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VOL. CLXXI NO. 82

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

UFC distributes $1 million student activities fee to orgs

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Next year’s funding allocated to Student Assembly dropped to $40,000 from this year’s allocation of $58,000, the UFC announced Tuesday. The committee said in a press release that some of the assembly’s proposals “were not in the spirit of the Student Activities Fee.” The UFC, which distributes funding for the Council on Student Organizations, Programming Board and seven other major campus

Funding from the Undergraduate Finance Committee to Student Assembly dropped by $18,000.

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Hanover approves $22.1 million budget at annual meeting B y NANCY WU The Dartmouth Staff

The Hanover Finance Committee proposed an amendment to decrease the town’s budget at Hanover’s annual town hall meeting Tuesday night, but attendees dismissed the initiative, eventually approving a $22.1 million operating budget for 2014-15. Attendees voted on vari-

ous other proposals, including approving zoning regulations and authorizing the use of Nathan’s Garden as a town park. Seeking a $20,000 contribution from the town of Hanover to put toward a house for Dartmouth student veterans, Vietnam War veteran Robert Chambers addressed local residents at the meeting on behalf of Project VetCare, a New

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Hampshire advocacy organization. Although residents expressed strong support for the proposed veterans home and the goals behind the project, the vote for the allocation of funds fell outside the scope of the meeting. Project VetCare received a $375,000 donation to purchase the student residence in March, with the stipulation that it raise an additional $100,000 by the

College lags behind other Ivies in publishing course evaluations B y SEAN CONNOLLY The Dartmouth Staff

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Colleges across the Ivy League have faced student pressure to release course review results to students, with many universities offering online open assessments in some form. Of the eight institutions, all except Dartmouth offer some sort of institutionalized method for students to see course evaluations. At the May 5 faculty of arts and sciences meeting, a proposal that would have allowed professors at the College to make their course reviews dating back to 2006

house’s May 31 closing date. Danielle Goodwin, the wife of a veteran and Project VetCare co-founder, said that though the organization has only two weeks to raise over $30,000, she has faith it will be successful. The residence, which would provide a gathering place for student veterans, will also provide a steady stream of income for Project VetCare through rent.

At the town meeting, Hanover residents also passed a motion for a petition, which was signed by 90 residents, urging the New Hampshire State Legislature and U.S. Congress to move forward with an amendment that would regulate campaign spending during elections. In approving the petition, Hanover joins 500 municiSEE MEETING PAGE 3

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accessible online to students was tabled after close to a dozen professors raised concerns. The initiative has garnered general support among faculty members, with department heads voting to recommend the initiative before the meeting. Professors interviewed pointed to problems with the proposal’s wording and planned implementation while agreeing on the importance of transparency. At peer institutions, a varying degree of openness exists with regard to faculty MELISSA VASQUEZ/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Students decorated paddles at Tuesday’s “Pong is not consent” barbecue.

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DAily debriefing RESEARCH ROUNDUP Changing environmental conditions may cause a freshwater algae species commonly known as “rock snot” to blossom, threatening some fish species by affecting their insect food sources, U.S. News and World Report reported. According to a study published last week by researchers from Dartmouth and Canada’s environmental department, a changing environment may be responsible for lower phosphorus levels in rivers, causing algae to reach more nutrients. In a new study, Tuck School of Business researchers examined the valuation of bidder shares in stock-financed mergers, according to a Tuck press release. They found that small companies facing difficulty raising external cash more likely use only stock to purchase shares in mergers. When an industry faces frequent mergers, but not shocks in pricing, firms are more likely to offer all-stock payment options. The study also found that market overpricing does not specifically motivate payment methods chosen by bidders. Through advanced DNA sequencing techniques, Dartmouth scientists have identified specific mutations in cancers of the appendix, according to a study published earlier this week. Although the biological study of appendix tumors still requires significant development, two different types of tumors can cause pseudomyxoma peritonea, a severe condition causing uncontrollable cancerous cell growth that can destroy digestive organs. Principal investigator Gregory Tsongalis, the Geisel School of Medicine’s director of molecular pathology, said tumors of the appendix have multiple subclasses, which may all be different from each other. He attributed the success of the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center’s department of pathology to his team’s multidisciplinary approach. — Compiled by Michael Qian

