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Hanlon discusses Geisel overhaul at town hall
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Members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center gathered in the Williamson Building auditorium yesterday evening to listen to College President Phil Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever and interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton discuss further details regarding the restructuring of the Geisel-DHMC framework. The plan, which was originally announced on Monday at Geisel, will create three divisions as opposed to the current model of having many departments. The new divisions —
College President Phil Hanlon explained changes to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center staff.
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Mobile Virtual Player reduces football injuries
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While concussions and head injuries abound in football practices, thanks to the newly created Mobile Virtual Player — a robotic dummy created by Dartmouth students that the College’s football team has used in practices since August — the number of injuries sustained by players has fallen while athletes are still able to train with a mobile target.
The danger of concussions in football at the college level prompted football head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 to reach out to the Thayer School of Engineering in 2013 to create a safe, mobile practice dummy for his players. Two then-seniors at Thayer — Elliot Kastner ’13 and Quinn Connell ’13 — worked on the MVP with other students as a capstone project during their senior year. The pair continued to work on it part-time for two years before returning to the
project full-time this past summer. The MVP is essentially a robotic football player that can be used in practices to avoid injuring players, Teevens said. “Unless we change the way we teach the game as football coaches, we’re not going to have a game to teach,” he said. He referenced Barack Obama’s interview with the New Yorker prior to the 2014 Super Bowl, where the president said that if he had a son, he would have to “think long and
Former N.H.house speaker named Rocky distinguished visitor B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff
Former New Hampshire House of Representatives speaker Terie Norelli (Democrat) has been praised for her collaborative spirit and gregarious nature by her colleagues in the legislature and for serving as symbol of female empowerment in politics. The Rockefeller Center has named her this year’s Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor for her long and fruitful career.
hard” before allowing his child to play football. Teevens said he submitted the idea for the project as a way to eliminate player-to-player contact while still improving tackling skills with a moving target. After on-andoff work over the past two years, the MVP was finally ready for use in August, he said. The MVP is a remote-controlled football player capable of moving SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 5
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Under Norelli’s leadership New Hampshire passed the legalization of same-sex marriage and health care reform policy. She said that the health care reform policy was one her greatest accomplishments because it would have a direct impact on the lives on countless individuals. “Most people don’t know this, but lack of health insurance tends to
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The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network held a startup bootcamp.
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CAMPUS BLOTTER September 25, 11:07 p.m., Fahey Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of a noise complaint coming from a room. Marijuana was found, confiscated and handed over to the Hanover Police Department. September 25, 11:46 p.m., Bissell Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of a room party. Upon arrival, there was evidence of drinking and two desks were pushed together to create a pong table. Two students were transported to and admitted into Dick’s House. September 26, 12:53 a.m.: Safety and Security officers received a call concerning the whereabouts of a student who had not been seen in 12 hours. The individual was located and she was fine. September 26, 6:10 p.m., Blunt Alumni Center: Hanover Police received a report of extensive damage done on the door of a student’s car. Although there are no suspects yet, the case is currently under investigation. September 26, 11:22 p.m., Bissell Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of a loud party in a room. Underage drinking was discovered and the alcohol was disposed. The students were released due to no signs of intoxication. September 27, 1:42 a.m., Collis Student Center: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Fire Department responded to a report of a male student who flipped over a table at the Collis Center. He did not provide identification and ran toward Wheelock Street, where he bumped into other officers. He was found in possession of a fake driver’s license. September 27, 2:38 a.m., Tuck Drive: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to an intoxicated student. The individual was admitted into Dick’s House for the night. September 27, 1:56 p.m., Courtyard Café: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Fire assisted a female student who fell and hit her head on the floor. She was cleared by the ambulance and transported to Dick’s House.
