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Alpha Delta fraternity has been derecognized by the College, effective April 20.

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Following the derecognition of Alpha Delta fraternity, numerous Greek leaders and various students expressed reticence to comment on the decision while national media outlets picked up the news.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed that AD had been derecognized on Monday afternoon following allegations that the fraternity

branded new members. The branding allegations, which followed a string of other violations that College spokesperson Justin Anderson said included hazing, serving alcohol to minors and hosting unregistered parties, caused the College to extend its suspension of AD indefinitely until disciplinary proceedings could be resolved.

The Dartmouth Organizational Adjudication Committee determined AD to be in violation of the College’s code of

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center named John Kacavas, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, as its chief legal officer and general counsel, media relations manager Mike Barwell said. Kacavas will begin his position next week on April 20.

K acavas has served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire since 2009 and was responsible for federal criminal prosecutions, civil litigation and federal law enforcement initiatives.

During his tenure, he focused on child predators and cybercrime. Throughout his career, Kacavas SEE DHMC PAGE 3

conduct on Monday and moved to derecognize the house, effective April 20. AD will have one week to appeal the decision and plans to, AD fraternity alumni advisor John Engelman ’68 said on Monday.

Panhellenic Council president Jordyn Turner ’16 wrote in an email that Panhell remains committed to discouraging hazing in both sororities and the larger Greek community, but

Provost Carolyn Dever announced the appointment of interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer to the newly created position of vice provost for student affairs, effective July 1, 2015, in a campus-wide email circulated Monday morning. In addition, Dever announced the launch of an internal search for a new dean of the College, which will begin later in April.

Ameer will bring nearly all of her old responsibilities as interim dean to her new role, Dever said, and will serve as a force of accountability for student affairs.

“This is a change of title, and many aspects of the current dean of the College will accompany the new title,” Dever said.

Ameer said she was delighted to take on her new role and continue her work with Dartmouth students and staff. Increased focus on student services will be the key difference between her new role as vice provost for student affairs and her current position as interim dean, Ameer said.

The new dean of the College will work more on the academic side, Ameer said, while she will continue to work with student-focused areas such as Student Academic Support Services, Dick’s House, campus life, the Collis Center and the judicial affairs office. Ameer emphasized that she will remain accessible to students, and wants them to be engaged in decision-making processes.

“I feel like I’m a strong advocate for students,” Ameer said. “I think what we’ll see, which I think is really encouraging, is more partnership from the dean of the College with the faculty side of the house system.”

Ameer said her goals include a successful implementation of the house system, the continuation of programs

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Tuck professor promotes “compassionate capitalism” B y Ashley See

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“How do we solve income inequality, which is the biggest problem in the world today?”

Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at the Tuck School of Business, said the answer lies in innovation and business strategy.

Govindarajan, known to his students and colleagues as

“VG,” coined the phrase “reverse innovation,” a concept that he has spent his entire career developing, he said. At the center of this notion is the idea that the future of innovation lies in emerging markets. This contradicts traditional thinking about consumer markets, which are typically focused on producing goods for those who have the resources to buy them. In his work, Govindar-

jan examines what he calls the “non-consumer,” or one of the world’s four billion people who cannot afford to participate in the traditional consumer market. Govindarajan said that he sees an opportunity for businesses to convert these “non-consumers” into consumers by creating products they can afford.

Govindarajan said he SEE PROFILE PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing April 11, 12:59 a.m., The Tabard coed fraternity: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS, Hanover Police and Hanover Fire Department responded to a Good Samaritan call at Tabard.

The individual was evaluated and transported to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center for a high level of intoxication.

April 12, 12:00 a.m., Brown Hall: Safety and Security officers on foot patrol encountered an unregistered social event in Brown.

Eleven students were identified and cited for consuming beer and hard alcohol. Two of the students showed signs of intoxication.

One was transported and admitted to Dick’s House, and the other was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

April 12, 1:27 a.m., Russell Sage Hall: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS responded to a Good Samaritan call at Russell Sage. The intoxicated individual was evaluated, transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

April 12, 6:10 a.m., Hitchcock Hall: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS and Hanover Police rendered assistance to a student in Hitchcock. The student reportedly fainted due to illness and complained of blurry vision. The student was evaluated and treated at Dick’s House.

April 13, 2:38 p.m., Oak Hill Cross Country Ski Center: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Police responded to Oak Hill after a report of a broken shed. Upon inspection, it was determined that the shed was forcibly entered and that a chainsaw was stolen.

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New dean will be an internal hire FROM DEAN PAGE 1

such as the First Year Student Enrichment Program, improvements to career services and adherence to the goals outlined by College President Phil Hanlon in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative. She said she hopes to continue meeting with students as these plans evolve.

The search for the new dean will be internal, Dever said, open to any tenured faculty member “with a passion for the academic undergraduate experience.”

The new dean of the College will be the academic leader of the residential community system initiative outlined in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan, Dever said. The dean will lead the new cohort of house professors, and will convene “serious working groups” on diversity and inclusion within the academic experience, Dever added.

“I’m looking for a professor who really gets the undergraduate student experience, has a passion for inclusivity, a real understanding of the fact that Dartmouth students are Dartmouth students 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year,” Dever said. “The livinglearning experience is what we’re here to provide.”

