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VOL. CLXXIII NO.36

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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About 60 students gathered for the Paleopitus town hall on diversity working groups.

Heating at the College

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

As winter approaches each year, Dartmouth is forced to increase its energy usage to keep its inhabitants sheltered from the cold.

However, many students remain unaware of how the College’s heating sys-

tem functions, or about what technologies could be adopted to make it more effective.

Heat for the College originates with No. 6 oil, which is heated to 160 degrees and pumped underground to the College’s power plant, said Frank Roberts, associate vice-

Streeter Hall arson considered felony

By ALYSAA MEHRA

The Dartmouth Staff

Last Thursday at approximately 2:50 a.m., two plastic trash bins were intentionally set on fire in Streeter Hall. No injuries were reported and an investigation is underway.

In an email sent to campus early Thursday morning, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne wrote that the incident has been labeled a felony arson. A felony arson is a fire set by someone on the

property of another without permission to do so.

The fire alarm went off immediately and all Streeter residents evacuated to the study rooms in Gile Hall, the adjacent residence hall.

Students dispersed to friends’ rooms in other buildings as well. Officers were unable to give an accurate time estimate for how long the immediate investigation would take and students were not able to enter SEE ARSON PAGE 5

president for facilities and operations management.

At the plant, it is burned in boilers that generate about 450 pounds of steam. The steam can then either be used to power a turbine and generate electricity or sent directly to other buildings SEE HEATING PAGE 2

Yesterday evening Palaeopitus senior society hosted a panel event and town hall on diversity and inclusion at the College.

The panel, which brought 60 students, staff and faculty members to the Fahey-McLane Hall ground floor lounge, featured the chairs of all of the administrative working groups announced earlier this month.

Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, Provost Carolyn Dever, vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony, and chief human resources officer Scott Bemis, who filled in for director of talent acquisition Ahmed Mohammed while he was out of town, each spoke about the diversity working groups.

The three working groups, focusing on staff, students and faculty, will report their findings to an executive committee including College President Phil Hanlon, Dever, executive vice president Rick Mills and vice president of institutional diversity and equity Evelynn Ellis.

Biron said that the working

groups will compile information about current efforts to foster diversity and inclusivity at the College, compare best practices at the College with those of other institutions, identify metrics for improvement across groups, propose new long and short-term actions and ultimately build mechanisms for accountability and transparency regarding these efforts across campus. She added that the goal of this initiative is to solicit as much community input as possible.

After the panel, the town hall transitioned into three smaller question and answer sessions based on the three working groups.

In the faculty working group session, Anthony stressed the need to focus on retaining and not just recruiting diverse faculty. Once a professor comes to Dartmouth, it is necessary that they find a supportive environment here, she said.

Anecdotal evidence may suggest otherwise, Anthony SEE PALEOP PAGE 5

Students build department sites

By HEYI JIANG The Dartmouth

In January, the Student Content Corps officially launched as a new program with a two-fold goal. First proposed by web content strategist Sarah Maxell Crosby ’04, the Content Corps primarily generates content for the College’s academic departments’ websites, while giving students the chance to work on a webbased product.

In November 2013, Maxell Crosby attended a conference called “Confab Edu,” where she saw the presentation of a

group of students from Rochester Institute of Technology who created content for the RIT’s admission site. Maxell Crosby said that the College’s web services support more than 200 websites across the institution and more than 500 site editors, who are maintaining those websites and do not have the time to generate content for the sites.

In the case of the College’s academic departments websites, students and their parents make up the majority of visitors. The academic department websites are highly important to potential students,

Maxwell Crosby noted, since these sites could be their first exposure to the Dartmouth experience. While there are plenty of “great stories” taking place across the College’s academic departments, there aren’t enough storytellers to deliver those stories to the sites’ visitors, she added.

“We thought that if we hired a team of students that can go out there and find the stories and create the stories and put them on these websites, then we could elevate the level of narrative at all these SEE CORPS PAGE 3

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Some colleges give a completion grant for small amounts of financial aid to low-income students who are about to graduate, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. According to a reporter released by the Coalition of Urban-Serving Universities and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, these grants can keep many recipients from dropping out of college. The vice president for enrollment management and student success at Georgia State University Timothy Renick said that Georgia State created the completion-grant program after over 1,000 students were dropping out of school per semester because of cost. The majority of those who dropped out were seniors who had run out of aid. On average, the grants Georgia State gives out are about $900.

Inside Higher Education reported that some students at Cornell University are calling for the renaming of Cornell Plantations, arguing that the word “plantation” is racist. The Cornell Plantation consists of a botanical garden, arboretum and nature preserves. While debate over the name sparked last fall, the university’s Black Students United group recently promised to protest more if the name was not changed. The University has not announced whether or not the name will be changed.

Western Michigan University, which is located miles away from where a shooter killed six in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday night, did not send out a crime alert to campus, the Detroit Free Press reported. Western Michigan president John Dunn said on Sunday that the University should have provided information and updates to campus. He noted that the University should have better responded despite the fact that the incidents were located miles away and were not linked until “way late in the timeline.” Under the Clery Act, universities and colleges in the United States are required to send out safety alerts when an ongoing situation poses an immediate threat to students or employees.

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The Feb. 22 article “Women’s swim and dive finishes eighth at Ivies” stated that AnnClaire MacArt ’18 twice bested a three-year-old record in the 500-meter freestyle. In fact, she twice bested her record in the 500-yard freestyle.

