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Six months later, expert response to summit is mixed By Lauren Budd The Dartmouth Staff
reach Antarctica, director of the Institute of Arctic Studies and environmental studies professor Ross Virginia said. As part of the program, Wise conducted an independent study project about the environmental impacts of ecotourism. Virginia, with support from the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Institute of Arctic Studies, advised Wise over the course
Six months after Dartmouth’s Summit on Sexual Assault, expert opinions are mixed about whether the summit reached its goals and proved effective. While participants had aimed to reconvene six months after the summit, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence said in an email that the University of California at Berkeley is hosting a meeting in February, and Dartmouth representatives have met with other institutions regarding a potential meeting in summer of 2015. Lawrence said that since the summit, the College has presented information about what they have learned and implemented at Dartmouth with members of the New Hampshire Congressional delegation, which is currently considering proposed federal legislation. She said she is pleased to see increased national dialogue about sexual assault following the summit. John Damianos ’16, co-chair of the student advisory board behind planning the summit, said his primary goal for the conference was to learn from the speakers in attendance. Summit presenters included David Lisak, a top researcher in the field of sexual assault, and several White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault members. Lisak was unable to be reached for comment. Damianos said that the experts were useful for learning at both the administrative and the personal level. “Our goal was to learn from them how we can apply the most contemporary evidence-based approaches
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Wise ’15 researched the effects of ecotourism in Antarctica during the winter interim period.
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While many Dartmouth students were relaxing with long-lost high school friends or watching Netflix on the family couch, Diana Wise ’15 was taking photographs of penguins from atop an Antarctic mountain. During the winter interim period, Wise traveled over 7,500 miles to Antarctica to get a firsthand look at the effects of ecotourism on the
environment. Wise’s investigation was part of a two-week trip run by American Universities International Programs in conjunction with a consortium of universities including Dartmouth, State University of New York at Brockport, Virginia Polytech Institute and State University and Oregon State University. This program is one of relatively few academic opportunities for students to
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Lisa Baldez, who took over as director of Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning in November, said that the organization will focus on not only enhancing classroom facilitation through digital and experiential learning initiatives, but also on addressing diversity and sensitivity within teaching and learning at the College. Her appointment comes after a debate within the organization
about whether the new leader should be an outside professional in the field of teaching and learning or a College faculty member, Baldez said. Baldez, a government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor, has been involved in DCAL since its inception in 2004. When Provost Carolyn Dever arrived last summer, she decided a Dartmouth faculty member would serve the DCAL best as its leader. She then appointed Baldez interim SEE DCAL PAGE 3
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DCAL director Lisa Baldez hopes to address diversity and sensitivity in teaching.
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CAMPUS BLOTTER Jan. 9, 11:52 p.m., Panarchy: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS and the Hanover Fire Department responded to a Good Samaritan call at Panarchy. The intoxicated individual — a member of the Class of 2015 — was evaluated and transported to Dick’s House. Jan. 10, 12:15 a.m., The Roth Center for Jewish Life: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a report of an intoxicated individual at The Roth Center. The individual required medical attention and was sent to Dick’s House, where the individual was admitted for the night. Jan. 10, 1:42 a.m: Safety and Security officers found a member of the Class of 2018 showing significant signs of intoxication. The individual was transported to Dick’s House and was admitted for the night. Jan. 10, 10:38 p.m., Gile Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of a verbal disagreement between two individuals in Gile Hall. The officers determined that one of the individuals was intoxicated, and later transported that individual to Dick’s House. Jan. 11, 12:39 a.m., Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a Good Samaritan call at SAE for two intoxicated individuals. Both individuals were transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night. Jan. 11, 1:26 a.m., Fahey Hall: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS and the Hanover Fire Department responded to a Good Samaritan call at Fahey Hall. An individual needed medical attention and was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center by ambulance. Jan. 11, 2:16 p.m., Occom Pond: Safety and Security officers responded to Occom Pond in response to an individual who had fallen and lacerated his or her chin while skating. The individual was a non-Dartmouth community member and was transported by his or her youth hockey coach to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Jan. 11, 3:50 p.m., Thompson Arena: Safety and Security officers and the Hanover Fire Department assisted a non-Dartmouth student at Thompson Arena after the student was struck in the head by a hockey puck. The individual was evaluated and declined transport to the hospital for treatment.
