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Geisel School of Medicine professor Giovanni Bosco was awarded a $3.7 million grant for his epigenetics work.

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When Giovanni Bosco was a child, he left a small piece of cheese in a plastic ball and found maggots inside the next day.

His fascination with the science behind the small creatures that others might find frighten-

ing has paid off. Last week, Bosco, a genetics professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, won the $3.7 million Pioneer Award — a five-year grant sponsored by the National Institute of Health — for his research on the behavioral epigenetics of fruit flies. The sum will continue Bosco’s research.

Behavioral epigenetics is

a modern branch of biology that seeks to untangle learned and instinctual behaviors. For example, certain animals are hardwired to fear snakelike movements despite having never seen such a predator before, Bosco said. Bosco’s lab conducts research into whether behavior SEE BOSCO PAGE 2

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On Monday, Oct. 12, the Dickey Center for International Understanding conducted a Humanity Uprooted panel to explain the causes and effects of Europe’s refugee crisis. The panel was held in Cook Auditorium in the late afternoon.

Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin moderated the panel. He emphasized the importance of this event in helping Upper Valley residents and

George “Skip” Battle ’66 has pledged to contribute up to $5 million to the College for the construction of the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, the College announced on Friday. Battle, former Ask.com CEO and senior Aspen Group member, will match donations from any source up to $5 million, for a possible $10 million gift in total, more than half of the total projected cost of $17 million to rebuild the structure.

The plans for the new Lodge intend to preserve the atmosphere and logcabin feel of the old building while offering improved functionality, such as a larger kitchen and dining space and increased energy efficiency.

The current Lodge, which was originally intended to last 40 to 45 years, is now more than 77 years old

and suffers from structural issue such as rotten logs and insufficiently large interior spaces.

In addition, the new building is intended to be more functional yearround, whereas the winter months can present difficulties with the current Lodge at its location on Mount Moosilauke, which can experience significantly colder temperatures than Hanover.

As part of increasing the Lodge’s year-round usability, Battle said that the new design includes classrooms or meeting rooms, which he suggested could be used for the College’s already significant research relating to the North Woods that span Canada and the northern United States.

Feyaad Allie ’16, who was a member of Lodj Croo this past summer as part of Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips program, SEE LODGE PAGE 3

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those affiliated with the College better understand Europe’s current refugees crisis.

“The story is everywhere right now, and it seemed like an event like this would be of great interest to students and community members in the Upper Valley who are trying to understand more what is going on and to think about what might make a difference in this context,” Benjamin said. “One of the responsibilities that we have as a SEE HUMANITY PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing The Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire were given approval by Vermont regulators to affiliate with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which, by next year, will regulate the VNH and its financial plans and management functions, the Valley News reported. After several agreements concerning DHMC and the guarantee of VNH’s sustainability and performance, the partnership set into motion, opening doors for both the VNH and DHMC in the fields of health care and in-home nursing. The deal allows the VNH to keep its license and label as a home healthy agency and maintain “exclusive control of allocation” of its $14 million investment portfolio. DHMC will have complete control over smaller budget items as well as the appointment of the chief executive. Members of both organizations are optimistic in the partnerships with its hope for a future of better care and new facilities.

Anthropology professor Jeremy DeSilvia continues to examine the new addition to human ancestral lineage, Homo naledi. Found in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa, over 1,000 fossil fragments remain, of which 107 are the remains of feet.

The different parts make up almost one complete adult foot with parts from two other adults and a juvenile. DeSilvia describes the newest lineage with feet and ankles like modern humans in its shape, structure and function, much like the Homo erectus, which is the first lineage with proportions similar to modernday humans. The fossils show shorter arms with longer legs, a smaller brain and curved fingers in addition to its comparison to Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis, with curved fingers and an open pelvis for easy walking and childbirth.

Researchers from the Dartmouth Institute for Healthy Policy and Clinical Practice and the Geisel School of Medicine published a study in a medical journal, Pediatrics, that analyzes nearly all children in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire with mental complexity, finding discrepancies across hospitals of tests, visits and inpatient days. National data show that number of medically complex children has grown substantially.

While children with high health care needs account for a small percentage of the pediatric population, they account for one of the highest percentages of pediatric hospital charges. The data from these studies could potentially be used to better allocate costs and resources for hospitals and reduce costs for childcare.

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can be passed through generations by genetics alone and whether certain behavioral memories can become heritable traits.

“If we separated biological twins at birth and put them in different environments, what similarities would they have?” he said. “Of course we can’t do those experiments — they’re not ethical.”