The new dean will also lead the process of relaying suggestions to Dever herself and Hanlon regarding future admissions and financial aid strategies “to optimize Dartmouth’s

position in the admissions landscape,” Dever said.

The search is being led by Denise Anthony, vice provost for academic initiatives, Dever said. Anthony could not be reached for comment by press time.

These changes come as part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiatives to synthesize academics and student life, Dever said.

Dartmouth students should expect “real clarity” in various aspects of student affairs, including student organizations, co-curricular opportunities and other student life activities on campus, Dever said.

Students should also anticipate “a new level of faculty engagement and academic clarity.”

By clarity, Dever said she means that these administrative changes will make student affairs more focused and will offer a more direct approach to student affairs, though administrative procedures and ways of doing business will remain largely unchanged.

Along with the new dean, the new role of vice provost for student affairs will be essential in combining academics and student life, Dever said.

“I envision the new dean of the College and the new vice provost for student affairs working very, very closely as a partnership,” Dever said.

The new title will focus and intensify the student life mission outlined in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward”

plan, Dever said.

Students should expect greater positive engagement in their daily lives as a result of this partnership, Dever said.

“All of this is to support the 24/7 Dartmouth student, in the sense that the academic enterprise will now be the living environment through the new house system and house professors,” Dever said. “The real mutuality between student affairs and academic affairs, that’s what this is designed to support.”

Dever added that she believes the College already has a strong student affairs operation, and focusing that operation and renaming it as “student affairs” will bring greater importance to that role.

She went on to say that bringing a faculty member to the role of dean will be an essential change to the academic experience.

Dever spoke highly of Ameer’s expertise, citing her 20 years of experience and her knowledgeable staff.

Associate dean of the College Elizabeth Agosto, who has worked with Ameer for five years on FYSEP and various projects in Parkhurst, spoke highly of Ameer.

“She’s kept us committed to student success and to the development of programs and initiatives and policies that allow all students to thrive on our campus,” Agosto said. “I think she’ll just continue doing that work as the vice provost for student affairs.”

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Colleagues praise Greek leaders,students slow to comment Kacavas’ qualifications FROM AD PAGE 1

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has been a prosecutor in the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and served as chief of the homicide unit, in addition to work in the Department of Justice and in private practice, DHMC reported.

In his position, Kacavas will oversee DHMC’s legal, government relations, risk management and claims management departments.

Katherine Hanna, attorney at Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green and chair of the firm’s health care practice group, said that at a healthcare system as large as DHMC, the role of chief legal counsel is the same as any general counsel at a large corporation.

“Hospitals and healthcare organizations have the same problems as corporations — issues of employment, taxes, hazardous waste and environmental issues, in addition to health care,” she said.

Dartmouth general counsel Robert Donin said that medical center general counsels have a diverse workload, spanning health care law, regulatory compliance, transactional matters and real estate. He said that Kacavas has extensive experience in both private practice and government service, with skills including substantive legal knowledge and strategic instincts.

Hanna said that a chief legal officer at a large organization needs to be a strong leader and be able to delegate matters to other lawyers on the team, though certain issues may be complex or important enough for him to deal with himself. She said working in the U.S. Attorney’s office, Kacavas gained experience leading a large staff and communicating with the public, and called Kacavas an “inspired choice.”

“Although he has not been steeped in healthcare law over his career, he has everything it takes to be a great healthcare lawyer,” she said.

Mark Howard, attorney at Howard and Ruoff, P.L.L.C., joined Kacavas and attorney Michael Ramsdell from 2006 to 2009 to form the firm Kacavas, Ramsdell and Howard, P.L.L.C. Howard said that Kacavas is a driven attorney who works hard for his clients, especially in public service.

“Positions in public service require the highest degree of integrity and honesty, and [Kacavas] has always delivered that,” he said.

“The hospital is getting one of the most talented, brilliant and honest lawyers that our state has to offer.”

Ramsdell, who works at Ramsdell Law Firm, L.L.C., said that aside from Kacavas’ talent as a lawyer, he takes the time to understand the problem at hand and possesses a “tremendous amount of leadership.”

Howard said that Kacavas has a unique ability to both have a focused sense of an overall mission and incorporate and “give life” to other people’s opinions.

Kacavas’ appointment follows several employment discrimination lawsuits filed by dismissed residents against DHMC’s residency program. Four cases filed in 2013 involve alleged forms of discrimination or abuse that former residents claim are characteristic of an insular and exclusive program.

For mer radiolog y resident Christyna Faulkner claimed that DHMC violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against her diagnosed insomnia and eventually terminating her.

In another case, former resident Jennifer Connors claimed that she disclosed her diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder before her hiring, but was discharged based on her disability and DHMC’s failure to accommodate it.

Kimberly Troland is currently serving as Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s interim general counsel. Kacavas announced his resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s office on April 9.

was unavailable to comment further.

Inter-Fraternity Council president Chase Gilmore ’16, also a member of AD, and IFC communications chair James Verhagen ’16 were also unable to provide a comment by press time.

Beta Alpha Omega fraternity president Joe Geller ’16 wrote in an email that AD’s derecognition will not substantially impact Beta’s operations, social or otherwise.

