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Members of the Hanover Conservancy works to protect local wildlife

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For years, the non-profit Hanover Conservancy has partnered with the town and the College to protect Hanover-area wildlife. The organization has recently narrowed its focus to devote undivided attention to the wildlife preservation work in Hanover, executive director

of the trust Adair Mulligan said. In the past, the Conservancy sought to preserve a wider area of the Upper Valley, including Lebanon.

The Conservancy is the oldest land trust in the state of New Hampshire, according to its website, and organization members of the Conservancy often collaborate with local governments and other non-profit

operations to achieve the organization’s primary goals and to educate students about wildlife preservation.

Mulligan said that the organization is working to preserve the Mink Brook watershed. Though the Hanover Conservancy currently has multiple projects targeting the watershed, SEE CONSERVATION PAGE 3

Society of Fellows’ top candidates selected B y ERICA BUONAnNO The Dartmouth Staff

The Society of Fellows selection committee has identified the top 15 postdoctoral candidates from a pool of 1,740 applications. This program, first announced by College President Phil Hanlon in his inaugural address, is dedicated to bringing postdoctoral students to the College for research, teaching and mentorship and will commence in the fall, likely with five post-doctoral fellows.

Society of Fellows director Randall

Following a series of pilot programs slated to begin this fall, the College will require all students to participate in a four-year sexual assault education program. This initiative is part of the plan for Moving Dartmouth Forward, which College President Phil Hanlon announced in his speech last Thursday.

Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said that the program is still in development, and its creation provides a valuable opportunity for collaboration among campus groups.

Specifics of the plan are still being discussed and worked on, Lindkvist said, and will use current sexual assault prevention programs such as the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative as focal points in planning the four-year program.

Lindkvist said the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative provides a good model because it consists of an overview program as well as specific modules focused on more targeted issues, with the overall goal of educating participants on how to be active bystanders that can disrupt dangerous behaviors.

“The four-year plan will build on the current initiatives, but there’s going to be quite a bit of consultation across campus on what that plan will look like,” Lindkvist said.

Dartmouth staff and faculty will also be included in the program, Lindkvist said. The plan’s implementation will ensure that faculty and student programs reinforce each other in areas including the key language used, the policies and procedures discussed and SEE EDUCATION PAGE 2

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Balmer said that the selection committee, comprised of seven faculty members or mentors, have read through all the applications and began interviewing the 15 top candidates via Skype on Wednesday.

He said he is hoping to present Provost Carolyn Dever with a final ranked list of about 10 to 12 candidates by Feb. 16, allowing her to select the five final postdoctoral fellows.

Prospective host departments of the postdoctoral fellows are also reviewing the SEE FELLOWS PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing Boasting impressive scores in categories such as “fan intensity” and “quality of life,” Hanover has been named the second best “Hockey Town” in America by SmartAsset, a financial analysis firm. SmartAsset — who considered every town in the country that considers itself to be the home of a team competing in the National Hockey League, the American Hockey League, the East Coast Hockey League or the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I — used a number of demographic indicators to compile the quality of life scores and based their fan intensity rankings on attendance at home games and Google traffic. Grand Forks, North Dakota took SmartAsset’s top spot in the rankings, with Lewiston, New York, Glen Falls, New York and Houghton, Michigan rounding out the top five. Manchester and Durham, New Hampshire also both placed within the ranking’s top 15.

Brian McCloskey, the former University of New Hampshire women’s hockey coach, admitted yesterday to assaulting one of his players in 2013, according to a press release from the Strafford County Attorney’s Office. McCloskey had been accused of physically harming the student-athlete during the altercation, when he pulled on the student-athlete’s jersey and placed his knee against the top of her hip, forcing her to land awkwardly and hit her head against a bench. The Stafford County Attorney’s Office — assisted in the case by UNH’s police department and Durham police — praised the studentathlete for her decision to step forward and speak about the assault. McCloskey will enter a diversions program following his admission of guilt, which will include mandatory counseling and the performance of 100 hours of community service, among other requirements.

A power outage on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University yesterday caused a number of classes to be cancelled, WMUR Manchester reported. At least one sporting event — a NCAA Division II women’s basketball match-up pitting SNHU against St. Anselm College, a liberal arts college that is also based in Manchester — was also cancelled, though plans were made to play the game this afternoon. As of press time, officials had not yet isolated the source of the outage. A press release from the University earlier in the afternoon had announced that all campus offices would be closed during the day.

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Program will target each class year FROM EDUCATION PAGE 1

the ways Dartmouth as a campus can collectively address behaviors contributing to sexual assault.

