The Dartmouth newspaper 10/07/15

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015

VOL. CLXXII NO. 122

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By KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff

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WOMEN’S RUGBY DEFEATS NO. 12 BROWN PAGE 8

OPINION

FISHBEIN: GOING FOR THE GOLD PAGE 4

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: KATIE SCHULTZ ’16

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The College held a life sciences symposium on signal transduction in the Life Sciences Center.

The Dartmouth Community Study, an extensive survey about the campus climate of the College that is a key component of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, was released Tuesday morning in a campus-wide blitz from Provost Carolyn Dever.

It asks a range of questions about living, learning and working at the College.

The survey begins with a list of definitions for words relating to identity and inclusivity, such as “ableist” and “harassment.” Questions in the survey ask participants

to rate how comfortable they feel with the College’s community, whether they have been sexually assaulted and whether they believe the community is welcoming toward minority groups, among other topics.

One table, for example, asks participants to rate the College on a scale of one to five on its friendliness to the queer community, veterans, non-U.S. citizens, men, women and other groups.

The anonymous questionnaire will adjust automatically depending on how the respondent answers specific questions, working group member and physics graduate student Spencer Hatch said.

SEE SURVEY PAGE 3

Students, alums reflect on Susan Taffe Reed decision

B y CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth

The appointment and removal of Susan Taffe Reed from her position as director of the Native American Program has caused discussion among some Native American students and alumni at Dartmouth.

Reed was named director of Dartmouth’s Native American

Program in September, and shortly afterwards, tribal officials and Native American alumni began to voice concerns over the perceived dishonesty of her ethnic background and her qualifications for the job.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email last week that the “distraction around Reed’s appointment hindered her ability to effectively do her job, but that she will remain an employee at

the College.”

Lawrence did not provide a timeline for the search for a new director.

Jeremy Guardiola ’12 will serve as interim advisor for the Native American Program.

“It defi nitely isn’t an issue of whether [Reed] is Native or not Native,” Native Americans at Dartmouth treasurer Andrew Shipman ’18 said.

“It’s an issue of her lying about being Native.”

In particular, Reed’s position as president of Eastern Delaware Nations, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that is not a federally recognized tribe, brought about some of the strongest criticism.

The organization was perceived by some as culturally appropriating the heritage of several legitimate Native American tribes, and Reed herself was accused of having solely Irish ancestry by the blog FakeIndians.

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NAS off-campus program Hanover startups perform offers rich experience well at competition

B y CAROLINE BERENS The Dartmouth Staff

Nine Dartmouth students, both Native and non-Native, sit clustered together, eagerly discussing and learning about federal Indian law in their Native American studies class. Their professor, Bruce Duthu, explains the historical framework, sources and limits of such laws and touches upon their influence on

everything from economic development to Indian child welfare.

Duthu and the students, however, are not sitting in Kemeny or Dartmouth Hall. In fact, they are not even in Hanover. Instead, they are in a classroom at the Institute of American Indian Arts, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Institute is the site of the Native American studies program’s

SEE NAS PAGE 2

B y LEINA McDERMOTT The Dartmouth

By utilizing the College’s strong alumni network, creative work environment and focus on supporting innovation, three Hanover-based startups placed as finalists at the “Rise of the Rest” competition, which took place in Manchester last week.

Jack O’Toole Tu’14 and chemsitry professor Joe BelBruno won the competition’s $100,000 prize for their startup FreshAir.

Director of Entrepreneurship and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center Jamie Coughlin organized the event and acted as emcee during the final round of the competition.

Coughlin actively participated in bringing the tour to New Hampshire, and is passionate about how the event highlights talented people in “pockets of the country” besides traditional entrepreneurial hubs like Boston, New York and Silicon SEE STARTUP PAGE 5

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New NAS FSP offers “rich” culture

Oct. 2, 1:45 p.m., Rockefeller Center loading dock: Safety and Security officers responded to a motor vehicle accident. An investigation concluded that a graduate student had backed a classroom technologies car into the central stores truck driven by a College employee. No injuries or damages were reported.

Oct. 3, 6:56 a.m., Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity: Safety and Security officers, College troubleshooters and Hanover Fire Department responded to a carbon monoxide alarm. Hanover Fire Department determined that the cause of the alarm was water being sprayed on the device. Sig Ep was ordered to have the alarm looked at by technicians and to keep Hanover Fire Department appraised of the repairs.

Oct. 4, 12:55 a.m., Richardson Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a noise complaint. The noise was determined to be from a room party with 35 people involved, all students and all identified. Nine of the students had been consuming alcohol but none were intoxicated.

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Students attend the first-ever New Mexico domestic study program.

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new domestic study program, spearheaded and directed by Duthu. This is the first off-campus opportunity for the program, Native American studies professor Melanie Taylor, who helped to develop the program, said.

“It’s been in planning stages for a couple years,” Taylor said. “We’re excited that it’s come to fruition, because it’s a really unique program and one students seem excited about.”

Taylor said that students are privileged to witness and immerse themselves in such a vibrant culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.

“It’s a great opportunity to have a firsthand experience in a really rich territory within Indian country for arts, politics, culture, history, even a legal landscape,” Taylor said.

