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Students participate in sugaring Office of Greek at Dartmouth’s Organic Farm Life launches

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Over spring break, Dartmouth students participated in maple sugaring at the Dartmouth Organic Farm.

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By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

Not all the old traditions fail.

Over spring break, Dartmouth students kept one tradition alive by contributing to the age-old process of maple sugaring in the Upper Valley.

A group of 10 students participated in the sugaring process on Dartmouth’s Organic Farm, the third consecutive year of operation for the alternative spring break project.

Beginning in mid-February, students ventured to the farm to begin tapping maple trees. In total, they tapped 90 trees, pro-

gram manager Laura Carpenter said. Ideally, the trees should be tapped before it starts to thaw outdoors and the sap starts running, she explained.

Maple specialist at the University of Vermont Mark Isselhardt, who communicates with local sugar producers throughout the region and keeps a sugaring blog, said that in Vermont, people are having a good to excellent season. Isselhardt anticipates that there will be above average production state wide. Average production is 0.31 gallons of syrup per tap per year.

The sap runs most frequently and in the greatest volume when it is above freezing during the day and the temperature dips below freezing at night, environmental studies professor David Lutz said.

Lutz, an expert in forest ecology, said pressure develops in the trees during warmer periods, forcing the sap out through the tap hole. In contrast, cooler periods cause negative pressure to develop, drawing water into the tree through its roots and replenishing the sap supply, he said.

Because this year’s temperaSEE SUGARING PAGE 3

The Office of Greek Life, formerly known as Greek Letter Organizations and Societies, launched “Greek 101” last Monday, a two-week-long series of workshops with titles including “Discipline and Dunkins,” “Fried Rice and Fiscal Responsibility” and “DBI and Dumplings.” The programming that included presentations by the Alcohol Management Program, representatives from the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and undergraduate deans, among many other College staff members.

Greek executives, who began their tenure this term, were encouraged to attend the workshops in an effort to familiarize the students with college resources available.

Office of Greek Life coordinator Ruth Kett said that the idea for the programming developed

from feedback the office has received from Greek officers. Greek presidents used to undergo a day-long mandatory training session, Kett said, but presidents commented that the sessions ran too long.

Kett added that the day-long mandatory training session was decreased to two hours and that the Greek 101 programming was added as supplementary material that could accommodate more students’ schedules.

Workshops were scheduled to begin between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., when the majority of classes were over, and ran from Monday to Friday over the last two weeks.

“In the past we have tried to hold informational sessions between classes as lunches, but the turnout was not as good as it could have been,” she added.

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Greens Week brings plant-based cooking to the College

By NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

New York Times best-selling cookbook author Jane Esselstyn describes her cooking style as “plant-based, baby!”

Esselstyn came to Dartmouth this week to discuss this style for what Dartmouth Dining Services has dubbed “Greens Week,” showcasing plant-based diets around the College.

Many of Esselstyn’s recipes were featured in Dartmouth’s Class of 1953 Commons dining hall for the week, including lemon-ginger tofu cubes, polenta cakes and vegan waffles. Additionally, Esselstyn delivered a public talk on

Wednesday afternoon called “Benefits of A Plant Based Diet, Dispelling Common Myths Of Plant Based Eating.” She also gave a cooking demonstration alongside a cookbook raffle yesterday.

College staff dietician Beth Rosenberger said that Greens Week was an important step in helping people make better decisions about what they eat.

“Greens Week has certainly, we hope, raised awareness about a plant based diet,” Rosenberger said. “Not only that, but, with all this wonderful food, people have been able to sample and try and see that it is not scary and weird.”

She noted that the biggest barrier to a healthier diet for most people is a lack

of knowledge about food and nutrition.

The newfound independence of college students combined with the large variety of food immediately available to them in dining halls often creates uncertainty in how to monitor their eating habits, she said.

Esselstyn concurred, adding that misconceptions about a plant-based diet, such as seeing it as a diet of deprivation, often prevent people from making the transition.

Rosenberger said that bringing in Esselstyn will allow DDS to offer more choices and variety to students, as her recipes are easy to prepare. Many of these recipes will be incorporated into

the summer menu for DDS, and even more will be added in the fall, she said.

Recently, DDS has added food items including kombucha and Suja healthoriented juice drinks to campus dining locations such as the Courtyard Café at the Hopkins Center. Rosenberger said that these drinks were added because DDS recognizes that they need to change up students’ options. Suja was brought in after the vendor, Odwalla, suggested the addition. Kombucha was added in an effort to add healthier options to the Courtyard Café.

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Leadership training opened to all officers FROM GREEK PAGE 1

Office of Greek Life coordinator, Karen Afre ’12, added that this was the first time that Greek 101 has been scheduled and despite it being optional, it has had a high attendance rate.

