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replacing water pipes, were also broached during the hearing.

Monday night’s meeting was the third in which the Board of Selectmen discussed the proposed budget. The board had two previous “marathon sessions,” as chairman of the board of selectmen Peter Christie called them, in which other aspects of the new budget were

As part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, three working groups — focused on student and organization standards and review, social event and alcohol management and community citizenship — began meeting last week to examine current policy and potentially recommend changes in the wake of the plan’s announcement on Jan. 29.

The groups will meet regularly and submit final proposals by the end of spring term for implementation this fall.

The working groups each consist of two chairs along with other Dartmouth community members. Students, faculty, administrators and alumni were able to apply to the groups until Feb. 9.

Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said in an interview Monday following the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” town hall meeting that the working groups aim to include student voices.

“For me, student concern is always valid and always an important issue, so we really want these working groups to be inclusive and have students participate in them in a productive way,” Ameer said.

The social event and alcohol management group is chaired by assistant dean and director of case management Kristi Clemens and Taylor Watson ’16. The group will soon begin to look over College alcohol policy and expectations for planning social events.

Associate dean of the College Liz Agosto recommended Clemens for the role due to her prior experience with the most recent revision of the student event management

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The Hanover Board of Selectmen met at town hall Monday night to discuss the town budget.

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In a relaxed setting, the Hanover Board of Selectmen adopted the town budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year on Monday night. Almost all aspects of the proposed budget were adopted, town manager Julia Griffin said.

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spent the majority of the time discussing additional expenditure options, or as Griffin calls it, “the wish list,” which included upgrading access to recreational area Wilson’s Landing, fully funding the town’s paving and sidewalk maintenance programs and creating a reserve fund for maintaining Pine Park. Improving infrastructure, such as

Big Green Careers hopes to expand career services B y LAUREN BUDD The Dartmouth Staff

Though many students view the formal corporate recruiting process as the default when thinking about future high-paying careers, Dartmouth sustainability director Rosi Kerr wants to turn the Big Green Careers program, now a two-year pilot program, into a viable, robust parallel to corporate recruiting. The program seeks out students, Kerr

said, who are interested in “making the world better but also making a living.”

Now on the brink of its one-year anniversary, the program connects Dartmouth students with alums and runs workshops and career fairs focused on helping students enter the sustainable jobs sector.

Kerr said that the Big Green Careers program was primarily motivated by students’ frustration SEE SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Feb. 28, 1:15 a.m., Collis Center: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a report of an intoxicated student at Collis. The individual was located in a second-floor restroom, evaluated and transported to Dick’s House.

Feb. 28, 1:24 a.m., Casque and Gauntlet: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS and Hanover Police responded to a report of an intoxicated student at C&G. The individual was evaluated and transported to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center.

Feb. 28, 2:57 a.m., New Hampshire Hall: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a Good Samaritan call at New Hamp. The individual was evaluated and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Feb. 28, 10:38 p.m., The Dartmouth Outing Club House: Safety and Security officers and the Hanover Fire Department responded to a report of a chimney fire at the DOC House. The fire was quickly controlled, and no property damage or injuries were reported.

Feb. 28, 11:40 p.m., Delta Delta Delta Sorority: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a Good Samaritan call at Tri-Delt. The intoxicated individual was evaluated and transported by ambulance to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Mar. 1, 1:57 a.m., McLaughlin Cluster: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a Good Samaritan call at Rauner Hall. The intoxicated individual was evaluated, transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

Mar. 1, 1:42 p.m., Dartmouth Skiway: Safety and Security officers received a phone call from staff at the Dartmouth Skiway regarding a student who had been transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for neck pain. Safety and Security officers later assisted in transporting the student back to campus.

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with the lack of career planning resources available for jobs in the sustainability and environmental sectors. Funded by a Class of 1983 gift and primarily designed by Sarah Alexander ’14, Kerr said that the network has received a lot of student interest and strong attendance at events, despite its relatively new presence on campus.

Alexander said her own experience inspired her to work on creating this network. When searching for a post-graduate job in sustainability her senior year, she said she was frustrated by the lack of resources available.

“We were all very aware of the opportunities available to us through corporate recruiting, but what we did not always get to see were the alternative, equally amazing jobs that alums and students were pursuing outside of the traditional consulting or finance path,” Alexander said.

