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Dimensions show Student government election to proceed despite campaigning to begin next week hazing investigation B y LUCY TURNIPSEED The Dartmouth Staff
Despite an ongoing investigation into alleged hazing committed by the Dimensions perfor mance group, the Dimensions of Dartmouth student performance will continue as planned. This year, Dimensions, a program that allows the admitted students of the Class of 2023 to explore and
learn more about the College, will occur on April 11-12 and April 25-26, and will include a show organized by the Dimensions performance group at each session. On Oct. 12, 2018, The Dartmouth reported that the College was planning to hire an external investigator to look into 12 student organizations as well
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Theodosia Cook to lead anti-sexual harassment initiative
B y LORRAINE LIU
The Dartmouth Staff
Last week, former director of institutional diversity and equity Theodosia Cook was named director of the Campus Climate and Culture Initiative, a movement that aims to create a campus environment free of sexual harassment. Announced by College President Phil Hanlon in January, C3I runs alongside Moving Dartmouth Fo r w a rd a n d I n c l u s i ve Excellence — two initiatives
rolled out in 2015 and 2016, respectively — as a third pillar to increase the inclusiveness of Dartmouth’s campus climate. Cook said that her experience at IDE provided her with knowledge of campus issues that will help her better realize the goals of C3I. In her previous role, Cook’s responsibilities included supporting faculty hiring and evaluating Dartmouth’s faculty hiring processes.
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The student government election will begin with a week-long campaign on April 8.
B y ANNE GEORGE The Dartmouth Staff
With the campus-wide 2019 student government election nearly underway, the Dartmouth student body will once again have the opportunity to elect their peers to represent them. Candidates will partake in a week-long campaign beginning Monday, April 8, once their petitions are approved by the studentrun Election Planning and Advisory Committee. In order to be eligible, candidates require a specific number of student signatures depending on position. Before the polls open on Monday, April 15, The Dartmouth will host
a debate at Dartmouth Hall between the student body presidential and vice presidential candidates. Students will ultimately elect a student body president, student body vice president and class senators to comprise t h e S t u d e n t A s s e m b l y. Students will also elect a senior class president, senior class vice president and class council executive board members to form the Council of Class officers. Elizabeth Clark ’20, who currently serves as a COCO executive, explained that COCO has not worked closely with Student Assembly in the past, though the potential for cooperation has been discussed. She said
that this term, COCO has a $19,000 budget that will be allocated toward “class bonding activities.” In the past, COCO has hosted pizza parties and an Inflatable Day on the Green, as well as provided free gear. Student Assembly’s website states that the organization attempts to “lend a voice to student concerns and opinions; play an active role in shaping College policy; protect student rights an d f reed o m s ; p ro m o te and finance undergraduate activities; foster school unity and pride; and serve as a forum for the discussion and advancement of ideas.” Over SEE GOVERNMENT PAGE 5
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Prosecutors seek to consolidate charges against Gage Young B y SAVANNAH ELLER The Dartmouth Staff
Prosecutors trying the case against Gage Young, who was indicted in the non-fatal shooting of visiting Providence College student Thomas Elliot in Hanover last fall, are attempting to consolidate charges against the Lebanon resident in order to hold only one trial concerning the Nov. 2, 2018 incident. They are also attempting to add a new charge of falsifying evidence. Young has replaced his previous counsel with Richard Guerriero, who filed a motion to move the trials to July. In the case filed by the Hanover police department, Young is charged with six offenses, including first and second-degree assault and reckless conduct. Two charges from that case were dismissed in February, according to the Valley News. Felony indictments from the Lebanon police department investigation include reckless conduct and falsifying physical evidence. In
March, Young was also charged with an additional felony count of falsifying physical evidence by attempting to remove or conceal his clothing or shoes after firing his weapon . Grafton County attorney Martha Ann Hornick said the county hopes to include the new charge in Young’s upcoming trial. Authorities have accused Young of firing randomly into a group of students on the evening of Nov. 2, 2018 from a vehicle near School Street in Hanover. Young and a minor, Hector Correa then allegedly fled towards West Lebanon in the vehicle. Young is accused of clearing and disposing the weapon used in the assault and engaging Lebanon police in a brief chase on Oak Ridge Drive. Young has pleaded not guilty to the assault charges and maintains that Correa, also a Lebanon resident and not charged in connection with the case, was instead the shooter, according to Young’s former attorney Simon Mayo. In a Feb. 4 motion written by assistant Grafton County attorney
