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Over a meal of summer steak and buffalo chicken burritos, students interested in the link between government and economics gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Monday night for the first of a series of faculty-student dinner seminars hosted by the College’s new Political Economy Project. An interdisciplinary academic initiative launched in the fall, the program aims to further the study of political economics at the College.

Before discussing neoliberalism and neopopulism in South

America, project director and economics professor Douglas Irwin outlined his current plans for the program to an audience of over 25 undergraduates.

While the dinner seminars currently comprise the project’s main component, other plans include four classes on political economics and a program website, Irwin said.

Economics professor Meir Kohn, one of the program’s founders, said in an interview that the project seeks to uncover how economics interacts with the study of government and SEE PROJECT PAGE 2

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Students met at the Center for Gender and Student Engagement to discuss recruitment.

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Student body shifts from Blackboard to Canvas

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Almost half of undergraduate students have begun the switch from Blackboard to Canvas, a new online learning management system, following a positive response to the 13-class pilot last term, assistant director of educational technologies Barbara Knauff said.

A total of 110 courses transitioned to Canvas this winter,

and an additional 150 faculty members are slated to adopt Canvas in the spring. Knauff said she expects Blackboard to be phased out by the end of the calendar year.

The new system further digitizes class content delivery, making time for greater professor-student interaction in the classroom, Knauff said.

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Approximately 40 students gathered at the Center for Gender and Student Engagement on Monday evening to discuss the decision of five Panhellenic Council executives to abstain from this week’s sorority recruitment.

Last Thursday, the five Panhell executives sent a “call to action” to campus via email, explaining their decision to abstain. Monday’s discussion began with a brief overview of the email’s contents.

“We feel that there are clear flaws in our

Greek system and we acknowledge our role in re-creating these flaws, through processes such as recruitment and on a daily basis,” the email read.

Panhell president Eliana Piper ’14, vice president of public relations Jennifer Gargano ’14 and programming chairs Kate Shelton ’14 and Alex Leach ’14 then began to answer attendees’ questions.

In response to several comments on the timing of the executives’ decision, Shelton explained that the executives did not want recruitment and the introduction of

new members to distract from greater issues in the Greek system.

Piper added that the high turnover rate within Panhell necessitated bold, immediate action. The executives also stressed the importance of recognizing the structural flaws present in the current Greek system.

“I heard some people saying that it wasn’t fair to take away the right to rush,” Shelton said.

“To me, rushing is not a right, it’s a privilege. The real right is to not to be discriminated against.”

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Though Preston Wells ’15 has worked for over a year to establish a charter of the historically Native American fraternity Phi Sigma Nu at Dartmouth, he said the fact

that the organization is coming to fruition feels surreal.

Wells and two other students received provisional approval to form a chapter from the fraternity’s chief council last November, and members say they hope to receive an official College charter by this fall.

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and Societies has not yet recognized the fraternity due to a requirement that all Greek organizations have at least four active members on campus, but students say they hope to fulfill this requirement by the end of spring term.

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Seminars highlight political economics

Jan. 10, 5:25 p.m. — Safety and Security responded to a call from McLane Hall, where a student was unable to remove his hand from a futon. Hanover Fire Department assisted in freeing his hand.

Jan. 11, 1:19 a.m. — Safety and Security officers responded to a report of an unidentified male who had fallen and hit his head on the street near Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. The unidentified male was reportedly being carried by another person before he fell. Safety and Security completed a search of the area but was unable to find the second individual.

Jan. 11, 7:32 a.m. — Safety and Security officers responded to a call from Maynard Street, where a College sidewalk plow had skidded on the ice and struck a vehicle in the parking lot.

Jan. 11, 5:30 p.m. — A staff member flagged down Safety and Security officers to request help in reporting a vehicle that had slipped into a snow bank in Norwich. No injuries were reported.

Jan. 11, 11:35 p.m. — Safety and Security and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to a call from Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, where an old refrigerator had released gas into an individual’s eye. The individual was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he was treated and released.

Jan. 12, 2:24 a.m. — Safety and Security received a call from the Hanover Fire Department, who notified them of an individual seen staggering near the Ledyard Bridge. The fire department and Safety and Security located the intoxicated individual and brought him to Dick’s House, where he spent the night.

