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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

PEP teams up with Greek houses Fall classes will

meet on two Saturdays

By NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Hilary Hamm ’16, who organized a dinner at her sorority house with government professor John Carey, wrote in an email that 35 people attended the event, which the house had planned to host for multiple terms.

Carey said that PEP talks can be more accessible to affiliated students when they can be easily attended within their own Greek houses.

Fall term classes will be starting on Sept. 16 instead of Sept. 14 to accommodate the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, which begins on the 13th of the month and ends on the 15th and coincided with the original start date, college spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. There will be classes on two Saturdays in the term, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24, to make up for the two missed days.

On Sept. 26, classes scheduled in the 9, 10A, 2A, 3A and 3B periods will meet between 8 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. On Oct. 24, classes scheduled in the 10, 11, 12 and 2 periods will meet between 8 a.m. and 12:50 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday celebrating the New Year, the celebration of which typically lasts for two days.

Executive director of Chabad Rabbi Moshe Gray said that this is the first time in his memory that the College has adjusted the schedule for a religious holiday, although he said that the change was likely due to input and pressure from a variety of faculty members.

Gray said that he was not personally involved in the decision-making process, but several professors consulted him after realizing that the holiday coincided with the start of classes. He added that he mentioned the overlap between the holidays and the academic schedule to College President Phil Hanlon last spring,

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Six Greek organizations have hosted Political Economy Project discussions and invited professors to their houses.

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Greek houses have begun to host dinners and talks with faculty members as part of the College’s Political Economy Project, and organizers say attendance has improved since they began hosting events at these venues last term.

The PEP was created by government professor Russell Muirhead and economics professors Douglas Irwin

and Meir Kohn to provide an outlet for discussion of interdisciplinary questions and ideas that relate to politics, economics and ethics.

“Some of the faculty directors behind the PEP were interested in integrating our programs better with student activities and student social life,” government professor and the project’s director Jason Sorens said.

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Governor Hassan discusses education, politics B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

New Hampshire Gover nor Maggie Hassan discussed issues relating to education, financial opportunities and budgets across the state at yesterday’s conversation with students, faculty and Upper Valley community members. Economics professor Charles Wheelan ’88 moderated the discussion, which took place at the Rockefeller Center.

Optimizing opportunities for the middle class, helping local businesses, encouraging innova-

tion and technology and attracting young people to the state are her four main goals as a governor, Hassan said.

With a large number of young people leaving the state for higher education, Hassan said that the insufficient amount of young people and families in the state has increasingly become a problem.

She said that she has implemented several programs and reforms to address this issue, including providing more funds to public and community colleges to prevent tuition increases.

Hassan also said that the state

has become one of the leaders in promoting competency-based learning, which emphasizes an experiential, project-based curriculum, rather than a test-based approach to learning. She said that this teaching style helps students close the gap between the skill sets that employers expect and those that students actually possess.

She also emphasized the need for efficient allocation of tax revenue, especially since New Hampshire is a relatively low-tax state, and discussed the importance of funding the public transportation

system.

In response to a question from an audience member about an increase in opioid use and addiction across the state, Hassan said that she has enacted several programs to decrease both the number of incarcerated drug abusers and the level of prescription and non-prescription opioid use.

This includes the proposed expansion of Medicare in the state, she said, as well as the creation of a prescription monitoring program.

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CAMPUS BLOTTER May 15, 5:29 a.m., The Choates Residential Cluster: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of an intoxicated student between Cohen and Bissell Halls. The individual was located, evaluated and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center by ambulance.

May 15, 8:33 p.m., Bildner Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of theft at Bildner, where a student reported missing 15 dollars from their unlocked dorm room.

May 15, 8:48 p.m., Hanover Police Department: Safety and Security officers were contacted by Hanover Police to assist with an intoxicated student. The individual was transported to Dick’s House by Safety and Security and admitted for the night.

May 15, 9:54 p.m., Russell Sage Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call at Russell Sage. The intoxicated individual was transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

May 15, 10:05 p.m., The Gold Coast Lawn: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of theft at the Green Key concert. A student reported a missing wallet that was allegedly stolen by the individual standing behind them in the crowd.

The wallet contained 150 dollars, and the theft was reported to Hanover Police.

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addiction and for mental health, and one of the ways to do that is to increase Medicare,” she said.

Hassan also responded to a question concerning the preservation of the vast wildlife and natural resources of New Hampshire.

She said that the issue is of utmost importance to her, citing the 10year energy strategy she helped to create in 2014 that focuses on efficient energy use in the state.

