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Students selecting courses for the Winter 2016 term will have access to course evaluations for the first time.

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For the first time during a course election period, students selecting courses for the winter 2016 term will have access to course evaluations through Banner Student.

This change comes after faculty voted to allow students to access course evaluations submitted by students who

have previously taken the class.

Course evaluations must be completed by students at the end of each term and include questions pertaining to teaching, course material and course organization. Students rate a variety of statements on scale from one to five to express disagreement or agreement, respectively. The evaluations include questions about overall course quality, the amount

of effort students put into the course, the degree to which each course is intellectually engaging and the professor’s to challenge students.

Only quantitative metrics can be viewed by students, and the data can only be viewed if faculty members agree to make reviews of their courses public. The evaluations are SEE COURSE EVALS PAGE3

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Sometime this week, five people will sit clustered together in the Church of Christ building at 40 College Street at a weekly meeting they jokingly refer to as “Bible study,” because of its location. Religion, however, is not the topic of conversation — instead they will discuss everything from the difficulties of publishing in journals to the Democratic primary debate.

These five comprise the inaugural

Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science program has been recognized by Apple for its innovation, use of technology and design of its curriculum.

The Apple Distinguished Schools program recognizes outstanding schools and prog rams worldwide for innovation, leadership and educational excellence. The five criteria that all recognized schools and programs must meet are visionary leadership, innovative learning and teaching, ongoing professional learning, compelling evidence of success and a flexible learning environment.

Dartmouth’s program — known as MHCDS — is an 18-month master’s degree course that is targeted at mid-career health professionals and leaders in health

care. Students include doctors, nurses, surgeons, hospital executives and insurance company executives, among others. This program was launched to combine management with medical knowledge to equip leaders in the field with the skills to reimagine and redesign health care, MHCDS co-founder and learning and technology manager Ano Lobb said.

“We designed our program in such a way that it would be rigorous enough to be called a Dartmouth master’s degree, to really deserve that name and to deliver the kind of education that Dartmouth is famous for delivering,” MHCDS program director Katherine Milligan said.

“At the same time, it would be accessible for someone with a busy life.”

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class of the College’s Society of Fellows, a unique group of recent Ph.D.s who have come to the College both to pursue research and gain teaching experience.

The society, modeled after similar programs at other Ivy League institutions, was first announced by College President Phil Hanlon during his inaugural address in 2013. The fellowship is a three-year paid program through which recent Ph.D.s can continue to SEE FELLOWS PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing Brown University: Two Brown University students recently launched the Animal Assisted Therapy Program, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The program allows students to sign up online to pet and play with trained therapy dogs in 10-minute blocks. Co-founder Peter Herrera ’16 explained that petting animals often reduces anxiety, depression and blood pressure.

Columbia University: The University raised almost $13 million on its fourth annual Giving Day, a 24-hour social media campaign to raise money for Columbia’s schools and programs. This year’s sum exceeded last year’s total of $11 million, the Columbia Spectator reported. Musician Jason Mraz expressed his support for Giving Day on social media, contributing to the event’s publicity.

Cornell University: According to the Cornell Daily Sun, jurors declared Benjamin Cayea guilty of second-degree murder for strangling his girlfriend Shannon Jones ’15. Jones died in November 2014, and Cayea had at first confessed to the murder but later presented a different story. Cayea now faces a sentence of 15 years in prison.

Harvard University: Undergraduate Council leaders met with Harvard President Drew G. Faust on Tuesday to discuss social spaces and sexual assault on campus. In light of the recent findings of the sexual conduct climate survey, leaders of the group proposed open discussions focused on sexual conduct on campus and more social spaces for first-years as a way to combat high reported rates of sexual misconduct.

Princeton University: According to the Daily Princetonian, Superior Court Judge Timothy P. Lydon sentenced Thomas Muza to three years in prison for embezzling almost a quarter of a million dollars from the Princeton Triangle Club. Muza was the former accountant for the Triangle Club, a touring musical-comedy troupe.

University of Pennsylvania: Six-time Wimbledon championship winner Serena Williams will speak at the University on Nov. 4, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

Williams will first talk with a professor and subsequently answer audience questions chosen from Twitter. Williams was invited because of her perspectives on race and gender, her athletic prowess and success and her philanthropic work.

Yale University: On Saturday, Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, spoke to a crowded audience about the importance of emotional intelligence, according to the Yale Daily News. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence collaborated with Gaga and Germanotta’s Born this Way Foundation to host the Emotion Revolution. The conference stimulated discussion about ways that educators, academics and policy-makers can increase students’ mental welfare.

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MHCDS recognized for innovation FROM MHCDS PAGE 1

means that students can access assignments and readings virtually.

Live sessions are done through video, and students and faculty communicate through blog posts, video blogs, chats, discussion boards, live video discussions, online documents and pre-recorded lectures.

Students can also enhance their learning through online games.

“We have tried to create a learning environment that any professor at Dartmouth would point to, and say, ‘Yes, that’s the way Dartmouth delivers education’ — cutting-edge, yet intimate with the dialogue among students and with faculty in a distance learning model,” MHCDS faculty co-director Eric Wadsworth said.