Mariana Pastore, the state is seeking to merge charges filed separately with the Lebanon and Hanover police departments. Consolidating the two cases would mean the charges brought against Young could be presented in one trial. New Hampshire law allows for a joinder of two cases if the indictments in each are suitably related, according to Norwich criminal defense attorney George Ostler ’77. He said the court would be evaluating three chief factors: the feasibility of using the same witnesses for all the indictments, the time frame between the incidents of the separate cases and the relatedness of the cases’ subject matter. Hornick said consolidating the two cases was warranted given the circumstances of the incident. “When you have a case like this where it’s the same evening, same course of events and all that other language that you see in that motion that we filed, it makes sense based on the events to have
it all tried at the same time,” Hornick said. Young’s former attorneys countered the motion, arguing that their client’s due process rights would be violated by treating the two cases as one. They also argued that cases had previously been investigated separately by the two police departments and should be kept apart to ensure a fair and speedy trial for their client, according to Mayo. “Our position was that there were two separate incidents and they should be tried as separate incidents,” Mayo said. Ostler explained that the possibility of merging the two cases would ultimately be decided by the judge presiding in the case. “The court weighs whether having all the charges in one trial would be somehow unfair to the defendant,” Ostler said. He added that joinders are likelier to occur the more related the charges are in terms of witnesses, subject matter and
time. A decision on the state’s motion was postponed on March 7 when a conflict of interest between the defense team and their client was revealed by the prosecutors “five minutes” before the scheduled hearing, according to Mayo. Mayo and Wynes have since resigned as Young’s attorneys. Guerriero, Young’s new counsel, said he is reviewing the case at the time and would decide whether to continue to oppose the county’s motion to join the cases soon. “It may very well be that we maintain that position, but I’m just not going to comment on it right now,” he said. “I don’t think it would be a wise thing to do until I’ve read everything.” Guerriero said dates for upcoming pretrial hearings and trials are now uncertain, but that his client has signed a waiver of speedy trial to allow the case to be tried later in the year. He said he has filed a motion to have the trials moved to July so he could have more time to review the case.
Dimensions performance group is currently rehearsing its show FROM DIMENSIONS PAGE 1
as the Dimensions performance group in response to hazing allegations. Director of judicial affairs Katharine Strong stated in an email that “we do not comment on ongoing investigations” when the office was asked about the findings of the investigation into the Dimensions student group. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence declined to comment on the ongoing investigation as well. Director of admissions Paul Sunde said the Dimensions performance group is currently rehearsing its show for this year under the same structure as last year’s, in which past members of the group assume leadership roles for the underclassmen involved. In the past few years, Dimensions has become an event structured by the admissions office, with faculty at the
center of the programming, according to Sunde. “We’ve talked to [the students involved with the Dimensions show] about inclusion and this notion of wanting to represent as broad a crosssection of Dartmouth experiences or perspectives as possible,” Sunde said. “We’re working with every group a little more closely than we have in the past. And I’d say it’s similar with the Dimensions show. We have a better handle on who’s participating and we’ve been a little more encouraging of them to be inclusive and operate with good judgment and common sense as they develop the show.” In the past, there has been a loose connection between the students involved in the Dimensions performance group and the admission office, but this year they are working more closely together, Sunde said.
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“We do want to be thoughtful about onto campus, but have expressed certain this,” Sunde said. reservations about the current state of However, while Sunde said that the investigation. the admissions AlthoughCameron office is “being Thibault ’22 did not more mindful “We’ve been a little attend Dimensions, a n d c l o s e l y more encouraging she has heard many coordinated” positive accounts of with t h e of [students in the the performance — D i m e n s i o n s Dimensions show] leading her to believe perfor mance, that it is important for to be inclusive and they largely leave admitted students to the writing to operate with good experience. students and do judgement and “[The]Dimensions not dictate who is [show] is an or is not involved. common sense as experience students “We really they develop the continue to reminisce want to preserve about through their that which is show.” time at Dartmouth,” so strong and Thibault said. “It wonderful about -PAUL SUNDE, DIRECTOR would be a disservice the Dimensions for future students to show,” Sunde OF ADMISSIONS miss out on this over said. an allegation.” M a n y Jenique Richards students said that they recognized ’22 believes that the College’s stated the importance of having a group of hazing policy should have played a Dartmouth students welcoming the ’23s stronger role in the situation.
