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Students presented their science projects at the 27th annual Wetterhahn Science Symposium.
Science projects showcased B y eileen brady
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“A little bit chaotic” is how Hannah Margolis ’20 described her preparation for the2018KarenE.Wetterhahn Science Symposium. But just like science, the chaos turned to order by May 23, when more than 160
undergraduates showcased over 120 projects from 12 different disciplines in the halls of the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. Each project was also accompanied by one or more researchers ready to explain their work. The event marked the 27th annual Wetterhahn Science Symposium, a
Senior Fellows finalize projects
B y WALLY COOK
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What do federal Native American law, science fiction, a Chilean feminst and a choreopoem have in common? They’re all subjects of this year’s Senior Fellows. This year, Kimonee Burke ’18, Herbert Chang ’18, Celeste Jennings ’18 and Valentina Sedlacek ’18 are the College’s Senior Fellows. The Senior Fellowship is a program awarded to
a select group of students entering their senior year who hope to pursue an academic project beyond the scope of the College’s curriculum. As long as they complete their distributive requirements and earned all necessary credits, fellows are not required to take classes their senior year and do not have to complete a major. Each of this year’s fellows worked on interdisciplinary SEE FELLOWS PAGE 3
celebration of undergraduate research in the sciences. The symposium — named for the late chemistry professor and Women in Science Project co-founder Karen E. Wetterhahn — is primarily sponsored by WISP, according to associate director SEE WISP PAGE 5
Future quantitative social science majors will no longer be required to complete a thesis before graduating. This spring, the College’s QSS program updated its major requirements, adding a non-honors track that will be available to the Class of 2019 and later. Instead of requiring all graduating QSS majors to participate in a three-ter m culminating honors research thesis in their senior year, students can now opt to complete a oneterm intensive research project instead, QSS program chair and government professor Michael Herron said. According to QSS steering committee member and gover nment professor John Carey, the steering committee made the decision this spring to offer the one-term intensive research project as a non-honors major track. As of this year, the one-term intensive research project was only available to QSS minors as their required culminating research, typically
during their winter terms, Carey said. “Most of the minor s completed their one-term projects over winter term, and a lot of them were really outstanding,” Carey said. “It increased [the QSS faculty’s] appreciation for the potential of the one-term project because students were getting a lot out of them.” In addition to the success of the one-term project completed by minors, the growing number of students who pursue the QSS major has encouraged the steering committee to consider updating the major, Carey said. He noted that these efforts are part of an attempt to accommodate the growth of the program and make the major more accessible. “The ‘one size fits all’ model is not necessarily the right approach to structuring the major, so we decided to make this option available,” Carey said. “Part of it is that there are so many more students [who] want to pursue QSS and not SEE THESIS PAGE 3
Tuck student develops app
B y ABBY MIHALY
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Many of us have forgotten to call, text or otherwise contact those we are close to. Angela Orzell Tu’19 is working to design an application to solve this problem — Nudg, a personal relationship manager. According to Orzell, Nudg manages contacts and reminds users to reach out to those with whom they may be forgetting to keep in touch. A prototype of the app will be presented at Technigala, a science-fair style presentation
for the computer science department and Digital Art Leadership and Innovation students, in Baker-Berry Librar y on Wednesday evening. Orzell said that while in today’s society it may be easy to text or call someone, it can be just as easy to forget to follow up with others. “We’re just overwhelmed by the number of people we need to network with, both professionally and per sonally,” said DALI director and computer science lecturer Tim Tregubov.
When Orzell found herself manually entering data into a spreadsheet to keep track of networking contacts during a prior job, she said she realized there must be a more efficient way to stay organized. Nudg organizes contacts — from closest friends to onetime business acquaintances — and can group them according to importance, Orzell said. When a user first downloads the app, Nudg will use an algorithm to see SEE NUDG PAGE 5
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Q&A with Geisel professor Lee Witters clinical practice to devote more time to teaching.
B y madison wilson The Dartmouth
Professor Lee Witters teaches both Dartmouth undergraduates and Geisel School of Medicine graduate students, specializing in the natural sciences and relating the sciences to his interests in humanism. Witters founded the College’s undergraduate pre-health advising program — called the Health Professions Program — and the Nathan Smith Society, for which he is the faculty advisor. He also started the Teaching Science Fellows program and works closely with students and faculty to make natural sciences and medicine more accessible for all. How did you first become interested in medicine and the natural sciences? LW: Way back in college, I was a chemistry major. As I got toward the end of college, while I was still interested in things molecular and chemical, I wanted that to occur in a human context. I felt that a career as an academic physician and a physician scientist would meld those two interests for me. How did you come to teach at Dartmouth? LW: Prior to Dartmouth, I was at Harvard Medical School as a teacher of both endocrinology and internal medicine and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the diabetes unit, as well as running a research laboratory and having an active clinical practice. To make a long story short, an opportunity came up to come here, which was driven as much by personal reasons as professional ones. I had a young family then and I thought this was a better place for them to grow up than the suburbs of Boston, and given the relative sizes of the institutions, there was an opportunity to make a bigger impact here than I would at Harvard and Mass General. It wasn’t until the 1990s that I was afforded the opportunity to teach undergraduates in the classroom. I took over the leadership of the pre-health advising programs at about the same time and gradually, since the mid-90s, I have expanded my time with undergraduates. Now, I teach three courses every year to undergraduates along with teaching to Geisel students. Along the way, I eventually gave up
Can you describe your work at the College and at Geisel? How do these roles intersect and inform each other? LW: I’m somewhat of a unique individual in that I’m an M.D., but am heavily involved with undergraduate education. Molecular science can be daunting, but when you frame it in the context of a human life and the impact of molecular science on a human life — both on health and disease — it becomes pretty attractive to pursue for many students. I can stand astride molecular science and clinical science and bring the two together. That’s what I do in all three of my undergraduate courses. They’re not just, “Here are the molecules, go memorize these,” but rather, they’re case studies of individuals and societies that are afflicted with major challenges around health. At the same time, I teach medical students too, to make sure that they’re also grounded in those same things and help them become problem solvers and lifelong learners as well. It’s a really interesting job to have that swath of students in my three courses: Biology 2, “Human Biology” — which is an entry course — a mid-level majors course in endocrinology and a senior seminar. When you add on medical students, there are multiple dimensions to my teaching. Can you tell me about your research? LW: I began my research in Boston long ago, and was very interested in the problem of how insulin works, how insulin regulates metabolism, and I was particularly interested in the metabolism of fat. That research went many directions, including the fundamental question of how cells sense their own energy state and adjust that to create the energy that every cell needs to function and how the dysfunction of that energy sensing system plays out in terms of human disease. We were studying this at a very basic level — it was not immediately clinically applicable and I didn’t intend it to be that. I was trying to create some basic knowledge that others could then take on. Happily, I think our 35 years of research really did contribute a significant knowledge
base that others have picked up on.
