The Dartmouth 01/30/14

VOL. CLXXI NO. 18

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Kane ’86 faces charges of unlawful restraint

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Students design the set of “Spring Awakening,” the winter term musical.

College employee arrested

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OPINION

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Hanover Police arrested David Bar r, a College employee who works at the Hinman Mail Center, around noon on Wednesday after he allegedly posted a threatening message on his Facebook

account.

In the post, Barr threatened to harm Hanover Police of ficer s and their children and referenced violence at a school, according to a Hanover Police press release.

After being notified of the Facebook post by

a citizen, Hanover Police issued an arrest warrant for Barr with a charge of criminal threatening.

His bail has been set at $30,000 cash with conditions and he is expected to appear in the New Hampshire 2nd Circuit Court in Lebanon on Thursday.

Patricia Kane ’86 was arrested

by Hanover Police Monday night in Lyme after authorities issued an Amber Alert, alleging that she had abducted her 12-year-old biological son from his foster family in Sunderland, Vt. Kane, 49, of Manchester, Vt., is being held in Grafton County Jail while she awaits extradition to Vermont, where she faces two felony charges, said Vermont State Police public information officer Stephanie Dasaro.

At a brief arraignment in Lebanon District Court on Tuesday afternoon, Kane waived her right to challenge extradition to Vermont, acting Hanover Police chief Frank Moran said. She is being held on $200,000 bail, according to a Vermont State Police press release.

Moran said Kane is being held in Grafton County Jail on a fugitive from justice charge. Extradition will occur within the next few days, he said.

Kane faces charges of seconddegree unlawful restraint and

custodial interference, each carrying a maximum prison sentence of five years. The Bennington County attorney may choose to pursue additional charges, Dasaro said.

Zachary Lee, Kane’s son, was reported missing from his foster home on North Road at 4:46 p.m. on Monday, and an Amber Alert was activated at 8:35 p.m. that night.

Law enforcement officials may activate Amber Alerts in the case of a serious, timecritical child abduction, and are disseminated using radio, television, highway signs, mobile phones and the Internet.

Authorities believe Kane abducted Zachary Lee on his way home from school, after he had been dropped off by the bus, according to a Vermont Police Department press release.

At about 10:30 p.m., police received a tip in response to the Amber Alert, Moran said.

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Alumni Gym pool to Obama discusses higher ed.equality close for three terms B y kate bradshaw

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With the Karl Michael Pool in Alumni Gym closing for maintenance this spring, seniors who have not passed the 50-yard swim test required for graduation will face added difficulty, senior associate director of athletics for physical education and recreation Roger Demment said.

Maintenance on the pool, the largest in Alumni Gym,

is expected to last until the fall.

While Alumni Gym’s smaller Spaulding Pool will remain open in the spring, free swim hours will be reduced as athletes need the pool for training, Demment said.

The Karl Michael Pool will be drained and scaffolding erected while repairs are made to the roof of SEE SWIM PAGE 5

Specific proposals for strengthening higher education were absent from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address delivered on Tuesday night, in which Obama spoke in general terms about his goal for improving access to higher education and reiterated the education-related themes of past addresses.

In last year’s State of the Union, Obama introduced a “ C o l l e g e S c o re c a rd ” that would rate institutions

based on value and potentially impact the allocation of federal funding to lowscoring schools.

This year, his comments on education focused on college accessibility, universal pre-kindergarten education and creating partnerships between employers and universities.

Early in Tuesday’s speech, Obama acknowledged that the past year has seen severe cuts to education.

“Nobody got everything they wanted, and we can still do more to invest in

this country’s future while bringing down our deficit in a balanced way,” he said.

Later in the address, the president cited his record on higher education, including capping monthly student loan payments at 10 percent of a g raduate’s income, creating a ranking system for colleges based on value and emphasizing hands-on education programs that link schools and employers.

Public policy professor Ronald Shaiko said DartSEE SPEECH PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing BROWN UNIVERSITY: Provost Mark Schlissel was named the next president of the University of Michigan on Friday, the Brown Daily Herald reported. Since taking office in 2011, Schlissel has led a year-long strategic planning process and currently chairs a search committee for a new dean. He will remain at Brown for the remainder of the academic year and assume his role at Michigan on July 1.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Sheila Coronel was named dean of academic affairs of Columbia’s journalism school, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported on Tuesday. Coronel formerly worked as a stringer for the Guardian and New York Times, reporting on politics and government in the Philippines, and she co-founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Coronel will replace Bill Grueskin, who said he is stepping down from the administrative post to focus on his journalism career but plans to continue teaching.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY: In honor of its 150th anniversary in 2015, Cornell will construct a grove commemorating its history, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. The grove will include stone benches, walkways and a timeline that highlights important events in Cornell’s history. It will be completed this summer and dedicated in October.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY: A committee on academic integrity has drafted the first honor code in the college’s history, the Harvard Crimson reported. First proposed last April after a cheating scandal was uncovered, the code calls for the creation of an honor board to hear cases of academic dishonesty and requires students to sign a “declaration of integrity” on major exams and assignments. The committee will solicit feedback and hopes to implement the code in fall 2015.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: The university released its annual budgetary report on Monday, according to the Daily Princetonian.

