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DHMC partners with local hospitals

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A new exhibit showcasing family portraits appeared in Berry’s main hall this week.

Compelled by fiscal challenges in today’s health care system, some hospitals choose to partner with each other to share medical responsibilities and financial strategies, with the goal of improving the overall value of the services they provide. On Feb. 10, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Cheshire Medical Center announced that they would pursue a partnership, DHMC’s latest in a series of regional affiliations that aim to

reduce costs and improve quality of care.

The partnership aims to combat challenges such as reduced government reimbursement, increased taxes on hospital earnings, declining inpatient volumes and the emergence of new payment models.

The affiliation between DHMC and Cheshire must be approved by the New Hampshire Attorney General and the director of the New Hampshire Charitable Trusts for regulatory SEE DHMC PAGE 2

President emeritus highlights veteran experience B y HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

Nearly five years after he stepped down as College President, James Wright starts his day with a workout session on a treadmill, a cup of coffee and a piece of toast or bowl of cereal.

On Sunday mornings, he treats himself to ham, bacon and eggs.

He would like to have them more often, he said, but concluded that it wouldn’t be good for his

health.

At 74 years old, Wright still teaches in the College’s history department, as he did when he first came to Dartmouth in 1969.

Professors say he developed some of the most significant American political history courses at the College, including one on U.S. political history in the 20th century, which is still offered today.

Wright’s teaching has fo-

cused on the experiences of American soldiers in the conflicts following World War II. Since his retirement in 2013, Wright has taught a history seminar on American veterans’ stories as the Eleazar Wheelock professor of history emeritus.

History professor emeritus Gene Garthwaite, who came to the College in 1968, said Wright impressed the faculty members

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International student Divest Dartmouth petition apps drop 20 percent gains momentum on campus

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When applying to Dartmouth, Peter Saisi ’16 said his best tool was Google. His public school in Kenya did not have a guidance counselor, so he prepared for standardized testing with Internet research.

Ultimately, he said, he chose the College by process of elimination, finding that it seemed to

best suit his desire for a school with a good academic reputation, a strong sense of community and an intimate size.

This year, the College experienced a 20 percent decline in the number of international applicants, part of an overall 14 percent decline in applicants to the Class of 2018. International students at the College attribSEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 5

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One year after launching a campuswide push to withdraw the College’s investments in companies that do business in fossil fuels, Divest Dartmouth has gained support from students and alumni. In the spring, the group’s members will travel to Washington, D.C., to participate for a second year in a rally against the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a $5.3 billion project that would carry up to 830,000 barrels of crude oil daily from

Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

The petition, which originated from the national Divestment Student Network, calls for colleges to withdraw investments and endowments from the top 200 fossil fuel extraction companies, including BP and Chevron. As of press time, Divest Dartmouth had obtained 866 signatures on its online campaign, which is addressed to the Board of Trustees.

Morgan Curtis ’14, a campaign coSEE DIVEST PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Brown University: NASA recently chose a satellite designed by students at Brown as one of 16 satellites to be launched into space in the summer of 2017, according to the Brown Daily Herald. The satellite, called “EQUISat,” is caked in LED lights and can transmit radio signals. These features enable it to be seen with the naked eye and will allow for anyone to use the device for communication, even without special equipment.

Columbia University: Coalition Against Sexual Violence, a new student group, compiled a list of policy recommendations to present to administrators, the Columbia Spectator reported. Proposals by the group include restructuring the University’s sexual misconduct adjudication, hiring a clinician to staff its rape crisis center 24 hours a day and diversifying student representation on a presidential advisory committee about the issue.

Cornell University: Female undergraduate enrollment in the College of Engineering reached its highest this fall, at 38.2 percent, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. This percentage is double the national average of around 18 percent.

Harvard University: The university’s office of admissions and financial aid have changed financial aid instructions to specify what certain forms are used for, according to the Harvard Crimson reported. The adjustment comes in response to a Feb. 3 public letter from the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, accusing Harvard and 109 other universities of misleading financial aid applicants Princeton University: The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has partnered with the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, to create a new study abroad program for students, the Daily Princetonian reported. The first program will run this fall.

University of Pennsylvania: After student suicides and heightened campus discussion about mental health, the university administration has announced the creation of a task force to investigate and make recommendations regarding resources and the overall state of mental health on campus, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

Yale University: Yale is in the process of replacing its printing equipment with a new, unified printing system called BluePrint, according to the Yale Daily News. The system uses a software called Papercut, which will reduce paper waste and use 30 percent recycled paper.

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Campus campaign picks up steam FROM DIVEST PAGE 1

organizer, said she is excited about the support the petition has received.

“We have a strong history of using student voices to call for divestment and make change on social issues,” Curtis said.