What does your mentorship of undergraduate students look like? LW: It was in the mid-90s or so and I had become unhappy with the advice that undergraduates were getting in terms of pursuing a health career. I sort of elbowed my way into prehealth advising. I was in my office one afternoon and about six undergraduate students came into my office and said, “We have a favor to ask of you. We need a faculty advisor for the Nathan Smith Society.” I said, “What’s that?” only to find out that it was a pre-health society that dated back to about 1920 or so. I saw this as an opportunity to help that society grow and contribute to the overall support of pre-health students. We built that group of six up to an organization that basically encompasses every pre-health student at Dartmouth — there are over 1,100 students on the email list right now. That spawned the health professions program, which is now formally a part of the society. I’ve also founded and directed the Teaching Science Fellows program, which is where we hire recent graduates to stay for a gap year at Dartmouth to help teach our introductory science courses, particularly biology and chemistry. I got that running about four years ago out of my concern for those courses being stumbling blocks for a lot of students who were interested in pursuing a health career, and that’s been highly successful. More recently, I’ve been coalescing a group of students around issues regarding mental health and exploring the origins of mental health issues across campus. We’ve recently established a new Council on Student Organizations organization — called the Dartmouth
Mental Health Student Union — devoted to mental health advocacy. Lots of things are going on with that, including the development of supportive apps and the training of students to be peers to whom a student who is distressed could reach out. How did you first become interested in the “social” and “cultural” aspects of medicine and natural science? LW: That’s inherently part of a medical education. I was fortunate enough in all the education I had through medical school to have mentors who espoused that same philosophy, that the science in medicine has to be really welded with the humanism in medicine. I certainly think my undergraduate education sensitized that to me a lot, particularly for people who are underserved, who represent different heritages, socioeconomic groups, social persuasions and who sometimes are left out in the homogenization of the teaching of science and medicine and in the delivery of medical care. It’s been pretty high on my radar as an underlying philosophy for virtually everything I do. The college recently created the “Lee A. Witters Award for Outstanding Teaching and Social Justice.” What did that award mean to you? LW: That was incredibly touching. I’ve never been one to seek awards or to plan my activities to be rewarded, and the fact that it really came out of students and their appreciation of what I had done for them was very touching. The award was also given to Jim O’Connell who actually was a former student of mine, long ago in Boston, but he represents the epitome of the humanistic physician in terms of what he does in running the Boston Health Care for the Homeless
program, so that was an additional highlight. Do you have any advice for students studying the natural sciences or for those on the prehealth track? LW: Try to enjoy the journey. It’s sometimes looked at as something that one has to run to get from one side to the other, but eventually you want to put yourself into the position of being a lifelong learner. What you really want to do is develop some life skills that allow you to be a lifelong learner — that allow you to problem solve. One of the big contrasts from when I was in college to now is that all of the facts are right in front of you now, at a finger’s touch, and how do you interpret those? How do you blend together a human life with all of those facts? That comes out of your education here and you don’t often see that. That’s why you need a broad liberal education to be able to integrate all of that broad biomedical science into the ultimate care of a person, or a society, and I think that sometimes people lose that. I also think that it’s extremely important to take advantage of the liberal education that’s offered here. I think too many students put their head down and march through the sciences, forgetting that a career as a physician or another health care professional involves lots of other things in terms of ethics, society, culture, languages, economics and policy. A place like Dartmouth offers so many enriching experiences that one can have. It isn’t all about the chemistry and biology. When I’m advising students, I’m always talking to them about that. I really want you to be a much broader humanist and use what Dartmouth can give you to leave here with a very different attitude about what it is to be a physician.
CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com for corrections. Correction Appended (May 28, 2018): A photo caption in the May 24 article “Green Key sees 11-alcohol related arrested” inaccurately stated the band playing. The correct name is The Icarus Account. Correction Appended (May 28, 2018): The original version of the May 25 article “EKT required to participate in ISC formal recruitment process” has been updated for accuracy to clarify that shakeout will only be offered through continuous open bidding and that open houses allow houses autonomy with PNMs during open houses excluding some actions.
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Professor Witters works with undergraduates and Giesel School of Medicine students to expand access to medicine.
