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TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2014

Faculty delay vote on course reviews

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Yield sees increase to 54.5 percent

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A proposal that would have allowed professors to make their past course assessments available to students was tabled at Monday’s faculty of arts and sciences meeting, after around a dozen professors raised concerns about the proposal’s implementation. Noting that it was unlikely to pass, Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno suggested postponing the vote.

If the proposal is approved, starting next year faculty could opt-in to allow undergraduate students to view their peers’ online course evaluations dating back to 2006. Only students SEE FACULTY PAGE 3

CLASS OF 2018 DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION:

RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION: DOMESTIC STUDENTS

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With a yield of 54.5 percent for the Class of 2018, the number of students accepting Dartmouth’s offer of acceptance is the highest it has ever been, the College announced Monday. To accommodate this influx, Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris said, the College does not plan to admit any students off the wait list and to halve the number of transfer students it expected to accept.

The higher yield follows a 14 percent drop in total regular decision applications from last year. This year’s yield increased from last May’s yield of 48.5 percent, when 1,093 students accepted the College’s offer of admission.

The total number of students accepting Dartmouth’s offer this year, which is 1,210, is higher than the 1,187 students who accepted

Around 1,210 students will matriculate at the College in the fall.

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Hanlon announces Scripps anticipates Johnson arrival steering committee B y KATE BRADSHAW The Dartmouth Staff

B y SERA KWON The Dartmouth Staff

A presidential steering committee will spend the next six months examining issues of sexual assault, high-risk drinking and inclusivity, College President Phil Hanlon announced in a campus-wide email Monday afternoon. Three professors, two administrators, four sophomores and two alumni comprise the committee, which will spend its first phase — until June 30 — gathering community input.

After collecting suggestions, the committee will

evaluate feasibility, announce the top ideas and gather feedback before delivering its report to the College’s senior leadership. Hanlon aims to present final recommendation to the Board of Trustees at its November meeting and begin implementation immediately.

The committee will focus on extreme behaviors in undergraduate life, college spokesperson Justin Anderson said in an email.

Hanlon fir st mentioned the committee in

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Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, set to depart Dartmouth at the end of the academic year, will begin work at Scripps College, a 1,000-student women’s college in Claremont, California, on August 1. Her selection as dean of students and vice president of student at Scripps follows the unexpected death of the former dean last November and recent calls from students for greater administrative transparency.

Bekki Lee, former vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Scripps, died suddenly of a stroke in October 2013. Since her death, the position has been temporarily divided into two, with French

professor Nathalie Rachlin acting as interim vice president of student affairs and Samuel Haynes filling in as acting dean of students.

The position’s vacancy has contributed to an escalating disconnect between students and the Scripps administration, said Scripps freshman Rebecca Millberg, a member of the search committee that selected Johnson.

“One of the things I’m most excited about for Charlotte to get here is to rebuild that communication,” Millberg said.

Johnson’s work will involve developing a support center for survivors of sexual assault, overseeing a disability services center across the five-school consortium and further other issues of diversity and inclusiv-

ity.

In her role, Johnson will lead a staff of about 20 and a range of offices, including student activities and residential life, academic services, a field house athletic facility and an office dedicated to issues of student diversity, according to the position prospectus, published in March.

Rachlin said she hopes Johnson will provide strong leadership.

“We have a very new young team of professionals, and I think she will be a great mentor to them,” she said.

Tori Sepand, a Scripps junior and selection committee member, said the committee sought a candidate who could SEE JOHNSON PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing CAMPUS BLOTTER

May 2, 9:10 p.m., Hitchcock Hall: Hanover Police and Fire Department responded to a male refusing to leave his floormate’s room. The individual appeared to be under the influence of drugs. He was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for evaluation and then sent to Dick’s House for the night.

May 3, 12:08 a.m., Russell Sage Hall: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services and Hanover’s emergency ambulance service responded to a highly intoxicated male. He was initially sent to DHMC for his high level of intoxication but spent the night at Dick’s House.

May 3, 1:53 a.m., Webster Avenue: Safety and Security officers were called about a highly intoxicated male. When officers arrived, Hanover Police officers were already at the scene. They transferred him to Safety and Security and he spent the night at Dick’s House.

May 3, 4:13 p.m., Bones Gate fraternity: Safety and Security and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to an unconscious male. When they arrived they found he had slipped in mud and had been unconscious for a few minutes. The individual was transported to DHMC for evaluation.

May 3, 9:34 p.m., Sigma Nu fraternity: Safety and Security officers responded to a car alarm that had been going off repeatedly. Officers located the owner of the car, who admitted to having intentionally sounded the alarm to aggravate neighbors. The male was admitted to Dick’s House for his high level of intoxication.