She went on to say that in creating the program, she sought to expose students to more jobs and careers in sustainability, connect them to alums and recent graduates in the field and prepare students to obtain those jobs.

“Sustainability is such an interdisciplinary concept that I really wanted to show students that it could be applied to almost any industry,” Alexander said. “I cannot imagine an industry in which sustainability is not applicable or relevant.”

In designing the program, Alexander said the biggest challenge was simply finding information about the field, because such data had never been compiled before.

Another challenge, she said, was making sure that students would actually participate in the program and that it would not be too similar to other services already offered through the Center for Professional Development.

Roughly 60 to 70 students have participated so far, office of sustainability fellow Denielle Harrison said.

Past activities put on by the program include networking workshops and transportation to an allIvy environmental and sustainable development career fair hosted by Columbia University in February, Harrison said. The program also collaborated with the Center for Professional Development to host a preparatory workshop prior to the career fair, Harrison said. About 80 Dartmouth students attended the sustainable career fair, Harrison said.

“So far, many students have been engaged with the program, and all who are engaged are satisfied,” Harrison said.

The program’s goals are to facilitate quality interactions with alums and to provide students with the tools to succeed in internships and careers beyond Dartmouth, Harrison said.

“My hope is that Dartmouth becomes known for sending talented, motivated and smart sustainability leaders into the world in the same way it is known for sending great students into banking and consulting,” Alexander said.

Both Alexander and Kerr spoke positively about the program’s success thus far, though both have ambitions to expand the program past its pilot stage.

Kerr said that though the cur-

rent program is primarily focused on jobs in the environmental sector, she would like to build upon the program to provide insight into how sustainability intersects with fields that may not be as obviously related, such as finance.

“Our goal is to turn it into something that feels inspiring, and that feels like a good, compatible parallel to corporate recruiting, so people can do either or both,” Kerr said.

Kerr noted that Dartmouth alumni participation in the network is already strong, and that alums working in the field are eager to hire interns and share their experiences with current Dartmouth students.

As for future events, next fall the program will host a career panel, Kerr said, that will bring companies to campus that are both “inspiring” and “trendy.”

“I think the sustainability sector is an area of huge opportunity,” Kerr said. “Businesses related to water, food and energy are going to be growing incredibly over the next 10, 15, 20 years.”

The jobs that will emerge in the sustainability sector will not just have the potential for social and environmental impact, but will be lucrative as well, Kerr noted.

Alexander said that sustainability is relevant to all fields.

“At the end of the day, sustainability is about efficient use of resources and making decisions that create more resilient systems,” Alexander said. “I can’t think of any organization or company that is not interested in those things, and Dartmouth students have the ability to go out into the world right now and drive the thinking in these areas, no matter what career they pursue.”

Mar. 1, 6:38 p.m., Norwich, Vermont: Safety and Security officers received a call from a Dartmouth student regarding a College-owned vehicle that had slid off the roadway in Norwich. The Norwich Police Department and a tow truck were dispatched to assist the student, and no property damage or injuries were reported.

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Budget will include bike path, salt shed FROM BUDGET PAGE 1

discussed.

A distinguishing aspect of the new budget is the allocation of funds toward a new $400,000 salt shed at the public works facility. The town’s current salt shed is small and old, Griffin wrote in an email. The current shed cannot receive bulk deliveries of salt for the entire season and must pay a premium for procurement later in the season and take the risk that there may not be salt available, according to the budget proposal. This upgrade will allow the town to purchase salt in the summer when prices are lowest and enable the town to buy enough salt to last an entire season. Currently, supplies often dwindle at the beginning of March, Griffin added.

Another aspect of the budget hearing of particular importance to Dartmouth students is the construction of a multi-use pedestrian and bicycle path on Lyme Road. The path would go from North Park Street, which runs alongside the green, to the roundabout on Reservoir Road near the rugby fields.

The width of the road will be decreased upon repaving, enabling the town to create the 12-inch-wide multi-use path as well as a tree lawn.

This tree lawn will separate the road-

way from the path. Seventy-five trees will be planted on this strip of land.

