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Tucker poised to split into two separate centers

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At their June meeting, trustees voted to create separate religious and service centers.

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For the second year in a row, undergraduate applicants will be asked to write one supplemental essay to accompany their Common Application.

Last year’s supplement posed only one additional

question about a meaningful out-of-classroom activity, but this year’s supplement will have five options for responses. One prompt asks candidates to explain the story and meaning behind their name, and another asks

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Religious and spiritual life and public service at the College will soon be housed under separate institutional roofs when the Tucker Foundation splits into the Tucker Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Dartmouth Center for Public Service.

A task force that interim provost Martin Wybourne convened last fall reviewed Tucker’s structure and concluded that its mission would be better served by two centers, Tucker interim dean Theresa Ellis ’97 said. The College’s Board of Trustees voted on and approved the idea at its SEE TUCKER PAGE 6

SEAD sees new hire, activities

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Research trips to college laboratories and homemade nutritional dinners are some of the new additions to the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program this year. Hosted by the Tucker Foundation, the program has invited 32 gifted students from under-resourced high schools in the northeast for academic courses,

workshops and activities, program director Jay Davis said.

The program also hired a college pathways coordinator — Antonio Brown ’11 — whose job is to support students who attend college after the program.

AmeriCorps VISTA, a federal program designed to combat poverty, will partly fund the inaugural tenure of this full-time position, Davis said.

A program mentor as College sophomore, his attachment to the participants motivated him to apply for the position, Brown said.

Since he is a first-generation student, he hoped he could help other students.

“I really wanted to make sure that they didn’t have to go through some of the hardship that I did,” he said. “And even if they did, SEE SEAD PAGE 3

Climate Institute hosts tribal sustainability panel B y Macy Ferguson The Dartmouth Staff

Aiming to spread awareness of the tribal sustainability partnerships that emerged following the November Indigenous Peoples Working Group meeting at Dartmouth, students and research fellows presented findings at a Thursday panel on tribal sustainability and Arctic protection

initiatives.

Dartmouth’s Climate Institute has since overseen six of these partnerships designed to address environmental issues and promote sustainability, said Ethan Forauer, the summer coordinator for the Center for Environmental Leadership Training. The center operates NATALIE CANTAVE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Thursday evening’s panel was hosted in the Class of 1930 room.

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DAily debriefing HIGHER EDUCATION RECAP

House Republicans will raise a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for delaying the employer mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, Politico reported Thursday. The lawsuit will focus on the fact that the mandate was delayed through an executive order and not legislative action. It comes after other GOP challenges to the Affordable Care Act, including the standoff last summer that led to a temporary government shutdown. A draft for the resolution was released by House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and will be discussed by the committee next week.

Fewer students will return to college after their first year, according to a new report published by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, Inside Higher Ed reported Thursday.

The number of students staying in college after their first year has dropped 1.2 percentage points to 68.7 percent, but the number of students that returned to the same institution after their freshman year remained steady at 58.2 percent. The decrease in the rate of students returning to college means that 37,000 fewer students will reenroll this fall compared to 2009.

According to a recent survey released by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D- Missouri), more than 20 percent of American colleges allow athletic departments to carry out investigations of sexual assault that involve student-athletes, Inside Higher Ed reported Thursday. Additionally, more than 40 percent of colleges had not carried out an investigation of sexual assault in the past year.The survey was released as a new bill, co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of senators including McCaskill.

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Applicants will choose from five essays FROM ESSAY PAGE 1

about the influence a hero has had on the applicant’s life.

Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said her office made the addition of a required essay last year because of the Common Application’s elimination of the short activity essay, which asked students to briefly elaborate on an extracurricular or work experience. When formulating this year’s application, Laskaris said admissions officers could not decide on just one topic and allowed for a choice “We brainstormed a variety of different questions that might get at some of those intangible qualities we are seeking,” she said.

Prior to last year, a peer evaluation and alumni interview were the only materials that supplemented Dartmouth’s Common Application.

“We weren’t hearing enough in the students’ own voices,” Laskaris said.

Michele Hernandez ’89, a former Dartmouth admissions officer and president of Hernandez College Consulting, said she applauds Dartmouth for adding an extra essay.

Many students she consults, she said, now feel that the Common Application does not give them enough room to speak to all their accomplishments and interests.

“I don’t think it’s too onerous to have one extra paragraph,” Hernandez said. “At least it gives kids a vehicle to get extra information across.”

In the mid-1990s, when she was an admissions officer at the

College, Dartmouth used its own application, which was more openended, Hernandez said.

The Common Application will go online on Aug. 1. Laskaris said the admissions office will be send out a newsletter later this month to encourage potential applicants to start thinking about the supplemental essays.

