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The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) at the Geisel School of Medicine was recently awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The $3.8 million grant will be used to pilot a new Northeast Node in NIDA’s National

Clinical Trials Network (CTN).

The CTN that links a variety of treatment providers and patient populations throughout the country and creates a national infrastructure that promotes the translation of evidencebased practice from research into real world practice.

NIDA is a division of the National Institute of

Health, whose mission is to bring the power of science to bear down on drug abuse and addiction. This is accomplished in a two-step process, Center for the CTN program officer Rob Dobbins said in an email. The first is the strategic support and conduct of research across a broad range of SEE GRANT PAGE 5

About 50 students gathered in One Wheelock on Tuesday night for a panel titled “Race in the Greek System Panel.” Four panelists shared their experiences with the Greek system as a part of “VoX: Voices of Summer” programming.

During the event, the panelists — Leigh Goulbourne ’17, Danielle Jones ’17, Alanna Kane ’17 and Shivang Sethi ’17 — answered questions from the moderator, Adaeze Nduaguba ’17. The panelists first discussed their individual experiences with the Greek system.

Jones said her decision to remain unaffiliated had everything to do with race.

As the only unaffiliated member of the panel, she noted that there are social alternatives to Greek life such as BarHop. Panelists also talked

about whether or not they personally have been able to create change in the Greek system and if they believed their self-enacted change was successful.

Sethi, a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, thinks he has made a small change in his house where he is not afraid to speak out.

“I am not afraid to call people out,” Sethi said. “[Because] I’m already a part of this community.”

Audience members also asked questions, which included those on the eradication of the Greek system, sorority recruitment and the interaction between the affiliated and unaffiliated communities.

This panel was one of several events held this summer as a part of “VoX: Voices of Summer” — an extension of V-February.

Co-directors Kalie Marsicano ’17 and Jessica KingSEE VOICES PAGE 2

Panhell will implement new policies this fall B y sara mcgahan The Dartmouth Staff

At its termly policy presentation this past Saturday, the Panhellenic Council presented their sexual assault response and prevention as well as scholarship application recommendations, which the council has been working on all summer.

Panhell’s four policy recommendations — a budget amendment, freshman outreach, risk manager responder training and rush

presentation materials suggestions — have already been voted on by the year-long sorority presidents and will be implemented in the fall, Panhell summer vice president of research and policy Mercedes de Guardiola ’17 said.

Two amendments — the budget amendment and freshman outreach amendment — increase Panhell’s ability to financially sponsor sororities.

The budget amendment will allow Panhell to allo-

cate funds to sororities that need financial support for programming, philanthropy, sisterhood and house management, according to the policy handout. Previous Panhell policy only allowed the council to distribute funds for scholarship purposes or if members from two or more sororities co-sponsored an event. In addition, the freshman outreach amendment will allow Panhell to sponsor the hosting of at least one event geared toward freshman women during each of

the fall, winter and spring terms.

One of the Panhell’s goals stated at the beginning of their presentation is to help facilitate the localization of sororities. This budget amendment also allows Panhell to financially support that process.

The other two policy recommendations that will be implemented this fall are linked to sexual assault information distribution and response training.

The risk manager response

training amendment will enact a mandatory, specialized six-hour sexual assault responder-training program that each sorority’s risk manager will be required to undergo. The rush presentation materials recommendation will require Panhell’s rush presentations to include information about sexual assault prevention and what type of support is available for members of Greek houses.

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DAily debriefing Alpha Delta fraternity will not face charges for the branding of 11 new members in last fall, the Valley News reported. The Hanover Police Department and the Grafton County Attorney’s Office both found insufficient evidence to press charges against AD. Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said that the evidence indicated that members had burned themselves of their own free will. As such, the investigation is now closed. In a separate judiciary process, the College’s own investigation also concluded the actions did not constitute hazing.

A plan for New Hampshire state police to test using body cameras was never implemented, despite the equipment being ready since earlier this year. Executive Major David Parenteau said that the pilot program was delayed and ultimately failed due to the lack of personnel able to work on it. Parentau also cited concerns over legal issues and privacy as a barrier to the program.

This week, New Hampshire legislators will meet to resume work on laws that would require all state troopers to wear body cameras and set statewide regulations for use.