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College considers new heating plan a plan has been developed and a cost estimate formed, the process on campus to provide heat. of approval would begin. Roberts Most residence halls use the steam estimated the entire project, from for heat directly by moving it through the start of planning to the end of radiators on the perimeter of the construction, would take about five building, though some newer build- years. ings send the steam to an air handler Other universities have made the or convert the steam to hot water, he switch to similar systems in recent said. years. Stanford University, for exThough the underground steam ample, finished construction on a hot distribution system is on year-round, water heating system for its campus helping to produce hot water for in April of 2015. The process took the buildings, the heating systems about five years from planning to in the residence halls remain off completion, said Joseph Stagner, for about half Stanford’s exthe year. This “[A hot water-based ecutive director is because the of sustainability pipes in the walls heating system] would and energy manwill overheat the bring our heating agement. buildings if the Stansystem is left on distribution into the ford’s goal was all year, Roberts 21st century.” to increase the said. The proefficiency of its cess of deciding heating system when to turn - FRANK ROBERTS, by using heat on the heating recovery techASSOCIATE VICEsystem is thus a nologies rather complicated one PRESIDENT FOR FACILITIES than fossil fuels to because once it is AND OPERATIONS meet the univeractivated it will sity’s heating and not be turned off MANGEMENT cooling needs, until the weather Stagner said. heats up again.

After surveying For this reason, their energy usfacilities and operations management age, Stanford determined that they will wait to activate the heating sys- could use the excess heat from its tem until a period of consistent cold heating systems to meet their needs weather sets in. using a heat pump. Because heat The current system burns about pumps run using hot water, not steam, 3.7 million gallons of oil each year, it was also necessary to transition the Roberts said, and cogenerates about campus to a hot water heating system, 13 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. The College buys an additional 50-55 kilowatt-hours each year that cannot be cogenerated.

Though Dartmouth continues to rely primarily on steam to power its heating system, the technology is not without its flaws, Roberts noted. For example, steam can be a relatively inefficient medium for heat transfer that is difficult to keep insulated. It is also difficult to store energy using steam, meaning that the amount generated needs to be closely matched with the amount of energy demanded to keep energy usage efficient. Finally, pipes need to be placed at particular angles to take advantage of gravity, which is required to move steam, he said.

For these reasons, the College is beginning to look into transitioning to a hot water-based heating system, Roberts said. This technology has several advantages over steam: it is easier to insulate and simpler to maintain, it can store energy via hot water tanks for later use and it allows more flexibility in pipe placement.

“It would bring our heating distribution into the 21st century,” he said.

Though there is no set plan for when the transition would occur, officials have begun studying the timeline for such a transition and generating a financial analysis, he said. After FROM HEATING PAGE 1

Stagner said.

The new system has allowed Stanford to greatly reduce its carbon emissions. From June to mid-November of 2015, no fossil fuels were burned on campus except for those necessary to run a small handful of labs, Stagner said. Instead, heat recovery technologies were used to generate power and meet all of the university’s heating and cooling needs.

Though the university has not yet performed a full audit on their energy efficiency, there has been about a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions, said Lauren Hennessy, Stanford’s outreach and program manager for the office of sustainability. Further plans to implement solar panels will continue to reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 68 percent, she said.

Stagner noted that some people believe such a system would not be feasible on the East Coast, with significantly colder winters than California.

However, officials from East Coast schools, after studying Stanford’s system, concluded that about 50 percent of their universities’ annual heating load could be powered via their waste heat, he said. He pointed to a hybrid system with some heat recovery, or using geothermal energy to power heat pumps, as a potential realistic option for Dartmouth.

Switching to a hot water system could increase the efficiency of Dartmouth’s distribution system alone by about 15 percent, Roberts SEE HEATING PAGE 3

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Content Corps team adds to course sites FROM CORPS PAGE 1

sites,” she said.

Content Corps program coordinator Christiann Pearson said that the group uses the usability testing service from TryMyUI, to train students involved with the Content Corps.

“When [students] have finished their time with us, they are not just great storytellers, but they know about writing for the web, accessibility, usability and the importance of user experience being the center of your design when it comes to the web,” Maxell Crosby said.

Pearson added that the Content Corps will provide a learning opportunity for students in the Corps to start filling up their portfolios and get practice with writing, in particular for the web, photography, and content strategy.

The Content Corps currently involves only two students, but looks to expand the team.

Gricelda Ramos ’18, one of the students involved with the group, said that she has been interviewing students about their academic projects as well designing the website.

“I think that being able to choose even your own font is so decisive and such a demonstration of authority and autonomy,” Ramos said.

Danny Kim ’18, the other student on the team, said that current students at the College can benefit from the Content Corps’ services as well. He said that students will have access to

information of what they can do with their major and what upperclassmen are planning on doing with their major.

“We want to show the experience of being a part of this academic department,” he said. “That’s one really big area where current students can get more insight into.”

Ramos and Kim are currently working on a series of profiles of Dartmouth students who are doing research, which the Content Corps will be taking to academic departments as examples of the group’s services. Besides the student profiles, the team will also be creating content about the programs, special events and faculty research featured by various academic departments, providing both current students and visitors with narratives containing helpful information.

Such narratives could include covering stories not featured on other platforms such as Dartmouth Now. The group can help departments create that content, Maxell Crosby said.

The Content Corps plans to add one or two more students to build up the team, and as the team grows bigger, students will gain more responsibilities, including managing the Corps’ projects and working directly with the clients.

