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Recruiting participation rises

Committee releases review of online findings

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Two hundred fourty-four students participated in this summer’s recruitment cycle.

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Roughly one-fifth of the class of 2016, or 244 students, applied for this summer’s recruiting cycle.

The Center for Professional Development hosted recruitment, assistant director for employer relations Fiona Cooke said. Two hundred were offered first-round in-

terviews, and the number of students who will take jobs is not yet finalized. The number of students participating in the process has increased for the past several years.

Last summer, 235 students participated in recruiting, and 201 students participated in 2012. By contrast, only 154 students participated in recruitment for fall and winter intern-

ships in 2009. The number of applications has increased between 2012 and 2013. In 2012, students submitted a total of 1,122 applications compared to 2,120 in 2013.

While commonly referred to by students as “corporate recruiting,” Cooke stressed that opportunities exist outside the fields of finance and SEE RECRUITING PAGE 5

Sophomore advocates for concealed gun carry B y Hannah Hye Min Chung The Dartmouth Staff

Last Wednesday, Taylor Woolrich ’16 wrote a column for Fox News in which she discussed her experience being stalked, criticizing the College’s policy prohibiting firearms.

The College does not allow the possession, manufacture, transfer, sale or use of weapons by any individual on College property or at College-sanctioned events.

Woolrich said that Richard Ben-

Abolishing the College’s Greek system was the most popular online submission that the presidential steering committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward received, the group announced on Wednesday. The preliminary findings released by the committee did not include feedback from means other than online submissions, such as discussion groups.

The committee received more than 250 online suggestions to abolish the Greek system. The next most popular suggestion for the creation for more alternative social spaces and activities received fewer than 125 suggestions. Other proposals included creating and enforcing harsher penalties for drinking and a zerotolerance policy for sexual assault.

Submissions relating to the Greek system received

the highest number of suggestions, just shy of 600.

Both sexual assault and drinking received more than 300 suggestions each.

The majority of those who submitted suggestions about the Greek system said they considered it a problem.

Around 450 said they saw it as a problem, while just over 100 said that it was not.

Over 1,600 people submitted suggestions online as of July 30. Alumni made up more than 1,200 respondents, while fewer than 100 students submitted suggestions. More than 100 parents and fewer than 100 professors also responded.

The report did not inlcude exact figures.

Presidential steering committee chair and English professor Barbara Will SEE SUGGESTIONS PAGE 3

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nett, a 67-year-old man, started following her four years ago when he saw her at a café where she worked.

Despite multiple restraining orders, Bennett continued to harass her, sending her multiple messages.

When Woolrich returned home this summer, she said, Bennett arrived at her home one morning, which violated his restraining order and led to his arrest. While searching his car, the police found what they SEE GUN CONTROL PAGE 5

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Students take to the river over the clear-skied weekend to canoe.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will reserve $22 million for a merit-based wage-raise for its employees starting this October, chief executive James Weinsteinm told the Valley News. This system is one of the biggest contributors to Upper Valley economy. Weinstein said that this chance for wage-raise will attract more qualified candidates and make DHMC competitive with Boston hospitals. Through the implementation of this wage system, Weinstein said he seeks to create a health care system that generates revenue by improving patients’ health rather than increasing the number of patients.

Physics professor Lorenza Viola is studying the theories of Italian physicist Ettore Majorana principle which, if fully developed, can greatly contribute to computer technology, New Hampshire Public Radio reported.

Majorana hypothesized that something can be both a particle and its anti-particle at the same time. These quasiparticles, he theorized, can replace bits currently used in building digital computers because they are more stable, holding each other together even when put in action.

The study is still in its early stage, but several companies such as IBM and Google are investing large sums in the hopes that better understanding Majorana’s theory would enable the development of a sturdier computing system.

Federal Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California ruled that the NCAA violated federal law by restricting athletes from creating revenue from their names or images, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. This ruling will allow star players to receive a considerable amount of deferred economic compensation for the profit generated by their images.

Still, the court ruled that NCAA can cap the amount that athletes can earn from their publicity at $5,000 a year to prevent college sports from becoming completely professionalized.

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Whereas his freshman year, Feyaad Allie ’16 juggled punching in and filling out paper time sheets for his three different campus jobs, now all he has to do to get paid is click his mouse.

Despite some technical glitches such as slow loading times and problems with phone usage within the Kronos program, students interviewed said that they support the College’s transition to online tracking instead of paper time sheets.

At the beginning of the term, all on-campus student employees switched from using traditional time sheets to using Kronos, an online time-tracking program.

Non-student College employees began using the program last fall.

The transition was part of a push to make the College’s administration more efficient, director of shared services in the payroll office Cheryl Josler said.

Josler added that using paper time sheets inconvenienced employees and was a poor use of staff resources.

Media collection specialist at Jones Media Center James Broutzos said advantages of using Kronos include its universal accessibility and efficiency for both supervisors and student employees.

“Having the supervisors approve the time sheets all in one sweep is much more efficient,” he said.

Josler said that the payroll office evaluated multiple time tracking programs as part of the selection process. Kronos was picked as the best program to meet the College’s needs because of its relative flexibility.

“Kronos can handle multiple jobs, while other program vendors expect you to hold only one job,” Josler said.