Students study and live in the dorms at the Institute. Duthu said such a diverse experience could not be reproduced in Hanover.

“The kind of engagement where students are getting to ask questions and get responses from tribal leaders about various policy initiatives, or issues on the ground, or underlying pros and cons of different tribal legal actions, is incredibly rich and nuanced in ways we couldn’t replicate in Hanover,” Duthu said.

Students take three courses. Duthu teaches “Federal Indian Law,” but the second course focuses on contemporary Native American art and is taught by a professor at the host institution.

Sammie Maltais ’18, a prospective NAS major who is not currently on the program but said she may consider it in the future, said this aspect of the trip is what appeals to her the most.

“The art class they’re taking is especially cool because it’s not something you would expect from the Native American studies program,” Maltais said.

“The Native Southwest: People, Places and Stories,” the third class students take, is taught by a local academic who previously served as the New Mexico state historian.

Duthu said he is excited that students

have the opportunity to learn from such knowledgeable people.

“He’s uniquely qualified to lead a class about important historical and cultural stories,” he said.

Duthu said that in addition to classes, the students often go on sponsored field trips together to enhance the material they are learning in the classroom.

“One of the things that I think is going better than I had anticipated are the field trips, both to museums and galleries and all sorts of tribal communities,” Duthu said.

He added that in addition to structured classes and activities, students often spend time exploring the local area, such as downtown Albuquerque, mountain ranges, lakes, pueblos and national sites such as the Bandelier National Monument and Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument.

Maltais said she has heard that because of the group’s smaller and more intimate size, it has been able to take a lot of road trips. Overall, the students on in the program have given “glowing reviews,” she said.

Duthu said another aspect of the program that students seem to particularly enjoy is meeting the students from the host Institute.

“That’s been one of the more wonderful outcomes of the program, having our students immersed in another student setting,” Duthu said.

“It’s primarily an arts school, heavily creative, so it’s a very nice mixing of student bodies.”

Taylor said while developing the program, there were debates about whether it should be called a domestic study program or foreign study program. Indian tribal communities are often constituted as their own nation, Taylor said.

“The idea that this is actually going to another nation is fascinating,” Taylor said. “But under traditional notions of what constitutes a foreign study program, it didn’t technically meet requirements.”

Taylor said the domestic aspect of the foreign study program is still favorable for students, though, as they are able to compare cultures and various governments within the United States.

“It’s a really interesting meeting ground between the domestic and the foreign study program in a unique way,” Taylor said.

Taylor said she is unsure if any future off-campus programs sponsored by the NAS program are in the works, but is thrilled about the success of the one in New Mexico. She said that the next time it is conducted, faculty members will likely argue over who will get to lead it.

Maltais expressed a similar sentiment regarding the popularity of the program with NAS majors.

“Most NAS majors would absolutely consider it, because there are no other NAS classes that you can take in a predominantly Native community,” Malthais said.

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Native community Survey aims to glean broad data set looks forward after Reed FROM SURVEY PAGE 1

FROM TAFFE REED PAGE 1

“Her organization [the Eastern Delaware Nations] is extremely problematic,” Jacqueline Keeler ’91, a Native American activist and journalist, said. “The Taffes have a terrible relationship with the Native community at large. The [federallyrecognized] Delaware tribe is doing investigations into alleged violations of the Native Graves Protection and Repatriation Act — under which only federally-recognized tribes can receive Native remains — by the Taffe family,” Keeler said.

Shipman said he questioned the degree to which Reed can be blamed for her familial background, however, noting that Reed was raised in a family that was deeply involved, even before she was born, with the Eastern Delaware Nations.

Aside from perceived dishonesty, some of those interviewed by The Dartmouth thought Reed was generally ill-suited for the role of program director.

“She did not have the skills and background to relate to American Indian students who come from traditional communities, reservations and tribal areas,” André Cramblit ’86, a Native American alumnus who also applied for the position of director, said.

Shipman said Reed did not have the right personality for the job.

“She didn’t spend a lot of time around the community and spent most of the time in her office.

She didn’t do a great job of communicating throughout the whole ordeal,” he said.

Both Shipman and Cramblit said they were not speaking for other members of Dartmouth’s Native American community and spoke only for themselves.

Cramblit criticized the College’s hiring process.

“The hiring firm that they retained should have ferreted out that she was president of a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which does not equate to being the chief of a tribe, and that was Dartmouth’s mistake,” Cramblit said. “I also fault the planning committee for not pursuing her further and having her document her connection more stringently.”

Shipman said that the College’s selection committee did the best they could.

“They had a few students, some of the [Native American studies] staff, and they also used an outside search agency,” Shipman said.

The decision to remove Reed from her position was welcomed as the “best move for the community,” Shipman said. The College has “restored a lot of credibility” by

removing her, Keeler said.

In his only public statement so far, Native American studies professor Bruce Duthu — who headed the search committee and previously served as the NAP director — defended the committee’s choice and Reed’s honesty about her ethnic background by saying that birth and death certificates for Native Americans are highly unreliable, and a reliance of federal recognition as a sign of legitimacy was frequently criticized. Duthu did not respond to requests for comment about Reed.