Griffin wrote that the path should make it easier to for Dartmouth students to walk or bike to the Reservoir Road playing fields. She added that this will also make Lyme road safer for Bernice A. Ray Elementary School or Richmond Middle School students who bike or walk to school.

The only aspect of the proposed budget that was not adopted was the creation of a Pine Park reserve fund, which was part of the additional expenditure options.

Government professor Linda Fowler spoke on behalf of the Pine Park Association, of which she is a trustee, saying that although the association owns the land, the town and the College are jointly responsible for maintaining half of Pine Park.

This has worked well for the most part, Fowler said, but in emergencies most of the responsibility has fallen into the hands of the Association.

The idea behind creating this reserve is to regularize the interactions between the town and the Association, to make the College to step up in terms of their responsibility to maintain Pine Park and to save time.

If money is already appropriated, the Association will not have to wait until a scheduled town meeting to

ask for financial help combating erosion and water damage, Griffin said, which have been making the trails increasingly unsafe.

This past fall, the town, the College and the Pine Park Association successfully collaborated to build a bridge over a crossing near the mouth of Girl Brook. Previously, this had been one of the most unsafe parts of the trail, Fowler said. The association is looking to increase these types of collaborative efforts in the future.

The Board of Selectmen did not adopt the creation of a Pine Park fund into this budget because they want to do so in cooperation with the College, Christie said.

The amended budget was approved about 50 minutes into the meeting. Right after the budget was adopted, Christie said that this process was “less painful than most” due to the hard work that was done in the months leading up to the meetings.

About six people attended Monday’s meeting in total. The hearing was recorded, however, and uploaded online the next day.

Residents will vote on this budget at the business meeting portion of the town meeting in early May. Residents must be present at the meeting in order to vote on this budget.

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Mind the Gap

Selfish in our Sympathy

Complaints about strengthening academic rigor misidentify its caveats.

In Monday night’s town hall meeting, hosted

by Palaeopitus senior society, Student Assembly and the Office of the President, administrators — including College President Phil Hanlon, Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer and Provost Carolyn Dever — answered questions about “Moving Dartmouth Forward.” I was surprised by the relatively low turnout at the event, since these top administrators were instrumental in devising policies that will affect all students.

There seems to be this growing sentiment among students that banning hard alcohol and increasing academic rigor will result in an increase in mental health issues. As I heard one student say, “Banning hard alcohol while also increasing the academic rigor? Why do you think I need to drink hard alcohol in the first place?” The question implies that he had to drink in order to deal with academic stress.

To a limited degree, I also bought into the idea that banning alcohol and increasing academic rigor might cause higher levels of stress. After attending this meeting, however, I feel that this is not a sound argument.

Hanlon brought up an excellent point at the meeting, which warrants further consideration.

He mentioned that moving classes to earlier times might shift the time a student sleeps from say 3-10:30 a.m. to 1-8:30 a.m. It is likely, he said, that healthier and more productive work and lifestyle choices would occur between 8:30-10:30 a.m. than between 1-3 a.m. This argument is difficult to refute. Many students who are awake in the early morning on a Thursday are probably not diligently studying — the current schedule makes heavy Tuesday-Thursday course loads relatively uncommon — and I likewise doubt late nights on Fridays and Saturdays are peak study hours. With this in mind, I commend the goal of attempting to shift student sleep schedules forward. I think the old axiom of “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” does hold some credence.

Dean of the Faculty Mike Mastanduno raised another good point — strengthening academic rigor should encourage academic engagement

and intellectual curiosity, which would benefit students’ mental health. Engaging with new and challenging material can cause frustration, but the end result — finally putting all of the pieces together and solving a problem or finding some insight — can provide an unparalleled sense of accomplishment.

Convincing as these points may be, we must also consider that the College’s academic departments and programs do not all deliver the same level of rigor and intellectual challenge. There is a large discrepancy in time required by students to complete work and grades across departments, with lower medians more common in certain departments, like biology or economics.

To make a blanket statement about increasing academic rigor at the College is to ignore these key differences.

