The Dartmouth Orientation Issue 2014

VOL. CLXXI NO. 111

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Students perform “Your Class, Your Words,” composed from Class of 2018 admissions essays B y THE DARTMOUTH “I am a Colorado Rocky Mountain boy with a hint of Eastern woodsman.” “I am a series of unfortunate events.” “I read my chemistry textbook for fun.” “I have two moms.” “I am proud to say that I spent the last three years flipping burgers.”

These fragments, taken from Class of 2018 admissions essays, were performed by upperclassmen Tuesday as first-year and exchange students were officially welcomed to Dartmouth on the first day of TRACY WANG/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Members of the Class of 2018 linked arms and sang the alma mater in Leede Arena on Tuesday.

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The “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, convened in May by College President Phil Hanlon, worked this summer to solicit feedback and consult

experts about reducing binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity. Its proposals will be announced this fall and opened to public discussion.

The presidential steering committee is expected to pres-

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Dartmouth enters the school year amid two federal probes, high turnover in staff who deal with sexual assault and a new sexual misconduct policy.

The Department of Education began investigating Dartmouth’s compliance with the Clery Act on Aug. 18, and a

Title IX investigation launched in May 2013 is ongoing.

During the Clery investigators’ visit in August, Dartmouth officials provided documents and scheduled meetings, associate general counsel Kevin O’Leary said.

The College has not heard from investigators since they left campus, O’Leary said.

Dartmouth Title IX coordi-

nator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist wrote in an email that the College is “cooperating fully” with the Department of Education.

Lindkvist did not respond to multiple requests for further comment.

The Clery Act, signed in 1990, mandates that colleges SEE INVESTIGATIONS PAGE 16

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Q&A PHIL HANLON

Dean search awaits recommendations B y Sara Mcgahan The Dartmouth Staff

Earlier this summer, editor-in-chief Lindsay Ellis sat down with College President Phil Hanlon and his wife, Gail Gentes, in the Black Family Visual Arts Center Courtyard to discuss his first year at the College, the decisions he has made thus far and plans for Dartmouth’s future.

Gathering opinion LE: Last summer, you were in the stage of listening to various campus groups and having people over for dinner. To what extent do you recall those conversations, and how have they informed the work you did this year? There were so many of them.

PH: Yeah, but there were some common themes that came out in all of them. I was particularly focused on trying to prepare or synthesize a creative vision for where Dartmouth should go. As I had those conversations and the strategic planning document, and my own views on where higher education is going, it came into more and more focus.

Then I began to use those conversations to test things. To say, what do you think about the following ideas?

Setting the tone LE: It strikes me that the most dramatic move you made that summer was dismissing Rev. Tengatenga. To what extent did that set the tone for the moves you would make for the rest of the year?

PH: I don’t think that was a foreshadowing-type thing. That was just the way I would handle any personnel decision. I listened to all the sides. Finally, it was the classic difficult decision in the sense that there were people on both sides that you respect and arguments that make sense on both sides. Ultimately, I decided I just had to meet the person, so I had him come visit and spent a couple hours with him. That’s the point at which I made up my mind. I don’t think — it wasn’t meant to be a signal of anything in particular. It’s just how I would handle it.

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The College is waiting to begin searching for a new Dean of the College until after the presidential steering and residential redesign committees present recommendations on improving student life, making it unlikely the search will begin until early 2015.

Waiting for these groups, tasked with finding ways the College can reduce binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity and improve residential life, to present their findings will enable the Dean of the College search committee to envision the proposed changes while selecting a candidate, said Provost Carolyn Dever.

“I want to understand our destination before I put someone behind the wheel,” she said.

While the committees’ recommendations will affect the “details” of the job, the vision and authority of the position will remain the same, Dever said.

In June, College President Phil Han-

lon appointed Senior Associate Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer to serve as interim Dean of the College, taking the place of Charlotte Johnson, who left to become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Ameer said she will build on current initiatives and help implement the presidential steering committee’s recommendations, which are now expected to be put before the Board of Trustees in January.

Upon assuming her role in August, Ameer said she redistributed her former responsibilities as senior associate dean, worked with the orientation team to foster a smooth transition for first-year students and continued to serve as a member of the residential redesign committee. She has also worked to refine the role of the Center for Community Action and Prevention, announced by Johnson in February to combat sexual assault.

A search for CCAP director is underway, and Ameer said she asked Associate Dean of the College Liz

Agosto to form a student and faculty advisory committee, citing a desire for campus involvement in the new center’s development.

Ameer said she has also asked Agosto to determine how the Health and Wellness Office can work with the Center for Gender and Student Engagement.

This fall, the Dean’s Office will also begin a search for a new Office of Pluralism and Leadership director, Ameer said.

Dever said she hopes the new Dean of the College commits to the position for a substantial period of time, noting that the customary appointment is five years.

Economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan ’88 said turnover in the presidency could be responsible for changes in the Dean of the College position.

Biology professor Lee Witters said there will always be administrative turnover, but a longstanding commitment from the new dean would benefit SEE DEAN PAGE 9

GLC policy to see changes in second year B y hannah chung The Dartmouth Staff

Inclusivity LE: That was your first statement on inclusivity — it was how you presented that decision. Did that particularly set the tone for the rest of the year?

PH: It represented how seriously I take inclusion and diversity as strengthening our campus. We are preparing people to go out into a world that is increasingly diverse, increasingly global. In order for our students to be leaders in such a world, we need to know how to work with people from very different backgrounds and cultures.

We need cultural awareness. It’s also the case that having a diverse campus, an inclusive campus in which everybody’s involved — there’s lots of research that shows that leads to the best decision making. I don’t know if you’ve ever read the book “The Difference” by Scott Page. I would advise anyone to read that. It’s a kind of synthesis of reporting of decades of research that show that when certain kinds of decisions are being made, diverse groups of smart people do better than homogeneous groups of experts. There’s really interesting work on group IQ. Individual IQ makes sense because it has been long recognized — if you are good at one kind of cognitive task you tend to be good at lots of different cognitive tasks. There’s this idea of IQ , which is how good you are at cognitive tasks. Groups, it’s been shown, also have an IQ. You might ask what determines the IQ of a group. An article about two to three years ago had convincing research on this question. It’s not related to the individuals of the group. You might say the highest IQ of the group determines it, or the average IQ. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the empathy of the group. How empathetic the group is, how much they can understand each other’s positions. If we think of our campus as a group, how do we maximize our own intellectual effectiveness? Having an inclusive campus is one way to do that.

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Like last year, freshmen cannot attend Greek events serving alcohol for the first six weeks of fall term. The Greek Leadership Council launched this policy in May 2013 and is making changes in its second implementation, clarifying disciplinary procedures and planning to host more nonalcoholic social events.

The GLC will establish the Greek Board on Accountability to oversee compliance with the policy, GLC accountability chair Sarah Lucas ’15 said. Lucas, who will chair the new board, said it will mainly work with Greek organizations but will also hear cases of freshmen who violate the policy.

Greek organizations that violate the policy will be fined and disobedient freshmen will not be allowed to participate in rush until the end of their sophomore year.

T he GLC, Interfrater nity Council and the Panhellenic Council will also host more alcohol-free social events for freshmen in the first six weeks of the term, GLC summer chair Elizabeth Wilkins ’16 said.

Potential events include tailgates before sports games and discussions of sexual assault, summer IFC president Chase Gilmore ’16 said. Summer Panhell president Charlotte Kamai ’16 said the council planned the events to publicize aspects of the Greek community other than parties, including phi-

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For six weeks, freshmen will be limited in the Greek events they can attend.

lanthropy and school spirit.

“There is a misconception that this policy means we don’t want freshmen in our houses at all, we want to keep them away, keep the Greek system as a big secret, and that’s not the goal at all,” Wilkins said.

Mary Sieredzinski ’17, a member of the women’s track and field team, said in a previous interview that the policy made her feel excluded from the broader campus community and made it more difficult for her to socialize with upperclassman teammates. She added, however, that the policy motivated freshmen to find creative ways to socialize and allowed them to bond as a class.

Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 said she hopes the policy will help freshmen explore alterna-

tive social options before they are able to enter Greek houses after Homecoming.

“We want to them to have a sense that there are other social outlets than Greek life on this campus,” she said.

When the policy went into effect last fall, the College saw a record low number of alcohol-related incidents. Data released by the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Program and the GLC in January showed a drop in the number of intoxicated students handled by Safety and Security from 99 in fall 2012 to 83 in fall 2013. Over the same period, Good Samaritan calls decreased from 48 to 37, and the percent of alcoholrelated incidents involving freshSEE GLC PAGE 10

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More than 200 freshmen choose alternative spaces B y Sasha dudding

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As members of the Class of 2018 unpack today, some will be moving into spaces that diverge from the typical freshman floor. More than 200 freshmen are enrolled in a living learning community, said assistant director of residential education for living learning programs and academic initiatives Katharina Daub.

These residential spaces aim to unite students around shared interests and are part of a larger initiative the College is undertaking to transform the way students live on campus.

Communities range from the longstanding East Wheelock cluster, founded in 1996 to integrate intellectual and residential life, to the newly opened Triangle House, which will focus on LGBTQ issues.

There are two other living learning communities open to freshmen: an entrepreneurship community and a global village, both new this fall. The global village combines a series of language-based floors and the Dickey Center’s Great Issues Scholars program, while the “DEN in Residence” is affiliated with the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network.

These new options for freshmen are part of a greater shift, one that began with the announcement of living learning communities last fall and was bolstered by Board of Trustees Chair Stephen Mandel’s March announcement that the residential system will change to a “neighborhood” model.

The change also includes designyour-own communities, an option that allows groups of upperclassmen to live together in a residence hall and run programs related to a theme. An additional 11 affinity housing options will now fall under the umbrella of living learning communities.

Fourteen groups of 15 or more students applied to design communities, choosing a faculty or staff advisor and proposing a plan for the year’s programming. Ten groups were selected, with themes ranging from multiculturalism to healthy living.

One group will live on an “herbifloor,” which will focus on ethical and plantbased eating, Daub said.

Students have generally expressed enthusiasm for the initiative, though some cited concerns about the genuineness of applicants’ interests and the difficulty of finding enough SEE HOUSING PAGE 11

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Class of 2018 You are invited to attend the following

OPEN HOUSES Thursday, September 11 in Reed Hall Come and learn more about…

Classics

11 am - Noon in Reed 322

Comparative Literature 11 am - Noon in Reed 212

Linguistics & Cognitive Science 1 - 2 pm in Reed 322

Russian

1 - 2 pm in Reed 212

Jewish Studies

3 - 4 pm in Reed 212

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Staff Columnist FLORENCE GONSALVES ’15

The Dartmouth opinion staff

Lessons Learned

Opinion Asks

It’s time to learn about Dartmouth and yourself.