“From my perspective, as we develop a four-year program for students...we need to be very thoughtful about consistency with the staff and faculty training that will be implemented as well,” Lindkvist said.

The program will address students through each of their years at Dartmouth and be customized to the differing developmental stages that arise, she said. The program will begin by speaking with freshmen and by giving departing seniors the tools they will need to combat “real-world” sexual misconduct when they leave the College, both in the workplace and in graduate education.

The plan will also address sophomore and junior students heading off campus for language study abroad and foreign study programs and will reinforce sexual assault and harassment awareness in different cultural contexts, Lindkvist said. The program will remind students that College policies still apply and resources are still available even when they are off campus.

“I think there’s a variety of moments in students’ lives where we can develop interactive and engaging programs,” Lindkvist said.

Because the effort is focused primarily on undergraduate students, the College will receive input from the Dean of the College and student health and wellness groups, including the Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, Movement Against Violence, Greek Leadership Council and Sexual Assault Peer Advisors, Lindkvist said.

“In addition to specific organizations, I think there’s going to be a wide range of opportunities for input,” said Lindkvist.

She said that data collected from the American Association of Universities sexual assault climate survey, which will be distributed this spring, will be essential to the formation of the plan. Models from other institutions will also be used to help shape the plan, she said, with the University of New Hampshire’s bystander initiative and the United States Naval Academy’s four-year education program serving as examples.

L a u r a D u n n , fo u n d e r o f SurvJustice, expressed some doubts about the top-down nature of the sexual assault prevention element of Moving Dartmouth Forward.

“What the community does is

almost more influential than what the campus does,” she said. “You can have a dry campus, but until students walk the walk, you’re not really changing anything.”

Bystander training should be expanded to local bar owners in order to be most effective, Dunn said. She also said that student education should begin before classes start as part of a mandatory orientation program.

Dunn said that as a whole, the mandatory program will be a positive change for Dartmouth and has the potential to inspire national change.

“I think it makes a strong statement,” she said. “I think it sets the bar very high across the country.”

Unless the initiative aggressively targets freshmen and sophomores and starts the training before school starts for first-years, the plan will not be as effective as Hanlon hopes, Dunn said. She also emphasized the importance of involving positive male role models as examples of healthy masculinity for incoming male students.

Amanda Childress, the Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator, expressed optimism about the future of the plan.

“We definitely see the integration of some things that are currently existing, as well as the development of some new initiatives,” Childress said.

The developers of the four-year program are currently in early stages, focusing on initiatives that work at other schools, how to best address students at each stage of their College careers and how to be as inclusive and comprehensive

as possible, Childress said.

“We are trying to develop a program that isn’t just one-sizefits-all, but that is really catered to where our students are in their individual experiences and in their growth,” she said.

Student involvement and input is essential to the success of the program, she said.

“We want to utilize the students’ knowledge, experiences and inputs as we develop this program,” Childress said. “It’s important for students to know that they will be part of this, because we want this to be really inclusive.”

SPCSA chair Tori Nevel ’16 and SPCSA outreach and communications chair Shanet Hinds ’16 said that the implementation of this program was exciting because the SPCSA had been pushing for such a program for years.

“I feel like a one-time education program freshman year just wasn’t enough because it didn’t follow students through their time at Dartmouth,” Hinds said. “The experiences students have coming in change as they progress through their time at the College, so we need a program that adapts with students and their understanding of the issues they might be having.”

Nevel emphasized that the program was not just about sexual assault prevention, but effective bystander behaviors and leadership, going beyond basic details and providing information that will be applicable to the “real world” outside the Dartmouth bubble.

“It targets the underlying issues that come with that too, and the underlying causes,” Nevel said.

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The four-year sexual assault education program will be piloted in the fall.

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Hanover town works with conservation groups

around Hanover. The scope of their focus includes trails, habitats and Mulligan said the details regarding the forest surrounding Hanover.

The town often teams up with the initiatives remain confidential.

According to the Hanover town the Conservancy for fundraising efwebsite, the Mink Brook watershed forts in particular, she said. Griffin is the largest in the Hanover area, also said that the town has worked spanning 40 percent of the town. with the organization to maintain The brook travels from Moose hiking trails and preserve dozens Mountain to the Connecticut of acres of forest.

She said that the town had reRiver, passing through the center cently acquired Hayes Farm Park, of Hanover.

As the result of efforts by the located in Etna, New Hampshire.