Traffic on Route 12A stagnated on Thursday due to a large collision, the Valley News reported. A delivery truck collided with a traffic light pole at the off-ramp of Interstate 89 and Route 12A. The driver was extricated from the cab of the truck and transported to the hospital, where he was conscious and talking according to a statement Lebanon Deputy Police Chief Phillip Roberts gave at the scene. Traffic was stopped from the Walmart to the Kmart Plaza for over an hour as the pole had fallen across the 12A. —Compiled by annie ma

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Panels explore range of experiences FROM VOICES PAGE 1

Fredel ’17 said they are proud of how programming has gone so far this summer.

Marsicano said the events were positive experiences and was pleased by the attendance at these events. She said she focused on intersectionality this summer as she wanted the events to be as representative as possible.

King-Fredel said that by having these events over sophomore sum-

“I am not afraid to call people out because I’m already a part of this community.”

- Shivang Sethi ’17

mer, they were able to capitalize on the community aspect of the term, especially for Voices of 15X. Marsicano noted that this term they expanded the locations of the events from neutral locations, such as Collis Common Ground, to other Greek houses and affinity houses to try and connect with different people.

“We are broadening in whatever

ways we can,” Marsicano said.

Nick Moolenijzer ’17 performed two pieces in Voices of 15X. Moolenijzer said that he became interested in V-February this past winter and decided that this summer was a great term to become involved. He particularly loved being a part of Voices because he had a chance to become a part of a diverse group of people where everyone shares a part of their lives, he said.

“Every time you listen to someone.” Moolenijzer said, “It’s crazy how much more you learn about them.”

Moolenijzer said that having this event over sophomore summer made him feel more connected to the class of 2017.

“We’ve all been involved at Dartmouth for the same amount of time so we’re all at the same point,” Moolenijzer said. “As soon as I was done with my pieces, I felt close and connected with the audience.”

Moolenijzer also spoke on the Aug. 13 Defining Feminism panel — another event included in the Voices of Summer programming. He spoke about what being an ally meant to him. He added that he learned from hearing the other panelists’ personal experiences.

Other events that were part of the Voices of Summer programming included a Intersectionality panel, Healthy Relationships panel and

“We’ve all been involved at Dartmouth for the same amount of time, we we’re all at the same point. As soon as I was done with my pieces, I felt close and connected with the audience.”

- nick moolenijzer ‘17

the Dartmouth Experience panel.

The last panel and the last event for Voices of Summer will be on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 8 p.m. at Bones Gate fraternity and will address body image and mental health.

Marsicano is a member of The Dartmouth Staff.

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Four panelists speak on a Tuesday panel about race in the Greek system as part of the “VoX:Voices of Summer.”

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Policies address finances and more FROM PANHELL PAGE 1

supported Panhell’s sexual assault policy recommendations, enacting and facilitating the implantation of these recommendations is council’s responsibility, Panhell summer president Kalie Marsicano ’17 said.

“It’s not just going to magically happen now that it’s passed,” Marsicano said. “We are doing as much as we can in this final week-long stretch to set up, so that it’s really easy for the ’16s to just take over and finish off the job.”

Panhell’s sexual assault prevention and response suggestions — which include the posting of a safety sheet and peer advisory sheet in public locations at each sorority, distributing a sexual misconduct resource and information sheet to each house member at the beginning of each term and implementing a sober monitor policy during parties — are more of standardization recommendations and will not be voted on, Marsicano said.

“Those recommendations are more like guidelines if you’re looking to make your house safer,” Marsicano said. “They’re not necessarily things that we saw as needing to be put into our bylaws, not because we don’t think they’re

incredibly important, but because we think a lot of houses already have some iteration of what we’re talking about.”

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“I think as a board, we’re pretty proud of what we’ve done over the summer, but I think we recognize that this is just a start and there are other things on the backburner that we’re looking forward to working on.”

- PANHELLENIC COUNCIL SUMMER PRESIDENT KALIE MARSICANO ‘17 chair Maclean Calihan ’17, who attended the policy presentation, echoed Marsicano, saying that some of these recommendations — such as designating a sober monitor as well as posting safety sheets — are

ones many sororities already do.

De Guardiola added that although the decision to implement these policies is left up to the yearlong sorority presidents themselves, the council has received very positive feedback and expects that most houses will probably implement them.

Panhell also included scholarship application guidelines in an attempt to streamline the financial aid scholarship process across all sororities. According to their policy handout, the summer treasurer of each sorority was interviewed, and Panhell discovered many differences in the way sororities handled financial aid. The council recommended policies that aim to keep applications almost blind, include the option of making termly updates to members’ scholarships if necessary and standardize the scholarship application questions asked to members.