The report announced a 4.1 percent increase in total undergraduate fees for the 2014-15 school year and an 8.5 percent increase in funds allocated to undergraduate financial aid. The university’s total operating budget will increase from last year’s $1.58 billion to $1.6 billion.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: In the coming weeks, the university will expand its counseling and psychological services department to add at least three temporary staffers and offer evening hours several days a week, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The changes come in response to student complaints about wait times and understaffing.

YALE UNIVERSITY: A student group is launching “Lean In at Yale,” which will include weekly discussions about leadership and feminism, according to the Yale Daily News. The project, inspired by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In,” will use activities from the Lean In Foundation’s curriculum and aims to increase support for women on campus, student organizers said.

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Corrections “Student-designed apps win funding” (Jan. 29, 2014): Due to an editing error, the original version of this article mischaracterized how Delos Chang ‘14 viewed sites such as Airbnb and Craigslist. He said he found using these sites tedious, not that they were untrustworthy. The initial version of this article also neglected to mention that Phillip Coletti ’14 was involved in the development of HousingCake.

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Film FSP mixes internships and study B y PRIYA RAMAIAH The Dartmouth Staff

When she began her internship this winter, Michelle Khare ’14 never expected to see Steve Carell casually biking around the office of his production company, Carousel Productions.

Through the internship component of the new film and media studies foreign study program, Khare and the 14 other students on the Los Angelesbased program have gained hands-on experience with the film industry while also learning about it in the classroom.

Internship hosts include Nickelodeon, Walden Media, entertainment law firms and various production companies, program director and film and media studies professor Mark Williams said.

In addition to their internships, FSP participants take two classes — including one course on media industries and another on the role of race in the Los Angeles film and the entertainment industry — and receive a third academic credit for completing an independent study.

Several weeks into the program, students have begun conducting preliminary research for their independent study projects.

One day per week, students travel around the city and meet alumni.

They have visited the Academy of

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the University of Southern California Cinema-Television Library and several museums.

“It combines a very rigorous curriculum with learning from alums in the industry and networking and creating possibilities for their own careers,” Williams said.

Khare, who interned at DreamWorks in California during her junior year, said that the blend of academic work with an internship makes the program a unique hybrid.

“Living with Dartmouth people and having that sense of home is so different from just interning alone in the city,” she said. “The group of people I’m with is absolutely incredible, and they are what make it awesome.”

Khare, a digital media and technologies major, said the program is providing her with valuable work experience. She said she wants to pursue a career writing and producing comedy and is honing applicable skills in her internship.

Students began seeking internships last summer, independently and through the Center for Professional Development, Williams said.

Program participants also received assistance and information about potential internships from members of the Dartmouth Alumni in Entertainment and Media networking group, which Williams said was instrumental to the

program’s development.

Several meetings and dinners with notable alumni are scheduled during the program, including a dinner with Shonda Rhimes ’91, the executive producer and creator of “Grey’s Anatomy,” and brunch with screen actor and director Buck Henry ’52. The FSP participants will also have the opportunity to attend a press screening of “The Lego Movie” (2014), which was directed by Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97.

Katie Kilkenny ’14 is interning at the Gersh Agency, a talent agency, and said the program has helped her understand the context of how films are made. This, she said, aligns with her interests in film journalism and criticism.

She said that being around a group of students who all have interests in film and media is the best part of the program, as film studies is a relatively small department at Dartmouth.

Just two members of the Class of 2013 graduated with a degree in film, though the department typically graduates between eight and 10 majors each year, according the Dartmouth College Fact Book.

The film and media studies FSP is currently scheduled to run every two years, but depending on the program’s popularity, it may operate each year.

An introductory and higher level course in film and media studies are prerequisites for the program.

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Students, profs react to Amber Alert leads to child’s safe recovery State of the Union address FROM KANE PAGE 1

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mouth is unlikely to benefit from federal initiatives that link students and employers who could provide graduates with job training and work opportunities, as these policies target community colleges, not private institutions.

The College is more likely to be affected by cuts to federal research grants and funding, as well as the federal Task Force on Sexual Violence, which was not mentioned in the address, Shaiko said.

S o c i o l o g y p ro f e s s o r Jo h n Campbell said that the College has come under pressure in regard to health care and medical research, as grants have been eliminated.

