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Kripa Dongol ’16 and other students celebrate Holi on Wheeler Lawn Saturday.
Every potential new member will get called back to four houses in the second round of sorority recruitment this fall, one in a series of changes announced by the Panhellenic Council. If a potential new member is not called back to
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four different houses, she will be randomly assigned to additional houses to fill up the set of four. Other changes include a Blackboard website that will centralize information and smaller budgets for houses. The Blackboard site will explain the mechanics of recruit-
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Starting this fall, director of academic and campus technology services Alan Cattier will lead a focus group dedicated to improving Banner Stu-
dent, an online student information system. The decision was made earlier this month following a winter term Improve Dartmouth post that urged the College to “ModernSEE BANNER PAGE 3
As thousands of students prepare to work internships this summer for little or no pay, some have turned to crowdfunding to cover basic living and travel costs. Crowdfunding allows individuals to post online descriptions of their needs
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After returning from a consulting stint in South Sudan and quitting his job at a Boston executive search firm, Matt Gallira ’12 took inspiration from the dinners he would cook for friends and decided to start the Atlantic Ave. Company, a start-up that makes artisanal tomato sauce at a firehouse kitchen in Wayne, New Jersey.
and receive donations from friends or anonymous donors. Emmanuel Hui ’17 plans to spend the summer in Fiji working as an unpaid intern with the United Methodist Volunteers in Mission, where he will shadow doctors and educate the island’s residents about disease prevention. Hui decided to launch a
campaign on crowdfunding platform GoFundMe after he didn’t get funding from the College. His five-week internship fell short of the Tucker Foundation and the Dickey Center’s eight-week length requirements. Hui, who has raised $650 of his $2,000 goal, said he SEE FUNDING PAGE 2
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Since its founding in 2013, the company has expanded to selling sauce in five stores in New Jersey and one in New York City, and takes online orders from as far away as Japan. Gallira said that one of his first challenges was figuring out how to brand and differentiate his sauce, making it stand out in the already-crowded artisanal foods market.
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Veterans and ROTC students held a wreath-laying ceremony on the Green on Monday.
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DAily debriefing REGIONAL RECAP
From parades to wreath laying ceremonies at cemeteries, Memorial Day celebrations dotted New Hampshire yesterday. Around 50 towns planned events and observances to celebrate those who died serving in America’s armed forces, scheduled until June 1. In Concord, Rep. Anne McLane Kuster, D-N.H., spoke at the finale of a parade on Monday morning, while Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., spoke in Manchester that afternoon, New Hampshire Public Radio and the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., sent home a message from Ukraine, where she is observing elections. Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., passed a tax last week that will increase New Hampshire’s gasoline price by four cents per gallon, the Associated Press reported. The funds raised by the tax will support the state’s highway improvements for the next two years and help pay off debts acquired during the expansion of Interstate 93. The tax increase will take effect July 1 and will expire in around 20 years once the $200 million debt is paid off. Even with the increase to 22 cents per gallon, New Hampshire’s tax will remain the region’s lowest. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers favored the bill. Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group, spoke out against the bill, stating that the tax will negatively impact New Hampshire drivers. Last Thursday, the New Hampshire senate approved a bill that would create a 25-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics, aiming to prevent demonstrations, the Valley News reported. The bill was proposed following protests outside the Penacook Street clinic, a Planned Parenthood center in Manchester. Patients complained that they were being harassed entering and exiting the clinic. Those who violate the bill will first be given a written warning, then will be fined a minimum of $100. The bill is based on a Massachusetts state law, which implements a 35-foot buffer around abortion clinics. Three Republican senators aligned with all 10 present Democratic senators to support the legislation, creating a final tally of 13-10 in favor of the bill. Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has not spoken on the measure publicly.
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thinks it is important for people who use crowdfunding sites to reflect on whether their motives are worthwhile, adding that he does not approve of people launching campaigns to raise money for superficial and self-serving reasons. He said his donations have come from friends, acquaintances and high school teachers. When she realized that College funding would not cover all of her expenses, Autumn Brunelle ’15 turned to GoFundMe to fund her internship at the Kahalu’u Bay Education Center in Hawaii. As of press time, Brunelle had raised $710 of her $1,000 goal. Ashley Park ’14 used the same site last fall to raise $3,100 for a missionary service trip in Mozambique over winter break. Park said she raised $1,000 in one day and, after two weeks, had raised two thirds of her goal. Although she started with a $3,000 goal, she later raised it to $3,500 due to additional travel costs and the around 8 percent cut the site takes of each campaign’s total. Hui, Brunelle and Park are some of the many college students nationwide who accept, yet struggle to af-
ford, unpaid opportunities. Suffolk University law professor and intern labor rights advocate David Yamada wrote in an email that although crowdfunding campaigns are sometimes able to fill the income gap left by unpaid internships, these campaigns are only “stopgap measures.” The jobless rate among individuals in their early twenties has consistently remained above the national average, measuring 10.6 percent in April 2014 as compared to 6.3 percent overall. While some can afford to finance these internships themselves or with the help of parents, many have noted that the lack of pay perpetuates a class divide, particularly as internships are seen as essential resume-builders. Yamada noted that crowdfunding is not a solution to this socioeconomic gap, as it is likely that students who can successfully raise money in this way have more affluent networks. This further creates socioeconomic divisions among students seeking to complete unpaid internships. Students from colleges across the country join Dartmouth students in turning to crowdfunding to support summer internship plans.