Hassan said that, apart from becoming a wife and mother, working in a public office in New Hampshire has been the best decision of her life.

Hassan added that there is probably no other state with as much representation per capita as New Hampshire, which has 22 elected officials for only 1.2 million people. She praised the close nature between politicians and the public in the state.

“I’ll walk into a Dunkin’ Donuts, which I do a lot, and people come up to me all of the time and ask my about policy or tell me their concerns,” she said.

Wheelan said that the objective of the discussion was for students to discover the distinct nature of New Hampshire politics.

“New Hampshire is unique,” he said, “It’s not a massive state

“New Hampshire is unique. It’s not a massive state like a New York, California, or Illinois. The politicians are a lot more accessible.”

- CHARLES WHEELAN, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AND DISCUSSION FACILITATOR like a New York, California or Illinois. The politicians are a lot more accessible.”

He said that he hopes students take advantage of the ease with which they can get involved in

politics as residents of Hanover.

Marcella Saboe ’18, a prospective government major from Houston, said that she attended the lecture to take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about local politics.

“I didn’t know much about politics here in New Hampshire, so I found it really cool to find out more about it on the local level,” she said.

Connie Lee ’18 said that the reconstruction of Interstate 93, one of the infrastructure programs enacted by Hassan, was compelling.

“I was interested to hear her initiatives with things like the highway building of I-93 as actionable items toward the main goals she had for improving quality of life in the state,” she said.

Hassan assumed office as governor in 2013 and won re-election in 2014. Before her time as governor, she worked in the New Hampshire State Senate starting in 2005. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a juris doctorate from the Northeastern University School of Law.

May 15, 10:21 p.m., The Gold Coast Lawn: Safety and Security officers, Hanover Police and Hanover Ambulance responded to a report of an intoxicated non-student at the Green Key concert. The individual was removed from the crowd and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

May 15, 11:00 p.m., The Tabard Coed Fraternity: Safety and Security officers found an intoxicated and uncooperative alumnus at Tabard. The individual was taken into custody by Hanover Police and transported to Grafton Country Jail.

May 15, 11:00 p.m., Dewey Parking Lot: Safety and Security officers, Hanover Police and the Hanover Fire Department responded to Dewey Lot for a report of an intoxicated individual inside of a vehicle. The individual was located and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center by ambulance.

May 16, 8:40 p.m., McLane Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers discovered an unregistered social event with alcohol at McLane. Students were found crawling in and out of the window of the first-floor room. None of the individuals at the party were intoxicated to the point of needing medical care, and all individuals were allowed to leave upon providing identification.

May 16, 11:45 p.m., Unknown Location: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS, Hanover Police and the Hanover Fire Department responded to a group of individuals having a bad reaction from combined use of alcohol and illicit drugs.

The individuals were evaluated by paramedics and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

—Compiled by May Mansour

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Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, spoke with community members about her plans for education, public health and state budgets.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015

PEP discussions at Greek houses see success Recent topics have included a talk with Carey about the struggle way to find a faculty discussion at 6 of rich travelers in poor countries at p.m., but if there’s Boloco in your A Phi, a discussion on gender-based living room and the price of admis- employment discrimination given sion is to sit and listen to someone by government professor Sonu Bedi talk for 20 minutes and then have at Zete and anthropology professor a discussion with your friends, Chelsey Kivland’s lecture on the that’s probably going to increase intersection of urban gang violence attendance,” he said. and politics in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sorens said that there have been at Sig Ep. roughly six talks hosted by Greek Kivland said she had never houses so far, including in A Phi as stepped foot in a Greek house bewell as Alpha Chi Alpha, Sigma Phi fore her talk. Events held in Greek Epsilon and Zeta Psi fraternities. houses can serve to reach out to “It’s been a minority of houses more students “and to give the talks that have expressed interest, but less of an academic feel and to be we’re fine with that,” Sorens said. more informal, more conversational “We’re only interested in working and more relaxed,” she added. with the houses that are very in- Kivland noted, however, that terested in makfew women ing this work “My sense is that there attended the and will have dinner at is quite a variance in strong participawhich she tion from their what Greek houses are s p o k e. S h e members.” said that of interested in and that The hosting the roughly Greek organi- there are several that 20 individuals zation typically have this academic or who attended, boosts audience two were intellectual aspiration, only numbers by a women. small margin and we’ve been happy “ I c o m p a re d t o to work with those don’t know if other venues, that had to S o r e n s s a i d . houses.” do with it beWhile some of ing hosted in the “PEP regua frater nity - jason sorens, lars” who attend h o u s e, bu t most events may government professor f r a t e r n i t i e s skip Greek-host- and political economy are obviously ed discussions, male-domiroughly 10 to 15 project director nated spaces, members of the so that might hosting organihave prezation typically cluded some attend, he said. women from Additionally, some of the students attending,” she said. who attend events at their member Sig Ep president Joe Clyne ’16 houses come to future PEP events said hosting the event was a good as well, he said. way to showcase the diversity of “My sense is that there is quite benefits his fraternity can bring to a variance in what Greek houses campus. are interested in and that there are “I think there’s an advantage several that have this academic or for Greek houses and campus as intellectual aspiration, and we’ve well that we have the capacity to been happy to work with those offer interesting, educational and houses,” Sorens said. beneficial events that are open to The PEP hosts dinners most everyone,” he said.