Operations management professor Robert Shumsky said the distance learning model does not

“We have tried to create a learning environment that any professor would point to and say, ‘Yes, that’s the way Dartmouth delivers education.’”

-Master’s of health care delivery science faculty co-director eric wadsworth prevent students from getting a “rich and intense experience.”

Instructors in the MHCDS program are affiliated with the Tuck Business School, Geisel Medical School and the Dartmouth Institute, Shumsky said.

“We work very closely together so the students are getting an education that is the best of all of those parts of Dartmouth,” he said.

MHCDS was created during former College President Jim Yong Kim’s tenure to fill a need for greater efficiency in health care delivery practices.

“We understand what we need to do to treat diseases and prevent diseases, and yet the right care does not always get to the right people, in the right amount, at the right time,” Milligan said. “It’s a question of how you deliver the care, and that is fundamentally a management science.”

Lobb created an application for Apple’s competition in iBook format. Part of the motivation for applying to the Distinguished Schools program was the possibility of creating a stronger relationship with Apple, Lobb said.

For the application, Apple encouraged programs to tell their story not only in words, but also through interactive videos and graphics, he added.

“We approached [the application] the same way that we approached the development of our curriculum, by experimenting with it,” Lobb said.

All the videos embedded in the iBook were filmed with an iPad. Lobb said the application allowed his team to develop technological fluency on a new platform, producing a more social, on-demand experience for viewers and delivering their story in a new and more compelling way.

Part of this ability to building a strong relationship comes from both parties’ commitment to evolving technologies, as MHCDS is continuously looking for the next step in learning and educational technology, Milligan said. The program, for example, provides students with a wide range of learning methods and ways of disseminating information.

“The pace of the week is absolutely uniform, almost the entire 18 months. Every course is almost the same, within a course it’s exactly the same. That’s so students can set their routines by it,” Wadsworth said.

The course opens on Monday morning with video lectures and readings. By Thursday at midnight, students are expected to turn in individual assignments. On Friday afternoons, professors will send out a summary response to the homework. For Sunday night, there is a team presentation that is due. On Tuesday, students discuss some of the presentations from Sunday to embed the learning that occurred in the first half of the week.

“I needed to learn additional languages in order to be effective at providing change that would be beneficial to the patients that we are trying to care for,” MHCDS student and former president of medical staff at the Lehigh Valley Health Network system Robert Motley said.

Health care and management need to go hand in hand, Motley said. While health care professionals need to grasp business skills, health care industry board members need to gain a deeper knowledge of medicine, he said.

“I really wanted to help guide change and help educate other leaders who are part of health care by learning to speak their languages.

That makes them more receptive to listening to what patients need,” Motley said. “Everyone has a piece of the picture, but MHCDS helps you to see more of the big picture and helps to share that with others.”

Motley sees MHCDS as a

program with international value, because he is able to communicate with colleagues from all over the world, including Rwanda and Peru.

The program’s mixture of online and in-person teaching has also been helpful for his schedule, he said. “[MHCDS] has given me broader and deeper insights into how our American health care system is structured,” Motley said.

“It’s also helped me to understand some of the forces that impact how health care delivery takes place.”

Although pleased by the recognition from Apple, MHCDS leadership and students interviewed said they were not surprised by the recognition.

“I think it speaks well of the MHCDS staff who designed the learning environment and who are constantly looking for what’s next in learning and educational technology,” Milligan said.

“I think Apple’s recognition of Dartmouth may help Dartmouth expand this as a learning platform and be able to continue to push the envelope of novel ways of supporting learning.”

-Master’s of health care delivery science student robert motley

Apple’s recognition of MHCDS is not only a useful marketing tool, but will also allow the program access to a community of practice for MHCDS’s learning and technology staff. It will also permit access to “some of the best design people at Apple,” Wadsworth said.

MHCDS will now get to participate in a variety of events that Apple sponsors. This will create a platform to learn from other programs, Shumsky said.

“I think Apple’s recognition of Dartmouth may help Dartmouth expand this as a learning platform and be able to continue to push the envelope of novel ways of supporting learning,” Motley said.

MHCDS currently supplies each matriculating student with an iPad Mini on which they can access assignments and readings and even attend live video sessions. The next step for MHCDS is to expand its technological frontier even further, with staff looking into developing the Apple Watch as a viable teaching tool, Milligan said.

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Course registration opens for first time with new course evals FROM COURSE EVALS PAGE 1

reviewed by the professor before being published, and faculty also have the ability discuss comments with their associate deans before posting the evaluations. Course evaluations can be helpful in picking classes to balance a workload as well as to see how one would engage with a specific professor’s teaching style, Committee on Instruction chair and computer science professor Devin Balkcom said.

Other professors expressed similar feelings of the benefits that open access to course evaluations can bring to students, although English professor Thomas Luxon said he would like to see a growth in the amount of information available from the reviews.

“I think it’s a very good thing that students have access to the course evaluations,” Luxon said. “I would like to see students have access not only to the quantitative responses but also to the qualitative remarks made by students. Currently, they don’t have access to those, but in many cases they are the most valuable parts of the evaluation.”

