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After three years, Johnson to depart for Scripps College

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Students expressed low awareness of events marking her tenure.

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Softball earns first ever Ivy Championship victory B y JOSH SCHIEfelbein The Dartmouth Staff

With rain coming down in the bottom of the fifth in game three of the Ivy League Championship Series, Kara Curosh ’14 blasted a two-run, line-drive home run over the left-center field wall. Rounding the bases, she ran straight into the arms of her teammates at home plate, putting Dartmouth back in the game against the University of

Pennsylvania. The Big Green (31-17, 18-2 Ivy) would go on to defeat the Quakers (19-22-1, 13-6-1 Ivy) 7-3 in the game and 2-1 in the series to claim the program’s first ever Ivy League Championship.

“I loved it,” Curosh said. “I was just talking to my parents and I said that is the dream come true, to be able to do that in such a high intensity game.”

Curosh’s homer energized Dartmouth, which trailed Penn

3-0 at that point.

“That was a huge gamechanger for us,” Kristen Rumley ’15 said. “It definitely got the momentum going for us.”

Penn did not score another run, while Dartmouth unleashed a five-run barrage in the sixth inning that sealed Penn’s fate.

Dartmouth emerged victorious from game one on Saturday thanks to its pitching aces. Rumley

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Morgan McCalmon ’16 picked up her second save of the season.

In keynote, Laverne Cox Student-organized summit discourages gender policing targets education, health care

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Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson will depart Dartmouth for Scripps College after this academic year, College President Phil Hanlon announced in an email Friday morning.

Johnson will be the vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Scripps, a 1,000-student women’s college in Claremont, California. Over

the weekend, students expressed mixed reactions to the news, with some voicing surprise and concern at the high rate of recent administrative turnover and others wishing her well in a new career.

At Scripps, Johnson will oversee student life, help develop a student leadership center and teach.

Johnson said she decided to accept the new position because of the opportunity that the small, all-female liberal

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Discussing childhood bullying in Alabama and her journey to self-acceptance, Laverne Cox, an LGBTQ activist and actress on “Orange is the New Black,” gave Friday’s keynote Pride Week address. Over 300 people packed into Filene Auditorium and an overflow room to listen to Cox speak about

intersecting identities, gender policing and meaningful dialogue, with many others watching a live stream online.

She emphasized that those engaging in challenging conversations must support each other.

“I believe that we can have difficult discussions across difference if we do it with love and empathy,” Cox said. “With this society and social SEE COX PAGE 3

B y Elizabeth SMITH The Dartmouth Staff

Health care and education leaders gathered on Saturday to discuss the role today’s youth can play in both fields at the Millennial Action Summit.

The 11-hour summit included a keynote address, panels on education and health care policy and reform, a panel on millennial activism and breakout discussions.

Keynote speaker and Georgetown University public policy professor Sam Potolicchio spoke about the qualities of effective leaders, which he said were curiosity, creative problem solving, making personal connections and courage.

The summit’s first panel, on education, discussed “Redefining Teacher Quality and Effective Training,” and SEE SUMMIT PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing REGIONAL NEWS RECAP

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 217119 on Wednesday to approve a bill recognizing same-sex marriages that took place outside the state. The bill also states that people currently in civil unions from other states can marry in New Hampshire without fear of having their civil union dissolved. Furthermore, couples living in states without same-sex marriage laws can marry in New Hampshire and have their marriage recognized by the state. Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is expected to sign the bill into law, provided the state’s Senate passes the bill.

The number of students who seek and receive a college education in Vermont varies significantly by gender, geography, family influence and socioeconomic background, according to a recent report released by the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation. In 2012, the organization polled Vermont high school seniors, of whom nearly 75 percent indicated they wanted some form of post-secondary education. This rate was higher than the national average, but lower than the state’s 2008 peak. Among would-be first generation college students, 77 percent of women and 55 percent of men planned to enroll in a college or university, but just 60 percent of female students and 42 percent of male students ultimately enroll. Vermont, the report said, ranks second nationally in college enrollment for students from low-income families.

The Vermont state legislature submitted a bill to Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt., for approval that would erase the limit on the number of people legally able to obtain medical marijuana. Under current state law, Vermont’s registration at four marijuana dispensaries is capped at 1,000 people total. It also calls for a study evaluating the amount of tax revenue Vermont would receive if marijuana were to be legalized and permits state-supervised home delivery of medical marijuana to seriously ill residents.

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“Sister-to-Sister conference links students and local girls” (May 2, 2014): Kelsey Stimson is the Link Up president, not the organization’s vice president.

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Program brings courses to area retirees B y APOORVA DIXIT The Dartmouth Staff

Featuring foods from Scandinavia, Spain, the French Basque region, Germany, Switzerland and Cuba, a travel-themed party drew a crowd of over 180 people to the Fireside Inn & Suites in West Lebanon on Saturday evening. Hosted by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, an organization intended to support learning among retirees and community members, the party concluded with an auction of posters from around the world.

Founded in 1990 by thencontinuing education director Steve Calvert, ILEAD, pronounced “Iliad,” is a department under the umbrella of the Provost’s Office.

ILEAD offers 50 to 90 courses each year, in addition to a summer guest lecture series and international trips.

Since its founding, the program has educated over 1,700 members, program manager Lisa King said.

Courses are taught by “study leaders,” a group that comprises Dartmouth professors, ILEAD members and area residents who volunteer to teach their peers.

At the Fireside Inn, party-goers enjoyed music from each country

that ILEAD members had visited through their classes. A slideshow of the year’s travels played in the background as participants mingled and shared their stories.

“Not only do we want to keep our minds alive, but we want to

“Many of us were certainly going to the movies and alive during the ’70s, so it was a nice opportunity to, in a sense, go back and address issues and to what extent we have worked through them as a nation.”

- Stew Wood ’56, ilead president stay connected to other people,” a​ ttendee and study leader Stephanie Reininger said.

Study leaders and guest speakers have included former ambassadors, International Monetary Fund members and a retired College

president.

“Our motto is peer-led, peertaught,” King said. “Study leaders don’t necessarily have teaching experience, but they’re passionate about a certain topic that they either know or wish to learn about or share their knowledge and also learn from others in the class.”

One particularly popular course that has attracted undergraduates, graduates and community members centers around Alzheimer’s disease, King said. The class pairs medical students and undergraduates with ILEAD members.

While ILEAD encourages collaboration, it is often difficult to attract undergraduates due to their already hectic schedules, King said.

Courses typically enroll about 20 to 25 people, ILEAD participant and membership services committee chair Mary Ann Holbrook said.

Courses are located in Hanover’s senior citizen center, various campus buildings, Lebanon College classrooms, the Wilder Center in Wilder and at Kendal retirement community. ILEAD’s headquarters are on the second floor of the Dartmouth Outing Club house.

Past course topics have ranged

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Students react positively to Cox’s keynote Pride Week speech FROM COX PAGE 1

media, the love and empathy piece is often missing when we have difficult discussions about difference.”

Cox, a transgender woman, also discussed her childhood and the bullying she experienced at school. She said she noticed that while many students berated her with anti-gay slurs, they were reacting to her gender expression, not her sexuality. Society’s conception of a gender binary, Cox said, conflates the ideas of sexual orientation and gender identity.

“If we are really serious about ending the bullying of our youth in this country, particularly our LGBTQ youth, we have to begin to create spaces of gender selfdetermination,” she said.

When she was in third grade, a teacher suggested that Cox attend therapy to avoid becoming “a woman in a dress in New Orleans,” she said. She saw a therapist for a short period of time before the therapist suggested injecting Cox with testosterone to make her more masculine, at which point Cox’s mother withdrew her from treatment, Cox said.

In middle school, however, Cox said that the tide turned in her favor. She ap-

plied and was admitted to the Alabama School of Fine Arts, a Birmingham high school where she studied dance.

