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VOL. CLXXII NO.11

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015

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Men’s recruitment numbers in line with previous years

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Seven fraternities extended bids during men’s winter recruitment last weekend, one more fraternity than last year when six fraternities extended 26 bids.

Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity each saw two men sink bids; Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity each saw three and Zeta Psi fraternity saw seven. The number of new members is generally consistent with those from last year’s winter rush process.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Sigma Nu fraternity both

Seven fraternities participated in winter recruitment this weekend, one less than last year.

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Provost Dever calls for more faculty cluster proposals

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Provost Carolyn Dever is pushing for faculty members across disciplines to send in a second round of proposals for the College’s Cluster Initiative — a program allowing faculty to form groups with the aim of solving complex issues of global importance. Dever

sent out her request last Thursday, and proposals are due on Feb. 16.

“Each faculty cluster will focus on a topic of great urgency to the world — the most pressing social issues, the most significant scholarly challenges of our time,” Dever said in an email. “On what world questions is Dartmouth poised to have the greatest impact? Our faculty knows our areas of greatest ex-

isting strength and how to convert that strength to world leadership through the strategic investment of a faculty cluster.”

Final decisions for funding these proposals will be made by late April.

Applications for the first round of proposals closed in March 2014. The six clusters from this first round are already in the planning stages.

Road salt prices rise amidst icy conditions

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Hanover has been “battling the snow and ice” this winter, town manager Julia Griffin said, as rising road salt prices across the U.S. are adversely affecting Hanover and Dartmouth.

This past weekend, melting snow and freezing rain turned roads and sidewalks slippery. Associate vice president of Facilities, Operations and Management Frank Roberts sent out a campus-wide email late Monday afternoon warning of dangerous conditions around campus, attributing the

problem to puddles that cannot drain completely due to the snow banks on both sides of sidewalks and roads. The water then refreezes when temperatures drop. He advised students and faculty to wear appropriate footwear and take care when walking around campus.

Roberts did not respond to multiple requests for comment by press time.

FO&M spent the weekend removing snow and ice and treating sidewalks with salt and sand mixtures, and is set to continue the process today. Representatives of FO&M did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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Of the initial 30 proposals from the first round, the six selected clusters are the “William H. Neukom Academic Cluster in Computational Science,” “Breaking the Neural Code,” “Ice, Climate and Energy,” “Health Care Delivery Science,” “the Economics and Politics of Globalization” and “SustainSEE FACULTY PAGE 3

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Students in One Wheelock play trivia over the long weekend.

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DAily debriefing Legislation proposed this year would allow brewers to sell alcohol with images of minors on the label in the state of New Hampshire, as long as the picture doesn’t entice minors to drink. One example of a drink this would apply to is Breakfast Stout, a brew with a picture of a baby on the label. The federal government and most states prohibit alcohol labeling or advertising that targets minors, such as an image of a kid at a college party drinking. The New Hampshire Liquor Commission opposes the legislation, although director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth David Jernigan believes that laws that regulate labels do little to cut down underage drinking.

Dozens of crashes were reported this past Sunday when freezing rain turned roads and highways into ice.

Vehicles piled up for miles along Interstate 93 through central New Hampshire, and speed limits were lowered to 45 miles per hour in the afternoon. The day was one of the worst black ice events in recent New England memory, gaining the name #Icezilla on social media sites. WMUR reported that at one point, authorities ran out of tow trucks and ambulances. There were about 30 reported accidents on I-89, and I-93 was closed down in both directions at Bow Junction for an hour because of a crash. All available salt truck crews were called in to help, according to the Department of Transportation. The freezing conditions are supposed to taper into rain and then snow this week.

A new study by Rand Drug Policy Research Center reports that approximately 80,000 Vermonters illegally consume between 33,000 and 55,000 pounds of marijuana annually, spending $125 to $225 million a year on the drug. The 218 page report for lawmakers provided detailed analysis of the impacts of legalizing recreational marijuana use, including public health effects, regulatory structure and revenue potential. It also offered alternatives to the model that is in effect in Colorado and Washington State. Senator David Zuckerman said last Friday that he hopes to introduce a bill to legalize the drug in the next few weeks. Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety Keith Flynn has urged lawmakers to “go slow” in order to make sure they “get this right.” Governor Peter Shumlin wants to see how legalization plays out in trailblazing states, such as Colorado, first. The Rand study will serve as a foundation for discussion. There is some opposition for the bill.