“I think as a board, we’re pretty proud of what we’ve done over the summer,” Marsicano said, “but I think we recognize that this is just a start, and there are other things on the backburner that we’re looking forward to working on.”

Marsciano is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

Michael Qian contributed reporting.

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When Students Fear Dialogue

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Political correctness can stifle intellectual conversations on campus.

The college experience is increasingly isolated from the real world. Dining halls with all-you-can eat buffets, friends living all around you, caring professors and advisors and beautiful green lawns are not often found as one leaves his or her’s undergraduate institution.

Add to that political correctness, and you get idealistic students who are quite unprepared for the world outside college, where many people don’t think twice before causing offense.

Political correctness is the belief that both language and practices that could offend political or personal sensibilities should be avoided or, in some cases, altogether eliminated. Political correctness can stifle discussion, promote personal censorship and create a community that is too comfortable for its own good. But, does political correctness serve a moral purpose, or is it something else more calculated?

As a recent piece in The Atlantic, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, point​s out, college campuses across the nation are becoming increasingly more politically correct. For example, people use the relatively new term microagression to refer to unintentional and intentional daily indignities. I have seen the term microagression used in angry Facebook posts, in the classroom and between my friends.

While I recognize that there are some serious microagressions, such as asking someone where they are “really” from, I find that the term has become a go-to in shutting down any further discussion.

When I set out to explore the level of political correctness on campus, several students interviewed requested to remain anonymous citing concerns of backlash. This fear among students reflects the polarizing nature of political correctness and illustrates that our campus is no exception tot he trend noted in The Atlantic.

From these conversations, I wondered whether we should censor all possible offensive speech or ideas, and if it would even be possible for a student body of more than 4,000 to agree on what is offensive and what is not. Moreover, is absolute inoffensive speech possible or does no opinion exist that is offensive to no one?

By making students fear speaking their minds, a rigid attention to correctness risks stripping away much of the intellectual discourse for which liberal arts schools are known. I have sat through classes and wanted to disagree with what students and professors said, but I was ultimately worried about causing offense.

I will never know whether there was a valid counterargument to my thinking — I was too afraid to challenge my classmates by saying something potentially upsetting.

Aine Donovan, director of the Ethics Institute, said that the “college experience stretches one’s intellectual muscles,” and there is much to be learned “from debating people with different belief systems.”

Isaiah Matthews ’17 said that he believes students can learn from discussions, noting that, “when people or organizations are politically incorrect, we can overreact and miss a teaching moment by responding too forcefully.”

This is not to suggest that political correctness cannot be constructive. It can increase one’s awareness of others’ experiences with injustice.

In this way, political correctness can create a culture in which students become considerate and nuanced thinkers. Further, understanding various perspectives on a certain issue makes for more informed citizens.

Torri Lee ’17 said that while she felt limited in her ability to speak freely as a freshman she know appreciates political correctness “because it stems from awareness.”

Similarly, Josefina Ruiz ’17 said she sees political correctness on campus as a sign of awareness and openness, rather than censorship.

Morgan Sandhu ‘17 agreed, saying that​ “students are largely interested in having an open discussion rather than automatic condemnation.”

So again, political correctness has its merits.

Yet if we allow it to go rampant, we risk muting alternative voices and inhibiting intellectual growth. We all have the right to object to political incorrectness, and everyone has the right to speak, even those with whom we do not agree.

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Too much of the College’s endowment goes toward investments.

During this hot and busy summer, students issue that, according to Fleischer, afflicts both inboxes included several emails from the Ivy League and non-Ivy League institutions administration requesting that they minimize alike. usage of lights, air conditioners and comput- The tendency among colleges to hoard ers. The email does not state concerns about money combined with the steadily increasthe environment — like one would expect ing cost of a college degree does not bode — but rather, with lowering the College’s well. Just this year alone, the College saw “annual cost.” Students, on Yik Yak and in a tuition increase of 2.9 percent — with conversation, have overwhelmingly expressed the administration lauding this significant dissatisfaction. With students paying as much increase as “the lowest [tuition increase] in as $72,000 a year to attend Dartmouth, the nearly four decades.”

Hughes wrote in his “Dartmouth Alumni request seems unreasonable.

