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Thriving@Dartmouth will train student advisors.

This fall and winter, approximately twenty students have been the first to participate in two new programs — Thriving@ Dartmouth and Thriving Together — that have been offered by the College’s office of health promotion and student wellness for the first time this year. Building on feedback, the office plans to continue at least one of the programs, Thriving@ Dartmouth, in the spring.

Over the past year, the office has talked with its current peer advisors, including Eating Disorder Peer Advisors, Sexual Assault Peer Advisors, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors and Sexperts, interim co-

director Amanda Childress said, and found that while students have reported that they like the program, they are concerned about how providing support for other students has been emotionally and logistically tolling.

Many student advisors were not fully engaged with the office, Childress said, and those who were engaged in their work frequently noted that by the time students reached them, those students were in need of professional help.

Facing these challenges, Childress said, the office decided to focus on “preventative” ways to connect with students, creating two new programs with a holistic wellness focus. The first of these programs, Thriving@ Dartmouth, was piloted this

fall.

Maria Sperduto ’14, a wellness fellow at the College, said that Thriving@ Dartmouth excelled in its first term, receiving positive reviews from students.

The program, which offers students P.E. credit for an interactive and experiential learning course focused on self-care and wellness, is running again this term with 15 participants.

An eight-week long program, Thriving@Dartmouth is meeting during the 3B time slot this quarter. Its focus, according to program materials, is on exploring the seven “roots” of wellness: intellectual, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, environmental and financial SEE ADVISING PAGE 2

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The Dartmouth Class of 1964 formally announced last Wednesday a $10.1 million donation to fund the leadership development programs created through the ’64 Leadership Initiative Fund. The Fund began in June 2014 as a part of the class’s theme of “a tradition in leadership” for the class’s 50th anniversary.

The ’64 Leadership Initiative Fund is designed to support two complementary programs, Dartmouth Peak Performance and the Dartmouth Learn to Lead program.

Dartmouth Peak Performance is an initiative that encourages new and existing services to build a culture of leadership for Dartmouth’s undergraduate athletes. The fund also

supports the expansion of leadership programs beyond varsity athletes, which would include students involved in non-varsity sports and other extracurricular activities.

Trustee Emeritus Ronald Schram ’64, a leader in the fundraising effort, said in email that the fund has chosen to support leadership programs through the athletics department and the Rockefeller Center in particular because of the dedication and commitment the two have in fostering many of Dartmouth’s students’ leadership abilities.

By allowing the fund to be used beyond exclusively varsity athletes, Schram said he hopes they will be able to provide more students with the chance to take advantage of these initiatives.

In particular, he highlighted the efforts of athletic director Harry Sheehy, senior associate athletics director for peak performance Drew Galbraith and economics professor Andrew Samwick for their dedication to the fund’s efforts, calling them “champions” in developing leadershiporiented prog rams and hailing their passion for the program.

Galbraith praised the effects of the DP2 program, noting that he has seen student athletes benefiting both academically and at h l e t i c a l l y. U n d e r t h e program, student athletes are granted access to tutors across sections, and the program offers leadership training imbedded in athletics and in learning experiences that take place outside

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Hanover, in conjunction with the Twin Pines Housing Trust, will expand and improve its affordable housing by replacing current units with newer, seniorspecific units in downtown Hanover.

Despite potential concerns that the units will be rented out to College students for a large profit, the legislation will require residents to own the units, and there are laws in place restricting to whom affordable housing units can be sold, Twin Pines executive director Andrew Winter said.

“We generally use various federal gover nment resources — including low-

income housing tax credits — and those usually have very strict rules regarding renting to students, so that historically has not been an issue with our properties,” Winter said.

Studies have shown that the particular set of demographic and socioeconomic factors in Hanover make it difficult to provide affordable and workforce housing in Hanover, according to the town’s Housing and Development Plan, which was published 2010. Gile Hill, a 120-unit mixed housing development with 61 affordable units for families, was built after a study

by Hadfield Associates in 2003 found that Hanover had the second highest level of unmet low- and SEE HOUSING PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing Jan. 16, 1:52 p.m., New Hampshire Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of property damage behind New Hamp. Ice had reportedly fallen off of the dormitory’s roof, causing damage to a student’s parked vehicle.

Jan. 16, 8:50 p.m., Thompson Arena: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of an intoxicated student at Thompson Arena. The student was transported to Dick’s House and became disorderly. The student was then taken into custody

by Hanover Police and transported to Grafton County Jail.