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to Dartmouth,” Damianos said. “I think we made a very good step in the right direction. We were able to form connections with these experts.” Damianos cited the proposed issuance of regular campus-wide climate surveys as a specific example of progress achieved as a result of the summit. This change follows suggestions by several expert speakers at the conference who said surveys are the most effective method of accurately monitoring campus climate. Damianos said that he has joined with students from other universities who attended Dartmouth’s summit to create a student-run network that continues collaboration to combat sexual assault across the country. Schools represented in the network include Amherst College, Bucknell University and other New England liberal arts schools. Damianos said that hearing about problems specific to other schools helps add perspective and inspires solutions to Dartmouth’s problems. Simona Sharoni, professor of gender and women’s studies at State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and co-founder of Faculty Against Rape, expressed skepticism about the summit’s effectiveness. Sharoni described the national impact as “minimal.” The summit was not simply a result of a nationwide sexual assault epidemic, she said, but also a strategic and sometimes offensive public relations move. “It’s a no-brainer that we need campus climate surveys — this has been an effective tool for decades,” Sharoni said. “The problem is that campuses use one-size-fits-all evaluation. They use language that is offensive to survivors.”
Sharoni said that even today, schools use surveys generated by forprofit companies instead of listening to experts about how best to structure them. “If I had the choice between hosting a summit with national leaders for one day or listening to survivors testify on how the system failed them, I would do the latter,” Sharoni said. A more effective summit also would have included more faculty, Sharoni said, as they are often among the most effective actors in reducing campus assault. “Institutional memory on the part of students is difficult, but faculty stay,” said Sharoni. “Faculty who are tenured are a force to be reckoned with, and I see no attention to the role of faculty in holding administration accountable.” Sharoni said that the makeup of the speakers in general seemed to favor the administration. “It seems biased towards an administrative perspective, rather than an acknowledgement that the impetus to discuss this issue is because survivors said enough is enough and took risks, took great risks,” Sharoni said. “History is extremely important here. We have a new movement emerging that, if you looked at the conference, you wouldn’t know. You have to begin with survivors and their advocates.” The lack of sexual assault survivors on the Summit’s panel was particularly disturbing, Sharoni said. “It’s like we are on the battlefield, and there are wounded people, and we are talking about how to best treat the wounds without looking at the wounded,” Sharoni said. Sharoni cited several effective administrative methods of combating campus sexual assault, including integrating information into
freshman orientation schedules and teaching courses that touch on the relevant issues. Dartmouth, and colleges in general, also need to instate a true zero-tolerance policy and hold students, fraternities and athletes accountable, Sharoni said. “I see nothing in the agenda from 2014 that is new,” said Sharoni. Sharoni also said that accountability must come from within. Because so many colleges have been implicated for sexual assault violations at the federal level, it is no longer a damaging label for a college to have, she said. Ruth Anne Koenick, director of violence prevention and victim assistance at Rutgers University, spoke positively about the value of conferences and dialogue for moving toward minimizing sexual assault. “Whenever you can bring people together to talk about it, it’s a good thing,” she said. “People bring the lessons back to their own campuses and hopefully continue the conversation.” Koenick said that though each campus is unique, any sort of meeting that brings people together to have “intelligent, intentional conversations about sexual violence” will have positive results. Koenick, who has been working in the field for 45 years, recalled a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s when people refrained from discussing sexual assault at all. “Forty, 35, 30 years ago, this wasn’t something we talked about,” Koenick said. “To have a school host something and say, ‘You know, we want to have a conversation about how to change things,’ what can be wrong about that?” As for the future of sexual assault summits, Sharoni said Cornell University will host a summit with other Ivy League schools on April 28.
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director, and made the title official in November. Her directorship will expire in four years. DCAL founder and director for nine years Tom Luxon — an English professor — said he felt the Center deserved fresh leadership and had desired a return to his scholarly projects. Although not officially involved with DCAL, he said he will continue to attend the programs and lead events when asked. He added that he hopes Baldez will continue the tradition of leading by serving. “She’s very open-minded and has taken advantage of DCAL’s services for many years,” he said. “She knows what works and what’s good.” Her role as director includes convening and leading the planning team and facilitating one-on-one consultations with faculty, among other activities, Luxon said. For the past ten years DCAL has held workshops and programs designed to help teachers to enhance their classes, she said. Baldez works in tandem with DCAL associate directors Cynthia Tobery and Prudence Merton and director of digital learning initiatives Josh Kim. Tobery said that DCAL has become more involved with projects like digital learning initiatives and has been a part of ongoing conversations about expe-