Jan. 12, 2:40 a.m. — Safety and Security officers responded to a call from Gile Hall, where a female student was intoxicated. She was transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

Jan. 12, 12:43 p.m. — Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to a call from the Oak Hill ski area, where an individual had taken an all-terrain vehicle from the school, stolen 10 gallons of fuel and climbed up a hill to attempt to light the vehicle on fire. Dartmouth called an environmental services response team to clean the contaminated area.

— Compiled by Joseph Kind The blotter, available in full on Dartbeat.com, has been condensed for print.

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Students gathered over burritos to discuss neoliberalism and neopopulism in South America.

FROM PROJECT PAGE 1

and public policy, especially how the market interacts with government.

“We’re trying to look at things in a sort of deeper way,” he said. “Not how to achieve just a particular policy goal, but what are the issues, and what are the questions?”

Seminars have been scheduled every Monday through the beginning of February.

A triumvirate of faculty — Irwin, Kohn and government professor Russell Muirhead — launched the program in the fall.

“Politics, philosophy and economics have a lot of synergy between them, and we believe offering this program can lead to tremendous growth,” Kohn said.

The initiative was influenced by similar interdisciplinary programs at peer institutions, like those at Duke University, Princeton University and Yale University.

Rather than receiving funding from the Rockefeller Center — the traditional source economics and

public policy programs approach for funding — the project is privately sponsored by a network of College alumni.

“We’re bringing in extra resources

“We’re trying to look at things in sort of a deeper way. Not how to achieve just a particular policy goal, but what are the issues, and what are the questions?”

- ECONOMICS PROFESSOR MEIR KohN to pay for some new classes, new courses and a new faculty member,” Irwin said.

The program will sponsor a Jan. 30 lecture by Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology and political science at

the University of Arizona.

Kenworthy, a sociologist, said he strongly believes that the questions posed by the study of political economics require interdisciplinary solutions.

“Increasingly, I think, academic study is oriented around concepts rather than disciplines,” he said.

“There are academic researchers in a variety of disciplines that might have something to add to answering the questions in this area of study.”

His talk will try to define the study of political economics, an issue that has drawn increased interest since the Occupy Wall Street movement began in late 2011, Kenworthy said.

He said he believes the definition of political economics, albeit very general, draws from an interdisciplinary array of fields.

“Nobody really agrees on what it involves, but I take it to broadly have to do with what we understand as economic processes and how they influence and are influenced themselves by politics,” Kenworthy said. “I think, potentially, lots of different disciplines add to this.”

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Campus forum Mon. precedes week of women’s recruitment FROM PANHELL PAGE 1

the eight Panhellenic sorority presidents affirmed their intent to move forward with recruitment, despite their appreciation for the concerns of the five abstaining executives.

“Our own abstention would deny interested women the opportunity to participate in such conversations from within the Panhellenic community,” the presidents’ statement to The Dartmouth read. “We look forward to working together to continue combating the issues that most profoundly impact women at Dartmouth.”

The discussion was organized

by CGSE student coordinators, CGSE acting director Kyle Ashlee said. The center reached out to sorority presidents and Panhell members to begin planning the event immediately after receiving the “call to action” email last Thursday.

Piper said that she appreciated the opportunity to clarify misconceptions about her and the other abstaining Panhell executives’ intentions and to encourage women on campus to share their different experiences.

During the discussion, several students called for increased transparency within the Greek system,

110 classes transition to Canvas this winter FROM CANVAS PAGE 1

Canvas provides users with a more user-friendly interface as well as a calendar program for scheduling assignments and a new mobile app, Knauff said. More classes also are making use of the new system’s discussion board feature, she said.

Canvas also costs less than Blackboard in licensing and other expenses, said Susan Zaslaw, the project manager for the transition and the associate director of computing services.

Students in fall term classes using Canvas preferred it to Blackboard in a five-to-one ratio, Knauff said.

Educational technologies staff created five short video tutorials called Dartmouth Daily Minutes, explaining how to use the system’s key features, following student feedback on how the office of educational technology could ease the transition.

Knauff said that faculty drove the decision to move from Blackboard to Canvas.

The College began reevaluating its learning management system in July 2012 to anticipate the expiration of Blackboard’s license at the end of 2013.

Student and faculty focus groups helped to pick Canvas, which beat out an updated version of Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn and Sakai.

