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College falls to No. 12 in U.S. News Grand jury will

hear J. Martin Favor’s case

By LAUREN BUDD The Dartmouth Staff

is less valuable to prospective students than more specific lists that rank individual programs and college strengths.

Sunde said that he is especially proud of the College’s student-to-teacher ratio, saying that it is indicative of Dartmouth’s commitment to serving undergraduates.

Sunde said that he prefers to focus on the strengths of the College.

The case against African and African American studies and English professor J. Martin Favor will move to a grand jury after Favor waived his right to a probable cause hearing on Monday. Favor was arrested on Sept. 4 for the alleged possession of child pornography.

Prosecutor Marc Hathaway said that since the defense did not raise the issue of probable cause in this case, the investigation into Favor’s alleged crimes will continue and police officers will gather and examine evidence before the state determines what charges are appropriate. In general, this process is completed within 90 days, Hathaway said.

Five complaints filed by the police on the day of Favor’s arrest allege that Favor knowingly had in his possession videos depicting the graphic sexual abuse of several prepubescent boys and a prepubescent girl.

After a hearing in Claremont District Court on Friday, he was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bail.

No plea was entered.

As this case will likely involve federal charges, the sentence will most likely range from 10 to 15 years, David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire’s crimes against children research center, said.

The amount of content possessed by the perpetrator, any trading or selling of the contraband and whether the perpetrator was involved in the production can affect sentence length, though the biggest factor is prior offenses, he said. Whether the content is in photo or video form makes little difference in sentence lengths.

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The College’s U.S. News and World Report ranking has decreased over the past three years to 12th.

B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth failed to crack the top 10 on the U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of national universities for the second consecutive year, falling to a tie for 12th place with Northwestern University. The College also rose in the publication’s best undergraduate teaching list, rising from fourth to second place this year, although

the College had ranked first for multiple years prior to 2014.

The U.S. News and World Report’s lists are among the most well-known college rankings, and the College has not topped its 2011 ninthplace position in recent years.

Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde said that he had hoped the College would place better than 12th, though he feels the national universities list

Laskaris leaves post Mridul Khan remembered as dean of admissions B y KELSEY FLOWER and PARKER RICHARDS

B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Former dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris left her position to become the special assistant to the provost for arts and innovation, Provost Carolyn Dever announced on Aug. 27.

Former admissions director Paul Sunde will assume

Laskaris’ post as interim dean for the upcoming academic year.

As admissions director, Sunde conducted the admissions office’s day-today activities, but in his interim post, he will head larger admissions planning efforts.

Laskaris started her new SEE LASKARIS PAGE 9

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Mridul Khan is remembered by peers and professors for his passionate love of technology, selfless want to help others and engagement in meaningful conversations across a broad range of topics.

Khan, a graduate student in the computer science department, died in a skydiving accident on Aug. 30 in Davis,

California. He had been in the Bay Area for the summer to complete an internship with Neon, an image software firm.

Khan has been a student at the College since 2013. He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2011 from North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Khan worked in the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab during his time at the College, computer science professor and DALI

Lab director Lorie Loebsaid.

“He worked quietly and tirelessly on the work that was at hand, and he would present the work several times during the term,” she said.

“He was really good about explaining what he was working on and passionate about the work that he was doing and trying to help people.”

Khan was a lead developer for a DALI Lab project suggested by psychiatry SEE KHAN PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Brown University: A Brown University online sexual assault education program was shut down after malicious hackers stole personal information from an associated web service, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The program, Agent of Change, and its web vendor, We End Violence, noticed a potential hack on Aug. 24 and proceeded shut down the website two days later. A press release from the vendor noted that information submitted directly to the website — usernames, passwords and associated demographic information — was compromised. Ravi Pendse, vice president for Computing and Information Services, confirmed that more damaging information like social security numbers was not lost, adding that an investigation into the incident has begun.

Columbia University: A group of three students at Columbia University have won national acclaim after inventing an apparently simple but possibly life-saving health product, the Columbia Spectator reported. The product, Highlight, is a blue coloring added to various clear disinfectants that can show which areas of a target surface have been cleaned and which have not.

The team has won Columbia’s Ebola Design Challenge and the USAID Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge and has integrated their product into the New York City Fire Department’s decontamination policies.

Cornell University: On Friday, Cornell University announced a second round of changes to its sexual assault policy, the Cornell Sun reported. The amendment moves responsibility for the investigation of students’ Title IX complaints out of the Judicial Administrator’s Office and into the Workforce Policy Office. The changes are part of a movement to conform to a recent New York law titled “Enough is Enough,” which requires colleges to use an “affirmative consent” standard for assault and provide drug and alcohol amnesty for students reporting an assault, among other provisions.