riential learning. Shortly after College President Phil Hanlon’s arrival on campus, DCAL received an anonymous donation to begin new projects such as the Gateway Initiative — a program dedicated to redesigning large, introductory level courses for students — and the DartmouthX — a push to create massive open
“She’s very openminded and has taken advantage of DCAL’s services for many years. She knows what works and what’s good.” - Tom Luxon, DCAL Founder and former Director online courses. Baldez said that while those activities were formerly partly managed by DCAL, they are now fully under DCAL’s purview. “We went from providing basic workshops and teaching to really funding innovation in and outside of the classroom,” Baldez said. While Baldez said that faculty are already engaged in many innovative techniques in the classroom, she hopes they can make changes
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to curricula. “I would like to see DCAL in more of a position to provide resources to expand those efforts by enhancing existing classes, developing new classes and incorporating active learning and digital technologies into College classes.” Anthony Helm, a member of the DCAL executive team, said in an email that it has been a challenge encouraging some of the more experienced faculty members to examine their teaching methods. He added that there is always room for improvement as the fields of teaching and learning are constantly changing in response to scientific discoveries about how people learn. “Lisa Baldez understands this well and has already been asking the executive team to brainstorm ever new ways to reach the faculty,” he said. Tobery also noted that DCAL
must figure out how to reach faculty members beyond those who are regularly involved in DCAL discussions. “[Baldez] has already been making an effort to personally invite faculty to events that she thinks will be of interest to them,” she said. “She also has talked about ways perhaps to have our faculty advisory board help us create subcommittees who will provide feedback about DCAL initiatives and our involvement across campus on a more regular basis.” In addition to enhancing the classroom experience, Baldez said she also wants to address issues of diversity and sensitivity in teaching and learning at Dartmouth. This weekend during Dartmouth’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Rev. Starsky Wilson, picked by Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri to co-chair the Ferguson Commission, will be
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giving a series of lectures as well as holding a DCAL workshop where he will discuss the implications of the events in Ferguson last fall for teaching and learning at the College. Dever and Native American studies professor Bruce Duthu will be moderating the discussion. President Hanlon will soon announce a new resource called the experiential learning initiative, which will develop new courses, work with faculty seeking to redesign existing courses and offer programming to students, Baldez said. Director of action-based learning programs Gail Gentes has spent the past year collecting data and cataloguing the College’s experiential learning opportunities for this initiative. Over the next couple of weeks, Baldez said she will be “fleshing out” the specific details for the initiative.
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What limits to free speech, if any, are acceptable? One of the things that makes modern society different is that no closely held notion or established tradition is off limits to being questioned, debated or turned on its head — including gender norms, social inequality, the principles of the majority in Western society and yes, the principles of minority groups as well. This is part of what has made our society historically more welcoming because any sort of tradition can fit in — even (unfortunately, perhaps) barbaric, backwards ones. You don’t get to pick and choose in the arena of free speech. It’s a full-contact sport, and resorting to whining or violence is a weak cop-out. — Will Alston ’16 Recent debates on the freedom of speech are particularly refreshing because the subject is being discussed in conjunction with the right to satirise — or as Conan O’Brien said, the right to “poke fun at the untouchable or the secret.” It’s a tough topic to tackle as it is so ingrained in the American spirit of liberty. As Tina Fey outrageously puts it, “We’re Americans, and even if it’s dumb jokes in ‘The Interview,’ we have the right to make them.” We should distinguish, however, between what can be said and what should be said. The rules that apply to a schoolyard conflict should apply in the same way to society — just because one has the right to comment does not mean one should maliciously “poke fun at.” Comedy can be constructive, but freedom of speech should be curtailed once personal or cultural attacks are only used for self-indulgent laughs. Freedom of speech should not bestow a sense of superiority in mocking others, but rather serve as a channel for open and civil conversation. — Annika Park ’18 Limits on speech are generally not advantageous to any society which values freedom, and yet these limits creep uncomfortably close to home. Students should consider the recent censorship of course reviews, which the faculty approved last fall when they passed the travesty of what had previously been an earnest effort to release course reviews. The approved policy allows faculty to cherry-pick what years are viewable and even