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Fraternities extend winter bids FROM RUSH PAGE 1

participated in winter rush as well, but representatives did not respond to requests for comment by press time. SAE has not historically held rush during the winter, but did so in 2013.

In the past four years, the number of fraternities that participate in recruitment during the winter term has fluctuated between five and seven.

Recruitment numbers in the winter tend to be significantly lower than in the fall.

“Some houses choose not to participate in winter rush because they choose to completely fill their new member classes in the fall,” Interfraternity Council vice president Ian Woon ’15 said.

The total number of men who participated in recruitment was not available by press time, Interfraternity Council president Wil Chockley ’15 said. He declined to comment further.

The majority of men that rush during the winter term either are returning from a fall off-term or were dissatisfied with fall rush results, Sig Ep president Eli Derrow ’15 said.

After 35 men accepted bids from Sig Ep in the fall, an unusually high number, winter recruitment numbers were lower than normal, Derrow said.

This winter Sig Ep saw 11 men, nine of whom shook out. The fraternity’s

sophomore class now consists of 37 members, the largest it has been in the past three years.

Ashneil Jain ’15, the president of Zete, said that some of the men that rushed this weekend were unsure about rushing in the fall and either wanted to get “a better sense of the scene” or were not interested in joining a fraternity until becoming friends with members.

This year’s numbers are slightly higher than in past years, Jain said. Zete extended eight bids to the 14 men who rushed, compared to last winter when the fraternity extended seven bids to the nine men that rushed.

Noah Reichblum ’15, the president of Alpha Chi, said the number of extended bids this winter is in line with those of previous years. Last year, the fraternity gained one new member.

Tri-Kap president Anka Tezcan ’15 confirmed that three men accepted bids, the same number that joined the fraternity last winter.

Alpha Delta fraternity, Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, Bones Gate fraternity, Chi Heorot fraternity, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, Psi Upsilon fraternity and Theta Delta Chi fraternity did not participate in winter recruitment.

Though rush occurred on both Friday and Saturday, Chi Gam, SigEp, Tri-Kap and Zete were only open for

rush on Friday, while Alpha Chi was only open on Saturday. SAE and Sigma Nu were open on both nights.

The number of bids extended in winter fraternity recruitment tends to be smaller than winter sorority recruitment, when last year 95 women were extended bids.

Nathan Busam ’17, who accepted a bid from Zete this weekend, said that though he rushed in the fall and was called back for a second night, he dropped out. He decided to rush again in the winter because he was more prepared for the process and felt more comfortable in the types of social situations that come with recruitment.

“After reflecting, I realized the whole rush process was about developing social skills and it helped me meet a lot of new people,” Busam said.

He said recruitment was largely what he expected and was a good experience.

He chose Zete partially because the fraternity recruited some of his friends in the fall.

This recruitment season follows the first fall rush that saw men becoming full-fledged fraternity members after accepting bids, a change from previous IFC recruitment periods when new members completed pledge terms before being officially inducted into a house. On Sept. 21, the IFC voted unanimously to eliminate pledge terms.

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Correction appended (Jan. 19, 2015): The original version of the article “When Graduation Brings Uncertainty” incorrectly stated that Ferraz and Choi were deported. They left the U.S. voluntarily when their visas expired. The online version of this article has been updated to reflect this change.

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Six faculty clusters in planning stages

extend the computational work that is currently happening at the College, Neukom Institute for Computational ability Science and Governance.”

The clusters are part of College Sciences director Dan Rockmore President Phil Hanlon’s push to said in a previous interview with The increase the size and diversity of the Dartmouth.

Interdisciplinary in nature, comfaculty, since each cluster will hire additional professors with expertise putational science focuses on data analysis across various academic in the pertinent area.

Vice provost for academic initia- fields, ranging from physics to antives Denise Anthony said that in thropology, and uses mathematical order to take on these global chal- models to solve scientific problems.

Currently, the search team is lenges and complex issues, there is a need to bring together teams from comprised of seven faculty memvery different fields to think about the bers from across campus, Ray said.

She said she hopes to find a suitable issue.

“It’s not even just that we need more candidate by the end of the academic faculty to do that,” Anthony said. “It’s year, although the member will not building on areas where Dartmouth become active until July 1.