She said that their most popular session, “AMP and Apple Pie,” had about 50 attendants.

“We were hoping for a good turnout but were surprised when we had 50-plus students attend — there was barely enough room for them to fit in the suite,” Afre said.

Afre said that all the workshops had at leas 10 students in attendance.

“We’ve had many fraternity and sorority presidents attend all of the workshops so far, which is impressive since it’s not mandatory,” Afre said.

All of the sessions were held in the Office of Greek Life, and Kett said that the purpose of hosting the events in the office was to allow the students to feel more comfortable in that space.

“We are pretty much an open space and want students to feel more comfortable coming in and asking questions whenever they come up,” Kett said.

Afre added that the Office of Greek Life frequently interacts with Greek presidents but that the Greek 101 programming has allowed them to interact with other Greek officers that they do not typically work with.

AMP director Joe Castelot led a session to address questions and misconceptions about AMP. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne and associate director Keysi Montas addressed the department’s role with AMP during the presentation.

Taylor Watson ’16, who chaired the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative’s social event and alcohol management working group, also helped explain the work that the MDF working group did in relation to AMP. Watson had helped create a feedback survey at the end of the winter term to find out what

questions or experiences the houses had had with AMP, Castelot said.

“We touched upon items such as the policy for cancelling events to what the policy is for having kegs at an event, which must be approved by the Office of Student Life and have a keg tag which is provided by the Office of Student Life,” Castelot said, Castelot added that he hopes students learned that the goal of AMP is to make events safer and better managed.

“Students are now coming to me to talk about their organization’s dry events,” Castelot said. “I see this as a great thing because my goal is to be a resource for students in managing their events. An event should be well managed whether or not alcohol is present and I can already see us moving in that direction.”

While the mandatory training was still held the Saturday before the beginning of the term, the workshops were added to give other members of the Greek community a chance to familiarize themselves with administrators.

Kett and Afre both said that while the original goal was to spread awareness of resources and support provided through the Office of Greek Life, they hope that the relationship between students and the office is strengthened.

“I think our goal was to make them feel comfortable and it seems to be creating a point of contact between Greek life and administrators,” said Kett.

Afre added that they hope to host Greek 101 again in the future, but that the programming will be modified based off of student feedback.

“We value their input, and we want to know what they thought worked at what didn’t, or if there is something else they want to learn about that we didn’t host,” Afre said.

The last workshop will be held next Wednesday. The sessions were extended after additional offices asked to hold sessions for Greek leaders.

CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

The April 7 article, “Co-op holds elections throughout this month amid controversy,” incorrectly stated that the elections were taking place this Friday.

In fact, the elections will be held online throughout the month of April. The headline has also been updated to reflect this change. The originally version of this article incorrectly identified a paraphrase of a statement of Dana Cook Grossman’s on making full financial reports public as a direct quote. This has been corrected. The article also incorrectly said that Sean Clauson was not affiliated with the “Concerned About the Co-op” group. Clauson was not formally endorsed by them, but he is affiliated with the group.

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Professors discuss the science of sugaring FROM SUGARING PAGE 1

ture gradient was atypical, there was sap flow even before the sugar crew sank their taps in.

“For us, it’s been a fairly nice year,” Lutz said. “The sugar crew probably had a medium year. They were a little off, because they generally don’t tap until spring break. They missed some of the early runs that the data collection group did.”

The winter’s warm spells actually aided sap flow, Lutz said. Although daytime temperatures floated into the 60s, the temperature still plummeted at night. This sharp contrast is precisely what gives rise to a huge flow, he noted.

So far in 2016, production has been high, but it is not clear how long collection will last, Lutz said. In previous years, collection ended in late April.

The season draws to a close when leaves begin to open, Lutz said. As the plant awakens, there is more microbial activity and secondary metabolites — nonessential defense compounds — are produced in greater quantities, resulting in a murky, unpalatable sap, he said.

Without fluctuations in temperature, the pressure gradient also dissolves.

Rather than using a line to connect tapped trees to large collection basins, the Dartmouth students sugaring this spring relied on buckets. Upon concentrating the sap in a large stainless steel pan, the students were responsible for boiling it to produce syrup.

The sap initially has a 2 to 3 percent sugar content, while maple syrup is roughly 67 percent sugar, crew member David Ringel ’19 said. It takes 35 to 40 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of maple syrup.

According to Ringel, the consistency of the sap changes more than the taste.

While the unprocessed sap, sometimes known as maple tea, is clear and resembles water, it becomes more viscous and darker with boiling.