A faculty focus group completed pilot surveys and evaluations over the summer, revealing a clear preference for Canvas over the most recent version of Blackboard, Zaslaw said.

Psychology professor Catherine Cramer and government professor Brendan Nyhan both remarked on the ease of posting files to Canvas

and navigating the system in general.

Cramer highlighted the system’s calendar function as one that she found particularly useful. Several students agreed.

“The messaging system between the teacher and the student and the email notifications are all great,” Arun Ponshunmugam ’17 said.

Nyhan said that, in his experience, the Canvas customer service desk has been very responsive to problems and requests for help.

Now, he said, teaching students and faculty to use the system will be the challenge.

Educational technologies also consulted heavily with peer institutions in the initial phases of the switch to Canvas, soliciting faculty feedback and information on the logistics of implementation. Those discussions will continue throughout the transition, Knauff said.

While the College expects to complete the switch in time for the winter of 2015, its graduate schools have different schedules for the change.

The Thayer School of Engineering will likely fully integrate Canvas into its curriculum before the College, as the tool better supports lab assignments, Knauff said.

The Tuck School of Business and Geisel School of Medicine will incorporate Canvas at a slower rate.

“Because Tuck hasn’t really been using Blackboard, for them it’s not a transition so much as a adopting a learning management system for the first time,” Knauff said.

Geisel will also adopt Canvas as a learning management system, but it will wait until after it completes its curriculum review.

including clarification on whether race impacts recruitment deliberation decisions.

Gargano stressed the importance of accountability, both from Greek leaders and members.

“I also hope that people realize that although these problems exist in other universities and in the ‘real world,’ that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be critical in order to make progress and change a school and system that we know can do and be better,” Gargano said.

Many students encouraged others to look more critically at what sororities represent, while others attempted to envision a non-divisive Greek system.

“Everybody needs to hold a

“... Although these problems exist in other universities and in the ‘real world,’ that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be critical in order to make progress and change a school and system that we know can do and be better.”

- JENNIFER GARGANO ’14

personal criteria,” Sandi Caalim ’13, a CSGE student coordinator, said. “Meet it, exceed it, set it up high. It’s not just about Panhell.

It’s beyond this room, beyond the Greek system. I want fellow selfidentifying women to be charged, to be more angry at themselves for not doing more than what they’ve been doing.”

Though Gus Llopiz ’14 said he first found the “call to action” statement inconsequential because it was not released during fall recruitment, he left the conversation with a better understanding of the timing of the decision.

“Now I get it,” he said. “You’re in leadership position, trying to figure this all out. You have time running against you.”

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Staff Columnist Katie Wheeler ’15

Staff Columnist JOnathan Li ’16

True Rush

The Citation Conundrum

The flawed rush process is only one symptom of the Greek system’s ills.

My sophomore fall, I wrote a column (“Reforming an Imperfect Process,” Oct. 1, 2012) advocating the need to appreciate the limitations of rush and refrain from taking it too seriously. I portrayed rush as a sort of necessary evil — an unpleasant route to what I assumed would be a meaningful end. I was wrong. It was not until I experienced rush as a member of a sorority that I truly understood the process’s profoundly flawed nature. I always knew it was superficial, but it was during my sorority’s deliberations that I finally acknowledged how mean and degrading it really was.

Members of my sorority, of which I am no longer a member, were taught terms like NGB — “nice girl but” — to describe a woman who was perfectly nice but, for an unsaid reason (typically a superficial quality), would not fit into the house. I listened to my sisters bash women whom I did not know and was told to trust their knowledge and, more often, their cursory impressions of those women. I also listened to my sisters bash women whom I did know and portray them in what I perceived to be a completely false light in a room full of 60 women — 60 women who then walked away with extremely unfair judgments of those women. I found even myself criticizing women who had “wronged” me in the past.

During second round deliberations, I finally had to get up and leave. I hated myself for succumbing to the warped logic of rush, and I hated the Greek system for imposing this artificial process on women who wanted to branch out and feel like they were a part of something. The truth is that we do not need sororities or fraternities (whose rush and pledge term processes are flawed in their own right).

In fact, we would be better off without them. I know that belief makes people on this campus mad — so mad that it is kind of scary — but stay with me for a moment.