Monday nights with a faculty mem- Sorens said that Greek houses ber and students during which the can bring students who might not faculty member presents briefly on otherwise involve themselves in the a topic related to political economy PEP into discussions on a range of before a discussion that lasts roughly issues. half an hour.

“We get to reach out to students The speaker and campus events who might not otherwise be inemails are all orchestrated by the volved, and they get the cachet of PEP. Logistically, the events at Greek having an academic event in their houses have not posed much of an house and participating in the kind issue. of living-learning thing,” he said, “We don’t demand very much,” referencing the living-learning comSorens said. “We just need seats, a munities that have recently become room big enough to hold all of us, a residential option at the College. a nice seating arrangement and a Clyne is a member of The Dartmouth place to put the dinners.” senior staff.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015

CONTRIBUTING Columnist IVAN HESS ’15

CONTRIBUTING Columnist ANMOL GHAVRI ’15

The Anathema of Giving a Damn

Understanding Islam

With the 45th anniversary of the Kent State killings, we must reevaluate our apathy.

Better education about Islam will lead to less conflict between it and the West.

It is hard to imagine that a mere 45 years ago, our nation experienced some of the largest protests in its history. In the wake of the United States’ decision to invade Cambodia and the National Guard’s murder of four student protestors at Kent State University, more than four million high school and college students took to the streets. Many were peaceful protests, but student strikes shut down campuses nationwide, dozens of Reserve Officers’ Training Corps building were set ablaze and the National Guard was called onto more than 20 campuses. The violence and chaos of the general strike prompted fears within the Nixon administration of an outright insurrection amongst American students. Ray Price, Nixon’s chief speechwriter at the time, recalled the Washington demonstrations saying, “That’s not student protest, that’s civil war.”

We continue to grapple with similar issues of racial and socioeconomic inequality, state violence and censorship and rectification of historical abuses into the 21st century. Despite the magnitude of these issues, they have failed to resonate with a largely indifferent American public. Although the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Ferguson protests and protests earlier this month in Baltimore can be identified as consequential episodes of grassroots social activism, these various movements were relatively short-lived. This invites us to question our relatively muted response to the issues of our time. Why do Americans no longer care?

Civic apathy is an endemic social disease in the United States. I am disappointed in us — actually, I am disgusted. I am disgusted with myself, with you and with America as a whole.

I am disgusted with the internet slacktivists that come out of the woodwork to proclaim their radicality when it prompts them with an opportunity to gain some social capital. I am disgusted by the American anathema of giving a damn, of the supposedly silent majority’s fear of daring to care. We must keep in mind President John F. Kennedy’s infamous statement on service — “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do

The recent death sentence for Chechen Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rekindled debate over whether Islam is compatible with the West. Tsarnaev and his now-deceased brother, Tamerlan, exploded pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, they were inspired in part by Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki after watching his sermons online.

As a disclaimer, I am not Muslim. I grew up in a multi-religion home, and I have family of many faiths around the world. I am a fervent advocate of religious understanding. Most Muslims are simply devout people who go about their day-to-day lives without a single radical thought. While there is an extreme minority that act on radical beliefs, they are not representative of the beautiful and diverse global community of Muslims. To reform the religion and live peacefully with Muslims, the West must understand Islam as a religion and respect the spiritual value many of its followers acquire from their beliefs.

