athletic events scheduled.

Junior forward continues to evolve in new roles on the court

B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN

John Golden ’15 has always been middle school, Golden stood a 5-foot 6-inches, but by freshman year he towered over his peers, looming over the competition at 6-feet 4-inches.

Taking advantage of his height, Golden tried football, lacrosse and basketball but ultimately weeded out the hobbies from his passion: basketball. Thanks to two older brothers, Golden grew up on a basketball court and can hardly remember a time when he didn’t play.

After playing four years of varsity basketball in high school, Golden spent a postgraduate year at the four hours from his hometown of Freehold, N.J. With his sights not set explicitly on the Ivy League, Golden remained unsure about his future in the NCAA. however, he was wooed by head coach and seasoned recruiter Paul Cormier.

He met with former College President

Jim Yong Kim, and was told by the coaches that he would be able to begin playing right away.

Two games into his season at

formances to date, scoring 34 points across the two games and grabbing 11 rebounds. In the game against Penn on Friday night, Golden was instrumental in the Big Green’s

committed to the Big Green. As prommidway through the second, sinking Dartmouth but struggled to adjust to the college game and was pulled from the starting rotation.

Golden had worked his way back into the starting line-up. In his two-and-ahalf years at the College, Golden has developed into a key component of the Big Green’s rising win percentage, taking a leading role this season as the team chases its best record in years.

“John is the most athletic player on the team,” captain Tyler Melville ’14 said. “He’s had a couple of explosive dunks, and I’ve seen his progression over the years. He’s expanded his game to take opponents off the dribble and developed his midrange game, too.”

This past week, Golden earned the honor of Ivy League co-player of the week for his lights-out performances in Leede Arena against the University

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John Golden ’15 led the Big Green to a pair of Ivy victories last weekend.

of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. The team’s impressive wins came at a time of readjustment, as it changes its strategy to accommodate for the loss of center Gabas Maldunas ’15, who is out with an injury. pect John to get more rebounds,” Melville said. “It’s going to be a group effort because Gabas was so

explosive on the rebounds.”

Since Maldunas’s departure, Golden has changed his role on the production instead of deferring his offensive opportunities, he said.

“I haven’t necessarily been super aggressive playing-wise until recently,” Golden said.

Golden gave two of his best per-

minutes. This feat was eclipsed the next night, however, when Golden posted a personal season high of 19 points against Princeton in overtime, sending the Tigers back to his home state empty-handed. Golden nabbed two points and a rebound in the extra period, helping seal the Big Green’s 78-69 win.

Golden’s contributions reach beyond the stat sheet, teammate Alex Mitola ’16 said, pointing out his ability to remain level-headed and calm.

“John does a great job of really not letting his emotions get to him,” Mitola said. “He doesn’t let his highs get too high and his lows get too low.”

Golden will look to continue the team’s momentum this weekend with another pair of home games against Yale University and Brown University.

Tucker Murphy ’04 heads to Sochi as Bermuda’s lone athlete

B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN

Sporting red shorts and a navy blazer, cross-country skier Tucker Murphy ’04, proudly carried the ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olmypics in Vancouver. This year, he will compete again as the sole member of his home-country’s delegation.

“It’s a rare experience and a stark contrast to being alone in the woods, which is how you spend a lot of your time training for cross-country skiing,” on the opening ceremonies four years ago. “It also represents the support of a community of people back in Bermuda.”

88th in the 15-kilometer freestyle race.

As the sole representative for

Bermuda, Murphy will join 17 other athletes in Sochi, Russia who are the only ones representing their respective countries.

“Going alone can sometimes be challenging because you do a lot of training and logistics by yourself that other teams would normally do together, and you also must rely a lot more on the kindness of foreigners,” Murphy said.

When he travels, Murphy often receives rides to remote races or help with wax, training and logistics from teams such as the Brazilians, the Spanish, the British and the Argentinians.

Murphy is one of just three athletes to have represented Bermuda at the Winter Olympics. He also has the triple distinction of being Bermuda’s

by a lot of chances of fate, one being Dartmouth, that I ended up skiing.”

Despite the obvious geographical disadvantage, Murphy said he hopes that his performance can inspire younger Bermudians to follow in his footsteps.

The country launched a ski federation in 2005 and several Bermudians have joined since, mostly in freestyle or alpine, Murphy said.

“Some are pretty young, so hopefully they realize the opportunity and take it further than me,” he said.

In order to qualify for skiing events, athletes must meet one of two dif‘A Standard’ and the ‘B Standard.’

Murphy reached the B Standard during a 15-kilometer freestyle race in Chamonix, France, last month.

athlete to compete in Vancouver and the only Dartmouth student to ever

11th in the National Championships

“It makes sense that, as a small sub-tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic, Bermuda is not well represented at the Winter Olympics,” Murphy said. “That said, the island’s motto is Quo Fata Ferunt, meaning ‘whither the fates carry us.’ It is only

season was 22nd in the 15-kilometer in the Switzerland National Cross Country Skiing Championships on Jan. 21, clocking a time of 46:25.9.

Murphy’s training schedule has kept him busy, including standard winter training in Vermont under the

guidance of Pepa Miloucheva of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project and less conventional training at home, he said.

“The past spring and summer I was working in Bermuda, so training was not typical,” Murphy said. “I ended up doing a fair bit of triathlon, partners willing to do lots of laps of the island in the heat and humidity of summer.”

Murphy didn’t start seriously skiing until his late high school years.

He credits his Olympic pursuits to his time at Dartmouth, including the guidance of men’s cross-country ski coach Ruff Patterson and the ability to join the program’s development team.

“Many very talented and highly motivated skiers have gone through the program,” Murphy said. “I was lucky to train with some of them.

Each class seems to take it to another level, as is evident not just with the number of representatives and contenders Dartmouth has in Sochi, but also in a much greater way with those who continue competing after college, coach, write about skiing or

are involved in some other area of the winter sports community.”

While at Dartmouth, Murphy earned numerous distinctions. A major, he received the Dartmouth Anthropology Department’s McKennan prize for his freshman paper on Gould’s theory of neoteny. He also received academic citations for distinguished work in Spanish literature and architecture, as well as in his major courses.

In Bermuda, he snorkled and collected shells, which sparked his interest in evolutionary biology. At Dartmouth, he served as a writer and associate editor of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science and volunteered at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vt. All of this was in addition to competing on both the heavyweight crew team and the cross-country ski team.

Murphy was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and completed a masters of science in integrative bioscience.

He went on to earn a doctorate in zoology from Oxford, which he has used to protect pumas and other rare cats.