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basic science, translational science and health care delivery — are intended to reduce Geisel’s operating costs by $15 million, decreasing the school’s currently annual deficit of roughly $27 million. Leadership for these divisions will be decided after hearing comments in the upcoming meetings with faculty, Compton said. After receiving and implementing feedback from faculty, staff and students over the month of October, the plan will be presented to the Board of Trustees in November. Halfway through the town hall meeting, the administrators responded to community members’ inquiries during a question-and-answer period. When asked about how the removal of funding would affect the departments, Compton said that Geisel’s senior leadership group is currently working on two documents to help clarify the academic missions of DHMC and Geisel. One of the documents will describe department chairs’ responsibilities after the transition, and the other will describe how Geisel and DHMC can fill their academic missions. Compton said that the program will be successful if it occasions a decrease in the annual operating deficit, allows for improved training for medical students and supports faculty with more resources. While there remains ample national support for medical research, Hanlon said, the federal budget remains weak. As a result, funding opportunities, like research grants, have diminished. Overall, Geisel’s budget dropped from
$275 million in the 2013 fiscal year to $250 million in the 2014 year. Director of the Program on Medical Outcomes at Stanford University Jay Bhattacharya said in an interview that funding for medical schools and research centers has remained flat over the past few years. Bhattacharya said that more funding will be required for clinical physicians to provide care to an aging population. The government already covers some swaths of hospitals’ and medical schools’ budgets. Medicare, for example, gives payments for training medical residents, he said. Bhattacharya said that, as funding for research decreases, people may start to leave the scientific and research labor force to work in private industry. When future funding is in question, researchers may start to leave or get laid off, Bhattacharya said. In an interview Monday, Hanlon could not guarantee that the plan would not result in layoffs from DHMC or Geisel. There are some mechanisms to keep researchers in place for a short period, Bhattacharya said, noting that a school or hospital could move a strong research fellow from an area where funding has run out into another lab with funding. In a study published on Science Translational Medicine last May, a number of financial administrators and deans at medical schools across the country — including dean at the Yale University School of Medicine Robert Alpern — argued against cuts to funding for biomedical research. Without steady streams of resources,
they wrote, researchers often do not have sufficient time to pursue the objects of study, and scientists hesitate to embark on cutting-edge work. As a result, some researchers may leave the United States, they wrote. Psychiatry professor at Geisel Hani Khouzam said after the questionand-answer period that he thought the plans were necessary for Geisel to remain a strong medical institution. Chair of the Geisel anesthesiology department Tom Dodds said that the administrators were acting as transparently as possible about the process, particularly considering their short time frame. Still, he said, he was surprised how “relaxed” some people remained regarding the coming changes. Compton said in an interview Monday that the plan is not directly part of the same framework as the Geisel 2020 Strategic Plan for Excellence, announced in 2011, which aimed to place Geisel in the top 20 medical schools by 2020. But, he said, he still hopes to make Geisel the best medical school possible. This year, Geisel ranked 37th for research in the U.S. News 2016 best medical schools list, and it placed 29th in primary care. Last year, Geisel landed at 34th in research and 18th in primary care. While the ranking for research has remained stable for the past 5 years, the ranking for primary care has ranged from 39 in 2011 to 67 in 2012. Four Geisel professors declined request for comment, saying that they did not have enough information on the subject. Twelve people at Tuesday’s town hall declined to comment.
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Earth sciences Ph.D. candidate Ruth Heindel spoke of her exhibit “Sketching the Polar Landscape” in the Russo Gallery.
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Former N.H. speaker Terie Norelli had distinguished career FROM SPEAKER PAGE 1
be one of the leading causes of bankruptcy,” Norelli said. “There are so many people whose health and economic well-being is compromised because they don’t have access to affordable health care, and giving this to people who have not had access to health care can make a big difference to the life of the community.” Rockefeller Center director Andrew Samwick said that status as the Perkin’s Bass Distinguished Visitor is offered to an individual that has had an influential role in New Hampshire state policy. “New Hampshire’s politics are often contentious and you have to build consensus in order to accomplish things, and she was good at doing that,” Samwick said. New Hampshire representative for the ninth district Sharon Nordgren (Democrat) said she has known Norelli since 1996 when Norelli began to serve in the New Hampshire house. Apart from knowing Norelli professionally, Nordgren said that she has spent a lot of time forming a personal relationship with the former speaker. “We have spent a lot of time
outside of the office, we have done many lunches together,” Nordgren said. “She has a very gregarious personality, which has been beneficial given her role in the house.” Nordgren added that she believes Norelli’s past experience as a teacher has encouraged cooperation in the house. “Despite many differences in policy that Republicans and Democrats have, [Norelli] has been able to have them work together,” Nordgren said. “I think it’s still the teacher inside of her that does has this collaborative spirit.” Norelli began her political career in 1996, after serving as a high school math teacher and women’s rights activist. She received a degree in mathematics from the University of New Hampshire. “I entered college as an ‘untraditional’ student. I was older than most of the students and had a daughter,” Norelli said. Norelli said she taught for 10 years and credits her success in politics to the support of her family and the geography of New Hampshire. “I don’t know of anyone who would be able to do this job without a supportive family, it takes a lot
of time,” said Norelli. Norelli’s interest in politics was sparked by a personal connection to women’s rights and sexual assault.