On April 10, Washington Post columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was a guest on HBO’s, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the eponymous host of which is known for his often controversial statements on everything from American military intervention to birth control. Maher, an outspoken critic of religion in general, has recently developed a very aggressive anti-Islam stance in light of the emergence of the Islamic State — also known as ISIS or ISIL — on the global stage. Maher believes Islam is an intolerant religion and has a history of making anti-Islamic comments. During a debate on his show last year, Maher expressed agreement with a participant who said that Islam is the “mother lode of bad ideas,” and Maher reiterated that comment in his recent conversation with Zakaria. Maher also cited a 2013 Pew survey that claims, among other things, that 86 percent of Egyptian Muslims support a death penalty as punishment for leaving Islam. There were serious problems with how that survey was conducted, including the fact that respondents could not answer freely — in countries where Islam is a state religion and speaking out against it is punishable, people are not necessarily inclined to speak their mind to surveying pollsters. If a great majority of Muslims did have radical beliefs, there would likely be many more attempted and successful

for your country.” We must abandon apathy to ensure equality for all in the United States and the resolution of our society’s many injustices.

To continue abiding such abuses is an affront to the humanity of millions of marginalized, disadvantaged and exploited Americans.

Those that refuse to abide these things should be commended for taking action when the rest of us instead choose the ease of apathy. Yet I must be just as critical of activists as I am of the apathetic silent majority. As the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno eloquently notes in his last published work, “Resignation,” “even political undertakings can sink into pseudo-activities, into theater.” Activism must embrace productive praxis that goes beyond the mere performance of the protest, seeking novel ways to utilize the technological and media products of exploitative neoliberalism to reclaim its place in the American social debate.

This is not to say that contemporary advocacy is entirely devoid of productive praxis, for many thousands are doing great work. It is, instead, to point out how the messages of many activists are lost because of the medium used to express them and how protests may often serve a purpose that is more cathartic than productive. As the cultural theorist Rey Chow notes in her essay, “Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies,” oppositional rhetoric without complementary direct action provides no recourse for progress — it merely distracts from the fundamental goal of social reformation.

Perhaps I am naive for clinging to such ideological sentiments, but I know this much: I won’t be able to live with myself 20 years from now, knowing that I sat at my desk in Dupont Circle instead of getting on the first bus to Baltimore, that I watched as young black men were slaughtered in the streets, that I was silent as Wall Street bled the working class dry, that I stood idly by while the country burned. As always, I have more questions than answers.

But I expect better from all of us. I expect us to give a damn.

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terror attacks than we see now.

Maher is not the only one who holds these beliefs. Particularly since the attacks on September 11, 2001 — and reinvigorated with the constant media coverage of the Islamic State and their murderous rampage across the Middle East — many pundits have developed a paradigm of “Islam versus the West,” placing blame for this binary on “radical Islam.” It is true that the leaders of the Islamic State justify many of their barbaric actions as Islamic, but attacking Muslims in the West because of the actions of a fringe terror group is unjustified.

I agree with Zakaria, who told Maher that while there is “a cancer” in Islam, the West will not reform a religion by telling almost 1.6 billion devout people — most of whom peacefully go about their daily lives — that their religion is filled with bad ideas and requires fixing. Statements like these make for great news headlines on Fox News, but do little else. To change the religion, the West needs to push for its reform, respect the spiritual value it gives it followers and work to understand the history of Islam. There is nothing inherently wrong with Islam, as a whole.

Many high schools throughout the United States teach about Islam in world history classes, along with other religions and cultures. Some parents, including recent examples from Massachusetts and Florida, have expressed anger because their children are learning about the pillars of Islam in a state-mandated curriculum.

Without developing an understanding for the workings of Islam, parents run the risk of raising their children with a narrow-minded worldview, and this lack of understanding can help to allow the cycle of violence between the West and Islam to continue. An adequate education is key to preventing conflict.

Denying Islam’s significance and dismissing it as “the mother lode of bad ideas” is unscholarly, Islamophobic and will only hurt the West in the long run. Moving forward, globally-minded citizens in the West must become more open to learning about Islam — along with other faiths and cultures — if future events like the Boston Marathon bombing are to be prevented. The religion must be understood by the next generation of leaders, as the world’s almost 1.6 billion Muslims will play a major role in shaping the future for us all.

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specifically the overlap between move-in day and Yom Kippur.

The decision was ultimately made by the Committee on Instruction, Lawrence wrote, which consists of the dean of the faculty along with a combination of administrators, faculty members and students.

The purpose of the committee is to review requirements for a bachelor’s degree along with proposed changes in courses and student seminars and other matters regarding academic instruction.

