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DHMC threatens to sue VT

Tri Delt becomes Chi Delt, with some difficulty

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center threatened to sue the state of Vermont over Medicaid.

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If the hospital’s reimbursement rates are not adjusted, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will take legal action against the state of Vermont.

The state has paid the hospital 31 percent less in Medicaid reimbursements than hospitals located in Vermont, DHMC spokesperson Rick Adams said.

The Department of Vermont Health Access disputes DHMC’s claims, although it plans to review the reimbursement increase, according to a response letter sent to DHMC on Sept. 10.

DHMC accepts patients covered by Medicaid in exchange for reimbursement by state and federal funds. DHMC is the second-largest Medicaid health provider to Vermont res-

idents, even though it is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire — 40 percent of its patients live in Vermont, Adams said.

The hospital claims that it is reimbursed at a lower rate for equivalent treatments as Vermont hospitals. As a result, the hospital believes DHVA has violated the equal protection clause in the 14th amendment.

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Interfraternity Council hosts first-ever open house B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff

The College’s single-sex fraternities will be hosting a formal open house prerush event for the first time on Thursday, Sept. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. The decision to make the open house an additional segment of the men’s rush process was made during the 2015 spring term.

Interfraternity Council recruitment chair Felipe Jaramillo ’16 said the decision was made to make the men’s rush process more inclusive.

Chi Delta sorority officially separated from Delta Delta Delta sorority, its national governing body, last week and came under the auspices of the College’s Greek life insurance policy on Monday, Chi Delt leaders said.

After announcing plans to localize last spring, Chi Delt began a lengthy and at times trying process to become a local sorority, Chi Delt president Lauren Buchanan ’16 said.

“This summer has been miserable,” she said. “We’ve had so many hoops to jump through.”

Chi Delt does not intend to open its basement to campus, social chair Reilly Johnson ’16 said. The decision was reached in part because of the house’s culture and partly due to spatial concerns, Buchanan and Johnson said.

“We’re pretty dedicated to the idea that we have a social space, but it’s people we

want in our social space, not anyone who wants to be in our social space,” Buchanan said. “Although we will have events open to the entire campus, we’ll continue to be dedicated to the idea that it is our social space and you have to be invited into that space [to enter].”

Johnson emphasized the small size of Chi Delt’s basement compared to other local sororities like Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and Sigma Delta sorority.

“I think that [Chi Delt’s] social scene isn’t going to change very much,” she said.

“I don’t think we have the space necessary to become a very ‘rage-y’ sorority.”

Still, Chi Delt will attempt to host more open events.

Buchanan said the house aims to create an event modeled on Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s Pigstick event that will instead be fall-themed. Such an event might be based on the GerSEE CHI DELT PAGE 5

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“It’s really hard for some students to go to a random house where they might not know anyone and just talk to the brothers,” Jaramillo said. “Some are comfortable with it and others are not.”

Pre-rush email lists are often used to invite those interested to pre-rush events, which might cause someone who was not on any given fraternity’s list to feel uncomfortable about attending rush events for that fraternity, Jamarillo said.

Last week all men eligible to rush received SEE IFC OPEN HOUSE PAGE 2

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Students attend the Center for Professional Development’s fall job fair.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: The University released results for its largestever campus climate survey that detailed accounts of sexual assault on campus on Monday, administered through the American Association of Universities, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The survey found that the majority of female students who experienced sexual assault did not report the incident and that 25 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault.

Columbia University: A recent survey revealed that the number of sexual assault reports, findings of responsibility and expulsions have increased in the 2014-2015 academic year, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. Despite this, the university will not require students to re-attend an initiative focused on sexual respect education this semester.

Cornell University: Cornell also released results for the AAU sexual assault survey this week, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

With a response rate of 19 percent, the survey found that sexual harassment rates were highest for female undergraduates at 67 percent and transgender, genderqueer or gender non-confirming students at 69 percent.

Harvard University: As reported by the Harvard Crimson, the results of the AAU sexual misconduct survey at Harvard revealed what leaders called a “troubling” climate of sexual assault at the University. Of the senior undergraduate females who responded to the survey, 31 percent reported experiencing some form of sexual assault in their time on campus.

Princeton University: According to The College Scorecard, Princeton has the lowest average annual cost in the Ivy League, The Daily Princetonian reported. The College Scorecard, a website released by the White House earlier this month, defines annual cost as the average annual net price for federal financial aid recipients, after taking into account all aid given. At $8,413, Princeton costs nearly half of the national average.

University of Pennsylvania: Lawrence Lessig, an alumna of the university’s Wharton School of Business recently entered the 2016 presidential race, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Lessig is a strong proponent of fighting special-interest corruption and restricting campaign contributions from corporations. He joins fellow Wharton graduate Donald Trump in the race to the White House.