While students can access reviews for any professor, faculty members only have access to course reviews about themselves, not other faculty members, Luxon said. This becomes a problem if a faculty member is trying to advise a student, he said.

Course evaluations became available at the beginning of this academic year after students had already elected fall-term courses but before the add-drop period ended.

In October 2013, Student Assembly spearheaded an initiative that would open official course reviews to students, surveying approximately 900 students in the process. Their results, which were strongly in favor of opening student access to the reviews, were delivered to Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno.

The pressure and interest to open the evaluations came from the students, Balkcom said. The Committee on Instruction took the recommendations and interest from students and proposed making the course evaluations available to students, he said.

Before course evaluations opened, there were other tools that allowed students to review classes prior to course election. Course Picker, a website created by the Hacker Club and the Assembly, is a tool through which students write informal comments about a class or professor.

Course Picker is popular because students want to get as much information as possible before choosing their schedule, Balkcom said.

“Currently, students make a lot of their choices based on recommendations made by their friends,” Luxon said. “It would be my hope that having access to the course evaluation from previous terms would be even better information than they’re getting casually from their friends.”

The open access to reviews can also help faculty, in addition to students. Faculty can utilize student input from past courses when designing new classes, Balkcom said, adding that College-sponsored surveys

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generally have higher response rates than student-initiated programs like Course Picker.

“There’s also a question of the quality of the information,” he said.

“We think that the surveys have been pretty carefully designed, and we get very high response rates. So we can get a pretty at least broad picture, I don’t know how accurate, but certainly a broad picture from the evaluations.”

Though the course evaluations opened before the winter 2016 term, Balkcom says only around five percent of students have looked at it. Not all students know that course evaluations are public or know where to find them, Balkcom said.

None of the 20 students interviewed for this article said they had

looked at the course evaluations available through Banner Student, although some had looked at Course Picker.

Many students interviewed looked at the median grade for classes they were interested in taking.

Balkcom attributed the low interest in the course evaluations to the lack of knowledge surrounding their opening. Additionally, many faculty have either been unaware of the program or have elected not to opt into it, he said.

“It’s scared me out of certain classes because people say the professors are horrible and it’s a really hard class,” Caroline Cutler ’19 said, referring to Course Picker.

The evaluations are helpful because students can learn which

professors are the best to take specific courses with, she said. “[Faculty are] happy to have this information out there,” Balkcom said. “Most of us don’t have tremendous self-confidence problems.”

“The information was produced by students,” Luxon said. “I see no reason why they shouldn’t have access to this information — all of it. The only stipulation I say is that faculty members in teaching their first year at Dartmouth ought to be allowed a first-year blackout.”

Not just the quantitative responses but the qualitative, open response portions of the evaluations should be open to students, he said.

“I would go so far as to say that the public should have access to all of it,” he said.

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The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

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

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

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

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GUEST Columnist JENNIFER PAFFENBARGER ’17

Prioritizing Mental Health Choose your mental health and well-being over your grades.

While studying abroad in Japan this past summer, I got a B in every single class — and it was not a tragedy. This may come as a bit of a surprise considering that much of Dartmouth is full of overachievers. Most students here somehow manage to be less competitive with each other than our often equally overachieving counterparts at other Ivy League institutions.

Unfortunately, however, this does not stop most of us from competing with ourselves, which can have myriad unintended and potentially dangerous consequences on students’ mental health.

Prior to matriculation, many Dartmouth students had never gotten a grade lower than an A in their lives. I personally know people who got their first Bs in their first-year seminars and were extremely displeased with themselves.

A simple fact often seems to be a stunning revelation for many Ivy League students: Grades other than As are O.K. — even natural — to receive. I feel that many already know this on an intellectual level, and do not think any less of their friends who get such grades — but, somehow, it is still hard to accept lower grades when you receive them. I, for instance, worry what my parents will think. Others might worry about their grade point averages dropping too low to qualify for certain academic activities or post-graduate schools.

Dwelling on grades too much, particularly when they are already in the past, can cause a lot of unnecessary stress that often does more harm than good — and worst of all is when the over-thinking and stress begin to impact mental health, causing feelings of anxiety, low self-esteem or even depression. In my experience, the best way to handle the problem is by separating the practical concerns from the personal ones. Graduating with top honors, for example, would be a practical success, as you would be much likelier to find a well-paying job or be accepted into a high-ranked graduate program — but not doing so does not reflect on your character or personal worth. Moreover, resenting, judging and criticizing yourself will only distract you and bring you even further

away from your goals.

This leads me to ask — what makes a C in organic chemistry more acceptable than a C in, for example, “Writing 5”? Is it because almost everyone else in organic chemistry is also getting a C, or it is because you know you did your best even if the grade is low? While I would hope that the answer is the latter, unfortunately, I suspect that it is often the former. Everything is relative, and when others are doing as well as you, it is easy to know what the standard is.

But what about when you do not know how other people are doing — or, worse, when they all seem to be doing better than you? That is when it is easy to fall into a pit of self-judgement and self-loathing — and this is not exclusive to grades. Artists judge each other against other artists, and writers against other writers, far too often for their own good. Perhaps this inspires some people to do better — but for many, such comparisons can be very intimidating and discouraging.

