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VOL. CLXXII NO. 137

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2015

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Former undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman said that when she’s at the negotiating table, “I’m the United States of America, not just Wendy Sherman,” at a talk Tuesday about her critical role as the chief American negotiator in the Iran nuclear deal talks.

Sherman assumed the role as the No. 3 highest ranking official at the State Department in September 2011, and only recently left the government, having reached the agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear program in July of 2015.

Former undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman gave a lecture on Tuesday.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center leaves Pioneer ACO

B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has withdrawn from the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model, which requires participating medical centers to emphasize quality of care rather than fee for service care, DHMC director of external relations Rick Adams and DHMC director of value-based reimbursement models Lynn Guillette said.

DHMC was one of the 32 original

Pioneer ACO members, of which only 19 remain. Under ACO models, health care centers scrutinized services provided, with the aim of providing fewer unnecessary procedures to patients and instead focus on the quality of health care. The largest benefit of ACO models is that they give health care providers an incentive to shift from service for fee procedures, economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan said.

“ACO models are a way to make sure the patient is getting the right care — not more care,” Wheelan said.

The ACO model allows health care providers and those who will cover the cost of the procedure to split the cost of care based on evaluations of quality benchmarks the health care provider is expected to meet, Wheelan added.

“The theory behind ACO models has the potential to reduce cost and improve health care for patients,” Wheelan said.

But ACO models can fail because they pay medical facilities to reduce unnecessary procedures, rather than rewarding them for positive patient

GraduatePrograms.com ranks Tuck No. 1 for value B y ANNA STAROPOLI The Dartmouth

A survey conducted by GraduatePrograms.com ranked Tuck Business School as the No. 1 Business School for Best Value for 2015.

GraduatePrograms.com offers reviews and rankings that give information to potential and current graduate school students. The website includes student perspectives on each graduate school and periodically releases the results of a

outcomes, Wheelan said.

In this case, Guillette and Adams said that the financial model behind Pioneer was not suitable for DHMC. Guillette said that while the Pioneer ACO model has proven beneficial for other health care providers, DHMC could not sustain the financial cost of providing care under this ACO. “I think the Pioneer ACO model financial model is just flawed,” she said.

“We as an organization just cannot SEE ACO PAGE 3

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survey that rank the graduate programs.

The best value ranking refers to the schools where students feel that they are receiving the best quality education for the price of their tuition, Business Insider reported. The ranking lists the top 25 graduate programs in the country.

The GraduatePrograms.com ranking is Tuck’s best in a series of rankings that have come out recenlty. The Economist ranked Tuck the number three business MAY NGUYEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Rockefeller Center’s Leadership Fellows participate in a workshop.

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CAMPUS BLOTTER Oct. 23, 6:27 p.m., Observatory Road: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services and Hanover Fire Department responded to two students who collided when riding their bicycles. One student escaped with only minor pain in the leg, shoulder and head.

The other student sustained a bleeding cut in head and was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for further evaluation.

Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m., Stinson’s Village Store: Hanover Police turned a student over to Safety and Security officers for attempting to purchase alcohol from Stinson’s Village Store with a false ID. Oct. 23, 10:45 p.m., Collis Student Center: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth EMS gave medical assistance to a student for intoxication. The student was admitted to Dick’s House for the night.

Oct. 24, 12:57 a.m., School Street: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth EMS, Hanover Fire Department and Hanover Police gave medical assistance to an intoxicated student. The student was admitted to DHMC for further evaluation.

Oct. 24, 12:40 p.m.: Safety and Security officers met with a student who reported she had a bike accident, where she had fallen and hit her head on the ground, requiring two stitches. The student was transported to DHMC. Oct 24, 10:45 p.m., North Massachusetts Residence Hall: Safety and Security officers and EMS encountered a student showing signs of intoxication. The student was transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

Oct. 25, 3:00 p.m., The Green: Safety and Security officers observed a gray, single cab pickup truck with three to four people inside drive across the Green. The individuals inside the vehicle were yelling obscenities to people on the Green. The truck exited into traffic and Hanover Police notified Norwich Police, who have now taken over the investigation.

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Student-focused website ranksTuck high FROM TUCK PAGE 1

school. Forbes ranked the school fifth, U.S. News and World Report ranked it ninth and Bloomberg ranked it 15th in full-time business program.s Tuck professor Vijay Govindarajan said that Tuck’s high ranking does not surprise him.

“It’s the best value,” Govindarajan said. “Ultimately, Tuck really transforms our students in very fundamental ways. Anyone who goes through the Tuck experience at the end of it their life is changed for the better. It is a phenomenal, lifechanging experience, and the value gets created in three places — knowledge, experience and network.”

Over 13,000 current and recent business school students responded to the survey. These students were reached through both scholarship entries and via social media platforms, according to GraduatePrograms.com.

Graduate Programs LLC chief operating officer Harvey Berkey said that the best value ranking is only one of the categories in which students ranked their schools. Each ranking is determined entirely by students, rather than external sources.