Shaiko also questioned the federal government’s ability to lower higher education costs, pointing to initiatives like e-books, book rentals and federal grants that have failed to significantly reduce the cost of a college education, which has risen faster than the rate of inflation.

Obama should have addressed the affordability of higher education in greater detail, Shaiko said.

The president spoke about improving public education through the Race to the Top program, announcing that over 15,000 schools

will gain Internet access over the next two years thanks to corporate partnerships. He also requested, for the second year, that Congress pass universal pre-kindergarten education.

Economics professor Charles Wheelan said that recent State of the Union addresses have tended to present a “laundry list of forgettable things,” and that Obama’s comments on higher education will have little impact.

“I don’t think the White House is going to be driving the bus on this one,” Wheelan, who specializes in public policy, said.

Melissa Padilla ’16, who attended a watch party hosted in Occom Commons, said she was pleased that Obama spoke about women’s rights and equal pay, adding that she found his focus on employment important for undergraduates.

“There’s definitely a moment of uncertainty as to whether there will be a job for me after I graduate, so knowing that it’s one of his priorities is good,” she said.

In his address, Obama declared 2014 a “year of action,” citing goals that included eliminating the income gap between men and women, ensuring health care coverage for all Americans and closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

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alert, said bartender Ian Gillespie.

Gillespie, who was working at the Canoe Club on Monday evening, said Kane entered the restaurant with Zachary Lee and another child. The third person was Kane’s 17-year-old daughter, Martha Lee, who lives with Kane in Manchester, Vt. Gillespie said Kane wore large sunglasses and acted erratically throughout dinner. Zachary Lee did not appear to be distressed, he said.

Kane requested assistance obtaining a taxi and booking a room at the Lyme Inn from Anna Guenther, a Canoe Club manager, Gillespie said.

When Hanover Police arrived at the Canoe Club, Guenther informed the police of Kane’s behavior.

Hanover Police notified the Lyme Police and continued to pursue the case. Kane was arrested at the Lyme Inn just before midnight, Moran said.

At the time of the arrest, Kane was with both Zachary Lee and Martha Lee. Both children have been taken into the protective custody of Vermont social workers, Moran said.

Zachary Lee was recently repatriated from France, where he and his sister had been raised. The move to the U.S. sparked fears that Kane would try to unlawfully remove him from his foster family as she had

attempted to do overseas, Vermont State Police said in a statement Monday.

Zachary Lee had been living with a French foster family for a little over a year. Kane and Martha Lee worked with the Department of Children and Families to have him transferred to a Vermont foster home on Jan. 14 as a step toward regaining custody. According to the Valley News, authorities, including the state Department for Children and Families, considered Kane to be “highly unstable and volatile.”

Moran said that while Hanover

Police occasionally sees custody cases involving divorced couples, the abduction was unusual and has required the department to deploy many of its resources.

Local, county, state and federal agencies collaborated to carry out the investigation, a Vermont Police press release said.

Christina Rainville, chief deputy state’s attorney for Bennington County, did not respond to a request for comment.

The Vermont Department for Children and Families declined to comment.

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Students sampled coffee at an event held in Fahey Hall on Wednesday.

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Staff Columnist Michael beechert ’16

Staff Columnist Emily Sellers ’15

A Slight Success

Advocating Accountability

Though freshmen may not be drinking less, the ban had other benefits.

The stated purpose of the Greek First-Year Safety and Risk Reduction policy, as its name would indicate, is to reduce the overall number of harmful alcohol-related incidents on campus. The policy was met, predictably, with mixed reception when it was implemented this past fall. Some claimed that the policy was an effective means of lessening risk; others felt it was an empty public relations stunt that would accomplish nothing. A few even doubted the actual motivation behind the policy, feeling that it was simply the first in a series of steps that would bring about the end of their beloved Greek system. All of these reactions, at the time, were based on nothing more than personal anecdotes and gut instinct. That’s all well and good, but evaluating whether the policy achieved its stated goal required some hard evidence.

We now have that evidence. Data released on Monday by the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program and the Greek Leadership Council indicated a small reduction in the proportion of alcohol-related incidents that involved freshmen. The figure decreased from 49 to 46 percent from the fall of 2012 to the fall of 2013. Moreover, alcohol-related incidents across all class years decreased for the third year in a row. In the fall of 2010, for example, 120 students were treated by either Dick’s House or DHMC for intoxication. This past fall, that number was 82. Perhaps most importantly, the number of incidents involving students with high BACs (over 0.25) has dropped significantly, from 36 in the fall of 2010 to seven in the fall of 2013.