Ray said that the Kurtz chair already has some strength. We have faculty member some of the leadwill further deing thinkers — fine the vision for some of the most “It’s building on areas the cluster. She creative scholars where Dartmouth said that since already working already has some the College is on these issues already well— and what strength. We have known for its sucwe want to do some of the leading cess in compuis build in that thinkers — some of the tational science, area.” the cluster could Dean of the most creative scholars bring “the best Thayer School minds to Dartof Engineering already working on mouth to work Joseph Helble these issues — and on these imporsaid in an email tant problems” t h a t f a c u l t y what we want to do is and bring about members come build in that area.” future changes. together based “There was on their own ina time when nodividual interests - DENISE ANTHONY, VICE body even knew and expertise to PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC what a computer identify a proshould look like, posed topic. This INITIATIVES and I personally proposal is then feel like we are reviewed by Desomehow on the ver and deans from the Arts and Sciences, the Geisel verge of some other exciting time School of Medicine, Thayer, the Tuck where the development of computaSchool of Business and graduate tional principles and resources, even like hardware, will enable discovery studies programs.

“The academic deans may some- and development of all sorts of new times discuss the initial ideas with things, new medicines, new materimembers of the faculty, and can also als,” she said.

She said that Dever’s decision to help identify resources that would be needed to help support a cluster accept second-round proposals is a proposal,” he said. “But the scholarly terrific way for the College to move focus of the clusters — the academic forward.

“A new goal is to identify another ideas themselves — generally origiset [of proposals] where we will do the nate with members of the faculty.”

Thayer engineering professor same thing,” Anthony said. “The idea Laura Ray, who is also taking part in is that we are moving forward with the William H. Neukom Academic multiple kinds of questions and areas Cluster in Computational Science, where we want to grow the faculty and said that the cluster is still in the de- not necessarily say, ‘We’ll only proceed velopmental stages. It is currently in with that once we accomplish this.’”

She said that the second round call the search phase of hiring three new members from outside Dartmouth, does not have a quota on accepted including a cluster leader who will proposals, although Dever will accept hold the title of the Thomas E. Kurtz about five, in addition to the six in the chair in computational science. The planning stages.

Professors from other clusters did Kurtz chair will hire the other two not respond to request for comment new cluster members.

The cluster will integrate and by press time.

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Staff Columnist JON VANDERMAUSE ’16

GUEST Columnist BRIAN CHAO ’09

Revamping Research

Liberal Arts for the World

Writing a thesis should be mandatory for all students.

Dartmouth has been infatuated with its social life lately, and it is not difficult to discern why. Volleys of bad press and a whole lot of noise from student activists have jolted administrators into action. While many students have been understandably peeved about the College’s reputation being dragged through the mud, events in the last few years have brought the darker aspects of our old traditions into sharp relief and ushered in welcome change.

The attention we have been heaping on how students socialize, however, has come at a price.

Amid the sharp-tongued debates over Greek life and the seemingly endless machinations of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, we have lost sight of the reason that many students come to Dartmouth in the first place — for a top-notch education. We have allowed social life to supersede academic life in our vision for Dartmouth’s future, and it’s time we reversed the trend.

Dartmouth, at its best, is a hub of intellectual creation. It is the school of experiential learning College President Phil Hanlon speaks so passionately about, where students do not just learn about the academic disciplines but also contribute to them. To fully achieve this vision, Dartmouth needs to make a more systematic effort to get students involved in original research.

We are by no means off to a bad start, as a handful of research programs at Dartmouth confirm. The Women in Science Program is a shining example. It targets two glaring failures in the world of research: the underrepresentation of women in science and the tendency of students to get started on research too late in their undergraduate careers. WISP matches freshmen and sophomore women with professors as early as their freshman fall, offering immediate exposure to the rigors of lab work.

The Presidential Scholars program is another example of Dartmouth’s commitment to undergraduate research, offering the top 40 percent of each junior class $1,700 to conduct research with a professor for two academic terms. Work completed during the Presidential Scholars program often forms the backbone for a senior thesis.

Though admirable, these programs need to be massively expanded if Dartmouth is to soar above its peers as a school that cultivates the life of the mind. A paltry fifth of the Class of 2014 completed a senior thesis, which means that nearly 80 percent of Dartmouth students receive a diploma without completing in-depth and original work in their field.

This fact should not come as a shock, since Dartmouth’s undergraduate research programs are only tailored to a fraction of each class. Instead of equally pushing all freshmen to get involved in research of any kind, Dartmouth particularly pushes freshmen women interested in math or the sciences. Rather than offering paid research opportunities to every member of each junior class, the Presidential Scholars program considers only the cream of the crop. Though all juniors can apply to be a Junior Research Scholar or a Mellon Mays Fellow, these programs are not nearly as publicized. Apparently at Dartmouth, average students should not even bother trying their hand at research.