“We are the only website that ranks schools 100 percent according to what students think of the school,” Berkey said. “We don’t use any outside rankings from any administrators or any studies or any other thing in the field. We only take information based solely and exclusively on the rankings of the students themselves.”

These individual rankings were then averaged to determine the top business schools in the country. For each category, students evaluated where their university placed on a

numerical scale of one to 10, with 10 signifying a perfect ranking.

In total, students ranked their school in 15 separate categories.

“The rankings cover a whole variety of topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support and quality of network,” Berkey said.

In the best value category, students allotted Tuck an average of 9.89 points on the scale. Brigham Young University trailed slightly behind with a score of 9.83 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill followed with 9.77 points.

The categories of ranking also included quality of education, networking and social life, each of which Tuck scored well on. Tuck was ranked No. 10 in education quality, No. 15 for networking and No. 8 for social life.

Tuck scored its lowest in the transportation category. Students gave Tuck transportation an 8.5 on the numerical scale.

The scores from the individual categories were averaged to determine the overall best business schools in the United States. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked first.

Though Tuck scored fairly well in each category, it did not make the list for the top 25 business schools in the country. Berkey attributed this to both delayed student response and limited student involvement.

“A lot of Tuck’s rankings came in very late in the period,” he said.

“We didn’t have a lot of rankings for Dartmouth.”

Many Tuck students were also unaware of the survey.

This was the first year Tuck made the list of rankings. In 2014, Tuck was not ranked on GraduatePrograms.com due to a lack of student

submission of rankings.

“We need to have a certain minimum number of rankings before we’ll rank a school,” Berkey said.

“Without being ranked, it is hard to compare Tuck to other schools.”

Because of this, Berkey urged Tuck students to complete the surveys on GraduatePrograms.com to rank their school.

“The more rankings we get for Dartmouth, the better the ratings are,” Berkey said.

Berkey also said that more students ranked Tuck following the survey’s closing on Sept. 30, so the survey does not necessarily reflect Tuck’s current ranking.

“Dartmouth’s ranking subsequent to the closing has gone up substantially,” Berkey said. “So you’re going to find that the overall rankings for the Tuck School are among the best business schools in the country [in the next survey].”

Vincent Accurso Tu’16 said that Tuck deserved its No. 1 rank. He justified this ranking by pointing toward the services Tuck offers, such as the Tuck Career Development Office. “[The Tuck Career Development Office] is a well-oiled machine that provides great opportunities for graduating students,” Accurso said.

Edmund Shanahan Tu’17 attributed the high ranking to Tuck’s large alumni network.

“Tuck’s alumni engagement is head and shoulders above any other business school,” Shanahan said.

“So I think given that our price point is about the same [as other schools] that that definitely would support the claim.”

Tuck spokesperson Anne Culp Linge declined on behalf of Tuck’s Office of Communications to comment on the rankings.

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Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

In the Oct. 26, 2015 story “Student-run groups assist with seniors’ job hunt,” it was incorrectly stated that the Dartmouth Investment and Philanthropy Program meetings had moved from Wilder Hall to Carson Hall. The meetings had actually moved from Carson Hall to Wilder Hall.

In the same story, DIPP co-president Bob Klingenberger ’16 said DIPP was “not for the donation.” Klingenberger clarified after publication that DIPP has the goal of donating money to groups on campus.

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Tuck Business School was recently ranked No. 1 on GraduatePrograms.com best value ranking.

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DHMC leaves Pioneer ACO,is considering Next Generation ACO FROM ACO PAGE 1

financially sustain that.”

Even though DHMC was awarded a bonus from Pioneer in 2012, projections showed that DHMC would have to pay about $2 to $3 million in penalties for not meeting the ACO money-saving benchmark this year, Adams said.

The decision to withdraw from Pioneer ACO was not linked to budget issues at DHMC, Adams said. Last month, the Geisel School of Medicine announced a bundle of policies aimed at reducing a budget deficit.

Adams stressed that DHMC still supports ACO models in general — but Pioneer in particular, he said, had a flawed financial structure.

“DHMC believes in a sustainable health system based on three things — community health systems, the idea of value to patients and the idea of ACO models,” Adams said.

When the Pioneer ACO Model was proposed in 2011, DHMC applied because the hospital had an interest in participating in affordable care models, Adams said. Indeed, DHMC has had a strong connection to ACOs since their creation in 2006 when Elliot Fisher, a doctor at DHMC, became the first to coin the term “ACO” in one of his own

research papers, Adams said.

DHMC’s long time commitment to quality and affordable care to patients was not awarded under the ACO Pioneer model, Guillette said.

But Pioneer itself was flawed, Adams said, because it did not take into account DHMC’s particular strengths and constraints — the model was too generalized.

Under the model, DHMC was saving some money and achieving quality care goals — in fact, DHMC met 33 quality-of-care benchmarks set by the Pioneer ACO — but still had to pay $3.7 million in penalty fees for not meeting this ACO’s financial benchmarks, he said.

The Pioneer ACO’s regulations were not tailored for individual institutions and local or regional conditions, Adams said, and he noted that the conditions for fines were not clear beforehand.