In the research leading up to the grant, Geisel Ph.D. students Balint Kacsoh and Lita Bozler, who work with Bosco on his research, exposed fruit flies to predatory wasps and studied the response.

“It was a crazy idea we were shooting off the wall, and it turned out to be a very positive thing,” Kacsoh said.

They found that in response, mother flies would lay eggs with high amount of ethanol — which is poisonous to wasps — as protection. What was shocking, though, was that these flies’ offspring also had a propensity to find and produce ethanol.

This experiment was essential to securing the grant money, Bosco said.

Bosco, who received a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said fruit flies are a good fit for his experiment

since they are cheap to keep alive; they reproduce quickly, and it is simple to induce genetic mutations in them.

One of the challenges in the field, Bozler said, is creating an experiment that would result in a response that researchers could characterize as epigenetic.

“You’re kind of guessing and stumbling around the dark a lot of the time, which is part of the fun. But it’s also a little nerve-racking because it’s my thesis project,” she said. “We’re not sure of the outcome but that’s why he got the grant, because he’s insightful and creative and he is taking a huge risk on the project.”

The Pioneer Award supports scientists conducting high-risk, highreward research — while the potential impacts of the experiments could be impressive, the researchers also risk finding no results.

Kacsoh and Bozler said the lab — which consists of one undergraduate student, four graduate students, a lab technician and a research associate, in addition to Bosco — has a very open atmosphere that is centered around the spirit of discovery. “[Bosco] gives us freedom to go chase a crazy idea,” Bozler said.

Bosco noted that scientists in the lab enjoy bantering about the “craziest ideas” — from the molecules in

memory, to aliens on different planets, to whether insects can communicate with each other.

Greg Rogers, a cell and molecular biology professor at the University of Arizona who works with fruit fly cells and collaborates with Bosco, said that this project marks a new direction for Bosco, who is an expert in chromosome biology. Rogers said Bosco drew him to the University of Arizona in the first place — Bosco worked there for 10 years — and Bosco interviewed him for his current position.

Rogers said that grants for biology are difficult to acquire, but that groundbreaking results are more likely in novel fields like biological memory.

“This is the kind of five-year grant we’re all trying to get. They really drive science in this country,” Rogers said.

With the money, Bosco said he hopes to expand his lab by hiring post-doctoral fellows and additional graduate students.

In the future, Bosco hopes to study whether the maternal line, rather than the paternal line, causes a difference in inherited behaviors. He might also study whether parents’ ages affect a child’s health outcomes and whether purely survival behaviors are transmitted through generations.

Twelve other scientists this year have received a Pioneer Award.

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New Moosilauke Ravine Lodge will retain charm

that the condition of the Lodge was beginning to show visible signs of expressed support for a rebuild age and deterioration.

Lodge that would retain the look and “It was getting to the point where character of the current one. Allie keeping it up was more problematic also mentioned significant problems year after year,” Battle said. “It was with the current structure, and said wearing out. It was wonderfully that he believes that building is likely nostalgic, but it wasn’t wonderfully a fire hazard. modern.”

Allie also mentioned potential As early as 2008, the Moosilauke improvements such as upgrading Advisory Committee, which advises the kitchens, in addition to building the Outdoor Programs Office now guest accommodations like the ones run by Nelson, recommended the in the newer adjacent bunkhouses. replacement of the old Lodge.

He noted, however, that some Battle has donated to the College people were not in favor of rebuild- before, having previously supported ing the Lodge because of the deep the construction of a new rugby sense of tradition associated with the field and the creation of The Battle current building. Battle addressed Family Fund for Ethics Across the these concerns, saying that the Curriculum, in addition to general construction project is committed donations to the Dartmouth College to maintaining the essence of the Fund. old Lodge.

“Battle has been an extraordi “We’ll modnarily generous ernize the func- “We’re going to try supporters of tion and trathings at Dartditionalize the to keep the Lodge as mouth, and environment,” evocative of the past we’re extraordiBattle said. “It’s narily grateful,” not going to as possible.”

Nelson said. be exactly as “The Moosilauke was - Donor george “skip” first decision [to ,but it is going to donate] wasn’t retain the feel.” brattle ’66 about Moosi To this end, lauke, it was the new Lodge about Dartwill retain familiar aspects of the mouth,” Battle said. “And I think old one, such as the fireplace and Dartmouth was the reason for any general layout of the main dining of the success that I’ve had in life room. because of the academics and the “We’re going to try to keep the friendships that I made. It starts lodge as evocative of the past as out of a sense of gratitude for the possible,” he said.

