The Dartmouth 06/02/15

VOL. CLXXII NO. 93

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015

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Students, admins react to first full term under MDF

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By PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff

In the first full term since College President Phil Hanlon announced the details of his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, both students and administrators reported having felt little effect from the College’s new hard alcohol ban. Meanwhile, the working groups tasked with fleshing out the other aspects of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies are starting to receive feedback on their initial plans.

Associate dean of the College Liz Agosto said that, presently, the primary feature of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative is the continued discussion in working groups, which are working to create fully-fledged

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Earlier this term the MDF working committees talked through policy at an open panel.

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The health care delivery sciences and globalization academic clusters have each received $10 million gifts, bringing the total number of endowed clusters to four of the 10 the College hopes to endow by the end of 2015.

The College announced today that the first gift, committed by Richard “Dick” Levy ’60,

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The works of two Dartmouth professors were found amongst the personal belongings of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, according to a partial list of texts released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on May 20.

Bin Laden’s texts — seized following the May 2011 attack on Bin Laden’s compound

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will support a faculty team in health care delivery science to determine ways to cut costs while maintaining a high quality of care and access.

The second gift, from an anonymous alumnus, will create a faculty team focused on globalization and promoting humanitarian efforts in societies around the world.

These gifts contribute to College President Phil Hanlon’s academic cluster plan announced SEE GIFT PAGE 2

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in Abbottabad, Pakistan — included the book “International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific,” co-edited by dean of faculty Michael Mastanduno and Princeton University professor G. John Ikenberry and the article “Did France Cause the Great Depression?” by economics professor Douglas Irwin.

“It’s sort of a joke and a funny story,” Irwin said. “I guess it’s sort of an amusing SEE BOOKS PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing Wesley Benbow has been named the executive dean for administration and finance for the Geisel School of Medicine, effective June 1, Geisel announced. Benbow is a former strategic operations consultant who worked with Geisel and other academic medical centers to evaluate their operating models and served as Harvard Medical School’s interim executive dean from June 2013 to June 2014. Benbow will serve as both Geisel’s chief operating officer and chief finance officer in the new position. He will oversee Geisel’s administrative and financial affairs under Geisel interim dean Duane Compton, as well as coordinate with Geisel’s partners, including Dartmouth College and DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, in non-academic matters.

Dartmouth researchers have developed a system, called HiLight, that allows smart devices to communicate with each other behind the scenes, the College announced.

HiLight is a streamlined communication channel between cameras and television, laptop, smartphone and other electronic device screens that allows devices to gain new graphics and security information in the background while the user views content. When information is encoded into a visual frame, a camera can collect the information from the screen, but the problem this system interferes with the content the screen is displaying. The researchers’ system allows the screen to play content while a camera detects dynamic data unobtrusively in real time.

Business administration professors at the Tuck School of Business Adam Kleinbaum and Daniel Feiler published a study that found that the social networks of introverts are generally smaller than those of extroverts, which could have implications for their careers, The Wall Street Journal reported. This could mean that introverts should make deliberate efforts to network to attain more career success. Their study surveyed incoming master of business administration students at an Ivy League college to look at how extroversion shapes social networks. The premise for their study is a concept called “friendship paradox,” which states that on average, an individual’s friends are more popular than him or her and have more friends, as a couple of very popular friends inflate the average.

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earlier this year as part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative.

The campaign works to recruit top scholars to the College to teach and conduct research in interdisciplinary teams focused on major global challenges, he said in his speech.

Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is currently focusing on three major areas of work — evaluating the health care systems through research and evaluation, educating patients on their options in health care and creating and implementing new innovations in health care to improve patient care.

Fisher said the institute’s innovations include both types of health care and payment options, and that the gift is meant to further support this work.

“This is intended to support that third area — how can we actually, on the ground, in health care, support people with real needs and help develop and spread models of health care that will transform the healthcare system,” Fisher said.

Fisher said that Levy expressed a firm belief with his donation that Dartmouth has the potential to lead the nation in health care.

The gift is specifically structured to enable the institute to recruit three new faculty members. These members

will contribute to the multidisciplinary work of the cluster, Fisher said, and they would almost definitely include the disciplines of engineering, health sciences research, behavioral economics and sociology. Fisher said that this multidisciplinary approach reflects the various components of health care.

In 2014, an anonymous donor gave the College a $100 million gift, of which half will be put toward the creation of these clusters. As a result, the new gifts will be matched with a further $5 million investment from the previous gift.

Fisher said that the average Dartmouth student would benefit from the expansion of the cluster, and the conversation about what an undergraduate program in health care education will look like is ongoing.

The faculty members will be recruited nationally and internationally, Fisher said, and the search will begin in the next few weeks. He said that searching well was more important than searching quickly, and candidates will likely be identified within the next three to six months with the hope of having new faculty in place a year from now.