Cox said she was a straight-A student, member of the National Junior Honors Society, county-wide public speaking champion in 8th grade and student council vice president. She went on to receive a scholarship to Indiana University in Bloomington, where she stayed for two years before transferring to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

Cox said that her experience at New York nightclubs were a formative aspect of her education, marking the first time that her gender expression was celebrated by others.

In New York, Cox also met other transgender individuals for the first time, helping her overcome prior misconceptions, she said. One woman, named Tina Sparkles, she recalled, showed her that transgender women could be elegant, sophisticated and successful.

“If it weren’t for Tina Sparkles and all of the amazing women I met in the club scene in New York City, I might not have ended up in Dr. Rich’s office almost 16 years ago for my first hormone shot in the beginning of my medical

transition,” she said.

Cox also discussed deciding to tell her mother that she was medically transitioning. Cox told her mother roughly eight months after beginning her transition, and was met with denial. She said that her mother had to get accustomed to calling her daughter by a different first name and using different gender pronouns.

Students interviewed said Cox was a good choice for a Pride Week speaker.

Logan Henderson ’17 said her remarks were engaging and would help him more effectively participate in important campus dialogue.

“Her speech really reflected upon her experiences in a humorous and humbling way,” Henderson said. “Her presence, I think, will serve as a catalyst for me to have productive and meaningful conversations about trans people, people of color and queer people of color in this fairly homogeneous community and encourage people to attempt to empathize and really listen when others tell their stories.”

Henderson added that she attracted “more than the usual crowd,” boosting student engagement with Pride Week.

John Pessoa ’16 said Cox brought a

unique perspective to the Dartmouth community. Her experience as a transgender woman was a perspective he had never taken the time to critically examine and appreciate, he said.

While he could not attend the show, Richard Stephenson ’12 said he was able to overcome his nerves and fears about participating in his first drag show, the Pride drag show, because he was inspired by Cox’s “Orange is the New Black” character. In the show, Cox plays

Sophia Burset, a transgender woman incarcerated for committing credit card fraud to pay for her gender transition.

“Laverne Cox is an inspiration to everyone, not just members of the LGTBQ community, but anyone that struggles with identity issues,” Stephenson said. “Her work as an actress and an activist allows her to be a beacon of hope for all those lost in their sea of insecurities can find their way back home to their confidence and pride.”

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Cox said moving to New York was a formative experience.

Johnson names DBI, construction projects as top College initiatives FROM JOHNSON PAGE 1

arts college will offer her to work more closely with the student body. She also noted the resources provided by the fiveschool Claremont College consortium, of which Scripps is a member, and personal motivations, as her husband has family in the state.

Johnson said that her departure will mark a “bittersweet” moment because of the affinity she feels for Dartmouth students and colleagues.

“Over my time here, I’ve had a number of organizations reach out to me to ask me if I was interested in moving on, but none of those opportunities appealed to me for one reason or another,” Johnson said. “Plus, there was lots to do here. But when the Scripps opportunity popped up, I actually thought I should take a look because it seemed like it could be a good fit.”

During her three years at Dartmouth, Johnson helped usher forth several student life initiatives, emphasizing student wellness and harm reduction.

These include upgrading studentadvising services, introducing new social venues through the Collis Center and Sarner Underground, expanding mental health resources at Dick’s House and promoting new residential options.

Alongside sexual assault prevention expert Jennifer Messina ’93, Johnson and her team also created the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative, a program that educates students on identifying and stopping situations that may lead to sexual assault.

In February, Johnson announced the Center for Community Action and Prevention to centralize existing efforts to prevent sexual violence. After the announcement, however, several faculty expressed concern with the center, criticizing its timing and administrators’ lack of transparency. Johnson met with a faculty group later that month to talk about coordinating resources, DBI training and the allocation of funds.

In 2012, Johnson helped introduce a series of harm reduction policies, including random Safety and Security walkthroughs, harsher punishments on Greek houses caught serving pre-made batch drinks and re-envisioned penalties for hazing violations.

Some of these policies were immediately met with ambivalence and criticism from the student body. At the time, Johnson said she thought a “silent majority” of students supported the spirit of the reforms but did not express that support publicly.

Since Johnson arrived at Dartmouth, the College has experienced a threeyear decline in high blood alcohol level emergency cases.

Recently, Johnson also played a key role in responding to campus life concerns voiced through the “Freedom Budget,” a student-authored list of more than 70 suggestions for College policy changes. In conjunction with Hanlon, she spoke with demonstrators during the Parkhurst Hall sit-in, a protest prompted

by Hanlon’s choice not to respond pointby-point to the document’s demands, and reiterated both her dedication

and the College’s commitment toward fighting social injustice.

Reflecting on the changes that occurred during her three-year tenure at the College, Johnson said she believes that overall campus culture has moved in the right direction. She said she has focused on promoting “respectful and constructive dialogue” about difficult topics since her arrival.

Johnson said that some of her most “challenging but rewarding” initiatives have centered on sexual assault prevention. Johnson also named improvements to student advising services, expansion of social venues and the construction of the Triangle House, an LGBTQ affinity house, and physical plants for Alpha Phi and Kappa Delta sororities.

When asked about the recent spike in student protests at the College and corresponding media attention, Johnson noted similar nationwide trends.

Dartmouth will be differentiated from other schools experiencing such activism by the College’s response and the degree to which the community embraces activism and remains open-minded, she said.

Prompted to reflect on how her departure could affect the administration’s sensitivity to concerns raised by students from minority groups, Johnson said that while she has been a voice for all students on campus, she hopes she has been “a special sort of role model for women and people of color.” She added that she is proud of the individual relationships she has built with students of all backgrounds, as well as the staff

she has built.

“One of the things I’m most proud of is the team that I’ve put together,” she said. “I’ve put a stellar team in place, and I just don’t think Dartmouth or the Dean of the College operation will miss a beat.”

Of 91 students surveyed Sunday evening, the majority reported moderate satisfaction with Johnson’s job performance. While many said they could not or declined to name a specific initiative that marked her tenure, a significant portion noted her handling of the “Freedom Budget,” both positively and negatively, as the event for which she would be most remembered. Some also noted her commitment to inclusivity, work on bystander initiatives and efforts to combat sexual assault as key aspects of her tenure, while others noted a “laissez-faire” attitude and “bumbling response to campus unrest.”

The average ranking of Johnson’s tenure on a scale of one to five was a 2.95, with one being “not at all satisfied” and five being “completely satisfied.”

The most common response was a three, which 43 respondents marked.

While 10 students marked a one, three chose five.

Respondents consisted of 31 freshmen, 23 sophomores, 21 juniors, 13 seniors and one member of the Class of 2013, and two who declined to specify their class year. There were 49 male students, 39 female students and three students who did not specify their gender.

Si Yon Kim ’16, who said she

participated in the “Freedom Budget” sit-in, said she perceives the announcement as a political move by the College, especially in light of what she said was an inadequate response to recent campus activism by College President Phil Hanlon.

“Am I surprised that Dean Johnson, who signed the exit stipulations given by the protesters, is leaving Dartmouth?” she said. “Absolutely not — this is a subtle message from the administration if students have a problem with the College, they will have to make their case in the school’s terms, and anything that deviates from the accepted mode of dissent will not be recognized as legitimate.”

Alexander Lee ’16 said he feels that many students have criticized Johnson without sufficient knowledge of what an administrator’s job entails. Lee added that although he was not aware of many of the initiatives Johnson implemented at Dartmouth, he believes the recent introduction of living learning communities is a positive step for the College.

Several students interviewed said they were not aware of Johnson’s planned departure. While some speculated about why they thought that Johnson was leaving for Scripps, others did not offer strong opinions.

“Regardless of why Dean Johnson wanted to move, it sounds like this is a good opportunity for her,” Kathryn Waychoff ’16 said. “She’s had a successful career, and I don’t think this is the end of it by far.”

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Staff Columnist yoo jung kim ’14

Advocating Open Access

Open access journals could change the distribution of scientific knowledge.