Hanover Conservancy and the The Conservancy has created a town of Hanover, most — though wildlife and bird sanctuary at the not all — of the watershed is pro- farm, Griffin said.

During a town meeting in April tected from development.

Mulligan also said that the 2012, attendants decided to allow t h e H a n ove r Conservancy Conservancy to has never run establish and into problems “We’ve been a great maintain the dealing with the partner for years sanctuary. town or the ColWhile lege in ter ms with the College. We the Dartmouth of conservation manage a lot of the C l ub efforts, citing land that Dartmouth Outing has not worked both as allies for with the Conthe organiza- owns.” servancy directtion. ly, the organiza“We’ve been tion has taken a g reat part- - ADAIR MULLIGAN, s eve r a l m e a ner for years EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR sures to prewith the ColOF THE HANOVER serve wildlife lege,” she said. on Dartmouth“We manage a CONSERVANCY ow n e d p ro p lot of the land e r t y. E f f o r t s that Dartmouth have included owns.”

The College gave a sizable maintaining Mount Moosilauke, Ravine Lounge and donation to the Mink Brook fund, Moosilauke

Mulligan said, though she could surrounding trails.

Dartmouth Outing Club presinot recall the precise amount of dent Hunter Van Adelsberg ’15 said the donation.

Hanover town manager Julia the organization is solely responGriffin also said that the Conser- sible for clearing the trails used by vancy has maintained a strong Moosilauke Ravine Lodge visitors. partnership with the town. Griffin This includes clearing any fallen said that the Conservancy, along trees and debris from the area.

The organization runs volunwith the Hanover Conservation Commission, has worked closely teer-based trail work trips almost with the town on several projects. every week, he said.

Though the Hanover ConThe Hanover Conservation Commission is a board consisting servancy has never worked with of seven full-time members who the DOC, Van Adelsberg said he meet once a month to discuss ideas would be open to working with the for maintaining the wildlife in and organization in the future.

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The exhibit “About Face,” featuring a variety of self-portraits, is currently on display at the Hood Museum of Art.

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Opportunities to Contribute Implementation of President Hanlon's Moving Dartmouth Forward Plan is beginning immediately. There are several opportunities for students, faculty, and staff who are interested in committing time and energy.

For more information, visit the Moving Dartmouth Forward website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/forward/opportunities.html

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Staff Columnist WILL ALSTON ’16

SENIOR Staff Columnist LORELEI YANG ’15

Concerning “TBD Dartmouth”

Stalling on Sexual Assault

“TBD Dartmouth” doesn’t helpfully criticize “Moving Dartmouth Forward.”

Tuesday’s campus-wide email from “TBD Dartmouth” presented a number of criticisms of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan. I’d like to present my thoughts on the individual concerns the email raised as an attempt at serious discourse about pressing campus issues. The email first asserts that the early release of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan to select individuals and groups demonstrates exclusivity. While the plan does have issues with exclusivity, they do not lie with to whom the information was made available.

The information was eventually released to the public, and it made sense for President Hanlon to gauge response to his announcements prior to making them.

The email then takes issue with “certain students” who were “already ... granted positions” on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” committees.

Greek system leaders are important community leaders at Dartmouth. It’s not an “unfair burden” for people who do not already have established leadership positions to apply for equal recognition as those who do. The authors then condemn the administration’s emphasis on top-down social change, which is misguided because social interactions are ultimately carried out by students themselves — thus, they should be empowered.

The next point of the email criticizes a lack of emphasis on the effects of “structural oppressions” on campus. The influence of phenomena such as homophobia and gender biases on peoples’ lives is not something that can be fixed by the College, as a student is no longer a blank slate by the time he or she is 18. Aggressively combating biases would require expanding the College’s mission beyond simply education, and instead to re-education — an extremely difficult goal.

The authors then berate President Hanlon’s plan because it does not address the “Freedom Budget,” which not only would have cost a significant amount of money to implement, but also relied heavily on fallacious arguments.

The population of people qualified to teach at Dartmouth is substantially older than the student population. It makes sense that the faculty would be less racially diverse then the millenial generation,

as older generations include smaller percentages of racial minorities.

The email also condemns the lack of “adequate response” to the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, whose recommendations — while admirable — include a number of intrusive and unrealistic proposals, such as mandatory coeducation in the Greek system and banning Bored at Baker. Like the “Freedom Budget,” “TBD Dartmouth” does not address where the resources will come from to implement these changes.

