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Delta Delta Delta sorority will disaffiliate from its national organization and become a local sorority after a chapter-wide vote, Tri-Delt president Lauren Buchanan ’16 said Thursday. Tri-Delt will need to select a new name, new colors and will also face various logistical hurdles before it can officially reincorporate.

“We’re going to be the same sorority,” Buchanan said. “We feel very strongly that we are Dartmouth Tri-Delt before we are Tri-Delta, which is what our national wants us to call it.”

Buchanan said that College officials have confirmed that the sorority will not need to undergo the colony phase that most new Greek organizations undergo when they reincorporate as a local

More than 70 percent of Delta Delta Delta sorority members voted to localize.

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50.4 percent commit to the Class of 2019

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With a yield of 50.4 percent for the Class of 2019, the proportion of students accepting the College’s offer of admission has declined from last year’s yield of 54.5 percent but is up from 48.5 percent in 2013. For the past decade, the yearly yield rate has hovered around 50 percent,

according to a College statement.

To date, 1,115 students have accepted offers of admission to the Class of 2019, a decrease from the 1,210 students that accepted admission offers for the Class of 2018 — which exceeded class size projections — but marking an increase from the 1,093 students who committed to the Class of 2017.

The College has admitted 93 students

from the waitlist, and the admissions office is using the waitlist to ensure the Class of 2019 is the size it wants, admissions director Paul Sunde wrote in an email.

He wrote that admissions expects to enroll about 20 transfer students.

Fourteen percent of the Class of 2019 are first-generation college students, an eight-year high and increase from 11.2 percent of the Class of 2018. Sunde wrote

that the College has been working with community-based organizations across the U.S. to encourage high-ability, lowincome students to consider Dartmouth.

The class is also made up of the largest proportion of Asian American students ever at 19.6 percent. Sunde wrote that there has been an overall increasing trend in the percentage of Asian American

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Compton delivers $20 mil.to start Byrne math program State of Geisel address B y KATIE RAFTER

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In his inaugural State of the Medical School address Thursday evening, interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton announced that Geisel is on its way to becoming financially stable after a year of budget adjustments. Before an audience of about 100, three faculty members also received lifetime achievement awards and nine were inducted into the Geisel Academy of Faculty Master

Educators.

Compton said in his address that when he first became dean last July, he recognized an immediate need to correct “overly optimistic revenue projections.” Since Geisel’s budget was altered in September, its finances have remained on target, he said.

In an interview, Compton said that Geisel is working to both increase funding from research grants and decrease expenses to reduce its deficit.

For the 2014 fiscal year, Geisel SEE GEISEL PAGE 5

The College has announced the creation of the Jack Byrne Scholars Program in Math and Society after a donation of $20 million from Dorothy Byrne in honor of her late husband. The College will match the gift with a contribution of $5 million from the $100 million gift to support academic excellence that the College received in 2014.

The program has three components, according to the College. First, Dartmouth will name 32 undergraduate Byrne Scholars — eight per class year

— who will be eligible for grants that will sponsor math-related projects and research. Second, the College will award the John J. Byrne Jr. Prize in Mathematics — a $35,000 graduate fellowship — to a member of the senior class each year. Third, three new professorships focused on mathematics applied to societal issues will be endowed.

Byrne said in an email that she chose to honor her husband with this gift because of his interest in both mathematics and education.

“He never lost his enthusiasm for mathematics and was aware of the power of mathematics

to solve the world’s complex problems,” she said.

She said the late Byrne would have been pleased to play a part in the lives of math scholars at the College and help to foster collaboration between the math department, the department of computer science and the Tuck School of Business.

Byrne said the College continues to play a role in her family’s lives, and added that they are grateful for the impact it has had on their lives. She said she hopes that the program created through the gift will further the interests of mathematicians SEE BYRNE PAGE 5

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Record number of first- Students present research at symposium generation students commit to Class of 2019 B y RACHEL FAVORS

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students per class at the College, and this year’s numbers are in line with that trend.

The Class of 2019 also has the largest West Coast contingent ever at 23.6 percent of the class. Sunde wrote that there has been a national demographic shift with more students graduating from high school in the West, which would logically be reflected in the Class of 2019.

Fifty-one percent of the class will be granted need-based financial aid and about 14 percent qualify for Pell Grants.

The average award for 46 percent of the class will be $44,161.

Ninety-one percent of the students are in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes, a slight decline from last year’s 94 percent. Mean SAT scores for the class are 717 for critical reading, 722 for math and 722 for writing. About 56 percent of the class went to a public high school, similar to last year’s 55.3 percent, which was an increase from the year before.

More than eight percent of students are international.

Last year’s entering class saw the highest-ever percentage of Latino students and first-generation college students, the latter record which the Class of 2019 has now surpassed.

The Dimensions of Dartmouth program, now split into three dates, saw higher attendance than past years, as it did last year when additional dates were first added, Sunde wrote. This year’s on-campus program was similar to last year’s, but more off-campus events were held than in the past and early feedback on those events have been positive, he wrote.