This is a disastrous mentality. Doing original academic work should not be restricted to a privileged few. In fact, there is little reason to assume that those with the highest grade point average will excel the most in the lab or out in the field. Doing research well requires more grit and sustained effort than any 10-week course, which demands sharp bursts of intellectual activity rather than a building crescendo. Writing a 10page paper is a puny feat compared to writing a 100-page paper, and completing a problem set is far different from finding a current problem out in the world and tackling it. Students should not be denied a chance at the marathon merely because they are average at the sprint.

At Princeton, writing a senior thesis is mandatory — no original work, no diploma. Dartmouth should follow suit. That might sound controversial, but remember that originality comes in many forms. Senior theses can be novellas, lab reports, philosophical arguments or computer code. Requiring a senior thesis of all students would strengthen Dartmouth’s commitment to experiential learning.

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The College can go global without compromising its identity.

I commend last week’s issue of The Mirror for its focus on the College’s presence outside Hanover, particularly Victoria Nelsen’s piece, “Can a Liberal Arts College Go Global?” Dartmouth’s brand recognition worldwide is, frankly, weak when compared with its peer institutions.

To answer the article’s question — yes, a liberal arts college can go global, and the College can do so without compromising its identity and mission.

Most institutions, in vying for global brand recognition, tend to assert their prowess in faculty research output and graduate schools.

Dartmouth could strive for similar recognition in several ways, including promoting its existing graduate programs and professional schools, adding more graduate programs and introducing graduate students into classrooms, therefore enabling faculty to do more research.

These changes could all bolster Dartmouth’s global reputation if administrators wanted to implement them. There is a lot about the College — including the name — that could be changed if we so desire, but we do not need to fundamentally change anything about Dartmouth’s academic enterprise.

Our strength lies in what we are today — and this is the message that the College ought to bring to the world. Dartmouth does not fit in with its peers in the Ivy League, each of which is named “University.” The concept of a liberal arts college that operates with the capabilities and resources of a research university is rare, yet this is the College’s niche. We offer the attention, intimacy, academic breadth and depth of a liberal arts college. We also offer the capabilities, resources, the facilities and research opportunities of a research university.

Moreover, Dartmouth offers the cachet and well-connected alumni body of an Ivy League institution to boot. Few other schools can offer this combination. Other institutions can talk all they want about their undergraduate focus, but the large proportion of graduate students to undergraduates, like at Columbia where enrollment in undergraduate schools makes up less than 30 percent of the total enrollment,

belies such claims. Although we do not have a law school and our medical school is still not fully recovered from the institutional neglect it suffered a few decades ago, Dartmouth has an identity that almost no other academic institution in the world can assert — it is both truly a liberal arts college and truly a research university.

The American concept of the liberal arts college is foreign in many parts of the world.

The College has an opportunity to bring a new and different message to countries that feature a “force-feeding” style of education that emphasizes rote memorization over creative thinking — especially in the Asia-Pacific region, where such educational systems are the norm. Research universities come a dime a dozen — Dartmouth can provide similar capabilities and facilities, but it can also provide meaningful student-faculty interaction, discussion sessions led by professors and a genuine sense of community. Conversely, liberal arts colleges in the United States are ubiquitous — the College can provide similar accessibility and intellectual stimulation, but it can also provide a faculty respected for its creation of knowledge, opportunities for student research and facilities, like Baker-Berry, that can compete with those of large universities.

Dartmouth already occupies a special place in the middle of the higher-education spectrum, from research to the liberal arts, so the goal should be to market this distinction to an international community whose institutions of higher education more closely align with one end of that spectrum.

The College has managed to bridge the gap between liberal arts colleges and research universities, and it has largely done so successfully. We have the ability to offer the best of both academic worlds to the international community. To be sure, our graduate programs and schools are enterprises of which the whole Dartmouth community should be proud. We do not, however, need to change our core mission to suit some international ranking’s arbitrary criteria and blend in with our peers. By staying true to its historic identity and mission, the College can actually stand out and lead.

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Icy weather creates dangerous conditions on campus FROM SALT PAGE 1

Hanover has been spending more money on sand and salt than it would like, Griffin said. Because demand for salt is higher this year, prices are also higher, she said.

Following harsh snowstorms last winter in cities across the country, domestic road salt prices have skyrocketed.