“It’s been a great start, so we are just kind of building on that momentum, piece by piece, making it a little better each term,” Pearson said.

Change could increase energy efficiency FROM HEATING PAGE 2

said. Converting buildings on campus to also use hot water could generate additional efficiencies of about 10 to 20 percent, he said.

Currently, 122 buildings are served by the heating distribution system.

Forty-nine buildings use only steam for heating, 55 use a mix of steam and hot water and 18 use hot water only, Roberts said.

The process of converting buildings and the heating system is part of a larger move towards energy conservation by the College, which was started in 2008 by then-president Jim Wright. At the time, the Board of Trustees approved $12.5 million for energy-saving updates to existing buildings.

Catherine Rocchi ’19, a member of Divest Dartmouth, said that she supports the move towards a hotwater based system. Though noting that her organization is not officially

involved in promoting such initiatives, focusing instead on convincing the College to divest from major fossil-fuel companies, she said that she believes most members would support such a shift, given the increased energy efficiency of such a system.

In 2014, out of 173 schools, Dartmouth ranked 124th in the Sierra Club’s eight listing of sustainable schools, which looked at energy use, recycling and food sourcing amongst other factors.

Going forward, the College will seek to improve its sustainability by building more efficient buildings, maintaining and replacing older systems and engaging in energy conservation projects, Roberts said.

He emphasized the importance of working on multiple dimensions when seeking to improve energy efficiency across the campus.

“For Dartmouth to continue to conserve energy, it’s going to have to be a multifaceted approach,” he said.

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STAFF COLUMNIST DAN FISHBEIN ’19

THE DARTMOUTH OPINION STAFF

The Importance of You Time

Opinion Asks

When life gets overwhelming, take time out of your day to just relax.

This term has been rough. As a ’19, a lot third best record in the Eastern Conference. of upperclassmen have told me that while Now, I don’t expect that activity to be of freshman fall is all fun and games, things get any interest to you. In fact, that’s kind of the serious come winter. Now, as a Massachusetts point. While spending my roughly hour-andnative, the cold weather hasn’t really bothered a-half to watch the game, I might text one of me (although I wish there were more snow so I my buddies from high school if the Celtics could actually use the ski equipment I rented). make a cool play, but other than that, it’s me I’m doing well in all my classes, so that’s not time. It’s not about putting on some façade the issue either. They can stress me out to the to appeal to whoever happens to be reading extreme, but I’ve been able to cope with that this, friends, potential hookups or anyone else pretty effectively. in the Dartmouth social scene. It’s not about Rather, I think what has made this term dif- stressing over work or classes: last week, even ficult is the fact that college doesn’t feel “new” with my computer science midterm looming, anymore. Last term, living on my own, away I made time to keep up my habit and watch from the family and friends I had been around the underdog Celtics beat the Los Angeles my whole life, everything Clippers in overtime. had a degree of novelty. It “If you feel like you It’s about a sort of yogic felt sort of surreal. I was meditation in which I sit just can’t take it in college. Although I was by myself and do pretty the little man on campus, anymore in terms much nothing other than I felt on top of the world. watching some players run of schoolwork or Now, though, I’ve fallen a pick and roll. into a rut. Just like the homework, take a

If me watching colorful Hanover leaves basketball has nothing to break, kick back and have fallen by the wayside do with any of you, then of this “dark and dreary” do something you why am I wasting my winter (to borrow a line enjoy.” time writing about this? from Robert Frost), my Well, it’s not so much the days have started to bleed act itself but the strategy together. Things don’t pop behind it that I think might like they did fall term. Instead of seeming new appeal to others. Obviously, I’m only a ’19 and and shiny, things seem gray.

I’m sure other people know a lot more about So what have I, a lowly underclassman, how to survive Dartmouth than I’ve managed done to survive these winter months, now to learn in my just over one and a half terms that apart from some “fun and games,” col- here. I’m not trying to tell people how to spend lege has revealed itself to, at some level, be their free time, or how to live their lives. But a long drudgery towards a diploma? I try to I just think I’ve gained a lot from having this relax and take deep breaths. Really, it’s that daily ritual, one that helps me stay at least simple. In the middle of everything, all the somewhat focused and organized. A ritual stress and work and social relationships, I try that prevents me from going crazy while sitting to have one activity every day during which I in the library for an entire day. A ritual that take a break and do something insubstantial provides me with an outlet to get away from by myself, that lets me take my mind off all the other people when I just need some relaxation. problems thrown at me by college and just be I’m sure a lot of people here could benefit me. from some alone time. Whether you spend this For me, watching the Boston Celtics is that time watching basketball, streaming Netflix, insubstantial activity. For the first time since playing video games or reading a book is totally my sophomore year in high school, my home up to you. If you just feel like you can’t take it state’s sports team has been playing some really anymore in terms of schoolwork or homework, exciting games. They have a core of feisty and take a break, kick back and do something you talented young players, and currently have the enjoy.

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In this election cycle, how has money helped or harmed candidates?