Parker Stewart, a junior at the Savannah College of Art and Design, is using Kickstarter to raise money for an internship at the Western Environmental Law Center, though which he will travel throughout the West documenting current environmental issues the country faces. Stewart estimates his needs at around $7,000, of which he had raised $6,550 from 75 backers by press time. According to Kickstarter’s policies, Stewart will not keep the funds raised if he does not meet his goal by the time his campaign ends. Stewart will send photographs as rewards to backers by the end of his internship. Most of his backers, he said, are friends and family. Yale University junior Erin Castillo Holder is using GoFundMe to raise money for her unpaid summer internship at the Smithsonian Institution and she has raised $1,675 so far. Castillo Holder said she picked the site because it offered the least restrictions and took a lower cut of the money raised. Although Castillo Holder had applied for funds from Yale, her internship offer came late in the semester, forcing her to withdraw her applications.
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Corrections Last week, a person named in the April 11 story, “The World of College Debate,” informed The Dartmouth that he had not been interviewed. The paper investigated and found that the reporter, Jake Bayer ’16, had fabricated the quotation. Bayer confirmed this, and he is no longer on The Dartmouth’s staff. We have removed each of his 79 articles from our website unless or until we can independently confirm their veracity. We value honesty and integrity in product and process at The Dartmouth. We apologize to our readers for this breach in trust. We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.
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Subur Khan ’17 agreed, saying Banner Student’s functionality is ize Banner,” currently the site’s compromised by its complicated seventh most popular suggestion. interface and layout. Banner Student has raised issues Though the site offers useful since its 1998 introduction, with academic services, the interface is students reporting inefficiency, “somewhat disorganized,” Kevin incompatibility with popular Zhang ’16 said. browsers and instability as ongoing Other students credited the site problems with the software. It has for allowing access to important gained a number of capabilities forms and services in a single locaover its 16-year history, however, tion. allowing students to add and drop Matt Klein ’16 said he appreciated that courses, pay tuBanner Student ition bills and, is a “one-stop most recently, “The [user interface] shop” that links declare majors is really rudimentary to all the maor minors. — it’s on par with jor campus ser John Zahka vices, though ’14 said Ban- a CS 1 course level he said features ner Student has of understanding. like course seoccasionally inlection could be convenienced Navigation requires improved. his course se- so many more clicks Matt lection process, than it ought to that it Mitman ’17, as its for mat wh o s a i d h e makes it dif- becomes a borderline mainly uses the ficult to search chore.” site to check for courses that grades and regsimultaneously ister for coursfulfill cultural - HUGHIE SAGONA ’15 es, believes that and distributive it serves its basic requirements. He also cited the system’s lack of functions well. Brown University is the only browser compatibility. In a post on Improve Dartmouth other Ivy League institution to use last week, senior associate registrar Banner, with other schools choosfor research Andrew Ager said ing to use school-specific software. that Banner Student features like Columbia University uses a the timetable of class meetings, system called Student Services Onwhich previously only worked with line which, like Banner Student, certain web browsers, are now is a central location that helps compatible with Google Chrome students with important forms and services like housing, dining and and Safari as well. Though the system is largely registration. Carlene Buccino, a efficient, Albert Chen ’17 said, it sophomore at Columbia, said that the software’s most complicated could have a better layout. Hughie Sagona ’15 agreed that feature is its housing portal. Banner Student’s biggest flaw is its Harvard University student services are located on my.harvard, design. “The [user interface] is really which was redesigned in 2012 by rudimentary — it’s on par with a Harvard junior Eva Stojchevska. CS 1 course level of understand- Cornell University uses an ing,” Sagona said. “Navigation in-house website for its student requires so many more clicks services. than it ought to that it becomes a Cattier could not be reached for comment by press time. borderline chore.” FROM BANNER PAGE 1
ment, including how houses evaluate their potential new members and how the computer system that matches sorority and potential new member preferences works. “I’m sure I can speak for many women when I say this — we all felt particularly confused by the process and we’re really hoping to demystify it, essentially,” Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 said. “I think there are a lot of negative ideas about what actually happens. Aspects of it aren’t as bad as people think.” Panhell vice president of public relations Jessica Ke ’15 said training for recruitment counselors — affiliated women who guide potential new members through recruitment without revealing their sorority affiliation — will include technical training and possibly facilitations by the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. This change will help standardize the information given to potential new members, Ke said. Rho Chis will also patrol parties at each house to discourage potential new members from engaging in rude or disrespectful behavior. Kathleen Wahl ’15, a Panhell recruitment chair, said that improving accountability might prove the most difficult change to implement, noting complaints that potential new members and sorority members have occasionally been rude to each other. Reducing the cost of recruitment is another goal of the new initiatives. Each house currently receives a $1,700 budget for recruitment. Sororities will not provide food during the first two rounds of recruitment to reduce costs, and Panhell will instead offer snacks between houses. The budget for each house’s preference night will now be based on the number of potential new members attending. Panhell will encourage those houses to use their remaining funds for scholarships or freshman outreach. To facilitate smaller, more indepth conversations, houses will not perform song-and-dance routines and members will not wear costumes during the second round of recruitment, when women will instead wear clothes with their sorority’s letters on them. The decision of five Panhell executives to abstain from winter recruitment last term sparked this term’s changes, Funk said. “We see this is an incredible time for change on this campus,” Funk said, noting College President Phil Hanlon’s attempts to address problems of exclusivity, binge