“I think the great thing about this gift is that it will allow us to attract really high-caliber talent, the best people in the country,” he said.

John Damianos ’16, who was on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, said

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the gift was exciting to him as both a student and a hopeful future physician.

“The goal of such clusters is to be a sort of incubator for innovation and ideas that’s bringing students, staff and faculty together,” he said.

The College has not been known for its research in the past, Damianos said, and these developments will help improve Dartmouth’s reputation as a research university. He added that he believes this academic cluster model will not take away from undergraduate teaching, for which Dartmouth has been recognized in the past, but will improve it.

“It’s bringing students and faculty together to do cutting-edge research,” he said.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that these clusters will help position Dartmouth as a worldwide leader in addressing critical challenges, and that the College is very grateful for the generosity of the two donors.

The other clusters that have received donations are the William H. Neukom academic cluster in computational science, which received a $10 million donation from Bill Neukom ’64 in late April, and the Jack Byrne academic cluster in decision science, which received a $20 million donation last week from the late Byrne’s wife, Dorothy Byrne, in his honor.

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policies behind the basic “Moving Dartmouth Forward” proposals.

“President Hanlon handed us a vision, and there really weren’t a lot of details about how that vision would pan out,” she said.

The bulk of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” agenda are longterm plans, Agosto said. Only the hard alcohol ban was implemented this term.

Judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said that between five and 10 students have faced judicial affairs proceedings for hard alcoholrelated infractions. While she declined to comment on the details of the proceedings, she said that the College will follow its policies when meting out consequences for students.

The hard alcohol ban calls for a student to be put on College probation for one term after a first hard alcohol infraction, followed by one term of suspension for a second infraction.

Remy estimated that the College has seen a decrease in hard alcoholrelated incidents this term but said that exact details are limited at this time.

Agosto said that there has been a slight decline in medical transports based on preliminary data. She

said she is not sure if there is any connection to the hard alcohol ban and that it is “way too early” to tell if the College is safer than it was before the hard alcohol ban took effect.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that there has been a decrease in hard alcoholrelated incidents this term.

“I think that the number of instances involving hard alcohol since the ban has been significant,” he said. “We haven’t seen as many incidents where we believe hard alcohol is involved or where we’ve actually confiscated hard alcohol.”

While many of the policies that impact Safety and Security are still being developed, Kinne said he has not noticed a major shift in the work of Safety and Security officers or in their relationship with students.

Working groups have been producing initial documents, some of which have been published. Remy, the co-chair of the community citizenship working group, provided a copy of the proposed Dartmouth College Pledge of Conduct, which is planned to go into effect with the Class of 2019 in the fall.

The pledge requires matriculating students to commit to holding themselves “to the highest standards of learning, teaching, service and scholarship,” abide by the Aca-

demic Honor Principle and respect fellow members of the Dartmouth community.

The pledge is the primary component of the community citizenship working group’s job, which will also include creating a statement of values for Dartmouth, Remy wrote in an email.

The social event and alcohol management working group, which is responsible for overhauling Social Events and Management Procedure policy and creating a more inclusive and safe campus social environment, will likely release its official recommendations in the fall, the group’s co-chair, assistant dean and director of case management Kristi Clemens, said.

Taylor Watson ’16, the other co-chair for the social event and alcohol management working group, said the group has been presenting a preliminary draft of its recommendations to a variety of campus leaders, faculty and administrators, whose feedback has been generally positive.

Watson said the group intends to change SEMP’s name to the Alcohol Management Procedure, or AMP. Rather than closely monitoring quantities or types of alcohol, the new policy will outline the minutiae of how alcohol is to be managed, including ensuring the constant

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presence of a student to manage a point-source alcohol distribution system to ensure safety, he said.

Another goal of the group is to restore the style of Greek parties from several decades ago, when medium-sized gatherings of fewer than 100 people could be hosted simultaneously by multiple houses, rather than one or two houses hosting large gatherings, Watson said.

“He remembered it being more equal, more of an even playing field among the houses,” Watson said of an alumnus with whom he discussed the policy. “There’s a more even distribution of risk, of alcohol management, of social capital.”

Administrators are attempting to solicit student opinions on “Moving Dartmouth Forward” more aggressively. In addition to conversations with students, they are also reading student publications and forums, Agosto said.

Remy said that all undergraduates will soon be emailed a document asking about their views on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy.

“I think the changes right now are conversational, if not tangible,” Agosto said. “I think where we are seeing change is in the level of discourse around some of this stuff, around some of the high-risk issues,

certainly around academic rigor.”

An anonymous survey of 30 students conducted by The Dartmouth yesterday found that the hard alcohol ban is unpopular with students. Ninety percent of respondents do not believe that the ban has improved campus safety, and nearly 60 percent said they had consumed hard alcohol this term.

Most students agreed that the ban is having an impact on campus social life, with about two thirds of respondents claiming they had seen a change this term. Of those who had seen a change, almost 90 percent thought the change had been negative.

