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Two decades ago, only one percent of Walmart’s stores were overseas. Today, half of its over 11,000 stores are abroad — a global business expansion that underlines the importance of giving students at the Tuck School of Business international exposure, associate dean for the masters of business administration program Phillip Stocken said.

Beginning with the Class of 2017, Tuck students must satisfy a global insight requirement through

The Tuck School of Business will implement a global learning requirement next year.

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Users and creators react to Dartmouth’s first MOOC

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By engaging with students through the virtual screen during the College’s first massive online open course, “Introduction to Environmental Science,” environmental studies professor and course lead Andrew Friedland said that he and his team frequently found themselves surprised by the universality of environmental science, despite students’ varied perspectives.

“For a certain problem, for example,

[the question] asked students to tell us about a typical meal and the energy subsidy, so it was applying environmental concepts we learned to their own meal,” Friedland said. “We learned about chicken and rice from northern Iran, fish from Indonesia, foods from West African nations and all around the world.”

The course, which began on Feb. 3, invited 10,306 students from 168 countries to join the conversation on the natural world. The six-week course launched on edX, a non-profit educa-

tion website started by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friedland said the course was modeled after “Introduction to Environmental Science,” a class that he has taught at the College for more than 25 years. The material focused on biodiversity, energy and global change, appealing to a global burgeoning interest in studying the natural world.

“For me, it was a very exciting experience,” Friedland said. “I had to take what I knew about teaching and turn

DHMC ranked one of 150 best places to work B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was named one of the “150 Best Places to Work in Health Care” last month by Becker’s Hospital Review. This was the first year DHMC made the list since it was first published in 2011 , DHMC chief human resource officer John Malanowski said.

The review dedicates itself to as-

it inside out and upside down. It was professionally challenging and rewarding.”

In developing the course, Friedland teamed up with instructional designer in educational technologies Michael Goudzwaard, associate director of Dartmouth’s media production group Mike Murray, director of digital learning at Dartmouth Center for Advancement of Learning Josh Kim and the director of digital resources and scholarly SEE JUMP PAGE 5

A ROCKY START

sessing various health care providers based on their quality of service, both in respect to patient care and employee wellness. This is the second year that the list expanded into other health care specific programs, such as health care consulting firms, rather than just providers.

Health care providers considered for the list include medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home GABRIELLE KIRLEW/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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A Michigan State University professor gave a lecture at the Rockefeller Center.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: In conjunction with researchers from Lehigh and Loyola Marymount Universities, a research team of psychologists and sociologists from Brown has conducted new research on the practice of “pre-gaming” — drinking alcohol before attending a party or event, The Brown Daily Herald reported. The team studied more than 900 students from California universities, and after controlling for total alcohol use, the study showed that higher pre-party drinking is more likely to be associated with drinking to cope or drinking to conform.

Columbia University: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism released a review of Rolling Stone’s controversial article covering an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, The Columbia Spectator reported. Written by two deans and a post-doctoral research fellow, the report emphasizes faults in the manner in which the story was written, edited and fact-check. Since the release of the review, Rolling Stone has retracted the original article, although it has chosen not to fire writers or editors involved.

Cornell University: Following a viral video that allegedly shows Cornell assistant dean of students for student activities Joseph Scaffido saying that he would welcome terrorist groups to campus, Republican lawmakers in New York have called for a removal of funding from the university, The Cornell Sun reported. In addition to stripping the University of both federal and public funding, some lawmakers have also called for a Department of Homeland Security investigation into the school.

Harvard University: Divest Harvard, a group of environmental activists, announced a weeklong blockade of a residence hall on Monday, The Harvard Crimson reported. Members of the group plan to gather 50 to 100 participants to circle the dorm and camp out at night, risking arrest.

Ultimately, this protest — which will also include teach-ins, action training and nightly vigils — aims to bring different members of the community to Harvard Yard to take part in the sit-in and demand that the university divest all fossil fuels from its endowment.

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Users report positive ratings of MOOC FROM MOOC PAGE 1

communication programs, as well as both graduates and undergraduates.

With an average rating of five stars and 169 reviews on Coursetalk, a site where users can review MOOCs, the class attracted students from around the world. While the largest numbers of students came from the United States, the United Kingdom and India, enrollments also came from Indonesia, West Africa, Australia and more. Of those enrolled in the class, the median student age was 28. Fortyone percent of students had bachelor’s degrees, while as many as 32 percent had advanced degrees.

In developing Dartmouth’s first online course, the team behind the MOOC was challenged to think critically about global students’ different learning processes without any prior experience with online courses.

“What was different [about the online course] was that it was like driving blind,” Friedland said. “I prepared this whole course with the help of my instructional designer, but we created this course with almost zero feedback with what people thought. When I’m giving a lecture, I’m constantly looking around. Is this person falling asleep, or getting what I’m saying? With an online course, it’s very delayed feed-

back. You really have to project and guess how learners from other parts of the world learn.”