A potential metric for this phenomenon is the distribution of majors among students reserving study spaces in the library. In data I requested from College library staff, the most frequently indicated majors of students reserving library study rooms this past fall term were as follows — economics majors at 21 percent, biology majors at 11 percent and computer science majors at eight percent. Only about three percent of those reserving study space did not enter a major, and seven percent responded as undeclared. Six other majors each counted for at least three percent of total study room bookings, but the remaining 35 majors collectively made up only 23 percent of reservations requested by students.

In other words, there are 35 majors that each individually account for less than two percent of study space requests. Although some majors have many more students than others, these numbers are telling. Curiously, many of the students with a major that frequently reserve the most spaces on campus are also in the majors with the lowest medians. Despite these students apparently using library study spaces more than their peers, they continue to receive the lowest grades.

So let’s increase academic rigor at Dartmouth — but let’s also not forget that not all departments seem to have the same standards for what “rigor” entails.

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Too often we only care about international tragedies that we can relate to.

To the right of each newsfeed, Facebook’s relatively new feature, the “trending” sidebar, displays the current most discussed events and people on the website. More often than not, they seem to be fluff pieces, something akin to Taylor Swift becoming a godmother or Kim Kardashian showing off her assets. Rarely have I seen more serious, sobering events — particularly news from overseas — crack the top three stories.

The discomfort of discussing topics like international terrorist groups, human rights violations and the kidnapping and rapes of thousands of young girls may be the reason these stories are rarely “trending.” Yet it’s disturbing if we find the first picture of Alicia Key’s baby more important than raising awareness of the plight of Nigerian girls suffering at the hands of Boko Haram.

It seems this bias is a sign of a national obsession with ourselves. If something isn’t within our borders or doesn’t otherwise threaten our bubble, then it appears that we simply don’t care.

There are, of course, exceptions. International tragedies caused by cruel twists of fate often trigger a national outpouring of sympathy. When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing in March 2014, a multinational coalition supported an extensive search operation while data from Google Trends indicate that peak search interest in MH370 dwarfed that of Boko Haram at a ratio of 25 to three. It seems to me that our readiness to discuss these events is because it’s not a stretch to think — “Wow, that could’ve been me.”

When a tragedy is caused by calculated human cruelty rather than chance — something like the crimes of Boko Haram — it doesn’t seem to hold our attention.

For a short span of time, #bringbackourgirls — a hashtag raising awareness for more than 200 girls kidnapped from a Nigerian school last April — went viral but soon faded away. Those girls still aren’t free, and they’ve been joined by hundreds of other young prisoners since. Last month Boko Haram attacked the Nigerian town of Maiduguri, imprisoning 450 girls to take for forced marriages and other purposes. Boko Haram — a group that has violently asserted control over territory in Nigeria — regularly threatens Nigerians, and

it seems the American public rarely bats an eye.

This might suggest that we simply prefer ignoring how cruel humans can be. Yet we teach the Holocaust in schools to condemn the murderers and remember the victims. So is it, perhaps, that we’ll get bored of hearing yet another “Boko Haram captured a Nigerian town” story? I find that hard to believe when MH370 dominated airwaves for weeks — with coverage fueled not by any new information but rather speculative scenarios.

Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group waging a campaign of terror in Nigeria, killing and abusing thousands. Is our national sense of empathy so narrow that we don’t pay attention to situations that don’t affect us directly?

I strongly believe this is the case, and that we only care about the plight of others when it could be our own. Boko Haram arguably rivals the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in its cruelty.

The Islamic State, however, has killed American citizens, and it dominates the news media and demands government action. Conversely, Boko Haram’s predominant focus on Nigeria distances us from the group’s violence, and many don’t seem to care much at all. Similarly, Syria’s civil war and the horrific human rights violations under the Assad regime have seemingly lost their appeal as headlines — hardly a surprise when the U.S. doesn’t have any boots on the ground.

We often pay more attention to a relatively small number of casualties in a shocking bus accident than we do to the deaths of thousands in Nigeria. Leonardo DiCaprio’s newest film seems to mean more to us than young girls forced into sexual servitude. We’re willing to talk at length about transportation accidents in Asia and European plights but keep silent about a systemic and ongoing campaign of terror in Africa.

We need to reevaluate how much time we spend sharing useless memes on social media — helping people in need is more important than a color-shifting dress. We also need to reevaluate how we direct our attention and aid. We shouldn’t help people in distress just because we think the same thing could happen to us. We should help because it’s the right thing to do.