Dear ’18s, for you. The people matter, too — you’re go Welcome to college. As a senior who has ing to be with them for three straight months, three years of experience on you (and, there- in hostels, sharing cheap wine, listening to fore, infinite amounts of wisdom), allow me them talk from the minute you wake up in to give you a gift — some advice. the morning until you’re trying to fall asleep First, don’t say your acceptance was “just with a pillow over your head at night. luck.” It’s true that the admissions process Dartmouth often feels like a bubble, but is a crapshoot, but it’s important to know making non-student friends can counteract your worth. There’s a trend on campus to some of those fishbowl feelings. Get to know put ourselves down, likely because we want professors with whom you share interests so to seem modest or protect ourselves from that you can actually converse when you take failure. College is a great time to learn how them to lunch with your Student Assembly to be proud without being arrogant. voucher. Don’t be afraid to check out their Second, there is no ideal meal plan. I’ve work; I’m currently gobbling up a book of potried quite a few, and regardless, I have nega- etry by one professor and can’t wait to discuss tive DBA by week seven. My Collis lunch is it with her in the fall. We’re surrounded by often $10, and for that price I might as well some brilliant people. It’s not empty flattery have gone to Market Table. It’s worth buying to express interest in their accomplishments. the salad sampler and taking it to the Collis Learn how to hold your liquor. In my porch. Not only is it delicious, but you also experience, many students (myself included) avoid getting a backpack to the face and soup don’t seriously consider its effects at first — he down your shirt. just threw up on himself, she just fell down It’s hard being sick, and I’ve been dissatis- the stairs, no big deal. But alcohol can put fied with service at Dick’s House. The nurses you in really hazardous situations. It’s not a can be so nice, but nice doesn’t do much for paradox to say that drinking can be both safe pneumonia. When I’ve been really sick, I’ve and fun. The rubber band trick is brilliant. skipped out on Dick’s House entirely and gone Determine how many drinks you can safely to the emergency room. Safety and Security consume before you go out, and keep that is pretty hesitant to drive you if you haven’t number of rubber bands on your wrist. For tried Dick’s House first, which is why you each drink you have, move a rubber band to should always know a friend with a car. the other wrist. When you run out of rubber If you’re an introvert, get a single. I enjoy bands, you’re done. socializing, but I need to be alone in order That brings me to my last lesson learned. to recharge. A roommate makes that nearly Many people here are facing the same impossible. If you have a weird sleep schedule, struggles you are: eating disorders, mental take showers at 3 a.m. and eat snacks that health disorders, substance problems, lousy aren’t yours, do everyone a favor and get your relationships, pressures to be successful, et own room. cetera. Take time to ask people how they are Don’t go on a language study abroad pro- and be honest about how you’re doing, too. gram unless you want to learn the language. Opening up is difficult, but it’s worth putMy friends at other schools were loose cannons ting yourself out there. Professors are also a on their study abroad trips while I was passing resource. Crying in office hours is not embarout with the French dictionary. Think about rassing — it’s a rite of passage as obligatory why you want to go abroad, and do some (though never as eagerly discussed) as being a serious research on the trip. Don’t like art, clueless freshman with many lessons to learn. churches or French? Maybe the LSA+ isn’t Savor this moment.

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In light of orientation, we asked our staff: If you could redo freshman fall, what do you wish you had known about Dartmouth before matriculating?

I wish I knew freshman fall that it is through the middle doors. They don’t open. okay to get rejected. So many of us enter Every fall, freshmen climb the middle steps our first term at Dartmouth having never of Dartmouth Hall only to realize that the experienced rejection — not from a club, center doors do not open. It is not only the school, professor, job or even a cute floor- easiest way for everyone else to realize that mate. you are a freshman, but it is also embar My rejection virginity was rapidly taken rassing. Do yourself a favor, and use the from me within the first weeks of Dart- side doors. mouth. In the next months, I was rejected

— Joseph Geller ’16 many times over. For people who have never experienced failure, a first (and second and third) rejection can be an earth-shattering experience. It makes you feel inadequate I would like the incoming ’18s to know that finding happiness and a sense of and unworthy.

Sometimes, it even rocks your belief that place at Dartmouth takes time, and that you belong at a school like Dartmouth in it’s unrealistic to expect to meet your best friends or discover your deepest passions the first place.

These reactions are common; however, right away. Additionally, I wish I had been they are utterly unnecessary, untrue and told my freshman fall how essential it is, unhelpful. Regardless of how many a cap- both academically and personally, to work pella groups turn you down, or how far you toward establishing a strong relationship get in the ski patrol recruitment process with at least one professor that transcends before being heartbreakingly cut, or how the boundaries of the classroom. It’s also many freshman programs seem to pass you crucial for incoming students to keep an open mind about the various elements of over, you are no worse of a person.

There are always going to be 10 qualified Dartmouth: the Greek scene, the ominous applicants for one spot at Dartmouth. Deci- winter, the different dining options and sions seem to be made for often arbitrary meeting people of all different backgrounds and occasionally even unrelated reasons. from around the country and the world.

Not being selected for something — or It’s important for students to experience even being selected for something — says these elements firsthand before coming to nothing about you as a person. Don’t give any sort of conclusion, rather than relying up, and keep going after the things you’re upon rumors. Finally, I think it’s important interested in. Present yourself honestly and to keep in mind that while Dartmouth let your passion and worth shine through; is an amazing place, the world outside by the time you start sophomore year, that demands our attention. We must engage one club that rejected you freshman fall with the people and problems of national (or those five) will be merely a step in the and global communities even as we absorb road that led you to being an engaged and ourselves in those at Dartmouth.

passionate individual.

— Spencer Blair ’17

— Isaac Green ’17

If you didn’t hit it off with your tripees,

You’re all very excited and ready to don’t worry. While the fall will probably be throw yourselves into fifth gear, but if you full of FoCo dinners and trips (ha!) down do that, you won’t be able to fully take in memory lane, the reunions will dwindle your surroundings. Don’t be afraid to get in winter term and by spring you’ll forget outside of your comfort zone. Take classes who hogged the corn snacks. you are unfamiliar with (but interested in) — Florence Gonsalves ’15 or walk on to an athletic team. Join a club or activity you’ve always wanted to take part in. There are so many things to ex- perience at Dartmouth — take the time to The professors at Dartmouth can be your try them. Talk to your professors and talk greatest assets, not only during your four to them early. Get to know them and the years at school, but beyond them as well. fields you are studying, and see what more It is well worth trying to make a lasting you can get out of them. Ask upperclass- connection with at least one professor each men about their experiences in and out of term. Go to office hours, take them out to the classroom, and if you hear something lunch, buy them KAF with your extra DBA. negative, take it with a grain of salt. This They truly are the best at what they do, is your Dartmouth, your experience, and and can help you not only in a traditional academic setting, but also when it comes you are in charge of what it becomes. to finding obscure internships, or exploring

— William Peters ’15 the professional world, or just being there as mentors — or better yet, as friends.

— Aylin Woodward ’15 Don’t try to enter Dartmouth Hall

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Q&A With PHIL HANLON COntinued Transitions LE: You’ve spent time gathering information and settling into the role. But our time at the College is halfway through, and there have been two years of transitions in administration. What would you say to ’16s in that regard?

PH: Hopefully the transitions in administration haven’t impacted your academic experience. We accomplished a lot this year, and I’m excited by that. One of those things was to put in a senior team, which is a great team. We’re all here for a long while, and you’ll see a lot of stability going forward.

Leading with a problem LE: The presidential steering committee has been intensely gathering opinions, but they will be translating that into action very shortly. What about this committee is different from what we have seen in the past two, three years? Why are they so motivated to act now when in the past similar committees haven’t had that same power?

PH: When I spoke in April, I said we had a problem that we had to fix. What I didn’t say is here’s the solution. One reason for that is: the mistake that I’ve made most often, and I’ve seen other people make in administrative positions, is what I call leading with a solution, rather than leading with a problem. In other words, you recognize a problem, and you want to fix the problem, you see something you think is going to work. Instead of talking to the stakeholders about the problem, you talk to them about the solution. You say, “Here’s what we’re going to do.” That’s not an effective way to go. First, it doesn’t treat the stakeholders with respect.

It doesn’t gather their ideas, which may be better than the idea you have. One of the real purposeful things about the steering committee is that they are leading with a problem.

Here is the problem — I want the best ideas everybody has. That is a very powerful way to start. All of a sudden, they’ve got an amazing, rich set of ideas to choose from.

That is one reason it seems like it’ll go into action so fast, because they’re starting with such a strong basis.

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Hanlon spoke to new students Tuesday night about what it means to be a part of the Dartmouth community.

the barriers were to achieving the vision, we all began to realize that these behaviors are a barrier. They’re a barrier in part because they divide our campus so dramatically.

Part of that is because the community is so tight. You saw how divisive some of these incidents can be. The Parker Gilbert trial. They divide the community, they take up energy, they take time, they distract attention away from what we really need to be doing, which is trying to achieve this vision. We said, “We’re going to do great things here at Dartmouth, but we need to fix these problems.”

“At that point the trustees knew about the historic $100 million gift. There was a lot of excitment and enthusiasm. We were ready to leap forward. Like a good board, they asked what are the resources we’ll need and we talked about that. But then they said, ‘What are the barriers?’ As we discussed what the barriers were to achieving the vision, we all began to realize that these behaviors are a barrier. They’re a barrier in part because they divide our campus so dramatically. Part of that is because the community is so tight. You saw how divisive some of these incidents can be. The Parker Gilbert trial. They divide the community, they take up energy, they take time, they distract attention away from what we really need to be doing, which is trying to achieve this vision. We said, ‘We’re going to do great things here at Dartmouth, but we need to fix these problems.’”

‘What are the barriers?’

LE: Backing up to when you had that summit and acknowledged the problem — when did you decide to go out in front of everyone and talk about this?

PH: One thing we all know is that the extreme behaviors are not unique to our campus. One thing to be clear on is the biggest reason to stop them is that they’re harming people on our campus. You’re asking a different question — why now? That’s always been there. That originated in the March trustee meeting. There was growing excitement recognized around the vision laid out in November. At that point the trustees knew about the historic $100 million gift. There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm. We were ready to leap forward. Like a good board, they asked what are the resources we’ll need, and we talked about that. But then they said, “What are the barriers?” As we discussed what

A place for big ideas LE: Speaking of the $100 million donation. Where do you see Dartmouth going in 20 years?

PH: I’m sure I won’t be president in 20 years, but if I was, what would I like to be telling you about the campus?

