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Dartmouth offered 2,176 acceptances to the Class of 2020, a group that includes the highest ever percentage of students of color. The number of applicants totaled 20,675 — representing less than a 1 percent increase from the Class of 2019 — bringing the 2020 admission rate to 10.5 percent.

Of the admitted students, 51.6 percent identified as persons of color, 14.7 percent as first-generation college students, 8.1 percent as legacies and 10 percent are recruited athletes. Forty-eight percent of

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the admitted students qualify for need-based financial aid, with an average scholarship of $43,915. Earlier this month, the Board of Trustees approved a 3.8 percent total increase in undergraduate tuition, mandatory fees and room and board for the 20162017 academic year.

Geographically within the United States, 27.3 percent of admitted students come from the West, 18.8 percent from the South, 9.7 percent from the Midwest, 22.1 percent from the Mid-Atlantic region and 13.6 percent from New SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 2

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Hopeful Trip leaders and Croo members are not evaluated on their dancing skills, but if accepted to volunteer for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, those skills will most likely be used as they welcome freshmen and spend time in the outdoors this coming fall.

Applications for both Croo and leader positions for the Trips pro-

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About 60 people attended the fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault on Monday.

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gram were due last Wednesday.

Although the Trips directorate did not count the number of applications submitted, assistant director Anna Gabianelli ’16 said she approximates the number of applicants to be similar to last year’s count of 575. She said this year’s directorate did not count the number of applications because they did not think the information SEE TRIPS PAGE 5

Yesterday’s fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault, held in Collis Common Ground and hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, aimed to gather feedback on the College’s new sexual violence prevention and education program. The four-year sexual assault education program, implemented under College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, is slated to begin in the fall.

About 60 students, administrators and faculty attended the event and participated in small group discussions to provide commentary.

“We felt like this was a good opportunity for getting community and student feedback,” committee member and organizer Katherine McAvoy ’17 said. “A lot of times the people who are often involved in this work have the same ideas, so this symposium tends to have a wider reach.”

Assistant director for violence prevention Amanda Childress pre-

sented on the ideology and progress of the College’s new four-year sexual prevention program following opening remarks from Hanlon.

Childress said the U n i t e d S t at e s N ava l Academy’s sexual education program — the only other four-year prevention program at a college — has served as model for Dartmouth’s pilot program. Yet while the Naval Academy’s program provided an example of a long-term sexual education curricuSEE SPCSA PAGE 2

History professor Udi Greenberg wins book award

By CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth Staff

History professor Udi Greenberg’s own family history helps to explain why he chose his field of study. His grandparents were refugees from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa. In the process, his family went from racially persecuted Jews under the Nazis to

elite whites under the apartheid regime. His parents, objecting to the racism in South Africa, then left for Israel. Growing up in Israel, Greenberg himself never thought of himself as white, as race was not talked about because people mostly divided themselves by religion, he said.

“I think that’s what really sparked my interest in history,

of trying to understand why the same family would have a totally different social role and political role based on the historical moment in which we live.” Greenberg said.

Greenberg recently received the 2016 European Studies Book Award for his debut book, “The Weimar Century: German Emigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold

War” (2015). The book looks at a number of individuals, products of Weimar-era Germany, who went on to influence the reconstruction of a democratic post-war Germany as well as American foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War. “Studying history ultimately is trying to understand why everything that seems obvious and normal is not,” he said.

“The belief of historians is that everywhere you look some process and choices by people led you to be there,” he said.

Greenberg was not even aware he was in contention for the award. When submitting a manuscript of the book he was told to list some awards his book could potentially be nominated SEE GREENBERG PAGE 3

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Symposium solicits community feedback

stages, Childress said the program is progressing toward completion lum, the committees developing through several working groups Dartmouth’s new four-year pro- and the input of students.

After the presentation, pargram have taken into account the structural differences between the ticipants broke out into smaller, two schools. Students at the Naval round-table discussions on the Academy are always on-campus perception of sexual violence on and share a similar interest of campus, the ways in which prevenjoining the military after gradua- tion has changed over time, how tion, which differs from the myriad sexual violence impacted their D-Plans and post-graduation plans communities at the College, posheld by Dartmouth students. In sible gaps in resources provided addition, the Naval Academy’s at Dartmouth and other ways to program is very structured and improve the College’s prevention uniform, which will not work at of sexual violence.

V e Dartmouth due to the diversity “I feel like we talked ronique Davis ’15 said she of experiences at the College, about a lot of ways to at t e n d e d t h e Childress said. move forward in terms event because assault She added of action which has sexual has impacted that the College does hope been an issue in the her friends. feel to emulate the past. I think the small like we “Italked N av a l A c a d e m y ’ s i d e a group discussions are about a lot of to move o f c u l m i n at really useful in terms ways forward in ing moments, which will al- of getting really good ter ms of action which has low students to ideas out.” been an issue reflect on their in the past,” she engagement said. “I think with the pro- -VERONIQUE DAVIS ’15 the small group gram throughdiscussions are out their years really useful in on campus. terms of getChildress ting really good outlined four ideas out.” specific behavS h e ioral outcomes also mentioned student will dethat she was survelop through the new program: increasing the prised by the turnout, as she did use and referrals of on-campus not expect so many people to be sexual assault resources available thinking about how sexual violence to student, such as WISE and impacts both themselves and others.

McAvoy said that the event counseling; teaching students to have more proactive consent and mainly tried to highlight how communication before sexual sexual violence impacts the entire activity; improving communica- community and the different comtion with minority groups on the munities present at Dartmouth to unique challenges they face in ensure that resources are accessible considering sexual health; and to everybody.