“New Hampshire’s politics are often contentious and you have to build consensus in order to accomplish things, and she was good at doing that.” -ROCKEFELLER CENTER DIRECTOR ANDREW Norelli, who currently serves as the chief executive officer and president of the New Hampshire Women Foundation, said that she had always been interested in economics, civil rights advocacy and women’s issues, but her involvement in women rights activism increased when a close friend experienced sexual assault. “As an adult, I have always been a strong advocate for women,” she said. “An office colleague was sexu-
ally assaulted, and unfortunately I had a front row seat to see the devastation that had on her life.” Norelli said that after that incident she became involved at a rape crisis center in Charleston, South Carolina, and later served as chair of a New Hampshire Women’s Help Center. Norelli’s local activism involvement caught the attention of House representatives, and she was recruited to run as a representative in 1996. In 2006 Norelli was the minority leader in the New Hampshire House. That year, however, she became the first Democrat to assume the role of house speaker in 84 years, and in the process became the first Democratic woman to lead the House. Though she would lose that role in 2010 when Republicans took control, she would regain it again in 2012. That first year in charge, Norelli said she experienced several challenges, particularly around her gender along with her position. “There were some personal challenges — while I wasn’t the first women speaker in New Hampshire, I was still only the second, so I had a sense of responsibility that I felt was higher than an ordinary
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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19
No Signs of Intelligent Life
Europe’s Bailout Addiction
For innovative solutions, look to Silicon Valley instead of Washington, D.C. Google decries villainy in its famous motto, “Don’t be evil,” and Apple stays true to the spirit of its former “Think Different” slogan, but the United States Congress can now do no better than “maybe we won’t shut down this week.” The cavalier way in which our present Congress operates stands in stark contrast to the world of our contemporary science and technology companies, where limits are constantly tested and surpassed. Whereas our legislature is stuck in the past, the visionaries that lead the country’s most promising industry are rocketing into the future. Two things happened this week that encapsulate the growing efficacy of private technologists as opposed to the thuggish sluggishness of the United States House of Representatives and Senate. First, John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced his plans to step down as House speaker at a time when he has increasingly stood out as a moderate voice in a sea of bigoted idiocy. He chose to vacate his office at a time when our government is at severe risk of shutting down because of an apparent disdain for condoms, the pill and a woman’s right to — gasp! — decide what happens to her own body. He has managed at once to fuel the fire of the far right and draw the ire of everyone else. He has simply quit because dealing with his own party proved too difficult. On the other side of the country, in Menlo Park, California, Mark Zuckerberg held court with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in one of Facebook’s trademark town hall meetings. Users around the globe were able to tune in and ask Zuckerberg — and Modi — questions about India, Facebook and the intersection of the two. Modi spoke about the influence of social media on his life and on the lives of other Indians. Zuckerberg spoke about the importance of connecting the world to an internet that he has called an “enabler of human rights” and a “force for peace” and later pledged to bring internet access to refugee camps at a United Nations address. While the suits and ties squabbled on the Hill, the flip-flops and hoodies tried to change the world from Silicon Valley. This is not a pair of standalone events. For
much of my recent memory, high tech has done more for the average person than has government. Facebook has launched Internet.org to improve access to the internet worldwide. Tesla, one of the first companies to pay back its entire U.S. Energy Department loan, is developing cars that people want and the planet needs. SpaceX is throttling forward with adventures into the abyss above as NASA is sucked dry of needed funds. It seems that the organizing, motivating force for society today is not the people we have chosen at the polls to lead in the present, but the people who have chosen to lead us into the future. To succeed in modern American politics, it seems one must lie, cheat and steal without appearing to lie, cheat or steal. To succeed in technology, one must create something useful and continue to advance that creation. Tech and government are both meritocracies, but for completely different reasons. The world is heading in one direction, and it seems the U.S. government never got the memo. We can, however, vote smarter and better, and begin to invest more heavily in technology and encourage ourselves to explore the wonders of modern science. We can make like the statesmen of ancient Greece and operate as politicians, thinkers and scientists all in one, rather than eschewing common sense for power. The considerable advantage we have as educated students and people can be utilized to advance technology, diplomacy and human decency. We can model ourselves after those who do good in the world. So while the Republican presidential candidates try to top each other’s buffoonery and bluster and the Democrats present wholly unrealistic plans to save the world, our society’s visionaries push forth with the enduring hope that they can in some small way make life on Earth better. Boehner failed at intra-party diplomacy, while Zuckerberg undertook diplomatic relations with India. As Google worked on self-driving cars, Washington was busy losing $11 billion of our money bailing out General Motors. Leaders in tech give us the hope — if only for a moment — that tomorrow might not be so bad.
