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“[The time] from my initial email to the day of the protest was less than 24 hours,” Goldthree said. “Part of that is there are so many people in the Upper Valley who were looking for a way to express their outrage about what was going on in the series of non-indictments of police offi cers for the killing of unarmed men and women.” The rally drew a crowd of around 60 people, about 15 of whom were students on campus. It opened with remarks from four Dartmouth professors — Goldthree, Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck and Jeff Sharlet — and other commu-nity members. In her opening statement, Goldthree outlined the three broad aims for the demonstration: protesting state-sanctioned violence and racialized policing, participat-ing in the movement to seek justice for those who have lost their lives to police violence and connecting the national

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Students in Public Policy 85 take a dip at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.

Community protests police brutality

Over the winter interim period, Dartmouth students, faculty and community mem-bers led two separate demon-strations in response to the non-indictments of offi cers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner. On Dec. 4, a group of Dartmouth faculty members organized a rally on Hanover’s Main Street to protest police brutality. On Dec. 10, Geisel students held a separate die-in as part of the National White Coat Die-In, a showing of solidarity by medi-cal schools. African American Studies professor Reena Goldthree said that the idea to hold the fi rst rally stemmed from the desire to participate in the national protest movement. The rally plans evolved quickly, a turnaround which demon-strates the frustration felt by those in the local community, Goldthree said. SEE PROTEST PAGE 2

Dartmouth teams up with Posse Veterans ProgramBy emilia baldwinThe Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth has become the third institution of higher learning to partner with the Posse Foundation as part of a program that aims to recruit exceptional post-9/11 veterans to various top-tier universities around the country, the Col-lege announced in early December. The Posse Veterans Program, also in place at Vassar College and Wesleyan University, sends cohorts of 10 veterans to school with four-year fi nancial aid packages and

provides support throughout the college experience to ensure success. The foundation focuses on recruit-ing students from diverse backgrounds, creating welcoming campus atmospheres and ensuring the success of students in the program, president and founder Deborah Bial said. Bial said the foundation reached out to the College because of its high academic standing. “Dartmouth is exactly the institution

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Students learn policy in Ireland

As Public Policy 85 stu-dents discussed Northern Ireland’s peace treaties of 1998 in Belfast’s parliamen-tary buildings, British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed an addendum to the very same treaties next door. This coincidence demonstrated the contin-

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lowing the fall 2013 term. The class met with no-table players in public policy, including former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Jonathan Powell, a key Brit-ish negotiator in the peace agreements, he said. Whee-lan said that these meetings provided direct contact with those who were most

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ued relevance of the class’s studies, program participant Nick Zehner ’15 said. Economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan ’88 led a group of 12 students to Northern Ire-land over the winter interim period to study public policy in action. This is the second such trip led by Wheelan, who brought his Public Policy 85 class to India fol-

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DAily debriefingChemistry professor Ivan Aprahamian co-authored a study in the “Journal of the American Chemical Society” outlining a process that will allow for the industrial application of nanotechnology. The process uses visible light to reduce the waste of chemically activated molecular switches. Mo-lecular switches are used to turn functions on and off, such as changing anti-cancer drugs to eliminate the side effects of chemotherapy by having the drugs target only cancer cells as opposed to healthy ones. Similar to photosynthesis, light energy, in this case a merocyanine-based photoacid deriva-tive, allows for an efficient switching process that does not produce waste.

“Vaccine” released an article suggesting that correcting myths about vaccines may not be the most efficient method to promote immunization among skeptics. The study — co-authored by government professor Brendan Nyhan — looked into the reactions of respondents to varying levels of information regarding flu vaccines. Information was gathered through the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, where respondents were exposed to three different scenarios regarding the vaccine. The first scenario offered no new in-formation, the second scenario presented information about the health risks of the flu and the third one gave the correct information in saying that one could not contract the disease from a shot or nasal spray. Forty-three percent of Americans believed that the flu vaccine can give people the flu. Those who received the correct information were less likely to have this belief, yet those who had high levels of concern about the side effects also had a lower likelihood of getting the vaccine. Providing information about the dangers of the flu did not change respondent beliefs. The study is in line with prior studies, including one regarding changing misbeliefs about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