This, I think we can agree, is all very good news. Dartmouth has a reputation problem regarding the student body’s excessive consumption of alcohol. Like most stereotypes, ours is grounded in fact. Joseph Geller examined this issue last week in a remarkably spot-on column (“What Are Your Priorities?” Jan. 24).

Our alcohol problem is a significant detriment to our status as a high-level academic institution; if we want to be taken seriously by competitive high school students looking

for an academic challenge, then our reputation as a hard-drinking school needs to die, preferably quickly. A little less pong would go a long way toward helping Dartmouth compete for bright and accomplished students who have to choose between several prestigious universities.

That being said, I do not think that keeping freshmen out of fraternities for six weeks had anything to do with the decrease in incidents reported by the data. The magnitude of the change should not be celebrated as successful risk reduction. It is too small a figure to be convincingly correlated with a single policy.

It seems much more likely that the decrease is simply part of the trend, illustrated above, of the gradual reduction in alcohol-related incidents. Again, the data indicates that such incidents have been declining for years, well before the risk reduction policy was implemented.

However, I do not believe that this conclusion indicates that the policy was a total failure; in fact, I strongly support its continued implementation. Even if the policy did not achieve its stated goal of immediate alcoholrelated harm reduction, I think it is fair to contemplate its other benefits. Namely, I believe the policy brought about a positive cultural change among the freshman class. By restricting freshmen from entering Greek houses for six weeks, the policy forced them to find other means of social interaction. Freshmen had to find other, healthier environments in which to get to know each other and upperclassmen.

The policy exposed incoming students to other aspects of life at Dartmouth. It demonstrated to them that there are better ways by which to interact with people than trying to hit ping pong balls into cups of light beer. Institutional memories, despite what traditionalists seem to think, are short in a place where students cycle in and out on a yearly basis. I sincerely hope that, as classes move through Dartmouth, the policy will gain traction among students and lead to a change in culture that permanently diminishes the social emphasis on drinking.

The Dartmouth’s site should moderate comments differently.

Last April, former editor-in-chief Jenny Che wrote a letter from the editor (“Creating a Constructive Dialogue,” April 29) addressing concerns over The D’s then-current comment policy. The concerns, which regarded the offensive and hurtful nature of some comments on opinion columns or news articles, resonated with me. As a columnist, I expect a certain degree of backlash, both on the site and in my daily life. However, that others’ pieces about sensitive, personal issues (such as sexual assault) receive hateful and incredibly callous comments from anonymous sources is not something I wish to tolerate.

Che’s letter promised a change to the old method; users would now have to make an account to post. I hoped that this change would discourage such destructive comments. Unfortunately, the change proved virtually fruitless, since commentators can still choose a fake display name and/ or a fake email address. We in The Dartmouth community should not tolerate anonymous comments on articles of a sensitive nature, because these comments could easily trigger depression or panic attacks in an innocent reader or author.

This may sound extreme, but consider the commentary on a recent article about eating disorders. “Fribble,” taking advantage of the fake name option, opens his or her remark by asking, “Why don’t the usual whiners get together?”

He or she then notes that “great, great students of the great, great College can’t deal with their own lives.” He or she finishes in a follow-up comment by saying, “Man and woman up ya bunch of babies.” Comments like these, rather than encouraging dialogue or offering a constructive viewpoint, serve only to belittle the experiences of many within the Dartmouth community and potentially harm those who know or have known someone affected by eating disorders. These comments essentially function as a form of bullying.

This is not to say that I do not value free speech. I very much do. However, anonymity complicates the situation. There is a reason people look down on Bored at Baker more than they would look down on a city hall debate or faceto-face discussion, no matter how vulgar or filled with non-sequiturs that conversation is. Though

anonymity can be a stabilizing factor because it makes all commenters equally invisible, it can also bring out the worst in people à la “Fribble.”

Moreover, anonymity discourages dialogue. It strips away the mutual assumption of common humanity that the speaker and listener share with each other. Absent a face, or even a name, we can no longer expect either party to behave civilly or humanely. The phenomenon of “trolling” is quite common, with commenters saying the most inflammatory or obnoxious response possible just to incite a reaction. Trolling is certainly disrespectful to the author, the readers and the other commenters. Furthermore, abject racism, sexism, homophobia, et cetera can be excused under the guise of “trolling,” as if saying terrible things for the sake of a bad joke is any better.

The anonymous vitriol is even more disappointing in light of Dartmouth’s well-advertised sense of community. One of the benefits of going to such a small school in such a small town is that you always carry with you a sense of belonging to a close-knit community. Even with the growing network of alumni and the variety of Hanover’s citizens, the almost-quaint sense of community is a hallmark of the ever-amorphous “Dartmouth experience.” That experience comes with a cost, however. Issues as sensitive as sexual assault or violence are highly personal, and these hostile comments not only hurt an individual’s feelings but also threaten his or her sense of belonging.