All other Ivy League schools except for Harvard University have integrated an additional writing requirement of some sort into their

“I don’t think it’s too onerous to have one extra paragraph. At least it gives kids a vehicle to get extra information across.”

- MICHELE HERNANDEZ ’89, PRESIDENT OF HERNANDEZ College CONSULTING Common Application supplement.

Harvard offers applicants the option of writing an additional essay.

Princeton University and Yale University have several required writing prompts in their supplement, such as asking how students spent their summers and what applicants would like to elaborate on regarding their application.

For his supplemental essay during application season last year, Matt Vance ’18 wrote about volunteering at a veterans’ hospital in New Haven, Connecticut before

his junior year of high school.

“I really do think that the heart of who I am came out in my Common App essay, but it was nice to elaborate and explain why I [volunteered] and how it changed how I perceive different things in my life,” Vance said.

Carolyn Susman ’18 wrote about volunteering at the London Olympics in 2012, an experience she said helped shape her ideas about nationalism and patriotism.

The only school to which she applied that did not have an essay supplement was Washington University in St. Louis, she said.

“Many, but not all, of my friends that ended up applying there just did it last-second because it was easy,” Susman said.

This phenomenon is attractive to prospective students whizzing through college applications, but not ideal, Susman said, because the colleges without writing supplements end up attracting applicants for the wrong reasons.

“You want ones who want to go there and would enjoy going there rather than just ending up there,” she said.

Even before the shift, Dartmouth’s application allowed applicants to upload a resume or submit a supplemental art portfolio or research abstract. None of these measures has been required.

This year, the College experienced a 14 percent drop in applications relative to last year.

Still, the yield for the Class of 2018 was the highest in history, with 54.5 percent of accepted students deciding to enroll at the College.

Annie Smith contributed reporting.

We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

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Dartmouth admissions changed its supplement requirements after the Common Application was shortened last year.

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SEAD students visit Isle of Shoals, cook dinner with nutritionist

campus are SEAD II, meaning they are in the second year of I hoped they knew someone they the four-year program. They hail can talk to and help them navigate from five different partner high through the situations.” schools: the Bronx Center for In addition to providing advice Mathematics and Science, Scheon college academics and social nectady High School, Raymond life, Brown is also helping the cur- High School and East Boston rent participants with the college High School. application process.

Hand Va r i o u s w e r k e r, w h o workshops on “It was amazing to heard of the potopics that are sition through in high school see how quickly the a cousin who curricula, ininterned at the students, and myself, cluding nutriprog ram last t i o n , s ex u a l - just got put in the year, said that ity, bystander SEAD has been initiative and mindset of eating a meaningful identity, add a experience that new dimension healthier. We also broadened his to this year’s worldview. learned about how program, Davis “ M y said. much effort people put goal is to keep The prohaving fun gram now in- in their dinners. It was with the stucludes a twod e n t s, r e a l l y day overnight amazing how open get close with trip to an unthem and undergraduate re- the students were to derstand where search facility learning new faces.” they come from in the Isle of and how they’re Shoals operatdealing with ed by Cornell - Daniel Handwerker, whatever isUniversity and sue they have Sead intern, the University in their lives,” of New Hamp- rising senior at Handwerker shire. said.

Ethical Cultural The scholars SEAD will dissect pilot Fieldston School participant Rasharks, observe chel Muir said tidal pools and that she learned collect specimen, gaining hands- about the program from her ninth on experience in marine biology, grade physics teacher. She took the Davis said. program as an opportunity get out The SEAD participants will also of her comfort zone, she said. walk in the Prouty this weekend Student mentor Jacob Flores and have raised more than $7,500. ’16 said that his ethnic background Students attended a lecture and interest in sports helped him from a College nutritionist on grow close with his mentee. He Wednesday, then cooked dinner hopes to establish a friendship together with the SEAD staff. with his mentee that outlasts the SEAD intern Daniel Hand- program’s span of three weeks, he werker, a rising senior at the Ethical said.

Culture Fieldston School in New “Continuing into the second York, attended the lecture and year, I hope to be able to able to dinner. check in with how they’re doing,” He said the scholars were Flores said. extremely attentive and asked Graduate assistant MaeAnna interesting questions.

Edwards said that the friendship “It was amazing to see how she cultivated with the participants quickly the students — and even last year motivated her to return. myself — just got put in the mind- “It was not even a question,” set of eating healthier,” Hand- she said. werker said. “We also learned Dartmouth students, totalling about how much effort people put 100, participate in the program as in their dinners. It was amazing staff, mentors, academic coaches how open the students were to and SEAD crew. In addition, learning new facts.” members of Greek and affinity This program follows groups houses have hosted meals and of students through all four years helped out with various activities, of their high school careers, Davis said. inviting a new cadre of students Thirty-two faculty and adminto join the program during the istrators from various departments senior year of the previous group, also serve as mentors.