Feedback from the symposium increasing Dartmouth Bystander will inform the SPCSA recommenIntervention training.

Ch i l d re s s m e n t i oned that dations released in the fall. The while sexual assault prevention feedback will be brought back to is emphasized during freshman the SPCSA committee leaders by year through the required pre- the end of next week.

“There were a lot of new ideas enrollment online alcohol course, orientation presentations and and I’m excited to see what came floor meetings, a lack of required up at the other tables,” McAvoy engagement exists during the rest said. of students’ time on campus.

Zachary Benjamin contributed reportIn addition, while the four-year program remains in its developing ing.

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Of admitted students, over 50 percent are students of color FROM ADMISSIONS PAGE 1

England.

Engineering topped the list of academic interests for the third consecutive year. The next most frequently indicated interests were economics and biology.

The mean SAT score among admitted students was 2219, and the mean ACT score was about 33.

Almost 95 percent of the admitted students are in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. The proportion of admits from private schools decreased from 27.2 percent last year to 25.4 percent this year. Sixty-three percent of admits are from public schools, an increase from the previous year’s 60.8 percent.

Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde said that the admitted students are impressive in their intellectual energy, personal engagement and diversity.

M o rg a n D e b ow ’ 2 0 f ro m Northridge, California, described Dartmouth as a “perfect blend of academic and athletic aspect” and was attracted by the close-knit nature of the community.

“It was a dream come true,” she said. “I’ve know that I’ve always wanted to go to a highly academic school and Dartmouth seemed like the perfect fit.”

Loghan Thomas ’20 from Aurora, Colorado also felt joy and disbelief upon seeing her acceptance letter.

“If you had asked me before, I would have never considered myself an Ivy League student,” she said.

Sunde said that the admissions office emphasized to applicants the depth and access of resources available to students both at Dartmouth and after graduation.

Regarding the increase in students of color, he said that Dartmouth has been “working to try and diversify its community on all measures for a very long time.”

Sunde noted that this was the first year the admitted class had over 50 percent students of color. For the Class of 2019, students of color represented 49.8 percent of the admitted class.

He also said that the increase in public school representation is indicative of increased socioeconomic diversity.

This admissions cycle was the first time in eight years that Dartmouth did not extend needblind financial aid to international students. Sunde said that while the admissions office extended fewer offers to international students who needed financial support, many offers were made and the admitted international population is still very diverse. This year, 8.2 percent of admitted students are international students, compared to 7.9 percent last year.

“Though the application number did not change significantly, the qualitative aspects of the pool sounds like a different, stronger, more diverse pool of applications,” Sunde said. “It was a delightful process but it makes the decisions really hard.”

Princeton University had a record-low acceptance rate of 6.46 percent, as did the University of Pennsylvania which admitted 9.4 percent and Harvard University which admitted 5.2 percent. Brown University admitted 9 percent, Columbia University admitted 6.04 percent, Cornell University admitted 13.96 percent and Yale University admitted 6.27 percent.

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Greenberg reflects on award-winning book FROM GREENBERG PAGE 1

for. He didn’t spend much time thinking about it and listed a few he was familiar with, forgetting about it for two years. Then one day, Greenberg, while sick at home, received an email informing him of his success.

The book started when Greenberg was a graduate student thinking about the legacies of the Weimar Republic, and particularly how figures from the Weimar Republic influenced the creation of a democratic Germany after World War II. Partially influenced by his wife, history professor and Cold War scholar Jennifer Miller, Greenberg began to read more about the Cold War. Greenberg was struck by how many of the figures he was interested in became important figures in the United States.

“Most of them upon arriving to the United States as refugees in the late 1930s, with some exception, were fairly marginal figures,” he said. “Their English wasn’t very good, they mostly found positions as visiting professors at small branch universities.”

However, with the American entry in World War II, the linguistic, cultural and political knowledge of

the German émigres help place them in positions of influence in American government.

Any book relating to Europe written by a first-time author was eligible for the award. The committee awarding the prize considered 65 books, book award committee chair Rima Wilkes said.

Greenberg’s book clearly defied expectations, Wilkes said.

“I picked up the book and said ‘look at this snoozefest I have to read,’” Wilkes said. “My expectations for this book were so low and I started reading it and it was just amazing. That’s an amazing book when you can take a reader who is so not predisposed to what your topic and is and be riveted.”

Greenberg’s book was ultimately voted as the top book on the shortlist by all but one member of the committee.

“It just starts with the writing,” Wilkes said. “Good writing distinguishes itself from the first paragraph. There was also the scale of the research. It’s an ability to tell a good story. It draws attention to a group of people you never would have thought about.”

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STAFF COLUMNIST STEVEN CHUN ‘19

STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ‘18

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John Kasich, not Ted Cruz, is the best chance to defeat Donald Trump.

“The Insane Campaign of John Kasich” — the title of a National Review article — indicates the exasperation of the usually moderate, well-reasoned conservative magazine.

The article excellently summarizes the current mindset of many anti-Trump conservatives: Ted Cruz is the Republican Party’s only chance of beating Donald Trump, while John Kasich’s campaign is merely serving to better Trump’s chances. Most moderate conservatives are worried about Trump not just because of his abhorrent and largely incoherent political stances but also because of the damage his inevitable loss in the general election would do to the Republican Party. Trump’s policies, masquerading under the guise of conservatism, combined with the already fractured state of the GOP mean that a landslide loss to Hillary Clinton could send the Republican Party into disarray, causing immense and lasting damage to the party. In their desperation to avoid this political disaster, conservatives believe that they must turn to Cruz and that Kasich is running a selfish campaign. This, however, is the wrong strategy, grossly misjudging not only Kasich’s chances but also the damage a Cruz loss could cause.