First, that we are a magnet for talent. It’s all about talent. Specifically, the very best students in the world want to come to Dartmouth because of the really amazing learning opportunities and the chance to work closely with outstanding faculty. Some of the very best faculty in the world want to come here because of the scholarship we’ve done and the chance to work with amazing students. Number two is, I want this campus to be intellectually energized, alive, risk taking. Characterized by innovation, by bold thinking, with the courage to take on really big problems. There is a reason that is so important for a place like Dartmouth. It’s because of our talent and

our scale. Compare Dartmouth to where I was before, the University of Michigan. Michigan is gigantic. The research enterprise is gigantic. It covers almost any subject you can think about. If the University of Michigan just makes incremental advantages in every area, they can still make a big imprint on the world. We’re at a much smaller scale. We need to make our footprint by having the home run ideas, the really big important breakthroughs. That’s why it’s really important in my vision that we do become a place that is really alive, really energized. The last thing to say is I would like student life outside the classroom to be characterized by the work you do, the creative work, the artistic work, the research work you do. You’re taking ideas into action through social ventures and business startups. Rather than people say Dartmouth student life, that’s the social scene. That is what I’d say. Pieces of that vision are in place right now, no doubt. But I want to go all the way with that.

A focus on harmful behaviors LE: Do you think it’s possible to have exclusive and gendered social spaces while achieving the type of dynamic social scene you would like to see that’s inclusive and does not encourage high-risk behaviors that you’re describing?

PH: To be clear, my intention was that it was that the extreme behaviors holding us back. I am optimistic. One reason I’m optimistic is the progress we’ve made on highrisk drinking, by really focusing on that behavior. We’re not where we need to be, but we’ve moved a long way in a positive direction, if you look at the metrics we’ve got. I think we can make progress. I purposefully focused on the behaviors, and I will continue to focus on the behaviors, rather than say we want to build a whole new social community that we’ve never had before. I’m going to focus just on the behaviors.

LE: Is there a link in either of your minds between these behaviors and space? How is space tied to behavior?

PH: I don’t want to get ahead of the steering committee.

I understand why you’re asking, but it would be going down the road of leading with the solution. I’ll let them do their work.

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Peer mentoring program expands B y madison Pauly

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Expanded enrollment, training and programming mark the FirstYear Peer Mentoring Program, open to all incoming students for the first time since its 2012 launch. More than one-third of the Class of 2018 chose to participate, which matches three or four freshmen with upperclassman mentors.

A total of 542 incoming students indicated interest in peer mentoring on their housing application, while 447 ultimately opted in, co-director Delia O’Shea ’15 said.

The program fills a gap for freshmen who may feel uncomfortable going to a professor or dean for advice but do not know older students, O’Shea said.

“If someone joins a cappella, they can easily meet upperclassmen,” she said. “We’re trying to facilitate those conversations that may not happen that instantaneously for everyone.”

During its spring application process, which included an interview, the program accepted 140 mentors, many of whom participated in the program as freshmen, O’Shea said.

Organizers interviewed a total of 162 applicants, looking for students who understand that every person has a different experience at the

College, co-director Sam Farid ’15 said.

“It was a red flag in interviews if mentors said, ‘I want to make my mentees love Dartmouth,’” Farid said. “We screened for people critically thinking about freshman year.”

“If someone joins a cappella, they can easily meet upperclassmen. We’re trying to facilitate those conversations that may not happen that instantaneously for everyone.”

- DELIA O’SHEA ’15, First-YEAR peer mentoring co-director Bryan Bliek ’18, who received his mentor match in early August, said he wanted a peer mentor because he didn’t know what to expect, as he is the first in his family to attend an American college.

Knowing someone who has “been

r! e v o n a h y e h

through the system” and can give advice, he said, is appealing to new students.

“Dartmouth has certainly marketed itself as a place where there’s an opportunity to do anything you want, but you just have to make the effort to go out and get it,” Bliek said.

“That’s kind of intimidating.”

The best mentors help students transition and meet with mentees regularly, Bliek’s mentor Nicko Gladstone ’17 said. Gladstone recalled his own first-year peer mentor sending weekly text messages to check in during his winter off-term.

In response to feedback from past participants, organizers paired this year’s mentors into “families,” giving their mentees more opportunities to meet other upperclassmen, O’Shea said.

Current mentor Ellis Guo ’17 said freshmen will benefit from meeting other “family” members.

Gladstone, however, said he doesn’t anticipate much interaction with his “step-mentees” and instead plans to invest his time getting to know his own matches.

Each mentor will receive a $15 food voucher to use during meetups with freshmen, and in the winter, organizers hope to sponsor a free

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teacher,” Native American studies chair Bruce Duthu said.

English department vice chair A faculty committee will con- Michael Chaney said he would have vene this fall to consider opening no problem opting in, but undercourse reviews to students, follow- stands his colleagues’ concerns. ing a proposal that was tabled at “Student course evaluations a meeting in May. The issue will are not infallible instruments for then be decided in a general faculty measuring whether or not a student vote, according to the Dean of the will receive an amazing educational Faculty office. experience,” he said. “Course Under the May proposal, course evaluations cannot contain nor reviews would be available to stand in for all the complexities that students via an online portal, and make up a successful educational would date back to 2006. Profes- experience.” sors would not be able to view their May’s faculty meeting was colleagues’ reviews. the first to discuss open course Last year, Student Assem- evaluations. Mastanduno suggested bly’s academic affairs committee postponing the vote because it was launched a campaign to implement unlikely to pass. open course evaluations. The As- The potential new course sembly surveyed students through evaluation website would include a campus-wide email to assess results from the six quantitative the popularity questions on the of open course evaluation form e v a l u a t i o n s , “Course evaluations students curand sent the re- cannot contain rently fill out, sults to Dean as well as three of the Faculty nor stand in for all new, qualitative Michael Mas- the complexities questions develtanduno. oped by the Stuthat make up a Although dent Assembly. students cur- successful educational Duthu rently submit experience.” said narrative course reviews assessments at the end of are more valueach academic - MICHAEL CHANEY, able in helping ter m, the ina teacher unENGlish DEPARTMENT formation is not derstand what made publicly VICE CHAIR students found available. Withbeneficial if out access to a t h ey p rov i d e comprehensive honest and critiset of course reviews, students cal feedback. use informal review sites like the “In my experience, the overHacker Club Course Picker to whelming majority of Dartmouth gather peer opinion or often rely students seem to approach faculty on the advice of upperclassmen. evaluations in this [honest and criti In April, the committee of cal] spirit,” Duthu said. “As a result, chairs, which includes heads of I’d be inclined to move toward more the College’s arts and sciences open course evaluations.” departments, recommended ap- Chaney said although most proving the initiative spearheaded Dartmouth professors expect stuby Student Assembly. dents to inform each other about Despite support from depart- classes and professors, an official ment heads and many students, database would be a strong addiseveral professors raised concerns tion. at May’s faculty meeting over the Cornell University, Harvard proposal’s wording and implemen- University, Princeton University, tation. In follow-up interviews with the University of Pennsylvania The Dartmouth, professors noted and Yale University publish ofthat open course assessments might ficial course reviews. Students at disadvantage women and minority Harvard are currently negotiating professors, or those who assign with administrators to keep course more work and give lower grades. difficulty scores in their course “My only concern about opting guide. in would be giving those few stu- “The Critical Review,” a student dents so inclined a broader platform organization at Brown University, to spew out anonymous negative, publishes course reviews based on irresponsible or juvenile criticism student and instructor questionof a particular faculty member that naire responses. At Columbia has no real basis in fact, or worse, is University, individual departments rooted in bias against a particular may opt-in to open evaluations.

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A new meeting structure, faculty participation and “state of the student body” videos mark changes to Student Assembly this year.

The year’s agenda will focus on “transparency and action,” student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said.

To increase student participation, the Assembly will replace its general body meetings, which attracted low turnout, with debates on campus life, student body president Casey Dennis ’15 said.

The Greek system debate held in April, which drew a large crowd, inspired them to make the change, Dennis said. During the debate, four seniors argued before a crowd of nearly 200 about whether fraternities and sororities should remain in place.

“We think that Student Assembly should definitely be setting up events like this, getting students out, talking about the issues and coming up with solutions,” Dennis said. “With previous town hall meetings, the max turnout used to be 20 students, and we’d like to see that change.”

Each term, the Assembly plans to host two or three debates organized

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Frank Cunningham ’16 and Casey Dennis ’15 plan to sponsor campus debates.

by the academic affairs committee, which will seat four professors for the first time this year.

The Assembly’s executive board will meet on Sundays, followed by nighttime office hours. Students can email the Assembly if they want to speak at a board meeting, Dennis said.

The team also plans to release termly campus climate surveys, Cunningham said. Campus surveys have been called for throughout the past year, and were initially listed among other proposals in

the “Freedom Budget,” a studentauthored list of demands released in February that sought to prompt administrative action.

Following a sit-in of College President Phil Hanlon’s office last April, a document signed by protesters and then Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson included an agreement to conduct a survey and release the results publicly by 2016.

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Recruitment for the College’s first faculty cluster begins this week, as a committee led by engineering professor Laura Ray launches the search for the Thomas Kurtz chair in computational science. In addition to the Kurtz chair, search committees will select two other professors to join the cluster this year.

The first computational science classes will be offered next fall, Provost Carolyn Dever said.

Under the cluster initiative, announced by College President Phil Hanlon last fall, the College will hire groups of professors from different academic disciplines who are interested in similar research areas.

By recruiting new professors from outside the College, Dever said, clusters augment Dartmouth’s research networks.

The provost’s office plans to start recruiting faculty for several clusters this year, Dever wrote in an email. Currently, the provost’s office and academic deans are working with faculty members to revise proposals for future clusters.

Of the 29 responses the provost’s office received in its first call for proposals, four have been selected for revision, Dever said.

Over time, the office plans to add ten clusters in total, she wrote.

In their proposals, professors were allowed to request up to three new faculty positions and a budget of up to $100,000 in nonsalary funding per year, including materials, funding for workshops and other programming, graduate student stipends and post-doctoral fellowships.

Half of an anonymous $100 million donation received last spring — the largest single gift in the College’s history — endows the cluster initiative. The gift includes a matching stipulation, intended to ensure financial stability, that requires the College to raise $2 from additional donors for every $1 taken from the endowment.

In the spring, former Board of Trustees chair William Neukom ’64 donated $10 million to create the computational sciences cluster.

Drawing on Neukom’s gift and $5 million in matching funds, the cluster will comprise three new professorships, a postdoctoral fellowship and increased opportunities for undergraduate students to research and study.

Kurtz, for whom the chaired full professorship is named, coinvented the programming lan-

guage BASIC with former College President John Kemeny 50 years ago.

The cluster will integrate and extend computational work that is currently happening at the College, Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences director Dan Rockmore said in a May interview.