May 4, 1:15 a.m., Hitchcock Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to an intoxicated male. He was transported to Dick’s House for the night.

May 4, 4:39 a.m., near Kemeny Hall and Novack Café: Safety and Security officers noticed an intoxicated male between Kemeny and Novack. They evaluated the individual, and he spent the night in Dick’s House for his high level of intoxication.

— Compiled by Doug Phipps

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Students disscussed working abroad at a panel on Monday.

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2014

McMillan begins as fire dept. chief B y ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff

Martin McMillan, who comes to Hanover from Rochester, New York, began as the chief of the Hanover Fire Department Monday. As he settles into his new role, McMillan said, he will focus on getting to know the community and collaborating with other Upper Valley fire departments to boost efficiency.

Former Hanover fire chief Roger Bradley, a member of the department since 1964 and chief since 1986, retired last October, and the decision sparked a nationwide search by firm Municipal Solutions, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said. Of 57 applicants, 10 were selected for in-person interviews.

McMillan, former deputy chief of Rochester Fire Department, had been with the New York department for 28 years before accepting the Hanover position. The Rochester Fire Department, with around 500 staff members, responds to around 3,000 calls a year, McMillan said, while the Hanover Fire Department has a staff of 23.

McMillan’s background in fire and emergency medical services, as well as his past work with institutions of higher education, made him stand

out in the search, Griffin said.

“We think he’s going to be just a great fit for the Hanover Fire Department and really benefit the entire Upper Valley region as well,” Griffin said. “Anything we can throw at him while he’s here, he’s seen it because we’ve inherited a seasoned veteran.”

Joseph Luna, a captain at the Rochester Fire Department, said that McMillan responded to large emergencies in his role as a line deputy chief, focusing more on strategy and tactics than administrative duties.

McMillan made important decisions about whether firefighters should run into vacant buildings, managing a program that prevented firefighters from going into buildings on demolition lists unless a person’s life was threatened, Luna said.

At the Rochester Fire Department, McMillan oversaw modernization projects, battalion chief David Bagley said.

“McMillan was very aggressive and a real full-throttle type of firefighter,” Bagley said. “He brought our rope rescue program from preWorld War II into the 21st century.”

Calling the new chief a “team player,” Hanover Fire Department captain Michael Gilbert said McMillan brings new ideas and perspectives to the department.

McMillan said he decided to take the position in Hanover because he had visited New Hampshire before on vacation and enjoyed it. His son, who is in high school, is interested in attending Dartmouth. The salary range is between $85,000 to $105,000, according to a pamphlet advertising the position.

Medical services and fire prevention are a priority for the department, McMillan said, adding that fire service is only a small percentage of what firefighters do.

Given the current state of the economy, he said, pushing towards collaboration and joint equipment purchases will be an important next step in making the department more efficient. The department’s annual operating budget is around $3.2 million.

McMillan said he is taking time to assess the department and meet the employees before making any changes.

“I’m going to sit back and absorb for a little while to get my arms around this, and we’ll go from there,” he said. “I don’t think the Hanover Fire Department is broken. On the contrary, I think it has been run very effectively, and we have a great group of people that are providing emergency service.”

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At meeting, professors question course evaluations’ purpose FROM FACULTY PAGE 1

could access the site, and professors would not be able to see their colleagues’ reviews.

In April, the committee of chairs, comprising heads of the College’s arts and sciences departments, recommended the initiative’s approval.

The goal of publicizing course assessments, Mastanduno said, is to help students more efficiently select courses. Many faculty members at the meeting, however, disagreed, arguing that the main purpose of course evaluations should be to help professors improve their classes.

English professor Thomas Luxon said open course assessments could not effectively meet the different needs of students and faculty.

Faculty members use the evaluations for professional development, he said, while students would use them to choose classes based on work load and teaching style.

The anonymous nature of the evaluations, some professors said, would not be conducive to constructive criticism and could possibly lead to immature comments.

English professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina said that the pressure to publicize course evaluations among students could hurt women and minority professors, who she said tend to do less well on course evaluations.

“Professors of color would not want to opt in for course assessment release,” Gerzina said. “Or even

come to Dartmouth as a result.”

Noting that professors cannot view others’ evaluations, Gerzina said, sharing reviews with students would be a “huge leap to make.”

Making evaluations available to the general public, which is not currently part of the proposal, could imply that the assessments are a reliable evaluation of professors’ job performance, chemistry professor Jane Lipson said.

For the policy to better accommodate both student and faculty needs, more discussion and deliberation is necessary, many professors at the meeting said.

Art history professor Mary Coffey said that while she generally supports the proposal, she believed some questions on the assessment required clarification, adding that she was concerned about how students would interpret them.