Next, the authors characterize the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan as blaming victims of sexual assault. The plan specifically creates a “comprehensive and mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program,” and it’s unclear as to how this or other aspects of the plan constitute victim-blaming. It’s also ignorant to claim that sexual assault is exclusively caused by “a culture of entitled masculinity,” as there are cases in which men are the victims of sexual assault and lack recourse due to social stigma.

There are some points with which I agree. One criticism is aimed at the use of the phrase “alternative to the Greek system” — and, true, perhaps a semantic change is worthwhile. Using the phrase “additional social spaces” as opposed to “alternative ” would be a good way to de-emphasize Greek dominance as well as possibly remove the word’s associated stigma. I also agree with the email’s point that the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan lacks concrete implementation plans, despite its many specific policy proposals. As written, the plan isn’t a concrete policy document. It’s more of an address aimed at improving the public perception of the College, particularly that of prospective students and their families — and appealing to a future student body creates a lot of uncertainty among the current one.

Finally, the email closes by criticizing the College for “not ameliorating the existing structures that exclude [faculty and students of color].” It is the job of students themselves, not the College, to shape the world around them. It is beyond the scope of Dartmouth to do this on its own, but it is not beyond that of its amazing alumni.

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“Moving Dartmouth Forward” doesn’t make real progress on sexual assault.

In the wake of College President Phil Hanlon’s presentation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan last Thursday, I am surprised and disappointed to see students, faculty and national media fixate on the hard alcohol ban — a relatively minor part of the overall plan — rather than pointing out some of its glaring inadequacies. Given the amount of scrutiny that the College has come under for failing to meet its obligation to protect students under Title IX, it boggles the mind to see how paltry the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies on sexual assault prevention and response truly are.

As a former executive in Movement Against Violence, a Sexpert and someone whose own life has been touched by sexual violence on this campus, I am profoundly disappointed to see “Moving Dartmouth Forward” rely on preventative education and incident response as the cornerstones of its sexual assault policies. The idea that a “comprehensive and mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program,” paired with an online “Consent Manual,” can teach rapists not to rape is laughable. Rapists do not stop committing rape because they learn that their actions hurt others. Sexual assault at the College can only end when we expel assailants from our campus. At best, the mandatory four-year education will prevent some percentage of students from committing sexual violence, but it will not bring an ultimate end to these acts from taking place.

While a Dartmouth-specific safety smartphone app sounds great in theory, the reality is that smartphone-based sexual assault response apps such as Here for You, Circle of 6, like LiveSafe and Kitestring are not particularly useful as response tools for acquaintance rape. Given that a study by the State University of New York at Albany reported that nearly 90 percent of college rape survivors knew their assailant, these kinds of apps are not likely to be effective.

These apps tend to break down into two general categories: apps that keep users safe when they walk home alone or find themselves in unfamiliar situations, like Kitestring and Circle of 6, and apps that help users find resources in the aftermath of a rape, LiveSafe and Here For You. Based on existing apps, one might imagine that a Dartmouth-specific smartphone app would be some combination of these two general types. Perhaps, then, it would have a feature to alert Safety and Security, a list of College resources such as the Sexual Assault Peer Advisors and links to non-College resources such as WISE. This sounds great, until you consider two things. First, putting existing resources into an app does not truly increase the amount or availability of College resources, and second, smartphone-based apps are, by definition, limited to only those members of a student body with smartphones. The first is an issue of existing resources — why, at this point, is “Moving Dartmouth Forward” not engaging in forward-thinking,

pioneering work on sexual assault akin to that which President Hanlon is pushing for in our academic offerings? The second is an issue of accessibility — on that is particularly troubling. Given their price, it’s clear that smartphones are most accessible to those with adequate financial resources. When one considers the fact that individuals from low-income backgrounds report higher rates of sexual violence, a smartphone-exclusive app may exclude those who are most at risk of needing it.

Finally, it is troubling to see that the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan requires mandatory expulsion only in “extreme cases” of sexual assault. What exactly constitutes an “extreme case?” Sexual assault is, by definition, a violent act — it is a violation of a person’s body, agency and right to safety. It should not have to be “extreme” for it to be considered a gross violation of the College’s conduct standards. By linking the supposed extremeness of a case to mandatory expulsion, the plan treads disturbingly close to the spirit of former Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) claim that the female body can “shut the whole thing down” to prevent pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.” Sexual violence is, and always will be, traumatic. Attempting to distinguish between various levels of severity disempowers and denigrates the experiences of its survivors. For the College to engage in this sort of discourse is both irresponsible and detestable.