College and then it moves onto The design of the new Lodge has Moosilauke.” been finalized and construction is Battle fondly remembers his scheduled to begin in fall 2016 after Trip, marked by nostalgic memories Trips have concluded, director of such as then-College President John outdoor programs Dan Nelson ’75 Sloan Dickey ’29 speaking by the said. The Lodge is then scheduled Lodge fireplace. to be complete in time for Trips in “I came from a very small com2017. It will be unavailable during munity [in the village of Chepachet, construction, meaning the project Rhode Island,] so the notion of will have to be carefully coordinated spending time in the woods as a with the Trips program. The time way of getting used to college life frame is dependent on the College was perfect to me,” he said. being able to successfully raise the Part of Battle’s intention in do$17 million needed for the renova- nating is to maintain this experience tion and on the plan’s approval from for future generations of freshmen, senior administrators and Trustees. a notion which is “reassuring and Nonetheless, Battle’s “very gener- heartwarming,” he said. ous gift gets us off to a great start,” Battle also is connected to the Nelson said. In discussing the fun- College through two alumni childraising for the project, Nelson said dren, Daniel Battle ’01 and Emily that securing large sums of money Battle ’05. is always challenging, but the Lodge “Moosilauke stands at the center project “resonates with so many of the Dartmouth environment alumni because so many of these that’s away from the bustle of the alumni had a great first experience city and where there is a sense of at Dartmouth at the Lodge, often community,” he said. “An asset that’s through their First-Year Trips,” he not reproducible by any school that said. may compete with Dartmouth and Even when he attended the it’s really inexpensive to maintain Moosilauke Ravine Lodge’s 60th compared to other important parts anniversary in 1998, Battle noticed of a university.”

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Passerbys stand and observe cars in an Oct. 12 car show behind the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,800 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19

A Charade of a Scandal

Trump Therapy

The Clinton email scandal has overstayed its welcome in campaign coverage.

In the 2016 presidential election, attacks on candidates are becoming increasingly vitriolic.

Case in point — the incessant attention devoted to the release of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s past emails. Clinton’s use of a personal email account while she was Secretary of State was acknowledged last March, and seven months later, it is still a recurring story used to undermine her campaign.

This weekend, President Barack Obama commented on Clinton’s private email server, saying that in general, elected officials should exercise caution when dealing with personal data and added that Clinton “made a mistake. She has acknowledged it.” That the issue has dominated media coverage of Clinton, he said, was “an indication that we’re in presidential political season.”

Obama’s words are strikingly true. When people talk about candidates, especially those they do not like, they tend to focus on one issue and use it as the primary reason for why candidates are not qualified to hold office. Sometimes the reason makes sense, as when the candidates are consistently making and defending ideological comments that are at odds with most voters’ opinions. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has declared, for example, that Mexico sends citizens across the border who are “rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.” His repeated defense of these crude remarks to advance anti-immigration policies invites fair criticism. Yet in Clinton’s case, the media are still discussing an issue that she acknowledged and apologized for months ago — one that poses no clear security risks for the country. As Obama noted, Clinton exercised poor judgement in using her personal email, but possession of the server “is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”

A key difference between Clinton’s controversy and others’ is that her actions do not affect present national security or policy. Throughout the entire process, she has been fairly transparent about the emails and her mistakes. More importantly, her use of a personal email to send work-related emails was completely legal. Though many like

to draw parallels between Hillary Clinton and the scandals of her husband and former President Bill Clinton, the email server stands in stark contrast to Bill Clinton’s actions during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Not only was his deposition that denied the affair illegal, but he also tried to cover it up by telling a blatant lie that again denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky. Unlike the controversy over Trump’s statements about Mexico, Clinton did not make harsh accusations and defend them. Both Bill Clinton and Trump invited criticism. Bill Clinton was dishonest and committed perjury while in office, and Trump’s policy statements are fair game in a presidential campaign.

Yet Clinton’s critics’ continual focus on the email controversy draws attention away from her policies and shifts the rhetoric to a personal attack. It has clearly been a huge campaign issue — Clinton’s own website includes a page explaining the emails as a way of setting the record straight. Similar issues have driven presidential politics in the past. Opponents consistently target specific, tangentially related blunders to smear a candidate’s name. The media, lured by the profits of sensational press, help to publicize the stories further. And people, already biased against a candidate, use the issues as reasoning to explain their dislike of a presidential hopeful. A vicious cycle results, driven by the media and fueled by public opinion, that ends up making people aware not of candidates’ ideological stances, but, in Clinton’s case, of an email controversy that never warranted such outcry.