Yale University: Yale was also among the universities that completed the AAU sexual assault survey. Yale President Peter Salovey described the results as “extremely disturbing,” the Yale Daily News reported.

Over half of the students who responded reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment since their arrival on campus, with female respondents reporting at a rate of 74 percent and those who do not identify as male or female reporting at a rate of 84.2 percent.

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IFC offers pre-rush open house event FROM IFC OPEN HOUSE PAGE 1

an email from the IFC with an attached survey that asked them to designate which houses they were interested in joining. Jaramillo said that the aim of the survey was to establish a connection between the men interested and those particular houses.

“The goal of this is to allow those interested to feel comfortable enough to go to a house by being given an explicit invitation,” Jaramillo said.

Jaramillo added that the survey was unbinding and only he and the houses specified by the respondent would see the respondent’s name and interest.

The 2015-2016 IFC was very concerned with finding ways in which they could focus on creating a more inclusive community, he said.

IFC president Sam Macomber ’16 said that the first goal of the IFC open house was to make the rush process more enjoyable.

Though the College has an open door policy that allows students to meet fraternity members, the IFC open house will formalize the method of contact eligible potential members have with fraternity members, he said.

Macomber added that the goal of the open house is not to persuade those not interested in rushing to rush and that he is unsure if the event will have an

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“The goal of this is to allow those interested to feel comfortable enough to go to a house by being given an explicit invitation.”

- Felipe Jaramillo ’16, Interfraternity council recruitment chair is great too. Whether you rush or not you’re going to have a lot good times at Dartmouth,” Macomber said. “We wanted to make those who wanted to rush feel more relaxed throughout the process.”

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effect on future rush statistics.

Macomber said that there were other events unaffiliated with IFC, such as Dartmouth on Purpose, that students could attend to hear more about Greek life from members of the Dartmouth community who are both affiliated and unaffiliated.

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strongly supported by the fraternities.

“We are very happy with the positive response in the form of support we have received from fraternity presidents,” he said.

Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity president Henry Joyce ’16 said that he was very excited to hear about the open house.

“It’s giving us the opportunity to meet individuals who we otherwise may have not gotten to know because maybe we weren’t involved in the same things or just haven’t had any prior contact for whatever reason,” he said.

Joyce said that he hopes that the open house will broaden the process to include individuals who may not attend many social events on campus or who may have other commitments.

Though the number of men who designated interest in AXA was about as many he had expected, Joyce said he was excited to meet any potential new members that the open house event might bring in, Joyce said.

“Traditionally men’s rush is open to everyone on campus, but I hope that the open house will lead to meeting individuals who we didn’t know before that could make great brothers,” Joyce said.

Other fraternity presidents did not respond to requests seeking comment by press time.

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DHMC alleges 14th Amendment discrimination by state of VT FROM DHMC MEDICAID PAGE 1

The total amount of money in dispute is about $11 million, Adams said. Dartmouth-Hitchcock loses $40 million per year in uncompensated care costs for Vermont Medicaid enrollees, partially due to Medicaid underpayment compared to Vermont hospitals, he said.

In a letter dated Aug. 6 and addressed to DHVA commissioner Steven Constantino, DHMC chief legal officer and general counsel John Kacavas wrote that Vermont has forced DHMC to bear an unequal portion of the cost of Medicaid patients.

“Until now, [DHMC] has served Vermont Medicaid patients at these discriminatory rates in relative quietude,” Kavacas wrote in the letter.

“While we remain hopeful for, and open to, a negotiated disposition of this dispute, we are prepared to seek redress in court because these underpayments are unlawful and unconstitutional.”

In DHMC’s letter, Kacavas wrote that previous DHMC inquiries have only received “half-measures and empty promises.” In 2008, Vermont “marginally” increased the base Medicaid rate for DHMC, which decreased the rate differential between DHMC and Vermont hospitals to around 10 percent, according to the letter.

The DVHA sent a response letter addressed to Kacavas on Sept. 10, Vermont Health Connect Operations outreach director Sean Sheehan said.

The letter is signed by DVHA general counsel Howard Pallotta.

Pallotta wrote that the DVHA will review the assertions and responded to the “threat of litigation” by supporting the constitutionality of Vermont’s higher Medicaid rates for DHMC. “The law [DHMC] cites throughout your letter gives a false impression about the ability of your hospital to sue Vermont regarding rates,” he wrote.

Pallotta countered DHMC’s case law by furnishing several court cases, including one in which DHMC itself appears. In one case, Pallotta notes that DHMC sued the state of New Hampshire regarding a rate decrease for inpatient and outpatient services, but the federal government ultimately approved the state’s rates.