The College has not done a good job of keeping up with what is going on in Indian Country, Cramblit said, and he said the College does not have a good communication system with alumni and the broader Native American Community.

“Dartmouth has not kept up their responsibility for being knowledgeable about what is important in Indian Country for education issues, and they’re not in touch with tribes about what their needs are back home and in the community and how Dartmouth can meet those needs,” he said.

Some think that the College’s reputation has been damaged by the controversy in the eyes of Native Americans nationally.

“Native parents say they don’t want their children to go [to Dartmouth],” Keeler said.

Shipman echoed these concerns about Dartmouth’s reputation. “[The controversy] could effect the number of Native students applying to Dartmouth, it could make parents think the Native community here is hokey, which is just not true,” Shipman said. “We have a really strong community here — to have people just hurl insults at our cultural identity is not cool.”

The emphasis should be finding a director whose primary role would be as a counselor to Native American students at Dartmouth and would be a good spokesperson for the community, several interviewed said.

“We’re hoping for someone who’s honest,” Keeler said. “We would prefer her to be Native and to have experience, as the most successful times the program has had were under Native alums when students felt completely supported.

[The NAP] needs people who understand what students are going through.”

In an email statement to the Dartmouth, Guardiola said his primary commitment is looking after students in the NAP. Reed remains employed by the College, though it is unclear in what capacity.

A working group of 10 members — including College staff, faculty and a student representative — began meeting last spring and worked throughout the summer with the firm Rankin and Associates Consulting.

Vice president for institutional diversity and equity and survey working group member Evelynn Ellis said that a survey of this kind is unprecedented for the College.

“It is geared to address issues far beyond any survey that we’ve done before,” she said.

Ellis said the survey does not target one specific topic — instead, those running the survey seek to glean information about as many issues as possible. She stressed the importance of student participation in the study.

Student discontent, she said, will only be addressed if brought to the attention of administrators.

“If we can just get the vast majority of campus to fill it out, I think we’re going to be surprised,” she said. “I think we’re going to learn about some things we didn’t even know we should be addressing,” Ellis said that she has observed people describing problems without data to substantiate their arguments, and, as a result, the College can dis-

regard anecdotal concerns. If there is a strong response to the survey, the College will not be able to turn away from the issues it raises, she said.

She stressed that the survey is anonymous and students are given the chance to elaborate upon their survey answers or fill in new answer options, in order to encourage students to be as honest as possible.

Hatch said the survey will not have a significant impact on current students, but it will be of importance for future students at the College.

Hatch said that the working group has attempted to distinguish the poll from past surveys, so it is optimistic about the number of students that might participate. But he said that he is uncertain about how faculty and staff will react to the survey, due to past experiences with studies that have not led to any action.

“Sometimes faculty and staff have the opinion that nothing comes of these surveys,” he said.

Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said that he believes that surveys like the Dartmouth Community Study should be conducted each year, because administrators can employ data received to monitor whether campus institutions and initiatives have achieved their goals.

Cunningham added, however, that

a survey alone is insufficient.

“I don’t want to simply just see a survey — I want to see something that comes from it as well,” he said.

Chelsea Lim ’16 said that while she has not taken the survey yet, she intends to complete it. She said that students often assume that it will not make a difference, but this apathy leads to few drastic campus changes.

“I feel like a lot of people shirk it off because they don’t think it will make a difference, and that’s what makes students have no impact,” she said.

Makena Kauhane ’19 said that she plans to take the survey when she has time. She said students should take part in order to bring awareness to and think more about these issues.

“I think it’s important to see the breadth of opinions and ideas that people have on these issues, because it’s such a diverse school,” she said.

Alexander Brown ’19 said that he plans to participate in the survey, because he thinks administrators require the data for changes to occur.

“With well-asked questions about pressing issues, if students take the time to fill it out, and the administration see that students feel an overwhelming way about something, that could definitely create some change,” he said.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST anmol ghavri ’18

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST dan fishbein ’19

Let Russia Fight the Islamic State

Going For The Gold

The Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State are good for the U.S.

To say that Syria’s civil war has been absolutely brutal is an understatement. With a death toll of over 250,000 people in addition to a refugee crisis, the Syrian civil war has devastated the region and fueled instability. The U.S. has explored ways to provide aid to the Free Syrian Army in its fight against Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but various factors, including the presence of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, have complicated American involvement and the F.S.A.’s ability to fight. The Islamic State’s presence in the country has made a terrible situation even worse — the terrorist group is murdering people of all faiths in cold blood and enslaving women and Westerners.

The Islamic State’s defeat would be a positive step in resolving the civil war and refugee crisis in Syria.

Russia — a long-time ally of the Assad family — recently announced that it would escalate its involvement in fighting the Islamic State and other terrorists in Syria through airstrikes. The West sees this escalation as Vladimir Putin shoring up Assad’s government by targeting the F.S.A. rebels.

Over the past week, the Obama administration and the State Department have been scrambling to find a way to respond to the Kremlin’s initiative.