About 20,500 students applied to the Class of 2019 and 2,213 were accepted, for an acceptance rate of 10.8 percent.

There was a more than 10 percent increase in early decision applications for the Class of 2019 last fall.

The University of Pennsylvania saw a 66 percent yield for its 2019 class, while Harvard University saw an 81 percent yield. Princeton University saw a 68.6 percent yield for its 2019 class, after the yield was lowered from a record-high 69.4 percent yield due to 14 students deferring their admission to the Class of 2020.

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The May 27 article “Link Up holds conference for middle school girls” did not include the Dartmouth Investment in Philanthropy Program in the list of organizations that funded the event. The article has been updated online.

The May 26 article “Memorial Challenge raises $35,672 for cardiac research reported that the challenge consisted of an hour of CrossFit exercises, when it actually was 27 minutes. Additionally, the article reported that Blaine Steinberg ’15 died of heart complications when she died of a sudden heart attack. The Dartmouth regrets this error.

The College held its 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium in the Life Sciences Center on Thursday, with 232 students participating — the highest number in the symposium’s history — and 176 poster presentations, undergraduate advising and research assistant director Kathy Weaver, who coordinated the symposium, said.

The symposium is open to the public each year and showcases student research, as well as a keynote address given by a successful woman in science in a different field each year. This year’s keynote speaker was Kathleen White, lead for the Climate Preparedness and Resilience Community of Practice in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who spoke about climate change and engineering.

Since its establishment in 1992, the symposium has increased significantly, from hosting 40 presenters its first year to this year’s 232, outgrowing its former venues of Alumni Hall and Fairchild Hall, Weaver said.

Weaver said student poster presentations help students realize their accomplishments through verbal and written engagement with a broader audience.

“The symposium is a real celebration,” she said. “It is about inspiration, raising awareness, raising levels of science literacy and encouraging the next generation of scientists.”

The symposium began with the recognition of undergraduate student faculty mentors who advised student presenters’ research processes, followed by the presentation of awards for student research and White’s keynote address. The symposium concluded with a poster

session where students stood by their posters and answered questions from symposium attendees.

During this year’s address, White spoke about climate change, mainly pertaining to projected precipitation levels, rise in sea levels and the prevalence of floods and droughts.

She discussed the need for people to be realistic about climate change rather than too pessimistic or optimistic. White said that the world has the ability to make the changes that need to be made to stop drastic climate change.

White concluded with career advice for undergraduate students planning to go into the scientific fields.

“If I am not making mistakes, then I am not taking enough risks to make a difference,” White said in her speech.

She emphasized the importance of challenging oneself and one’s standards during a career.

This year, the winner of the symposium’s inaugural Library Research in the Sciences Award was Annie Fagan ’15, whose senior honors thesis was on the tropical dry forest streams across a land-use gradient in Costa Rica. Lora Leligdon, librarian at Kresge Physical Sciences Library and organizer of the award, said that the competition, new this year and judged by a panel of College librarians, was meant to encourage students to reflect on the research and inquiry components of their scientific question.

“We want to hear about the student’s reflective learning process,” she said. “We want to see them connect their library research with scientific research.”

The other award presented during the symposium was the Christopher G. Reed Science Competition Award, which was sponsored by the

Dartmouth chapter of scientific research society Sigma Xi and honors outstanding scientific research by college seniors. Because of their extensive research and intense work, all participants in this competition were nominated for associate membership in Sigma Xi, chemistry professor and Sigma Xi Dartmouth chapter president Dean Wilcox said when presenting the award. This year’s winner was Nina Maksimova ’15 whose senior honors thesis was on chiral gravitational wave production in gaugeflation.

Along with recognizing student scientific research and achievement, the symposium also recognizes professors for their role in the mentoring process.

Ajay Kannan ’15, a second-place winner in the Christopher G. Reed Science Competition, said that professors at the College make it easy to dive into the research process, which he described as a key aspect of Dartmouth’s appeal.

Elizabeth Morse ’15, a participant in the symposium, also said Dartmouth’s undergraduate research attracted her to the College.

“The research opportunities are one of the reasons that I came to Dartmouth,” she said. “Being at Dartmouth, I was able to get involved from my freshman winter and I have been involved ever since.”

Research engineer in the physics and astronomy department David McGaw ’85, who attended the symposium, said he always enjoys the event because of the keynote address and for the opportunity to see the depth of the research and what students are working on.

The symposium is held annually in honor of the late Karen E. Wetterhahn, former chemistry professor and cofounder of the Women in Science Project at the College.

The May 28 article “Committee proposes harsher grading, eliminating NRO” reported that biology professor Lee Witters declined to comment. The online story has been updated to reflect that he was unavailable for comment.

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Students present ideas at this term’s iteration of “The Pitch.”

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Over 200 students presented research at the 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium.

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organization.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the College will support Tri-Delt financially through the localization process, although what those costs could be remain uncertain.

A threshold of 70 percent of members was needed for the localization vote to pass, Buchanan said. While the vote was “close,” she does not anticipate that many members who voted against localization will choose to disaffiliate from the new local organization.