For teaching assistant Justin Richardson, conversations with thousands of students revealed how different individuals across the globe applied their growing knowledge of environmental science.

“The majority of questions I answered went beyond the course material and ventured into other subjects, such as the history of physics and chemistry, to everyday commonplace topics such as home gardening,” Richardson said. “It was great to see that they took the material presented in the course and ran with it, trying to figure out what did it mean for their lives.”

Yet with thousands of students enrolled in a course comes restrictions.

Goudzwaard cited accessibility as one of the team’s main challenges when designing the course.

“We wanted to make the barrier to entry to the course as low as possible,” Goudzwaard said. “This meant that we would not require the purchase of a textbook, but would instead using open-source readings. This was more challenging than we expected and required some revision and even writing certain articles for the course.”

Despite online education’s limita-

tions, Friedland said that one benefit to the course was the strength of the online community, as demonstrated by students’ willingness to answer each others’ questions. In future iterations of the class, Friedland plans on building this community even further by adding more Google hangout sessions, which served as office hours.

“We only had one office hour that we ran on Google hangouts, and we actually had people emailing [questions] in, sending [them] in over Twitter, and we’d read the questions and other students would be helping answer them,” Friedland said. “We’d have as many as 500 people participating live.”

Kim said that his goal for DartmouthX was exploring both the teaching and learning experience through new, technology-focused initiatives. He said, however, that online education cannot replace the College’s current course offerings.

“We’re doing this DartmouthX experiment as a way to carve out a place where we can take some risks and do some new things, or try things out, because we don’t want to experiment on [the students], and this gives us some freedom because [the course] is free,” he said. “We don’t view the DartmouthX classes as a substitute for your regular Dartmouth classes.”

Princeton University: Faculty at the University met on Monday, where to discuss publishing a statement on freedom of expression on campus, according to The Daily Princetonian. The motion ultimately passed at the meeting. This was spurred by an email sent by a mathematics professor and signed by 60 additional faculty members in support of adopting principles similar to those at the University of Chicago. One such principle states that it should generally be the role of individuals, and not universities, to decide what kinds of speech and ideas are inappropriate. The motions passed and these ideas will be incorporated into the University’s “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities.”

University of Pennsylvania: Penn recently won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Annual College and University Green Power Challenge, which tracks the amount of renewable energy credits that different universities purchase, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported.. One credit is equal to one megawatt-hour of renewable energy, which primarily pertains to wind power for the University. In every year since the competition began in 2009, Penn has bought more of these credits than any participating institution.

Yale University: The fourth annual TEDxYale event was held on Saturday, drawing hundreds of students, faculty and other community members, Yale Daily News reported. Inspired by the Technology, Entertainment and Design speaker series, this event focused on moments of impact in each of the 15 speakers’ lives. Over the six hours of the conference, audience members heard from people with a wide range of experiences, including a mountain climbing world champion, a jazz musician and a scientist and practitioner in addiction recovery.​ — COMPILED BY JESS ZISCHKE

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DHMC ranking attributed to employee programs, benefits FROM DHMC PAGE 1

health providers, hospitals and health systems, according to their website.

Molly Gamble, the editor-inchief of Becker’s Hospital Review, said that the list represents a group of exceptional health care providers but does not rank these providers specifically. The list was crafted partially on self-nomination, and the self-reported application assessed the overall culture of the health care provider, the comprehensiveness of the provider’s benefits packages, the quality of their employee training and the diversity of their employees.

“Companies have to return a pretty robust nomination form to us,” Gamble said.

Gamble also said that much of the decision-making is performed by a committee of health care executives, who are able to give their opinions on the applications.

Gamble said that the editorial team is also allowed to add hospitals to the list based on perceived excellence.

Heather Punke, a writer and editor at Becker’s Hospital Review, said that DHMC fell under the category of hospitals that submitted their own nomination, and added that DHMC stood out due to several of its special programs, particularly for the benefit of its employees.

“They offered some interesting programs for their employees like

one-on-one counseling,” Punke said. “They have a unique wellness program and some tuition assistance.”

Gamble said that employee wellness can be indicative of the quality of a hospital as a whole.

“If hospitals place more and more emphasis on keeping people well and out of the hospital — well, that’s kind of one of the big goals of health care reforms,” Gamble said. “If hospitals aren’t doing that with their own employees, it’s one of those things — ‘If you aren’t walking the walk, can you talk the talk?’”

Gamble said that from its application and then further review of the institution, DHMC is doing a great job with connecting the importance of employee satisfaction to the overall quality of the institution.

Both Gamble and Punke agreed that DHMC provides unique programs relating to employee stress management, wellness and fitness. Gamble said that these unique programs were important in assessing hospitals like DHMC against other hospitals, many of which do not have such programs.

Malanowski attributes both the hospital’s culture and national reputation as reasons why the institution made the list.

“It’s our culture — we are totally committed to our patients and have a culture of caring,” he said. “That’s a huge part of our satisfaction scores.”

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Malanowski added that the institution has generally received exceptionally high employee satisfaction scores, especially in recent years.