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procedures when she served as Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director. Watson served as Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity president last summer and will take on the role of Greek Leadership Council accountability chair beginning in the spring.

GLOS Standards and Management assistant director Sam Waltemeyer also recommended Watson for selection.

“I think that it is really important for students to be involved in the creation of any alcohol management procedure on campus, but I also think that it is equally important for the administration to have a conversation with those students in creating the procedure,” Clemens said.

Organizations that host events with alcohol should have clear direction on how to do so while also promoting safety, she said. Clemens said she is aiming for guidelines that are easy to follow but remain realistic as a result of the working group.

Clemens said that the group will first look at current procedures and then decide what the desirable outcomes are for each procedure and whether or not they are being accomplished.

Eleven working group members were selected from a pool of more than 50 students and a “couple of ” alumni and staff members who applied, Clemens said. In selecting members, Clemens and Watson looked to represent perspectives from across the Dartmouth community, as well as members who had previous understanding of social event management procedures.

Watson said that the group will take a look at how rules at the College can be altered in order to maintain safety, while also creating policy with which students are more likely to comply.

An example of a rule that might be looked at is a policy Watson referred

to as “on the fly,” where an event can be registered with just a phone call.

Under this policy, groups can have a party and, if they think they are going to be inspected by Safety and Security, register the party immediately beforehand.

Clemens said that the group will try to design a procedure for students and administrators to have an honest dialogue and to allow students to take agency for hosting their own events.

Waltemeyer, along with Collis Center director of student activities Anna Hall, will chair the student organization standards and review working group, both at the selection of the Dean of the College’s office.

The group was tasked to examine the expectations for student organizations, Waltemeyer said.

A combination of students and staff are serving on the working group, which has met once this term and discussed plans for the spring, when the group plans to meet weekly. The group is composed of eight members including the chairs.

Hall said that the working group will provide consistency and centralization among student groups that are currently governed by a variety of departments in order to promote the same basic standards.

The group will first look at what they can learn from others similar institutions who have faced the same issues, Waltemeyer said.

The community citizenship working group is chaired by director of judicial affairs Leigh Remy and computer science professor Thomas Cormen.

Remy and Cormen are still looking through applications for their working group.

The working group will produce an affirmative statement of values for the College.

As opposed to other working groups, Remy said this group is more philosophical in its nature.

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“United We Stand” provides venue for student composition

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The motto “United We Stand” receives plenty of verbal attention, but perhaps, at times, it is best portrayed through the combination of diverse, yet unified, musical sounds.

This Sunday in the Collis Common Ground, three student groups will perform their own original pieces during the “United We Stand” event. The succinct but diverse repertoire will showcase an original composition by Ningjie Cao ’16, who goes by the name Lanphord, and his band Winterhill, an improvisation by an ensemble under digital music graduate student Carlos Dominguez and a group of four others and a new composition by student band the Euphemisms.

Classical music student relations adviser Mallory Rutigliano ’17 said that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which aims to promote classical music and the performing arts among students on campus, sponsored the event.

The show will begin with an original composition by Winterhill.

Though Cao normally composes the band’s music in its entirety, the group as a whole was more involved in the creation of this piece, Winterhill guitarist Lloyd May ’18 said.

The song aims to creatively blend the instrumentation in new ways, May said. Altering some of the band’s usual instrumental lineup, the performance features May on the lap guitar, Will Tackett ’18 on the harmonica and mandolin, Cao on the piano, Zoe Sands ’18 as the vocals and Tommy Hodsden ’18 using cups and spoons as non-traditional percussion, May said.

“We tried to use instruments in an unconventional way,” May said. “For example, for the first portion of the song, we use the guitar and piano for percussion, as opposed to melody.”

Despite this experimental recombination, the song will adhere to a recognizable pop sensibility that prevents the piece from being too unapproachable, May said.

The second act of the night will be an improvisatory effort under Dominguez. Although the performance is listed under Dominguez’s name, it is in fact a collaboration between Dominguez and an ensemble of digital music graduate students Kyle Kaplan, Victor Shepardson and Ezra Teboul and Angela Kim, who is also a member of the Class of 1999.

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the performance unfolds, Dominguez said.