Washington has been pursuing the joint objective of both removing Bashar al-Assad from power in Damascus and fighting the Islamic State. These goals are incredibly difficult to pursue simultaneously, as the presence of the Assad regime is one of the factors preventing an all-out takeover of Syria by the Islamic State — as the case of Saddam Hussein reminds us, oftentimes a brutal dictator is the only thing keeping a country together. Though supporting Russian involvement in fighting the Islamic State has its benefits and drawbacks, given the difficulty in pursuing a complex dual policy in the region, the former outweighs the latter.

The U.S. objective of defeating the Islamic State is of greater importance than regime transition in Syria — although removing Assad is important, doing so first requires defeating the Islamic State, which controls much of the land in Syria’s eastern territory. Thus, the U.S. should allow Russia to fight the Islamic State while ensuring that the F.S.A. stays out of their crosshairs. Additionally, the U.S. should wait to

pursue regime transition until the Islamic State is defeated. The long-term goal of the U.S. should remain removing Assad from power, but there is a clear policy tradeoff involved in fighting both Assad and the Islamic State at the same time.

If the Obama administration pursued the removal of the Assad family from power as a primary policy objective and succeeded, instability would follow. The F.S.A. rebels currently have no government set up to transition to rule, giving the Islamic State the opportunity to expand and take more territory. If the U.S. was to place the defeat of the Islamic State at the forefront of their policy in the region while putting a hold on regime transition, it is true that Assad would have one less enemy to worry about — but so would the F.S.A. The Islamic State would eventually be contained and extinguished through Russian and Syrian collaboration — in addition to the continuation of U.S. airstikes — leaving Assad’s opposition more time to organize politically and militarily.

Although Russia seeks to bolster Assad’s regime, their current escalation and realization of the situation on the ground may give Putin a better perspective on the necessity of political transition.

The Kremlin has recently affirmed its belief that the F.S.A. is not a terrorist group. Once the Islamic State is defeated, there is a legitimate possibility that Putin will allow the F.S.A. and the Assad regime to fight it out without his intervention. Of course, there is no guarantee of this happening — but without the defeat of the Islamic State, a political transition in Syria cannot occur.

Let Putin and Assad collaborate on defeating the Islamic State, the single most destabilizing group in the Middle East. The Obama administration should make it absolutely clear that there will be no tolerance for the targeting of the F.S.A. in the Kremlin’s airstrikes. Washington should focus on collaborating with Assad’s opposition and Free Syrian rebels on developing a plan for governance once Assad is removed from power, and providing intelligence on Moscow’s operations to ensure that the F.S.A. does not get caught up in Russia’s airstrikes — and then, maybe, this civil war could finally end.

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The Ivy League conference should allow football to have a postseason.

Exactly one football team in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association went undefeated with no ties last year — the Harvard Crimson. Unlike teams with a loss on their record — such as Ohio State University and the University of Oregon, which duked it out in the inaugural College Football Playoff — the Crimson went home for the holidays, barred from postseason football by an archaic conference rule banning Ivy League football teams from participating in national championships.

This year, the ban has the potential to directly affect the Big Green. Returning 15 starters from last year’s team that went 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the Ivy League, finishing second, Dartmouth has the talent to win its first conference championship since 1996. Through their first three games, the team has outscored opponents 121-37. The team won its conference opener last Saturday, beating the University of Pennsylvania Quakers 41-20 in Philadelphia. During that game, Dalyn Williams ’16, the Big Green quarterback who has his sights set on playing at the next level, completed 23 of 25 passes — the highest completion percentage in school history — for 336 yards and four touchdowns, while rushing for 73 yards and two more scores on his way to an Ivy League Player of the Week award. If the Big Green can pull off a win against Harvard University in Cambridge on Oct. 30, they would be in the driver’s seat for an Ivy League title. The Big Green clearly has the ability to not only dominate Ivy League competition but prove that it is one of the best teams in Division 1-A. Unfortunately, though, the postseason ban created decades ago in a starkly different football environment would prevent the team from asserting its national dominance after the regular season.

When the Ivy League was created in 1945, the university presidents of the Ancient Eight decided to formally object to the college sports landscape by barring their teams from participating in postseason events. Since that time, however, these bans for all sports except one have been lifted.Supporters of this rule often cite two reasons for its existence — maintaining tradition and the priority of academics for Ivy League athletes.

When examined more closely, however, neither of these reasons carry much weight.

“Other commissioners would love to see the Ivy League be part of the playoffs, but they understand it’s a long-standing traditional decision,” Robin Harris, the executive director of the Ivy League

conference, told the Harvard Crimson last year.

“They would love to see us and they mention it occasionally, but they understand that we’re not participating.”

Some old traditions should indeed fail. The rule preventing Ivy League football teams from participating in championship games may have made sense at one point — back when most of the postseason college football bowl games took place in the Jim Crow south, where black players were met with hostility. One of the reasons for creating the ban was so that teams could protect their own players. Nowadays, though, this threat of violence no longer exists to the same extent.

The second reason for the rule — that players should focus on academics rather than competing for national championships — is inherently contradictory. While other postseason events such as the NCAA Basketball Tournament take place in March at a time when school is in session, the FCS playoffs — the postseason event to which the Ivy League football champion rejects a bid every year — takes place from the last weekend of November to the first weekend of January, overlapping with the winter interim period. It therefore does not follow that certain athletic teams are allowed to skip school for their championships, while football players cannot participate in a championship that, for many, takes place during vacation.