Determining when to stop boiling is the most difficult part of the sugaring process, Ringel said. Taste and consistency can be used to evaluate the readiness of the syrup, though the group relied most on the change in boiling point, Ringel said. Maple syrup boils at 219 degrees, 7 degrees above the boiling point of water.

Most of the boiling was done by the team’s co-leaders, Claire Park ’16 and Dana Wieland ’17. However, the last day included a “passing of the torch to the ’19s,” as Ringel and Amanda Zhou ’19 were tasked with the final boil.

“Most memorable was probably spending time in the shack when we were boiling with everyone, smelling all the maple smells and watching the light filter into the room,” crew member Ellen Kim ’17 said.

Although Wieland and Park did not intend for the process to be competitive,

they had to turn applicants away in order to maintain a small, cohesive group, Park said. The two tried to select a group that was balanced in terms of gender and class years, Wieland said. They wanted enough freshmen to keep the program going and enough workers with some level of expertise, she added.

About a third of the crew was involved in the Dartmouth Outing Club or Office of Sustainability, a third were new to the farm and another third were past sugar crew members, Park said. The resulting crew was “a group of like-minded students with a can-do attitude,” Ringel said.

Overall, the team produced about 7 or 8 gallons of maple syrup. Most of the supply will be given to Dartmouth’s Advancement Division, which will send 8 ounce bottles of syrup to donors and alumni, Carpenter said. The remaining syrup will be packaged in small bottles that will be available for sale in Collis in the next two to three weeks.

The sugar crew also took a number of field trips to nearby research and production facilities. A visit to Bascom Maple Farms, a large production facility and equipment supplier, demonstrated the commercial aspect of sugaring, Kim said.

Ringel called the visit to Bascom awe-inspiring.

“They produce more syrup every 15 minutes than we will do in an entire season,” he noted.

Bascom’s is one of six large-scale maple syrup producers in the Americas, Wieland added. They operate on a “mind-bogglingly huge scale,” she said.

The sugar crew also took a trip to Vershire, Vermont, where they met with Marc McKee, an informal advisor to the Dartmouth Organic Farm, Carpenter said. In Vershire, the crew visited the Mountain School’s sugar bush. McKee then showed the group his own sugar operation and hosted the students for a community pancake dinner he was holding. There, renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben presented a keynote speech on the effect of climate change on sugaring.

For Ringel, who read McKibben’s book “The End of Nature” (1989) for a class in the fall, the dinner was the highlight of the week.

“Vershire is a quintessential small town. The people are down to earth and the pace of life is slower,” he said.

The crew members also visited the Proctor Maple Research Center at UVM, Wieland said. The nature laboratory is on the cutting-edge of maple research.

“You might not think of sugaring as having a cutting edge, but it’s a big industry, so there’s incentive to make the process fuel efficient and to get more sap for tree,” she said.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18

A Revelatory Fluctuation

Looking for Dragons to Slay

The higher acceptance rate should cause us to change, not to panic.

This past week, Dartmouth sent out its regular admission acceptance letters, officially extending invitations to the prospective Class of 2020. 2,176 prospective students were offered admission, and the 10.5 percent acceptance rate represents an increase from last year’s 10.3 percent acceptance rate. This leaves us with the seventh place in the Ivy League by acceptance rate, with Harvard University and Columbia University admitting almost half as many of their applicants and only Cornell University admitting a larger percentage of students. Historically, prestige has always been attached to acceptance rate. The lower the acceptance rate, the more selective your school is, and the more prestigious it is. U.S. News and World Report even prominently factors in selectivity, based on admissions percentage, when they put together their comprehensive and commonly referenced college rankings every year.

This increase in admissions percentage has some members of the Big Green faithful up in arms. They believe that Dartmouth is losing some of its prestige and may possibly slip from the upper echelon of American universities where it has comfortably resided for years. This only feeds into an existing belief held by many in the Dartmouth community that recent changes to the College, from the derecognition of certain Greek houses to the banning of hard alcohol, are chipping away at what makes Dartmouth special and desirable.

There is a narrative that the old traditions are failing, and people are pointing to this decrease in selectivity as proof. They contend that people don’t want to come to this “new Dartmouth,” and that the only way to get back to where we were and compete with our Ivy League rivals is to restore Dartmouth’s former glory. While we are certainly not overjoyed by this change in admissions, we don’t believe it’s time to turn back the clock just yet.

First off, people are attaching far too much importance to this percentage. It is an increase of .2 percentage points, which could be attributed to anything from normal fluctuations to weather patterns during peak visiting weeks to just plain luck. This is an insignificant increase and shouldn’t be the cause of massive alarm. The fact of the matter is, this difference is far too small to support any sweeping statements about the changing nature of Dartmouth.