It is hurtful, limiting and completely unnecessary to institutionalize and hierarchize large cliques of people through an artificial judgment process. It is also unnecessary to make people pay ridiculous sums of money to

be members of what are essentially overpriced drinking clubs. We talk about financial aid as a means of inclusivity (though it is met with very limited success), but no one should have to work to secure funds to join a social group in the first place. Furthermore, we cannot continue to legitimize, albeit unofficially, the damage done by hazing and the long-lasting alcoholic behavior that stems from it. We must recognize that separating men and women into different social spheres promotes sexism.

Finally, we must acknowledge the inherent sexism of a social system of male-dominated spaces where men have the upper hand over their female guests. All of these things are antiquated and unwarranted. It is time we start admitting that.

People often ask what would replace the Greek system. They like to point to schools like Middlebury and Amherst, where sports teams’ houses essentially function as fraternities, and suggest that Dartmouth’s social scene would devolve into something similar. That is certainly not inevitable; the establishment of inherently inclusive residential colleges with actual diversity of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds and perspectives could create the sort of smaller communities that students are looking for. Furthermore, I think these colleges could host inter-college socials so that students could meet new people outside of their own colleges. Our dorms’ current structures are not conducive to these residential colleges, so that is something for administrators to consider as new dorms are built and old ones are renovated.

Some people also ask about the importance of tradition. I point to the fact that our school’s history has shown that some traditions, such as single-sex education, simply should not last for reasons of equity and progress. And so I ask that the alums and current students who invest so much in their houses to truly consider their flaws and attempt to envision a better Dartmouth. My way is not necessarily the right way, but we need to start questioning the system we take for granted.

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The College must standardize citation criteria.

The College offers a number of hon- special efforts and achievements obscured ors designations as motivators for high by the grade.” Through clarification, a academic achievement. These include citation will become more meaningful. general Latin honors and departmental Furthermore, citations cannot be evaluhonors common to most higher education ated because they remain unquantified. institutions. However, Dartmouth gives its While other honors are rewarded to a students a unique accolade: citations. These defined number of students, the number individualized honors supposedly add a of citations awarded each term remains more personal touch to the College’s other- a mystery. To be frank, in any competiwise egalitarian, altive environment — beit sometimes cold, Dartmouth being no “In their current form, citagrading system. exception — the value On its website, the tions are broken. Without a of any honor is also Dartmouth Center modest sense of standardizacontingent upon rarfor the Advance- tion, citations lack intrinsic ity, and when rarity ment of Learning, a value. And without definitive cannot be determined, teaching resource for numerical rarity, citations lack recipients are unsure College educators, extrinsic value.” of the worth of their says that “students designation. p r i z e c i t a t i o n s, ”

In order to admaking them a “very effective motiva- dress this, the College should publish the tor.” While in theory citations are highly number of citations awarded per term and valued, in practice students do not care by department each term, as it does with about them. In this sense, citations have course medians. This would provide transfailed to achieve their purpose. Citations parency in the distribution of citations by have the potential to be effective motivators, subject and reveal how frequently citations as intended. However, for that to happen, are awarded. it is necessary to fix them.

Out of this situation, though, what I The problem isn’t that citations are find most amusing is one specific line in worthless, but rather, that it is impossible Dartmouth’s explanation for citations, into discern their worth when every professor tended to be taken at face value: “Students awards them by different standards. Some prize citations.” It would seem as if there professors may opt to award citations only is a slight discrepancy here between the to students who earn As. Others may opt administration’s perspective and reality. to recognize the most improved students, In their current form, citations are broken. regardless of their final grades. Currently, Without a modest sense of standardization, the means of acquiring citations is ambigu- citations lack intrinsic value. And without ous, more often than not ascribed to luck definitive numerical rarity, citations lack rather than to any definitive action or extrinsic value. But through these fixes, motivation. citations could be revitalized, if not le To address this, it is necessary to de- gitimized, as a needed personal touch to fine the means or criteria for potentially academic achievement. As a liberal arts receiving a citation. I would argue that college, Dartmouth should further this technical performance strictly belongs to sense of personalization and motivate stugrades alone, and citations should fulfill the dents to succeed academically. These little role of more personal honors, as they are fixes could polish Dartmouth’s academic intended “to indicate an appreciation of assessments.