Gray said that, as a result of the College’s decision, students could come to school early and celebrate without the stress of choosing between academics and religion, or just stay at home with their families for the holiday.

He said that the College should consider other holidays when making its calendar, but it should not necessarily make adjustments for each one.

“I think it is really important that professors need to be aware, as best as possible, of major religious holidays and understand that, at least in the Jewish faith, these holidays often preclude you from being able to work,” Gray said. “For example, most Jews fast

during Yom Kippur, which makes it hard to attend classes.”

Rosh Hashana is a major holiday for the approximately 400 Jewish students on campus, Gray said. He added that, if the schedule had not been shifted, it would have forced many of them to choose between academics and religion, which he said would not be in line with the College’s aims.

The proposed Saturday classes, however, would also fall on the Shabbat, which is a day for services and rest in the Jewish faith.

Hillel president Sam Libby ’17 said that he was happy about the College’s decision to change the schedule, as Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the two biggest holidays in the Jewish calendar.

Libby said that he was glad that Jewish students who choose to celebrate the holidays will not need to miss the first two days of classes.

Hillel holds services for the holiday on both days. In 2013 services were held in the Hanover Inn and were co-sponsored by the Tucker Foundation and open to the public.

Chabad also holds services.

This past year, their services were held in the Chabad House and the Paganucci lounge in the Class of 1953 Commons.

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Students listen to College alumna and Kish Consulting CEO Jolin Salazar Kish ’88 speak on managing a budget.

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“Why We Can’t Defeat ISIS,” lecture with Daniel Mark of Villanova University, Haldeman Center, Room 41

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“Phenomenology of Gauge and Fermion-Preheating and the End of Axion Inflation,” seminar, Wilder 202

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Harvey ’15 admitted that the season had been a tough one overall and that, based on the team’s seeding, the result was not entirely unexpected. Yet, he said, “It was kind of hard to end the season that way.”

Healey said that the team will be taking their disappointment as a lesson for the future.

“The experience gained there [at Sprints] is immensely valuable and the lessons learned there this year were painful,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they weren’t good lessons, but they were painful lessons.”

While the lightweight team was beginning to recover from its own shortcomings over the weekend, the women’s team was also trying to make light of its performance at the Ivy League Championships.

Finishing tied in seventh was not head coach Linda Muri’s preferred outcome, but she said, “Things could have gone worse.”

“It’s definitely a building year,” she said. “We were really trying to just go out there and have the best races that we could knowing we were in a challenging situation with such a severe lack of water time this spring.”

Both athletes and coaches commented on the effects of the lasting winter weather and frozen river on the crew season, and the women’s team was no different.

The women were, Muri said, “far and away the last Division I program to get on the water this year.” This made the hard physical training of the winter difficult to translate into boat speed on the water and also made finding the right combinations of rowers for each boat difficult.

The men’s teams faced the same roadblock for their training this

summer, and for the lightweight team the setback proved insurmountable.

“Typically Dartmouth, particularly the lightweight crew, has been able to pick up a lot of speed as the season goes on,” Harvey said.

“We start of slow and get faster at a rate that exceeds other teams, but we didn’t manage to find that acceleration this year.”

Moving forward, the heavyweight crews will prepare for nationals and test out different combinations of rowers. Allen also plans to put together a freshman eight, composed of the freshmen men who do not make the four varsity boats and may include a couple of lightweight rowers.

Dartmouth will not be alone in sending a new combination of freshman to IRAs, Allen said, as many schools will be looking to get their rowers more experience.

Since the end of the requirement that freshman race in freshmanonly events, many schools have ended their separate freshman programs, with only the largest, most robust programs able to continue them.

The lightweight rowers, Healey said, were expecting this season to be a successful one that was better than the previous, but it ultimately fell short of their expectations.

“As we look towards next year, the foundation, a strong core of the team, is returning,” he said.

“We have a pretty talented freshman and sophomore class who are coming up to be sophomores and juniors, and a small but really powerful leadership from our juniors that will become our seniors. So the hope is there.”

Yet he admitted that it was easy to be optimistic now, a full year away from next year’s championships, saying that there was “a lot that needs to happen” before then.

Harvey, who will graduate and leave the program this year, had mixed feelings about his final season.

“You’d like to finish with a successful showing at the championship, but you also recognize that the end result doesn’t always show what you really accomplished. We did accomplish a lot given the challenge in front of us,” he said. “I think we built some momentum going forward. We’ve demonstrated that trusting each other can get you where you want to be, that working hard can get you where you want to be and that trying to be both very aggressive and very technical is what the team needs to do going forward.”