Davis said.

Min Kyung Jeon contributed report The students currently on ing.

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SEAD participants discuss a reading in Rocky 003 for a humanities class Thursday morning.

M ENRIQUE MARTÌNEZ CELAYA Five Projects Since Schneebett

Trained as an artist and physicist,

ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA works in painting, sculpture, photography and writing.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:30 p.m.

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Verbum ultimum the summer editorial board

Contributing Columnist Jon Vandermause ’16

Considering Coeds

Indebted at Dartmouth

What we talk about when we talk about the Greek system.

Conversations about the Greek system are ubiquitous on this campus, as well as in the pages of this publication. Despite its relentless presence, however, campus discourse consistently overlooks a significant portion of students who belong to the Greek community. Coed houses and undergraduate societies — both of which are listed in the GLOS handbook — experience significantly lower visibility on campus than those houses awarded “mainstream status” — those that are single-sex. Although 96 percent of affiliated students join single-sex houses, the remaining 4 percent cannot be ignored. Excluding coed organizations from both campus consciousness and tangible privileges is harmful to both coed members and the greater Greek system.

Coed houses exist on the outskirts of the Dartmouth social scene, labeled as “other” simply because they are not single-sex.

When comparing coed houses with singlesex houses, it is important to remember that by their very nature these two groups offer different experiences. Students who join coeds may feel uncomfortable with the single-sex Greek system; therefore, a difference in the practices and policies of single-sex and coed houses is to be expected.

As Abigail Bard, last year’s Coed Council president, wrote in The Dartmouth, coeds can welcome those who “don’t feel comfortable conforming to a strict gender label” and those who worry about membership fees and exclusive spaces. These houses, then, offer safe spaces for many Dartmouth students who can’t find them elsewhere.

As a community, we must recognize coed houses as safe and accepting spaces, but it is also important to examine the ways in which they are systematically excluded from the prevailing social circuit. Coeds are often not included in tails rotations with single-sex Greek houses. In addition, a fun sophomore summer tradition like Masters, seemingly totally inclusive,

becomes complicated when one considers whether coeds should play in the sorority bracket or the fraternity bracket. Often rather than dealing with complications like this, the Greek mainstream dismisses coeds, casts coeds as outside the system. This dismissal, unfortunately, is not limited to social activities. Coeds can be inadvertently missing from College events meant to reflect the Greek system as a whole — including an April panel in which four students and two professors debated whether the Greek system should be abolished. Because of this oversight, attendees of this at-capacity event left with no perspective on the coed experience within the greater system.

Instead of continuing to overlook coed houses, members of single-sex Greek houses should consider why including coed houses would benefit all involved. At a time when Greek life at the College faces criticism from both campus and national media, it is important to remember that coed houses foster a palpably more inclusive environment regarding gender and socioeconomic status within the same social framework. Single-sex houses should look at the policies coeds institute to create this environment — including open rush and recent initiatives to provide members full financial aid for dues — especially when many of the critiques of Greek life center around exclusion and entitlement.

We want to acknowledge our own culpability in giving more coverage to events that focus on single-sex Greek organizations. Our article covering the Greek Life debate, for example, did not include any reference to coed organizations or their absence from the discussion. Moving forward, we hope that the entire Dartmouth community recognizes that coeds are an integral part of the Greek system.

In addition, any conversation about coed houses should accompany critical reflection on other marginalized groups within the Dartmouth Greek system.

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College students face crushing debt upon graduation.

The sticker price of a college degree in America has never been higher, and tuition won’t be getting cheaper any time soon. These costs have been ballooning upward for decades, well above the rate of inflation. Many high school graduates face a decision — accumulating thousands of dollars of debt alongside their college degree or braving a brutal job market without one. The latter, however, isn’t an easy option. Of adults aged 25-32 with only high school diplomas, over one in five live below the poverty line, according to a February Pew poll. For those who choose to pursue a college degree, some find that taking out loans is still not enough. Miriam Weeks, a Duke University rising sophomore, discusses her turn to pornography to pay for her college tuition in a recent Time article: “Faced with either a degree from a less prestigious school or decades of crushing debt, a few hours of work on a porn set revealed itself to be the best way to avoid getting screwed.”

Weeks’s decision to make adult films may seem like an unusual — if not unimaginable — solution to students at Dartmouth. After all, the financial aid office trumpets its commitment to meeting “100 percent of demonstrated financial need for all four years.” Therefore, it would seem that by matriculating at an elite and tremendously wealthy Ivy League college, Dartmouth students have managed to escape the crushing debt acquired by so many students across the country.