Students provided a range of thoughts on the ban’s impacts, though the majority who gave opinions indicated that many students are drinking secretly, which they noted may decrease student safety.

One student commented that “alcohol doesn’t rape people” and noted that the lack of hard alcohol will not make students more studious.

Others said that they had witnessed more underground drinking than usual in the past term.

“If anything, the ban has put these students at a greater risk because they will be too afraid to call [Safety and Security] because of the repercussions,” one student wrote.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015

Staff Columnist AYLIN WOODWARD ’15

STAFF COLUMNIST ZIQIN YUAN ’18

Oh Dartmouth, My Dartmouth

Good Intentions, Ill Effects

Don’t forget to keep your time at the College in perspective.

I am fortunate to have the privilege of writing the closing column on the last day of publication of this academic year and my college career. Unsurprisingly, it took me quite a bit of time to figure out what I wanted to say — what kernels of senior wisdom I sought to impart, what deep reflections or advice I could disperse. I feel, however, that making readers peruse 1,000 words of my stream of sleepdeprived, nostalgic consciousness is selfish.

Senior staff members have already published such farewell pieces in last week’s Mirror, so I will not presume to bore you with that banality here.

What I will muse on is a philosophy whose merits I hope we can all, if not adopt in some way, at least reflect on. It’s one I have arrived at after four years of living in the Dartmouth community — a philosophy of cognizance.

We must never forget what a privilege it is to be here. Whether your time at this school has been the best years of your life or the worst, we must remember to be humble in the face of our own fortunes. I imagine there are those who would give their right arms, or sell their souls, to come here — to experience this institution that so many of us, in our day-to-day struggles to finish problem sets, write papers or plan our next social gathering, often seem to take for granted. We owe it to ourselves, and our Dear Old Mother, to be cognizant of that reality — that attending this school, for better or worse, is an opportunity available only to a select few. And what we do with our time here should reflect that cognizance.

Embedded in the fabric of that perception should be the notion that Dartmouth is more than the sum of its parts. She is more than the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, more than College President Phil Hanlon, more than Greek life, more than student protests, more than grade inflation and academic rigor. In our quests for our own individual purpose on campus, we often forget that we belong, by virtue of our attendance here, to something greater than ourselves — an institution and community that is almost 250 years in the making.

We chose to come here, to offer up our strengths and weaknesses on the undergraduate altar, and it is only fitting that we repay Dartmouth’s fostering of those strengths and weaknesses in kind. Whether we chose to spend our time here railing against administrators or the extant social status quo, leading campus groups or simply minding our own academic businesses, we should do so in a manner that is modest and self-effacing. We should be conscious that, at the end of the day, the College gave us a place to do all of those things. She gave us the time and the space to grow — to explore new realms, to stand up for what we believe in and to grow as intellectuals, friends, collaborators and leaders.

I’m not saying Dartmouth is perfect — because she isn’t — though I won’t deny that I’m probably a more zealous advocate for her integrity than most. But I urge you all to not let the ephemeral pieces of Dartmouth — the hard alcohol ban, our dysfunctional meal plans, the ad hoc committee on grading practice and grade inflation’s criticisms of our extracurricular activities — overpower your perspective. Don’t let those elements of narrow-minded, fallacious thinking color your experience beyond any semblance of optimism.

Every negative thing we’ve experienced on this campus is outweighed by countless more positive ones.

We’ve all experienced, and will continue to experience, Dartmouth differently. Some may leave with a sour taste in their mouths about how these past four years have played out, others with a sense of gratitude and unflappable belief in the virtues of a Dartmouth education.

I won’t presume to pass normative judgment on which is the better end of the spectrum. Surely it is just as valuable of a trait to be critical and reflective as it is to be optimistic and idealistic.

All I seek to do is remind us all of the value of our experiences here, and of their relative rarity in the grand scheme of things. As it is that humbleness, that awareness in the face of great privilege, that lends great credence to our pursuits, whatever they may be in this life.

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Those on international service trips must be careful not to do harm.

Many students, here and elsewhere, participate in “voluntourism” trips during their college careers, which combine volunteer work and tourism to bring students from the United States to generally less developed countries such as Peru or Thailand. Overseas volunteering programs are quite popular — even a school as small as this one has multiple programs that send students to other countries, such as Medlife, the Dandelion Project, GlobeMed and many Tucker Foundation programs. The question remains, however, as to how much good students realistically contribute through these programs. It is important be sure volunteer work is truly benefits the community, or at the very least causes no harm.

Voluntourism seems like a good idea in theory — students can help improve communities in need, and in exchange receive a vacation experience unlike any other. Many programs, however, do more harm than good. They often waste or misplace resources, create more problems than they solve and enhance the feelings of cultural superiority from which U.S. citizens already suffer.