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Phi Sigma Nu aims to recruit new members in the spring FROM FRATERNITY PAGE 1

Wells said he plans to work with Alpha Pi Omega, a historically Native American sorority, to host an informal interest meeting for new members this term, though two of the three Phi Sigma Nu brothers are off campus.

Wells said that the small size of the College’s Native American male population has made it difficult to meet the four-member requirement. The number of potential candidates for Phi Sigma Nu shrinks significantly after eliminating first-year students and men that are already affiliated, he said.

Prospective members must complete a nationally standardized six-step application process, which includes an informal interest meeting, a letter of recommendation from a professor, a resume and a work schedule. Current members then ask promising applicants to return for both individual and group interviews before extending bids.

When a new member accepts a bid, he must participate in a five-week intake process that suggests a nutritionally, mentally and spiritually healthy lifestyle. There is also a focus on academics for new members, with the fraternity promoting hard work in classes and meeting with professors.

Freshmen may complete all parts of the application process, though they are not allowed to undergo the intake process until sophomore year, as stipulated by GLOS policy.

“The application is a part of another thing I love about Phi Sigma Nu — it’s not just a four year commitment, but you are affiliated for the rest of your life,” he said.

“It’s a brotherhood organization that, when it comes to helping out the community and helping out family, all these things vital to the organization, you are continuing in your life after Dartmouth.”

The student body has generally been supportive of the fraternity, especially during fundraising initiatives, Wells said.

Despite having to pay for national fraternity representatives to come to campus, Wells said the chapter is in good financial standing from fundraising efforts and assistance from other groups.

College organizations such as the Native American Program and the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations,

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Phi Sigma Nu is currently based out of the Native American House but is considering applying for an apartment in the River Cluster.

a subgroup of the Greek Leadership Council, applied for funding on behalf of Phi Sigma Nu. Wells and Christina Goodson ’14 both expressed hope that Native American organizations will eventually have their own GLC subcouncils.

Native American Program director Kapi’olani Laronal said she was impressed that the students took on the project largely by themselves.

“They’re small now, but I think they’re going to grow and develop into a large group,” she said.

Wells said he had the idea to start a Native American fraternity during his freshman spring and learned of Phi Sigma Nu from Goodson, the president of Alpha Pi Omega, which was chartered by the College in 2006.

During Well’s first term at Dartmouth, the campus lacked a place for Native American men to socialize, he said.

“The Native American House was there, but even in Native American meetings, there were very few Native men there,” Wells said. “The only time that I was around more than five Native men was probably in a frat basement.”

The chapter is currently based in the Native American House, but has considered applying for an apartment in the River Cluster.

Nationally, Phi Sigma Nu emphasizes academic and physical wellness as well as community

service. The house must hold two community service events per year, send a representative to the organization’s national convention and establish a chapter constitution.

Goodson said she is hopeful about the fraternity’s future com-

munity service contributions.

Wells said Phi Sigma Nu is unique because it is a fraternity based on the culture and morals of the Native Americans at Dartmouth. Although the fraternity is historically Native American, any

male student is eligible to join, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion, Wells said.

Founded in 1996 at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Phi Sigma Nu currently has seven fully recognized chapters.

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Museum Collecting B y margot byrne The Dartmouth Staff

In Museum Collecting 101, Dartmouth students speak with artists and collectors behind-the-scenes and even curate a show of their own.

The course, a Hood Museum program started in 2002, is offered once a year, typically during the winter or spring. The classes are capped at about a dozen students and meet on Mondays several times a term.

Participating students, who do not need experience in art history or studio art, collaborate with Hood employees to understand strengths and weaknesses of current Hood collections, said Katherine Hart, the Hood’s curator of academic programming.

They learn about the Hood’s acquisition process before they undertake their own project. “[Students] become knowledgeable about the museum’s mission, standard curatorial practice and the ethics and best practices of working with the art market,” Hart said.

Each year, Hood employees choose a theme to direct the focus for the program. This year, the class will

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The first Museum Collecting 101 class of the term met on Monday. study nine modern and contemporary photographers. Many previous classes have focused on photography as well, including digitally manipulated images, documentary photography, environmental photography, female photographers, Latin American photography and photojournalism.