The U.S. Department of Education’s data on student debt, however, paints a very different picture. Forty-six percent of Dartmouth students graduate with student loan debt, while the figure is only 39 percent at Duke University, where Weeks is a student. More interesting is the average debt accrued by students who take out these loans. On average, Dartmouth students who take out loans accumulate an eye-popping $17,825. Compared to its Ivy League peers, Dartmouth lags behind: at Yale University and Harvard University, students on average graduate with around $12,000 of debt; at Princeton University, graduating students owe a paltry $5,096. Despite having one of the

highest endowment-per-student ratios in the world, Dartmouth still manages to send off a sizeable piece of its graduates each year with more debt than a family of two at the poverty line makes in a year.

Many would argue that, regardless of its price, a Dartmouth education remains a worthy investment. Seventeen-thousand dollars in debt appears a small price to pay when stacked against the millions of dollars one can reap on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley after graduation, but what about the students whose dreams may not be so lucrative? With the prospect of a competitive job market, some students feel pressured to forgo their aspirations altogether in pursuit of careers that are more financially secure. Dartmouth should empower students to pursue their passions without hesitation; when the College fails to use its enormous financial resources to reduce student debt, it forces some students to temper their dreams.

English majors may feel pressure to switch to computer science, math majors may end up as quants on Wall Street and physics majors could choose to simulate stock prices instead of solar plasma. One wonders if as many of these career decisions would be made in the absence of financial strain.

In only a few months, the College has received several large donations: $100 million in April, $10 million more later in the month, and another $10 million this summer. According to College President Phil Hanlon, the money from these contributions will focus on increasing the academic excellence of Dartmouth. These gifts will create three new professorships in the computer science department, support Hanlon’s new cluster initiative and expand and renovate the Hood Museum of Art, respectively. While the College receives such generous donations, the ability to afford a Dartmouth education is still an issue for many students. Money is flowing into the College at a dizzying rate, making the so-called Dartmouth experience literally more valuable than ever. The only thing being forgotten in this lavish scheme is the students who have to pay for it.

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June meeting.

Ellis declined to comment on the distinction between the two new center’s responsibilities, adding that efforts will begin this summer to more precisely define the goals and vision of the centers.

The task force held five meetings with various constituencies, including Tucker staff, members of the Tucker Board of Visitors, Dartmouth students and community participants. At these meetings, attendees discussed more effective ways to operate Tucker’s programs.

But the task force’s findings are not new, Ellis said, noting several other committees’ studies and external reviews.

Ellis said she agreed with the task force’s assessment.

She said while religious and spiritual life and public service overlap in some places, managing them under a single umbrella is difficult.

These tensions came to a head with the controversy over the appointment and subsequent dismissal of Right Rev. James Tengatenga due to his previous comments on homosexuality.

His appointment to be Tucker Foundation dean was revoked last August.

Tengatenga was chair of the Malawi Council of Churches in 2012 when it advocated that the Malawi government uphold the criminalization of homosexuality, claiming it contradicted Christian values. More than 30 Dartmouth students and faculty members signed a petition protesting his appointment.

But Ellis said she does not believe that the controversy regarding Tengatenga connects with the decision to divorce religious and spiritual life from public service at Tucker.

Instead, Wybourne formed the task force wanting to ensure that Tucker could best serve the needs of Dartmouth students and other stakeholders, she said.

Tucker program officer for local community service Tracy DustinEichler, who is about to complete her 11th year at the foundation, said she thinks that the decision will allow for the two new centers to branch out and develop individually while also retaining the possibility of future collaboration.

Dustin-Eichler said Tucker staff members spoke with the task force and with Ellis. DustinEichler described the task force’s e f fo r t s a s a “ w i d e - re a ch i n g process,” collecting data and

opinions from a broad spectrum of stakeholders.

Ellis, who began her tenure at Tucker last October, will remain the interim dean to guide the organization’s restructuring this coming academic year, according to Wybourne’s statement in the press release.

Wybourne also noted in the press release that a search for leaders of both centers will begin in the coming months. Two working groups consisting of faculty, students, alumni, staff and community members will frame the centers’ mission, Ellis said in the press release.

After speaking with a wide range of students, alumni and staff at both Tucker and in the broader College community, Ellis said she believes that people generally support the decision.

Marylynne Sitko ’16, who served as Tucker intern for religious and spiritual life in the past winter and spring terms, said she does not understand how a future spiritual office at the College could not prioritize community service.

“I think that the best way for university students to really engage in this kind of thinking about finding themselves in a religious or spiritual way is through community service,” she said.