Some alarmists would still point to our admis-

sions rate as compared to other Ivy League schools as a cause for major concern. While the shifts aren’t exactly massive, it is worth asking why schools like Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia seem to be more selective than we are. Some of the reasons could be pretty simple: they have more name recognition in the U.S. and abroad which leads to more applicants, or maybe because they are located in much larger cities than Hanover. Many people will point to the negative press that Dartmouth has received recently, from the infamous Rolling Stone article to the recent coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests in November. The argument is that prospective students see this negative press and decide to take their Common Apps elsewhere. People can blame the media as much as they would like, but it isn’t exactly likely that shaking our fists at Fox News on one side and The Huffington Post on the other is really going to change anything. If we want to avoid the negative media attention that may be contributing to these admissions trends, we need to address the problems they are highlighting.

Over the past few years, Dartmouth has received significant media coverage for events like our Greek life and hazing allegations, the 2013 Dimensions protests and the Black Lives Matter protests, among many others. Instead of being frustrated with the media for how they portray us, perhaps we should focus more on the issues that caused the coverage in the first place. If extreme hazing wasn’t as big of an issue as it was (and arguably still is), the Rolling Stone problems wouldn’t have existed. If the issues that caused the Dimensions protests weren’t prevalent in Dartmouth, they wouldn’t have had to happen.

If students of color felt like Dartmouth was a safe environment for them to learn, live and prosper, then there wouldn’t have had to have been protests that allowed pundits with a specific agenda to twist reality and cast a shadow on an important movement. While the increase in our acceptance rate isn’t a cause for alarm, it could be an opportunity to start a conversation about how Dartmouth isn’t where it needs to be. We are still attracting some of the best talent in the world, but if we really want to do better as far as admissions, then we are going to have to be better.

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The United States doesn’t need to try and solve the world’s problems.

During his time as Secretary of State under President James Monroe in the early 19th century, John Quincy Adams famously stated “Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.” This worldview, expressed by Adams almost 200 years ago is still pertinent today. The 2016 presidential election has rekindled the debate over what America’s role in the world should be. Should the U.S. continue dominating every aspect of international politics and security? Can the U.S. continue subsidizing the security of its allies? Are nation-building projects by the West feasible and is an aggressively militant foreign policy in America’s interests? Even peripherally examining history and current affairs reveals that moving forward, Washington can be best served by a policy of restraint. The U.S. should focus on clearly defined and narrow foreign policy goals and national security objectives rather than solving all of the world’s problems.

After World War II, the U.S. emerged as one of the world’s superpowers and actively engaged itself in the affairs of other nations to promote democratization and market economics as well as contain Soviet-Communist influence. America’s expensive, bloody and aggressive hegemonic quest during the Cold War standoff can be justified since the Soviet Union was a threat to the U.S.. Reaching a crescendo during the Kennedy administration and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War has had a lasting effect on American foreign policy and has informed interventionist and unrestrained foreign policy views.

The Cold War ended in the late 20th century, yet the U.S. still hawkishly overextends itself in international affairs — particularly the security matters of its allies. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has been the primary world superpower and has pursued a policy of liberal hegemony — using its stance as the most powerful nation to secure peace by advancing democracy, international institutions and free market economics. Following 9/11, the U.S. and its allies have been perpetually at war with terrorist organizations. Since then, misguided and poorly handled invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan meant to bring democracy to the Middle East and the perpetrators of 9/11 to justice have shaped the interventionist zeitgeist of the early 21st century.

Adams would be surprised about a great number of things if he witnessed the past century of world history and could see the present state of international affairs. In particular, the rise of the U.S.’s overextended security state involved in solving all of the world’s problems would certainly shock Adams. Given his more restrained foreign policy views, it is probable his views on America’s role in the world would line up with those of Barry Posen, a professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy” (2014).

Posen argues that a continued aggressive post-Cold War foreign policy of liberal hege-

mony and interventionism is undisciplined, expensive and bloody. Posen advocates for a narrower and more refined U.S. strategy that only deals with the most salient issues. Liberal hegemony generates pushback by rising powers, resentful weaker states and non-state actors — creating enemies faster than they are slayed. Given the U.S.’s ballooning debt, subsidizing the security of other nations and broad and indefinite nation-building projects to spread democracy and Western values will not only create more enemies, but bankrupt a nation suffering at home. Indeed, war has been terribly costly, and the U.S. has been at war twice as often since the end of the Cold War. Moreover, the U.S. dominating the security matters of Europe, Japan and other American allies creates both a free-rider problem and a moral hazard. American allies have less skin in the game in providing for their security and can act recklessly since they know the U.S. will step in to protect them. Is America’s intensely engaged foreign policy worth it if it costs so much and requires almost constant war and intervention?

