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A candlelight prayer vigil expressed solidarity for victims in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Health survey data released B y annie smith
Anxiety and depression are the most commonly reported mental health problems at Dartmouth, according to the the Dartmouth Health Survey, published by the Office of Institutional Research earlier this week. While
alcohol use was higher than national averages, drug usage at the College was lower than national reports. This year, 73 percent of Dartmouth students sampled said they had consumed alcohol within the past 30 days, compared to 63 percent of the national figure. High risk drinking
College, town improve energy use
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Recent College sustainability initiatives have contributed to Hanover’s recognition as a “Green Power Community” by the Environmental Protection Agency, a designation that recognizes communities that draw between five to 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources. Dartmouth’s purchase of $50,000 of green energy
credits, which buy renewable energy, contributed to the award, associate vice president of facilities operations and management Frank Roberts said. The credits will not change existing physical energy infrastructure at the College, he said. The College will fund 7.3 million kilowatt-hours of green energy production each year for the next five years, SEE ENERGY PAGE 3
at Dartmouth rose 12 percent from 2012 levels. Defined as five or more drinks consumed in one sitting, high-risk drinking at Dartmouth continues to be higher than the national sample. Since 2012, reported SEE SURVEY PAGE 5
Members of the Class of 2018 will fill Butterfield Hall in the fall in an effort to accommodate the largest class in College history, which contains roughly 100 more students than the Class of 2017, undergraduate housing director Rachael Class-Giguere said. While all freshmen and sophomores are guaranteed oncampus accommodations, some junior and senior students who submitted housing applications have been placed on the waitlist, Class-Giguere said. Given the lack of surplus rooms, these students may not receive housing, she said, and those who requested housing after the deadline also may not receive housing. “Any new vacancies we are getting are because current students who have signed up for fall housing have had a change in their plans and canceled,” she said. One student who made a last minute decision to stay on in the fall, Leda Espinoza ’16, said that while it is exciting that so many students chose to attend
the College she is frustrated to not have a room. “I know I am in this spot by my own doing, but still it’s frustrating because people say it is so easy to change your D-Plan and you can do it on such short notice,” Espinoza said. “Finding housing has been such a struggle.” Most transfer students will live in the East Wheelock cluster, Class-Giguere said. Exchange students will be scattered amongst dorms on campus, she said, in a change from past years when they have been mostly concentrated in Butterfield. Julie Shabto ’14 lived in Butterfield during her freshman year. She said that the building’s small size made it easy for all the residents to become a closely-bonded group. “It was really nice that everyone had their own space, but it was a very open environment,” she said. “Everyone kept their doors open all the time.” The Dartmouth Outing SEE CLASS SIZE PAGE 3
DEVELOPING STORY
The Department of Education will begin its investigation of the College’s Clery Act compliance on Aug. 18, the College announced early this morning. The review comes over a year after more than 30 students and alumni filed a Clery Act complaint against the College in May of 2013. The complaint included alleged violations of sexual assault, LGBT, racial and religious discrimination, hate crimes, bullying and hazing.
Dirt Cowboy changes its hours B y sean connolly The Dartmouth Staff
Staffing issues and problems stemming from longer evening shifts have narrowed the hours of Dirt Cowboy Café. The hours will remain irregular until September, owner Tom Guerra said.
A yellow sheet of paper, laminated and posted on the front door of the establishment, explains in bold black font that the business will close at either 2:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. to allow the staff to “regroup” and “focus on the essentials of the business.” The cafe previously closed at 10 p.m.
Business had been going well, with a high volume of customers, Guerra said, but staffing issues along with longer days made it too difficult to manage the business well. Out of a 15- to 20- person staff, he said, two to three individuals SEE DIRT PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing A new Senate bill introduced Wednesday aims to reduce sexual assault on college campuses by requiring universities to survey students about sexual violence on campus and then publish the results online, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The bill would also heighten the penalties levied against higher education institutions that fail to comply with the requirements laid out in the Clery Act. The bill, which has attracted cosponsors from both major political parties, including Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), also seeks to require colleges and universities to appoint a confidential advisor for survivors.. Vermont seeksan extension of close to $100 million in federal grants being used to implement its own healthcare exchange, Vermont Digger reported. The state has already spent $71 million, but says it will need the entire amount of $171 million for the project. An extension would allow the state to use federal money until the end of 2014 to continue building the exchange, but would not change the total amount of money available to support the exchange. About a quarter of the 15 states who have opted to create their own state health exchange have now applied for such an extension. Adjunct faculty at the University of Saint Thomas in St. Paul rejected unionization on July 21, dealing a blow to the Service Employees International Union, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week. The SEIU has worked across the nation to persuade faculty at universities to unionize, and has usually been successful in its pursuits. A representative from the SEIU said that the case of the University of Saint Thomas rejecting unionization is a unique circumstance. Faculty members wanted to negotiate with college leadership before forming a union, SEIU officials told The Chroincle. One hundred and thirty six adjuncts voted against unionization, with 84 voted for it. — COMPILED BY JASMINE SACHAR
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Tuck program prepares students B y HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff
Toward the end of June last summer, Selemon Asfaw Tu’14 heard from the Tuck School of Business’s career development office that six incoming students had received offers for internship positions in finance the following summer. As a stand-alone fact, the number stood out in and of itself, he said, as it is unusual for so many students to score coveted internships before setting foot in Hanover. But considering that the six students who receieved internships were the first mentees in Wall Street Edge, a program that he founded, it was a powerful moment for Asfaw. Asfaw founded the student-led program in the summer of 2013 with the intention of helping incoming students from under-represented groups in finance and those without a background in the field transition into finance. Matching incoming students who register with upperclassman mentors, the program provides basic information about finance and the opportunities available to mentees, tailoring advice to suit their individual interests. While several companies that recruit highly from Tuck made the National Association for Female Executives Top 50, most of them were business that were not focused on finance. In American finance, women make up 54 percent of the work force but less than 20 percent of senior executives, The Atlantic reported. In 2010, the General Accountability Office found that racial minorities hold only 10 percent of senior-level jobs. The program focuses on supporting mentees with their applications for early action programs, many of which take place during the summer before the mentees begin business school. While Tuck aids its students, this program
focuses on accepted students before they have matriculated. Asfaw said he decided to organize the program when he realized the importance of starting early in networking and the job search. Upon being matched with a mentor, mentees share their previous experience and interests. Then, mentors proofread their resumes and give feedback in relation to the early action programs for which the mentees are interested in applying. According to their individual interests, mentees receive information for conference calls and have mock interviews with their mentors. Though it is important to follow structured guidelines and provide necessary information to mentees, Asfaw said it is also important for mentors and mentees to be creative in how they interact with one another in a mutual learning process. “It’s also about the mentee educating the mentor about what their strengths are,” he said. As an incoming student last year, former mentee Andrew Allison Tu’15 said the recruitment process seemed daunting. He received encouragement and support from his program mentors along with reminders on application timelines and insights into working at a bank. This year, he applied to serve as a mentor and was accepted to the program. Securing an internship position is one of the biggest goals for the first-year students at Tuck, Allison said. Having received offers before starting school, he said that his Tuck experience differed from others as he did not have the added pressure of looking for an internship position. “I could focus on classes and more on the social environment at Tuck,” he said. “You are still able to go to other companies’ briefings so you are not necessarily boxed out of being able to
learn about all these companies visiting Tuck and opportunities.” Michaela Leblanc Tu’15, another former mentee who is now serving as a mentor, said her positive experience with the group motivated her to return as a mentor. Having seen the difficulties that her classmates without a background in finance had to go through during recruiting, she wanted to ensure that students from nontraditional backgrounds received guidance as early as possible. “The thing about the program is it really embodies a lot of the core values at Tuck in terms of community feel, alumni involvement and giving back,” Leblanc said. On Aug. 7 and 8, 12 mentees will visit around seven to eight investment banks in Manhattan to meet Tuck alumni and recruiters, she said. Associate director of Tuck’s MBA program office Dia Draper said Wall Street Edge is interested in engaging with broader the community in the future. The student MBA program grants a small budget for the program and provides webinars to participants, she said. “From the institutional perspective, it’s purely about fulfilling our mission to give our students every opportunity to make the career switch and achieve their goals,” she said. “Secondarily, we are hugely interested in diversity and inclusion and supporting our candidates or students from every demographic.” Across Tuck, other individuals have noted the need to address students without a background in finance. Tuck professor Jonathan Lewellen, who teaches capital finance and markets, said students without prior experience in finance tended to have more difficulty learning finance terminologies and concepts than those with previous experience.
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The program helps incoming students find internships for the summer after their first year at Tuck.
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Class size, trips will not be impacted by large freshman class FROM CLASS SIZE PAGE 1
Club first-year trips program and the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, both programs that work closely with freshmen, will not require changes, according to trips director Gerben Scherpbier ’14 and Institute for Writing and Rhetoric director Christiane Donahue, respectively. Despite the record-breaking 1,080 participants, the trips program will not change the number of trips offered, Scherpbier said. Most
students who are not participating are varsity football and soccer athletes, Scherpbier said. “When we did get the increase in students, we were a little worried about that, but it did not end up being a problem because we basically filled up more of the spots on the trips,” he said. “In past years there has been a bunch of empty spaces on the trips, so if it was a 10 person capacity kayak trip, we might have had six to eight [spots] filled. This year we almost filled up every single
trip.” The hardest logistical change was planning and reworking those sections of trips held in Hanover and at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, since some sections have more total students than planned, Scherpbier said. He noted that some of the later sections contain more than 150 students. The expense of trips has stayed relatively constant, Scherpbier said, since there are more students paying, which has offset the increased
transportation and food costs. Some academic programs popular among freshmen say that they will not alter plans for the upcoming year. The Writing 2-3 and Writing 5 programs will not see changes from previous years, Donahue wrote in an email. Math 3, Math 8 and Math 11 courses, often taken by freshmen, will instead see slightly larger class sizes, department chair Diana Williams said.
“We’ll be able to handle those 100 students without much concern, because we are already running lecture style courses in those introductory courses,” Williams said. “Once you have 40 students in a room, going to 50 or 60 doesn’t dramatically change the dynamic. Once you get over 100, then the students feel anonymous and that changes the behavior of the class. But I think we will stay in the window where the dynamic will stay the same.”
