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OPAL, pictured when its Baker-Berry space opened, will face a transitional period after staff departure.

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Office of Pluralism and Leadership director Alysson Satterlund left the College on July 11, and assistant dean and advisor to black students T.M. Mosley also filed her resignation that day. No interim director of OPAL has been appointed yet, interim Dean of the

College Inge-Lise Ameer said, adding that one may be appointed in the coming weeks.

Since July 5, The Dartmouth has sought comment from Satterlund regarding her departure, exchanging more than 15 emails with both her and OPAL administrative assistant Minnie Slater over the two-week period with the intent of

scheduling an interview.

Despite The Dartmouth allowing a one-week extension, Satterlund did not comment in person, by phone or by email by press time.

Slater noted in an email that Satterlund was traveling on July 16.

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Rocky panelists address student rights at talk B y ANNIE SMITH

A Rockefeller Center student assistant shuttled around the room with a microphone as students probed visiting lawyers for information about what exactly institutions of higher education can see in student emails.

The answer: everything, provided it’s written in the student handbook.

The Rockefeller Center hosted a panel on Thursday that addressed college students’ rights regarding Title IX, digital privacy and unreasonable search

The Dartmouth Summit on Sexual Assault concluded its open sessions Tuesday, and attendees worked in groups on key issues surrounding sexual assault on Wednesday and Thursday.

Working groups focused on prevention and education, direct service and response, confidentiality and legal issues, investigations and accountability and research and assessment. There, experts and practitioners developed specific policy recommendations and materials to share with colleges and universities. The working groups will continue to develop these recommendations over the next year.

Researcher and forensic consultant David Lisak, who came up with the idea for the summit and working groups, said the concept came from his experiences holding trainings and conferences and

consulting with universities around the country.

“What I was encountering really at every college and every university were the same kinds of questions and frustrations, and the people at these institutions were trying to figure out how to best respond to sexual assault, how to navigate through the various federal guidelines and laws and regulations,” he said. “What I saw was every institution trying to figure this out on their own.”

While those he spoke to reacted enthusiastically to the idea of the summit, it took Lisak three years to find an institution that would host the conference, largely due to the expense and staffing that it would require. Even the White House was interested in hosting, but did not have the funds, he said. A Geisel School of Medicine professor contacted Lisak after hearing about his idea, asking him to SEE SOSA PAGE 3

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and seizure in educational institutions.

The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union co-sponsored the event, and staff attorney Gilles Bissonnette moderated the panel discussion. The NHCLU is the state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-profit organization dedicated to defending individual rights.

The panel discussion was unusual in regards to its timing, as the Rockefeller Center does not usually host law-related events in the summer, and because the SEE PANEL PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing An appeals court determined in a 2-1 ruling that the University of Texas’ affirmative action policy had met the stricter scrutiny standard mandated by the Supreme Court, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The decision comes in the wake of last summer’s Supreme Court 7-1 ruling on this case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which sent the case back to he appeals court with the stricter standard. University of Texas at Austin president William Powers hailed the ruling as a victory for its admissions policy, which it argues encourages students with diverse backgrounds to interact at the University. Judge Emilio Garza, writing for the dissent, contended that the university had not defined certain terms objectively and that Abigail Fisher, the student rejected from the university, might have been admitted if the school scuttled its racial admissions policy.

A Center for Disease Control and Prevention study found that New Hampshire had the nation’s third highest per capita rate of prescriptions of long-acting or extended release opiates, like methadone and OxyContin, The Concord Monitor reported. The figures attracted concern among policy makers, as Gov. Maggie Hassan issued a statement deeming opioid use “one of [the state’s] most serious public health and safety challenges.” Despite the high rate of those types of prescriptions, New Hampshire was ranked 39th in highest per capita prescriptions of opioid pain relievers. Dartmouth Center on Addiction Recovery and Education Director Seddon Savage warned not to place too much emphasis on the survey, as different states have different socioeconomic profiles, and high prescription rates do not necessarily translate to abuse.

An analysis of universities’ citation rankings reveals that data can be manipulated, Inside Higher Ed reported. Two German researchers, Lutz Bornmann and Johann Bauer, published a paper called, “Which of the World’s Institutions Employ the Most Highly Cited Researchers? An Evaluation of the Data from highlycited. com.” The paper showed how the ranks differ in two situations.

When only counting primary affiliation and when counting both primary and secondary affiliation. The report also noted that world university rankings take citations into account along with 12 other factors, but they use the citations per work, not the number of highly cited researchers, which can lead to inaccurate evaluation. The two researchers suggest that only primary affiliation is used when evaluating institutions.

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organized it, coordinator of public and special events for the Rockefeller Center Joanne Needham said.

Around three or four months ago, the NHCLU’s development director Paul Racioppi and Bissonnette began to plan the organization’s annual membership event, which typically brings together the organization’s over 3,500 members to learn from legal professionals and to discuss current legal issues. This year, Racioppi and Bissonnette decided to focus on students’ rights and host the event at the College.