In my four years here, I have met many students who have attained the greatest validation of their scientific contributions: an authorship in a peerreviewed academic publication. However, the face of academic journals is changing as traditional journal publishers have come under attack from proponents of open access, which could change the distribution of scientific knowledge as we know it.

Usually in selective traditional journals, editors and reviewers not only scrutinize a submission for whether the authors’ conclusions are valid, but also whether the work will generate buzz in the scientific community. If the findings are deemed sound and significant, the paper is accepted for publication after edits. At this point, the authors pay a publishing fee based on price models that usually resemble magazine advertising. Once a paper is published, institutions with subscriptions to various academic publishers can grant access to the research for their students and researchers, while individuals without such an affiliation must pay. Unlike typical newsstand magazines, both the producers and the consumers of scientific knowledge must pay the publisher, which has raised a number of criticisms, including the assertion that all citizens should have a right to access published research because taxpayers pay for government research grants.

This is where open access comes in. Certain scientific disciplines have alternative depositories that complement or even supplant peer-reviewed journals. For instance, since 1991, many physicists and mathematicians have posted their findings in arXiv, an online depository. These depositories differ from many mainstream academic journals since they are not peer-reviewed but are freely available to the public.

With the advent of the Internet, several peerreview journals have adopted the call for open access. One of biggest open access journals is the Public Library of Science, an online, nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization founded to accelerate progress in science. While the project charges a slightly higher publication fee to cover peer review management, journal production and online hosting, PLoS makes its articles free to read,

distribute and reuse. In addition, the organization accepts all papers that demonstrate scientific rigor, rather than placing an artificial cap, which allow more scientific knowledge to be generated and circulated. Certain mainstream journals, like Cell Press and Nature Publishing Group, have also jumped on the bandwagon, although both publishers continue to keep many of the articles from their flagship journals behind a paywall.

However, open access faces hurdles from traditional publications that want to protect their prestige and proprietary interests and scientists who understandably want to publish their work in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature, whose stamps of approval still carry considerable sway in tenure evaluations and grant allocations.

“As with traditional peer-reviewed journals, open access is not perfect,” Hongyu Chen ’15, who has published five peer-reviewed research articles in PLoS and “Frontiers,” another open access publisher, said, “but it does point toward a system that is committed to making research accessible for everyone by virtue of being free.”

Even if most individuals do not fully appreciate the significance of scholarly articles, they will benefit indirectly. For instance, according to the Journal of Medical Internet Research, patients benefit when health care professionals have access to the latest research. Furthermore, smaller businesses without the means to pay for subscriptions can capitalize on the knowledge made available by open access publications. Larger institutions can also benefit from reduced subscription fees.

According to a 2012 memorandum from Harvard library’s faculty advisory council, Harvard University’s annual cost for journals from scholarly providers was nearly $3.75 million in 2012, which prompted the council to conclude that “continuing these subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable.”

Overall, open access can democratize the distribution of knowledge. To make open access the norm, rather than the exception, publications must generate enough credibility to brand themselves as forces that promote science in the public sphere and as legitimate platforms that vouch for the quality of researchers’ hard work.

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guest columnists Feras ABDulla ’17 and reem chamseddine ’17

A Taboo Term

The term “Nakba” should not be met with violence or resistance.

On May 15 every year, many Palestinians commemorate the displacement of their families from their homes and villages in Palestine that preceded and followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. The term that many Palestinians use to describe these events is “Nakba,” meaning “the catastrophe.” In years right after 1948, euphemistic terms such “al-’aḥdāth” (“the events”) or “al-hijra” (“the exodus”) were used. Starting with the 1990s, or ever since it became obvious that there is very little hope for the Palestinian diaspora (including refugees) to return, the term “Nakba” has been in use. May 15 is now much more significant.

With the most recent peace talks in tatters and the anniversary of the Palestinian exodus coming up, many Palestinians, Arabs and pro-Palestinian organizations are planning a commemoration.

A retrospective look at the history of the Palestinian people is in order. In 1948, the Palestinians were driven out of their homes to make way for incoming Israelis.

And over the years, that has resulted in widespread conflict and over 20,000 deaths.

And while the exploits of Hamas and the militant Palestinians are often reported in the media, the measures taken against Palestinians are frequently left out.

The first four decades of the conflict saw the exile of millions of Palestinians and the deaths of thousands of others, with the casualties much lighter on the Israeli military side. Even as hope was starting to be restored after the Oslo Peace Accords, the dreams of coexistence were hastily dashed as Yasser Arafat, the former head of the Palestinian Liberation organization and a key actor in the peace negotiations, was confined to live in a compound in 2002 for the last two years of his life.

This act, of course, occurred during the Second Intifada, at a time when former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon spearheaded the construction of Israeli

settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Settlement building is a violation of international law and was almost universally condemned, as the expansion of settlements results in even more refugees and more tension between Israelis and Palestinians.

The issue of Israeli settlements is still of prime importance today with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu resuming control of the project. Harassment and the demolition of Palestinian houses are at an all-time high. The peace process has failed countless times, and there is constant warfare in Gaza, the most prominent example of which is the Gaza massacre of 2008-09, during which more than a thousand Palestinians were killed in less than a month.

For the past three years at least, Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as refugees from Lebanon and Syria, have marched toward the cease-fire lines on May 15 to symbolize the “Nakba.”

At least a dozen have been killed in open fire from Israelis. Israelis are not supposed to mark this event either. In 2011, the Israeli government approved a reduction in government funding to NGOs within Israel that support the commemoration of the event.

Our opinion is that these measures, taken against those who wish to recognize the “Nakba,” are wrong and unethical. As long as these groups of people do not violate security — as unarmed men and women from various parts of the Middle East, community organizers and civil activists, they are not — they should be free to express their grief over the history of their home.

They have either a collective memory or a sense of sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian people, and they should be treated democratically and respectfully on May 15. The “Nakba” is of extreme significance to the identity of many and to the work of some. There is no justification as to why the term needs to be met with aggression or violence.

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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS SOFTBALL WINS FOOTBALL HOLDS SPRING GAME FIRST IVY TITLE SW 2 1

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Softball defeats Penn 2-1 to head to NCAA Tournament FROM SOFTBALL PAGE 1

dominated the game, allowing one run on one hit in five innings for her 16th win this season.

Morgan McCalmon ’16 continued her streak with two innings of relief of Rumley. She prevented Penn from making a comeback, picking up her second save of the season.

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Penn scored first — in the second inning on a double to center field from freshman Alexis Sargent.

Dartmouth responded in the third with a two-run homer by Katie McEachern ’16.

Dartmouth built on its lead in the sixth, adding three runs on four hits.

Rumley plated Brianna Lohmann ’16 before two more Big Green runners scored on a double by Maddie Damore ’17 and a sacrifice foul out

by Curosh to push the score to 5-1.

Rain began to fall in game two.

The Quakers came out firing, scoring

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The softball team exploded for three home runs in its 2-1 series win over Penn.

three runs in the first inning.

Dartmouth fought back in the top of the second with a two-run homer over the left-center wall by Karen Chaw ’17. The Big Green tied the game in the third when McEachern’s single to right scored Megan Averitt ’15.

Penn retook the lead with a double from freshman Leah Allen and built on the lead in the fourth with a double from junior Sydney Turchin.

Trailing 5-3, Dartmouth quickly went three up, three down in the fifth and sixth innings.

In the seventh, Chaw was inches away from knocking another ball out of the park, but Penn’s Kanani

Datan reached over the fence for the catch.

Later in the inning, with Alyssa Loyless ’17 on third, Averitt grounded out to end the game.

McCalmon received her fifth defeat of the year, giving up five runs over 3.2 innings. Rumley, in relief, allowed just one hit for the remainder of the game.

Penn junior Alexis Borden pitched the entirety of both of Saturday’s games and retired 10 straight Dartmouth hitters during the second game.