what comments are deemed “appropriate” — the “inappropriate” ones can be removed. We might also consider how the College boastfully displays the Orozco murals, and yet censors the Hovey murals (some are supposedly buried in the archives of the Hood, others stand covered in the basement of the Class of 1953 Commons). Even comments on the website of The Dartmouth are screened for approval and deleted if considered “inappropriate.” Freedom of speech is a romantic idea in the United States, one we patronizingly lord over countries such as the People’s Republic of China. But it is only that — a romantic idea and, in my experience, not a reality. — Jon Miller ’15 Free speech is rightly revered. Anything short of slander, libel or “fire!” in a crowded theater is and ought to be fair game. Free speech is the close cousin of two other enormous goods — free thought and the free exchange of ideas. It allows the best ideas to win out, even if they might seem politically unfashionable when they’re first put to paper. But the right to say what you want is not the same thing as the right to have others listen to you. If your writing is crummy, publishers are under no obligation to print it. If your speech is offensive or unreasonable, you will be justly lampooned. Yes, you’re perfectly free to say just about anything. Shout it from the mountaintops. Just don’t be surprised when others shout back. — Jon Vandermause ’16 To avoid the hot-button topic of what constitutes sufficiently harmful speech, I will stick to the one limit to free speech I consider clear cut — the U.S. government must place limits on campaign contributions. Such contributions hinder democracy by rendering our idea of free and open elections laughable. Sadly, maximum campaign contributions have increased with the latest congressional spending bill. Money is not speech. We must regulate financial donations to political candidates to have a truly democratic election process — to keep the voice of the many from being drowned out by the voice of the few. — Vivien Rendleman ’16
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The mandatory SmartChoice20 meal plan actually has its merits. To most freshmen, there is nothing “smart” about SmartChoice20 — the meal plan that they are assigned for their first term. Many blame the dreaded “freshman 15” on this mandatory meal plan, while others simply feel irked by their inability to use every meal swipe, leading to one too many wasted swipes by the end of the week. In spite of its shortcomings,the SmartChoice20 is a boon rather than a bane for freshmen — provided you take advantage of it. When students transition to life at the College, they must learn to be organized and independent. The challenge of using all 20 meal swipes within the span of one week forces students to use their organizational skills. Juggling academics, extracurriculars and a social life can be extremely difficult — the SmartChoice20 meal plan can encourage students to manage their time efficiently. Although I initially struggled with planning my day so as to use every meal swipe, I was a self-proclaimed pro by the end of the fall term. The SmartChoice20 plan also forces students to take a break from studying. When I am frantically studying for a midterm, for example, I have the tendency to skip meals, opting instead to simply get candy from Novack Cafe. Knowing that I had to use my meal swipe, however, encouraged me to go to the Class of 1953 Commons with my friends. Taking study breaks and socializing, rather than constantly cramming, can actually make studying more effective and reduce stress. Freshmen on the SmartChoice20 plan also have an incentive to familiarize themselves with the dining services. Because each meal swipe has a set monetary value, students must purchase enough food to avoid letting their swipe go to waste. Thus students come to learn the prices of different food products and how to manage their money. By the time winter term rolls around, freshmen can competently navigate the various campus dining options. One of the biggest criticisms of SmartChoice20 is that it encourages overeating, leading to rapid weight gain. I won’t deny that it is easy to gorge on desserts at FoCo. The real-
ity, however, is that if you have strong enough self-control, you can eat a meal at FoCo without going overboard. The frequent trips to FoCo, typical of students on the SmartChoice20, help strengthen that self-control — an important quality that can promote long-term success and happiness. There will always be harmful temptations in life, regardless of where you are. Just remember that the next time you successfully avoid FoCo cookies — or at least consume them in moderation — you are actually cultivating a practical and highly underrated life skill. Personally, I tend to skip breakfast because I would much rather sleep in than force myself to wake up early and eat. Yet numerous studies have shown that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A study from the University of Bath, for example, found that people who eat breakfast burn calories more quickly and have lower blood sugar than people who opt to skip breakfast. With SmartChoice20, students must eat breakfast almost every day if they want to make the most of their meal plan. At a time when freshmen are still adjusting to the physical tolls of college life, the SmartChoice20 provides the added benefit of encouraging students to get out of bed and start their day early with a meal. As much as I support mandating the SmartChoice20 for freshman fall, tweaking the plan a bit would improve its faults. Many of the complaints about SmartChoice20 revolve around the price differentiation of meal swipes according to breakfast, lunch and dinner times. This can be troublesome, as not everyone has the same schedule when it comes to eating meals. If students could use meal swipes freely without these pre-set time constraints, making the most of the meal plans would be much easier. Additionally, if remaining meal swipes at the end of the week could roll over to the next week, more students may sign up for the SmartChoice20. The freshman fall term meal plan has its shortcomings, but a closer look may also reveal its virtues. The unexpected benefits it can provide to freshmen who actually use their meal swipes more than make up for any small annoyances.