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organizations, released its allocations decisions yesterday based on a total budget of $1,045,000 that is derived from student activities fees. This year’s budget is slightly larger than last year’s, which was $1,020,000. The UFC approved $313,500 for Programming Board, which organizes social events and brings concerts to campus, $272,500 for the Council on Student Organizations, an umbrella organization that oversees around 160 student groups, and $146,500 for the Special Programs and Events Committee, which allocates funding to student groups needing $5,000 or more. The Collis Governing Board, which coordinates Collis activities like entertainment in One Wheelock, received $82,500, while the Dartmouth Outing Club got $42,700 and the Greek Leadership Council $42,500. Club sports received $41,000 and Student Assembly $40,000. The UFC gave Class Council $32,000 and the bonfire committee $31,800. UFC chair Eli Derrow ’15 said the organizations’ proposals were consistent with those of past years. Current Assembly president Casey Dennis ’15 said that although he and vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 were disappointed by the smaller allocation, the Assembly remains committed to fulfilling its goals. Dennis said that the Assembly may work with other groups on campus to get additional funding. Cunningham said that over the next few weeks, he and Dennis will begin to decide how to divide up the reduced budget. “We are going to look to accomplish our goals in any way possible, despite the budget provided,” Dennis said. “Obviously it’s a bump in the road, but we are optimistic.” The 2013-14 Assembly ended its term with a surplus of $35,000, all of which came from its UFC allocation, Dennis said, adding that the surplus likely played a role in the UFC’s decision to decrease funding to the Assembly this year. The Assembly proposed transferring this remaining funding to the GLC as part of a program that would provide scholarships to GLC organizations as an incentive for their members to undergo Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training. The UFC denied the transfer. Derrow said that UFC funding is meant for open events on campus, like a speech sponsored by a COSO organization or a campus-wide barbecue. Organizations like the GLC or COSO, which include some exclusive groups, may only use UFC-allocated funding for events open to all of campus, according to Derrow. Collis Center director Eric Ramsey, who advises the UFC, said organizations vary slightly each year in their funding requests. The DOC saw the largest funding

increase, at about 31 percent. DOC vice president Jocelyn Powelson ’14 said she believes the jump in funding results from the organization’s proven efficiency. “Our mindset is for budgeting,” Powelson said. “We are trying to spend as efficiently as possible.” Increasing interest in DOC programming following new scholarships from the President’s Office may have also influenced the UFC’s decision to allocate greater funding to the DOC, Powelson said. The GLC policy implemented last fall, which prevented freshmen from entering Greek houses in the weeks prior to Homecoming, led more freshman to participate in DOC programs during the fall and fostered lasting, higher levels of interest among freshmen throughout the year, Powelson said. The UFC’s allocation for club sports leaped nearly 8 percent. Joann Brislin, associate athletic director for club sports and intramurals, said the majority of UFC funding for club sports pays for uniforms, equipment and tournament entry fees. Dartmouth club sports requested a new “safe travel fund” this year that would have been used to rent buses, not minivans, for teams traveling long distances or in bad weather, Brislin said. The UFC rejected the proposal, calling it an inappropriate allocation of the student activities fee. Dennis and Cunningham released their funding proposal in a campuswide email on May 7. Cunningham

said they released the proposal to promote transparency, per their campaign platform. “Nothing is going to stop us from being transparent because that’s what we promised the body that elected us,” he said. “They have a right to know what we are doing.” Dennis said that the decision to make the budget proposal available to the student body led to student feedback which he said will be important in the Assembly’s future plans. Derrow said that the Assembly’s decision to publish its proposal will not necessarily lead other organizations to do so. While the Assembly can release their own budget for transparency, Derrow said, other organizations may have reasons preventing them from releasing their full budgets. “I feel like it’s SA’s prerogative to give their budget as transparency,” he said. “I would leave it up to the individual groups because certain organizations can’t release their full budgets for one reason or another.” The UFC is composed of 11 atlarge members, nine organizational representatives, a secretary and two non-voting advisors. Ramsey said he was impressed by the passion and persistence of members’ advocacy. “I’ve always been amazed at the thoughtfulness and dedication the members have, that the fee is best utilized in the tight budget and competing priorities that they work with,” he said. “These are really difficult decisions.”

REHABILITATING HEALTH CARE

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Community members gathered at the Tucker Foundation to talk health care.