A third possible reason, and the one that I think is most likely, is that the Ivy League is afraid of damaging its reputation. Due to the structure of Division I NCAA football, the Ivy League winner is not allowed to participate in the same postseason games in which larger schools such as the Universities of Michigan and Alabama play.

Because of this, if an Ivy League team accepted a bid to the Division I-A FCS playoff, they would be competing against teams such as South Dakota State University and the University of Montana.

Since Ivy League schools claim superiority in the nation, football losses to these less prestigious state schools could reflect poorly in the media.

But a practice based off a largely extinct societal practice should not simply be treated as tradition. As times change, rules should too. Given its historical context and that context’s irrelevance today, the Ivy League should reconsider this rule’s existence. It is not in the Ivy League spirit — and especially in the Dartmouth spirit — to shy away from competition. Being undefeated does not look as good when you cannot go on to win in the postseason.

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Startup competition features three Hanover-based ventures FROM STARTUP PAGE 1

Valley, he said.

Coughlin said he was excited to “shed a light” on “good ideas” and “good talent” in places like New Hampshire.

Rise of the Rest is a nationwide project that tours the United States, holding startup competitions in cities with up-and-coming entrepreneurial ecosystems. According to the Rise of the Rest website, the tour was presented by Case’s venture capital firm Revolution, which awards $100,000 to the winning team in each city.

This year, 50 startups applied to the competition. Of those, seven hopeful teams presented their pitches to the judges in the final round of the Manchester competition, the Valley News reported. Three of these seven teams, Calibrater Health, FreshAir, and FliQ , are all startups based in Hanover.

FreshAir is a startup that began at the College as a collaboration between O’Toole and BelBruno around seven years ago. BelBruno said that the company’s product, which is a smoke detector specifically for nicotine, was developed to encourage people to stop smoking around their children. The FreshAir sensor will alert customers, which

could potentially include hotels in the future, if it detects nicotine.

After winning the competition, FreshAir’s main priority is “scaling up,” BelBruno said. Already, potential interest of FreshAir’s customer base would require them to produce an estimated 1.5 million devices. While BelBruno said the actual demand would likely be less because not every potential customer will purchase the product, the company will still need to increase its production potential, and it will use its $100,000 prize to reach this goal.

FreshAir is a “totally Dartmouth company,” BelBruno said — everyone who works at the company either works at Dartmouth or has a Dartmouth degree, and most of the company’s initial funding came from people affiliated with the College Belbruno thinks that the company’s strong connection with the College illustrates the entrepreneurial atmosphere in Hanover.

“If you talk to enough people, you will get pointed to someone who might be interested in what you’re doing and might be willing to be a seed investor to get start-ups off the ground,” he said.

The College also played a large role in the development of another competition finalist, Calibrater

Health, co-founder and part-time Dartmouth Institute physician Adam Groff ’99 said. Calibrater Health makes customer service software for health care by using a web-based application to allow health care providers to follow up on their patients’ needs, Groff said. The application texts patients a follow-up survey about the quality of their experience and their likelihood of recommending the provider’s services, he said, “It’s all about improving patient experience, i.e. customer service in health care,” Groff said.

Groff and CEO and co-founder Tim Dybvig formally launched Calibrater Health about a year ago, and are on track to be cash-flow positive by next year, Dybvig said.

Dybvig said that despite not winning he competition, he enjoyed having the opportunity to speak in front of proven entrepreneurs.

“It was a good way for us to get our names out there a little bit more into the local community,” he said.

Groff added that the company also entered the competition to support the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Both Groff and Dybvig said that Coughlin and DEN have been very supportive. Groff said that they enjoy using the DEN Innovation Center as a workplace because there are many

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other people working on companies there.

Additionally, Groff said that he was first connected to Dybvig through a Dartmouth alum, and that his relationship to the Dartmouth Institute has also contributed to the success of the company.

Dybvig said that the College’s strong alumni network is also beneficial in locating resources and funding.

Coughlin echoed this feelings.

“We have these wonderful and tremendous resources on campus, but we also have this whole global community of alums, many of which are experienced professionals, creatives, successful entrepreneurs, successful financial people that can contribute,” he said. “That’s the power of Dartmouth.”

Representatives of FliQ did not respond to requests for an interview by press-time.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 2:00 p.m.

Graduate and professional school fair, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Alumni Hall

4:00 p.m.

“Against the Erinyes,” lecture with Dimitrios Yatromanolakis of Johns Hopkins University, Carpenter Hall 13

7:00 p.m.

“Collecting and Teaching: Fulfilling the Mission of a College Art Museum,” adult course, Hood Museum of Art

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015

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La Santa Cecilia brings mix of music, culture to the Hop

B y Amelia rosch

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The combination of jazz, rock and traditional Latin American cumbia, may sound like a discordant combination, but the members of La Santa Cecilia, a Los Angelesbased quartet, combine these forms and more into Grammy awardwinning music.

La Santa Cecilia will perform at the Hopkins Center tonight at 7 p.m.

Jose “Pepe” Carlos, the band’s accordion and requinto, a type of small guitar, player said that the band typically performs a hybrid of Latin American and traditional American rock music.