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The repeated EU rescues of Greece are motivated by more than economics. “What are the first three letters of the Greek alphabet? I.O.U.” “I had a Greek dinner last night. I left the restaurant without paying the bill.” — I could probably find enough of these jokes to fill this paper for a week. That is not only concerning, but also reflective of what the Greek financial crisis has become, even in the unintellectual and at-times pathetic world of online humor — an international laughingstock. Despite receiving loans of more than €230 billion in rescue financing from Eurozone countries, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund since 2010, Greece’s economy has shrunk by a quarter over the last six years, its unemployment rate remains roughly 25 percent — not including discouraged workers — and the country’s poverty rate ranks among the highest in the European Union. Still, the EU just approved a third bailout package worth roughly $97 billion. Recent Greek interventions have consistently fallen short, yet they keep happening. It is worth examining why. A part of why Greece keeps getting bailed out is simply because it keeps needing to be. That has a lot to do with mistakes on the part of the Greek government — rather than lowering taxes and promoting trade liberalization, Greece’s austerity measures have increased taxes and cut pensions, harming its growth and intensifying social unrest. Greece’s sluggish trod to recovery also may have something to do with its unstable sources of revenue. For the most part, Greece’s economy depends on tourism. That would explain why, while much of the world was struggling with their own economic situations over the last five years, tourists weren’t bringing the same amount of revenue to Greece as they previously had. It is possible that with improved consumer confidence, investment in Greek tourism will generate the boost the country needs to get back on its feet. Some of Greece’s problems are also due to structural flaws in the EU. Budget and tax policy decisions are still left in the hands of each country, a shaky arrangement that many doubted would be viable in the long term. Greece’s reluctance and occasional refusal to implement EU bailout terms has shown just how unstable the status quo is. The Eurozone’s containment strategy has
fundamental shortcomings, and Greece will likely find itself on its knees again soon. Workable alternatives to continual Greek bailouts do exist, of which the most well-supported would be a Grexit — withdrawing from the currency union but not necessarily from the EU. So why is a Grexit always the last-resort option? The first economic justification many policymakers might lean on is the idea of a sunk cost — so much money has already been invested in helping Greece that giving up would put it all to waste. There is also the concept of a domino effect, which predicts that the failure of the euro in Greece would be contagious and spread to other European countries. From an economic perspective, the arguments in favor of repeated Greek bailouts are fairly standard and even convincing to some, but I think there exists a more complex backstory. I would say that the reason the EU has not been as eager about letting Greece go as it perhaps should be stems from political sentimentalism. Greece’s European saviors may still dream of a “United States of Europe.” They may not want to admit that the Eurozone was probably a bad idea, and they may still be influenced by an affinity for Greek culture and the image of a classical, prosperous Greece. Political elites may feel an emotional attachment to European solidarity, which makes perfect sense when considering Europe’s long history of conflict. Europe’s political, economic and religious allegiances have shifted to such a great extent during the past century that the sense of relief the European Union has provided seems precious and worth fighting for. Moreover, separate and competing factions within Europe are harder to form now that economic and political decisions are so interconnected. Perhaps European leaders go to such lengths to avoid a Grexit because they fear it would look like a regression into the past. Economic arguments cannot be the only motivation for so many Greek bailouts. Europe’s culture, its desperate allegiance to political unity and a dark past that still looms large may help explain why the EU insists on keeping the euro alive in Greece.