Interdisciplinary in nature, computational science focuses on data analysis across various academic fields, ranging from physics to anthropology, and uses mathematical models to solve scientific problems.

“It will bring together ideas and people from different departments who are engaged in this work,” Rockmore said.

The cluster’s research will extend computational ideas beyond the hard sciences and into other disciplines, he said.

Math professor Alex Barnett, who taught a spring class on computational and experimental mathematics, said in a May interview that computational science can be applied to tasks in almost any field, like designing molecules in chemistry, analyzing massive data sets in the social sciences and digitally reconstructing ancient objects.

Rockmore said that the additional professorships could go to faculty in a wide range of departments, not just the computer science department.

“Rather than supporting specific departments directly, we’re trying to support interdisciplinary new areas, which might turn into new departments,” Barnett said.

“That’s what makes it exciting.”

Barnett attributed the growing popularity of computational science to the rise of “big data,” greater availability of information and increasing analysis of data sets too large to be processed on individual computers. More and more data is being created across different scientific disciplines, he said, creating more to process.

“We have more data to analyze than we’ve ever had before,” he said.

Major companies like Google and Facebook, Barnett said, regularly use computational science to program the algorithms that drive their services.

Barnett said he believes the College’s investment in the growing field is a smart move. He added, however, that “big data” technology may be used in harmful ways.

“Some of it is good, and some of it is evil,” he said. “If you do the wrong thing, you could have a SEE CLUSTERS PAGE 18

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“It takes a year or two for someone to develop institutional relationships, and importantly, confidence from others in the institution,” Witters said. “If people are switching off every three or four years, it doesn’t work too well.”

Wheelan said he thinks the new dean should reflect a clear vision from both Hanlon and the Board of Trustees. The new dean should also be able to mobilize the Dartmouth community around pertinent student life issues.

“If you think about the major issues on campus – diversity, sexual assault, binge drinking – across the board they tend to fall under the purview of the Dean of the College,” Wheelan said.

“Dealing with those things is going to require a strong dean with a clear set of views who is capable of getting buy-in and cooperation from all the different constituencies.”

Witters said the new dean must be able to work effectively with all campus members, from first-year students to faculty members to the College president.

The new dean should also have an excellent “public persona,” Witters said.

MusicprofessorStevenSwaynewrote in an email that he hopes the new dean

will build on a preexisting priority of the Dean’s Office: to support learning by helping build a community of students who are highly engaged outside of the classroom.

“I am looking for someone who will help us all – not just the students – grow in our understanding that we are a community focused on the work of learning,” Swayne wrote.

The residential redesign committee will present recommendations to the Board of Trustees in September, while the presidential steering committee will present recommendations to the Board in January, after which the Dean of the College search committee will be established.

In the past decade, six people have served as Dean of the College: Jim Larimore, Dan Nelson (interim), Thomas Crady, Sylvia Spears (interim), Johnson and Ameer (interim).

The College has traditionally chosen internal administrators to serve as interim Deans of the College while the search for a new dean is organized. When Crady abruptly left in 2009, two months into formerCollegePresidentJimYongKim’s tenure, Spears stepped in as acting Dean of the College. Dartmouth did not form a search committee to replace Spears until January 2011.

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men went from 49 to 46 percent.

Former DCHIP team leader and director of health promotion and student wellness Aurora Matzkin noted at a DCHIP- and GLC-led forum in January that it is impossible to show direct causality between a policy and a drop in alcohol-related incidents.

Instead, she said, this data reflects the overall decrease in alcoholrelated high-risk behaviors across campus.

Matzkin has since resigned, effective Aug. 31, and the position remains vacant.

Funk said that although the policy might not be the only reason for the drop, she thinks it was a contributing factor.

Grace Carney ’17 said that she thought the policy led freshmen to drink more dangerously, as they often drink hard liquor in residence hall parties and beers at Greek houses.

Alpha Delta fraternity president Mike Haughey ’15 said the policy enabled freshmen to make friends with fellow classmates outside of Greek social spaces, but noted that a lack of data makes it difficult to determine the policy’s influence

on freshman drinking behavior.

Last year, various organizations worked to accommodate the policy. Collis After Dark offered substance-free weekend events including live music and dance parties, and the GLC gave Greek houses funds to host their own

“I think it is a good idea because it forces kids to be responsible and learn that there are other things to do in college.”

- KATIE FUHS ’18, on the GLC BAN events for freshmen. The card office changed the color of the undergraduate year and Dartmouth ID number on freshman ID cards to make them easier for upperclassmen to identify.

This fall, the Greek Board on Accountibility will join the roster of organizations involved with the policy’s implementation. Consisting of affiliated upperclassmen,

the board’s members will not create new regulations, but rather enforce existing GLC policies and the standards taught in various training sessions.

These meetings and facilitations educate students about Dartmouth’s standards of conduct, while the Greek Board on Accountability will work to uphold policies, Lucas said in an email.

Interviewed members of Class of 2017 seemed to recommend that the Class of 2018 abide by the policy and approach it with an open mind. Carney said that the six weeks will pass quickly, and added that it is better to follow the policy than to face the consequences.

Katie Fuhs ’18 said she thinks the policy will allow her to meet more classmates, and added that she has not planned to go to parties with alcoholic beverages.

“I think it is a good idea because it forces kids to be responsible and learn that there are other things to do in college,” she said. “The first six weeks will be a perfect opportunity for all of us to connect with each other and find other things that are fun to do but have nothing to do with drinking.”

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Steering committee to announce proposals FROM COMMITTEE PAGE 1

ent Hanlon with its recommendations by the end of the year, part of a timeline that was recently extended. Hanlon was originally scheduled to present to the Board in November, but is now expected to do so in January 2015.

Committee member John Damianos ’16 said the committee was chosen as a “board of researchers” rather than “a board of experts” to improve College life.

The committee met several times a week with campus leaders and national experts.

To gather student opinion, student body vice president and committee member Frank Cunningham ’16 said he and fellow students on the committee held discussions with dozens of their peers.

In these meetings, student committee members also talked to peer advisor groups, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne, as well as representatives from Dick’s House, the Office of Residential Life and the Sexual Assault Awareness Program.

The committee also solicited opinions from the Greek community, including the Greek Leadership Council, the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council, along with sorority and fraternity members.

Damianos said he has noticed a change in campus discourse, pointing to more students talking about reducing harmful behaviors.

“People want change. Campus is buzzing,” he said. “It’s an exciting time to be here, and the Class of 2018 is witnessing a very new Dartmouth.”

Committee chair and English professor Barbara Will wrote in an email that binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity are issues many find difficult to discuss, and though these behaviors are “dangerous and damaging,” reaching a consensus on solutions is challenging.

“These behaviors occur behind closed doors, after hours, in unguarded moments,” Will wrote. “Talking about these behaviors is not something a lot of people, students or anyone else, feel comfortable doing.”

Throughout the summer, the steering committee also solicited ideas online.

In late August, student group Improve Dartmouth: On the Ground prepared a report for the presidential steering committee that listed 250 ideas aimed at reducing high-risk drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity, summarized from submissions by more than 500 students. Ideas included offering more gender-neutral spaces for students to casually drink, requiring a sexual assault course for freshmen and strengthening mentorship programs.

Thirty-six submissions suggested

making all sororities local, making this the report’s most frequently mentioned idea. Advocates said the change would move some parties into female-dominated social spaces.

Ideas were taken from 740 submissions on the Improve Dartmouth: On the Ground website between May and July. Suggestions were posted on the website as part of a series of dinners that Improve Dartmouth: On the Ground hosted with 36 student organizations, in addition to five sessions open to campus.

The report also lists student responses to what the group calls “root causes” of dangerous behaviors, identifying the “Animal House” (1978) image as a cause of binge drinking, male-dominated social spaces as a cause of sexual assault and the Greek system as a cause of exclusivity, among other factors.

Earlier in August, the presidential steering committee released a summary of 1,673 online suggestions it had garnered. Abolishing Greek life was the most popular submission received online, receiving more than 250 suggestions. Alumni comprised the vast majority of all respondents. In the Improve Dartmouth: On the Ground report, eight submissions advocated for eliminating the Greek system.

In addition to meeting with students, staff and soliciting feedback online, the committee met with national experts, including presenters at the College’s July National Summit on Sexual Assault, University of Washington health psychologist Jason Kilmer, who specializes in substance abuse research, health and social justice college consultant Alan Berkowitz and sexual assault researcher and forensic consultant David Lisak.

Cunningham said that in the fall the committee plans to reengage with the remainder of the student body, since it worked primarily with members of the Class of 2016 during the summer.

“I think everyone will feel it when they come back on campus,” he said.

“There’s been a shift and everyone realizes that it’s time for us, the students, to step up and take responsibility for our home and this place that we love.”

Math professor Craig Sutton, physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox, senior assistant dean for student academic support services Deborah Tyson, senior associate athletics director for peak performance Drew Galbraith, Association of Alumni president Susan Finegan ’85, John Osborn ’88, Kayla Wade ’16 and Kelsey Weimer ’16 also sit on the committee.

Finegan, Osborn, Sutton, Tyson, Wade and Weimer did not respond to requests for comment by press time. Galbraith and Hickox declined to comment.

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like-minded peers.

Daub said her main concern was that some students would not actively participate in their communities’ programming, but said she was hopeful that the “honor system” currently in place would succeed, supported by the involvement of faculty advisors.

Much of the discussion surrounding the initiative has centered on the goal of building a sense of community for upperclassmen in residential life.

A similar theme has been cited as a motivation of the new neighborhood system, which the College will develop and roll out over the coming terms.

The system will house upperclassmen in the same cluster for three years beginning with the Class of 2019, residential education director Mike Wooten said. Wooten said he envisions the system working alongside the D-Plan, so a neighborhood’s rotating residents may recognize common faces after an off-term.

The College hired architectural design firm Sasaki Associates to help plan the new system. After conducting research throughout the spring and summer, the firm and the Office of Residential Life will present proposals to the Board of Trustees at its September meeting.

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ning and facilities Lisa Hogarty will also assist.

A full transition could take up to 10 years, Wooten added.

Daub noted that the College is working to integrate the living learning communities and the neighborhood system into a single, “seamless” model.

Despite the focus on revamping upperclass housing, the changes will affect freshmen as well.

While students commonly find their first Dartmouth network on their freshman floors, members of the Class of 2018 living in a mixedclass living learning community will develop their own support systems, Daub said.

“The way I see it is that they’ll gain their communities from the living learning communities,” she said. “At the moments where it’s critical, like orientation and Homecoming, we’ll make sure the first-years are pulled together.”

Interest-based housing for freshmen is common at other colleges, she added, especially those seeking to boost retention and graduation rates.