He also believed that the returning classes, particularly the rising juniors, could be strong in the years to come, and that the leadership, with captain Eliot Harper ’16, would remain.

The prospects for future years of women’s rowing are good, Muri, who has just completed her first year with the team, said. The team is only losing a handful of rowers and a coxswain in the Class of 2015 and seems to have a stronger underclassman base.

“We have a lot of returning rowers and coxswains, which is terrific.” Muri said. “So I think we’re only going to go up from where we are now.”

The women’s team has struggled in recent years with retention, and Muri is looking to expand the squad so that it is more similar to other schools in the league and across the country.

After its strong performance at Eastern Sprints, heavyweight men’s rowing will continue its season by competing in the IRA National Championship Regatta May 28 to 30 at Mercer Lake, New Jersey.

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Stand-up comic Tig Notaro will perform at Hopkins Center

B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

This evening at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, well-known stand-up comic and writer Tig Notaro will perform in Spaulding Auditorium.

Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence said that she expected the tickets for Notaro’s show to sell out, despite the show being added to the Hopkins Center’s programming later in the season.

“The Hop visiting performing artist series, almost all of it goes on sale in the summer all at once, but once in a while artists may be added to that schedule as what we would call an opportunity booking,” Lawrence said. “And that’s what this show is, it was added on to the schedule because it came along as an opportunity later on.”

This will be Notaro’s first performance at the Hop which typically averages of one comedic performer a year. This year, the Hop booked two comedians this year, including Notaro, Hoppublicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said.

“I would say that within the balance of things that we do, in our overall programming we’re looking at what’s available out there at other venues in the area and other forms of entertainment,” she said.

“There are other places around in

this area that comedians play, and we don’t feel like there’s as much of a gap in that area. We only have so many spots for visiting artists in a year… we are very selective with the comedians we choose.

We look for people who are really great artists, who are really thought provoking, doing really interesting things on the cutting edge of the cultural conversation.”

“I thought she was really funny. I’ve read about her, she’s got a really interesting stage presence and voice, and she talks about her own struggles with cancer and is able to frame in a really comedic and cathartic way, and I’m really excited to see her live.”

-drew zwetchkenbaum ’16 As the Hop’s programming director, Lawrence has the final say on which artists the center books

for a performance.

“To me, Tig Notaro is really one of a kind,” Lawrence said. “She is really someone who takes the framework of stand-up comedy, and she has done something so original with it that it almost brings it to performance art.”

Lawrence noted that Notaro has a distinct style that made her stand out as a great option for the Hop. “Her timing is very unusual and so hilarious,” she said. “She can tell a story in a way that you don’t know what she’s going to say next, and you just know that she’s someone who can bring a sense of humor to a situation such that the situation just gets funnier and funnier and funnier. I feel like I could sit and anything she says I could sit and listen to, and I don’t say that about very many people.”

Bailey said that she enjoyed the intimate feeling that Notaro can generate in her stand-up routine for the audience.

“She had this hilarious, deadpan, dry delivery that seemed to give nothing away,” Bailey said.

“But she was talking about these things that were very personal and things you wouldn’t think you’d ever talk about in front of people… yet somehow she made you able to laugh and commiserate with her.”

Lawrence emphasized that, in addition to her knack for comedy, Notaro also brings strong personal

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Filmmaker Andrew Chapman discusses his two newest documentaries that look at current events in Russia.

character to the table.

When a video clip of Notaro’s “[Notaro is] somebody who is stand-up routine, in which she very iconic in a way,” Lawrence discussed her experience after besaid. “She went through a very ing diagnosed with breast cancer, challenging health situation and found viral success in 2012 , Notaro came out the other end, and I gained widespread popularity. Nothink she has a taro frequentlot of willpower ly appears herself, and I re- “She had this on Conan ally admire that hilarious, deadpan, O’Brien’s as well. But really eponymous dry delivery that fundamentally talk show it’s her abilities as seemed to give “ Co n an ” as a performer that nothing away. But well as “This make her someAmerican body I [wanted she was talking about L i f e . ” N o to bring here].” taro has also these things that The event on guest starred Wednesday night were very personal in television is open to all, and things you shows such and many come- wouldn’t think you’d as “The Ofdically-inclined fice” (2005), s t u d e n t s h ave ever takj about in “Community” purchased tick- front of people...yet (2009) and ets to see Notaro “Bob’s Burgin action. Drew somehow she made ers” (2011).