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Senior Fellows research and write FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1
projects. Burke researched and critiqued the history of federal Native American recognition laws, a subject she said she has been interested in since high school. A member of the Narragansett tribe, Burke examined and compared the histories of her tribe and another Algonquin tribe currently located in Wisconsin. Over the course of her project, Burke said she traveled to New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin to conduct research. Burke, who said she hopes to be a professor one day, said the fellowship feels “like really living the academic experience.” While Burke examined the past, Chang turned a creative eye toward the future and wrote “Rational Creativity,” a science fiction novel about artistic artificial intelligence. The story follows a chef living in Copenhagen in 2048 whose husband has passed away and uploaded his consciousness to a simulated past. When the chef seeks out her dead husband in the simulation, she meets an artificial intelligence musical prodigy and the three find themselves
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in a cyber love triangle. Chang said that he was interested in exploring the intersection of math, music and literature and examining the potential impact of artificial intelligence on Eastern societies. He added that he explored how the Eastern tradition of ancestral worship would be affected if people could enter simulations in which an ancestor’s consciousness could live forever. Although he called upon his own experiences living in Taiwan to write the novel, Chang said the story is also closely linked to Dartmouth. “It’s very much a Dartmouth project in my mind because the term ‘artificial intelligence’ was coined here at Dartmouth in 1956,” Chang said. Jennings also took a creative approach to her project, writing and producing “Citrus” — a choreopoem about the experiences of black women in America. The play discusses timeless issues faced by black women as well as specific events, such as the passing of the 15th Amendment and the Black Lives Matter movement. Jennings said she had been writing “Citrus” since her sophomore year and that the Senior Fellowship was perfect for her.
“When I saw the opportunity to apply for a Senior Fellowship, it just kind of made sense to me to take advantage of this opportunity,” Jennings said. Sedlacek also explored the experiences of women in her project, during which she researched the life of Chilean feminist Inés Echeverría Bello to help others understand Bello’s public writings in the context of her private life. According to Sedlacek, Bello, better known by her pseudonym, Iris, was one of the first aristocratic feminists in Chile and one of the first female literary figures in the country. Additionally, Iris was Sedlacek’s greatgreat-grandmother. Sedlacek collaborated on the project with her mother, senior lecturer of Spanish Carmen BascunanSedlacek and said the fellowship allowed her to combine many of her interests. “It seemed like too good of an opportunity to miss,” Sedlacek said. She added that her personal connection to Iris gave her the motivation to dedicate her time to the project. “For a Senior Fellows project this large, you need to have something extra that motivates you through it, and [my family connection to Iris] was mine,” Sedlacek said. “[The project] was the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of several generations of women in my family.” The fellows offered advice for students interested in pursuing the program. “Really try to refine what you’re passionate about,” Burke said. “You think a year is a lot of time to cover material, but, in reality, it’s going to end up being really focused.” Chang also emphasized that the fellowship is best-suited to people who have a strong idea of a project that they “want to work on and give birth to.” All of the fellows are also considering continuing their projects after graduation. Next year, Burke said she will continue her studies in a United States History graduate program at Oxford University, where she will further research Native American history. Chang’s novel, which is currently 340 pages, is at the “first final draft stage,” and he said he hopes to publish it in the future. Using a postgraduate grant from the College, Sedlacek will continue to research Iris and is working with a publisher to print her work. Jennings said she will continue to work on “Citrus” and submit the script to festivals and playwriting contests. “I have been really inspired to continue playwriting,” Jennings said. “When I started this process, I considered myself a poet, and now I really feel comfortable calling myself a playwright.”
QSS changes major requirement
in QSS because of the required thesis,” Gallancy said. “I think it all of them want to do it exactly the will increase the popularity of the major, which is already growing.” same way.” According to Carey, the increase Herron emphasized the importance of research in the in the popularity of QSS results QSS program and the program’s from the increasing relevance of continued commitment to best data analysis in the real world. “In the last 15 to 20 years assisting students in pursuing in particular, there’s been an research. “The thesis model just didn’t explosion in the use of quantitative fit everyone,” Herron said. “Some analysis in a lot of social sciences,” projects are better suited to 10 Carey said. “Traditionally, I think people think of intensive weeks.” economics as the The QSS “I think it’s a really most quantitative p r o g r a m social science, officially began good change but in political in July 2015. The because I know science, sociology, prog ram was so many people a n t h r o p o l o g y, originally called history and M a t h e m a t i c a l who were deterred geography, you’re Social Sciences from majoring in starting to see and existed at an explosion Dartmouth for QSS because of the in the use of several years, but required thesis. I these methods. was incredibly P a r t i a l l y small, with only think it will increase because there’s one to two MSS the popularity of so much more majors per class, the major, which is data available Herron said. He i n c o nve n i e n t added that the already growing.” for mats, we’re 2015 transition generating i n c l u d e d data at a rate r e n a m i n g -KIRA GALLANCY ’19 exponentially Mathematical greater than 10 Social Sciences to Quantitative Social Sciences, years ago.” Students increasingly pursue restructuring the curriculum to include more disciplines and the QSS major because of both its interdisciplinary nature and its generating a QSS minor option. There are 12 graduating QSS emphasis on data analysis methods, majors in the Class of 2018 and Herron said. “A lot of students will double 31 projected QSS majors in the major — Class of 2019, sociolog y and according to “I really felt like I QSS or history Herron. and QSS — to The increase found what I like in cultivate this in popularity in QSS: the hybrid of additional skill, the program is partly because of e v i d e n t , Q S S my interests as well the professional m a j o r A n n a as looking ahead to opportunities,” Kawata ’19 said. Carey said. “If “When I was recruting and the you have certain a freshman and future. I really liked expertise but you sophomore, most the data analysis can also crunch people had never nu m b e r s, yo u heard of QSS, portion of it. It’s the will become but now I meet a kind of knowledge I very valuable to lot of [members employers right of the Class of can use.” off the bat.” 2021] who are Kawata said she considering the chose to major in major, and mostly -ANNA KAWATA ’19 QSS because of e v e r yo n e h a s the usefulness of heard of QSS,” the skills taught in the program. Kawata said. “I really felt like I found what Another QSS major, Kira Gallancy ’19, said that she has I like in QSS: the hybrid of my elected the one-term project for her interests as well as looking ahead to recruiting and the future,” culminating research. “I think it’s a really good change she said. “I really liked the data because I know so many people analysis portion of it. It’s the kind who were deterred from majoring of knowledge I can use.” FROM QSS PAGE 1
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One Year Out, One Year Closer
Change Within the Lines
Frankly, none of us are special.