“I think that most sisters who are against it are still very connected to the house and excited about the house and realize that we aren’t going to be a materially different sorority,” she said.

While a document on localization released by the Panhellenic Council earlier this term said that a national organization’s house can remain with the national if a significant number of members choose to remain affiliated with the national sorority, rather than the new local one, Buchanan said that she anticipates that Tri-Delt will keep its house when it becomes a local sorority.

Tri-Delt will now undergo a number of administrative and technical arrangements before it can reincorporate as a local sorority. Among those arrangements will be reincorporation as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the state, organizing a new insurance scheme through the College rather than the national organization, and some reorganization of accounts and finances.

Tri-Delt members voted on localization about two weeks ago, but the results were not announced until Thursday because of the need to clarify with College officials the status of the sorority’s finances, Buchanan said. The sorority had to confirm that in the event the national organization seized the over $90,000 in finances it keeps in a chapter savings account with national, the College would compensate the house for that money, she said. On Thursday, interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer told Tri-Delt Buchanan that the College would commit to doing so, Buchanan said.

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“You won’t be able to knock on TriDelt’s basement door and come on in whenever you want,” Buchanan said.

“They’re welcome if they’re invited, but we value our safe space.”

Major factors in the decision to localize included the perception of many members that Dartmouth’s branch of Tri-Delt did not align closely with its national organization’s priorities and financial concerns brought on by the high percentage of dues that are sent to the national organization, she said.

Around 60 percent of Tri-Delt’s termly dues are sent to its national organization, Tri-Delt vice president of finance Lauren Martin ’16 said.

While Tri-Delt has the lowest dues of any sorority, its national organization also receives a very high percentage of those dues, Buchanan said.

Financial aid was a major factor in Tri-Delt’s decision to localize. The national organization bans the sorority from awarding financial aid to members, a practice that Dartmouth’s branch of Tri-Delt has traditionally ignored, Martin said.

“We’ve never done it, and we were never going to do it, but their policy is

that if you can’t pay all of your dues, after a certain amount of time you can’t participate in any sisterhood events, and after a certain amount of time you can’t participate in any Tri-Delt events, then after 90 days you’re just automatically terminated and lose all of your privileges,” she said.

The sorority maintains a separate bank account in Hanover that it currently uses to provide financial aid against the rules of its national, Martin said. This term, Tri-Delt met 100 percent of the financial aid needs of its members.

“That’s something that we actively and necessarily have to hide from everyone who works for our national organization,” she said.

Tri-Delt does not anticipate raising its dues when it becomes local and may cut them within several terms if the financial transition is smooth, Martin said.

Since Tri-Delt does not anticipate opening its basement to campus, it hopes social dues will remain consistent with current figures, Buchanan said.

“We don’t foresee this big increase in ‘beer money’ that the other local sororities have to front,” she said.

Roughly $65,000 per year will be saved by localizing, Martin said. The house will, however, face higher insurance costs by localizing since it must buy insurance through the College instead

of its national organization, she said.

The maximum limit of $12,000 per year that local sororities pay the College for insurance is “about double” what Tri-Delt pays its national for insurance, Martin said.

Tri-Delt hopes to have resolved the logistics of localizing by the fall and will begin meeting in coming weeks to decide upon a new name, colors, constitution and bylaws, Buchanan said. The organization will lose paraphernalia associated with its national organization now that it has decided to localize. This could include binders, contracts and other items, she said.

The house hopes that its localization process will serve as a model for other houses curious about going local, Buchanan said.

“We hope that from all of the research we’ve done and all of the prodding we’ve done, it will open up the opportunity for other sororities that are also interested in going local to make that change, because lack of information shouldn’t be a reason why an organization doesn’t disaffiliate from their national if their members want them to,” she said.

Panhellenic Council spokesperson Allison Chou ’17 could not comment due to time constraints. Greek Leadership Council chair Elizabeth Wilkins ’16 did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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Staff Columnist ANNIKA PARK ’18

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Expecting Too Much

Mistaken on Inflation

Stricter criteria for top-tier letter grades do not academic rigor make.

This spring marks the first full term since College President Phil Hanlon announced the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative.

Students on campus have already been noticing changes both small and large. Beyond the availability, or lack thereof, of hard alcohol at on-campus parties — arguably the most visible change in student life — students have increasingly noticed the College’s focus on strengthening academic rigor. The plan to hold Saturday classes this fall term no doubt contributed to a discontent among students, most of whom were dissatisfied with the prospect of having to spend Friday nights in the library finishing work for their classes early the next morning. Yet none of this compares to the proposals of the ad hoc committee on grading practices and grade inflation to completely revamp the grading system, with the goal of making As and Bs more difficult to achieve and the potential elimination of the non-recording option.

There is a difference between inflating grades and the interest and effort that students put in to a class. There is also a difference between giving grades that are a true reflection of the student’s ability and performance and significantly withholding good grades from deserving students.

The committee’s report suggests adhering more strictly to current criteria for the grading scale, so that As are only awarded for “excellence,” Bs for “good mastery” and Cs for “acceptable mastery.”