Researchers at Dartmouth and the University of Pittsburgh found that the smoking of water pipe tobacco, or hookah, among respondents who did not smoke cigarettes at the time increased their likelihood of smoking cigarettes two years later, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The probability of trying cigarettes over the next two years was found to be 19 percent, according Samir Soneji, a tobacco regulatory con-trol researcher at Dartmouth and lead author on the study. Developed at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the study looked at 2,541 people from the ages of 15 to 23 for two years, in order to deduce that hookah smoking and snus — the tobacco used in hookah — use can lead to ciga-rette use later in life. A hookah smoker inhales 100 times the carcinogen containing smoke than that of a smoker smok-ing a single cigarette. The products are promoted through manufacturers adding appealing flavors and advertising them in mass media. The advertising of cigarette products in the US has been banned since the implementation of the Public Health Smoking Act of 1969 in 1971. Soneji is a proponent for comprehensive regulations by the Food and Drug Administration for all tobacco products.

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New Course! ENVS 10: Introduction to Environmental Statistics - 15W: 10A

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic statistical methods necessary to conduct and understand statistical analyses of environmental issues and problems. Methods and subjects include: measurement, descriptive statistics, graphs, basic probability, correlation and regression, and basic inferential statistics (hypothesis testing, confidence interval construction, effect size calculation). There is a strong emphasis on the application of these and other techniques to socio-environmental datasets that describe current environmental problems and issues. No previous experience with mathematics or particular software is required. Students will be required to complete a final project in which they use statistical techniques to address an environmental research question. Instructor: M. Cox Dist: QDS Pre-reqs: ENVS 2 or 3 or permission of instructor

New Offering! ENVS 30: Global Environmental Science - 15W: 2

This course examines human influences on global environmental systems with an emphasis on understanding the major biogeochemical cycles. It investigates how human activities (e.g. deforestation, changes in biodiversity, air pollution, desertification) can disrupt environmental processes and the ability of our global environment to support and sustain life. Important feedbacks between biological and physical processes and the atmosphere are also considered in detail. The course explores how natural and managed ecosystems respond to a changing climate and altered resource availabilities along with prospects for the future. Additionally, it examines international science programs and policies that aim to limit excessive human disruption of the global environment. Instructor: D. Lutz Dist: SCI Pre-reqs: MATH 3 (or equiv) and either CHEM 5 or ENVS 2 or permission of instructor

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Political ecology is an approach to human-environment relations that links a broad understanding of biophysical systems (e.g., tropical forests, coastal ecosystems, river basins) to knowledge regarding the political and economic forces that drive ecological change. Drawing on examples from North America, Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions, this course employs a political ecology framework to examine contemporary debates over urbanization, water resources, the role of science in environmental conflicts and the cultural landscape. Instructor: C. Sneddon Dist: INT or SOC Pre-reqs: GEOG 1 or ENVS 3 or permission of instructor

Community members rally on Main Steetmovement to issues in the Upper Valley. Jetter, a women’s and gender studies professor, elaborated on the link between national issues and the Upper Valley. She presented two narratives of police brutality in the area. In 2012, Wayne Burwell ’97, a black man who passed out in his own home in Wilder, VT, was assaulted by police who were called to the scene by a neighbor who mistook him for a burglar when he was entering his home. In 2012, Macadam Mason, a man who suffered from epilepsy, was killed when police tased him as he walked towards police with his hands up, according to witnesses. In both cases, no criminal charges were pursued against any of the officers involved, Jetter said. She then emphasized the need for police to refocus on proper training for diffusing situations rather than allow-ing them to escalate to a point where violence is justified. In addition, Jetter pointed out the problems that ensue from the militarization of local police departments. “The old adage is true — when you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” Jetter told The Dartmouth in an interview. “We need to return to the idea that police officers are there to restore the peace and protect people, sometimes from themselves.” The rally later transitioned to a die-

in, during which participants laid down in the snow for four and half minutes to protest the four and a half hours that Michael Brown’s body laid in the street in Ferguson. During this period, names of victims of police brutality were read out loud. Six days later, Geisel students or-ganized a die-in at the medical school facilities. The protest was in accordance with a national movement, the National White Coat Die-In, where medical students across the country staged simultaneous, similar events to protest the decisions surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The die-ins were scheduled to coincide with Human Rights Day, Geisel student Sarah Kleinschmidt Med ’17 said.