“I feel like they should have gotten farther in their investigation in order to make an informed decision about whether [the Dimensions show] should happen,” she said. “At this college, there’s a zero tolerance policy, so they should be able to determine if there’s hazing before putting on the program.” Jack Smul ’19, however, thought that the investigation mitigated the risk of repeat hazing occurrences. “I think [the Dimensions show] should still happen, and it being student run is a good thing,” Smul said. “I don’t think the school should fully take over, but I think the fact that there is an investigation does kind of prevent wrongdoing from occurring.” Director of Greek Life Brian Joyce confirmed that none of the 13 organizations currently under investigation for hazing allegations have received any restrictions during the ongoing investigation. “We are certainly excited about what the students are developing for the Dimensions show and all the programs that are going on,” Sunde said.
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C3I has already focused on drafting new policies, departmental reviews FROM COOK PAGE 1
“Being able to go through that in IDE and become very aware of what’s happening on our campus allowed me to take initiative in C3I,” Cook said. IDE vice president Evelynn Ellis said she expects collaboration between her office and the C3I. She emphasized that her job at the IDE, which is to foster inclusivity and equity on campus, is inseparable from Cook’s current responsibility to improve the Dartmouth campus climate. In the three months since C3I’s launch, the Initiative has focused on three projects to implement its goals: the drafting of the unified sexual misconduct policy and procedures, departmental reviews and mandatory Title IX training for faculty and staff. Last week, the latest draft of the unified sexual misconduct policy and procedures was published on C3I’s website, where students, faculty and staff can provide feedback until April 9. Once the feedback has been collected, various departments will vote to approve the new policies and procedures later this month and into May. The departmental climate reviews — led by University of Michigan psychology and women’s studies professor Abigail Stewart and Dartmouth engineering professor Vicki May — are set to begin this week. Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto said that the student affairs office helps to create drafts for the unified sexual misconduct policy and procedures by communicating with undergraduate students and collecting feedback from them. She added that she looks forward to collaborating with Cook on more of C3I’s projects. “Student Affairs has been involved in working on the editing and drafting of the sexual misconduct unified policy,” Agosto said. “And moving forward, we need to work with Ms. Cook on the initiative so as to implement [the policy] and continue training and other programming.” Title IX coordinator Kristi
Clemens said that under the C3I, the Title IX office will add a new staff member. The Title IX office has also worked together with C3I to implement online mandatory Title IX training for faculty and staff. According to Clemens, her work will overlap with Cook’s in that they will both seek to improve the campus climate and “hold [the] whole community to a higher standard.” “Our office’s responsibility is to report misconduct,” Clemens said. “C3I is going to do some cultural analysis of departments, environments and groups of students that are saying that they don’t feel great about the environment and try to address it from a broader cultural perspective rather than waiting for somebody to come forward with the report.” Clemens noted that C3I might be more effective at implementing projects that address campus climate issues because it has a higher priority in the organizational structure of the College’s administration. “C3I is really a senior leadership position that reports directly to the President,” she said. “It might have a little bit more power than my little office does in moving some of those powerful initiatives forward to change the campus climate.” Cook said she hopes to use her new leadership position to further advance the mission of the C3I. She noted that she plans to “glean a lot” from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report titled, “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine” to understand the climate of higher institution. According to Cook, further specific projects for the C3I have not been created. She added that in creating future projects for C3I, the initiative will include input from Dartmouth community members. “There will definitely be other projects for the C3I initiative,” Cook said. “But again, we have just begun,
so we’re hoping to release them and be clear and solicit thoughts and ideas from our students, staff and faculty. Once [the projects] come out, they will be notified. They will be a part of thinking about how to craft the program that we’re going to create ... under C3I.” According to Ellis, the hiring for Cook’s replacement at IDE is currently ongoing. “I’m working with the provost now to start the process,” Ellis said. “We have to do a lot of things to prepare for the search for the right person for the position.”