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Other League schools Town hall meeting draws crowd of 100 offer official evaluations FROM MEETING PAGE 1

left many professors concerned. Among other points, the proposal included an evaluations. evaluation form that would incorporate At Columbia University, individual questions generated by students, which departments may choose whether to Craig said the faculty felt could lead to open evaluations and how much data biased responses. to release, though an unwieldy online Physics professor Brian Chaboyer platform has deterred some department echoed similar concerns about the types heads from releasing evaluations, the of questions that should be included Columbia Daily Spectator reported in evaluation forms, further noting last month. As of April, the university’s that more discussion was needed on information technology department the kinds of factors that online reviews was developing a new platform to ease should attempt to evaluate. the process, addressing concerns raised “The current form is more set up to by the Columbia student government help professors to improve their teachin 2012. ing,” he said. At the University of Pennsylvania, Other professors highlighted conreviews collected by the Office of the cerns with the proposal’s planned Provost are made available to faculty, implementation. Computer science and numerical ratings are released to department chair Tom Cormen said he students via an online website operated understood the decision to table the vote by undergraduates. and saw it as an opportunity to address “The Critical Review,” a Brown Uni- concerns raised about implementation. versity student organization, publishes “I think it’s worthwhile to go back course reviews from questionnaire re- to those committees and iron out those sponses by students bugs,” he said. and instructors. Not all “You tend to get two Yale University professors intertypes of reviews, those undergraduates are viewed knew of expected to fill out who love and those who the current opcourse reviews for hate it. I think it makes it tions available their instructors, to Dartmouth according to the much less useful.” students seeking University’s webcourse reviews site. Doing so alonline. His- Edward miller, lows students early tory professor access to grades in history professor Edward Miller some cases. said that cur Yale sophomore rent student-run Tim Follo said that the school’s course venues for course evaluation tended to evaluation system is valuable because it be either outdated, biased or both. pushes all students to submit feedback, “You tend to get two types of reviews, eliminating what he called a “potential those who love and those who hate it,” response bias” that exists among third he said. “I think it makes it much less party course evaluations. useful.” Harvard University and Princeton English and women’s and gender University also allow students to access studies professor Ivy Schweitzer also said past course evaluations and require she was concerned about the quality of students to complete them in order to reviews currently available to students. gain early access to their posted grades. Schweitzer suggested selecting students Conor McGrory, a sophomore at Princ- to curate evaluations. eton University, praised the website’s “The evaluations that students have functionality and said he had used it now are so not helpful,” she said. “They multiple times to select his courses. don’t ask they kind of questions that we Like their peers at Dartmouth, Yale want students to be asking.” students created an unofficial online Both Miller and Schweitzer exreview site. This past January, the non- pressed support for greater transparcollege sanctioned application, Yale ency. Bluebook Plus, was taken down after “I very much respect students right the Yale’s registrar sent an email to the to get info about courses and to review two undergraduates who created it. The courses,” Miller said. “I think it’s part email highlighted concerns over the use of being a good citizen.” of the Yale logo and that it permitted This is the first time that the issue non-Yale undergraduates to access the of open course evaluations has been site, the Yale Daily News reported. discussed in a meeting of the faculty Asked specifically about the pro- of arts and sciences, College Registrar posed changes at Dartmouth, many Meredith Braz wrote in an email. By faculty members interviewed called for tabling the proposal, Braz wrote, faculty continued discussion of the proposal to will have more time to consider comopen course reviews to undergraduates. ments on and changes to the proposal. Anthropology department chair Si- Dean of the Faculty of Arts and enna Craig said that while she supports Sciences Michael Mastanduno did making more information accessible, not respond to requests for comment the current wording of the proposal by press time. FROM EVALUATIONS PAGE 1

palities in 16 other states that have passed similar measures. Almost 50 communities have passed resolutions calling for Citizens United to be reversed so far this town meeting season, the Valley News reported Sunday. During a discussion period, Hanover resident Robin Carpenter said that while he agreed with some aspects of the petition, he felt that it was ill-conceived, poorly constructed and co-opted the voices of thousands of registered voters in Hanover. He urged residents to vote down the petition. The meeting, held at 7 p.m. in the Hanover High School gymnasium, attracted roughly 100 residents. Elections were held throughout the day for town office positions and amendments to the Hanover Zoning Ordinance. Bill Hammond ’83 was awarded the town’s volunteer of the year award. Hammond said that he was surprised and honored by the designation. He characterized the town meeting as civil and noted that residents are genuinely interested in improving Hanover. Hanover resident Rob Graybill, who attended the meeting, noted

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At the annual spring meeting, residents voted on the town’s budget.

that there was less controversy at this meeting than at last year’s. He described Hanover as a “beautifully run town” where the townspeople have strong faith in their public officials and added that he

was especially impressed with the moderator’s mediation tactics. “It’s nice to see that discourse because a town meeting is an anachronistic organism,” he said. “It’s very quaint.”