“Just like it’s easier for a 12-minute mile runner to cut off a lot of time and harder for a five-minute mile runner to cut off a lot of time, it is harder for DHMC to cut off the amount spent on procedures because we were already doing well,” Adams said.

In particular, Adams said that DHMC is a low utilized facility, meaning that DHMC does very little radiology, X-rays and other treat-

ments that are often associated with fee-for-services costs.

What happened over time was that DHMC was being judged on standards based off of systems that had a lot of room for improvement, Adams said.

Adams added that DHMC made recommendations to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve the model but saw little change in the

evaluation process.

In September, when DHMC notified the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services that they would be withdrawing from the Pioneer ACO model, they were invited to join the Next Generation ACO model, also run by CMS. The benchmarks are more specific and flexible for different medical facilities, Adams said.

DHMC has not signed contracts

for the model because the details of the contract are still unclear.

Guillette said that the Next Generation model assesses local and regional conditions that could prove to be beneficial for both the patient and DHMC. “We remain cautiously optimistic that the [Next Generation] model evolves into what we intended to be,” Guillette said.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center became the 11th of the original 32 organizations to leave the Pioneer ACO.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

CONTRIBUTING Columnist CLARA CHIN ’19

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Movements Matter

Opinion Asks

Protests like the “Black Lives Matter” movement can be catalysts for change.

How useful will the College’s Community Study be? What do you think of the questions being asked and the survey’s setup?

While watching the movie “Straight Outta Compton” (2015) at Loew Auditorium on Oct. 24, I was reminded of ongoing debates over the effectiveness of political protest. The F. Gary Gray-directed biopic is about the late 1980s rap group N.W.A. and its five members, and though many scenes in “Straight Outta Compton” consist of fist brawls and raunchy parties, the movie also highlights protests, riots and how the media and the police respond to these events. “Straight Outta Compton” features a protest against police brutality that predates the Black Lives Matter movement — the 1992 unrest that took place in Los Angeles after the acquittal of four white police officers, who had been caught on videotape beating black taxi driver Rodney King.

More than 20 years have passed, yet the same concerns over racial disparities in police treatment have reemerged as a central issue — and it might not seem like much has improved since. Like the beating of Rodney King, the recent police killings of young black males like Michael Brown and Tamir Rice have moved large numbers of Americans to support the victims in political protest. Because the issue of police violence persists despite these protests, one might question how effective political protests actually are.

Many prominent politicians have criticized, to varying degrees, the effectiveness of the Black Lives Matter movement. New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) concluded that “they are calling for the murder of police officers.” Offering a much milder critique of the movement, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met with Black Lives Matter protesters and discussed their current aims with them. While she did acknowledge their analysis was “fair,” Clinton told them that she did not believe that the protestors should be trying to “change hearts,” and that they should focus instead on changing laws. I have experienced similar misgivings firsthand — when I staged a Black Lives Matter protest at my high school, many friends did not see the point. There is no concrete change that occurs directly from protesting, the thinking goes — holding signs and chanting will only have a minimal effect, especially if there is no specific policy demand.

The problem with sending out a campuswide survey is that it will not return data from the campus that it intended to gauge. Rather, because of self-reporting and the self-selection of survey takers, the results will likely be incomplete and not representative of the range of opinions and feedback from the entire student population.

This is a problem with collecting survey data in general, but if Dartmouth really wants responses from all students, survey completion should be made mandatory to view online grades, much like course assessments are. Sure, many students will not fill out the survey with diligence if they are forced to do it — but that is better than using a distorted sample.

—Reem Chamseddine ’17

Clinton’s primary advice to the protesters was to ask for particular changes in the law. But what if changing hearts can indeed change laws?

This strategy has worked in the past. It is easy to simplify social change into dates when laws were promulgated, but legal change is often spurred by shifts in public opinion, as gauged by public commentary and social unrest. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, which sought to eliminate discriminatory voting barriers, gained momentum after the peaceful marches from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. They rallied the country in favor of new laws and pressured then-U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to make a change. Like the unrest portrayed in “Straight Outta Compton” and the contemporary Black Lives Matter protests, civil rights demonstrations profoundly influenced the public consciousness, independent of the legal change they later inspired.

Some may see the fact that people are protesting yet again as evidence that no progress has been made since the 1992 Rodney King riots.

Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck, however, has said, “When you see folks looting and fires and police cars being vandalized and the extreme degree of tension that we all saw, it does remind me of 1992. But it also reminds me of how far we’ve come.” Examples of progress in Los Angeles include the ouster of the divisive police chief Daryl Gates, the introduction of five-year police chief terms and 2015 rules mandating body cameras on officers. Present national protests could hold similar potential for change. In fact, the odds may be even better — demonstrations in recent years have more often taken the form of non-violent protest than violent, polarizing riots.

Because protesting is not a formal mechanism to propose policies, people sometimes fail to see it as a valid method to effect change. It is true that protests alone do not guarantee substantive reform. “Straight Outta Compton,” though a dramatization, shows how riots can lack nuance or any common, defining goal — running the risk of spreading senseless violence. Yet protest has its place — and legal change in anything, including police accountability, often requires a push from the masses.