Changing the media’s political coverage would be extremely difficult. As long as people are willing to read sensational news, tabloids and blogs will publish it. Yet we can demand popular reporting based on important issues that keeps coverage of scandals limited to illegal or dangerous ones. We can select what we read and what we discuss. At Dartmouth, we are in an environment that enables discussion about actual issues, not just sensational press. We need to take politics into our own hands and consciously engage with the policy issues that distinguish the candidates instead of controversies that should have died down months ago.

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Donald Trump’s popularity can hardly be attributed to strong credentials.

It has been months since the 2016 presidential campaign season started, and I still have to rub my eyes as I walk by the Class of 1953 Commons newsstands each morning seeing presidential candidate Donald Trump in the headlines. The usual “joke candidates” should have died out by now — and it is clear that most consider Trump a joke. A June 2015 Huffington Post and YouGov poll indicated only 21 percent of Americans consider Trump to be a serious candidate. Yet, despite no significant changes in campaigning style and few specific policy announcements, Trump has gone from being a political laughingstock to the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Frankly, I do not know how to explain that — but I will give it a try.

First, it is important to note the present nature of elections. Voters are more influenced by the perceived character of candidates than by their policies. In a 2007 poll, Associated Press-Ipsos found that 55 percent of those surveyed consider honesty, integrity and other character traits the primary determinants in their choices for political leaders. Less than one third looked to leadership characteristics, experience or intelligence. This makes sense. Voters would want genuine candidates because the president, once elected, will base his decisions on his political team, rather than on the calculated but largely unrealistic promises made during campaign season. In the minds of Americans, policy goals will either change or fail, but the character of the president will not.

Politicians like Trump know this. Modern political debates seem far more focused on image and rhetoric and far less on factual, objective argumentation. Perhaps that is why Trump has been so successful. His platform is almost entirely character-based, with only a few substantive policy ideas and no serious plans for implementation.

Trump’s biggest card is that he is not a politician. He wants to seem real, unaffiliated, unencumbered by political pressure. He plays down his political inexperience by portraying politicians as corrupt and lazy and himself as a breath of fresh air — a virtuous defender of the average American. Yet during the Aug. 2015 Fox News Republican primary debate, he talked about giving money to politicians in return for favors. He

also said he had given money to Hillary Clinton and therefore she had no choice but to attend his wedding when asked. When planning his wedding day, Trump decided he wanted one of the country’s biggest political figures to sit in the front row as he said “I do,” yet now, he is trying to convince voters — and somehow succeeding — that he will work against political insiders.

Trump tells voters he’s a successful businessman and that America needs to be run like a business. Trump has also gone through four bankruptcies. He, like most businessmen who crave success, has acted with sole regard to his own good — he got rich off of Atlantic City but then dumped it when he ran into financial trouble.

Trump tells voters he’s a good negotiator.

That may be true, but he lacks experience with foreign officials — who could not care less about his billions, cannot just be sued into submission by his lawyers and probably will not even take him seriously as a former television star and beauty pageant owner. Moreover, it is unclear where Trump’s interests lie, which is particularly concerning when it is not difficult to get richer through politics. Trump’s assets in real estate and his business holdings are significant enough that the decisions he would make in office could affect him personally, and that’s a dangerous scenario that more Americans should recognize.

Trump tells voters exactly what they want to hear — no filters, reservations or political correctness. He feeds off of people who are so frustrated with the political process that they desperately need something new — people who feel that their voices have been marginalized because classist, racist and sexist commentary has been rightfully admonished, people who are so upset with the current state of American politics that they would even be OK with starting from scratch again.

If you’re a Trump supporter — and even if you’re not — think about what makes him a good candidate. Think about whether Trump actually deserves a vote on the basis of his competence. And if you are frustrated with the state of American politics, do express it. Vote. But make sure you vote for a candidate who deserves your support because you consider him the best option, not the least worst.

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Speakers explain Europe’s refugee crisis to audience FROM HUMANITY PAGE 1

Center is to highlight issues that are pressing and urgent, and I like to think the campus looks to us to do so.”

In addition to Benjamin, three speakers participated on the panel.

These included Bob Kitchen, the International Rescue Committee emergency response and preparedness director; Michael Leigh, the former Director General of the European Union for Enlargement and Graziella Parati, the Leslie Center of the Humanities director and a migration scholar.

Kitchen spoke first and emphasized the ongoing nature of the refugee crisis, discussing the long-term causes that precipitated this current issue.

“It’s not a new crisis,” Kitchen said.

“This is the result of protracted warfare and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq. This is 10 years of suffering and people being uprooted in the face of large-scale conflict.”