A primary issue with voluntourism is that the volunteers generally are not qualified in what the program is trying to accomplish, and as such ultimately misuse money and resources that could have gone directly to communities in need. Pippa Diddle, a contributor to various online news outlets, wrote on her personal blog about her high school voluntourism trip to Tanzania, which aimed to build a library at an orphanage.

The trip, she wrote, was so counterproductive that each night a group of local men had to take down her group’s work and rebuild it so the students were unaware of their failure. The inefficiency and waste of resources is easy enough to spot.

This problem occurs because many volunteers do not possess the necessary skills to complete tasks. One flaw is the duration of volunteering trips. Many programs offer short, two-week trips where the volunteers can work on a project and leave. Medlife, for example, allows students to go to various countries during interim periods.

With such short programs, though, students do not always have the training or expertise to make a difference — and even if they do, the difference

is often not long-lasting and may harm the community. A former teaching volunteer interviewed for a July 2011 CNN story on voluntourism noted that after a while she “realized how much wrong there was with the organization.” She witnessed that some volunteers “stayed as little as two weeks,” which disrupted the learning environment for children and ultimately taught them nothing new.

It is as if the community ostensibly being helped was instead helping the volunteers by providing them with a feel-good experience, regardless of the true impact of the volunteer work.

There is also a clear undertone of cultural superiority. In Diddle’s Tanzania trip, the community, instead of being able to make good use of the money and volunteers, was compelled to fix their shoddy job in secret. It may have been more beneficial to give local community figures money, let them use it where needed and then monitor them to ensure funds went to the right places. Voluntourism promotes the idea that people from a more developed society should swoop in to save those in a less developed society.

This type of attitude acts as a barrier to cultural connections by discouraging communication and constructive coordination between volunteers and the community they are supposedly serving.

Moreover, it rests on the assumption that local community members are incapable of independently improving their own community.

In the end, many voluntourism programs only succeed in giving volunteers an impressive line on resumes and an opportunity to travel abroad — all the while feeling good about themselves.

Kirk Gillock, founder of the nonprofit volunteer organization the Isara Foundation, may have summed it up best when he said that doing good should not be a “photo opportunity for a fee.”

As spring term comes to an end and students are preparing to begin their summer plans, this distinction is even more imperative. There is nothing wrong with going to different countries, yet it is important to assess the impact your trip can have on the community that hosts you. If you are volunteering, you should think critically about whether your work is helpful or ultimately counterproductive.

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thing in some sense, so I hate to be associated with him in any way.”

Irwin’s article deals with the impact of France’s hoarding of gold prior to the Great Depression which, Irwin said, lead to deflationary pressures on the international economy, eventually crippling it.

Irwin said his article may have been part of Bin Laden’s collection due to the former al Qaeda leader’s evident infatuation with France. Of the several hundred titles released, almost 20 dealt with France, particularly regarding the country’s economy.

The documents ranged from a “list of French shipping companies” to a scholarly journal detailing France’s management of radioactive waste.

“It turns out that Bin Laden seems to have had an unusually large number of articles about France, and a number of analysts have interpreted this as representing an interest or a fascination he had with France,” government professor Jeff Friedman, whose expertise includes foreign policy and national security, said.

Mastanduno’s book was one of 39 English language books Bin Laden evidently had in his collection. Many of the books deal with U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East.

“It’s kind of a mystery to me, honestly, but I don’t fault anyone for being a good general reader of international relations,” Mastanduno said.

The book deals with the international relations of East Asian

countries, Mastanduno said.

Friedman said that Bin Laden was likely trying to stay informed on international politics and economics.

“I think there you see a full-time policy leader, for better or for worse, trying to be an intelligent consumer of the state of affairs,” he said.

There was substantial evidence released in Bin Laden’s documents, Friedman said, that indicate that even while in hiding, he was still leading Al Qaeda in some operational capacity, including directing the management of funds and dealing with operations and attacks.

“There were many people who thought that, by this point, Bin Laden had become more of a general figurehead,” Friedman said, noting the belief has now been effectively disproved.

The series of documents are mostly letters to and from subordinates.

Bin Laden seemed to be attempting to exercise some degree of control over the day-to-day operations of the terrorist group, Friedman said.

“These may have been the only documents indicating Bin Laden’s influence on tactical issues, but I think a reasonable inference from them is that he was still working to organize attacks, and to organize attacks specifically against the United States and its embassies,” he said.

Both Irwin and Mastanduno said they were unlikely to change their research or academic pursuits based on the finding. Irwin said that he was generally amused by the development, while Mastanduno expressed confusion at the inclusion of his book on Bin Laden’s reading list.

“When you publish something

that goes out to the whole world, you don’t control who buys it, who reads it, who has it on their shelf,” he said.

“I guess the only thing that would actually change my opinion on that would be if someone actually found that the book was annotated in some way, and I could figure out what he had said in it, then that would be interesting to me.”