Two of the four panelists were Dartmouth alumni — Cheshire County attorney D. Chris McLaughlin ’81 and criminal defense lawyer George Ostler ’77, who represented Parker Gilbert ’16 when he stood trial for and was acquitted of rape last spring. The other two panelists have deep experience with education: Leah Plunkett is the director of academic success and associate professor of legal skills at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and Judith Sizer is a higher education lawyer who served as general counsel for Brandeis University before joining a law firm.

The discussion focused on issues like the disciplinary procedure at private institutions, the rights of law enforcement officials at these institutions and student’s privacy rights regarding personal information.

“These are very complicated but salient issues that we thought would be appropriate to cover,” Bissonnette said.

Fundamental rights such as the right to attorney and the right to cross-examine do not exist in a private institution’s disciplinary process, Ostler said.

A student has no right to an attorney but only to an advisor from the faculty or administration. He or she cannot take an active role in the process.

“It is more of an inquisition than a trial,” Ostler said.

Sizer then discussed the rising importance of Title IX, the debate around which has been “heating up” since 2011.

Title IX is part of the Education Amendment of 1972, which aims to prevent sex discrimination in schools. It began as a protection for gender equity in athletics but is now often used regard-

“If one gender feels that the educational environment isn’t welcoming, then that’s a violation of Title IX.” - higher education lawyer and rockefeller center panelist judith sizer ing sexual assault on college campuses.

“If one gender feels that the educational environment isn’t welcoming, then that’s a violation of Title IX,” Sizer said.

Bissonnette said that private institutions, under the threat of government withholding federal funding, have become increasingly conscientious of Title IX. “The government is using Title IX as a sword to get institutions to do what they think is best,” Bissonnette said.

The focus on Title IX led to changes in college campuses nationwide, such as the increase in bystander intervention programs.

Colleges are now training students to intervene before an assault happens, Sizer said.

Dartmouth changed its sexual assault disciplinary policy for summer term.

Students found responsible for sexual assault through use of force or motivated by bias will be expelled.

As a criminal defender, Ostler said the consequences of this policy are drastic, warning about collateral damage for wrongfully convicted students.

“As soon as a kid is thrown out, his academic career is over,” Ostler said.

Next, the panelists discussed the difference between what Safety and Security officers and police officers can do. Ostler said that when asked, students must let a Safety and Security officer in to their dormitories because if they do not cooperate, the student faces a disciplinary hearing. If they do cooperate, however, they may face charges in cases of underage drinking or drug use. A police officer, on the other hand, could not enter a student’s room without a warrant, he said.

Finally, the panelists discussed the large amount of data collected on students and debated whether it is protected under a student’s right to privacy.

Institutions of higher education collect data on students, from what food they buy and what buildings they enter to their social security information.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 guarantees that, in all institutions receiving federal funding, student education records cannot be disclosed to a third party without consent of the student or student guardian if he or she is less than 18 years old. However, Sizer countered the myth that private institutions will not share information with the student’s parents.

“FERPA allows, but does not require, institutions to share education records with parents of a student who is a tax dependent,” Sizer said.

For example, if a health or safety issue is dire, the institution can tell the parents.

Dartmouth’s right to search email sent from Dartmouth accounts was also broached by panelists.

“Policies tend to cast a pretty broad net for the ability to monitor at the institution’s discretion, sometimes with a set of criteria and sometimes not, communications that are sent over its Internet wireless or other devices,” Plunkett said.

As long as the policy is appropriately publicized as part of the student handbook, private institutions like Dartmouth can monitor emails. Plunkett said he does not think that most institutions regularly engage in intense email monitoring.

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Hosting summit took ‘some guts’ for College, Dever said FROM SOSA PAGE 1

email outgoing Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson. Within several weeks, Lisak had word Dartmouth would host.

Since he had never worked with the College and knew of its troubles with sexual assault, he was skeptical at first that Dartmouth was serious about the summit, Lisak said. The College’s commitment soon became clear, he said.

“There were no limits, no contingencies, no nothing,” he said. “They were willing to put the idea in practice, the exact idea that I had been dreaming about.”

Johnson said she hopes that hosting the summit will be further evidence of the seriousness with which Dartmouth takes this issue, and that senior leadership and the administration are determined to “do what’s right.”

To Lisak, the best part of the conference were the working days, in which 75 to 80 professionals, including students, from across the country worked together on projects.

Several institutions have indicated that they will support the proposals of the working groups, which will be released in the next year.

“I think, well, we’re not going to make everything perfect, but I think this will have a very positive impact in a very serious way,” he said.

The most important contribution this summit will have on the issue of sexual assault is that it brought together

of many different perspectives and roles, including student life professionals, students, Title IX coordinators and university attorneys, provost Carolyn Dever said. Past conferences have focused only on the perspectives of individual groups.