This helps Tanya Budler ’15, who works in the library and other campus jobs. Tracking down her supervisors to sign hard copies of time sheets each Friday, she said, was “a pain.”

“But in Kronos you can do it in one place and you can just do it yourself without having to find people,” she said.

Dartmouth Dining Services has used the program for the last 15 years, Josler said, so there already was a familiarity with the program.

Some students said they have noticed glitches in the program through the transition. Budler said she experienced problems with the program not saving her hours properly.

“I think the program is still a little bit confused,” she said. “Kronos isn’t used to clocking multiple jobs with different pay rates.”

Joanne Zhao ’16 said that on some browsers like Chrome, Kronos automatically times out.

If the user did not save their data on time, they are forced to re-enter it, she said.

Caroline Allan ’16, an intern in the housing office, said that some of her complaints with the program are that it needs constant refreshment on her computer and that it is incompatible with her phone because it uses Java.

“I can’t do it on the go,” Allan said. “I always worry that it didn’t go through, and that I’m not going to get paid. Other than that, it’s convenient to not turn in paper every week because that’s just another thing to forget to do.”

When users log into Kronos, they select their campus job from

a drop-down menu, Allie said.

Computing services is working to ensure that the program is stable for student use, Josler said.

Having programmers on campus equipped with skills to support the program factored into the decision to implement Kronos over other time-tracking vendors, she added.

“Some people have had issues with Java,” she said. “The disadvantages of the program come with trying to support people using different computers, but even that’s worth it to go paperless.”

In order to transition to Kronos as smoothly as possible, the library hosted workshops and computer sessions at the end of spring term for student employees. The payroll office compiled a list of currently employed students and sent email notices about the impending switch to electronic time sheets.

Despite occasional errors, both employers and student employees interviewed said they found electronic time sheets more advantageous.

“Like with any transition, there were bumps along the road,” Broutzos said. “It took us time to get through the little quirks, but we haven’t had any major problems.

We were able to set up and get it running fairly quickly.”

Budler said although it is sometimes frustrating to refresh and re-enter her hours when she runs into glitches in the program, the switch to Kronos “will be well worth it in the long run.”

“The pros definitely outweigh the cons,” Zhao said.

Kronos will be a permanent implementation for student employees on campus, but revisions to the electronic time sheets will have to be submitted on paper, Josler said.

Jasmine Sachar contributed reporting.

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“Lazarus to give special screening of new film” (8/8/14): Due to an editing error, the gender of Hopkins Center film manager Sydney Stowe was misstated — she is a woman, and the pronoun used to describe her in the piece has been corrected from “he” to “she.” Paul Lazarus ’76, not Stowe, said that the film will be an eye-opener and noted that the film will introduce newcomers to the issue.

“Bucket List Busting” (8/8/14): The introduction to this story noted that in each of the items for which students were surveyed, the majority of respondents had not checked the items off of their bucket lists.

This is incorrect — the majority of respondents had eaten dinner at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, as noted in the accompanying graph.

“Online suggestions point to abolishing Greek life” (8/9/14): The majority of those who submitted online recommendations did not advocate for the abolition of Greek life. Instead, the suggestion was the most popular one received. The web update online has been revised.

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After looking at several options for new time tracking programs, the payroll office settled on Kronos.

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Majority of feedback is on Greek system FROM SUGGESTIONS PAGE 1

declined to be interviewed because she did not feel comfortable extrapolating potential recommendations based solely on the online suggestions. She wrote in an email that it is important to remember that most of the online feedback came from alumni, not students. She said that the committee has spoken with students through 35 facilitated discussions.

“Current students need to realize their opinions and ideas are just as important to us as those of the other members of our community,” she said in the email.

Will said that the committee will release preliminary recommendations in the fall after members gather more responses from the College community. Summer Panhellenic Council president Charlotte Kamai ’16 said that members of Greek houses recognize that alums who responded are in favor of abolishing the Greek system but that she believes the suggestions do not represent all opinions. There is a currently a spectrum of options for the Greek system, she said, ranging from full abolishment to leaving it as is.

“We are working on the best way to move the system forward by finding the best place on the spectrum for it,” she said.

She added that while Greek leadership is working to address the root problems with the Greek system, many problems with current campus climate do not come exclusively from Greek life.

“Alumni don’t always recognize that societal problems can be viewed as Greek problems,” she said. “The Greek system is not the cause of everything that is wrong with Dartmouth’s social climate.”

Of 30 students interviewed, five said that they thought the idea of abolishing the Greek system was interesting but would be logistically difficult, while the rest said they were opposed to the idea.

Yvette Zou ’16 said that because of the drastic nature of the possible change, she does not think it would be doable.

Desmond Fambrini ’16 said that he is unsure about getting rid of the Greek system, since the majority of students are involved in it.

“I feel like Moving Dartmouth Forward should be more about adjusting and refining, not changing such a huge aspect of life,” he said.

“It’s a large part of people’s lives. I feel that we shouldn’t jump to rash decisions.”

Kayla McFarland ’16 said that although she has not yet fully formed an opinion concerning the issue, she feels the number of students who participated in the online survey conducted by the committee was too low to be an accurate sample.

Phil Sheridan ’16 reiterated Mc-

Farland’s sentiments, saying that he cannot think of any individuals that would want the entire system to be abolished.

The Greek system provides an important opportunity for students to develop their leadership skills within a collegiate setting, Chad Rairie ’16 said.