Harvard University: Spee Club, one of Harvard University’s finals clubs, may be the first of 13 clubs to go coed after inviting women to “punch,” or begin the process of joining the group, the Harvard Crimson reported.

Spee Club is one of eight currently all-male final clubs at the university.

The off-campus social groups have recently come under more scrutiny, the Crimson reported, due to concerns about sexism and the potential for sexual assault to occur on club premises.

Princeton University: Nate Ruess, the former frontman of the band Fun., will perform at Princeton University for its fall “Lawnparties” festivities, along with Indie pop duo Holychild, the Daily Princetonian reported. While with Fun., Ruess topped the Billboard 100 with the song “We Are Young” (2011) and proceeded to start his solo career after the group disbanded in February. The choice of Ruess comes after controversy last spring around the selection of Big Sean for Lawnparties. Shorty after Big Sean’s April selection, a pair of students circulated a petition asking the student government to rescind the invitation because the artist’s lyrics allegedly support misogyny.

University of Pennsylvania: A new program at the University of Pennsylvania will allow school administrators and athletics department staff members to ride along with Penn’s Division of Public Safety and observe the officers’ day-to-day interactions with Penn students and the greater Philadelphia community, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The program was conceived to reframe administrators’ perception of the division and give an accurate portrayal of the work that officers do every day.

Yale University: Abullah Kamel, a Yale University donor, has received criticism following Yale Law School student Omer Aziz’s recent column in the Huffington Post, “Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and Their Gift to Yale,” which accuses Kamel and the Saudi Arabian government of being complicit in the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. Kamel donated $10 million to establish the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School on Thursday, the Yale Daily News reported. Despite the controversy, professor and former dean Anthony Kronman maintained that Kamel and his gift were appropriately vetted.

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Khan remembered for skill, passion FROM KHAN PAGE 1

professor William Hudenko that focused on creating internet resources for people with mental illnesses or who were under emotional stress and their families. The project is now being developed into a startup, Loeb said.

“Mridul just had a way — something about his quiet reserve and his passion for his work and his tremendous skill in computer science just drew people to him, and we were drawn to him at the DALI Lab,” she said.

Khan had worked this past summer at the image software firm Neon, and they were planning to make him a job offer once he had finished his degree, Loeb said. The company has worked hard to support his family and friends after his death. Several Neon staff members will fly from their Bay Area offices to the East Coast for a memorial service for Khan, she said.

Khan’s warm smile and engaging conversations are fondly remembered by Lixing Lian, a computer science Ph.D. student who shared an office with Khan and worked with the same advisor, and Sagar Kale, a computer science Ph.D student who lived near Khan

and would sometimes give him rides to campus.

Lian described Khan as always having a “smile on his face.” Kale also said that he was “always smiling” and added that he “seemed to have a positive energy” and was a “really, really nice guy.”

“Something about his quiet reserve and his passion for his work and his tremendous skill in computer science just drew people to him.”

- DALI LAB DIRECTOR LORIE LOEB Khan’s peers remember having personal conversations with him on a wide variety of topics. Lian said that they shared some interesting news, apps and videos with each other each week. Kale, from India, bonded with Khan over discussions about Khan’s home country of Bangladesh.

Both Lian and Kale also mentioned Khan’s interest in exploring

new things, whether it be woodworking or those on the forefront of technology innovation.

Kale said that they would always talk about new technology and described Khan as “futuristic.”

Lian also expressed sentiments about the day that Khan moved out of their office. He said he remembered how excited Khan was to get his internship offer, and that he imagined Khan was looking forward to his summer in California.

“I told him that I will miss him and [that] I did hope we can sit and work together one day,” Lian said.

“When I finished my internship, I thought we would share our stories over the summer to each other.”

Both Kale and Lian expressed shock and sadness about the news of Khan’s passing.

“May his soul rest in peace. No longer in our life to share, but in our hearts, he is always there,” Lian said.

College President Phil Hanlon announced Khan’s death in a campus-wide email the Tuesday after his death.

Members of Khan’s family and Neon representatives, where Kahn worked this past summer, could not be reached by press time.

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“Law enforcement has technology that allows it to see people who have downloaded contraband images and videos online, stuff that people think that they’re getting from private individuals or from secret websites,” he said. “Things like that really aren’t that secret.”

Favor’s position as a professor is also particularly notable in this case, as professionals who work with young people are more likely to be targeted by authorities, he said.

“They tend to look for high-profile people because they’re interested in creating publicity about this that will deter people from engaging in this kind of behavior,” Finkelhor said.