The decision to implement the new communities followed research indicating that they are most effective for college students during their first and second years. Of students

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The Triangle House is one of four living learning communities open to freshmen this year.

participating in Dartmouth’s living learning communities, 36 percent are freshmen.

The Class of 2018 is the largest in College history, and moving freshmen to the living learning communities could also open up space elsewhere, though Daub noted this will not have a significant impact.

Rob Del Mauro ’18, who is living in the Triangle House this year, said many of his peers asked why he opted out of a traditional freshman floor. But living learning communities were part of what attracted him to Dartmouth when deciding where to matriculate.

Del Mauro said he was actively

involved with LGBTQ issues in high school and sought to continue in college, citing the accepting environment and opportunities to learn from upperclassmen as motivators.

“It’s not necessarily that I’m giving up the experience of having a freshman floor, I’m just having a different type of community,” he said.

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This year’s spending will determine the program’s future budget, Farid said, adding that the program received supplementary funding from the Dean of the College’s office to accommodate its growth.

Farid said he expects enrollment to steady in future years, though the program may expand as more mentees return as mentors.

“We’re on the housing application,” he said. “We pretty much peaked there in terms of getting the word out.”

Before classes begin, mentors will participate in a daylong training session with several presentations by administrators, O’Shea said.

The training session will include an “abbreviated sensitivity training” that teaches them to respond appropriately when students come forward with a problem and how to connect them with trained professionals, Farid said.

When Student Assembly launched the First-Year Peer Mentoring Program two years ago, around 300 freshmen were automatically enrolled, based on their residence hall.

The second year of the program

followed the same pattern.

As a result, O’Shea said, many students were unresponsive.

Guo, who participated in the program as a freshman, said he had been unaware of his peer mentor until he received an invitation to the program’s start-of-year barbecue.

Several more weeks passed before

“You’re never telling them what to do, but maybe a lighter load in the fall is easier. Or specific classes where a professor is okay if you miss.”

- GABE HOFFMANJOHNSON ’14, MEN’S SOCCER CAPTAIN he met his mentor, at which point he had already adjusted to campus life due to support from an international student mentor and his undergraduate advisor.

Some students living on Guo’s floor regularly spent time with their mentors, while others met once or

ignored the program altogether, he said.

Some new students may feel uncomfortable reaching out to a mentor, Gladstone said.

This year, with the opt-in system, organizers hope to see more enthusiastic participation, O’Shea said.

Peer advising exists in several forms at Dartmouth, some more formal than others.

Institutional and student-led peer mentor programs include the FirstYear Student Enrichment Program, Women in Science Program, International Student Program, Native Pre-Orientation Peer Mentors and Outreach Peer Mentors.

A mentoring program run by Link Up, a campus women’s network, has also seen a swell of student interest, president Kelsey Stimson ’15 said.

This year, over 200 women in the Class of 2018 requested mentors, compared to about 80 in past years.

While students of all genders benefit from upperclassman support, Stimson said, living on a campus with noticeably male-dominated areas makes women’s experiences different.

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“You’re never telling them what to do,” he said, “but maybe a lighter load in the fall is easier. Or specific classes where a professor is okay if you miss.”

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plan to visit freshman floors and host dinners with campus organizations to increase communication, as well as push for policies that address issues like mental health and sexual assault.

This year, the Assembly has seen an $18,000 funding cut, with $40,000 to spend. In its initial budget request, the Assembly asked the Undergraduate Finance Committee for $70,500. To make up for the cut, the Assembly will look to co-host some of its events, Dennis said.

Collis Center director Eric Ramsey, who advises the UFC and the Assembly, said last year’s Assembly ended the year with a surplus. The UFC thought $40,000 was enough to give the Assembly flexibility in implementing its platform while working with other UFC organizations and College departments to supplement its budget, he said.

“In a year at Dartmouth, priorities change, so sometimes what the incoming president thought they were going to do, they don’t end up doing,” Ramsey said. “That’s

“When we ran we thought that there was a lukewarm middle where a lot of students didn’t really have a way to participate in the political matters of the College.”

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a lot of students didn’t really have a way to participate in the political matters of the College,” Dennis said, noting a need for student support if the Assembly is to be successful.

Student apathy has long hindered Assembly leaders. Former student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14 and vice president Michael Zhu ’14, who led the Assembly in 2013-14, said they left an “invisible legacy” in lieu of implementing flashier initiatives. Their focus on building a sound organization, they said, would help their successors hit the ground running.

where the UFC this year really said, ‘We’re not going to fund you on a line-item basis, but give you enough to get started and implement your platform.’”

The Assembly also added a vice-treasurer position to the executive board to assist with money management, Dennis said.

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and universities report campus crime.

Institutions that violate the act may be fined or see federal financial aid terminated.

The investigation comes after more than 30 students and alumni filed a complaint against the College in May 2013, alleging Clery violations related to sexual assault, LGBTQ, racial and religious discrimination, hate crimes, bullying and hazing.

Later that month, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a Title IX investigation into the College’s handling of sexual harassment and violence complaints.

Office for Civil Rights officials conducted campus interviews in January and February, and their investigation is currently ongoing.

Under a Title IX investigation, the government determines whether schools are compliant with federal law barring gender-based discrimination.

The 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter issued by the Department of Education clarified institutions’ obligations under Title IX. Compliance investigations are underway at colleges and universities across the country. In May, the government named Dartmouth in a list of 55 institutions under investigation for possible Title IX violations.

Clery Act investigations can take more than 18 months, 32 National Campus Safety Initiative director Daniel Carter previously told The Dartmouth. If a college is found in violation, a negotiation process with administrators typically follows to determine the final penalty.

That process may take more than four to five years — making it nearly certain that it will not be completed before student complainants have

graduated, Carter said. He added that the department has received more complaints than it can investigate as quickly as it would like, which he called a “very significant issue.”

The College reported 24 counts of forcible sex offenses in 2012 — with 11 occurring on campus property — in its 2013 annual security and fire safety report. Data for 2013 will be released on Oct. 1.

O’Leary said he believes the College has been clear about its commitment to Title IX and Clery Act compliance, adding that the College had begun changing its treatment of sexual assault before either investigation.

In June, the College implemented a new sexual misconduct policy that mandates an external adjudicator and sets expulsion as the punishment for rape.

A number of administrative positions related to sexual assault have recently seen turnover or are in flux.

Lindkvist took on the role of Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer this August.

Director of health promotion and student wellness Aurora Matzkin resigned Aug. 31, leaving a vacancy in the leadership of the office that houses the SAAP program and peer advisor groups.

The position of SAAP coordinator is vacant according to the office’s website. One former coordinator, Amanda Childress, is now the assistant director of health promotion and student wellness. The other, Rebekah Carrow, has left the College.

Benjamin Bradley began working at the College as survivor advocate on Aug. 1. In the new role, he helps sexual assault survivors navigate reporting options and resources.

Associate Dean of the College Liz Agosto, who serves as an administrative

advisor for the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said this turnover will not affect Dartmouth’s ability to provide services, indicating that the SAAP team continues to “function highly” under Bradley and Childress.

Agosto said she does not believe turnover is connected to the ongoing Title IX and Clery Act investigations, emphasizing that staff changes are not unexpected in such high-stress positions.

The College has yet to name a director for the new Center for Community Action and Prevention, announced in February by former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson. Some faculty criticized the College’s approach to the center following the announcement, which came after a rape guide was posted on Board at Baker.

The center was initially scheduled to open July 1, but its launch was postponed and a new date has yet to be set.

A search for CCAP director is underway, and interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said she asked Agosto to form a student and faculty advisory committee, citing a desire for campus involvement in the new center’s development.

Ameer said she has also asked Agosto to determine how the Health and Wellness Office can work with the Center for Gender and Student Engagement.

Now that provost Carolyn Dever has assumed her role at the College, Dartmouth is in a position to address initial concerns surrounding CCAP’s announcement and build the program, Agosto said.

“I don’t think we are in a place where we are at a loss,” Agosto said.

“I think we are continuing to gain footing.”

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The new policy gives a trained investigator responsibility for examining sexual assault cases and mandates expulsion for students found guilty of rape. In addition to substantially modifying Dartmouth’s adjudication process and imposing stricter sanctions on perpetrators, the policy clarifies the College’s definition of certain terms such as consent.

Under the policy, the investigator will research sexual misconduct complaints, conduct interviews and review available evidence and documentation. Following this investigation, the investigator will draft a report that includes a factual assessment of the case and a conclusion about whether the alleged perpetrator assaulted the alleged victim.

If the investigator finds an individual responsible for sexual assault, a sanctioning panel consisting of the director of judicial affairs, a tenured or tenure-track faculty member outside the academic fields of both the reporter of the violation and the alleged perpetrator and an appropriate dean will convene to impose a punishment.

The representative dean will be an associate dean responsible for student affairs if the perpetrator is an undergraduate student, or the dean of the perpetrator’s school if the individual is a graduate or professional school student.

Either the student charged with sexual assault or the complainant may submit a request for review within seven days of a decision.

The proposal mandates expulsion for a student found guilty of sexual assault involving sexual penetration, oral-genital contact or oral-anal contact through force, threat or purposeful incapacitation of a survivor.

The sanctioning panel will also impose expulsion if the student in question committed the same acts motivated by bias based on various social factors including race, religion and sexual orientation or if the student possesses prior records of sexual assault.

The likely sanctions for all other cases include a fine, warning, College probation, no-contact order and restriction from specific College programs, activities or housing.

Standard of Proof: “Preponderance of the Evidence” The “preponderance of the evidence” standard, which Dartmouth also used in its previous policy, means that the investigation has to find only that it is “more likely than not” that sexual assault

Selected definitions from the policy Sexual Assault “Unwanted or unwelcome touching of a sexual nature, including: fondling; penetration of the mouth, anus, or vagina, however slight, with a body part or object; or other sexual activity that occurs without valid consent.”

Consent “Clear and unambiguous agreement, expressed in mutually understandable words or actions, to engage in a particular sexual activity. Whether valid consent has been given will be judged based upon what a reasonable person would have understood from such words or actions. Consent must be voluntarily given and is not valid (1) if obtained by physical force, coercion or threat; (2) when a person is incapacitated; or (3) when an intellectual or other disability prevents a person from having the capacity to give consent. Consent to engage in one sexual activity, or agreement to engage in a particular sexual activity on a prior occasion, cannot be presumed to constitute consent to engage in a different sexual activity or to engage again in a sexual activity. Consent can be withdrawn by either person at any point.”