Victor Fleischer writes in his “The New Magazine” article that part of the rising York Times” column this week that universi- cost of education no doubt has to do with ties are hoarding money instead of keeping the “virtual arms race” that has developed tuition costs down or expanding faculty among colleges as they compete for the best research endowments. In “Stop Universities students. This often means focusing funds from Hoarding Money,” Fleisher claims that on aesthetics like unnecessary construction America’s colleges put a disproportionate projects, among other money drains. amount of their endowments into stocks and other investments rather than using them As the College competes with other elite to improve academics or increase financial schools, tuition will almost certainly continue its upward assistance to students. trend. It is for this Yale University, for “Rather than dedicating a same reason that instance, contributed disproportionate amount institutions like only $1 billion of its of money to private equity Dartmouth dedi$24 billion endowfund managers, Dartmouth cate so much of ment to the univercould become much more their endowments sity’s operating budget in the 2014 fiscal year. competitive by directly putting to investment projects — the more more of its money towards Of this, only $170 milmoney an institulion — or 0.7 percent its students by increasing tion invests, the of Yale University’s financial aid or increasing more it can get back total endowment — funding for research.” in returns, and the was designated for more its ranking tuition assistance, feland apparent preslowships and prizes.

In contrast, private equity fund managers tige can increase. received almost two percent of the endow- Rather than dedicating a disproportionment, about $480 million, to manage and ate amount of money to private equity fund invest much of the rest of the university’s managers, Dartmouth could become much money. Similarly, Harvard allocated $242 more competitive by directly putting more million for financial aid in 2014 yet paid $362 of its money towards its students by increasmillion in private-equity fees and another $1 ing financial aid or increasing funding for research. billion in investment management fees.

C.J. Hughes wrote in a “Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon seems Alumni Magazine” article titled “Why is confident that “People will come because Dartmouth So Expensive?” that the Col- Dartmouth is Dartmouth.” But as tuition lege suffers from a similar money hoarding continues to increase, financial aid remains problem. In the 2014 fiscal year, Dartmouth insufficient, and the budget continues to be spent about 20 percent of its $4.5 billion allocated to fund managers instead of faculty endowment on operations. In contrast, insti- and students, there may come a day when tutions such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton that reason is simply not enough.

Fleischer recommends that we require Universities use more than 40 percent. Of this 20 percent, only $128.4 million, which universities, under this year’s reauthorizaconstitutes less than three percent of Dart- tion of the Higher Education Act, to spend mouth’s annual endowment, was used for at least eight percent of their endowment financial aid for both undergraduate and each year just as private foundations are graduate students in 2014. Yet 23.1 percent required to spend at least five percent of its of Dartmouth’s endowment went toward assets. Few universities with assets over $100 private equity and venture capital in the million fail to net eight percent growth, and this proposal would lead to a halt or even a 2013 fiscal year.

Clearly, Ivy League institutions like reversal of increasing tuition costs.

Dartmouth are dedicating a significantly While we understand that the College’s larger portion of their endowments to simply endowment would not be able to grow as managing and investing their money than to much each year if it were to spend more of improving the institutions themselves. The it instead of investing, that pales in compariadministration prioritizes increasing the son to the benefits the College could reap by College’s endowment more than utilizing putting more of that money to the institution these funds to increase financial aid among itself through initiatives like research funding other important educational spending — an or supporting financial aid.

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Grant will be used to study addiction and substance abuse FROM GRANT PAGE 1

disciplines. The second is ensuring the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to significantly improve prevention and treatment as well as to inform policy as it relates to drug abuse and addiction.

This mission complements the existing goals of the CTBH. It aims to provide frameworks necessary to guide scientific research, research that in turn promotes the dissemination of effective technology-based solutions for the treatment of substance use and related issues.

As part of the CTN, the Northeast Node will add to 12 existing Nodes across the nation. Dobbins said that this broad infrastructure allows for rapid, multi-site testing of promising science-based therapies and the subsequent delivery of these treatments to patients in a variety of treatment settings.

Lisa Marsch, director of the CTBH and principal investigator of the Northeast Node, said that this gives the center an added responsibility.

“Our charge is now to do research projects and then disseminate learning from those projects in order to bridge the gap between research and practice,” Marsch said. She added that this would require the CTBH to push out to the national level, providing more evidence-based care models for substance use disorders.

Launching the new node requires adding to the existing infrastructure, hiring new research staff and hiring project coordinators

in charge of supervising research and dissemination activities and communication initiatives. The Node will also receive separate funds from NIDA for each of its additional projects.

“We’re really fortunate because it gives us the chance now to be one

“We’re really fortunate because it gives us the chance now to be one of a small group of nodes that can now tap into the resources within the clinical trial network to run national trials around screening, prevention, treatment, recovery and support for substance use disorders.”