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The Community Study is the first of its kind in the College’s history. This fact certainly will make completing the survey and seeing the recommendations by Rankin and Associates worthwhile, despite issues of self-reporting and lack of identity verification. This problem could only be remedied by reneging on the promise of anonymity, which is extremely important to those students who would not share their experiences otherwise. While I would assume students who have more critical or negative perspectives to share would, in general, be more likely to complete the survey, I do not believe this is necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, these critical perspectives, coupled with anonymity, will allow Rankin to formulate actionable recommendations to administrators so they can remedy some of the issues faced by respondents. Rankin has conducted similar studies for many renowned universities, including the University of California system. Undoubtedly, they will provide the College with excellent recommendations — if students are willing to take the time to complete the survey.

—Anmol Ghavri ’18 I believe the Community Study will shed light on some basic flaws in the Dartmouth community’s current state. The survey takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete, however, and a session cannot be saved for later. Moreover, the results of the study will not be available until next Spring — and even then, substantive changes in response are unlikely to follow immediately.

With all this in mind, it is no surprise that most

students find the survey irrelevant — and if not irrelevant, then, at the very least, low on their list of things to do.

—Ben Szuhaj ’19 Despite receiving a couple of reminders from a campus-wide blitz sent by Provost Carolyn Dever — who happens to be one of the section leaders for my Humanities I course — I was not motivated to take this survey until now. When I finally opened the survey, the first thing I noticed was the lack of authentication to verify my association with Dartmouth. Though I doubt students will jump at the opportunity to disseminate the link to a survey they may or may not know about, if Xfinity On Campus can set up an authorization method, then so should a study conducted by the Provost’s Office, especially since it is intended to gauge campus climate. Without a way to confirm the survey respondent’s affiliation with the College, the survey loses a bit of its credibility.

—Hansa Sharma ’19 I will be honest — I had not taken the survey before now and had to dig through my inbox to locate the email. As a ’19, it is jarring to continually analyze and reanalyze the life I have just entered.

When my family and friends back home ask, I tell them — truthfully — I love it here, but you would not be able to tell from my survey responses. This leads me to wish there had been more questions about the positives of Dartmouth. What we are doing right is just as important as what we are doing wrong. In some cases, it might be even more enlightening.

I doubt we will be surprised by the results of the survey. We were asked what is wrong with Dartmouth, and we will probably hear about problems we have suspected all along. The data will spur no immediate change. Successful policy changes are how we must measure the efficacy of this survey — and that will take time. This is a dull prognosis, but with systemic campus problems, there is a point at which we cannot rely on outrage to fuel progress. Racism, sexism, classism and other prejudice die slow deaths — the key is to maintain a long-term perspective. I am not expecting great things from the survey, but we should all demand that the College act on its results.

—Steven Chun ’19

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Sherman recounts Iran nuclear deal negotiations FROM SHERMAN PAGE 1

Rather than expounding on the terms of the Iran nuclear deal and the various achievements and concessions made by the United States, Sherman spent the majority of her time discussing the behindthe-scenes, everyday interactions she had with her Iranian counterparts.

Sherman recounted the history of the negotiations, which began secretly through a back channel when the United States sent representatives to Muskat, Oman, to meet with the Iranians. The Iranians halted their nuclear program in 1979, but resumed the program after receiving a schematic of an IR-1 centrifuge — required for the enrichment of uranium to a weapons-grade fissile material — from a Pakistani scientist.

In 2003, Iran possessed 164 centrifuges, Sherman said, but by the time the United States began successful negotiations, Iran already had 19,000 centrifuges, 10,000 of which were operational. According to Sherman, the United States was left with two possibilities for stopping the Iranians — peaceful negotiations or military action.

Sherman said destroying facilities would simply render their program inactive until they could rebuild again.

“You can’t get rid of knowledge.

You can get rid of facilities, but you can’t get rid of knowledge,” she said.

Sherman was quick-witted and engaging, telling stories of what she called the “very complex human dimension” of the negotiations process.

One day, she would be sitting around the table with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, sharing pictures of her grandchildren, and then trust would erode and a disagreement might be sparked the next day, she said.

During the last round of negotiations, Sherman was pent up in a hotel in Vienna for 27 days, during which she did not leave, except for one dinner. She joked that there, she ate a lot of turkey schnitzel, wiener schnitzel and chicken schnitzel. As a result of such intimate and lengthy negotiations, Sherman said she got to know the Iranians and the other European partners quite well.

Indeed, negotiations lasted much longer than expected. As a result, an interim agreement that was supposed to be in place six months ended up lasting a year, she said.

Sherman addressed Congress’ opposition to the deal and the need to appease Iran, Israel and other countries and the United States legislative branch.

Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin, who was also at the talk, said that on one hand, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was saying things that could have torpedoed the entire undertaking, while on

the other, some members of Congress were also threatening to prevent the deal from going into effect.