According to the DHMC website, the institution periodically reviews and modifies its benefit

plans based on legal changes, competing providers and financial adjustments.

Malanowski felt that the application that DHMC sent in was very comprehensive, saying that the application amounted to almost 20 pages and covered multiple areas.

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Staff Columnist EMILY SELLERS ’15

STAFF COLUMNIST MICHELLE GIL ’16

Quid Pro No

Papa Don’t Preach

We should never give a gift with the expectation of something in return.

With graduation just around the corner, I have been thinking about the practice of gift-giving and the obligations attached to receiving gifts.

Admittedly, this line of thought comes from the hope that I may be the recipient of such gifts, which might seem like a thinly-veiled hint to any family members or friends who are reading this.

Typically, presenting someone with a gift is seen as a selfless, generous act. It is not, however, always the case that the giving of a gift is meant as a gesture of kindness or friendship to the recipient.

It is my position that only freely giving — offering without any expectation in return from the receiver — is actual gift-giving, complete with all the positive connotations that come with the practice. Attaching implicit expectations to a present — as opposed to explicit expectations, which by definition mark the act as a contract rather than an altruistic offering — indicates that it is not being given out of sheer generosity.

When a gift-giver accords more importance to the benefits or advantages that they gain — including expressions of gratitude or a gift of their own in reciprocation — than they do to the recipient and the recipient’s feelings, the gift is distorted into a covert contractual agreement driven by self-interest.

Before discussing implicit expectations associated with gifts and their questionable moral territory, I would like to clarify that I am not arguing that a receiver should not show gratitude or return the favor at some later date.

Certainly, it would be thoughtful and respectful if the receiver did these things. Anyone who chooses to give someone a gift would likely appreciate it if the recipient took a moment to write a thank-you note — but this ought not be actively required or even expected. A proper gift-giver, one who is truly generous, should not patiently wait for signs of gratitude and then be disappointed when they are not fulfilled — nor should a receiver’s full entitlement to a gift be predicated on performances of graciousness.

Though it may sound entitled to frame gifts in these terms, it is dangerous to think of them in any other way. Just as a gift should be freely given, the manner of its acceptance should be

freely offered. The undue pressure of expectations on a receiver can burden those who cannot meet — or do not want to — speak out against inferred expectations. The implicit nature of such a burden exacerbates this problem, as it assumes that the receiver is fully aware of the strings attached to their gift.

Take, for instance, pong. As virtually all students and most community members are aware, a game of pong often carries with it certain expectations — though they are hardly ever articulated. Typically, playing the game with someone with whom you do not already have an established relationship — friendship or otherwise — is often taken as a signal that the invitee is open, or even obligated, to “hook up” with the inviter afterward. Clearly, a pong invitation cannot be considered an invariable gesture driven by selfless generosity, and this situation should strike us all as unfair. It is unfair for the inviter to assume that the invitee is aware and accepting of their expectation, and it is also unfair that the invitee might feel pressured to fulfill this expectation. Though no one individual can be blamed for this system of anticipated reciprocation, a complicated web of expectations and anxieties should not play a part in gift-giving.

The same holds for less clear-cut but still problematic gift exchanges, such as charity and donations. Though letters, plaques and other types of public recognition might incentivize donations, the expectation or demand of such things removes the authenticity that must be present to truly give a gift. In my view, if a donor expects anything in return, this transforms the goodness of his generosity into nothing more than ordinary selfishness.

Though I definitely intend to write my thankyou notes, I would hope that this is never seen as holding up my end of the deal. That sort of attitude would jeopardize the meaning of not only the gift, but also the thank-you note. The beauty of the exchange is that both items are freely and sincerely given — I am thanking them and they are giving not because we have to, but because we want to.

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The hard alcohol ban is paternalistic and hinders personal development.

I don’t really drink much. Occasionally, I’ll have some wine with a nice meal or sip on a beer if I’m thirsty in a basement and there are no alternatives present. Most of the time, however, I prefer not to drink. I don’t abstain from alcohol for religious or moral reasons or because I’m not yet 21.

Rather, having had ample opportunity to experience alcohol and discover how I felt and behaved while under its influence, I’ve realized that I personally do not enjoy the feeling of getting drunk.

I do not judge or begrudge my peers, most of whom are legal adults, who make the personal choice to drink. Furthermore, I cannot endorse the hard alcohol ban, which limits students’ ability to experiment with and experience alcohol and come to their own conclusions about their drinking choices — a process which I was able to go through and which I believe to be fundamental to the transition into the adult world.

The hard alcohol ban is, at its core, paternalistic — most students are legal adults that have left their parents’ nests. They are generally capable of making their own choices and responsible for dealing with the consequences. Administrators appear to believe — or are possibly trying to make outsiders believe — that the ban is for our own good, protecting us from the consequences of what they deem to be our misguided actions. Instead, they are infantilizing us and halting much of the personal development that comes about from interacting with the world and making decisions, experiencing the negative and positive outcomes of those decisions and then choosing to continue or modify our future behavior based on those outcomes. It appears administrators have concluded that students are incapable of restraint and, if left to their own devices and without carefully constrained options, will choose the most destructive path and never learn from mistakes. Administrators have assumed the role of the nurturing parent, punishing the naughty child out of love and for the child’s best interest.