The die-in drew about 70 partici-pants, Geisel student James Coleman Med ’17 said in an email. Faculty also expressed support both prior to and following the event, Kleinschmidt said. Nationally, the die-in used the slogan “White Coats for Black Lives,” which Kleinschmidt said reflected the broader meaning of the medical profession to do no harm. As the winter term starts, Goldthree and Kleinschmidt both expressed hope that the momentum generated by these protests will be carried forward once more students return to campus, break-ing out of the bubble that campus can create. “Questions of justice should matter everywhere,” Goldthree said.

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Geisel students staged a die-in to protest police brutality.

The Jan. 6 issue of The Dartmouth stated that Harvard University had two students who were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 2014. In fact, Harvard had two American students and one international student who who named Rhodes Scholars.

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Posse Program will boost veteran presence

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we want to partner with for this initiative because of the caliber of commitment to diversity and to supporting this kind of non-traditional student,” Bial said. Many veterans express concern about starting college after service, as they are typically signifi cantly older than the average college freshman, and have had the added life experience of multiple trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, Bial said. The foundation plans on expanding the program to include 11 or 12 partner universities, Bial said, each with 10 to 12 veterans newly enrolling each year. The total number of post-9/11 veterans is approximately three million, she said. Chad Rairie ’16 , a veteran and outreach offi cer for Dartmouth Un-dergraduate Veterans Association, said that there are on average fi ve or six veteran students per class year at Dartmouth. Rairie said he is optimistic about the program since it reinforces the College’s commitment to veterans. Because most veterans matriculate at Dartmouth as transfer students, they are precluded from taking advantage of Dartmouth-specifi c offerings such as foreign study programs and language

study abroad programs, he said. The Posse Foundation’s intention that par-ticipating members enroll as freshmen will help normalize veterans’ experi-ences at the College, he said. Marine Corps veteran Tyler Fritz ’16 said that he looks forward to see-ing more veterans on campus. He said that while current student veterans have close relationships, having more veterans to relate to could improve the group’s time at Dartmouth. Fritz said he applied to Dartmouth through Leadership Scholars, a program that offers former marines opportunities to pursue higher education. During his time in the Marine Corps, Fritz said he never imagined attending an elite university. “When I left for the Marine Corps, I never thought a school like Dartmouth, or college at all, was even a possibility,” he said. “A program like this could let more servicemen know that a good school is possible.” The fi rst group of Posse veterans will be admitted to the Class of 2020, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The College plans to provide additional advising, resources and support to the Posse Veterans, in-cluding support in the summer before matriculation, she said.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015THE DARTMOUTH OPINIONPAGE 4

Staff Columnist Jon VANDERMAUSE ’16

Lousy SteeringCONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST ANNIKA PARK ’18

Addressing the AtrocitiesThe presidential steering committee has left students in the dark.

At any moment — perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next month — the Board of Trustees will decide whether or not to give the nod of approval to President Hanlon’s leadership team. If the Board endorses them, the steering committee’s proposals — whatever they might be — will sweep campus in hopes of defeating the three-headed beast of binge drinking, exclusivity and sexual assault. If all of this sounds nebulous to you, you’re not alone. In early November, the Palaeopitus Senior Society wrote a thoughtful letter to President Hanlon and the steering committee calling for greater transparency in their deliberations. In a savvy move, Palaeopitus carbon copied the rest of campus on their letter, inviting students to sign an open Google document. The result was stunning — 317 students representing diverse corners of campus signed their names in support, including Greek presidents, varsity team captains and editors-in-chief of campus publications. Three weeks after the Palaeoptius letter had circulated across campus, the committee an-nounced the completion of its re-engagement process, a three month period during which it sought feedback from the community on its ideas. The committee didn’t mention a word about the hundreds of students who were unclear on what, exactly, those ideas were. And, curiously, the an-nouncement was made at the very end of fall term after finals period had already begun. Students didn’t even have time to raise an eyebrow before dispersing across the globe for the holidays. According to the Office of the President website, the committee’s timeline included a plan to “publicly announce the top ideas developed during the engagement period” during the re-engagement process. But the closest the commit-tee came to presenting a public list of concrete proposals was the three documents posted on the committee’s website under the headline “What We Have Learned.” Released throughout Oc-tober and November, each discussed one of the three targets of the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative — binge drinking, exclusivity and sexual assault. Astonishingly, the documents failed to cite many sources, with the exception of a vague mention of the White House Task Force to Protect