“Current students need to realize their opinions and ideas are just as important to us as those of the other members of our community.”

- BARBARA WILL, PRESIDENTIAL STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR “Greek house leadership is often students’ first time managing a real budget, risks related to hosting events and responsibility over said events, as well as planning and coordinating events with faculty and alumni,” he said. “The Greek system also provides tens of thousands of dollars in philanthropy to local and national

charities each year which would not be coordinated, collected and participated in at such a high rate and frequency without the Greek system.”

Matt Klein ’16 said that the fraternities, sororities and coed houses present students with the opportunity to form lasting bonds between individuals of diverse interests and backgrounds, which would not have otherwise been possible.

Kamai said that Panhell has worked with the committee through co-hosting discussions, including one last week that gave affiliated women a chance to share their opinions.

In September, the committee will release their top ideas and solicit community feedback. In October, they will present their recommendations to College President Phil Hanlon.

Inter-Fraternity Council summer president Chase Gilmore ’16 could not be reached for comment by press time.

Other members of the presidential steering committee either referred reporters to Will or could not be reached for comment by press time.

Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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Properly Paying Players

Less Than Consent

The recent ruling on compensating collegiate athletes is long overdue.

The NCAA, which has long thrived on the rather unique business model of not paying those responsible for earning it money, has been dealt a severe blow. Recently, in the antitrust class action lawsuit O’Bannon v. NCAA, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the organization’s refusal to compensate athletes in the revenue sports (men’s basketball and football) is legally untenable. Universities may, under Wilken’s decision, establish trust funds for such athletes which are capped at $5,000 per year. Such a low potential ceiling for athletes’ compensation was surely not enthusiastically received by the plaintiffs. However, the O’Bannon decision as a whole is undoubtedly a victory for athletes in revenue sports and a loss for the NCAA. Although it may be years before athletes are actually compensated, the outcome of this long-running case sets a precedent that the NCAA has feared for some time — at some point, it must split the pie with the very people who baked it.

For decades, the NCAA has claimed to exemplify the beauty of amateurism. There was something pure about watching amateurs compete against each other — or so the NCAA told us. Removed from the seductive allure of money, young athletes would only play for the love of the game. Collegiate athletics represented how sports were supposed to be played. Perhaps this narrative would be more believable if the NCAA itself was not making hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the efforts of these so-called amateurs.

To be fair, the vast majority of athletes overseen by the NCAA do not produce any revenue for either their schools or the organization; virtually every dollar the NCAA makes comes from men’s football and basketball. The organization reports that the latter sport by itself accounts for approximately 90 percent of the NCAA’s total revenue with the television proceeds from its annual March Madness championship. But since basketball players are technically amateurs, as decreed by the NCAA, they receive none of this revenue.

Wilken, who may have realized that there

is irreconcilable tension between such massive earnings and claims of amateurism, wisely told the NCAA that the party was over. It could not continue to treat athletes in revenue sports as amateurs and not compensate them. While the athletes who would receive stipends are generally stars already on full scholarships, Wilken understood that scholarships alone cannot cover many living and auxiliary expenses that athletes incur over their careers. It was patently unfair that universities were barred from alleviating those expenses when athletes were earning so much money for their schools.

Athletes who play in non-revenue sports, meanwhile, have no claim to monetary compensation for their services because they do not earn anyone any money. This is a logical consequence that currently provides no allowances for women’s sports. The NCAA tried and failed to exploit this implication by mounting a Title IX non-revenue defense. Wilken’s ruling nevertheless leaves female athletes in a position that could be interpreted as violating the law’s guarantee of equality in university athletics.

However, the decision is fair even under Title IX; women’s basketball is not nearly as popular as men’s, and other female sports barely register on the public consciousness.

Those decrying the ruling as the death of everything good about college athletics miss the point. College athletics at the revenue level have essentially been serving as a collection of quasi-professional leagues for years. Apart from the gap in respective talent levels and differences in format, the only major difference between the NBA Finals and March Madness is that players in the latter competition are not compensated for their participation. Gone are the days when Kentucky versus Kansas was a local affair carried out by regular students playing for nothing more than the love of the game. Big-time college sports has turned into a moneyed spectacle. While those criticizing such a spectacle may be justified in doing so, withholding compensation from athletes accomplishes nothing but the perpetration of a myth that died long ago.

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The College should formally acknowledge gray area sexual encounters.

In light of SexFest and Respect Works, I would like to address a serious yet often overlooked issue regarding consent and sexual assault.

On the spectrum of sexual encounters many recognize a gray area between consensual sex and rape. Media and recent discourse suggest fewer sexual assaults fit the stereotypical image, and more and more people are lamenting over the classification of some “gray area” exchanges as rape. It is time for Dartmouth to formally recognize a new class of sexual interaction with its own separate consequences that reflects behavior that lies somewhere on the middle of the spectrum — sexual coercion.

There is no nationally recognized definition of “sexual coercion,” but in various states’ legislation (like New Hampshire’s) it usually refers to sexual encounters that involve a threat or fear of violence and/or an intimidating, coercive environment.