-Director of the CTBH, lisa marsch of a small group of nodes that can now tap into the resources within the clinical trials network to run national trials around screening, prevention, treatment, recovery and support for substance use disorders,” Marsch said.

Historically, the national CTN has typically worked with individuals with problematic substance use who are in outpatient and patient treatment programs. That is not

the case, however, in this new phase of the CTN. “It’s really transformed itself,” Marsch said. “Now, the main focus is on integrating the identification of problems with substance use and treatment within primary care.”

She added, “We have this changing landscape that can help the legislation and increase the pressure for healthcare systems to integrate behavioral health into more traditional general medical settings and to really focus on not carving out addiction care as something only requiring specialty focus as much as it is embracing it and looking at the full spectrum of health and wellness of patients in your care model.”

Marsch also said that there is an increased focus on adolescents.

“We’re really excited that the CTN has now put out increased priority focus on including youths, so there will be a lot more adolescent children often in partnership with pediatric primary care programs focused on identifying kids who can be helped in prevention interventions as well as offering behavior change and treatment interventions for kids who are engaged in problematic substance use,” Marsch said.

Alan Green, director of SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the Geisel School of Medicine, said that grant will help further develop the CTBH’s existing mission.

“This grant accelerates the strong national presence that [Marsch] has established with the CTBH,” he said. “Her work is at the cutting

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Marsch’s research will focus on substance use and addiction.

edge of using technology to impact on mental health issues and this new award will bring more clinical partners to the table to study and disseminate the best clinical practices throughout the community to treat substance addiction.”

Moving forward, NIDA intends to expand its research to develop and test interventions for the management of the wide spectrum of substance use disorders (SUD), with input from and collaboration with, clinical research investigators, healthcare providers, patients, and relevant stakehold-

ers, Dobbins said. He added that the CTN’s grantees, including Dr. Marsch’s Northeastern Node, bring alliances with existing and newly created practice-based primary care or other general medical research networks. Through such collaborations, the expanded CTN plans to execute a comprehensive and staged treatment research agenda to generate the evidence needed for the integrated management of patients with substance misuse and SUD in general medical settings and linked specialty care treatment settings.

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Theater class works with the New York Theater Workshop B y HAYLEY HOVERTER The Dartmouth Staff

As part of the Theater 65 class, “Drama in Performance,” enrolled students collaborated with New York Theater Workshop artists on plays in progress.

The NYTW sends various artists to Hanover to participate in a workshop with students and community members. The workshop occurs during the last three weeks of the summer term, during which artists showcase their plays.

Although the plays vary in their stages of development, the aim of the program is to provide the artists with student feedback and have the students partake in the process of theater production.

The NYTW also participated in public brown bag lunch events sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts. At these events, Dartmouth students and community members participated in question and answer sessions with NYTW artists about

their backgrounds, and how themes like place and identity figure into their work.

This past Tuesday’s lunch event featured eight NYTW panelists, including Kristina Wong, who wrote a one-woman show titled “The Wong Street Journal” and Byron Au Yong, who wrote the musical “Stuck Elevator.”

Julie Solomon ’17 worked on stage management and design for “Stuck Elevator.”

“Unlike some of the other pieces, this show was pretty much completely created,” she said. “It’s been in the works for five years.”

Solomon said working with NYTW differs from other projects that students work on in Theater 65.

She said that students also worked on VoxFest and the Eleanor Frost and Ruth and Loring Dodd Student Play Festival before the NYTW. “New York Theater Workshop has much more of a ‘sit back and assist these people’ format, whereas VoxFest is focused on the students,” she said.

“[With the NYTW] it’s more of, ‘help these people, but they’re in charge.’”

Theater 65 professor Jamie Horton echoed this sentiment.

“Process trumps product always,” Horton said. “It’s about the work and the artists and what they learn about the pieces. This relationship between Dartmouth College and Theater 65 and the New York Theater Workshop is a real gem of our program. It benefits our students and I am confident that it also benefits the artists of the New York Theater Workshop.”

NYTW literary associate Aaron Malkin facilitates the brown bag discussions and the feedback sessions between the artists and students.

“I’m around to be the dramaturgical sounding board and to talk to people as things develop at rehearsals,” Malkin said.

One of the unique aspects of the NYTW is their use of the Liz Lerman method, which is a “four step process that begins with the responders, with what resonates with them,” Malkin said.