English and African and African American studies professor J. Martin Favor said he was concerned about how publicized course assessments could impact students and whether open evaluations would benefit their studies.

“How does this make students better?” he asked.

Classics professor Hakan Tell, who introduced the proposal at the meeting, said the consensus was that the proposal requires improvement.

“I think it was a good productive discussion,” he said. “We got a lot of input on where we should take this. The idea would be to bring it back to a committee, tune it and

then bring it back again.”

The office of the registrar launched a pilot online course evaluation program in 2006, followed by a permanent system.

While official course reviews are not publicized, alternate systems like the Hacker Club’s Course Picker and the Student Assembly’s course evaluation guide contain unofficial reviews submitted online.

Student Assembly surveyed students last October to assess the popularity of making course reviews public, receiving about 900 responses in total. The results, which reflected strong approval, were sent to Mastanduno.

Many of Dartmouth’s peer institutions release course evaluations, College Registrar Meredith Braz said at the meeting, and some of them use an opt-in strategy like the one in the current proposal.

Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University publish official course reviews. Brown University and Columbia University use sites similar to Hacker Club’s Course Picker.

At the meeting, held in the Hanover Inn, Hanlon presented an overview of the year. He discussed budget objectives, admissions yield, fundraising announcements and his academic vision for Dartmouth.

Around 100 faculty members and 30 community members attended the meeting.

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At Monday’s meeting, professors agreed to table a vote on course evaluations.

Charlotte Johnson Dean of the College

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM PA R K H U R S T 1 1 1

President announces steering committee FROM COMMITTEE PAGE 1

an April 16 message to the community, in which he also announced a summit of 120 community leaders to discuss Dartmouth’s social scene.

English professor Barbara Will, the committee chair, said she agreed to join the steering committee when Hanlon approached her last week.

Will said that she sensed a general campus need to come together and address recent incidents, like instances of sexual assault and offensive or harmful speech.

“I’m excited about the possibility about doing it at this time,” Will said. “I think this is the right time to be doing this kind of work and I think Dartmouth is ready for it, so I felt like I could really make a contribution.”

This term, committee members will elicit suggestions from in-person and online forums, like Improve Dartmouth, “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions and small group discussions. During the

summer, the committee will assess the feasibility of top ideas, which will be publicly announced in September for community feedback.

The committee had its first meeting Friday morning, committee member Kelsey Weimer ’16 said. The committee will meet weekly until the end of spring term, and will continue to meet regularly through fall term, she said.

“We have a student body that’s fighting, a community that is increasingly receptive to change and pressure from a progressive student body,” Weimer said.

Student body vice presidentelect Frank Cunningham ’16 said he was proud and honored to join the committee, and said he would try to make sure every student’s voice was equally represented.

Weimer said the committee was tasked with addressing important, widespread and multifaceted issues.

Will said she has been “dismayed” at some recent campus behaviors.

“I think as a citizen and as a professor and as an engaged member of the community I’m looking forward to being able to address that and hopefully bring these behaviors to an end in some way,” she said.

Members of the committee stressed that community feedback will be critical in the success of proposed reforms.

Anderson said in an email that Hanlon, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson and other senior administrators nominated the committee members.

Will will chair the committee, which also includes mathematics professor Craig Sutton, physics professor Ryan Hickox, senior associate dean for student academic support services Deborah Tyson, senior associate athletics director for peak performance Drew Galbraith, Cunningham, John Damianos ’16, Kayla Wade ’16, Weimer, association of alumni president Susan Finegan ’85 and John Osborn ’88.

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Staff Columnist kyle bigley ’17

Guest columnist ryan strain ’16

Acknowledging Progress

One Love

Pride Week can remind us what we are capable of in terms of progress.

Walking across the Green toward Collis, I feel my egalitarian heart swell at the sight of the flapping rainbow stripes of the Pride flag.

Such a beautiful sight would not have been possible just one generation ago. Since the ascendance of the then-nascent movement from draconian anti-LGBTQ laws and the Stonewall riots, we have come a long way as a country. From time to time, it’s rejuvenating to acknowledge the progress that we’ve made and reinvigorating to know that we can continue to change.

Stonewall is etched into gay civil rights history in the same way that Montgomery, Greensboro and Selma are in black history.

The Stonewall riots, named for the Greenwich Village inn that was the preeminent gay bar in New York City, began after a police raid on the establishment. In 1969 New York, homosexuality was prohibited in public by law. Fed up with discrimination based on their sexual orientation, customers of the bar and other members of the gay community rioted in the streets.

Progress, as College President Phil Hanlon reminds us, is hard work, and unlike teleological theories of history, contending that there is a final, definite end to which progress inevitably marches is facile. Instead, there are swells and pockets of forces for change, often from social movements, which recede and surge depending on the time.