The charges are difficult to defend against because authorities have the evidence and confiscate the computers, he said.

“My guess is he will try to plea bargain,” Finkelhor, who is familiar with the case but not directly involved, said. “They’re not going to want to show these videos to a jury or even a judge — they’re pretty appalling.”

The Department of Justice runs roughly 50 task forces across the country dedicated to ending internet crimes against children. One such group was responsible for the investigation that led Favor’s arrest. The task forces include officials from local and state

police departments that receive special training and tools for investigating internet crimes, Finkelhor said.

One of the main tools they use is a software that monitors internet trading and trafficking of images and shows the web addresses of people in localities where the investigators are, he said. The technology can create a map of “hundreds or thousands” of people in a state or region who

“Law enforcement has technology that allow it to see people who have downloaded contraband images and videos online.”

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There are many reasons a person may be involved in the possession of such content, Finkelhor said, sometimes as simple as curiosity.

“Simply because someone has viewed this stuff and downloaded it does not necessarily mean that they have sexually abused children, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a primary sexual attraction to children,” Finkelhor said.

He added that it is important that people know how serious a crime possession of child pornography is, because many perpetrators do not realize the gravity and potential punishments before they explore it.

Favor has been a professor at the College for 22 years and formerly chaired the African and African American studies program. Access to Favor’s faculty page on the College website was denied following his arrest, but was reinstated on Tuesday.

Favor has been placed on paid administrative leave and is banned from campus, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email.

Favor will not be teaching this fall, and the two courses he was scheduled to teach in the English department and African and African American studies program are being taught by visiting professors, Lawrence wrote.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Staff Columnist Ziqin YUAN ’18

GUEST COLUMNIST KATY V an DUSEN ’79

In Defense of Determination

To Be Truly Green, Lead

The American education system should reward hard work, not just talent.

I recently got a first-hand look at how a lack of determination can hurt a child, and the effects can only get worse as his or her world gets wider, harsher and more competitive. One of my family friends has a preteen son whom I visit regularly.

They are a family of first-generation immigrants, and the parents know little English. They try incredibly hard to give their son everything they can, but between the sheer length of time they must spend working just to get by and their limited English, they cannot help him with his education as much as may be ideal. Currently, his reading and writing skills are vastly behind those of his classmates, and worse, he has no sense of determination — of gritting his teeth to solve a problem. When he gets stuck on a word he does not know or a passage he does not understand, he grows frustrated and gives up without even trying.

When visiting him, I used to get frustrated as well. If he had been taught the value of determination when he was younger — if his parents had been able to sit down with him to push him to do his homework or if someone had argued with him when he had been about to quit — I believe he would be better equipped to handle the long list of problems that he is starting to face.

He has trouble talking to classmates because his vocabulary is too limited, has trouble connecting to children his age because he’s so far behind academically that he has to learn with much younger children and has difficulty working through any problems because he only knows how to ignore them and let them build up rather than how to work hard in the short term to resolve them.

A recent British program, “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School,” brought five Chinese teachers to a top British school to teach a group of students for four weeks with the “Chinese method,” which uses 12-hour days and a stricter curriculum. At the end of the program, the students in the Chinese School test group and the students in the regular classes were tested on four subjects — science, mathematics, grammar and Mandarin. The results showed that the students at the Chinese School scored significantly higher on average than those who attended regular classes.

The students at the Chinese School, for example, scored roughly 10 percent higher on average in science and mathematics.

This improvement was in spite of the differences in culture and upbringing of the British students and the students the Chinese teachers were used to. The students had been raised in British households, but four weeks in the Chinese School were enough to show a significant improvement. I argue that the key difference in the teaching methods of the Chinese and the British was the former’s emphasis on determination. The Chinese teachers taught large mixed classes, regardless of ability, in lecture format, delivering a lot of information quickly to all students. The British teachers taught very similarly to how American teachers do, focusing more on individualism and grouping students according to their ability. Though their classes were of mixed ability, the Chinese teachers reiterated the idea that if you put in enough effort, even if you think you are bad at something, you will achieve good results. They focused on drilling and repetition because, though not everybody is naturally talented at everything, by working hard and overcoming any disadvantages you might think you have — in other words, with enough determination — you can do well. Because these teachers focused on determination instead of natural talent as the main predictor of success, their students were able to score much better.

The Chinese system has many flaws, the main one being that it tends to kill individualism in favor of rote memorization. Yet we must not ignore all the instances where it works, especially in its emphasis on the importance of hard work and determination.