Dartmouth’s recently updated policy on sexual assault addresses coercion in its definition of consent: “Consent must be voluntarily given and is not valid if obtained by physical force, coercion or threat.” However, coercion itself is not defined, nor is there any attempt to distinguish between context and gravity of situations and the subsequent punishments. While sexual assault may include coercion as defined above, not all encounters in which one party somehow feels coerced involve outright violence or explicit threats, and therefore may not fall under the category of “sexual assault.” That the College only acknowledges a single grievance entitled “sexual assault” with an all-encompassing disciplinary process is unacceptable. When a sexual encounter is deemed inappropriate by one party involved but that individual does not believe, for whatever reason, that it fully meets the College’s standards for sexual assault, should the situation go completely unaddressed? I would say no.

Dartmouth should formally recognize situations in which an individual does not accept what I would refer to as “soft indications of no” until one party reluctantly gives in, feeling violated nonetheless, but leaving the other party feeling like the encounter was entirely consensual.

What exactly is a “soft indication of no”?

There are many verbal and nonverbal cues to this end. Many involve excuses as to why one does not wish to continue, whether it’s claims of the hour being too late, nervousness that roommates might overhear or merely citing exhaustion. In other words, a “no, because.” Too often the other party assumes the person making excuses does not want to appear desperate or is just playing coy. The thought seems to be that if the person gives in after a bit of prompting, the sexual contact was wanted anyway. The tacit assumption is that assertive verbal or physical reactions are the only valid indication of unwillingness to engage in the encounter, and anything less is silent compliance.

But this does not take into account reality. It is uncomfortable to yell or use force, particularly when the other person is a familiar face — a friend, a classmate or a romantic interest. In some cases, an individual gives in due to worry that the aggressor’s insistence could escalate into violence. It can be difficult to weigh all of one’s choices and make a decision in such an intimidating situation, especially having seen peers who

have been met with mixed responses and even outright criticism after accusing someone of assault.

The aggressors in these situations can be the typical guy or girl who may not have malicious intentions, but due to lack of education or indication otherwise assumes that nothing is wrong in such encounters. While a lack of education does not excuse a coercive individual, it does complicate things enough that such encounters may not be entirely equivalent to what the College currently classifies as “sexual assault.” But they do still need to be addressed, because at the very least they can lead to confusion and emotional distress for both parties afterward.

New College policy against the variety of sexual coercion that I have described could carry a lesser punishment than those of sexual assault cases and would be for the benefit and protection of all parties involved. The College would not have to try to interpret and judge these situations based on standards and statutes that all parties involved may feel do not fit the type of situation at hand. A situation similar to what I have described would currently have to be reported as sexual assault, if at all. If the College, as it likely would, finds that what occurred can’t fit neatly enough into the definition of assault, the accused person is completely let off the hook.

In contrast, if the college finds the person guilty, the alleged aggressor is forevermore labeled as a sexual assailant. Recognizing sexual coercion as a separate entity and assigning it different, likely less serious, consequences would acknowledge that something unethical took place without using the ill-fitting labels of “rape” or “not rape.” Adjusting our definition accounts for the reality that sexual activity consists of a broader spectrum of behavior and allows us to recognize that coercion is something we desperately need to teach about and advocate against.

As noted during Respect Works and echoed in a recent Dartblog post entitled “If There’s a Will, Maybe There’s a Way,” Yale University does not deem such encounters to be sexual assault. The university would, however, recommend the aggressor be taught about “sexual pressure” by their University-wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct and take part in a sensitivity training program. Perhaps a similar program at Dartmouth that involves counseling and education related to sex, consent and respect could be advantageous.

More nuanced decisions regarding consequences, including the possibility of the program I have described, may help victims in “gray area” cases feel more comfortable reporting, as many are wary of labeling these interactions as sexual assault. Often, a person who feels coerced struggles with the decision of whether or not to report, conflicted because he or she does not know if the other person’s actions were severe enough to warrant the College’s thorough sexual assault investigation. A program specifically aimed at addressing sexual coercion may lead to less hesitation to report, particularly if the program is excluded from permanent disciplinary records.

The College’s current definition of sexual assault does not allow for the nuance necessary to account for these situations, which does both the survivor and the community a disservice.

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Currently, Dartmouth does not allow students to carry firearms on campus, like many other peer institutions.

Student react to campus weapon rules FROM GUN CONTROL PAGE 1

deemed a “rape kit” — including a slip noose, a knife and gloves.

At the annual Students for Concealed Carry conference in Washington D.C. on Aug. 5, Woolrich said that the College did not permit her to carry firearms on campus even though she felt unsafe. She added that the College and Safety and Security did not adequately respond to her concern about safety.

Woolrich’s message went viral the following week, with dozens of news outlets and advocacy groups reporting and commenting on her story. She later noted to Today that she intended to raise awareness about the challenges faced by the victims of stalking, not to join the debate on gun control.

The national discussion sparked by her comments has made its way to Hanover in the weeks after her column’s publication. While Woolrich did not respond to The Dartmouth’s request for comment, students reflected on the issues raised by her column in the days following her statements.

Alex Lee ’16 said that the prospect of students carrying arms on campus makes him uncomfortable because factors like alcohol could jeopardize safety with firearms present.

While he said he believes the firearm ban on campus is a good regulation, Aaron Pellowski ‘15 said that the College should have made an exception for this specific case, though he recognized that the exception could set a prec-

edent.