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Students will continue developing Mobile Virtual Player FROM FOOTBALL PAGE 1
throughout the field, mimicking routes taken by live players in gameplay and providing extensive tackling practice for the team, Teevens said. The only thing a football player can do that the MVP cannot is throw a football. “There’s really nothing like the [MVP], just because it is so versatile for so many positions,” football player Folarin Orimolade ’17 said. “Defensive backs can use it because it can run a route and you can tackle it as it’s running a route.” While the MVP was designed for use in football practices, it is capable of being used with other sports, Kastner said. Players were often taken out of games or sidelined for large parts of the season due to concussions, Teevens said. He added that most of the concussions would occur during practice and were due to multiple hits, not a single collision, which led him to take the unusual step of banning tackling during practice five years ago. The new policy was not immediately popular with coaches and players, but Teevens found that tackling dummies and pads — rather than teammates — led to a drop in both the team’s head injury rate and its rate of missed tackles. Since 2010, he said, the number of injuries on the team has dropped by as much as 80 percent. “I really believe we’re doing the right thing,” he said. “I feel a lot better going into homes and saying, ‘this is how we treat your son,’ and I am encouraging other
people to [eliminate tackling in practices].” The football team remained competitive against other Division I teams, despite no longer using live tackling in practices, Teevens said. With the players’ game getting stronger and their bodies staying safer, the rule has become very popular among team members, according to football players interviewed by The Dartmouth. Yet while pads and immobile dummies cut injury rates, Teevens said they were not able to fully replicate a moving target. To compensate for the disadvantages of the immobile dummies and pads, Teevens contacted Thayer to offer funding for a versatile, mobile tackling dummy. The MVP has major implications for making contact sports safer by eliminating the human element, which cuts the risk of injury to the players significantly, Teevens said. Players who wish to continue with their athletic careers professionally and those planning to go into another career are both benefited by minimizing collisions, he said. “I feel like I’m doing everything I can to make our game and our players as safe as I possibly can and still play the game at a very high level,” Teevens said. Kastner — who played on the football team under Teevens for five years — said that he never suffered a concussion but saw numerous teammates injured while he was on the team. “Making contact at practice is good to play better, but if your players can’t make it to the game
day then what’s the point of doing any of those drills?” Kastner said. “I really realized how important having an effective way to tackle at practice can benefit a team.” Thanks to the MVP, the only time players are hit is in games — of which they have 10 each year, Teevens said. The players can reach a deeper
“Making contact at practice is good to play better, but if your players can’t make it to the game day then what’s the point of doing any of those drills?” -ELLIOT KASTNER ’13, MVP DEVELOPER level within a specific skill set by practicing with the MVP without the risk of injury, he said. “One of the unanticipated benefits [is] if you’re not hitting guys every day, the toll on their bodies is reduced, so your first-level guys are more capable of playing and they don’t miss as much practice,” he said. The team behind the MVP is now sponsoring another senior engineering course at Thayer so an additional group of students can work on developing certain aspects of the tackling dummy, Kastner said. The current prototype is the third iteration and is constantly
being updated and reworked to meet its full potential, Connell said. The close relationship between the College’s athletics department and Thayer is unusual, Teevens said. He credited the “collegiality” between the engineering school and the football team for the production of the MVP. “We can save people’s brains here,” he said. Kastner and Connell raised funds from their family and friends to continue with the project and obtained laboratory space from Thayer over the summer to complete the MVP, they said. Once Kastner and Connell were working on the MVP full-time, the project moved quickly, and by August the football team was using the first prototype of the MVP in practices, Kastner said. The team now brings the MVP in and out of practices as the engineers and players work together to see what still needs improvement, Kastner said. The MVP still needs to be updated and have small complications removed for it to be more marketable, Kastner said. Currently, the mechanisms for charging the MVP — which are not as simple as Kastner and Connell would like — are being updated, he said. The players have also noticed that this dummy is more bottomheavy and is therefore prone to falling down more easily, football player Eric Wickham ’15 said. The next step in the MVP’s development will be the construction of a small batch of dummies that can be tested by other teams, Kastner said. If the MVP continues to be successful, Kastner and
Connell hope to manufacture them for sale, he said. A finalized version of the MVP is set to be completed by Dec. 1, Teevens said. “It’s hard to have a clear vision of where things are going to end up six months or years down the line, but I think we’re all really happy with where it’s at right now and we’ll continue development,” Connell said. Four National Football League teams have expressed interest in the technology, Teevens said. With huge budgets for improving their teams, NFL teams often are on the lookout for innovative technology, Kastner said, so the interest is an important step for the project. Once the NFL deems a new technology useful, it usually trickles down to the college level and then to high school teams as well, Kastner said, so sending a small batch of MVPs to the NFL could be a crucial step in marketing the technology. The MVP has already received coverage from numerous media outlets, including CNN, the Discovery Channel and National Public Radio. “As soon as some video and pictures and stuff leaked and went viral and blew up, it was just a testament to how great the need is for a solution like this,” Connell said. The MVP has made Dartmouth’s football practices safer, but it could still expand to other schools and professional teams, Kastner said. “I think the dummy has kind of revolutionized the way tackling can be done in practice,” Orimolade said.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m. “French Conversation Club” for all levels of ability, ages eight and up, Howe Library, 13 South Street