Zwetchkenbaum you able to laugh and While ’16, a member her reputation commiserate with of the Jack-Oas a comedic Lantern humor her.” force beg an mag azine and on the interthe improv comn e t , N o t a ro edy group Casual -rebecca bailey, is beginning Thursday, said publicity to gain more that he is glad mainstream coordinator for the to have the oprecognition portunity to see hopkins center for her comher perform. edy. “ I ’ve h e a rd Notaa lot about her, and I’ve seen a ro has been included on Business couple of her shorter stand-up Insider’s list of “50 Women Who sets on “Conan” [2012],” he said. Are Changing the World” and “I thought she was really funny. Rolling Stone’s list of “50 FunniI’ve read about her, she’s got a est People Now.” Notaro was also really interesting stage presence nominated for a Grammy award and voice, and she talks about her in 2014 for her comedy album own struggles with cancer and is “LIVE”. able to frame in a really comedic Tickets for the show are between and cathartic way, and I’m really $10 and $25 for students and $22.50 excited to see her live.” to $25 for community members.

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Heavyweight crew qualifies for the IRA National Championships B y emily wechsler The Dartmouth Staff

All three rowing teams were in post-season action this weekend, each competing for a bid to their national championship. The No. 12 heavyweight men earned a bid to the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Regatta with a varsity finish of 11th at the EARC Sprints Regatta. The lightweight men saw their season come to an end when they missed their qualification to the IRA regatta by one spot, finishing ninth at Eastern Sprints, less than three seconds behind the United States Naval Academy. The women’s crew team was also disappointed, finishing tied with Columbia University for seventh at the Ivy League Championship this weekend, a slight slip from last year’s fifth-place team finish but not enough to earn a NCAA tournament bid. Brown University ultimately took the Ivy

crown for the women.

The heavyweight crews saw the most success this weekend, with head coach Wyatt Allen calling the EARC Sprints competition results overall “pretty good.”

“I think the team made progress,” Allen said. “The heats went really well for all of our boats. I thought they raced really aggressively. In the finals our 4V and 3V raced really well. I think the effort in the heat for the 1V and 2V caught up to them a little bit, and they probably underperformed a little bit in the final.”

The heavyweight boats, in order from one to four, finished 11th, 10th, seventh and fourth. The fourth varsity was the only boat to make the grand final — reserved for the top three boats in each of two heats — and accomplish a goal which all boats had set for themselves.

Due to its performance, the heavyweight team qualified for

the IRA National Championship Regatta, which Allen called “the big one.” With five to seven boats clustered right around the Big Green in terms of speed, the difference between a good performance and a bad one could be as small as two to three seconds, Allen said.

“It’s why we do this sport,” Allen said. “These guys train year-round for really just a handful of races so this competition is exciting, and it’s what we look forward to all year.”

The lightweight men, on the other hand, left Eastern Sprints with a feeling of disappointment, head coach Sean Healey said. The 4V and 3V boats had their best races of the year, he said, finishing fifth and eighth respectively, but they still were not where they had hoped to be by the end of the year. The 2V, he said, had its most complete race as well and was narrowly edged out of the top spot in the Petite Final by the Massachusetts, behind by just 25

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The heavyweight crew team placed 11th at the EARC Sprints Regatta.

thousandths of a second.

The varsity squad, however, seemed to be the most disheartening performance, as it fell just one spot behind qualification for the IRA Regatta.

“The guys are definitely left wanting more,” Healey said. “We talked Sunday after the races about starting training for next

year right now and about using the experiences on Sunday both as knowledge of what we need to do… and of experience on race day. For a dozen freshman on our team it was their first time racing at a collegiate championship regatta like that.”

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Track and field competes for NCAA regionals bids

B y Chris shim

The Dartmouth Staff

The month between the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship and the beginning of the NCAA Championships provides the track and field teams with one final chance to chase qualifying performances for the NCAA regional meet over the last week of May. The men’s and women’s teams took advantage of this opportunity this past weekend, sending athletes to both the ECAC/ IC4A Championships in Princeton, New Jersey, and the New Balance Twilight Meet in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Both teams sent small contingents of throwers and sprinters to Princeton.

Highlighting the men’s performances was Saturday’s fifth-place finish in the hammer throw by Colin Minor ’18, who threw 199-7.0/60.83m. Competing alongside Minor and the pool of 34 athletes in the hammer were Timothy Brennan ’17 and Dom Filiano ’14, who finished back-to-back and 26th and 27th, respectively. Filiano also faced tough competition in the discus, in which he finished 25th of 29 competitors. Minor’s finish gave the Big Green men its only for points thus far in the meet.