That case does not settle the in-state discrimination claim, but it suggests rate decreases have been approved in the past.

Pallotta also writes that DHMC receives superior rates than other hospitals outside Vermont.

“Perhaps that makes no difference to your client, but it does not support your discrimination claim,” he wrote.

Adams said the DVHA letter offers no resolution, and that DHMC is prepared to file suit if the problem

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cannot be solved. The letter is the culmination of conversations between DHMC and the DVHA that have been unsuccessful, Adams said.

“It became clear by mid-summer that no administrative or legislative solution to this disparity was seen,” he said.

Sheehan said that the next step in the dispute is for DHMC to respond to the DVHA letter.

Vermont Law School professor Tracy Bach said that if the DVHA had actually chosen to pay DHMC a lower Medicaid rate than Vermont hospitals, it would be “striking.”

“I can’t see a good rationale for why they would pay DHMC less,” she said.

“All hospitals should be reimbursed the same way.”

She said lower level, “informal”

disputes over Medicaid rates between individuals or smaller providers and the state are common, though it is relatively rare that a large entity would sue the state. It is likely that DHMC and Vermont will come to an agreement before the lawsuit is filed, she said.

Bach said if DHMC takes legal action, she believes it is likely Vermont will lose because she does not see any legal basis for giving the hospital a different Medicaid rate.

Health policy consultancy Policy Integrity founder Steve Kappel said that compared to other states, Vermont has relatively high Medicaid reimbursement rates. This reflects a state government decision to allocate more resources to the Medicaid program, which allows for both higher

reimbursement rates for healthcare providers and a larger variety of eligibility and benefits, he said.

Kappel added that many still believe that Vermont’s Medicaid reimbursement rates are inadequate.

One element that distinguishes public health insurance programs from private insurers is that public programs can unilaterally set reimbursement rates without having to negotiate with providers, Kappel said. Public payers like Medicaid and Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly, have long been struggling with how to determine appropriate reimbursement rates, he said.

In general, state Medicaid programs reimburse less than Medicare and private insurance, Bach said.

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

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

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

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

DEADLINE: Thursday, November 12, 2015 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 or via email to Sherry.L.Fiore@dartmouth.edu.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The Dartmouth OPINION STAFF

Staff Columnist REEM CHAMSEDDINE ’17

Opinion Asks

The Myth of “Need-Aware”

What are your thoughts on the recent shift to a need-aware financial aid policy for international students?

Most College policies generate some mixed opinions among the student body, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with such a unanimous opposition such as this.

It’s also disastrous for our international appeal — Dartmouth’s name brand isn’t huge outside of the United States in the same way a big research university like Harvard University, Columbia University or even Duke University’s brand is.

A need-blind admissions policy for international students is a crucial way for us to compete against these schools in attracting applicants from, well, most of the world, since most of the world can’t afford the sticker price of a Dartmouth education. The College’s excuse that “most other schools don’t do this, so it’s okay” looks rather paltry.

— Will Alston ’16 The two principal arguments for doing away with need-blind admission for international students are both somewhat backward.

Claiming that the decision to revert to a need-aware policy will bring greater stability to the admissions process — by allowing the admissions office to be “more strategic throughout the entire cycle,” as claimed by interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde — makes little sense. Similarly, describing this move as part of a larger effort to encourage more international students to apply to Dartmouth is bizarre.

The College has been need-blind toward international students for eight years and maintained such a policy for American students for more than a quarter-century. As a result, there are more than enough data to accurately predict the financial aid budget.

In fact, this is exactly how Dartmouth has been able to continue to offer a need-blind policy for as long as it has — by being able to anticipate these numbers based on previous admission statistics.

In other words, need-blind admission for domestic and international has proved

“stable” enough over the past 25 years and eight years, respectively — and the process for predicting the budget has arguably become more accurate during every year of this period — so why should this suddenly prove to be a problem now?

More importantly, it seems cutting needblind admissions would have the exact opposite effect of the stated goal of bolstering the number of international applicants. Why the College would claim otherwise, I don’t know. Beyond this, to cite the fact that only five other schools are need-blind toward international students to support this latest shift is odd. Shouldn’t this make it that much more important for Dartmouth to remain need-blind? Sending the message that the College no longer considers international students to be a high priority would certainly defeat any goals that it has of expanding its global appeal.

— Paul Harary ’18 I am one of the many international students who would never have applied to Dartmouth had it not been for its needblind policy. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence’s flimsy justification that the change constitutes an attempt to “increase and stabilize” the international population on campus is an affront to a community that already faces enormous hurdles in applying to U.S. colleges and, once they arrive, in adjusting to life in a foreign culture. With the new policy potentially barring international students of lower socioeconomic status from gaining admission to this college — and certainly making them think twice about applying — ceteris paribus, Dartmouth ceases to be in the privileged company of the few colleges courageous enough to extend equal opportunities of education to non-U.S. citizens.