The American education system is very similar to the British education system. Generally, both are rooted in individualism and a focus on cultivating a student’s natural talents. They often, however, seem to discount the importance of gritting your teeth and working hard, talented or not. If American educators do not take note of these shortcomings, the American education system will increasingly be left behind as other countries start to catch up.

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The College is missing a chance to be a leader for climate change solutions.

During his address to alumni at my June reunion, College President Phil Hanlon declared that the College must be a place of big ideas where risks are taken to solve the world’s most difficult challenges — that it should be a place where students and faculty work together to change the world. This is an inspirational purpose. Afterward I asked, “Last week Pope Francis identified climate change as one of the greatest challenges facing mankind and implored us to act. What big ideas and bold efforts do you have for Dartmouth in solving this challenge?”

Later, many fellow alumni thanked me for asking the question, and they also wanted more specifics on how the College will act on addressing climate change.

On the same occasion, Board of Trustees chair Bill Helman ’80 emphasized the importance of successfully competing with other colleges and universities. Yet when it comes to climate change, Dartmouth is lagging far behind others.

Our own sustainability office’s website admits we have the largest carbon footprint per student in the Ivy League, and The Princeton Review’s Green Guide states that zero percent of our energy comes from renewable sources. In Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools 2015” ranking of sustainability, we come in 69th, well behind other northeastern colleges and universities, including Middlebury College at fifth and the University of Pennsylvania at 23rd.

Many students and alumni chose to attend Dartmouth in part because of their love for the outdoors, and a great number of us care about environmental stewardship. Prospective students also care. The Princeton Review reports that 61 percent say that a college’s commitment to the environment influences their decision.

In his response to me, President Hanlon stated that the ways Dartmouth focuses its efforts depend in part on the availability of resources. Data from 2011-12 rank the College as 13th in the country in endowment per student. The College has significantly more resources than most of the other schools with a higher sustainability ranking.

A lack of resources should not be an obstacle to our addressing climate change.

If you ask alumni to help make Dartmouth truly green, I am confident we will rise to the occasion. Just as President Hanlon envisioned for students and faculty, alumni want to be part of the business of changing the world for the better.

This year I gave my regular $250 donation to Dartmouth via the Multi-School Fossil Free

Divestment Fund because I do not want to contribute to an endowment that exacerbates climate change. The College will receive these funds from the Multi-School Fund only if by Dec. 31, 2017 the Board votes to divest within five years. This year I am also donating 50 times my regular amount — $12,500 — directly to the College’s sustainability office to help reduce campus carbon emissions.

Hanlon’s predecessor, former College President Jim Yong Kim, as well as former College trustee Robert Reich ’68 and the alumni Hank Paulson ’68, Dan Reicher ’78 and William McDonough ’73, has publicly emphasized the urgency of de-carbonizing our economy and investing in renewable energy. I call upon Hanlon to join these bold leaders.

I also would like a more specific answer to my question. Again I ask — What big ideas and bold efforts does Dartmouth have to address climate change?

In my dreams, I would hear Hanlon respond that the College must be a leader in understanding, mitigating and adapting to climate change — to do so, we must reshape our physical, academic and financial course.

First, the College’s sustainability office and the Dartmouth master planners would unveil our plan for the campus to become carbon neutral by 2023. The College would drastically reduce its carbon emissions and what it cannot reduce, it would offset.

Second, a new sustainability science and governance cluster would connect the causes and consequences of global environmental change with policy, studying the ways regions and nations can reduce emissions and adapt to new realities.

Third, the trustees’ investment committee would align its financial holdings with the College’s commitment to carbon neutrality. Its investments would quickly be made transparent so we may all observe how we will divest from fossil fuels by 2020.

Hanlon should recognize that these actions may appear risky but are, in fact, fiscally responsible. The College would be doing the right thing.

To President Hanlon and the trustees — please act boldly. Alumni will support you. As a favorite alumnus, Theodor Seuss Geisel ’25, once wrote: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

Katy VanDusen ’79 is the Monteverde Community Fund board of directors vice president in Costa Rica and is involved in sustainable development.

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Current, prospective students reflect on perceptions of rankings FROM RANKINGS PAGE 1

“Maybe it’s just that admissions people are forever optimists,” he said. “I tend to look at whatever we are doing well and recognize our strengths.”

Sunde said the graduation and student-retention rates are more important to applicants and their parents.

“People are wondering if the school is actually delivering on its promise of graduation,” he said.

Mark Robison, a professor of clinical education and history at the University of Southern California who has instructed courses on higher education, said that there is not much difference between schools in the top 20 spots on the U.S. News list.