As a religious person, she said she finds it impossible to separate her spiritual center from her community service work.

“To me, they’re synthesized,” she said, noting that she thinks that the institutional structure should reflect this synthesis.

She added that those partaking in community service are often driven to do so for religious reasons, but she said she believes that students will be able to navigate between spiritual life and community service even if they are in different institutional spheres.

Former Tucker communications intern Katie Trinh ’16 said she hopes that the transition will encourage students who are nervous about community service or spiritualism to participate.

Trinh said that separating spiritualism or service from current Tucker programming could prove difficult.

She said that local service groups traditionally reflect after their service, which she sees as related to spirituality, and that she hopes this sort of reflection will continue after the transition.

Wybourne was not available for comment by press time.

Charlie Rafkin and Zac Hardwick contributed reporting.

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Students present research at panel

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President of Climate Institute John Topping Jr. ’64 said Indigenous people are at the forefront of fighting U.S. climate change.

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as the educational branch of the Climate Institute.

The Institute works closely with Native and Indigenous peoples throughout the U.S. and the world and utilizes Dartmouth’s strong academic Native community to stay on top of cutting-edge research, said John Topping Jr. ’64, the co-founder and president of the Climate Institute.

“As far as the U.S. is concerned, the people who are at the forefront of combating climate change are indigenous people,” Topping said.

“The Native American studies department at Dartmouth is one of the best in the world.”

Each partnership and project has a team comprised of members from nationwide climate institutes, Forauer said. Dartmouth students have been involved with multiple projects and partnerships and are encouraged to get in contact with any team members working on a project they find interesting, he added.

At the panel, team members discussed their projects, including Katie Zhang ’16 and Hope Wilson ’16. Their current research focuses on the potential impacts and benefits of implementing hydropower in Alaskan Native villages.

The project because helped Zhang see ways to apply her engineering major, she said.

“The environmental engineering classes you take, you just can’t go test those concepts if you don’t

do something like this,” Zhang said. “It’s nice to see what actual engineers do instead of just learning about the concepts.”

Wilson agreed, saying she appreciates the hands-on aspect of the research and the opportunity

“As far as the U.S. is concerned, the people who are at the forefront of combating climate change are indigenous people.

The Native American Studies department at Dartmouth is one of the best in the world.”

- John topping jr. ’64, president of climate institute

to work outside of the classroom.

Zhang and Wilson are currently making contacts in the region where they plan to implement their project and collecting population and infrastructure data. The two have connected with University of Alaska professor Tom Ravens ’82 Th’83 as they determine the direction the project is heading.

Panelist and CELT graduate fellow David Kadoch is working

on bringing hydroponic farming to the Hanover area. The goal of this agricultural technology is to increase the amount of harvest per square foot without the aid of soil, Kadoch said.

“It’s been my passion for the last three years and I really hope to make a difference,” Kadoch said. “I believe that we all start from our communities in making successful global change.”

Michael Dunaway, another panelist and fellow, is working on building a solar-powered biodiesel refinery on the Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma. The biodiesel fuel itself comes from wasted vegetable oil, he said. He said he seeks a small-scale, 50-gallon-aday refinery.

“It’s not big, but it’s the start for creating a sustainable energy source for Osage Reservation,” he said.

The Institute hopes to streamline the connections between team members and Native leaders interested in the Institute’s projects by creating a virtual global Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change. Trevelyan Wing ’14 is currently leading this project and said he hoped to recruit more team members at the event.

Other tribal sustainability partnerships working with the Climate Institute include sustainable inland relocation for vulnerable communities and black carbon mitigation in the Arctic.

Wing is a former member of The Dartmouth Staff.

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The Office of the President invites you to attend the

Dartmouth Summit on Sexual Assault Open Plenaries

– Spaulding Auditorium – Free & open to the public

Sunday, July 13

7pm OPENING PLENARY: Charlotte Johnson, Dean of the College and Ann McLane Kuster '78, (NH-02), Member, U.S. House of Representatives

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Monday, July 14

9am President Philip Hanlon '77 and Dr. David Lisak 10:15am THE WATER IN WHICH WE SWIM: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN PROMOTING A 'RAPE CULTURE' Panel with Sut Jhally, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne

1:30pm SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS: FEDERAL PERSPECTIVES Catherine E. Lhamon, U.S Department of Education, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; Anurima Bhargava, U.S. Department of Justice, Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division. Moderated by N. Bruce Duthu, Dartmouth College, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and Chair of the NAS Program

Tuesday, July 15 8:30am VOICES

Claudia J. Bayliff with Leslie Morgan Steiner (One Love Foundation), Curt and Christie Brungardt (Jana's Campaign), Laura Dunn (SurvJustice), & Susan Brison (Dartmouth

College, Professor and Chair of Philosophy)

2pm REVIEW OF THE FIRST REPORT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TASK FORCE TO PROTECT STUDENTS FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT

Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women; Bea Hanson Principal Deputy Director of the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. Moderated by Allison Randall, Office of Violence Against Women.