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The shift to a need-aware financial aid policy for international students is misguided.

The College’s decision to end need-blind are some of the best in the nation? admissions for international students is unfor- The third myth is that the College can not tunate. Its misguidedness is only surpassed by afford a need-blind policy for international the incoherence of the justification that has students. While it is true that Dartmouth has been presented to the public. Though there a smaller endowment than most schools still has been much discussion of the policy shift offering need-blind admissions for foreign in these pages, I wish to add my perspective applicants, it is also significantly smaller in as an international student and dispel some terms of student body and its international myths about the issue. student population usually does not exceed The first myth is that the new policy will nine percent — comparable to the 12.2 stabilize and increase inpercent at Harvard, 14 ternational enrollment at percent at Princeton Dartmouth. Paul Sunde, “Yet, if reverting back and 11 percent at Yale interim dean of admis- to a need-aware policy for each institution’s sions and financial aid, is so beneficial to the respective Class of wrote in an email to The diversity and stability of 2019. The total instiDartmouth last week that the incoming international tutional operating exthe change will help the class, I can’t help but penses for the College College do a better job of were $853 million in wonder why the College developing a “robust” and 2014, and Dartmouth “stable” enrolling class. doesn’t adopt the same is sitting on a $4.47 Sunde wrote that the new policy for domestic billion endowment. policy is part of a broader students.”

When international effort to encourage interneed-blind admission national students to apply was enacted in 2011, the to the College and attend upon admission. endowment was only $3.4 billion. In light According to College spokesperson Diana of these numbers, justifying the decision on Lawrence, the College hopes not only to financial grounds is nonsensical. “increase and stabilize” the population of The fourth and final myth is that this international students on campus but also policy adjustment will not shift perceptions to enroll a class that showcases diversity in of Dartmouth for international students. The a multitude of ways.

College may not be as well-known outside Yet, if reverting back to a need-aware the United States as other elite universipolicy is so beneficial to the diversity and ties, but many foreign applicants do know stability of the incoming international class, I about Dartmouth for its prestige, history, can’t help but wonder why the College doesn’t community and alumni. The need-blind adopt the same policy for domestic students. policy encourages many students to apply Dartmouth often prides itself on the diverse because it assures them that their parents’ backgrounds, including socioeconomic, income will not make their achievements, represented in its student body. It seems intelligence and hard work less impressive. unlikely, however, that the The need-blind policy College can have a diverse “The need-blind policy reminds anxious, lowdomestic population and income international reminds anxious, lowa diverse international students that they, too, income international population while employare valid candidates for ing different financial aid students that they, too, Dartmouth. It helps policies for each. There are valid candidates students who are hesiis a fundamental incon- for Dartmouth. It helps tant to pay the applisistency in claiming that students who are hesitant cation fee for fear of this practice will diversify to pay the application outright rejection from international enrollment, fee for fear of outright an Ivy League to go while maintaining need- rejection from an Ivy ahead and try. And if blind policies for domestic there are students who League to go ahead and enrollment. truly only apply to the try.”

The second myth is that College because of this decision is justifiable the need-blind policy, by the fact that all but a few of our peer insti- is that so bad? These students may realize tutions do not have a need-blind admissions that the only way for their application to be for international students policy, as Lawrence considered seriously is through a need-blind specified in The Dartmouth’s Sept. 18 ar- reading of all applicants. They may expect ticle. What should not be left unmentioned, that their application will be disregarded however, is that the institutions who do when compared to a similar, foreign applicant follow a need-blind policy for international who is not seeking financial assistance. students are the Massachusetts Institute of Reverting back to a need-aware admisTechnology, Amherst College and Harvard, sions policy suggests, at least on the internaPrinceton and Yale Universities — all elite, tional level, that Dartmouth is an exclusive world-class institutions. Dropping the policy institution for wealthy students. I would urge means the College is lowering its ethos. Why administrators involved to reconsider this does it matter if the new policy resembles that decision, so that our beloved College can of many other schools, when it is clear that continue to be a home for the most promisthe schools who adopt a need-blind policy ing minds around the world.

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Chi Delta may pave way for other sororities to localize FROM CHI DELT PAGE 1

man festival of Oktoberfest, Johnson said.

Chi Delt’s decision not to have an open basement may mean that the house’s localization will not lead to more female-dominated social spaces on campus, Panhellenic Council vice president for public relations Allison Chou ’17 said.