Incapacitation “A person lacks the capacity to give Consent to sexual activity because the person is asleep, unconscious, mentally and/or physically helpless, or otherwise unaware that sexual activity is occurring. Incapacitation is not necessarily the same as legal intoxication. Where alcohol or other drugs are involved, evaluating Incapacitation requires an assessment of how the consumption of alcohol and/or drugs affects a person’s: decision-making ability; awareness of consequences; ability to make informed, rational judgments; capacity to appreciate the nature and quality of the act; or level of consciousness. The assessment is based on objectively and reasonably apparent indications of incapacitation when viewed from the perspective of a sober, reasonable person.”

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Six other Ivy League institutions — Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University — use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard to determine sexual assault sanctions.

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surveillance society.”

Computational science has ramifications for social sciences and the humanities as well, Barnett said, adding that he and others are concerned that “big data” could diminish qualitative humanities pursuits.

Jaki Kimball ’16, who is majoring in computer science modified with digital arts, said in May that while she may not participate in the new cluster’s offerings, she believes computational science and its interdisciplinary applications are important, especially in computer science.

“You shouldn’t be studying in a vacuum,” she said.

Thinking in an interdisciplinary way, she said, offers helpful applications for the real world.

Malika Khurana ’15, an engi-

neering major and studio art minor, said in May that she appreciates opportunities for interdisciplinary learning.

“I have made a lot of connections between humanities and comp sci and engineering,” she said. “I like that Dartmouth is a liberal arts school, but you can still do engineering.”

A previous donation from Neukom funded the creation of the Neukom Institute, which supports Dartmouth faculty and students who use computation for their research, in 2004.

Neukom is the founder and CEO of the World Justice Project. He served as the Microsoft Corporation’s lead lawyer for over 20 years and chaired the College’s Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2007.

A version of this article first appeared in print on May 2, 2014.

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College President Phil Hanlon told new students to treat every moment as a learning opportunity and reflect on their experiences. He also urged them to always keep their “Dartmouth family” in mind.

“I ask that you, in every action you take as a Dartmouth student, ask whether you are strengthening the Dartmouth community or diminishing it,” he said.

Interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer said that orientation is a

time for students to decide their roles at the College. She encouraged them to reach out for help and look out for one another.

Jennifer Avellino ’89, Alumni Council President-Elect, told students that Dartmouth belongs just as much to them as it does to anyone else.

“You can reinvent yourself now,” she said. “If you think your interests or your path are pretty much set, they don’t have to be.”

Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno gave students three pieces of advice: choose classes with care, move outside your intellectual comfort zone

and seek out professors.

“Don’t cheat yourself,” he said.

“Make the most of it.”

Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris lauded the accomplishments of the Class of 2018 as upperclass students read excerpts from admissions essays.

The performance, titled “Your Class, Your Words,” was compiled and directed by Olivia Scott ’13.

Excerpts were taken from essays by members of the Class of 2018 with their permission.

One read: “I realize the remarkable value of independence.”

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Laskaris spoke of students’ accomplishments as performers read essay excerpts.

Excerpts from class of 2018 admissions essays, performed tuesday night

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“I used to feel as if I were a tourist in my own reservation.”

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Q&A With PHIL HANLON COntinued What sets Dartmouth apart LE: The thing you started talking about with the next 20 years is academics, which attract global leaders who are extremely talented. It seems in your inaugural address you have two ideas geared at that: the entrepreneurial center and attracting postdocs. People sometimes think Dartmouth is moving from a focus on undergraduates to being a university. To what extent do you think this is a trade-off ? Is there a way for it to work in tandem?

PH: What characterizes a great university — we are a university. We call ourselves a college, and there are important reasons to call ourselves a college — it brings great minds to bear on the most pressing issues of the day. That’s what universities do. Dartmouth’s distinguishing characteristic is that we are the place where students play the most meaningful role in that enterprise. If you go to other great universities, that work is largely faculty-driven. And postdoctoral. Graduate students get much more involved than undergrads. Here, it’s much different. All students from undergrads on get deeply involved in the process of taking on and grappling with the world’s issues. That’s one of the things I find really attractive here. You look at some of the experiential learning here — the Rockefeller Center policy shop, the Paganucci Fellows. You as students have an opportunity to be out there working in pretty close partnership with faculty. I don’t think they’re all in opposition. The question is who gets involved in the process. Pushing the frontiers of knowledge, taking on — here I think students play a larger role than in other places. The different question in that mix was the liberal arts versus professional training. I think to me the right starting point here is what outcomes you want from the educational experience. You may have heard me talk about this before.

With the newest generation of IT platforms generating information and knowledge, to your desktop essentially for free — what we crucially add that these platforms can’t is what I

call wisdom, the skills to be successful in the world based on what you know. Powerful communication skills. Critical thinking skills.

Having the confidence to innovate and take risks. Being able to work effectively with others. Talk about a cultural humility and cultural awareness. Numeracy. Being able to engage the arts and humanities and leadership skills. The liberal arts has always been about generally applicable intellectual skills. To me the liberal arts remains the most powerful way to deliver those skills to students.

The professional schools can very effectively connect students with the outside world. Ask yourself, what is a profession? What does that mean? It’s a framework that takes intellectual learning and applies it to the real world. If you become a doctor, you learn about germs and cells. You learn how to apply it to the sick person who is sitting across the table. That’s what a profession is. If you think about students developing these skills to be successful in the world, a really important piece of that is actually encountering the world.

The professional schools can be a huge part of that.

“Pushing the frontiers of knowledge, taking on — here I think students play a larger role than in other places.”

A themed year?

LE: For Interim President Carol Folt, her banner thing was the year of the arts. I was curious if there was something similar, a similar theme you were considering approaching in the following year.

PH: We’re thinking about a themed year. I don’t want to release anything yet. Stay tuned.

GG: I didn’t know that.

Lessons learned LE: Looking to next year, is there anything you would handle differently or have learned from this year?

PH: I learned a lot, of course. When issues come up, you handle them the best you can. That’s always a good exercise — would I have done it differently, that’s definitely something. But at the end of the day, I think it’s your core values that guide your decision making at the time, and what you know at the time. But I thought it was a great year. One of the things we both tried to do is reach out to as large of a segment of the community as we could. I think we ended up meeting with 3,100 students in small groups, 500 faculty, thousands of alumni. That was so valuable, and we’ll continue to do that.

Advice for ’18s Facing difficulties LE: On a more personal note, what has been the issue that has kept you up at night the most? What have you lost the most sleep over?

PH: What was the most difficult by far was the death of both Torin Tucker ’15 and Blaine Steinberg ’15. Calling their parents. And meeting their parents. It was devastating. To all of us, I’m sure.

That was by far the most difficult.

Gail Gentes: That was so hard to understand.

LE: Is there something you would say to the Class of 2018 as they’re preparing to enter Dartmouth?

PH: I’ll get a chance to tell them in person, but I think I’d say that they have the most amazing opportunity ahead of them.

GG: I would say, “Get excited.” There’s lots to do.

PH: Challenge yourself, try some things you never thought you’d do. Larry Page, one of the co-founders of Google, there’s some quote he has — do something uncomfortable every day.

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Arts and entertainment editor Caela Murphy ’15 talked to three Dartmouth students about finding and developing their artistic passions and how Dartmouth has shaped their interests — from the digital arts to jazz.

Jordan Craig ’15 Though Jordan Craig ’15 did not come to Dartmouth expecting to study art, she is now a studio art major planning to do an honors thesis and a designer for the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation lab. Craig’s foray into the arts at Dartmouth began when she took “Collage: Bridging the Gap” during her first term at the College.

“It was a special topics arts class in the studio art department, and it convinced me to continue to take art classes,” Craig said.

Since then, Craig has become more involved with the department, eventually narrowing her focus to painting.

During her upcoming senior seminar, she plans to explore printmaking and collage as well.

Beyond the more traditional fine arts, Craig has found an artistic outlet in the growing realm of digital arts.

She was a founding member of the DALI lab and has contributed to design projects for programs like Psych on Ice, an interactive program targeted at astronauts, and Growing Change.

Her latest work, a redesigned website for the John Milton Reading Room that displays the writer’s prose and poetry, launched last week.

Craig said that her fine art and digital art pieces “feed off of each other.” The designs she creates digitally inspire pieces she works on in her art classes, she said, and she sometimes scans her drawings onto a computer to finish designing them.

“In my art there is an element of design, so I’ve been told,” Craig said.

“I’m thinking about how design works in terms of how I lay out my compositions.”

Craig said that she is not sure what she wants to do after graduation, but knows she wants to work in a “highly creative space.” She is also interested in pursuing the intersection between her two majors, studio art and psychology.

She said she enjoyed engineering professor Peter Robbie’s design thinking class, which “really does combine all sorts of interdisciplinary subjects — psychology, art, design, engineering, anthropology,” Craig said. “It com-

bines all of these different disciplines to focus on human-centered design.”

Chris Gallerani ’15 In high school, Chris Gallerani ’15 said he was predominantly “a music person.” He was a member of his school choir, chamber singers and concert band, and although he participated in musical theater, he said he focused more on singing than acting. He came to Dartmouth in the fall of 2011 set on becoming a music major.

That all changed during Gallerani’s Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trip, when an upperclassman on Lodj Croo recommended that he take Acting 1 with theater professor James Rice as his third class. He decided to give it a shot.

“I took it and really loved it,” Gallerani said, “so all the theater I’ve SEE STUDENTS PAGE 32

B y Michaela LEDOUX The Dartmouth Staff

The Hopkins Center for the Arts begins a packed year on Thursday with its “Exploring the Arts at Dartmouth” marketplace, a teaser of the student ensembles, award-winning theater performances, dance troupes, world-renowned vocalists and films it will host this year.

For the second consecutive year, the Hop will give freshmen free access to any fall student ensemble performance.

The Hop has also set aside 400 free tickets for freshmen to attend W. Kamau Bell’s comedy show, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour,” on Sept. 16.

On Sept. 17, Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare will star in “An Iliad,” the first installment of “World War I

Reconsidered,” a yearlong program featuring art that explores the effects of war.

“I am gratified in that I am doing something that is necessary,” O’Hare said of his performance. “I am showing that war is bad, but also that none of us are outside of the responsibility of what happens. If we have an attitude about it, we have to do something about it.”

The new year will also bring a host of jazz artists to campus. On Sept.

27, the Clayton Brothers Quintet will perform in Spaulding Auditorium, followed by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Oct. 13.

The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, a 20-piece ensemble that is comprised almost entirely of non-music majors, SEE HOP PAGE 32

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Hop to screen six Telluride films Students find artistic interests at Dartmouth FROM HOP PAGE 31

will benefit from some of the visiting jazz artists through weeklong residencies at the College.

In the fall, revered jazz trombonist Craig Harris will perform with the ensemble. An intense 20 hours of rehearsal will culminate in the musical centennial celebration of bandleader Sun Ra’s music. “[Sun Ra’s] performance [at the College in 1990] had a big impact on me and even changed the life of some of the students,” ensemble director Don Glasgo said.

