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2,176 accepted to College
Favor changes plea to guilty Thursday
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African and African American studies and English professor J. Martin Favor pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge at his change-of-plea hearing in the U.S. District Court in Concord this morning. Favor could face up to 10 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000 and a term of supervised release. He will be sentenced on July 11. Favor was arrested last year on Sept. 4 for the alleged possession of child pornography. Five complaints filed by the police on the day of Favor’s arrest allege that Favor knowingly had in his possession videos depicting the graphic sexual abuse of several prepubescent boys and a prepubescent girl. At his arraignment last year, Favor pleaded not guilty.
In November, federal authorities took over the case. The five state-level charges against Favor were replaced with one federal count of possessing child pornography. George Ostler ’77, of DesMeules Olmstead & Ostler, is representing Favor. Ostler served as an attorney for Alpha Delta fraternity last year, when the house was suspended and subsequently derecognized as a student organization. Nick Abramson is representing the U.S. Favor will remain on paid administrative leave while Dartmouth evaluates the situation, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. Favor has been a professor at the College for 22 years and formerly chaired the African and African American studies program.
Experts discuss College tuition hike By JOYCE LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
Despite being around a percent higher than the 2.9 percent tuition increase for the 20152016 academic year, experts say that the 3.8 percent increase in tuition, mandatory fees and room and board approved by the Board of Trustees for the 2016-2017 academic school year
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remains in line with national trends of rising costs for higher education. Center for College Affordability and Productivity director Richard Vedder said that a 3 to 4 percent increase in tuition is fairly typical for private schools and that it is SEE TUITION PAGE 3
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The Class of 2020 comes from an applicant pool of 20,675.
By AMANDA ZHOU The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth offered 2,176 acceptances to the Class of 2020, a group that includes the highest ever percentage of students of color. The number of applicants totaled 20,675 — representing less than a 1 percent increase from the Class of 2019 — bringing the 2020 admission rate to 10.5 percent. Of the admitted students, 51.6 percent identified as persons of color, 14.7 percent as first-generation college students and 8.1 percent as legacies. Of the admitted students, 47.7 percent qualify for need-based financial aid, with an average scholarship of $43,915. Earlier this month, the Board of Trustees approved a 3.8 percent total increase in undergraduate tuition,
mandatory fees and room and board for the 2016-2017 academic year. Geographically within the United States, 27.3 percent of admitted students come from the West, 18.8 percent from the South, 9.7 percent from the Midwest, 22.1 percent from the MidAtlantic region and 13.6 percent from New England. Of admitted students, 8.2 percent are international students, up from last year’s 7.9 percent. Ten percent are recruited athletes. Engineering was the top of the list of academic interests for the third consecutive year. The next most frequently indicated interests were economics and biology. The mean SAT score among admitted students was 2219, and the mean ACT score was 32.8. Almost 95 percent of the admitted
students are in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. The proportion of admits from private schools decreased from 27.2 percent last year to 25.4 percent this year. Sixty-three percent of admits are from public schools, an increase from the previous year’s 60.8 percent. Princeton University had a record-low acceptance rate of 6.46 percent, as did the University of Pennsylvania which admitted 9.4 percent. Brown University admitted 9 percent, Columbia University admitted 6.04 percent and Cornell University admitted 13.96 percent. Yale University admitted 6.27 percent of applicants. Harvard University has not reported numbers yet. This article will be updated as more information is reported.
Match Day reveals what is next for Geisel students By DANIEL KIM
The Dartmouth Staff
Four years of medical school culminated with Match Day, when 81 students at the Geisel School of Medicine discovered where they will move on to fulfill their residency training after graduation. Friends and families gathered
with the graduating students on March 18 to celebrate their next step toward becoming a physician. This year, 41 students matched into primary care, which includes inter nal medicine and pediatrics, among others. New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California were the top
destinations. “Once again this year, Geisel students had an excellent match,” interim senior associate dean for medical education Greg Ogrinc said. “The match is about finding the right next step in one’s professional development, whether it be in internal medicine, general surgery, orthope-
dics, pediatrics, radiology, or another specialty — there are many options for students.” Ogrinc said that Geisel students are highly competitive for all programs. Asha McClurg Med’16 and her husband Wade Harrison Med’16 matched to obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics, respectively, at the
University of Utah. “We were pretty over the moon,” McClurg said. “That was our top pick and we weren’t sure we were going to get it. It’s also a great feeling to know you have a job as a doctor next year.” Geisel professor Amer AlSEE GEISEL PAGE 5