“This is a very complicated problem and challenges universities and colleges in many different ways, so having the mix of expertise is going to be important for us finding new solutions,” she said.

Dever said she found the “Sexual Assault on Campus: Federal Perspectives” panel particularly powerful, since it offered some clarity on different standards. Dever also commended the working group element of the summit, since it will have “tangible outcomes,” she said.

It takes “some guts” for Dartmouth to take leadership on an issue like sexual assault, Dever said. While she said she cannot answer whether sexual assault is more prevalent at the College than at other institutions, she said it is a positive sign that Dartmouth will stand up and convene experts from across the country to address sexual assault. At the other educational institutions she has worked at during her career, sexual assault has always been an issue, and she said she is proud to now work at a college that hosts such a conference and works to come up with constructive solutions, Dever said.

“Sexual assault is sensitive, frightening, intimate — it pushes people’s buttons,” she said. “It transforms lives,

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Outoing Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson spoke at the summit.

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Students and professionals from nationwide institutions attended Dartmouth’s summit, which took place this week.

and not in a positive way, and to be a school that’s actually committed to meeting and finding solutions, means we have to go through some painful discussions.”

Tori Nevel ’16 attended every open event of the summit. She said she found the sessions useful and that she feels she can better understand issues surrounding sexual assault, as well as problems for colleges addressing these issues — especially surrounding Title IX — moving forward.

The summit shows how far the College has come, she said, since sexual assault was something that was not spoken about publicly until recently.

“I think it’s very important that Dartmouth hosted this summit just to reaffirm that Dartmouth does have a commitment to ending sexual assault,” she said.

Nevel hopes to see the College work more with the surrounding community, place students and survivors on decision-making boards and have more transparency regarding sexual assault, following recommendations researchers put forth during the summit.

Casidhe Bethancourt ’16, who served on the summit’s student advisory board, said while she understood the reasoning behind limiting student involvement — that experts in the field have years of experience in areas that students are still grasping — she also felt that it was important to involve student voices, given that students can speak far more effectively to the current environment on college campuses.

SPCSA invited student activists from other colleges who participated in the Summit and created a network so they can move forward together, SPCSA and advisory board member John Damianos ’16 said.

The next summit on sexual assault will likely be in about six months, Li-

sak said. While organizers originally thought the next summit would be in about a year, they now say the working groups need to meet in person sooner, at a summit that would involve two or three days of work.

While Lisak said he does not know where the next summit will take place, Dartmouth has agreed to continue

supporting the working group projects logistically and with staff moving forward.

“We really need that very badly because it’s almost like this has been so successful that we almost weren’t expecting it to be as successful as it was,” Lisak said. “So now we need some help to keep this going.”

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Knowledge is Power

Computational Complacency

Data and transparency are key to combating sexual assault.

In this week’s Summit on Sexual Assault, presenters offered an array of perspectives on how best to prevent and respond to sexual assault on college campuses. What was clear throughout the conference was that the vast majority of participants – survivors and advocates, college administrators and White House officials and scientific researchers alike – were genuinely devoted to combating the issue. Yet less formal conversations about sexual assault are often fraught with tension or even hostility and are, unfortunately, often unproductive. A lack of transparency along with misconceived social norms which the majority of individuals privately reject, but falsely believe that others do not, has led to a perceived conflict of interests surrounding what should be a straightforward issue.

David Lisak, a noteworthy expert on sexual assault and co-host of the conference, stressed in his opening talk the importance of institutional transparency, particularly regarding data. Presenter Alan Berkowitz, known for pioneering the social norms approach to bystander intervention, also stressed the importance of open communication, including a commitment to ensure that students can access data from campus surveys.

Even the most recent White House task force report recommends the implementation of a comprehensive campus climate survey.

In order for Dartmouth to increase institutional transparency, it is imperative that the College issue a campus climate survey and subsequently publish the collected data. Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, following the April “Freedom Budget” sit-in and protest at Parkhurst Hall, signed an agreement to conduct such a survey by 2016 and publish the results. Though the timeline and logisitics for the survey’s implementation remain unclear, the agreement to conduct the survey is nonetheless important in demonstrating a clear ideological commitment to the values of openness and accountability regarding sexual assault.