As a community, we are charged not only with respecting one another, but also with ensuring that members of our community feel safe.

The Dartmouth differs from national news publications, which allow anonymous commenting, because the audience is so specific. The Dartmouth has a very personal obligation to its readers — and its authors. The Dartmouth, as a private institution, should amend its current comment policy to include a ban on such hostile comments. Comments should at least be closed on articles that discuss potentially triggering events.

The freedom to voice one’s opinion is important, but blatant bullying and anonymous harassment is unacceptable, especially in the context of a community as supposedly strong as ours.

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Clarifying Comments

After receiving a draft of today’s column by Emily Sellers, the members of The Dartmouth Editorial Board realized that our online commenting policy had not been posted on our new website after it launched late last year. We apologize for this oversight.

As you may know, the updated site uses Disqus, which requires commenters to provide an email address before posting. In the past, our readers did not need to create an account before writing a comment.

We want comments on The Dartmouth’s website to continue to enable healthy, vibrant debate and conversation. We do not permit comments that are off-topic, contain obscenities or put forward ad hominem attacks. The

Dartmouth still reserves the right to disable commenting on any article and to remove comments at any time.

In the past 24 hours, we have seen an unusually high number of unacceptable and offensive comments, and from now on, we will screen all comments before they are published on the site. Previously, a filter screened comments for vulgar language. Published comments that did not adhere to The Dartmouth’s policy were deleted upon review.

The comments are moderated by editorin-chief Lindsay Ellis and executive editors Stephanie McFeeters and Michael Riordan.

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Renovations impede swim test requirement

to walk with their class at graduation, but they will not receive their the building. A problem with the diploma until they pass the test, roof was discovered several years Demment said. There have been ago and repairs made at the time rare cases where seniors have graduated late due to failure to were insufficient, he said.

Students traditionally take the complete the swim test. test in the Karl Michael pool be- Students who fail the swim test cause it is deeper and has longer can enroll in a beginning swim lanes, making it a more convenient course and fulfill the graduation requirement after attending 13 venue, Demment said.

Although the majority of stu- out of 16 lessons, Demment said. dents complete their swim test Other students choose to retake the swim test during first-year after attending trips, roughly several individ3 0 0 s t u d e n t s “It’s lighting a fire pass the swim underneath those of us ual swimming classes. requirement in

Demtheir senior year, who need to take it.” ment said he he said. supports the re Lela McCrea - Lela McCRea ’14 quirement, as ’14 said she did swimming both not take the provides exerswim test durcise and serves ing Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips because as a potential life-saving skill. the rock climbing trip did not Being able to swim seems an require it. She intends to take the especially relevant skill after the swim test by the end of the term Connecticut River drowning that or the beginning of next term, in occurred last June, Herbert said.

Ernest Amoh, the brother of a part due to the renovations.

“It’s lighting a fire underneath graduating member of the Class of those of us who need to take it,” 2013, drowned during River Fest, a senior week event at the Chieftain McCrea said.

After hearing about the pool’s Inn. closing, Olivia Herbert ’14 said she The Massachusetts Institute of plans to take her swim test in the Technology, Cornell University and Columbia University also require next two weeks.

Students who do not complete students to pass a swim test in order the swim requirement can petition to graduate.

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Renovations to the Karl Michael Pool in Alumni Gym will begin this spring.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014

Double Secret Probation

Ryan Gallagher ’16

The Mundane Madness

Anthony Chicaiza ’17

TODAY 4:00 p.m.

Anthropology colloquium, “The Politics of Doubt: Living with Cancer in Contemporary India,” Rockefeller Center 002

4:15 p.m.

“Tacky’s Revolt and the Coromantee Archipelago: A New Cartography of Slave Revolt,” with Vincent Brown of Harvard University, Carson L01

7:00 p.m.

Live simulcast, “Coriolanus,” Loew Auditorium

TOMORROW 3:00 p.m.

“From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Ideology On the Relation Between Life and Consciousness from Hegel to Critical Theory,” Thornton Hall 103

3:30 p.m.

“Applying Cognitive Science Principles to Promote Durable and Efficient Learning,” Cummings Hall, Spanos Auditorium

7:00 p.m.

Film screening, “How I Live Now” (2013), Loew Auditorium

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London-based orchestra to perform using baroque instruments

B y Caela Murphy The Dartmouth Staff

Can the precise, unwavering stroke of a note on a harpsichord awaken a musical past? Can it convert a modern auditorium into a royal court or the ornate halls of a cathedral? Tomorrow night, conductor Harry Bicket and the members of the English Concert chamber orchestra will take on this task.