In less than one week, I will have officially finished my freshman year at Dartmouth. In numbers, it looked like this: nine classes, eight opinion columns written for The Dartmouth, seven rejected applications (as a caveat, two rejections came from the same place), six close friends whom I treasure dearly, five days a week (every week) when I did not get enough sleep, four dramatic emotional outbursts, three pairs of lost headphones, two embarrassing incidents featuring me dropping food and making a mess at various dining locations and one constant cycle of oscillation. I am referring to the way I swung — back and forth, up and down, forward and backward — from one extreme to another: jubilance to despair, serenity to panic, confidence to shame, pride to humility. It was truly the best of times and the worst of times. I am sure many Dartmouth students can relate to my year of oscillation. I hear it all the time in response to the question “Hey, how are you?” The answer is either “I’m great!” or “My life is falling apart.” Rarely will I hear someone say that they are just … average. So-so. Nothing to complain about and nothing to extol. Dartmouth students seem to always portray themselves as either the most stressed or the most successful. Operating anywhere in between would suggest mediocrity, negligence or — worst of all — an unwillingness to push oneself. After all, if people are not the most stressed or the most successful, are they really doing enough to earn their spot at this school? For the past nine months, I have certainly been a guilty perpetrator of this trend. Like a metronome set to the highest tempo, I oscillated between the highs and the lows so rapidly that I hardly ever just let myself be. I could not be merely content or merely upset; everything had to be high-stakes, and everything I did or felt had to be special. If everyone at Dartmouth had been handpicked for admission as a result of their special qualities, how could I live my life here as anything less than the most special? In retrospect, that was the most harmful mindset I could have had to start off my college career. Recently, I have been thinking about the phrase, “You are not special.” A few years
ago, my local high school made national headlines when the 2012 commencement speech revolved around the idea that none of the graduating class — or anyone else, for that matter — was special. Not one of those innovative, passionate, smart, ambitious people could call themselves special, because there were thousands of people just like them who were graduating on that very day. Thousands of valedictorians, thousands of sports team captains and over a thousand rising Dartmouth freshmen. “You are not special” sounds like a daunting condemnation when so many people have been told all their lives that they can be, should be, must work to be that most special person. However, that phrase has grounded and comforted me more than anything else this year. Realizing that no one’s trials and tribulations are special can alleviate the loneliness of the ups and downs. Crying in a bathroom? Hey, someone else probably did that an hour ago. Got a fantastic grade back on a midterm? Awesome, your friend probably did, too. Realizing that “you are not special” also frees people from the expectation that they have to be at one extreme or another. Feeling just average today? No worries, so is everyone else (when they admit the truth). As students here, we can all stop oscillating between being the most stressed or the most successful, because there is no “most.” None of us are special. Sure, some of us will go on to become trailblazers in politics, medicine, technology, what-have-you, but plenty of trailblazers have come before us and, thankfully, plenty will come after. None of them will be special, either; knowing that makes reaching trailblazer status so much less intimidating. I am now one year out of high school and one year closer to graduating from college. Do I feel like I am one year closer to figuring out the rest of my life? Absolutely not, and the uncertainty of my future is the root of most of my existential crises. When the waves of panic crest and crash into me, I just remember that there are tens of millions of confused, nervous college students out there who are having the same crises. None of us are special for it, and that is a comfort.
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Activism within dominant structures is just as legitimate as outside efforts. Activism can seem like a dichotomy, with first woman nominated for and confirmed to little leeway between social justice warrior the Supreme Court. Though her relatively and champion of the status quo. But limiting conservative ideology likely played a role in people to these two categories obscures the President Reagan’s nomination and colored effectiveness of a quieter form of activism that some of her later opinions, her position on occurs within, not against, the status quo. the bench was vital for women’s rights, and Different parties advocating for the in 1992, she was the swing vote that upheld same cause tend to approach advocacy in Roe v. Wade. Her track record of fairly different ways. Some feel that it is more moderate voting, which at times may have valid to direct their energy toward fighting seemed counterproductive to women’s rights, against a dominant system, whether through nevertheless helped her gain the position to rallies, boycotts or petitions. Yet others share speak up when needed and taught her how that same cause but “sell out,” integrating to do it through a legal means that is difficult themselves into the systems they believe need for others to undo. to change. While the former tends to require O’Connor will never be known as an more personal sacrifice and dedication, the outspoken champion of women’s rights. Her latter is necessary as well. In fact, activism voting record is considered fairly erratic, and within dominant structures should be her husband reportedly divulged that she encouraged, not dismissed or ignored. hoped to retire under a Republican president. When one pictures activism, the first image But her mere presence on the Court, and the that comes to mind is likely that of a protest moderate work she did, helped shape women’s or a rally — something loud, disruptive and rights for many future generations. Her career public. Protests, along with similarly public highlights a key point: once someone makes acts of defiance, use their shock value to it far enough up the food chain, they can use reach a wider audience. Large protests are their influence to support the initiatives they therefore valuable because they inspire people believe are important. to become politically engaged, including Protests abound on college campuses those who might not otherwise be active in such as Dartmouth’s. From the Black Lives politics. Though critics may argue that this Matter protest three years ago to the Deferred shock value may actually harm the cause that Action for Childhood Arrivals protest this they advocate for, these forms of activism Homecoming, activism from the outside in still serve the important role of opening up is public and easily remembered. Yet these conversation that might not otherwise be protests must go hand-in-hand with activism addressed. Activism from outside established through the administration. When it was structures alerts and reminds sympathizers of announced that the Pan Asian Community a cause that needs fighting for. resource room and the Rainbow Room Yet protests in themselves are generally not would be moved from their current location effective at convincing policy makers to change. in Robinson Hall, students sent out an That work must occur online petition protesting from the inside out, from the move, gaining close those who understand the “Though some may to 900 signatures, and structures of power that not be as willing to formed a working group maintain harmful policy to strategize on concrete and can therefore go join in protests or steps to maintain the through those structures other public acts of ro o m . T h e s e s t e p s to change that policy. are important both to acti vism, they are not Much of the value of increase awareness across activism from within the necessarily bound to campus and to create dominant structure comes be less effective at administrative change. from human psychology. Yet the most important creati ng change.” People are more likely to step for students may listen to someone who be to collaborate with they believe is similar to staff members who are them, especially someone who they believe working on their behalf to advocate for listens to their point of view as well. Yet much their needs within Dartmouth’s institutional of its value is also practical — in the United channels. States at least, it is very difficult to enact lasting At Dartmouth and beyond, those change unless it is through organizational advocating for the same goal should work structures, whether that be a political party with, not against, each other. Though methods or a corporation or the courts of law. While may clash, activists working both from the this form of activism is much less likely to gain outside and within a system share a common coverage in the press, it is ultimately much hope for change. The worst scenario is when more likely to succeed. activism undoes itself. Though some may The women’s rights movement is a case in not be as willing to join in protests or other point. In the 1970s, female activists fighting public acts of activism, they are not necessarily gender discrimination charged the streets to bound to be less effective at creating change. rally behind the proposed — but ultimately Activism from the inside is still valuable and not ratified — Equal Rights Amendment. At legitimate, and the Dartmouth community the same time, others gained access to the very should encourage the silent work that occurs corporate structures that were limiting them. within organizations as well as outside of In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the them.