drinking and sexual assault. “We saw the recruitment process as a problem contributing to exclusivity on campus, and so these changes are part of answering his call to action.” Sigma Delta sorority president
“I’m sure I can speak for many women when I say this — we all felt particularly confused by the process and we’re really hoping to demystify it, essentially.” - RACHEL FUNK ’15, PANHELL PRESIDENT Annie Gardner ’15 said she is most excited about the potential depth offered by longer round two parties. She noted, however, that the
extra engagement and awareness the change requires may make it difficult. Gardner said she believes the recruitment process is moving in the right direction. “I really value the inclusivity of the concept that if you go through rush, then you’ll end up in a sorority if you stick it through,” Gardner said. “I think that’s awesome. This protects that while increasing a PNM’s agency.” Isabella Caruso ’17 said that although she does not intend to rush, changes to the process to make it more inclusive are promising. Koryn Ternes ’16 and Siobhan Hengemuhle ’15, both affiliated women, said another changes that could improve rush would be providing more events before rush so that women would have the opportunity to spend time in houses before committing, especially if they miss pre-rush events. Representatives of other Panhellenic sororities could not be reached for comment by press time.
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Bursting the Bubble
Policy and Prevention
We must pop the bubble to truly appreciate Dartmouth. If Dartmouth is a bubble, should we pop it? Over the past few weeks, this paper has been flooded with myriad senior perspectives on Dartmouth, offering hindsight as a stand-in for wisdom. Truth be told, I think most of us lack wisdom. Wisdom is gained through removing yourself from comfort and divorcing yourself from the garden of thought that you have painstakingly cultivated. An isolated environment like this one is not conducive for this form of personal growth. The senior perspectives have made abundantly clear, however, that we need to branch out to appreciate the things we have in Hanover and acknowledge the things we lack. Is Dartmouth a bubble? Well, we arrive on the Coach for first-year trips or orientation and graduate four years later having spent the lion’s share of our time in a tiny town comprised of a very distinct and traditional culture, hours away from other undergraduate institutions. While we’re here, uncommon words and phrases become so normalized that they roll off the tongue with our friends from home. How many of us have talked to outsiders about “flair,” “tails,” “sophomore summer” or “trips” and forgotten to add descriptors indicative of specialized vernacular? How many times have you uttered something similar to the phrase “this is how we do it at Dartmouth”? How many Dartmouth students have spent significant amounts of time at other universities doing anything but partying or studying with other Dartmouth students? Why should we care about the bubbliness of our lives? People tend to get up in arms whenever the things in which they are invested get criticized. The importance that a bunch of 18- to 22-year-old men and women assign to getting into the right Greek house, being accepted for a Croo or joining a not-so-secret society obscures the fact that most of these constructs hold little importance outside the bubble. Dartmouth has a rich culture that sets it apart from its peers, and much of this culture is due to its remoteness. Yet we all probably care a little bit too much about the ups and downs of life in a little college town so removed from the
rest of our lives. As an institution, Dartmouth forms an immersive universe that can sustain people for four years. The social competitiveness that pervades this campus is emblematic of a bubble environment where there are not enough outlets. It is unsurprising how seemingly insignificant things like accumulating flair, trips wristbands, underarm tattoos and graduation honors acquire currency. So, are our pursuits within the bubble meaningless? The jaded among us may say so, but I challenge them to disregard the raw emotion at fraternity or sorority “bequests,” not admire rallies on the Green organized by societies to combat a hostile campus climate or frown at the people in funky clothes dancing in front of Robinson Hall. It’s really easy to see hypocrisy and fakeness in the hypocritical and fake organizations, in the people who make up our bubble. But letting that mindset dominate your impressions of this singular four-year experience denies our little Dartmouth community and its people a truly merited complexity. Writing off flawed yet beautiful things simply because of their flaws is in itself a form of ignorance. I think that people fall prey to the Dartmouth bubble because they fail to put this small world in perspective. I’ve had the fortune to spend a lot of time off campus. I’ve run away from Hanover to spend weeks at a time at other universities. I have a skeptical group of friends and a family that is not easily impressed, constantly challenging me to question my surroundings. Things here haven’t always gone easy for me, and I’m not inclined to believe in these facets of campus life unflinchingly. We should encourage people to question their surroundings, but we should also encourage them to appreciate the small things for what they are — flaws and all. In 20 years you won’t care who thought you were smart or attractive. In fewer years than that you’ll probably realize you weren’t as smart or attractive as you once thought. Don’t wait to pop the bubble. If you haven’t yet, try bursting it now. It may not make you happier in the moment, but it will make you love what you think you have even more.