While many people have compared the ban to Prohibition in the 1920s, a more contemporary and apt analogy is to abstinence-only sex education. States that require schools to limit sexual education to abstinence-only curricula, which often employ shame and fear tactics, do not prevent teenagers from having sex, as demonstrated by their high rates of teen pregnancy. In contrast, many states that do not mandate abstinence be taught in sex education often provide students with a more comprehensive sexual education that includes information about how to have safe sex and what the physical and emotional consequences could be and tend to have lower rates of teenage pregnancy.

Seeing as teaching teenagers how to make informed decisions about their sex lives appears to successfully limit negative consequences such as pregnancy, the College may find similar success in teaching students

about the potential physical, emotional and legal consequences of drinking and how to minimize their negative effects.

As the College — and society as a whole — should have recognized and acknowledged by now, there always has been — and likely always will be — a number of young adults that will consume alcohol. By banning hard alcohol outright, administrators run the risk of driving drinking further underground and discouraging students from seeking necessary medical help for intoxication out of a fear of being punished. If administrators cannot prevent drinking, they should at least try to make drinking safer. The best way to do this is not by restricting our choices, but rather by broadening our education on the matter.

Instead, what appears to be broadening — if the College’s response to the branding at Alpha Delta fraternity are any indication — is administrative paternalism. If the branding was in any way coercive, then punishment is clearly appropriate. If it was, however, voluntary — as the fraternity’s attorney has claimed — and coincidentally took place during members’ first terms in the fraternity, the fraternity should not be punished. Adults should have the right to choose whether they wish to modify their own bodies in a way that does not harm others.

Branding may seem extreme because it involves burning flesh, but it is not so dissimilar to people voluntarily inserting needles into their flesh to receive tattoos or piercings. As with the choice to drink alcohol, an adult student should be free to make the choice to be branded and to live with any subsequent consequences, as long as their decision is voluntary and does not inflict harm on others. If negative repercussions result — which is not uncommon when adults make real-world decisions — then it is up to the student to deal with the fallout and perhaps reevaluate their decision moving forward.

It is not the College’s place to serve as a nearly $62,000-per-year babysitter or a second set of parents, but rather to provide an educational experience that allows us to transition into adults who think critically, assess the world around us and make decisions accordingly. This includes treating us as the legal adults that we are and permitting us to make our own choices — so long as our choices do not involve harming others.

Rather than try to restrict our choices in a Sisyphean attempt to prevent potential negative outcomes, administrators need to acknowledge that some young adults will choose to drink, regardless of policies or laws. If administrators would truly like to increase student safety, students should be taught in a realistic and honest manner about the dangers and potential consequences of drinking. Ultimately, when students choose to drink alcohol of any type, responsible drinking — not complete abstinence — should be encouraged by the College.

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Students,school prepares for global requirement FROM TUCK PAGE 1

one of three options, which includes global first-year projects, on-site consulting abroad and a global insight expedition, or an approved alternative.

Though the requirement itself is new, it builds upon an existing and high rate of global learning. More than two-thirds of the Tuck Class of 2014, for example, travelled on some type of international expedition during their time at Tuck.

“Tuck students have been clamoring for more inter national exposure,” Stocken said, a d d i n g t h at t h e s ch o o l h a s expanded its programming in response.

In 2009, one group of students travelled to India as part of the first global insight expedition — a faculty-led travel course open to all years.

T his pas t s pring interim, Tuck faculty led seven expeditions to Israel, Japan, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa, among other countries.

“It’s one thing to read about Brazil, but it’s another thing to actually go there and talk to people,” Erica Johnston Tu’15 said about her global insight expedition last spring.

Johnston explained that her previous experience running a company’s international marketing program reinforced her decision to go on such a trip.

While in Brazil, she visited several businesses and organizations, including the M&Mand Twix-manufacturing Mars Center of Cocoa Science, where she said she learned about the relationship between social and strategic initiatives.

Global insight expeditions director Lisa Miller said the program — which will accommodate up to 200 people a year — allows students to apply business frameworks to the real world.

“More and more — whether you’re American or not — you encounter people from all over the world as part of your working careers,” business administration professor Adam Kleinbaum said.

“And so, there’s tremendous value in having exposure — while people are still students — to the way business is done in different parts of the world.”

Tanya Gulnik Tu’15 recognizes the value of that exposure.

She participated in both a global

insight expedition and an OnSite Global Consulting course, in which students spend 10-12 weeks planning and executing a real-world consulting engagement for a client. The OnSite program includes three weeks of primary research at an international venue.