Shifting your frame of comparison is a far better strategy. Rather than comparing your grades to someone else’s, compare them to your past results. Better yet, do not compare your grades — which are merely someone else’s assessment of your progress — but instead, compare the knowledge itself and the skills you have learned. At the end of a class, if you feel that you know a good deal more or can write better than when you started, then regardless of what letter grade a teacher gives you for your work, it has been a success — you have been a success.

Of course, this is easier said than done. It is understandably difficult to avoid judging yourself or your work, especially in a society that seems to revolve around numerical measurements of worth. A moderate dosage of judgment is healthy since, without it, you will never learn or improve. But if you judge yourself in a way that is kinder and more understanding, this healthier mind-set might just help you to climb out of the pit of grade angst and self-loathing to find freedom and — dare I say it — happiness.

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GUEST Columnists Casidhe-NICOLE Bethancourt ’16 and John Damianos ’16

Supporting Survivors

The College should fund long-term treatment for survivors of sexual violence.

When forensic psychologist David Lisak came to campus in the summer of 2014, he implored administrators and student activist groups to listen to survivors when devising policy around sexual violence. The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault prides itself on serving as a mouthpiece for survivors, seeking to express their frustrations, desires and hopes to administrators with the goal of fostering a safer and more inclusive campus. We are particularly excited this year about our recently released recommendation advocating for the College to “provide financial support covering the full cost of long-term counseling and psychiatric care for student survivors of sexual violence.”

Sexual violence is more than just a social phenomenon — it is a medical issue. Evidence shows that sexual violence is a source of psychological trauma, ranking higher in studies than sudden death of a loved one, car crashes and combat experiences. Approximately one-third of survivors develop post-traumatic stress disorder, and many others suffer from depressive and anxiety disorders among other neurological conditions. In short, sexual assault is a life-changing event with debilitating effects, and many survivors require medical treatment.

The College does not currently offer long-term psychiatric care for any illness. Within the current framework, Dick’s House simply does not have enough counselors to provide continual care to every student suffering from depression, anxiety, disordered eating, substance abuse or other mental health issues. In fact, the Center for Counseling and Human Development allots students only 10 to 12 free sessions with a counselor per academic year. After that, students are advised to seek outside resources — an infeasible option for many individuals due to the costs of such treatment.

Given these circumstances and the traumatic effects of sexual assault, College-funded long-term counseling affirms the experience of the survivor and further seeks to address its effects.

Dartmouth prides itself on its undergraduate focus. For students to succeed and tackle the world’s challenges, they must be not only physically healthy, but mentally as well. Thus, the College has a responsibility to support every single student and ensure universal access to the tools and resources necessary for self-care. By not providing adequate treatment, the College fails to fulfill its responsibility — particularly since many

students experience sexual assault on campus, as elucidated in the recently-released results of the Association of American Universities campus climate survey. If the College can not support the needs of students to receive treatment oncampus, easier access to the option of seeking outside treatment would firmly demonstrate that Dartmouth cares about the health and wellbeing of its students. Crucially, it would affirm the experiences of survivors and the gravity of their trauma, while also assuring them that the College is committed to their recovery and their ability to flourish. Additionally, such a resource would add to the growing directory of options for survivors of sexual violence, further exhibiting a commitment to addressing the diverse needs of survivors and fostering a climate of financial inclusivity.

One of the cornerstone outcomes of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative is to “promote a safer and healthier campus environment.” A large part of that plan seeks to address violence prevention, educating the community about sexual and gender-based violence with the goal of cultivating a culture of inclusivity. The College has an equal responsibility to not only prevent this violence, but to also support survivors so they can continue their academic careers happily and healthily.

Such a resource could take form in many ways, such as a partnership with local nonprofits like West Central Behavioral Health. Perhaps the College could provide transportation to these or similar services. While many details must be considered, we believe that the general idea represents a powerful way to help survivors heal. Once implemented, students can access off-campus treatment, free of the substantial financial burden that may otherwise exist.

This is a beautiful vision. It is a safe and caring Dartmouth, one that prioritizes student wellbeing. We cannot do it alone, and the SPCSA cannot do it alone. So talk with friends, discuss it with administrators and ask for alumni backing.

If we as a campus are truly committed to fighting rape culture, then we need to play an active role in making change a reality. Survivors have pleaded for this — and now it is time to listen, provide them with treatment and allow them to thrive.

Bethancourt and Damianos are members of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault.

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Inaugural Society of Fellows class collaborates across departments FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1

pursue their research and gain exposure to teaching through training and lecturer positions at the College.

Religion professor Randall Balmer, who spearheaded the program, began by assembling a group of professors who would serve as senior fellows and mentors to the incoming class. These senior fellows served on a committee to review applications for junior fellows — the five people who partake in “Bible study.”

English professor Donald Pease, one of the committee’s seven senior fellows, explained that the junior fellows can help foster collaboration between the College’s various departments, which he said can sometimes become sequestered.

“The Society exists to foster intellectual engagement between faculty and postdoctoral scholars that bridge departments and programs,” Pease said.