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India’s new prime minister should take steps to prevent farmer suicides. The American media has largely ignored the biggest news story of the year. So, unless you watch “The Daily Show” or “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” you probably don’t know this: India had an election. Narendra Modi, the new prime minister, won in a landslide. Modi, however, is extremely divisive. In 2002, more than a thousand Muslims were killed in sectarian violence in Gujarat. Modi was the chief minister of that state. While every investigation into his role in the tragedy — including one led by the Indian Supreme Court — has found him innocent, some remain convinced of a cover up. If Modi is to unite the country behind him, he must start his term by tackling an issue that crosses religious and economic divides. While India offers many urgent problems to choose from, Modi should address farmer suicides first. There are two reasons for this. First, an Indian farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes, according to a 2011 Center for Human Rights and Global Justice report. This is a tragedy for millions and an embarrassment for India’s claim to global leadership. Second, while the problem has festered for years, analyzing the underlying cause shows it is absolutely — and in part, easily — solvable. So, why is there an epidemic of farmer suicides in India? When I first started analyzing the problem, a strange pattern emerged. While farmer suicides can increase during years of bad harvest, we have, surprisingly, also seen spikes in years when production is above average. The economists reading this must think the reason is pretty obvious; increasing supply with constant demand lowers prices and could, on average, leave farmers worse off. This was a viable explanation back when India had export restrictions but today, if there is a large increase in grain supply, farmers can export the grains. Supply shocks should not hurt prices. What, then, is the real culprit? In the military, there is the term “friendly fire,” when one accidentally shoots at allied forces. “Friendly fire” is also common in policy making. Policies, often with the best intentions, end up hurting the very people they seek to help.
An urban legend circulating in Nepal captures the problem. A charity group decided to help Nepali villagers buy cows. Cows are an amazing resource for the poor, because they provide nutrition with minimal storage and manure, all at the relatively low cost they require to be fed. Getting cows to poor villagers sounds pretty good in theory, but in actuality it was a disaster. When rains wiped out roads connecting the villages to the towns, the town lost its opportunities for profit through sale. Further, Nepal is a highly patriarchal society in which girls have just begun to attend school. When the cows arrived, the girls were removed from school to tend to the cows instead! This story illustrates how “friendly fire” can arise from well-intentioned policies. The Indian government buys large quantities of the country’s agricultural output at above-market prices. The problem is that the government has limited storage facilities for grains. So in years when output is high across the country, the government buys less grain from farmers as its storage facilities fill up. Desperate farmers are then forced to sell their output at short notice, often to private traders at very low prices. Also, based on the government’s promise to buy their output at a high price, farmers take on loans to use expensive fertilizers and pesticides. When the government fails to purchase as promised, farmers find themselves in deep debt and often kill themselves by drinking the same pesticides they used to raise output. This explains the spike in suicides when harvests are good. The solution? Increase storage facilities, improve the ability to export at short notice and institute a loan forgiveness program for desperate farmers. Finally, extending the reach of government banks and credit facilities should also be a priority. Many farmers are forced to take loans at exorbitant rates from local loan sharks because government banks are not available or don’t lend enough. These three policies will provide an effective start to ending a tragedy that India cannot allow or afford if it is to take its rightful place in the global leadership.