Over the past year, Divest Dartmouth has used various methods to raise awareness about the campaign, including reaching out directly to faculty members and alumni, holding tabling events on the Green and conducting a panel, Curtis said.

The group also works with other environmental organizations on campus and holds weekly open meetings.

Organizers’ passion for the issue stands out to Kimberly Son ’17.

“As a green campus, in both senses of the word, I love the fact that I can help be a part of the movement,” she said.

Since the campaign’s inception, alumni have written in support of the cause to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, offered to speak at Divest Dartmouth events and contacted other people in their class, the Board of Trustees and the College president to increase support, Curtis said.

“I think it’s really exciting for alumni to see this happening at Dartmouth, and have it reconnect them to the school, by being proud of what current students are doing,” Curtis said.

Over 300 institutions, including all eight Ivy League schools, currently participate in the campaign.

Divest Dartmouth has formally met with College administrators, Curtis said, as its goal is to build campus support before asking the College to make any decisions.

At a press conference in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, former College president and current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim endorsed divestment as a strategy to fight climate change.

During the Washington, D.C., rally, which will take place on March 2, students from different colleges will gather near the White House and call for President Barack Obama to halt construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

“Young people are the ones who helped Obama win his election, and this is not what we voted for,” Divest Dartmouth co-organizer Leehi Yona ’16 said. “The Keystone XL pipeline is not what we voted for.”

The crowd plans to converge at Georgetown University then walk to the White House gates and engage in peaceful civil disobedience. One goal of the “XL Dissent” protest, Yona said, is for 500 people to engage in non-violent civil disobedience and get arrested.

“The fact that this is entirely youthorganized brings back the attention to the fact that we as young people are the ones that are going to be left to deal with climate change and the huge issues of intergenerational justice associated with that,” Yona said.

Last year, Divest Dartmouth took 15 students to the nation’s capital to participate in the “Forward On Climate” rally, in which an estimated 40,000 people marched to the White House urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

During the upcoming Washington, D.C., trip, Divest Dartmouth members will get to meet other groups working on divestment campaigns and discuss strategy.

“Sustainability extends way beyond this campus,” Yona said. “It’s connecting with schools and realizing how much of an impact we can have if we looked at the bigger picture.”

Regional hospitals coordinate, reduce costs FROM DHMC PAGE 1

review before it goes into effect this fall.

DHMC and Cheshire have maintained a joint operating agreement since 1998, in which Cheshire employs most of its staff through the DartmouthHitchcock Keene group of multispecialty practitioners.

Cheshire CEO Arthur Nichols said he considers the agreement a natural next step in improving the hospitals’ relationship.

In 2011 and 2012, Cheshire experienced its first operation deficits in over 30 years, prompting a desire for a closer affiliation with DHMC, which can allocate resources more effectively, said DHMC director of external relations Rick Adams. DHMC and Cheshire began discussing the agreement last September.

The proposed affiliation will allow Cheshire to remain a separate legal organization while building tighter bonds with DHMC leadership and management, coordinating their clinical and fiscal activities.

DHMC will have oversight over some of Cheshire’s financial decisions, including proposed budget strategies.

Nichols said that although it was hard for Cheshire to cede any autonomy, the decision was worth the legal and financial ability to make mutual investments, which can improve clinical strengths and intensive care services.

The hospitals will consider consolidating services and sharing some costs to reduce expenses, Nichols said.

“We have top-notch intensive care

services and the Dartmouth system will have the incentive and wherewithal to do bolster them,” he said.

The agreement will enable both medical centers to pursue their shared vision of creating a sustainable system for health care, focusing on population health, delivering value-based care and adjusting to new models of payment, Adams said.

Nichols emphasized the short-term clinical advantages of the agreement for patients, adding that Cheshire would be able to alleviate DHMC’s responsibilities in caring for certain types of patients.

Equipped with a Level 3 trauma center, Cheshire will handle patients with medical issues such as pneumonia or appendicitis, allowing Lebanon’s DHMC — New Hampshire’s only Level 1 trauma center — to take more high-risk patients.

According to Stanford University Medical Center, a critical patient’s chances of survival increase by 20 to 25 percent when treated at a Level 1 trauma center.

As a Level 1 trauma center, DHMC has surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists and nurses on staff 24 hours a day, along with an education program and preventive and outreach programs. As a Level 3 center, Cheshire can provide emergency resuscitation, surgery and intensive care for most patients, but lacks the full availability of specialists that DHMC has. “[Cheshire has] critical care beds but we only have so many of them,” Adams said. “And a lot of them filled with patients who really do need to come

here because they’re critically injured or seriously ill.”