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of her project. Wise was the only Dartmouth student in a group of 20 undergraduates from universities across the country. Two faculty members — one from SUNY Brockport and the other from Oregon State — accompanied the group and provided advice during the course of the trip. Before traveling to Antarctica, the group spent time in the small port city of Ushuaia, Argentina — the starting point for many trips to Antarctica — to investigate the impact of tourism, Wise said. From there, the group spent three days traveling to Antarctica on an academic cruise ship built for researchers. Half of the students in the program studied ecotourism, while the other half studied biodiversity in marine birds. Wise took an online ecotourism course during the fall prior to the field study portion of the course in December. The group lived on the ship for 10 days, conducting research, observing the behavior of visitors and tourists, attending lectures and going on excursions. The students examined overall adherence to tourism guidelines, including boot-washing to reduce the spread of pathogens and staying a safe distance away from wildlife, Wise said. “Though the staff was really dedicated to reducing our impact on the continent, ultimately, obviously we will make an impact,” she said. “It was ironic I was making the impact as well as studying it.” One of the main draws for Antarctic tourism is the area’s wildlife, which includes whales, seals and penguins, Wise said. The natural beauty of the landscape also sparks enthusiasm among those who make the journey to Antarctica. “The staff would say, ‘people come for the penguins, but they stay for the ice,’ and I definitely agree with them,” Wise said. Wise said the highlight of her
trip was a group excursion on a relatively warm day for Antarctica. Clad in tank tops and T-shirts, the group hiked a mountain to enjoy the breathtaking view and look down on the spray from whale blowholes in
“I didn’t really know what to expect, but it is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been and the wildlife and colossal glaciers and isolation [were] completely overwhelming” - DIANA WISE ’15 the distance. Later, upon returning to their Zodiac — a small inflatable boat used to ferry the group from their ship to land — they started following minke whales. “We had lost them, and then seconds later, we all jumped up because a minke whale surfaced just behind our boat,” Wise said. “It was incredible.” Alli Fisher, a junior at Virginia Tech and Wise’s roommate on the trip, said one of the most memorable nights for her was the first when they stayed up to watch the sunset and sunrise, which in Antarctica occur consecutively between 12 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. during summer. “I don’t think anything will ever come close to what we experienced there,” she said. “It’s something that is irreplaceable.” Fischer said she and Wise bonded quickly, which was particularly valuable because of the ship’s cramped living quarters. Wise said that one of the program’s challenges was taking time away from the camera to simply sit and reflect on the importance of appreciating the beauty and immensity of the barren landscape.
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Wise ’15 performed research on the effects of ecotourism.
“You can sit there forever. You feel so small,” Wise said. “I wanted to go in with low expectations because I didn’t really know what to expect, but it is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been and the wildlife and colossal glaciers and isolation [were] completely overwhelming.” Wise, an environmental studies and neuroscience double major, first became interested in Antarctica and the program while taking Virginia’s “Pole to Pole” environmental studies course. The class focuses on environmental issues in polar regions, including northern Arctic areas and the continent of Antarctica. Virginia said that the course focuses on issues facing Antarctica’s environment — from climate change to human impact. “Students get interested in the place through that course and naturally want to have a more direct, firsthand experience,” he said. “That’s kind of the Dartmouth way.” Virginia said that interest in Antarctica has been growing because of an increased focus on climate change and tourism’s impact on “the most pristine place on the planet.” There are conversations about Dartmouth developing an Antarctic program of its own in the future, he said.
Courtesy of Diana Wise
Wise‘15 traveled to Antarctica with students from universities across the country.
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TODAY All day “Small Things, Pretty Things,” exhibition by artist-in-residence Heather McGill, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Jaffe-Friede Gallery
6:00 p.m. “Voxmasters: Introducing Someone Else,” Rockefeller Center, Class of 1930 Room
7:00 p.m. “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
TOMORROW 4:15 p.m. “On the Transnational Destruction of Cities in WWII,” lecture with Sheldon Garon of Princeton University, Carson L01
4:30 p.m. “Academic Off-Campus Programs Fair” with Student Academic Support Services, Collis Common Ground
4:30 p.m. “Constitutional Review and a General Right to Liberty,” lecture with Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law School, Rockefeller Center 003
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“Cineastas” to play at Student Spotlight: Tyne Freeman ’17 the Hopkins Center B y aimee sung
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socks off.” “It will draw audiences into the The Dartmouth Staff plot’s drama and humor while comWhat happens when live-action menting on the noble and ridiculous performance and film collide? The aspects of filmmaking itself,” she result is the comedic and philosophi- said. While the production is in Spancal piece “Cineastas,” which will be performed at the Moore Theater on ish, English supertitles will be shown. Thursday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 8 The dual-language component aims to bridge the gap between Amerip.m. Written and directed by Mariano can and Latin American cultures Pensotti, “Cineastas” — which as Pensotti — who The New York translates to “filmmakers” from Times described as “one of Latin Spanish— follows the lives of four America’s brightest theater talents,” Argentine filmmakers over the — virtually transports viewers into course of a year as they meticulously the bustling streets and stages of Buenos Aires in an attempt to make craft their respective movies. Audience members will experi- the world seem a little smaller. Sp a n ence an unusual ish and Latin two-level stage “This piece is Lathat allows two particularly tantalizing American, tino, and Cascenes to occur ribbean studies simultaneously, because it provokes us professor Anawith the inten- to question the lines lola Santana said tion to juxtapose that the producthe intricate re- between imagination tion’s intertwinlationship