The baroque and classical orchestra subscribes to the historically informed performance which aims to more accurately perform music of the past by adopting the methods and materials of musicians of previous eras. Rejecting developments to symphony orchestras that allow instruments to be played louder, faster and at a wider range of keys, the English Concert plays on instruments closely resembling those played during the 17th and 18th centuries.

“What we try to do is to recreate as best as we can what it sounded like at the original time,” Bicket said.

Period performance musicians research the playing techniques

employed by past artists, like tuning and rhythm. Music professor William Summers, a historical musicologist, said that he considers this a “respectful” approach to performing music.

“It’s a really interesting set of opportunities to put all of this careful learning into practice and turn it back into sounds that are clearly not the kind of sounds that the Dartmouth symphony would make,” Summers said.

Early musicians often did not fully write out the notes for their pieces, so performers were expected to improvise, Summers said. As a result, historically informed performances are somewhat improvised.

The modern movement emerged from a long tradition of study that originated in the 19th century.

“They wanted to try to understand why people understood music the way they did, why they composed the way they did and what the cultural circumstances were that brought them to that,” Summers said.

This approach took shape in the 1960s and 1970s, and Trevor Pinnock, founder of the English Concert, was

one of the technique’s leaders, Summers said.

The performance tomorrow night will feature Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. 2” and “Concerto for Oboe d’Amore,” along with Rameau’s “Suite from Les Boreades,” Telemann’s “Suite

“Something about [classical music] makes it sound like it’s still very much alive.”

- RICHARD FU ’13, HOPKINS CENTER STUDENT RELATIONS ADVISOR in D Major” and “Trumpet Concerto in D Major.” In addition to representing artists from diverse backgrounds, the selections encompass various baroque-era instruments, highlighting individual musicians throughout each piece.

“It’s very much a chamber orches-

tra,” Bicket said. “All our players are soloists in their own right.”

The English Concert will host an informal discussion after the performance. Bicket said he expects people will want to learn about the original instruments that they perform with.

“Maybe people will be interested in the instruments that we’re playing, how they differ from their modern counterparts and what the advantages to playing these instruments are as well as the difficulties,” Bicket said.

Summers said he plans to go into the concert with an open mind and hopes that the discussion will be driven by audience members’ initial reactions to the music.

The group hopes to connect with young, aspiring musicians through the performance, Bicket said.

“Like any orchestra, we rely on reaching out to younger people, not just audiences but also potentially people who might be interested in studying these instruments and possibly playing them,” Bicket said.

Hopkins Center classical music student relations advisor Richard Fu ’13 said he encourages students to at-

Hop simulcasts live production

B y Maya Poddar

Hours after the National Theatre performs Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” this afternoon, the Hopkins Center will show a high-definition recording of the production.

“Coriolanus,” written about a decade after “Julius Caesar” in the early 1600s, is a return to Shakespeare’s fascination with ancient Rome. The play portrays the life of Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus during the 5th century B.C. One of Shakespeare’s most political works, “Coriolanus” charts the rise and fall of the general who finds himself running for consul of Rome after being pushed by his overbearing mother, only to be run out of town by angry citizens.

“Coriolanus is one of the strangest of tragic heroes because he’s not a likeable person,” English professor Lynda Boose said.

Although Coriolanus is not a sympathetic character, Boose added that he maintains an integrity one “must admire” even if he is hard to like. The National Theatre’s production stars Tom Hiddleston, who played Loki in “Thor” (2011).

Given its political nature, the play has a rich history, with directors presenting the ancient struggle between plebeians and tribunes differently over time.

In the 1950s, a production of the play caused an uproar because many considered it to have communistic overtones, Boose said.

Once the National Theatre chooses a performance to record, all participating theaters — around 200 U.S. organizations including the Hop — can show the work.

The Hop’s film manager Sydney Stowe called the National Theatre one of the most important theatrical houses in Britain.

The Hop, which is scheduled to screen other National Theatre performances in February and March, offers most recorded performances on the live date to preserve the theatrical

experience, Stowe said.

Though the National Theatre decides which shows to record, Dartmouth partners with By Experience, a New York-based company, to transfer the screen.

Later this term, the Hop will show two productions of “War Horse,” which was originally released in 2011.

In the spring, the Hop will also screen two versions of “Frankenstein,” which feature Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller alternating between the two lead roles.

tend the performance and others like it, noting that events like these become much more expensive and less accessible for students once they graduate.

He added that the period performance movement is controversial. Critics question the possibility of replicating music of the past in light of radically different modern performance conditions, like larger concert halls.

“Based on a lot of study and research, we try to recreate the way that music was played in the 16th and 17th centuries, but up to certain point you can only guess,” Fu said. “It’s a big gray area, and it’s interesting to see how each performer approaches that issue.”