Office manager at Barrett Trucking Co. Inc. — a Burlington, Vermont-based company that distributes road salt to Dartmouth — Tim Barrett said that the total salt stockpiles do not usually change from year to year, so prices are directly influenced by demand resulting from the previous year’s weather. Dartmouth specifi cally has been paying 10 percent more than it did last year for salt, he said, adding that salt prices are usually volatile.

Last year, all regions of the country experienced harsh winter weather, depleting all salt stockpiles, Barrett said.

Pricing is controlled by the state of New Hampshire, which allows companies to bid on a yearly price for the salt supply, he said. Road salt is mined in Lansing, New York, brought into White River Junction by rail and then trucked to Dartmouth. Towns have been taking money out of their budgets for next year to ensure they have enough to pay for salt this winter, he said.

“A lot of them are screaming and

hooting and hollering because of the price increase, but you just have to adjust your budget,” he said.

Though salt prices have risen, this has not caused towns and other commercial customers to purchase less, Barrett noted.

“It’s one of those products that you can’t not buy,” Barrett said.

“The only time you can avoid buying it is if you don’t get any bad weather.”

The alternative to using pure road salt, Barrett said, is using a mixture of sand and salt. Though that option is cheaper at first, the maintenance cost of cleaning up the sand once the snow melts ends up costing the town just as much money. The salt and sand mixture comes from local quarries in Vermont and New Hampshire.

Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne said in an email that there have only been a couple of reports of ice-related incidents this season — one was damage to a vehicle due to ice falling from a roof, and the other a fall at Occom Pond.

The Upper Valley has experienced many motor vehicle accidents related to the severe weather, but none directly involving the campus or Dartmouth community members, Kinne said.

He also speculated that the decreased number of injuries on campus so far this season is due to the general lack of snow and ice, the fact that Occom Pond only just opened due to warmer weather last December and the fact that sled-

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Last year’s bad winter conditions led to a spike in road salt prices across the country.

ding at the golf course has been less popular due to a lack of snow.

“Winter is still a long way from being over, so that may change,” Kinne said.

Last year, Kinne told The Dartmouth that Safety and Security had witnessed a jump in ice-related injuries.

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Beyond the Bubble: Starheim ’14 shows photographs Figuring Out Fashion of Afghanistan experience

B y andrea nease The Dartmouth Staff

I find myself glancing over fashion week highlights each year and thinking, who would wear that?

Why would someone design that?

I wouldn’t be able to fit through a doorway if I tried wearing that dress.

I’m always left wondering — why does runway fashion seem so... impractical?

I do not think there is a fashion designer out there who would argue for their lines’ practicality. The designs exhibited in shows are supposed to be risky and eye-catching.

Fashion week would lose its appeal if models flaunted camisoles, khakis or everyday sundresses. With big names like Marc Jacobs, Versace, Fendi and Prada producing pieces of every mismatched color, pattern and style — fashion week is anything but boring.

Josh Patner, a former assistant of DKNY founder and designer Donna Karan, noted, in an interview with “Slate” magazine, that clothes and fashion are very different things. I think Patner has a point — maybe fashion week seems so impractical, crazy and sometimes even ugly because we’re looking at the pieces simply as clothing when we should be looking at them in the context of fashion as an art form.

Clothing should be considered material practicality for everyday individual use. Clothes keep us from being naked — they protect us from the elements and provide us with pockets to put our cell phones in.

Fashion, however, is an art form.

It is the expression of an individual through pattern choice and stylistic design, and how these elements combine to influence the ways in which a piece interacts with its environment. Fashion utilizes the runway as a canvas for the expressions of its designers’ ideas.

Fashion weeks are essentially times for designers to release their most recent fashion concepts to entertain both the public and the press. Due to the impracticality of many of the pieces showcased, retailers are not looking for what would sell on the racks when watching runway shows. Instead, retailers are looking for designers that catch the attention of the press and make a splash, because a well-received fashion show can correlate with a high-profit brand.

Even if a designer does not receive all positive attention for a new line, there is little cause for concern. A poorly received fashion show rarely incurs any major repercussions for the designer or the fashion line. This lack of repercussions most likely fuels some

of the incredibly outrageous pieces seen on the runway. Taking risks is more often rewarded than not, so most designers turn up the crazy when it comes to fashion weeks.

I used to view fashion week as simply a money-making venue for designers that operated something like this: a designer hires models, books a venue, sends the invites.