This new partnership is the latest in a string of affiliation that DHMC has made in the last several years. The relationships are part of a concerted effort to create a interconnected medical care system, Adams said.

In 2011, Children’s Hospital at DHMC and Children’s Hospital Boston began collaborating on pediatric care.

Last fall, DHMC finalized a partnership with New London Hospital. Other recent affiliations include links with Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vt. and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon.

“Health care in this country is moving toward integrated networks that are able to treat large populations of people,” Alice Peck Day Health Systems president and CEO Susan Mooney said in a press release. “For APD to remain a vital health care provider in that type of system, we realized that we cannot do it alone, and we owe it to our patients to find a way to participate.”

APD realized it could not maintain long-term financial viability without assistance, prompting affiliation discussions with DHMC to start last month, APD’s director of communications Dean Mudgett said. An affiliation between the two hospitals would formalize a relationship already in place.

“Northern New England is well ahead of the rest of the country in reforms,” Nichols said. “There are a lot of people still clinging to the old health care system, we create a charge, we get paid and that’s our job.”

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Staff Columnist Emily Albrecht ’16

Contributing Columnist Kyle Bigley ’17

Special Snowflake Syndrome

Room for All

It’s okay that we can’t all change the world or pursue our dream jobs.

Tyler Durden of “Fight Club” (1999) fame the mundane. It is okay if we never find our famously spat, “You are not a beautiful or dreams or do something we like instead of unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying something we love. organic matter as everything else.” I first saw Thinking that we are all special snowthat movie six years ago, but the line has stuck flakes who will go out and do something that with me ever since. I think many of us here lands us individual Wikipedia pages can be at Dartmouth, myself included, suffer from incredibly psychologically damaging to one’s sense of self-worth. Quite frankly, despite Special Snowflake Syndrome.

Everywhere I look, I see the notion that graduating from one of the best colleges for realizing your full potential as a person comes undergraduate learning in the country, not all with reaching deep down into your heart and of us will work on Wall Street, write for the finding some special career that will make you New Yorker, found the next big tech startup or happy and whole. Not following your dreams, save the lives of millions with nonprofit work. whatever they may be, supposedly makes Some Dartmouth graduates will accomplish your life less meaningful and bright. Being a these things and more, and that is great for them. But many of worthwhile person, apparently demands “Luckily, one’s life does not need us are going to go lives that may doing what you love, to be bombastic in order for it to lead not include complete no matter what. It’s a professional nirvana nice thought, but this be worth something.”

— and that is okay, idea is rubbish. Not too. everyone can follow their dreams, and more importantly, not Do not fall into an anxious pit of despair, everyone needs to do so to live a meaningful as I am often wont to do at the realization that I am probably not going to dramatically life.

Being able to chase your dreams as a change the world. Though we have been professional goal is a privilege. Going to New hearing such rhetoric all of our lives, the York to become the next big thing is much reality is much less exciting. Luckily, one’s easier when your parents chip in for rent, or life does not need to be bombastic in order if they paid for your swanky college degree for it to be worth something. in the first place. When you have to worry Desiring comfort is okay, too. Wanting to about putting food on the table and making find nothing more than happiness should not rent, chasing your dreams takes a backseat. be frowned upon. With only one life to live, In rural and low-income communities, you and our personal timers hanging invisibly hear much less about following your heart’s above our heads, we need to focus on more desires and much more about making enough than potential jobs and careers. We need to to get by. Yet being unable to land some deeply try and be happy in the moment. And we do fulfilling or monumental job does not make not know if it will be one of our last. anybody less of a person, or make his or her This is not an ode to anarchy, to totally disregarding the future. It is merely my hope life less meaningful.

The world needs accountants, baristas, that the pressures many of us have faced our managers, servers, wood manufacturers entire lives — to be the best person who ever and small business owners. The world needs was — do not stop us from living our lives in people to do things that need to be done, even the present and pursuing something that we the tasks that are not quite as shiny or polished. actually enjoy. There is more to life than a As Dartmouth students and future alumni, resume and more to meaning than the jobs we are not morally or philosophically above and careers you will eventually have.

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NEWS EDITORS: Brian Chalif and Nancy Wu, LAYOUT EDITOR: Jin Shin, TEMPLATING EDITOR: Katherine Healy, COPY EDITORS: PJ Bigley and Ellen Li.

SUBMISSIONS: We welcome letters and guest columns. All submissions must include the author’s name and affiliation with Dartmouth College, and should not exceed 250 words for letters or 700 words for columns. The Dartmouth reserves the right to edit all material before publication. All material submitted becomes property of The Dartmouth. Please email submissions to editor@thedartmouth.com.

STEM majors are important, but so are humanities students.