Saturday’s split forced a decisive game three. Playing conditions were worse on Sunday as rain and high winds challenged both teams at dif-

ferent points throughout the game.

“You just got to play with everything around you,” Rumley said. “I knew that if I was going to give up a hit, the defense was going to field it. Honestly, the rain didn’t matter to me.”

While Rumley said it was difficult at times to keep control of the ball, she allowed just three runs and five hits, striking out eight.

Borden matched Rumley pitch for pitch for much of the game.

“Hats off to her,” head coach Rachel Hanson said. “She’s a very good pitcher and really cranks it up for the postseason. She did well.”

Penn struck first with a run in the third inning and two more in the fourth to again build a 3-0 advantage.

In the fifth inning, Curosh drove the ball over the wall to score Averitt and herself and bring Dartmouth within one with her second home run of the season.

“Any other person on this team could have done the same thing,” Curosh said. “It was me this time, but it was other people other times.

That’s the great thing about this team.”

Then the wheels fell off for Penn and Borden in the sixth, when the Big Green offense exploded for five runs on three hits, flipping the score line.

“When you have a dominant

pitcher like that, you’re going to ride her as long as you can,” Hanson said. “They did the right thing, and we were able to hit.”

Rumley gave Dartmouth a 4-3 lead with a two-run double to left center. Dartmouth scored another three runs off a wild pitch and a two-RBI single to build a 7-3 lead.

With just three outs to an Ivy League title, Rumley quickly worked through the Penn hitters and recorded the final out, setting off the celebration on the mound as her teammates cleared the dugout and piled on top of her.

“I’m so proud of this team, and I’m so proud of the way we played this series,” Curosh said. “Even after losing the second game on Saturday and falling behind today, we worked hard every single pitch, every single at-bat. We didn’t stop and we got an Ivy title because of it.”

Dartmouth will learn its opponent in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship on May 11 at 10 p.m. during the tournament selection show. Regionals for the NCAA Championship tournament will occur May 16-18.

“They earned this opportunity by busting their butts all year, and it paid off,” Hanson said. “I’m so proud of them, so proud where they are now and of what they’re going to continue to do.”

Defense strong in Green-White football scrimmage B y mitch huang

The football team closed its 12 spring practices with the Green-White scrimmage on Saturday at Memorial Field. An opportunity to evaluate the team’s readiness for the upcoming fall season, the low-scoring game displayed the strength of the team’s defense.

The players played a full four-quarter game with the first-team offense facing the first-team defense and the secondteam offense playing the second-team defense. Special teams play was simplified, with limited field goal attempts and

punts with only the snapper, punter and returner on the field. With this game format, coach Buddy Teevens said he hoped to avoid unnecessary injuries.

“The awareness of concussions and injuries is foremost on my mind,” Teevens said. “We’ve disciplined and trained our guys to play a limited speed, limited contact contest. It’s real football, but we don’t tackle.”

Teevens said he also aimed for the game to give players a realistic simulation of game-time situations while culminating of the progress made throughout the spring.

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“I used to draft teams for the game, but you don’t have the guys playing together who worked together in the spring,” he said. “I want to see my best against the best.”

At its best, the Big Green knows it can compete with any team in the League.

The focus, said left tackle Jacob Flores ’16, is on consistently playing at the highest level ­— players, he said, have been looking to “perfect our craft.”

The Big Green struggled with consistency last season, finishing 6-4 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy League. The team ended the season in dramatic fashion, beating then-undefeated Princeton University under driving snow in Hanover and upsetting the Tigers’ hopes at winning the Ivy League title outright.

Next year’s team will enter the season with continuity on both sides of the ball, as eight offensive and six defensive starters are returning.

The team’s depth, however, is not rock solid. The departure of star running back Dominick Pierre ’14 leaves an important hole, and due to injuries suffered by Brian Grove ’16 and Kyle Bramble ’16, Marc Sasso ’15 has split carries with freshmen Abrm McQuarter ’17 and Jacob Siwicki ’17 during spring practice. Notably, former cornerback K.J. Booze ’16 has made the switch to receiver and tackle Pat Hand

’15 has switched to tight end from the offensive line.

With some of the offensive changes, the Green-White game gave a chance to evaluate the unit’s status and progress.

The game was a low scoring affair, with the second-team offense scoring a single touchdown against the second-team defense in the second quarter on a jumpball thrown by quarterback Alex Park ’14 to Daniel Gorman ’16. The only other scoring coming from a 42-yard field goal from Alex Gakenheimer ’17 and a 45-yarder from Riley Lyons ’15.

The Big Green’s defensive units stifled the offense throughout the entire game. On the game’s first drive, the first defense recovered a fumble on third down to end the drive. The second defense responded by forcing a quick three-and-out.

Quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16, who shared the first team snaps with Park, attributed the low-scoring game to both the talent of the defense, and its familiarity with the offense.

“We’ve been playing each other all spring,” Williams said. “They know some of our calls and looks, but they’re a great defense and we can definitely execute a little better on offense, too.”

The offense had some strong performances from its receiving corps.

Victor Williams ’16, in particular,

stood out with an acrobatic catch to sustain a second quarter-drive and showed off his speed throughout the game with some impressive yards after the catch.

The defense produced consistent pressure on the quarterback and generated several key turnovers. Notably, defensive back Paddy Clancy ’16 made a difficult interception on a pass from Williams in the third quarter.

The defensive line found success in getting to the quarterback, tallying six sacks in the scrimmage. In a crucial third and long situation, linebacker Folarin Orimolade ’17 flew past the offensive line and carried out a blindside sack on Williams to end the drive.

“The defensive line is a strength of the team,” Flores said. “We have a good defense — they’re going to make plays, but I think we protected pretty well.”

Orimolade attributed the success of the pass rush to the opportunity of playing against a strong offensive line in practice, especially going up against Flores and returning first-team all-Ivy lineman Scotty Whitmore ’15.

At halftime, the team voted to elect Stephen Dazzo ’15 and Sean Ronan ’15 captains for the 2014 season.

The team will open its season at home against Central Connecticut State University on Sept. 20.

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Baseball team wins one-game playoff for Rolfe Division crown

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

In the rain and against the odds, the Dartmouth baseball team brought home its seventh straight Red Rolfe Division title by crushing the Yale University Bulldogs 11-4 in a one-game playoff Sunday afternoon at Biondi Park. The team, rising from the hole it dug itself by opening the season with a 5-9 Ivy League record, ended on an eightgame winning streak, which it will take to Columbia University (25-17, 15-5 Ivy) next weekend for the Ivy League Championship Series.

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The Big Green (18-19, 11-9 Ivy) felt confident going into the game against Yale (19-22, 11-9 Ivy) on their home field, co-captain Jeff Keller ’14 said.

“I think we always knew we had a chance,” he said, “but there were definitely a number of times when we were against the wall and it didn’t look very good. We always assume you’re never out until you’re fully out, but there were definitely times when this didn’t look as possible as it obviously is.”

The team put Beau Sulser ’16, a right-hander, on the mound to start the game. Despite striking out two in the first, a fielder’s choice in the second gave Yale the first run of the game. In the next at-bat, a 2-2 pitch in the dirt from Sulser

was not blocked by catcher Matt MacDowell ’15, allowing the ball to skip to the backstop. Yale’s runner on third took home. Looking for Sulser to be covering the plate, MacDowell tossed the ball to open space, but the pitcher was on the ground near the mound holding his arm. The Big Green recovered the lost toss to keep the trailing runner at third, but Sulser left the game immediately, bringing in Duncan Robinson ’16 for emergency relief.

He hurled a fastball that froze the Yale batter to end the inning with a full count and two outs.

Sulser needs an MRI to determine the extent of his injury, but the team kept a positive attitude after giving up two runs, Keller said.

“We knew we had a lot of game left,” he said. “You don’t panic and expect that you’re going to turn around a little bit. They had their run of sorts, and we were going to take ours. You just have to let the talent play.”