Anyone so appalled by Trump that they cling to Cruz runs the risk of supporting policies that they would, in any other circumstance, find equally reprehensible. Indeed, like Trump, Cruz also wants to “build a wall” and triple border security. Cruz even supports a flat tax, and he intends to scrap the Department of Education and opposes subsidies for wind and solar energy despite their obvious economic value. And finally, the fact that should be the nail in Cruz’s coffin: he was the notorious instigator of the 2013 government shutdown and the champion of social policies young conservatives and independents alike find revolting.

In terms of Kasich’s ability to defeat Trump, the data is revealing. The statistical analysis site, FiveThirtyEight, notes that the betting markets put Trump’s chances of winning the nomination at only 56 percent. Yet the chance

of a contested convention is up to 63 percent, and, if Trump fails to secure the delegates needed for the nomination, it is unlikely that he will win at the July convention. Politico describes Trump’s meager chances by pointing out that, of the 168 convention delegates from the National Republican Committee, only one publicly supports Trump. Many of Trump’s delegates would abandon him in a heartbeat if given the chance, and a contested convention provides exactly that opportunity.

Cruz faces a similar problem. Most delegates are party regulars, local officials in-step with establishment conservatism, and, as pointed out by a Washington Post title, “The Republican Establishment really, really doesn’t like Ted Cruz.” If Trump is the embodiment of conservatives’ fear and anger, Cruz is their bitterness and resentment. At the helm of the Tea Party movement, Cruz purports solving nearly a decade of partisan quagmire with ultra-partisanship. It was the Tea Party that struck the first blow resulting in the fractured, weakened and confused Republican Party we see today. A Cruz loss in the general election could spark a transition from fracture to full-on schism. With Rubio and Bush out of the race, Kasich is left as the most palatable option.

Decrying Kasich’s campaign as selfish or misguided is allowing fear to get ahead of rationality. Although Michael Bloomberg’s decision to refrain from entering the Democratic race was clearly a good decision for the Democratic Party, considering Kasich in the same light is a mistake. Rather, Kasich may be the Republican Party’s best chance to repair its image and win the election. It is no coincidence that a Wall Street Journal poll of economists shows that a Kasich presidency has the most upsides and least downsides for the economy compared to any candidate, Democrat or Republican. Kasich is likewise polling better head-to-head with Clinton than any other candidate. For any reasonable conservative, there is no reason to vote for Trump or Cruz.

Kasich is the GOP’s last chance at a moderate, smart and effective candidate.

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To protect our privacy, we need to step back and reprioritize.

Since the dawn of the digital era, the debate that they started a conversation we desperately over privacy and security has been intense and need to have. fiercely controversial. It has morphed into a Cook’s letter was a reminder of just how shouting match filled with abstract details and much sensitive, personal information we store technical jargon, while the issue has become so on an iPhone and on any item of technolpoliticized and polarized that a middle ground ogy. By risking the company’s reputation to seems impossible to find. The matter has been safeguard Apple users’ data, Cook stood up portrayed as if personal privacy and national for our rights to privacy, even when we as a security lie on opposite sides of a spectrum, society do not really care about that privacy making it seem impossible to care more about enough. We willingly store our personal expeone issue without caring less about the other. riences, contacts, itineraries, financial details Recently, however, the debate has lost much and even health data and location information of its exclusivity as a solely intellectual or on digital devices that can be easily targeted. political topic, finally reaching, even if only In my experience, we rarely ever read the briefly, the mainstream dialogue. privacy agreements we sign. We don’t blink On Feb. 16, a California judge ordered an eye when we give our addresses and social Apple to unlock an iPhone used in the De- security numbers to online services. We accember San Bernardino shooting. The stakes cept Facebook friend requests from people were high, and Apple had to tread carefully. we don’t recognize. And we seem to put very The terrorist attack in question had left 14 little thought into our digital privacy. people dead and 22 others injured, becoming Considering how remiss we are with our a painful memory and a sensitive topic for own information, it seems we do not care many Americans who rightfully want justice. enough that anyone with a computer and Hours after the court order, however, Apple internet access could find out who we are, released a letter to its customers, announcing what we look like, where we live, where we its decision to appeal and explicitly refusing work, and how to contact us — all with just to aid in decrypting the iPhone. Generally, a perfectly legal Google search. We don’t refusing to help the FBI in seem too disturbed by the a terrorist investigation isn’t “We don’t seem too fact that there exist major the best way for a company enterprises that profit off to better its public image, disturbed by the fact of collecting and selling but the statement, signed that there exist major private data — and we

by Apple CEO Tim Cook, them all of our enterprises that profit serve offered very reasonable set information on a silver of arguments defending off of collecting and platter. Although Cook Apple’s decision.

Apple nobly stood up selling private data — and For one, encryption for our privacy and perallows iPhone users to and we serve them all suasively argued that the protect important personal of our information on government has a duty to data, and any tool that protect our rights, we have Apple would create to a silver platter.” in our negligence failed to breach those protections give the government any ultimately cannot be limincentive to protect rights ited to just one iPhone, one type of device or we don’t seem to really value. one situation. Yielding to the FBI’s request, The debate over privacy is not just rooted Apple argued, would encourage hackers in whether the FBI had the right to access the and cybercriminals to mold and modify the San Bernardino phone, nor is it about whether decryption tool into a “master key” to access protecting personal information paves the way private data and would provide a precedent for more national security threats. Perhaps for the government to breach privacy rights if sensitive data were not so easily available, every time they have a hard case to solve. those threats wouldn’t exist in the first place.