“It’s an innocuous exception because it’s not like, all the sudden, you are going to have a ton of people just saying, ‘Oh I feel endangered and that’s why I need to have a gun or three guns or a shot gun in my dorm room,” he said.

Vivienne Kim ’16 said that she can understand the arguments of both the College and Woolrich.

She said that, given fatal shootings on college campuses, she can understand why the College is hesitant to allow students to have guns.

“I think that everybody has right to their own safety and obviously, and this is a very serious issue that has been greatly affecting her life in so many different areas,” she said. “On the other hand, I’m sure the administration and Safety and Security are very concerned about possibility and what could potentially happen, given that a student would carry a concealed weapon or students in general would be allowed to carry concealed weapons.”

After considering both sides of the issue, Prodhi Manisha ’17 said that possession of firearms should be totally banned on campus, given recent school shootings.

Manisha added that along with escorts from Safety and Security, Woolrich should be allowed to have a means of self-defense other than firearms like pepper spray.

Director of communications at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Ladd Everitt said prohibiting firearms on campus makes it easier for College security members and

local law enforcement groups to identify and, if necessary, disarm a suspect.

President of the Crime Prevention Research Center John Lott said that a Safety and Security escort would not necessarily guarantee Woolrich’s safety, if officers are unarmed.

Everitt said that since the stalker is under custody, behind bars and going through the judicial process, campus security’s offer to escort her is a reasonable response that would protect her.

Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne declined to comment, citing privacy considerations for the student.

Students who report being stalked receive “individualized attention and heightened protection,” the College said in a statement last week. Director of media relations Diana Lawrence noted in an email that Dartmouth cannot comment on individual students’ situations because of federal privacy laws.

Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University prohibit students carrying weapons and firearms on campus.

New Hampshire state law does not have any licensing requirements for the purchase or possession of any rifle, shotgun or handgun.

Bennett is currently accused of violating the restraining order and felony stalking along with other charges. His next court date is Aug. 20. If sentenced, he could serve up to four years in prison.

consulting.

Students sought opportunities at 25 companies, including 10 finance firms, nine consulting firms, three marketing, sales and business development firms, two law firms and one product management firm.

Several of these companies also offered opportunities in different divisions within their respective firms.

To help students prepare, the CPD hosted recruiting workshops before major deadlines, which included hour-long presentations that summarized available opportunities and the recruiting process, and offered tips on how to interview, how to use Dartboard and how the process works for students who are off campus, Cooke said.

The CPD also hosted about 15 potential employers prior to when recruiting officially began and hosted events with alumni to give students opportunities to learn about fields in which they are interested, CPD senior associate director Monica Wilson said, adding that these sessions occur every term.

Several campus groups also provided assistance to students to prepare for recruiting.

Women in Business hosted a recruiting overview, resume and cover letter workshop and interview preparation workshops, summer president Claire Yao ’16 said. At the end of every meeting, attendees broke into small groups for a more personalized preparation approach.

Yao said that the group also hosted current events breakfasts

every Wednesday morning, so that students would become familiar with issues in the news, in case such a topic came up in an interview.

The Dartmouth Investment and Philanthropy Program also worked to help students prepare, investment committee member Bob Klingenberger ’16 said. The group decided that many members would likely benefit from recruiting preparation sessions, he said.

He said that the first two sessions delved into the technical aspects of investment interviews, since many interviews ask about the three basic financial statements — balance sheets, income statements and statements of cash flows. They also gave a tutorial on how to give a basic stock pitch, another very common technical question, he said. “[Interviewers] want to know you’ve been following the markets,” he said.

Sophie Hoffman ’16, who will work in the credit risk management and advisory department within the finance division at Goldman Sachs this winter, said that she had an overall good experience going through the recruitment process.

“It was very time-consuming and stressful, but I think it was a great learning opportunity and helped me to get more comfortable with networking and talking to professionals,” she said.

To prepare, Hoffman said she reached out to Dartmouth alumni in germane fields, while also attending CPD workshops and oneon-one appointments. She also prepared for interviews with friends.

Despite the competitive nature of the recruiting process, she said her preparation with other students was a collaborative effort overall.

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Hoffman thrills in final performance as ‘A Most Wanted Man’ B y Andrew Kingsley The Dartmouth Staff

It was sobering experience to sit in a quiet theater and watch as Philip Seymour Hoffman became the beleaguered, chain smoking spy Günther Bachmann in Anton Corbijn’s “A Most Wanted Man” (2014). This film was Hoffman’s final leading role before his tragic death earlier this year, the result of a cocktail of heroin, cocaine and prescription medications. A haunted yet brilliant actor who brought some of film’s most iconic characters to life, such as Truman Capote in “Capote”(2005) and Caden Cotard in “Synecdoche, New York” (2008), Hoffman struggled with drug abuse and alcoholism throughout his life. “A Most Wanted Man” is Hoffman’s swan song, and in its eerie proximity to his own life, the film provides a window into the freighted, enervated and tailspinning psyche of one of our generation’s greatest talents.

Based off John le Carré’s 2008 novel of the same name, the film focuses on a minor anti-terrorist spy organiza-

tion led by Bachmann, which must hunt down and protect the innocent ex-prisoner Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) in Hamburg, Germany. The thriller’s main source of conflict comes takes the form of a group of British/ American intelligence agents who are on a similar mission to capture Issa, but their ultimate goal is to deport him back to Russia. It’s David versus Goliath, and Bachmann’s small, cunning team runs circles around the clunky, bigheaded giant of international espionage.