In the 45 years since the riots, a lot has changed. It was just 11 years ago that the Supreme Court struck down Texas’s — and 13 other states’ — law that prohibited sodomy in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. According to Gallup, in 1996 only 27 percent of Americans believed that marriage between same-sex couples should be recognized by the law as valid, and in 2009, 40 percent, by 2013, 54 percent supported it. In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to recognize same-sex marriage. Since then, 16 other states have joined the Bay State.

Nonetheless, we still have a lot of work to do. The U.S. lags behind other nations in

societal acceptance and recognition of homosexuality. According to the Pew Research Center’s 2013 Global Attitudes Project, 60 percent of Americans believe that society should accept homosexuality. Compared to Canada (80 percent), Spain (88 percent), Germany (87 percent) and France, Britain and Italy (all above 74 percent), the U.S. is shamefully intolerant.

There are still 33 states that do not allow marriage equality. And on this campus — and the nation at large — homophobia still unfortunately permeates much of public opinion.

But we are improving, and we are making efforts to construct a more accepting environment for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation. When some on campus use “gay” as a pejorative accusation, I have seen many others on campus correct the error.

I don’t seek to write a self-congratulatory column, because problems certainly still exist for members of the LGBTQ community.

Further, I don’t purport to know the difficulties of being gay, but I imagine it is not easy to face prejudice of any kind. But recognizing our progress, instead of leading to an effete complacency, can reinvigorate us. Analysts often report that we millennials are selfish, cynical and disillusioned. In a certain manner, we have good cause to be cynical. Between war in this or that part of the globe, paralysis of government, mass shootings and worsening socioeconomic inequality, reading the news or the opinion pages can be as morbid as reading obituaries. Everywhere we look or read, we see discouraging news. Being aware is often disheartening. Sometimes we shield ourselves through apathy.

So from time to time, let’s look at how far we’ve come. Progress can happen. We are witnesses to it. So instead of giving up at the overwhelming array of issues our generation faces, let’s deepen our resolve that we are masters of our fate, even if something as simple as a Pride flag on a May afternoon gives us that confidence.

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Recent disputes reveal two sides of the same love of Dartmouth.

In the wake of the “Freedom Budget” protests and “Phiesta” fiasco, faculty and students alike have engaged in the creation of what can be called a semi-combative environment on our campus. With each issue that arises, we experience a greater polarization in our community, often pushing our campus toward two idological poles, both seemingly convinced that their lone view and motivation is paramount.

However, both of these ideologies share a single constant: love for Dartmouth.

On one pole, we see an absolute love for Dartmouth as it stands. Those who possess this ideology share the belief that Dartmouth students have an opportunity that is nearly unimaginable to a majority of the world. We have the resources and support necessary to change not only our own lives, but also the lives of people around the world. This faction of Dartmouth places great value in both the College’s history and the school’s enormous progress.

On the other, we see a love and passion for what Dartmouth can become. To many people on campus, these acts of passion, such as the sit-in in College President Phil Hanlon’s office or last year’s Dimensions protests, can seem more extreme than necessary. However, each of these actions showed an understanding of Dartmouth’s nearly infinite potential. Those under this ideology understand that with a combination of some of our nation’s brightest young minds and world-renowned faculty, there are few things that cannot be accomplished at Dartmouth.

For many of us, neither of these ideologies completely encompasses our attitude toward this school. Recently, however, it has felt as though the middle ground is no longer acceptable. Yet there will never be a unanimously held belief on this campus. Our heterogeneous attitudes toward our school have made and continue to make our school amazing. The Dartmouth community is perpetually at a crossroads of what we have been and what we can become.

Looking at Dartmouth’s history, the institution’s progress is undeniable. The culture of tolerance that Dartmouth currently promotes

and that I have personally experienced was just an afterthought 30 or so years ago. The idea of two African-American students leading the entire student body is still a foreign thought at other universities. However, we must also acknowledge that we live in a time and place where tolerance alone is no longer good enough. As we watch the diversity at this school gradually expand, we must continue to actively promote and celebrate it.

At the core of every student-led action on campus is a set of people motivated to do what they believe is best for the school. And for that, we should be grateful. To improve this school, every single person in this community must work constructively with one another as opposed to the destructive and reactionary process we currently have in place. As a member of the Dartmouth community, I am calling for a new principle — a principle of hospitality. It is our personal responsibility to proactively seek out and incorporate the opinions and experiences of those who are the least like us, whether we are running a charity event or leading a protest.

We each stand to gain the most knowledge not from those who agree with everything we say, but rather from the people with whom we share the least. Every student contributes to our school’s diversity in their own ways.