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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST GABRIELLE LEVY ’22
College Scandal Culpability
Colleges need to stop fueling the admissions craze. I wasn’t at all surprised by the recent college admissions scandal. The news struck close to home since I’m from Hillsborough, CA, a town in which multiple parents implicated in the scandal reside. The scandal shouldn’t be that surprising to anyone. Look at college admissions from a business standpoint: If a desired good — in this case, a degree from an elite university — is hard to obtain, black markets arise for consumers to gain access. So instead of condemning the parents in this scheme who are guilty of bribery and fraud, as the media has been doing, one should question why acceptance into universities is so hard to obtain in the first place. The selectivity issue is largely colleges’ fault. By emphasizing selectivity, colleges portray the education they offer as a rare good when it really shouldn’t be, enticing wealthy parents to obtain an elite degree for their children. While Dartmouth was not implicated in the recent scandal, it is guilty of emphasizing selectivity in the admissions process. This year, 23,650 students applied to Dartmouth, decreasing Dartmouth’s acceptance rate from 8.7 percent to a mere 7.9 percent. Other elite colleges have followed the same trend; for instance, out of the 43,330 candidates who applied to Harvard this year, only 4.5 percent were accepted. These colleges would want one to believe that lower acceptance rates are only a byproduct of colleges’ search for the most brilliant students. But the truth is that colleges encourage more people to apply by using aggressive marketing and recruiting schemes. Each year, students with varying GPAs and
other credentials receive floods of brochures from colleges encouraging them to apply. Why? Because perceived selectivity drives up alumni donations and generates funds through admissions fees. But acceptance rates don’t tell the full story to potential applicants. They may appear to be necessarily correlated with the quality of education a given institution provides, even though it is emphatically not. Instead of focusing on numbers, colleges should focus on the education and resources they provide to the students who are actually admitted. There are plenty of other issues colleges should be addressing. For instance, one thing that is not talked about as much are the lives of students after they achieve acceptance into the college of their dreams. Look at the mental health crises on college campuses. According to the American College Health Association, “40 percent of undergraduates have felt so depressed within the past 12 months that it was difficult for them to function.” And the highly selective schools in the Ivy League are especially lagging behind on these issues. A 2018 report from the Ruderman Family Foundation awarded each Ivy League school a grade of “D+” or lower for their leave of absence policies. Dartmouth received a “F.” It is time that colleges stop focusing on acceptance rates and start improving the lives of their students once they’re accepted. While people attend college for a variety of reasons, the purpose of college is to provide high-quality education to promising young people, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to solve the problems of a changing world. With the current nature of the admissions system though, colleges are missing the mark.
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End Legacy Admissions
Legacy admissions is unjust. It needs to end. What factors should colleges consider when pretend to make up for inequalities. Instead, admitting applicants? About 90 percent of it undermines meritocracy and perpetuates Americans believe high school grades and intergenerational holdings of wealth and standardized test scores should be a factor power. in college admissions decisions. Outside of Though Dartmouth might rationalize academic accomplishments, many Americans legacy admissions as a fundraising mechanism believe that athletic ability, community service for its endowment, other elite schools like involvement and being the first in one’s family MIT, Caltech and UC Berkeley operate to attend college should be considered by well without legacy preferences. Perhaps admissions committees. What few Americans Dartmouth’s insistence of legacy preference support, however, is favoring is less a financial issue, applicants whose parents and more a reluctance to “Legacy preference is attended that same college. let the old traditions — in So-called legacy admissions blatantly unfair, and it this case, traditions of receives either major or needs to end, starting entitlement and inequity minor support from 32 — fail. Current dean of percent of Americans, but at Dartmouth. ” admissions and