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Within the first four days of its Internet release on Dec. 23, “The Interview” (2014) has garnered over 2 million views and an excess of $15 million in revenue. The intense publicity the movie has garnered from media outlets, public figures and hu-man rights organizations has only increased with recent allegations that North Korea engaged in cyber attacks on Sony Pictures and the brief shutdown of North Korea’s internet, the perpetrators of which are still unconfirmed. Even a cursory glance at your Facebook feed will show that people are interested in more than simply the plot. Despite the hype, the movie only demonstrates the all-too-common Western tendency to divert attention away from the very real and serious issues that currently exist in North Korea. My grandma was originally from the North Korean province of Hamgyung-bukdo, but she fled to the South during the heat of the Korean War in 1950. My grandmother knows, perhaps better than anyone, that the atrocities occurring in North Korea are painfully real and nothing to be joked about. A 2014 United Nations commission found evidence of the North Korean regime committing crimes ranging from murder and torture to the political imprisonment, rape and enslavement of its people. It’s appalling to see a commercial movie production company have the nerve to turn the plight of the people surviving day by day under the Kim family dictator-ship into a comedic plot. The debate over the interrupted release of “The Interview” is problematic because the question of how we react to it is caught between two key issues — censorship and ignorance. On one hand, the question is whether to censor the movie, and by doing so fulfill Kim Jong Un’s wishes to not have the movie viewed. But the alternative to censorship — releasing the film openly as a humorous story involving the bad boy of the Far East, thereby overlooking the

serious troubles of North Koreans — is no better. The issue with creating a movie about an existing dictator, rather than a fictional one, is that it rests on a foundation of de-rision and judgment. Regardless of how irrational or unsettling a ruler’s actions may seem, other nations should not reduce the regime to a joke. Doing so damages the open communication, negotiation and diplomacy that could prove vital to alleviat-ing the severe actions of the dictator and bettering the lives of the governed. While Seth Rogen, one of the stars of “The Interview,” may defend the portrayal of the Kim regime through crass satire, the film’s portrayal of North Korea is distorted by a lens that is both distinctly Western and condescending. The image of Kim as an incompetent, tantrum-throwing tyrant sitting in a high-chair reveals the patron-izing and trivializing attitude at the core of America’s attitude toward this grave issue. North Korea is an insular nation, and communication between its people and other nations is undoubtedly difficult and limited. But its people are still human — a fact that “The Interview” fails to recognize. Oh Joon, the South Korean ambassador to the United Nations, expressed a more compassionate sentiment in a recent ad-dress. “North Koreans are not ‘anybodies’ to South Koreans,” he said. “There are millions of separated families between two Koreas ... One day in the future when we look back on what we did today, we will be able to say that we did the right thing for the people of North Korea, who have the same human rights just like us.” North Korea should not be a subject of laughter, especially by those safely removed from its horrors. Regardless of his actions, publicly mocking Kim Jong Un — and by extension, North Korea itself — derails progress toward a better future for North Koreans.

“The Interview” reveals more about the USA than North Korea.

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Ireland trip teaches students policy in action

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involved with policymaking at the time. “It was really memorable to be able to meet someone who had been so involved in the peace talks and get his take on it,” Ayesha Dholakia ’15 said. Other important figures in-cluded ex-prisoners on both sides of the conflict, many of whom had been incarcerated for violent crimes, Wheelan said. “The kind of perspectives we heard in Ireland would be un-obtainable in Hanover — from the former prime minister to the political editor of The Economist, James Astill,” Zehner said. He said that the diversity of the speakers clarified conflicting narratives and was a crucial part of the experience. Wheelan said that he chooses the location based on the safety and relevance of a specific policy question. This class investigated Northern Ireland’s peace treaties of 1998, the lessons learned from those treaties and the subsequent progress made in the country, he said. The selected country must also have connections to Dartmouth and the Rockefeller Center, Whee-lan said. He said that over fall term the class studied the history of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the nature of the conflict between Irish Prot-estants and Catholics with a focus on “competing narratives.” “As with many sectarian con-f licts, the history is crucial,” Wheelan said. “You have to know not only the history as we look at it in the West but the history as it’s perceived by the different parties involved.” Wheelan said the class examined conflict resolution through lit-erature and case studies, including some from other countries such as Cyprus and Colombia. The trip began in London and continued on to Dublin and Belfast, Wheelan said. Wheelan said that though peace between Irish Catholics and Prot-estants technically exists, the two societies are still just as separate as they were 15 years ago. “When we got to Belfast and we were walking around the streets we saw flags hanging all over the city and were able to see tangible evidence of the conflict,” Dholakia said. More physical borders exist now than at the time of the peace agreement in 1998, Wheelan said. “There are still very many walls,