But deciding to conduct and publish the results of this survey is far more than a mere nod to a certain ideology. Access and exposure to accurate, specific data – about one’s peers and one’s own community — has been shown to

impact individual behavior. Indeed, Berkowitz’s own research on social norms demonstrates that individuals change their behavior when presented with data that corrects their misconceptions on a topic. Berkowitz found that when college-aged men were surveyed about their attitudes towards sexual violence and assault, 80 percent of them felt uncomfortable with the belittlement and maltreatment of women. A vast majority of them also believed in intervening in a potentially dangerous or abusive situation. However, these men greatly underestimated other men’s discomfort in such situations as well as other men’s likelihood of intervening. In short, what prevents men from intervening is not a personal belief that intervention would be wrong, but rather a perception that other men do not share such beliefs. In his study, Berkowitz corrected these misperceptions by presenting the participants with actual data that conveyed how their perceptions were far removed from reality. In follow-up surveys four and seven months post-study, men were more likely to intervene and less likely to associate with sexually aggressive peers. Berkowitz also found that women hold misconceptions about social norms surrounding rape, which can lead to increased high-risk behaviors and/or greater emotional fallout following a rape. Berkowitz’s research provides key insight into one of the largest, yet often overlooked, barriers to reducing sexual assault and increasing bystander intervention: misconceptions about social norms.

With Berkowitz’s research in mind, the significance of the campus climate survey is clear. The data from such a survey are invaluable resources in correcting widespread misconceptions about social norms at Dartmouth, at which point students who would then find themselves in the majority rather than the perceived minority could confidently address the issue with peer support.

As Johnson said in a recent USA Today piece on the topic, we need to “share our knowledge so that we can make sure we’re doing the best thing for our students.” Knowledge must be made a collective and transparent resource in order to bring our community together and enact lasting change.

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Technology at Dartmouth is on the decline.

Dartmouth has a long and celebrated history of computing. Indeed, the first time I heard of Dartmouth was in my IT class in middle school.

My teacher mentioned a tech-savvy college in New Hampshire, equipped with widespread Internet access and its own email protocol. When I visited campus five years later, I found the tour guide’s praises of campus technology quite convincing. Yet I have since realized that Dartmouth’s days at the forefront of campus computing systems are over. We now have a confusing smorgasbord of various services that leave much to be desired.

Much of our campus technology has barely evolved since I first learned of Dartmouth’s computer prowess in 2004. This is evident even as students enroll in the College. Applicants to Dartmouth find out about their admission decisions via Banner Student, an online student information system that is noticeably less userfriendly than the systems of many peer schools.

As a student, my attempts to access Banner during the first weeks of freshman fall were frustrated by problems with logging in with my assigned NetID. Until recently, the online course selection service notoriously would not work with Google Chrome, the most popular web browser in the country. The class meetings timetable, as well as health services and the housing portal, are actually hosted on separate websites, rather than on Banner itself.

Compared to up-to-date web services, Banner disappoints in design, reliability and ease of use.

The services that Dartmouth does provide no longer reflect the needs and habits of students.

Netflix, Hulu and other online TV services are, in my experience, far more popular than DarTV, Dartmouth’s television broadcasting service.

DarTV requires an Ethernet cable and a Java application that I have had spotty success using.

Connecting alternative services like Apple TV to the campus network is also cumbersome, since only workaround methods can overcome problems with Dartmouth Secure and the Ethernet cable. And then there is the perennial issue of GreenPrint, which surely was once an impressive printing system but now suffers issues both with the software and with the GreenPrint stations themselves. Newer non-Dartmouth services like

Google Cloud Print have eased printing from any device and from any location. In comparison, GreenPrint’s intermediate steps and network restrictions make it seem inefficient.

Most frustrating, the technologies that Dartmouth students use most – wireless Internet and email – are a letdown, as well. Firstly, Dartmouth Secure is slow. When I use my iPhone, I often turn off Wi-Fi and resort to my cellular data connection because it is much speedier than Dartmouth Secure. Other schools of comparable size that I have visited have publicly accessible networks faster than Dartmouth Secure, a sentiment echoed in a recent Dartblog post. The Dartmouth Public network is even slower and requires users to log in through a pop-up window each time they connect.

Our email system suffers from its own complications. Blitz on Office 365, one of our few upgraded services, hardly seems like the ideal replacement for the old BlitzMail system, which was written due to the College’s dissatisfaction with available email client options in the 1980s.

Blitz Outlook accounts do not integrate easily with mobile devices, and the Microsoft suite is a hassle to use. During Orientation, the computer setup packet touted Microsoft Lync as a way to use Blitz to chat with peers, but it has failed to catch on. Google Apps, used by the rest of the Ivy League, would have been the superior thirdparty option.

The College should not forget that Dartmouth previously excelled at computing by creating its own solutions rather than following the pack.

The recent “BASIC @ 50” event at Dartmouth highlighted how the College changed the nature of computing in 1964 by creating the BASIC programming language. The College should now continue its tradition of innovating computer services, perhaps by putting money and resources into modernizing student technology services.

We could also benefit from a reevaluation of the current Blitz setup and an upgrade to our Wi-Fi network to bring faster speeds to campus for everyone, including visitors. Dartmouth has the chance to be a leader in technology once again.

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Students, administrators reflect on OPAL’s role as director leaves FROM OPAL PAGE 1

comment on her departure from the College.