financial only eight percent support aid Lee Coffin admitted as the use of legacy as a major much in an interview with factor. the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, claiming It is easy to understand why public support legacy preferences lock in alumni’s “indelible for legacy admissions is so low. Legacy students connection to this campus.” tend to be wealthier and less diverse than the Dartmouth’s traditions set it apart from other general pool of applicants. Unsurprisingly, schools, and the College is right to prioritize the students from affluent households perform community of Dartmouth alumni. But part of better academically and can participate in Dartmouth’s duty to both students and alumni more extracurriculars than their middle is to constantly better itself. Many traditions and lower-income peers. But the unearned deserve preservation, but some do not. advantages don’t stop there. As of 2011, legacy Scrapping legacy admissions practices would status at Dartmouth grants not destroy the alumni applicants a roughly 250 community, and one would percent higher likelihood ”Perhaps Dartmouth’s think that the sons and of admission compared to insistence of legacy daughters of Dartmouth the general applicant pool. would continue to give This legacy preference preference is less a of generously to the College is blatantly unfair, and it a financial issue, and even in the absence of needs to end, starting at legacy preferences. If more a reluctance to Dartmouth. alumni loved their time at The Ivy League still let the old traditions Dartmouth, they should stands as a bastion of of entitlement and certainly still encourage financial and social elitism. their children to apply and That image has lessened unfairness fail.” gain acceptance based not in recent years, but legacy on family name, but on admissions remains as a their own merit. As the conspicuous holdover. While parental wealth admissions scandal shakes people’s faith in might influence good grades and athletic universities and competition for a select few ability, both of those things still require student spots reaches record record highs, Dartmouth effort, making them justifiable grounds for has an opportunity to act as a leader among merit-based acceptance. Legacy status, by colleges. It’s time that Dartmouth abandon contrast, is purely inherited, and it heavily legacy preference in admissions, level the biases toward wealthy, advantaged applicants. playing field and finally begin to value merit Whatever one’s views on race-based affirmative over money. action policies, which give minority students an advantage in the application process, those The editorial board consists of opinion staff policies at least aim to right historical wrongs. columnists, the opinion editors, the production executive Legacy admissions, by contrast, does not even editor and the editor-in-chief.
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Candidates petition prior to election, seek to increase student voices FROM GOVERNMENT PAGE 1
the last year, some the achievements cited by its website include helping to redesign Banner Student, an online portal for various student sites and links; creating a new website for the Student Assembly; hosting town halls and speaking events; increasing the visibility of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault on campus; and securing student subscriptions to the New York Times. “As modestly as I can say this, I think that [Student Assembly vice president Nicole Knape ’19] and I have expanded the role of student government on campus,” Student Assembly president Monik Walters ’19 said. “We had a very intentional partnership and friendship that paired well with being in office.” Following last year’s election, the “lack of institutional memory” and prior “dormancy of student government” proved to be an immediate obstacle, Walters said. She explained that, because of this issue, the Student Assembly had to navigate how to build relationships with various faculty and staff in order to move forward with their planned projects. “The assumption is that President Hanlon is sort of the keeper of all in terms of information and solutions, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth,” Walters said. “There are so many other administrators who exist for a reason, but they aren’t as visible and therefore are not as accessible.” Knape added that the primary goal this year has been to make the Student Assembly a more inclusive and visible organization. Once they were elected, Knape and Walters created two new executive positions, a secretary and an ambassador of student life, to streamline projects. With the help of a larger leader ship team, Knape and Walters constructed a new Student Assembly website, hosted weekly office hours in Baker Lobby and regularly sent out emails to discuss the progress of various projects.