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Students push for graduation speaker Alums build dating app for black singles the Dartmouth community, Col- that the council emailed the lege spokesperson Diana Lawrence Dartmouth community, including The Dartmouth wrote in an email. the Class of 2016, multiple times A recent petition, written by Zac A student representative is also soliciting nominations. Students Hardwick ’16 and Ben Wood ’16, invited to join in the Council on were asked to provide nominations urged the College to invite English Honorary Degree’s deliberations, on Sept. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 6, Oct. comedian, political commentator she added. For at least the past 8 and Oct. 14. and television host John Oliver to nine years, this member has been Past commencement speakers be the commencement speaker for the senior class president or their have included talk show host Conan this year’s graduation ceremony. delegate. The representative is free O’Brien, founder and CEO of The petition said that Oliver would to communicate with the student Teach for America Wendy Kopp, continue Dartmouth’s rich history body as he or she sees fit, she said. president and CEO of Harlem of inviting speakers “who bring an In total, the council typically Children’s Zone, Inc. Geoffrey interesting, non-traditional per- receives between 100 and 150 Canada, television producer and spective on life” to the graduating nominations before the October writer Rhimes and New York Times class. deadline, of which it selects between political writer David Brooks. Hardwick and Wood posted the four and six honorees in addition Among past speakers, O’Brien’s petition on Change.org at the be- to the speaker. commencement address was reginning of spring break. Currently, The council looks for nominees ceived extremely well, Wood said. the online petition has about 550 who have made or expected to make A video of the speech posted to signatures. significant contributions to a field YouTube currently has 2,741,542 The idea to start a petition first or to society in general, Lawrence views. came to Hardwick and Wood dur- w r o t e. M o s t ing winter term, Wood said. The selected nomihad “Few people can rival “O’Brien two frequently watch Oliver’s show nees also have one of the most and thought that he would be an a connection to John Oliver’s wit, popular comexcellent choice for commencement the Dartmouth encement intellect and striking m speaker because he tackles social community, eispeeches in issues, such as gay marriage and ther as an alum- societal relevance. I modern memwomen’s rights, he said. The two nus, parent or can’t think of a better ory,” he said. also felt that the commencement former faculty Comcommencement speaker should be someone with member. ments on the whom the class was familiar. The council speaker.” online petition A commencement speaker will not consider reflect student should be someone that the gradu- anyone who is interest. Ridating class wants to send it off, and an active politi- -JOSH CETRON ’16 hima Gurnani should both address the emotional cal candidate. ‘16 posted on aspect of graduating and impart C o l l e g e e m the page that life advice, he said. ployees cannot Oliver “would “If we’re going to go out with receive an honorary degree until be just as memorable as Conan.” a bang, we should have someone three years after retirement. “I think [Oliver’s] ability to laugh who adequately demonstrates how Upon narrowing the list of pro- at his own faults and point out those we view the world,” Wood said. posed candidates, council members in others without being judgmental The number of signatures did meet with College President Phil is something we should emulate,” not surprise Wood, who mentioned Hanlon, who presents the recom- Matt Greer ’18 commented online. that he has received overwhelmingly mended nominees to the Board of “Few people can rival John positive feedback. Trustees. The board ultimately ap- Oliver’s wit, intellect and striking Wood said that he and Hardwick proves names for potential honorary societal relevance. I can’t think of have been in contact with the ad- degree recipients. a better commencement speaker,” ministration and plan on meeting Although nominations remain Josh Cetron ’16 commented. with them in the coming days. He confidential, final decisions as Nick Hodgson ’16 signed the pointed to Shonda Rhimes ’91 as to this year’s honorees and com- petition because he appreciates an example of a commencement mencement speaker will likely be Oliver’s transparency. speaker who was brought to campus announced publicly in late April, “He speaks what he thinks more in large part due to student body Lawrence said. than being influenced by what other support. Wood said that the consensus people are saying,” Hodgson said. While Wood acknowledged that of many of his peers was that as a Oliver is engaging and can lift the lack of advanced planning may student body, they were never truly the audience’s spirits, in what will be an issue, he also noted that Dart- engaged in the conversation. be lengthy graduation proceedings, mouth’s graduation is later in the “To some, [a perceived lack of said Sarah Decker, a graduate stuyear than most college graduations. communication] was somewhat dent with a concentration in creative Graduation is scheduled for June of an underhanded move by the writing. 12. administration,” Wood said. “It There are a lot of issues in The nomination process for should have been some sort of our world that students have to the commencement speaker and discourse [but] there was genuinely contend with, but humor makes other honorary degree recipients no dialogue.” current problems seem solvable, begins in the fall and is open to Nevertheless, Lawrence wrote she said. “You don’t want the little adages and these little quips of what life is supposed to be, because it’s differCORRECTIONS ent for everybody,” Decker said. “I We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, think that John Oliver would bring please email editor@thedartmouth.com. a variety of messages for people.” The March 31 article, “NewVistas buys Vermont land for ‘ideal communit’,” Oliver’s management could not called the planned community, an “ideal community.” David R. Hall did not be reached for comment. Hardwick declined to comment. refer to the plan as an “ideal community.” This error has been corrected.