The Dartmouth community is far greater than it has recently received credit for. Every person to ever attend this college, from Theodor Seuss Geisel ’25 to Edward Mitchell, Class of 1828, has contributed to our current community.

We cannot be defined solely by the actions of individuals on either end of the spectrum. This community is one whose vast diversity creates a beautiful sum that is far greater than each one of its parts. Each of us is not confined by the walls built by Eleazar Wheelock, but, as Andrew Murphy once said, “only by the walls you build yourself.” It is not up to our school, but each of us individually to dictate how much we embrace this diversity. I simply ask that as individual members of a greater community, we do better. In the end, we all share one love.

It is time that we acted like it.

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After drop in applications, yield lifts Johnson to face calls for transparency at Scripps FROM YIELD PAGE 1

Dartmouth’s offer to join the Class of 2014 in May 2010. The yield in May 2010 was 54.7, slightly higher than this year’s yield of 54.5 percent.

Of the 1,854 students placed on the wait list this year, about 900 have asked to remain active, Laskaris said.

The Class of 2018 currently comprises 90 students above the projected class size of 1,120. The College will admit around 15 transfer students, rather than 30 as anticipated, Laskaris said.

With a class composition of 50.8 percent men and 49.2 percent women, the incoming class hails from 872 different high schools, according to information provided

by Laskaris. About 55.3 percent are public school students.

Among the students who have committed to attending the College, 11.2 percent are first-generation college students and 8.4 percent are Latino, each the largest representation of that group the College has seen in an incoming class. Legacy students make up 12.7 percent of the class. Comprising 8.1 percent of the incoming class, African American students are more represented than they have been in the past five classes. Native American students will make up 3.9 percent of the class, while Asian American and Caucasian students make up 15.9 percent and 51.4 percent, respectively.

Last year, approximately 37 percent of students who accepted offers to the Class of 2017 by the May 1 deadline were students of color and 9 percent were international students. International students make up 8.3 percent of the Class of 2018.

Around 44 percent of the in-

coming class will receive financial aid, compared to approximately 46 percent last year.

In the past decade, the admissions yield has consistently remained at roughly 50 percent, while the number of applicants increased to 22,416 students in 2013 from 11,855 in 2003. This year saw 19,235 total applicants.

Of this year’s accepted students, 469 students were admitted early decision, representing about 38.7 percent of the total class.

Because around 50 students each year decide to either take a gap year or accept a spot off of another school’s wait list, the precise composition of the Class of 2018 will likely shift as September approaches, Laskaris said.

“The class as it stands right now is a phenomenal result for Dartmouth,” she said.

The shifted structure of Dimensions likely contributed to the increased yield, Laskaris said. Around 1,300 people combined attended the three Dimensions events this year, compared to 800 who attended the single Dimensions weekend last year.

The College will likely continue to hold multiple Dimensions events next year, Laskaris said.

Laskaris said the 12 admitted student events held nationwide, drawing more than 500 students total, was another factor in the increased yield. Additionally, student admissions interns tried to reach out to admitted regular decision students individually.

After an early decision cycle where the number of applications rose 6.7 percent and 469 students were admitted, the drop in regular admission applications was a surprise, Laskaris said.

The national publicity about student life and campus climate brought “unprecedented” yield challenges, Laskaris said in an email.

Recent news, including that of the anonymous $100 million gift to the College and Dartmouth’s efforts to combat sexual assault, prompted the admissions office to feel “a real shift in momentum,” Laskaris said in an email.

Seven members of the Class of 2018 interviewed said attending Dimensions led them to choose Dartmouth.

Marcella Saboe ’18 and Sai Mupparaju ’18 both cited experiences sitting in on classes and talking with professors at Dartmouth as key factors in their decisions.

Justin Sanders ’18, who said his time at the third Dimensions “sealed the deal,” said that multiple Dimensions events allowed him to choose a visit that worked best for his schedule.

Eight members of the Class of 2018 said that they felt Dartmouth’s handling of and response to recent media attention has been encouraging.

Allie Fudge ’18 said that while she “struggled” with negative publicity about Dartmouth, she was won over by Dartmouth’s active attitude toward combatting campus issues.

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relate to students.

“We’re working on trying to, as an institution, be a better support system for underrepresented groups and students that might feel minimized or not listened to,” Millberg said. “We just felt that she would get the job done.”

According to the position prospectus, Scripps emphasized that its ideal candidate would have extensive

experience in student affairs, value liberal arts education for women and be able to respond to and collaborate effectively with faculty and students.

Sepand said that Johnson’s emphasis on fostering personal relationships with students was something that had been lacking at Scripps.

After a national search, Johnson visited Scripps for an on-campus interview earlier this spring and met with staff, faculty and over 35 students.