“The idea is that we create opportunities for Tuck students to work with companies on a real world consulting engagement,” OnSite director Kerry Laufer said. “The idea is that they can lead, plan and execute this project to apply the skills they learn at Tuck to a real-world challenge.”

E ch o i n g Jo h n s t o n’s s e n t i ments, Gulnik said that when students travel abroad, they have opportunities to think more critically and question the material learned in a classroom.

“Honestly, even in the Tuck application essay, it asks you about global experiences,” Gulnik said. “It’s something important to Tuck. It’s important to me.”

Students can also fulfill the requirement through first-year projects with an international focus.

First-year project director Becky Rice said she anticipates that about 45 people will pursue a project this upcoming year.

Interviewed Tuck students, faculty and staff members said they agreed that the introduction of a global insight requirement was a positive addition to the school’s curriculum.

“I think that until now, the cur rent approach has made sense, in part because the world used to be a quite different place than it is now,” Kleinbaum said, adding that the decision to create a global insight requirement reflects evolving realities of the marketplace.

“I don’t think [the requirement] was a radical change,” Johnston said. “I don’t think it was a surprise to anyone, and I don’t think anyone opposes it.”

Students can also design their own program, building on an international internship or foreign exchange program.

Stocken said he envisions these globally-oriented opportunities as a way of better connecting the Dartmouth community. Tuck students could collaborate with undergraduates on projects, he said, citing a current proposal set to take place in Kosovo as one such example.

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Men’s tennis falls in front of home fans FROM MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 8

match once, and [Saturday] was the first time I won so I was really happy with that.”

While the overall competition ended in a 6-1 loss for the men’s team, Sakinis agreed that the match was in fact more competitive than the score line would indicate.

“We were in close matches.

Everyone was fighting for a long time, I think we had a chance to win in [almost] every court,” he said. “They’re a really good team, probably the best team in the Ivy League at the moment, but we were there — we’re not that far [from them].”

A crowd of almost 400 came out in support of the Big Green on Saturday, marking a positive sign for the program and the team as it continues to grow in the College’s athletics landscape.

“The crowd was amazing.”

Sakinis said. “I’ve never played in this environment before. It was the best-ever Dartmouth match I’ve played in. People did a good job of promoting it.”

In their match against the visiting Cornell Big Red (9-7, 1-2) the following afternoon, the men once again had difficulty securing the doubles point. Throughout all three of the opening doubles matches, Big Green teams quickly fell into one-game deficits.

The No. 3 doubles match was

the quickest to end, securing a 6-2 victory for Cornell. The other two doubles matches came down to the wire, but Cornell won the doubles point when the Big Red No. 2 team won 7-5, leading the No. 1 match to expire while tied at six. Already in a one-point hole, the Big Green faltered slightly as it entered the singles matches, losing the first sets in both the No. 3 and No. 4 matches.

The team, however, responded accordingly, winning the first sets at the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 positions.

With five of the six matches having completed their first sets, three won by Dartmouth players and the other two going to Cornell, Sam Todd ’15 secured the crucial first set for his No. 6 singles match, giving the Big Green hope for the four match wins it needed for the overall victory.

The No. 2 singles match ended first, as Kipouras, No. 110 in the nation, quickly nabbed a 6-4, 6-2 victory to level the overall contest score at 1-1. Sakinis followed that effort with a 6-3, 6-2 win of his own in the No. 1 match to push the score line to a 2-1 Big Green lead.

Yet the Big Green streak — and any momentum gained from its top two players’ victories — would come to a halt soon after. In the No. 4 singles match, Big Red sophomore Chris Vrabel defeated George Wall ’17 6-1, 7-6 to even the overall score at two points per team. The remaining three matches ran long,

all of which were hotly contested and lasted the entire three-set length.

On court 2 in the No. 3 singles, Ciro Riccardi ’18 gave a valiant effort to fight back against Cornell’s Stefan Vinti after falling easily in the first set 6-1, and the Big Green athlete took the second set 6-4. As the other two remaining singles matches on courts 1 and 6 carried on, Riccardi was the first to yield, losing 6-1 in the final set to give Cornell a 3-2 overall match lead.

Not long after the Big Red grew closer to deciding the win, the No. 5 and 6 singles matches began to take a turn for the worse for the Big Green. Todd, having won the first set at 7-6 and lost the second 7-5, suffered leg cramps, causing the match to be delayed.

On court 1, Cornell’s Colin Sinclair drowned any chance Dartmouth had at a comeback, winning the No. 5 match 2-6, 6-1, 7-6, against Max Schmidt ’17. The result won the necessary fourth point for Cornell, giving the Big Red the 5-2 victory.

“It was definitely an improvement,” Todd said about his team’s effort on Sunday. “We try to focus on the things we can control, us moreso than who we’re playing.”