It later comes to light that Issa has connections to jihadists and the prominent philanthropist Abdullah (Homayoun Ershadi), who preaches his doctrine of non-violence and peace in universities yet funds terrorist organizations behind closed doors.

Haunted by the “Hamburg Cell” of Mohamed Atta and his radical Islamic students who planned 9/11 attacks in Hamburg, Bachmann refuses to allow another terrorist plot to slip through his fingers. Using Issa, Bachmann seeks to take down Abdullah and his murderous beneficiaries.

Within this framework of terrorists, money laundering and no-holds-barred detective work, audience members are going to expect gun fights, bloodshed and some steamy romance as soon as they purchase their tickets at the box office. Much like “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (2011), another John le Carré novel-turned-film, “A Most Wanted Man” keeps the film at a very low heat, allowing tension to patiently stew through subdued dialogue rather than scorching us with fiery explosions and endless violence. The slow-burn pace may be less eye-catching, but this captures a much more realistic image of international espionage. It’s a battle of wits, not brawn.

While more realistic in its portrayal, the lack of gun-slinging secret agents and seemingly endless explosions begs the question ­­— can a film that really doesn’t make your heart race until the last 10 minutes be considered a thriller? The answer lies not in the film’s shortcomings, but in the semantic and presupposed limitations of the genre. Corbijn toys with thriller tropes,

subverting expectations to create a near anti-thriller. Instead of a suave, “shaken-not-stirred” James Bond, we get a paunchy and fatigued “coffee ... black” Bachmann. Deep, suspended organ notes replace suspenseful violins and piercing flutes. Words take precedence over gun shots, and ultimata and patience become weapons in the hands of shrewd, savvy spies. The film may not be the most entertaining experience for the first 115 minutes, yet it pays off with a blindsiding ending that’s undoubtedly worth the wait.

Unlike Bachmann, the British CIA members use brute force and SWAT teams as they try to catch Issa, abiding by stereotypical action film motifs. The contrast between the two organizations critiques President George Bush’s employment of extraordinary rendition, when suspected terrorists were deported to countries where they would be tortured, as used against Murat Kurnaz in 2001. Kurnaz was an innocent German resident arrested and tortured for five years in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, and his story served

as inspiration for le Carré’s novel.

Anchoring the drama is Bachmann himself, who knows all the angles and acts like a Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, to the unknowing British spies, just waiting to say he told us so. His first words of the movie are, not surprisingly, “Yes, I know.” Bachmann’s intervening soon makes him their enemy, and in his race to save Issa and take down Abdullah, Bachmann becomes a most wanted man for the British.

Throughout his career, Hoffman was a most wanted man, considered one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors and certainly belonging to its most gifted pantheon. His frenetic life and genius as an actor translate into his endless detective work and prowess in the film. In the end, Hoffman was playing himself, a man running out of fuel in a demanding system. This is a fitting farewell.

Rating: 7.9/10 “A Most Wanted Man” is playing daily at the Nugget at 1:40 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 6:40 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Documentary to spotlight artist Ellsworth Kelly’s early life B y Luke McCann

The Dartmouth Staff

Tucked between the Black Family Visual Arts Center and the Hopkins Center, the Maffei Arts Plaza was once nothing more than a parking lot and Brewster Hall, a residential space that housed international students.

The space is now a hub of public art, where some of the most prestigious art at Dartmouth is displayed. While the College has said farewell to Louise Bourgeois’s “Crouching Spider” and the five Allan Houser sculptures now on display will also leave in May 2015, the plaza maintains one permanent work of art: Ellsworth Kelly’s “Dartmouth Panels.” Five brightly colored, aluminum rectangles will continue to hold their place along the outside wall of Spaulding Auditorium, watching over the plaza as the other works continue to change.

Kelly’s beginnings as an artist and the events that inspired his works are the subject of “Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments” (2007), a documentary by Checkerboard Film Foundation that the Hood Museum of Art will screen Thursday.

Hood director Michael Taylor will introduce the documentary and guide the spotlight tour of Kelly’s panels after the screening. The film, he said, will explore the artist’s “subdued style,” referencing Kelly’s focus on things like the reflection of light in a window, unlike the more visceral subjects of his contemporaries.

“Fragments” is a part of the Hood’s “Art and a Movie” program, and marks what the museum hopes will be the first in a series of several documentaries on the public art on Dartmouth’s campus, said Sharon Reed, the Hood’s programs

and events coordinator.

“It’s a great way of providing more in-depth information about artists in a visual form, outside of a lecture or gallery tour,” she said. “Seeing the artist’s life is a way to learn about where he’s coming from in his work.”

The profile of Kelly will be helpful for understanding the nuance in the artist’s work, Taylor said, acknowledging that the abstract elements of Kelly’s pieces can often leave viewers unsure the artist’s message or motivation. “[Kelly] is one of the most important artists alive today, but he’s not a traditional landscape artist by any means,” he said. “You have to bring a lot to the table in terms of context and the history of art, but this film can give viewers that context.”

The film will focus heavily on Kelly’s time in Paris, where he lived as a young man in the years after World War II and taught arts at the French embassy.