A hitless Dartmouth order came to bat in the bottom of the third, led by MacDowell who singled between first and second. Matt Parisi ’15 and Keller loaded the bases with two more singles, bringing Nick Ruppert ’15 to the plate.

Ruppert narrowly avoided a double play when a bouncing grounder to center escaped the Bulldog shortstop, bringing in MacDowell and leaving Dartmouth spread across the diamond with showers raining down on the park.

Still with no outs, a wild pitch gave Parisi time to run down the third baseline, knotting the score

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A seven-run third inning propelled the baseball team to an 11-4 win and the Red Rolfe Division title.

two all. The bases were loaded yet again after a four-pitch walk for Thomas Roulis ’15. The designated hitter Joe Purritano ’16 singled into right, driving in Keller and Ruppert to take a decisive two run lead with one out. The Bulldogs swapped starter Chris Lanham for Chris Moates on the mound.

The change on the mound did little good for the visitors when Nick Lombardi ’15 sent a triple off the fence to drive in two more Dartmouth runs. Lombardi would be brought in by Bo Patterson ’15, who popped a ball into shallow left that hung in the air long enough to throw off Bulldog shortstop Cale Hanson and brought the Dartmouth lead to 7-2.

A two-run home run for the Bulldogs in the seventh brought Louis Concato ’14 to close the game in the eighth. Concato, typically a starter, earned his first save of the season with his parents in the stands.

“Coach told the rest of the pitchers just to be ready when he called us into the game,” Concato said. “We kind of took the week in preparation to come in out of the bullpen whatever inning that was.

It happened to be in the eighth, so I just tried to get my outs.”

In the bottom half of the eighth, Roulis tripled deep to center to score Keller to double up the Bulldogs with one out. Selzer scored Roulis on a sacrifice fly and Purritano reached on an error before a

two-run homer by Lombardi — his fifth home run of the season — gave the Big Green the final seven-run lead it carried through the ninth.

The win and consequent Division title is a victory the entire team has been waiting for but comes with additional poignancy for the seniors, Selzer said.

“We have kind of our backs against the wall for the first time since we’ve been here,” he said.

“Being able to fight through that and get it done today is more special than usual because usually at this point it’s kind of expected we would have won the division. To be able to do it at home like this in this playoff game felt really good for a lot of guys.”

Women shine, men fall in crew’s home races against Cornell

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All three crew teams returned to Hanover this weekend, with the women seeing success and the men’s heavyweight and lightweight teams dropping all their races. The women beat Cornell University and the University of Central Florida for the Parents’ Cup, winning three out of the five events. The heavyweight men fell to Cornell in all four races. In the Baggaley Bowl, the lightweight men lost all three races to the Big Red as well.

“We had some of our best racing of the season on Saturday,” women’s team captain Anna Harty ’14 said. “It was our only home race of the season, and it was exciting to see the crowd who came out to support us.”

The Big Green and the Big Red varsity eight teams were neck-andneck for the first two-thirds of the

race, but the Dartmouth women pulled away for the win, finishing two seconds clear of Cornell and 24 ahead of the Knights. In the second race, Dartmouth triumphed again, and the varsity four also earned a win.

The final two events were the only two to elude Dartmouth this weekend. The Big Green did not field a third varsity eight boat, and its varsity four B team finished six seconds behind Cornell for second place.

The weekend, Harty said, was a boost of confidence as the team prepares for the Ivy Championships in two weeks.

“We were able to put together the best start and finishing spring we’ve had all year and it was enough to come out ahead,” Harty said.

The heavyweight men’s team dropped all four races to the Big Red this weekend. The first varsity eight and the third varsity eight fell by about nine seconds to Cornell,

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The crew teams competed in their first home regatta this weekend.

while the varsity four ended up 4.6 seconds behind.

The closest Dartmouth came to beating the Big Red was in the second varsity eight, where it finished just 1.4 seconds after Cornell.

The men’s lightweight crew team lost all three races against Cornell for the Baggaley Bowl. In the first

varsity eight, the Big Red won by 10 seconds. In the second varsity eight, Cornell’s first freshman boat beat its own second varsity boat by 4.6 seconds and Dartmouth’s by about eight.

“Cornell is definitely the class of the [Ivy] League and they showed it on Saturday,” lightweight captain

Sam Morris said. “I think we rowed the best race we could have rowed on that day, and now we know exactly how our best compares with the fastest boat out there.”

In the third varsity eight, Cornell crushed the Big Green 5:40.6 to 6:05.0.

“Knowing that we have much more room for improvement than most crews at this point in the season, I am confident that over the next two weeks we’ll make the necessary strides to surprise some folks at [Eastern] Sprints,” Morris said.

The men’s heavyweight crew team, the only team with races left before the final championships, will face Syracuse University for the Packard Cup next weekend.

In two weeks, women’s crew will compete in the Ivy League Championships while heavyweight men’s crew and men’s lightweight crew will race in the Eastern Sprints, the EARC conference championship.

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ONE ON ONE

WITH KELSEY MILLER ’16

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I sat down with Kelsey Miller ’16, the starting third baseman for the softball team, to chat before the team’s big weekend. Miller helped keep the team’s hopes alive with a walk-off home run against Harvard University on April 27 in game two of the home doubleheader. In this weekend’s Ivy League Championship Series she scored two runs in the Big Green’s 2-1 series win over the University of Pennsylvania.

What was running through your head when you hit you walk-off against Harvard last weekend?

KM: In those moments I really just try to stay calm and do what I’ve done every single bat before that. I had no doubts about what my plan was going into the box so I was looking for that first pitch strike, and that’s what I got.

I swung, and about halfway to first base I knew it was over.

How is the team feeling about playing its second Ivy Championship in a row and being able to host this year?

KM: It’s definitely awesome. I think last year it was kind of “Yeah, we’re ready for this,” but this year we 100 percent knew from the very beginning that we were going here, we were going to win the North and we would play for an Ivy Championship. It’s really awesome to get to host it this year and it’s awesome that we get to play Penn again, who we lost to last year. There’s kind of some revenge going on there.

What would you say has been your other favorite moment of the season so far?

KM: I think beating Penn in the regular season when we played them at home. It was just so nice after losing to them in such close games last year, but this year we came back.

What are some of your personal strategies for success?

KM: Keeping a positive attitude, even when I’m in a slump, is really key. I started out the season hitting really well, and then I kind of slowed down at the beginning of Ivies. Definitely keeping a steady mind and not getting frustrated with myself is important.

Do you have any pregame superstitions or rituals?

KM: We always have the same warm-up and stretch, but then Katie [McEachern ’16], our shortstop, and I always throw together and do short hops and different warm-up drills. We always do the same number and do it exactly the same way, and we have certain handshakes that we do. I have

my own routine that I’ve done since I was about 12 for literally every single pitch. Those little things just keep me in my zone and keep me focused.

If you could play any other sport besides softball, what would you choose?

KM: I would probably choose volleyball because I played in high school.

I was a defensive specialist since I wasn’t tall enough to hit the ball. I loved it.

What is something most people don’t know about you?

KM: I’ve played the piano since I was 7 years old. I played for 10 years and took lessons. I competed and I actually am pretty good, I guess. I decided I didn’t want to do it in college because it’s not actually something I wanted to pursue. I really enjoy it and I just like to play in the basements sometimes when I’m by myself. There are songs I remember, and I’ll learn new music when I’m home and have time.

If you could meet any professional athlete who would it be?

KM: It would be Ian Kinsler who played for the Texas Rangers for a really long time and just got traded to the Detroit Tigers. He has been my favorite player since I was about 10 years old.

I was always like, “I’m going to marry him one day!” He’s so cute and nice and such a good player, but now he’s not a Ranger anymore. It’s so sad.

If your team did superlatives, what would you win?

KM: They would honestly probably give me something like “most likely to charge the mound” or “get in a fight on the field.” It’s probably not the greatest of superlatives, but I’m one of the feistiest people on the team.