The issue with this rubric is not in that an A is awarded for excellence — as it should be — but that a C is for “acceptable mastery.”

Conventionally, a C is a passing average. Yet for many, a C would be a stain on their transcripts.

While that is perhaps revealing of the mindset that the typical student has on camapus, there is nothing wrong with wanting a stellar academic record. It would be wrong to expect the best without giving your best, but the fact that “adequate knowledge” of a certain topic only warrants a C is a scary thought. If a C is “acceptable mastery,” which is often the case given the short 10-week terms at Dartmouth, would a struggling student then immediately be handed a D or lower?

For instance, consider students who are capable of following a professor’s guide sheet on

logging data into Stata, the software used by the Government 10 and Economics 10 courses. Yet it takes them awhile to remember commands off the top of their heads and manipulate data dexterously. According to the guidelines set forth by the committee, they will likely receive B-minus or a C-plus.

Adjusting grading standards in this manner has the potential to negatively impact future career plans. While the College might perceive a C as “acceptable mastery” of a skill or a topic, a potential employer looking at our transcripts will probably view it as incompetence. The discrepancy of a C at Dartmouth and a C in the outside world will likely hit future graduates hard, and the College cannot just assume that employers will take its grading rubric into account.

In a May 28 story in The Dartmouth, computer science professor and committee member Thomas Cormen criticized students for putting their extracurriculars before their academics. In other words, he is accusing students of prioritizing the Dartmouth experience ahead of the quality of learning they take away from this place. This is a valid criticism, seeing as the College is known for its “Camp Dartmouth” vibe as much as it is for the quality of its undergraduate teaching. Yet Cormen misses the bigger picture. What defines the character of the Dartmouth student — and, by extension, Dartmouth College — is the energy with which students pursue an eclectic mix of interests, inside and outside the classroom.

That professors can insinuate that students lack academic passion because they are committed to and passionate about their extracurriculars is, in my opinion, insulting.

Enforcing academic rigor does not come from making higher grades a more exclusive distinction. It comes from improving the quality of the professors and the teaching material so that more students have the drive and support to achieve As and Bs. Before finding fault with students who are apparently undeserving of good grades, faculty and administrators should reflect on whether the bigger threat to academic rigor comes from the dropping quality of teaching and curriculum content in certain departments and courses.

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The fallacies in the report on grade inflation disrespect students and faculty.

In the hopes of effectively combating a data show the NRO’s true colors — a way perceived intellectual laziness at this school, for students “to drastically reduce their effort the ad hoc committee on grade inflation, in a course.” We are shocked that members chaired by biology professor Mark McPeek, of the faculty would write off and belittle published a 16-page report detailing proposed students with such cynicism. We believe fixes for grade inflation at the College. We find that the benefits — encouraged intellectual the proposal’s content and attitude toward exploration, greater academic freedom and students to be patronizing and misguided, possible leeway for student-athletes, student divorced from the realities of modern college employees or those struggling with mental life by the committee’s ideological tilt. health issues — outweigh the potential for The committee report cites student course some students to use the NRO as a coasting assessment data indicating that students who mechanism. Students who wish to explore report fewer hours per week spent on course- unfamiliar or challenging subjects should not work also expect a higher grade in that course. be forced to gamble with their transcripts and In other words, a student who expects an A fear the prospect of a withdrawal. in a particular course reports having spent We appreciate that the report explicitly less time on that course outside of class than disavows proposals to force faculty to set target a student who expects a B. “Our own data medians, among other similar measures. Yet show conclusively,” the committee wrote, the overall report is blinded by its insistence “that when students expect high grades, on preventing “low-performing students” they are not motivated to work as hard as from getting grades that they do not deserve. when they do not expect high grades.” To Attempting to return grade distributions to derive any conclusions regarding students’ their 1970s levels with no consideration for motivation — or lack thereof — from data how the expectations of American university that are purely numerical is not only flawed students have changed since then — including but irresponsible. As many of us learned in an increased focus on extracurricular comour respective introductory statistics courses, mitments, despite the committee’s apparent correlation should not be confused with contempt for student passions beyond doing causation. homework — fails to actually address any Further, commitperceived deficiency tee members do not in academic rigor.