Pease and Balmer said they received 1,750 applications for the five available spots in the program last year. Since all who were admitted to the College’s Society of Fellows accepted the positions, that marks a 0.3 percent admit rate. Balmer said that although he was somewhat surprised at such a large number of applicants, he expected a high level of interest and response. Balmer said in the future he hopes to expand the program and have several dozen fellows at any given time.

The five fellows comes from a vast range of backgrounds and interdisciplinary focuses of research.

Fellow Bess Koffman currently works in the earth sciences department. Her research focuses on historical climate change through the examination of continuous records of dust and other chemicals deposited on snow and ice.

Although Koffman is currently focusing on her research and lab work,

she will be teaching “Meteorology” in the spring.

Koffman said she particularly enjoys the defining role that she and her peers play in being the first cohort of fellows.

Koffman said the fellowship appealed to her for its particular blend of research and teaching.

“Unlike most postdoctoral fellowships, which are just research-based, this one provided a good balance. It provides an exciting opportunity to engage in research and at the same time, develop myself as a teacher,” Koffman said.

Fellow Caitano da Silva, who received his Ph.D. in physics at Pennsylvania State University, expressed a similar sentiment about his motivation for applying for the Society of Fellows.

“This position is a unique one for a recent Ph.D. graduate, in that it involves a teaching commitment as well as giving them some freedom to pursue research of his or her interests,” da Silva said.

Da Silva, stationed in the physics department, conducts research on the radiation produced by thunderstorms. He shadows physics professor Mary Hudson as she teaches “Introductory Plasma Physics,” which he will teach alone next year.

Da Silva said he especially enjoys the constant intellectual interactions he has as a fellow. He said these collaborative opportunities are rarer in most postdoctoral positions, where people often spend the majority of their time working in a lab.

Fellow Kate Kindervater, who has a Ph.D. in geography, spoke similarly of the program’s benefits. She said her favorite part of the fellowship has been meeting the other fellows and learning about interdisciplinary research outside of her own field.

“We have really different research interests, but it’s been a really exciting opportunity to talk with people

that are far outside your own field,” Kindervater said.

In the geography department, Kindervater’s research is centered around Western violence and its history, with an emphasis on drone technology. Although the specific classes she will teach have not yet been finalized, Kindervater will instruct courses this summer and next year.

Kindervater’s research — which touches upon issues in geography, history, security studies and the history of science and technology — is interdisciplinary, but Pease said this is typical of the fellows.

“They’re all pursuing cutting-edge research in their own areas of inquiry, but it’s primarily interdisciplinary,” Pease said.

Fellow Yvonne Kwan’s research on the transgenerational transmission of trauma in the children of the Cambodian genocide’s victims likewise spans a number of disciplines, including sociology, history and ethics.

Originally from the greater Los Angeles area, Kwan earned her Ph.D. last spring at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Kwan, who will teach “Constructing Social Theory” this spring, said one of her favorite aspects of the fellowship is having access to undergraduate students. She said undergraduates offer

a broader perspective on material that can help Fellows to contextualize their research.

“Sometimes our research can seem myopic,” Kwan said. “But when others who are engaging don’t have the level of expertise, it challenges you to think in a broader way to conceptualize things that aren’t just relevant to you and a small group of people.”

Balmer said that he enjoys having the Fellows on campus because they also expose the faculty to new perspectives. Doctoral students, he said, constantly challenge older faculty to stay current in their field — without them, faculty may be tempted to relax.

“Young people bring energy, enthusiasm and a conversance with their fields that for some of us is difficult to sustain as you get older,” Balmer said.

Fellow Vanessa Freije, who earned her history Ph.D. from Duke University and now conducts research examining the history of political scandals under one-party rule in Mexico, said she feels connected to people across campus.

“I’ve found it to be very easy to make intellectual connections across campus. There’s a lot of energy to have discussions with people working on very different things,” Freije said.

Freije is the only Fellow who will not teach a course while at the College, because she has a tenure-track position lined up at the University of Washington.

Balmer said that he has made recent visits to both Harvard and Princeton Universities to study their respective Societies of Fellows and draw from his observations to determine what strategies and models would work best for the College.

He said there are a few distinct differences between the College and these other models — most notably, the College does not have large graduate programs.

Balmer said, however, he does not think this difference is “debilitating” — just worthy of consideration. He also noted that postdoctoral students who come to Hanover will not have the same cohort of peers as Fellows at other schools.

Balmer and Pease said that although the society is too nascent to measure its influence, they point to the accomplished Fellows as evidence of its success thus far.

“I hope the presence of young, enthusiastic, energetic, intelligent scholars here on campus will have a leavening effect through the College, both on undergraduates and older faculty,” Balmer said.

VISIONARIES IN TECHNOLOGY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES

Alexander H. Slocum

Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Symbiotic Systems for the Future of Energy, Water, and Food Friday, October 30, 2015

3:30 PM | Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall

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Fellow Caitano da Silva conducts research on the radiation produced by thunderstorms.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:30 p.m.

“Six to Start: Fundraising,” Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network boot camp lecture, DEN Innovation Center

4:30 p.m.

“Policy, Politics and the Affordable Care Act,” lecture with James F. Blumstein of Vanderbilt University, Rockefeller Center, Room 003

7:00 p.m.