Leigh said that though the situation can be traced to specific factors, its magnitude is significant.

“This crisis is of unprecedented proportions,” Leigh said.

He said that the European Union has the potential to curtail the consequences of the refugee crisis, though he does not believe that this is a guaranteed or blanket solution. He also proposed a strengthening in the EU’s system for migration and asylum issues, noting the need to tackle the root causes of political conflict and violence.

Parati concluded this discussion by offering statistics to supplement the information provided by Kitchen and Leigh. In 2015, 591,285 refugees arrived by sea in Europe. Of those, 3,095 were reported dead or missing.

Several students in attendance said that the discussion was enlightening.

Allyson Block ’19, who attended the panel, said that it offered greater insight into an issue with which she was relatively unfamiliar.

“I hadn’t known all that they dis-

cussed,” she said. “Obviously the crisis is in the news and talked about, but I wasn’t aware of any policies before coming. It was for my own edification, and I think this was very informative and also very horrifying. The numbers are shocking and powerful.”

Victor Cabrera ’19, who attended the panel, also found the discussion to be useful for developing a broader understanding of the issue.

“I realized there was a much greater complexity to the crisis than just getting to Europe,” he said. “All the problems you face after getting to Europe…a lack of funding, a lack of infrastructure. It gave me a lot more to think about.”

Benjamin said his goal for the panel was to educate and inform attendees, as well as to encourage them to take action.

“We hope that [attendees] come away smarter about the situation than when they went in, that they understand both more about the human dimensions of the crisis and also the political and institutional problems and that they can think about whether or not they are in a position to do more financially to help those who are helping refugees,” Benjamin said.

Parati also said that the panel was important because the refugee crisis is a global issue.

“I think that it’s important to always be informed about what’s going on in the world because there are no real separations,” she said. “Something that happens in Europe or in Africa or Asia always has repercussions all over the world, including the United States, of course.”

In January, Dartmouth intends to invite scholars of refugee and migration studies to speak, Parati said. The College is also working toward accepting refugee students, she said.

“In having this initiative at Dartmouth to bring in some other refugees, I wanted people from the community and from the College to be involved [through the panel],” she said.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m.

“Investigations of Electric Fields in Laboratory Plasmas” with Dr. Umair Siddiqui of West Virginia University, Wilder 111

4:00 p.m.

“Bad Plus Jazz Master Class” with Joshua Redman, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faulkner Auditorium

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“Dartmouth Author Talk: When It Was Just a Game” with Harvey Frommer, Berry Library, Level 1

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“Rocky VoxMasters,” interviewing workshop, Rockefeller Center, Class of 1930 Room

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“Collecting and Teaching: Fulfilling the Mission of a College Art Museum,” adult course, Hood Museum of Art

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“Staged Play Readings,” directed by Veronica Burt ’16, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Bentley Theater

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The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman to play at the Hop

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Bass and drums are generally thought to be paired with guitars, not pianos, but The Bad Plus counters that idea with lively jazz that relies on a piano-drums-bass trio.

The outfit originally consisted of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King, but the three are currently collaborating with saxophonist Joshua Redman.

Iverson, Anderson and King have been playing together since the late 1980s and officially founded The Bad Plus in 2000.

Their most recent studio release as a trio is “Inevitable Western,” which came out in 2014.

Redman, who is also the artistic director of Wigmore Hall’s jazz

series in London, started playing the saxophone at age 10 and released his first album in 1993.

Since then, he has put out a series of independent and collaborative albums. Redman has previously come to campus, last playing at the Hopkins Center in 1999 Redman started playing shows with the band in 2011, and they continued to play shows together over the next few years and began studio recording for the album in 2014. The quartet put out an album called “The Bad Plus Joshua Redman” in 2015 on the Nonesuch label.

Members of The Bad Plus were unable to comment due to some members’ having unexpected family emergencies on short notice.

“The Bad Plus Joshua Redman” is generating interest from students

because of the band’s energetic sounds and varied influences. Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble trumpet and flugelhorn player Kathryn Waychoff ’16 said that she enjoys how the band brings a sense of coolness to jazz.

“I’ve seen them live before,” she said. “They were one of the first jazz groups I saw. I saw them in 2010 at the Telluride Jazz Festival.

They were phenomenal. They have a way of taking less melodic aspects of jazz and bringing a ton of energy to it. It makes them have cool factor of rock group. They are amazing performers all around. I’m a huge fan of them.”

Redman, a widely renowned saxophonist in his own right, has his own fans, such as Barbary Coast saxophonist and lead alto Erin Huffer ’17.