Ultimately, the FBI received assistance from At the core of each of these contentious cases an outside party it is unwilling to identify and lies a history of choices, preferences and value was able to access the San Bernardino phone. judgments that have proven that we aren’t That fact alone is worrisome. It is possible that nearly as careful or as concerned as we should by so adamantly requesting Apple’s help and be. There are benefits to certain data being implying that the only way to get into the phone public, and there are certainly conveniences was to have Apple build a backdoor into it, the to using social media services — but there are FBI provoked an ego-war among hackers and also fundamental reasons to protect privacy cyber experts to prove that they could bypass and reject the normalization of a status quo the iPhone’s defenses. Had Apple agreed to in which our private lives are, voluntarily and help, it is also possible that the methods this systematically, put on display. It’s up to us to “outside party” used to hack into the iPhone redefine our values, to reprioritize and to finally would have gone undiscovered. Perhaps the start being more conscious about our digital key Apple would have created would not vulnerability. The next time you unlock your have been abused, although we cannot know iPhone, think twice about whether you want that with certainty. The consequences of this your credit cards saved on it, whether you’re hypothetical, Apple-created key, if abused, okay with sharing your location and whether would be even worse than the current situation. all the apps and features you find so cool and Whether Apple’s decision was the safest one is convenient are truly worth the privacy you hard to know. What we do know, however, is are losing.

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Greenberg talks about international perspectives in learning FROM GREENBERG PAGE 3

The time period from the beginning of his dissertation research to the completion of the book was ultimately seven years. Greenberg’s academic journey has taken him from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his undergraduate degree and doctorate, to Germany and the U.S., ending at Dartmouth, where he received tenure last year.

Moving between countries affected Greenberg’s outlook on his work.

“You become especially aware of what your assumptions are about what is normal and what is not,” he said.

Though Greenberg was hired in a faculty search for a professor specializing in European intellectual history, his work is not limited to this topic. History professor Edward Miller called Greenberg both “an international historian” and an “intellectual historian.”

“His work really stretches across sub-fields. He’s connecting ideas to institutions, to international politics,” he said.

At Dartmouth, Greenberg teaches a range of courses, from first-year seminars to senior seminars.

“When you teach the first-year seminar, there’s the excitement and energy that comes with it that’s always stimulating.” Greenberg said. “With senior seminars, they are really confident. I don’t think of it as my class, I think of it as my students’ class.”

Greenberg singled out two classes which he particularly enjoys teaching: his class on World War II, because it has a majority of non-majors who bring a wide variety of perspectives, and his class on modern European thought, because it is discussion-based and runs as a seminar.

In his classes, Greenberg’s curiosity carries over into his teaching methods, Miller said. His lectures are organized around one or more interpretative questions and his discussions are centered around getting students to think critically about those questions.

Maggie Finn ’16 has taken three classes with Greenberg, and he was also her major advisor.

“He’s amazing,” Finn said. “He’s probably the best professor I’ve had at Dartmouth in terms of his lectures, and in terms of how helpful and how supportive he is in improving your writing.”

Finn also appreciated how Greenberg defies the hierarchical relationship of the professor and the student, recalling how the two eagerly discussed a show they both watched that depicted a world in which the Nazis had won the war.

After taking Greenberg’s class on World War II, which was Yoojin Chae ’17’s first history class, she wanted to become a history major.

Chae, an international student whose first language is not English, was apprehensive about expressing herself in discussions or on paper. Greenberg

helped her go through the main arguments of readings in office hours and gave her very specific feedback.

“The general encouragement made me want to try harder and gave me more confidence in history classes in general,” Chae said.

In addition to his teaching and research, Greenberg served on the Curriculum Review Committee that produced recommendations on academic rigor and grade inflation.

“The three main things that faculty owe to Dartmouth are research, teaching and service, and he’s definitely contributed on all three of those.”

Miller said.

In return, Greenberg greatly appreciates the academic environment of U.S. and Dartmouth specifically.

“I found academic life in the United States both from the point of view of students and scholars to be so much more vibrant, exiting and energizing than anywhere else,” Greenberg said.

He noted the greater number of conferences, publications and institutions in the U.S. In teaching, Greenberg also pointed out the difference between instruction in the U.S. and instruction in Germany and Israel, where classes meet once a week and one-on-one student faculty meetings are rare.

“What professors demand from students and what students can expect from professors is not comparable to the kind of intensity that one sees in the United States,” Greenberg said.

At Dartmouth, Greenberg was excited by the combined emphasis on teaching and scholarship.

“There is an expectation you will be good at everything you do,” he said.

Dartmouth’s rural setting helps to alleviate the demands of high expectations for professors.

“I find academic life to be very demanding and often exhausting and stressful, and to have this experience in a place where everyday life is really easy,” he said. “There’s no commute, there’s no noise, is really great, especially in the spring and summer.”

History professor Stefan Link, who is from Germany, echoed Greenberg’s sentiments about the American academic culture in the discipline of history. In Germany, Link said the standard for historians was “more or less” to try and spend at least one academic year in the U.S. and that academics closely follow what happens at major American institutions.

History professor Paul Musselwhite, originally from the United Kingdom, also noted the distinct integration of students into U.S. colleges. “[In the United Kingdom] you are not as involved in your students’ lives,” he said. “You teach undergraduates in a way that you’d teach graduate students in this country, in a sense.

You are less required to teach broad survey courses.”