“An Evening with Congressman Joaquin Castro,” lecture with Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Moore Building, Filene Auditorium

TOMORROW 2:00 p.m.

“3D Two-Fluid Simulations of Turbulence in LAPD,” thesis defense by Ph.D. candidate Dustin Fisher, Wilder 202

3:30 p.m.

“Symbiotic Systems for The Future of Energy, Water and Food,” Cummings Hall, Spanos Auditorium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE JAMES & DAVID ORR LECTURE ON CULTURE & RELIGION AT DARTMOUTH

VATICAN II PA S T, P R E S E N T & F U T U R E

A symposium assessing the Roman Catholic Church in the fifty years since the end of the Second Vatican Council

Thursday,

OCTOBER 29 4:15 pm

2015

Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

PANELISTS E.J. Dionne, Jr. Washington Post Brookings Institution

Paul Elie Berkley Center for Religion Georgetown University

Marian Ronan Catholic Feminist & Author New York Theological Seminary

Simone Campbell Sisters of Social Service “Nun on the Bus”

Jeffrey N. Steenson Monsignor & Church Historian Roman Catholic Church

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7:00 p.m.

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

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Wind Ensemble to play sounds of Eastern Europe on Friday

B y amelia rosch

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

From Vranje, Serbia, to Zagorje, Croatia, from the 1930s to 2005, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble will travel through time and place in their concert on Friday, Oct. 30 as they celebrate Eastern European and Eastern European-inspired music.

The ensemble’s conductor Matthew Marsit said that the concert will be exploring different aspects of Eastern Europe’s musical culture.

“It’s all representative of what it means to be there in time and place,” Marsit said.

He said that in addition to the music, a highlight of the concert will be the presence of special guest conductor Timothy Reynish. Working with Reynish, who is on the staff of the International Chamber Music Studio at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, has been a privilege, Marsit said.

“He is the leading conductor of wind ensembles worldwide,” he said.

Marsit, who is currently on sabbatical from the College, said that Reynish has brought his deep passion for music to the students in the ensemble during the seven weeks he has worked with them.

He described Reynish’s individual flair.

“He has a very dry and very British sense of humor,” he said. “He’s Welsh, so he has a very thick accent.”

Friday night’s concert will start with Russian composer’s Nikolai Myaskovsky “Symphony No. 19 in E Flat” (1939).

Marsit said that Myaskovsky is considered “the father of Russian symphonic writing” due to his output of concerts.

“When people think of Russian music, they usually think of Tchaikovsky,” Marsit said. “Myaskovsky was much more influenced by Russian folk melodies. Tchaikovsky looked more towards traditions out of Germany.”

Sophie Connor ’18, a member of the ensemble’s flute section, said that she felt a connection to the Myaskovsky piece, as it is the only one that Marsit himself will be conducting in the show. She said she also loves the symphony’s sound.

Fisher Katlin ’19, who plays bass trombone for the ensemble, said that while all the pieces are interesting in their own way, he also enjoys the Myaskovsky piece the most because of its structure.

“It is the most programmatic of our pieces,” he said.

The second piece performed will be British composer Kenneth Hesketh’s “Vranjanka” (2005). Marsit said that “Vranjanka” was commissioned by Reynish as a memorial for his son.

Marsit said that the piece, which is based heavily on a traditional folk melody, has a huge contrast between its opening and its body.

“It’s mostly a dance tune in a complex meter, really fun and celebratory,” he said. “The beginning, though, is almost primordial, an almost cinematic opening before it breaks into the dance.”

The evening’s third piece, “Music for Winds” (2009) by Polish artist Stanislaw

Skrowaczewski, was initially written for professional orchestras.

“It was a response to the ‘dumbing down’ of culture,” Marsit said. “It is fabulously well-constructed and for a slightly reduced ensemble. There is three of everything,three flutes, three oboes.”

He said that “Music for Winds” is infamously challenging.

“There are conservatories that balk at letting their members try it,” he said.

“The students are doing an amazing job. They’re hitting it head on. I could not be more proud of them.”

The final piece of the evening, Croatian artist Davor Bobic’s “Pictures from Zagorje” (1997), will return to the celebratory tone that was seen in Hesketh’s earlier piece, Marsit said. He said that “Pictures from Zagorje” tells the story of life in the town of Zagorje and takes inspiration from various festivals and celebrations.

“There is a wedding dance section,” he said. “It’s very dance oriented, not how we think of as dance in the west, but dance inspired.”

He said that the Bobic piece will end

the concert with a “big splash.”

Connor said that, overall, she enjoys the combination of various pieces in the concert and how they come together despite their differences.

“We have a few that are more traditional songs that you would hear from Russia, and we have a few that are more modern, discordant melodies that come apart and then fall back together at the end,” she said.

She also said that getting the opportunity to work with Reynish has been amazing given his international

reputation, but that she has also missed Marsit.

Katlin also said that working with Reynish has been fantastic.

“Since he’s from overseas, he brings a new perspective for us,” he said. “He’s a very good guy.”

Reynish has also conducted the United States Marine Band and the London Symphony Orchestra.