“We may see more traffic, but it will not change our internal management plan because we feel we do a very good job with that already,” he wrote. “We will continue to do what we have been doing.”

Despite predominantly supportive posts for AD on the anonymous forums Yik Yak and Bored at Baker, students interviewed expressed mixed opinions about the house’s derecognition.

Of the approximately 40 students approached by The Dartmouth’s staff, only five agreed to be interviewed for this article.

Some students said they were surprised that the College derecognized the fraternity, with some citing College President Phil Hanlon’s membership in the house.

“This is the beginning of the end,” Timothy Messen ’18 said. ”If they can get AD, which is Hanlon’s place

of fraternization, they can get any of us.”

Outside national media attention, as the story has already been covered by several major national outlets, was also speculated to have been a factor in the OAC’s decision.

“I think it’s mainly for the media that it was derecognized,” Rafananda Tejada ’18 said. “[Hanlon] wants positive media attention.”

Messen said that he thought AD’s derecognition might signal a push by the College to eventually eliminate more Greek houses, but said he was not especially concerned with AD’s derecognition as an isolated event.

Messen said that he did not have “much sympathy” for the brothers of AD, and he described the situation as “the man taking down the slightly less mature, more drunk version of the man.”

Devina Kumar ’18 and Rachel Porth ’16 both expressed opposition to the derecognition, with Kumar citing the allegedly voluntary nature of the branding procedures and Porth expressing sympathy with AD’s members.

“I was kind of sad for the members who, I don’t know if all of them did whatever it was that they did to get derecognized, but I feel bad that they now all have to move out,” Porth said.

Economics professor Bruce Sac-

erdote ’90 wrote in an email that Hanlon and other administrators are “very serious” about the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy changes and said that AD’s derecognition was reflective of that.

“I don’t know whether AD will be allowed to recolonize in a number of years hence,” he wrote.

Colonizing is a process by which a Greek organization becomes rerecognized.

Sacerdote wrote that he is primarily concerned with the safety for Dartmouth students and the prevention of sexual assault. Like several students interviewed, he expressed displeasure with Dartmouth’s media profile, which he called false and unfair.

In addition to its troubles with the College, AD is also currently the subject of a police investigation that has been ongoing since December, Hanover Chief of Police Charlie Dennis said Monday.

The presidents of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Alpha Xi Delta sorority both declined to comment.

All other Greek House presidents did not respond for a request to comment by press time.

Student Assembly President Casey Dennis ’15 also declined to comment.

Noah Goldstein contributed reporting.

Geller is a former member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

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Accommodate the ADs

A Dimension of Honesty

The College should not immediately relocate members of Alpha Delta.

On Monday, the decision came down from students will also have little or no choice in the College that Alpha Delta fraternity — one terms of who will live with and around them. of the most well-known and historic houses Imagine being told three weeks into the term on campus — will be derecognized. Effective that instead of living in your house, surrounded April 20, this derecognition means that AD by your closest friends, you are required to will no longer be considered a campus orga- move to an undesirable dorm surrounded by nization and will not enjoy the benefits that people you don’t know. It can’t exactly be a accompany that designation. One such benefit pleasant experience. is the fraternity’s ability to allow students to It would be different story had AD been live in the physical plant as an option for closed last term and its residents given time campus housing, a privilege of which a good to find new accommodations. The College’s deal of older members often take advantage. decision to announce the derecognition three Therefore, as a condition of the derecogni- weeks into the term, and the implication of tion, we can assume that the students who relocation for students that decision brings, is currently live in AD wholly unfair. This must vacate the house is especially true for by next Monday and “I do think, however, that seniors — as if the instead move into Col- derecognition alone is stress of graduatlege housing. I person- punishment enough, and ing is not enough. ally don’t agree with the the College can find a way to If members of AD decision to derecognize accommodate the students must relocate this AD, but I have neither living in the house.” term, at least give the qualifications nor them a few weeks the desire to use this to make arrangeplatform as a medium to approach that argu- ments. ment. I do believe, however, that the students This is not an argument around the Colwho currently live in the house — particularly lege’s treatment of the Greek system at large the seniors — should be allowed to remain in or a debate of the nuances involved in the their current rooms until the end of the term. choice to do something to your own body. I Given that AD’s derecognition implies a do think, however, that derecognition alone is loss of privileges afforded by Greek Letter punishment enough, and the College can find Organizations and Societies policy — such a way to accommodate the students living in as a special determination under Hanover the house. The College could grant the house zoning laws — AD residents will be required a temporary status as a residence building to move all of their belongings with one and potentially assign an undergraduate adweek’s notice and will likely not have much visor or residential director to ensure that no say in where they move for the remainder shenanigans are afoot. I don’t see any harm of the term. They will be forced to choose in letting them stay in the physical building, from a list of the sparse number of available especially under terms that would forbid any rooms. When the College’s housing system is fraternity activities — which would be much rooted primarily on a system of seniority, it easier to monitor with an authority present. seems unfair and illogical that a senior could Many would argue that AD deserved to be have to now spend his last term thrown into shut down. Regardless, I think that they still less desirable accommodations — given how deserve a base level of respect as students of housing numbers function, seniors essentially the College — and that includes letting the have last pick after the sophomores with the brothers finish off their year in their own worst numbers. Moreover, many of these rooms.