“We’re a bicultural band, so you’re going to be hearing anything from ranchera cumbia to rock songs to hip-hop,” he said. “I think that’s the beauty of our band — we’ve never had any musical borders.”

In addition to Carlos, the band, which released its first EP in 2009 , is made up of bassist Alex Bendana, percussionist Miguel Ramirez and vocalist and jarana — a type of Mexican guitar — player Marisol Hernandez.

Bendana said that the group’s main goal is storytelling.

“We wanted to tell stories of our experience of being Latinos here in the [United States],” he said.

“I think the music is just a reflection of that, a reflection of all the American music we listen to, all the Latin, Mexican influences we had growing up.”

He said that the group was inspired by their home, Los Angeles.

He said that the group continues the city’s history of bands mixing genres and that each of the members come from different musical backgrounds, from rock bands to salsa groups.

“When we formed the band, we were already doing different types of music with other people,” he said.

“When we got together, we simply wanted to write our own music.”

In addition to their music, the group has also become well-known for its immigration reform activism, thanks to their song “ICE — El Heilo” (2014), which explores the experience of Latino undocumented immigrants. Until 2014, Carlos was an undocumented immigrant.

Bendana said that “ICE — El Heilo” has been played at rallies and

has become a voice for immigration activists.

Ramirez said that La Santa Cecilia was not initially meant to be a political band but instead wanted to tell true stories.

“We never really had political intentions as a group,” he said.

“We just kind of started telling our story and the stories within our community, and those stories began becoming political.”

He said that the group has also begun to write songs that look at and critique police brutality in the United States, as well as songs about the students who went missing in Mexico last year.

He said that the band’s fans now expect them to be more political and that it is a responsibility they are happy to assume.

“I think we’ve taken it as a responsibility to utilize our voice for something, whatever we see wrong and fit to change,” Ramirez said.

Bendana said that the group’s various musical interests are what make La Santa Cecilia so unique.

He said this variety allows the group to create a completely new sound while writing their music.

Carlos said that his favorite style to play is cumbia, while Bendana’s is jazz and classic rock.

He said that though reconciling the group’s different influences and interests is the most difficult part of their writing process, the songs that are created are meaningful as a result.

“I think everyone’s so honest and so receptive to what’s going on in our communities, what’s going on here in the states, that we tend to write songs that really mean something to us,” he said. “Hopefully, we are connecting to people and giving them inspiration and giving them hope.”

Bendana said that the band wants to continue improving their music and sharing their music with people around the country.

“That’s what we live for — to share our music and to play music,” he said.

Ramirez said that he also wants La Santa Cecilia to be the best band that it can be.

In addition to their concert, the group also visited a writing class and led a discussion at a dinner hosted by the Rockefeller Center’s PoliTalk

and the student group Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers.

Hopkins Center outreach and arts education coordinator Erin Smith said in an interview before the dinner was held that the discussion at the dinner mostly centered on immigration to the United States due to the group’s activism around the issue. She said the students who attended the dinner prepared questions for the band members.

“It’s going to be about their personal experiences and, like they said, they have this voice now, a public voice,” she said. “It should be a good chance for the students to connect with them.”

The group also hosted a special matinee show for local students.

In the past, La Santa Cecilia has collaborated with performers from Elvis Costello to Stevie Wonder, won a Grammy in 2014 for Best Latin Rock Album and have had their music featured in television shows including “The Bridge” (2013).

The concert will be held in Spaulding Auditorium. Tickets are $10 to $25 for students and $17 to $25 for community members.

Student Spotlight: Katie Schultz ’16 of Sugarplum

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

When Katie Shultz ’16, now Sugarplum’s co-director, auditioned to join a dance group her freshman fall, she had a hard time choosing which to join.

“I was a competition dancer growing up so I always had a wide range of styles...I think I went into auditions thinking Sugarplum was where I wanted to be because I wanted to keep up my technique,” Shultz said. “But I had difficulty choosing between Sheba and Sugarplum.”

Shultz said she considered joining Sheba because it would mean breaking out of her comfort zone as she started college, but she valued the opportunity to maintain her dancing form with Sugarplum.

Shultz auditioned for and also joined Sheba her sophomore fall for about six weeks, but the time commitment ended up being too much to balance with school.

Shultz’s dance career began when she was three years old and she started taking dance classes.

“I did the typical ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, a little bit of hip-hop, and then once I hit high school I recognized the need for more technical training so I also went to ballet school and took ballet classes and did special programs there, in addition to my competition stuff,” she said.

Throughout high school, Shultz said she continued this regimen and honed in on her preferred styles of dance.

“I love this thing they like to call ‘contemporary’ these days,” Shultz said. “[It’s] really hard to define because it means so many different things to so many different dancers.”

Shultz said she defines her version of contemporary to be a combination of jazz, lyrical and modern ballet. Shultz described what she grew up doing as similar to the contemporary style featured on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance” (2005).

Sugarplum has a particularly diverse group of dancers who come from different stylistic backgrounds, and Shultz said that she is the only dancer who came from her particular competition background.

“I think that I’m influenced a lot in terms of the girls who come from a strictly ballet background,” Shultz said. “They approach movement...in a much different way than I do.”