“I hear Goldman is really looking for a bunch of classics majors to pay some six-figure starting salaries to this year,” I often joke to a friend who considers majoring in that field. While I make these comments facetiously, I should reconsider them, especially after Republican governors’ onslaught against a number of liberal arts degrees.

For example, Gov. Pat McCrory, R-N.C., has said, “If you want to take gender studies that’s fine, go to a private school and take it.

But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.” Similarly, Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said that his state didn’t need more anthropologists — it’s “a great degree if people want to get it, but we don’t need them here.” (Ironically, Scott’s daughter has a degree an anthropology from the College of William and Mary, a public institution.)

Despite the apparent hypocrisy, Scott wishes to offer financial incentives toward STEM programs, like a $3,000-tuition cut in Florida public universities for students who earn STEM degrees. However, public education should mean affordability for all, not just for those interested in careers that the state favors. This tuition break would be funded by cuts to other programs, like psychology and history, since learning about the brain and being aware of the past are so overvalued.

Dartmouth students, luckily, need not worry, since these governors will let us study whatever we want at our private school. But if McCrory and Scott had their ways, students at public universities would face pressure to enter STEM fields. Such a policy, if looked at purely in terms of personal satisfaction, would not the deliver the goods. And besides that, it’s simply bad economics.

A liberal arts education is a desirable asset on the job market. A 2008 study of 502 technology companies determined that while 92 percent of CEOs had earned bachelor’s degrees or advanced degrees, a mere 37 percent had degrees in computer technology or engineering. Moreover, the last U.S. Census showed that fewer than 50 percent of Fortune 500

Intolerant Radicals

companies’ CEOs held advanced degrees of any sort. Steve Jobs once said, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.” No wonder, then, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that recent English literature majors have a lower unemployment percentage than those who hold degrees in information systems and architecture.

Am I criticizing STEM programs? Of course not. These studies are socially important, and people who wish to pursue careers in these fields should, by all means, do so. However, people drawn to non-STEM fields also have a right to pursue their passions. I believe our campuses, workforces and societies as a whole are better off when students study what excites them. Every discipline offers valuable tools and different insights. For the all important business goal of innovation, everyone on a team has to bring different perspectives and approaches for tackling problems. And, of course, not everyone can, or should, be an engineer.

The arts, too, are important. Culture remains America’s biggest export. In most countries around the world, American film and music are as ubiquitous as blue jeans. Even with reduced revenues due to online piracy, Hollywood films and DVDs still earn just a little shy of $100 billion a year worldwide. The U.S. music industry earns another $15 billion despite its inability to curb the ever-growing threat of piracy. And theater productions on Broadway and in community theaters continue to attract business and enrich our lives. Like the humanities, the arts should remain an integral part of any educational institution.

A college education, specifically a liberal arts one, should not have cranking out as many workers as possible to plug the next hole as its main objective. We need to abandon a factory line mentality. Policy makers should not simply look at college graduates as those who can fill some pre-determined place in the national economy.

Vox Clamantis

For those fortunate enough to gain admission, Dartmouth is one of the country’s most diverse and inclusive institutions. Name another school whose fraternities and local sororities regularly open their doors to all of campus to come drink free of charge. You can’t. Unfortunately, however, Dartmouth’s admirably progressive culture has spawned a small but vociferous faction of malcontents for whom nothing will ever be good enough.

They will not rest until Dartmouth eradicates all membership-based social spaces (as inclusive as they might be), outlaws the use of gendered pronouns and summarily expels anyone accused of sexual assault without any semblance of due process. They operate under the guise of tolerance, but ironically it is they who are intolerant of individuals who disagree with their radical views.

These individuals need to realize the real harm they are inflicting upon Dartmouth through their reckless allegations. Dartmouth is not free of homophobes, misogynists or perpetrators of sexual assault, but their numbers are probably fewer than in the general college-aged population, and their presence does not rise to the “epidemic” levels that these individuals claim. Yet just this past Wednesday, The Dartmouth ran an opinion column in which the author brazenly claimed that “women are raped in droves” at Dartmouth and an article on a sexual assault forum at which a participant absurdly equated an ex-boyfriend’s lies to “roofies” designed to procure her consent.

These are the true promoters of rape culture. Lest we are content to let the applicant pool shrink even further, we as a community cannot continue to tolerate the slander of our school’s good name.

Christian G. Kiely ’09 Former Opinion Editor, The Dartmouth

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InternationalstudentsanalyzeCollege’sglobalpresence,campusclimate FROM INTERNATIONAL PAGE 1

uted the decline to recent media coverage, the College’s focus on liberal arts and its rural location.

Saisi, the International Student Association’s vice president, said he thinks obstacles in attracting international students to the College include its small size and the relatively few graduate programs, which increase the exposure of some of its peer universities abroad.