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Coralie Phanord ’16, the event’s marketing and design student The Dartmouth Staff producer, said that DMAX allows A range of installations and ex- students to present their work, exhibitions, as well as a cyber fashion posing the campus as a whole to the show and screenings of student College’s digital music program and animations and music, will mark student artwork.

“People can learn about the tonight’s Digital Music and Arts [digital arts] minor, and people get a Exposition.

A collaboration between the Digi- chance to be creative, if their major tal Arts, Leadership and Innovation isn’t, and so they step out of their lab as well as the music, computer comfort zone to try different things,” science and theater departments, Phanord said.

The cyber fashion show will feaDMAX will bring together and showcase different mediums of digital art. ture clothes that incorporate blinking “There are just going to be all lights and wearable technologies. these opportunities for people to “Amulet,” a bracelet that uses applay with and explore digital arts and plications to monitor health, will be digital music,” said DALI executive part of the show, as well as a 3-D director Lorie Loeb, who helped printed dress and a motorcycle jacket organize the 2012 and 2013 Digital that lights up and can function as a turn signal, Loeb said.

Arts Expositions.

Williams said this year’s event has Though in previous years these the most diverse expositions and array of media. the New Mu- “There are a lot T h e sic Festival have concert will inbeen separate of things that are clude various events, Loeb happening all across musical pieces said this year, by students the two will be campus where and graduate combined. students are working students in the “There are a on things at the digital music lot of things that program. Carare happening intersection of art and los Dominguez, all across cam- technology.” digital music pus where stugraduate students are workdent and the ing on things at - LORIE LOEB, DALI concert and the intersection EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR screening proof art and techduction mannology, and it ager for DMAX, just seems that it is important to said that the digital music graduate showcase that,” Loeb said.

DMAX will showcase the “cool program tends to focus on experiand creative interplay” between mental music.

DMAX will also feature an computer science and engineering technology and the artistic and Oculus Rift virtual headset with a visual arts, said associate dean for student-created 3-D walkthrough the sciences and computer science of the College, Loeb said.

The event serves to open up the professor David Kotz.

Event coordinator Hannah Wil- digital arts community and incorliams ’14 noted the event’s scope porate various departments and and variety. DMAX is an exhibition students into one large showcase.

“You get a bunch of people of collaborative works from undergraduates, graduate students and contributing to it who come from different backgrounds, whether it be some professors.

“It’s a really cool sampling of computer science or more composistudent work from undergraduates tion people or electronic musicians and graduates, and there are some or visual artists,” Dominguez said.

The interactive applications, infaculty collaborations as well,” Williams said. “I think having that art stallations and exhibits, along with and music showcased to the school a reception, will begin at 6:30 p.m. helps everybody realize what we are at the Top of the Hop and the Hop all capable of and gives a lot of people Garage. The digital fashion show who didn’t know that the digital arts will take place at 7 p.m. at the Top department is here, or that digital of the Hop, and the digital animation music is here, an insight into what screening and digital musics concert will take place at 8 p.m. in Spaulding fun things they can do.”

In previous years faculty members Auditorium.

Beginning tomorrow, the Hop have run the event. This year, undergraduates and graduate students will host a series of fabrication lab were responsible for organizing the workshops that will culminate in a 24 hour Make-a-thon and Hack-a-thon. exposition, Loeb said.

B y Maya Poddar

Since founding the award-winning interdisciplinary design firm dlandstudio in 2005, Susannah Drake ’87 has dedicated herself to creating “ecologically intelligent” projects. Recent credits include the Green Roof of the State University New York at Purchase.

The American Institute of Architects honored Drake with the 2013 Young Architects Award Drake teaches at the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.

What sparked your interest in architecture and landscape design?

SD: My father was a professor at Dartmouth. He was a geophysicist, so I’ve always been interested in the built and natural environment. Architecture and landscape architecture seemed like an ideal way to actually start to form the environment around us, that which we have control over as people, as humans.

As an ecologist, you can understand the processes, but as a landscape architect you can start to shape how some of those processes develop over time.

Were you involved with the arts or with design while at Dartmouth?

SD: I ended up doing a curatorial internship at the Hood Museum with a wonderful curator named Hilliard Goldfarb. We ended up cataloging this amazing collection of prints by [Albrecht] Dürer, Rembrandt and [James Abbott McNeill] Whistler that were potentially being donated by an alum. It was incredible exposure to that art, and also to the world of museums, but that was when I realized that while I loved going to museums, I didn’t want to be a curator. What I wanted to be doing was making the work, rather than taking care of it or exhibiting it. And I took a wonderful joint class with the art department and the engineering school about product design.

What aspects of a space are you most interested in engaging?