be- and reality.” ing nature asks tween life and viewers how film. One stage they are influwill showcase -ANALOLA SANTANA, enced by what the movies the LATIN AMERICAN, LATINO they see in media filmmakers creand film, and ate while the sec- AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES vice versa. ond stage will PROFESSOR “This provide a chance piece is particufor audiences to get a glimpse into each character’s larly tantalizing because it provokes us to question the lines between background story. Though fictional, “Cineastas” is imagination and reality through based on a series of interviews that the characters’ portrayals,” Santana Pensotti, who is also from Argentina, said. “The play will resonate with all conducted with Latin American who see it.” The Hopkins Center enlisted the filmmakers four years ago. After compiling the filmmakers’ responses, performers of “Cineastas” and PenPensotti wrote a script that contrasts sotti as part of a residency program their personal lives and their films to provide aspiring filmmakers and and plays on the emotions felt by the theater enthusiasts with a chance to filmmakers throughout the produc- explore a deeper connection between realism and fiction. The residency tion of their films. “After I finished the interviews, I included an informal discussion wasn’t sure what to do with them,” dinner with the cast at La Casa on Pensotti said. “But I knew I wanted Monday and a storytelling workshop with Pensotti at the CATV Tip Top to compare life and film.” “Cineastas” will feature a five- building in White River Junction last member acting troupe whose mem- Tuesday. Additionally, a pre-show bers are responsible for multiple roles talk about Argentina with Santana within the performance. Characters will take place before Thursday’s include Gabriele, a world-famous show, along with post-performance filmmaker, Nadia, a possible one-hit discussions with the actors. These sessions will help students wonder, Mariela, a well-known cult director and Lucas, a lower class interested in film understand how filmmaker threatening to expose media affects our personal lives and the wrongdoings of multinational give audiences a chance to see how companies to the world. Aside from this performance addresses basic huacting out these main filmmakers’ man nature, such as our tendencies personal storylines, the actors also to experience love, despair and joy. Maia Salholz-Hillel ’15 said that have the challenge of serving as the all-knowing narrator and depicting she is excited for the performance. “I think the concept is really each film created by the characters to give a better look at exactly how interesting,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing the approach of fiction and reality collide. Hopkins Center publicity coor- one media to another.” “Cineastas” made its debut in dinator Rebecca Bailey said that “Cineastas” will “knock people’s Brussels in May, 2013.
B y kourtney kawano
Singing for relatives at family reunions and filling journals with original lyrics are some of Tyne Angela Freeman’s ’17 first memories of making music. Ever since, Freeman has been paving her own path as a musician. By the age of 15, Freeman was already making the transition from singing for fun to performing for an audience to being an artist. She started her own YouTube channel as an avenue to share her music. She also began to focus more effort on her original work, by cataloguing and recording her compositions. Last December, Freeman was awarded the Peter D. Smith Arts Initiative Grant, a fund that the Hopkins Center provides to students who initiate their own projects in the arts. With the help of the grant, Freeman will start producing an album this spring. “I wanted to create something during my time here,” Freeman said. “I’m very motivated by being able to craft my own course and be given the resources to create something.” Although Freeman has released two EPs before, this will be her first album. The album will consist of 13 songs, most of which have been chosen, Freeman said. All of the songs are original. Some of the songs were written up to two years ago, and many of them are poems interlaced with music, she said. Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble director Don Glasgo will be an advisor on Freeman’s new project. He first had the chance to hear Freeman’s original work when she sang one of her songs for her Barbary Coast audition. He said that Freeman is “poised” and “professional.” “She has a kind of quiet style,” Glasgo said. “ But she has an engaging voice that draws listeners and keeps them there.” Dan Fang ’15, musical director of X.ado, of which Freeman is a member, described Freeman’s vocals as moving and with a personal quality. “Her music style is one that very easily connects with the listeners, and it’s very intimate and real,” Fang said. Freeman’s style of music is a cross between jazz and reggae. She said that her childhood was filled with reggae influences from her Jamaican mother. She had not deeply explored jazz until several years ago, but said she quickly developed a love for the style. “Jazz is vocally challenging but also so free,” Freeman said. “It has so many dimensions, you can’t really run out of things to do with it. You can’t put the music in a box.” Freeman said she is figuring out the balance of the songs within the album. “I’ve been trying to finish up the songs, and most of the work left to do is putting the music to the poems,” she said. “That’s just a really fun process.” Freeman is also finalizing logistical details, such as collaboration with other artists and the location of the recording. She said that she may reach out to artists she has worked with through the
Barbary Coast, as well as other students at the College. As for the physical location of the recordings, she is debating between returning home to work in the Jam Room in Columbia, South Carolina — the studio with which she has always worked — or remaining on campus. She said part of the dilemma is her desire to collaborate with students at the College while not compromising the quality of her recording. Every musical work that Freeman has published so far has tied in with her philanthropic interests. The proceeds of Freeman’s record “Erase My Shadow” supported the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The proceeds of the new album will also be
donated, but Freeman said she has not yet selected the charity. Along with her growing music career, Freeman said she is exploring her everevolving academic interests. She was inspired by a class on Caribbean American literature she took last fall, which helped her find an intersection between her academic and artistic interests. She said that she is now interested in the impact that music can have on society, culture and social movements, especially in the context of protest songs. At the moment, Freeman is considering pursuing research or teaching in the future. What she knows for sure is that she wants to continue making music and performing.