Rather than creating an app and implementing mandatory education, the College should make an explicit commitment to improving its internal adjudication processes relating to sexual assault and gender-based violence, develop a partnership with the Hanover Police Department to give survivors who choose to go to the court a legitimate chance in the criminal justice system and make rape kits and date rape drug testing available at Dick’s House. Rather than mandating expulsion in “extreme” cases, the College should commit to a true zero-tolerance policy with expulsion as the minimum punishment for any party found guilty of sexual assault. Greek houses and other social spaces should be held more accountable for what happens to their guests both at their houses and after they leave if they were served alcohol in that house.

Finally, there must be comprehensive plan to support survivors in the emotional, physical and academic travails that are too often the results of experiencing sexual violence.

As we continue to debate “Moving Dartmouth Forward” and its implementation, I urge you to think beyond the hard alcohol ban. Even if you cannot access liquor on campus, you will still be able to drink in Hanover-area establishments that serve mixed drinks. Rape survivors, however, can never return to being exactly who they were before they were raped. The lasting effects of sexual violence are a much more significant problem on this campus than whether or not you can have a rum and coke at your next tails.

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applications to gauge interest among potential faculty mentors within that department, engineering professor and faculty mentor William Lotko wrote in an email.

The interviews are the last step in due diligence to ensure that each Society of Fellows postdoc meets expectations in both scholarship and teaching, he wrote.

Balmer said that he thought that there would be difficultly finding office space for the postdoctoral fellows, but the provost’s office stepped in and said that space should not be a consideration in deliberation of the final candidates.

He said he is pleased with the range of diversity in the final candidates in terms of their interests and disciplines.

“We were sensitive to a kind of range of applications, and we wanted a diversity of people coming in to campus, and again as the final pool materialized it turned out that there was a good bit of diversity in terms of academic disciplines,” Balmer said.

The Society of Fellows program seeks out postdoctoral candidates with compelling scholarly projects, Balmer said, noting that not all of the final candidates come from elite institutions.

“Some of those people came from places as you might expect, Harvard [University] and Princeton [University], and some have come from places you might not expect like state schools and places you might not mention in the same breath as elite institutions and that for me is satisfying,” Balmer said.

“That’s another form of diversity, I suppose.”

History professor and faculty mentor Pamela Crossley wrote in an email that, as in any major competitive fellowship, the members of the selection committee are all bringing their own priorities to the process.

She said she thinks that all the Society of Fellows committee members are eager to find the interface between the highest quality applicants and those who are the best fit for Dartmouth’s initiatives in research and teaching.

The Society of Fellows program has the potential to support intellectual life and scholarly productivity at the College, Balmer said. Since the College does not have many graduate students in the arts and humanities, he said it is easy for faculty members in those fields to lose their cutting edge.

“Doctoral students had the effect of kind of keeping me at the top of my game in terms of keeping up with the latest scholarship,” Balmer said. “Since coming here, I’ve had to work harder to keep on top of things, and the presence of Ph.D.s will aid that project.”

Scholarship and teaching are complementary, he said, and improved scholarship will aid professors in the

classroom, which is an important aspect of this program.

He said that he hopes that the Society of Fellow post-doctoral members will have a positive effect on the entire community because they are “young, ambitious and energetic” and that undergraduate students will benefit from the overall increase in scholarly activity.

Crossley said that the College already has multiple postdoctoral programs, and the Society of Fellows will not only bring its own scholars to the table, but also act as an integration point for postdocs across campus.

“Fundamentally, a Society of Fellows program is a mark of maturity for an institution,” she said. “It means we are not limited to sending our faculty and students away to other research facilities.”

Fellowships are 34 months long, and those who are selected for the Society of Fellows program will receive a monthly stipend of $4,600, which totals to $55,200 per year, plus an annual $4,000 to cover research and travel expenses.

Harvard and Princeton also have similar Society of Fellows programs.

Harvard pays fellows an annual stipend of $70,000 while Princeton pays a salary of $80,000 plus $5,000 annually for research, according to the websites for the programs.

Balmer said he also hopes that the participants create a community for themselves at the College.

“I would love to have these people say, ‘I have formed some friendships here at Dartmouth with other members of the Society of Fellows and those friendships have been important to me throughout my career and I thank Dartmouth for giving me that opportunity,’” he said.

Society of Fellows program administrator Laura McDaniel said that in the next few months the committee will be debating how to best streamline the application process while still achieving the highest quality candidate pool.

Balmer said that no one was prepared for the “avalanche” of applications the College received in response to the Society of Fellows advertisement.

“What it tells me is that smart people want to be at Dartmouth and we as a school should capitalize on that and see this as a way of ramping up the intellectual and scholarly life of Dartmouth College,” he said.