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Awards given at science symposium Nudg app helps manage personal relationships to Madan. “I was particularly excited because I of undergraduate advising and research mentor a lot of women in science, and I and WISP director Holly Taylor. The felt it was important to participate and symposium featured presentations by work with undergraduates,” she said. over 60 WISP participants along with “Mostly, I work with medical students, Sophomore Science Scholars, Junior residents and fellows, so it was very Scholars, Presidential Scholars and exciting to have the opportunity to Senior Honors Thesis authors. interact with undergraduate women The symposium began with a who are interested in careers in science.” keynote address After the keynote by Juliette Madan, address, awards associate professor “I was particularly were presented, of epidemiology excited because including the and pediatrics at Award for Library I mentor a lot the Geisel School Research in the of Medicine and of women in Sciences, the Sigma clinical director science, and I felt Xi Christopher of the Children’s Reed Competition Environmental it was important prizes, the WISP H e a l t h a n d to participate Engagement Disease Prevention Award and and work with Research Center Sophomore at Dartmouth. In undergraduates.” Scholarships. The her presentation, Award for Library Madan covered Research in the -JULIETTE MADON, both her own Sciences honors r e s e a r c h — GEISEL SCHOOL OF s t u d e n t s wh o focusing on have displayed MEDICINE PROFESSOR microbe-human “exceptional interactions ability to locate, beginning in infancy — and her path select, evaluate, and synthesize library in science, medicine and research. resources ... and to use them in the Because of the event’s history and creation of a project,” according to partnership with WISP, the keynote the library website. The Sigma Xi speaker is usually a woman in science, Christopher Reed Competition prizes Taylor said. recognize exceptional senior theses. The “[Madan’s] talk, I thought, was WISP Engagement Award “recognizes phenomenally interesting, and she did WISP Interns who have exhibited a great job of showing that the path in sustained engagement and enthusiasm science is not a direct line; it’s lots of about learning through research.” The twists and turns and circles around,” Sophomore Scholarships “allow highly Taylor added. motivated and deserving Dartmouth In addition to giving the event’s [first-year] WISP interns to continue keynote address, Madan was able to their research and mentoring experience attend the poster presentation portion [with their first-year mentors] during of the event and had lunch with their sophomore year.” undergraduate researchers, according Margolis was awarded one of two FROM SYMPOSIUM PAGE 1
Awards for Library Research in the Sciences. She said she was excited to win the award for her research about mitochondrial autophagy, which is the process through which cells selectively degrade damaged mitochondria. “I was really flattered to win the award,” Margolis said. “I pretty much live in [Kresge Physical Sciences Library]... so it was really sweet [to be recognized], after spending all of that time there.” Saemi Han ’18, who won the other Award for Library Research in the Sciences and placed second in the Sigma Xi Christopher Reed Competition for senior honors theses, said that she found it meaningful for those who have supported her in her research to see the fruits of her labor. “I felt really blessed to have won not one, but two awards,” Han said. “I think it was such a meaningful day in that so many people who have supported me throughout [the research process] were able to see my presentation and awards.” Han added that she enjoyed participating in the symposium because it gave her the opportunity to showcase her thesis to people who may not be involved in the sciences themselves or those who are involved in other scientific disciplines. She explained that theses are not always the most “approachable” and that research posters and presentations are useful in explaining the research. Gyan Moorthy ’20, who attended the poster presentation of the event following the award ceremony, said that he was impressed with the both the quality and quantity of presentations at the event. “It floored me. It really did,” Moorthy said. “There were hundreds of posters, more than I’d expected. It was well organized, and there were so many titles that caught my eye.”