Assistant dean and advisor to Latino students Rodrigo Ramirez, OPAL intern Amaris de la RosaMoreno ’16 and assistant dean and advisor to first-generation students Karlos Santos-Coy did not return requests for comment.

Satterlund left for an appointment in California, but neither Ameer nor OPAL international student programs director Steve Silver provided specific details.

Mosley said she was leaving the College but did not provide further information, Ameer said.

Satterlund arrived at the College in 2012 from California State University at Sacremento. In the first few months of her tenure, OPAL saw significant turnover in its advisors: Mosley, Santos-Coy and former pan-Asian and AsianAmerican advisor Aerial Ashlee were all hired in 2012.

Since Satterlund came to Dartmouth, OPAL has responded to several high-profile incidents. After two bias incidents were filed in one week in January 2013, OPAL hosted a forum to address student concerns. OPAL also facilitated discussions after last year’s “Bloods and Crips” party hosted by Alpha Delta fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority sparked public outrage.

Kelsey Anspach ’15, last summer’s Tri-Delt president, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Mike Haughey ’15, last summer’s AD president, said OPAL led encouraging dialogue after the party. Haughey emphasized that OPAL encouraged “open and honest” conversation, which allowed students to voice opinions “without any judgment.”

Satterlund recommended that Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority cancel the “Phiesta” fundraiser in April.

In an email, Satterlund wrote, “They need to cancel it and send out the apology.” This email was then forwarded by Greek Letter Organizations and Societies president Wes Schaub to Cathcart and A Phi president Courtney Wong ’15.

“OPAL never made any attempt to contact Phi Delt either before or after setting forth that demand,” Cathcart wrote in an email.

Wong declined to comment, but she forwarded Satterlund and Shaub’s communication to The Dartmouth. Schaub did not respond to three requests for comment.

Women’s and gender studies professor Pati Hernandez credited

Satterlund with securing funding for “Telling My Story,” a program Hernandez runs that works with prisons and rehab centers in the Upper Valley. She called Satterlund a diligent advocate for students, noting her constant presence in student programming.

She said Satterlund fostered community among OPAL staff.

Satterlund “stands for inclusiveness, diversity and equality,” serving as an example to students and staff, Hernandez said. Hernandez was the 2013-2014 faculty fellow in OPAL. Hernandez said she sees the College as undergoing a transitional phase, and she said Satterlund created a space that can calm community members.

Inter-Community Council summer co-chair Chloe Jones ’16 also emphasized Satterlund’s constant presence at community meetings and programming. Although Jones was not involved in the “Freedom Budget” protests, she said Satterlund supported student activism, noting that OPAL held a gathering with food after the April sit-in.

OPAL socioeconomic class intern Hui Cheng ’16 credited Satterlund with mentoring her during Cheng’s work in producing an event titled “Hidden Costs of Dartmouth” that took place during Dimensions and a long-term project to compile financial resources into a guide.

Mosley’s departure is part of a trend of minority staff leaving the College, Dartmouth NAACP summer president Frank Cunningham ’16 said.

More than 80 percent of Dartmouth’s faculty is white, placing Dartmouth at the bottom of the Ivy League in faculty diversity.

As OPAL prepares to search for a new student director, community members reflected on OPAL’s role and opportunities in coming months.

Satterlund was central to the office, Jones said, and she is unsure of OPAL’s plans for the future.

With a new student director and a new College President, OPAL faces the challenge of providing institutional memory to support student efforts, Jones said.

OPAL should facilitate dialogue, rather than mandate certain definitions of racism or sexism, Liz Treacy ’15 said, who has participated in OPAL’s Diversity Peer Leadership Program and InterGroup Dialogue. While she said she believes OPAL should offer suggestions to student groups, she said she would like to see increased transparency when doing so.

“If OPAL is giving some sort of mandate or trying to regulate some sort of activity, I would like

to know what their reasoning is and where and how they’ve come to those conclusions, and with what voices they have been consulting,” she said.

“I’d much rather see OPAL on a weekly basis, or possibly a monthly basis, putting on an event that maybe opens the eyes of students rather than simply appearing when there’s a major incident.”

- Frank cunningham, Dartmouth NAACP Summer president

OPAL should protect spaces from becoming exclusive, but it should incorporate dialogue from both sides, Treacy said, noting that she would like to see OPAL prioritize these conversations when selecting its next director.

When asked about “Phiesta,” Cheng said OPAL seeks to make events more inclusive, not cancel them, while Ameer said that OPAL’s role is to support students in issues they face and not to approve events.

“College faculty and administrators are first and foremost educators, and it is always better to see them working in partnership with students as opposed to coming to their own conclusions based on potentially inaccurate information,” Cathcart wrote in an email.

OPAL should advise students but also protect spaces from becoming exclusive, Cunningham said. As OPAL faces this transitional period, he would like for OPAL to become known outside of solely acting after high-profile issues, he said. He acknowledged, however, that OPAL sometimes has an obligation to intervene.