Jan. 17, 1:00 a.m., Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call at SAE. The intoxicated individual — a member of the Class of 2018 — was transported to Dick’s House, where they were admitted for the night.

Jan. 17, 1:05 a.m., Psi Upsilon fraternity: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call at Psi U. The intoxicated individual — a member of the Class of 2018 — was transported to Dick’s House, where they were admitted for the night.

Jan. 18, 12:15 a.m., Prospect Street: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call from Prospect Street. The intoxicated individual — a member of the Class of 2018 — was evaluated and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Jan. 18, 1:00 a.m., The Green: Safety and Security officers picked up an intoxicated member of the Class of 2016. The student was transported to Dick’s House, and admitted for the night.

Jan. 18, 1:06 a.m., Chi Heorot fraternity: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call at Heorot.

The intoxicated individual — a member of the Class of 2018 — was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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wellness.

“The idea of the program is that it is necessary to take care of all these different parts of yourself in order to really be well and optimize what you can do in any area,” Sperduto said. “The idea is that when you leave class you feel restored in some way.”

Based on feedback from its pilot term, the next iteration of Thriving@Dartmouth will include a more specific journaling procedure and more active engagement with lecture themes, Sperduto said.

The second of the office’s new programs, Thriving Together, is targeted at students who were originally interested in joining EDPA and DAPA as advisors and want to support their peers on wellness issues, Childress said.

Thriving Together’s pilot program, which was launched this quarter, has seven participants.

Of the participants this winter, some were inspired to enter the program after participating in Thriving@Dartmouth, some were interested in motivational interviewing and others signed up based on an interest in becoming an EDPA or DAPA but bringing a new, holistic perspective, interim co-director of student health

promotion and wellness Caitlin Barthelmes said.

“This is a training that helps students who are interested in having intentional conversations

“The idea of the program is that it is necessary to take care of all these different parts of yourself in order to really be well and optimize what you can do in any area.

The idea is that when you leave class you feel restored in some way.”

- MARIA SPERDURO ’14, college wellness fellow about wellness,” Barthelmes said.

In addition to a training in motivational interviewing — a conversation style that focuses on increasing a person’s motivation and commitment to making posi-

tive changes — the program will also encourage its participants to undergo wellness challenges each week, choosing from a menu of options that allow them to focus on specific areas of their lives they would like to improve.

At the end of the term, students will select a specialization topic on which to do deeper research, developing an interactive mode to share that idea with peers, Barthelmes said.

Barthelmes also said that participants will invite someone from their social circle to join them in their wellness challenges, helping them each to become a “positive change agent” in their communities. The program will hopefully be a second step to Thriving@ Dartmouth for people who want to advise their peers, Sperduto said.

EDPAs and DAPAs will still be available to students, Barthelmes said, noting that the growth in the new programs was not intended to replace existing resources but instead to incorporate the feedback of student advisors and provide more opportunities for them to help students in a more holistic way.

Two former EDPA and DAPA program participants did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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moderate-income housing need in the region.

Part of the lack of affordable housing was attributed to the fact that much of the affordable housing that does exist is rented out to Dartmouth College students, who move off campus either due to the fact that it is cheaper or because they have difficulty finding accommodation in College housing, according to the Housing and Development Plan.

Other contributing factors included that land costs are higher than in any other town in the region and that sites suitable for commercial expansion or new construction are rare. As a result of the high costs, many employees in Hanover businesses cannot afford to reside in Hanover, necessitating that they commute long distances from other towns to work.

Twin Pines hopes to expand affordable living opportunities in Hanover, Winter said.

“Hopefully it will provide increased opportunities for seniors who are interested in living in Hanover, either because they have pre-existing ties with the town, or if they have family in town or if they work there,” said Winter.

Currently, there are 24 units in the Summer Park senior housing facility, which are quickly deteriorating and have exhausted their usability, chair of the Hanover

“Hopefully it will provide increased opportunities for seniors who are interested in living in Hanover, either because they have pre-existing ties with the town, or if they have family in town or if they work there.”

- ANDREW WINTER, TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Affordable Housing Commission Bruce Altobelli said. The trust hopes to replace the current af-

fordable housing in town with units with more modern standards.

“We want to basically replace it with new housing that’s more energy efficient, better-laid out and with more convenient units,” Altobelli said. “Right now there are no elevators. In the new housing, this will be a requirement.”