Then, critics, reporters and retailers, as well as highly-enthused fashionistas, attend the show and, for the price of an entrance fee, leave with celebrity Instagram shots or paparazzi pieces with titles like, “Paris Hilton Flaunts Major Cleavage at Milan’s Men’s Fashion Week.”

But I was wrong.

Fashion weeks are similar to the openings of new art exhibits. First off, the shows typically do not have entrance fees. They are not put on for retailers to find new rack styles, but rather to introduce the works to which the designers have dedicated their creativity for the past several months. Just as artists invest in gallery shows to potentially garner interest and buzz, designers invest in fashion shows.

Without fashion week, in fact, designers may never have a chance to share their art, since the main definitive end to a line’s production is during a runway show. It marks the end of a seasonal production and creates a space for fashion outside the context of clothing.

Milan’s men’s fashion week is coming to an end, but its implications are holding strong for me. I used to laugh at the silly articles about clothing that models were flaunting and wonder why Vogue was raving about these horrendously impractical designs, but now I understand. Fashion week is not for clothing. It may be for business at its most primal level, but it is ultimately for the sake of fashion as art.

Stop looking at fashion week as outrageous and pointless — it is not only how famous designers such as Ralph Lauren or Louis Vuitton thrive, but it is how the designers behind the brand showcase their intellectual stakes in fashion and turn the consumerism they perpetuate into an art and entertainment twice a year.

If the idea of fashion peeks your interest, Dartmouth Fashion Council may be the group for you. Whether you would like to read their blog, attend meetings or simply enjoy their annual spring fashion show — I hope that you look at fashion a bit differently going forward. Remember: clothing is what covers your naked body, but fashion is an art that uses the body as its canvas.

B y kourtney kawano The Dartmouth Staff

Even before setting foot in Afghanistan last summer, Rianna Starheim ’14 knew she was going to have an experience worth capturing on film. After a summer teaching 30 high school girls English, guitar and yoga, Starheim worked with the Dickey Center for International Understanding to put together her first photography exhibition, which provided a snapshot of her summer experience and shared what she learned about the Afghan culture.

The 25-photo collection is currently on display in the Haldeman Center’s Russo Gallery and was featured as a highlight of the sixth annual Student Forum on Global Learning for Martin Luther King, Jr. day.

Starheim, who was an Asian and Middle Eastern studies major during her time at the College, spent the past summer conducting an independent project in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a teacher at the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, which inspired her exhibition. In addition to teaching, she helped develop human trafficking training for Afghan border police as an assistant to the director of Hagar Afghanistan, a non-governmental organization that fights genderbased violence and human trafficking.

Dickey Center student programs officer Amy Newcomb said that the exhibition is a way for Starheim to highlight specific stories she wants others to hear.

“Rianna has a special way of capturing stories and people with photography,” Newcomb said.

“The space provides a way to process her summer overseas.”

While most of the images are playful shots of young Afghan boys and girls juggling tennis balls or practicing acrobatics that are meant to convey a message of hope in the midst of war, others show Afghan women painting their answers to the simple question, “What are your dreams?” Rather than materialistic wishes, one woman painted a tropical landscape, contrasting the dry environment in Kabul, while the other painted a large bird with opened wings, symbolizing freedom.

Dickey Center associate managing director Tom Candon said that the photos tell an intriguing story.

“There’s a disparity between the stark landscape of Afghanistan and the children practicing circus acts in the internally displaced persons camps,” he said.

Starheim said one of her favorite pictures captures Afghan students

participating in the ice bucket challenge to raise money for A.L.S. research. The shot captures the moment just as the freezing cold water hits the heads of the girls and the obvious mixture of shock and excitement across their faces.

This image further emphasizes the sense of kindness among the Afghan community, despite its unfortunate political and societal circumstances, Starheim said.

“I was excited about being able to share photos to give people an idea of what Afghanistan is like beyond war and violence,” Starheim said.

Starheim faced difficulty travelling to Afghanistan, because the College refused to fund her trip since Afghanistan is on the Department of State’s travel warning list. She said that she used her experience from travelling in Brazil, Morocco, Taiwan and India to help manage her experiences. Like her previous international trips, Starheim documented her life in Afghanistan with her trusty Nikon D3100.

While she did not take any photography classes during her time at the College, Starheim said she has loved photography since taking a class in high school and discovered that photography was a perfect way to chronicle her adventures.

She said her trip to Afghanistan was no different, as she found time to wander throughout the city to capture images of the landscape and portraits of her students.