By SAMANTHA STERN
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Not every demographic has kept up with the pace of growth in online dating — a study on data from the dating site OkCupid revealed that black men and women face particular bias. One year ago, the team behind BAE — “before anyone else” — built a smartphone dating app to help black singles in the dating world. The team includes two Dartmouth students, chief technology officer and co-founder Jordan Kunzika ’16 and chief marketing officer Justin Gerrard Tu’16. The app launched last year at Howard University and has reached the top 50 list in 20 African and Caribbean countries in the App Store and the Google Play Store. The idea originated when the BAE team looked at the data that showed that black people were penalized in the dating scene. Kunzika said that he saw a “decline in [the] black family unit,” citing a statistic that showed less than 50 percent of black people were married. He said the idea of being able to restore the black family is one of the factors that drove the BAE team in their project. The popularity of BAE in African and Caribbean countries validated BAE’s mission, Kunzika said. Gerrard said that the team is trying to “make dating fun again” and use technology to connect people. “If we can move the needle on black relationships then we’ve done a true service to the community,” he said, when giving the reason for
working on BAE. Additionally, Kunizka said that the project would break new grounds in diversity in venture capital, citing that “less than 1 percent of teams with at least one black co-founder get any funding” in ventures. BAE’s entire team is black, and Kunzika hopes to be a role model as he breaks those barriers. Kunizka is working on the app full-time, turning down job offers from Microsoft and Google to do so. BAE received both grants and advice from various resources, including the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, the Digital Arts and Leadership Innovation lab and the Tuck School of Business. Computer science professor Andrew Campbell said that Kunzika, who he taught in class, demostrated strong entreprenuerial skills and creativity. Kunzika cited his “Introduction to Smartphone Programming” class as a example of a class that translated into his work. In the class, he learned Android programming and that skill set took him far, as it helped him get the internship at Intel and helped him with his prior startups and BAE. Gerrard said DEN was supportive from the beginning. Tuck provided mentors and opportunities to the team to gather funding and capital. Additionally, they provided initial stewardship and introduced the team to Dartmouth Ventures, a conference on entrepreneurship. Dartmouth Ventures helped the SEE BAE PAGE 5
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less of an increase than 10 years ago, when colleges typically increased tuitions by 5 to 6 percent. However, all private institutions have been raising tuitions at a rate that is above the rate of inflation, Vedder said. The U.S. inflation rate for February 2016, the most recent rate reported, was 1 percent. In a June 2014 press meeting with The Valley News and in a fall 2013 faculty meeting, College President Phil Hanlon pledged to keep future tuition increases to no greater than 1 percent above the rate of inflation measured by employment cost indices. In an interview after his appointment as College president with The New York Times, Hanlon also warned of the unsustainability of superinflationary tuition increases. Vedder said that some institutions, depending on their ranking, are more able to charge for a higher cost of attendance. “Elite, upper-tier colleges are in high demand and able to raise fees quite a bit and get away with it because of the high number of applicants,” Vedder said. “It does suggest that they’re not being overly serious about making efforts to reduce costs for students.” Colleges are not making more radical changes to lower costs, such as paring down administrative staffs, Vedder said, and it does not seem likely to be an item on their agendas in the future. Unlike other business models, there are not high incentives for colleges to radically reduce costs because upper-tier schools are always in demand and hand out few acceptance letters, Vedder said. “Price competition is everywhere else, practically, but not in higher education,” Vedder said. Instead, costs are increasing in order to appease the constituencies at a college, Vedder said. Salary raises for faculty, new staff to ease the burden of administrators, and initiatives such as a “Go Green” campaign that pushes for environmentally friendly decisions or special services for student groups can contribute to raised costs, Vedder said. “The forces pushing for more money are stronger than forces pushing for lowered costs,” Vedder said. “A good college president will try to appease all constituents — students, alumni and faculty.” Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and industrial labor economics professor Ronald Ehrenberg said that upper-tier colleges share a goal
of being as good as possible on every dimension of their activities, from faculty to financial aid. The only major unrestricted sources of money that could contribute to such advancements are tuition and alumni donations, unlike research endowments, he said. “[Upper-tier colleges] are like the Cookie Monster, who wants to just grab as much as he can,” Ehrenberg said. “We want to grab as much as we can — the pressure to be good is great.” Cornell University increased its tuition by 3.75 percent, the lowest of all announced tuition increases from the Ivy League. Brown University will increase its tuition by 4.1 percent, the highest increase of all Ivy Leagues this year. The University of Pennsylvania announced 3.9 percent increase. Other Ivy League schools have not yet announced their tuition rates for next year. The College’s financial aid budget went up to $95.8 million, a 4.7 percent increase from last year. Brown has reported that it will increase its financial aid budget by 7.1 percent. Director and lead educational consultant at IvySelect College Consulting Michael Goran said that increased rates of tuition at institutions such as Dartmouth will not ultimately affect student choices due to the College’s continued policy of meeting 100 percent of demonstrated need. For students who receive little to no aid, the cost of attending an Ivy League school ranges from $7,000 to $8,000, which would also make not much of difference, he said. “It’ll depend more on academics, environment, culture, and what the students are looking for,” Goran said. “The extra percent increase from 2.9 last year to 3.8 this year is not going to substantially affect prospective students.” The ultimate value of an Ivy League education is often debated, Goran said. However, while research has shown that the prestige of the undergraduate college matters less in science, technology, engineering and math, Goran said the value of going to an upper-tier college does have an effect on future earnings. “Of course, that’s ultimately a function of how you are individually, but at least having that foundation tends to lead to greater future earnings power,” Goran said. “Ultimately, the focus with students is in the quality of the education received and the experience that they’re able to have at the college they choose.”