Friedman said Bin Laden’s collection included both scholarly articles, numerous conspiracy theories and “crazy anti-Semitic rants.”

While roughly around 250 documents have already been released, Friedman said he expects there are “thousands” more that are yet to be declassified.

“I think it’s always interesting to see who comes to the attention of any foreign leaders, be they friendly or hostile,” Friedman said. “So in some sense it’s a compliment to see that you’ve appeared on the radar of people in positions of power.”

While neither Mastanduno nor Irwin expressed distress at their inclusion in Bin Laden’s library and both said they do not believe their works could have notably furthered his political aims, they did not express excitement at the idea of the association.

“I think this reinforces the idea that when academics and scholars write, put their ideas on paper, people listen, and those shape the views of people in power,” Friedmand said. “I think Bin Laden was clearly reading some crazy stuff, but he was also reading some things that academics read, and it shows that these worlds of academia and practice were pretty related.”

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ARTS AT DARTMOUTH AWARD WINNERS The students listed below are recipients of awards and prizes at the "Arts at Dartmouth Awards Ceremony" held this afternoon in the Moore Theater, where Sharon Washington '81 is the guest honoree and President Philip J. Hanlon ‘77 will give remarks about the vibrant role of the arts at the College.

THEATER David Birney Award for Excellence in the Theatre Arts Nicolle Allen ’16 Max Gottschall ’15 George W. Schoenhut Service Award Julie Solomon ’17 Kyla Mermejo-Varga ’17 The Benjamin & Edna Ehrlich Prize in the Dramatic Arts Award Christopher Gallerani ’15 The Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition Michael McDavid ’15 Ashton Slatev ’15 Honorable mention: Katherine Fox ’15 The Warner Bentley/Henry B. Williams Fellowship Endowments Max Samuels ’15 Emma Orme ’15 Cristy Altamirano ’15 The Rodney W. Alexander Theater Fellowship Veronica Burt ’16 Robert Leverett ’16 The Ruth and Loring Homes Dodd Drama Prize Elise Wien ’17 The Clifford S. Gurdin 1964 Memorial Award To be announced at the ceremony The Susan DeBevoise Wright Fund Stephanie Abbott-Grobicki ’15 Victoria Fox ’15 Stanley Wallace Technical Theatre Internship Randi Young ’15 Hannah Collman ’15 The Robert H. Nutt '49 Fund Robert Leverett ’16

Excellence in Playwriting Michael McDavid ’15

FIlM & MEDIA STUDIES Maurice H. Rapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Delainey Ackerman ’15 W. Spencer Janes ’15 Edwin Félix ’15 Rhiannon Saucedo ’15 Amanda Young ’15 James Joseph Kaplan Filmmaker of the Year Award Randi Young ’15

Macdonald-Smith Prize Michael Blum ’15 Erich Kunzel Class of 1957 Award Tyné Angela Freeman ’17 Robert Herbst ’16 Julia Kannam ’15 Brian Chalif ’16 Gerald Tracy Memorial Scholarship Prize for Piano To be announced at the ceremony

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Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award

POD (Perspectives on Design) Jordan Craig ’15 Noah Smith ’15 Molly McBride ’15

Short screenplays First Place: Queenie Sukhadia ’16 for The Hero Second Place: Alex Stockton ’15 for By Blood

W. David Dance 1940 Fine Arts Award Gabriel Barrios ’15 Corinne Romano ’15 Kashaokiwaki Wahpepah ’15

Feature screenplays First Place: Varun Bhuchar ’15 for The Descent

Robert Read Prize Janine Leger ’15 Katie Milligan ’15 Jake Osman ’15

Second Place: W. Spencer Janes ’15 for Term Limits and Emory Orr ’16 for Tinseltown Honorable Mention: Matthew Goldstein ’18 for River of Dark Purple The ASIFA Animation Award Ellie Peterson ’15

MUSIc Eugene Roitman 1943 Memorial Award Prajeet Bajpai ’16 Jacob Weiss ’16 Zachary Wooster ’15 Leif Harder ’15 Robert Herbst ’16 Brian Chalif ’16 Orestis Lykouropoulos ’17

Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize Laura Dorn ’15 Malika Khurana ’15 Melissa Brown Hurlock-Hobson 1993 Award Hyun Ji Seong ’16

Art History Department Award Shweta Raghu ’15

HOpkINS cENTER ENSEMblES Handel Society Chorus Award Evan Griffith ’15 Charles S. Fleet 1953 Prize Casey Lewis ’15 Culley Concerto Competition Best Overall Performance Nicholas Graham GR String Division First Place: Edward Pyun ’18 Woodwind Division First Place: Kevin Chen '15 Second Place: Autumn Chuang ’16 Brass Division First Place: Benjamin Meyer ’15 Second Place: Steven Povich ’16 Senior Symphonic Award Benjamin Meyer ’15 The Whiteley Band Spirit Award Katherine Huffer ’15