most and through what medium of communication. Orzell said it how often they have followed up is important to understand the big with each contact in the past. The picture of social media usage, in app can then nudge users to reach order to have a better sense of the out to their contacts within this user data large companies such as period of time. One of the main Google and Amazon possess. “We’re doing things every screens will provide both overdue day and we sometimes forget and upcoming nudges. that all of that As winner of infor mation is the DALI Grand “We’re just still being saved,” Prize at the Orzell said. 2018 Dartmouth overwhelmed by Team members P i t c h , O r z e l l the number of Paula Mendoza received support ’ 1 9 a n d Ya n from DALI and people we need to both said they the Dartmouth network with, both were optimistic Entrepreneurial professionally and re g a rd i n g t h e Network. DEN f u t u re o f t h e a w a r d e d h e r personally.” project. $1,000 and DALI Tregubov said provided $8,000 Orzell is “very worth of work in -TIM TREGUBOV, gung-ho,” noting the form of a five- DALI DIRECTOR AND that “the thing student team to COMPUTER SCIENCE that differentiates help develop the projects that app, according to LECTURER end up going Tregubov. somewhere is just “I think it’s cool for the students to work on,” how much hustle the founders put Tregubov said, noting that DALI into it.” Mendoza added that Orzell students learn as they work on is a “very involved partner,” projects like Nudg. DEN Ventures also provided an emphasizing that it is beneficial to associate this term to help Orzell have someone so passionate about better understand how other their project. “This is her brain child … this social media apps are generating profit. Orzell said the Tuck School is something that she’s working on of Business has also provided constantly,” she said. Orzell said she hopes to continue mentorship through its first-year working on the app in the future. project program. After the DALI team conducted According to her, next steps include user research, the app evolved away beta testing, such as launching the from a professional focus toward app within the Tuck community. a more friendship-based function, She also said various security risks and privacy concerns need to according to Orzell. Regina Yan ’19, a member of be addressed before the app can the DALI project team, said that launch in an app store. Orzell said the team has a the project’s target group remains Millennials. This meant removing “click-through shell of the app” for functions for the app like a business Technigala, though it is still working on some back-end development. card scanner, she said. According to Yan, one of the Although Orzell said it is biggest benefits generally easier of these demos to monetize an “We’re doing things will be the chance app focused on every day and we to observe users. the business “ We were market, she and sometimes forget w a t c h i n g her team “think that all of that someone interact the bigger need with it and they is actually for information is still couldn’t figure the consumers being saved.” out what this and for the button did, or they individual.” clicked on this In addition -ANGELA ORZELL TU ’19 and it crashed,” to reminding Tregubov said. users who to contact, the app allows users to “Usually what happens is, if it’s set preferences for their method internal testing, the team knows o f co m muni cati o n, s uch a s what they built so they always use calling rather than texting one’s it the same way.” grandmother, Orzell said. Mendoza is a former member of The app also gives insight into who users are speaking to the The Dartmouth Senior Staff. FROM NUDG PAGE 1
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
YOU CAN DO IT!
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018
UUGANZUL TUMURBAATAR ’21
TODAY
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Lecture: “Rational Polarization and the Importance of Forgetting in Groups,” with University of Pennsylvania philosophy professor Daniel Singer, Wilder Hall 115
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Student Interdisciplinary Research Presentation: “The Discursive Power of Cognitive Science: A Sympoietic History,” by Emma Marsano ‘18, Kreindler Conference Hall, Haldeman Hall
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies End-of-term Reception, Russo Gallery, Haldeman Hall
TOMORROW
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: “This One Weird Trick: Purity vs. Pragmatism in Visual Effects and Games,” with Eric Froemling, Kreindler Conference Hall, Haldeman Hall
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Opening reception: “Transcending Reality: A Physical and Virtual Exhibition,” Student Gallery, Black Family Visual Arts Center
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Technigala, sponsored by the computer science department and the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab, Berry Library
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Student Spotlight: Matt Rabito ’18 rethinks jewelry as a medium BY DANIELA ARMAS The Dartmouth
You have probably seen a lot more of jewelry designer Matt Rabito ’18 than you think. An installation of his latest work is currently on display at the Hopkins Center for the Arts beside the staircase that leads to the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio, a place that has molded Rabito’s Dartmouth experience. Rabito’s relationship with the jewelry studio began his freshman year when he started making holiday gifts for his family and friends rather than purchasing them. His interest grew out of a long-standing appreciation of the arts and sculpture, and the realization that jewelry has a rich and nuanced history that often goes overlooked. “A lot of artists that you [wouldn’t expect] — everyone from Salvador Dalí to Alexander Calder — either designed jewelry and had a professional goldsmith make it or actually made the jewelry themselves,” Rabito said. The staff at the jewelry studio has also been a valuable resource for Rabito, especially in the past year. Although Rabito studies math and environmental science, he became interested in the past year in pursuing a graduate degree in jewelry design and metalsmithing. When he approached studio director Jeff Georgantes for guidance, the veteran jeweler was quick to take him under his wing. “In the 1960s, there was this big
movement to take jewelry out of the commercial world and push it into the fine arts, and Jeff was actually part of that west coast funk push,” Rabito said. Over the course of the past year, Rabito and Georgantes have grown quite close, meeting weekly in a sort of extracurricular independent study. The meetings allowed Rabito to pitch ideas for new projects and ask technical questions. The past year has marked Rabito’s transition from a casual admirer to a deeply dedicated artist and one of the studio’s central student assistants. “I don’t get the opportunity to work with Dartmouth students like that very often,” Georgantes said. “He came to every meeting with a PowerPoint presentation, with questions, with an agenda. It is such a great joy as a teacher to work with someone who is not only so engaged, but is also so well-prepared.” That same attention to detail is a fixture of his career as an artist. Rabito sees beauty where others do not. He has been known to bring stones and other materials from his surroundings into the studio and incorporate them into new pieces. That resourcefulness also prompted him to reuse what most jewelers would consider useless — casting slag. In the jewelry studio, designers often use a process called lost-wax casting to complete their pieces. The process involves pouring molten metal into a wax positive mold of the piece.