“Definitely in general it’s a step toward more autonomy for female organizations on campus,” she said. “I would definitely expect that to factor into our larger goal of hosting more co-sorority events and programming across the Panhellenic community.”

Chou said such multi-sorority programming will likely increase.

“Even though we’re not necessarily going to have an open basement, we’re committed to having events that are open to the whole campus,” Buchanan said.

Financially, the sorority is in a strong position, vice president for finance Lauren Martin ’16 said.

The house, which prides itself on having the lowest dues on campus, will incrementally lower its dues once again this term and may lower them again in the future, Martin said.

The dues will be reduced from $225 to $210 per term this fall, an

incremental decrease, Martin said.

Since the sorority no longer needs to send roughly two-thirds of its income from dues to its national organization each term, it has substantially more capital on hand for various programs, she said.

The sorority experienced challenges in its relations with both Dartmouth administrators and Delta Delta Delta’s national organization, she said.

After Chi Delt’s leadership informed its national of its intention to localize, they submitted a petition calling for the withdrawal of the national charter signed by more than two-thirds of the house’s membership, Buchanan said. Thereafter, representatives of Delta Delta Delta failed to inform Chi Delt’s leaders of their position or if their charter would be withdrawn for several months, she said.

Eventually, Chi Delt’s leaders were informed that representatives from Delta Delta Delta’s Arlington, Texas, headquarters and its Boston branch office would be announcing their decision in person, Buchanan said.

The representatives – three from the Texas office and two from Boston, all of whom were flown in specifically for the occasion – came to the house, read a letter announcing the withdrawal of the charter and promptly left, she said.

The representatives of Delta Delta

Delta were courteous in their dealings with Chi Delt, although they expressed disappointment in the sorority’s decision, Buchanan said. It is unusual for a sorority to disaffiliate from its national organization, and Buchanan believes that Chi Delt may have been the first house to ever take such a step in the Delta Delta Delta organization.

“We don’t believe in a lot of [Delta Delta Delta’s] principles and rituals that have a lot of religious undertones, and we think that as a chapter we should be a secular organization,” Buchanan said. “We don’t believe in the fact that we send tons of money to them every year, and we don’t really feel that we see the payback of that.”

Buchanan later clarified that she meant that the house sends over half of what it receives in dues to its former national.

Both Buchanan and Martin said the house faced difficulties in its dealings with the College.

“I think some promises were made that were never delivered upon,” Buchanan said.

Although she declined to comment further on which promises the College had failed to uphold, Buchanan praised the Office of Student Affairs and Student Assembly for their support.

In the spring, Dartmouth promised

to compensate Chi Delt for the roughly $90,000 in holdings that Delta Delta Delta would seize if the chapter localized. Buchanan declined to comment on whether that commitment had been met.

“We have plenty of money, and we’ll continue to operate as we always do,” she said.

The sorority will also receive financial support from Panhell, Martin said.

Panhell will compensate Chi Delt for most or all of its financial aid programs this year, and may also assist with smaller expenses like bid night shirts for new members following rush, she said.

Panhell’s financial support is meant as an “expression of not only verbal but tangible support,” Martin said.

Chou said she did not know exactly what form of financial support Panhell would offer, adding that Chi Delt will receive financial support first from the College, then from Panhell. It is not yet clear if Panhell will offer more financial support to Chi Delt than to other sororities, Chou said.

Chi Delt made other logistical decisions over a period of many months, Buchanan said. The name “Chi Delta” was selected from a variety of options, including some relating to the house’s chapter name, Gamma Gamma; its location, 3 Occom Ridge and other

geographic and Greek letter symbols, she said.

“That was something we took a long time to deliberate and think about,” she said. “We talked about this for hours on end, and I think that Chi Delta was something that the rest of the school could still understand because it was pretty similar.”

New colors have not yet been selected, but new Chi Delt gear has been purchased, Buchanan said.

The house will also be repainted in the near future, she said.

Other houses may follow a similar trajectory to Chi Delt and elect to localize, Chou said.

“A couple of our houses have had house-wide discussions about the topic, but ultimately every house is different, every house has different financial situations, every house has different relationships with their national bodies, and ultimately I think that’s a very individualized decision,” Chou said.

Buchanan said some houses have expressed interest in learning more about Chi Delt’s localization process, but she declined to name which.

“I would encourage other sororities to do that, because now that we’ve done it, it will be a much easier process,” Buchanan said. “Across the board, Dartmouth chapters are very different from national Greek organizations.”

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“Qubit Noise Spectroscopy for Non-Gaussian Dephasing Environments” with Leigh Norris, Wilder 202

4:00 p.m.

“45 Years” (2015), Telluride at Dartmouth film screening, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium

4:30 p.m.