New lights, windows help to improve College’s energy efficiency FROM ENERGY PAGE 1
offsetting 10 percent of Dartmouth’s total energy usage. Credits compensate green energy providers for the sustainability of their product, director of sustainability Rosi Kerr ’97 said. These credits, she said, are the only way to purchase renewable energy. Other recent steps include replacing the Hopkins Center’s glass windows and swapping Leverone Fieldhouse’s light fixtures. These initiatives are part of a $16 million grant from the College’s Board of Trustees to improve sustainability on campus, Roberts said. While each project has a different timeline, Roberts said nearly all capital expenditures become profitable after seven years, with the average being around five years. The College has also focused on sustainable construction, Roberts said. The new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, completed in 2011, is a platinum-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building, the highest offered designation by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building has three times the capacity of its predecessor, the Gilman Life Sciences Center, while using about one 10th as much energy, Roberts said. Despite these initiatives, the College still faces several sustainability challenges, Kerr said. Overall, the College is “in the back half of the middle of the pack” of American colleges in terms of sustainability, she said. In particular, the fuel the College uses to heat buildings, fuel oil No. 6, is especially unsustainable, Kerr said, as it has the highest emissions per energy unit of available fuel sources and is extracted in an unsustainable manner. Working to find other fuel options is a priority for the office of sustainability, she said. Dartmouth has the highest emissions per student in the Ivy League, which she attributed to the burning of No. 6 fuel oil. The College’s total oil consump-
tion has decreased over the last nine years, Roberts said, from 125,000 barrels in 2005 to around 90,000 barrels this year. Despite this improvement, he said, the College will still likely be “regulated off ” No. 6 fuel oil by 2018. Facilities and grounds services director Gary Hill said waste management is another prong of College sustainability. Currently, the College diverts nearly half of its solid waste before it hits a landfill, Hill said. Additionally, around 19 percent of solid waste goes to the zero-sort recycling program, he said.
“Dartmouth students are thinkers that do — people that like to get their hands on problems. We can leverage those strengths and our location to be at the forefront of sustainability.” - ROSI KERR ’97, DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY By 2021, Hill hopes to increase the diversion rate to 70 percent, and the zero-sort rate to 40 percent. Some colleges have even higher targets, Hill said. “Schools are trying for zero waste — now that’s hard to talk about,” he said. Dartmouth could invest in local food and create sustainable guidelines for procurement and travel to further improve sustainability, Kerr said. “Dartmouth students are thinkers that do — people that like to get their hands on problems,” she said. “We can leverage those strengths and our location to be at the forefront of sustainability.” Across the Ivy League, other schools have taken different ap-
proaches to promoting sustainability. Yale University director of the office of sustainability Ginger Chapman said the university has been both “grabbing the low-hanging fruit” — switching to more energy-efficient lightbulbs — and undertaking longer-term projects. Smaller projects, like changing lightbulbs, become profitable almost immediately, Chapman said. Switching to more efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units — a medium-term project — becomes profitable after eight years, she said, noting that the typical HVAC unit lasts about 15 years. Offices tasked with sustainability at Brown University, Columbia University and Princeton University could not be reached for comment on Thursday afternoon. In contrast to Dartmouth’s relationship with Hanover, Chapman noted that Yale has been less successful in partnering with New Haven for sustainability. “Hanover is a small town and has none of the economic woes we have here,” Chapman said. “There is a large urban poor population, and our city has a lot of financial problems.” Both large and small-scale changes can create a deep impact at higher education institutions said Stephanie Herrera, executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. “It is important for us to remember that all accomplishments in this area culminate in the overall reduction of the carbon footprint of America’s colleges and universities,” Herrera said. “This is what everyone in higher education wants and the world very much needs.” Noah Cramer ’16, a member of the campus environmental group Divest Dartmouth, said that he was pleased with the changes, although he noted that there is more work to do. Divest Dartmouth works to remove the endowment’s current investments in fossil fuel companies with the largest reserves of fossil fuels. He said he was pleased with the
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The Hopkins Center undergoes construction to get new energy-efficient windows.
College’s inward-facing changes, like changing lightbulbs and windows, but noted that real environmental changes come from outward-facing initiatives, like divestment.
“When universities or religious groups, the guardians of public morality, take a stand against companies, it does a lot to damage political influence,” Cramer said.