Terrorists and non-state actors such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda are certainly major threats to the U.S. and its allies, but these groups do not threaten their existence or power position. Presidential candidates, particularly in the GOP, would have you think our military is in a state of disaster. The U.S. leads the world in military spending, more than the next seven highest spending countries combined. The U.S. has more forward deployed military installations than any other nation in the world and has an exhaustive and unnecessary number of troops in countries perfectly capable of protecting themselves.

Let European allies take command of NATO and give them incentive to take their security into their own hands instead of relying on the U.S. Despite the serious terror threat in Europe, subsidizing Europe’s security as a part of an aggressive and overextended foreign policy will not secure a peaceful future.

Washington can still lead even if it uproots its massive and unnecessary military presence from its overseas bases. The U.S. will save money by allowing rich allies like Japan and Germany to provide their own security and decrease resentment in Middle Eastern countries where U.S. troops are deployed. The U.S. will still be looked at to provide intelligence, build credible coalitions, conduct special operations, collaborate with allies and carry out airstrikes and drone-strikes. Bringing troops home as a strategic reserve and to secure the homeland, will force powerful American allies to provide for their own security and will put their skin in the game. Washington cannot solve all of the world’s problems, and a more restrained and cerebral grand strategy can best serve America’s interests and transfer responsibilities to other nations perfectly capable of handling them. Military force is always an option, but diplomacy and supporting regional powers looking to solve their own problems should always be the first option. We need to come home and stop looking for dragons to slay.

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DDS will continue to bring in other guest chefs FROM GREENS WEEK PAGE 1

Angela Zhang ’19 said that while she loves the addition of kombucha to College dining offerings due to its taste and benefits, she believes it is overpriced.

“We want to offer healthy options and different options, not just soda and Vitamin Water,” Rosenberger said, “All the managers in all the outlets are always looking for new and different options.”

Eating healthy leads to a healthy body and thus a decreased risk for disease, she said.

Esselstyn said that her cooking style came out of the necessity to prevent heart disease and other potential health problems. She learned how to cook at home, a skill she described as much needed after becoming a mother of three.

Esselstyn was initially contacted by DDS associate director Don Reed to come to the College. She decided to accept the offer because she liked that DDS was so interested in providing healthy options for its students, and was excited to have the opportunity to help students form lifelong healthy eating habits.

“I saw this big, strong athleticlooking young man take one of the polenta stacks, and I was so pleased to see him select it,” she said.

The biggest misconception about her style of cooking is that it is difficult, Esselstyn said.

She said her decision to focus on a plant-based diet was inspired by her

father.

Reed said he chose the recipes that would be featured in the dining halls alongside Greens Week’s programming. Many of the recipes are different from standard dining options as they do not use oil, Reed said.

He said he contacted Esselstyn after overhearing a conversation about her, and decided that she would be a great option for the guest chef he was looking to invite to the College.

A key factor in selecting a guest chef was making sure that their food was appealing to a student demographic, Reed said.

Additionally, as sustainability and health concerns continue to increase, plant-based diets will also become more popular, Reed said.

“If we can be ahead of the curve and get better at preparing our vegetarian and vegan options, it is better for everybody,” he said. “We are still going to have our regular items such as french fries and chicken nuggets, none of those are going away, but we need to offer the choices to those who want options,” he said.

Previously, DDS will continue to look for other guest chefs to invite and run similar programming, Reed added. He is currently looking into potential guest chefs specializing in Latin-American cuisine.

DDS also brought in cookbook author Beth Dooley in March of 2012 and James Beard Award winner and wok-expert Grace Young in April 2012, who helped form the stir-fry stations in ’53 Commons.

Sugaring crew visits nearby maple farms FROM SUGARING PAGE 3

Proctor is focused on maximizing yield from taps as well as answering basic science questions pertaining to the sustainability of tapping and the impact of modern technology on production, syrup chemistry and flavor, Isselhardt said.

More sugar than ever before can be collected with modern technologies and vacuums, but the long-term consequences on tree growth is still unknown, Isselhardt said. At Proctor, researchers are tracking a group of trees with different levels of sugar extraction over a period of 10 years to see if there are health effects resulting from tapping, he said.

Park enjoyed witnessing the contrast between people pursuing sugaring as a means of livelihood and scientists researching the process. “[You] get to pick up on the culture of

New Hampshire, which isn’t necessarily something you get at Dartmouth [as] Dartmouth is so much its own entity,” Wieland said. “There is a lot of reflection and a lot of being out there where it’s quiet, and you get to appreciate the farm and northeastern forests.”

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s annual maple syrup production report, New Hampshire produced 4 percent of the national maple syrup product last year, while neighboring Vermont produced 41 percent of the national total. Overall, the northeastern region’s maple syrup production in 2015 totaled 2.96 million gallons, up 7 percent from the prior year’s production.