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office presentation, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, 4 Currier Place

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“Convection of Low-Mass Stars” with Gregory Feiden of Uppsala University, Wilder 104

7:00 p.m.

“Trainwreck” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

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Public astronomical observing, sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shattuck Observatory

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colors mixed with random swatches of bright yellow.

“In a way, that image is kind of an image of a performance that is a different way of representing the body, where the body is just broken down from top to bottom,” Gibson said. “It’s a different visualization.”

Martelli said that piece was supposed to be a literal screenshot of a movement in virtual reality.

Studio art professor Christina Seely, who helped bring the exhibit to the Hop, said she was introduced to the group’s art several years ago when she and Martelli were at an artist’s retreat together.

Seely said that she felt the exhibit would be a good fit for the College because of its interdisciplinar y nature and the questions it raises about the audience’s role with respect to a piece of art.

“It asks what art means and what it is,” she said. “By having the viewer become a part of it, it raises those questions.”

Martelli said that a big question they wanted to raise with “MAN A” was the role of performance space and how to represent it.

“We’re trying to get away from having something on the wall and thought ‘let’s make it performance in the round’, so the different angles have performance coming out of them all around the shape,” he said.

Gibson said she feels like the exhibit creates a circle between the viewer, Big Bob and the virtual figures, in which they are all moving around and interacting with each other.

“We’re quite keen on the relationship between the viewer and the performer and how it switches,” she said. “What’s really lovely about this is you can see people take the sculpture as it is without the AR or they can engage in it. What happens

is that you can see people moving around and then the dance actually goes around them as well, the orientation of the motion capture and the AR, they almost become circle.”

Gibson and Martelli were also nominated for a BAFTA in 2002 and have had exhibitions across the United Kingdom, as well as in Canada and Sweden.

The exhibit will run until Nov. 22 in the Hop’s Jaffe-Friede Gallery.

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“Big Bob” brings together art and virtual reality

Android-only ‘RAGTIME VR’ creates a virtual reality within the exhibition.

The Dartmouth Senior Staff Martelli said that the apps were a way What do zebras, battleships from for them to “gift” the performance to the the World War I and alternate realities exhibit’s viewers to allow them to enjoy have in common? it in a variety of places.

They all helped “The idea of hav“When you have inspire Gibson/ ing these invisible figures Martelli’s “MAN to identify really concealed in the print A,” the newest quickly— through acts as a new type of exhibit in the performance space,” a periscope— a Hopkins Center. he said. “By developBrunoMartelli ship, the dazzle ing the virtual reality and Ruth Gibson, version, we’re trying to camoufl age as who make up the transplant the user into group Gibson/ used, really, to that virtual space.”

Martelli, will also break up the ship “Big Bob,” which be the studio art takes up the majority and just confuse department’s artof the exhibit’s physiists-in-residence the observer of cal space, took around for the year. two weeks to construct, which directi on Their exhibiGibson said. tion is made up it was in, if it was Martelli said that of a giant reclin- receding or going the figure of “Big Bob” ing sculpture, was a frame taken from a known as “Big away” sequence of improvised Bob,” a piece of dancing they filmed. art mounted on The virtual real-BRUNO MARTELLI, a wall that repreity figures that move sents the move- ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE on “Big Bob,” which ment and flaws the audience can see of motion capture and three phone applications that allow viewers to see alternate reality figures that move along “Big Bob,” Gibson and Martelli said they wanted to explore the idea of intersections of reality and the interplay between audience and art.

Martelli said that the exhibit was initially inspired by “dazzle camouflage” a type of camouflage that uses stripes to distort shapes. This sort of camouflage is found in nature with zebras, who use it to keep potentially deadly insects from landing on them, Martelli said. Dazzle camouflage first entered the art world after World War I, when ships used it $10 to disguise their size and speed and to confuse enemy gun attacks, he said.

“When you have to identify really quickly, through a periscope, a ship, the dazzle camouflage was used, really, to break up the ship and just confuse the observer of which direction it was in, if it was receding or going away,” he said. $10 Gibson said that the effect of dazzle camouflage is especially noticeable when an object or being is moving.

“Especially in a herd, you can’t tell where one zebra begins and one finishes,” Martelli said.

He said that while the two have been inspired by types of camouflage in the past, they wanted to do a project that $10 used it to create a “liminal performance space” where a performance could occur between the physical and virtual worlds.

Gibson said that the applications they developed for the exhibit will help the viewer enter the virtual world. The three apps developed for “MAN A” are the iPhone and Android apps ‘MAN A’ $10 and ‘MAN A VR’ — the apps add the virtual characters into the exhibit space and use special Google headsets to create a virtual reality, respectively, and the

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through the apps, are motion captures of performers dancing and moving around, Gibson said.