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Staff Columnist Andres smith ’17
Guest columnist Bryan Rogers ’15
Forbidden Fruit
More than a Poor Grade
The GLC ban on freshmen should not be extended to an entire term. Last year, when I was a freshman, the Greek particular house “home.” This isn’t the fault of Leadership Council implemented a new policy the houses themselves; rather it is just difficult to that forbade freshmen from entering Greek feel totally welcome in a place controlled by and houses for the first six weeks of the term, with full of people who belong to a certain group to the exception of certain special, designated which you do not. events. This policy was met with some resistance, Restricting freshmen from Greek houses for much of it coming from within our class. Many an entire term would cut off an entire class from of us reasoned that because we were adults and one of the most significant parts of Dartmouth were trusted with the responsibilities of living social life for a third of their first year on campus. alone, we could certainly handle a fraternity The last four weeks of the fall gave my class the basement. In retrospect, however, those first six chance to meet and interact with members of weeks were beneficial to our class because they other classes in a social context. With a continued fostered bonding and allowed us to adjust to ban, structured socialization between freshmen Dartmouth in other aspects of our lives before and upperclassmen would still be limited to a having to adjust to the Greek scene. classroom setting. Prolonging the ban worsens The Greek scene, the tangible separation while often very enjoybetween upperclassmen able, can be confusing and “It is just difficult to feel and underclassmen inintimidating, especially for totally welcome in a place stead of creating unity someone who is new to the controlled by and full of across classes. College. We were lucky people who belong to a One of the main that by the time we en- certain group to which you drawbacks of the ban tered that social space, we do not.” was that it turned Greek did not have to go about it houses into a “forbidden alone. The ban allowed us fruit” of sorts, causing to develop solid friendships beforehand. The ban some freshmen to go overboard once they finally also caused freshman floors to get much closer were allowed into them. Extending the ban over the first half of fall term, helping many of would only intensify this problem. Letting the us develop tight-knit social groups that we could freshmen in right after Homecoming makes for depend on throughout the rest of the year. In a smooth transition on a weekend where most light of some of the successes of the six-week houses are still recovering from the festivities of ban, some people have suggested extending it to the week before. The freshmen would also have the entirety of the fall term. The GLC should just come off a fun and exhausting Homecoming not consider extending this ban. Benefits of the weekend, rather than being pent up at home all current policy notwithstanding, an extension of winter break counting the days until that first the ban would not benefit Dartmouth as a whole. Friday. Extending the GLC policy to an entire While it may have its faults, the Greek system term would only serve to further stratify the is a large part of Dartmouth social life, and social scene here at Dartmouth. For better or all Dartmouth students should be allowed to worse, the Greek system is a defining element participate in it. The six-week grace period is of the social life at Dartmouth. On any given important to allow freshmen to get their bearFriday or Saturday night, not to mention most ings on campus and establish a reliable group Wednesdays, students flock to Greek houses. of friends. After that, however, they should be Because students are not allowed to join the allowed to participate in the Dartmouth social Greek system until sophomore year, freshmen scene like everybody else. This is supposed to are already singled out. Since they are unaffili- be an inclusive community. Let’s live up to our ated by default, freshmen cannot truly call any promise.
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Engineering students leave the track because it lacks support. Recently, Thayer School of Engineering professor Vicki May wrote a Huffington Post article, “Engineers Are Not Smart,” in which she explains that many Dartmouth engineering students decide to quit engineering after receiving a poor exam grade. She concludes that students need to realize “that failure is part of getting there.” I am a member of the Class of 2015 and I am on track to graduate this June with both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Engineering degrees. I have known I wanted to major in engineering since matriculating to Dartmouth, and in my journey I have seen some of my fellow students abandon the engineering track every step of the way. In my experience, a bad grade may be the stated reason students drop engineering, but is rarely the root cause. If a student comes in with no advanced standing from Advanced Placement credits or placement tests, the B.E. (like all accredited engineering degrees) requires 25 classes, seven of which are prerequisites, in addition to Dartmouth’s other distribution requirements. Thayer offers the B.E. as a five-year degree, which allows less stress and more time to experience all that Dartmouth has to offer in exchange for up to an extra year of tuition, an option that does not make financial sense for many people. While it is also possible to get the B.A. or a modified major, and many do, there is still a full year of prerequisites required to get the engineering major, which causes the first and biggest wave of students to jump ship. I still remember getting my first collegiate exam back. It was in Math 8 freshman fall, and the median grade was very low. Within the next week a significant number of the 150 enrolled students dropped the class. This raised the median by more than 20 points, a fact our professor did not convey to us until after the second exam. Although some students’ reasons for dropping the course were probably as simple as a poor exam grade, there were other important factors. The course moved quickly, and there were few resources available to students who did not get the material the first time around. It felt like the entire class was on the waitlist at the Tutor Clearinghouse. There were few teaching assistants, of varying degrees
of utility, for 150 students, and office hours were often crowded — it was difficult to get the oneon-one attention often sought. Math 8 is only one example. Many other engineering courses were similar. Many of my classmates dropped one of the engineering prerequisite courses, not because they were not smart enough, but rather because they lacked the time and resources to learn the material well enough in the time allotted to recover from a poor midterm grade. When a single exam accounts for around 25 percent of the final grade, one bad grade can mean having to drop the class, especially if the student does not feel confident he or she can succeed on the next exam. Dropping an engineering prerequisite may mean that, in addition to retaking that class, the student may have to push back the courses they intended to take the next term. When even the best planning means taking at least two engineering classes per term for 12 terms, falling behind makes pursuing the degree unfeasible. Academically, my first two years at Dartmouth were pretty miserable. I found the material largely unengaging, which was only compounded by the relatively large class sizes. I often found myself hopelessly lost during lecture and spent a lot of time catching up. This past year, for the first time, I took an engineering class out of interest, not because it was explicitly needed for my degree. I took multiple courses with enrollments under 15 students and found the smaller class size to be a more collaborative and engaging environment. Although it is impractical to have 15-person classes for many engineering, math and science courses, making smaller recitation sessions or having more teaching assistants for larger classes would help aspiring engineers. Students need better and more accessible resources to take a proactive approach. One poor exam grade does not mean someone is not “smart” enough for engineering, but it may be difficult for some students to move past the grade without better support. Dartmouth is a school that prides itself on being a small liberal arts college with a focus on undergraduate teaching. Surely Dartmouth can go the extra mile to enhance the experience of aspiring engineers.