“Dartmouth is all about traditions and [sugaring] is such a tradition in the Northeast,” Ringel said.

Amanda Zhou ’19 is a member of The Dartmouth Staff.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

“Global Infections Disease Research at Dartmouth: TB and Polio”, Medicine Ground Rounds, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Auditorium E

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“Tying Knots in a Quantum Fluid,” Physics and Astronomy Colloquium with David Hall of Amherst College, Wilder 104

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“The Revenant,” film featuring Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

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“4th Annual Science Day at Dartmouth,” Dartmouth graduate students invite guests to tour their labs, Life Sciences Center

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Dartmouth Softball vs. Columbia University, Dartmouth Softball Park

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“Deadpool”, directed by Tim Miller and starring Ryan Reynolds, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

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Tom McArdle ’91 and Matt Heineman ’05 discuss Oscar nods

By NALINI RAMANTHAN The Dartmouth Staff

Good things often come in pairs.

Such is the case for Dartmouth alumni Tom McArdle ’91 and Matt Heineman ’05, who were both nominated for Oscars this past year.

McArdle received a nomination for Best Film Editing for his work as editor for the movie “Spotlight,” a biographical drama which depicts The Boston Globe’s investigation into the widespread and systemic sexual abuse of children in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

Documentary filmmaker Heineman received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for his film “Cartel Land,” which depicts the attempts of vigilantes in the United States and in the Mexican state of Michoacán to curb the violence of Mexican drug cartels.

McArdle, who has edited movies such as “The Visitor” (2007), “The Station Agent” (2003) and “Win Win” (2011) became interested in film while a student at Dartmouth.

An English major, he found himself taking several classes in film during his last two years, and attained a film minor as well.

During his first year of film classes, he took a few classes on film history, which he said were instrumental in kindling his interest in film, providing him with a solid background and allowing him to see film as a potential career.

However, it was in his second year of film classes, which focused more on the process of filmmaking, that McArdle found his love for editing.

Film and media studies professor Jim Brown, who had McArdle as one of his first students at Dartmouth, said that his work ethic as a student showed his potential for success as a film editor.

The project McArdle did for Brown’s class was a Tarantino-style film. He decided to work with video, although students were not required to produce a film with sound, a particularly difficult feat at the time.

Brown also noted McArdle’s determination to finish his work. While many of his fellow students were often perfectionists and would often throw out works that they were not pleased with, McArdle would finish everything he started. Brown said that McArdle acknowledged that although his first film, like many others,’ was not great, the editing process clicked with him while doing the project.

McArdle appreciated the control he had in the editing process over the final form of the piece. Thus, almost right after graduating from Dartmouth, McArdle began working as a film editor, with the help of the College’s career services.

Although McArdle has edited many acclaimed films, “Spotlight” is the first film for which his editing has received Oscar recognition.

Longtime collaborator and producer Tom McCarthy approached McArdle to edit the film for their fifth collaboration.

Although McArdle had no personal connection with The Boston Globe investigation, he said that he has an appreciation for the importance of doing good work, exemplified by the reporters represented in the film, as

well as print journalism, which allowed for such thorough reporting.

As an editor, McArdle said that his main goal is to make the film more cohesive and concise.

Initially, McArdle edited the footage into a long “rough cut,” which he then showed to McCarthy. The two then collaborated every few weeks and worked on trimming down the film, looking for ways to further develop the story and make it more interesting and cohesive. Every two weeks, they would have a test screening to look for audience feedback.

Much of the style of McArdle’s work lies in his subtlety.

“One of the marks of good editing is that you don’t notice it,” his former film history professor Joanna Rapf said. “I was so engrossed in the film that it was invisible, and that’s the way it should be.”

Instead of being in the spotlight himself, McArdle works behind the scenes, doing what he can do to move the story forward.

McArdle feels that his English background shaped him as a good storyteller who focuses more on the big picture rather than the smaller details. Along with McCarthy, McArdle tried to create a story that focused more on the investigation rather than the personal lives of the journalists.

Dartmouth Film Society director Johanna Evans ’10 said that the melding of emotional narratives created a true ensemble film.

“You really get the sense that a piece of the film belongs to every one of the characters, and I think that the editing actually has a lot to with that,” she said.

One of McArdle’s favorite things to work with is dialogue, and his new editing prospects, which include serious films and dramas, seem to reflect that.

“I just want to work with great scripts, like this film,” McArdle said.

“It’s very exciting to work on something that good.”

Heineman, unlike McArdle, had no formal training in filmography, and he initially planned to go into education after majoring in history at Dartmouth.

However, after being rejected from Teach for America, he decided to go on the road with a group of his friends, filming a documentary to create a greater understanding of his generation.