SD: My mission through my practice is to make cities more ecologically, economically and culturally productive. What I’ve used as my muse for this exploration is the conduits of infrastructure that run through cities that occupy space in a singular way.

We all know that we’ve driven through cities on a highway, and the highway is taking up very valuable space, but meanwhile we might have a space next to that highway that is worth so much money. We’re not maximizing the value of our infrastructure. We’re only relying on it to get us from point A to point B. What we should be doing is thinking about its potential to make cities better for people. There’s potential economic gain from developing these infrastructure conduits more fully, and also potential environmental gain.

Did the eco-conscious side of your practice develop over time, or was maximizing resource efficiency and minimizing your footprint always paramount?

SD: I was 8 years old when I started to get these kinds of lessons in taking care of the environment. When I wrote my college essay for Dartmouth, the question was about the most significant problems facing society, and I said the loss of our natural land. I had no idea that I was going to become a landscape architect, and I had no idea that I would have what has become kind of a global voice. At Dartmouth it was always important, but it wasn’t central to what I studied.

Which of your past projects have brought you the greatest pride?

SD: I’m known, I think, for creating a project called the Sponge Park, an open-space system around the Gowanus Canal which helps to soak up surface soil runoff to reduce combined sewer overflows into the harbor. I’m also very proud of my Brooklyn-Queens Expressway research. I’ve been working for years to try to get support for putting a bridge over three segments of the BQE over in south-side Williamsburg, a fairly underprivileged Latino neighborhood, to put in ball fields. It would cost about $100 million, which in the realm of infrastructure really isn’t very much, but it could benefit 160,000 people who

live in that neighborhood, and in that place there’s a really high incidence of childhood obesity and asthma.

We were also part of a 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called “Rising Currents,” [where] we outlined what New York City should do to prepare for a giant hurricane. We said here’s where the water is going to go, and here’s how you should manage it. Basically our predictions were right on, and our strategies of management are now being suggested by the Dutch engineers who are working on it. That exhibition actually helped precipitate a kind of shift in the mindset of the Dutch engineers to start thinking about allowing the water to come in, and now they’re doing these projects where they’re actually allowing water to come into their cities.

What would you like to see change in your field?

SD: Landscape architects leading projects. I think it’s going to be absolutely essential to have landscape architecture as the forefront in the development of cities. Otherwise, we are just so close to going over a tipping point in our relationship with the environment, that — and I don’t want to sound fatalistic — I just wonder how we’re going to survive or how this world is going to be able to support my grandchildren.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Equestrian rides to 10th at Nationals B y Brett Drucker

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The equestrian team concluded its most successful season by taking 10th place out of 16 schools at the IHSA Nationals competition last week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This season, the Big Green won both its regional and Zone competitions to qualify for the national horse show for the first time in program history.

“We had a super strong year, so I knew that we had talent and strength and ability,” head coach Sally Batton said. “But you have that luck of the draw of the horse, you haven’t ridden the horse. You get on, so that thrown in there adds a little bit of uncertainty.”

Though Dartmouth has previously sent 10 individual qualifiers to Nationals, it had never qualified a team delegation.

In her first season at Dartmouth, Meaghan Haugh ’17 took fourth place in novice fences, the best Big Green finish of the weekend. Haugh, who has ridden since she was 5 years old, rarely rode while at boarding school before Dartmouth, allowing her to compete as a novice.

Haugh suffered a serious sprained foot that left her in a walking boot, but she insisted she would not let the setback affect her riding.

“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” she said. “It was quite entertaining having me limp to the awards ceremony.”

Lindsay Seewald ’16 finished sixth in intermediate fences. Meg Rauner

’17 finished eighth in walk-trot-canter.

Anna Knowles ’16 finished second in the Theresa McDonald Horsemanship Challenge, a two part competition that tested riders on their knowledge of horse care and stable maintenance.

The majority of the Dartmouth team took the initial written test in February, and Knowles was selected as one of the top two in the Zone to compete at Nationals in the Practicum. This final event was a hands-on demonstration of similar skills, and Knowles’ performance earned her the title of reserve champion.

The team also collected a pair of academic awards – Janna Wandzilak ’14 won an IHSA Senior Academic Achievement Award, and Justin Maffett ’16 won an Intercollegiate Equestrian Foundation Scholarship Award.

The national competition pitted the best 16 of 411 ICSA members against each other.

“The schools we were competing against, their equestrian team is their football team, that’s how much emphasis and funding are put into these teams,” Haugh said. “They go to Nationals every year, and everybody knows them.”

The Big Green arrived in Harrisburg on Tuesday for the competition that lasted until Saturday, often spending 12 hours at the showgrounds, Batton said.

The team arrived at 6 a.m. to observe the horses schooling and glean whatever information they could about horses they had never rode.