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Survey finds students above national average for alcohol use FROM SURVEY PAGE 1
treatment for anxiety has increased at Dartmouth to 11 percent from 2012’s 9 percent. Reported treatment for panic attacks has increased to 5 percent from 2012’s 1 percent. Reported treatment for other mental health disorders, such as eating disorders and depression, has remained at approximately the same percentage over the past four years. Stress is reported as the factor that most affects students’ academic performance, followed by sleep difficulties and anxiety. Satisfaction related to academic life, community, social life and residential life has essentially remained constant over the past four years, though satisfaction with academic life has slightly increased and satisfaction in the later three categories has slightly decreased. Dartmouth students’ sample use of marijuana, cigarettes and tobacco are all less than the national college average, however. To prevent pregnancy, 36 percent of students reported that themselves or their
partner use birth control pills, 47 percent report using condoms and 3 percent use an IUD. Since 2008, the percentage of sampled students that use condoms has increased from 42 percent, while the percentage that use birth control pills has increased by a single percentage point. The report showed decreases in reported rates of sexual touching without consent as well as attempted and actual sexual penetration without consent. While reports of sexual touching without consent fell to 9 percent from 14 percent, this figure is higher than 2013’s national average of 6 percent, the most recent data available. In conducting this year’s survey, the Office of Institutional Research used a different data collection method than in past years. Previously, data had been collected from a random sample of half of the undergraduate population who were asked to participate in the survey. The other half of the population had been invited to answer a separate survey on patient satisfaction.
This year, all students were asked to answer the first seven questions of the survey, which pertained to general health, safety, alcohol use and relationship violence. About 1,600 students were then randomly selected to participate in the remainder of the survey, while others were routed to the patient satisfaction survey. The health survey has seen response rates varying from 19 percent to 38 percent. These numbers did not vary by much under the new data collection system, with 38 percent of the 4,068 undergraduates surveyed responding to the first section of the survey. “One issue on our campus on our campus and other campus is oversurveying students,” health services codirector Jack Turco said. “If you have a new survey and want to get a reasonable response, you realize that if you send all surveys to all people, some people are going to say ‘I’m sick of doing these.’” Developed to mirror national surveys such as those collected by the American College Health Asso-
ciation and the National Collegiate Health Assessment, the Dartmouth Health Survey is also intended to track trends specific to Dartmouth and areas of interest to the Dean of the College Division, Turco said. “We, like many other schools, conduct surveys like this to get an idea of what the current practices are, what the current issues are, and to look from year to year to see if there are any changes,” he said. “For example, if we notice that a lot more students smoke cigarettes than five years before, then we get together to talk about initiatives we want to do and prioritize it more than if there was an extremely low amount of smoking.” While the survey did provide demographic information for the students that responded, it did not provide a demographic breakdown of the undergraduate population as a whole. This means that results may need to be carefully analyzed, Niloofar Bavarian, a postdoctoral fellow who has researched binge drinking and prescription drug use at the University of California at
Berkeley School of Public Health said. “You can’t just say ‘Okay 6 percent of Dartmouth students misused prescription stimulants,’” Bavarian said. “You can only say 6 percent of the study sample misused prescription stimulants.” Keeping survey demographics in mind, getting accurate data from students is a more general problem, Bavarian said. “Even if they are secured that certain protocols are in place to secure identity, there is still the fear that it could get traced back,” Bavarian said. “You want to ask the question in a way that doesn’t seem judgmental in nature.” Surveys continue to be a critical part of campus life and national life as a whole despite this problem, Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences professor Brian Flay said. As long as their size is large enough, Flay said, surveys can provide accurate data that colleges and universities can use to make changes in health-related policies.
Staffing issues and longer evening shifts responsible for change FROM DIRT PAGE 1
would typically be unavailable to work any given week, requiring that he step in and fill their role. This extended work time — at times, Guerra worked 16-hour days — had significant physical and mental consequences on both himself and his staff, creating a stressful work environment, he said. “I wasn’t able to mange my staff as well as I’d like to,” he said. “It wasn’t good for me, it wasn’t good for them, it wasn’t good for the customers. Honestly there was just no way I could continue.” Citing what he referred to as an old Italian phrase, “a fish stinks from the head down,” Guerra ultimately faulted himself for the harried work environment. “I’m not going to blame my staff, I’m going to blame myself,” he said. “I made the mistake of opening the night shift.” Guerra said expanded the store’s operating hours from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. following the opening of a new Starbucks on Main Street in September 2012. At the time, Guerra feared the potential loss of costumers due to the national chain’s later hours, he said, and he wanted to be able to compete. In October of 2012, Guerra said that nearly 25 percent of his business had been “grabbed” by Starbucks, noting that while the night shift had increased his sales by 22.2 percent the previous April, sales that fall had been only 2.2 percent higher than in
the previous year. While he still said that the extended hours had proved to be a financial success, enabling him to pay off debts and improve his business bottom line, Guerra added that the hours had ultimately provided too difficult for his staff and their morale. He said that finding suitable candidates for the service portion of the business proved difficult, noting about a 50 percent turnover rate of staff. Town manager Julia Griffin said she was not surprised by the cafe’s