In March 2015, a group of 47 senators, led by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark), sent a letter to Iran’s leaders warning them that “anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement” that could be nullified in January 2017, Benjamin explained.

Sherman mused that such dissent was a lot of fun, which drew laughter from the audience. In order to prevent the legislative branch from blocking the international nuclear agreement from becoming law — an attempt that was made in late September — Sherman met one-on-one with congress members, and U.S. President Barack Obama personally made hundreds of phone calls, she said.

Sherman believes the March letter only hurt Cotton’s cause by implying to Democrats that the deal had emerged as a partisan issue and was trying to be killed principally by Republicans. Sherman said she was able to use the letter as evidence with the Iranians that the agreement was going to be a hard sell to Westerners, and that it had to be extremely capable of assuaging the fears of all parties involved.

Other countries, including Israel and the Arab Gulf States, also expressed legitimate concerns about Iranian credibility, Sherman said.

She added that she spent many days briefing her Israeli counterparts on all of the United States’ proposals.

“I think the bond between the U.S. and Israel is unbreakable,” she said. “I think that we are absolutely committed to Israel’s security for all of the right reasons. We all know the history. We all understand that this is the only democracy in the Middle East and a place that was created for the safety and protection of a people who at one point, parts of the world wanted to wipe out.”

Additionally, Sherman elaborated on the dynamic process of carrying out negotiations in the modern day. Due to social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, decisions can be disseminated in real time. Iranian negotiators sometimes tweeted during the talks, and Khamenei’s public statements had immediate impacts on the negotiations, Sherman said. The press immediately hounded her to respond and react to the Iranians.

“She has the absolutely essential requirement for a good negotiator.

She’s tough as nails. She’s incredibly sharp, she’s very good at seeing lots of different angles,” Benjamin said.

“She’s tough. She has extraordinary stamina, and certainly in the Iran deal, that was vitally important.”

He likened the role of undersecretary of political affairs to simultaneously playing two or three dozen

chess games at one time. Although Sherman receives the most credit for her work on the Iran Deal, Benjamin said it is difficult to think of anything that was not in her ambit.

Questions asked by audience members touched on a series of topics, ranging from the Iran Deal, sanctions and the four prisoners being held by the Iranians to ISIL, also known as the Islamic State, the civil war in Syria and the challenges posed by being a woman in a position of power.

Benjamin hoped that bringing Sherman to campus would allow students to appreciate what a remarkable achievement the Iranian nuclear deal is and get a sense of the complexities involved in the negotiation process.

The lecture also provided an opportunity for students to hear from and interact with an accomplished diplomat and learn about leadership, keeping with the Dickey Center’s mission of instilling in students an understanding of the world’s troubles and a commitment to do something about them, Benjamin said.

Danny Reitsch ’16 said he followed the economic ramifications of the deal closely over the summer, while Jibran Ahmad ’16 expressed a lack of knowledge about the deal and said the event would serve as an opportunity

to get an inside perspective on the negotiations.

“I’m curious to see how we interact with any formal government, especially the Iranians, who are not the most diplomatic group. I want to know what types of techniques [Sherman] used [and] how long negotiations took,” Reitsch said.

Peter Griffith ’16 said he hoped to gain a deeper understanding of the negotiations and understand the mechanics behind the deal, especially because he believes the Iran Deal will be debated in the upcoming elections.

Community member Debbie Hall read about Sherman’s lecture in The Valley News. While Hall does not think the deal is perfect, she supports the deal because she thinks its better than inaction.

Sandor Farkas ’17 said that although he finds some aspects of the deal disconcerting, he nevertheless thinks its helpful to hear from those directly accountable for the deal.

“I decided to come today because when someone who played such a key role in determining the future of world politics comes to Dartmouth, you listen to them,” he said.

Farkas said that he could see that she was someone who cared deeply about Americas future, Israel’s future, and the world’s future.

“She may not have convinced me of anything in an overarching sense, but she made me more confident about the future,” he said. “I thought she was an amazing speaker…her story is pretty inspirational and the way she conducted herself as a negotiator and representative of U.S. is exemplary.”

Courtney Miller Tu’17 said Sherman was eloquent, and it was obvious that her knowledge of the subject was expansive based on her ability to answer each question with fluidity and great depth.

“During the whole [negotiation of the] deal, I was an active duty army officer, so it wasn’t up to me to oppose or support [it], but I knew any sort of agreement that would prevent people from going to war would be impactful for my life,” Miller said.

Although Sherman was unable to meet with classes in her time at Dartmouth, she stayed late to answer questions from audience members.

“I was hugely gratified that she could slot us in,” Benjamin said.

“Although she’s probably decelerated a bit from the rate at which she was living before, she still has an incredibly busy life, and I think [she has] a lot of pent-up demand for normalcy because she’s really been working insane hours for a very long time.”