“Unfortunately, I’m not on campus this term, so I won’t be able to attend the concert,” Huffer said.

“I’m completely jealous though — I’d love to see Joshua Redman in concert.”

Barbary Coast saxophonist Kimberly Hassel ’16 said that she enjoys how Redman plays the saxophone.

“He has a great sense of technique and style,” she said. “His improvisations are so fluid. As a saxophonist, it’s really interesting to listen to.”

She said that she enjoys that the band is more avant-garde than more traditional jazz bands, and that she likes the combination of The Bad Plus and Joshua Redman’s playing together.

Hassel said that she’s planning on attending the master class the

group will be hosting and wants to attend the concert if her schedule allows.

The group is known for pushing the boundaries of jazz by using pop, blues, rock and folk inspired tunes.

“They are a ‘band’ that is rearranging ideas about their particular genres. Their members since their youth have been hoovering down every excellent groove in rock and R&B and using it in a creative, jazz context,” Hop publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said.

The quartet will be performing on tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Spaulding Auditorium. Tickets will be $10 to $40 for students and $17 to $40 for community members.

The group will also be hosting a free master class tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Faulkner Hall.

The Knights’ residency includes student shows, class visits

B y amelia rosch

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

In preparation for their Friday, Oct. 16 performance at the Hopkins Center, The Knights — a Brooklyn, New York-based orchestra collective — will have a five-day residency at the College, meeting with students, visiting classes and local schools and performing with student groups.

On Monday night, The Knights and the student band Ladies’ Night hosted a “Collis Cabaret” at Collis Common Ground.

In an interview before the show, The Knights’ artistic director and conductor Eric Jacobsen said that the group was excited to perform with Ladies’ Night. He said that the band did not know what the show would be like until they began to rehearse with Ladies’ Night on Monday afternoon.

“We were just kind of having a jam,” he said. “We went through the tunes and worked out little changes, and we were ready to go.”

Ladies’ Night band member Bean Crane ’16 said that Friday Night Rock reached out to them about the opportunity to play with The Knights.

She said that the group was eager for the opportunity.

“We knew that we were going to be playing with them, so that was enticing,” she said.

Crane said that she saw Brooklyn Rider, a string quartet that is made up of four members of The Knights’ including Jacobsen, during her freshman year.

Ladies’ Night member Allison Steele ’16 said that having time to workshop their set with The Knights on Monday afternoon added to the band’s sound and energy.

Steele said that blending their sound with that of The Knights was an interesting but fun experience.

“They sort of just jumped on it, since we cover rap songs and we

cover R&B,” Steele said. “Some of our little interludes that we have, they just brought us ideas and some nice riffs and licks.”

Reed Sturtevant ’16, member of new student bluegrass and folk band The Filthy Filthy Mountain Boys, said that he and band member Ned Darling ’19 were invited by FNR to back Ladies’ Night during the cabaret.

He said that this was the first time the band played with Ladies’ Night.

“I think it’s super cool the kind of combined texture of Ladies’ Night with The Knights,” he said. “It kind of turns into this really big sound with a whole lot of stuff going on. It’s neat to throw me and [Darling] in there with a different sort of sound coming in.”

Hop outreach manager Stephanie Pacheco said that the cabaret was created through a partnership with the Collis Center that allows student groups to perform with visiting artists once a term.

In addition to Monday’s cabaret, The Knights will be visiting three classes in the music department on Wednesday and Thursday, hosting dinner discussions on Wednesday and visiting local schools on Thursday.

Pacheco said that this residency is on the longer side for visiting artists.

She said the Hop looks for artists who are involved in outreach and want to work with students and faculty at the College.

Jacobson said the group is particularly excited to visit various classes.

“Being able to break through and talk in a real way quickly is so important,” he said. “Going into different classrooms is really fun because it feels like instantly we’re meeting on similar turf.”

Pacheco said that The Knights will bring their foundation in classical music and ability to cross genres to students to contextualize different

aspects of music.

“They are able to go into a global music class or music theory classes and really have an ability to look at what the curriculum is and come at it from a real world perspective, as professional artists who are doing this day in and day out across a variety of different groups,” Pacheco said.

Jacobson said that the group has prepared specific discussions for each of the classes they plan to visit.

Pacheco said that the group will also bring their deep passion for music and the arts to the wider Upper Valley community.

“They have that deep passion for arts education and for music education and getting the arts and music out into schools and education centers in this day and age,” she said. “They are

really seeking to find ways to teach but also make music come alive.”

Jacobson said that the group’s members believe it is important to bring music to schools, especially due to recent budget cuts that target arts education.