He also said that existing units are too small by modern expectations.

Director of communications at the New Hampshire Housing Authority Jane Law said that state legislation on housing changes every year, though she could not pinpoint any specific legislation from this year. She said that though New Hampshire has no minimum requirement for the amount of affordable housing per county, housing is more in demand in the southeastern corner of the state, as well as in the Upper Valley and on the Sea Coast. Law attributes the greater demand for housing to the more populous nature of those areas.

New Hampshire’s Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published statistics saying that there are 22,270 families who live in affordable housing units across the states, though 1,111 of those were occupied by the elderly or

disabled.

Established in 1990, Twin Pines works to provide affordable housing across the Upper Valley, according to their website. Until recently, the non-profit organization has mostly focused on affordable housing for families, though Winter said that the initiative has one other senior-specific compound in White River Junction.

In all, the non-profit has built

and maintained 189 affordable housing units in the Upper Valley. The organization defines affordable housing as housing with payments that consist of less than 30 percent of a family’s income.

This will be the organization’s first affordable housing effort for seniors in New Hampshire, though they have worked with the town on the Giles Project, which developed affordable units for families.

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Hate in a Hashtag

Whitewashing the Awards

“Meninism” is an alarming reminder of why we need feminism.

“Meninism” — it sounds a lot like Nemo in “Finding Nemo” (2003) trying to pronounce “anemone” and failing. Cute and innocuous, right? Not quite. Meninism is an anti-feminism movement that’s old news, but has blown up on social media recently, gaining followers with its unapologetic misogynistic message.

What began as a good-natured joke has increasingly been used by men as a hashtag to condemn feminists and complain about imagined inequalities — and yes , they are imagined. Some highlights include men complaining about being sexually objectified in the movie “Magic Mike” (2012) — as if women haven’t been continually sexualized and objectified for centuries — and expounding on the unfairness of the friendzone, an invented concept that perpetuates the idea that women owe men sex. Most disturbingly, these socalled meninists have weighed in on the abortion debate with “Plan C” — domestic violence that results in a miscarriage.

It’s not the first time anti-feminists have threatened physical harm — many men threatened female reporters asking for equal representation during the infamous Gamergate. Gamergate began with attacks on game developer Zoe Quinn’s sex life, which escalated to death threats and harassment. The attacks spread as antifeminists targeted other women in the industry, harassing them via Twitter and sending threats of sexual and physical abuse. These anti-feminists attacked women in gaming with the explicit goal of destroying their lives. When Gamergate ended, many hoped that this behavior would end with it. It didn’t, and now internet anti-feminism has reappeared, united under another name.

Perhaps the most dangerous trend of this meninist movement is the use of rape as a punch line. A recently published tweet, for example, featured three cups: an optimist’s cup that was half full, a pessimist’s cup that was half empty and a feminist’s cup that was “being raped.” The official Meninist Twitter, which was the source of that tweet, has over 612 thousand followers — that’s 612 thousand Twitter users who are following an account against equality and making light of rape. These people seem to believe

that feminists simply “cry rape” and that’s it not a real and systemic issue — which it is.

These meninists actively paint a picture of feminists as hysterical, over-emotional women running around conjuring imagined slights and inventing rapes. I can assure you that this caricature is false. Feminists are rational people — both men and women — who believe in equality and try to illuminate and rectify real discrimination in our world.

At the core of the meninist movement is willful ignorance. I remember posting to my Tumblr blog about how infuriating I find the use of “play like a girl” as an insult. I cited some of the difficulties many female pro athletes face as examples — low attendance, low pay and awful working conditions not on par with those of their male counterparts.

Then a man, whose own Tumblr consisted only of anti-feminist and meninist posts, dismissed my assertions as lies and deceits.

That is the saddest part of the meninist movement — that so many people can repeatedly turn a blind eye toward discrimination. It’s discouraging that so few people know or care that FIFA used cheaper, artificial turf for the women’s cup when they never spare any expense to get real grass for the men. This resulted in a well-grounded discrimination suit because many of those women walked out with their skin torn up from the turf thanks to FIFA’s value judgments. They decided women, their bodies and their athletic skills are worth less than men’s. Women are reduced to second-class athletes who aren’t worth real grass. Preventing easily avoidable injuries doesn’t seem to be a concern for FIFA — not women’s injuries, at least. Yet, very few people know that these types of sexist “business decisions” take place on a regular basis, and so female athletes are denied the benefits and privileges that male athletes enjoy.