THE JAMES & DAVID ORR LECTURE ON CULTURE & RELIGION AT DARTMOUTH

VATICAN II PA S T, P R E S E N T & F U T U R E

A symposium assessing the Roman Catholic Church in the fifty years since the end of the Second Vatican Council

Thursday,

OCTOBER 29 4:15 pm

2015

Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

PANELISTS E.J. Dionne, Jr. Washington Post Brookings Institution

Paul Elie Berkley Center for Religion Georgetown University

Marian Ronan Catholic Feminist & Author New York Theological Seminary

Simone Campbell Sisters of Social Service “Nun on the Bus”

Jeffrey N. Steenson Monsignor & Church Historian Roman Catholic Church

MODERATOR Randall Balmer Dartmouth College

Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY All day Winter term undergraduate course election period

4:30 p.m.

“Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients,” book lecture with author Jeremy Smith, Haldeman Center, Room 41

5:00 p.m.

“Andy Warhol = Nobody’s Fool,” art lecture with independent scholar and curator Trevor Fairbrother, Hood Museum of Art, Auditorium

TOMORROW 4:30 p.m.

“Six to Start: Fundraising,” Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network boot camp lecture, DEN Innovation Center

4:30 p.m.

“Policy, Politics and the Affordable Care Act,” lecture with James F. Blumstein of Vanderbilt University, Rockefeller Center, Room 003

7:00 p.m.

“An Evening with Congressman Joaquin Castro,” lecture with Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Moore Building, Filene Auditorium

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Opera singer Renée Fleming performs song recital

something for everyone, and I’m also exploring repertoire for myThe Dartmouth self as well,” Fleming said. “This Celebrated soprano Renée famous song cycle by Schumann Fleming performed a song recital hasn’t been done at all during my at the Hopkins Center on Tuesday. career by almost anyone, and it just Fleming is a four-time Grammy went out of fashion, having been award winning artist who was sung all the time in the decades bealso the recipient of the National fore. I thought it was time to revive Medal of Arts, America’s highest it— it’s very beautiful, and we can honor for an individual artist, and enjoy it in its historic context and has hosted various television and not think of it as anti-feminist.” radio broadcast events, including The Schumann song cycle is a the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in well-known set of songs that are HD series. especially appropriate for a soprano Despite her busy schedule to sing, music department chair and prestige as an artist, Flem- Steve Swayne said. ing became “The available for a “The idea is to have life and the love perfor mance of a woman is at Dartmouth, exposure to this art what it means, d i r e c t o r o f form, the song recital, and it’s specifiprogramming cally the kind a t H o p k i n s that’s so spectacular of thing one Center, Mar- and intimate. The would expect garet Lawsomeone of song recital has been a rence said. her caliber to It had taken mainstay for the singer sing,” Swayne t h r e e ye a r s for a couple centuries said. to schedule Unlike this specific now. They’ve gone from the song-cycle engagement, being parlor songs,

by Schumann, Lawrence conthe works by because everyone tinued.

Rachmaninoff “It wasn’t was an amateur and Strauss so much a dif- musician at one point will be sepaficult negotiarate pieces, foltion as it was in history, [to being lowed by a colfinding a mo- public events]. While lection of folk ment when songs from the things have changed, Ms. Fleming is Auvergne reavailable, and I still think there’s so gion of France, for someone much pleasure to be ar ranged by of her career, Canteloube in t h a t m e a n s gained from this — the the local lanthere’s large marriage of music and guage Occiblocks of time tan. Fleming poetry” when she’s in also performed a metro opera with the Paitself, or when -RENéE FLEMING, OPERA tricia Barber she’s only perquartet, a forming with SINGER contemporary symphonies,” jazz band with Lawrence whom Fleming said. “So her is involved in a agent and I had to look for a time joint program that will perform in when she was able to perform with Chicago and the Kennedy Center a pianist, and we were fortunate in Washington, D.C. enough to find one.”

“The Strauss songs are my Her performance at the Hop bread-and-butter repertoire, and featured a diverse repertoire of the the Rachmaninoff songs are just works of Robert Schumann, Sergei absolutely beautiful,” Fleming Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, said. “The Patricia Barber group Joseph Canteloube, and Patricia is interesting— it’s the premiere for Barber. She performed Schuman’s them tonight, and she’s just a won“Frauenline und-leden,” a song- derful jazz musician, songwriter cycle that is based on a series of and singer.” poems by Adelbert von Chamisso. The repertoire focuses on a The song-cycle tells the story of a range of Romantic pieces. female protagonist’s life.

“You’ll see three different Selecting the program was a flavors of Romanticism in the challenging and time-consuming performance, with the Schumann, process, Fleming said, because she Rachmaninoff and Strauss,” had to account for the audience Swayne said. “The Canteloube and the specific format of the is an interesting beast, because in performance. some ways, he’s a contemporary of “I had to make sure there’s Strauss, but it’s also an exotic set

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of songs.”

Fleming’s work with Barber is an example of her generic cross-over work, Swayne said.

“It’s not atypical for operatic singers reaching the end of their careers to do cross-over work, and Fleming has been doing more of that. [Cross-over work] is part and parcel of what happens at this point in her career. I believe she’s doing less and less stage performances and more recitals such as this one at Dartmouth, as well as working with Chicago Lyric Opera,” Swayne said.