Despite these technical challenges, the music performed tonight remains enduring, Fu said.

“The reason classical music has survived and will continue to survive is because something about it — even though it’s very abstract — makes it sound like it’s still very much alive when you’re listening to it,” Fu said. “It doesn’t go out of fashion.”

The English Concert will perform in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

HopkiNs CeNter for tHe arts film rememBer WHo tHe eNemY is

“speCtaCUlar in every sense of the word!”

Rolling Stone

SAT | feb 1 | 7 PM | SPAulding | $8 | dArTMouTh idS $5 hop.dartmouth.edu | 603.646.2422 | Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH

HOpKInS CEnTER fOR THE aRTS $10

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Jan 31 8 PM SPaulding auditoriuM

THE EnGLISH COnCERT with HaRRY BICKET Led by famed conductor/harpsichordist Harry Bicket, this London-based ensemble is widely hailed as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world, particularly for Baroque and classical music. A trailblazer for 30 years in “historically informed” performance, the orchestra is known for passion, sophistication and technical mastery, with “razor-edge ensemble sense and faultless intonation” (The Times, London). The ensemble’s Hop concert features Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 and Concerto for Oboe d’Amore; Rameau’s Suite from Les Boreades, and Telemann’s Concerto for Trumpet in D Major.

38TH annUaL DaRTMOUTH WInTER CaRnIVaL COnCERT

$5

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fEB 8 8 PM SPaulding auditoriuM

BaRBaRY COaST JaZZ EnSEMBLE

DOn GLaSGO director with guest artists CHRISTInE & InGRID JEnSEn The Coast is joined by Montreal-based jazz saxophonist/bandleader/composer Christine Jensen and her sister, the acclaimed New York-based jazz trumpet/flugelhorn player Ingrid Jensen. Raised in a music-loving family in British Columbia, the two have won numerous accolades for their work together, including Christine’s big-band album Treelines, which won a 2011 Juno award for Jazz Album of the Year.

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THURSDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled.

Geoghegan ’14 sets Ivy, Dartmouth records with sub-four mile

B y Alex Carr

The Dartmouth Staff

Will Geoghegan ’14 did not consider running Division I track until his sophomore year of high school, when he quit baseball, his primary sport at the time, to start outdoor track. Last weekend, Geoghegan achieved the runner’s holy grail, running a sub-fourminute mile, suggesting that the switch was worth it.

Following a strong weekend at Boston University’s Terrier Invitational, Dartmouth now has the best male and female milers in the country this track season. In the second heat that day, Geoghegan ran the mile in 3:58.04, breaking a Dartmouth record set by Sam Wilbur ’94 in 1994. Geoghegan wrote himself into the Ivy League record books, beating Columbia University’s Kyle Merber’s 2010 time of 3:58.52. Abbey D’Agostino ’14 broke her own Dartmouth and Ivy women’s record, finishing in 4:28.31.

“Athletes have been running the mile in the Ivy League for decades,” said head coach Barry Harwick. “So, having the all-time indoor record be held by a Dartmouth runner is just great.”

Courtesy of Doug Austin

Will Geoghegan ’14 runs between 60 and 90 miles per week.

Geoghegan has had successful seasons in the past, but his senior year has been the capstone to his running career. Harwick said that Geoghegan has both trained hard and been able to stay healthy this year, both contributing to his success.

Geoghegan said this was the best start to a season he has had in his Dartmouth career, with two wins in two races.

“I think the biggest factor is just that this is the longest stretch of training I’ve ever had that hasn’t been interrupted by illness or injury,” he said.

Geoghegan runs between 60 and 90 miles a week, depending on the season and racing schedule. He also tries to take one day a week off from running to do lifting, core work or other cross-training. The training has clearly paid off for the senior.

Geoghegan has won many significant races at Dartmouth, but all are now dwarfed by his accomplishment in the mile.

Notably, he won the mile title at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America last year, with a time of 4:05.71.

He also said he fondly remembers running a 13:55.92 5,000-meter race, good for 15th place, at Mt. San Antonio College in California last spring.

A major milestone in his running career occurred this past November, when Geoghegan won All-American honors at the NCAA Cross-Country Championships.

“After [the NCAA Cross-Country Championships], I knew he was going to be ready for big things in track,” Harwick said.

Geoghegan’s teammates cite his intense training, along with his work ethic, positive attitude and kindness to team members as the keys to his success.

“What separates Will is that he knows his mind and body very well,” said teammate John Bleday ’14. “While he works very hard, he never does too much to burn himself out. He understands his limits — which are almost

nonexistent — and stops when he knows it will hurt his performance.”

Bleday also praised Geoghegan for being an excellent teammate and training partner, taking the time to be a mentor and friend to younger teammates.