HOpkINS cENTER Lazarus Family Musical Theatre Program Fund Max Gottschall '15

Class of 1960 Studio Art Curatorial Fellowship Dondei Dean ’17 Benjamin Albrecht ’16

Mark L. Lebowitz 1977 Memorial Prize in the Performing Arts Music Julia Kannam ’15 Zeviel Kane ’15

ART HISTORy

Theater Christopher Gallerani’15

The Christina Porter Award in the Arts for Achievement in Vocal Music Emma Orme ’15 The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Aditya Rohit Shah '15 Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund Gabriel Barrios '15 Peter D. Smith Initiative Awards Tyné Angela Freeman '17 Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Achievement Awards in the Creative Arts Arts Administration Katelyn Onufrey ’15 Dance Kemi Mugo ’15 Ensembles (Instr.)

Leif Harder ’15 Ensemble (Vocal) James Ragan ’16 Film Alexander Stockton ’15 Music Evan Griffith ’15 Workshops (Ceramics) David Wu ’16 Studio Art Brenda Gonzalez ’15 Theater Victoria Fox ’15 Sudler Prize in the Arts To be announced at the ceremony

William B. Jaffe Award Bay Lauris ByrneSim ’15 Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award Daniel Alvarez ’15

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE HOPKINS CENTER!

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Women’s sailing wins Drake, Bjork top best albums so far fourth at nationals B y koryn ternes The Dartmouth Staff

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defeated second-place College of Charleston by only 10 points. This meant high pressure throughout the two days.

In the finals the situation was even more dire. A rocky start on first day of the national finals left Dartmouth in the middle of the pack. Steady top finishes, marred by only a few poor showings, floated the team to fourth by the end of the day. Had the last few races gone a bit differently, first was within reach.

The physically demanding week had higher stakes and higher intensity than any other regatta this season, Williams said, compounded by the strain of 10-to 20-knot winds.

“We had to be extremely mentally prepared,” she said.

“We saw some of the toughest conditions that there are in college sailing.”

T h e s e a s o n e d B i g G re e n sailors, however, proved more than capable of handling things. The team brought alternate crews for different wind conditions and all performed well. Assad cited the team’s strength and conditioning program as one reason for that.

“Those were really tough setbacks for our team, and it’s been a roller coaster of a year and season. It’s been extremely tough racing and not qualifying for those regattas was definitely an upset.”

-SARAH WILLIAMS ’16, ON THE TEAM’S SEASON “The team lifts three days a week during the winter and two days a week during the season, and we feel like that’s an area in our sport where we feel like we can out-train a lot of the teams that we’re competing against,” Assad said. “So we put a high priority on treating that like a controlled variable, and I think we saw the positive effects of that sailing in the breeze, especially on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.”

The end of the regatta was the end of standout Lambert’s decorated Dartmouth career.

She was the first sailor to earn the Women’s Sailor of the Year title twice in a row, since the title’s inception in 2002, doing so in 2013 and 2014 after winning

the A divisions at the national championships by 37 points and 41 points. She was an honorable mention All-American in her freshman season and continued her rise to stardom from there.

Lambert was not without her competition. Yale senior Morgan Kiss, who pocketed the Sailor of the Year award this year, outshined Lambert when they were freshmen by earning All-American honors and was a finalist for the top award last year. “[Lambert] is one of the most competitive sailors I’ve coached, and I know she works really hard and tried to put up the best result possible, so I’m sure there’s a little bittersweet feeling around [this end to her career], but I think she has to feel like we left it all out on the water,” Assad said.

This year was different for Lambert, Assad said. She focused more on coed racing than women’s racing, hurting her chances for the women’s sailor award but helping the coed team to be in contention for a nationals bid. In fact, perhaps the most disappointing moments of the season were the team race and coed championship qualifiers, in which a few mistakes cost the Big Green bids to the postseason.

“Those were really tough setbacks for our team, and it’s been a roller coaster of a year and season,” Williams said. “It’s been extremely tough racing and not qualifying for those regattas was definitely an upset, but to have those guys and girls back us even though they weren’t able to race really means a lot.”

Despite her own success as a skipper, Williams was sure to credit her coaches and teammates for their roles in the women’s postseason success, calling them “ t h e m o s t s u p p o r t i ve t e a m out there.” Assad and David Thompson made sure the women “kept smiling” after good and bad races, and Williams said she believes the team will continue to be successful under their guidance.

“Even though it wasn’t a firstplace win, it still means so much to our team. We wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without our whole team,” she said. “Obviously our whole team back on campus, we all put in so much time at practice, and without all their help we wouldn’t have made it.”

The team will graduate an important member in Lambert, as well as several strong members of the coed team, but looks forward to younger sailors stepping into new roles and to welcoming the Class of 2019 at preseason next fall, Assad and Williams both said.