“One of the hardest things for a motion capture studio to capture with optical systems is rolling,” she said. “We thought it was quite fitting to have this figure rolling.”

Martelli said that the relationship between the sculpture and the virtual reality mechanisms was meant to explore the “ephemeral nature of performance.” He said that the materials they used to construct the exhibit, such as cardboard and vinyl printing was meant to emphasize how fragile the art is.

“It’s there for a certain amount of time, and then it will just be gone,” he said.

The third part of the exhibit, the mounted piece, is a printed visualization of the parts of the roll that the motion capture system was unable to capture, Gibson said. In the piece, each sensor placed on the dancer’s body is represented by a color, and the motions that could not be picked up are represented by yellow, creating a grid of various SEE BIG BOB PAGE 6

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In preparation for its Ivy League slate, the volleyball team played four games over the last five days. Over the weekend, the women competed in Rochester, Michigan, defeating Eastern Illinois University and losing against Western Michigan University and tournament host Oakland University.

The Big Green was on the road again for a Tuesday night match against Bryant University — its final game before conference play — where it dropped a four-set contest, bringing the team’s current record to 3-6.

The women opened the Oakland tournament with a five-set marathon against Western Michigan. Indicative of the tightness between the two teams, the Big Green and Western Michigan found themselves tied at 23-23 during the first set of the match. Western Michigan sophomore Olivia Kofie and junior Nicole Kinser registered kills to respectively score the 24th and 25th points to steal the first set and prevent a sudden death scenario.

The Big Green changed the narrative in the second set and pulled away from the Broncos early, scoring five consecutive points in two different occasions for an early 14-5 lead against Western Michigan. Dartmouth took the second set at 25-17.

The two teams traded blows as the Broncos took a close third set 25-22 to once again gain the lead, but the Big Green bounced back, winning the fourth set 25-16. Though Dartmouth won the second and fourth sets by eight and nine points respectively, Dartmouth and Western Michigan entered the fifth set tied at two sets each.

In a 15-point final set, the teams started out neck-and-neck until Western Michigan burst ahead of Dartmouth on a 6-2 run to take the fifth set 15-9 and win the match. Co-captain Kayden Cook ’16 had 56 assists and Zoe Leonard ’19 registered 30 digs during the game.

Dropping the first game of the tournament in such a tight contest brought about some frustration for the team, Paige Caridi ’16 said. “[The loss] was disappointing because we had out-hit them, out-blocked them and out-dug them,” Caridi said.

“I think ultimately in the fifth set we came out a little flat, weren’t aggressive enough, had some crucial hitting errors and played more hesitant than we should have.”

Dartmouth was able to find a more

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Women’s volleyball won one game and dropped four in a five-day span.

solid offensive rhythm in the second game of the tournament against Eastern Illinois. After the teams split the first two sets, they battled in a third set which saw the score tied on 14 different occasions. The Big Green was able to pull away and seal the set after kills by Cook and co-captain Kaira Lujan ’16.

In the clinching set, the Big Green led Eastern Illinois 17-10, but almost saw its lead evaporate. The women, however, held on to finish the set 25-22 and win the match. The Big Green combined for an impressive .365 attack percentage while Cook dished 55 assists and Emily Astarita ’17 registered a team high 27 kills.

For its final game of the tournament, Dartmouth faced the host team, Oakland. After dropping the first set of the game, the Big Green bounced back, winning another nail-biter set and taking the second with a final score of 31-29. The third set proved to be a difficult loss for the Big Green as Oakland broke a 15-all tie and went on a 7-1 run before ultimating winning the set 25-21, putting the Golden Grizzlies within one set of the match.

The fourth set presented similar problems as the women were unable to capitalize on opportunities and quickly found themselves on the losing end after Oakland scored the first five points of the set. The Golden Grizzlies cruised on to win the set 25-13, ending Dartmouth’s tournament. Over the course of the match, Allison Brady ’16, Astarita and Caridi registered 10, 12 and 14 respective kills, while Cook was awarded 47 assists. Astarita was named to the All-Tournament Team as she posted 61 kills and 27 digs during the three games of the tournament.

“As a team our stats were great, we put up some good numbers, but we’re going to continue working on execution as we move forward and start conference play this weekend,” Brady said.

After the weekend tournament, the women headed to Smithfield, Rhode Island, to face Bryant, the team’s final match before its Ivy opener against Harvard University this Friday. Both teams came ready for a battle, and the first set went to sudden death as each team took turns registering kills. With the score tied 28-28, Bryant committed two consecutive attack errors, giving the Big Green the hard earned victory. The next three sets were a different story, as the Big Green found itself down early deficits and were unable to complete comeback attempts. In hopes of pushing the match to five sets, the Big Green scored 6 consecutive points for a 12-11 lead in the fourth set, but ultimately lost 25-20.