By living and working with the teenage girls, Starheim said, she experienced the best way to see the country.

“I was able to see the world through their eyes,” she said. “I learned how much war affects the lives of every single person living there.”

She said that the girls with whom she worked ranged in age and socioeconomic background, giving her a diverse portrait of Afghanistan and its people. While some girls in the school came from wealthy families and others were orphaned from a young age or had relatives affiliated with the Taliban, all of them shared similar experiences in the tribulations of war and its effect on their peers.

Elena Zinski ’15, an Asian and Middle Eastern languages major at the College, said that she found the exhibit extremely powerful.

“The exhibition beautifully captures the playfulness of the children alongside their resilience,” she said.

“I was left speechless.”

During her time at the College, Starheim was a member of Palaeopitus and interned for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Her exhibition will be on display throughout January.

A true aficionado of traveling, Starheim is already gearing up to spend time this winter in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan for field research while completing her thesis on Syrian refugees.

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Women’s hockey ends Harvard’s 10-game win streak

B y Haley Gordon The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth women’s ice hockey (10-7-1, 6-6-1), scoreless through the first two periods, exploded for four goals in the third period to sink no.

5 Harvard University (12-3-2, 9-2-1), 4-2, on Saturday at Thompson Arena, extending its own win streak to four and severing Harvard’s 10-game win streak in the process. Additionally, the victory provided sweet revenge for Dartmouth, who had lost to Harvard earlier in the season.

“We knew that they were a good team,” Lindsey Allen ’16 said. “Coming into the new year, we’ve had a good couple of games, so we just had to keep that going and we knew if we were able to do that we’d be able to beat them.”

From the start of the first period, the Big Green kept control of the puck and pressured the Harvard defense.

The teams traded possession back and forth with both getting some threatening shots off. Dartmouth was able to create several scoring chances, including a break -away chance by Samantha Zeiss ’15 that was saved by Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer.

The Big Green successfully killed a two-minute power play after a slashing call against Allen, despite Harvard pressure on net, including a shot mishandled just shy of the net.

Harvard right wing Hillary Crowe broke through and opened the scoring with less than four minutes left in the first period.

Dartmouth could not equalize, despite out-shooting the Crimson 15 to 6 in the first period.

Dartmouth goalie Robyn Chemago ’17 attributed some of the difficulty in capitalizing on shots to the strength of the opponent’s goalie, saying Maschmeyer “kept them in the game.”

Neither team managed to score in the second period. Chemago made 11 saves in the second period, and would save 37 shots by the end of the game.

Her counterpart, Maschmeyer, made 32 saves. Neither team managed to score in the second period.

“We were getting the chances all game, [but] they just weren’t going in for us yet,” Morgan Illikainen ’15 said.

“We just knew once we got one [goal] there were going to be a couple more that got in. We just needed to get that first goal.”

Both teams picked up the intensity in the third period, increasing their physical play and aggression. Chemago was forced to make a save in the first 30 seconds.

“I think [during] the first couple minutes of the third [Harvard] definitely picked it up a notch,” Illikainen said. “We battled hard, and we figured our stuff out.”

Hungry for a goal, the Dartmouth offense worked to produce more scoring chances. Allen wrestled the puck free from a group and passed it to Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 for a shot, which was blocked. Allen had another chance for a shot a minute later, but she was again stopped short by the Harvard goalie.

In the eighth minute of the third period, Karlee Odland ’15 forced a turnover in the neutral zone and was able to get the puck behind the net with the help of Zeiss. Odland centered the puck to a net-crashing Illikainen, who slammed the puck past Maschmeyer to even up the score at 1-1.

Two minutes later, Harvard’s Kalley Armstrong responded with her own goal, assisted by Sydney Daniels, to retake the lead for Harvard. Dartmouth would not stay behind for long, evening the score up again with six minutes left in the game off of a wrist shot from Allen, assisted by Illikainen for her second

point of the night.

With the score at 2-2, Harvard’s Sydney Daniels was called for interfence, a penalty that would prove to turn the tide in Dartmouth’s favor..

Dartmouth converted its power play advantage. Center Brooke Ahbe ‘18 scored her first game-winner and her second collegiate goal with just over six minutes left in the game.

With 41 seconds left to play, Allen slid the puck into Harvard’s empty net for her second goal of the night, icing the victory for Dartmouth.

“It was good to get a win, especially against a good team like Harvard, and it gives us confidence,” Chemago said.

“Today proved to us that if we play our game we can beat anyone in this league.”