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This week the Legends were ready to take on the men’s lacrosse team, a competition that I had been trash talking the entire year.

Lacrosse is the only sport I ever played competitively, and I looked forward to matching up against the Big Green’s best. I was also looking forward to seeing Austin get out on the lacrosse field and seeing what he would do with a six foot pole in his hands.

We lined up a friendly competition against Jeff Perkins ’14, scheduled to take place Thursday after 2As. It was one of the nicest days we have had this past week and I couldn’t wait to get out and strap on the pads again. The bad news was that Austin had to go to New York to do “real world things” (look for an apartment), so he couldn’t make it. I felt bad for him, but I couldn’t let that screw up my mojo.

Jeff is from Texas, I am from Virginia. Texas does a lot of things really well, like barbecue, country music and mechanical bull riding, but lacrosse isn’t necessarily on that list. Virginia, on the other hand, is known for its lacrosse — just look at powerhouse University of Virginia.

Past that, the top high schools play at a high level, with lots of solid Division I recruits. Ipso facto, I was in a great position to beat Jeff. Never before a Legends competition had my confidence been so high.

We got out to the field that Thursday afternoon and began talking about what sort of competition we wanted to try. We decided one-on-ones to the goal would be a good start, which made sense because it was a natural match up.

Jeff plays at attack for the lacrosse team, and in high school (and during the occasional club lax game) I played close defense. Having lined up against guys who went on to

“I turned to pick it up — WHAM. Jeff blew me back with a solid hit to my shoulder, scooping the ball with ease and dashing my hopes of victory.” play at UVA and other Division I schools, I felt pretty good about my chances.

We took the first one-on-one from behind the goal. Jeff dodged in on me, broke my cushion, and could then sweep around as I struggled to backpedal and get in a good check on him. He came around top and put it right in the net. We kept starting the one-on-ones in various places around the field, until something different happened. I won one. Jeff tried dodging around me then moving to get a clear shot, but as he did I got my stick on his and checked the ball out of his stick, a huge moral victory for me.

Also, let’s be clear here, the offense

had the advantage in these one-onones — there was no help coming from another defenseman with a slide, and I had no goalie in the cage to stop the shots. Taking those two factors into account, a one for seven win rate sounded almost like a victory.

After the one-on-ones, we decided to do face-offs and ground balls, and while I won’t trouble you with the details of the face off competition (I lost all of them), I’ll let you know how the grounders went. Basically we had the ball rolled out to us and then fought for it mostly legally, until one had possession. The fact that my stick is three feet longer than Jeff ’s has nothing to do with the fact that we split the first four, and as we lined up for the fifth and deciding grounder, I could almost taste victory (I did have double bubble in my mouth). I got the jump on Jeff as I lunged for the ball, but as I turned to pick it up — WHAM. Jeff blew me back with a solid hit to my shoulder, scooping the ball with ease and dashing my hopes of victory.

With Austin back in town next week and what hopes to be better weather ahead, the legends look to take their talents to the track, and try our luck at the 100- and 200-meter hurdles (Still not sure if I can even jump that high). Until then, we will keep laying our bodies on the line as we strive to reach athletic excellence, or at least somewhere near it.

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What’s your favorite thing about Dartmouth?

KM: The community and all the friends I’ve made here. Not only on my team, but also in my sorority and other friends, and the relationships we have with our professors.

We caught back up with Miller after the team’s win over Penn.

What was it like to win the Ivy Championship?

KM: I feel so blessed to win the Ivies.

It was something we worked so hard for all year and it is seriously the best feeling ever. We did this for each other and our coaches and that’s what’s most important. We went through a couple tough losses but we came out on top and it feels amazing. But we’re not done yet!

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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The football team held its annual Green and White game to prepare for the 2014 season on Saturday.

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Action summit invites students and state legislators to campus making decisions about their health care, and Marchibroda elaborated was moderated by public policy on the constant need for technoprofessor Ronald Shaiko. logical innovations to keep up with The speakers discussed the the changing pace of medicine. challenges and steps to reforming Marchibroda also said millenteacher effectiveness and training. nials must advocate for improved Panelist Page Tompkins, ex- health care and health care policy. ecutive director of the Upper Health care accounts for a huge Valley Educators Institute, which amount of the nation’s debt, which certifies regional teachers, noted will affect its younger citizens, she that despite the said. challenges of “Great teachers are Durthe job, a good ing the third t e a c h e r c a n the most important panel, titled have an incred- thing of anything in “Passing Down ible impact on the school system, any the Yoke: Lesstudents’ lives. sons from Three “I would just part of it, any policy.”

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Care,” focused on health care.

Wheelan founded The Centrist The Dartmouth Institute for Project, and ran for Congress in Health Policy and Clinical Practice Illinois in 2009. director Elliot Fisher, Albert MulAttendees could adapt their ley ’70, who leads the Dartmouth schedules to their interests during Center for Health Care Delivery two break-out discussion sessions, Science, and Janet Marchibroda, with three talks offered during who directs the Bipartisan Policy each.

Center’s Health Innovation IniMorgan Matthews ’15 said she tiative spoke in the panel. Ellen felt the education panel was parMeara, of The Dartmouth Insti- ticularly inspiring. tute, moderated the discussion.

“I felt this was really powerful Fisher discussed the need to because people were telling a lot improve health care delivery and of personal stories about their payment models. Mulley said pa- experiences with the new testing tients should be better engaged in and common core and what they FROM SUMMIT PAGE 1

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The conference, organized by a student group, focused on health care and education.

thought it was,” Matthews said.

“It was interesting to hear how everyone’s stories added up to a bigger idea about what we need to do to reform education.”

State representative Susan Ticehurst said she enjoyed the discussion about health care, particularly the student involvement it elicited.

“People were really well informed, but more than that they were thinking beyond what they had been taught and were looking for implications and looking for what the impact would be on the future,” Ticehurst said.

James Harvard, a student at

Keene State University, said he was inspired by Potolicchio’s discussion of using personal characteristics to become a better leader.

Event coordinator Gabby Bozarth ’17 said she appreciated that the health care discussion was able to show her how the field is changing, she said.

The summit was organized by a student group called the Millennial Action Coalition, which focuses on bipartisan health and education reform, recognizing that the millennial generation can help make that happen, said Matthew Mirliani ’16, one of the group’s leaders.

“Part of our model is to empower millennials, locals and New Hampshire residents, to have this reform be state-based,” Mirliani said.

Mirliani said an event highlight was its concluding dinner, which brought together students, legislators, senators and experts.

Over 130 people registered for the event, according to a campuswide email sent Thursday by Students for Education Reform.

Event organizer Thomas Wang ’16, who initially had the idea for the event, did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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from “Will the Real St. Paul Please Stand Up” to “How to Use Your iPad,” as well as art classes and global travel. Classes are approved by a committee that recruits study leaders, approves curricula, provides study leader training and collects feedback, ILEAD president Stew Wood ’56 said.

Wood said he particularly enjoys film classes, noting that he took a class last winter examining the issues of the 1970s through film, which focused on the role of women in society, the Vietnam War and the energy crisis.

“Many of us were certainly going to the movies and alive during the ’70s, so it was a nice opportunity to, in a sense, go back and address

issues and to what extent have we worked through them as a nation,”

“Study leaders don’t necessarily have teaching experience, but they’re passionate about a certain topic that they either know or wish to learn about or share their knowledge and also learn from others in the class.”

- LISA KING, PROGRAM MANAGER Wood said.

According to the organization’s

2013 report, the most recent available, over 1,000 community members attended the year’s 21 special lectures. Topics ranged from pirates to Mormonism. Over 150 courses were offered that year.

Despite maintaining three paid staff members, ILEAD is selfsufficient, King said. Membership and course fees cover the salaries, and participants pay full costs for classes that involve foreign travel.

To help support future endeavors and expand the program’s scope, ILEAD organizers recently attended a conference hosted by the Bernard Osher Foundation in California, an organization that gave ILEAD a $100,000 grant this winter. The Osher Foundation has funded 117 continuing education programs across the nation.