high staff turnover rate, noting that many stores and coffee shops in the Hanover area experience a surge and purge of workers as residents return from college in the beginning of the summer and then depart around August. She also noted that the nature of a job in service, with long hours and a frantic pace, may not always attract career employees. “It’s a port in the storm — it’s not necessarily what everyone chooses as long-term career path,” she said. Of eight students interviewed, one said that he had not been impacted
by the change in hours, with all other students reporting that they were aware of the change in hours and had at least once not been able to visit the store due to the changing hours. In the past, Emma PeConga ’16 said she had often stopped by the store on her way home from class to get a cup of coffee for her evening’s work. This summer, she said she has been disappointed by the inconsistencies in service. She said that she has recently found it hard to find a good cup of coffee in Hanover.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2014
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY All day CNN “Social Perception” summer workshop, Hanover Inn
7:00 p.m. Film screening, “Finding Vivian Maier” (2014), Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
9:30 p.m. Department of physics and astronomy summer public astronomical observing, Shattuck Observatory
TOMORROW 5:00 p.m. New York Theatre Workshop, “Toast,” Hopkins Center, Bentley Theater
8:00 p.m. Film screening, “The Fault in Our Stars” (2014), Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
8:00 p.m. New York Theatre Workshop, “Dot,” Hopkins Center, Bentley Theater
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Students collaborate with NYTW Ragan ’16 talks summer a capella, first shows B y AIMEE sung
The Dartmouth Staff
Sitting around a table with Tony-award winning writer Lemon Andersen, students in the theater department’s “Drama in Performance” class discussed his script, suggesting a scene they wanted added or 10 pages they thought should be deleted. The meeting was part of the New York Theater Workshop’s 23rd summer residency at Dartmouth, which brings emerging directors, playwrights and actors as artists-in-residence to Dartmouth. For three weeks at Dartmouth, the artists-in-residence retreat into their creative spaces and focus entirely on their new works. “It’s nice to be away from the opinion makers, away from the spotlight and give artists free reign,” the workshop’s associate artistic director Linda Chapman said. The workshop has a “dual nature,” being both a developmental theater and presenting theater, Chapman said. As a presenting theater, it stages renditions of well-known plays and performances in its theater space in New York. Its role as a developmental theater takes artists or
companies in residence and helps them develop innovative ideas into full-fledged performances. Similar workshops are held at Vassar College. “We appreciate having an ongoing conversation with the audience, but we feel it’s also important to encourage and push for new theatrical forms,” Chapman said. The workshop stages four full productions each season and helps develop more than 60 projects a year. Andersen, one of the artists-inresidence, is a spoken-word artist who won a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event when he was a cast member on Russel Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. His new work in progress, “Toast,” will be read this Saturday. The piece will be his development of a folklore telling style called toasting, he said. “I wanted to involve caricature in poetry,” he said, during a brownbag lunch presentation and question and answer session on Tuesday. Colman Domingo, another artist-in-residence, is currently working on a play called “Dot.” The first half of the script will be read this Saturday. The workshop makes up the last few weeks of the theater depart-
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Directors and writers from NYTW will present their developing works.
ment’s “Drama in Performance” class, and students can glimpse how professional theater operates. Students also learn a feedback method used by the that intends for feedback to be a catalyst and inspiration for the artists. Carina Conti ’16 said she is excited to be working on “Toast” this week, and said that students have been involved in the creative process. “Andersen is a really great person because he’s so accomplished but treats us like equals, which is a really rare thing to get as college students,” Conti said. Each student can work with at least two projects in the span of three weeks. They work as assistants to stage managers, directors and choreographers, or in smaller roles as actors based on their interest and capabilities. Carene Mekertichyan ’16, a student in the class, will be assistant directing Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown” for the next two weeks. “I’m really excited to get more experience with the ins and outs of directing, learn more about NYTW and what it means to be a non-profit theater and form relationships with amazing, talented artists,” Mekertichyan said. The line between writing and acting is blurry, and they often support and inform each other, Domingo said during the brown bag lunch. “It’s all part of a story-telling tradition,” he said. Six projects are lined up over three weeks. Each piece will have a week to develop, and the results will be presented on Saturday of each week. “Hadestown,” a rock opera, is the only exception, as it will have the full three weeks. “It’s much more complicated because not only do you have the script, but you also have the music and dance to work with,” Hopkins Center publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said. Every Wednesday for the duration of the residence, New York Theater Workshop holds a seminar at Occum Commons with “Drama in Performance” students. Over the course of three weeks, the seminars will discuss the critical feedback process, learn about the theater and political climate in Hungary with two Hungarian artists in residence and attend a reading of another work in progress Mitchell. At this past Wednesday’s seminar, Conti said, students discussed the role of theater in today’s culture with the workshop’s director and several participating directors and writers. “We’re always invited to really get to know them on a personal level and we’re learning so much in a real-life context,” Conti said.