Hopkins Center film manager Sydney Stowe said she was excited to plan this fall’s lineup of films, including Telluride at Dartmouth, a product of a 29-year relationship between the world-renowned film festival and the College. Each year, the Hop shows six films from the festival.

“These movies are a chance for first-year students to get their first taste of film,” Stowe said.

Adding to the programming is

“We try to create the best combination of new, art-house and foreign language films.”

- HOPKINS CENTER FILM MANAGER SYDNEY STOWE a group of films organized by the Dartmouth Film Society. Directed by Johanna Evans ’10, DFS proposes a series of films united by a theme and shows them on Sundays throughout the

term. This fall, the theme is “longshot” films.

“We try to create the best combination of new, art-house and foreignlanguage films,” Stowe said. “We look for a balance, so that each weekend has a good mix.”

During orientation week, Native American artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs will install an exhibit in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery. According to Kelliher-Combs’s website, her art presents a “chronicle of the ongoing struggle for self-definition and identity in the Alaskan context.”

“The studio art department wants to present the best of artistic practice,” studio art professor and director of the studio art exhibition program Jerry Auten said.

The Strauss Gallery will feature an exhibit of drawing and sculpture pieces

by Allan Houser, whose sculptures are installed near the Hood Museum of Art.

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done really started that fall.”

By his freshman spring, Gallerani had already performed in a student production, Sarah Ruhl’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” and declared a theater major. Since then, he has performed in major theater department productions including “The Liar,” “Big Love” and most recently, “Spring Awakening.”

While Gallerani discovered a passion for theater at Dartmouth, he has not abandoned his musical interests.

A member of the Dartmouth Aires, Gallerani performs a cappella at shows throughout the term and has toured with the group to sing across the country, including at the White House.

Initially, his a cappella and theatrical training seemed “contradictory,” Gallerani said. Actors, he said, are taught to be authentic and to “strip back” any fixed ideas that they have of a character, whereas the Aires follow a “specific, stylized way of performing.”

“Now, going into my senior year, I’m seeing that what’s similar about both of those things is how the material — whether that’s the text you speak as an actor or the music that you sing as a group — can inform you and can help affect you to bring you toward something that’s more authentic in yourself, rather than trying to overlay that with some kind of preconceived notion,” Gallerani said. “It’s a delicate balance, but something that I think I understand a lot more now as time has gone by.”

Gallerani is currently working on an honors thesis in the theater depart-

ment, for which he plans to create and perform a solo piece, and hopes to audition for the theater department’s mainstage productions, “In The Next Room” and “Romeo and Juliet,” this fall and winter.

“I’m not sure what’s in store for me after I graduate in terms of specifically what kinds of job or career I will have, but I know I want to work in performing arts — in theater, in music — somehow,” Gallerani said.

“I know it will always have some sort of place in my life.”

Moises Silva ’16 Last spring, when drummer Moises Silva ’16 performed at Friday Night Rock’s Battle of the Bands, his band, The Euphemisms, took home the first prize of $300. It was a moment that showed how far Silva, an engineering major and percussionist in several musical groups on campus, has come since he first began playing the drums six years ago at his church.

Silva described the church setting, in which he learned to play by ear by listening to other musicians, as a “non-formal atmosphere,” and worried initially that his training would not prepare him to play in college.

“That was my learning foundation, so when I came to Dartmouth I was a little scared because I didn’t know if I would be able to play the drums,” Silva said. “It turns out the Hop is a great place for student artists who aren’t necessarily music majors but still want to play.”

Silva began his arts career at Dartmouth by joining the Dartmouth SEE STUDENTS PAGE 33

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Chris Gallerani ’15 has balanced his love for theater and a cappella at Dartmouth.

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Marching Band. He subsequently joined the World Music Percussion Ensemble, for which he played on a drum kit, an instrument he said was “closer to home” for him. During his freshman spring, Silva was welcomed into the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, where he found a mentor in ensemble director Don Glasgo.

“Don Glasgo is a great teacher, and he really connects with musicians like me who didn’t have formal training,” Silva said.

During his freshman summer, Silva expended his repertoire beyond ensemble concerts when he and several other student musicians formed their own band, The Euphemisms.

Performing in a band as opposed to a larger, more organized group can be challenging, Silva said, as individual band members must work together to plan practice times, decide on set lists and prepare for shows. However, with

these responsibilities come rewards.

“In an ensemble, you have someone there telling you if you’ve done something wrong or if you’ve done something right,” Silva said. “When you’re on your own, you get to experiment more with what you’ve learned outside of the band.”

Silva said that he always wanted to be a drummer, and hopes to continue with percussion in the future even if he just performs part-time gigs.

As he has been exposed to different styles, Silva says his musical interests have shifted. Before he joined the Barbary Coast, for example, he had not considered playing jazz, a genre he said was “not cool, per se” in his neighborhood. He quickly developed an appreciation for jazz, he said, when he learned about its history as a foundation for modern hip-hop and rap.

“I’ve learned a lot of different techniques and learning styles that have slowly been integrated into the way I think about music,” Silva said.

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SPORTS

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Big Green coaches experience considerable turnover B y Brett drucker

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Athletes from the Class of 2018 are not the only new faces in the Big Green sports scene this year. Six of Dartmouth’s 34 varsity teams have new head coaches, including fall sports women’s cross country, women’s soccer and women’s and men’s heavyweight crew.

This marks a difference from last year. Heading into 2013-14, the Big Green hired only two new coaches: for the men’s soccer and women’s basketball teams. Dartmouth coaches tend to have lengthy tenures, on average spending more than 10 years at the College. And nearly a third of its teams are anchored by coaches who have led the Big Green for more than two decades.

But this summer has seen considerable turnover.

The men’s lacrosse team lost all

three of its coaches in June, and Rachel Hanson, who led the softball team to nationals this year, departed for Stanford University along with assistant coach Dorian Shaw. Former Lehigh University assistant Brendan Callahan will replace 10-year veteran Andy Towers as men’s lacrosse head coach and Amherst College coach Shannon Doepking will lead softball.

Under Towers and assistant coaches Michael Bocklet and Tim McIntee, the men’s lacrosse team finished 2-10 overall last season, 0-6 in the Ivy League. Pat Flynn ’13, a two-time captain, said earlier this summer that he understood Towers’s decision to leave: “The win-losses didn’t reflect the type of energy he put into the program.”

Callahan was previously an assistant coach at Lehigh University where last season the team finished with a 13-5 record and made it to the Patriot League championship game,

but lost against Loyola University.

Hanson won the Ivy League Championship Series with Dartmouth this past spring, capping off a sparkling four-year run that saw the team become an Ivy League powerhouse.

Doepking’s Amherst team compiled a 21-11 record (6-6 NESCAC) last season. Before Amherst, Doepking served as an assistant coach at Stony Brook University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Brentwood Academy.

The women’s cross country team will also see change. Courtney Jaworski was hired in May to replace Mark Coogan at the helm of a team fresh off an Ivy League title. Coogan’s tenure was marked by success, largely thanks to performances by now-professional runner Abbey D’Agostino ’14.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Jaworski moved to the Oregon Track Club Elite,

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He then coached at Smith College and the University of Puget Sound before moving to Manhattanville College, where he has coached for the past year.

When he was hired, Dana Giordano ’16 remarked on his education at Penn: “I think that’s great to have a coach that really understands the balance between academics and athletics because that’s why a lot of us went to Dartmouth.”

Ron Rainey, the new the women’s soccer head coach, brings Big Ten experience to Dartmouth as he inherits a team that went 8-6-3 last year.

He comes to Dartmouth after eight seasons at the University of Iowa, where he led the Hawkeyes to their first-ever NCAA tournament berth.

“I really think there are some neat things here in regards to the student athlete experience,” he said, noting

administrative support and the DP2 program as “cutting edge” initiatives.

Rainey said he monitored players’ workout from afar this summer, allowing them to recharge and talking often about the World Cup. Heading into the season, Rainey is focused on learning his players’ capabilities, including those of nine freshmen.

“We’re going to try and have good, competitive, short practices so we keep people healthy and we start trying to get better each day,” he said.

The women’s crew team will open its season under the direction of Linda Muri who comes to Hanover from Harvard University, where she was an assistant coach of the lightweight squad.

As an accomplished coach who has led both collegiate and international teams, Muri herself had a distinSEE COACHES PAGE 33

Some fall season athletes arrive early to campus

B y Josh koenig

The Dartmouth Staff

As peers prepared to be welcomed by flair-festooned upperclassmen on the Robinson Hall lawn, a number of athletes in the Class of 2018 were busy with a different introduction to Dartmouth: one characterized by team dinners, intense workouts and pep talks.

Dartmouth’s fall sports teams — which include football, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s crew, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and coed sailing, among others — welcomed athletes to campus throughout late August and early September. Constrained by NCAA and Ivy League regulations on preseason training, women’s volleyball kicked off its training on Aug. 22, men’s football on Aug. 27 and coed sailing on Sept.

1.

Jack Heneghan ’18 said he enjoyed arriving early for football preseason because it allowed him to focus on the sport without worrying about academics.

“It gives you a good chance to get to know your teammates and all the

players in your class and get settled in, rather than having to adjust to college and sports at the same time,” he said.

His teammate Brock Bacon ’18 agreed, noting that it was nice to have older players show them the ropes.

Field hockey player Sarah Tabeek ’18 said preseason training has been intense, but she enjoyed exploring campus before everyone else arrived. She also cited upperclassmen on the team as great resources.

“They really took us under their wing and have guided us through both field hockey concerns and nonfield hockey concerns,” she said. “It’s been amazing having 19 immediate friends before classes even start.”

The field hockey team began its preseason 14 days before its first competition, head coach Amy Fowler said. Launching training on the heels of sophomore summer requires both helping freshmen adjust and accommodating rising juniors’ final exam schedules.

In her 15 seasons leading the Big Green, Fowler said, she has always tried to accommodate the SEE MENTORING PAGE 33

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Riding the Pine

With Joe Clyne and Henry ARndt The greatest trick Hank and Fish ever pulled was convincing the world they no longer existed.

One measly week after we wrote our column’s obituary in this very paper, we find ourselves answering the Siren call of blogging once again.

Though we wish we could have walked peacefully into the sunset at summer’s end as universally-adored, much-feted heroes of 14X, editorin-chief Lindsay Ellis grabbed us by our ponytails and yanked us back into the limelight, forcing us to put our reputations on the line one final time. Due to extremely poor Internet at our “friend’s” vacation

house, we are currently locked in an unlit four-by-four closet, intended only for an Internet router and what appear to be other electronics.