Astarita had 21 of the 55 team kills, and Stacey Benton ’17 had 39 of the total 53 assists.

When reflecting on the game, the team identified areas of improvement, so that it could learn from its mistakes for the season ahead, Caridi said. “[The loss] was a minor setback for the team, but you always need that during the season so I’m glad that it happened early and before we started [the Ivy Season],” Caridi said. “The game allowed us to reconsider and refocus on our priorities and what we need to work on as individuals to not let us drop sets to teams that we ultimately shouldn’t be dropping games to.”

Next, the women will face Harvard at Cambridge, Massachusetts, this Friday at 7 p.m.

The men’s soccer team suffered two tough losses in Seattle against the now-No. 10 University of Washington this past Friday and Seattle University on Sunday, ending the trip with a 2-3-1 record.

“When we look at these out-of-town weekends, we always want to challenge ourselves,” head coach Chad Riley said.

“University of Washington has been very good for the last four or five years, and we knew that they would be a great test.”

The team left campus at 3:45 a.m. last Thursday morning to arrive in Washington for the first game of their road trip. The Huskies came into the game ranked No. 9 in the nation.

The Big Green took a stunning two-goal lead in the first half, but the Huskies dug themselves out of the deficit, scoring three goals in the second half and slotting the game winning goal in the 75th minute on a penalty kick by senior James Moberg.

“One of their forwards had a breakaway,” Matt Danilack ’18 said.

“He tried to dribble our keeper, Stefan Cleveland. Cleveland slid, blocked the ball, parried it aside and their forward just tumbled down over Cleveland, and the referee blew the whistle. We don’t think it was a penalty at all, but that’s how the game goes.”

The Huskies mounted their comeback on set pieces. One minute into the second half, Washington freshman Quentin Pearson put Washington on the board by heading in a corner kick.

Just three minutes before the penalty, Pearson punched in his second goal of the night off another corner.

“Traditionally [Washington] has been very good at set pieces,” Riley said.

“It’s one of the reasons they’re always a strong team.”

The Big Green played hard from the first whistle, and its efforts paid off when Eduvie Ikoba ’19 put a long throw from Tyler Dowse ’18 into the back of the net in the fourth minute. The Huskies mounted the pressure after the early lapse, tallying eight shots in the first half.

Captain Stefan Cleveland ’16 kept Dartmouth in front by tallying four saves in the first half — and six for the game — denying Washington a first half goal. Co-captain Eric Jayne ’15 finished a cross from Alex Marsh ’17 just before halftime to give the Big Green the 2-0

lead. The shot was the team’s third of the period.

Washington was rewarded for generating more opportunities than the Big Green. The Huskies out-shot Dartmouth 16 to 10 and had six corner kicks to the Big Green’s three.

Dartmouth was efficient when attacking the net and converted two of its three first-half shots on target into goals.

On Sunday, Dartmouth once again took the lead first before Seattle clawed its way back into the game. Both teams failed to score in the first half, but the Big Green quickly left its mark in the second.

“We really struggled in the first half,” Cleveland said. “I think it was the length of the trip and the first weekend of school and being across the country and having the game on Friday catch up to us. We just came out kind of flat in the first half.”

Just after halftime, Yima Asom ’18 slotted in a Dowse cross just after halftime for the first goal of the match, granting Dartmouth the one-goal lead.

Ricardo Gomez ’17 was hit with a red card less than 10 minutes after the Big Green goal, which put the visitors playing a man down for the majority of the second half and left the door wide open for Seattle to get back into the game.

“When we got a really early goal in the second half, I thought for sure we were going to win the game,” Cleveland said. “We got a very unfortunate call — a red card, very debatable — and then we just kind of sat back in our half with 10 men trying to hold onto the lead for the rest of the half.”

The Redhawks took advantage of their man-up opportunity and scored two goals in the final 20 minutes of play to steal the game 2-1, leaving Dartmouth winless in Seattle. Seattle senior Hamza Haddadi scored in the 73rd minute on a header, and Seattle sophomore David Olsen bypassed a couple of Dartmouth defenders to give Seattle the 2-1 lead with 10 minutes to play. That one-goal deficit for the Big Green held until time expired.

“It was definitely frustrating to lose that game,” Cleveland said. “Both of the games we felt robbed, almost.”

The men’s soccer team plays its home opener at 5 p.m. against Hofstra University this Saturday. No. 18 Hofstra will come to Hanover with a 6-1-0 record.

“I think it’ll be nice to get back home.

[Hofstra] is good in the attack too,” Riley said.