“Going around to different schools, the idea of teaching students or playing for students is great,” he said. “It’s very cool to be a part of these outreach programs and reaching kids who don’t really get to hear too much music live.”

He said that when the band is on the road, which can be up to nine months a year, they try to do some form of educational outreach at each of their stops.

“The goal is to have immediate interactions with people, talk to them, be a part of them, have them be a part

of you and have a moment together,” he said.

Pacheco said that this is the second time The Knights have performed at the College — they visited in 2013, and Brooklyn Rider also performed at the College the same year. She said that the residency was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant that focuses on student and youth engagement in classical music.

The Knights will perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

The band will play “Suite No. 2” from “The Soldier’s Tale” by Igor Stravinsky, pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Schumann and Giovanni Sollima, as well as a suite by singer Sufjan Stevens. Tickets will be $10 to $45 for students and $17 to $45 for community members.

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Ladies’ Nights performed last night in Collis Common Ground as part of a cabaret with the Brooklyn-based band The Knights.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015

TUESDAY LINEUP

FIELD HOCKEY VS. MAINE 3 PM

Field hockey falls to Penn on a late goal in double overtime

B y james handal The Dartmouth

In its fourth consecutive Ivy League game this past Saturday, the field hockey team fell to the University of Pennsylvania 3-2 in the last two minutes of the second overtime period after a hard fought game. The Quakers scored the game-winning goal with a minute and 17 seconds remaining in the second overtime to give Penn its ninth-straight win. The Quakers improved to 9-1 overall and 3-0 in Ivy League play, while the Big Green dropped to 4-6 overall and 0-3 in Ivy League play.

“Our first half was a little flat, and we were not stringing together like we know how and not following our game plan which we practiced the week before,” head coach Amy Fowler said. “Luckily, our defense and our goalkeeper played well to be only down one goal. We were outshot, and problems were coming more from what we did with the ball than without it.”

The Quakers started the game strong in the first half, taking 12 shots and keeping pressure on the Big Green. After the early onslaught of attack, Penn broke through 14 minutes in for the first goal of the game a goal when Penn junior Elise Tilton played a ball to the left post

where Ivy League-leading goal scorer Alexa Hoover received it and pushed it passed Paige Duffy ’17 for the early 1-0 lead. Hoover leads the League’s next top scorer by 10 goals, sitting at a comfortable lead with 21 on the season. Penn’s 1-0 lead held until halftime, which let Dartmouth readjust and prepare for a comeback.

Duffy stood on her head in the first period to keep Dartmouth in the game, preventing the Quakers from slotting their second tally of the match by making six saves in the first. Dartmouth only mustered two shots in the first half.

“I just tried to stay focused and continue sticking to saving shots to help my team be in the best opportunity to win the game,” Duffy said. “Being focused is what I try to do whenever I am playing for my team.”

To start the second half, Dartmouth came out and got on the board 47 minutes into play. Brooke Van Valkenburg ’16 ripped a shot across the goalkeeper inside the far post off of a penalty corner play with assists coming from Eliza Becker ’16 and Anna Ewasechko ’18, tying the game at a goal each.

The Quakers responded with a goal in the 57th minute after a give-and-go play in front of the net ended with Penn freshman Selena Garzio finishing past

Duffy to lead 2-1.

Once again the Big Green responded. With only five minutes remaining in regular gameplay, Dartmouth’s leading goal-scorer Julia Donald ’18 notched her ninth goal of the season off of a pass from Morgan Philie ’18 to tie the score 2-2. The Big Green and the Quakers exchanged possession in the last few minutes not wanting to concede anything.

“Our whole team played well, but our defense kept us in the game to take us into overtime,” Duffy said. “The last few minutes of regulation were very much cautious in the attacking half to not be caught out in defense.”

In the first overtime period, Dartmouth was unable to register a single shot. Penn did not look very dangerous until the Quakers were awarded a penalty stroke, but Duffy again came up strong and denied Hoover, who shot wide.

The opening of the second overtime period saw matching breakaways for both teams with shots going wide.

Dartmouth took four shots, but in the 98th minute of play, the Big Green fell short as Penn’s Tilton scored with a cross from the left side into the back of the net.

Penn put pressure on Duffy through-

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The field hockey team has lost its first three Ivy League matches of the season.

out the game with a 27-14 edge in total shots and having a 10-8 lead in penalty corners. Across the contest, the Quakers had a 16-4 advantage with shots on goal.

Duffy was very busy with 13 saves, while the Quakers goalie only had two saves.

The Big Green will next play the University of Maine at home on Chase Field at 3 p.m. today.