The men’s tennis team will hit the road next weekend for a match on Saturday, April 11 at Princeton University and a match on Sunday, April 12 at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Student Spotlight: shArk’s Zach Wooster ’15

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

When Zach Wooster ’15 takes the stage this spring for his last show as a guitarist and vocalist with campus band shArk, he may be greeted with a chant of “Fins Up!” — a slogan used by the group’s fans. As he strikes the final notes of his Dartmouth career, Wooster will find himself a long way from his early performances at the College, played alongside friend and bandmate Pablo Marvel ’15 in the relaxed atmosphere of open mic nights at One Wheelock. “[Marvel] had written a couple of songs, and he taught them to me,” Wooster said, recalling these first performances. “The two of us were doing little duet things down there.”

Marvel, who Wooster described as one of his best friends, didn’t just introduce Wooster to these initial songs.

He also helped connect him to Chase Klein ’14, and the three formed campus band Chuck together during Wooster’s sophomore year. The band would play together — and evolve as a group — until Klein graduated, Wooster said.

Despite Wooster’s role in Chuck and interest in music, he never turned to any of the College’s music groups to continue performing. Instead, he joined Marvel and other remaining members of Chuck — Nick Deveau ’16 and Felipe Jaramillo ’16 — to form a new band, shArk. “I never dove into the chamber music or jazz band because I just didn’t really have a background in it,” Wooster, who has played in several bands at the College, said. “I think I appreciate that

music a lot, but I don’t have a passion for it the same way I have a passion for writing my own music and playing the music that inspires me, like I get to do in shArk.” Adding new members Zev Kane ’15 and Ben Meyer ’15, Wooster said, shArk transitioned away from Chuck’s country style to a sound more influenced by reggae and rock. The band, which meets to practice twice a week, now performs both covers and original songs, incorporating the different musical backgrounds of its members.

“The great thing about bands is the group dynamic,” Wooster said.

“I wouldn’t call myself the leader of shArk by any means...You get so many perspectives in a band like shArk.” Meyer, who plays trumpet in the band and first met Wooster in a youth baseball league, noted the distinction between his own musical background and Wooster’s. Wooster, he said, has introduced him to genres to which he had never before been exposed, including Phish and groups from the sixties, seventies and eighties that he described as groups “my parents should have been listening to if they were into popular culture — which they weren’t.”

In addition to his musical taste, Meyer also praised Wooster for his musical sensitivity, which he said helps all members of the band improve their sound.

“He’s very careful about what sounds good,” Meyer said. “He has no reservation about telling you if it sounds bad, which is a great quality to have as a musician because it keeps you honest, but it also keeps the

people you are working with honest.”

Wooster, who built on childhood piano lessons with an Advanced Placement class in music theory during his junior year of high school, said that it was this class that first opened his eyes to the possibility of writing his own music. At the College, he said, he has taken a number of music production and composition courses, as well as additional courses in music theory.

Last term, Wooster also conducted an independent study with music and computer science professor Michael Casey, who directs the College’s digital music graduate program. In the class, Wooster said, he was able to pursue one of his latest interests — producing jazz-based hip-hop beats.

“I basically just made it happen myself,” Wooster said. “I just had an idea that I could take what I’m doing in my free time and try and find an avenue where I could learn more about it.”

Casey, who teaches courses including “Sound Analysis and Synthesis” and “Music, Information and Neuroscience,” praised Wooster’s knowledge of the history of the sounds in which he is interested. Throughout the term, Casey said, Wooster worked on making his musical ideas clearer and extending the forms of his ideas so that entire song structures were created. “[Wooster’s] developing as a composer and a producer, and what that means is being able to find the right sounds and put them together,” Casey said. “He’s developing an ear for historical musical recordings.”

Despite this foray into other genres of music, Wooster remains invested in

Courtesy of Zach Wooster

From One Wheelock to shArk, Wooster has pursued a passion for performance.

shArk. In his final weeks at the College, he said, he has several goals for the band, including playing for a crowd during Green Key weekend, as well as a personal goal to play and write more of his own music. The band also aims to use its upcoming performances before Green Key — including opening gigs for The Rooks on April 24 and for Low Cut Connie on May 15 — to build momentum and refine its set list for a large performance over the big weekend, he said.

“We want to feel like every single song is perfect for that setting,” Wooster said, “That’s going to be our biggest show.”

When asked for final advice to give to fellow musicians at the College, Wooster urged anyone with an interest in music to get involved, citing the strength of the Dartmouth music

community. In particular, Wooster pointed to fellow campus bands like Burn the Barn and The Euphemisms as examples of students with whom he has become friends during his own musical journey.

“I think if you love music, you should work to find and make a band,” Wooster said. “You can make such good friends. That’s been the biggest part for me. It’s not necessarily like doing it for myself — it’s meeting so many cool fun people who also like to play music.

They’re all around... If you want that just seek it out.”

The final word with Zach Wooster ’15: First concert: State Radio in Boston (seventh grade) Favorite karaoke song: “What I Got”

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Opening reception for “Momentum” attracts crowds

B y annie smith

The Dartmouth Staff

As a crowd of undergraduates, faculty and community members watch, an arctic fox curls its back and turns its head to look directly at its audience. With its white coat popping in sharp contrast to the dry,

brown tundra on which it stands, the fox creates a transfixing image — one nearly powerful enough to transport viewers to the Arctic, where studio art professor Christina Seely’s expedition-based work has taken her.

