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Students discuss the use of the term “illegal immigrant” at an event hosted by CoFIRED Monday.
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The Class of 2019 will be the first to experience a “neighborhoods” system, which will give upperclassmen housing in the same residential cluster for three years, residential education director Mike Wooten said.
The College will introduce “living learning communities” in the fall, Board of Trustees chair Steve Mandel ’78 announced March 21 in an email that also confirmed the “neighborhoods” system. The “living learning
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A few years after Daniela Pelaez ’16 and her family emigrated from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Florida in 1999, Pelaez’s mother fell seriously ill. Lacking health insurance, her mother decided to return to Colombia after a lawyer told the family that she could return to the U.S. after receiving medical care. This, however, was not the case, and Pelaez’s mother was banned from the U.S. for 10 years. At a student panel and discussion hosted by Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers on Monday night, Pelaez said that her mother has missed
Greek organization leaders responded positively to a Student Assembly resolution that will provide dues-assistance funds to the governing council of Greek organizations in which a certain number of members complete Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training, pending undergraduate finance committee approval. Sorority and fraternity presidents added, however, that DBI
College launches redesigned Miniversity programming B y ELIZABETH SMITH The Dartmouth Staff
Facing low enrollment and declining interest in teaching courses, the Collis Center for Student Involvement cancelled the majority of its spring Collis Miniversity course offerings. Instead of ending the program outright, however, the Center is launching a redesigned Miniversity, including events under the banner “Not
training should be a priority of all Greek organizations regardless of financial incentives. According to the new policy, which the Assembly passed March 25, if 25 members or half of sophomore and junior members in a house complete a six-hour DBI leadership training session, its governing council will be rewarded with $2,000 in dues-assistance funds. Organizations under the governance of the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Coun-
cil, the Coeducational Council, the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations or the National Pan-Hellenic Council can receive the funding. The DBI training consists of either one- or six-hour sessions. The program teaches students to intervene in situations where they believe the safety of another student is threatened. Connie Gong ’15, president of The Tabard coed fraternity, SEE PROPOSAL PAGE 5
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Another Lecture Series.” These events will invite attendees to interact with faculty and alumni presenters instead of simply listening to speakers and asking one or two questions, Collis Center intern Sam Rauschenfels ’14 said. Rauschenfels is a former member of The Dartmouth senior staff. The Miniversity program allowed ALLISON CHOU/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Students took part in an orientation session at the letterpress studio.
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DAily debriefing Alicia Betsinger, who has conducted research and statistical analysis for higher education policymakers for over 20 years, will start as Dartmouth’s associate provost for institutional research later this month, according to a College press release. Betsinger, hired after a national search assisted by a College advisory committee, will spearhead institutional research projects on planning and reporting. She will work with senior leadership to produce data and analyses that will help the College boost its academic quality and accountability, the release said. Betsinger has previously worked in the University of Texas system as a lead project manager for the Productivity Dashboard, a public database that provides information on productivity and efficiency at Texas’s public colleges. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in experimental psychology, all from Saint Louis University. Biology professor Roger Sloboda chaired the search committee, which also included the College’s executive vice president and chief financial officer Rick Mills. The office of institutional research collects and maintains data related to the College and offers this information to committees to assist in strategic decision-making. Along with informing Dartmouth’s policymakers about the College’s place among other institutions, the office compiles institutional surveys of Dartmouth’s students, faculty, staff and alumni and publishes institutional data sets like the Dartmouth College Fact Book. It also responds to external requests for data from government agencies and other colleges and universities. — COMPILED BY MIN KYUNG JEON
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Admissions to visit city alumni clubs B y JORGE BONILLA The Dartmouth Staff