Before he became international student programs director, Steve Silver worked in the admissions office for eight years and was responsible for international recruitment and evaluation. He said there is no easy answer to the question of why international applications saw such a significant decline.

Several international students cited recent media attention and the reputation of Dartmouth’s culture as potential influences on the drop in applicants.

Keshia Badalge ’16, who is from Singapore and served as the International Student Association secretary last year, said she attended an international school that regularly sent students to Ivy League institutions, so many students were familiar with Dartmouth.

While she originally wanted to go to school in California, Badalge said she chose Dartmouth because it offered the best financial aid package. She had some concerns

about the drinking culture on campus, which she had read about on College Confidential.

The decline in international student applications, surprised Badalge, she said, because Dartmouth is one of a few American universities that offers both a need-blind application process and strong financial aid for international students.

International Students Association campus connection chair Rocio Labrador ’15 said she chose to attend Dartmouth because of its small class sizes, as she values being heard and communicating with professors. She said, however, that deciding to study at a liberal arts college is difficult for many international students because there is often resistance to that form of education.

“From the get-go, being international and applying to a liberal arts school is difficult to explain to the people back home,” she said.

Labrador credited the recession and media reports on the College as potential factors in the drop in international applicants, though she said they do not provide a full explanation.

“I think the media about the alcohol issues with Dartmouth is certainly not helping because in other countries where the drinking age is lower there’s a lot more judgement passed on not being able to control your drinking,” she said.

International student mentor

Faizan Kanji ’15, who is from Pakistan, said the significant decline in applicants shocked him.

International students often consider current events when looking at colleges, he said. International members of the Class of 2016

“From the get-go, being international and applying to a liberal arts school is difficult to explain to the people back home.”

- ROCIO LABRADOR ’15, international students association campus connection chair

asked him about Andrew Lohse ’12 and hazing, while international members of the Class of 2017 often asked about the Dimensions protest and the issues it raised, like sexual assault at the College.

“Those kinds of events eventually build up to affect the application percentages,” Kanji said.

University of California at Berkeley freshman Jack Shen, who is from Shanghai, said he applied

to Dartmouth after learning about it from a friend who had attended his high school.

Though Shen was attracted to Dartmouth’s biochemistry department, the Dimensions protest deterred him from the College, since he said it seemed to indicate disagreement on campus. While most other students he knew that applied to Dartmouth saw the protest as “no big deal,” he said he believed it still impacted their opinions of the school.

Once at the College, international students are provided with a significant support systems but also experience a number of challenges.

One resource is the International Students Association, which aims to hold one big event each term, the most popular of which is the winter ball, Saisi said. This year’s ball, called “A Night in Bangkok: Thai Lantern Festival,” was held Saturday. Around 200 people attended, Saisi said, which was more than in past years.

Badalge said she particularly benefitted from programs over the winter interim, which included free meals and the friendship family program, which connected her with a Tuck School of Business professor and his family. Badalge said she meets with the professor every week, has skied with his family and accepted his assistance moving between terms.

“Dartmouth does a really good job of taking care of international

students,” she said.

Saisi, who had not studied outside of Kenya before coming to Dartmouth, said he found the College to be a very different environment. He added, however, that a strong “network of care” exists for international students, citing the international student orientation, the friendship family program and international student mentors.

Labrador, who lives in the McCulloch Hall international residence, became involved in the International Students Association after she began to feel homesick her freshman winter. She said she benefitted from the community, where she chatted about missing home as well as aspects of American culture.

Though the College provides a strong resource system, Badalge said she does not like the way in which some American students interact with international students. While American students often perceive college as a time to have fun, she said, international students tend to be less interested in parties and heavy drinking, particularly since the legal drinking age is lower in many other countries. Last year, Badalge considered transferring because she felt a “huge cultural disconnect,” she said.

“It’s a really different life, where your whole life revolves around this little plot of campus,” Badalge said. “It doesn’t seem real.”

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even before he joined the College and was a welcome addition to the department.

Garthwaite recalled that at the end of Wright’s first year, the history department chair said the young professor had the potential to become president of the College.

History professor David Lagomarsino agreed, saying that by the end of his first year, Wright was already a legend in the department.

With his sense of humor and natural teaching ability, Wright quickly became one of the most popular history professors, he said.

His academic interest in war reflects a deep-rooted fascination with veterans’ experiences.

A 2005 visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center marked a turning point in his life, Wright said. He became increasingly involved in the scholarship on the experiences of veterans.

During his trip to the center, he visited veterans by their bedside

and encouraged them to consider going to college. Although he did not intend to recruit students to Dartmouth, some veterans at Walter Reed decided to apply, and Wright guided them through the process and continued to help them after they arrived on campus.