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He said he decided to focus on his specialty ingredients, including porcini mushrooms and pancetta, and his slow-cooking method that naturally caramelizes the tomatoes’ sugar. “All these tomato sauces you buy in the store are cooked 500 gallons at a time, even the organic ones,” Gallira said. “They don’t really leverage the quality of those
ingredients the right way.” Gallira sold his first sauce on Black Friday, he said, standing outside the Garden State Mall’s Michael Kors outlet in an apron. While he felt out of place, the day was a success, he recalled. Gallira said his friends’ support helped him get through the company’s earliest stages, adding that they gave him necessary “sanity checks.” A few years ago, Gallira’s pas-
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sion for cooking took a different form. Peter De Boursac ’12, a former roommate, recalled that his friend would cook dinner at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity for the whole house on Friday nights. Trevor Chenoweth ’12, Gallira’s roommate in Phi Delt, said he thought the move made sense for Gallira given his earlier interest in entrepreneurship, recalling that Gallira had looked into starting a bar in college. Citing the success of The Box food truck, Gallira said he feels that now is a good time for Dartmouth students to create their own startups. De Boursac said he finds Gallira’s success with the Atlantic Ave. Company encouraging. While Gallira’s decision to quit his job to try something completely new might be unusual, he said, it has served him well. Haley Sacks, a 2013 Wesleyan University graduate, first heard of the company last fall through a friend. Since then, she has shaped the company’s social media brand, though she works at the Late Show With David Letterman during the day and is paid only in sauce for her work at the Atlantic Ave. Company.
Sacks said her comedic experience has helped her create the company’s “whimsical” and “quirky” Twitter persona, adding that she is working to include more original content.
“All these tomato sauces you buy in the store are cooked 500 gallons at a time, even the organic ones. They don’t really leverage the quality of those ingredients the right way.” - MATT GALLIRA ’12 , FOUNDER OF ATLANTIC AVE She said that while Gallira’s product is “old-timey,” unlike the technology-focused nature of many start-ups, he has created a strong social media presence. “There are so many other tomato sauces you could buy, so the
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brand’s strategy matters a lot,” she said. Gallira said he hopes to build the company into a regional brand, expanding his production to around 500 to 1,000 cases of a sauce each week. “I sell expensive tomato sauce, so it needs to be in places where people are more conscious of the quality of the food they’re eating and less conscious of the price,” he said. A one-quart jar sells for $8.99, while 24-ounce grocery-store brand jars can average between $2 and $4. Gallira is optimistic about these plans, he said, especially as he will be featured at the Fancy Foods Show in New York this summer. The show brings together specialty food companies with distributors, and Gallira said his sauce scored highly during the selection committee for the show. Gallira said that one of the challenges of expanding would be affording a kitchen of his own, which would cost around $50,000, and bringing on a paid partner. Gallira is a former member of The Dartmouth business staff. Sasha Dudding contributed reporting.
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Well, loyal readers, the day has finally come — our last article and the end of the saga of the 2013-14 Rec League Legends. This season, we tried our best and experienced a few victories (we are not going to quantify exactly how many because the details are irrelevant). Most importantly, we had a lot of great times and some unforgettable experiences with some of Dartmouth’s best athletes. Like all great athletes, many people operated behind the scenes to make what some have called “the most condescending show on turf ” operate. First and foremost, we want to thank our editors. Sam, Blaze and Brett, thank you for your patience and willingness to put up with all the curveballs we threw at you this year. Also, to the 2013 directorate, thank you for giving us a chance. When we came to Felicia with this idea in summer, I honestly never thought it had a prayer. Thank you Fels and all of the others for believing that we were just athletic and ridiculous enough to
B y kelly wood I’ve enjoyed being able to share my stories and thoughts through my column this spring — perhaps more so than the editors who quickly became aware of my chronic procrastination. In my mind, Dartmouth athletics have a permanence that comforts student-athletes and fans alike. Part of this permanence is the longstanding history of Big Green sports. Football at Dartmouth dates back to 1876. Women’s sports are a more recent development, but several teams have seen remarkable success. This results in generations of alumni who care deeply about their sports and about Dartmouth. Another part of the permanence is tradition. I have faith that decades from now, students will continue to find creative ways to sneak tennis balls into the hockey game against Princeton University. Dartmouth sports gives me comfort given the uncertainty of graduation on the quickly-approaching horizon. Dartmouth sports have been a big
pull something like this off. Next, we would like to thank the athletes who took time out of their busy schedules to humor us on the field, ice and courts. We know that you lead extremely busy lives and have obligations that are probably more significant than our column. Thank you for taking the time not only to play us, but to make each experience unique. Finally, to you, the fans. Thank you for reading our columns week in and week out, or maybe just once or twice when you were bored in your Monday 9L. We’re not above that. We really hope that you have had a few laughs with or at us. Trust us, it’s cool. We have had a great time this year and every year we have been fortunate enough to spend here at Dartmouth. To paraphrase some of the illustrious impromptu FoCo speeches from the last few weeks, we feel blessed to have been accepted to one of the world’s best academic institutions and to have been able to spend time with and learn from each of you. Over the past year, many have debated how to keep our community inclusive and its members safe.