Meninism is an attempt to discredit a movement for equality, an attempt to bury all evidence of discrimination. Simply put it’s one huge strawman argument. Meninism invents a caricature of feminists that it then attacks so that it never has to face the real problem — the harmful effects of the gender inequality that it helps to perpetuate.

Racial exclusion in the Oscar nominations is indicative of bigger problems.

Wherever we are, racial divides and tensions are bound to exist. Yet the contributions of several individuals, ranging from this Monday’s holiday namesake Martin Luther King Jr. to the lesser sung W.E.B Dubois, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Bayard Rustin, have helped make the world a more equal place. Despite this progress, we must recognize that achieving equality requires more than just superficial change.

Many news media sources have called 2014 “the most diverse year in the history of television.” Gina Rodriguez was the second Latina woman to win a Golden Globe Award and ABC’s comedy show “Black-ish” clenched the title of the most-watched new sitcom on the network. Dartmouth’s own Shonda Rhimes ’91 produced two successful TV shows led by strong, successful black women — “How to Get Away with Murder” and “Scandal.” However, this heartwarming news was soon overturned by the whitest Oscar nominations list in more than 25 years — which was coincidentally also released on Martin Luther King’s birthday.

Criticized on social media with the hashtag #Oscarsowhite, the Academy came under fire for failing to nominate a single person of color under any of the acting categories. “Selma,” a film praised by several critics, received only one major nomination for the awards show.

Awards may not carry meaning for some many people, but it’s disconcerting that such films, and their actors and crew members, were blatantly excluded at such an influential ceremony. A recent report in the Los Angeles Times states that 94 percent of the Academy voters are white, while less than two percent are black. Even less than two percent are Latino even less than two percent. Although the current serving president of the academy is a black woman,

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her influence seems limited in the overall decisions.

The hashtag movement might mislead people into believing that the Oscars has only ever been a white-dominated awards ceremony — this is not entirely the case.

Halle Berry was the first Black woman to win the Oscar for best leading actress for her role in “Monster’s Ball” (2001), and more recently Lupita N’yongo won an Oscar for her role in “12 Years a Slave” (2013).

However, in both productions, the women filled stereotypical roles — Berry an abusive mother, and N’yongo a slave. It could be that studios limit the number of roles in which to cast black women and black Americans, or — more problematically — that outdated racial views heavily influence the Academy in the nomination process.

Even beyond the film industry, racial relations in the United States need work. That #JeSuisCharlie has been donned by global celebrities on red carpets and hailed by millenials all over the world while #BlackLivesMatter has not received the same level of positive attention and endorsement beyond the black community shows how race and ethnocentrism keep certain issues out of the spotlight — thanks to the complacent and false view that the world is now a more equal place.

Many fall into the trap of thinking that the United States has moved into an era where racism has been “fixed” and no longer exists.

The lived experiences of people of color — of the unarmed black men who are killed in the streets by police — say otherwise.

We need to avoid feeling self-congratulatory about the progress we have achieved so far. Martin Luther King’s vision, celebrated this past Monday, hasn’t been realized yet — it’s still incomplete, something that we must continually work toward.

We are writing in response to yesterday’s column by Jon Vandermause, “Revamping Research,” which calls for all students to write an undergraduate thesis. We are delighted to see such a keen interest in research, and agree that original student research can be a key component of a Dartmouth education. The piece, however, may understate the amount of original research currently undertaken by undergraduates.

Take the case of our department, economics, which graduates nearly 200 students per year.

All economics majors and minors must complete a culminating experience where students develop an original research question, collect and analyze data relevant to the question and write a substantial paper reporting their results.

Exceptional papers result in a student being nominated for honors. Some of these papers are extended into traditional honors theses, al-

lowing students to graduate with honors and high honors. In essence, all economics majors are required to write a thesis to graduate, but not all theses earn academic honors.

We are actively working on making it easier for students to go beyond our required culminating experience. We recently established the position of director of undergraduate research, a faculty member who will supervise honors theses and help pair students with faculty. We are working to make sure that students that are successful as presidential scholars have opportunities to continue this work until graduation. We would like to encourage more students to turn their culminating experience research into formal honors theses. We feel that expanding the research opportunities for Dartmouth undergraduates is a worthy goal.