Wright said he is still in touch with veterans both inside and outside the College. He has visited Walter Reed around 30 times in the last several years and delivered lectures on veterans’ experiences at institutions such as Texas A&M University and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He also regularly interacts with student veterans at dinners and other informal meetings.

Upon recognizing the lasting emotional impact of recent wars on the U.S., Wright wanted to “put human faces” to the story.

“As a historian, I was very frustrated when I discovered that there really were no books that gave this historical overview,” Wright said.

“And a friend of mine told me to quit complaining and write the book

myself, so I did.”

Wright published “Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America’s Wars and Those Who Fought Them” in May 2012, telling stories of American veterans that passed away in battle through tales from their co-combatants. He is currently at work on a book about the Vietnam War. Garthwaite and Lagomarsino said Wright’s career bloomed while he was the dean of the faculty.

During James Freedman’s presidency, Wright led a curricular review which examined graduation requirements, as well as a successful capital campaign which serves as the model for current College capital campaigns, Garthwaite said.

After becoming president, Wright focused on improving College infrastructure. During his presidency, the College invested in academic buildings and nine residence halls.

“I never thought of myself as being a bricks and mortar person, but when you have a college cam-

pus up here in the north country, you have to think about the bricks and mortar,” he said. “When you think about the needs of modern research and learning for both faculty and students you need to have the facilities that will enable to them.”

Wright also hired more professors to reduce the student-to-faculty ratio and prioritized fostering diversity within the student body.

He said he wanted to ensure that financial concerns would not hinder students from diverse backgrounds from applying to Dartmouth, so he expanded financial aid policies, tripling the budget for undergraduate aid and eliminating loans.

Wright had to navigate two tragedies during his presidency — 9/11 and the murder of two Dartmouth professors. In the process, Wright said he learned that building a peaceful community is not about immunizing it from potential tragedies, but responding in a healthy way.

Since leaving Parkhurst Hall, he

said he has avoided shaping current Dartmouth policy, though he said he is always available to the College’s leadership.

Tyler Kuhn ’14, a student taking Wright’s course this term, said that Wright helps his students understand the nature of warfare and aspects of veteran experiences that are difficult for them to empathize with, adding that the former president is down-to-earth and easy to talk to.

“What always struck me about him is humility and decency,” Kuhn said.

Wright said that working as the dean and the president of the College, he had to confront hardships at times but appreciated the opportunities to interact with faculty members and students. He said he misses walking across campus and greeting students, many of whom he knew.

For all his administrative success, Wright defines himself as a teacher and a historian, he said, and would like to stay that way.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

Double Secret Probation

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Ryan Gallagher ’16

TODAY 4:00 p.m.

Afternoon tea with WISE, The Center for Gender and Student Engagement, 6 Choate Road

4:00 p.m.

Reading with English professor Thomas O’Malley, Sanborn Library

4:15 p.m.

Computer science colloquium, “Mastering the Interaction of Light and Matter,” with Dr. Wojciech Jarosz, Steele 006

TOMORROW 3:00 p.m.

Roundtable discussion, “Crowdsourcing Health,” Baker-Berry Library Treasure Room

3:30 p.m.

Jones seminar, “Advancing Neuroimaging Technology to Study Brain Dynamics” with Solomon Diamond, Spanos Auditorium

8:00 p.m.

Theater department mainstage production, “Spring Awakening,” Moore Theater

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Wind ensemble to mix acoustic and electronic music in Sun. show

“When we started adding the technology a few weeks ago, evThrough flashing lights, syn- eryone started smiling and bobthesized melody and acoustic bing their heads,” she said. “They live music, the Dartmouth Wind couldn’t help it.”

Ensemble will take on a new reperThe concert will be a challenge toire this Sunday. Led by conductor for the ensemble both musically Matthew Marsit, the ensemble and procedurally, Marsit said. will play electro-acoustic music, Keeping with the concert’s technoa modern fusion of acoustic and logical motif, the ensemble will use techno sound. a smartphone application called Matching electronically gener- Wham City Lights to coordinate ated sounds with acoustic music the stage’s color-changing light creates a “new palate of sound show with audience members’ possibilities,” phone screens.

Marsit said.