As spring term comes to a close and summer is now in sight, it’s hard to believe that we are nearly halfway through 2015. It seems like just yesterday music blogs, radio stations and television specials were reflecting on 2014 and releasing their “Best Of ” lists. Now that June is officially upon us, it’s already time to start reflecting on some of the top albums released so far in 2015.

Björk — Vulnicura (2015) This January, Iceland’s reigning queen of art-pop released her ninth studio album, “Vulnicura.” Unlike some of her more elaborate albums from the past, Björk gets pretty basic by coming out with a breakup album — arguably the most common theme from pop artists these days. Björk always seems to have the ability to transform even the most simplistic of tracks into intricate collections, however, which separated her from other artists. The orchestral strings, electronic beats and production touches from guest performers Arca and The Haxan Cloak make up for what’s lacking in the lyrics in “Vulnicura,” an album that tells the autobiographical story of Björk’s failed relationship and breakup with artist Matthew Barney.

The dark and hopeless mood of the album shifts with the seventh song, “Atom Dance,” to one of tattered optimism. The album concludes with “Quicksand,” a relatively positive song, accurately portraying Björk’s emotional transition on dealing with her breakup. “Vulnicura” is a raw, honest and personal album that makes

no concessions — and is much better for it.

Bob Dylan — Shadows in the Night (2015) It’s virtually impossible to reflect on the albums released early this year without mentioning our old friend, Bob Dylan. His 36th studio album, “Shadows in the Night,” is a collection of covers of traditional pre-rock pop standards made famous by none other than Frank Sinatra. Dylan manages to transform everything on the album with Sinatra as a uniting presence.

Like his folk and blues covers from his 1992 and 1993 LPs, his newest album released in February seems to bring out a voice in Dylan that has not yet been heard. Despite receiving criticism for it over the years, Dylan’s voice seems to be the most impressive and surprising part of this album. Sure, his fractured vocals venture wildly off pitch at points during the album, but it works. Unlike many of his peers who continue to simply tour their big hits, at 73, Dylan looks for solace in the past in the most refreshing way in “Shadows of the Night.”

Drake — If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late (2015) You won’t find any radio-hit singles on Drake’s surprise release mixtape dropped early this February. The album’s low stakes allowed Drake to play on his strengths and arguably create his most experimental work since “Thank Me Later” (2010).

Probably his most cohesive album to date, “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late,” is complex, intense and very personal. Although Drake has always been pretty open in his

work, he takes it to a new level in this album, completely opening up to his fans. The overwhelming amount of venting and the title’s clear allusion to suicide makes listeners question his mental state, but I think that is part of the beauty of the album. Drake seems more emotional and sure of himself than anything he has put out in the past, but still plays it cool. Drake’s star status comes into play as his lyrics are turned in common phrases — “running through the six with my woes” — but reminds listeners that he has grown from the rapper he was during the height of his popularity four years ago.

The Knocks — So Classic EP (2015) Although their debut album isn’t due out until later this fall, the Knocks premiered the “So Classic” EP earlier this year, as a teaser for what is still to come. The electric duo of Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “Mr. JPatt” Patterson, hailing from New York City, have been working together for a while now. The duo’s tracks have primarily taken off and gained popularity on the internet, like “The One” from last year’s Comfortable EP. Their newest collection includes five disco-inspired bangers, including their most recent hit single, “Classic” (2014). The Knocks are continuing to hold up their reputation as one of the most exciting electronic music acts today, as they continue to produce refreshing new sounds that take us back to the days of funk. Like much of their work, “Classic” takes retro beats and adds a modern twist, resulting in some really infectious beats and catchy tracks.

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Four members of Casual Thursday honor the group’s senior in Monday night’s senior show.

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Women’s sailing places 4th at Nationals

B y emily wechsler The Dartmouth Staff

From the outside, last week’s fourth-place finish at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championships might look like a disappointment for the two-time defending champion women’s sailing team. It might seem a pity that the team’s sole senior, two-time Quantum Women’s Sailor of the Year Deirdre Lambert ’15, went home without any hardware.

Yet, the team also claimed first in its ICSA Women’s Eastern Semifinal to get them to the final, an accomplishment of which they can be proud. At the end of a year of ups and downs, the team, which finished a mere 14 points behind first place at the national competition, saw a strong end to the season and earned the first regatta win for the women’s team all season — all in four straight days of sailing.

“It was definitely a season where we had to battle through some adversity, both with the lake [which remained frozen well into the season and severely cut practice time] and with some disappointing qualifiers,” head coach Justin Assad said. “So I think with that being said, you can look at the success of this women’s regatta — the

national championship — and be really proud of that performance for the whole team.”

With 223 points, powerhouse Yale University took the top spot at the national championship, which was in Providence, Rhode Island, on Wednesday and Thursday. Boston College and Brown University took second and third with 228 and 234 points in the women’s competition, respectively.

As indicated by the tight scores in the championship, the regatta was highly competitive, team captain Sarah Williams ’16 said. New England teams made up the top four, belying the strength of the area.