The 2016 presidential race has been all about the political outsiders. Indeed, candidates seen as politically connected and backed by their respective party establishments have struggled. After the South Carolina primary, Jeb Bush — the GOP candidate who raised the highest amount of money — dropped out of the 2016 race due to consistently poor results despite high campaign spending. Money raised from super PACs is seen as an indicator of being a part of the establishment, and Bush has raised $124.1 million by PACs alone, the most of any candidate. Hillary Clinton comes in a distant second with $57.5 million from PACs, and she too has had to fight off attacks questioning her trustworthiness and establishment status. Bernie Sanders, her opponent for the Democratic nomination, staunchly opposes corporate super PACs and has surged to seriously challenge Clinton over the past few months. Sanders’ surge reveals how candidates who accept and spend large sums of money from a few donors must overcome voters’ perception of them as corrupt and self-interested establishment candidates. Voters even see billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump as anti-establishment due to him mostly self-funding his campaign and his relatively low campaign expenditures.

- Anmol Ghavri ’18 I think this election cycle has shown that the candidate with the largest war chest no longer automatically becomes the favorite. With candidates getting a lot of publicity through Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms that either were not nearly as large as they are now or did not exist in 2008 — the last time we had an incumbent-free presidential election ­— paid advertising (an area in which Obama spent 65 percent of his campaign funds in 2012) no longer carries the importance it once did. Even though many Democrats seem to have responded to Bernie Sanders’ message that the Citizens United decision undermines American democracy, super PACs ironically appear to be playing an increasingly less important role. Just ask Jeb Bush, who spent $130 million before bowing out of the election after failing to finish higher than fourth place or with more than 11 percent of the vote in the GOP’s first three elections.

- Daniel Fishbein ’19 My first instinct is to comment on the obvious: money has ironically seemed to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The prevalence of super PAC funding for the Clinton campaign juxtaposes drastically with Bernie Sanders’s lack thereof and, in turn, alienates your average American voter.

I don’t know about you, but getting 20 emails a day from someone with a disproportionately large amount of funding doesn’t exactly incite me to contribute.

- Dorothy Qu ’19 While there is no doubt that money influences United States’ elections, campaign expenditures in no way guarantee success. It’s still relatively early, but the 2016 election cycle has made that very clear thus far. Following a poor showing in

the South Carolina primary, Republican hopeful Jeb Bush suspended his campaign. According to a Washington Post article, Bush spent a whopping $368 per vote through the South Carolina primary. Donald Trump, on the other hand, spent only $64 per vote and decisively won two of the first three contests. With $114 million already raised by early summer, Bush was seen as being at the forefront of the Republican field. In contrast, Trump has received little outside support, using the self-funded nature of his campaign to promote his candidacy. His campaign has staked its reputation on being an insurgency, a referendum on interest groups and money-fueled politics. As voters, we shouldn’t lose sight of the role that money plays in elections. But, it’s also incumbent upon us to realize that its role may be more complex than we initially thought.

- Sarah Perez ’17, Opinion Editor In this campaign cycle, money has become an ambiguous force like never before. Once thought to be so critical in order to ensure political success, money has proven to be much more difficult to understand in this campaign cycle. Take for instance Donald Trump, who has spent $17.8 million dollars on his campaign so far. Contrast his campaign spending with that of most recent drop-out from the race, Jeb Bush, who, in total, spent almost $100 million dollars more than Trump on his campaign. What’s fascinating about this is not only that the Trump campaign has garnered more support than a recently ended campaign that spent $130 million, but that one of Trump’s talking points is his personal wealth.

He’s a business man. He’s successful. He can’t be bought by Wall Street. The extent of his personal wealth seems to be far more important that the “wealth” of his campaign. You can observe the same increase in complexity on the Democratic front as well. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the economic resources to run effective, far-reaching campaigns, but the source of their money is far different. Three-fourths of Sander’s campaign funds come from individual small gifts, and one-fourth from individual large gifts, whereas the reverse is true of Clinton. Both go to great lengths to emphasize the sources of their money, trying to dispel the idea that politicians can be bought. Now more than ever, money seems to occupy a complex and intriguing position on the path to becoming president.

- Ben Szuhaj ’19 It seems to me like there is a necessary amount of money campaigns need to be able to get its message out. But I don’t think more money is better.

Once the threshold needed for visibility has been crossed, I think that voters care about the actual message and not about any fundraising records and donor groups behind each candidate. So, I do not think money has hurt or helped candidates as long as they were able to gain access to the average voter. And although candidates have criticized one another for the source of their campaign funding, I don’t think these criticisms have changed the game for any candidate.

- Reem Chamseddine ’17

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Panel discusses diversity, inclusivity but normed and fun” so that students would feel a commitment to their said. The College currently does not communities. The house communiconduct routine exit interviews for ties are intended to create a feeling of faculty members who leave, which belonging, but Biron added that they Anthony said means that the “deci- would also foster a sense of responsision makers” — provosts, deans and bility and ownership in students over senior administration — do not have their communities. information on why people depart.

Diakanwa compared a diversity Students in the discussion group education program or curriculum raised a number of questions about requirement to the College’s alcohol the tenure process, with some calling education program prior to matricuinto question the transparency of lation, adding that even students who how candidates are evaluated. When do not drink are required to complete professors are considered for tenure, the course. departments will often ask students “Why is education on high-risk who have enrolled in the professors behavior mandatory, but this is opcourses for recommendation letters. tional?” Diakanwa asked.

Members of the discussion group Biron said that the student worksaid that though they had been asked ing group does not have the power for letters, they were not told of to create requirements for graduthe outcome of ation — that their professor’s “Hopefully this isn’t a power resides tenure process. with the faculty.