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With support, recent alums see success in arts

By Aimee Sung

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Michael Odokara-Okigbo ’12 was in the process of writing a song when he received a call informing him that he would play a role in the upcoming film “Pitch Perfect 2” (2015). He had just stepped into the patio, he said, when he picked up his phone.

Like Odokara-Okigbo, recent graduates Dan Susman ’10, whose Kickstarter campaign will help his documentary “Growing Cities” (2013) gain a wider audience and Divyanka Sharma ’13, who saw her prose published this spring in a journal focused on cultural diversity, have seen success in the arts.

This week, The Dartmouth sat down with the three alumni to talk about their recent work, their undergraduate experiences at the College and their plans for the future.

Odokara-Okigbo, a former history major and member of the Dartmouth Aires, has launched a singing career under the name “Michael O” since graduation. Last fall, he released an EP entitled “In the Beginning,” which charted among the overall top 200 albums on iTunes and spent time in the top 10 on the narrower Rhythm and Blues and Soul charts, which feature albums only from those genres.

“It’s a small role, but it relates to my time at Dartmouth,” he said of his part in the upcoming “Pitch Perfect” (2012) sequel. Odokara-Okigbo noted that he could provide no details about the role, but did say that the casting process for the movie was “low-key.”

Odokara-Okigbo credits his a capella experience as a member of the Aires, and his participation in “The Sing-Off,” a group a capella contest that has appeared for four seasons on NBC, with helping him realize his passion for music. Currently, he is preparing music for his upcoming album, scheduled to be released next year, alongside his role in “Pitch Perfect 2.”

“I miss Dartmouth, and I can’t wait to go back and perform one day,” he said.

Susman, a filmmaker who has focused on urban farming through his documentary “Growing Cities,” recently completed a Kickstarter campaign to bring the film to PBS in the fall.

The campaign raised its initial goal of $30,000 on July 8, but Susman and his collaborator Andrew Monbouquette have raised their target to $35,000. If the new goal is reached, they would be able to show the film on 95 percent of all PBS stations.

Susman said that both current students and alumni supported the campaign. He has also received past financial support from the film and media studies department’s Blair Watson Award, a Dartmouth General Fellowship and the environmental studies program.

“We feel really blessed to have Dartmouth behind us,” Susman said.

A former environmental studies and biology major, Susman developed the idea for the documentary during the fall-winter interim of his senior year, when he decided to collaborate with Monbouquette, a friend from his hometown in Nebraska. The film has taken them across the country, Susman said, including one unforgettable trip to Our School at Blair Grocery, a sustainability education center in New Orleans.

“The place was hit hard by Katrina ­— 90 percent of the houses were unoccupied, and gang violence was rampant,” Susman said. “It was really cool to see how urban farming was impacting the community. Kids who were carrying guns were now picking arugula.”

“Growing Cities” has already been selected or screened at 22 film festivals, including the Portland Film Festival and the Moscow International Environmental Film Festival. In addition to airing the documentary on PBS, Susman hopes to take “Growing Cities” to more community screenings and to make it available on Netflix and Hulu, he said.

In contrast to Susman and OdokaraOkigbo, Sharma has primarily pursued an opportunity outside of the arts following graduation, working as an analyst for Locus Analytics in New York City.

However, the former English major with a concentration in creative writing has not forgotten her love of prose. This spring, her short work “To Benares” was published in the journal “Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity.”

Sharma said that she wrote “To Benares” in a creative writing course with the intention of including it in her senior thesis, though it was eventually not included.

Publication came as a surprise, she said, as she had never submitted the piece to the journal. Sharma said she has yet to find out who submitted her work. She expressed gratitude to her creative writing professors, including english professor Thomas O’Malley, who she said she suspects sent in “To Benares” on her behalf.

“I really gained a lot from Professor O’Malley and the other students in the class who helped me polish the piece,” she said. “Without that, I don’t think it would have been a piece worth publishing.”

With a full-time job as an analyst, Sharma said she often has to relegate her writing to weekends. However, her post-Dartmouth life helps her gain “a different perspective” on her work, she said.

“I don’t think my style has changed,” Sharma said. “But I do think the content is different just because you are exposed to the outside world and you can bring that into your work.”

Josh Koenig contributed reporting.