To those of you who don’t know us yet (presumably only the least cool 20 percent of the freshman class, so definitely not Ill Fayze), by day we are Henry and Joe, two mild-mannered, run-of-the mill campus commoners. The night before our column is due, we become Hank and Fish, superheroes of the sports section and co-authors of the most widely read and widely hated column: Riding the Pine.

To catch all you rookies up to

speed, we graciously decided to take time out of our dream vacation and introduce ourselves. We are two jaded ’16s coming off a fast and furious sophomore summer that chewed us up and spit us out. You are probably used to everyone on this campus catering to your every whim.

Don’t come to this column looking for love. The bad boys of blogging aren’t here to pander to the newly baptized among us. We’re here to deliver sports takes enema-style to the entire Dartmouth student body.

It’s not often that you get to continue a legacy immediately after publishing your swan song. Hank and Fish may not know much, but we’re smart enough to know when The Dartmouth has laid a golden egg right in our laps. With one final shot before the D-Plan ruthlessly rips us apart for the remainder of 2014, Hank and Fish have decided to write a column that will etch our legacy in stone. This week Riding the Pine will effortlessly and correctly predict the Super Bowl XLIX champions — emphasis on the word “effortlessly.”

Jay Cutler will lead the Chicago Bears to its first Super Bowl championship since 1985 and second of all time. This prediction is primarily driven by Fish drafting Matt Forte, Cutler, Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall on one fantasy team — idiotic strategy and click bait wrapped into one.

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Admittedly, Fish fears damning the Bears with the “curse of RTP.” After we predicted Johnny Manziel would be the first pick in the NFL draft, he fell to 22 overall. We then predicted Tiger Woods would win the British Open. He tied for 69.

Obviously, these picks were smart as hell and faltered only due to supernatural forces beyond our control.

Back to the good stuff. After years of defensive excellence at the cost of offensive mediocrity under coach Lovie Smith, the Bears brought in Canadian Football League offensive guru Marc Trestman to transform its squad. Last year — Cutler’s first under the new offensive scheme — showcased a stunningly effective aerial attack until the quarterback’s season was cut short by groin and ankle injuries. Though the Vanderbilt alumnus is injury-prone, we have no doubt he will improve.

Cutler is only one of many star players on the team. Last season, Forte tallied nearly 2,000 allpurpose yards, good for fourth in the league. An excellent open space running back capable of breaking plays for big gains at any moment, Forte benefits greatly from Cutler’s ability to open up the field by throwing to his top-caliber wideouts like Marshall and last year’s breakout star Jeffery.

NFL analyst Elliot Harrison ranked the Bears’ offseason as sec-

ond best in the league. The team addressed its pressing defensive concerns by picking defensive standouts in the first three rounds of the draft.

Chicago’s run defense was the worst in the NFL last season, but after drafting two tackles and signing four defensive ends, the team’s defense should improve on last year. Veteran defensive end Jared Allen marks the team’s strongest defensive signing.

He has tallied double digit sacks in each of the last seven seasons.

Though he is getting old and there are negative rumors about his fitness, Riding the Pine believes Allen will help the Bears hearken back to their former defensive glory.

As you embark on your Dartmouth journey, you’re probably bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, walking around campus with innocent grins stretched across your young and supple faces. For our parting shot, we’re happy we got the chance to pour Riding the Pine’s poison into your pliable brains this early on. Hank’s off in the fall, so you ’18s won’t have the pleasure of mingling with a maniac. Fish will be holding it down in Hanover, and he desperately needs ’18s (Ill Fayze, we are talking to you) to step up and assume Hank’s place both in the sports section and in his heart.

If you like sports but aren’t good enough to play, come to Robinson Hall. We’ll buy you pizza.

Football, field hockey and soccer teams gear up for fall season

B y Gayne Kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

As temperatures cooled and summer drew to a close, Dartmouth’s fall athletes flocked back to Hanover to kick preseason into gear.

Football, which finished last season by holding down the fort against one of the most prolific offenses in Princeton University’s history, suffered just two losses in Ivy League play in 2013 en route to a third-place finish. The University of Pennsylvania Quakers dealt a heart-breaking 31-37 loss to the Big Green in the Ivy opener on the road in Philadelphia, coming in quadruple overtime and marking the first of five Ivy League games that would be decided by seven or fewer points.

This season, both the Tigers and the Harvard University Crimson were picked in the preseason media poll to finish ahead of the Big Green, who, at third, received its highest projected ranking since 1997. Contributing to the rise of the program is returning quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16, who, as a sophomore, landed in the top five in the Ivy League for both passing and rushing yards. The program, head coach Buddy Teevens said, is hoping for an even greater output

this season.

“The quarterback position specifically is one where the more experience and the real time opportunities you get, the better you become, and [Williams] is loaded up,” he said. “Quite often in this league, juniors and seniors get their opportunity to shine and he had that as a freshman and a sophomore, so we certainly expect a progression.”

Also returning for Dartmouth is two-sport athlete Bo Patterson ’15, who spent the spring in the outfield for baseball after scoring six touchdowns in 10 games for Dartmouth as one of the team’s go-to men downfield. Patterson heads a deep receiving corps for the Big Green that was decimated by injuries last season. The team looks forward to the healthy returns of Jon Marc Carrier ’17, Ryan McManus ’15, Kirby Schoenthaler ’15 and Victor Williams ’16 to bolster the Dartmouth offense.

The loss of Dominick Pierre ’14 at running back will undoubtedly hurt the team. Pierre’s 1,064 net rushing yards — the second most in the Ivy League — and 13 touchdowns gave the team teeth on its running game. Teevens named four athletes — Kyle Bramble ’16, Brian Grove ’16, Abrm McQuarters ’17 and Jacob Siwicki ’17 — as

players who could fill Pierre’s void.

The team kicks off its season on Sept. 20 under the lights at Memorial Field against Central Connecticut State University.

On the other end of Dartmouth’s athletic complex, the Big Green field hockey team is looking for a winning season, head coach Amy Fowler said. Dartmouth went 7-10 overall, 3-4 in conference play last season after dropping only one game in Ivy play in 2012.

The 12 returning players on the roster, Fowler said, are hungry for a winning season.

“I think any of the returning players would potentially say, if interviewed, that we underachieved last year,” she said. “I think our goals are a bit lofty. We would anticipate completely turning things back into the direction of another winning season and challenging for an Ivy title.”

The team’s seven freshmen will play a critical role. Without its youngest class, the team has just enough players to field a team with one substitute.

“I don’t think we’re going to change much of the core strategy,” she said. “I think we’re just fine tuning some of the fundamental skills.”

The team’s first Ivy game is on the road against defending Ivy

champion Princeton on Sept. 20.

Also arriving on campus for preseason in late August were the men’s and women’s soccer teams, who went 6-7-4, 1-6 Ivy and 8-6-4, 4-3 Ivy last season, respectively.

The Big Green men had a disappointing season last year in Chad Riley’s debut with the team after leaving the University of Notre Dame. The team went 1-6 in the League, only defeating Brown University in its last game of the season.

The team is just three seasons removed from an NCAA Tournament berth, which it earned in 2011 and was on the cusp of the postseason in 2012, but mixed results last season left it searching for answers as the 2014 season kicks off.

The women picked up a new head coach, Ron Rainey, from the University of Iowa, who hopes to

carry the team from the middle to the top of League standings, where it was just two years ago when a 6-1 League record earned the Big Green second.

The Big Green’s new captain Kendall Kraus ’15 said that the team hopes to climb up the standings and take down Harvard in the process. The Crimson handed Dartmouth a 2-1 loss late last season that hurt the Big Green’s chances of a top-three finish in the Ancient Eight. Harvard went on to a perfect 7-0 Ivy season, assisted in large part by now sophomore Margaret Purce who competed this summer with the U-20 U.S. national team in the women’s World Cup. Dartmouth lost its first two games of the season at the Husky/ Nike Invitational in Seattle over the weekend and faces the University at Albany today.

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Women’s volleyball head coach Erin Lindsey said her program, guided by similar Ivy requirements, could not begin preseason training more than 14 days before its first competition, against Pennsylvania’s St. Francis University on Sept. 5.

But students traveling more than 500 miles to campus can arrive up to two days early, giving them time to adjust.

Lindsey said she normally hosts a team dinner at her home the night before training starts. Like Fowler, she said she worked to ensure players could participate in Trips.

In order to accommodate athletes in field hockey, women’s volleyball and other sports that begin training before official College move-in dates, the Office of Residential Life works with the athletic department and the Club Sports program to provide interim housing assignments, associate director of housing Elicia Rowan wrote in an email.

Not all fall sports begin so early as to require interim housing. While men’s and women’s swimming and diving may have student-organized “captain’s practices” beginning up to a week before school starts, head coach Jim Wilson said, the official season does not begin until Oct. 1.

And coed sailing, not held to NCAA requirements by virtue of its orientation outside of the national collegiate organization, does not begin practices until first-year students officially move in, head coach Justin Assad said.

“I think it’s a little more natural for them to go right into orientation,” Assad said. “We work hard to get them all signed up early for Trips, and we strongly encourage every freshman sailor to participate in Trips. We think that the well-rounded experience is important.”

Men’s soccer head coach Chad Riley and football head coach Buddy Teevens could not be reached for comment by press time.

Katie Jarrett contributed reporting.

New coaches will assume roles this fall

“I think I’ve learned a lot about not only program management and leadguished career, representing the U.S. ership, but I’ve also been exposed to nine times on the national team and the level of training and commitment winning three world championships, and the boat speed that’s necessary according to a press release from to be competitive with the top collegiate programs,” Dartmouth he said.

Athletics.

Allen plans to F o r m e r “I’ve also been exposed follow an “athmen’s heavy- to the level of training lete-centric” phiweight crew losophy, using his c o a c h To - and commitment experience to unpher Bordeau and the boat speed derstand what athcoached at that’s necessary to letes need, ranging Dartmouth from equipment to for nine years, be competitive with dedicated coaches spending eight the top collegiate and explanations as head coach, of what the team before his con- programs.” is doing and why. tract was not Additionally, Allen renewed this - Wyatt Allen, mentioned that he summer. wanted to focus Wyatt Allen, NEW MEn’s HEAVYWEIGHT on internal comwho will fill this COACH petition with the role, has found rowers pushing past success on and off the water. Allen won gold at each other daily to improve. the 2004 Olympics and bronze in The new crew coaches will have 2008. Since then, he has coached in to hit the ground running as both assistant positions at multiple schools teams rely on walk-on populations with powerhouse rowing programs, to fill their respective teams and will spending a year at the University of need to begin recruiting freshmen as Washington before coaching for five soon as they get on campus. years at the University of California Muri and Callahan could not be reached for comment by press time. at Berkeley.

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