“So the artists have an opportunity to get feedback,” he said. “At the end, if there’s interest, people offer their opinions about the characters.”

Solomon said she feels that the method allowed her to give input into the artists’ works, because there is time after every show to reflect on the performance while the artists are present.

Solomon noted that the class influenced her career choice.

“Going into class, I wanted to be a director,” she said. “Now I’m thinking more about design, as opposed to guiding actors along their paths.”

This summer marks the NYTW’s 24th year at Dartmouth. The process of selecting artists who will visit the College is extensive.

“We start with what we call ‘usual suspects,’ which are over 500 writers, directors, choreographers and dramaturgs,” Malkin said. “Once a year, we send out a call for proposals. We received between 80 to 100 proposals for all of our locations this year.”

The NYTW also receives biog-

raphies from each of the theater students, who are then assigned to projects based on their interests.

“I feel like I’m making connections,” Solomon said.

Naomi Lazar ’17 worked as an assistant director for “American Pop” a musical by Michael Friedman, which she felt was a positive experience.

“It was absolutely amazing,” she said. “I love historical theater, so for me this was right up my alley. Being able to look into the past and not be afraid to talk about things was great.”

Lazar described working with the artists from the NYTW as an educational experience.

She added that the process has inspired her to potentially pursue a writing career.

“Seeing these projects and talking with these artists is very inspiring and gave me hope again,” Lazar said.

“There’s something refreshing about talking to people about new work and seeing it performed because so much of theater that I watch is already finished,” she said.

Kiko Lam ’14 presents masters thesis, “Collaborative #Sunrise” B y SAVANNAH MAHER The Dartmouth

After months of designing, coding and re-coding programs for her masters thesis in digital arts, Kiko Lam ’14 held an opening reception for “Collaborative #Sunrise” to a small crowd of friends, classmates and mentors on Monday night. The piece, a computational art installation that draws on themes of nature, color, time and social connectedness, uses Instagram photos from around the world to create an ever-changing image of what Lam calls an “eternal sunrise.”

Although Lam studied economics as a Dartmouth undergraduate, she decided to focus on computing and design after taking introductory programming courses during her senior year.

“I took [Computer Science] 1 and 10 and it completely changed my path,” Lam said.

She enrolled in the computer science department’s digital arts masters program last fall, and completed “Collaboration: Sunrise,” which was supported and funded by the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab and the computer science department, as a culminating experience.

The project was inspired by a timelapse video of a sunrise, which Lam recorded during a trip to Ecuador.

“I thought, ‘These colors are so beautiful,’ and people don’t get up to see the sunrise enough,” she said. “So I wanted to bring it to them.“ The first component of the project, which Lam finished this past spring, is a program that downloads Instagram photos with the hashtag “#sunrise” in real time and uses a machine learning

algorithm to filter out advertisements and other unrelated content. Another computer algorithm extracts colors from the photos and channels them into a synthetic image of what the current sunrise looks like.

“After I finished that, I thought ‘How do I make people understand that these colors are actually coming from photos that were just uploaded by someone else,’” Lam said.

Thus, she began working on a second component — a mechanism that pins the Instagram photos used to create the synthetic sunrise onto a world map, based on associated geolocation information. The installation itself consists of 5 by 14 foot images of both the map and artificial sunrise projected onto both sides of a trailer called the “playcube,” which Lam obtained from the Tiltfactor Lab. Two of Lam’s thesis advisors noted that an art installation is not the typical format for presenting computer science work.

“It’s different to do a public installation,” Tim Tregubov, a computer science technical staff member and a mentor to Lam’s work, said. “It brings design and development together, and the MSDA program is really about that — taking computer science and applying it to art.”

Computer science research professor Lorie Loeb, who also mentored Lam, reiterated this sentiment and added that an outdoor art installation is “unusual” even in the digital arts program.

Lam said that she enjoyed creating something with an artistic focus because it allowed her to connect more closely with a diverse audience.

“I had to make sure it wasn’t just for

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Students look at Kiko Lam’s ’14“Collaborative #Sunrise” project, featured on the Tiltfactor Lab’s “playcube.”

me — that it was an experience that other people could understand as well,” Lam said. “It’s not something that you need to be technical or computational to understand and be a part of.”

Indeed, students and community members of varying technical backgrounds crowded around the installation throughout the week to view Lam’s work.

Ruby Hopkins ’17, who was walking by the installation and decided to stop and take a look, said she was able to appreciate “Collaborative #Sunrise” despite having never studied computer science.