Crossley said that the huge appeal of the program worldwide has made the process of starting it up more complicated and far more time-consuming than was originally anticipated. The current model for the Society of Fellows program guarantees that there will be 12 fellows on campus at any given time.

Applications for a new pool of candidates will be posted this summer with deadlines early in the fall.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY All day “Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture Contest,” Robinson Hall and the Green

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“Permaculture and Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” lecture with Shannon Francis, Filene Auditorium

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“Winter Carnival Opening Ceremonies,” with torch lighting by the Dartmouth Ski Team, The Green

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Men’s and Women’s Squash versus Brown University, Berry Squash Exhibition

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“Diplomacy” (2014), Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Barbary Coast to perform Saturday

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

Big band music and swing dancing will take center stage on Saturday night as the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble headlines the 39th annual Winter Carnival Concert in Spaulding Auditorium.

The concert’s theme is big band music, and the ensemble will perform big band staples with the help of guest artists trombone player Ryan Keberle and trumpet player Michael Rodriguez, as well as five couples from the Dartmouth swing dance club.

Barbary Coast director Don Glasgo said he got the idea for the concert when he heard about Keberle’s Big Band Living Legacy Project. Keberle began the project after he realized that musicians were not taking advantage of the expertise and knowledge of the remaining living legends of jazz.

His project is an effort to showcase the remaining jazz legends from famous orchestras and revitalize big band-style music for a new audience.

Glasgo said he looked at the music played in Keberle’s concerts and knew that it would be perfect for the Barbary Coast winter concert due to its unique range.

“Usually big bands play their own material,” Glasgo said. “What [Keberle] was doing that was really

interesting to me was that he was drawing from all these classic big bands of the 20th century. The music we’re playing on Saturday is actually from six decades of the 20th century, a much broader span than you’d usually have in any one big band’s repertoire.”

Most of the music that Keberle works with had never been formally recorded and existed only in handwritten notes. Keberle sent Glasgo the music, and the students began

“All you have to do is sit in a room with a big band playing this music, and you’ll release just how powerful and how much fun and just how great it is. It’s infectious.”

-Ryan keberle, Founder of the Big band living legacy project practicing it at the beginning of winter term.

Glasgo invited Keberle and Rodriguez to perform guest solos with Barbary Coast because of their

professional success and familiarity with the genre.

“They’re both rising stars on the New York music scene,” Glasgo said. “They also play together in a small group called Catharsis, so they know each other, and they play together really well.”

Glasgo said that the most challenging aspect of big band music for students to master is the swing rhythm, which is featured in most of the concert’s pieces and is fairly uncommon in modern music.

“Students haven’t grown up hearing swing rhythms and playing swing rhythms,” he said. “Playing with a natural feel is the biggest challenge.”

Mali-Agat Obomsawin ’18, upright bassist in Barbary Coast, said that the ensemble’s switch to playing big band music was an exciting move.

“Last concert was really crazy, sort of surreal jazz,” she said. “This is just straight swing, all really tangible, dance-able music, and I love that, so it’s been a blast to work on.”

The music’s “dance-able” quality inspired Glasgo to reach out to the Dartmouth swing dance club, using student connections between the two groups. The dancers, 10 in all, will be dancing onstage alongside the musicians in four of the evening’s numbers.

Obomsawin said she is excited to perform with the dancers, since

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it will create an authentic feel.

“Jazz was made for dancing in the first place, so it’s going to be amazing,” she said.

Keberle said that big bands that played popular jazz music were traditionally the training ground for musicians, and that much of his own musical education came from playing with big bands.

“The big band tradition is its own language — its own vernacular within the jazz tradition,” Keberle said. “Like all languages, you have to hear it, speak it and converse with others to become fluent.”

Keberle said that an unfortunate consequence of jazz fading from popular culture is the neglect of

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the tradition that accompanies it.

The role of the few musicians who continue to practice the “language” becomes more and more important as legendary jazz artists begin to pass away, he said.

“I feel like it’s my responsibility to carry on this language, since I do speak it fluently and I learned from the masters,” he said. “I want to carry that tradition on to the next generation.”

Obomsawin said that she thinks it’s important that groups continue to play big band-style music because it is a relatable and interesting form of jazz.

The adherence to the traditional style does not mean that the concert will just be recreations of old big band numbers. Rather, Keberle said the he wants to translate the music in the stories and feelings of the musicians, allowing for original improvisation in solos.

“I’ll encourage the Barbary Coast students to be different than anything that has been played before and encourage the tradition of personalization and telling your own story through the music,” he said.