The course typically begins with an introduction to current issues in the art market and gallery system and an

explanation of the Hood’s acquisition process, Hart said. Students then delve into specifics for their particular theme, exploring the Hood’s collections in the Bernstein Study-Storage Center. There, they evaluate the Hood’s permanent collections like curators and analyze the quality and breadth of the works.

Virginia Ratliff ’14, who took the class her freshman year, said

that many participants did not have previous knowledge of the behindthe-scenes workings of a museum.

“I ultimately took away an appreciation for the process of curating a museum as well as an appreciation for the many artists whose works do not get selected,” Ratliff said.

Next, the students look for ways to augment the museum’s holdings. This includes demonstrations by a current studio art major about traditional and new digital printing techniques and a discussion with a Hood curator about emerging photographers whose art applies to the class’s theme.

David Kamins ’14, who participated in Museum Collecting 101 as a freshman, said that students worked alongside Hood curators and curatorial interns, extensively critiquing photographers and their works by the end of the program. Several lively debates led to a group vote to determine which pieces the Hood would later acquire.

“People in the class came from many different backgrounds, and our collective observations and insights helped us come to the best possible conclusions and partake in some of

the most intellectually-stimulating conversations,” Kamins said.

Last year, the Hood purchased the Museum Collecting 101 class’s three favorite works, as well as one runnerup, to be displayed in its “Transgressive Photography” exhibition. The tags on the works’ credit lines list all the class participants who helped choose the works.

The class this term will travel to New York City as part of its research.

The students will meet collectors and curators at various museums and galleries, who will teach them about the nine photographers they study.

Ratliff, a double major in art history and English, said she was undecided about her future academic plans until taking Museum Collecting 101, which guided her toward art.

Kamins encouraged students of any major to pursue the course, even if they did not see themselves as artists or knowledgeable about art.

“We go to a liberal arts school,” he said. “Don’t let your ignorance in the subjects of art, art criticism or art history limit your interests and constrain you from one of the best programs that Dartmouth has to offer.”

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Mark Coogan to leave Dartmouth

B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

Four years, five All-Americans and a cross country Ivy League Heptagonal Championship later, Big Green women’s cross country head coach and track distance coach Mark Coogan is leaving the College for New Balance. Starting Jan. 15, he will begin his work as a member of New Balance’s running sports marketing division, a position that will include coaching New Balance elite athletes.

Coogan ran for New Balance in the 1995 World Championships, racing in the 5,000-meter, and competed in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the marathon. In 2012, New Balance signed on to sponsor the Big Green cross country and track and field teams.

Coogan will continue to coach the Big Green track team through the end of the academic year. Since New Balance’s headquarters are in Boston, he will commute to the Upper Valley at least once a week to help with the distance team’s hardest workout. Coogan also plans to attend track meets with the team and help Abbey D’Agostino ’14 train. He can no longer coach professional runners Sam Chelanga and Ben True ’08, since they do not have contracts with New Balance.

“It’s going to be hard for me,” Coogan said. “We have a really good assistant coach in Scott Phelps, and I plan to be at all the races, but it’s not a perfect situation. When you talk or text the athletes you can’t see their facial expressions, which is hard.

Some of them I know well enough to guess, but the freshmen might be hard.”

Coogan led the women’s cross country team to an Ivy League Heptagonal Championship in 2013, the team’s first since 1997, and a team bid to the NCAA Division I National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. In four years he was able to coach D’Agostino to five national championships, one in cross country and four in track. He also coached four other All-Americans, including Alexi Pappas ’12, who finished her Dartmouth career with a third-place finish in the steeplechase, and Dana Giordano ’16, who achieved All-American status in cross country as a sophomore. Finally, he coached D’Agostino, Pappas, Megan Krumpoch ’14 and Chrissy Supino

’12 to a third-place and All-American finish in the distance medley relay at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championship meet.

“The women’s team was the most amazing group that I’ve ever been around,” Coogan said. “They are all such wonderful people, super smart, super committed, they really try hard. You can’t ask for anything more. Abbey and I are going to have a relationship forever, I’m her coach and she listens to me, but we’re also friends. There are many others I’ll maintain a relationship with as well.”

Coogan is well respected among coaches for his positive coaching style and ability to encourage his athletes to reach new levels.

“He had very high expectations for the women and made them buy into them,” men’s cross country and track head coach Barry Harwick said.