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We must accurately portray Dartmouth to prospective students.

This past weekend was the first in the series of three Dimensions of Dartmouth programs — sets of days for admitted students to visit the College before making a decision about which school to attend. Though no longer a single self-contained event as in years past, Dimensions still has an enormous potential to convince prospective students of the College’s merits. It is important, however, to sell Dartmouth in a responsible, reasonable manner. In my experience, we are not great at doing so.

It is perfectly understandable that many of us who have enjoyed and cherished our time at the College — faculty, administrators and students alike — would want to encourage others to invest time in Dartmouth as well. Obviously, there are many reasons why the College excels among its peers. We can and do point to our focus on undergraduate education, our extensive and robust alumni network and the unparalleled beauty of our campus as reasons to pick Dartmouth over other schools.

As a student body, however, we generally do what we can to sweep less successful areas under the rug — especially when one can tell that an issue is a sticking point for a prospective student.

Current students and recent alumni often act as a resource for their younger friends and acquaintances. We provide a reference guide for high school juniors and seniors desperate for some real knowledge about how college works and how one school is different from another. But these younger students may not always realize that whatever information they are gleaning is heavily filtered through an individual’s worldview. If we love Dartmouth, we may present an optimistic view — and likewise, if we hate Dartmouth, we may present a pessimistic view.

For me, this is a serious problem. We have to find some objectivity. We have to find some honesty, or we are doing a disservice to those who trust us. We must be realistic.

In some ways, Dimensions exacerbates this issue not merely because of the multitude of prospective students but because of specific Dimensions programming. For example, most prospective students stay with first-years during

Dimensions, because many upperclassmen are either too busy or live off-campus. Younger students, however, do not have the same perspective on Dartmouth as older students. Of course, this is not to say I am objectively right because I am a senior and a first-year is wrong because she is a first-year. It is to say that inexperience is inherently limiting, that Dartmouth is more than the first nine months of living in Russell Sage Hall and loving your floormates. It is to say that it is problematic to convince a high school senior to commit to 12 terms in Hanover when you have only been here for three.

As for administrators, their job, by definition, entails celebrating and marketing the College.

The dean of admissions and financial aid, for example, is not going to candidly discuss problems in the College any more than I am going to start off a job interview by mentioning my utter lack of experience. Prospective students expect a certain amount of spin from the faculty and staff they hear from at Dimensions events. It is a cost of doing business. Hearing from students, however, presents a markedly different and presumably more candid point of view. High school seniors relate more closely to Dartmouth first-years and likely trust their opinions. But Dimensions does not lend itself to nuance, and in my experience, those whose voice is most trusted gloss over the sticky, complex issues that the College faces today — or have been here too short of a time to really know the issues well enough to discuss them. We need to be honest about the stress and frustration of academics, Greek life, the competition to get into prestigious campus groups, high-risking drinking and sexual assault.

Dartmouth is great, and I believe Dartmouth will always be one of the finest universities in the nation. Yet the College is not for everyone, and we owe it to prospective students to attempt to achieve a level of objectivity in our discussions. We have to do a better job of presenting all sides of the College — even when to do so is somewhat uncomfortable, or when it means criticizing something you love or praising something you hate.

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Govindarajan hopesTuck students use skills to innovate for the poor FROM PROFILE PAGE 1

comes from “humble beginnings” in India, where he lived with eight members of his family, only one of whom — his father — earned an income. He said, however, he does not look at this as a burden, but rather as an opportunity that taught him to learn how to face challenges.

“Having very modest beginnings really forced me to think of possibilities,” Govindarajan said. “If I had a lot of money, I don’t know if I would have that urge.”

He said his childhood role model was his grandfather, who spent hours reading for himself and educating Govnidarajan.

“He demonstrated to me that there is an inherent joy in learning,” Govindarajan said. “He had so much ambition for me, and I always worked to meet his expectations.”

Last week, the Harvard Business Review published an article by Govindarajan’s about his work titled “Business Can Help End Child Labor.” This article follows two other features of his published in the HBR, one of which challenged companies to conceive of a $300 house for the poor and the other on work with General Electric on making a particular medical device affordable.

These articles make up just a small fraction of Govindarajan’s work, which includes eight books and over ten articles that have collectively earned him a reputation as a legend in the worlds of business and academia, Clark Callahan, director of Tuck Executive Education said.

Govindarajan said he believes in “compassionate capitalism,” in which businesses and society find strategies that are mutually beneficial.

“We must innovate capitalism by making it compassionate and responsible,” Govindarajan said. “This

means that when Tuck [masters of business administration] students go to work for companies, they should also use their capabilities to innovate for the poor.”

After reading some of his articles, former student Parthipan Duraisamy Tu’16 said that he mentioned Govindarajan and his ideas in his application essay to Tuck.

Anant Sundaram, a professor at Tuck, praised the “clarity” and “profundity” of Govindarajan’s thinking.

She said that Govindarajan is one of a few corporate strategy scholars whose ideas have influenced the thinking of CEOs. Sundaram noted that Govindarajan has much more to contribute to the field.