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STAFF COLUMNIST HANSA SHARMA ’19
Too Pretty a Picture
Petty Politics
We have to stop presenting a false image of Dartmouth. For many of us, our first impression of Dartmouth as students was getting off of the Dartmouth Coach, frame pack in tow, for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips. We looked out the window nervously as the bus circled the Green, and many of us saw flair-clad upperclassmen yelling and chasing the bus to the stop. The first thing we learn about Dartmouth is how fun, wacky and outgoing the people are, and how much they absolutely love their school. There was a huge banner on the outside of Collis that read “Welcome Home!” This attitude was pervasive throughout Trips: most every song, dance, speech and activity revolved around how people came into their own at and because of Dartmouth. It isn’t just Trips. Other traditions like Dimensions and prospective student tours paint a similar picture of Dartmouth as an amazing place for outgoing, energetic people who are thrilled just to be here. Unfortunately, this picture isn’t entirely realistic and it is often problematic. Of course, we can’t blame groups like the DOC or Dimensions for highlighting the good parts about Dartmouth while downplaying the bad ones. They are meant to convince people to come to Dartmouth or get them excited about the idea of being here, and you don’t exactly do that by parading all of Dartmouth’s flaws. However, these institutions paint a nearly perfect picture of the College. A real place made up of real people, with nuanced flaws and constantly evolving issues, is reduced to a picturesque snow globe where nothing ever disturbs the idyllic balance. Not only is this not entirely honest, but this lie of omission can end up being damaging. Coming off of Trips, during which they constantly hear about the amazing Dartmouth experience, a student may be surprised when cracks begin to appear in the Dartmouth façade. A class doesn’t engage them like they had hoped, their floor-mates don’t become an instant posse of best friends, frat parties aren’t the rowdy but inclusive scene that they had been sold on. How does someone reconcile that with the awesome, fun version of the College they had heard over and over again? Since there can’t possibly be a problem with Dartmouth, the problem must lie within them. The reality is that this omnipresent
attitude of the College as amazing, welcoming and “home” puts an immense amount of pressure on people. Someone who takes issue with an aspect of Dartmouth life or doesn’t feel as at home as they thought they were supposed to assumes that they are totally alone. The only thing worse than not feeling comfortable or at home in the place where you’re going to spend the better part of four years is feeling like you’re the only one who feels that way, that everyone else around you is doing just fine all the time and the problem must come from inside you. Adjusting to college can be a very lonely time for a lot of people, and we are only making it more so by putting up this façade. To be clear, we are not saying to do away with Trips, Dimensions, admissions tours or even change them drastically. There just needs to be a concerted effort to work on evening out the way they represent Dartmouth to better prepare students and to let them know that if they do encounter issues or feel out of place, they aren’t alone. There have been efforts, especially by the DOC, to reach out and include people with diverse perspectives that have been underrepresented in Trips. However, because of the attitude towards Dartmouth that is associated with Trips, applicants become self-selecting. Someone who doesn’t buy into, or feels uncomfortable about, the Dartmouth they portray isn’t going to want to be involved, limiting the perspectives to which new and prospective students are exposed. But, if these people see that these groups are steering more towards a realistic portrayal of Dartmouth and less towards that snow globe, maybe they will be more willing to be involved. For many people, their time at Dartmouth has been an amazing experience, and this little college has become their home. Still, it is important to recognize that everybody can’t feel that way all the time, and that Dartmouth does have some very real problems. When we welcome people into the Dartmouth family, let’s make sure they know that even if they may sometimes feel like they’re not at home, they are absolutely never alone. The editorial board consists of the editor-in-chief, publisher, both executive editors and an opinion editor.
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This presidential race is lowering the moral standards of elections. As an independent voter and keen political future of our country? One does not need to junkie, the 2016 election has proven to be be reminded of his long history of appalling much more of a case study in sensationalism remarks about women and minorities. His and “infotainment” than a legitimate litmus demeaning comments and persistent feud test of policy and issues for the American with Fox News commentator, Megyn Kelly, public. According to a report by SMG Delta, started when she asked him about his referDonald Trump’s expenditures allocated to ences to women he is not fond of as “fat pigs,” television advertising rank lowest amongst “dogs,” “slobs” and “disgusting animals.” To the running candidates. Despite not spend- which he proved her point during an interview ing much on television advertising, Trump by stating that Kelly had “blood coming out has managed to earn $400 million in free of her wherever” when she confronted him media via traditional sources of print and about his language toward women. broadcast media as well as social networks Sexist commentary is not solely limited to like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, equaling Trump’s campaign or the GOP. Throughout Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz’s media shares her campaign Clinton has been criticized for in February combined. being too shrill, aggressive and opportunistic Since the Republican primary continues to in her quest to become the first woman to be heat up as only three contenders — Trump, elected president. Created for the purpose of Cruz and John Kasich — remain for the voicing the ideas of the public, the media’s party nomination, the rhetoric becomes more coverage of Trump and sexist claims against vitriolic and the attacks increasingly personal. Clinton must bear some semblance to what A recent incident that immediately comes to is going on inside the collective head of the mind is the controversy over the anti-Trump American public. Based off that assumpattack ad using a magazine photo from Mela- tion, the public has an insatiable craving nia Trump’s former modelling days. Although for sensationalism and rhetorical attacks there is no denial of the problematic nature that seem to be exponentially increasing in of the ad, many have countered with the preposterousness as we approach Election adage “all is fair in war” — especially when Day. Additionally, it is disheartening to see it comes to American presidential elections. levelheaded candidates like Kasich, who has What I found most run a relatively positive and disturbing about the “Is Trump’s brand clean campaign thus far, entire ordeal was brushed aside in the ReTrump’s willingness to of mudslinging publican primary when he drag Cruz’s wife, Heidi, the future of our has a favorability rating of through the muck in around 70 percent in Ohio response. The Trump country?” and a recent poll released campaign first blamed by Quinnipiac University the Cruz campaign for on March 30 shows him as running the ad under performing best as the party the guise of the “Make nominee come November, America Awesome” super PAC in spite of edging out both Clinton and Bernie Sanders federal regulations preventing candidates in a hypothetical general election. Sanders’ from colluding with PACs. Trump has yet to democratic socialism, on the other hand, provide evidence of Cruz’s violation of the does not come close to paralleling Kasich’s regulation which could disqualify his cam- pragmatic moderateness. paign among other consequences. Instead, Yet, Sanders and Kasich are similar in their Trump further debased political rhetoric by lack of media coverage. Despite running on bringing Heidi Cruz into the fray by tweet- a relatively extreme platform for a majority ing an unflattering picture of her alongside of American voters, Sanders receives half his supermodel wife. In doing so, Trump of Clinton’s media coverage, including on not only prolonged reducing his wife to just television, in newspapers and magazines, and her physical looks but unnecessarily involved on social media. Even though he delivered Heidi for something that cannot be directly an hour-long speech after Clinton’s win in traced back to the Cruz campaign. the Arizona primary, none of the major cable When asked about the attack ad and its news channels — Fox, CNN, and MSNBC — aftermath, Kasich stated, “Families have to broadcasted his speech. The reason for the be off limits. I mean, you cannot get these media’s indifference to Kasich and Sanders is attacks on families. And if this becomes the simple — they are simply not scandalous or order of the day, what kind of people are we controversial enough. The networks pander going to have in the future that are going to to the guilty vices of the American public run for public office? There’s got to be some — controversy and sensationalism. There rules, and there’s got to be something that were times when political shows like “House gets set there. Some decency.” Kasich has of Cards” and “Scandal” appeared outright a point here — the GOP has long been the ridiculous in terms of the level of drama in self-proclaimed party of wholesome, family their plots. With the direction the election is values. How can it continue to define itself as going in terms of demeaning language and such when its frontrunner chooses to conduct smear attacks, the antics of Frank Underwood his campaign in such a vindictive and dispar- and Olivia Pope seem superfluous when aging manner? What can we expect from him, you can just tune into a daily episode of the if elected, when he has to negotiate with world Donald Trump Show available on the news leaders? Is Trump’s brand of mudslinging the channel of your preference.