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New film course will remake sitcom, use new College resources

By Amelia Rosch and Irene Cofie The Dartmouth Staff

In a film course offered for the first time, 16 students have tackled television production this summer, working on promotional sports clips and preparing to recreate an episode of a popular sitcom. The course, titled “Topics in Videomaking,” allows students to practice camera, sound and editing techniques in addition to production.

Advances in technology and the construction of the Black Family Visual Arts Center have helped make the course possible, film professor and audio visual specialist Peter Ciardelli, who teaches the course, said. Many of the pieces of equipment necessary for television production had previously been too expensive, he said, but the advent of software-based technology has made a crucial difference.

“The ability to do live camera switching is now something we can afford to get into,” he said.

Students’ work will culminate in a final project where they will film a sitcom episode live in front of an audience. The remake will likely be an episode from the popular show “The Big Bang Theory,” Ciardelli, who has worked on films including “Cast Away” (2000), “Collateral Damage” (2002) and “The War Tapes” (2006), said.

Ciardelli said he is particularly excited for this project because students cannot usually experience a live atmosphere while working on film production. He said that although he is still unsure how exactly the refilmed sitcom will turn out, the uncertainty of the project is what he hopes will make it an exciting learning experience.

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Ciardelli said that new space in the VAC helped make the course possible.

“No matter what happens, we’re all going to learn a lot about how shows get made,” he said. “We really can’t go wrong. If it’s a freewheeling disaster, that’s okay. If we pull it off, that’ll be really awesome.”

Ciardelli said that actors for the sitcom will not be taking his class because he wants students to focus on production, not acting. Instead, theater professor Jamie Horton, who encouraged Ciardelli to design and teach the course, has strongly encouraged students in his drama in performance class to audition for roles.

The course offers an important opportunity for collaboration between the film and theater departments and in doing so emphasizes the cooperative nature of the arts, Horton said.

“In the world of the entertainment business today, that is hugely helpful to everyone,” he said.

In addition to the technical skills taught in the course, Ciardelli said that

his students will also learn techniques like basic set, costume and lighting design, all of which will apply to working on the sitcom episode. He plans to split his class into two groups and have each group film half of the sitcom, as it would be logistically too difficult to have all 16 film the entire show together, he said.

Drew Zwetchkenbaum ’16, a student in the course, said he enrolled because he is interested in learning about the process of production.

“I have always been interested in writing, but it is hard to get work off the ground if you don’t know the mechanics of actually turning that material into a reality,” he said.

Jaki Kimball ’16, a computer science major who has modified her major with digital arts and is also taking the class, said that while she is more interested in pursuing a career in the gaming industry than in film production, she has still enjoyed the course.

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Howard Frank Mosher read a chapter from his new book on Thursday in Sanborn Library.

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SPORTS ONE ONE ON

WITH MATT WEFER ’14

B y SEAN CONNOLLY The Dartmouth Staff

the rest of the summer?

MW: I’m headed to Germany at the end of July for a junior event, junior world championships. Then I’m headed back here to Greece for another month of training, and then I head to Spain for the World Championships.

challenge staying connected with those back in the U.S. We have a done a great job so far of being able to balance traveling and what’s best for us. One the of reasons we’re staying here in Greece so long is that its quite cheap to live here and our expenses are so low. Plus we have a lot of training opportunities with the teams here so we’re able to get the best bang for our buck.

This week, recent graduate and sailing standout Matt Wefer ’14 and his partner Jordan Factor are competing in Athens, Greece in the 470 European Championship.The Dartmouth caught up with Wefer via Skype to check in on the regatta Describe for me the qualiand his training regimen as he and fying process you’re going his partner pursue their goal to through for the Olympics and represent the U.S. in the 2016 Rio the factors that they take into When you say you’re working de Janeiro Olympics. account. with a couple of Greek teams Wefer, who has sailed with FacMW: It’ll be a combination and the training, what does tor for nearly of international that come down to? What six years, comc o m p e t i t i o n s kinds of experiences are you peted for Dart- “Out here you have against the oth- getting with those individual mouth for four to fight for every inch er U.S. teams. teams? years and just inch. It’s definitely an We’ll have the MW: We go out on the water received Acaworld champi- with them, and we share the same demic All Ivy atmosphere where the onships, plus an coach so we get the same informaH o n o r s . I n competition is additional one tion in terms of what the breeze is 2013, he and or two events doing. We test different techniques Factor qualified incredibly fierce — where you basi- and then improve our techniques for the U.S. sail- everyone is at each cally take your based on what we observe from the ing team. They finishing posi- teams we’re training with and just others throats.” are currently tion and add to try to get better. The only way ranked 25th out them up at all to get better to train and compete of 73 listed racers, after one day the events. The lowest score goes against teams that are better than of racing. to the game. The system rewards us. consistency across multiple comHow does Athens compare petitions as well as being able to Is it daunting being with to your lake sailing on Mas- compete at a high level internation- people who have been in the coma? ally — not just U.S. competition 470 for 20 years?