OPAL should focus on programming that increases student participation, Haughey said.

“Being able to get the largest percentage of the student population at any sort of planned event is imperative, because it’s just another opportunity for the campus to come together and to learn and to understand what we know and

we don’t know,” he said, noting that OPAL has been successful in reaching out to a portion of the student body.

“I’d much rather see OPAL on a weekly basis, or possibly a monthly basis, putting on an event that maybe opens the eyes of students rather than simply appearing when there’s a major incident,” Cunningham said.

Hernandez said that as OPAL selects a new director, the Office should consider Satterlund’s tenure.

“I would like her legacy to continue,” Hernandez said.

Ameer said she would continue to prioritize a “more seamless” advising system that pairs work through the Deans Office with OPAL. Jones said OPAL should act when people feel uncomfortable, arguing that attracting criticism should not deter OPAL. People will always find controversy when others question issues that make them feel “disrespected,” she said.

“Perhaps one of the most positive things that comes out of all this controversy that happens is sort of a disruption of that lukewarm middle,” she said.

Min Kyung Jeon contributed reporting.

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Upcoming Hood Museum event will pair opera with visual art

Although in past events, opera selections were catered toward the The Dartmouth Staff particular collection exhibited at Assyrian reliefs and Schubert, the time, this summer’s exhibition American landscape and Mozart does not have as unified a theme, — as unlikely as the combinations Pantos said. Instead, “Opera are, a Hood Museum event will link Inspired by Art” seeks to feature art with classical music on Friday. pieces from the Hood’s permanent “Opera Inspired by Art,” a collection. walk-through event, will take the Linking music to individual audience through the museum’s pieces of art rather than a whole first-floor gallery. After a curator program will be a very different introduces a piece, executive direc- experience. tor of Lebanon-based Opera North “Opera does have a visual component, but Pamela Pantos obviously your will elaborate “Opera does have a ears are in tune on the connecto what’s gotion between visual component, ing on in the visual and vocal but obviously your music,” Hood art. Finally, Opears are in tune to d i re c t o r M i era North singch a e l Tay l o r ers will perform what’s going on in said. “I’m just the pre pared the music. I’m just interested to see aria. whether that A n e f f o r t interested to see will affect the t o i n t e g r a t e whether that will an art piece the arts, addaffect that way an art way is viewed.” ing another

At the dimension to piece is viewed.” event, Taylor the Hood viewwill introduce ing experience, two of the six i n s p i r e d t h e - michael taylor, pieces — Picollaboration, hood director etro Perugino’s H o o d p u bl i c “ Vi r g i n a n d relations coorChild with Saints,” and Pablo dinator Sharon Reed said.

Pantos described the interaction Picasso’s “Guitar on a Table.” as opera “framing the art in the Viewers can relate to Perugino’s most vivid way possible so that it Renaissance piece more easily, remains in the minds of the audi- Taylor said, since the painting maintains traditional perspective, ence.”

An event combining opera and proportions and distance. “Guitar art has occurred almost annually on a Table,” on the other hand, is a 1912 Cubist painting characterized since 2010, Reed said.

In the first collaboration in by fragmentation and disjointed2010, Opera North performed ness.

Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act op- Opera North will perform “Halera “The Telephone,” a humorous lelujah” alongside “Virgin and opera sketch, alongside the Hood’s Child with Saints,” as the religious “Made in Hollywood” exhibition, pieces are connected thematia collection of portraits and stills cally. A song by Spanish composer of Hollywood from 1920 to 1960. Manuel de Falla will accompany

B y aimee sung

Courtesy of the Hood Museum

The event will combine visual art with opera, which some researchers say could change how art is interpreted.

to Picasso’s piece, playing upon Picasso’s personal life.

Taylor said the contrast between Modernism and the Renaissance reflected in the vocal art will bring a new perspective.

“You’re looking to best feature the pieces that are there and make the connection that’s going to be distinctive but visceral,” Pantos said.

Other museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University, have also experimented with coupling music and visual art.

Artists often combine music and visual art to construct a dynamic art experience.

Montgomery Fellow Enrique Martínez Celaya frequently combines music with art in his projects.

He uses sound, or the lack of sound, to emphasize the ambience and mood of his works, he said.

For example, his 2004 piece “Schneebett” — German for “snow bed” — was inspired by a description of Beethoven’s deathbed.

The work debuted at the Berlin Philharmonic in two parts: viewers enjoyed the art installation that contained a bed coated in frost before listening to Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” performed by the Berlin-based orchestra.

For “The Pearl,” a project that opened last year, Celaya composed a simple piano piece that softly drifted through the exhibition.

Though he was not musically trained, it was important that he

composed the melody, Celaya said. “‘The Pearl’ was a mapping of the idea of home, and I wanted that music to reveal how empty the room was,” he said. “In some ways sound makes things feel emptier

“How I see it is that art is a matter of form. All kinds of art, whether it is music or visual art, has this internal logic that somehow relates to the human experience but just organized differently.”