S t u d e n t s one-off conversation Ameer qualified also questioned about why diversity that statement by how the tenure adding that the process, which and inclusivity working group Anthony said are important at can make a recheavily emphaommendation to sizes a profes- Dartmouth, but the dean of the sor’s research, rather the beginning faculty based on could affect facstudent input. of a series of ulty who may Chinmake a higher conversations.” edum Nwaigwe “service com’19 said that mitment” to stut h e re w a s a dents. Anthony - HUI CHENG ’16, need for greater acknowledged PALAEOPITUS MEMBER transparency that while not when speaking limited to faculty of inclusivity of color, this affects minority faculty and diversity. During the panel, she more acutely as students seek out questioned the administrations use their guidance. of “blanket terms” to describe these Because there are so few faculty issues. of color at the College, Anthony said “If you don’t actually use the term that the burden is much higher for the race in an email about race relations, ones who are here. She said that one then you can’t even spark a converof the group’s goals is to increase the sation on the issue because no one number of minority faculty. knows what the issue is,” Nwaigwe “The fact that the faculty doesn’t said. look like the student body is a prob Nwaigwe pointed to the anlem,” she said. nouncement of “Moving Dartmouth In the student working group Forward,” which clearly identified discussion, Ameer, Biron and Ellis high-risk drinking as a problem at repeatedly stressed that student in- the College and launched two surveys put was crucial to the success of the to analyze the campus climate on working groups. the issue. She said that the College Biron said that there are no plans to should do the same with issues like alter any student organization to ac- race, homophobia and transphobia commodate the new housing system. and should publish those results.

Instead, she said the goal was to allow In the fall of 2015, the College communities to develop organically, launched the Dartmouth Community rather than to have “change for the Study survey, which focused on living, sake of change.” learning and working at Dartmouth During the discussion, Jon Diakan- and addressed issues such as minority wa ‘16 asked why no course on groups, inclusivity and identity. diversity was required to graduate. After the panel, about 20 students Diakanwa is a member of the fac- stayed in Fahey to continue conversaulty working group and president of tions around points that had come up Dartmouth’s chapter of the National during the discussion.

Association for the Advancement of Zonía Moore ’16 said that she Colored People. thought the panel was productive.

Biron responded by outlining a She compared it to past actions from co-curricular program within house the College, particularly in April of communities that would be “optional, 2014, when the College cancelled FROM PALEOP PAGE 1

classes to foster discussion following the Dimensions protest her freshman spring.

“The reaction to [the Dimensions protest] compared to this panel was so different,” Moore said. “Nothing practical came out of that day [of cancelled classes]. This panel is the realest thing I’ve seen the College do.”

John Brady ’19 said that while the panel was a productive discussion, conversations around diversity and inclusivity with the administration often feel limited, noting the relatively short length of the town hall.

“It’s indicative that you can get a dialogue going, as long as it fits their schedule,” Brady said.

Hui Cheng ’16 , a member of Palaeopitus, said that the event showed the importance of administrators and community members coming together to ask questions before the diversity working groups begin their work.

Cheng added that she found her discussion group helpful in raising issues that administrators could keep in mind as they start work on the working groups.

“Hopefully this isn’t a one-off conversation about why diversity and inclusivity are important at Dartmouth, but rather the beginning of a series of conversations,” she said.

Priya Ramaiah and Sonia Qin contributed reporting.

Moore is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Streeter arson under investigation by police FROM ARSON PAGE 1

Streeter for two and a half hours.

Rachel Van Gelder ’18, who lives in Streeter, was asleep when the alarm went off.

“I assumed it was just a prank or someone had pulled the alarm and it was a false thing,” Van Gelder said.

“We all got out of our rooms through the side staircase and you could smell smoke so we were kind of freaked out.”

As she walked down the stairs to evacuate, Van Gelder said she was able to see the fire. Though two bins are said to have been set on fire, she only saw one recycling bin in flames, she added.

Officers returned to the site the next day.

Hanover Police and the State Fire Marshall’s office have begun the process of speaking with witnesses as part of the active investigation, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said.

The investigators are searching for the source of the fire as well as the intent, Dennis said.

The investigation will be conducted by the State Fire Marshall, Hanover Police, the Hanover Fire Department and Safety and Security.

New Hampshire criminal code RSA 634:1 classifies two categories of arson, Class A felony and a Class B felony. A Class A felony includes damaging property that is an occupied structure, which the actor was aware of, or a historic structure. Class B felonies

include arson of either the actor or another’s property done for the purpose of collecting insurance on damaged property. Class B is defined as arson purposefully started, recklessly placing others in the danger of death or serious bodily injury or damage someone else’s occupied property. Arson that involves real estate being damaged or loss in excess of $1,000 falls under the Class B category. All other arson is classified as a misdemeanor.

While both kinds of felonies come with hefty fines, Class A felonies are associated with upwards of seven to 15 years in New Hampshire state prison and Class B felonies are associated with three and a half to seven years, said Jeffery Rabinowitz, a New Hampshire attorney not affiliated with this arson case.

Setting trash bins on fire in a dorm is most likely not for the purpose of collecting insurance and the bins are not historic structures. The trash bins, are, however, the property of the College and located inside an occupied structure. If the bins were set on fire with the intention of burning the building down that would be a Class B felony, Rabinowitz said based on the information given.

Kinne said that an event like this has not occurred in recent years. Dennis said that there have been a couple of smaller fires involving trash bins earlier in the year, but nothing to the extent of this incident.