“Fragments” will explore some of Kelly’s earliest influences and how these same images of Paris would become cornerstones that would echo throughout his years of artwork. After watching the documentary, Taylor said, audiences can understand how Kelly arrived at the signature style for which he’s widely recognized.

“In Paris in the 1950s, the art world was dominated by abstract expressionism, which Ellsworth found to be sort of macho and heroic for him,” he said.

“He found a way of continuing the legacy of Mondrian and Matisse but not in the visceral, gestural, throwing the paint at a canvas sort of way.”

The importance of understanding the artist behind the work was echoed

by Jinny Seo ’16, a studio art major.

“Art is a form of communication, and you have to know the context to really understand what the artist is trying to express,” she said. “Art reflects so much upon the culture and time that it was made in, and it’s surprising how much more you will understand a piece of art when you learn the history behind it.”

Corrine Romano ’15, a studio art major, said that Kelly’s subdued style is apparent in the Spaulding panels.

She said that her first impressions of the panels were that they were simple colored panels, but the works have a complex side, too.

“These panels will never fade, and that kind of thing is an entirely new level for art,” she said. “There’s an inevitable deterioration and degradation of every art piece over time, but for a piece to be able to stay the same is incredible.”

Taylor said that after watching the

documentary and understanding the process of Ellsworth Kelly’s artistic development, it would make every viewer look at the panels in a new way.

This was reiterated by Jenny Seong ’16, a studio art major, who said the panels can be difficult to understand because of their minimalism.

“There’s so little information in the actual piece — it’s just five panels and it can be hard to know what to do with that,” she said. “This is one of the pieces that requires some information in order to really understand it.”

As the museum moves forward, Reed says the Hood hopes the museum can continue to spark conversation about the artwork visible on campus with their documentaries.

While the “Art and a Movie” series does not run on a set schedule, she said the Hood is constantly looking for film sthat resonate with the art on campus.

“We want the films we show to really be connected to the collections and artwork we’re showing on campus,” she said. “Attendance has been strong, and the audiences seem to enjoy putting the artwork they see into the context of the artist’s life.”

Romano shared the enthusiasm for Kelly’s work, saying that the addition of public art on campus and the conversations around the art add something the campus was previously missing.

“As weird as the art is sometimes, just the fact that we’re able to have it brings such a different flash of character on campus,” she said. “Now that we’re putting art on campus, it’s no longer just a college in the middle of the woods.”

“Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments” can be seen Thursday at the Hood Museum of Art Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. A tour of the panels in the Maffei Plaza will follow.

MAGGIE ROWLAND/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Ellsworth Kelly, artist of “Dartmouth Panels,” developed his signature, subdued style during early years in Paris.

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No athletic events scheduled

Students prepare for Fantasy Football

By Zac hardwick The Dartmouth Staff

At the end of August each year, millions of people across the country gather in living rooms, basements and mancaves for an ever-growing American tradition: the fantasy football draft. To bystanders it appears as nothing more than a waste of time, a “boys will be boys” tradition that subtly flies under the radar. But to draft participants, the men and women who seek a little more out of sports than ESPN updates and feel-good profile stories, it’s a time to immerse themselves in a world more concerned with statistics and points than team loyalty and game outcomes.

While Dartmouth has no official fantasy football league, smaller groups of students organize through fraternity houses, student organizations and friend groups to create their own competitions.

At Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, for example, members of the house gather during the NFL preseason for a brothers-only draft and fantasy tournament, Joon Baak ’15, member of Tri-Kap, said. Brothers also email invites to house alumni, he said.

The draft traditionally occurs in August. The fantasy draft began more than 50 years ago, according to an ESPN report, when the first fantasy league, the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators, held their first draft.

While some drafts have since moved completely online, many traditionalists still prefer to congregate in homes and bars for the three-to-four hour long selection process, according to Ryan Strain ’16, a self proclaimed fantasy draft enthusiast.

The basic gist of the process is that a person acquires a roster of players, sets a lineup each week during the regular football season and watches as the fantasy points accumulate. Each achievement in the game — including touchdowns, field goals, yards gained, interceptions, sacks, points allowed, turnovers and much more — is assigned a point value.

The better a player performs in a given game, the more individual points he gains, contributing to his overall total for the week. An added bonus is that many leagues compete for a cash pot.

Jackson Dean ’16 began playing fantasy football during his freshman year of high school and was instantly addicted. In those days, he spent roughly 10 hours a week building and adjusting

his team, often times sacrificing sleep and homework to get it right. During his junior year, Dean said, his parents gave him a choice of playing varsity basketball or fantasy football. After much consideration, he went with basketball. Dean attributes his love of sport and knack for following statistics to his admiration for the game.

“I just love it,” he said. “It’s a great way to follow football and people and teams that you’re not very interested in.”

Dean, like many other self proclaimed fanatics, enjoys the strategy behind building and adjusting a team week-by-week. After the draft, he says, the game is all about picking up players that no one has and trading with other league members based on need. He focuses on player injuries and looks for trends in performance. For example, he’d pick up a free-agent wide receiver that has played particularly well over the course of consecutive weeks. He also does cost-benefit analysis, he said, when trading for players.

“You have to do the analysis to determine who is worth trading and who is worth giving up,” he said. “It’s all about how much specific players are worth to you and your specific needs at a specific time.”