Like many history majors, he quipped, he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life. This all changed, however, after he started that documentary.

“I’d never made a film, I’d never held a video camera before, but through this process and this journey, I absolutely fell in love with filmmaking,” Heineman said.

Heineman has since worked on several documentaries, including “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” (2012), which was nominated for Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

After production, Heineman said he wanted to try something different. After reading about American vigilantes attempting to curb drug trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border, he wanted to learn more and began working on a documentary.

When his father sent him an article

about the vigilantes, called “Autodefensas,” attempting to fight against the oppressive rule of drug cartels in the Mexican state of Michoacán, Heineman decided to go to the area.

Throughout his work in film, Heineman said that he gains trust from subjects when working in dangerous situations by coming in without an agenda. He emphasized that he wanted “the story to fall naturally before him” and tried to avoid the trap that many opinioned documentary filmmakers fall into when they “use certain characters to fill their agenda or this thesis that they’re trying to prove.”

“A friend of mine once said, ‘If you end up with the story you started with, then you weren’t listening along,” Heineman said.

DFS directorate member and MALS student Kevin Warstadt, who wrote the society’s film notes for the documentary, said that as part of the genre of cinéma vérité, “Cartel Land” was edited to create more of a linear story.

The value of the film, both Heineman and Warstadt note, lies in viewer involvement. Rather than providing hard statistics or data, the goal of this film, Heineman said, is to ensure that viewers become more emotionally involved with the situations in the area. Heineman particularly wanted to draw attention to a conflict “happening right on our doorstep.”

“By putting you right on the ground in the middle of the it, you gain a greater understanding, and really [puts] you at face with those conflicts, and it was my goal,” Heineman said.

Companhia Urbana de Dança to perform in Moore tonight

By ELISE HIGGINS The Dartmouth

The dancers of Companhia Urbana de Dança moved dynamically around the stage Monday night, smiling and interacting with one another as they performed complicated steps combining hip hop and other styles of dance.

The mixture of styles including contemporary street style and capoeira, a Brazilian martial art dance form, is what makes Urbana so unique and exciting to watch.

Companhia Urbana de Dança is a dance group from Brazil that will be performing in the Moore Theater, following their Monday night performance and workshop in Collis Common Ground.

Sonia Destri Lie, the creator of the company, said the idea for the company was not one that developed overnight. In fact, at the time of its creation, Destri did not want to lead a company because of the

difficulty of running one. However, the opportunity looked promising, so she ultimately decided to pursue it. From there, Destri began merging different techniques into the choreography.

Hopkins Center programming director Margaret Lawrence said that Urbana takes hip hop and enriches it by fusing various styles.

In addition to different styles of dance, the group also likes to experiment with different themes for each of their pieces. While at Dartmouth, they will be performing a piece called “I. You. We ...

All black!” which explores the idea of racial tensions present in Brazil, Lawrence said. They will also be performing the upbeat and fun piece, “Na Pista.”

“It’s not pointed out to you,” Lawrence said. “It’s used just as any other piece of vocabulary is used and it’s over in a flash and moves into the next thing very organically.”

Destri says the subltely of the pieces results from collaboration within the group. Though she was originally the main choreographer, Destri now also works with the dancers to create performances.

“Normally the ideas are mine,” Destri said. “Then they read what I’m trying to do and remake the interpretation.”

The dynamic of the group has led to their success, and they have performed in both large and small settings, Destri said. The company also frequently travels to colleges, where they not only perform but also hold workshops like the ones they have led this week at the College.

Lawrence specifically looks for performers who will not only perform but lead other engagement activities and workshops. Lawrence said that Urbana was excited about their non-performance work because of their passion for engaging all types of people in dance.

This was evident at Monday’s workshop at which the company collaborated with students from two dance groups on campus, Fusion, a contemporary dance group that incorporates all styles of dance, and Raaz, a South Asian dance group. Both groups had similar reasons for participating in the workshop and collaborative performance.

Vivian Chen ’16, a member of Fusion, and Nivi Nagaraj ’16, the captain of Raaz, both said that their groups were interested in the event because they wanted to experience new styles.

While the students certainly learned new moves at the workshop, they also got the chance to collaborate with professional dancers. Students were asked to improvise with Urbana, and both the students and the professionals were eager to learn from each other.

Chen said that the workshop was

better than she expected because of the collaborative aspect of the event.

Nagaraj seconded Chen, saying that it was fun to bounce ideas off and share styles with Urbana.

While some students were nervous at first, eventually everyone began to relax and enjoy themselves.

“It was a lot of fun,” Nagaraj said. “It definitely got us out of our comfort zones.”

Chen agreed that the experience was especially enjoyable because it was all about “being yourself.”