Admissions officers will attend more admitted student receptions in metropolitan areas this spring as well as work to standardize the resources and materials given to smaller Dartmouth clubs for their events, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said. The offices will examine the successful practices of worldwide alumni clubs and share this information with smaller clubs without as much experience hosting events for accepted students. Vice president for alumni relations Martha Beattie said she and Laskaris have been talking for several months about how to better recruit top students at these receptions. “We basically have these events that combine things that each department does,” Beattie said. “We thought we should be doing this in a more integrated way than in the past, and we looked at what we could do to ramp up these yield parties.” The admissions office has traditionally given alumni clubs names of admitted students in their respective areas. The clubs would then invite them to a reception held at the house of an alumnus or alumna. Some areas also hold send-off receptions or barbecues after students have committed to attending Dartmouth. The admissions officers’ visits will coincide with spring recruit-
ment travel for the Class of 2019. The admissions office is also helping alumni clubs contact current students who live near newly admitted students, Laskaris said. Alumni volunteers at the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C., she said, have seen success with having students on the government foreign study program attend receptions. Laskaris said the admissions office is working with the office of
“We basically have these events that combine things that each department does. We thought we should be doing this in a more integrated way than in the past, and we looked at what we could do to ramp up these yield parties.” - Martha Beattie, vice president for alumni relations alumni affairs to compile materials for local clubs to use in their recruitment efforts, including a best practices document that covers topics like contacting students, incorporating parents into receptions and ideas for venues. Admitted student receptions will not be standardized nationwide, Laskaris said.
“This isn’t meant to be a rigid template that everyone’s meant to follow,” she said. “It’s about harnessing the best practices of alumni leaders across the country.” Benjamin Packer ’17 said he attended an admitted student reception in Dallas last year and did not feel that it adequately represented the College. Packer said that he got a negative impression from an alumnus who told him to pick Dartmouth over his other options because they were not Ivy League institutions. He said he appreciated the presence of two members of the Class of 2016 at the reception. Daniel Widawsky ’18, who was an early decision applicant, said that he plans to attend his local reception at a New York City law firm and considers the event an opportunity to meet his future classmates. Widawsky sees the incorporation of more students and admissions officers at these events as a positive change. Michelle Chen of Overland Park, Kan., a regular decision admit, said she does not feel that a reception will influence her college decision. “I think for me, in making my decision, it will rely more on visiting the campus since I’ve never visited Dartmouth,” Chen said. Representatives of the Dartmouth Clubs of Washington, D.C., New York City and Greater Boston did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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Students share personal immigration stories at CoFIRED event FROM I-WORD PAGE 1
milestones in her life and will not be able to attend her graduation. “It’s very unfortunate how immigration laws splinter the family unit,” Pelaez said. “It gets worse when I am being called an illegal alien.” CoFIRED’s event, titled “Drop the I-Word,” addressed the use of the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Speaking to an audience of over 50 students and other community members in Collis Common Ground, CoFIRED leaders and supporters said they seek to eliminate the use of the word both at the College and nationwide. “There are undocumented students at Dartmouth,” event facilitator Oscar Cornejo ’17 said. “When we call members of our Dartmouth community illegal, we are dehumanizing and excluding them from our community.” The night’s program opened with a presentation by Institute for Writing and Rhetoric professor
Claudia Anguiano, who is currently conducting research on the undocumented student experience. Anguiano surveyed audience members about what word they would use to “describe someone who has migrated to the United States without formal authorization.” Answers included “person without papers” and “undocumented immigrant” — alternatives to “illegal alien” that Anguiano said were better words to use. “We know, from all the research and data that has been done about language, that our social realities are constructed by way of our language,” Anguiano said, adding that the term “illegal” is an “insulting and disparaging word.” Afterward, three panelists discussed their personal experiences dealing with their own undocumented statuses. Panelist Melissa Padilla ’16 spoke of entering the U.S. from Mexico. “When I was born, I was a woman, I was a daughter, I was a sister,” Padilla said. “Then I crossed