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Tyne Angela Freeman ’17 will start working on her album this spring.
Bar Garage hopkins center for the arts
Hop Garage Seeking Innovative Interdisciplinary Student Arts Projects! The Hop Garage, a suite of three studio spaces across from the Hop’s Courtyard Café, is open and in use as a space for arts teaching and the development of student arts projects. The Hop, Theater Department and Music Department invite proposals from students who wish to use the space for rehearsal, practice, project development and small-scale events (occupancy is limited to 49 persons in each studio). Students interested in developing winter term projects must submit a proposal (found at hop.dartmouth.edu/online/hop_garage) by friday, January 16 at 5 pm.
Among the criteria for successful proposals are: • Projects of an interdisciplinary nature • Projects that take unique advantage of the qualities in the Hop Garage spaces • Projects that lead to a specific culminating event or performance will be preferred over routine rehearsals and practice sessions For more information, email hopkins.center.facilities@dartmouth.edu hop.dartmouth.edu • Dartmouth college • hanover, nh
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MEN’S BASKETBALL @ VERMONT 7 PM
Kruger intrigues on and off the ice
B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
Something happens to a man when he puts on his mask. When he finishes his coffee, laces his skates, tapes up his stick and stretches out his body, he becomes someone else. When James Kruger ’16 skates onto the ice, he leaves behind the fraternity brother, the psychology major and the family man. When he skates onto the ice, he becomes a competitor. James Kruger becomes a goalie. “I think the goalie thing is almost a place that I go in my head that is a little bit separate,” he said. “I’m not in my goalie mindset when I’m walking around. When I’m in my goalie mindset, I have a very, very narrow focus. I compartmentalize a lot. I take all the things going on elsewhere and put them in the back seat for those two hours —just totally dive into the game.” Between the pipes, Kruger is identified by head coach Bob Gaudet and alternate captain Eric Neiley ’15 as focused, driven and, above all else, competitive. Winning, Kruger said, is among the best feelings in the world. “I like to win, there’s no doubt” he said. “Everything is a little better when you win. Food tastes a little better. That’s what I like. That’s when I feel good.” Despite his appetite for victory, the one-dimensional and admittedly tired story of the all-or-nothing athlete — the big man on campus with the pumped out chest of Chad Johnson or Alexander Ovechkin — couldn’t be any further from the truth about the butterfly-style goalie.
“He’s pretty laid back I think, at least off the ice,” Neiley said. “He’s really quiet and keeps to himself. On the ice, he’s a completely different guy. He wants to win and you can tell he’s got the drive to win, but otherwise he’s quiet. He doesn’t say much to people. [Kruger] is probably the hardest guy to have to say something about because he’s so quiet.” Raised in suburban Minnetonka, Minn. as the second of four children, Kruger began playing hockey at a young age. He stumbled upon his role as goalie after making a good save in youth hockey. The only boy in his family besides his father — a lawyer for Cargill — Kruger characterized his sisters as all incredibly different. His mother, who he described as “one of the most social people” he knows, will always be found in conversation. She will often come to Hanover to visit, asking him to bring his friends to dinner so she can talk to them and ask them about their lives. On the surface, the quiet son of an outgoing hockey mom can be subtle and enigmatic, as he described himself. “I can be sociable, and I like to be, but I’m not a frat animal or anything,” he said. “I go out and have a good time but I like to be laid back and be more observant. I like people and getting to know them, but I like to fly under the radar. It’s just how I am.” Not unlike the plight that strikes the common quiet man, Kruger is characterized over and over again as a person who likes to and usually does keep to himself. From his perspective, however, being quiet and thoughtful are
characteristics that allow him to observe the people around him, sparking his interest in psychology. Understanding and getting to know people and “how they tick,” Kruger said, is a constant draw. Before coming to Dartmouth, Kruger spent two years in junior hockey, one in the North American Hockey League and the other in the British Columbia Hockey League. Between the two seasons, he turned down an offer to play Division I hockey at the Air Force Academy, wanting to give himself the chance to have a more traditional college experience. Even that decision, he said, was carefully weighed and measured — sized up for its prospective benefits for his future. Neither hockey nor academics were ever put ahead of one another in his list of priorities, with both being second to family. With the brain and athleticism to get him a look, he set his sights on the Ivy League. Since coming to the Big Green, Kruger spent the better portion of his first two seasons on the bench, sidelined his sophomore year with a broken hand. Yet as the puck dropped for his junior year, Kruger became the go-to starter, playing 14 of the team’s 15 games so far and landing himself in the top 20 ranked goaltenders in Division I hockey with a .924 save percentage. Since the season started, he’s had two shutouts — one against then no. 1 Boston University, and one shootout victory over then no. 11 University of Denver. While Kruger’s impressive skills on the ice make it hard to take your eye off
ANNIE DUNCAN
The James Kruger ‘16 on the ice is a stark difference from his everyday persona.