- gerald auten, Director of exhibitions and studio arts lecturer than just silence.”

Even when working in his own studio, Celaya often listens to music to amplify a certain feeling and atmosphere.

Director of exhibitions and studio arts lecturer Gerald Auten said he constantly listens to music when working in his studio.

“All kinds of art, whether it is music or visual art, has this internal logic that somehow relates

to the human experience but just organized differently,” he said.

Other professors combine visual art and music in the classroom. For a music course called “Brahms, Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination,” music professor Melinda O’Neal invited art history professor Kate Hornstein to speak on French Romantic art.

Music and visual art are often symbolically, thematically and historically related, O’Neal said.

University of Prince Edward Island psychology professor Annabel Cohen, who has studied music’s influence on the brain and the relationship between music and film, said music often triggers emotional responses, while visual stimuli are associated with meaning. Pairing the two could produce a difference in how the art is interpreted, she said.

“There’s some research to support the additivity of musical sources of information and visual sources of information,” she said.

An experiment conducted for a Ph.D. dissertation written by University of Kentucky graduate student Jennifer Shank indicated that subjects who observed projections of paintings scored significantly higher on a music listening skills test than a control group.

But as the study notes, “[a]rt and music, although often associated, are rarely studied together or used as a tool to teach skills in the other.”

“Opera Inspired by Art” is a pre-registered event open to 25 people.

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SPORTS ONE ON ONE

WITH JANINE LEGER ’15

B y BRIAN CHALIF

living together. It worked really well.

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What inspired you to start this project?

JL: Having the time. Having six weeks, well, four weeks, on my hands to do something adventurous was kind of the aim. I wanted to travel because that is something you can do so rarely while in a job. And I did not want to just travel saying “oh yay,” bussing from place to place and spending a lot of money and just seeing sights and being a tourist. I wanted to do something that was for someone else but at the same time was a really tough trip. I had never — apart from doing the Prouty last year, which I did not train for — I had never biked pretty long distances.

So it was something completely new to me. I am on the field hockey team, so I thought, “Well I have a little bit of athleticism. I am sure I could whip out a bike and start biking 100 kilometers a day.” It was really tough to start, and that is what I really wanted to get out of it. Spending this month growing as an individual and going out of my comfort zone, by doing an adventure, where I did not know where I was going to be the next day. Because I would literally bike until I found a place to stay and see if they had a place to stay in the albergue (hostel) for the night, and if they didn’t I would bike to the next town.

This week, The Dartmouth caught up with Janine Leger ’15, who finished a month-long trip biking trip across Spain this week. Leger rode in memory of her friend and former roommate Blaine Steinberg ’15, who died of a heart attack March 7. After visa problems derailed her summer plans, Leger found a bike and flew to Spain, planning her trip along the way.

Riding roughly 2,000 kilometers over the past month, Leger biked along the Camino de Santiago, Camino Francés and Camino del Norte, beginning and ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Leger requested donations to the Athletic Director’s Fund for Excellence. While she said she does not know the exact amount yet, she has raised at least a few thousand dollars in Steinberg’s memory. She and Steinberg’s family chose the fund for donations because Steinberg worked for the athletic department at the College, contacting people to donate.

Can you tell me about what you are doing this summer?

JL: I heard that my visa was not going to come through to work in the States. I had an internship in consulting. They said, “Well your visa will not come through for another five or six weeks.” I thought, this is one time in my life I have six weeks to do something meaningful. And I kind of wanted to do something that is really being meaningful to show how much of an impact Blaine had on me in my life. I thought what better to do than to do something athletic-oriented and adventures because that was kind of who Blaine was. I have really felt through this trip that I was able to contribute to her family and let her know what a special girl she was and help inspire others to do similar things that are adventurous.

How did you know Blaine?

JL: Blaine was my roommate for my sophomore spring. We kind of knew each other before hand, but I had been off for the winter, and her roommates were all going off in the spring. So she had an open room, and we were just randomly paired together and we loved

Since there was no training process, was it a hard transition?

JL: I would say so. By the end I was averaging between 90 to 120 kilometers a day. The first day I managed 40 kilometers on the bike, which is probably about 25 miles, and I was finished. I arrived at the town, and I almost kissed the ground because I was so exhausted. And I was like ‘Oh my gosh, I have done this, this is

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incredible,’ and then I kind of started building from there. I think what was most exciting about the trip was the fact there was no training process, so it did make the beginning even more tough. There was no one else around me to help push me to make sure I actually did the right amount each day. I could have just sat around and hitchhiked my way through or taken a bus, but it was really a mental and physical determination to get me to the next stage. That sort of mental training through the trip was something that I gained the most from. That is something I would say, if anyone does want to do something in memory of Blaine, it’s to push yourself mentally and physically so that you grow from the experience.