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contributing Columnist carson hele ’16

contributing columnist spencer blair ’17

Understanding Bored at Baker

We Are Not Yale

Students and outsiders often fail to fully comprehend Bored at Baker.

Last week, Cosmopolitan.com published “How Cyberbullying Is Making Sexual Assault On College Campuses Even Worse,” by Katie Van Syckle ’05. Van Syckle discusses recent high-profile Bored at Baker incidents and her own attempts to have an offensive post about her removed. The article suggests that all questionable posts can — and must — be identified and removed by the College and the Hanover Police. Van Syckle seems to attribute offensive posts on Bored at Baker to sinister problems with Dartmouth’s campus culture, not the fundamental setup of the site itself. Bored at Baker may cater to Dartmouth students, yet its content is in no way representative of the student body. Caught up in the furor over controversial posts, we too often treat Bored at Baker as a legitimate arbiter of campus opinion and forget to consider how such offensive content got there in the first place. Van Syckle repeatedly points out the College’s failure to remove an offensive post about her. Yet is it Dartmouth’s responsibility to intervene in a private forum with which it lacks any direct relationship? Van Syckle claims that, if the College actually cared, it could vanquish such cyberbullying with ease. It would be alarming, however, for the College to enforce a ban on Bored at Baker access or penalize student participation. As students, we reasonably expect to engage in any legal activity on the Internet. A university that chips away at that expectation, even if to prevent potential harm to its students, undermines its commitment to free inquiry. Moreover, based on the claims of Bored at Baker developer Jonathan Pappas, who goes by Jae Daemon online, the College by itself must use guesswork to identify the authors of individual posts and may not even be able to prove anything without student admission of authorship. Any focus on the College as the enforcer of proper online behavior is misplaced. Yet Bored at Baker frequently comes to the attention of Safety and Security or Hanover Police because many appear to misunderstand what exactly Bored at Baker is. Much like Friendsy or the first iteration of Facebook, its

only tie to Dartmouth is the requirement of a Blitz account. It appeals to only a specific niche of Internet users and thus cannot be treated as an accurate microcosm of this campus. Forums with upvote systems, including Bored at Baker and Reddit, inherently incentivize certain types of posts, particularly inflammatory material. Bored at Baker posters who ignore Bored at Baker’s bans on cyberbullying can expect a deluge in responses — or, in other words, the same type of online attention that keeps us glued to Facebook or Instagram. The remedy to this perverse reward system is that Bored at Baker’s moderation team removes offensive material. Of course, to accept the distorted nature of Bored at Baker’s content is to admit that Bored at Baker does not, in fact, reveal some kind of sickness in Dartmouth’s student body. Bored at Baker does not always offer us an “unfiltered” look into the student psyche. Jae Daemon has previously disclosed that on occasion users “will post their own name or harass themselves.” He has seen “student organizations post the same kind of content that they themselves protest.” Bored at Baker users are keenly aware of their audience. The site’s offensive or off-color posts do not reflect attitudes or opinions held in daily life. For some, Bored at Baker is not an anonymous space to speak their minds without consequence, but rather a type of performance. You need look no further than the site’s infamous “personalities” for evidence of that. Do some users take it too far? Absolutely. Very few people on this campus would condone the use of Bored at Baker to communicate violent threats or methodically harass individuals. Hanover Police should investigate posts that specifically violate the law, and Bored at Baker should respond effectively to posts flagged as offensive. But it is hardly shocking that Bored at Baker facilitates the airing of distasteful views. There is no effective way for the College to consistently identify and punish members of the Dartmouth community for inappropriate posts. Ultimately, it is up to Bored at Baker itself, not Dartmouth, to minimize the site’s hurtful effects.