the border and those things kind of took a back turn — overnight, I became a criminal.” Padilla added that she still feels the stress of having been an undocumented person, despite having earned citizenship after 18 years of waiting. She reiterated that the word “illegal” criminalizes undocumented people and encumbers them with a painful identity. The second panelist, a male member of the class of 2014, was born in Mexico. When he was 11, he crossed the border into the U.S. to see his mother, who had previously immigrated to America. He requested anonymity to keep his status private. “In Mexico, I was just me,” he said. “I came to the United States, and right away I turned into an illegal Mexican. It haunted me because the word implied criminality.” Additional struggles accompanied his undocumented status, he said, since he could not travel, participate in federal programs or see his family often. He also knew that the college admissions process
would prove difficult. Pelaez said that she related to the male panelist’s experiences. “Hopefully with this campaign we can drop the I-word and realize that we’re all students,” she said. “We’re just dreamers, like everybody else.” The term “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien” has come under fire in recent years for criminalizing people rather than their actions, while others have contended that the term is more accurate than “undocumented,” which some say ignores possible documentation in a person’s country of birth. The Associated Press amended its stylebook to ban use of the term “illegal” to describe a person in April 2013. Last year, student governments at the University of California at Los Angeles and UC Berkeley passed resolutions banning the term “illegal immigrant” from their discourse. Founded last fall, Dartmouth’s CoFIRED acts as a support system and advocacy channel for the College’s undocumented students. In
addition to CoFIRED, the Office of Visa and Immigration Services provides help to undocumented students via confidential counseling and offering additional resources and information. After the panel discussion concluded, facilitators urged audience members to sign a “Drop the I-Word” petition directed toward Student Assembly and College administrators. “Words matter and hurt, and thus we must choose them carefully,” the petition states. After the panel, audience members formed small groups to discuss their personal reactions to the word “illegal,” its use in the media, what actions Dartmouth could take and whether they believed banning the word was a good idea. Logan Henderson ’17 said putting student faces to the issue was important and effective. “It allows us, as Dartmouth students, to relate, because [undocumented] students are our friends,” he said, “and people don’t even know it.”
‘Neighborhood’ upperclassman residential system will launch for ’19s and does not work with its current system, and it will collaborate with communities,” open to upperclass- faculty and various administrative men, will include current affinity units, including campus planning houses and new residential com- and facilities, the office of resimunities based around a common dential education and the provost’s theme, but they will also offer a office. design-your-own option. Three “living learning commu “Our real goal is to maximize nities” — which relate to entreprethe strength of neurial skills, community at “How we interact and g lobal topics Dartmouth,” a n d LG B TQ Wooten said. how we live together issues — will “How we in- has to motion toward launch in the teract and how the mission and goals fall, and East we live together Wheelock will has to motion of the College.” be relabeled as a toward the mis“living learning sion and goals c o m m u n i t y. ” of the College.” - mike wooten, Other College Wooten said residential education affinity houses he envisions the director will be considsystem to work ered “special alongside the Dinterest comPlan, so a neighborhood’s rotating munities” within the program. residents may recognize common Students will also have the option faces after an off-term. to design their own communities. “We are working hard so that Meghan Chamberlain ’17 said when you are here, you have a that she submitted a proposal for a consistent pattern of knowing your river conservation community. She neighbors,” Wooten said. said the 16-person group, members He said a full transition to the of which are involved in the Led“neighborhoods” system could take yard Canoe Club, was interested up to 10 years. in preserving rivers to continue Wooten said he hopes outside ar- kayaking and canoeing in the future. chitectural firms will submit design Each design-your-own comrecommendations by fall 2014. Any munity will have an advisor and construction projects, including residency expectations like required renovations, will be decided after workshops, trips or events. a firm is selected. The plan aims to connect The firm, Wooten said, will help students with common interests, the College understand what works promote residents’ personal and inFROM HOUSING PAGE 1
tellectual development and increase student and faculty engagement outside the classroom. Five students interviewed expressed cautious optimism for the “neighborhoods” system. Diana Salsbury ’15 said the office of residential life would have to level the quality of housing options for the system to work effectively. Philip Son ’16 said he believes that the housing changes will bolster the sense of community in Dartmouth’s residential housing.