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Professors Andrew Levin and Charles Wheelan ’88 discussed the Federal Reserve’s monetray policy.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:30

“The Intersection of Art and Math,” panel discussion and reception, Hood Museum of Art

4:30 p.m.

“The Changing Security Environment in East Asia,” former National Intelligence Officer Paul Heer, Room 003, Rockefeller Center

7:00 p.m.

Yamato Drummers of Japan, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW 4:00 p.m.

“Bend,” a live performance by Kimi Maeda, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

4:30 p.m.

“Why Do State Supreme Courts Matter to You? A Conversation with Alumni Justices,” Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center

7:00 p.m.

“The Pitch,” presented by the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network and DALI Lab, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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‘Chicago’ shines, puts a modern spin on a timeless classic

By JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

“Razzle dazzle ‘em, give ‘em a show that’s so splendiferous, row after row will grow vociferous!” The razzle dazzle of Prohibition-era Chicago, referenced in the show’s lyrics, came to life at the Hopkins Center on Friday, where the theater department presented its production of “Chicago,” the award-winning musical that premiered in 1975.

As the line from the musical suggests, Dartmouth’s version of the acclaimed show was a glitzy and impressive affair with careful attention paid to production design, lighting, choreography, costume and acting. From the live orchestra to the use of projectors to illuminate the large white block letters set up on stage to spell “Chicago” backwards, the meticulous detail veered from paying tribute to the original show’s satirical look at corruption in the criminal justice system and the idea of the celebrity criminal to subtle anachronisms that reference the show’s tagline: “Stop making stupid people famous.”

“Fame occurs for reasons as banal as ‘clicks’ and ‘likes,’” director Carol Dunne wrote in her “Note From the Director in the show’s program.

“We decided that our production would focus on the impermanence of fame and its trappings while reminding our audiences that this tale of the 1920s is even more applicable today,” she said.

On Broadway, “Chicago” is a flashy production that pays tribute to vaudeville theater, but it is the musical’s nod to today’s social

media-centered world that makes this version exceptional. Portraits of celebrities including Justin Bieber, two members of the Rolling Stones and Paris Hilton line a wall at the section of the stage that serves as the office for Billy Flynn, played by Robert Leverett ’16, the silver-tongued lawyer who defends criminals by making them into celebrities. The musical is an extended barb at the way society forgives the rich and famous because of their wealth and fame; the publicity, not the crime, is what matters.

Billy Flynn is only a piece of this hilarious yet sobering portrayal of social corruption. Velma Kelly, played by Veronica Burt ’16, and Roxie Hart, played by Carina Conti ’16, are the two murderesses who scrabble for the publicity that will get them off of death row and into a peculiar kind of stardom. Having shot her lover, Roxie lands in jail after her hapless husband, Amos Hart, played

by Owen O’Leary ’19, is unable to cover for her murder. The jail is run

by Matron “Mama” Morton, played on alternating nights by Carene Mekertichyan ’16 and Zahra Ruffin ’17, who facilitates Roxie’s dealing with Billy ­— for a price. Roxie adapts to her manufactured stardom quickly, and Velma, who had been the reigning celebrity criminal until Roxie’s appearance, seethes as she sees her position usurped. The story unfolds as Roxie deflects potential threats to her fame as her court date looms, and Velma plots to win back her former glory, all while the irony of their predicament hangs over the audience.

“Chicago” is a musical classic,

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“Chicago” (1975) is known for its vaudeville-inspired style.

COURTESY OF PHILIP SON

Veronica Burt ’16, as performer and murderess Velma Kelly, shines in her star number “All That Jazz.”

holding a record as the longestrunning American musical as well as being adopted into a critically acclaimed film. Yet the actors hold their own, turning in performances that allow the audience to get swept up in the manic vibe of the musical.

Burt plays her role as Velma Kelly with a crackling energy; there’s a confidence that would be close to regality if not for her blatant crudeness, captured in “Class,” a marvelously ironic duet with Mama, lamenting the lack of class in 1920s Chicago. Perhaps it is because of this confidence that Velma’s desperation to reclaim her throne as criminal queen is vivid both in its hilarity and frustration. Conti as Roxie Hart is a credible threat to Burt’s Velma; where Velma is dark and charismatic, Roxie is sweet and conniving. Conti expertly blurs the line between despicability and sympathy. Her Roxie is charming and girlish, save for the sheer size of her ambition and her capacity for murder.

In between their two characters, Leverett as Billy Flynn plays his role with gusto. Apart from nailing crescendos in a way Richard Gere in the 2002 film version of “Chicago” never could, Leverett invites not only Roxie, but the audience, to trust him in his ability to turn the courthouse into a showroom. He is a character of questionable morality who could be easily played as a snake, but Leverett makes the audience silently root for his success. His performance is akin to a magician performing a trick that the audience very well knows is fake — yet we still hope to be amazed.

If Velma, Roxie and Billy provide

the rapturous entertainment that captures the audience’s attention, it’s O’Leary as Amos Hart who captures the audience’s heart. Amos is a hapless character who seems barely capable of standing out in a grimy garage, where he works as mechanic, let alone the flamboyant stage of “Chicago.” O’Leary embraces the utter pathetic nature of his character; his long-faced expression and perpetually furrowed brows contribute to the heart-tugging impact of his rendition of “Mr. Cellophane.”

Mekertichyan, who played Mama on Friday night, is delightful, capturing an elegance that seems simultaneously maternal and friendly as well as calculating and vicious.