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History professor Udi Greenberg recently won the 2016 European Studies Book award.

professor Soyoung Suh, who ­— unlike Link, Greenberg and Musselwhite, specializes in non-Western history — was more critical of the College for its approach to international scholarship.

“I don’t think Dartmouth shows any initiative in accommodating internationalism in scholarship,” Suh said, adding that she thinks the College did not compare well to her previous institution, the University of

California, Los Angeles, which has a greater mass of international scholars and a more “dynamic culture,” she said.

“I want to see more intellectual flexibility to accommodate different approaches so that we can provincialize the American perspective as just one of many,” Suh said.

Greenberg himself is beginning his next book project, tentatively titled

“Days of Fire: Protestants, Decolonization, and European Integration, 1885-1961.” The book investigates how Protestants and Catholics, who in the 19th and early 20th century Europe hated each other intensely, made peace with each other in the 1950s and 1960s. Greenberg speculates this change may be the result of decolonization and the collapse of European empires.

Trips applications declining over time FROM TRIPS PAGE 1

would be valuable.

The number of students applying to lead Trips or be on Croos has continuously declined in the past three years. In 2013, 707 student submitted trip leader applications and 249 submitted Croo member applications; in 2014, there were 618 Trip leader applications and 200 Croo applications; in 2015, there were 575 trip leader applications and 154 Croo member applications submitted. Students are given the option to apply to both positions.

Last year, the program held information sessions for potential applicants to attend and learn more about volunteering, but the directorate decided to discontinue the sessions this year. For its second year, RWIT provided an outline with tips for writing the application.

Unlike in the past, almost everyone who started applications this year submitted one, Trips director Josh Cetron ’16 said. Cetron added that the directorate saw this strong desire to follow through with the applications as a promising indication for the future of Trips.

All of the questions in this year’s application except for one were entirely new and created by the current directorate. The directorate wanted applicants to reflect on their Dartmouth experience, as well as their personal lives and their roles within the community, Cetron said. The questions

were intended to reflect the goals of the program, which include easing the transition to college for incoming students and connecting the Dartmouth community.

This year’s application was one question longer that last year’s. To compensate for the length of the application, the word limit for each question was reduced from 400 to 300 words.

Brad Hubsch ’19 applied to be a Trip leader because his interests as an Eagle Scout overlapped with role. The application was long, Hubsch said, but it gave him the opportunity to really think about the qualities that make up a good Trip leader.

“I really like the idea of being connected to the next generation of Dartmouth students and helping to shape what they get out of their Dartmouth experience,” he said.

Bhavin Vaid ’18 said the application was lengthy, but that his main reason for not applying was because he would be off for both the upcoming fall and winter terms. Vaid said he thought it was important for Trip leaders to be there for trippees throughout their first terms at school, and not just the five-day trip.

Diversity is a very important focus when working to improve the Trips program, Cetron said. This past year, the directorate started broadening their outreach efforts by contacting many more organizations and groups of people than they had in the past.

“We made a big effort during the outreach period before applications were due to meet with individuals on campus, particularly those that are underrepresented in the Trips program,” Cetron said. "We listened to them more closely on what the parts of the program are that have not necessarily been inclusive to them in the past or that we can improve upon.”

Brendan Schuetze ’18, who led a trip last year but decided not to apply again said that the program seems relatively diverse, particularly in terms of Trip leaders’ and Croo members’ extracurricular activities.

Cetron said that it is unlikely that the program will undergo any major changes, but there have a few submissions for potential new trips.

Last year, two new trips were added — adventure quest, an orienteering and map reading trip that leads a group through a problem solving scenario, and sailing. Both of the trips were popular last year, Cetron said.

“Rather than continue to make new things, I think we’re going to take some of the trips we’ve been working on last year and make them really good,” he said.

The Moosilauke Ravine Lodge — the 77-year-old structure where each trip ends — will undergo construction after this year’s programming ends. The Board of Trustees have approved the project, which is slated to finish before Trips in 2017.

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“The Geomagnetic Storm Time Response of GPS Total Electron Content in the North American Sector,” Evan Thomas, Wilder 111

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

DEN Fireside and DEN Innovation Center Open House, DEN Innovation Center & New Venture Incubator, 4 Currier Place, Suite 107

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

“Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips, “ professor Rahul Sarpeshkar, Carson L02

TOMORROW

3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Dartmouth Men’s Baseball v. College of the Holy Cross, Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New Republic contributor Elliot Ackerman discusses his novel “Green on Blue” (2015), Haldeman 41

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Urban Dance Class with Companhia Urbana de Dança, Hopkins Center Room 131 RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Riffles (through) 6 Kitty cries 10 Like some chatter or threats 14 Birdbath buildup 15 Plant “pet” 16 Bellyache 17 *Game with a barrel-throwing gorilla 19 “Flip or Flop” cable channel 20 Dueling sword 21 Stare unsubtly 22 Slammer 23 Wreck completely 25 “Moi?” 27 __ Lingus 28 Reason for an R rating 31 “I __ thought of that” 34 Place to overnight 35 Crooner Cole 36 Stat that’s better when it’s lower 37 *Lock insert 41 Expressive rock genre 42 Architect Maya __ 43 Serengeti grazer 44 Crease-resistant fabric 46 Sewer system entry points 49 Back when 50 Alpine warble 51 Art form profiled in the documentary “Between the Folds” 55 Joint sometimes twisted 57 Fishing decoy 59 Have __: be connected 60 “Are you for __?!”

61 *Karl Marx opus 63 Motown’s Marvin 64 Prefix meaning “all” 65 Singer Baker 66 Call router: Abbr.