We would like to offer our two cents through a sports metaphor. This one comes from perhaps one of the most underrated basketball players of all time, Jackie Moon of the Flint Michigan Tropics. We hope the Dartmouth community can abide by one simple rule: “Everybody Love Everybody” or if love is too strong, at least “Everybody Respect Everybody” (ERE for short). This applies to the classroom, the dining halls, the basements of Greek houses, to people that you agree with and more importantly to people that you do not. This motto alone will not resolve the issues that our community faces. But it will certainly be a start, which is all that we can ask for. So with that, we conclude the Rec League Legends saga. To our successors on the field, we hope that you win a few more competitions than we did, but we hope that you will have at least half as much fun. To our successors off the field, we hope that you have the Dartmouth experience that we were fortunate enough to have and continue to improve and shape this place that Freddie and I will soon be blessed enough to call our alma mater.
part of my life since I was little. Seeing the overwhelming continuity of the last 20 years has contributed to this view of permanence. I’ve written about my experience growing up in Hanover, looking up to Dartmouth athletes as role models and how much I loved being a ball girl for the women’s basketball team. During my time as a student, Big Green sports have continued to be a big part of my experience — as an athlete and a fan. In an attempt to understand what makes athletes tick — and shamelessly write something reflective for my last column — I asked five seniors what is has meant to be a Dartmouth athlete. Some of their responses matched my expectations. They learned how to be a team player, work through disagreements and play together to achieve something bigger. A few explained that they learned the hard way how to manage their time and plan ahead for missing class. Others have learned that success comes in many forms, including overcoming injuries, eating disorders and other setbacks. Several athletes I spoke with strug-
gled to put their experiences into words. Being an athlete is more than learning how to manage your time, building close relationships with your team and earning cool Big Green clothing. There is something unifying about wearing green and white and being part of the tradition of Dartmouth sports. The last home game is traditionally celebrated as senior day, a chance for teams to recognize the hard work and commitment of their graduating players. For me, senior day is always a reality check and a reminder that college does not last forever. While some sports, like running, can continue past college more smoothly than others, it is sobering to realize that one might not compete on a team again after graduation. It’s not just athletes who hang up their equipment at the end of four years, but also loyal superfans who graduate and move on to the big world outside the bubble. Although the players, coaches and even uniforms change over the years, there is something permanent about Dartmouth sports in which I find peace.
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B y Phoebe hoffmann Now that the Celebration of Excellence is behind us and most of the spring sports have started their offseason training, I’ve realized that this is the end of many Dartmouth athletes’ careers in sports. These seniors have trained for thousands of hours, taken countless bus rides and airplane trips, eaten an ungodly amount of peanut butter sandwiches and experienced a blur of locker room memories in just four years at the College. I can almost guarantee that if you asked any athlete in the Class of 2014 about the day they officially found out that they would represent the Big Green, they could recount the rush of feelings as if it were yesterday. Although I’m still a junior — for at least a little while longer — my coach has started to call the members of the Class of 2015 on my team the “senior class.” The first time I heard this, I felt my heart skip a beat. I remember at the end of my freshman year, I was sitting at dinner with some of the then-seniors, freaking out about everything from the new girls coming to them leaving (and even the fact that I was going to graduate soon). Though they laughed a little because I had three years left, they were happy to see that they had made such an impact on my life. It’s odd to look back when I still have things to look forward to, but with every senior day, the feelings hit closer to home, and I realize that I will be graduating shortly. The field hockey team celebrated senior day in the fall. The rest of the team watched our seniors accept bouquets of flowers from their families, tears slowly rolling down their already sweaty faces. The underclassmen held each other close, thinking about the next phase in our collegiate careers and remembering our friends and family behind us. This
column could get incredibly sappy, but I have little room to get emotional. With an entire year left, I will do my best try to refrain from any more clichés. Every year, we graduate a handful of incredible teammates and friends, only to gain a new set nine months later. For me, the turnover hits hardest in the few days following our last game. Last year, the six seniors led our team as a class and individually. They were there for us on the field, in the classroom and anywhere else we needed them. Nobody wants to admit it, but in that extended moment after every season the team dynamic shifts entirely. There are no more freshmen on the team — there are only upperclassmen, preparing to welcome the freshmen who are still in high school, unaware of this transition. Luckily, as fall athletes, we get to keep our seniors close to us outside of the turf for two more terms, easing this transition a bit. I can hardly imagine having my season end and then losing the class above me just a few weeks later, as many spring athletes do. Whether you are a freshman who is still scared of the talented seniors or a junior who could name every single person in the seniors’ families — including middle names and first-grade goldfish — saying goodbye is never easy. As we bid adieu to the great Class of 2014, we will always know that the athletes are just a text message away, all too willing to listen to stories about incompetent refs and hard fitness tests. I said I’d try to avoid the clichés, but these feelings resurface as each senior class leaves, and we’ll miss the Class of 2014 dearly. A new team is forming, and we can only hope that we can make our mark on them, the same way that the Class of 2014 and the senior classes before them did for us. Inside the Locker Room is a weekly column written alternately by Phoebe Hoffmann and Sarah Caughey.