Fantasy leagues have blossomed into a multi-billion dollar industry, with many companies providing expert advice and information to some of the world’s most avid sports fans, according to Forbes Magazine. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association estimated in 2013 that roughly 32 million Americans spend $15 billion playing per year. $11 billion of that spending is on fantasy football alone.

Tim McCullough, the managing editor at RotoExperts, a provider of fantasy sports content, said that participating in the activity enhances the enjoyment of professional sports in general.

McCullough said he finds that the largest demographic participating in fantasy sports are men ages 25-54.

Women, however, have participated in fantasy sports, especially football, more and more in recent years, he added.

One of the most attractive things about fantasy sports, Strain said, is that no one has direct control over the outcomes beyond a certain point. Although there are strategies to implement, there is a certain degree of lack of control.

There’s no way of knowing how well someone is going to play, he said.

RIDING THE PINE Fieldstock. Was. Sick. It may have started slow when Moose didn’t even show up to the Phi Delt puppy party, but after spending an hour lost in the sweet, alternative and controversial tunes of campus band Ladies Night (“This isn’t parents weekend anymore”), the party finally began. Campus was absolutely electric due to the long-awaited return of Edward Wagner ’16 and Theta Delt. Hank and Fish were far from immune to this excitement. We responded the only way we knew how: by going to Molly’s at 5 p.m. and taking a table selfie with our boys in order to celebrate Hank’s chess masters win over Daniel “King of Kings” Reitsch ’16.

Sure, the weekend wasn’t perfect.

We didn’t score an invite to the perennial and legendary Montreal trip despite our tactful attempt to appeal to Psi U summer president Jai Lakhanpal ’16 by name-dropping him in last week’s column. However, welcoming back the Fifty team affectionately and disturbingly named “Riding the Pine” more than made up for Lakhanpal’s snub.

Fieldstock weekend saw its fair share of quality sports action as well.

Venus beat Serena for the first time since 2009 in a three-set thriller, major decisions were handed down in NCAA lawsuits and there was some incredible extra-inning baseball action. However, nothing truly compared to the best final round of major golf in recent memory. This week’s Riding the Pine relives the drama in Valhalla and pays a sports blogger’s tribute to the “baby-faced killer,” Rory McIlroy.

After the first three rounds of the PGA Championship, the tournament was McIlroy’s to lose. On Sunday, he almost did just that.

Coming off back-to-back wins at the British Open and Bridgestone

WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT

Invitational, McIlroy held a onestroke lead entering the final round over Bernd Wiesberger, a relative newcomer regarded by few as a legitimate Sunday threat.

A two-hour rain delay pushed the leaders’ final round into prime time. The delay may have played with McIlroy’s nerves as he faltered on the front nine and fell three strokes off the lead. The final nine holes of the tournament were a battle between McIlroy, Americans Phil “Lefty” Mickelson and Rickie Fowler and the Swede Henrik Stenson.

McIlroy began his charge on the par-five 10th. About 280 yards from the hole, McIlroy placed a three-wood drive on a dime, 7 feet from the hole. He slotted the eagle to climb back within one of the lead.

McIlroy was dominant on Sunday’s back nine, birdieing the 13th and 17th on his way to a round of 68.

The rest of the field refused to go down without a fight, providing a final round to remember for the fans and McIlroy’s stiffest competition at the end of a major to date.

Mickelson’s work around the greens was particularly on point, as he came within a lip of a chip-in birdie on the 16th hole. The tiny margin of error would come back to bite him as he two-putted the hole for an extremely costly bogey.

Entering the final hole, McIlroy held a commanding two-shot lead over Fowler and Mickelson. Only a Mickelson miracle or a McIlroy meltdown would prevent the “babyfaced killer” from hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy at day’s end.

The golfers were rapidly running out of daylight and would have to blitz the final hole to finish before darkness suspended the tournament until Monday morning.

Mickelson and Fowler played the 18th well off the tee, putting

themselves in legitimate eagle positions. Fowler reached the green in two, but Mickelson left his shot short and would need a chip-in eagle to have any real shot at a playoff.

In typical Lefty fashion, he almost holed it. Fowler missed his 50-foot eagle putt and his birdie putt lipped, pushing him out of contention for first place.

After nearly missing his eagle, Mickelson easily dropped in the birdie, putting the pressure on McIlroy to par-out or playoff on Monday. McIlroy hit a wayward drive that nearly found the drink, and his approach shot wasn’t much better, crash-landing in a greenside bunker. A chip out of the bunker left him a birdie putt of about 35 feet to win. At this point, McIlroy possessed the option to delay play on the 18th to Monday, but he elected to attempt to two-putt the final hole in near darkness.

He slammed the first putt to within inches of the hole and didn’t leave a glimmer of hope for Mickelson. A tap-in handed McIlroy his fourth career major, his third consecutive win and golf its newest, brightest and most recently un-engaged superstar.

This has been a summer of selfdiscovery. There have been some laughs, countless friends refusing to nominate us for the ice bucket challenge and one major epiphany.

We are golf guys. We may never win the free game at Fore-U, we may never even step foot on Hanover Country Club’s immaculate greens but we will blog about the royal and ancient game until our ashes are scattered at Augusta. At some point, this article became a far too honest ode to the sport of golf. Our love nearly impossible for us to rein in.

We feel like hikers hallucinating at the end of the Fifty, but we haven’t moved one inch.