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team jumpstart the apps development alongside marketing efforts that they needed to start working on BAE full-time. Winning the grant showed the team that the concept could work while also validating their concept within Dartmouth students, alumni, and venture capitalists, Gerrard said. It also gave the team access to networks of people who gave great advice, helped it position the product and raised funding. The app had multiple rounds of feedback within the Dartmouth community and with venture capitalists. During the app’s launch, the team visited various historically black colleges and universities to foster its target userbase. “I think the HBCUs were great in terms of driving the initial wordof-mouth,” Gerrard said. After the launch, the team worked on improving the customer experience. “The real work begins once it’s out there,” Kunzika said. These improvements consisted of looking at reviews, receiving and responding to customer emails. He cited the app’s acceptance into Facebook’s FbStart program, which gave the team $80,000
in services, as an example of its success, as it allowed the team to partner up with Facebook and to present the app at F8, Facebook’s developer conference. Gerrard said the app uses a unique algorithm for matching people. “A lot of traditional dating platforms have you fill out a lot of information, and they’re using that to ideally match you up with others you would like to connect with,” he said, “For BAE, we kind of reverse-engineered that. We want to know as little about you as possible, and then we use how you interact with users in the app to form those matches.” Kunzika added that the app learns from users’ selection behaviors to learn more about the users and match users up with other people who are more likely to like the said users. When asked about how BAE maintains its black userbase, Gerrard said that BAE has not had any problem with targeting the right demographic as “people are selfselecting when they go on BAE.” He in fact said he wants BAE to be inclusive, as he doesn’t want to discourage people attracted to BAE’s target demographic. Gerrard said that a huge part of addressing social problems is
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Penn State professor Jessie Runnoe gave a talk about black holes in Wilder.
Nimr said that there have been notable shifts in specialties over the past few years, influenced by changes in government policy as well as economic climate. “There has been a skewing in the last 20 years toward other specialties,” Amer Al-Nimr said. “Most residents, especially top-tier students, would go to a place with a good quality of life, and financially lucrative, because they have medical school loans to pay off.” Al-Nimr added that specialties like osteology, dermatology, orthopedics and surgical specialties are increasingly desired. Jesus Iniguez Med’16, who matched into family medicine at Lawrence General Hospital said that Geisel’s small size, clinical experience and close relationships with the administration helped his process of finding a match. Andrew Everett Med’16 also said that Geisel uniquely positioned students for Match Day. Everett credited Sue Harper, the third and fourth year advising dean, with the success on Match Day, who he said single-handedly writes the recommendation letter for all students. “She’s very aggressive about making sure people are on top of things,” he said. “She really makes things happen.” In mid-March, Geisel an-
nounced a change for the 2017 academic year — a new department called the Department of Medical Education, which will focus on integrating curriculum across departments as well as increasing the emphasis on teaching. Anatomy professor Rand Swenson will chair the department. “We are very excited about the genesis of this new department,” Leslie Henderson, senior associate
“The chief advantage of having a department of medical education is the case of coordination and integration between courses.” -RAND SWENSON, ANATOMY PROFESSOR
dean for academic affairs said. “It will promote greater cohesiveness and creativity in our curriculum by shifting responsibility for preclinical education to a core group of faculty members who will have as their primary focus the education and support of our undergraduate medical students.”
Swenson said that the preclinical curriculum at Dartmouth historically consisted of courses run by individual departments. One of the new department’s goals is to provide students with a less fragmented educational experience. “The chief advantage of having a department of medical education is the ease of coordination and integration between courses,” Swenson said. “There is the added benefit of sharing best practices amongst a dedicated core of faculty and there is also the opportunity for these faculty in the department to be involved in broader educational development for the remainder of the medical school community.” On a practical level, some departments will be absorbed into the new department, and a group of faculty will facilitate the evaluation and discussion of educational development. Swenson, however, stressed that faculty from outside the department will still participate in the educational experience of medical students. “This department will not marginalize the general medical school faculty in medical education,” he said. “While it is true the bulk of the teaching will be done by a smaller group of faculty, the fact that the administrative and organizational burdens of the curriculum will be borne by members of the department will facilitate other faculty involvement in the courses.”