“I think it’s a good system because it’ll create a community that you can always go back to,” Son said. Abby Reynolds ’17 said she thinks Dartmouth needs more community-oriented living spaces, but she is unsure if “living learning communities” will be effective, as people may use them as a way to live with friends. The office of residential education is also considering improvements to faculty and graduate
student housing options, Wooten said. Similar systems are touted at other Ivy League universities. Yale University assigns freshmen to one of 12 residential colleges before they arrive on campus, and students remain affiliated with their residential colleges throughout their time at Yale. Harvard University students, individually or grouped by blocks of friends, are assigned to houses after freshman year.
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Staff Columnist Andrew shanahan ’14
Contributing columnist Victor MuchatuTa ’16
What Layups Lack
It’s Good to Be Human
Layup classes undermine the value of a liberal arts education. My friends in high school all joked (and still joke) about one teacher who ceased to care much about grades sometime in the late ’90s. The teacher in question described his views on student assessment as “holistic.” Needless to say, the day class assignments were released, students across the district kept their fingers crossed, praying to be placed in his class. To further complicate the stakes, this teacher taught a class required to graduate. Now that I am in college, course selection has fundamentally changed the game. I no longer have to stick to a largely pre-ordained and intractable barrage of courses that my district wisely chose for me. Students who hated math and science, the English language or general academic rigor could avoid their demons and move on to greener lecture halls with lower expectations. During the first week of the term, layup lists circulate among teams and social groups, teaching students how to achieve a Dartmouth degree while facing minimal challenge. To clarify, a layup is a class that, like an easy unchallenged shot in basketball, requires one to merely go through practiced motions to score. In general, these Dartmouth courses promise high median grades, little to no mandatory homework, few assessments and a large class size that discourages individual attention or participation. Attendance in certain notorious layups regularly dips below 50 percent of students. Further, anyone sitting in the back of such a class would see a startling majority of students browsing Facebook newsfeeds, responding to emails or, in rare cases, watching Netflix. Repeatedly taking layup courses distorts the purpose of a liberal arts education. In a school where literally hundreds of courses are offered on virtually every academic subject, it is a shame that courses exist that do little to challenge students. The truth is students can and will avoid difficulty outside their major by sticking to classes that expect little commitment and work. I understand why layups exist. In large survey classes that attempt to introduce students to a discipline gradually, a gentler touch is sometimes needed to garner interest. Also, I assume that
many professors do not want their classrooms to be hives of stress and competition. In these scenarios, it benefits both the student and the department that offers the class to promise higher grades and zero pressure. That said, I think students should approach easy classes with caution. The point of a liberal arts education is to expose minds to concepts and challenges that are outside students’ comfort zones and force students to think in a manner that comes neither easily nor naturally. Dartmouth mandates distributive requirements for this reason. Students must fill 10 classes out of the 35 needed to graduate with various disciplines and subjects that do not necessarily conform to their major or field of interest. Distributive requirements exist to honor the purpose of a liberal arts education, yet each term during course election the same mad scramble occurs. Students try to enroll in the easiest courses offered and avoid real encounters with new material. The use of the non-recording option as a way to attain credits without exerting any difficulty further cheapens the value of a course. The NRO exists to take anxiety away from genuinely interested students who want to try hard classes but do not want to see their GPAs tank if things do not go well. Unfortunately, the NRO is also used as a challenge-avoiding measure. Students often use NROs as a safeguard to slack off without worrying about having to bear the consequences on their transcripts. While the value of an undergraduate education does not lie exclusively in books and lectures, you should resist the temptation to divorce education and academic rigor from your goals during your four years in Hanover. Yet, you are here primarily to learn — not to make friends, win championships or avoid stress. These four years mark perhaps the last time that you will be able to learn about things that are not easily encountered outside of academia. With that in mind, avoid selecting classes based on median grades or the number of assessments, and instead consider how much you will grow both as a person and an intellectual by taking that course.