Dominguez said that the group employs an “electro-acoustic” style and tampers with electronic modification in the speakers. A single flutist will play into a microphone. One of the feeds from this microphone will travel directly to the speakers, while the other feeds will redirect to the remainder of the ensemble, which will then electronically distort the output that returns to the speakers, Dominguez said.

The group uses an assortment of laptops, controllers, mixers and effect pedals to improvise its sound, Dominguez said.

The final performance of the night is a new piece by campus band the Euphemisms. Though the band typically specializes in covering the popular work of other musicians, the “United We Stand” event presented a new opportunity for the band to venture into original composition, Euphemisms drummer Moises Silva ’16 said.

The composition is a pastiche of different sounds and influences blended into a single song. It meshes different rhythms, including funk, jazz and Latin, Silva said.

“For this, the essence of the event was composition and musicianship,“ Silva said.

Silva said this was his first experience in original composition for him.

“I didn’t know that I could just pull out ideas I’ve had in my head, I guess, from listening to different types of music,” Silva said.

Though the program only includes three groups, the musical range featured is broad. This variety ultimately endeavors to uphold and enrich the diversity of music, particularly classical composition, on campus, Rutigliano said.

“It’s probably best described as a compilation of all these different varieties and sounds,” Rutigliano said.

Silva said that there will be diversity in the individual pieces and the event overall.

“You get to see different spectrums of music,” Silva said.

In addition to sampling a range of student music outside school ensembles and presenting students with an opportunity to perform their compositions, the event also provides an opportunity to experience the art of others and learn their perspectives, Rutigliano said.

“People come from all different backgrounds and have all different lives,” Rutigliano said. “But one thing that brings people together is art and experiencing other people’s art and learning different perspectives.”

The “United We Stand” event begins at 7 p.m. and will be free and open to students.

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Six finalists will compete in Idol

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

This Friday, six finalists will compete for the title of Dartmouth Idol in a night of competition reminiscent of famous televised shows like “American Idol” and “The Voice,” in the eighth annual Dartmouth Idol finals.

This year’s finalists are Chris Yih ’17, Danielle Piacentile ’17, Audrey Djiya ’17, Danny Rogers ’15, Charli Fool Bear-Vetter ’15 and Tara Joshi ’18. These six singers will all perform solos ,duets and a group number backed up by a 20-piece band from Chicago.

Other Dartmouth performers will provide talent for back-up singing and dancing.

The first place winner will re c e i ve $ 5 0 0 a n d h ave t h e opportunity to record a two-song demo. The second place winner will get $250 and third place winner will receive $100.

The finalists were chosen from an initial pool of 70 students who auditioned at the beginning of winter term. The students auditioned with a prepared verse and chorus from a song of their choice. 25 students were chosen from this group to move on to the semifinal round, which took place on Feb. 3rd. In front of a crowd, each student sang one track from a set list and received feedback from several judges. The six finalists were chosen based on the judges’ total scores and audience votes.

Addressing the popularity of Idol, co-producer of the event Joshua Kol ’93 said that it provides an opportunity for solo singing that is otherwise unavailable on campus.

“We might see a lot of singers that we know perform in an a cappella group but we never get to hear them solo,” Kol said. “I love being involved in it because this is an incredible opportunity to hear tons of singers on campus who I think we would have no way of hearing if it weren’t for this program”.

The finalists, spanning from freshmen to seniors, range in experience and personal style.

Joshi, a member of the a cappella group the Dodecaphonics, said that she had always wanted to compete in a singing competition like Dartmouth Idol.

“I’m obsessed with the Voice and X-Factor,” Joshi said. “I just wanted to check [Dartmouth Idol] out and see how I’d do in a singing competition.”

Djiya competed in Dartmouth Idol last year and made it into the semifinals but did not progress.

Djiya said that she decided to compete again this year because of the positive experience she had with the whole process.

“I wanted another chance [to perform],” Djiya said. “I thought it was really awesome that Idol provided me with an opportunity to showcase my personal talent.”

The process of semifinals created a sense of solidarity, Djiya said. There were students with varying levels of experience performing on stage — some came from a cappella and choir backgrounds while some had never sung on stage before.

“We were all there supporting each other, happy to hear each other succeed and genuinely happy when people gave good performances,” Djiya said.