akin to the Berlin Wall, that sepa-rate Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland,” Wheelan said. “Something like 50 walls ironically called ‘peace walls’— cement on the base, barbed wire on top.” The trip culminated with a col-laborative memorandum written by the students, Wheelan said. He said that the memo, which totaled 67 pages, covered the lessons learned from Northern Ireland and how those lessons can be applied to other sectarian conflicts. The class had to be “sensitive” to the recent nature of events and investigate all sides of the conflict, Dholakia said. “In order to write our memo, the most challenging part was to make sure that we encapsulated all those different perspectives and project as objective a standpoint as possible,” Dholakia said. “It’s a really heated issue in the country even today.” The process of writing the memo was very involved and exhausting at times, Zehner said. The memo identified factors that could apply to other ongoing con-flicts, determined the players in the conflict, how to reach agreements and the degree of reconciliation in Northern Ireland today. Zehner noted that peace in Northern Ireland is very much an ongoing process. Dholakia said that the collabora-tive process of writing a coherent, effective memo with the group improved her leadership, com-munication and critical thinking skills, as well as those of the group as a whole. Wheelan said that he hopes the program will continue into the future as it offers an “incredible learning experience.” “I watched the students grasp the material with such depth and with such interest,” Wheelan said. “It’s really unlike any experience you can have on campus in just 10 weeks.” The format of the class would remain the same in the future with summer readings, in-depth research of the policy issues dur-ing the fall term, meetings with prominent policy makers during the trip itself and a final group memo, he said. Potential future trips include studying economic policy in Liberia or conflict resolution in Middle East, Wheelan said. The class would most likely focus on a smaller topic such as the role of the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than the overall situation in the Middle East, he said.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTSTODAY4:00 p.m.“Cosmology, B2P and Quantum Fluctuati ons,” cosmology seminar with Emilio Elizalde of Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Wilder 202

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A collection of 39 photographs will be accessible to students at the Hood Museum of Art following a December donation of contemporary photogra-phy from Thomas O’Neil ’79 and his wife, Nancy O’Neil. The donation includes pieces by 17 photographers that focus on political and social issues. Thomas O’Neil said that the idea to donate the photographs emerged about 20 years ago. While he origi-nally had an interest in painting in high school, he said that during his time at the College he began to take photographs. He said he and Nancy began to expand their interest in art by collect-ing antique furniture, rugs, porcelain, paintings and photography. In the past two decades, they have focused their efforts on contemporary photography. “By understanding the arts, and particularly the arts of [one’s] time — and I’m putting a plug in here for contemporary art — I think [one] becomes a much better student and a more complete scholar,” he said. “Frankly, it’s both spiritually and intel-lectually enriching to experience art, and the spiritual dimension is vital to the human condition.” He said that he and his wife had explored different avenues for their artwork, including auctioning off a few of their pieces, but that route had not been the right fit for them. “We gave three different pieces to auction houses over the years, and it left us so hollow,” he said. He believes that collection is not about the act of acquiring, possessing or profiting from the artwork, but rather about researching, learning and having dialogues with the artist, he said.

He and his wife believe students at the College should have the same fulfilling experiences. He said he first invited curators from the Hood to his home in Baltimore to view his collection about a decade ago. “For years, we didn’t even have a place to store [our collection],” O’Neil said. “I remember the first trip to Baltimore by the Hood’s curators. They found literally stacks of framed photographs in a regular house where kids were being raised. All in place of furniture.” Thomas said that the decision of which pieces to include in the donation came from collaboration between the Hood’s curatorial staff and the O’Neils. He sent the Hood “blueprints” of his relationship with each of the artists, which included an overview of the artists’ careers and why the O’Neils had decided to choose each of the pieces for their personal collection. He said that he and his wife suggested, not dictated, what pieces the museum should take. “We gave them access to a broad array of images by many of the art-ists,” he said. “But when [the curators] sought our guidance and insight, it was extraordinarily rewarding for both of us.” He said that the final selection is an accurate representation of the broad range of works in their personal col-lection, which both he and his wife feel is important since the final collection will be used as a learning and teaching tool. “We have been fortunate to be able to develop a great deal of depth in close collaboration with so many of the artists in our collection,” he said. “For me, that kind of collection ought to be destined for a scholastic institu-tion. And, candidly, that has been the game plan for almost twenty years.”