3:30 p.m. “Pokemon League” card game workshop, Black Moon Games, 2 Mascoma Street, Lebanon
7:00 p.m. Author reading of “The Company She Kept” with Archer Mayor, Norwich Bookstore, 291 Main Street, Norwich
TOMORROW 12:00 p.m. “Beats By Dr. Dre: Beating the Ecosystem with Hard and Software,” lecture with Elizabeth Hartley T’05, Raether Hall, Frantz II Classroom
4:30 p.m. “Legacy of Social Class in the Transition to Adulthood,” lecture with Annette Lareau of the University of Pennsylvania, Silsby Hall 28
5:00 p.m. “Caribe Global,” lecture with Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faculty Lounge
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Student Spotlight: Avery Feingold ’17
group. “He made it clear that this group The Dartmouth Senior Staff is something that matters to him,” Some people hate reading Shake- Grice said. “That passion is very speare in high school. Some people evident in the work that he’s done love it. Some people love his works in planning our shows, in leading so much that they want to bring his the group and making sure that words to life on stage. Avery Feingold everything comes together.” ’17, president of the Rude Mechani Claire cals, falls into Feuille ’18, anthe latter cat- “It’s impressive that other member egory. of the theater [Feingold is] able to Fe i n g o l d group, met Feparticipated focus his efforts into ingold for the in a variety handling the logistics first time when of theater she auditioned productions, side of things and also for the group both musi- capable of projecting a last spring. cal and not, really powerful and really “ H e ’s t h ro u g h o u t always been high school, genuine persona on really welcombut his ex- stage.” ing, and he was perience one of the first perfor m ing people I got i n S h a k e - -Nate Grice ’16, member of to know in the speare’s g roup,” she the Rude Mechanicals “Much Ado said. About Noth A s ing” during head of the his senior Ru d e M e year is what chanicals, Fepushed him ingold performs a range of duties to join the Rude Mechanicals when related to the operational aspects he came to Hanover the next year. of the troupe. “I knew that Shakespeare was “He’s the one who plans out something I liked a lot,” he said. our rehearsals. He’s the one who “I decided the Rude Mechanicals manages the selection of the show,” were definitely the path for me.” Grice said. “He heads up auditions Fellow Rude Mechanicals mem- for members to join the group and ber Nate Grice ’16 said Feingold’s then auditions for characters within engagement in the group is evi- each show.” denced by his commitment to his Though his duties as head put current position as head of the him in a more directorial position,
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The Rude Mechanicals put together termly, modern Shakespeare performances at various campus locations.
Feingold still plays character roles during the group’s productions. Since he joined, he has performed in “All’s Well that Ends Well,” “As You Like It,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and this term he will add “King Lear” to his performance resume. Feuille said Feingold’s range as an actor is demonstrated by the variety of roles he has played. “I think he’s really versatile. Comedy is probably what is most natural to him, but he was also Mac-
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Actress Anna Deavere Smith came to speak at campus as a Montgomery Fellow.
beth in ‘Macbeth’ and Demetrius in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ Those two roles are very different,” she said. The Rude Mechanicals’ production of “Macbeth” was staged last fall on Halloween, and Feingold embodied both the character and the context, Grice said. “He definitely brought the creepiness factor that only Macbeth on Halloween would demand,” he said. In his role as Demetrius, Feingold added depth to the relationship between his character and Helena, Feuille said. “He did a really good job with the progression of the character, which is key to making that show, or any show really, interesting,” she said. Of the many productions Feingold has participated in with the Rude Mechanicals, he is particularly proud of “As You Like It,” which the troupe performed in the spring of 2014. “That was one of the most incredible shows we’ve done,” he said. In particular, he pointed to the location that the group chose for the performance as one of his favorite aspects of the show. Rather than performing on a traditional stage, the Rude Mechanicals put on their show behind Baker-Berry Library, right in front of the “X-Delta” statue. Rather than a traditional adaptation of the show, however, Feingold said the group took advantage of different themes in the work to make it unique. “We incorporated into that show a lot of weird modernist themes,” he said. “We played around a lot with genders and did a lot in terms of modernizing the play. We really
worked on approaching the women’s issues and the gender issues brought up in play.” The process of modernizing Shakespeare plays is key to the Rude Mechanicals and to Feingold. The entire group participates in the process, and they seek to use Shakespeare as a medium by which to discuss pertinent campus and social justice issues, Feingold said. “We never want to recreate something that’s already been done,” he said. “We always strive to make our shows new and original in any way we can.” One of the challenges Feingold faces in his role as head of the Rude Mechanicals is the lack of college and theater department resources for student-run theater troupes. “Sometimes it is frustrating because we have such great ideas, but we’re limited in our resources,” he said. Another challenge is managing both the logistical and theatrical aspects of the position. Grice said that Feingold balances the two well. “It’s impressive that he’s able to focus his efforts into handling the logistics side of things and also capable of projecting a really powerful and really genuine persona on stage,” he said. Feingold enjoys both aspects of his job and feels strongly about his role within the organization and the group’s ability to continue producing shows that are both fun and address larger issues. “For me, I’m in the more directorial role in the group, and what I love seeing is people bonding together and people growing together through the producing of these plays and through our experiences,” he said.