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Dartmouth does not need to become like larger universities to be great. In his May 12 column “Going Global,” Abhishek Parajuli ’15 advocates for the creation of a second Dartmouth campus, in Asia. While I struggle to understand how such a project would be feasible, my greatest concern surrounds Parajuli’s emphasis on “dramatically [increasing] our international reputation and presence.” Though there is nothing inherently wrong with strengthening Dartmouth’s prestige around the world, this should not be an institutional priority. I chose Dartmouth because of its differences from peer schools, not its similarities. I wanted a small, rural school focused on undergraduate education and strong community, not graduate programs and international reputation. Unfortunately, some members of the Dartmouth community view these factors that drew me to Dartmouth as the College’s weaknesses, not its strengths. These individuals lament Dartmouth’s “weak” international ranking, instead of examining whether international rankings matter or challenging the questionable methodology used by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the institution behind the list of international university rankings, that places Dartmouth between Colorado State University and Florida State University. As Dartmouth enters an exciting period of change, headlined by the recently announced housing initiatives, it is crucial that the College enact reforms that advance Dartmouth’s mission, which cites “independence of thought” as a core tenant of the College’s value system. Many recent suggestions actually deviate from Dartmouth’s mission, molding institution into something entirely different. For example, a post on “Improve Dartmouth” that recommends changing the college’s name to “Dartmouth University” and creating a “university that encompasses the breadth of research deserving of an Ivy League institution” deeply disturbed me. Dartmouth should not be this sort of institution. Even if we had the necessary resources, such an expansion would undermine our niche as a smaller, more intimate and undergraduatefocused alternative to its peer schools. Reforms that would deviate from Dartmouth’s nature as a small, undergraduate institution are

not confined to “Improve Dartmouth” and other casual venues. Several recently announced initiatives, such as the new Society of Fellows postdoctoral program, seek to arm Dartmouth with traditional “university” credentials. By draining faculty time and supervision and increasing the number of courses taught by graduate students, excessive focus on graduate programs and global recognition will erode Dartmouth’s undergraduate emphasis in a way that is inherently antithetical to the College’s core mission. Building a second Dartmouth campus so we can compete with institutions like Yale and Duke by having more in common with them would hardly comprise “independent thought.” Similarly, students like Parajuli who identify a compelling need to boost Dartmouth’s international stature seem to suggest that a Dartmouth degree alone, rather than independent thought or the “lifetime of learning and responsible leadership” also cited in the mission statement, entitles graduates to immediate success and prestige. For people so concerned about rankings, let’s not forget the one category in which Dartmouth tops the list year after year: undergraduate teaching. Faculty quality is not without constraints, and spreading Dartmouth’s faculty too thin by opening up a second campus and expanding graduate programs, the necessary measures to increase international prestige, would greatly diminish the quality of undergraduate teaching. Striking this balance is a game of tradeoffs. A higher chance that an international employer has heard of Dartmouth probably means a lower chance that a professor can do research with an undergrad. A higher chance that Dartmouth’s graduate programs rank highly may mean lower chances that undergraduates learn from professors, not TAs. When making these tradeoffs, I urge those in positions of power to prioritize the voices of those who wish to maintain Dartmouth’s undergraduate emphasis over those who wish to make Dartmouth more like Yale by emphasizing graduate programs and global prestige. Yale is probably a great place. Dartmouth is a great place, too, and it does not need a second campus for that to remain true.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m. Masters of Engineering Management Program Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series, Jessica Pray, Cummings 232

12:30 p.m. Vaughan Recital Series presents flutist Robert Dick, Hopkins Center, Faulkner Recital Hall

1:45 p.m. Physics and astronomy cosmology seminar, with Rachel Rosen of Columbia University, Steele 007

TOMORROW 1:15 p.m. Lecture, “Specters of the Great War: France, Italy and the First World War Conference,” Haldeman 041

3:00 p.m.