“It’s a really cool idea,” she said.

“You don’t really think about what’s going on in other parts of the world, so it’s nice seeing exactly where [the sunrise] is happening at a given time.”

Another onlooker, computer science major Ryan Amos ’16, discussed the

computational challenges of creating the programs with Lam and commented on the approachability of the piece.

“It’s often a problem that technology is not super accessible, so it’s great to see technology used to reach out to lots of different people,” he said.

Lam said that broad accessibility was a primary objective in creating her thesis. She said she also focused on helping individuals connect with nature, as well as with other people from around the world.

“People are interested in the idea that we all live in different time zones, and I kept coming back to the theme of nature and how daylight happens at different times around the Earth,” Lam said.

Loeb noted that the project is interdisciplinary in nature and addresses several themes.

“What’s great about [“Collaborative #Sunrise”] is that it happens at the intersection of computation and art,” Loeb said. “It has this social media element, and a real-time element and it connects us with people around the world.”

After presenting her thesis work to the general public, Lam said she enjoyed seeing people’s reactions to and enthusiasm for the piece.

“Of course I think the project is a good idea — I’ve been working on it for so long,” Lam said. “But I’m definitely happy to see that it’s something people are actually interested in.”

After graduating from the masters program this summer, Kiko will begin work as a consultant for a tech company in Washington, D.C. She said she hopes to use her skills to communicate across disciplines and bring technology closer to the public.

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A group of students, under the guidance of women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Pati Hernandez, spoke on the subject of what Hernandez calls Dartmouth’s “invisible walls” on Wednesday night through the program Telling My Story on Campus.

The students shared testimonies from across the spectrum focused around one of the College’s most visible and pervasive social divides — those between the hierarchy of Dartmouth athletes, intramural through varsity, and Dartmouth “NARPs,” campus shorthand for non-athletes.

The program, Hernandez said, does not provide answers or any sort of linear solutions to campus problems.

Instead, it opens up a dialogue.

“How can we cultivate empathy?

How can we understand each other?”

Hernandez said. “Instead of labeling because that’s such a superficial way to control and understand the world.

You always think to label it because you think, ‘I want to know what it is,’ but you don’t know anything.”

The discussion on stage during the performance, which was held in Dartmouth Hall 105 in front of a modest crowd, touched upon a wide range of issues surrounding athletics.

“What the hell is a black sport?” varsity track and field athlete Jules Hislop ’17 asked the audience from the stage, considering aloud how his race has impacted his athletic experience at Dartmouth.

Casey Cousineau ’17 — one of only two varsity athletes on stage — described the feeling she and the rest of the varsity women’s soccer team feel as fans promptly exit Burnham

Field’s stands after the men’s game, not waiting to support the women’s team.

She also touched upon the pressure to have a feminine physique at Dartmouth in a social context, but the difficulty of keeping that image when her body is built to do something completely different — to run miles across the field during a game, to kick a soccer ball all the way up field and to stand its ground when an opposing player comes crashing in shoulder to shoulder.

Simone Schmid ’17, a women’s club volleyball player, spoke of the difficulty of being stripped of her identity at Dartmouth as an athlete after spending most of her life competing as a volleyball player at the state level.

Women’s club water polo player Abby Reynolds ’17 echoed this sentiment saying she receives a different response when she tells people she plays for the club water polo team as opposed to simply Dartmouth’s water polo team.

Dartmouth does not have a men’s or women’s varsity water polo team.

Lexie Lynn ’16, a former rower, spoke of the difficulty of the transition from athlete to NARP after suffering debilitating back injuries, compounded by the unique nature of rowing as a “keep-going-no-matter-what” endurance sport and the “never-let-yourteam-down” mentality of a team sport.

The two non-athlete voices on stage joined the program part way through the summer term.

Gabby Bozarth ’17 challenged the importance that sports holds in the minds of students on campus while other issues like racism and systematic oppression dominate her experience at the College.

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Students discuss the different challenges faced at different levels of the athletic hierarchy.

Terren Klein ’17, who said he feels so far removed from the issue that he doesn’t consider “athlete” or “nonathlete” at all when thinking about his own identity, said the program taught him that athletes’ experience on campus are “incredibly distinct” from non-athletes’ Dartmouth experiences.

“It’s hard to find another activity on campus that demands that much from the students,” Klein said. “Something I drew from that is that it seems unfair how much is required of the individual, and they feel like they sometimes have to make the choice between being a student and an athlete.”