Besides these initiatives to increase open communication, Knape explained that she is most proud of their recent work in sponsoring the Resolution for Investigating Acts of Racial Bias. “Our advocacy basically jumpstarted a change in legislation and we have formed a working group composed of administrators, faculty and students that will work to determine a way that students can better report bias and receive support after doing so,” she said. Walters echoed this sentiment, explaining that the Resolution was a challenge because “they were forced to take a less amicable approach” to advocating for change. In addition, Knape said they have worked to address food insecurity on campus. She recently met with dean of faculty Kathryn Lively and executive vice president Rick Mills to discuss the possibility of opening up campus dining halls during interim periods and ways to support students who run out of dining dollars and meal swipes toward the end of the quarter. As discussions about possible food insecurity solutions continue, Walters said that she has been able to set up a voucher system that provides students facing food insecurity with gift cards to the Co-op Food Store that have up to a $25 value. The Student Assembly is also attempting to find ways to subsidize the cost of travel by the Dartmouth Coach, Knape said. Luke Cuomo ’20 , a Student Assembly senator who has submitted a petition to be a presidential candidate, noted that part of the reason student government operates differently at Dartmouth than it does on other campuses is because the Student Assembly is not responsible for allocating funding to groups. He said that it did, however, receive a budget of $45,000 last year. “ Wi t h t h a t o m i s s i o n [ o f responsibility], we have less of an ability to influence the direction the student body takes with its variety of interests,” he said. “I think there is a good reason [the Council on
Student Organization] is separate from the Student Assembly because then the election doesn’t become a piggyback for student club interests. COSO is not a perfect organization, but it is a lot more of a disinterested and responsible group than a political one.” Cuomo also said that during his freshman year, when he was a member of the undergraduate finance committee, he saw the Student Assembly leave “more than half their budget sitting there because they hadn’t focused their programming.” Cuomo said that because of this experience, he recognizes that the
Student Assembly president has to balance representing the interests of the community and maximizing the budget to provide much-needed services. Tim Holman ’20, another Student Assembly senator who has also submitted a presidential p e t i t i o n , s a i d t h at a l t h o u g h Dartmouth student government continues to have a reputation for not serving a purpose, he has seen gradual progress. However, Holman stressed that not enough has been done to elevate the student body’s voice. “As I was trying to get signatures to be on the ballot, I went up to
students and asked them what problems they cared about and what concerns them about campus,” he said. “Some students spent [up to] 30 minutes talking to me because no one has ever asked them those questions before.” However, both Cuomo and Holman said they are looking forward to the announcement of the 2019 election candidates. “Student government makes change when you have a group of individuals that show up,” Holman said. “When I worked under [Walters and Knape], I have seen the potential power and hope in student government.”
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
DARTMOUTHEVENTS
HOUR OF LAB
RACHEL LINCOLN ’20
TODAY
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Meditation: “Free Lunch Time Mindfulness Meditation,” sponsored by the Student Wellness Center, Robinson Hall, Room 332.
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Colloquium: “Driving Forbidden Vibrational Overtones in Molecular Ions,” by David Hanneke of Amherst College, sponsored by the physics department, Wilder Hall, Room 104.
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Cinema: “Vice,” sponsored by: Hopkins Center for the Arts, Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium.
TOMORROW All Day
Exhibit: “Dora’s Room: Digital Dreams by Senior Fellow, Clara Chin ‘19,” sponsored by Undergraduate Advising & Research, Hopkins Center for the Arts Garage.
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m
Seminar: “Is Digital Technology Making Us Smarter?” sponsored by the Daniel Webster Project, Ethics Institute and Newcomb Institute, Fairchild Hall, Room 101.
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Stories: “Storytime in the Galleries,” sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art.
7:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Screening: “Roma,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium.
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Performance: “It’s Fine, I’m Fine: A Studio Lab Solo Performance,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Bentley Theater.
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“Intro to UI/UX”: designing beauty and the user experience
B y mia nelson
The Dartmouth Staff
This spring is the inaugural term for the class “Intro to UI/UX Design I” with professor Lorie Loeb. According to Loeb, the class, which is open exclusively to first- and second- year students, focuses on creating meaningful, accessible and beautiful interfaces for technology. The class, which requires no previous experiences, uses elements of human-centered design, graphic design and design with digital tools. As the first part in a two-class sequence, students are expected to take “Intro to UI/UX Design II” in the following summer, fall or winter terms in order to apply their skills in the DALI lab as a designer. According to Loeb, she saw that the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement
of Learning was offering seed money for the development of an experiential learning course. Seeing a “hole in the [Dartmouth] curriculum” for UI/UX, an area that has “growing interest and growing applications to the world,” Loeb said she applied for the grant and, upon receiving funding, solidified the course. The class’s experiential element of working hands-on in the DALI Lab has made it a very popular course, Loeb said. For this year, Loeb said 70 students applied for 20 spots. Loeb said she expanded the enrollment to 28, but could not accommodate all interested students. “We mostly went by [a] first-come, first-serve [basis], but also we [were] looking for students who had thought about design and clearly wanted to
understand [design] in a meaningful way,” Loeb said. According to Zirui Hao ’22 and Adam McQuilkin ’22 the class was a perfect fit for them, since it allows them to gain the skills to further develop their website “D-Planner.” Hao said the duo met on their freshman floor this past fall and have been working on creating “D-Planner,” a tool to help Dartmouth students plan courses. The two pitched their project to the DALI Lab and received a partnership to help develop the website as well as a grant from the Magnuson project. A c c o rd i n g t o M c Q u i l k i n , “D-Planner” helps keep track of which courses to take to complete a desired major and also acts as a database of past medians for courses. Hao said the two enrolled in Loeb’s class to learn
more about user interface and make their website more accessible. Hao said that the class focuses on how to design a product that yields the best experience for the user. “[This class] is all about computer interface, [like] where should you put your buttons? Where should your text be?” In addition to being able to improve “D-Planner,” “Intro to UI/UX Design I” allows Hao and McQuilkin to explore a creative aspect of computer science, making them more unique entrepreneurs. McQuilkin added that the class took a different approach than “actually coding,” like in other computer science courses such as “Full -Stack Web Development.” “We are both interested in innovation and making things that are out of the ordinary,” Hao said.