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Gran serata futurista Grand Futurist Evening

by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory adapted from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Giovanni Papini

Moore Theater, Hopkins Center May 14th, 2014 at 7:00 PM Free and Open to the Public

Biological sciences department special seminar, “Evolution of the Animal Face,” Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center 200

4:00 p.m. “The Occom Circle Project,” Baker Library, Class of 1902 Room

Director and performer Massimiliano Finazzer Flory Choreography by Michaela Lucenti Interpreted by Sara Ippolito Music by Igor Stravinsky, Alfredo Casella, Francesco Cilea, Ryuichi Sakamoto Costumes by Sartoria Brancato Milano

Duration: 70 minutes with a handful of improvised seconds Performance in Italian with supertitles in English Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian

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Annual Step Show draws Hop promotes sustainable jewelry students,alumni for dance B y APOORVA DIXIT The Dartmouth Staff

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Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will host the 23rd annual Green Key Step Show this Saturday evening in the Hopkins Center’s Moore Theater. This year’s “FIFA World Cup” theme will be incorporated through costumes and video clips shown during the performance. Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity and Omega Psi Phi fraternity as well as three dance groups — Ujima, Sheba and Street Soul — will dance at the show. Step routines, percussive dances where performers use their bodies to produce complicated rhythms and sounds, can be performed alone, but stepping is more commonly done in small groups. Step has long been practiced by historically black fraternities and sororities, but its origins are imprecise. The dances may be competitive, but they are also performances. Alpha Phi Alpha president Josh Rivers ’15 said that though the dances are most popular in the South, they have long been an Alpha Phi Alpha tradition on campus. The dances, which focus on quick movements, are highly customizable, so performers must be extremely precise in order to dance a routine well, Rivers said. “A lot of work has gone into it,” he said. “We’re all working equally hard on perfecting the steps,” Jenieri Cyrus ’14, an Omega Psi Phi member and first-time Step Show performer, said that growing up, his father took him to performances at colleges near his home in North Carolina. He recalls being struck by the variation among the dances, he said. “You have to really be there to see it, everyone does it differently,” Cyrus said. Cyrus is a member of his fraternity’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapter and said he anticipates

that members from the Boston area will visit his show on campus and perhaps dance as well. LUL often hosts a stroll show, a related dance type that emphasizes synchronized movement and specific performance formations, during Winter Carnival. Alpha Phi Alpha’s seven active members will perform in this year’s show, which they have planned since winter term, Rivers said. Members have organized choreography, video production and logistics for the event, he said. Vic Williams ’16, responsible for choreographing Alpha Phi Alpha’s dance, said the fraternity has been working on its routine since the beginning of the term. The group promoted the Step Show with a video of members rehearsing sent in an email to campus on May 8. “The goal for this year is to try and one up and continue to raise the bar,” Williams said. In past years, the show filled Leede Arena to capacity. Moore Theater is a smaller venue, though Dartmouth 105 will serve as overflow space, Rivers said. Sheba co-director Sheya Jabouin ’15 said the change will require a “mental adjustment, because it’s so different.” Dance troupes typically do not perform step routines, she said. “We just usually focus on hip hop music because it’s a crowd pleaser,” Jabouin said. Sheba co-director George Sy ’15, who performed in last year’s show, described the atmosphere as “really fun” with “a lot of energy in the crowd.” The Step Show also provides exposure for participating Greek organizations and can help attract new members, Williams said. “A lot of people don’t really know about minority fraternities and sororities,” Williams said. “It’s a way to show people what you’ve been working on.” Alumni often return to campus to watch or participate in performances, Rivers said.

Mining for jewelry materials, including precious metals and stones, can be detrimental to natural ecosystems and wildlife. Monday’s community-made jewelry exhibition and panel discussion showed that this need not be the case and offered a sustainable alternative. Launched in the winter, the Hopkins Center’s Radical Jewelry Makeover aims to increase awareness of open pit mining’s environmental harms. Influenced by a similar project run through non-profit Ethical Metalsmiths, the Hop collected old jewelry from around the Upper Valley and hosted open workshops to encourage community members and students to make jewelry from recycled materials. Over 100 people contributed jewelry, providing enough material to fill five 32-gallon plastic bins, Donald Claflin jewelry studio director Jeff Georgantes said. Mostly comprising costume jewelry and broken pieces, the Hop’s bounty also included about four ounces of gold and a gallon of silver, Georgantes said. Savannah Martin ’13, who attended the Hop’s workshops, said she had previously not thought about jewelry’s potential harm to the environment. “People buy a bangle from a store like Forever 21 all the time, and they don’t really think twice about throwing it away when it breaks,” she said. Students helped sort and repackage jewelry for use in community workshops or by professional artists across the country. Over 200 people, aged 8 to 80, took part in the Hop’s