During the process, the spilled metal cools, resulting in casting slag. The slag is usually discarded, but during one session in the workshop, the lava-like appearance of the molten metal caught Rabito’s eye, and he used it to fashion a pair of brooches. The disarming pieces are meant to be a comment on valuation in jewelry, but are also testaments to Rabito’s discerning creative eye. Much like his mentor, Rabito continually tries to push jewelry into new contexts. The installation currently on display in the Hop features classic jewelry pieces designed with a utilitarian twist. Among those are a wearable cheese board, earrings embellished with screws and a ring attached to a fork. The ring was inspired by Rabito’s grandmother, who is unable to grasp utensils due to arthritis. The collection is a nod to jewelry’s functionality and an attempt to consider the value of jewelry as a tool instead of a symbol of wealth and status. “Matt’s work is uncensored and unapologetic,” said Nelly MendozaMendoza ’19, a close friend and fellow jewelry designer. “He doesn’t really ask for permission, which you can see in his pieces. If he likes an idea he just goes for it, which makes for really attractive material.” Matt’s work is remarkable for its exploration of form. Rather than considering jewelry as a decorative form of body adornment, Rabito designs his
COURTESY OF MATT RABITO
Rabito made this brooch from casting slag, which is usually discarded in the studio.
pieces from a sculptural perspective. One of his most memorable pieces is a striking necklace that pushes the boundaries of what jewelry can be. The chain was fashioned from a [bicycle’s] inner tube and was paired with steel pendant weighing at about 20 pounds. Georgantes highlighted the piece as his personal favorite, stating that it was reflective of Matt’s desire to challenge norms of jewelry-making. “Since last spring, he’s really evolved,” said KC Cheng ’17, another longtime friend of Rabito. “He really started to take initiative as an artist and be a lot more architectural and creative in his work, and it’s been so fun to watch
his growth.” Matt will be working in data science next year in New York City, where he plans to continue his designing. He will pursue a graduate degree in jewelry design and metalsmithing in the coming years. These days you can find him in the jewelry studio, once again working on personal gifts for friends. But this time, they’re for graduation. “I want people to rethink how they relate to the things they wear, what they put on their bodies, and even how they do [so],” Rabito said. “Jewelry, in essence, is performative, so there is a lot of commentary that can be fed into wearing something weird.”
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ tells a bland and cluttered origin story
By SEBASTIAN WURZRAINER The Dartmouth Staff
I’ve said it before (see my reviews of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”) and I’ll say it again here: I love Star Wars. But my personal relationship with Star Wars is far less interesting to me than its broader cultural impact. And the popularity of Star Wars is practically incalculable. It may just be a collection of silly stories set in an insane fictional universe, but clearly those stories resonate. In the universe of film, Star Wars is a massive star at the center of its own system. Its cultural gravity unites disparate people, like so many small orbiting planets. Yet its massive size means that no two views of the franchise look exactly alike. I grew up loving the original trilogy, while my cousins learned the ins and outs of the galaxy from the “Clone Wars” TV show and movie, neither of which I’ve seen. My point is this: for a variety of reasons, I’m sure, I can’t understand why “Solo: A Star Wars Story” innately appeals to some fans in a way it never did for me. I think the same thing about “Solo” that I did about “Rogue One,” the previous anthology spin-off film. I enjoyed
watching both, I was grateful that they kept pre-existing lore intact and I have no real desire to see either one ever again. “Solo” takes place several years before its protagonist, Han Solo, memorably swaggers his way into the original “Star Wars,” later retitled “A New Hope.” After escaping a life of servitude, Han joins a gang of low-level thugs who need to steal a shipment of hyper fuel to pay off a debt to crime lord Dryden Vos. Along the way, Han and his mentor, Tobias Beckett, are joined by Qi’ra, Han’s childhood love, and recruit established fan-favorites Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian. It’s a simple plot that the execution buries beneath needless clutter. The result is a run-time that is at least twenty minutes too long, and numerous plot tangents that feel underdeveloped. In one example, the film tries to address the issue of discrimination with an “equal rights for droids” subplot that, while admirable, doesn’t fit into this particular story. The clumsy choice wastes time and makes a worthy topic feel underserved and wasted. “Solo” suffers from “too much information” syndrome — chiefly the urge to provide an origin story for every single piece of Han Solo
paraphernalia. Along the way, the filmmakers include numerous tie-ins to other Star Wars entities, as well as set-ups for potential films and TV shows (you’ll know them when you see them). “Rogue One” had the same affliction, but the film was at least smarter about it. “Solo,” on the other hand, contains moments that literally make no sense unless you are intimately familiar with random Star Wars minutiae. “Solo” does beat out “Rogue One” when it comes to its supporting cast. Although Alden Ehrenreich acquits himself admirably on his own terms as Han Solo, it’s impossible to escape the larger-than-life specter of Harrison Ford. To his credit, Ehrenreich never tries to imitate Ford — but this too can become distracting because Donald Glover’s version of Lando, by contrast, flows seamlessly into Billy Dee Williams’ original performance. Glover’s confidence and swagger might be the best thing about the film. Woody Harrelson is likewise engaging as Beckett, Emilia Clarke brings unexpected depth to her performance as Qi’ra and Phoebe Waller-Bridge earns some laughs as Lando’s droidturned-revolutionary, L3-37. While future generations will likely neither know nor care about the
production problems that plagued “Solo,” it’s hard not to think about them as you watch the film. The original directors, Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97, were fired several months into filming and replaced by Ron Howard, who extensively reshot much of the film. The behind-thescenes chaos isn’t apparent on screen in the same way it was in “Justice League,” which dealt with a similar transition at the helm, but there are still noticeable moments where you can sense the creative fissures just beneath the relatively polished surface. For instance, while the editing is generally competent, it occasionally veers off course, often losing track of the characters and the geography during major action scenes. And then there is the film’s tonal inconsistency. Whether you love or hate the newer Star Wars films, it’s hard to deny that they bear the mark of their director. “The Force Awakens” is a very J.J. Abrams film, “Rogue One” is a very Gareth Edwards film and “The Last Jedi” is a very Rian Johnson film. “Solo” doesn’t really feel like anyone’s film. In some of its better moments, the screenplay embraces the weirdness that has been a crucial component to Star Wars. Some of the designs are genuinely bizarre
and inspired and feel right out of the Lord/Miller playbook. But these ideas feel like anomalies in a film that otherwise opts for a straightforward, even banal, approach. After all, Ron Howard wasn’t brought in for his unique vision — he was hired because he’s a competent filmmaker and was (probably) willing to give the studio exactly what they asked for. Some moments do seem to justify the director switch. Lord and Miller were purportedly fired in part due to their inexperience with big-budget filmmaking, and a few scenes do play out oddly, like an awkward stage play. While Ron Howard brings nothing exceptional to “Solo,” his experience as a director cinematically elevates the more thrilling sequences. A friend of mine summarized “Solo” best when she called it “a giant fan fiction.” Whether we disdain fan fictions or not, we all participate in a similar creative process when we imagine what could happen to our favorite fictional characters beyond the bounds of their stories. If the imaginings in “Solo” are to your liking, have a blast. But for me, the film will remain little more than a fun but ultimately needless diversion in the history of the behemoth that is Star Wars.