Robison said the fact that the rankings’ methodology shifts from year-to-year is a sales tactic for U.S. News — if the rankings change, the lists inspire more customer interest and purchases.

Robison, who also acts as a consultant to institutions of higher education, said that reforms, such as initiatives like the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, could on occasion spur an upward move in the rankings — if the reforms are effective.

Robison also noted that the College’s small size may bode poorly for the school under U.S. News’ methodology, since the national universities rankings emphasize research. With the exception of Princeton University, which placed first in this year’s list, the schools in

the top 10 are research institutions with large graduate schools.

Sunde agreed with Robison, noting that the College must carry out effectively administrators’ planned reforms to rise in the rankings. He said that because education is such a dynamic field, the institution must keep changing in order to compete with peer institutions in the rankings.

“We need to think of what we want for Dartmouth in the future, and the rankings will follow.”

- Interim dean of admissions and financial aid paul sunde

“We need to think of what we want for Dartmouth in the future, and the rankings will follow,” Sunde said.

Willow Pagan ’19 said she cared more about the College’s standing on the undergraduate teaching list than on broader lists, which she did not consider in her decision to attend Dartmouth. Pagan said that the broader lists might not highlight the specific advantages of certain programs within a school.

“Some schools excel in departments that other schools might not excel in,” she said. “I think it is hard to rank a school overall.”

Jarrod Sinibaldi, a senior at the Loyola School in Manhattan, however, said that as a prospective applicant, the rankings are very useful in aiding his college process.

He said he likes to use the rankings to research schools of which he has not heard.

But Sinibaldi said he does not care if a school drops in the rankings, as long as the drop is not significant.

“A slight drop of only a few spots would not change my perspective of the school,” Sinibaldi said.

Harrison Maidman ’18 said that the College’s reputation extends beyond its ranking on a list. He said that the College’s membership in the Ivy League remains more important.

“I think that it doesn’t really matter all that much,” he said.

“Considering we are an Ivy, I don’t pay all that much attention to the rankings.”

Alex Weisman is a junior at Johns Hopkins University, which beat out the College for 10th on this year’s list for the first time in recent memory. He said that he believes Johns Hopkins’ rise in the rankings will spark an increased interest amongst prospective applicants.

“I think that people are finally catching on to the fact that we aren’t just a school of doctors but of top of the line students in every field,” Weisman said.

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College sees increased diversity during Laskaris’ tenure FROM LASKARIS PAGE 1

position Sept. 1. In this new position, which reports to the provost, she will be charged with organizing planning and communications for the College’s arts and innovation district.

The district includes the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, New Venture Incubator and the Hood Museum of Art. Laskaris began her tenure at the admissions office in 1987 — just three years after she graduated from the College. She was appointed dean in 2007, after 20 years in the department.

She said that after more than 25 years at admissions office, she was eager to test a new position.

She also cited a deep interest in the arts as another motivation for the move.

Despite the change in leadership so close to the Nov. 1 early decision deadline, Laskaris does not foresee a turbulent transition.

Her staff has completed the bulk of the planning for the fall admissions season, she said, so they should be well-equipped to accomplish the admissions office’s goals.

Sunde said the other 14 employees in the admissions office have helped fill the gap Laskaris left. He noted that many staffers have assumed extra responsibilities — for example, other employees plan to embark on recruiting trips that Laskaris had been scheduled to attend.

Mark Robinson, a clinical education and history professor at the University of Southern California who has led courses on higher education and consulted for higher education institutions, said

that leadership transitions depend on the staff itself.

“It really depends on the team of people who are behind their leader. I’ve seen instances where the process could run smoothly if everyone [on the team] has been pulling their weight, but we could also find cases where it could potentially be negative,” he said.

He also said that leadership changes are fairly common in universities, so Laskaris’ move does not necessarily herald a negative impact.

Since Laskaris began her post for the 2007 admissions season, the College’s admissions rate has hovered between 10 and 13 percent, while the yield rate has remained between 48 and 52 percent.

Harvard University had a nine percent admit rate in 2007 and a five percent rate in 2015, while Yale University has boasted admissions rates around six percent for the past four years. Last year, Dartmouth had the second-highest admissions rate in the Ivy League, only outpacing Cornell University, which accepted 15 percent of its applicants.

Throughout Laskaris’ tenure, she sought to increase campus diversity. In 2007, before she assumed her new role as dean, 55 percent of entering students were white. In the past five years, about 50 percent of the average entering class has been white. The largest increase of any group has been in the percentage of Asian-American students who matriculate — 18 percent of the Class of 2017 identify as Asian American, compared with 13 percent of the Class of 2009. Although data on entering students is not yet available, yield data show that 20 percent of students who accepted admis-

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Maria Laskaris served as dean of admissions and financial aid from 2007 to 2015, overseeing a period of increased diversity.

sions offers this year were Asian American.