workshops, and 19 artists who are cal Metalsmiths to raise consumers’ alumni or who have visited the Col- awareness of jewelry’s origins. The lege in the past were sent materials, purpose of the Radical Jewelry Hop outreach manager Stephanie Makeover project is to educate conPacheco said. About half the par- sumers in a fun, non-threatening way, ticipants at the Hop were students. she said. On Monday, some of the pieces “Every stone has a unique village, made from collected materials were every village has a unique problem on display and available for purchase and every problem deserves a unique in Alumni Hall. A panel of speakers, solution,” she said. including Earth MemSciences profes- “People buy a bangle bers of Ethical sor Mukul SharMetalsmiths from a store like ma and Ethical have visited colMetalsmiths ex- Forever 21 all the time, leges across the ecutive director and they don’t really country since and co-founder 2007 to raise Christina Miller, think twice about awareness about discussed moti- throwing it away when mining practicvations behind es, Miller said. it breaks.” the program. Dart Sharma demouth’s proscribed the gold - SAVANNAH MARTIN ’13 gram is part of mining process, the Hop’s largwhich can be er Community very labor intensive and unsustain- Venture Initiative, which aims to able. increase integration between the “Exploitation of resources is how Hop and the Upper Valley. All we, America, raised our standard of proceeds from jewelry sales go to living,” Sharma said. “We cannot Ethical Metalsmiths or to the Hop’s stop consuming, so how do we do community outreach program. this in a sustainable fashion?” Pacheco said high attendance at Georgantes said that creating one Monday’s panel could be attributed ounce of gold, about the size of a to Hop outreach to the community. 50-cent piece, can require mining “Like the jewelry that is going up to 200 tons of earth. Gold ore back into the community, we are is often processed using cyanide, a creating our own economy,” Pacheco highly toxic chemical. said. “It’s important to say that some Miller said recent legislation of this stuff was junk lying around is moving in a positive direction, your home but now it actually has requiring more transparency for value.” jewelry material supply chains. She Jewelry made by professional artsaid that this is especially true for the ists for the project will be on view in production of “conflict minerals,” the Harrington display case in the including coltan, gold and tungsten. Moore Theater lobby from May 14 Miller said she co-founded Ethi- through June 15.

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Over 200 people, half of them students, attended the Hop’s workshops to make jewelry from recycled materials.

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SPORTS Best Female Athlete ABBEY D’AGOSTINO ’14

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DANA GIORDANO ’16

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Cross country, track and ﬁeld Mile, 3,000 meters, 10,000 meters, 5,000 meters

Cross country, track and ﬁeld 3,000 meters, distance medley relay, 1,500 meters

Abbey D’Agostino ’14, the most decorated Ivy League athlete of all time, has won seven national titles and 16 Ivy League titles. She is the only woman to ever win the Ivy League outdoor title in the 10,000-meter, 5,000-meter and 3,000-meter in a career, as well as both the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter in back-to-back years at indoor nationals. The senior said her favorite moment was when the team won the cross country Heptagonal Championships. “Because we had actually come so far in a matter of one year and because of the injuries and physical and emotional stuff we went through the year before, we were super motivated to reach our potential this year,” she said. “After coming in second-to-last, to be able to win and feel conﬁdent about it even before racing was huge for us.” Dartmouth has catapulted to national prominence over her four years. Former head coach Mark Coogan credits her friendly demeanor as critical to the program’s success. “Abbey is just the most genuine, passionate, friendly world class athlete I’ve ever been around,” he said. “It’s amazing to me that she doesn’t have a mean bone in her body and she can be the toughest kid I’ve ever seen on the track. She just leads by example, and the rest of the team follows.”

Dana Giordano ’16 has had a stellar sophomore campaign for the cross country and track and field teams, now boasting two Ivy League titles and two All-American honors to her credit. Giordano placed fifth at the cross country Heptagonal Championships to help secure the Big Green’s victory. She then placed 31st at the NCAA Championship meet, earning her first All-American honors. “It was so amazing because we were having this huge turnaround season and things were coming into place,” she said. Giordano continued her strong season on the indoor track, capturing the Ivy League title in the 3,000-meter race. At NCAA Championships, she ran the 1,600-meter leg of the distance medley relay. The team placed eighth, and Giordano earned her second AllAmerican honor. In the spring, she took home the 1,500-meter crown at the outdoor Heptagonal Championships. “Dana is very regimented and more businesslike than Abbey,” former head coach Mark Coogan said. “If practice is at three o’clock, it’s at three o’clock. It’s not at 3:05. I think that’s one of her really good attributes. She wants everything to be really well organized and set up and ready to go. She’s very tough and talented.”