The concert will be at 8 p.m. and in Spaulding Auditorium. Tickets will be $5 for students and between $9 and $10 for general community members.

HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS fri

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$5

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sun

NOV 1 2 pm

$5

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wed

NOV 4 7 pm

$5

SPAULDING AUDITORIUM

fri-sun

NOV 6 & 7

8 pm

$5

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GLEE CLUB LOUIS BURKOT director

This 40-voice student ensemble performs works by Mozart including Requiem Mass in D minor and excerpts from The Magic Flute.

WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE HAFIZ SHABAZZ director

A fusion of West African rhythms with those of South America’s great mountain chain, The Andes.

DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR DARTMOUTH THEATER DEPARTMENT PETER HACKETT director

MOORE THEATER

The shell-shocked Lothario is the last man standing in a world populated only by women. Will he fall into old bad habits or win back his true love?

2 pm

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MATTHEW M. MARSIT conductor TIMOTHY REYNISH guest conductor An exciting program of works spanning the 20th and 21st centuries

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NOV 8

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DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FILIPPO CIABATTI guest conductor

Verdi Nabucco Overture, Mozart Symphony No. 34 in C major, K. 338 and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor.

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

THURSDAY LINEUP

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. KEISER 7 PM

Women’s tennis takes doubles title at ITA regional tournament

B y ASHLEY DUPUIS The Dartmouth

The women’s tennis team hosted the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championship, wrapping up six days of play at the Boss Tennis Center this past Tuesday. Dartmouth posted solid results throughout the championship, highlighted by Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 taking home the doubles title, the team’s first-ever title at the ITA regional competition.

“Our games’ really complement each other,” Mathis said. “I’m more a baseline player, and Taylor is a great all-court volley player. Our chemistry on and off the court is also great.”

Over the course of the event, 37 teams — including each Ivy League team except for Princeton University — competed in Boss.

Ng and Mathis took down a duo from the University of Pennsylvania in the final round to take the title. The Big Green pair cruised to a 6-2 first

set win before dropping the second set 6-3. The Dartmouth duo was able to pull it out in a deciding third set super tiebreaker, finishing 11-9 to win the event and earn the opportunity to compete at the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship in New York City in November.

“We went about [the tiebreaker] as if it were a new set,” Ng said. “You kind of have to forget if you won the previous set or lost, so you can get on an even level. You have to get the momentum back immediately.”

Head coach Bob Dallis described Ng and Mathis’ victory as a “history-setting performance,” as their victory marked the first time in Dartmouth women’s tennis history that any player had won the tournament.

“I think this was a great win for Dartmouth women’s tennis,” Mathis said, “It puts us on the board, and shows we’re a force to be reckoned with.”

Dartmouth enjoyed a strong performance throughout the tournament.

Allison Chuang ’19 kicked off play

for the Big Green by fighting her way through qualifying rounds and into the main draw. On the first day of the event, Chuang downed Rutgers University sophomore Chloe Lee in a tight threesetter, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4. Chuang was not done after the first victory, though, and she went on to knock out University of Massachusetts senior Carol Benito in straight sets on that same day, moving Chuang into the main draw round.

In the next single round, Chuang ran into Cornell University junior Marika Cusick, the No. 17 seed in her bracket.

Chuang was unable to pull off the upset and bowed out of the tournament after her success in the qualifying rounds.

After beating Chuang, Cusick was only just beginning her strong run at ITA Regionals that saw her take down another Big Green player.

Katherine Yau ’16, who was also ranked No. 17 in her bracket, slotted three straight-set victories to move on to the quarterfinals, where she drew Cusick. Cusick cruised over Yau in the first set, blanking Yau 6-0. Yau,

however, mounted a spirited comeback, edging Cusick out 9-7 in a second set tiebreaker. Yau was unable to complete her comeback and move on to the final round as Cusick ousted her 6-4 in the final set. Yau’s quarterfinal showings was the best singles performance by Dartmouth in the tournament.

Ng, who is ranked No. 67 in the nation and was the top seed in her corner of the bracket, was upset in singles play during the round of 16 by University of Pennsylvania junior Kana Daniel.

Ng, the 2015 Ivy League Player of the Year, posted a record of 21-1 playing No. 1 for the Big Green last season.

Even when her singles performance was not up to par, Ng continued to make history by recovering and winning the doubles title with her partner Mathis.

The Big Green had another dominant doubles team in Julienne Keong ’16 and Suzy Tan ’16. In the round of 64, the duo defeated University of Albany’s Ana Glumac and Paulina Torres 8-5. The duo continued its winning ways in the round of 32

beating University of Massachusetts’ Ruth Crawford and Anna Woosley in another 8-5 victory to advance to the round of 16 where they fell to the No. 9 seed.

Overall, Dallis said, the team had a strong showing in doubles play.

The combination of skill and team chemistry promise a great season for the team this year. Dallis especially emphasized the team’s strong “mental focus and mental energy,” which he thinks will play a key role in the team’s successes.

“I see an Ivy League title in our future,” Ng said. “We have that potential and we were very close last year, and we’re only getting better.”

The team will next take the court on Nov. 6, when the team will host the Big Green Invite.