He said that despite its perception of being out-of-date and irrelevant, jazz remains powerful.

“Whether you’re a jazz musician or a jazz fan or a total novice listener, all you have to do is sit in a room with a big band playing this music and you’ll realize just how powerful and how much fun and just how great it is,” Keberle said.

“It’s infectious.”

Obomsawin said that she agrees that jazz music remains alive and vivid, due to its improvised nature.

Glasgo said that he believes that the concert will make its attendees feel happy.

“It’s great music,” he said. “I think people will really get into the spirit of the music — it’s music that just makes you feel good.”

The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

Tickets are five dollars for students and $10 for regular admission.

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Men’s squash gets lone win out of four weekend matches B y Emily Wechsler The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s squash team earned their first win over Cornell University since the 2007-2008 season this Sunday, finishing with a 5-4 victory in a four-match weekend at the Berry Squash Courts.

The women would not fare as well, falling to the Big Red 8-1. The men’s and women’s teams faced Columbia University on Saturday, but ultimately lost both matches. The No. 11 men (46, 1-4) fell to No. 4 Columbia 7-2, and the No. 7 women (4-6, 0-5) fell to No. 9 Columbia 6-3.

The men earned their win against Cornell early in the match, going up 5-1 after the first two rounds of action.

Brian Giegerich ’18 secured the win in five games after being down 2-0, cheered on by teammates and fans. Dartmouth’s home courts were loud with family, friends and other spectators who had come for two days of top-flight action.

Head coach Hansi Wiens said he thought the fans helped the men to beat Cornell, especially in the tight matches.

“Kyle Martino [’16] won 12-10 in the fifth [game],” he said. “I think [the fans] really helped us a lot.”

The win keeps the Big Green’s topeight hopes alive.

“It would be a big deal,” Wiens said.

“I believe it, and we work for this.”

Wiens praised all five athletes who contributed to the team win: Martino, Giegerich, James Fisch ’16, Alexander Greer ’16 and John Harvey ’18. He noted that Fisch in particular had an “outstanding performance,” and that Martino and Giegerich played well in their close five-game wins.

Greer, “overpowered his opponent,” Wiens said. “He was far too strong for him, really made him look not so good.”

The men faced a strong Columbia team Saturday, and though only two players were able to secure wins, Wiens seemed pleased with the individual players’ performances. Greer, too, felt that the result was “big” for the Big Green, particularly because several athletes had close matches. Though Greer did not win his match, he used the opportunity to learn from his opponent, freshman Osama Khalifa.

“He beat me pretty handily, but we actually had a great time playing [and] played actually a few games afterwards,” Greer said. “Anytime I can be on court with guys of that caliber, you want to play your best, and also just learn as much as you can.”

Harvey, who returned to the lineup this week after missing matches due to injury, earned his first of two wins this weekend in the first round of matches.

Glen Brickman ’17 secured the second win in the last round.

Fisch and Michael Mistras ’15 pushed their opponents to five games before falling.

Though the women had less success in their matches, many were close, particularly in the women’s faceoff with Columbia. Jacqueline Barnes ’17 lost her match on a tough let call. Helena Darling ’15, Oona Morris ’15 and Zainab Molani ’18 secured wins for the Big Green.

“Outstanding performance by [Darling],” Wiens said. “She went in there, she knew there was pressure — she’s a senior and a captain — she went in there and just won three-love. A really, really strong performance.”

Wiens also cited Morris’s five-game match as a particularly strong win.

“We had some tight matches we couldn’t quite pull through,” Wiens said.

“It was just not our day yesterday, or it felt that way.”

Lydie McKenzie ’16 fell in her matches this weekend, coming just shy of victory in the fifth set to her Columbia opponent.

“In our matches against Stanford and George Washington [Universities], we had a lot that could have gone either way that went our way, which was nice, but this time we had a lot of things that

just didn’t go our way,” McKenzie said of the weekends’ matches. “It was tough, but there were still a lot of great things.”

Two of those great things she cited in particular were Sarah Caughey ’15,who took her match to five with some remarkable play that included taking a dive for the ball, as well as Molani, who won her matches against both Columbia and Cornell.

Though losing close matches could be demoralizing, McKenzie said it encourages her to work harder to prepare for the next match.

Wiens also seemed pleased with the players’ preparation for the last few weeks of the season.

“We’re peaking at the right time,

with three weeks to go,” he said. “We’re playing the best squash.”

Wiens said this season has been different from others because more matches have been tighter.