Rather than a frigid and barren landscape, however, the scene for this fox’s antics is a large screen, where it

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Studio art exhibit “Momentum” attracts viewers to the Strauss Gallery.

has been projected as part of Seely’s latest exhibition, “Momentum,” currently on view in the Strauss Gallery.

“I love her, her work and the concept of looking at nature,” Noah Smith ’15, an observer on the exhibition’s first day and a studio art major, said. “It’s so cool that she has photographed a place I will probably never see in my own lifetime or with my own eyes.”

“Momentum” — which explores our “contemporary relationship to the planet,” according to the studio art department’s description of the exhibition — includes more than just a video of the fox and other arctic imagery. Filling the Strauss Gallery is a collection of work drawn from two of Seely’s previous projects, “Markers of Time” — which includes photographs captured on expeditions to the Arctic and the tropics — and “Lux,” which the artist worked on from 2005 and 2010. The latter, which consists of large-scale photographs, focuses on the artificial lights of civilization, capturing cities and other industrial centers, while the former — an

ongoing project — focuses on our changing relationship with both time and the planet, using a variety of mediums to explore the impact of climate change.

Director of exhibitions and studio art professor Gerald Auten, who helped to prepare the exhibit, said that new faculty members are traditionally offered an exhibition in order to introduce their work to other professors, students and the community at large. Seely, who previously taught at the California College of the Arts, has exhibited her work at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and the West Collection, among other venues.

In designing the exhibition, Auten said, the Strauss Gallery was used in favor of the neighboring Jaffe-Friede gallery due to differences in the spaces. Exhibits can be constructed in accordance with the artist’s wishes, Auten said, and in Seely’s case, a divider was added to the Strauss Gallery in order to create a separate space for projections, complete with throw pillows for seating.

“The Jaffe-Friede Gallery is huge, while in the Straus Gallery we can do something manageable,” Auten said.

Ashley Kekona ’18, another visitor to the gallery on its opening day yesterday, said that she was particularly drawn to the exhibit’s design.

“I like how simple the layout is and how big the photos are,” she said.

“I’m really drawn to them, and the set up for the video is very nice.”

Among the exhibition’s photographs, a picture of walruses lounging on a piece of sea ice particularly highlights the connection between “Markers of Time” and climate change. According to the artist, who describes the photo — part of a diptych — on her website, the ice on which the walruses are resting is shrinking due to the impacts of climate change.

“Momentum,” which opened with a reception yesterday, is on view until May 3. An artist event for the exhibit, entitled “Draw of Darkness,” will be held on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the Hood Auditorium.

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Women’s tennis falls to Columbia, beats Cornell on road B y CHANELLE QI

After riding an 11-match win streak to an all-time program-high ranking of No. 18 earlier in the season, the women’s tennis team faltered over the spring interim and watched its ranking dip to No. 37 following three consecutive losses.

Looking to recover some of the momentum that brought them a streak of wins, the women opened Ivy League play this past weekend with a trip to New York, where they saw mixed results.

The team suffered a 6-1 loss against No. 46 Columbia University — which sits in second place among the Ivies — in their first conference match, but salvaged the weekend with a hard-fought 4-3 victory against Cornell University the following day, busting Cornell’s seven-game win streak that dated back to February.

In a short conference season in which every match has large implications for the league title, the Big Green’s win over Cornell keeps the women in the running

for the Ivy League title, as Cornell opened its Ivy League play with a win over Columbia.

On Friday, the women faced off against Columbia (10-6, 2-1) .

The team had previously defeated Columbia 4-0 in the finals of the ECAC Division I Indoor Championships in February, but the women found trouble bouncing back from two doubles losses and playing on their opponent’s home turf on Saturday.

“Columbia was playing at home, and they knew the playing conditions better than we did,” Kristina Mathis ’18 said.

“I think the close singles matches really showed how momentum can change in tennis.”

The Big Green struggled in doubles and lost the No. 2 and No. 3 matches with respective scores of 8-1 and 8-4 to drop the doubles point.

The team regained its composure after falling to an early disadvantage and challenged Columbia in an attempt to claim points in the single competitions.

Although the Big Green walked

away with only one win in singles, five of the six singles matches went to deciding third sets.

After dropping the first set 6-4, co-captain Katherine Yau ’16 fought back to win her second set 6-3 at No. 2 , but Columbia sophomore Tina Jiang powered through the second half of the third set to close the match with a final score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

“It comes down to the little things and maintaining momentum,” Yau said. “It was good to play such a physical match going into Ivies, and it reminded me that every point matters in competitive Ivy League matches.”

At No. 3, Mathis also battled her way back into her match after losing the first set 6-2, dominating the second set 6-1. The momentum of the match, however, swung against Mathis’ favor, and she fell in the third, 6-0.