JAMES NACHTWEY ’70 PRESENTS “JAMES NACHTWEY, WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: WITNESSING WAR AND CRISIS”

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 4:15 PM Loew Theater (in the Black Visual Arts Center)

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:15 p.m.

Music and theater department colloquium, “Building Broad Foundations,” Hopkins Center, Faulkner Recital Hall

6:00 p.m.

Book arts workshop, “Linoleum Reduction Block Printing,” Baker Library, Rooms 23 and 25

7:30 p.m.

Film screening and discussion, “Sleep Dealer” (2008), Loew Auditorium

TOMORROW 11:00 a.m.

Tucker Foundation Red Cross blood drive, Hopkins Center, Alumni Hall

12:30 p.m.

Lunchtime gallery talk, “Printmaking and Process in the In Residence,” Hood Museum of Art

3:30 p.m.

Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar, with Dr. Jichun Zhang, University of New Hampshire, Wilder 111

Crossing the Green Across 1 Hot spot?

4 Winnings 7* 2009 Carrey role 14 Chill 15 Period 16 Tipped 17 Spleen 18 ___ Tin TIn 19 Boasting 20* Chicken 23 “Capisce?”

24 “Mi casa ___ casa” 25 Siesta 26 “Blues Clues” Blue, e.g.

28 Basket fiber 30 Atomizer application 34 Between, in verse 37 “Murder, ___.”

39 51, for one 40 Infamous Harlem ballroom 41Proto suffix 42 MIT business school 43 Work without ___ 44 EKG sites 45 Like a navel 46 Amber and myrrh, e.g.

49 Bourne portrayer 51Rapper ___Lo Green 52 Chemical suffix 53 From whom erotica is derived 57 Fatal end?

60* Testosterone or chocolate 63 Avow 65 YouTube clip 66 La-la lead in 67 Lucky beetle 68 Found in a hole or up a sleeve 69 Like 14-across 70 What all the answers to the clued entries are 71 Bro’s buddy

72 NFL stat Down 1 “Ghostbusters” goop 2 Salon setting 3* Looping skating leaps 4 Where the Amazon starts 5 The East 6* Entice 7 “Lord of the Rings,” for example 8 Bra bits 9 Take a 25-across 10 “Scrubs” sets, for short 11 Milo’s partner 12 Unit hypothesized by Mendel’s pea experiments 13 Competitive ____ 21* Starry-eyed 22 Separated military formation 27* Pecan delights 29 Porcine place

Andrew Kingsley ’16 31 Often pumped 32 Suckling site 33* Bats 34* Bolsheviks’ opposition 35 Opposite of wax 36 Composer Charles 38* Hugh Hefner and Colin Farrell 42 ___-pitch softball 47 Ballpark 48 It could be deviated 50 Patron family of

Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Galileo 54* Lavish 55 Like a trireme 56 Peruses 57 Castaway’s locale 58 Tit for tat?

59 Beatles “Love ___” 61 Harleys 62 Nine days after nones 64 Objectivism creator

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Hop, Hood depend on donations for regular programming

annual report, the most recent available, around 50 percent of the museum’s annual operating budget comes from the production.

“In both circumstances, the Lazarus College, while the other half is raised by grant has been vital in seeing these the museum’s director or comes from money generated by endowments. projects through,” Porter said.

The Hood lists three current and Porter said that the only difficulty to the fund’s structure is that students must former members who have contributed apply in November for a spring project. over $1 million, four who have donated Some students, Porter said, do not have $500,000-$1 million, eight who have donated $250,000-$499,000 and 22 a project idea that early.

For “Beauty and the Beast,” Porter who have donated $100,000-$249,000.

“A Space for Dialogue,” an ongoing and her production team had to imagine creative solutions to best use their program that allows students to curate allocated monies, which would not exhibits from the Hood’s collection, allow for an “elaborate, show-y show” is one of the Hood’s funded ongoing production, she said. They used masks to programs. The program has included show when characters were enchanted 81 installations since it began in 2001.

“This flagship student program and also made use of silhouettes.

Porter said working on her current reverses the role from student as learner project has taught her how to weave to student as an interpreter who then together different adaptations and shares their knowledge,” Bianco said.

Jessica Womack ’14, a Hood senior conceive of new ways to tell stories. She would recommend that other students intern, curated the 80th installation, think ahead and consider applying for titled “Visions of the Virgin: Manifestation of Mary and Personal Devotion.” future funding.

The Lazarus family is invited to the Womack has held two funded internperformance of her current project, ships at the Hood, her current position and another supported by the Class of Porter said.

“I think of the arts as a huge non- 1959. In her current capacity, Womack profit industry, [and] it is so important helps develop programming meant to that the people who are giving know engage students with art.

Bianco said named internships crewhere their money is going,” Porter said. “What’s great with performing arts ate a “palpable connection” between is that you give money and you see that students and donors.

Working as an intern has helped you helped create this solid thing that Womack pursue a potential career path exists on stage for a period of time.”

James said donors usually have had in the arts, she said.

“As an art history major, we talk a direct experience with the Hop’s projects. Often they are parents who about curating art exhibitions,” Womsee the immediate benefits that these ack said. “It’s incredible to be able to have a hands-on campus learning experiences offer to students, he said.

Another new program launched in experience where I can take what I’m the winter, the Hop Garage, was made learning and apply it in a working and possible due to outside funding. Student teaching space.”

Xinyue Guo ’14, a senior intern interns organize a social performance in the space each Thursday. Rooms who has previously held a second in the Hop can turn into a cabaret or internship at the Hood, said she was jewelry studio, and past entertainment able to meet a member of the Homma family, who funded at the Hop Garage of her internhas included jazz “It’s incredible to be one ships. Their meeting combos and pub able to have hands- taught her how an trivia games. appreciation and Porter described on campus learning understanding for the Hop as a home art can enhance the for many students experience.” way one interacts interested in the other fields, she arts, and she said she - JESSICA WOMACK ’14, with said. appreciates having “ H av i n g t h e a student-managed HOOD SENIOR INTERN Hood and the Hop social space that and having these tests the “boundaries of what a social space can be and a jobs for students allows us to be as involved as we can with art,” Guo said. performance space can be.”

“It’s really big deal for the Hop that “This job helps me grow so much as a they want it to be student-run,” Porter student of art history.”

Other recent grants to the Hood said. “Students have been able to take a lot of risks through presenting student include one for $150,000 from the art and curating spaces. It’s a whole other Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize the Hood’s complete level of risk taking.”

Native American art collection. The Manton Family Foundation gave a Gifting to the Hood The Hood uses outside funding to grant for the continued preservation allow students and faculty to engage with and interpretation of the Orozco the museum’s collection, Bianco said. murals, and an endowed gift from the According to the museum’s 2008-09 Mellon Foundation supports projects FROM DONORS PAGE 8

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The Hood Museum’s new Allan Houser sculpture exhibition was made possible by endowed funding.

that integrate the museum’s collections with the classroom.

The Hood Museum uses the endowment from Mellon grants to offer faculty one- and two-week residencies to research the Hood collections and determine which resources they could use as teaching aids in the classroom.

Anthropology professor Sienna Craig was awarded a Mellon residency during the 2012-13 academic year and combed the museum’s collection for objects relevant to a course she was teaching on the anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, she said.

“I’ve always felt that art of different mediums can help bring home and clarify aspects of the human experience that just reading text,” Craig said. “It’s a chance for the students and for me to engage in other modes of analysis and creativity.”

Bianco said that this intimate engagement with thousands of works from the collection happens in the Hood’s Bernstein Study-Storage Center. The museum has had 91 class visits to the space during the past year, a total of about 5,000 non-unique students, she said.

Future projects The Hop and Hood are continually building and fostering donor relationships to fund present operations and provide new projects in the future.

Looking forward, James said the Hop is working to fund a commission for the wind ensemble as well as a main stage production of “Romeo and Juliet.”