W h i l e S h u l t z h a d n e ve r choreographed before she came to Dartmouth, she said she now frequently choreographs for showcases.

“As someone who choreographs a lot, to create music that also works for them is a nice challenge, and

is something I never really had to think about before coming here,” she said.

Given her background, Shultz was used to choreographers coming in from New York City or Los Angeles, handing the dancers a piece of choreography, and then leaving. Shultz said that she now finds choreography to be a great creative outlet.

“Because I don’t dance as much physically as I used to before college, I think that choreographing is a really great way to express myself and to spend time in the studio when I’m not necessarily rehearsing with the group and still get that time and that creativity in that I sometimes feel like I’m missing,” she said.

When choreographing, Shultz does not go into the piece thinking about structure or which specific group members will dance in it, but instead picks the song first and lets the other aspects follow.

“I try to incorporate everyone, but I like smaller groups of dancers,” Shultz said.

Shirley Fang ’17 said that Shultz’s attention to detail comes through in her choreography.

“I think a key difference between good choreography and great choreography is in the details, the transition from one move to the next,” she said. “Her choreography is so impressive in that it just

always feels ‘right’ on your body. It incorporates an easy fluidity where the movements naturally flow into one another.”

Sugarplum co-director Shany Sun ’16 described Shultz’s dancing as “sexy” and “emotive.”

“She transitions so effortlessly between movements and styles, and watching her dance is truly an inspiration,” she said.

Fang said that the group is lucky to have Shultz as a director, thanks to her training and versatility.

She said that Shultz is able to get Sugarplum members to get work done without having to explicitly ask for it.

“She is supportive, focused, dedicated, hardworking and, above all, such an inspiration,” she said.

Shultz described Sugarplum practices as very goal-oriented, with much of the time dedicated to preparing for the next show. Shultz prefers to perform on a stage, she said, although Sugarplum mostly performs in Greek spaces.

“We love the stage, but the fraternities are fun,” Shultz said.

“It’s really different from what I grew up doing — the audience is so close to you, and it’s lit and you can see their faces, but it’s a blast.”

While the fraternity space limits the dancers in some ways, it gives them advantages in others, Shultz said.

“It’s a great way to increase, I

think, the visibility and accessibility of dance on campus, because it’s hard to get people to go into a theater and watch a whole production,” she said. “But if they can come into a Greek space for half an hour and see something, then that’s great.”

Shultz has become involved in dance all over Dartmouth, from organizing classes for the classical ballet theater to dancing at Dartmouth Idol and is currently is doing a piece for the dance ensemble.

Shultz said her best advice for students interested in dance at Dartmouth is to become involved wherever and whenever possible.

“Get involved in a selective group if you can, or if that’s something that appeals to you,” she said. “Open ballet classes are great for people who are coming in with higher dance experience and technical training and are open to everyone on campus literally just drop in.”

Overall, Shultz feels that dance is a personal activity that can be done individually.

“You don’t need to be a part of a group to dance,” she said. “A choreographer told me that before I came here, when I was really hesitant. [He said] ‘Katie, you can dance anywhere. You just have to make it important to you.’ And I think that’s 100 percent true.”

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SPORTS

No. 11 women’s rugby downs Brown

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WITH EMILY ASTARITA ’17

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In its third game of the season, the women’s rugby team (2-1, 2-0 Ivy) secured an 8-5 win against Brown University’s previously undefeated team (3-1, 2-1 Ivy). Brown, ranked No. 12 in the nation by the Goff Rugby Reports, won the Ivy League last year and had not lost an Ivy 15s game since 2013. After beating Brown, Dartmouth moved to No. 11 in the nation on Goff Rugby Reports.

In its first season as a varsity team, Dartmouth’s victory over Brown marks the drastic development of the women’s rugby program over a short time frame. Historically, Dartmouth has struggled against Brown, and last fall the Big Green fell to the Bears 43-7. By flipping the script and knocking out the reigning Ivy League champions, Dartmouth has placed itself in the catbird seat for conference title contention.

“This is a huge building block for us,” Tatjana Toeldte ’16 said.

“This is the stepping board to keep improving our running board, our set pieces and keep playing really great defense.”

Coming into the game, the Big Green had a specific strategy to contain some of Brown’s offensive strength and secure the victory. Dartmouth controlled the tempo of the game, limiting Brown’s opportunities to put points on the board. At the start of the match, Brown’s offense appeared impossible to stop. The Bears had averaged 50 points per game across three games, including two against Ivy League competition in Cornell and Harvard Universities.

Although the Big Green struggled to convert its own tries, it successfully stifled Brown’s offense, limiting the Bears to a single try across the duration of the contest.

“We wanted to come out really hard and put some pressure on in the first half, and we were really pleased with how our set pieces went,” Toeldte said. “We came out, and I think we really executed our plan.

I’m really proud of what we did.”

Toeldte’s words rang true as the Big Green consistently pressured the Bears back into their green zone with strong offensive plays. Despite Dartmouth’s success in creating quality chances at tries, the Bears defensive unit remained strong all game, preventing the Big Green from

B y daniel lee The Dartmouth Staff

This week The Dartmouth sat down with Emily Astarita ’17 of the volleyball team. Astarita currently leads the team with 183 kills through 12 games. Three games into its Ivy League schedule, the volleyball team is tied for second in the standings.