The Big Green will take on Cornell University and Colgate University in Thompson on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Men’s hockey drops two games in disappointing weekend B y Gayne Kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth men’s ice hockey team dropped a pair of home games against St. Lawrence University and Clarkson University last weekend, falling to St. Lawrence 3-2 on Friday before being taken by Clarkson 5-2.

After an impressive stretch of hockey during the winter interim period, the Big Green has run into some trouble finding its rhythm again after tying with the University of New Hampshire two weeks ago — a tie which only came after 50 solid minutes on the ice were derailed by an incomplete finish. The team, alternate captain Eric Robinson ’14 said, is still looking to put together consistent 60-minute games of hockey.

Now with a string of three losses, Dartmouth has dropped out of the receiving votes category on USCHO. com’s ranking of Division I hockey programs. While voters have ruled out Dartmouth as a top contender among Division I teams, a more analytical look at the team’s performance this season reveals hope for the Big Green, who still have 12 conference games to play.

For some teams, like the Packers in Lambeau Field, venue plays a critical role in performance. For Dartmouth, however, it seems to have a marginal impact, if any at all. The Big Green, 2-2-2 in away games and 4-6-1 at home, appears to be just as viable away as

they are at home in Thompson Arena, providing little reason to be concerned when the Big Green takes on the Saints and the Golden Knights again at the end of the season.

In terms of skill, the Big Green has defeated all three of the highest-ranked opponents it has faced: then no. 1 Boston University (2-0), then-no. 11 University of Denver (shootout, 2-1) and then no.

8 Union College (overtime 4-3). Dartmouth has proven it can compete at the highest level. The questions remain as to how it can compete at that level all the time — and why it doesn’t.

In 17 games this year, Dartmouth has only lost two in which it was the first team to score. In the eight games in which Dartmouth was not the first to score, the team has only won two: the 4-3 comeback overtime victory against Union and a lopsided 8-3 win over Sacred Heart University.

In both games this past weekend, Dartmouth fell behind to early deficits of 3-0 against St. Lawrence and 2-0 against Clarkson before scoring a goal. St. Lawrence, who opened the game from the start with an aggressive forecheck, scored an unassisted, shorthanded goal against the Big Green.

In the middle of the second period, up 3-0, St. Lawrence’s Nolan Gluchowski blind-sided Brad Schierhorn ’16 for his second penalty of the game — his first major — and was sent off the ice with a game misconduct. St. Lawrence

is usually more of a skill-oriented team, wing Brandon McNally ’15 said, but came out with a more physical game on Friday. Neither team capitalized on any of the 11 total power plays, five for St. Lawrence and six for Dartmouth.

Despite failing to secure the victory, Dartmouth raised its level of play late in the second period and came out for the third looking like a completely different team, dismantling St. Lawrence’s forecheck with fast-paced defense and controlling play for a good portion of the rest of the game. Goals by Eric Neiley ’15 and McNally put Dartmouth within striking distance of the Saints.

“It was a little bit of wake up call after the first and second,” defenseman Ryan Bullock ’16 said. “We weren’t really helping out our goalie as much as we should have been. We turned it around after the second, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough time.”

Troy Crema ’17, who has been nursing a high ankle sprain he suffered last season, returned to the ice this Saturday.

The sprain, which became agitated early this season, has kept Crema from the rink, but it was still feeling good after Saturday night’s game, Crema said.

After falling behind two goals after 22 minutes of play, Dartmouth managed to fight back against Clarkson. Goals

by Tyler Sikura ’15 and Rick Pinkston ’15 in the second period tied the game before a power play goal early in the third by the Golden Knights shook

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Slow starts hurt the men’s hockey team in its two losses this weekend.

the confidence of the Big Green, who allowed two more — one on an empty net — before the game concluded. The game against Clarkson represents the only game played all season — aside from the early season win against Union College — where Dartmouth fell behind by at least two points and came back later on to tie the score at some point, hopefully showing some promise for the Big Green’s comeback ability.

While there certainly is no substitute for winning games, Dartmouth finds itself in a unique position among sub

.500 athletic teams. The Big Green has a habit of winning — or coming very close — in games its record projects it should lose soundly. In a similarly confusing fashion, Dartmouth has dropped some games against less accomplished opponents in which objective spectators might have anticipated a victory.

Heading into the final stretch of the regular season, the men’s hockey team must piece together the emotions and competitiveness that the team has displayed in big games and figure out how to bring that level of play to every game.