B y JESSICA AVITABILE The Dartmouth Staff
This week, The Dartmouth sat down with Jimmy Ragan ’16, a Dodecaphonics singer who is this term’s musical director for the Summerphonics. The 16-member coed group allows students not in full-year a capella groups to sing over the summer. As musical director, Ragan runs rehearsals, selects music, makes sure members learn songs and determines sets for shows. Dodecs members Rory Page ’16 and Emma PeConga ’16 also help to run the summer group. So far this summer, Summerphonics has performed at Pelt-a-Delta, at Beta Alpha Omega fraternity for a show with Splendaplum and at the “Proud to be Green” Panhellenic Council event over sophomore family weekend. The group anticipates performing in at least two more shows by the end of term, Ragan said. What are some of the differences between performing in a full-year group and the summer group? JR: There’s a completely different attitude. The attitude of the Dodecs is to make the highest quality music together as possible while still enjoying people’s company, and now those priorities are switched. Over the summer, it’s about giving people the opportunity to sing and have fun together as a group, rather than saying this song has to be perfect. I try to not be as harsh as other people would be during the year. The people that are trying out for these groups don’t necessarily have as much experience or decided not to try out for full groups because they were either not confident in their ability or didn’t want to commit, and now it’s a ‘let’s try this’ sort of thing, so we try to make it easy for them. What are some of the challenges with working with students who are not in full-year groups? JR: A big thing is whether they can read music or not. If we have readers it’s a lot easier to work with them because even if they aren’t really, really good at singing, let’s say they’re a musician who sings on the side, it’s easy for them to pick it up and learn the music. But if they don’t read music and aren’t very familiar with music as an art form, more so than just singing in a car or in the shower, it can be difficult for them to adjust, so it’s about finding a role model in each section that they can follow. Often times those will be people who are in full-year a capella groups. They’re people who have more experience with music, so others can follow along and learn from them. I meet a lot with the Summerphonics members outside of rehearsal time so if they have a question about different parts of the music I can answer those questions but not at the expense of our group time together. How do you decide what songs
to perform? What is the process for arranging the songs? JR: Because Summerphonics has, at least for the past couple years, been run by Dodecs, we have access to their entire song catalogue, and so we draw primarily from that. We also this year have been debuting arrangements from people in the group that wanted to arrange or had arrangements waiting in the wings that they were hoping could be performed in the summer. I make the decision for music based on the voices we have in the group and what I think people will enjoy. So if I don’t think someone can sing the solo for a song, then I won’t choose that song. If I don’t think anyone will recognize the song or have fun listening to the song, then I won’t choose that song. I also try balancing boy-girl so that everyone has the chance to audition to perform a solo. How did you feel going into your first Dodecs show versus your first Summerphonics show? JR: Completely different. First of all, I was just scared out of my mind as a freshman, not really knowing how frat shows worked or how group dynamics at a show worked. I was just feeling like a lot of these people this summer who haven’t experienced this before. My first show this summer was all about making sure the group felt comfortable. So I took on the role of what the seniors did for me my freshman year, telling me I was going to be fine and even if I screw up to keep going. How has your experience been overall? It’s been a lot of fun, especially because we all kind of knew each other to a certain extent going into this. Often times, people will audition for Summerphonics because we nudge them to audition. These people come from very different corners of campus. By this point we know the other a capella people, but these aren’t a capella people, so it’s good to get exposure to different people who all enjoy singing but have chosen to do other things during their regular time at Dartmouth and are willing to try something new. Do you do bonding activities outside of rehearsal times? JR: What’s interesting about a summer group is that all of the money earned from shows goes right back into the group for that term, so all the activities and social events we plan for the Summerphonics come from that. We have a blueberry picking, Lodge dinners and a trip to a lake house scheduled. We have done one volunteer show and will do another before the term is out. We have social gatherings on Friday nights or before Wednesday meetings, just so people can get to know each other outside the context of singing with each other. This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Big Green Alert’s Wood puts football in spotlight every day
B y JOE Clyne and Henry Arndt The Dartmouth Staff
Bruce Wood has not missed a Dartmouth football practice in nine years. The founder of the Big Green Alert blog, Wood has covered Dartmouth’s gridiron gang online for nearly the last decade. And as Ivy League media day approaches, Wood remains in the bleachers, preparing his next post. Wood started covering Big Green football in 1979, reporting for the Valley News as the team was coming off its 1978 Ivy League title. Though he briefly moved to Pennsylvania to become the sports editor of a small newspaper, the allure of the Upper Valley was too much for Wood and he returned in 1983 to become an assistant director of sports information for the College. He served in this role for five years before returning to the Valley News as the Dartmouth beat writer, a position he held for 17 years. Over that span, he grew frustrated with the inefficiencies of the newspaper coverage of Dartmouth football at the time, he said. “When I was at the newspaper, people used to have to buy subscriptions to the Valley News in order to read about the games,” Wood said. “It would take the newspapers three or four days to get to them, so the news was old. Now there’s this Internet stuff and I can deliver the news the same day
of the game, the same day as practice and I decided to give it a shot.” The website is divided into a free section, available to all readers, and a premium section available with a subscription. The premium blog has covered every Big Green game and practice over the last nine years with a full-length story. It also covers Dartmouth football news, like recent features on incoming running back Ryder Stone ’18 and a review of Ivy League players currently in the NFL. Sportswriting was not Wood’s first love, he said, but after gaining experience, he grew to truly appreciate the field. “My original intention was to be a Charles Kuralt type — I just wanted to write features about people doing interesting things, not hard news,” he said. “The traditional way of getting into features is to cover school boards and obituaries and I didn’t want to do that. I said to myself, maybe I’d write sports for a while, then slide over and write features.” Six months in, however, he found he missed writing about sports. One of the most important parts of Wood’s success at Big Green Alert has been his close relationship with football head coach Buddy Teevens. Teevens began his second tenure as head coach for the Big Green in 2005, the same year Wood started up his blog. In fact, Wood even consulted with Teevens’
wife before starting Big Green Alert, he said, and Teevens has talked with Wood every day after practice for the past nine years. “Teevens had a similar idea and told me, ‘Let’s go for it,’” Wood said. “To his credit, he told me I could write anything I wanted and that he would never get on me. It helps that he trusts me.” Parents are perhaps the main beneficiaries of Wood’s in-depth look at Dartmouth football. Since he covers every game and practice, parents can keep up with their sons even from a distance. Wood said he has heard of fans reading the Big Green Alert blog from as far as China’s Yellow Sea. Players say they appreciate this connection, too. “He really gives our families an in-depth description of our practices and lets them know which players are improving, which players are hurt and what every one’s stats are like,” defensive back K.J. Booze ’16 said. Wood’s passion for Dartmouth football has been the driving force of his work at the Big Green Alert blog for the past decade, he said. But perhaps equally important are the relationships that he, a Dartmouth father, has built with Dartmouth athletes and their families. Though Wood’s daughter Kelly Wood ’14 ran at Dartmouth, Wood exclusively focuses on Dartmouth football, and because of this
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Big Green football players take down a Yale University ballcarrier.