“If the College chooses to pursue The grade a student entertain the notion the measures recommended that students who receives in a class specialize in various in this report in full, and the does not necessarily subjects can reason- median grade drifts down to reflect that course’s ably expect a higher its rightful place at a B, fewer difficulty or intellecgrade without spend- students will choose to spend tual value. Difficult ing as much time on their four undergraduate years courses can have A homework and as- in Hanover.” and A-minus mesignments than they dians. Unfulfilling might in less familiar courses that fail to subjects. In such cases, any reported differ- live up to the College’s excellence in teachences in time do not necessarily equate to a ing can have medians that are much lower student’s lack of motivation or a course’s lack — and endless hours spent on a course can of rigor, but merely reflect varying talents. be indicative of poor teaching as much as Reported time spent on coursework is a student motivation. Just as determining misleading proxy for academic effort. More- which students are truly less deserving of over, the report fails to account for the bias the grades they receive is more complex inherent in statistics based on self-reporting. than simple “hours-in” calculus, determining Few students at the College would claim which professors could be structuring their that their time estimates on course assess- courses better, engaging more with students ments — which are voluntarily completed and teaching more effectively is far more in exchange for early access to termly grades complicated than tracking termly medians. on BannerStudent — are informed by the Grade inflation is, without a doubt, an diligent logging of hours spent on academics undesirable phenomenon. But doubling down throughout the term. on the traditional definitions of letter grades is More troubling is the report’s suggestion a poor course of action. If the College chooses that the College abolish the non-recording to pursue the measures recommended in this option. First, not all students who elect the report in full, and the median grade drifts NRO expect to receive an NR in that course, down to its rightful place at a B, fewer students and thus the group of students who self- will choose to spend their four undergraduate reported an expected NR does not include all years in Hanover. Ultimately, it is naïve to students who elected the option. Moreover, think that high school applicants and their for the students who do expect to receive families will stomach the College’s high tuition the NR, pouring time into the course after if they can get a more fulfilling, well-rounded it becomes clear you will not meet your goal experience at our peer institutions — and is wasteful. The committee dismisses the a better transcript to boot. Grade inflation NRO’s purpose — to encourage students to does not have to diminish the intellectual take advantage of difficult classes outside of strength of Dartmouth — antagonizing and their comfort zones — as “high-minded.” The discouraging students from enjoying all that report proclaims that the course assessment Dartmouth has to offer surely will.

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at the College and lead them to enjoy the subject in the way that her husband did.

Mathematics department chair Dana Williams said that the gift is a huge opportunity for the department.

He said he hopes the gift will attract talented students with an interest in mathematics to come study at the College as well as provide the department with more money to support scholars.

“One of the interesting things about the gift is it contributes to the undergraduate mission, the graduate mission and the research mission of the College all in one gift,” Williams said.

Mathematics professor Dan Rockmore, who said he will help arrange the program but not oversee it, also highlighted how the program will help with recruiting efforts.

He compared the program to the actions of John Kemeny, the College’s 13th president, who travelled around the country trying to recruit talented mathematics students.

“There will be more excellent, mathematically- and quantitativelyminded students on campus interested in taking those courses, and it’s going to do a lot for the overall intellectual environment,” he said.

Rockmore said one key benefit of the donation is the recruitment of the new professors to the College, who will be working in the fields of statistics, probability and the mathematics of decision-making.

“These professorships will add to the growing community of researchers and teachers here who are interested in applying mathematics to the social sciences and economic sciences,” he said.

These professors will be able to advise students with similar interests and offer courses related to this area of mathematics, Rockmore said.

Williams said that the new professors will help the visibility of the department because two of the positions will be distinguished professorships. He added that, with these professors, the department will be able to offer more courses in applied math, which is becoming increasingly popular at the College.

The department hopes to begin recruiting for these new positions over the 2015-2016 academic year, Williams said, adding that the earliest the department can expect a new professor to take up residence is the year after that.

Williams said that the mechanics of the program will change over time. If a Byrne scholar decides not to major in math, he said, they will remain a scholar, but their grant money must be spent on projects with mathematical components.

Rockmore said that current students will also have the opportunity to enter the program based on interest and ability. Students in the program will have funds available to them to support their research, allow them to travel to conferences and access special programming.

Rockmore said programs like this serve to recognize outstanding achievement in students, and said it is important to have a mechanism that brings students together over a common interest.

“The extent to which you can support a student and give them the experience of being in an earnest, engaged, intellectual community is an important thing, which all colleges strive to support,” he said.

Jared Lichtman ’18, one of the first Byrne scholars to be named, said that he was surprised when he was invited to the program. He added that he was not previously aware of any programs like this in the mathematics department.

He is currently planning on majoring in math and said the program will bring more attention to the mathematics department as well as draw math majors closer together.

AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS

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Students from the Tuck School of Business discuss internships in China.

posted a $5.5 million deficit.

Compton said in his address that with the new fiscal policies, Geisel is projected to save about $46 million over the next five years.

Geisel’s tuition for the upcoming school year will increase by 2.9 percent, Compton said. To increase tuition revenue, Geisel will raise its median class enrollment by three students, he said. Geisel received more than 5,800 applications for 90 spots in its Class of 2019, up from 5,673 last year, he noted.

Compton said Geisel is developing a new health care delivery sciences course that first-year students will take in the fall of 2015. The additional course is fully budgeted and requires no additional financing, he added.

“I’m excited about adding this material,” he said. “We can use this health care delivery science material to help discriminate our curriculum from other schools and generate some differentiation.”

The new Williamson Translational Research Building is expected to open in early August and is on schedule and on budget, Compton said. It will house faculty from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Dartmouth Institute, among others, and the new space will allow Geisel to terminate its leases on

other spaces in the Upper Valley, saving Geisel about $2 million per year.

Geisel is responsible for more than 75 percent of sponsored research at the College, and over the past few years, sponsorship has remained flat while expenses increase, Compton said. The projected deficit in research funding is projected to be more than $36 million for fiscal year 2015, he said.