“The goal going in was to try and qualify for NCAA Regionals,” Minor

said. “You have to be in the top 48 in the region, and I threw a personal best and I was happy with that, but it didn’t get me into the 48th spot.”

If people who placed ahead of Minor drop out, he may still have a chance to qualify for NCAA Regionals and will find out by Thursday, he said.

Tony Anzivino ’16 had a strong showing in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase on Friday night, taking 12th among the 23 racers. The Big Green’s only representatives at the IC4A Championship on Sunday were Max Cosculluela ’17 and Corey Muggler ’17. Muggler walked away with 17th among 24 competitors in the triple jump, and Cosculluela finished tied as the 12th and final athlete to receive a score in the pole vault, although nine vaulters received no-height finishes Coming off the team’s seventh-place finish at Heps just over a week ago, the small squad of Big Green women received a slate of strong performances at ECAC competition in Princeton.

Moriah Morton ’17 and Bridget Douglas ’18 competed in the javelin to finish 12th and 16th among the pool of 25, respectively. Marissa Evans ’18 placed 16th in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:01.78.

On the final day, Molly Shapiro ’16 was the only Dartmouth woman

to compete, and she finished the meet for the Big Green by taking 13th in the triple jump with a 38-8.25/11.79m leap.

The Big Green also received strong performances from their distance runners at the New Balance Twilight Meet at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. On the women’s side, Bridget Flynn ’18, Abby Livingston ’18, Abby Markowitz ’16 and Jennie Cunningham ’17 competed in the 800-meter race with respective finishes in fourth, seventh, ninth and 15th. In the 5,000-meter run, Erin McConnell ’17 placed third, and the women took first in the 4x400-meter relay.

In the 1,500-meter, Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 and Liz Markowitz ’16 finished just over two-tenths of a second apart for eighth and ninth respective finishes. The race was won by former Big Green star and nowprofessional runner Abbey D’Agostino ’14. Also in the race was fellow alumnaeturned-professional-runner Megan Krumpoch ’14.

“My goal going in to this meet was to run a [personal record] in the [1,500-meter race] and qualify for our upcoming East Regional meet,” Liz Markowitz said. “I crossed the finish line a second off my [personal record]. It wasn’t the result I was hop-

ing for, but I had a lot of fun racing with [Schlactenhaufen] and my former teammates Abbey D’Agostino and Megan Krumpoch.”

The men’s team also received many strong performances at the New Balance Twilight Meet. In the 800-meter, Will Callan ’15 and Kevin Stanko ’16 placed sixth and seventh, respectively.

Also competing were Joe Carey ’15, Josh Kerber ’18 and Josh Kotran ’18 (2:00.25).

In the men’s 1,500-meter, Silas Talbot ’15 led the way with a fourth-place finish in 3:45.02. Pat Gregory ’18, Julian Heninger ’17 and Connor Clark ’17 all placed in the top 20 of more than 60 racers.

“It was an ultimatum kind of race — if I raced well, I’d move onto regionals, but if I ran poorly, my season would probably be over,” Talbot said. “I definitely wanted to go out with a bang, and I think I did that. I ran a [personal record] in my final meet and hopefully qualified for regionals, which were both goals going into the season.”

Given the nature of the Twilight Meet, some professional runners were able to enter the race at the last meet.

This change meant that the start lists for each heat of the 1,500-meter race were decided five minutes before the start gun went off, Talbot said. Fortunately

for Talbot, his heat still had a pacesetter entered in the race to make sure that the race would be fast enough from the gun.

Rounding out the competition for the Big Green was a 5-6-7 finish by Daniel Salas ’17, Kyle Dotterrer ’18 and Peter Geithner ’16 in the men’s 5,000-meter run.

This Thursday, the team will find out which athletes have qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships, which will be held in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 28 to 30. For those who do not qualify, most will take some time to rest before resuming training in the summer.

Some, however, will continue their seasons regardless of whether they qualify for regionals. Minor said that he will continue to train for the USA Track and Field Junior Outdoor National Championships in Eugene, Oregon, at the end of June, where he hopes to perform well enough to qualify to represent the United States at the Pan-American Games, to be held in Toronto in late July.

Either way, the last few weeks of spring term will be a change of pace from the rest of the outdoor season, as athletes either rest or look to perform in their best shape at the regional and national championships.