“My opponent did a good job getting me off the court and staying aggressive,” Mathis said. “She also had a good first serve percentage, which really threw me off.”

The team’s lone victory came

from Taylor Ng ’17, ranked 79th in the nation, at the No. 1 spot.

Ng, who has won 18 of the 19 matches she has played as the top player for the Big Green, remained the symbol of consistency for the team and weathered a second set loss to win her match 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

It was only Ng’s second match of the season at No. 1 that required a deciding third set.

“Our match against Columbia focused us against Cornell,” Jacqueline Crawford ’17 said. “[Our] team began to really take any possible opportunities to finish matches, which was a big improvement from Columbia.”

After falling to Columbia, the Big Green (14-4, 1-1) traveled to Ithaca, New York, to compete against Cornell (8-6, 2-1) in its second conference match on Saturday.

The Big Green got off to a slow start in doubles and dropped the point with an 8-3 loss at No. 1 and an 8-1 loss at No. 2. Once again, the Big Green faced a 1-0 deficit headed into singles.

Ng and Yau set the tone for the

women during singles, as they both won quickly at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions with identical score lines of 6-3, 6-2.

No. 4 Crawford also came off the court with a straight-set victory, winning her match 6-2, 6-1. The team fell in straight sets at the No. 3 and No. 5 spots, however, evening the overall score at 3-3.

The deciding point came down to the No. 6 singles match , where Julia Schroeder ’18 found herself locked in a battle with Cornell freshman Lizzie Stewart.

After finishing with a bagel in the first set, Schroeder showcased the ever-important short-term memory of a tennis player, digging deep to win the second set in a tiebreaker. Schroeder dominated the third set 6-1, clinching the must-win match for the Big Green.

Women’s tennis resumes conference competition next weekend at home, hosting Princeton University — which currently sits atop the Ivy League — and Brown University — tied with Dartmouth at fourth among Ivies — on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Men’s tennis team opens Ivy League play with pair of losses B y alexander agadjanian The Dartmouth Staff

Facing some of the strongest competition in the Ivy League in the opening weekend of conference play, the No. 54 men’s tennis team fell to No. 22 Columbia University 6-1 on Saturday and lost to No. 51 Cornell University 5-2 on Sunday to bring its overall season record to 9-10 and its Ivy League record to 0-2.

In its first conference match of the season, the Big Green encountered a traditional powerhouse in Columbia (9-5, 2-0). The team began the day with a start strong in doubles, with the No. 1 doubles pairing of Chris Kipouras ’15 and Dovydas Sakinis ’16 — the No. 20 team in the nation — finishing first, giving the men an early advantage over the Lions. The duo overcame Columbia’s No. 1 pair of senior Winston Lin and junior Mike Vermeer, the country’s No. 62 doubles pair, by a score of 6-2.

“We did really well,” Sakinis said. “It was a close match even

though it was 6-2. [It] sounds kind of easy in doubles, but I think we won like four games in deuce point which is really close, and [Kipouras] came with really good shots in the key moments. It was a really good doubles performance by us.”

The Big Green’s other two doubles teams, however, could not take advantage of the early lead.

Columbia won the No. 2 match 6-4 and the No. 3 match 7-5 to grab the overall doubles point.

“The doubles point was really close,” head coach Chris Drake said. “[Kipouras and Sakinis] played a good match and beat a good team. We had a close match at [court] 2, we had some chances to get back in it that we couldn’t capitalize on. At [court] 3 we had a lead early on that we couldn’t sustain. When we were executing well, we had a good chance to win the point, but it just kind of got away from us at the end.”

Down a point after the doubles matches, the Big Green began many of its six singles matches on

a strong note, proving it could go toe-to-toe with the reigning Ivy League champions. Columbia, however, soon took control of the courts, and the Lions ultimately emerged triumphant in all but one of the singles matches. Victories in three consecutive matches in singles competition gave Columbia the definitive 4-0 edge, clinching the victory for the Lions before the other matches concluded.

“In singles we came out strong right away,” Drake said. “We got up early in the first sets on four different courts, but we could have done a better job when [Columbia] responded. When they responded and got back into those sets, I thought our intensity dropped a little bit. We needed to maintain that a little bit more.”

The one salient bright spot of the afternoon for the Big Green came in the struggle between the two strongest competitors on all the courts — Sakinis and Columbia’s ace, Lin, in the No. 1 singles match.

Playing against the No. 21 player in the nation and one of the most

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In its first conference play, the men’s tennis team stumbled out of the gates.

formidable opponents he will see all season, Sakinis, ranked 53rd in singles, defeated Lin 6-3, 7-6 to notch the sole point of the day for the Big Green.

The victory over such a successful and competitive opponent carried extra meaning for Sakinis as well, who, as a junior, had yet

to defeat Lin in his career. Saturday’s meeting represented the last chance Sakinis had at such a feat, as the Columbia athlete is in his last collegiate season.

“I think it was the fourth time [I played against Lin],” Sakinis said.

“I lost two and we didn’t finish the SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 6