“I think it’s essential that we do research in the medical school, and it’s our job to budget appropriately so we can support those research activities,” he said. “I recognize the level of angst that exists right in the faculty and staff.

We are working as fast as we can to develop options.”

Compton said that during his three-year tenure, he hopes to recruit more faculty members and strengthen Geisel’s relationship with DHMC, as well as develop fields of study such as computational biology that attract philanthropic support. He said that he expects a capital fundraising campaign to start within the next two years, which could potentially be used to cut medical student tuition in half or create an endowment for every professor.

At the event, Kimberly Betts G’17 and Nicole Moraco G’17 received awards for excellence in public health from the U.S. Public Health Service.

The two students run Memory Cafe, a social group for those with Alzheimers.

Nine faculty members — Cantwell Clark, John Dick, Harley Friedman, Ann Gormley, Hugh Huizenga, Sarah Johansen, Kelly Kieffer, Alan Kono and Sharona Sachs — were inducted into the Geisel Academy of Master Educators. Students and colleagues introduced the inductees with anecdotes that emphasized how they have motivated and challenged their mentees.

Office of research and innovation in medical education director and Geisel professor Greg Ogrinc said the Academy is comprised of faculty — elected for their dedication to students — who mentor other faculty and conduct seminars on medical education. The program, started in 2012, has seen high levels of interest every year, he said.

“It’s an honor for those elected for their educational achievements,” Ogrinc said. “Teaching is giving a great deal of service to the school.”

Bridget Curley G’16 said she was honored when Kono asked her to introduce him at the event.

Asha McClurg G’16 said it is “wonderful” to have the opportunity to recognize individual professors with election to the Academy.

“You know these people are so deserving,” she said.

Geisel professors Peter Mason, Harold Schwartz and William Young also received lifetime educator awards.

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015

THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 2:00 p.m.

“Workshop on Ethics and Practical Reason,” Class of 1953 Commons, Paganucci Lounge

3:30 p.m.

“Utility of Breath Analysis to Diagnose and Monitor Systemic Disease,” Charles C. Jones seminar with Dr. Raed Dweik

6:30 p.m.

“Introducing...Walt Cunningham,” film special, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION & ETHICS AT DARTMOUTH Thinking with Nancy K. Frankenberry & Ronald M. Green

TOMORROW 9:00 a.m.

Religion department retirement symposium for religion professors Nancy Frankenberry and Ronald Green, Haldeman 41

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2015 41 HALDEMAN HALL 8:30am-5pm •

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Reception to follow in Russo Gallery, Haldeman Hall • Free & Open to All

9:30 a.m.

A Symposium Marking the Retirements of Nancy K. Frankenberry & Ronald M. Green, including:

“The Lady in Gold,” art and film lecture with David Bisno, Moore Building, Filene Auditorium

Robert C. Neville, Boston University Terry F. Godlove, Hofstra University Karen Lebacqz, Pacific School of Religion Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist University

5:00 p.m.

“Ex Machina” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

Nancy K. Frankenberry

Ronald M.Green

Co-sponsored by Dartmouth College Religion Department, Dean of the Faculty, and the Ethics Institute

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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This year in Big Green athletics was jam-packed with exciting, inspirational and historic moments.

Teams pulled monumental upsets, inscribed their names in the record books and wowed us all with clutch performances. Over the course of a year’s worth of these memorable moments, the five below stuck out as

the best of the best. Whether defined by one moment of athletic excellence or a game-long display of technical skill, these moments will remain in the minds of Dartmouth sports fans for years to come.

Vote in the poll on our website to select which of these moments will be crowned the best moment of the year in The D Sports Awards and check the Sports Weekly on Monday for the unveiling of the winner!

KRISTEN RUMLEY ’15 THREW A NO-HITTER

WON FIRST EVER AT NCAA TOURNAMENT

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BEST MOMENT BEAT YALE UNIVERSITY SHUTOUT THEN-NO. 1 ON LATE TOUCHDOWN BOSTON UNIVERSITY

UPSET YALE ON LAST SECOND LAYUP

TRACY WANG/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

WEIJIA TANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

FAITH ROTICH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

JEFFREY LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Football 10/11/14

Men’s Hockey 11/30/14

Men’s Basketball 3/7/15

Softball 3/28/15

Women’s Tennis 5/9/15

During the early parts of the 2014 football season on October 11, the Big Green completed a thrilling 38-31 comeback victory against Yale University, opening its Ivy League slate with two straight wins for the first time since 2001.

Possessing a lead for no more than three minutes prior, Dartmouth broke a 31-31 deadlock with 2:20 left in the fourth quarter. After netting a first down on a fourthand-one inside the four-yard line, first-team ll-Ivy quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 lunged into the end zone to provide the decisive score.

The touchdown run capped off one of the best games of Williams’ Dartmouth career. The junior had career highs in completions with 32 and passing yards with 388 — fourth most in program history — and added three scores in the air and one on the ground. His primary target in the Big Green air attack, Ryan McManus ’15, had himself a career day as well, with his 12 catches and 188 receiving yards the most in his career at the time. McManus added a touchdown catch and a 60-yard punt return, and his three receptions of 30-plus yards illustrated the dynamic offensive character of the entire game, to which both schools contributed.