“Maine is very fast,” Donald said.

“Last year, they ran circles around us.

We’re going to have to play smart hockey

— which we are definitely capable of — to shut them down. We just want to keep playing hard, at this point and have fun. As an underclassman, I just want to enjoy what little time is left with the seniors, as we all are playing for them.”

Dartmouth’s previous two meetings versus Maine have both ended in losses, 5-2 and 4-2 respectively. The Black Bears look good again this year and come into the contest 12-2 on the season with a five-game win streak.

Women’s soccer loses to Yale University in one-goal shutout

B y emily wechsler The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s soccer team failed to replace the goose egg in their Ivy League win column this weekend, losing 0-1 to Yale University on Saturday evening at Reese Stadium in New Haven, Connecticut. Despite out-shooting the Bulldogs 11-5 and putting the ball in dangerous positions many times, the Big Green could not find the back of the net.

Yale, which entered the contest on a five-game win-less streak, brought its record to 4-5-2, 1-2 Ivy with the win. In shutting out the Big Green (7-3-2, 0-2-1 Ivy) the Bulldogs scored their first Ivy goal this season and gave head coach Rudy Meredith his 200th victory at Yale.

With the loss, Dartmouth fell in the Ivy League and is currently tied for last place with Brown University, despite averaging 2.4 goals per game — the second highest in the conference.

The Big Green started the game well and put pressure on Yale’s defense.

Dartmouth took more shots than Yale and — over the course of the game — earned 10 corner kicks to Yale’s zero.

Time and time again, the Big Green created chances only to miss its opportunities just wide or ricochet shots of the posts. Neither team managed to score in the first half, and the two sides entered their locker rooms stalemated at 0-0.

Two minutes after halftime, Yale freshman Keri Cavallo came out and netted the eventual game-winner. The Big Green failed to clear the ball out of the box, and the Bulldogs took advantage. In a scramble in front of the net, Yale freshman Sofia Griff was able to poke it to Cavallo, who fired a shot inside the near post. Cavallo was awarded Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the play.

Dartmouth responded with a streak of opportunities, but did not show the composure it needed to get the ball between the posts.

“We played well, but the result obviously wasn’t what we were hoping for,”

co-captain Jackie Friedman ’16 said.

“But I think that goes back to that’s just sometimes the way it works in soccer.

We had more shots than them, we had more opportunities but we didn’t finish the ones that we had. They got a few, and they put it away.”

Co-captain Lucielle Kozlov ’16 identified Dartmouth’s defensive unit’s ability to keep the team in the game.

“This season we’ve been so solid defensively, so when we don’t score, I put that on us like we’re not doing our job as forwards,” Kozlov said.

After entering the Ivy League season 6-1-1, Dartmouth has failed to win a single conference contest. The parity in the Ivy League leaves game results up to whichever team performs better or converts more opportunities on a given day, Kozlov said. “[It doesn’t all] come down to skill, because we’re all kind of on the same level,” Kozlov said. “It’s just a matter of who’s going to get that scrappy goal, who’s going to fight a little harder.”

Friedman said that the energy

the team feels at home on Burnham Field was missing at this away game.

Dartmouth was able to level the match and force overtime against Princeton University after the Tigers scored first last weekend, though the team lacked the extra spark to do the same at Yale, Friedman said.

With the result, the Big Green was left wanting more, but recognized that they had done good things. Koslov cited Dartmouth’s ability to move the ball forward from the defensive end and to make either good crosses or earn corners when on the attack.

“This one was probably the most frustrating game of the year because we did have some good attacking chances,” head coach Ron Rainey said. “The positive is that we created a lot of corner kicks, and we were above average in our possession, especially in the first half.”

Dartmouth was in a similarly frustrating position after three conference matches last year, when the team found itself winless at 0-3-0 in the League. Yet three points was better than the one the

women have now, which may make the difference for them when they try to match last year’s second-place finish in the conference.

“From here, we’re just going to have to change our goals and how we’re going to look at the rest of the season,” Friedman said. “It’s going to be hard now, if not impossible, to win the Ivy League at this point, and that’s always a hard way to view your season.”

Still, Friedman said, the team will be looking to learn something from every game and do its best throughout the season. The captains, she said, will put particular emphasis on encouraging the younger players to play hard and get more game minutes moving forward.

“It’s been hard particularly for the seniors who won’t have another chance, but all of us are competitive people and no one wants to lose, so it’s pretty easy to want to go out and win,” Friedman said.

Dartmouth will take the road again to face the University of Pennsylvania this Saturday at 5 p.m.