He said that many of the artists included in the collection are excited to be involved. The collection will promote both the work of the artists and the Hood’s mission and will open dialogues between the Hood, students and the featured artists he said. The close relationship that he has cultivated with many of the artists involved can create opportunities such as panel discussions, he said. Chao Chan, a photographer whose work is included in the collection, said that he enjoys the idea of his work being

By Kaina chenThe Dartmouth Staff

“Movies that are female-driven do not travel,” Krista Smith, West Coast editor of “Vanity Fair,” said. When I read this quote I became frustrated with Smith’s defeatist attitude in re-gards to women in the film industry. My frustration brought on Google search after Google search questioning the current presence of females in movies. What did I find from these searches? I found a bittersweet mix of disappoint-ment and surprise. I found that Hol-lywood is far behind the times when it comes to female representation in movies, but there is a silver lining: an increasing number of complex female characters. I found the Bechdel test, first developed by graphic novelist and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Alison Bechdel, which measures gen-der bias in movies. The test consists of

these two requirements: there be two female characters present in the movie and these two female characters have a conversation about something other than men. Some versions of the test also require that these women have names. The Bechdel test, in my opinion, is a super easy test to pass — at least I thought it would be. How hard could it be for movies to include two female characters that have names and inter-ests other than men? Apparently it is a difficult task for the film industry. The movement for gender equality is loud and present, yet Hollywood is facing zero repercussions for ignoring social equality. It seems Hollywood is stuck in the ’70s. This year marked a year of in-creased attention for the Bechdel Test, and the results are providing a solid foundation for a movie revolution. But let’s look back at how far Hollywood needed to come to reach this point.

For starters, only 25 percent of movies between 1970 and 1974 passed the Bechdel Test. There was not a significant increase in this statistic until 1995, when approximately 50 percent of movies were able to claim a pass. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the percent of films that passed the test fluctuated, but since 2010, the number of films that have failed the Bechdel test have fallen. On bechdeltest.com there are 203 movies listed with the 2014 release date, 89 of which fail the test. With 56.2 percent of this year’s movies boasting a pass, this is a small but important improvement in the film industry. More films should pass the Bechdel test, not only because it is morally right to equally and accurately represent women in movies, but also because movies that pass the Bechdel test actu-ally bring in a bigger profit, according to an April 2014 post on fivethirtyeight.com . Hollywood has relied on the

myth that male-centric films yield higher profits for decades, but there is no denying that films with strong female roles are the better economic choice. First off, movies that pass the Bechdel Test tend to have budgets 35 percent lower than films that do not pass the Bechdel test. Movies that pass the test on average also offer greater returns on investment and higher gross profits than movies that fail. The public as a whole is slowly starting to realize the need for movies to pass the Bechdel test, while those who are already advocates of the test are actually pushing for stricter and more extensive requirements in order to pass. The current test is so simple that many moviegoers don’t even give it a second thought. I encourage you to be an active moviegoer and think about the movies you are watching. “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies”

(2014)? Fail. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014)? Fail. “X-Men: Days of Future Past” (2014)? Fail. If this column has inspired you to pay more attention to the movies you watch and the treatment of female characters in those movies, then you’re in luck, because the Dartmouth Film Society is presenting a wide variety of movies that focus on multidimensional female character this term. The Hopkins Center will show films such as “Gone Girl” (2014), “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” (2014) and “The Lion in Winter” (1968) as an ode to female power. As listed on the DFS’s homepage, “Bette Davis once said, ‘When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.’” Let’s support the growing number of movies that pass the Bechdel Test and stop letting the film industry ignore gender equality based on financial misconceptions.

By Andrea NeaseThe Dartmouth Staff

displayed in an academic environment. “Actually, I’m completely turned off by commercial galleries,” Chan said. “I prefer the way my work is to be seen in universities, museums and books,” Chan said. Chan said he prefers subtlety and tends to steer away from heavy light-ing or dramatic poses. He said that he does not want his audience to think his pieces, such as one of a freedom fighter in Burma that is included in the donation, are caricatures. “I want people to think ‘this could

be me,’” he said. Photography professor Virginia Beahan said that she is “elated” that students will have access to the donated pieces through classes. She said she hopes her students will be able to “intensively engage” with the photographs. In December 2013, the O’Neils do-nated 24 contemporary photographs to the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Hood plan to do a shared project relating to the donations in 2019.