he can grow closer to the Big Green community than sportswriters who have their interests pulled in a number of different directions, he said. Quarterback Alex Park ’14 first met Wood several days after transferring from the University of New Hampshire. “He and I have developed a really nice relationship over the last couple of years,” Park said. “We have candid conversations all the time. He’s always there after games with the media for post-game interviews and sometimes after practice he’ll grab you. He has been and is a big part of the Big Green program.” In the 35 years since he began
covering Dartmouth football, Wood has covered an undefeated Big Green squad as well as a winless one, but what stays with him, more than any of the wins or losses, are the small moments from each season, he said. “I think it was three years ago, the final football game of the season against Princeton with one of the Dartmouth lineman,” Wood said, when asked about his most memorable moment. “The stadium was pretty empty, but the bus hadn’t left yet. He took out his cleats, brought them out to the 50 yard line and left them there. Something pretty special about that.” Wood is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
DP2 DRIVE trains athletes in leadership for second summer B y JOSHUA KOENIG The Dartmouth Staff
In its second summer, the Dartmouth Peak Performance (DP2) DRIVE program has seen its participation expand to 100 student-athletes from 70 participants last year, senior associate athletics director for peak performance Drew Galbraith said. While the adjustment to a larger number of students has not changed the program’s focus, it has reduced the number of experiential exercises included over the course of the summer and increased the number of DP2 staff involved, program leader and assistant athletics director for leadership Steven Spaulding said. The summer program for varsity athletes is intended to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, classroom sessions and conversations with guest speakers. DRIVE serves as part of DP2’s four-year leadership
development program. Unlike last summer’s program and the other leadership programs that have run in past years, DRIVE is open to all varsity athletes this summer, Galbraith said, which may help explain the higher participation. Previously, coaches and captains had nominated participants to similar programs. “We wanted to create a program that would be available to any student who wanted to participate, regardless of whether they were someone who would be an All-Ivy performer or someone who is out there for the love of the game and the love of their team,” Galbraith said. Anticipating the increased number of participants, the number of experiential exercises has been reduced from roughly seven or eight exercises last year to four this summer, Spaulding said. Simultaneously, organizers have increased the quality and scope of the exercises.
One such exercise is a water adventure race planned for this Thursday, in which athletes will boat and complete a number of activities during an island stopover, Spaulding said. During experiential exercises, Spaulding works with team leaders and their groups to provide feedback and to translate leadership lessons learned in the classroom sessions into a practical, applied environment. “I’m not trying to get athletes better at rowing boats. I’m not trying to get them better at navigating in the woods,” he said. “What I’m trying to get them better at is leadership, and I’m using some of these contexts to do that with them.” Changes from last year, based on feedback from former participants, include a greater focus on a consistent framework across exercises and increased communication with guest speakers to further tie their commentary into the program’s other components,
Spaulding said. Past speakers have included College President Phil Hanlon, athletic director Harry Sheehy and deputy director of the Rockefeller Center Sadhana Hall. “The content that we’re talking about isn’t just applied right on your team the next year,” Spaulding said. “What’s the bigger picture of this? How does it connect to the athletic department, how does it connect to the College, how does it connect beyond here to life?” DRIVE participant and softball player Brianna Lohmann ’16 said it was a “no-brainer” for her and a number of her teammates to participate in the program, as they were interested in developing leadership skills. An experiential exercise involving an obstacle course has been her most memorable moment in the program so far. One of her teammates got stuck because of her harness, she said, as participants pulled
themselves across a dry creek bed using ropes. “It didn’t stop our team and we really bonded together and got behind all of our teammates,” she said. “It was awesome to see how fast we bounced back.” Volleyball head coach Erin Lindsey said all of her sophomores are competing in the DRIVE program. Last year, Lindsey said she saw benefits from the program in her student-athletes. “The plain fact that they’re thinking about [leadership] and working at bettering themselves as leaders is something that becomes really obvious when they come back to the team,” she said. “They have a larger perspective and view on what it means to lead other people.” Varsity coaches in six other sports could not be reached for comment via calls to their office phones on Thursday afternoon. Henry Arndt contributed reporting.