“We went in just trying to sail every race as best as we could, and ended up with awesome results,” Williams said. “Getting fourth in the country is pretty cool. We were defi nitely excited. There’s such tough competition that getting fourth is an honor.”

The fi nals saw boats led by Lambert in the A division, crewed at first by Lizzie Guynn ’16 and later — when the wind picked up — by Hope Wilson ’16. Williams led in the B division, crewed at first

by Abigail Rohman ’16 and later by Sophia Diserio ’18. In a competition of 18 races, the women had

to focus on minimizing mistakes, Williams said.

The eastern semifinals regatta, too, was “an awesome race” for the women, Williams said. The Big Green was seeded away from top competitors like Yale and Boston College, which were in the western semifinal, and Brown sailed relatively poorly to finish sixth in the eastern semifinal.

Although the women were defending champions, Assad said that the team had focused on doing their best and training to their fullest potential with only this year in mind.

“Every year’s a little different, so we tried hard not to let those expectations of reigning champions build up to much,” he said. “We try to focus on the skills we think we’re going to need to sail well. Every year that’s kind of the goal, and this year that was the focus and I think we can be really proud of the way that we executed on a whole at the regatta.”

In fact, the team has more to be proud of in the way it handled its boats on race day. Though the team was confi dent throughout its semifinal racing, it ended the first race day in fourth place and SEE SAILING PAGE 7

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After claiming first at the Eastern Semifinal, the two-time defending champion women’s sailing team finished fourth at nationals.

B y blaze joel and brett drucker The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The sports season has ended for all but two Big Green athletes — shoutout to track and field’s Dana Giordano ’16 and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 for making it to the NCAA Outdoor Championship — and teams are beginning to look forward to next year when the ’15s will be gone and a new class of ’19s will help propel Dartmouth athletic programs in their quests for Ivy League or ECAC titles. As such, that puts our column in a little bit of a bind. But, as dedicated columnists, we decided to call an audible and change our tactics for our final column.

As former sports editors and beat writers for the football, women’s hockey, baseball and men’s lacrosse teams, Big Green sports have been a huge part of our lives at the College.

Between the two of us, we’ve been to competitions for 27 of the 34 varsity teams over the past two years. We’ve gotten to know our fair share of athletes and have had our fair share of Dartmouth sports memories, both as writers and as fans.

Blaze: My favorite Dartmouth sports memory as a writer was my time covering the women’s hockey team from freshman to junior year. Being committed to a team for that long has allowed me to make some great friends and see a lot of good hockey in my four years here. In fact, I have only missed one home game. Freshman year, I even road-tripped down to Fenway Park to see the team play in Frozen Fenway against Providence College and got to go onto the field to cover the game.

From a fan perspective, the football game against Princeton University my junior year easily takes the cake as my favorite sports moment. The “Snow Bowl” took place during finals that year, and I trekked to Memorial Field with my backpack to take a break from my studying. The game had huge implications for the Ivy League title that year, as Dartmouth’s 28-24 victory denied the Tigers the chance at an outright Ivy title. The game was the most exciting I’ve attended on campus, and the fans that braved the weather all rushed the field afterward to make angels with the team before taking part in the presentation of the

Governor’s Trophy to the Big Green.

Brett: As a writer, there are two moments that stick out. The first was sophomore year when I had the opportunity to interview Olympic Gold Medalist Hannah Kearney ’15, who was taking classes during a break from her skiing season. That interview stands out for letting me spend half an hour in Novack with such a decorated athlete and talk about topics as mundane as the balance between academics and sports as if she were just another student. My second moment comes from this fall when I covered the football team as it finished its strongest season since 1997.

Having also covered the team in 2012, I loved being able to see the program’s progress and the inner workings of the team on the brink of breaking through to another championship. Being able to travel to Princeton for the final game of the season — which might have been during final exams review period, sorry Mom — was a great capstone on the campaign and the ’15s’ careers.

As a sports fan in general, there are few things better than a good hockey game, and my three opportunities to see the Big Green take on Princeton at home really stand out. To see the whole student body fill Thompson Arena and give the building a contagious energy is an experience I’ll always remember.

To top it all off, Dartmouth is 3-0 in those games, which can give the sports fan eternal hope that they might, even in some small way, be able to impact the game.

If our last four years here have taught us anything, it’s that Dartmouth sports matter. We may not be a Division I powerhouse in every sport, but games are consistently competitive, entertaining and exemplify great levels of skill from all the student-athletes.

So, the next time you’re sitting in your room on a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon, go to a game. We guarantee you won’t regret it.

And, because we can’t leave without one final prediction as we transition into full-time fandom, here it goes. The Dartmouth football team will run the table in the Ancient Eight and win its first Ivy League title since 1996. It has the talent and the team has shown that it has the capability to win in recent years.

Next year is where it takes the next step and brings home the hardware.