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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 7:45 a.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum, biannual entrepreneurship conference and start-up competition, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
“Hail Caesar!” (2016), film by Joel and Ethan Coen, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Physics & Astronomy Public Astronomical Observing, free viewing through the campus telescope, Observatory
TOMORROW
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
“Madama Butterfly” (1903), presented in HD by Met Opera, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
“Anomalisa” (2015), a stop-motion animated film by Charlie Kaufman, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
“Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”, a film by J.J. Abrams, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center RELEASE DATE– Friday, April 1, 2016
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Action opera ‘Red-Eye to Havre de Grace’ to come to Hop By NALINI RAMANTHAN The Dartmouth Staff
Edgar Allen Poe is much more than a scary storyteller as “Red-Eye to Havre de Grace,” performed by groups Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and Wilhelm Bros. & Co., shows. The play chronicles the last days of Poe’s life, specifically focusing on his journey to New York in pursuit of remarriage, tonight and tomorrow at the Hopkins Center. The play’s director, Thaddeus Phillips of Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, came up with the premise of the piece due to his long interest in the poet, which dates back to his school days. Phillips’ interest in Poe encompasses Poe’s artistic works and personal life. Although Poe is primarily known as an author of mystery and horror stories, including “The Raven” (1845), Phillips found that there was more to Poe than his popular works. The play uses the tension in Poe’s life as a writer in a capitalist society thematically, going through his struggle to appease both his artistic desires, which leaned toward the more existential, and the masses,
who yearned for less abstract horror stories. Phillips said that his main goals as a director were portraying these tensions and capturing Poe’s existential themes. Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence said that the play’s intellectual discussion, which combines the scholarly with the artistic, was one of the reasons she chose this play to be performed. She said that this play relates to English professor Ivy Schweitzer’s class “American Poetry,” which discusses Poe’s work. Phillips visited the class on Tuesday. “I think the whole point of his play and his project is that he isn’t just a writer of scary stories, that he wasn’t just always drunk, that he was a very complex human being,” Schweitzer said. This, she said, is found in his later poems such as “Eureka” (1848), which lean towards existentialist questions. The play is a form of devised theater, a type of theater in which the cast as a whole writes the script and creates the staging, which Phillips said allows for a more organic dialogue.
The process of creating scenes typically involved a poem, which the cast would use to inspire an improvised scene. From this improvised scene, the cast would refine the dialogue and elements of the improvisation to create the lines for the show itself. As director, Phillips said that he guides where things go. Sam Van Wetter ’16 attended Phillips’ Wednesday master class at the Hop on devised theater. “It’s known to be one of the hardest and most time-intensive ways to create theater, and you know, you can work a piece for months and months and it might only be 10 minutes long,” Van Wetter said. Allowing the viewer to approach Poe from a more sympathetic and perhaps hallucinatory perspective, the show puts the character of Poe in rather absurdist situations, such as a discussion on camping with a duck. These apparent time-wasters, which Poe sometimes perpetuates himself, are in direct conflict with his concrete goal to go to New York and get married, creating a Beckettian feel that thematically matches Poe’s later existentialist work. However, the play’s often lighthearted tone differs drastically from
its subject, often including elements of humor not found in Poe’s work. This is something both Lawrence and Van Wetter are excited to see. The play’s set also reflects elements of absurdism. With a sparse set, the play often reuses the same items, sometimes repurposing them for unconventional uses. A piano, for example, is at one point used as a hiding place. The music, written and played by the brother duo of Jeremy and David Wilhelm of Wilhelm Bros. & Co., highlights the absurdist and humorous characteristics found in the play. The two musicians play a piano like a violin, a bassoon and a clarinet. Another piano is prepared and placed upright. Though the play does not directly address feminist themes, there has been discussion of the role of feminist ideas in Poe’s work and experiences. Phillips visited women, gender and sexuality studies professor Renee Bergland’s writing seminar “Gender and Genius,” which focuses on gender roles. Schweitzer said that in the past her students have also focused on Poe’s role as a feminist in his short story “Fall of the House of Usher”
(1839), arguing that the poem critiques Victorian conventions of women as lesser intellectuals. Lawrence said that issues of gender may be brought up in the play since Poe writes to his motherin-law about his existential issues. She commented that Poe had an “intense and lifelong” relationship with his mother-in-law. “Historically we don’t really know if this relationship was more than that or not, but it’s just an interesting part of his life,” Lawrence said. She said that this debate about Poe’s views on the role of women and their intellectual capabilities will likely be a part of the audienceguided post-show discussion with the performers. The show has received accolades from The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, and its performance at Dartmouth will be the first the group has done in over a year. “Red-Eye to Havre de Grace” will be performed at the Moore Theater tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Sam Van Wetter ’16 is a member of The Dartmouth Staff.
Alumna Q&A: Associate producer Samantha Knowles ’12 By KOURTNEY KAWANO
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
When Samantha Knowles ’12 began her journey at Dartmouth eight years ago, she had her eye set on majoring in film & media. Not only did she achieve that goal, but she exceeded it, graduating with degrees in psychology and film and media studies. Knowles has transitioned flawlessly into working in the film industry thanks to her short documentary “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?” (2012), which received the 2012 Reel Sisters Film Festival Spirit Award and the 2013 Women, Action & the Media Film Festival Audience Award. As an associate producer, she has worked on several films including “Meru” (2015) and “Incorruptible” (2015), a film about the 2011 Senegal crisis. When did you develop an interest in film? I was a senior in high school, and I was always into the arts. I grew up dancing, and I thought I would get into theater. But I was still exploring other options, and I started to watch DVDs and DVD commentary on them. Once I discovered the director’s commentaries that you can watch as the movie is playing, I realized this is a different way to watch those movies. I liked hearing about the thought that directors put into making the film because before that I had never fully understood what a director does.