However, one does not need to be in the midst of creating their own website to find the class useful. “Students can apply this to a humancentered design minor, a digital art minor and to any field of study, because it teaches an approach to understanding people and understanding technology — which is important for lots of different applications and purposes,” Loeb said. The class, while listed in the computer science department, awards an art distributive. “This is a growing field in the arts, this idea of making digital tools that respond to people,” Loeb said. “[For example], tools that improve people’s lives and aren’t just built as a way of making money or technology for the sake of technology.”
Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend
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Vice
ShirLaLa — Earth Worm Disco
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Friday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Saturday, 11 a.m. at Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Sunday, 5 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Nominated for multiple Academy Awards including for best picture, “Vice” is an illuminating biopic on the life of Dick Cheney (played by Christian Bale), the vice president for former president George W. Bush. The film cleverly and satirically reveals both the humane and inhumane sides to the politicians in Washington, who scramble for more power and influence.
ShirLaLa, otherwise known as Shira Kline, is coming to Dartmouth with her whimsical band to share their musical interpretation and celebration of Earth Day. “Earth Worm Disco” provides a musical playground for children to dance along to while also feeling connected to mother nature. ShirLaLa engages with their audience, so come ready to clap and dance!
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is an emotional and harrowing documentary, nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary category, that follows the adversity two African American men from Hale County, AL, experience over the course of five years. Director RaMell Ross will be in attendance for a discussion following the film.
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Senior Spring: Jack Traynor ’19 engineers an outstanding career him back-to-back, unanimous All-Ivy League First Team selections. To boot, The Dartmouth Senior Staff Traynor won team Most Valuable Player If there is one thing linebacker and co- on Sunday. Head coach Buddy Teevens captain Jack Traynor ’19 has always been ’79 and Kaskey discussed the brilliance good at, it’s tackling: tackling the most of consecutive All-Ivy selections. high school opponents in Illinois history “It’s voted by a collective effort of the (378), tackling the second-most (98) foes coaches,” Teevens said. “You can’t vote in the Ivy League last year and tackling for your own players, so other coaches in an impressive engineering course load. the league who’ve played against him, Though his knowledge of the game has watched him on tape, evaluated him evolved, Traynor has consistently been through the course of the season say he’s one of the best in the league.” a highly aggressive player on the field. But Traynor does much more than “You’re not trying to avoid people, and I’m a pretty physical guy, so I just fill the stat sheet. Kaskey, McKinneylove the fact that you can run with your Crudden and Teevens all emphasized head cut off and hit someone, and I that Traynor leads by example and has thought that was fun,” Traynor said. garnered plenty of respect as captain. “He prepares thoroughly, he’s always “Over time, I’ve realized the nuances, the techniques and the schemes that go in the right place, he’s kind of the into that, but fundamentally the fact that quarterback on the defensive side of the you’re the team that’s trying to stop the field in terms of assisting in alignment, communication skills, getting people other one — that’s really cool.” His physicality is not his only attribute, lined up and [adjusted],” Teevens said. however, as he has developed a strong “He’s right on top of it, and people look to him in that capacity.” drive for perfection. Impressively, Traynor transfers his “He’s so perfect out there that the tiniest mistakes tick him off so much,” work ethic and mental prowess to the long-time friend and teammate Matt classroom, where he pushes himself to Kaskey ’19 said. “He’ll come out of a perfection in one of the hardest majors: game being like, ‘That was a terrible engineering. Kaskey described a scenario game, I played so [badly].’ And I’ll look in which Traynor was frustrated by his at the stat line, and it will be like ‘Jack ECON 20, “Econometrics” exam score, Traynor, 15 tackles, two [tackles for loss], leading him to believe Traynor had gotten a “C.” He got a 93. an interception.’” Engineering and football are both Both Traynor and fellow captain, Kyran McKinney-Crudden ’18 TH ’19, heavy commitments, and it would be echoed that sentiment, casting Traynor hard to blame Traynor for struggling in one of the most competitive, timeas a detail-oriented perfectionist. “I really try to do everything to the consuming majors. Traynor, though, said best of my ability in the sense that even he thrives in competitive atmospheres, if a certain game goes well or a certain and he worked tirelessly to earn his 3.65 play goes well, I’m kind of the person GPA, consecutive FCS ADA Academic that will nitpick this thing that didn’t go All-Star awards in 2017 and 2018 and right,” Traynor said. “I hopefully am the athletics department’s Class of 1948 coaching myself as much as [the coaches] Scholar Athlete award last year. “Athletics helps with [time are.” His combination of hard work, management] a lot when you originally intelligence and raw talent have earned get here because coming from high
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school to college, you’re used to living with your parents on a very strict schedule,” Traynor said. “Now it’s a rinse and repeat situation where I know what I have to get done and when to do it.” The relationship between academics and football goes both ways for Traynor. Every hour he spends on an engineering problem set teaches him valuable lessons for his on-field performance. “[One big similarity is] the iterative process, especially from engineering where you’re going to have to experiment and maybe not be successful on the first try and kind of be willing, in a difficult major, to fail,” he said. “To deal with those failures and be resilient, the perseverance and the discipline it requires to be on top of everything for a test — a lot of those skills translate really easily.” It is his engineering major that will keep him in a Big Green uniform next season, as he completes his culminating experience in his fifth year. Traynor was injured as a freshman and worked with the junior varsity, preserving his eligibility. While the team has not voted yet, Teevens thinks Traynor has a “great chance” at donning the “C” again atop his No. 51 jersey in his fifth year. McKinney-Crudden, a fifth-year this past year, believes that Traynor will serve a prominent leadership role regardless of his position. “When you come back for your fifth year, you kind of have to take the role of being everyone’s older brother, and not that you don’t do it before, but you really have to take an additional step in making sure you mentor younger players, making sure you’re teaching them the ropes of how we do things,” McKinney-Crudden said. Traynor is a role model; he works tirelessly in and out of practice, supports his teammates and shows emotion to them. Teevens gave a laundry list of compliments to his star linebacker and
captain, calling him a “self starter,” “dedicated” and “adaptable” while Kaskey zeroed on what others can learn from him. “That’s what everyone wants to be,” Kaskey said. “They want to be this guy who has great season after great season, knows what they’re doing out there and tries to be nothing short of perfect on game day and in practice. He’s what everyone is striving to be when they’re working in the offseason or in practice.” Traynor is already back to practice as of this past Tuesday, and in the immediate sense, his goal is to prepare for next season. Eventually, Traynor figures he will end up in finance, but depending on how next season goes, he could still end up playing professionally. “He certainly will have a shot,” Teevens said. “His productivity is consistency, he’s a good-sized guy, he plays hard, he runs well. Measurables
and so forth, they’ll continue to evaluate that, but he’s got as good of a shot as anyone in our league at that position to take the next step.” Indeed, Traynor fits the mold of success, with strong drive and competitiveness. But he is more complex than that. As his teammates all know, he has a soft side to him — “a gooey inside” as Kaskey calls it. He fills numerous roles as a captain, an academic and a friend. For Teevens, he checks all the boxes. “He hits all the things we look for,” Teevens said. “I want a great football player at football time — which he is, a great student at academic time — which he is, and a great guy all the time — which he is. When we talk about what we’re looking for in a football player, Jack Traynor is going to be a guy that pops up foremost in mind.” Osezele Okoruwa contributed reporting.
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Jack Traynor’s tireless work ethic bears fruit on and off the football field.