“We’ve never really had that before,” Wiens said. “Different teams have beat each other, [and] our players have much more close competition.”

He said the close competition brings out the best in the team, and that the pressure on the players is diminishing as they continue to practice more.

Both teams will face Brown University this Friday on the Berry Squash Courts at 5 p.m. before hitting the road to face Yale University at noon on Sunday.

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Women’s squash, now 0-5 Ivy, dropped both of their home matches this weekend.

Track and field continues success in Terrier Classic in Boston

B y Katie Jarrett

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The men’s and women’s track and field teams each had strong showings at Boston University’s Terrier Classic this past weekend, adding to the Big Green’s stellar start to the indoor season.

Going into this event, both the men and women had won their past three competitions, including the Dartmouth Relays, a quad-meet with the University of Vermont, Colgate University and the University of Vermont and a tri-meet with Yale and Columbia Universities.

The Carisella Invitational on Dec. 13 marked the only competition in which both teams did not finish in first, with both the men and women taking second at the event behind Northeastern University.

The women’s track and field head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said she was pleased with the results of the event, especially given that the meet featured Division I programs from several schools around the Northeast and some events

consisted of more than 150 athletes.

“I think we went in with the right attitude, looking to continue to run faster as we’ve been doing every week,” she said.

“That track is an exceptionally fast track.

We accomplished the things we set out to do.”

The women took to the track first on Saturday before the men competed on Sunday. The women’s competition was highlighted by seven top-10 finishes, and the men’s team added six of their own on Sunday.

While the event was non-scoring, coach Ford-Centonze said the competitiveness at a non-scoring meet is actually higher.

“Programs don’t bring their whole team,” she said. “What you see at those types of meets are usually the top-tier of the team because they know the competition is going to be there. BU is a track where the coaches bring their runners because they know they’re going to get fast times on that oval.”

Dana Giordano ’16 handed the Big Green their only first place finish of the

weekend, winning the 3000m in 9:07:28.

She finished eight seconds ahead of the next competitor — Kate Matthews of the Boston Athletic Association — a professional competitor running the race.

Giordano said the pacer led her through the first mile before the Big Green athlete was able to pass her about two-thirds into the race to finish in the lead.

Other impressive finishes from the Big Green came from Jennifer Meech ’16, who ran a 55.02 in the 400m to take sixth, and teammate Erica Hendershot ’15 who took eighth in the 500m with a time of 1:15:09.

In the infield, Lyndsi Ross-Trevor ’18 and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 stood out for the Big Green women in their respective events. Ross-Trevor pole-vaulted to a height of 11-9.75/3.6m to claim a sixth place finish, while Whitehorn cleared 5-7/1.70m in the high jump to earn fourth.

On the men’s side, Curtis King ’16 finished fifth overall, but was the first

collegiate runner to cross the finish line in the 3000m. King ran an 8:01.27, and was followed closely by Joey Chapin ’16, who finished in sixth just two-tenths of a second behind King.

“If [Joey] hadn’t have been there, I would’ve run an 8:05 or 8:06 since I really just kind of stalled out,” King said.

“But, having him there really just I think brought out the best in both of us.”

Similar to the women’s race, the men’s 3000m also featured professional runners as pacers, including Ethan Shaw ’12, which King said was initially very intimidating to him and Chapin.

The 5000m run ended with three Dartmouth runners in the top 15 finishers. Nat Adams ’17 finished in 14:20:92 to take eighth place with teammates Daniel Salas ’17 and Brian Masterson ’16 coming in 10th and 13th, respectively.

Another impressive finish came from the men’s 4x400m relay team, consisting of Ben Colello ’18, Nick Creasman ’18, Phil Gomez ’17 and Amos Cariati ’18, with the team finishing in eighth in a field of 59 teams.

Moving forward, the Big Green has two more weeks of non-scoring competition leading up to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship. Having won three of their scoring meets, including the head-to-head matchup with two Ivy League teams, the Big Green should be putting themselves in good position for a strong finish to the indoor season.

“To be able to win those three meets, and especially to beat the two Ivy teams was great,” Ford-Centonze said. “It only kind of solidifies the direction that we’re going in and some of the things that we talk about when we talk about where we are in the league and what we think we’ll be able to do in the league.”

Next week, the Big Green will host the Dartmouth Classic. Coach FordCentonze believes this event will be a great opportunity for the sprinters to focus on speed, and for multi-event athletes to get a lot of experience taking part in several events, as many of them did not compete last weekend.

Events are set to begin at noon on Saturday in the Leverone Field House.