Mekertichyan is very good at making Mama seem to care; she looks appropriately sympathetic, concerned and even upset when her “children” of Murderess Row come under attack. But there is a sinister element underneath her warm mother hen persona, and Mekertichyan portrays the sense of satisfaction that Mama feels while participating in her illegal favor exchange with the convicted women under her watch.

Paulina Calcaterra ’19, who attended the performance over the weekend, said that she thought the show had been really well-rehearsed and admired the performer’s energy.

“The cast had really good chemistry and did the Broadway show and the movie justice while making the show their own,” Calcaterra said. “I was also really impressed by the freshman actors.”

Clara Chin ’19, another attendee, said that she thought the performance was dynamic and that

the cast’s singing ability carried the show.

“I like that there was a lot of involvement with the audience, the orchestra and the performers,” Chin said. “It ended up creating a nice synergy.”

Monik Walters ’19, who played one of the singers in the show’s “Cell Block Tango” number, said that she considered the cast to be a huge family. She said that the professionalism of the production exceeded her experience in high school productions, and that this professionalism was integral to the show’s success.

“This has been really exciting and I think being on stage is almost like revealing another part of yourself,” Walters said. “A lot of my friends might hear me talking about rehearsal but they won’t be able to see how much work I’ve put in until they see me on stage and see how much I love performing.”

Walters also said that the performance showcased the level of dedication and passion for the show by the cast and crew. The lighting, the set design and the backstage support had to come together to add to the magic of the entire show, she said.

“I’m happy that a lot of students were able to come to the performances [last weekend], and I hope that we’ll be able to keep that up,” Walters said. “I think the arts often end up being overlooked, so I’m glad I can contribute to something that could have someone reconsider how important the arts are.”

Chin is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

TUESDAY LINEUP

WOMEN’S LACROSSE VS. UNH 3 PM

Women’s basketball extends win streak to four games

By ASHLEY DUPUIS The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s basketball team extended its win streak to four games, beating Cornell University 60-52 and Columbia University 63-53 at home this past weekend. The weekend’s victories improve the Big Green’s record to 11-15 overall and 6-4 in league.

On Friday night, Dartmouth came out strong against Cornell (13-11, 5-5 Ivy), taking an early lead within minutes of tip-off. Lakin Roland ’16 kicked off the Big Green’s attack on offense with a 3-pointer before the team rallied to unleash a 7-0 run midway through the quarter and take a 17-9 lead with over three minutes left in the first. Amber Mixon ’18 gave the Big Green a late quarter spark as well with a steal and subsequent fast break lay-up, improving the team’s lead to 10 points. The first quarter alone saw the home team earn six steals.

“In the first quarter we zoned them,” head coach Belle Koclanes said. “We didn’t really play a lot of zone the first time we played Cornell.

This time around we said we need to do something different so we went zone.”

The second quarter reflected

the same strong offensive game of the first for Dartmouth. The half stayed in Dartmouth’s control until Cornell ended the quarter on an 7-0 run with 4:09 remaining in the half.

Dartmouth, however, still remained in the lead 37-30.

“Amber’s defense will always be able to generate offense for herself and you saw that here tonight,” Koclanes said. “She is just getting more and more confident. She’s capable of getting to that rim and we’re going to keep working at it.”

Dartmouth managed to hold the lead over the Big Red throughout the third quarter, with three Dartmouth players reaching double figures in the quarter. Cornell fought back in the fourth quarter, closing the gap to three points with less than two minutes remaining on a 3-pointer by Megan LeDuc to make the score 55-52.

Still, the Big Green managed to hold on to its lead and keep Cornell scoreless for the remainder of the game. A late jumper by Roland forced the Big Red to foul for the remainder of the game and gave Dartmouth a crucial basket, while Mixon knocked down some late free throws to seal the victory for the home team.

Dartmouth’s performance against Cornell marked a departure from

their play throughout the season.

Where once the team’s play was distinguished by a few strong solo performances, this match-up versus the Big Red saw a team effort, and strong play throughout their lineup, as evidenced by the team’s 52.2 percent shooting percentage from the field.

“Defensively we got in passing lanes and offensively we made shots,” Koclanes said. “The defense is always better when your offense is on point.”

Roland contributed 18 points and six rebounds. Kate Letkewicz ’18 posted an impressive 16 points and Fanni Szabo ’17 topped the night off with 11 points and eight rebounds.

Mixon’s defensive work led to five steals, and she finished the night with seven points.

The Big Green continued to play well the next day, taking an early lead for the second night against another New York rival, Columbia (12-13, 1-9 Ivy) for the team’s annual Pink Game for breast cancer awareness.

The night’s emphasis on breast cancer awareness has a very personal impact and connection for the team, as Big Green player Mixon lost her own mother to cancer.

“We fought this weekend, just like so many others [with cancer] are

fighting,” Mixon said. “It was a big thing and special night with it being the pink weekend.”

By the end of the first, Dartmouth led the Lions by 10, with Letkewicz draining a 3 at the end of the quarter.

Dartmouth began to stumble slightly in the second quarter when the Lions turned the tables and went on a 9-2 run, leaving the score 21-16.

With only 2:06 left to play in the first half Columbia’s persistence paid off by tying the score at 25. Columbia continued to put the Big Green on the defensive by taking a 4-point lead into halftime.

“We got lackadaisical in the first half after we got the early lead, so [at halftime Koclanes] just emphasized effort, and focusing on what was in our control,” Roland said.