— James Feyrer Vice chair, department of economics — Chris Snyder Director of undergraduate research, department of economics

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— such as Create Your Own Path program, which gives students the of the classroom, Galbraith said. resources to make strategic plans Jack Connolly ’16, a member for their futures. of the men’s lacrosse team, also The fund will be used to support program praised the efinitiatives like fects of DP2.

“We hope the the Rockefell The leaderer Initiative in ship program donation will help Design and Enwas an incred- the College better ible experiachieve its mission of trepreneurship that includes ence,” he said. proposed new “I have defi- educating students courses in social nitely benefited for a lifetime entrepreneurfrom DP2, and ship and adI t h i n k t h a t of responsible ditional funds it has helped leadership.” for mentoring me develop and innovative professional student projskills as well.” - Ronald schram ’64, ects. The funds C o n n o l l y trustee emeritus will also be used said he believes to expand the that DP2 will and leader of the Ro c k e f e l l e r continue to el- fundraising effort Leadership Felevate the inlows program dividuals who that invests in participate in the growth of the program in promising unboth academic and athletic endeavors, and that dergraduate Dartmouth leaders the program has helped his team through workshops, dinner discusas a whole grow as individuals and sions and team-building exercises.

“We hope the donation will as a group.

The fund also supports the help the College better achieve its Dartmouth Learn to Lead pro- mission of educating students for gram in launching leadership pro- a lifetime of responsible leadergrams in the Rockefeller Center ship,” Schram said.

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Exhibit in Baker Library honors Eisenman’s ’43 work

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How do you get somebody to look at a single letter as a picture? How do you get them to see that it has the same value as, perhaps, any image on a wall? Alvin Eisenman ’43, a worldfamous graphic designer who died in September 2013, saw each letter on a page as an art form — he believed that a letter should be as “pleasing” and “dynamic” as an independent mark, exhibit curator, instructor at the College’s Letterpress Studio and former Eisenman student Won Chung ’73 said.

Baker-Berry Library is currently hosting an exhibit called “The Design Work of Alvin Eisenman” to highlight and honor his work in graphic design and his status in the field.

Chung said that Eisenman taught a holistic approach to design.

“I learned a lot from how he approached his work and got us involved in the understanding of the content, as well as form and design,” Chung said. “You had to understand what the information was that you were working with, and not just the

packaging of the material.”

Chung said that for the exhibit, he wanted to summarize the diversity of Eisenman’s work — which spanned from Army field manuals to award-winning newspaper layout to art catalogues — as well as showcase some of his earlier and less-known works.

“A lot of the books he did early on were ordinary textbooks,” he said. “It was important to show these less well-known works, the more mundane textbook projects, and not the fancy coffee table books that people are familiar with.”

Throughout his time at the College, Eisenman found influences that would later impact his work in both design and teaching. He was first inspired to study bookbinding, typography and printing in Baker Library, making it the perfect venue to hold the exhibit, Chung said.

While at Dartmouth, Eisenman would also meet historian Ray Nash, who would serve as his mentor and influence his teaching style.

“I think that one of the reasons we wanted to hold the exhibit was to emphasize the influence of the undergraduate liberal arts educa-

tion he received [at Dartmouth],” Chung said.

Baker-Berry Library graphic arts specialist Dennis Grady said that he wanted to plan out the exhibit in a way that reflected Eisenman’s own design style, for example using typography that Eisenman may have used.

“I paid an homage to Eisenman in a way by using design elements that he’d use, such as the typeface and the way that text is presented,” Grady said.

A book about Jackson Pollock that Eisenman designed was Grady’s favorite work of Eisenmans’s on display, he said. The entire four-volume set on Pollock’s work is currently part of the Sherman Art Library’s collection.

“You’d expect Pollock’s and Eisenman’s styles to be diametrically opposed and incompatible, but, instead, Eisenman’s book design is supportive of Pollock’s energy,” Grady said.

Chung said that Eisenman’s “breadth of...intellectual experience” was an element of his work that set him apart from other graphic designers. Eisenman was broadly

engaged in a variety of artistic fields, from art history to drawing, and made an effort to understand each of the fields. The beginning of Eisenman’s lifelong search to fill this “insatiable curiosity” began at the College, Chung said.

“Not only was Eisenman influenced in career and teaching methodology at Dartmouth, he also capitalized on [the liberal arts education] in terms of investigating lots of different fields of interest,” Chung said.

With this approach, Eisenman revolutionized graphic design in America and started the first graduate program in graphic design at Yale University.