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Senior Majors Exhibition puts personal expression on display
had once lived. “I would be seeing the landscape, but also we were driving,” Sun said. Before the summer begins and “So there was this idea of seeing a the College waves goodbye to the place but not really seeing a place.” Class of 2018, the graduating studio Among works that express art majors have one last chance to themselves so personally, it’s easy to show their work to the community. feel vulnerable. Cecilia Torres ’18’s Running through June 17, the video installation “¿ Es bonito verdad, Senior Majors Exhibition is spread hija?” invites viewers to explore her across the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss home with her grandmother. In the Galleries in the Hopkins Center for kitchen, the viewer sees the making the Arts and of a tortilla. More the Nearburg than a food staple, “The work needs Gallery in the the tortilla has Black Family to be considered “memories, smells Visual Arts visually strong and that trigger feelings Center. and emotions of The three well realized ... It is the past,” Torres spaces hold extremely important said. However, the an impressive observer is also to our department variety of observed, as both artistic forms. that our individual Torres and her A walk around students find their grandmother look the exhibition back at the viewer individual voices.” r e v e a l s from the video. sketches, “I didn’t paintings and want my family -ENRICO RILEY, STUDIO photographs, to be tokenized a s w e l l a s ART CHAIR or exploited by sculptures, myself,” Torres videos and said. “The way I mixed media. Many artists have went around that was by returning multiple works on display. the gaze to the viewer.” Each piece is produced over a The choice of art form, too, is a two-part senior seminar course highly personal expression. Walking that all senior majors are required into the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, the to take over the winter and spring viewer comes face-to-face with Sky terms which serve as the culminating Roehl ’16’s “Beast of Burden,” experience for the studio art major. an enormous skeleton-like steel During the seminars, students sculpture. If they aren’t careful, they receive guidance and critique from might accidentally kick the turtles members of the faculty. (“Unnatural Disasters”) just beside Then, two weeks before the it, small in comparison and almost exhibition opening, the entire faculty blending into the floor. goes through the senior studios and Roehl was introduced to welding select works for display. in Studio Art 21, “Sculpture II,” “The work needs to be considered, during her junior fall. visually strong and well realized,” “I like metal in part just because studio art chair Enrico Riley said. of the way you work with it,” Roehl “It is extremely important to our said. “It’s hot, sweaty work, and you department that our individual get very tired when you finish. At students find their individual the same time, there are no outside voices.” influences — it’s just you and this tiny Every piece makes plain the little space, and goggles in between artist’s unique histories, dreams to protect your vision.” and philosophies. For Jessica Sun While the Beast charges at the ’18, who was raised in a family that viewer, another piece is slowly was American, Chinese and French, evolving. Closer examination of the creating landscapes with charcoal sculpture by Zoe Dinneen ’18 reveals was a way to explore conflicting it to be composed of potatoes. feelings of cultural identity. During the first part of her senior On road trips through China as seminar, Dinneen worked on the a child, Sun would stare out the car colossal Darth Vader snow sculpture. window as her mother pointed out It was then, after working on a piece the places where her grandparents for months only to have it melt away,
By HYO LIM JEONG The Dartmouth
that she became interested in the temporality of her sculpture. “I had this recurring vision of carving potatoes and putting potatoes together in a way to create a form,” Dinneen said. She purchased 75 pounds of potatoes and put them into the studio, only to later find that they had turned into a big pool of black sludge, giving off a rotting smell and earning dirty looks. Undaunted, Dinneen salvaged the potatoes and began to experiment. “Some potatoes would sprout, or develop pus, and others would harden and fossilize,” Dinneen said. “I was really interested in the way time would change and affect these potatoes, and all the potatoes would act differently” Perhaps surprisingly, the potatoes were a medium for Dinneen to explore the female form. “I wanted to play with the weight, mimicking the weight of a woman and allowing her to sag … but also thinking about somebody returning to the earth,” she said. Austin Heye ’18 discovered film as his preferred mode for expression. Initially interested in combining photography with poetry, he later experimented with film. “I ended up taking the poetry out because it was too explicit and didactic — the poems were doing all the heavy lifting I wanted the film to be conveying,” Heye said. “I realized what I was really interested in life in general, was feeling something visceral and true, like one often does in love, or any other emotion really… after the emotion there is a lot of interpretation that gets in the way that clouds those feelings.” The variety of student art on display reflects the range of artistic practice within the studio art faculty, said studio art lecturer Gerald Auten, who curated the exhibition. Kevin Soraci ’18, an engineering and studio art double major, had not initially planned on becoming a studio art major, but became inspired to explore the path last summer after working with artist Eric van Hove during his 2016 residency at the College. Some works have been granted the Classes of 1960 and 2010 Office of Residential Life purchase award and will be installed around campus after the exhibition. Works from previous years can be seen in residence halls and at the Art Acquisition program’s flickr site.
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“Beast of Burden” by Sky Roehl ’16 confronts patrons as they enter the gallery.
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Shown above is “I’ve seen this, imagined this, dreamed this” by Jessica Sun ’18.
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“no evil” by Edward Kim ’17 projects different images onto three 3-D faces.