Fleming’s cross-over work is an indication not only of her transition in her career but also of her work as a musical ambassador helping expose audiences to the complexities of professional song.

A large part of Fleming’s decisions in her program at Dartmouth was centered around exposing student audience members to certain kinds of music, Fleming said.

“The idea is to have exposure to this art form, the song recital, that’s so spectacular and intimate. The song recital has been the mainstay for the singer for a couple of centuries now. They’ve gone from being parlor songs, because everyone was

an amateur musician at one point in history,[to being public events],” Fleming said. “While things have changed, I still think there’s so much pleasure to be gained from this— the marriage of music and poetry.”

In order to better help her audience understand the music, Fleming requested projected supertitles translating her songs during the performance, Lawrence said.

“It’s amazing not only because she’s so extraordinarily talented, but because she has a great passion for really helping people understand the music. [Her request for supertitles] is just a great insight into her communicating her passion,” Lawrence said.

Jordana Composto ’16, a music major, also emphasized Fleming’s role in helping ground classical and operatic music for modern audiences.

“She’s an incredible vocalist who really embodies the idea that knowing how to sing and knowing how to sing well can be applied to any different genre,” Composto said. “She very much brings the opera classic world down to earth a little bit, even though it tends hold itself separate.”

Most people who are trained as classical singers and pursuing opera as a career can find it difficult to figure out how to sing different types of music after their voices have been trained to sing in a certain way, Composto said.

Fleming’s ability to sing various genres of music and her work on cross-over music, while also being well-established at such a place as Metropolitan Opera, helps make the opera world very accessible, Composto said.

“There is a perception that opera, and classical music in general, is snotty and unattainable, but none of that is true because it was all written for contemporary public of that time— similar to how Shakespeare was written for the public, and he’s now perceived as some high brow, hyper-intellectual brand,” Composto said. “She’s incredibly talented, but you can really get into anything she sings, and for her to come to Dartmouth is an incredible experience. Having the opportunity to hear her is an amazing door to classical music for this campus.”

Fleming performed for a soldout show and conducted a question and answer session after her performance.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT

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Pub trivia night engages teams of students from all class years in friendly competition.

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

THURSDAY LINEUP

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. KAISER 7 PM

Women’s hockey opens season with win over No. 5 Harvard

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The No. 10 women’s hockey team kicked off its 2015-16 campaign with an upset 2-1 win over thenNo. 5 Harvard University at home in Thompson Arena. Despite an early deficit, Dartmouth remained confident and scored a pair of unanswered goals to sink Harvard. The upset victory over the Crimson was substantial enough for Dartmouth to move from un-ranked to the No. 10 team in the country, and the victory marks the second straight year that Dartmouth has upset a No. 5 Crimson squad at Thompson Arena.

“Although it is only one game in a long season, it was a great victory and will give us momentum heading into the rest of the season,” Lindsay Allen ’16 said.

Harvard’s early lead came courtesy of a power play goal 12 minutes into the game after Eleni Tebano ’17 was sent to the box for hooking.

Harvard had five seconds left on its power play when a pass from behind the net was sent past goalie Robyn Chemago ’17 off a one-timer to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead.

The Crimson’s lead lasted almost

the entirety of the first period until Dartmouth responded with a power play goal of its own just before the end of the period. With five seconds remaining in the period, co-captain Laura Stacey ’16 brought the puck into the offensive zone and sent a saucer pass to Allen, who was ready and waiting in the slot. Allen ripped a buzzer beater into the back of the net to level the score at 1-1 as time expired.

The goal was sent to replay review to ensure that the puck had crossed the goal line prior to the end of the period. Allen’s goal was upheld as the review found that her goal occurred with a mere 0.4 seconds left in the period.

“Being down a goal is obviously pretty tough, but it also really motivates you,” Stacey said. “We battled back pretty hard, and we were getting shots through to the net and it finally went in for us. When we got that goal in, we really all believed we could do it. Being behind 1-0 was not something that was going to stop us from winning that game.”

To start the second period, Dartmouth came out with the momentum from Allen’s last-second goal and looked early and often for a second

goal to put themselves in the lead.

The opportunity came just over 12 minutes into the second period when Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17, Allen and Kate Landers ’19 entered the Crimson zone with an odd-man rush. Allen drew a defender wide on the ice before dropping a puck back to an open Ottenbreit who quickly slapped the puck into the net, giving Dartmouth the 2-1 lead. “[The 3-on-2 situation] is something we practice over and over each day, and it worked out,” Ottenbreit said. “Honestly, all I did was shoot, they did everything [else]. Everything we practiced with our entry and regroup happened, and it was perfect.”

Despite taking the lead, the Big Green refused to let up, out-shooting Harvard 14-to-6 in the second period.

The final period was a heated and physical affair with tempers rising on multiple occasions between the two squads. Ottenbreit, who scored the game-winning goal, was involved in one of the minor scuffles.