When did you start playing volleyball, and when did you realize it was something you wanted to pursue in college?

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Led by eight points from Tatjana Toeldte ’16, Dartmouth edged Brown University.

running away with the lead.

In the first half, the contest saw only three points put on the board off a penalty kick by Toeldte. Toeldte opened the scoring again in the second half, converting a try to give Dartmouth the 8-0 lead. Through the first 70 minutes of play, Toeldte was the only player on the field to put any points on the board.

Dartmouth’s success in managing the rhythm of the game compensated for its failure to convert more than one try. The Big Green had possession of the ball for the majority of the game. Part of Dartmouth’s possession dominance can be attributed to Brown not contesting a majority of the lineups, but the deciding factor in the team’s high possession time was its quality play in the scrum.

“We knew going in that this was going to be a tough scrum,” Ashley Zepeda ’18 said. “Even though we got pushed around a lot, we were able to wheel the ball around. It just felt really good to roll them around because they went in super confident thinking that they would dominate us, but our playing proved that Dartmouth’s scrum is formidable.”

Brown’s scrum is famous for being the strongest in the Ivy League. In Dartmouth’s previous games against Brown, the Bears dominated the Big Green in the scrum, allowing Brown to maintain possession of the ball. On Saturday at Brophy Field, Dartmouth reversed its fortunes and was duly rewarded for improving this aspect of the team’s play.

Dartmouth was able to wheel the

burly Brown team multiple times and even managed to steal the ball twice.

Controlling the scrum is often synonymous with controlling the game.

The Big Green’s success against the Bears shows that Dartmouth’s scrum is indeed a force to be reckoned with.

The 8-5 defensive stand gave Dartmouth its most promising win to date as a varsity program and serves as a positive indicator as the team heads into its final four games of the fall season.

“I am just really proud of how much heart the girls showed out there. How far they’ve come in four weeks is remarkable,” head coach Katie Dowty said. “We executed everything we talked about in training and neutralized some of the strengths Brown had coming into this.”

Dartmouth now sits at 2-1 with three games left before the Ivy 15s tournament in November. The Big Green will need to convert a higher percentage of its opportunities near the tryline in order for the team to continue its success. After exploding for 77 points in its season opener against the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth has been held to two tries over the course of its last two games.

“We’re going to work 110 percent as we do for every other game,” Dowty said.

The Big Green will return to action on Brophy Field on Saturday for its Homecoming game against Princeton University. Last season, Dartmouth dominated Princeton 63-3 in New Jersey.

No athletic events scheduled

EA: I started playing volleyball in 7th grade on the middle school team, and it was just for fun because I like to do a sport every season. And then in the 10th grade I was on a pretty intense club team and a lot of my teammates were older, and they had been recruited and gone to play in college.

I realized probably in 10th grade that I could try to play in college and that was something that I was interested in.

You were a two-sport varsity player at your high school — what made you choose volleyball over track and field, and how difficult was it making that decision?

EA: I really enjoy volleyball because it’s a team sport, and I love having teammates and being close to my team. Track is a very large team, and it’s just more of an individual sport, even though all the points that you get are going toward the team score.

I really just played volleyball because I love volleyball, but I did track more just for fun and to stay in shape. I ended up doing well in track, but really wanted to do volleyball the whole time.

How do you manage your time with so many away games and daily practices? What is it like balancing your academic life with your social life and with volleyball?

EA: I feel like I live and die by my Google calendar — it’s all there.

You’ve got to put everything on it and then pick out the time that you have and use that to study. That’s really how I do it.

You have been doing significantly better your junior year here at Dartmouth compared to your freshman and sophomore years. Your kills per set ratio is 3.98, which is the highest on the team and almost a full point higher than your 3.01 last year.

What do you credit for your steady improvement?

EA: I think we’ve been working a lot with the setters and getting more sets in the right spot so that I was in the place to get more kills. Also I’ve been just getting set more this year during some matches as part of the game plan. I’ve been playing back row more so I get more attempts so that lead to more kills. The setters are doing well, and the passers have been doing well this year which allows us to set the right side more.

You currently lead the team with 183 kills, 47 more than team captain Paige Caridi ’16 who is second. You and Caridi both finished the season last year with 268. How is it like playing with such a dominant player on the court?

EA: [Caridi] is awesome, she’s such a great player. She’s such an all-around great player in the back row, serve, receive, front row, blocking and hitting.

It’s awesome to get to play with her because I know that if I’m not doing my best, [Caridi] can get a kill. Just having her to rely on for passing, blocking and for getting kills. It’s a whole team effort. It’s not on one person to win the point or win the match.

Before you’re about step on the court and play a game, what are some of your pregame rituals?

EA: In the locker room before the match we all put on music and dance, which is exciting because it gets the blood flowing. We do this pregame chant thing in the locker room right before we go out for the match, and I can’t say it because it’s a secret, but that gets us all pumped up. We also touch a lone pine thing on the way out of the locker room, which is new this year, but I like it.

This interview has been edited and condensed.