67 Bread served with chicken tikka masala 68 Go to pot ... or a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues

DOWN 1 Stored in the hold 2 Become running mates?

3 Dancer de Mille 4 Skin bronzing from a bottle 5 “Understand?”

6 Jim of “Wide World of Sports” 7 Self-help website 8 [Don’t take me too seriously] 9 Hang loosely 10 Announcement from the foyer 11 *Temporary housing for Fido 12 Behind schedule 13 Green-eyed monster 18 “Son of Frankenstein” role 22 D.C. insider 24 No longer working: Abbr.

26 Sharpen 28 Computer invader 29 Hunter’s garb, for short 30 Thames school 31 Captain’s position

32 Opera highlight 33 *“The Court Jester” star 38 Stare rudely at 39 “He’s a priest,” not a beast, per Ogden Nash 40 Bear or Berra 45 Propecia rival 47 Shout out 48 Glorifying verse 49 Word after work or play

51 Pest control company 52 Bit of slapstick 53 Sporty Mazda 54 Cavity filler 55 Jason’s vessel 56 Half-moon tide 58 Midshipman’s sch.

61 Ex-Dodger manager Mattingly 62 __ Thai: rice noodle dish

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Charli Fool Bear-Vetter ’15 first runner-up in playwriting contest

Alumna Q&A: Actress Clara Aranovich ’05

The Dartmouth Staff

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By WILL TACKETT

While Charli Fool Bear-Vetter ’15 is known for her powerful singing voice as a member of the Rockapellas and as a 2015 Dartmouth Idol runner-up, she credits playwriting as the medium that helped her discover her literary voice.

Fool Bear-Vetter, a theater major, was named first runner-up on March 22 for her play “The Crickets Ate the Moon” in the inaugural Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program playwriting contest.

Yale senior Reed Adair Bobroff placed first with his play “A Fraction of Love.”

Mary Kathryn Nagle, a lawyer, playwright and YIPAP executive director said she created the program last summer, with the goal of providing opportunities for Yale’s Native performers while exposing the university to authentic Native performances. Nagle said similar contests geared toward playwrights who have already had a certain degree of success inspired the conception of the content as an entry point for young playwrights.

“For the next generation of Native playwrights, there’s nothing out there for them to enter the world and have a chance to workshop and develop their plays,” she said. “We wanted to create something that would be for younger and emerging native playwrights.”

Written this past February, “The Crickets Ate the Moon” is a play about a young Native woman named Lina who discovers her love of theater and deals with the loss of her younger brother while struggling with mental health problems. The plot revolves around a dinner that Lina and her family are planning to honor her brother.

Simultaneously, Lina interacts with an androgynous character known simply as The Friend, who serves as a manifestation of her mental health issues because only Lina can see The Friend.

A story Fool Bear-Vetter’s grandfather told her inspired the play. In the story, two people committed suicide in the same house on a reservation, and a third person attempts to do the same but survives. That person then claims that a spirit-like being called to him, took his hand and brought him to the site of the suicides to prevent their deaths in time.

“That [story] really inspired me to think about how mental illness can take hold of anyone in any position in their lives,” Fool Bear-Vetter said.

Other issues Fool Bear-Vetter explores in her play include coping with grief, surviving sexual assault and dealing with the loneliness of being an oldest sibling. Fool Bear-Vetter considered those issues while developing Lina’s character.

“I thought what are the things I know that happen to Native women that people don’t talk about or that eat at them,” Fool Bear-Vetter said. “I tried to make [the issues] real and put them into a person who is hopefully relatable and that lots of women, Native or not, can see themselves in.”

Nagle said Fool Bear-Vetter was able to write about the issues facing Native people in a touching and personal way.

“I think [Fool Bear-Vetter] has written an important story that a lot of people and a lot of different tribal communities will really relate to,” Nagle said.

During her writing process, Fool Bear-Vetter looked for ways to dramatize the story her grandfather told her

while sending a hopeful message and erasing mental health stigmas.

“She’s fearless as far as how she allows her characters to play out and the story to play out,” theater professor Joseph Sutton said. “[Her plays] have a fearlessness about them which I don’t always encounter with student work.”

Fool Bear-Vetter said she chose to make a Native woman the protagonist because of her experiences as a Yanktonai woman. This decision led to some difficulty in keeping the play not too personal, especially because she dealt with many of the characters’ issues.

“When you write something autobiographical you can be blinded to what really happened because you are only looking at your perspective,” she said.

Time proved another complicating factor as Fool Bear-Vetter did not find out about the contest until a few days before the Feb. 15 deadline. Classmate and friend Taylor Payer ’15, who works with Native artists in Minneapolis, sent her an email with the contest information and a list of resources to aid her playwriting.

Nagle said directors, playwrights, actors and professors eminent in the Native theater community judged the contest. The group judges Bill Yellow Robe Jr., an Assiniboine playwright, actors Jason Grasl and Jake Hart and theater director Sarah d’Angelo.

“The Crickets Ate the Moon” will be performed on Saturday, April 16 at Yale’s Jonathan Edwards College Theater as a staged reading following a workshop about the development of her play. Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan director and writer, will direct the reading.

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Charli Fool Bear-Vetter ’15 was first runner-up in the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program playwriting contest.

By DIEGO MORENO

Based in Los Angeles, Clara Aranovich ’05 has worked in the film industry primarily as a writer, director and actress but has credits as a video editor, producer, cinematographer, camera assistant and sound editor as well. Her latest projects include acting in “Yosemite” (2015) starring James Franco as well as writing, directing and acting in “Primrose” (2015), a short film that was nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award.