On a personal level, several students and colleagues alike have lauded Govindarajan’s “approachability,” as well as his “warm spirit.” Callahan said he met Govindarajan during his first week at Tuck in 2003 when Govindarajan was directing a leadership program for women, and he was impressed by his expert conversation skills.

“I remember sitting on a bench on the Dartmouth Green and thinking, ‘Here is this incredibly smart guy — what on earth are we going to talk about?’” Callahan said.

Callahan said that this first interaction with Govindarajan turned out to be an extremely “relaxed, easy conversation.”

Jennifer Desrosier Tu’16 said she was “touched” when Govindarajan reached out to her after the second meeting of his “Implementing Strategy” course to check in with her, as she was one of the only first-year students in the class.

“I was surprised he knew who I was given all of his responsibilities and that he had taken the time to think about one of his students,” Desrosiers said.

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According to former students, Govindarajan constantly turns traditional thinking about business strategy on its head through the examination of specific case studies about a range of industries.

Duraisamy said that Govindarajan would present what seemed initially to be “an obvious question” to the class and then invert their thinking on the issue.

Both Michael Walsh Tu’15 and Desrosier said they had similar re-

actions to Govindarajan’s teaching.

Both found themselves surprised by the novel approach Govindarajan took towards issues in his “Implementing Strategy” course in the winter.

“He has learning he wants to make sure you’re getting,” Walsh said. “He is very engaged in discussion which makes class enjoyable.”

Govindarajan, a member of the Tuck faculty for over 30 years, said he has dedicated his career to finding

a balance between his teaching and research. He noted that his work concerns both observing patterns and “creating knowledge” through research and pursuing his “deep passion for teaching.”

The American Management Consulting Firms awarded Govindarajan with the Carl S. Sloane Award of excellence this past February for his contributions to the consulting field through leadership, development of intellectual capital and innovation.

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Tuck professor Vijay Govindarajan (right) believes innovation and business strategy can solve income inequality.

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the four-game sweep with a score of 7-0.

Dartmouth pitchers allowed only three runs throughout the four-game series, and Rumley and McCalmon pitched complete game shutouts in the first and second games, respectively, of Sunday’s doubleheader.

Rumley has a 2.41 ERA in 119.1 innings, and McCalmon has a 2.49 ERA in 64.2 innings. Rumley and McCalmon have established themselves as one of the deadliest one-two punches as one often starts the game and the other enters in relief.

“We complement each other so well that once hitters start to get their timing and make adjustments to [Rumley], they have to adjust to a completely different style when I come in for relief, and vice versa,” McCalmon said. “How different we are is really hard for hitters to adjust

to.”

As for the offense, Big Green batters collected 41 hits, hit six doubles, stole seven bases and launched six home runs to combine for a potent offensive performance. In the past 12 games that DartmouthhasplayedagainstIvyLeague schools, it has outscored them 91-20.

Much of the credit goes to leadoff hitter McEachern who has a .568 conference batting average and a .660 conference on base percentage. The team’s aggressive approach and collective ability to get hits comes from its confidence in being able to handle any opposing pitcher, McEachern said.

“Our team has shown this weekend that all it takes is to get one hit, and we use each other’s energy to multiply it out and everyone starts getting hits,” McEachern said. “The momentum we gain after getting one hit is incredible.”

The team’s strong chemistry has led

to a high level of performance from its freshmen class throughout the season.

Bird hit a towering RBI double in both the first and fourth games of the weekend, and number-two hitter Lara has averaged a solid .307 batting average and is a perfect 7-7 in stolen bases throughout the season.

“For me and the rest of the ’18s, we really look up to the upperclassmen, and they do a great job of leading by example, so we try to mold ourselves to be more like them,” Lara said.

The combination of quick learning, great pitching and unstoppable offense leaves the opposing team with very little opportunity to win against the Big Green.

The team will host Brown University this weekend in hopes of extending its 10-game win streak to 14 with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 18th and another on Sunday, April 19th.

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New Hood exhibits will highlight Ekpe art and culture

B y kourtney kawano The Dartmouth Staff

From intricately woven cloth to painting-like script, African art and culture will converge when “Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor Ekpuk” and “Ukara: Ritual Cloth of the Ekpe Secret Society” open at the Hood Museum of Art this Saturday.

“Auto-Graphics” will feature 18 collages, digital prints and supersized drawings by Ekpuk, a southwestern Nigerian artist known for combining his own masterful style with the visual language of the Ekpe secret society, an all-male group from Nigeria and Cameroon. By using nsibidi, the traditional writing system of the Ekpe people that is based on symbols, Ekpuk is able to add his own invented shapes to make his artwork culturally meaningful and visually appealing.

Created in 2013, Ekpuk’s print “Composition No. 13 (Santa Fe Suite)” includes this mix of nsibidi symbols with clustered dots and curves in graphite with a large

and jagged circle imposed over a yellow circle drawn with pastel.