MW: It’s quite a bit different. but the world because at the end of MW: It’s definitely intimidating, The intensity level at times is much the day we’re for sure. There are higher. Not to say Dartmouth sail- trying to win some people you “There are some ing isn’t fierce, but you can give a medal. don’t really want to people leeway at times, and you people you don’t really mess with, because can get leeway from others. Out Will they they are just that want to mess with, here you have to fight for every take your good and have that inch. It’s definitely an atmosphere s c o r e s because they are just experience. What where the competition is incredibly from this that good and have we’re coming to fierce — everyone is at each others s u m m e r lear n is that in throats. i n t o a c - that experience.” order to improve count? is that you have to Do you get to interact with MW: No, right now we’re just get beat down many times in order other teams, or is it just you working to learn as much as we can. get back up and learn from those and your crew?

These events count for our funding, mistakes.

MW: Yeah, we’re friends with so but they don’t count for whether we many other teams. The awesome qualify for the Olympics or not.

So what are you doing to relax part of this sailing scene is that out there? Is it just sailing, everyone is friends off the water. Is it hard to balance the travel eating and sleeping?

We all love to go to the bar and and the sailing?

MW: I’m doing a fair amount of have a beer after sailing, just to get MW: It definitely has its ups and weight training, going to the gym, to know each other as more than down. We do a lot of logistical work running, staying in the shade out of just competitors. to make it as efficient as possible. the sun and drinking lots of coffee.

We have a hard time communicat- The Greeks love to drink coffee.

You’re there for a week, then ing with those back home because you come back for a week, of time differences and not always This interview has been edited and then what’s your timeline for having Internet. It’s definitely a condensed.

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Bordeau to leave women’s crew team

The description states the director will have “oversight of select varsity The Dartmouth Staff sports programs,” which will include Wendy Bordeau will move from head coaches and their staffs. leading the women’s crew team to A rower for and captain of Princhelping lead Dartmouth Athletics eton University’s crew team, Bordeau as senior associate athletic director added that not competing on or with by this August. After 16 years of a team will be a strange transition for coaching, nine as the head coach her. for the Big Green, she said athletics Several interviewed members administration will be a new chal- of women’s crew team expressed lenge. sadness over Bordeau’s departure, “I’m trying to go into this with continually referring to her by her eyes and ears wide open,” Bordeau first name. Abby Stevenson ’16 said said. “I think I’ve certainly got a lot she will miss Bordeau’s presence and to learn very early.” relationship with the team.

During her time as head coach, “I’ll miss the overall group dyBordeau said, she enjoyed the namic when we had her because team’s accomplishments and the she weighs into being a part of the relationships she fostered with them. team not just an authority figure,” Bordeau’s leadership over her nine she said. “In the future, I hope that season tenure we find a coach brought the team that has a similar to the NCAA “Bringing a coach’s dynamic with championships perspective to the the team and three times, with administrative team who is someone the varsity eight we can trust.” qualifying in is something that will C a ro 2007 and the en- serve our department line Allan ’16 tire team particisaid Bordeau pating in 2009 really well. I’m knew how to and 2011. In definitely excited to both push and the Ivy League work on the challenges n u r t u r e h e r standings, the team. women’s team our department faces “What placed fifth in as opposed to just in I really respected 2014 with 40 about her was points, eighth the trenches with the that she knew in 2013 with 22 athletes.” where those points and sixth limits were and place in 2012 she knew when - WENDY BORDEAU, with 29 points. to take a step Stepping into SENIOR ASSOCIATE back,” she said. administrative “She also had responsibilities ATHLETIC DIRECTOR this amazing mawas not initially ternal side and part of Borwe could tell that deau’s plan. She said she did not she really thought of us as family. I plan on leaving until the position think that’s what I am going to miss opened. the most. She was like our mom, only The position will bring a more tougher. predictable schedule, which will be a Despite bad weather, Bordeau nice bonus with two young children, never seemed to complain, Mackbut she added that she thinks her enzie Garrity ’16 said. experience with coaching will bring Athletics director Harry Sheehy insight for the athletic department. said he is optimistic about bringing “Bringing a coach’s perspective to Bordeau to the senior staff in the the administrative team is something athletic department and that she will that will serve our department really be able to “learn on the fly.” well,” she said. “I’m definitely excited “I think having someone with that to work on the challenges our depart- perspective to be an advocate for the ment faces at that level as opposed to coaches will be really important,” he just in the trenches with the athletes.” said.

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