Before he created the graduate program at Yale, Eisenman worked as the design director at the McGraw-Hill publishing company, where most of his textbooks were designed. Once at Yale, Eisenman both taught classes and worked as a designer for the Yale University Press, where his McGraw-Hill projects inspired later work. During his time at Yale, Eisenman worked with “Doonesbury” creatorsGarry Trudeau and design director for the

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Min Wang.

Sarah Park ’13 said that she liked the exhibit and Eisenman’s work because of its elegance. She said that one piece of his that she liked was one that talked about the idea of inner beauty.

“There’s a striking image of a woman with a beautiful neck who’s flipping her back in a ponytail and you could see that the neck’s a very swan-like curve,” she said. “The whole elegance, the fact that the image ranges from one page to another...It was mesmerizing and really captured his message.”

She said that she found his more technical works to be well-organized and easy to read and that she wished the exhibition were better publicized.

As an accompaniment to the exhibit, the annual Stephen Harvard memorial lecture was about Eisenman’s role in the rise of graphic design after World War II. The lecture was given by Douglass Scott, a former student of Eisenman’s, on Jan. 6.

The exhibit will run in Baker Lobby through March.

“This Dartmouth Life” brings radio journalism to campus

B y Amelia Rosch

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

While the student-run radio program “This Dartmouth Life” officially began in the Shakespeare Room in Sanborn Library last September, founder Laura Sim ’16 said that the idea for the program started with an interview she heard where Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life” host Ira Glass talked about achieving dreams.

Since its founding in the fall, “This Dartmouth Life” has released one episode and is working on a second.

The first episode, “Home Is Where The Heart Is,” explored the various definitions of home for College students, while the second one will be about hiding in plain sight.

Sim said that she wanted to create a platform for National Public Radio-style journalism because it was a different style of storytelling than what previously existed at the College.

“You know how reporters on Fox News, CNN, they don’t talk like normal people,” she said. “We wanted to strip that from audio journalism and make it all about storytelling.”

Sim said that her goal for “This Dartmouth Life” is to bring attention to the “seemingly mundane” and to emphasize how everyone at the College has a story to bring to the table. She said that she hopes

the program will help create and further empathy at the College.

Co-director of “This Dartmouth Life” Ivan Hess ’15 said that the opportunity to meet new people and learn about their stories is the most fulfilling aspect of the group’s work.

“We have all these experiences that are collectively shared, but the nuance is so brilliant,” he said.

Sim said that another goal is to find stories that are unique yet relatable for other members of the College community. She said that Melissa Padilla’s ’16 story in the first episode, in which she discussed applying to the College as an undocumented immigrant, captured their goal for a story by discussing a shared experience — such as applying to colleges through a different lens.

“Learning her story was crazy,” Sim said. “We want stories that everyone appreciates, even if they do not completely relate.”

Co-director Max Gibson ’16 said that the upcoming episode, which will explore the topic of strangers at the College, will allow students to think about people who they see every day but with whom they never form a real connection, such as staff members in the Class of 1953 Commons or the Baker-Berry Library.

“It’s cool that we think of Dartmouth as a close-knit community where you might be able to know

everyone, but there are 4,000 students, so it’s impossible,” he said.

“This episode shines a light that there’s so many people you walk by that you can never sit down and get to know.”

He said the new episode will include the story of a student who plays piano in public spaces and a prose-poem that was inspired by the situation in Ferguson.

“This Dartmouth Life” currently has a staff of around 25 students.

Hess described the structure of the program as “egalitarian,” as all members have input in the editorial and production process, as well as the opportunity to explore stories and create content.

Gibson said that they like to encourage their members to try aspects of radio journalism with which they may not be familiar, such as audio production.

Sim said that their editorial style focuses on collaboration, both between the directors and reporters as well as between reporters and their sources. She said that the “This Dartmouth Life” staff will come up with a theme together and then go out to look for stories and interviewees. She said that each audio story they run will go through several drafts, including re-interviews with the subjects.

Hess said that some of the show’s main challenges have been technical, such as learning how to use editing software. He said that

editing each feature in an episode can take up to 12 hours, due to the level of detail required to produce a clear audio piece, such as removing distracting coughs and stutters or adding music.

“We had a lot late nights in Novack [Cafe] at first,” Hess said.

“There was a learning curve, and I think we surmounted it.”

Gibson said that some of the challenges the group has faced have also been administrative, such as gaining recognition from the Council on Student Organizations.