The third quarter proved to be a game of tug of war between the two teams, until a shot from Letkewicz broke Columbia’s lead setting the Big Green off on an offensive assault.

Mixon continued to be a defensive force for Dartmouth, stealing the ball from Columbia before feeding the ball to teammate Szabo under the rim improving the Dartmouth’s lead to 4-points with 9:23 left in the game.

Dartmouth continued to build off

its regained lead in the fourth, with another steal from Mixon helping to seal the game in favor of the Big Green. The victory over Columbia marked the fourth game of the Big Green’s longest win streak this season.

The win puts Dartmouth at fourth in the Ivy League standings.

“We’re focused on progress and developing each individual player and their skill sets every single day,” Koclanes said. “When we ask them to execute our offense at the highest level that’s our focus. It’s constant teaching day to day and within the game. They have been so coachable and we’re getting better.”

Roland and Letkewicz both recorded 20-plus point performances, with 24 and 20 points respectively.

Letkewicz’s also secured her fourth double-double with 10 rebounds, with Roland picked up nine boards. “[This weekend] we were performing more up to our potential, but we still have more to give,” Roland said. “We’re all on the same page, so that makes it easier for everyone to contribute.”

The Big Green will return to court for its final home weekend of the season facing Brown University on Friday at 7 p.m. and Yale University on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Skiing finishes second despite strong individual performances

By MAX KANEFIELD The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s and women’s alpine teams finished the Williams Carnival with arguably their best performances of the season, grabbing six podium spots. The Nordic team grabbed two spots — both by Fabian Stocek ’17.

The Big Green cruised to a second place overall finish. Although the University of Vermont staved off the Big Green alpine and Nordic teams’ efforts to unseat its top spot at this and past carnivals, the Big Green managed to finish in a close second in the overall points, 992-919.

In the last carnival before the NCAA Regional Championships get underway, the Dartmouth slalom racers captured the top spot in both the men’s and women’s competitions..

Brian McLaughlin ’18 and Kevyn Read ’18 led the Dartmouth men to two podium spots, second and third respectively. McLaughlin and Read turned in the two fastest times on their first runs with McLaughlin

three-tenths of a second ahead of his teammates — 56.08 seconds to 56.38.

The two Big Green sophomores would slide one spot down after the second runs, but their finishes, along with an eighth place finish from Brian Francis ’18, earned the men’s alpine team back to back wins in the slalom after winning the event at the Dartmouth Carnival.

With the men’s alpine team building momentum, the women’s alpine team matched the accomplishments with two slalom podiums as well. Alexa Dlouhy ’19 continued her stellar season with a third place finish of 1:57.02, just narrowly behind teammate Kelly Moore’s ’18 1:56.95. The two stellar finishes gave Dartmouth four podium appearances in the slalom in a sweep of the men’s and women’s events.

“I can say that we were all very, very happy, because I think that was our best result all year,” Dlouhy said.

Dlouhy said the women’s alpine team had the top two finishes in the giant slalom on Friday to start Foreste

Peterson and Moore, and then great runs in the slalom.

Dlouhy added that the men’s alpine team also came through and added its best performance of the year, with two podium finishes. She added that it was a great weekend for the team all around, and the team left the event happy with its performances.

Peterson and Moore’s one-two finish in the giant slalom — along with Hannah Melinchuk’s ’19 seventh place finish, earned women’s alpine wins in both their events. The Big Green found some momentum in this last race before championship races begin.

Dartmouth’s Nordic teams used energy and motivation from a new race format to surge to strong performances in the 10K freestyle and the 5K Classic. With first day times used to start the races on day two, racers had the chance to catch and pass other skiers who were a few seconds ahead of them during the day one race.

“It was a really fun way of racing, the way they set it up was really

unique,” Mary O’Connell ’16 said.

O’Connell said that though the team had never participated in this race format before, the skiers had a “lot of fun.”

Lydia Blanchet ’19 led the Dartmouth Nordic women in the 5K classic with a 44:54.7 combined time that was good for fifth overall. O’Connell turned in a seventh place finish and Emily Hannah ’16 rounded out Dartmouth’s top three finishers at ninth.

For yet another carnival this season, the Nordic women’s top three scores came from inside the top ten.

On the men’s side, the Nordic team got solid showing from consistent sources as well as new ones. First, it was Stocek putting in another pair of top finishes, finishing on the podium at third in both the 10K freestyle and the 5K classic.

“I was really satisfied,” Stocek said. “I have been trying to hold that standard all season, so I haven’t left the top five in any of my distance races. I was expecting a finish that would be around that, but obviously

third is better than fourth.”

Stocek added that he was really happy to place in the top three and prevent UVM from sweeping the event.

While Stocek continued his trend of consistently excellent races, the team looked to new racers to step up and deliver good performances.

The need became heightened when captain Oscar Friedman ’16 dropped from the race due to a fever after the first day.

“On Saturday, I was really happy with all the new guys’ performances,” Stocek said. “Gavin McEwen [’19], who’s a freshman, and his goal was to be able to get a top ten this season, and he got a top ten [in the 10K freestyle] for the first time, so I was happy about that. The overall team put four people in the top ten, so it was definitely a solid performance on our end.”

The Big Green now turns to the Middlebury Carnival, which will host the NCAA Regional Championships and EISA Regionals. The championships will be raced on Feb. 26 to 27.