Members of W h i l e t h e “I can’t wait for the the audience f i r s t h a l f o f audience to discover will also use the the concert free application this new side of the will focus on during the conthe ensemble’s wind ensemble.” cert to project acoustic sound, the colors, and the second half Marsit said he of the show will - KAMEKO WINBORN ’14, has encourinclude Mason ENSEMBLE SOCIAL CHAIR aged audience Bates’ “Mothmembers to ership” and download the Steven Bryant’s “Ecstatic Waters,” application in advance. two pieces with musical flavors of “This is a very technical pera techno style. formance,” Kameko Winborn ’14, “[Bates] is actually a profes- the ensemble’s social chair, said. sional DJ in the clubs in L.A. as “It’s not like playing with a live well as a very well-trained classical person. Instead you need to be in composer,” Marsit said. “He brings synchronization with a machine.” his experience from working in Baratta said the show is unlike these incredibly high-end clubs to any concert she has participated the concert hall.” in before, and she looks forward “Mother ship” will feature to seeing the pieces come alive.

Juliana Baratta ’17 on soprano In “Ecstatic Waters,” the percussaxophone and Scott Smedinghoff sion section will use the inside of GR’17 on piano, along with Chase crystal glass containers to produce Shipp ’17 on the electric guitar and a flowing water sound, she said.

Orestis Lykouropoulos ’17 on the “The Loving Machinery of amplified violin.

Justice,” the fourth movement of Mallory Rutigliano ’17, who “Ecstatic Waters,” gives Winborn plays flute and piccolo in the chills. ensemble, said that she finds the “It is an almost post-apocalyptic interplay between music and tech- sound — very crunchy, very dark,” nology syncopated and interesting. she said. “I can’t wait for the audi-

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Conductor Matthew Marsit prepares the Dartmouth Wind Ensemble for Sunday’s performance.

ence to discover this new side of the wind ensemble.”

Marsit said he hopes that the concert will challenge audience members’ expectations for live music, helping them see that live music gives listeners

more than songs streamed online.

Rutigliano said that since Marsit comes to every rehearsal excited for the music, ensemble members want to “make him proud.”

“I’ve had conductors who would

yell to motivate us, but he manages to make us enthusiastic and motivated without yelling,” she said.

The Dartmouth Wind Ensemble will perform Sunday at 2 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

THURSDAY LINEUP

WOMEN’S SWIM AND DIVE AT IVY CHAMPIONSHIP ALL DAY

Women’s swim and dive team heads to Ivy Championships

B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Wielding fast suits, swim caps and razors, the women of Dartmouth’s swim and dive team left for their biggest meet of the season, the Ivy League Championships, yesterday afternoon. The team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island to compete at Brown University against the other members of the Ancient Eight.

The Big Green women, especially the seniors, are looking to leap-frog Yale University, co-captain Natalia Vecerek ’14 said. Yale finished in fourth place ahead of Dartmouth last year and in third place the year before. Dartmouth finished in fifth place in both 2012 and 2013.

“It’s been a goal that we’ve had since we were freshmen,” Vecerek said. “Everyone would have to basically swim a perfect meet, but we could do it. Yale and Penn were really close during dual meet season, and we beat Penn last year, so I think we have a shot.”

But hunger for victory alone won’t carry the team. The swimmers and divers understand that they will have to push themselves to their limits dur-

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The team looks to improve on its fifth-place finish from last season.

ing preliminary races to get past the cut into finals and win extra points for the team.

“Everyone has got to step up,” co-captain Christine Kerr ’14 said.

“There isn’t room for ‘oops, if I went that time in prelims I would have gotten top eight.’ You have to swim your fastest in prelims. You’ve got to squeeze in an 8th or 16th to get in the A final or the B final.”

After training through dual meet season and tapering in the days

leading up to the championship, the women are in their best physical condition of the season. The team lost all of its Ivy meets so far this season, focusing instead on strength training to prepare for the final championship.

Just being in peak physical condition will not put the Big Green over the top. The team is training mentally as well.

“In some meets, we do something called secret psyching,” Vecerek said.

“For Ivies, you get a person you’ve

been randomly assigned a gift or do a poster or something like that every day. Some people even make fake email accounts to secretly email their person and get them pumped up.”

As a confidence boost, team members often circle up after practice to compliment each other. They also attend team dinners.

Some tactics require sacrifices — strategies other college women might struggle with but tactics that demonstrate the team’s commitment.

Swimmers don’t shave their legs after training trips, waiting until right before the meet to help lose the extra drag and become more hydrodynamic, Kerr said.

“That is one of the most exciting things,” she said. “It’s something else that helps you mentally — some of the hard-core teams shave once a year. It’s nice in the winter because you wear pants all the time, and it’s fine when you’re around people on the swim team, but when you’re around other people they think it’s a little weird.”

As the team starts its Ivy Championship races Thursday, each swimmer will compete in at least three individual events. The swimmers can also compete in any number of

relays which, Vecerek said, will be her highlight of the meet.

“It’s the only time that you’re swimming interacting with your team in the same race,” she said.

She said she is particularly excited for the 400-yard freestyle relay, in which Dartmouth came in third place last year. The Big Green also took Columbia’s pool record by a wide margin in the event at the last dual meet of the season.