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FRIDAY LINEUP
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. PENN 7 PM
Women’s soccer held to scoreless draw in Ivy opener
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In a defensive struggle, the women’s soccer team began its Ivy League schedule with a scoreless tie against Brown University on a windy day in Providence, Rhode Island. The match stands as the team’s fifth defensive shutout of the season and continues the team’s sevenmatch unbeaten streak to bring their record to 6-1-2 on the year. Co-captain Jackie Friedman ’16 attributed the team’s defensive success this season to the familiarity of the defenders with one another. “Most of us have been playing together for over a year, and we only lost one senior in the backline last year,” Friedman said of her fellow defenders. “So we’re pretty used to playing together, and we know how each other work.” Additionally, Friedman identified the team’s midfield as instrumental in supporting the backline. “We’ve had a lot of help from our midfield,” Friedman said. “[They’re] doing a really good job of dropping in
and helping us out, too.” On the offensive side of the ball, the Big Green failed to score for only the second time so far this season, out of nine games played. Despite a flurry of 23 shots, Dartmouth did not find the back of the net, even with the two extra overtime sessions. Co-captain Lucielle Kozlov ’16, who is currently tied for the third-highest goals per game average in the nation with nine goals in as many contests, created some of the Big Green’s best opportunities in the game. With two minutes left in the first half, Kozlov found an open lane toward the net and took a shot from just outside the box that Brown goalkeeper Christine Etzel was not able to control. With Etzel down, Brittany Champagne ’18 had an open look at net, but after rushing to corral the loose ball, Champagne’s first touch was a little too strong, sending the ball right of the goalpost and out of play. Fifteen minutes into the second half, Melanie Vangel ’18 had a great opportunity to put Dartmouth ahead
of the Bears. After tracking down a leading pass into the penalty box from Kozlov, Vangel managed to elude her defender with a crisp cut to the right. With a solid look at the net, Vangel took a shot across her body that rolled just outside the left goalpost and barely missed giving Dartmouth its first goal of the Ivy season. Vangel provided a spark off the bench, leading the team with five shots and two shots-on-goal in 78 minutes of action. “I think in the beginning we were struggling a little offensively, but there were definitely a lot of periods within the game in which we started working together a lot better,” Vangel said. “We had so many shots that were just wide or too far out and just unlucky.” Vangel and Lauren Lucas ’19 both came off the bench for the entire second half and the overtime sessions. Head coach Ron Rainey said he will look to continue giving players on the bench opportunities to log substantial minutes on the field.
“We’ve been lucky that we’ve been able to entertain some different people up top in the second half of the games,” Rainey said. With the draw, Dartmouth earned one point in the Ivy League standings and now sits tied with Brown for fourth. The Big Green’s six wins and one draw from its non-conference schedule give it a .778 win percentage, which ranks only behind Cornell University (8-0-2, 1-0 Ivy) in the League. While Brown’s overall record of 3-4-1 is not as strong as Dartmouth’s, Rainey acknowledged the strength of the Bears and the parity of all teams in the Ivy League. “[Brown is] a great team. I think the entire league is pretty equal,” Rainey said. “When you look at some of the results from top-to-bottom, you’re going to see times in the league when the top team has a tough match with a bottom team, and the middle teams can beat anybody on a given day.” While Friedman said the team has enjoyed success in the first half of the
season, she believes the team will have to prepare for an added level of intensity in Ivy League contests. “There’s nothing like playing Ivy League games,” Friedman said. “Everyone shows up pretty much to get out there and kill each other, so while the nonconference games gave us confidence, they might not have directly prepared us for the level of physical intensity that Brown brought.” In order to ensure that the team has the mental toughness to compete in the Ivy season, the Big Green has created a mantra to guide its efforts in practice and games. “Our [mantra] is ‘All In, No Excuses, Win the Day,’ and we decided that at the beginning of the year,” Vangel said. “We remind ourselves of it not only every game, but pretty much every day.” The Big Green will play its next conference match against Princeton on Burnham Field, where it will look to continue its 22-match unbeaten streak at home that dates back to Oct. 2012. The match will kickoff at 7 p.m. on Oct. 3.