Sim said that the College’s schedule has presented problems.

Due to the D-Plan and the termly turnover it causes, the group has had to work to figure out ways to retain

institutional memory — Gibson was abroad in the fall, while Sim is taking the current term off. She said that the relative shortness of the term can also make retaining their standards difficult.

“With only ten weeks, we want to do things as well as we can,” she said.

“When you try to produce quality work, it’s easy to get sloppy. With stories online, people will always be able to revisit, and if something is sloppy, it will be sloppy forever.”

Gibson said that moving forward, their goal is to reach out to students and get more people involved and excited to share their stories.

Sim is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

DANNY KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Max Gibson ’16 said the next “This Dartmouth Life” will tell stories of strangers.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015

WEDNESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

Men’s basketball’s defense shuts down NJIT B y Ray LU

The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s basketball team led for all but three minutes and 11 seconds Saturday in a start-to-finish effort to beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology 62-53.

“It wasn’t a super high-scoring game,” co-captain Alex Mitola ’16 said.

“It was a defensive battle.”

Mitola had a team-high 15 points on the strength of three three-pointers. Cocaptain Gabas Maldunas ’15 chipped in 12 points along with 5 blocks, which tied his season high, and 4 steals, another season high. Miles Wright ’18 set a career high with 4 steals, including several breakaways to put the Big Green (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) ahead of the Highlanders (11-10) early in the game.

Maldunas attributed his impressive statistics to a couple of early turnovers on his part and the size advantage Dartmouth had in this game. “[At] the start of the game I had a couple of turnovers that were pretty

dumb,” he said. “They weren’t really forced by the other team and I was just bobbling the ball. So then, I knew I had to change. [I] started hustling for every play, diving for loose balls and everything.”

Wright had three steals in the first half for the Big Green, the last of which he slammed home with authority to give Dartmouth a 10-5 lead with 12:06 to go. The Highlanders were forced to call a time-out, but the Big Green held the momentum for the rest of the game.

“I think that number one, everyone is understanding the importance of what defense has done for us, whether offensively the ball is going in the basket or it’s not going in the basket,” coach Paul Cormier said. “If we can be consistent on defense, we give ourselves a chance to win.”

Dartmouth currently ranks fourth in the Ivy League in team defense, holding six of their last seven opponents to under 60 points. The team forced a seasonhigh of 23 turnovers against NJIT. “I think part of it is chemistry,”

Mitola said. “This is a unit, at least the core of it, that has been playing together for one, two, even three years.”

The Big Green led at the half 2316 and out-scored the Highlanders in the paint 14-2, but the team arguably could’ve been up even more, turning the ball over 12 times in the first half alone. Dartmouth coughed up the ball 18 times against NJIT, the team’s most since the second game of the season.

The Highlanders could not narrow the score difference by more than four points in the second half, despite four three-pointers and 18 points from Winfield Willis. The Highlander’s Damon Lynn, often the leading scorer for the team, was shut down with a season-low five points, shooting only one for10.

“We forced them into a lot of tough shots and a lot of deep jumpers that, being a jump-shooting team, they are capable of making, but we defended it pretty well,” Mitola said.

Maldunas said that coach Cormier explains various defensive concepts very well, and that it has helped the Big Green

stay in games the past few years.

Just under three minutes into the second half, two consecutive three-pointers

by Willis put the Highlanders within two scores of tying the game, leaving the score at 26-22, but the Big Green held them off with a turnover from Connor Boehm ’16, and baskets by John Golden ’15 and Maldunas pushed the lead back up to eight.

“During practice and [the] last game [vs. NJIT] we were focused on our offense and making sure we know the plays and that we are all on the same page running the same play,” Maldunas said.

NJIT made headlines earlier this season when the team upset then No. 17 University of Michigan 72-70. Lynn poured in 20 points and made six threepointers that game, while Willis and Ky Howard both had 17 each. Michigan spiraled downward afterwards, going on a four-game losing streak and dropping out of the national rankings.

Moving forward, coach Cormier is proud of the team’s defensive improve-

ment, but hopes that their defensive efforts can generate more offense for the Big Green.

“Sometimes we run good offense, but the ball just doesn’t go into the basket,” Cormier said. “But, on a consistent basis, I’ve been disappointed. I’m hoping that perhaps we can get a few easy baskets by way of our defense, and we’ve worked on that a little bit and improved on that since the last time we played Harvard [University].”