Klein said he takes pride in being a non-athlete because he can distance himself from the stigmas which surround being an athlete, such as being considered unintelligent or uncommitted to academics.

Varsity heavyweight rower Brendan Caldwell ’17, who was in attendance at the event, said the event made him reconsider things about his own experience which he never thought about, such as taking up full tables on the dark side of the Class of 1953 Commons with his team. The students participating in Telling My Story on Campus performed a skit about the exclusive seating in FoCo. “I guess it was something that I was aware of but I never spent much time thinking about where I should eat in FoCo because I always had a team or someone to sit with,” he said. “The event made clear to me the varied perspectives on the athlete and non-athlete life and how much of a spectrum it is.”

Telling My Story on Campus included responses from write-in surveys from students identifying anywhere on the athletic spectrum. Outside voices expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of respect paid to the club ultimate frisbee team, the lack of acknowledgement given to the club fencing team and dissatisfaction at being allowed into the Floren Varsity House weight room in the dead of winter, in the freezing cold, only at night after the varsity athletes have all gone home.

In the past, Telling My Story on Campus has tackled class divisions, Greek affiliation and unaffiliation, international and domestic students and the tension between students who attend school at Dartmouth and the custodial staff who keep the College running.

Reynolds is a member of the Dartmouth Staff.

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When the Ivy League released its 2015 Football Preseason Media Poll on Aug. 11, the Big Green found itself in an unfamiliar place — second on the list. A ranking this high has not been granted to the Big Green since 1996 when they were rated top of the League and eventually went on to win it all. Despite this new ascension to the upper echelon of Ivy rankings, the Dartmouth football team believes that it is destined for even greater heights.

“We’re not really concentrating on that,” co-captain, starting quarterback and College Sports Madness’s Ivy League Preseason Offense Player of the Year Dalyn Williams ’16 said.

“We have a big goal which is to win the league. That’s what we’re concentrated on.”

The Big Green nearly achieved that goal last season when it went 9-1 in the Ivy League. The lone loss was against Harvard University, which would go on to win the championship and receive the first place preseason ranking.

Williams said he will not allow the past stats and hollow numbers to get in the way of Dartmouth’s big plans.

“I think last year we missed out on winning, and I think this year, we can do it,” he said.

The team is in prime position to make Williams’s words a reality since many of the Big Green’s core players will be still be suiting up this fall.

“I think we’re returning eight people on defense, nine maybe, and most of the offense is back,” Williams said. “I think with those kind of returning starters you should have big expectations.”

Williams himself is one of these important returners. Last season, he became just the sixth Dartmouth quarterback ever to throw for more than 2,000 yards.

Williams also set the record for highest completion percentage at 67.5 percent. In addition, he threw 21 touchdowns, making him only the second Dartmouth quarterback to throw for more than 20 touchdowns in a season.

“He’s been a dynamic player for us,” head football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said. “He’s really grown

and developed as a passer.”

One of Williams’s favorite weapons, wide receiver and co-captain Ryan McManus ’15, will be taking the field for a fifth season, granted to him after an injury cut his junior season short.

“Over time, you develop a feel for certain people, and Ryan and Dalyn have been together now for four years,” Teevens said. “Those two have something going.”

In order to win a championship, it’s necessary to have a strong defense and Big Green is not lacking in that area either. Many of the team’s top players, including co-captain and CSM’s Ivy League Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Will McNamara ’16, will be back to tackle, stuff and intercept opponents for one last season.

“I think on defense it gives us a great advantage to have a lot of guys that have played a lot of snaps and gotten a lot of experience,” McNamara said.

McNamara led the Ivy League in total tackles last season and was voted to the first-team All-Ivy last year. “[McNamara is] a physical and very cerebral player,” Teevens said.

“He understands the game, and he sees things well.”

This combination of talent and experience on both offense and defense also benefits the newer members of the team.

“I expect [the older players] to mentor and to lead some of the younger guys as they go forward,” Teevens said.

The team prides itself on this “team first” mentality, Teevens said.

“Everyone’s competing for a position, but guys are passing information and knowledge to guys that are chasing and potentially taking positions,” Teevens said.

Though the players have a high level of confidence in each other’s abilities, the team does not want to get to far ahead of itself yet. Right now, its motto is “Prove it.”

“We haven’t played anybody yet, so the most important game we have is the [week one] Georgetown [University] game,” Teevens said.

After all, as Teevens often repeats, the only rankings that matter are those released at the end of the season.