Another level of community was built with the finalists as they began preparing for the final night of competition, since they perform two duet numbers with other finalists and one group number. Each finalist has a private meeting with Dartmouth Idol founder and musical director Walt Cunningham and the idol team to decide which three pieces they will perform in the final show.

W h e n c h o o s i n g a s o n g, performers have different goals and preferences. Joshi said she preferred songs that would be unexpected and showcase her vocal range. Djiya said that when choosing a song she wanted to find a piece that the audience would enjoy and would be fun for her to perform, but would also push her past her limit.

“I have two back-up dancers, one from Sugarplum and one from Ujima,” Joshi said. “I’m really looking forward to performing with them onstage because it’s so much fun to incorporate so many kinds of performing arts into one show.”

The theme of this year’s show is “Origins: Legends and the Bands that Launched Them.” All of the songs performed by the finalists will relate back to that theme.

The show has developed a significant following, Kol said.

“We have to hold tickets for students because otherwise it would sell out to the community,” Kol said. “It’s this great opportunity for people all over campus to come together around an arts event.”

The Dartmouth Idol final performance will be held Friday at 8 p.m. The Spaulding Auditorium is currently sold out for the event, but tickets are on call for between five dollars and $15 for students and $10 to $15 for community members.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

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Skiing takes second at East Regional Skiing Championship B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff

After finding itself in a close race for second in the first day of the St. Lawrence Carnival, the ski teams pulled ahead with higher placements in the men’s 20K classic and slalom to solidify a strong second-place finish overall. The Big Green earned a total of 782 points and edged the University of New Hampshire by a slim margin of 12 points. Even with the strong second-day finishes, though, the Big Green could not catch the University of Vermont who came away from Lake Placid, New York, with this past weekend’s NCAA East Regional Championship title with a strong lead of 1,001 points.

The men’s Nordic squad had another impressive finish in the 10K free held at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg course.

Patrick Caldwell ’17took the top spot on the podium with a time of 27:16.7, more than 35 seconds ahead of secondplace finisher Rogan Brown of UVM. Jan Ketterson ’17 gave another great performance in the race and joined Caldwell on the podium with a thirdplace finish in 28:19.0 after fending off Vermont’s Jorgen Grav by four seconds.

Silas Talbot ’15 and Fabian Stocek ’17crossed the finish line at 28:44.5 and 28.53.7 for fifth and sixth-place finishes, respectively, helping the Big Green earn 133 points and first place in the event.

The men, Caldwell said, came together as a group and gave a really strong performance.

“It was a great weekend for the team,” Caldwell said. “We were really

excited to see our team’s scores coming out well for the championship.”

While the Big Green did not see any athletes on the podium for the women’s 5K free on the same course, the women managed to position the team near the top. Corey Stock ’16 led the women’s Nordic team in the 5K free with a seventh-place finish in 16:28.9.

Cara Piske ’18 and Carly Wynn ’15 also scored points for the team with 18th and 24th-place respective finishes. Of the 12 teams competing in the event, Vermont’s Nordic team won the event with 124 points while Dartmouth took fifth with 81 points. Behind Vermont was UNH, who finished second in the event to ensure that they would be competitive with the Big Green in the race to finish in the overall top teams.

On Whiteface Mountain in nearby Wilmington, New York, Saturday, the men’s alpine team came in fourth place in giant slalom with 82 points.

Kevyn Read ’18 had a combined time of 2:10.02 for a seventh-place finish, while Dylan Brooks ’17 and Prescott McLaughlin ’17 finished in respective times 2:10.44 and 2:11.27 for 14th and 21st place.

The first-place overall Vermont and third-place overall UNH swept the podium in the women’s giant slalom, taking the top four positions in the race between the two schools. Libby Gibson ’18 led the women’s alpine team in the event with a fifth-place finish off a combined time of 2:12.39. Kelly Moore ’18 and Lizzie Kistler ’16 added to the Big Green’s point total. Moore and Kistler placed seventh and eighth,

COURTESY OF COREY RANSOM

The Nordic ski teams finished among the top five teams in all events this weekend.