The bold contrast between black, white and yellow conveys Ekpuk’s understanding of memory as a personal and collective experience Ekpuk’s 2008 print “Sanctuary” from his series “Composition” will also be on display. The image includes a pattern of nsibidi symbols and thick graphite borders arranged in a square. Whereas “Composition No. 13” has a yellow circle to contrast the black and white colors with the negative and positive space in the print, Sanctuary has a solid red square in its center to add to the illusion of the concentric pattern.

On April 24, Ekpuk will give a lecture called “Excavating Memories.” The lecture will conclude his drawing performance on the wall of the Hood’s Lathrop Gallery and his week-long artist residency with the museum. On April 25, Allyson Purpura, the curator of African arts at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a special tour about the works

in “Auto-Graphics” as the curator of the exhibition.

Curator of African art at the Hood Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi said that he worked with Purpura to bring the exhibition to Dartmouth, and he thinks that the exhibit will be well-received and inspiring to students.

“The audience will learn a great deal about the magic of simple lines and the artist’s ability to engage with drawing as an art form on its own merits,” Nzewi said.

Nzewi will also give a special tour and lunchtime gallery talk on June 13 and 16, respectively, to wrap up the programming events associated with the exhibition.

To parallel the language aspect of the Ekpe society in “AutoGraphics,” “Ukara” will feature various types of Ekpe cloth, which symbolizes wealth and prestige through the rare and individualized nature of each handmade design.

Nzewi, who also assisted in bringing “Ukara” to the Hood Museum, said the exhibition will feature roughly the same number

of pieces as “Auto-Graphics.”

“I believe a lot can be learned from the two complementing exhibitions,” Nzewi said.

Hood interim director Juliette Bianco, a member of the Class of 1994, said that presenting the two exhibitions together speaks directly to the museum’s teaching mission.

“All museum visitors can study how contemporary artists look to rich and complex social and cultural histories to fuel their artistic expression,” she said.

The Ekpe people of the Cross River region in southeaster n Nigeria and western Cameroon commissioned the Ezillo people of Ebony State to design each ukara by hand with indigo dye and nsibidi symbols, leading to its high value.

The exhibition, which was curated and organized by Eli Bentor, an art history professor at Appalachian State University at Boone, North Carolina, includes a giant ukara from the early 2000s from the Igbo people of Nigeria for the backdrop of an Ekpe lodge. Some of the nsibidi symbols on the ukara represent the sun, flowers and

Student Spotlight: Madeline Abbott ’15

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

When Madeline Abbott ’15 auditioned for the student-produced musical “To Slay A Demon,” a musical based on the cult show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997), this winter , she had no idea that she would land the lead role. Prior to this audition, Abbott had not done any sort of theater since she was in high school.

“I showed up at auditions and randomly got the part of Buffy,” Abbott said. “It was so much fun.

It was a really great musical with really great people in it, and playing Buffy — she was a really fun character to play.”

Inspired by the spirit of “To Slay a Demon” and a late-night viewing of the film “Crossroads” (2002), which stars Britney Spears, Abbott decided to write the script for a musical of her own featuring the singer’s music.

“It kind of all started when I was on Shonda Rhimes wiki page,” Abbott said. “I realized that she got her start by writing the movie ‘Crossroads’.”

Abbott immediately watched the movie, and the gears began to turn in her head.

“At the end I thought ‘Wow, that was wonderful,’” Abbott said. “Of course, that’s really the only reaction you can have to ‘Crossroads’ the movie. I also felt a little bit cheated because there’s only one

Britney Spears song in there, and it was not good.”

Abbott concluded that “the only thing to do” would be for her to write a musical sequel incorporating more of Spears’ discography.

Abbott emphasized that Spears holds the role of a global icon with a varied repertoire.

“If I wrote a musical with Taylor Swift music, it would not be an interesting musical,” Abbott said.

“Writing a musical with Britney Spears music is interesting because it deals with a lot of different kinds of themes.”

Abbott said that themes that Spears uses in her music, such as professionalism, friendship and sexual empowerment appealed to her and that Spears holds personal significance to her own life.

“I have fond memories of Britney from back in the day,” Abbott said, referring to a childhood and adolescence scored to her music.

After coming up with the idea for her musical, called “Crossroads II: Till the World Ends,” Abbott had to flesh out a plot to go along with the music. She said that she originally found the idea of writing a script daunting. Finding a storyline that worked with the music, however, was “easier than [she] expected.”

“If you’re working with [Spears’] music, it sort of tells a story on its own,” Abbott said. “The evolution that she’s gone through in her career both personally and in

her music, I think, says a lot about a lot of women’s journeys in the modern American context.”

The director of “To Slay A Demon,” Ben Ferguson ’15, said that he was impressed by Abbott’s talent for writing given her relative inexperience in the area.

“It’s amazing that it’s coming from somebody that’s never written a musical before,” he said. “It’s an amazing story. It’s relevant.”

Abbott said that she found some inspiration in her own life and experiences, as the plot of the musical centers around three female roommates in their senior spring of college.

“The characters certainly are not mirror images of my roommates...but I think in some ways I took that group living dynamic and wanted to transfer that to the stage,” Abbott said. “It’s a very relatable story concept.”

Abbott’s roommate Alison Flint ’15, who will be playing a main role in the show, said that she has enjoyed the play so far.