Since 2007, the College has accepted fewer students from public schools. Each year between 2003 and 2006, more than 60 percent of Dartmouth’s entering students attended public schools, and in 2007, when Laskaris took over, 59 percent attended public schools.

Over the past five years for which data are available, just once — in 2014 — has more than 55 percent of the entering class included students from public schools. Yield data indicate that 56 percent of those who accepted admissions offers this year went to public high schools.

Women’s and gender studies

professor Giavanna Munafo has taught at the College for more than 21 years and has observed several generations of students.

Munafo said that she has seen greater diversity among students since starting at the College in 1994. Since Munafo began, the visibility of students of color has increased drastically, she said. The number of minority students has swelled and communities have become more welcoming for those students, she said, and the number of students who self-identify as queer or transgender has also increased.

She said students have remained as academically engaged as always, but that she has been hearing more

students say that they have been unable to find intellectual communities.

Munafo added that recent classes have been more open to engaging with challenging issues regarding gender and sexuality.

But she said that she could not attribute this change to the admissions office.

“I don’t know how admissions could weed people out by their exposure — how could they when it’s such an uneven product that students are getting,” she said.

The position of dean of admissions and financial aid is slated to be filled by July 1, 2016. Sunde plans to return his prior position as soon as possible.

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“Mistress America” (2015) is too zany for its own good

B y Andrew kingsley The Dartmouth Staff

Director Noah Baumbach’s latest feature “Mistress America” (2015) is a screwball comedy about the humor and perils of saying “yes.” Without a voice of reason and the sense that everyone should go with the flow, the viewer gets terrific farce, at the cost of vulnerability and pain. Greta Gerwig, Baumbach’s muse and the film’s co-writer and star, has mastered the effortlessly mercurial stream of consciousness style of Jean-Luc Godard’s muse Anna Karina — she’s even got the same dance moves — with the quirky moder n sensibility of Zooey Deschanel.

“We catch glimpses behind Brooke’s curtain, and we see that she is not as magical and invincible as Tracy’s projection.”

G e r w i g ’s c h a r a c t e r, t h e 30-something Brooke Cardinas, is a yes-woman, with so many lightbulbs of creativity that she blinds herself from action. She works as a freelance interior decorator and cycling instructor, while mulling over ideas like fusion pierogies, a cabaret show, a retro-chic country restaurant and gritty floral T-shirt designs. To no

surprise, her inchoate thoughts pinball into near incoherence, turning those around her into mere sounding boards that cannot keep up with her. If she were the main character of “Inside Out” (2015), her brain would be utter chaos. While amusing, her style becomes grating, overindulgent and borders on caricature. It is like she has become an action-figure for quirkiness, and Baumbach keeps pulling on her catchphrase string like a giggling, insatiable child.

In the style of Maude from the film “Harold and Maude” (1971) , Brooke’s joie de vivre and fearlessness inspire her impressionable new stepsister Tracy (Lola Kirke) to blossom and abandon her college freshman insecurities. As a nascent New Yorker, Tracy seeks refuge from her first-year loneliness and feelings of rejection through Brooke’s invigorating lifestyle. It is like Brooke has opened the door to Oz for Tracy, and that colorful new world is bathed in whimsy and hope.

Soon the two are going to bars and having sleepovers as Brooke casts her spell over Tracy, who has found a role model that most malleable freshmen would seek to emulate. Her teenage cynicism succumbs to Brooke’s optimism, and Tracy soon becomes Mistress America’s sidekick in the battle against the status quo and conformity. It is as Brooke says: “I’m the same me I’ve been, just in another direction.” Like Baumbach himself, Tracy is inspired to write

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about Brooke, and translates her stepsister’s oddity and pith into an eponymous, and strangely

“In the end, the characters all feel like Baumbach playing with his toy figurines, as they all speak the same voice of artificial zaniness.

Even the crotchety neighbor becomes infected with this artificial tenor.”

fireworks display of dialogue between Brooke, Dylan, Tracy, two of Tracy’s college friends, MamieClaire, a pregnant housewife named Karen and an irascible neighbor, Harold. Like choreog raphed skaters, the cast weaves, ducks and leaps their way through cramped rooms in an impressive homage to the Stateroom scene from the Marx’s Brothers film “Night at the Opera” (1935). It is quite a mad tea party — there is chess, a book club for pregnant mothers whose reading list includes Faulkner and Derrida, chipwiches, an apple bong and Tracy’s short story, which threatens to topple this whole house of cards. Ultimately, of course it does, but their indefatigable jolliness precludes any melodramatics.