Bianco said that the Hood will borrow a major exhibition currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the ’60s,” for view at the Hood in the fall.

The exhibition will feature more than 100 works from artists who feel that their work played into the civil rights

movement. The fall exhibition has been made available through gift and endowment money.

As part of her internship at the Hood, Womack said she traveled to Brooklyn to see the current exhibit and participate in layout meetings for the Hood’s upcoming show. She is currently

working on the audio tour guide for the fall exhibit.

“This show is ridiculously large,” Womack said. “It’s amazing to be able to contribute to figuring out all those different components, like seeing what pieces communicate best with one another.”

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always around how their contribution can support our core mission,” Bianco The Dartmouth Staff said. “That’s sort of the lens through The Hopkins Center and the Hood which we look at any potential gift or Museum have much in common. Physi- endowment.” cally, the two buildings share a connect- Donors can fund an endowment, ing hallway, while abstractly, they share money that returns a yield every year, the goal of promoting education in the or provide a money gift for current use, arts on campus. Both also would not an outright sum donated for a specific exist if not for two large founding gifts, purpose. and gift giving remains a significant The Hood accepts donated works source of funds for both the Hop and of art or loans from a donor’s collecHood. tion, and the Hop receives funds from In 1985, the Hood opened due in corporate sponsors. Both institutions large part to a gift from long-time Col- also have membership programs that lege trustee and member of the Class require an annual fee to partake. of 1918, Harvey “The driving Hood. In 1962, point for any gift the Hop opened “Some of the most from Dartmouth’s after a capital gift impactful experiences point of view is from the Nelson that it addresses for students are Rockefeller family. a priority that the Nelson Rockefeller ones that gifts made institution has,” was a member of possible.”

James said. “Most the Class of 1930. of the time you can “The founding find a territory that impulse of the Hop - jeffrey james, hop addresses a donor’s is that the arts is passion but also director an essential part speaks to what we of the liberal arts really need.” education,” Hop director Jeffrey James Donors include alumni, parents, said. “We want there to be incredible community members, government opportunities for students to make, sources and foundations. In the next perform and experience art.” few years, both institutions will focus on Donors to the Hop can receive raising capital to expand and renovate preferred season ticketing, arts trips their buildings to better accommodate and lunch with the director, and Hood their programs’ current needs, James members gain free admission or dis- said. counts at the Hood and some museums nationwide. While gifts to the Hop Gift giving at the Hop can be claimed as tax deductible up to Donated money funds the Hop’s $2,500, all donations to the Hood can visiting performing artists series, student be claimed as such. ensembles and performances, outreach education programs and student workFunding at the Hop and Hood shops. Money is also used to commission Hood Museum deputy director new works, like a piece by the Alvin Juliette Bianco and James said the funds Ailey American Dance Theater group that the Hop and the Hood receive in 2012. from endowments and gifts are crucial James said the Hop will soon anto the institutions’ operations. James nounce a gift from a parent and alumand Bianco declined, however, to give nus that will go toward piloting a new exact breakdowns of funding for each internship program as well. institution.

The Dartmouth College Wind At the Hop, James said money raised Ensemble’s spring break tour in Costa from endowments and gifts goes toward Rica, for example, was possible due to fostering an ability to learn while doing, a combination of money generated reflecting College President Phil Han- from two endowments, current use lon’s new push for experiential learning. money raised as part of the Hop’s The Hood’s core mission is to make 50th anniversary last year and College the museum “an ideal learning environ- funds, James said. This combination of ment,” Bianco said. The museum does funding is typical, he said. so, she said, through their exhibitions “Some of the most impactful experiand publications program, teaching ences for students are the ones that gifts and acquisitions. make possible,” James said.

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125,000 tickets to 100 live performances and 200 film screenings, yet ticket sales cover less than 40 percent of the Hop’s costs. Much of the Hop’s major endowments, gifts and pledges of $500,000 or more, help fund performances by visiting artists. The Hop lists five such named endowments on its website.

Donors to the Hop can also purchase premium seasonal memberships, which provide benefits like preferred seating and arts trips. As of April 2014, the Hop listed eight donors at the highest membership level, which requires an annual gift of $10,000 or more, nine donors at the second highest level of $5,000-$9,999 and 18 donors at the third highest level of $2,500-$4,999.

The Andrew Mellon Foundation provides a multi-year current use grant to the Hop, the same organization that gave two large endowment grants to the Hood Museum in the 1990s and a challenge grant completed in 2000, James said.

The Mellon grant had Dartmouth lead a national research program that tried to find ways to engage students in the arts. Currently in the third year, James said they are trying to implement some of their findings.

“It’s definitely affected the way we’ve done business,” James said. “Sometimes a gift of this sort can actually change the way you do things in good ways.”

Other gifts in fiscal year 2013 included a $100,000 matching gift, money donated on the condition that an equal amount of money will be raised, from the Jane Cook Charitable Trust and $30,000 from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

The Hop also has several funding awards that students can apply for in November to receive money for special projects in the arts. These include the Robert Dance ’77 Fund, the Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund, the Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund and the Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund.

Awards range from $1,500-$3,900 and support individual or group projects.

Amber Porter ’14 received the Lazarus fund twice in her time at Dartmouth.

The fund makes up to $1,700 available for musical theater projects. Porter’s first project was a black box adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast” in spring 2012.

Porter is currently using the fund to put on her senior project, titled “A Century of Lonely Hearts.” Porter said she was inspired to apply for the fund since there is no spring main stage SEE DONORS PAGE 7

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Bash the Trash will include instrument-making workshops and concerts.

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From transforming long, cardboard carpet tubes and plastic straw into a flute to converting old tennis rackets and fire alarms into percussion instruments, Bash the Trash takes an artistic approach to sustainability, co-founder John Bertles said. Bash the Trash, founded in 1988 in New York City, will host workshops and “trash mob” concerts, as part of the Hopkins Center’s new Community Venture Initiative.

In addition to introducing participants to “environmental education and the science of sound,” Community Ventures Initiative coordinator Ann DiLalla said Bash the Trash allows them to be creative with household objects.

“It’s part of the idea of making the arts a part of your everyday life and making them accessible,” DiLalla said.

The workshops will culminate in trash mini-concerts at various transfer facilities and fire stations throughout the Upper Valley, where participants will play the marching instruments created in workshops.

“The more people that show up, the more ideas we have and the more interesting things happen,” Bertles said.

The music that the groups perform has not been planned, Bertles said, since the instruments have yet to be built.

The materials for the instruments are collected from transfer facilities in Hartford and Thetford and from Dartmouth Dining Services. DiLalla has worked with Courtyard Café and Collis managers to collect materials for this purpose.

Courtyard Café manager Steve Edes said that the dining hall will contribute

plastics to the project, which is relatively easy to do because of its sorted trash and recycling bins. Edes said that DDS has contributed materials to student arts projects and Earth Day displays in the past.

He said he hopes to attend one of the instrument-building workshops later this week.

“It sounds like fun,” Edes said.

“We’re glad we can help add to it.”

DiLalla described collecting materials as intensive but fun. The process serves Bash the Trash’s goal of encouraging people to consider the multiple purposes of what others usually call trash, DiLalla said.

“All of us go about the community looking at things in a new way,” DiLalla said.

The Hop has also partnered with the Dartmouth’s office of sustainability on these projects, DiLalla said. Sustainability interns will meet with Bertles and Piaggio to exchange ideas about reaching new audiences.

Bash the Trash will also visit science, art and music classes at middle schools and high schools in the region.

Bash the Trash usually travels to East Coast schools giving lessons that range from how sound waves and instruments work to why and how to be sustainable.

The group interacts with an estimated 50,000 students a year through its concerts, residencies and web-based seminars.

Bash the Trash has also worked with artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Max Roach.

“We turn adults into children, and children into scientists,” Bertles said.

Workshops to build instruments will be held May 6-9 at the Hop’s jewelry studio.