Women’s golf takes first place at the Dartmouth Invitational
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The women’s golf team dominated its home tournament at the Hanover Country Club this past weekend, ending its two-day contest at 22-over par, an 18-stroke victory over second-place University of Hartford. Coming off a fourth-place finish the previous weekend in Annapolis, Maryland, the Big Green rallied to record one of its best rounds in program history with a 294 (+6) on the first day. The win marked the first time in four years that the women’s golf team took the top spot at the Dartmouth Invitational. Isabelle Kane ’18 described the team’s performance as a “huge improvement from years past.” “We have a young team, so it’s great to see them do well, seeing as they just started,” Kane said. “It shows signs for a great future. [The freshmen on the team] have such a positive attitude, and that’s great to be around.” As the golf program seeks to establish a new standard of success, it has turned toward the youngest members of its squad. Four of the five players in the team’s top group this weekend were from the freshman class. “We know that we can really bring something to the table,” Hana Bradshaw ’19 said.
On the first day, the Big Green’s top group of golfers finished first in a field of 10 teams — which included a second Dartmouth squad — by shooting a 294, only six shots over par. Playing in her second collegiate event, Bradshaw led the team with a one-under 71 in the first round, which placed her alone atop the leaderboard at the end of the first day. Bradshaw was the lone golfer in the field to shoot under par on Saturday. “I felt as a freshman it was something really special, especially at home,” Bradshaw said. Julia Calbi ’19 and Kane closely followed Bradshaw’s round-one performance with scores of 73 (+1) each, placing them tied in second heading into the second round. Three out of the five golfers in the Big Green’s feature squad sat in the top two positions on the leaderboard through 18 holes. Rounding out Dartmouth’s top group, Angela Zhang ’19 shot a 77 (+5), giving her a place in the top 10, and Catherine Roddy ’19 finished eightover par with an 80 for a tie at 21st with three other golfers. On the Big Green’s B-team, both Lily Morrison ’16 and Jamie Susanin ’17 tied along Zhang at 10th, and the second team was ranked at fourth overall at the end of the round. Starting day two of the invitational with a nine-stroke lead over second-
place Boston University, the Big Green held on for the win with a combined score of 598 (+22) through two rounds. Kane posted the team’s best individual performance of the tournament by shooting a 73 on Sunday to finish in third place at two-over par. Entering the final round tied for second, Kane put up a consistent performance on Sunday, matching her one-over score from Saturday. On the third-place finish, Kane said she “feels great,” but is still looking to improve. The women had two more golfers finish in the top 10 at the Invitational. After beginning her collegiate career with a second-place overall finish at the Chesapeake Bay Invitational, Calbi tied for fourth at five-over for the weekend after carding a 76 on the final 18. In two career events, Calbi has posted consecutive top-five finishes. Bradshaw entered the final round atop the leaderboard but could not repeat her under-par performance from Saturday. Bradshaw shot a 79 to finish the tournament in sixth place at sixover par, just one stroke behind Calbi. Dartmouth was the only team at the Invitational to have three players in the top 10. The team, Calbi said, learned a lot from the event. Hartford finished second at the event, led by senior Brooke Nethercott,
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The women’s golf team won their home invitational for the first time in four years.
who shot one-under for the weekend, winning the tournament individually. Dartmouth’s second squad finished in seventh, 39 strokes behind its top unit. “It feels great,” Bradshaw said. “It seems like we all contributed to this win, and being a freshman means I did my part as a teammate and it kind of validates everything I’ve worked for recently.” Golfers enjoyed fair conditions over the course of the weekend, which gave the Big Green an opportunity to go out and attack its home course. Dartmouth will travel for its final two
contests of its fall season before heading into the winter offseason. Despite the challenge, the team feels ready to face what will be stiff competition in the ensuing weeks, Calbi said. “I think we need to stick to our game plan and not over think it,” she said. The Big Green will head to New Jersey this weekend for the Princeton Invitational where it will have the chance to benchmark itself against other Ivy League competition. “We want to make a name for Dartmouth golf in the Ivy League,” Calbi said.