I remember in one commentary, the director said, “I know no one’s watching this. Only the film nerds are watching this.” And I thought, “Maybe I’m a film nerd.” So when I applied to college, I indicated that I probably wanted to be a film major just to explore it. I came to Dartmouth, started taking classes right away and decided that’s what I wanted to do.
Most — if not all — of your productions are documentaries. What do you find appealing about this style of film? Honestly, I got into documentaries because it felt so accessible. It felt like something that you could go out and do. I think practically that’s true, and that’s definitely a reason to be interested in it, but it’s also the way in which the stories are real life. The IFC Center in New York has this documentary series called, “Stranger Than Fiction,” a weekly series of documentaries that kind of fall into that category. Lately, I’ve been thinking about that phrase as my interest in documentaries. I think it’s amazing that real life stories can be stranger than fiction or can be edifying in a particular way and filmmakers can work their magic and bring that to light. It’s an amazing process, and I think that’s what makes documentaries my strength. What are some of the challenges of being a producer or director
that most people do not know about?
It requires such a vast range of skills, especially in documentaries. Outsiders may not know this, but with a narrative film, the roles are sequestered into different departments. Camera department will take ownership of the camera gear. Grip and electric department will take control of the lights and the gear needed to hang the lights. Everyone sort of has that as their jurisdiction, but in documentaries, everything is muddled. So I’m coordinating shoots and developing relationships with subjects and I’m booking flights, but I’m also packing the camera gear or shooting or helping to set up a light. It also requires a lot of flexibility and the ability to juggle a lot of things at once. It’s real life so you can’t always plan it. Sometimes you have to pull a whole shoot together in two days. It can be really hard work in a lot of ways. Do you have a project that you consider the most special or significant? I think “Black Dolls” would be that in a lot of ways because I had freedom at Dartmouth to make the film, and I poured everything I had into it for a year. I cite that as one of the best things—if not the best thing—I did at Dartmouth because I got a lot of support from people and I’m really proud of what I was able to create
and how I was able to maximize the collaborative nature of documentary filmmaking and filmmaking in general to create something that shows off everyone’s skills of those who worked on it. One of my current roommates is the one who shot it, and we met at an internship so whenever I see the film I think that’s the product of that relationship, and I’m really proud of that relationship. It taught me so much, and I had a really fun couple of years after when I got to show the film all over the country. I think that’s what made it the most special film for me. How have your expectations from the moment you graduated from Dartmouth been different or similar to the realities you’ve experienced in the film industry? I think I’ve been lucky in that I’ve gotten work to make a living doing this, which is great and I’m glad that I get to do this. But I think the other side of this is you quickly realize that you shouldn’t consider it lucky to get to do this work because it’s really hard work. It should be taken seriously. I think the thing with the film industry is there are great projects and there are not so great projects. People cut corners, and the same way you apply a critical eye to any job, you need to apply that to any creative endeavor. With the arts, sometimes, you feel like you may accept something that’s isn’t
so good jobwise as it should be because you’re thinking, “Oh well, it’s lucky to be working.” But I think it’s realizing that you should still be treated fairly at work. I know a lot of friends who don’t think they’re getting paid enough or their hours are too long, but they love the work. I think it’s learning that yes it’s great to be able to make a living doing this, but you still need to stand up for yourself and make a fair wage. What are some future projects or interests? I’m currently working on my own short piece about my uncle who was a member of this hip hop group called, “The Cold Crush Brothers.” They were incredibly pioneering, and when I started Googling him, I realized there’s so much documentation of their influence in the ’70s and ’80s. It’s kind of incredible. They’re mentioned in the footnotes of so many history books. I’m kind of developing a short piece about that. It’s not fully formed. I’m just shooting a little and kind of exploring. Then, after working on a Boston Marathon bombing documentary for HBO with two Dartmouth alums, I’m going to be working on a film about campus violence. After that, since I’m a freelancer, I don’t really know. This Q&A has been edited and condensed for clarity and length. The full version can be found online.
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Robertson-Lavalle paves own way to team membership By MARK CUI
The Dartmouth Staff
On the soccer team’s team photo posted on the Dartmouth website, one notable member is missing: Marcos Robertson-Lavalle ’17, the team manager. Working behind the scenes, Robertson-Lavalle plays an instrumental role in preparing the team and contributing to its overall success. Robertson-Lavalle has always loved the sport, but after a high school soccer injury, he shifted his focus to tennis. Despite the unexpected change in sports, he remained a team manager of his high school soccer team. “I ended up deciding tennis because I played more competitively in tennis and had a better chance of making the team,” RobertsonLavalle said. “I kind of gave up playing soccer, but all my friends were on the soccer team, so that’s actually how I became manager for the first time.” Through his high school coach, Robertson-Lavalle was able to get in contact with the soccer coaches at Dartmouth and naturally transitioned to become the Dartmouth men’s soccer team’s manager immediately as a freshman. While Robertson-Lavalle does not practice with the team, he is present at every game and sometimes runs with the rest of the team during practice. The day-to-day stuff, such as picking up cones, are not part of Robertson-Lavalle’s role. His responsibilities as team manager have gradually increased over time, and his role largely consists of calculating logistics and preparing the little things to ensure the
team’s success. Brendan Barth ’17 , a member of the team, has known RobertsonLavalle for three years. He said that Robertson-Lavalle often does more than expected of him, including ordering food for the team while they are traveling. Head coach Chad Riley also detailed the importance of Robertson-Lavalle’s role outside of the outlined duties. “He is such a great teammate and team player that he really adds a lot to our team outside of his outlined duties with us,” Riley said. “He loves soccer, loves his team and will really do anything to help anyone on the team. It has also been enjoyable for the coaches to have a Dartmouth student in the office regularly with us that really becomes part of our staff.” The team also appreciates Robertson-Lavalle’s time-consuming role as manager. “I’m always astounded by how often in the office he’s working,” Barth said. “He’s given a lot up to be a part of something bigger than himself. He’s not necessarily playing any games, or getting his name in the headlights, but he’s doing a lot to contribute to our success and that’s very beneficial to the team.” While Robertson-Lavalle himself admits that the schedule in the fall can very demanding at times, the soccer team is generally flexible about his role. At the beginning of each term, Robertson-Lavalle sits down with the coaching staff to set goals for the term to find a good balance that allows both Robertson-Lavalle and the coaches to get what they need.