Next on the Big Green’s schedule will be a match against Harvard. The Crimson took the last meeting between the two in Dartmouth’s Ivy opener on Jan. 10 57-46.

“We are trying to improve our offense, and when we play Harvard this weekend, we want to be able to score much easier and more so that if we continue to play good defense we can come out of there with a W,” Mitola said.

The Ivy League rematch will take place in Cambridge, Mass. on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m.

Tennis teams kick off 2015 season undefeated

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The men’s and women’s tennis teams started their winter indoor season off strong last Saturday, with both teams seeing successful results from their home matches. The Big Green men dominated on Saturday, defeating both the State University of New York at Buffalo and Bryant University with respective scores of 7-0 and 6-1. The women’s team clinched a hard-fought victory over Boston College, with a score of 4-3.

The men’s doubles teams proved strong against Buffalo, sweeping all three of their doubles matches. Dartmouth’s No. 1 doubles team of Chris Kipouras ’15 and Dovydas Sakinis ’16 had an exceptional showing, sweeping their match with a score of 6-0. No. 2 singles player Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 and Aman Agarwal ’18 clinched the next doubles match 6-1, followed by Diego Pedraza ’17 and Ciro Riccardi ’18 rounding out the doubles competitions with a 6-2 victory.

The men followed up their doubles performances by shutting out Buffalo with six wins in singles play, many of the victories being closely contested. Max Fliegner ‘18 and Riccardi brought in the first two singles victories in straight sets,

with Sakinis securing the Big Green’s victory by defeating Buffalo’s Damien David 7-5, 6-3.

The team only grew stronger throughout the day, once again sweeping all three doubles matches in their battle against Bryant. Kipouras and Sakinis repeated their solid doubles performance, coming off the court with a 6-2 win. Max Schmidt ’17 and Sam Todd ’15, as well as freshmen duo Agarwal and Riccardi, also proved to be formidable in doubles, winning their matches 6-4 and 6-3, respectively.

The Big Green went on to win five out of six singles matches in straight sets, with little resistance from Bryant.

Tannenbaum forced a tiebreaker, yet was handed the one loss of the day with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.

Fliegner cited the team’s preparedness as a factor in their success on Saturday.

“We’re able to identify our weaknesses and improve upon them while also using our strengths to their full potential,” he said. “We also do a good job of never taking our competition for granted.”

The women’s team opened their season against Boston College with solid performances in both doubles and singles as well.

The No. 2 doubles team of Katherine Yau ’16 and Kristina Mathis ’18 placed the Big Green on the scoreboard, winning their doubles match 6-2, while No. 3 doubles team Julia Schroeder ’18 and Akiko Okuda ’15 also secured a win with a score of 6-2.

In singles play, Taylor Ng ’17 had an impressive showing against Boston College’s Jessica Wacnik, who is ranked No. 1 in the Northeast region. Ng brought home the victory in straight sets, with a final score of 6-1, 6-0. Mathis also fought back from a first set loss to win her match 2-6, 7-5, 7-5, while Schroeder took the third singles win to clinch the victory for Dartmouth, 6-1, 7-6(6).

After a two-month hiatus, Ng is excited to get back on the court and believes that the women’s team hit the ground running this past Saturday, allowing them to win against Boston College.

“Everyone worked hard over the break and was ready to go from the start,” Ng said.

She also attributes the team’s success to its prepared mindset.

“Mental toughness is our greatest strength because it allows us to be positive when things are close,” she said.

The team’s mental strength was especially evident in the close singles

matches, with four out of the six singles matches coming to third sets.

When asked about particular concerns for the winter season, Ng cited injuries as a main issue.

“Taking care of ourselves is something that is going to be really important this season,” Ng said. “Winter as a whole is one of the most grueling seasons because of the increased number of matches.”

With five players returning from offterms, the women’s team has doubled in size this season.

Jacqueline Crawford ’17, who was

off last season, expressed enthusiasm about the team dynamic.

“Our coach has been really emphasizing our team being there for one another, and I feel like that support system is really nice when playing such an individual sport,” she said.

The women’s team will square off against Brown University, Cornell University and Mississippi State University on Jan. 24 and 25, while the men’s team will be hosting The University of Denver and Indiana University on Jan. 23 and 24. for the Dartmouth Kickoff Classic.

KATE HERRINGTON/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Akiko Okuda ‘15 contributed to win over Boston College with a 6-2 doubles win.