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014

WEDNESDAY LINEUP B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

This year saw three Ivy League team titles for the Big Green in women’s cross country, equestrian and softball. During the 2013-14 season, several female athletes and women’s sports have catapulted themselves to the national stage, breaking League and school records and collecting accolades, some of which Dartmouth has never seen before.

KRISTEN GIOVANNIELLO ’14 MORGAN McCALMON ’16

TREVELYAN WING/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

No athletic events scheduled

Here at The Dartmouth, we wanted to commemorate the achievements of Dartmouth athletes and teams this past year, which is why we’re introducing the ﬁrst annual Sports Awards. Each week in May, we will present a different category. This week, the second installment is best female athlete. Vote on our website before noon Sunday, and we’ll announce the winner in Monday’s Sports Weekly.

KRISTEN RUMLEY ’15

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Lacrosse Goalie

Softball Pitcher, Designated Player

Despite her team’s tough year, senior goalie Kristen Giovanniello ’14 went out in style, playing every minute between the pipes for the women’s lacrosse team (6-8, 3-4 Ivy). Giovanniello turned 124 shots aside throughout the season, good enough for second in the Ancient Eight. The senior’s 46.3 save percentage was tied for best in the Ivy League. Giovanniello has anchored the team since her freshman year, starting all but one game over her four years. Throughout her career, the senior has amassed 529 saves and played in four NCAA Tournament games, posting a 1-3 record. Her lone win came against Boston College last season. Giovanniello posted 12 saves in the team’s 11-8 victory in which they were outshot 29-19. This year, without a NCAA berth in play, Giovanniello did not get dismayed and turned in one of her best performances of the season in a 9-8 win against Harvard University. “It was a great way for me and the entire senior class to go out with the win,” she said. “I think we knew it was our last game suiting up for Dartmouth, and we really wanted to make it a memorable one.” The senior kept the Dartmouth women close in the ﬁrst half, saving 13 of Harvard’s 22 shots, en route to 16 total for the game.

Morgan McCalmon ’16 was just named the Ivy League Player of the Year, the first time in history that a Dartmouth student has won the award. The sophomore led the League with a .389 batting average and was tied for fifth in home runs and RBI. The sophomore slugged .593 this season, second on the Big Green. The offensive powerhouse also led the Ivy League with a stunning .441 on base percentage. Yet McCalmon is a force to be reckoned with on the mound, serving as the second half of Dartmouth’s dynamic pitching duo alongside Kristen Rumley ’15. With a 10-5 record, McCalmon boasts the second lowest earned run average for the Big Green (2.49) and struck out 93 batters this season. Her stats on the mound place the sophomore sixth in the League in wins and ERA, as well as fifth overall in strikeouts. McCalmon played an integral role in Dartmouth’s first ever Ivy League Championship in softball, earning a save in the Ivy League Championship Series against the University of Pennsylvania. McCalmon’s growth since freshman year, head coach Rachel Hanson said, has helped her perform and take pressure off of Rumley on the mound. “Morgan in her own right has been a dominant pitcher,” Hanson said, “and I think her bat speaks for itself.”

Dartmouth’s fast-pitch canon Kristen Rumley ’15 has racked up an astounding 1.86 earned run average, good enough for an 18-7 overall record. Rumley led the League in strikeouts with193. The next highest total in the Ancient Eight is 131. She also led the League in wins with 18 and saves with four. The junior was awarded the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Award as well as a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy First Team. In the Ivy League Championship Series against the University of Pennsylvania, Rumley accounted for both wins on the mound. She also scored the go-ahead run in game three. The team rallied from a 2-0 deﬁcit in the sixth before Rumley ﬁnished the game in the top of the seventh, securing a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The junior posts the fourth-best batting average on the team, and makes up for her lack of power with timely hitting. Rumley pounded 43 hits, including 11 doubles, and 15 RBI on the season out of the seven hole for the Big Green. Rumley, head coach Rachel Hanson said, is composed and calm, critical attributes for a softball pitcher, and has been a leader on the team in many ways. “She’s the best pitcher in the League,” Hanson said. “We’ve been on her back for the last two years now, and she’s done a great job with it.”