The emphatic win, coming in only the second conference game, constituted a key stepping stone in the most successful Ivy League season since 1997 — six wins and a second-place finish in the conference.

There have been moments in every sport this year — tears and triumphs, buzzer beaters and nohitters. But there has not been a single game, a single victory, a single “What in Eleazer Wheelock’s name did I just see” performance that comes close to the men’s ice hockey team’s 2-0 victory over then-No. 1 Boston University.

The Terriers came to Hanover just days after the rest of the student body had fled campus for the winter interim — the seats of Thompson Arena feeling abandoned and overwhelmingly empty for what was about to be the first upset over the top team in the country in over a decade for Dartmouth hockey.

James Kruger ’16 went the full 60 minutes between the pipes and logged his second career shutout, turning away 23 shots to keep the Terriers subdued on offense, aided and abetted by a dynamite Big Green offense which was picking up its stride.

Brad Schierhorn ’16 netted both of the Dartmouth goals in the second period — five minutes apart. Captain Tyler Sikura ’15 assisted both of Schierhorn’s efforts on the night.

BU went on to let the national title slip away in the NCAA Frozen Four Finals against Providence College, collecting a 28-8-5 record overall. In all 41 games, the Big Green was the only team to hold the country’s longtime number one team scoreless.

One day after storming back from a 24-point deficit to beat Brown University, the men’s basketball team wrapped up its regular season with a thrilling upset against Yale University. The Bulldogs were scheduled to win the Ivy League title outright and head to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1962. Gabas Maldunas ’15 and company had a few last plays they wanted to get in first.

Down five points with 35 seconds to play, Miles Wright ’18 sank two free throws and a three-pointer to tie the game. Yale only managed to convert one of two free throws with two seconds left, giving Dartmouth one last chance to win the game.

Wright attempted a full-court heave to Maldunas that looked ontarget until a Yale player swatted the ball out-of-bounds.

John Golden ’15 inbounded the ball from underneath the basket to the only other senior on team, Maldunas. Due to a fantastic screen by Alex Mitola ’16, Maldunas found an open lane to the basket and laid the ball softly off the glass just before the buzzer sounded. The highlight made ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays.

Dartmouth finished at 0.500 with the win, making them postseason eligible for the first time since the 1998-1999 season. The Big Green faced off against the Canisius College Golden Eagles in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, Dartmouth’s first postseason game in 56 years.

During the 2015 season, the softball team continued to assert itself as the most dominant program in the Ivy League. The team swept the University of Pennsylvania in the Ivy League Championship series to collect its second consecutive Ivy title and NCAA tournament appearance.

Much of the recent success of the program has been due to the brilliance of three-time Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Kristen Rumley ’15. While her numbers across the season were consistently spectacular, Rumley cemented her legacy as an all-time great Dartmouth pitcher by throwing a no-hitter against Columbia University in the first game of a Saturday doubleheader.

On March 28, Rumley pitched the fifth no-hitter in Dartmouth softball history and the third one against Columbia. She struck out nine Lions over six innings, throwing 58 strikes on 75 pitches as the Big Green won the game 8-0.

Rumley struck out the side on the bottom of the second inning, but allowed a walk against Lions shortstop Maddison Gotts in a 10 pitch at-bat, the only mistake that kept her from achieving a perfect game.

This was the fourth victory of an 11-game win streak for the Big Green and the first no-hitter in over a decade since Danica Giugliano ’04 pitched a 1-0 nohitter — also against Columbia University — on April 17, 2004.

For the first time in program history, the women’s tennis team qualified for the NCAA Tournament. While there, the team won its first-ever NCAA tournament match, beating No. 49 College of William and Mary by a score of 4-1.

This historic victory came on the strength of strong performances from some of the women’s tennis team’s unsung heroes over the course of the year. Kristina Mathis ’18, Jacqueline Crawford ’17 and Julia Schroeder ’18 all won their singles matches to give the Big Green the decisive margin.

After the Big Green took the doubles point on the strength of its No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams, the team held an early 1-0 lead. Blowout wins by Crawford and Schroeder gave the team an impressive 3-0 margin, but Dartmouth’s victory was far from assured. After Katherine Yau ’16 fell to Jeltje Loomans, the lead was down to 3-1, and the Big Green’s three other singles players were all locked in tight battles. It was entirely conceivable that history would elude Dartmouth’s grasp on the May afternoon in North Carolina.

With grit and determination, Mathis clinched her own win and Dartmouth’s in an incredibly close match by a final score of 7-5, 7-6 (4). Her win sent the Big Green to the second round where the team lost 4-0 to the No. 2 University of North Carolina, who made it to the quarterfinals before falling to the University of California at Los Angeles.