“You don’t get any warm up,” Haugh said. “You just get on the horse and you go in the ring and you’re

judged. Any notes or info you can get is extremely valuable.”

The riders attempted to observe both the course and the qualities of the individual horses such as their stride length and jumping ability, Wandzilak said.

The nearly week-long event forced riders to manage schoolwork through the peak of midterm season. Some turned in work early while others took exams at the competition. On Tuesday, Wandzilak spent a late night preparing a draft of her thesis.

Haugh recalled the Stanford University coach taking a picture of her and a teammate studying, saying, “I’m sending this to your coach because you are the only team that studies besides us.”

The team saw unprecedented success throughout the season, winning five events in the fall before taking victories in the regional, Zone and Ivy competitions in the spring. The team exceeded expectations at the meet.

“After the first show, we couldn’t believe that we’d even won one show,” Wandzilak said. “I don’t think our coach really expected it either, and it just kept going.”

The Big Green was aided at Nationals by a combination of veteran experience and new athletes with three returning riders and three riders who were new to the team.

“I just can’t even really believe it happened,” Wandzilak said. “It’s such a fun idea to think that we’ll always be the first team in Dartmouth history to go to nationals.”

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The equestrian team took to the Green last week to promote its first-ever trip to Nationals.

B y Sarah Caughey Although most people picture Dartmouth athletes constantly decked out in uniform, game ready and prepped to crush a fellow Ivy in league play, the reality of life as an athlete is honestly more determined by “off ” seasons than “on” seasons. Competition generally only spans one term, but off-season training is all-encompassing and year-round.

While being in-season can cause many people to inaccurately assume that I am off for the term, the chance to compete helps to lessen the sting of being socially irrelevant. Off-season training, however, requires much of the same commitment without the glory.

One of the biggest differences for my team in and out of season is how often we find ourselves genuinely worked by our lift coaches in Floren Varsity House.

In the off-season, Floren is transformed into something ominous. Instead of the friendly roll out and light weight lifts that we are graced with during the season, off-season lifts can be genuinely painful.

Our coaches push us without worrying if soreness will impede us in competition which translates to more stiff classes and difficult walks across the Green.

Because I was walking on to the squash team, I trained a lot before my freshman year. I had enrolled in a sports medicine training program at a local hospital’s physical therapy department where they had a sprint treadmill and a full gym.

I felt way too confident walking into Floren for my first lift. I thought there was nothing the DP2 program could throw at me that I had not seen before.

The next day, however, my hamstrings and calves were not entirely sure that they would survive another lift ever again, let alone a day later. Shockingly, I survived that next lift and, to varying degrees, every lift thereafter.

While lifting often has a masculine connotation, rest assured that women’s teams lift just as much as the men’s. I know this first and foremost because the men’s and women’s squash teams share a lift coach and time slot for the first time this term. Aside from a proportional change in weights, both teams do the same exercises — and we might even do them with a little less whining!

Outside of lifting in Floren, offseason training also incorporates skill

practice. Whether through captains’ practices or pick up games, we spend as much time on the court as possible.

Because we usually drill for most of our in-season practices, we try to boost the entertainment factor of off-season court time. Recently, this has involved playing a lot of doubles. The fast pace and quick movements involved in squash can often make the court feel congested in a normal, singles match. Add two more people and it becomes almost comically close-quartered. While this might not be our most intense or safest training session, friendly competition often helps remind me why I love the game and my team.

The final place we find ourselves training in the off season is often the most intimidating arena for athletes: Zimmerman Fitness Center. While we may joke that non-varsity athletes at Dartmouth are unathletic, a glance around campus proves this isn’t true.

The rugged Hanover campus has historically attracted equally rugged individuals, many of whom were dedicated athletes in high school. There is no other place on campus where I am forced to come to terms with the reality that many “NARPs” may actually be more athletic than I am.

One of these ego-crushing moments happened last week in a one-way competition with the treadmill runner next to me. After cruising at what I consider a fairly good pace for a half-mile I was joined to my right by someone who I know is not a varsity athlete. She hopped on the treadmill at a pace that made my run seem more like a jog. My competitive instinct immediately kicked in, and I turned up my speed to match hers: a fatal error. After limping along for another mile, I admitted defeat and slinked off to do “abs” which really translated to laying on the ground trying to recover.

Whether being humbled in Floren by our strength coaches or in Zimmerman by our classmates, the off-season is a time for breaking down and building up. With off-season training, being an athlete is essentially a full-time job. And we’re thankful because the off-season practice allows us to compete at our highest level, even if, without it, our muscles wouldn’t be quite so sore.

Inside the Locker Room is a weekly column, alternately written by Phoebe Hoffmann ’15 and Sarah Caughey ’15.