Charlotte Kamai ’16, this season’s anchor, said the relay is one of Dartmouth’s strongest events because the team has a deep group of sprinters.

“There’s probably about six of us who could take any leg and be within a few tenths of someone else,” she said. “We get so pumped for relays that everyone ends up going faster.”

For the team’s seniors, who are swimming in their last college meet and, for most, the last competitive meet of their lives, the event takes on additional importance.

“I want to go out with a bang,” Kerr said. “I want to hit the wall for one of my races and look up at the scoreboard and just cry. I cry for a lot of people, but this time I want to do it for me.”

Leverone provides key practice facility for the Big Green in winter

B y MACY FERGUSON The Dartmouth Staff

With MLB spring training starting this week in Florida and Arizona, the beginning of the baseball season heralds the imminent coming of spring.

Here in Hanover, however, baseball players practice indoors until 10 p.m. and then trudge back to their dorms in the snow.

Used primarily by the varsity track andfieldteamforpracticesandcompetitionsduringtheindoorseason,Leverone Field House also serves as the only consistent winter practice venue for a number of other varsity and club sports.

Senior associate athletic director for facilities and operations Richard Whitmore said he works with the athletics department to schedule use of Leverone equitably.

Practice time is scheduled around the track and field team’s needs, and teams are slotted for Leverone’s space based on their upcoming schedules.

In the spring season varsity field sports get the first pick, followed by the other

varsity field sports and club sports.

Club teams arrange their schedules in person. Representatives for each club team attend a meeting at the beginning of the term where associate athletic director for intramurals and club sports Joann Brislin divvies up practice time.

Teams that have championships in the spring, like men’s club lacrosse and ultimate frisbee, get priority above others.

Schedules can change day-to-day based on the weather, Whitmore said.

Snow and other inclement conditions make even the teams that practice outside over the winter months turn to Leverone.

“It’s oftentimes a moving target because we try to get teams outside when we can,” said senior associate athletic director for physical education and recreation Roger Demment, who schedules club sports’ time in Leverone.

Scully-Fahey field, where the varsity lacrosse teams compete and practice, is also a priority facility in the winter, Whitmore said. When possible, the field is cleared for the lacrosse team to use, as it is the most likely team to

practice outside.

The men’s lacrosse team only uses Leverone when its field is unworkable, said coach Andrew Towers.

Varsity baseball uses Leverone regularly as its outdoor field is essentially unusable until the spring. Due to Leverone’s scheduling constraints, the team often practices late at night.

Practicing indoors presents a variety of challenges beyond scheduling, including practicing on a field with different dimensions and a different surface from the one where they will compete.

The baseball team, along with the softball team, is one of the few teams that does not practice on the same surface on which it competes, baseball coach Bob Whalen said.

“But we’re very fortunate to have Leverone,” he said. “It’s a great facility and though everybody would prefer to be outside, it’s just the reality of where we are, and you try to make the best of it.”

The height of Leverone’s ceiling poses challenges to the baseball team, as players cannot field fly balls like

they would on the field, Whalen said.

Though there is enough space in Leverone for a full size infield, simulating an outfield is difficult.

The team spends some time outside to focus on skills like working on the outfield, he said.

The ceiling height poses similar challenges to the varsity softball team, making it hard for outfielders to get a sense for how the ball is coming off the bat, team co-captain and second baseman Kara Curosh ’14 said.

“Connecting infield and outfield is harder in Leverone because we don’t have the same depth and space as our outdoor field,” Curosh said.

Pitcher Adam Frank ’15 said that practicing in Leverone also affects his position specifically, forcing pitchers, to practice on a surface that doesn’t accurately simulate game conditions.

“We’re used to pitching on dirt, but in Leverone we use a turf mound,” Frank said. “The mound is lower and it affects our footing.”

Whalen and Frank said many teams they compete against can practice outside year-round, or at least more

frequently than is possible in Hanover, but that it doesn’t impact the way the team approaches indoor practices.

“Whether it’s inside or outside, our job is to get ready to play,” Whalen said. “We go in there every night with the purpose of getting better.”

When the baseball and softball teams travel to Florida later this month, they will be at a competitive disadvantage as they will be playing against teams that practice outside all winter.

“You just do what you can and go into the game knowing that it might be an issue, but make a point to not let it get you down or frustrated,” Curosh said.

Though Leverone is in high demand, Whitmore said he feels that the teams and staff are satisfied with the current schedule.

Players and coaches understand the challenge of scheduling so many teams in a limited facility, Whitmore said.

“There’s a very fine balance with the schedule,” he said. “It’s a complicated puzzle that we’re trying to put together every day.”