“When we were talking to the women we told them how they shouldn’t look at making NCAA championships as a one-time thing, we want to go back next year.”

Coogan often presented workouts to his athletes that were physically demanding, but he did so in an encouraging manner, making the work easier to complete, Harwick said.

The athletic department is beginning its search for a new women’s head coach. Since Coogan is not leaving until after the season, he gives the department five months to advertise the position, recruit potential candidates and bring them to campus. The team’s recent success

may make the position one of the most sought-after in the nation.

The department is looking for a coach that can connect with Dartmouth students and who understands the academic rigor of the College, senior associate athletic director for Peak Performance Drew Galbraith said. “Something we see that really works well in sports like distance running is coaches who help build up athletes’ confidence. We want positive motivators because our kids already know how to work hard and are already stressed enough, so we don’t want to add to that stress level.”

The search will also focus on finding someone who canrecruit students despite the College’s lack of athletic scholarships, as per Ivy regulations.

“A coach who has been around athletic excellence is important,” Galbraith said, emphasizing the fact that a coach must understand student-athletes’ dual commitment to academics and their sports.

This past weekend, the women’s track and field team won its fourth consecutive Dartmouth Relays. The women’s mile runners finished onetwo-three-four-six against the collegiate competition, and the team is currently ranked 14th in the nation.

“We’re all really excited for him and happy for him to be moving on to this step,” distance runner Meggie Donovan ’15 said. “We’re all going to miss him a lot because he’s a great coach and a wonderful person. A lot of us will never forget what he’s done with this program.”

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Coogan will officially leave Dartmouth at the end of the outdoor season.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014

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MORE THAN A GAME B y maddie Garcia and abby cohen The Dartmouth Staff

Jay Cutler signed a contract in early January with the Chicago Bears, guaranteeing him around $126 million over the next seven years. Seven years! The quarterback will be in his late 30s when the contract expires, much older than many of his teammates and competitors.

Clearly the Bears want him so badly, despite his lackluster performance this season, that they are willing to pledge this salary for years to come, even with so many unknowns — possible injuries, the promise of new talent and effects of his aging.

Professional sports, with its lengthy contracts and guaranteed pay prior to performance, is a unique industry. And although everyone deserves a few off days, an entire season of poor performance shouldn’t be rewarded with a multi-million dollar check. While the Bears could release Cutler if he were to tank next season or suffer a career-ending injury, he would still pocket about $50 million.

The problem of long-lasting contracts extends to coaches as well. Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan was fired at the end of this season, yet he still received his annual salary of $7 million without having to coach a single day of the 2014 season.

The guaranteed salary is so large that athletes do not have to worry financially about being released from a contract. This allows them to work only as hard as they desire, not as hard as they would otherwise need to if they had to worry about pay.

This phenomenon not only exists in football, but it extends to other professional sports, too.

There’s nothing more frustrating to us than when Derek Jeter, who gets paid $17 million a year, steps up to the plate and strikes out. Are you kidding me? We could do that,

too — for much less money. Maybe if there were a couple thousand dollars riding on whether or not he got on base, he might try a little harder to make sure it happened.

Organized sports come with a pressure to perform, to earn your spot on both the team and in the starting lineup each game. With no guarantee of playing time, athletes must continually prove themselves every time they compete. This mindset not only results in better team play, but in stronger individual performances as well.

It’s probably safe to assume that professional athletes want to do well, but when there are no financial differences between sitting on the bench and scoring five touchdowns in a game, we think there needs to be an extra form of motivation. If the only thing that stood between you and returning to your cushy mansion for the offseason was being cut, there seems to be little incentive for professional athletes to match their performance from the years that earned them these mega-deals.

Instead, athletes may just play well enough to guarantee their job for the next season.

We understand the appeal of long-term contracts, which lock in millions for a player and guarantee allegiance for a team. We propose that a lower starting salary and steep bonuses based on performance would achieve the same objectives and improve the quality of the game. Players and coaches alike would have to really work to earn their pay, just like the rest of us.

Perhaps Cutler will earn his keep over the next seven years, justifying the gamble the franchise took signing this contract. An athlete’s success is measured by statistics and team performance, but salary is decided beforehand. If you turn the equation around, athletes will step up their games, which would be exciting to watch and would align with the logic of performing in the real world.