Caldwell ’17 voted best freshman athlete B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
Patrick Caldwell ’17 was named the best freshman athlete for 2013-14. The Lyme native earned 818 votes of over 2,100 cast.
At the NCAA meet in Park City, Utah, Caldwell was the top finisher for the Big Green in the 10-kilometer and 20-kilometer events. His fifth-place finish in the 20-kilometer earned him All-American honors. See our website for the full article.
Best Freshman Athlete
Name
% of vote
1. Patrick Caldwell ’17 38 % 2. Fanni Szabo ’17 32 % 3. Luka Pejanovic ’17 20 % 4. Mike Concato ’17 5% 5. Karen Chaw ’17 4%
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Well-cast ‘X-Men’ film Play’s dark humor draws laughs, gasps continues series success B y rebecca asoulin The Dartmouth Staff
B y varun bhuchar The Dartmouth Staff
Hollywood’s most reliable cash cow, the superhero film, has returned this summer. From A-listers like Spider Man to the obscure Ant Man, each will get its time on the silver screen. While sometimes exhausting, many of us will watch these movies anyway — they’re just so much fun. This weekend brings the next installment in a familiar series, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” (2014). For legal reasons, X-Men cannot be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes everyone who appeared in “The Avengers” (2012). Yet that hasn’t prevented 20th Century Fox, which owns the copyright to X-Men and its subsidiary properties, from creating its own insular little universe. This movie smashes X-Men’s two existing plot lines together. The first, a present-day timeline, concerns Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who try to stop Magneto (Ian McKellen) from committing genocide against humans. The other plotline, set in the past, involves a younger Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), who will eventually become Magneto, showing how their friendship eventually becomes a heated rivalry. The “X-Men: Days of Future Past” film shows a future in which mutants are hunted down by Sentinels, nearindestructible robots that adapt to fight any sort of power in their way. To save their species, Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) sends Wolverine back in time to convince a young, depressed Charles to reunite with Erik to find Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), whose assassination of the Sentinels’ creator, Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), leads to their widespread proliferation. Despite being one of the only films I’ve seen that could use a “previously on…” segment, the beauty of “XMen: Days of Future Past” is how seamlessly it runs between all of its mythologies, which now span three films — two standalone Wolverine movies and a fantastic prequel, “XMen: First Class.” Though “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is not as good as that film, it’s pretty decent as far as sequels are concerned and gives the ambitious Marvel Cinematic Universe
a run for its money. The film smartly sets most of its action in the past. In the process, it creates a well done, fascinating piece of historical fiction that’s like watching a version of “Mad Men” with a much higher visual effects budget. Watching Fassbender and McAvoy act in a big production blockbuster is a sight to see. It’s almost unfair to the other actors, because they’re just so good — you can see pain in each crevasse of their faces and spit fly out of their mouths with vitriolic rage. This in and of itself is strange. How did talent of this caliber want to play roles in a superhero franchise? The answer lies in the themes of the X-Men franchise. An inevitable criticism of superhero movies, particularly due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s success, is that these films are often too happy and predictable. Marvel has borne this criticism in the past, especially in contrast to its main competitor, DC, who has tried to re-brand its biggest properties, Batman and Superman, with darker and grittier films. X-Men, however, is perhaps the company’s most DC-like possession. The film is dark, brooding and morally ambiguous down to its core, as it must be. The series asks whether genocide is inevitable. If it is, who will commit it and against whom? In X-Men, will the mutants or the humans be the perpetrators? This vicious circle reoccurs throughout the series. Magneto despises mankind due to his experiences as a young boy in a concentration camp. Trask loathes mutants despite having a mutation himself, dwarfism. Suffering and discontent abounds on both sides, and coexistence, a lofty ideal, always seems far away. The realism of the series, however, may not last for long. The film’s postcredits scene suggests something dark and supernatural around the corner, a big baddie akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Thanos, which may be something audiences have never seen before. One can only hope that the next X-Men film looks back toward its successful past for advice about its future. Rating: 8.6/10 “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is currently playing at the Nugget.