In the end, the characters all feel like Baumbach playing with his toy figurines, as they all speak the same voice of artificial zaniness. Even the crotchety neighbor becomes infected with this artificial tenor.

When Brooke says she has fat arms, of course Dylan promises, “I like fat arms.” When there’s no straight guy to ground the insanity and just say “no” to it all, the film runs away with its own style, and becomes like Brooke herself — narcissistic, and deaf to the audience saying “enough!”

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But we catch glimpses behind Brooke’s curtain, and we see that she is not as magical and invincible as Tracy’s projection.

When her boyfriend/investor for her restaurant — who may or may not exist — falls through, she travels to the Greenwich, Connecticut, home of her wealthy former beau, Dylan (Michael Chernus) for funding. There, she and Tracy find Dylan’s wife and Brooke’s nemesis Mamie-Claire (Heather Lind), who is exactly the boutique-y, posh housewife you’d expect Brooke to hate. She has made a career on stealing Brooke’s ideas — as well as her husband and cats. Indeed, she is the King Claudius to Brooke’s Hamlet.

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

FRIDAY LINEUP

FIELD HOCKEY VS. SACRED HEART 4 PM

Powered by explosive offense, women’s soccer wins 3 of 5

B y EMILY WECHSLER The Dartmouth Staff

The early season — that time when fall athletes and a few freshman are some of the only faces on campus, when entire days revolve around the sport and the team — is a time of development for each player, aided by teammates and coaches. Games are tough and each one matters, but the Ivy League games have yet to be played.

From the head coaches to the youngest members of the Class of 2019, every individual on the team works together to get to know each other and prepare for the upcoming competition.

This year’s early season has seen encouraging results for the women’s soccer team — a 3-1-1 record, marked by a win in the season opener against Marist College, a 6-0 routing of the University of Vermont in the home opener and healthy challenges against high-caliber teams on a trip to Nashville, Tennessee.

The early season was rounded out with a victory over the University of Albany, a tie against the University of Memphis and a loss to Vanderbilt University.

Team co-captain Lucielle Kozlov ’16 has showed an impressive start to the 2015 season, earning Ivy League Co-Player of the Week after netting four markers in two games to bring her points

thus far to 10. Last season she garnered a team-high 12 points on five goals.

Alongside the senior member, the freshest faces have also performed well, with Remy Borinsky ’19 starting every game and Lauren Lucas ’19 making a difference off the bench, scoring the Big Green’s only goal in the game against Memphis.

“The freshman class is doing a nice job,” head coach Ron Rainey said.

“They’re still figuring out the speed they need to play… that consistency in practices, but the spirit in the group is awesome.”

On the training pitch, the team has been working hard and doing a good job of incorporating his staff ’s coaching into their play, Rainey said.

“The effort and the attentiveness to trying to do things that they’re asked makes this a special group,” he said.

“I hope that all the teams that play at Dartmouth are able to take that coaching and put it into their games.”

And in games, the team has continued its perennial defensive strength, earning three shutouts and staying organized under pressure even in the more challenging Nashville games, Rainey said.

The loss and tie against Vanderbilt and Memphis showed that, like last year, the Big Green will need to work

on converting in the offensive end, he said. But he is also hopeful that the eight combined goals scored against Albany and Vermont show “that the team is being just a little bit cleaner in the attacking half.”

Kozlov was equally optimistic after the big win.

“Leading up to the game, we had a game plan to just put away this team.

We knew we could, but we just haven’t done that yet this year,” she said. “We’ve never won a game 6-0 my whole time being here at Dartmouth, so hopefully this is the difference maker and this is the year we’re going to win the Ivy League.”

The mentality going forward, Kozlov said, will be to keep up the good work on defense and to work to create more chances on the offense. The team will also continue to rely on the entire squad to generate the attack, as they did against Vermont.

“That’s exactly what this team needs.

Not one person doing everything, but some variety,” she said. “We have a really deep bench this year, too, so stuff happens as soon as they step on the field.”

The team has also showed itself to be a cohesive group thus far, an important factor in soccer.

“The community on the Dartmouth

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Casey Cousineau ’17 recorded shutouts in Dartmouth’s last two games.

campus is really, really good, and we’re a subset of that. I think it’s awesome,” Rainey said. “Our kids like to be around each other, they have fun and they talk to each other.”

Lucas agreed, saying that she appreciated the team’s good chemistry and that there was a diversity of viewpoints among members.