“I think it’s hilarious,” Flint said. “I think it’s super awesome that she took the initiative to write something outside of her daily routine. I think a lot of people say that they’ve always wanted to do this, and [Abbott is] the type of person who if she wants to do something, she’s going to do it.”

Abbott finished writing “Crossroads II” at the end of winter term, and after seeing the production

of “Voices” and “The Vagina Monologues,” Abbott said that she proposed her musical to the Center for Gender and Student Engagement for sponsorship, as the musical’s themes of female empowerment and commentary on feminist movements seemed to coalesce nicely with its other projects.

Sigma Delta sorority, of which Abbott is a member, will also support the production and has tentatively offered to host the last performances of “Crossroads II.” Abbott said that the “fun factor” was on her side in terms of attracting people to auditions, as many have told her of interest in singing

animals such as turtles, an alligator and a cheetah. Bentor’s collection also includes a smaller ukara from the 1980s with finer nsibidi symbol detailing and the Omu Aro symbol of the Igbo people’s confederacy.

In addition to the exhibition, the Hood will also hold an opening event on May 15 with an introduction and panel discussion with Bentor and a performance by the Ekpe society from Maryland.

To wrap up the programming for the “Ukara” exhibition, English department vice chair and professor Michael Chaney will give a lunchtime gallery talk entitled, “Marks and Mark-Making in Afro-diasporic Art” on May 26 to create a link between these two exhibitions.

Chaney said his gallery talk will focus on the nature of secret writing in art and language as well as the incorporated aspects of nsibidi in the coded writings and works of the 19th-century AfricanAmerican artist David Drake.

“Auto-Graphics” and “Ukara” will both be on display until Aug. 2.

Spears’s music. Abbott said that she also used the campus listserv to advertise the performance to the entire campus.

In addition to writing and directing “Crossroads II,” Abbott is an Asian and Middle Eastern studies major with a focus on South Asia and is currently writing a thesis on the future of Indian television.

She also has been involved in the Dartmouth marching band her four years on campus and recently retired as the band’s president.

“That was one of the defining parts of my Dartmouth experience.

I love the marching band… That’s where a lot of my friends come from,” Abbott said.

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Abbott’s “Crossroads II” will bring Britney Spears to the female college experience.

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Baseball sweeps four-game Yale series for first time in history B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Break out the brooms and call in the cleaning crew because last weekend the baseball team completed its first sweep of the season in a four game series against Yale University (10-18, 2-8 Ivy) — the first clean sweep of the Bulldogs at Yale in program history since the back-to-back double header schedule was instituted in 1993.

Dartmouth followed up its stellar performance against Yale with a midweek doubleheader sweep of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (7-18) on the strength of three Joe Purritano ’16 triples.

Before the Big Green (12-19, 8-4 Ivy) left for New Haven, Connecticut, last week, catcher Matt MacDowell ’15 pointed out that an offensive rut like theirs could be broken by a 15-run game which, at the time, might have read as hyperbole. The team had not scored in 19 consecutive innings after its midweek matchup against Boston College (17-18) and had been shut out in three of its previous five games.

When it came, it was not 15 runs that broke the streak. Dartmouth kicked off the weekend by stirring from its slumber with a 3-2, extra-inning nail-biter before erupting from dormancy with a 22-run, nine-frame game, during which the Bulldogs went to their bullpen six times. Yale pulled its starter after just 1.1 innings after the Big Green took a

five-run lead in the second inning. The team, third baseman Nick Lombardi ’15 said, was ready for an offensive spark.

“Our pitching and defense has been there all year and we were kind of due for some hits and for some things to kind of come together,” Lombardi said. “It came together for us pretty big.”

Offensively speaking, there is no short way to detail the occurrence of 22 runs. For expediency’s sake, just know that of the 14 players who saw the batter’s box, only four did not get a hit, and two of those four only had one opportunity, which was discounted because they were both walked. Both of those players, Hayden Rappoport ’18 and John Melody ’17, scored a run.

The highs of the game came from designated hitter Purritano, who had five RBIs, and shortstop Matt Parisi ’15, who collected four hits. The overwhelming number of runs — the team averaged more than one per inning across the weekend — MacDowell said, is indicative of the team’s successful execution of its desire to simplify its approach.

Various pitchers took the mound for the Big Green, starting with Jackson Bubala ’17 who went for 4.2 innings and allowed two runs on seven hits. Marc Bachman ’18 took the win and was followed up by Thomas Olson ’15 and Sam Fichthorn ’18. The four pitchers collectively allowed 10 runs, though seven of those runs came in .2 innings from Olson, who has been working to

get back into the swing of things on the mound after struggling with a somewhat enigmatic injury last year. Olson has had two one-inning tenures on the mound this season, during both of which he allowed no runs. His only other outing was a three-run, two-inning stint at the University of California at Santa Barbara over spring break.

Earlier in the day, Mike Concato ’17 went for a full eight innings on the mound, allowing two runs against eight hits in the extra-frame game. Down one run in the fourth, first baseman Michael Ketchmark ’17 crushed a two-run home run, his second home run of the season, out of the park to take the lead. After Yale tied the game and the Big Green took the lead again in the top of the eighth, Concato retired the final three batters on just six pitches, forcing two ground outs and one fly out to end the game.