“You can often find him chatting with underclassmen about their training and helping them adjust to the program,” Bleday said. “He is also one of the guys that is always around the cross-country house and ready to procrastinate homework a little longer to hang out with the guys on the team.”

Currently, Geoghegan has NCAA eligibility to run a fifth year of indoor and outdoor track, but Ivy restrictions do not allow for him to use this eligibility at Dartmouth. Geoghegan said he hopes to use his eligibility while at graduate school for computer science.

Recently, Alexi Pappas ’12 took her extra eligibility to the University of Oregon to compete for a national championships with the Ducks, a traditional running powerhouse.

“It’s hard to say what will happen after that because there are very few certainties in competitive running, but I think being paid to run would be pretty cool,” Geoghegan said.

Big Green alumnae aim to snag first U.S. biathlon medal

B y Josh Schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

Three Dartmouth alumnae will compete for the U.S. at the Winter Olympics as part of a 10-person biathlon team, the largest team the U.S. has sent in 22 years.

Hannah Dreissigacker ’09, Susan Dunklee ’08 and Sara Studebaker ’07 will compete in Sochi, Russia. The five men and five women on the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team will try to win an Olympic biathlon medal, something no American athlete has ever done.

The best individual finish from an American came in 2010, when Jeremy Teela placed ninth in the 10-kilometer sprint.

A combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, the biathlon

has military roots.

“I think that we’re poised to do really well,” Studebaker said. “But anytime you go into the Olympics, it’s really hard to say for sure.”

Big Green women’s cross country skiing coach Cami Thompson Graves said she was not surprised that the three women are on the Olympic team.

Graves credited the mentality of Dartmouth’s program with fostering a large crop of Olympic hopefuls. Skiers are encouraged to race outside the intercollegiate circuit, she said.

Sochi will be Studebaker’s second Olympic appearance. In the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, Studebaker had the highest finish among Americans in the 7.5-kilometer race, and started for the team in the 4x6 kilometer relay.

After graduation, Studebaker earned a spot on the development team for the U.S. Biathlon, then joined the national team. She credits Dartmouth for her professional athletic development.

Dreissigacker has strong Olympic roots. Both of her parents, Dick Dreissigacker and Judy Geer ’75 Th’83, were

Olympic rowers. Her aunt, Charlotte Geer ’80, qualified for the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, ultimately earning silver as a rower in 1984 and becoming the first Dartmouth woman to win a medal.

Dreissigacker, who majored in engineering and studio art, graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering a year after finishing as an undergraduate at Dartmouth.

“My time on the Dartmouth Ski Team taught me so much about what it takes to be a good athlete, and also how to have fun doing it,” she said. “If you can be a good athlete while also juggling classes and labs and a social life at Dartmouth — then you can definitely be a good athlete after you graduate.”

After leaving Dartmouth, Dreissigacker joined an elite cross country racing team based in Vermont to train full time. She said she transitioned to competing in biathlons because she enjoys the nuance that shooting adds to racing.

At the World Cup in Italy two weeks ago, Dunklee surprised onlookers when

she missed a sprint medal by just sixtenths of a second, marking the third time than an American woman cracked the top four.

“The Olympics are something I have dreamed about for a long time,” Dunklee said. “My father was an Olympian and I always had him to look up to as a role model. However, my focus these last few years has not been so much about making the next Olympic team as preparing to be a strong contender once I get there.”

Dunklee, a biology major, and Studebaker, a government and Latino and Caribbean studies double major, highlighted the difficulties and challenges of biathlon competition as the reasons they compete in the sport.

The psycological component of shooting makes the event a lot more unpredictable than a normal race, Dunklee explained. “For example, if you hit the first four out of five targets you might think ‘oh, I only have to hit one more to clean and avoid the penalty loop,’ but the second you start thinking like that, it becomes nearly impossible to hit it because you are tensing up with

anticipation, or you broke your breathing cadence, or your focus has drifted away from crucial things like having a smooth trigger squeeze.”

For Studebaker, the dichotomy of the physicality of cross-country skiing and the mentality of shooting attracts her to the sport.

“You’re basically sprinting 100 meters, then trying to thread a needle,” she said.

As biathletes, Dreissigacker, Studebaker and Dunklee train six days a week and sometimes twice a day, logging 25 hours of physical activity per week in addition to shooting practice.

“Biathlon requires two very different skill sets: striving to the utmost limit of physical endurance and staying mentally centered and relaxed under high pressure,” Dunklee said. “You have to be able to switch between those two opposing modes in an instant.”

The 2014 Sochi Olympics kick off on Feb. 7, and the first biathlon event will be the men’s 10-kilometer race on Feb. 8. The next day, the Dartmouth trio will compete in the 7.5-kilometer sprint.