— By Alexander Agadjanian

— By Gayne Kalustian

— By Ray Lu

— By Daniel Lee

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SPORTS Best Freshman Athlete

KRISTINA MATHIS ’18

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

PATRICK PETERSON ’18

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

CIRO RICCARDI ’18

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FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015

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When most students arrive at the College, they take a while to adjust to their surroundings and to learn how to succeed in Hanover. It is only later in their Dartmouth careers that they begin to produce true greatness, to excel in their chosen fields. For the below nominees for The Dartmouth

Sports Awards for best freshman athlete, the above description could not be more false. Whether in tennis, baseball, basketball or swimming, these talented ’18s showed the Dartmouth community just how great the Class of 2018 could be.

Vote in the below poll to choose this year’s best freshman athlete. The results will be revealed in the Sports Weekly this Monday!

MILES WRIGHT ’18

TAYLOR YAMAHATA ’18

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ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Tennis No. 3 Singles, No. 1 Doubles

Baseball Relief Pitcher

Tennis No. 3 Singles, No. 3 Doubles

Basketball Guard

Swimming and Diving Backstroke, Individual Medley

In her first year, Kristina Mathis has already made a tremendous mark on the women’s tennis team that ended its season ranked at No. 31 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings and received its first NCAA bid in program history.

The team, Mathis said, has worked unbelievably hard this season, and that work has definitely paid off.

After a solid start to the year in the fall, Mathis returned for play in the winter and found even more success, appearing at No. 34 on the ITA’s doubles ranking with Taylor Ng ’17 in January. In doubles, Mathis and Ng finished the season at 17-8 overall, and in singles, Mathis finished 24-9, mainly playing at the No. 3 spot.

On May 21, Mathis was named the Northeast Credit Union Athlete of the Week after a victory over the College of William and Mary’s Olivia Thaler, 7-5, 7-6 (4), in the first round of the NCAA Championship.

“Winning the clinching match in the first round of NCAAs was one of my most exhilarating moments,” Mathis said. “Having Dartmouth advance to the next round made me so proud of all that my team has accomplished thus far.”

After claiming a staggering 75 percent of the baseball team’s total saves, Patrick Peterson was named to the first-team all-Ivy this season.

His six saves tie him for the most in the Ivy League.

Peterson went 4-0 after making 13 total appearances on the rubber, second on the team in appearances only to the 15 of Chris Burkholder ’17. With a 3.76 ERA, Peterson’s .258 batting average against was second only to Dartmouth’s ace Duncan Robinson ’16, who was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Captain and right-hander Louis Concato ’14 said Peterson was invaluable in the bullpen.

“He really filled a hole for the back end of our bullpen which solidified our pitching staff throughout the year,” Concato said. “Whenever [head coach Bob Whalen] put him in the game everyone had the confidence to know that [Peterson] was going to throw strikes and attack hitters, keeping the score close and giving us a chance to win games.”

Peterson threw in two of the three Ivy League Championship Series games.

A blue chip prospect ranked in the top 10 of his recruiting class throughout his high school years, Ciro Riccardi found immediate success in his first season for the Dartmouth tennis program. After a stellar 2014-15 campaign, the freshman became only the second player in Big Green history to win the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.

Riccardi excelled in singles play with a 4-3 mark in Ivy League competition. After playing at the fifth spot in the singles lineup to start the season, head coach Chris Drake moved up the freshman in mid-February to the No. 3 spot where he would finish the year.

Riccardi completed all of his conference victories in straight sets fashion. Two of his three losses were closely contested and went the full three sets. Riccardi also concluded the season on a threematch winning streak and played a significant role in Dartmouth’s strong play down the stretch of the season, as his four Ivy singles wins all came during the team’s five-match win streak to finish the year.

After a stellar campaign in his first year at Dartmouth, Miles Wright became was the first Big Green basketball player to take home the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award since the 2003-2004 season. Wright’s performance in the winter contributed greatly to the basketball team qualifying for its first posteason game in 56 years.

Wright finished his rookie year on the men’s basketball team averaging 7.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game and shooting 43 percent from the floor. Wright’s numbers slotted him as the fourth leading scorer on the Big Green and second in three pointers made. Wright also became the second player in the program’s history to win consecutive Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards.

Wright saw playing time in every single game this season, starting 24 of a total 29. During the regular season finale against Yale University, Wright hit a pair of clutch free throws and a three-pointer to set up Gabas Maldunas ’15 for a game-winning layup. During one five-game stretch in February, Wright averaged 18.4 points per game, breaking the 20-point threshold twice in the same weekend against Yale and Brown University.

Despite a disappointing eighthplace finish for the women’s swimming and diving team at the Ivy League Championship, Taylor Yamahata ’18 served as a bright spot for the Big Green throughout the season.

Yamahata enjoyed a strong freshman year, performing exceptionally well in the women’s 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard individual medley throughout the season.

In the second to last meet of the regular season at the University of Connecticut, Yamahata had a team-best four wins, three coming in individual events.

She placed first in the women’s 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.81 seconds, first in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:04.58 and first in the 200-yard IM with a time of 2:09.66. In the final meet of the regular season, she finished first again in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:03.10, finishing more than three seconds ahead of the second place finisher, and second in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.41.

— By Kourtney Kawano

— By Gayne Kalustian

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— By Ray Lu

— By Daniel Lee