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Winter’s snow helps set a seasonally appropriate mood at the Hood Museum of Art.

LET IT SNOW

Hood receives new contemporary photography donation

Beyond the Bubble: keep passing the Bechdel test

PAGE 8 TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

SPORTSWomen’s hockey wins after streak of losses The women’s ice hockey team jumped into the 2014-2015 season, preparing to enter winter break with a 4-2 record. The Big Green (7-7-1) had opened the season with a four-game winning streak, but dropped the two following games against St. Lawrence University and Clarkson University. Following the two losses, Big Green faced off with then no. 5/6 ranked Boston University on Nov. 29, nearly two weeks after the fi nal day of fall term classes and just after Thanksgiving. BU scored four points, and held Dartmouth scoreless through much of the third period. The two-goal effort by Lindsey Allen ’16 and Laura Stacey ’16 was not enough to overcome the defi cit, and the game ended with a Dartmouth loss 2-4 . Dartmouth opened December with its fi rst Ivy League matchup of the season against Harvard University. The match would ultimately leave the team with a four-game losing streak. The aggressive Crimson offense produced 69 shots, four of which found their mark. Brooke Ahbe ’18 scored the only goal for the Big Green, also her fi rst goal playing for Dartmouth. Despite the loss, Robyn Chemago ’17 saved 38 shots on goal — a career high. “Harvard was really good at working down low and working in the corner,” Chemago said. “When I was able to see the puck, be confi dent in myself and stay square to the puck… It made it a lot easier to do my job.” Dartmouth next faced then no. 4 ranked Quinnipiac University and Princeton University, coming away with a tie and a loss, respectively. The two teams traded goals within in the fi rst period.The Big Green took the lead in the second period, but Quin-nipiac answered back just over a minute later, and scored again after a faceoff. Just 34 seconds into the third period, Dartmouth bounced back with a goal by Morgan Illikainen ’15 . The game ended in a 4-4 tie and headed to an scoreless overtime . “They’re a quick team, and they transition quickly,” Karlee Odland ’15 said. “We just have to try and play quicker and make simple decisions… We have to beat them all over the ice.” The next day’s game against Princ-eton started with both teams holding their own. By the third period, though,

Dartmouth lost control, allowing the Tigers to score three goals and bring the fi nal score to 2-5 . Next, the Big Green took on no. 1 ranked Boston College then boasting a 16-0-1 record compared to Dartmouth’s record of 4-5-1. The Eagles’ offense produced six goals in the game, while Dartmouth’s offense earned one . The Big Green headed to Burlington the following Sunday to challenge the Vermont Catamounts. Despite a score-less fi rst period, the Big Green offense was able to pick up the pace. Allen emerged from the game with four points, after an assist and a hat trick, leading to a 6-2 Dartmouth win, its fi rst since Nov. 8th. Dartmouth carried that momentum into its New Year’s Eve game against Northeastern, and an impressive of-fense sealed the 5-1 victory. Allen and Odland accounted for two goals each, with Illikainen adding one as well. Following a 1-5 defeat at the hands of the Yale Bulldogs , the Big Green came out strong against the Brown team on Saturday for its fi rst Ivy League win of the season . The Dartmouth offense, which had struggled to fi nd the back of the net the day before, exploded in the fi rst period and maintained pressure throughout the game. Odland attributed the offensive dominance to using “every area of the ice” when making offensive drives. Brown had just 28 shots in the game, while Dartmouth had 72. Ahbe said that while the transition coming from the challenging loss was diffi cult, putting that loss out of their minds was the key to their success in the next match up. Looking at the winterim overall, Odland shared her sentiment about the team’s success. “There was a stretch where we played teams that were ranked top ten in the nation and we lost those games,” Odland said. “But I think that by playing teams that were talented we grew as a team.” Dartmouth’s current record has moved to 7-7-1 overall and 3-5-1 in conference. “We’re hungry. We want to show them that we’re hungry for the puck all the time,” Chemago said. “We’ve had our ups and downs… but if we work hard I’m very confi dent we can be successful next weekend.” The Big Green will have the op-portunity to demonstrate that hunger on Friday at 7 p.m. against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