“I think there’s a lot of improvements to be made over the next week and a half,” Ng said, “There’s going to be some really good teams at the Big Green Invite, so I think that’s going to be a really good test.”

Men’s soccer ends month-long win streak with loss to UNH

B y ray lu

The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s soccer team (8-4-1, 4-0 Ivy) lost its first game in over a month, falling 2-0 to the University of New Hampshire (9-3-3, 2-2-1 America East) in a Tuesday night road game. Dartmouth’s win streak was snapped at six games, although each of the team’s four losses this season have come against nonconference opponents as the Big Green remains undefeated in Ivy League play.

The defeat marks another year that Dartmouth has proven unable to top UNH, last defeating the Wildcats in 2010. While the Big Green is alone at the top of the Ivy League standings, both UNH and Dartmouth have seen themselves in the national rankings at some point this season. Dartmouth broke into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings this past weekend after its emphatic victory against Columbia University. The Big Green came in at No. 24., the only Ancient Eight team to receive any votes in the poll. “[UNH] was in the top 25 at different points in the season, so we knew it was going to be a competitive game, especially with the in-state rivalry and how we haven’t beat them in a little while,”

James Hickok ’17 said.

In this mid-week road game, the Big Green (8-4-1, 4-0 Ivy) gave a couple of starters some needed rest and reached deep into the bench for starters. Devin Pierre ’17 and Brendan Barth ’17 made their first starts of the season, and Hickok stepped in at keeper for co-captain Stefan Cleveland ’16.

Both teams fought hard, and the Big Green knew that UNH was going to be a tough matchup coming in, head coach Chad Riley said.

Both teams struggled to find offensive footing throughout the game. Neither team could find the back of the net during the game’s first period, and the two goals by the Wildcats were scored in a quick two minute burst in the second half.

“We’ll look at those goals on video, take them in stride and see how we can improve in this coming weekend,” Hickok said.

UNH senior Fazal Nabi tacked on his fourth and fifth goals of the season in the 59th and 62nd minutes, respectively.

The Wildcats set up Nabi’s first goal with a series of passes around the box. The ball movement opened up space and provided and opening for Nabi, who shot across Hickok’s body and buried the ball in the back left corner. Just a few

possessions later, Nabi found the opposite back corner in similar fashion.

“I think both teams played well,” Riley said. “They were just able to find the back of the net.”

After the Wildcat goals, Dartmouth recovered and pushed the offensive pace.

The Big Green racked up seven shots in the final 35 minutes of the game but could not convert. While Dartmouth consistently threatened the opposing half and picked up corner kicks, the Big Green was unable to get past the UNH defense and redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Pesci.

Matt Greer ’18 had one of the best opportunities of the game for the Big Green in the 89th minute. Greer ran and collected a ball in the box, but sent his shot just high.

“From the start we had a pretty rough go. We couldn’t really get into the game as a team,” Justin Donawa ’19 said.

“We had maybe one or two chances throughout the game that we could’ve capitalized on but unfortunately we didn’t, and [UNH] capitalized on the few chances they had.”

The weekday game serves as useful practice for the Big Green as the team prepares for its big Halloween showdown with Harvard University. Dartmouth currently holds a one-game lead in the

race for the Ivy League title, but the Crimson is not far behind. Harvard will enter the matchup coming off a 2-1 victory against Boston College on Tuesday.

The game against the Wildcats, who play a similar formation to the Crimson, was a valuable tune-up, Riley said. Additionally, Riley emphasized Dartmouth’s one-game-at-a-time approach to the coming slate of matches.

Dartmouth and Harvard are the clear frontrunners for the Ivy League title this season with only three weekends of conference play remaining. Last year, Princeton University and Dartmouth shared the crown. No team, however, has won back-to-back Ivy League men’s soccer titles since Dartmouth did so in 2004 and 2005. Princeton is out of contention, currently sitting tied with the University of Pennsylvania for fifth place at 1-2-1 in Ivy League play, but the Big Green is in a good position to make a run at the repeat.

“We’re still looking for our best performance of the season,” Riley said.

The team’s offensive philosophy has changed greatly this season after many talented players from last year’s squad signed with professional teams. Alex Adelabu ’15 led a squad that scored 1.84 goals per game with 10 goals last season.

This season, Dartmouth currently has no players with more than three goals. This year’s team is also scoring nearly half a goal fewer per game, coming in at 17 total goals for 1.31 goals per game.

The Big Green has, however, has managed to successfully reinvent itself and carry over its old success.

The defense and outstanding play of Cleveland have kept the Big Green around in tight games. All but one of the College’s Ivy League victories this season were 1-0 results, and the experience in high pressure situations will prove valuable for the team as it aims to make another postseason run.

Looking forward to the Crimson, Donawa said the two recent games have given the team a chance to practice and the team now has some time to focus on the upcoming matchup.

I think we’ve definitely done everything in our power to get better every day and go out and train every day and work our tails off,” he said. “I think it’s paying off, especially in the Ivy League... and I think we’ll definitely come out with a good result against Harvard if we play how we’ve been playing.”

The Big Green will play Harvard on Oct. 31 at Cambridge, Mass. with kick-off at 4:30 p.m.