COURTESY OF MAISIE IDE

Women’s alpine placed fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom at this weekend’s regional championship.

respectively, with times of 2:12.88 and 2.13.10. Foreste Peterson ’18 recorded the second-fastest time in the first run of the slalom with 1:07.41 and was on track to challenge the Catamounts’ Kristina Riis-Johannessen for first-place finish overall, but the Big Green athlete was unable to complete her second run. Despite the setback, the women remained resilient and earned third place in the event with 107 points behind UVM and UNH. Some members of the team, Gibson said, faced health issues, which played a part in this past weekend’s performance.

“We had some trouble finding the finish line, but that’s ski racing,” Gibson said. “It is very rare for a team to have as much success as we have had this season.”

The Big Green and UNH ended the first day with 403 points each, while Vermont took an early lead with 487 points and two event wins in women’s giant slalom and the 5K free.

The Big Green and the Wildcats each finished the day with one event win, with Dartmouth taking the men’s 10K free and UNH taking the men’s giant slalom. With that in mind, Saturday’s competition was about catching up to the Catamounts and outpacing the Wildcats.

The following day, in the 20K classic, the men’s Nordic squad put on another outstanding performance with two podium finishes. Caldwell continued his dominating performances this season with a first-place finish in 57:27.2.

Almost two and a half minutes later, Vermont’s Grav crossed the line at 59:51.2 and managed to place less than a second ahead of Stocek, who joined Caldwell on the podium with the bronze

finish. Talbot and Jan Ketterson ’17 also finished in the top seven competitors with times of 1:00:21.2 and 1:00:43.1 to help the team to a first-place finish in the event with 131 points.

“We tried to focus on having backto-back races that were solid,” men’s Nordic coach Ruff Patterson said. “I think we definitely accomplished that.”

On the women’s side, Stock took fourth place in the 15K classic with a time of 53:47.8. Molly Siegel ’16 completed the course in 56:56.0 to place 20th, and Piske finished in 57:17.3 for 23rd place to give the Big Green a fourth-place finish in the event with 80 points. Middlebury College won the event with 121 points while UNH took second with a score of 112 points.

Back at Lake Placid, the men’s alpine team placed second with 100 points in the slalom race despite a podium sweep

by Vermont, who went on to win the event with 141 points. Ben Morse ’14 tied with St. Michael’s College’s Fredrik Sandell for fifth-place with a combined time of 1:52.93 to lead the Big Green.

Read completed his two runs in 1:53.08 for eighth place, and Sam Macomber ’16 finished in 1:53.63 to place 12th.

Although the Big Green pulled ahead of the Wildcats, the point disparity between Dartmouth and Vermont increased in the women’s slalom race after the Catamounts placed three skiers atop the podium again. The women’s alpine team had difficulty earning points after Peterson, Moore and Maisie Ide ’16 did not finish their second runs despite posting top times in their first runs. Gibson led the team again with a combined time of 1:56.79 for a tenth-place finish while Kistler placed 16th with a time of 1:57.57.

Abigail Fucigna ’15 also scored points with a time of 2:04.17 and a 39th-place finish, helping the team to a fifth-place finish and 68 points overall.

Although most winter sports are concluding their respective seasons in time for finals, the ski team will continue training for the next week in preparation for the NCAA Championships. The Big Green and other teams from the East will have a bit of an advantage as this year’s championship meet will also be held in Lake Placid, the same location as this past weekend’s East Regional Championships.

“We had a challenging weekend,” women’s alpine head coach Chip Knightsaid. “But it was really good to get some time on the hill and start to get comfortable with the surroundings up there.”

The ski team’s coaches faced the difficult decision of narrowing down its list of skiers since only a maximum of three competitors per team may represent an institution, Coach Knight said. Based on qualifying times and overall performances this season, Caldwell, Stocek, Talbot and Stock will represent the men and women’s Nordic teams while Brooks, Morse, Read, Gibson, Kistler and Peterson will compete for the men and women’s alpine teams.

“This season has gone really well,” Caldwell said. “There’s definitely a good confidence booster going in to the NCAAs.” The skiing NCAA Championships will take place on March 11-14, beginning with the women’s 5K and men’s 10K free on March 11 at Mt. Van Hoevenberg and the men and women’s giant slaloms on March 12 at Whiteface Mountain.