What spawned your interest in filmmaking?

CA: I was born in Northern California to immigrants from South America. My mother is from Chile, my father is from Argentina and they were fleeing the military coup in the late ’70s at the hands of Pinochet. Their means of exiting the country was actually procuring advanced degrees at Stanford.

They settled in Palo Alto, they had my brother and then they had me. It was at [my brother’s] encouragement that I learned how to in-camera edit when I was still in elementary school and how I learned to edit on a computer when I was in middle school.

Tell me about your time at Dartmouth.

CA: When I think about Dartmouth there’s kind of a dearth of positive feelings, I don’t look at that time as favorably as I would hope I would have. I know a lot of people look back on their times at college with a lot of affection and nostalgia but for me it was a very fraught time. Dartmouth has since come out in the public attention as a very complicated place for women, and there’s really good reason for that as far as my experiences can say. I remember when I read, late last year I think, some stat that Dartmouth was found to be kind of number one in the country for sexual assaults, I posted the article on Facebook with the phrase “I want my money back.”

So that might clue you in to where my feelings are about Dartmouth.

Dartmouth gave me a lot of fodder to ultimately pull from in the work that I do, and certainly as a microcosm of society, it kind of distilled a lot of the most toxic aspects of gender relations and political relations between people and entities. I think that while that was damaging and intimidating and really pushed me off balance, I eventually came back from it all much stronger

and prepared frankly for what has shown to be one of the most sexist industries on the planet.

I actually want to talk about that, the industry as it exits today. What problems are there?

What do you like about it? How do you operate within it?

CA: So right now there’s some sense of relief when we’re speaking, but the intimidation won’t subside until we’re really at a 50/50 balance of major budgets and major films being directed by men and women.

Where we are now is something like 4 percent of major films are directed by women, and I’ve heard it all. I’ve been working for six years and from when I’ve started until now this is so palpable. It’s encouraging, but that’s the thing, before what was not even in the light, it’s in the light, and so on the one hand I’m really relieved we’re talking about this issue but now with the exposure it’s gained I can see every facet, every problem, every challenge associated with the issue at hand.

Where do you come up with new ideas for your stories?

CA: For the most part it’s just a simple conceit that gets me going. My most successful short film “Primrose” that premiered at South By [Southwest] and had a great festival circuit was just the simple conceit of wanting to tell a full three-act structured story in a very limited amount of time, five minutes. I wanted to show that I could shoot a beginning, middle and end type of thing with the more “boring sensibility” that I have in a short amount of time.

Any advice for aspiring filmmakers?

CA: Remember that you’re your own brand not only as a creator, but also as a collaborator. What you do have control over is your brand as a human being, and I am very passionate about this because there are a lot of people, especially when we talk about directors, who have this persona of a megalomaniacal narcissist. In the end filmmaking is very challenging. At times it’s quite dangerous, it’s exhausting both mentally and physically and you just want to be a good person while you’re doing it. Call people back, be a positive member on set, be collaborative, accept criticism in a healthy manner, set firm boundaries for yourself and keep your wits about yourself, you know?

Be a good person.

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Hood Museum renovations incite controversy

By JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

The current renovations of the Hood Museum recently stirred up controversy. The $50 million renovations are scheduled to be completed in January 2019 and focus on expanding and creating new spaces. Conflict has arisen over the efforts to harmonize new additions with the vision of Charles Moore, the original architect.

Moore was one of the major, international figures known in postmodern architecture, a style of architecture that is currently out of fashion, Williams College art professor E.J. Johnson said. Brutalism, a style of architecture that came before postmodernism, has started to come back in style and is influencing the current renovations, he said.

Architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams are in charge of the new renovations. Tsien, who was a student of Moore, said that she wanted to extend the mission of the museum’s education program by designing new study centers in a newly-created Center for Object Based Inquiry, which will feature stateof-the-art technology for the study of different objects at the museum.

“Dartmouth hired [the architects] with a tough problem — we wanted a

lot of new things for a very small space,” Hood director John Stomberg said.

“But they found a beautiful, creative solution. We preserve the majority of the original building and still get a new museum experience.”

The issue of creating more squarefootage in the available space is primarily being addressed by closing the archway to the Hood courtyard and creating a concourse.

Of the new additions to the museum, Tsien said that the design will be a very quiet, modernist work, with fairly simple lines and forms. The new entrance from the Green will be characterized by a sense of quiet serenity, Tsien said.

The Hood is surrounded by the Hopkins Center, which features similarities to the Lincoln Center in New York City and ’60s style architecture, and Wilson Hall, which features a 19th century, Richardsonian style, Tsien said. To harmonize with the red brick of Wilson and the white facade of the Hop, the new Hood entrance will be made of soft, gray and white brick, Tsien said. “[The new entrance] is trying to relate to the buildings on both sides,” Tsien said. “On one hand, it’s brick, so it has a conversation with Wilson, and the off-white color has a conversation

with the Hop. Whenever we build a building, we don’t see them as a foreign object that was just dropped down, we see them as having a conversation in context with the surroundings.”

Tsien said that their design will provide a quiet companionship to Moore’s more idiosyncratic and playful work, as a way to respect the original design.

However, some commentators in the architectural community, such as Johnson, disagree.

Johnson said that the present design that is available through an illustration seems unforgivingly rectangular and boxy, and has little to do with the spirit of Moore’s building.

“It makes me think of going into some sort of hospital waiting room,” Johnson said. “It is so unforgivingly dull and has nothing to do with what Charles did, and seems to me to be no way to enter either a museum or classrooms.”