“That’s going to happen when you have that much energy and adrenaline, especially against Harvard, because we are rivals,” Ottenbreit said. “We don’t take anyone lightly,

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The women’s hockey team scored a power play goal with one second left in the first.

because we don’t want to be taken lightly either.”

Heading into the matchup, playing a tough physical contest was a priority for Dartmouth, Stacey said.

“That was one of our goals heading into the game,” Stacey said. “We need to be physical and be the ones applying the contact. Once you start applying the pressure to them you start forcing them to make mistakes.

We wanted to show that we were

coming after them all night long.”

This emphasis on toughness defined the final period as Dartmouth kept the pressure on to prevent the Crimson from tying the game, which ended with a final score of 2-1.

Dartmouth continues its season with another pair of home games this weekend against St. Lawrence University on Friday, Oct. 30, and Clarkson University on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Field hockey beats Columbia 4-2 for second straight win

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In its fifth Ivy League game, the field hockey team beat Columbia University 4-2 in a tough conference match on Sunday. Anna Ewasechko ’18 and Heather Zezzo ’17 scored single tallies, while Brooke van Valkenburg ’16 scored a brace to defeat the Lions at the Chase AstroTurf Field. The Big Green improved to 6-7 overall and 2-3 in Ivy League, while the Columbia Lions fell to 8-6 overall and 2-3 in conference play. The Big Green, Columbia and Harvard University are tied for fourth in Ivy League standings with identical 2-3 conference records after this weekend of play.

“This win epitomizes what we’ve been working toward all season,” Eliza Becker ’16 said. “We had a fast start with two early goals and were relentless through the final minutes of the game in preserving our lead.”

After a string of disappointing results to start its conference slate, Dartmouth has strung together a pair of consecutive

Ivy League wins and appears poised to finish its season on a strong note. The gap between the three teams knotted for fourth and the two teams sitting at second remains large, as the two second place teams — the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University — both share 4-1 conference records.

The Big Green’s strong start proved to be the deciding factor against Columbia. Van Valkenburg scored five minutes into the game, and Dartmouth never lost the lead after that point. After one-goal games against the University of Maine and Yale University, a strong start to the game was critical for the team, head coach Amy Fowler said.

“We executed corners really well this weekend, which we know we can do, but we played a collective 70 minutes and really starting off the first half strongly was a big factor,” Fowler said. “We put them on their heals a little, and they really never recovered. Much credit to Ewasechko, she is the becoming a force in the midfield with the loss of [Julia Donald ’18].”

The Big Green continued its strong

first period with another goal by Van Valkenburg in the 22nd minute, bringing Dartmouth’s lead to 2-0. To open the scoring, Ewasechko and Becker took the corner play and found Van Valkenburg, who pushed the ball past the keeper. In her second attempt on goal, Van Valkenburg scored her eighth score of the season with the assists from Ewasechko and Becker from a deflection to the back of the net.

As Dartmouth appeared ready to run away with the lead, the Lions responded with a goal in the 28th minute off a redirection from a corner play to keep the Big Green within distance.

Goalkeeper Paige Duffy ’17 had to fight off a high volume of Columbia attempts in the first period, as the Lions launched 11 shots at net. Duffy made six of her seven saves in the first, but perhaps none was more important than the penalty shot she was able to deny just over a minute before the end of the first. After earning a penalty stroke down 2-1, Columbia had the chance to tie it heading into the break, but a save

by Duffy kept the Big Green in front.

In the second period, Dartmouth once again enjoyed a quick start, scoring five minutes into the second half.

Rebecca Hu ’15 played a give-and-go with Ewasechko, who recorded her third goal this season when she maneuvered past the defense and shot past the goalie to put the Big Green ahead 3-1.

Just as the Dartmouth was dominating play late in the second half, the Lions responded with a goal in the 67th minute as the Big Green was caught shorthanded in a two-on-one that saw Columbia score on a shot from just inside the arch. The Big Green, however, quickly neutralized any chance at a comeback by responding just 58 seconds later with a goal from Zezzo, who had a diving redirect on a pass from Ewasechko. Ewasechko recorded three assists and four points to help lead the Big Green to victory.

“The match against Columbia was a great win between two evenly matched teams,” Duffy said. “In the end, both teams fought the entire time but it came down to who wanted it more.

Offensively, we were hungry and were

able to take quick, effective and smart shots, which made the difference and allowed us to gain momentum.”

The Big Green out-shot the Lions 19-14 and had a favor in penalty corners 14-6. Duffy recorded seven saves and had two goals against while Columbia goalie Kimberly Pianucci had six saves and four goals against.

“Defensively, we were able to make strong tackles outside the circle, minimizing corner opportunities and fending off as many shots as possible by managing their fast break opportunities,” Duffy said. “These efforts combined led to a great performance

by Dartmouth from the entire team on both ends of the field.”

The Big Green is back in action on Wednesday night in a non-conference road game against the College of Holy Cross at 6 p.m.

“Holy Cross is always a good match to play in, and this week will be no exception,” Duffy said. “Harvard has already played this team, so the outcome of this game will send a direct message to Harvard.”