By Haley GordonThe Dartmouth Staff

Men’s soccer falls to Providence As fall term concluded, the Dart-mouth men’s soccer team wrapped up its most successful campaign in four years. Hosting a National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament game for the fi rst time since 2008, the Big Green (12-5-2, 5-1-1 Ivy) won a thrilling opening round match against Fordham University 2-1 before falling to Providence College 0-3 on the road. This was the Big Green’s fi rst participation in the postseason tour-nament for the fi rst time since meeting Providence in 2011 . In the fi rst round, Dartmouth encountered Fordham, a force they had faced at Burnham Field nearly two months before. The regular sea-son meeting played out very similarly to the postseason one, both fi ercely contested and won by Dartmouth with second half goals . Entering the postseason, the Rams (8-9-4) were coming off a blazing win streak in the Atlantic-10 Tournament to punch their ticket to the NCAA tourney For second-year head coach Chad Riley , hosting a tournament game was itself a reward. “It was a great honor, and I think it was something the team this year really deserved,” Riley said. “I think it shows what a special place Dart-mouth is when you can get so many people out on a cold night for an NCAA game, right as you’re going into fi nals.” In the early stages of the match on Thursday night, Dartmouth attained the majority of the offensive chances. Despite the pressure, Fordham’s de-fensive scheme of piling back in its own half made the fi rst 45 minutes primarily lackluster and uneventful. As the match progressed into the fi nal half of play, however, Dartmouth managed to seize the fi rst lead of the game on the 61st minute. After controlling a pass from the air, Alex Adelabu ’15 fl icked the ball back up and towards the net. Matt Danilack ’18 — who has fi gured hugely in his team’s success this year — got a head on the ball fi rst and knocked it to Robin Alnas ’15, who was positioned perfectly to rip the ball into the goal. Though the Big Green maintained offensive pressure even after grabbing an advantage, Fordham shocked their hosts when a 79th minute header to off a free kick leveled the score be-tween the two. Yet only nine minutes later, Dartmouth ensured that an

overtime period would not be needed. With his back to the frame, Adelabu — once again assuming the role of team hero — took a sharp, decisive turn to his left and blasted home the game-winner in the top right corner of the goal off another assist from Danilack. That last goal was not just another impressive play for Adelabu, and he noted the additional significance of the moment with respect to his Dartmouth career. “I scored my fi rst college goal on that goal post,” he said. “And to score my last college goal on that same goal, it was just a great ending to my playing on Burnham Field.” While still riding the high of this latest victory, the following road test against the Providence College Fri-ars (16-5-2), the squad ranked 11th in the NCAA tournament bracket , vanquished any hopes of a longer postseason run. Playing in the second round of the NCAA tournament for the fi rst time since 2010, the Big Green fell to the hosts 0-3, with all three goals occurring in a span of 31 minutes in the second half . The Friars kicked off the game aggressively. The Big Green was forced to quickly acclimate itself to the game’s fl ow. Dartmouth did not appear to be rattled, though, and sustained a physical yet scoreless fi rst half. A mere three minutes into the second half, the Friars’ excellent ball movement around the Dartmouth goal proved effective in ending the stalemate, with an opening score in the 48th minute.

Coach Riley was pleased with his team’s effort in the fi rst 45 minutes, but noted the damaging setback of falling behind on the road. “I felt we did really well against them in the fi rst half,” Riley said. “We had some good chances, we just couldn’t fi nd the back of the net...Once you’re playing away from home and chasing a game against very good team like Providence, that’s when it becomes diffi cult.” Dartmouth ultimately could not penetrate Providence’s defense, and the Friars were able to strike again.In the 56th minute, the Friars in-creased their lead to 2-0. Providence put on the fi nal touch in the 79th minute giving the Friars a 0-3. When coach Riley refl ects on the team’s year, he views it as a success, as they clinched the Ivy League Cham-pionship in only his second season as coach. He also emphasizes his team’s commitment and focus. “I think you’re always successful when your last game means some-thing, and when you’re playing in the NCAA tournament it certainly means something,” Riley said. “We’re certainly proud, and in some ways it whets our appetite to see how we take our team to another level now.” After his fi nal season, key defender and midfi elder Gabe Hoffman-John-son ’14 feels that the Big Green soccer program has a bright future ahead of it, saying the coaching staff and especially coach Riley have done a tremendous job with the team. “I think the sky’s the limit, to be honest,” Hoffman-Johnson said. “I can see them going farther in the tournament than we even did. [It’s]

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN

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Men’s soccer was defeated by Providence in their second NCAA match.

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