Have you had a lot of support from friends, family or the school?

JL: I’ve been blown away by the amount of support and sense of community by people that are not involved in the trip. I’ve gotten messages from a bunch of people, a bunch of friends and even people I do not know that well. I have had some of Blaine’s family reach out. Blaine’s parents, Jill and Sid, are incredible, like beyond incredible.

They’ve reached out and been really supportive of the trip and very thankful for it, very appreciative. Jill and Sid are constantly liking my photos. I kept quite a regular Instagram, so I upload between three and four photos a day and just keep people filled in on the journey. And the amount of likes I got on a daily basis, and people saying how great my photos were and how incredible the trip was, is something that was really supportive and helpful along the way.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

Softball head coach Rachel Hanson will not return for the 2014-2015 season after four seasons with the Big Green, athletics director Harry Sheehy said Thursday. Hanson led the team to its first ever Ivy League Championship title this past season, and the team played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time.

Hanson will take on the position of head coach for the Stanford University softball team next year. Dartmouth athletics will begin the national search for a new coach immediately.

Next Tuesday, The Dartmouth will look into Hanson’s departure and its implications for the Dartmouth team.

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Heavyweight crew coach to leave College

B y SEAN CONNOLLY and KATIE JARRETT The Dartmouth Staff

Head coach Christopher “Topher” Bordeau’s contract was not renewed for the 2014-15 men’s heavyweight crew season. He departs after eight seasons as head coach and nine with the team in total. The search for a new head coach is underway.

While team performance climbed in the first years of his coaching, the team struggled in recent years. Bordeau led the team to fifth place in the 2010 Eastern Sprints, and an overall finish of eighth place at the IRA National Championship Regatta. In the 20102011 season, the team took eighth and 14th at Sprints and the IRAs, respectively. In the 2012-2013, the team took 13th in Sprints and 19th at the IRA. This past spring, the team took 12th in Sprints and 22nd at the IRA. Since 2006, he has worked with two freshman coaches, but only one assistant coach, during the 2009-2010 season.

Several rowers interviewed said they were not surprised that Bordeau would not return.

It was clear something needed to change after the lack of success the past few years, John Cresap ’16 wrote in an email. Cresap said he viewed Bordeau as good coach and exceptional person.

The performance prompted some rowers to approach the athletic department with their concerns over performance at the time, Bobby Moffitt ’16 said. He said the departure was not a huge surprise.

Former heavyweight rower Quincy Darbyshire ’11 said he believes the mismatch between the expectations for the team’s performance and the results led to the decision.

“My feeling is that Topher is a firstclass member of the athletic department and Dartmouth family,” he said.

Current rowers and alumni spoke about Bordeau’s passion for rowing and for the Dartmouth team.

Jesse Reisner ’12 said Bordeau’s love of the sport was apparent.

“I remember him telling a few of us once that the best part of his day was coming down to the boathouse and watching us row,” Reisner said. “He wasn’t lying. His love for the sport, his search for excellence and his demand for hard work defined his time at Dart-

mouth.”

Nevin Cunningham ’17 said Bordeau put his full effort into the program.

“He would radiate with pride during our successes and he carried the burden of our failures as much — and sometimes more — than we did,” he said.

Brendon Stoner ’14 reiterated this sentiment, praising Bordeau’s work ethic.

“Everything he did was in the interest of the team,” he said.

Bordeau asked a lot from his team and had one of the toughest training regimens in collegiate rowing, Nick Foukal ’10 said. While it was clear how much Bordeau cared, his coaching style may not have been a “rower’s best friend.”

Moffitt said Bordeau created a “culture of toughness” and instilled in his athletes the ability to turn weaknesses into strengths.

Darbyshire also spoke of his strong relationship with Bordeau going beyond the tough coach that the team saw during the school year. Darbyshire explained how he saw another side to Bordeau’s persona, spending multiple summers in Hanover with him.

Darbyshire said Bordeau went above and beyond to help mentor him and assist in his training while he was attempting to row at the national team level.

Bordeau was a good representative of Dartmouth anywhere the team traveled, coxswain Greg Zales ’16 said, and instilled a culture where his team was proud to be a rower for the Big Green.

Brown University men’s rowing coach Paul Cooke expressed his respect for Bordeau and said he enjoyed working with him in the Ivy League.

Looking to the team’s future, Cunningham says he is optimistic.

“With a new coach and the combined ability of the current underclassmen and the incoming ’18s, we have a bright future,” Cunningham said.

“Everybody is putting in a lot of work this summer and looking forward to a fresh start with a new coach. This is the beginning of a new era for Dartmouth rowing.”

Bordeau, athletic director Harry Sheehy and men’s heavyweight freshman coach Andrew Hilton could not be reached for comment by press time.

Darbyshire is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.