him, he doesn’t view victory as a solitary achievement. After each of those games, Kruger doled credit out to his team who made each win possible. The other 28 students on the team, Kruger said, are his best friends. “They’re the guys you go to war with,” he said. “They’re the guys you are around every day. Everyone understands the culture of it. It’s so natural. It’s fundamental to who I am as a hockey player.” Following his shutout of the Terriers, Kruger said in an interview — still geared up, true to his persona of a goalie — that he would enjoy the victory for that night before getting back to work the very next day. The drive to be successful, to be ac-
complished and to win shines through every aspect of James Kruger, the hockey player’s, life. If this drive is the most prominent aspect of his personality on the ice, though, then something perhaps truer to his everyday self — the quiet, introspective and observant kid from Minnesota who spends his days with friends on the team — remains at least somewhat intact when he puts on his uniform. When asked if he would leave Dartmouth to goaltend for the very best team in the country and become a national champion, he said — with absolutely no hesitation — “There’s no way. There’s not a chance. You make a commitment to your team. That’s just the way it is. It’s not even a question, not even a thought.”
Men’s and women’s squash go 1-2 on the road this weekend
B y EMILY WECHSLER The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s and women’s squash teams each had busy weekends, both beating Drexel University and falling to the University of Pennsylvania, ranked no. 3 in women’s, and Princeton University, ranked no. 9 in men’s and no. 5 in women’s. The Big Green no. 8 men (2-4, 0-3) and no. 10 women (1-4, 0-3) beat Drexel 7-2 and 5-4, respectively. The men fell to Penn 7-2 and Princeton 6-3, while the women fell to both 9-0, though Hanna Balcha ’17 won the exhibition match against Penn in a long, tough five-game battle. Head coach Hansi Wiens said the Drexel score made the women’s match, played Friday at the Dragons’ Kline and
Specter Squash Center, look closer than it felt. The team secured the fifth game and the overall victory early on in the match with a score of 5-1 before the final three women took the court. “This was a tough weekend for us,” Helena Darling ’15 said. “We beat Drexel, but it was close. Princeton and Penn are very strong teams, so we focused on winning games and as many points as possible in individual games.” Darling , Oona Morris ’15 , Zainab Molani ’18 , Rebecca Brownell ’18 and Madeline Fraser ’17 picked up the wins for the Big Green. In the other women’s matches over the weekend, the team “didn’t really have a chance,” Wiens said. Wiens complimented the mens’ play against Drexel, saying they worked well
as a team. The dominant score came as a pleasant surprise, he said. Alvin Heumann ’18 played the most exciting match of the day, battling back from a two-game deficit to win in the fifth game. In an equally tough five-game match, Nicholas Harrington ’17 fell just short of winning the final game, dropping it 11-5, 10-12, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3. The only other loss came to Alexander Greer ’16 in three games. Saturday, at the Quakers’ Ringe Squash Courts, the men looked stronger than predicted. The first match boded well as Heumann went and claimed another victory in the fifth game. Three other matches went to five games as well, though Mark Funk ’15, Greer and Glen Brickman ’17 all fell to their Penn opponents. Kyle Martino ’16 picked up
the team’s second win in three games. “I told them after that I was proud of the way they played [and] what they did, but it was not enough,” Weins said. The match also took far longer than usual, lasting about three and a half hours, compared to the usual two and a half. Weins said that on paper the men looked like they would have a good chance against Princeton at the Jadwin Squash Courts on Sunday. “Some of [the athletes] looked a little bit tired, maybe, I don’t know,” he said. “There was a little frustration.” Brian Giegerich ’18 lost in five games, “but played really well [and] gave everything,” Wiens said. Harrington and Brickman also lost very tight matches, with Harrington, according to Wiens,
playing particularly well against difficult opponents throughout the weekend. Martino and Heumann won their matches in three games and went undefeated on the weekend. “I just went out there, tried to play my game and focus on what the coaches told me to work on,” Martino said. “We had already lost our overall matches by the time I went out, so I didn’t have as much pressure to win.” Coach Wiens said the coming weekend’s matches will be particularly crucial for the women. They will face Stanford University on Saturday, followed by a match against George Washington University on Sunday. The Dartmouth men will play the University of Rochester on the road Sunday.