Johnson said that the new design completely compromises the experience that Moore created of going into the museum, and that the design is insensitive to the integration of the museum to the other buildings.

“The shape of the Moore building picks up on the curvilinear shapes of the older buildings, but the building to replace the Moore courtyard is boxy, white and sharp-edged — it’s totally

antithetical to the buildings around the space,” Johnson said.

Johnson noted that though the 1980s style of the Hood is no longer in vogue, the building remains a important historical work.

“I think museums should have a responsibility to architecture as a work of art, and the Hood is responsible for preserving Moore’s work as a work of art, and it is not behaving responsibly for that,” he said.

In response to general criticism for the new designs, Tsien said that she understood that certain people want things to remain the same, but that she also thought the needs of the College have changed.

“I think that what we have done in our work is to be present — we don’t want to copy Moore — but in a very quiet way,” Tsien said. “What I think people don’t understand and have not considered is that we are restoring a huge amount of this building, much more than we’re making new.”

Stomberg said that while not everyone has been in support of the renovations, the design team has considered how to minimize the changes to the original building and maximize the impact of the new building.

“The team responsible for the building really feel that ultimately, the

proof will be in the pudding,” he said.

“When the building’s done, everyone will come around, and what we’ll end up with will be a monument that stays true to the vision of Charles Moore, and also to the visions of Billie Tsien and Tod Williams.”

Tsien stressed the restorative component of the project.

“The whole face of the building that faces the Black Family Visual Arts Center quadrant is being restored,” she said. “Sixty-five percent of what we’re doing is restoring the existing building and the existing architecture.”

Less visible renovations will also be a fundamental part of the process, Stomberg said, including windows, the roof, the floor, the walls and the interior lights. He said that the renovations were driven by five goals that the College wanted to accomplish: increasing the visibility of the front facade from the Green, inclusion of an interior public area for social events, establishing the Center for Object Based Inquiry, constructing five new art galleries and a new concourse and creating an office suite for staff.

The additions to the museum will increase the square footage by 50 percent, but despite the increase in space, the net increase in energy consumption will be zero, Stomberg said.

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ dissects nuclear family, then goes nuclear

By ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff

After the success of the handheld, alien invasion blockbuster “Cloverfield” in 2008, producer J. J. Abrams shaped its blood relative “10 Cloverfield Lane” (2016) to exist in the same apocalyptic universe. But the film seems patently devoid of aliens; rather they are a backdrop or suggestion, and what we get instead is a tight, chamber thriller in which alienation becomes the central horror.

The film begins with the promise of “Psycho” (1960) or “The Shining” (1980), as we alternate between close-ups and aerial shots of Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) driving to or away from something. A violent car crash soon finds her in a Saw-esque cell handcuffed to a pipe, awakening to the paranoiac delirium of her isolation. In walks Howard (John

Goodman), her savior and captor, a Navy Seal turned Doomsday prophet (classic!) who has built the bunker anticipating the above ground apocalypse.

While Howard dreams of recreating his romantic vision of the nuclear family equipped with board games, old VHS movies and family dinners, Michelle and her fellow captor/rescue Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), must escape this hellish ark.

But the mystery of what lurks outside is as confounding as Howard himself. The only window displays a tranquil farmscape. Yet our steadfast disbelief in Howard’s alien invasion theory weakens after a desperate woman with eroded skin begs to enter the bunker. Perhaps the air really is contaminated and the radio waves are truly empty.

Sounds of cars and helicopters hovering above only complicate the world’s surface reality. By ma-

nipulating and obscuring reality Howard’s “little princess” complex, so successfully, the film forces us and Michelle quickly becomes his to forfeit our rationality; our cogs prized doll. It’s a miracle he doesn’t stop turning and justifying, and tuck her in at night. Goodman artwe must simply watch the climax fully portrays the volatile patriarch, in confounded anxiety. Rarely whose moments of survivalist clardoes a thriller ity are belied by his unsettling achieve such a surrender. rever sions to “However, the “daddy.” And H o w e v e r, the unsettling unsettling manipulation perhaps in their perfor mance manipulation of familial structures of family — of familial s t r u c t u r e s may be the film’s the dinners, the movies, may be the greatest asset.” the puzzles — film’s greatest these hostages asset. Howdeconstruct the ard could be a pedophile, murderer or simply fantasy image that is the “nuclear a misunderstood father, yet his family” to reveal its very fabricadrive to form Michelle into the tion. Director Dan Trachtenberg image of his lost daughter recalls thus hones the Sartrean thesis: “Eyes Without a Face” (1960) in its family is hell.

Inevitably, the kids must leave quasi-incestuous perversity. A bowl of ice cream, a game of “Taboo” the nest — but not without a fight. and a t-shirt all become markers of Kudos to Trachtenberg for crafting

such an original escape scene, as a barrel of perchloric acid, a shower curtain hazmat suit and an air-duct pursuit all come together to form one delirious death march. Perhaps this is all an extreme allegorization of parents’ anxiety surrounding their children leaving home.

Howard may just be the ultimate helicopter parent. If only this were the truth. The conclusion becomes silly, and Michelle’s “Oh come on!” at what she encounters perhaps is aimed at Trachtenberg himself for his lack of imagination and disavowal of the audience’s own.

If only the film weren’t handcuffed to the “Cloverfield” pipeline. But that’s marketing, and a sequel will surely be invading theaters soon.

Rating: 8/10 “10 Cloverfield Lane” is now playing at the Nugget Theater in Hanover at 4:20 p.m. and 6:50 p.m.