Sunday’s matchups took the shape of another blowout and a pitcher’s duel, thrown by Duncan Robinson ’16 and captain Louis Concato ’14, respectively.

Robinson shut out the Bulldogs in a 7-0 victory, throwing 79 pitches and allowing three hits in seven innings of work.

Dartmouth scored across four of the seven innings, still reeling, perhaps, from the landslide the afternoon before.

Louis Concato turned up with a little less offensive backing than his two predecessors like his brother, but didn’t break under the pressure. He threw his longest outing yet this season — seven

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The baseball team busted its streak of scoreless innings and won six games in four days.

innings — and allowed just one run.

When he left the game, the team had a two-run lead, which was cut down to one in the ninth inning. Patrick Peterson ’18 pitched the ninth inning, and his first two opponents in the inning hit a double and single. The Bulldogs pushed one across on a fielder’s choice before a fly out allowed Peterson to strike his final batter out looking. The final stretch, Louis Concato pointed out, is familiar to Peterson. “[Peterson] has been doing a good job,” Concato said. “Coach has been putting him in some tough spots and he’s been able to get the job done every time he goes out there.”

Patrick Peterson’s 3.50 ERA is

not exactly what you’re looking for in a closer or relief pitcher, but, if it is calculated without his admittedly poor performance against Texas A&M, his ERA drops to 1.80. While every pitcher’s ERA might drop if it were calculated without his worst outing, Peterson’s case in particular deserves a little latitude. He threw those innings in his first-ever collegiate outing, against one of the best teams in the country.

Head coach Bob Whalen does, after all, have enough confidence in the freshman to allow him to work himself out of tough situations in the final frames of the game. The pitcher is now 2-0 with two saves. He hasn’t been perfect, but he definitely is a freshman to watch.

Softball sweeps four games against Yale for an 11-1 Ivy League record

B y DANIEL Lee

The softball team traveled to New Haven, Connecticut, this past weekend to play two doubleheaders against Yale University (7-16, 2-8 Ivy) on Saturday and Sunday, winning all four games and improving its record against Ivy League schools to a conference-leading 11-1.

The Big Green (18-13, 11-1 Ivy) went on the board early in the first game as leadoff hitter Katie McEachern ’16 started the weekend with a home run to center field.

In the top of the second inning, Morgan McCalmon ’16 and Karen Chaw ’17 added a two-run homer and three-run homer, respectively, to give Dartmouth an early 6-0 lead, which led to the replacement of Bulldogs starting pitcher Francesca Casalino with relief pitcher Kylie

Williamson after just 1.2 innings.

In the top of the fourth inning, eight Big Green batters reached base through two walks, three singles, a two-run blast by Maddie Damore ’17 and two hit by pitches. The Big Green scored six runs on four hits in the fourth and four runs on five hits in the fifth, stretching its run tally on the day to 16 and causing the game to be stopped short at five innings.

In a slugfest for Dartmouth, all nine starting batters touched home plate, seven out of nine batters collected at least one hit and six batters combined for a total of 14 RBIs. Kristen Rumley ’15 earned her 10th conference win of the season after pitching four innings and striking out three.

The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader turned out to be a

pitcher’s duel between McCalmon and Bulldogs pitcher Lindsay Efflandt, and neither pitcher allowed a hit in the first three innings. After falling in a blowout earlier that day, Yale drew first blood in the bottom of the fourth when center fielder Sydney Glover led off the inning with a single, reached second on a wild pitch and came home on an RBI single by first baseman Hannah Brennan.

After falling behind 1-0, Dartmouth exploded for five-run comeback in the sixth inning, spurred by a steal from Lourlin Lara ’18. After going down two outs, Lara walked to first, stole second and gave the Big Green its first run of the game on a single by Damore, tying the game at one.

Chaw followed Damore with her second two-run homer of the

weekend to gain the lead. Kathy Dzienkowski ’16 and Kelsey Miller ’16 reached base on two consecutive errors, and McCalmon hit an RBI double to right center field, extending Dartmouth’s lead to 5-1. Rumley had a one-two-three seventh inning to seal the game for McCalmon’s sixth win of the season.

The Big Green picked up where it left off on Sunday and continued to dominate Yale in the third and fourth games of the weekend, not allowing a single run against the Bulldogs. In the earlier game of the day, Alyssa Jorgensen ’17 induced a bases-loaded walk in the top of the second inning, setting up McEachern, who hit a 2-RBI single to right center field, followed by another single by Lara, who scored Jorgensen for a four-run inning.

Up 5-0 in the top of the fifth, Mc-

Calmon hit her second home run of the weekend — this time a three-run home run — to stretch the team’s lead to 8-0. The Bulldogs failed to score in the bottom of the fifth, and the game was called short due to the mercy rule for the second time in as many days. Rumley pitched a shutout, allowing three hits, no walks and striking out five batters.

McCalmon took the mound for the final game of the weekend and pitched a four-hit shutout, walking one and striking out 10 Bulldogs.

Lara rose to the occasion yet again with a bases-loaded single putting Dartmouth on the board in the top of the second inning. McEachern, McCalmon and Claire Bird ’18 each hit doubles and collected RBIs as the team completed the final game of SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 6