The collaboration and freestyling that eventually resulted in choreography during the workshop excited Destri.

“This is beautiful,” Destri said.

“The way we work is sometimes better than going on stage.”

Companhia Urbana de Dança will perform again in the Moore Theater tonight and tomorrow, April 8 and 9, at 8 p.m.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016

FRIDAY LINEUP

SOFTBALL VS UPENN 2 PM & 4 PM

The Roundup Compiled by James Handal and Evan Morgan

Men’s Baseball The Dartmouth men’s baseball team snapped a four-game losing streak Wednesday by winning 2-1 versus College of the Holy Cross in a tight pitching duel at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. The Big Green improve to 6-16 while Holy Cross falls to 11-19.

Tight pitching by both the Big Green and Holy Cross led to a lowscoring game. The game was scoreless through four innings with Holy Cross tagging in on a triple from Thomas Russo to score the first run in the fifth.

In the bottom of the sixth, Thomas Roulis ’15 hit a liner to left field to bring in Mike Brown ’19, who had stolen third earlier, to tie the game at 1-1.

Nick Ruppert ’16 and Adam Gauthier ’16 hit singles in the seventh to reach base and subsequently did a double steal. The Crusader catcher misthrew the ball to third and Ruppert scored the game winner to win 2-1.

Dartmouth had seven hits compared to the Crusaders four. Clay Chatham ’18, Sam Fichthorn ’18, Chris Burkholder ’17 and Patrick Peterson ’18 allowed one run and four hits to give the Big Green a close victory.

Dartmouth plays the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University this weekend at Red Rolfe Field.

Men’s/Women’s Sailing The Big Green men’s sailing team participated in the 35th Lynne Marchiando Trophy, while the women’s sailing team competed at the Dellenbaugh Women’s Trophy, placing sixth in both events last weekend.

At the Lynne Marchiando Trophy in Boston, the conditions were especially wet and windy, but the Big Green men’s sailing placed six out of 14 fleets with Yale University taking home the trophy. Overall, Dartmouth competed well at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted event with a 8-5 record, while Yale finished with a perfect 13-0.

At the Dellenbaugh Women’s Trophy, the women’s sailing team placed sixth with 74 points with University of Rhode Island winning overall.

Men’s Golf At last weekend’s Cornell Spring

Opener in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the men’s golf team finished last in a field of three. The Big Green’s two-day score of 598 (+22) put it four shots behind Temple University and 29 shots behind big winner Cornell University.

Charles Cai ’16 and Scott Jaster ’17 led Dartmouth out of the gate, as each shot an even par (72) opening round to tie for fifth on the leaderboard. Ian Kelsey ’18 was in 10th with a 74 (+2), and two shots behind, in 12th place, sat Sean Fahey ’17 and Jeff Lang ’17.

After Saturday’s 18 holes, Dartmouth and Temple were knotted up at 298 apiece, trailing Cornell by 11.

Sunday saw Cai shoot a 69 (-3), finishing in third place among 22 golfers. Fahey’s 71 (-1) was the only other Big Green score below par on the second and final day. The men slipped two shots to shoot a 300 (+12) on Sunday, falling behind Temple to close out the tournament. Fahey and Jaster finished in ninth and 10th in the field of 22, while Lang and Kelsey took 12th and 13th.

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Dartmouth baseball won its first game following a four-game skid by beating the College of the Holy Cross 2-1.

Women’s Golf The women’s golf team won the eight-team Seahawk Invitational with a combined two-day score of 637 (+61) at Littlestown, Pennsylvania’s Quail Valley Golf Course. The win was the first for the team this spring, and the first since topping the field in the Sept. 27 Dartmouth Invitational.

With consistent overall scores on Sunday and Monday, Dartmouth edged the host school, Wagner College, by one shot. Radi Sauro ’18 was the top golfer for the Big Green after she shot an 82 in the first round and a 77 on Monday to finish 15 over par.

Tara Simmons ’17’s opening-round 76 (+4) put her in first place to begin the tournament. However, Simmons’ score dipped on the second day, and she finished in 16th with a 164 (+20).

Dartmouth was in first place after shooting 319 (+31) on Sunday, four shots better than Central Connecticut State University. Wagner surged to second place on Monday with a 309 (+21) — the best round of the tournament — but it could not surpass the Big Green’s even play.

Jessica Kittelberger ’18 finished tied for ninth behind Sauro as she shot a 160 (+16) through two rounds. Julia Calbi ’19 and Isabelle Kane ’18 each shot 162 (+18), tying for 12th overall.

COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH SAILING TEAM

The men’s and women’s sailing team both placed sixth in their respective competitions this past weekend.

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The team hopes to continues its success this weekend against the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.