Dartmouth took second in the Ivy League last year, yet the women tied as many games as they won. Harvard University had an easy lead on taking the Ivy title, with a 5-1-1 record against the Big Green’s 3-1-3. Offense will be key if they wish to earn an NCAA bid this year.

“We all want to win the Ivy title, but I think we have to take it a game at a time,” Lucas said. “If we go game by game and get better each game, by the time we get to Brown [University], our first Ivy League game, we’ll be ready.”

The Big Green will also need to stay healthy. The team will depend on first-team All-Ivy performers and team co-captains Corey Delaney ’16 and Jackie Friedman ’16, but Delaney has already missed games due to injury.

The women’s team hits the road again to face Northeastern University Friday at 6 p.m. and will return home to face Sacred Heart University on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Men’s soccer records first win of the season in double OT

B y ray lu

The Dartmouth Staff

Highlighted by a double-overtime home win over the College of the Holy Cross, the men’s soccer team wrapped up its early four-game schedule before the beginning of the fall term with a 2-1-1 record.

In its season opener, the Big Green ended its 11-game losing streak against the University of Connecticut by shutting out the Huskies in a scoreless 0-0 tie after 110 minutes of play. Stefan Cleveland ’16 made five stops, keeping the Big Green in the game despite the team tallying only two shots on target.

Two days later, the men recorded their first win of the season by edging Holy Cross with a golden goal two minutes into the second overtime period. Amadu Kunateh ’19 rose to the occasion, scoring the game-winner for the first goal of his collegiate career — and Dartmouth’s first goal of the season — off a throw-in by Alexander

Marsh ’17. The ball rattled around in the box and redirected off the head of Matt Danilack ’18 before setting up Kunateh for the header.

“Marsh actually just subbed on for that second overtime and came in and threw the ball further [than we meant to throw it], just launched it in the box,” Danilack said. “I was there and flicked it off my head, and it hit [Kunateh] and deflected in for the goal.”

Kunateh’s late heroics landed him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.

The men saw their two-game unbeaten streak come to an end against Colgate University on Sept 11. Even though the Big Green out-shot the Raiders 11-to-5 with six shots on target, Dartmouth failed to slot one in the net, and Colgate stole the game with a single goal.

Kunateh tested Colgate keeper Ricky Brown with two shots in the first 20 minutes, but Brown was able to

turn away both of the early attempts.

The Raiders took the lead early in the second half. Colgate sophomore Tory Moo Penn struck from distance, curling the shot over the reach of Dartmouth goalkeeper James Hickok ’17. The goal was one of three shots that the Raiders put on target.

The Big Green had two final scoring opportunities in the last five minutes, but Colgate’s Brown managed to keep his shutout alive.

The shots finally started to find the back of the net when the men took on the State University of New York at Albany. Three minutes into the game, Ricardo Gomez ’17 drilled a header past the Albany goalkeeper. Samuel Rosen ’16 tacked on another goal before halftime, stretching the lead to two.

Three rookies combined for the final score of the evening. Kunateh found Eduvie Ikoba ’19, who used his size and speed to hold off a couple of defenders before assisting Noah

Paravicini ’19 for the goal.

“This was a solid play all the way around,” head coach Chad Riley said in a press conference. “We gained possession on a nice, aggressive play to steal the ball, and Kunateh and Ikoba both had great vision to make the play happen. Paravicini showed a nice touch to control the ball and beat the keeper as well.”

Over the course of the game, Dartmouth tallied three shots on target, and all three went in for goals.

Another strong effort in the net helped the Big Green secure a final scoreline of 3-0. Cleveland recorded his second shutout in two starts, and the team has only allowed one goal so far this season.

One of the biggest storylines for this year’s men’s soccer team is how it will replace last year’s talented group of seniors. Alex Adelabu ’15 finished his career fourth in all time points and fifth in goals. Three other players — Stefan Defregger ’15, Colin Heffron ’15 and

Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14 — signed contracts to play professional soccer.

“I think we had all the pieces last year [to replace the departing class],” Cleveland said. He cited the depth of the squad as one of its biggest strengths.

The team again fielded a great recruiting class. In addition to Kunateh, both Ikoba and Paravicini have made their minutes count early in the season.

Dartmouth’s two goalkeepers — Cleveland and Hickok — have rotated the first couple of games. Cleveland started the first game against UConn and the most recent game against Albany, while Hickok played the two games in between.

The coaches like to get a feel for both players early in the year, Cleveland said, so that the team is prepared in the case that one goalkeeper is unable to play.

The team travels to Seattle this weekend to face the University of Washington on Friday and Seattle University on Sunday.