The Roundup Baseball The Dartmouth baseball team fell 5-4 to Quinnipiac University in its home opener after failing to keep a 3-1 lead in the first inning. Quinnipiac improved to 7-14 while the Big Green fell to 5-14. In the first inning, the Bobcats earned a run after a wild pitch by Big Green starter Jackson Bubala ’17 with the bases loaded. A pitching switch by the Big Green allowed Chris Burkholder ’17 to
get out of the inning only down a run. The Big Green exploded for three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Joe Purritano ’16 hit a tworun triple to reach third base with runners on the corners. Michael Ketchmark ’17 hit a single to lead Purritano home and give the Big Green a 3-1 lead. Quinnipiac cut the lead to 3-2 in the fourth after strong base running. In the fifth inning, the Big Green
COURTESY OF MARCOS ROBERTSON-LAVALLE
After being sidelined with an injury in high school, Marcos Robertson-Lavalle, center-back, participates in sports as a manager.
“The coaches understand that you’re a student first,” he said. “My hours are very flexible. They change every term based on my classes and my availability.” Robertson-Lavalle’s favorite aspect about his job as manager is the team experience, with his most memorable memory being formed with the team in Seattle. “It’s very cool to have the team experience,” Robertson-Lavalle said. “It’s almost like I’m an extension to the team in a lot of ways, which I really appreciate. I wouldn’t be on a varsity team playing-wise, but I at least do get the team experience [and] get to travel.” Robertson-Lavalle personality and interests have made it easy for him to fit in with the team. Barth described Robertson-Lavalle as “always smiley and charismatic,” whose love for the game is obvious.
Not only has the experience as manager been incredibly rewarding and fun, but it has also helped develop Robertson-Lavalle’s time management skills. “There’s a lot of logistics going on behind the scenes that not everyone sees but that are needed to get everything working,” he said. “Sometimes a one-and-ahalf-hour meeting quickly turns into three hours by the time you break out. So I’ve learned to just plan ahead.” Riley added that RobertsonLavalle has also “grown in confidence in his role with [the team].” While Robertson-Lavalle is still a junior, the team has begun the process of recruiting an underclassman to serve as a manager alongside Robertson-Lavalle. In the future, the manager role may be allocated to two people instead of just one.
“I could be a mentor, and they would also be a team manager,” Robertson-Lavalle said. “Games I couldn’t go to, they could go to. Eventually this could fall into a role for two different people two years apart working together. After two years, you would have a senior, and they would take on more and more responsibilities.” In addition to his role as a manager of the soccer team, Robertson-Lavalle also has many other interests. Academically, he is a double major in economics and Portuguese. He also loves to travel, having spent two summers in Brazil, one as an internship and one as a study abroad. He is also involved in other activities, including his church group and yoga off campus. Languages are also a very active part of his life, as he fluently speaks Spanish, Portuguese and English.
gave up two more runs and the lead after suspect infielding to trail 4-3. Quinnipiac scored the game winner in the seventh inning while the Big Green left two runners stranded on the bases in the bottom of the inning. Strong pitching by the Bobcats held Dartmouth scoreless from the second through the seventh inning. The Big Green scored a run in the eighth inning, but Robert Hitt closed out the game for Quinnipiac. Both teams recorded 10 hits.
outmatched at the University of Vermont on Tuesday night. Despite scoring first in every period, Dartmouth (1-7, 1-1 Ivy) fell 15-9 to the Catamounts (5-5). Richard Loftus ’18 struck the first blow for Dartmouth, notching the opening goal after 2:16 of play. UVM responded with two goals of its own, bringing the first quarter score to 2-1 in favor of the Catamounts. The second quarter followed the same script, as Cameron Lee ’16’s opening goal was followed by two more from UVM late in the period. KC Beard ’16’s unassisted score cut
the Catamounts’ lead to 4-3 in the third quarter, but UVM answered with five goals, interrupted by just one Dartmouth tally. Vermont took a 9-4 lead into the fourth quarter and proceeded to outscore the Big Green 6-5 for a 15-9 total at the final horn. Loftus continued a recent scoring streak with four goals on eight shots, and netminder Joe Balaban ’19 totaled 19 saves in the first full game of his college career. However, the Big Green was outshot for the first time since March 5, with the Catamounts getting the best of a 53-40 split.
Men’s lacrosse Big Green men’s lacrosse was