An actor dressed in a fat suit sprinted through a paper wall. With little resistance, the paper tore, sparking laughter in the crowd. Watching the scene, director Deby Guzman-Buchness ’15, exhaled and let out a “finally.” After a term that included casting, rehearsing and eventually performing three shows, “The Pillowman” had officially closed, and the cast was tearing down the set. Intricately arranged by set design leader Cristy Altamirano ’15, the Bentley Theater was lined in paper for the production, an allusion to the main character’s profession as a short story writer. Stacks of paper were piled around the stage, and some action occurred silhouetted behind a paper wall. The play, written by Martin McDonagh, jumps back and forth between two plot lines, an interrogation of the main character, Katurian, played by Ben Edlin ’14, and re-enactments or narrations of his stories. In the interrogation, detectives Tupolski and Ariel, played by Jake Gaba ’16 and Reed Latrowski ’15, question Katurian about why some of these stories bear striking resemblance to a string of child murders. Colored by dark, self-conscious humor, the play alternatively shocked and amused its audience at the Sunday production. Staged with a $400 budget from the theater department, “The Pillowman” marked Guzman-Buchness’s directorial debut. Guzman-Buchness said she first read the play in high school and was attracted to its use of misdirection and plays on words. The intimate nature of the Bentley helped bring audience members into the interrogation room with Katurian. There, Guzman-Buchness said, they were left at “the mercy of actors and the information they’re willing to give.” Clocking in at over two hours, the play explored a wide range of topics including artistic responsibility and physical abuse, even though most of the action was contained to the interrogation room, Guzman-Buchness said. The protagonist’s attempts to save his work from destruction also raises questions about ownership for intellectual property and personal identity, she said. “It talks about what we leave behind and legacy, and it talks about itchy arses,” Guzman-Buchness said. “Behind this play there are so many doors to open, and that’s what is so powerful about it.” Gaba said he enjoyed how the
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“The Pillowman” included a dark yet humorous interrogation of its protagonist.
show challenges what is appropriate, and he said that retelling Katurian’s stories within the play provided for great storytelling moments. A favorite of these stories was “The Three Gibbet Crossroads,” about a man who wakes up in an iron gibbet and realizes that he is being punished for a horrible crime that he cannot remember, Gaba said. “The play is outrageous,” he said. “It’s all the stuff you can’t say rolled up into one little disturbing play.” Edlin said he “kind of sprinted” to the show’s auditions, describing himself as a huge fan of McDonagh’s work and its “dark, crazy sense of humor.” “The first line of the play just throws you right into it and doesn’t let you go,” Edlin said. Edlin said the most difficult scene for him was an interaction he had with his character’s brother, Michal, played by Michael Parets ’14, in the middle of the play. Edlin’s character was onstage for much of the play, and this scene in particular demanded him to enter a dark emotional place. His character also underwent an emotional arc that changed multiple times within the scene, he said. “The play gives you the opportunity to walk out from the Green into this theater and get taken into a dark cellar of interaction and human emotion that is really interesting because it marries the cruelty and the comedy,” Edlin said. Altamirano said that the play had the “strongest standalone script” of any production she has participated in at Dartmouth. Though she struggled to find enough paper to cover the whole stage, she was ultimately happy with the play’s set design. “The paper medium is intended to harken to the idea that this is his life’s work, this is everything to him,” Altamirano said. “Also this whole world really
lives on paper, and I wanted to bring that onto the stage.” Lighting design director Kellie MacPhee ’14 said the play’s length and intensity made it especially challenging to stage. She enjoyed creating distinct lighting for the more realistic or fantastic portions of the play, she said. Guzman-Buchness said she was excited by how the three different audiences experienced the play. From night to night, attendees’ laughter and responses changed, she said. At one point, Katurian asks his interrogators, “So where do we go from here on in?” — a question that audience members might also have asked themselves about the play’s direction. Bouncing between horror and humor, interviewed audience members said that they enjoyed the mix. Kevin Guh ’16 said he attended the play after hearing about it from friends and theater professor James Rice. Guh, who is currently enrolled in Rice’s “Speaking Voice for the Stage” class, said he appreciated how hard the actors worked to bring their characters to life. Guh said he was especially impressed by Parets’s use of a voweling technique to create his character. Lily Brown ’15 said she attended the show after her playwriting professor, theater professor Joseph Sutton, recommended it. Brown said one of her favorite moments was when Katurian’s brother chastised him for writing such gruesome stories. One of his stories, titled “The Pillowman” like the play, casts a man who lights children on fire as the tale’s hero, for example. “It was the darkest play I have ever seen,” Brown said. “But it was also hilarious because it was self-consciously dark.”