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One fundamental truth unites us all: our humanity.
Harold Pinter once wrote, “One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.” By nakedness, Pinter was talking of the most hated and avoided aspect of the human condition, one which is more often deplored than lauded: our vulnerability. I recently spoke to a friend of mine who will graduate this spring and is coming to terms with the fact that he will most likely never ski competitively again. Having dedicated thousands of hours to honing a craft and spending most of his life being identified as “a skier” — a damn good one at that — he was done. He looked at me with a mixture of pain and joy in his eyes and managed to sputter that he can be anything he wants to be now. It’s a weird moment to finally realize that you are in fact the captain of your soul. Too often, we seek validation in the opinions of others. For what could be more terrifying than looking within ourselves for approval — more terrible than staring the nakedness dead in the eye? Pinter wrote of disclosing to others our inner deficits as being “too fearsome a possibility” to consider. It is difficult to acknowledge our shortcomings, particularly for us supposedly successful Dartmouth students. This is not a column intended to encourage a mass disclosure of personal struggles. Rather, it is a call to recognize that though we each struggle with doubt and pain from time to time, we are not alone. We must recognize that the barista at Dirt Cowboy, that mean history professor and the guy snoring in front of you in class do as well. So give them, and yourself, a break. When we embrace imperfection, life gets a little easier. It gets even easier when you recognize imperfection in the people around you. Hell, we’re all just trying to get by. I just re-read “Life of Pi.” At its core, the story is about the horrors of life and how we’re all just doing our best to deal with
these horrors. Tragedy strikes, the people we love die and the world keeps spinning. Our knee-jerk reaction is to scream and shout. After all, we have a right to feel this way. What can silence do about the injustices of this world? But some silence is important. Before we raise our voices and move mountains for all the causes we believe in, we need to take a step back from the noise and fall into the quiet. Embracing silence, nakedness and our vulnerability. I am stubborn. I am arrogant. I am not as smart as I think I am. I miss my mum. I don’t talk to my friends from back home as much as I used to. I say I’m a feminist, yet I knowingly deceive and upset women. I don’t remember what my dad’s voice sounded like. I love One Direction. I think my brother has a drug problem. I think I’m depressed. I drink too much. I still love Manchester United. I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I am vulnerable. Each day, we should try to be honest and sincere. Recognizing the vulnerability within ourselves will help us be considerate of the crosses that everyone else around us has to bear. What I listed above is a small sampling of what I carry with me, and it is surely dwarfed by others’ burdens. Some people say that everything is relative. Further, many proponents of this methodology say that objective truth cannot exist. And so it stands, that people from different cultures and backgrounds will view single events in myriad ways. But what is certain, what is objectively true, is that one thing common to all of us, at the essence of human existence, is our capacity to think and feel. So, in a world of such immense difficulty, filled with such pain, we can (and must) move forward, knowing that our journey, though unique, has pain and joy that is mirrored in the lives of those around us. Ultimately, though we are vulnerable, naked and unsure; we are not alone. It is good to be human.
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students and community members to propose and teach classes outside of typical academic offerings. Past class proposals have encompassed topics like speed reading, chess, cake decorating and Farsi. After they noticed a decline in the number of Miniversity proposals as well as lower class enrollments, Rauschenfels and Collis Center program coordinator Juliann Coombs worked together to create the new program, Collis Center director Eric Ramsey said. Collis staff members, after meeting with students and stakeholders, determined that events that let students discuss interesting research and career trajectories with faculty and young alumni would be both beneficial and well-received, Ramsey said. The events will take place in One Wheelock, using the space’s informal atmosphere to foster discussion, Coombs said. Rauschenfels said that he and Coombs began the transition in January, aiming to launch the series this spring. They developed the project throughout the winter, contacting alumni and faculty to speak as guests. Caitlin Zellers ’16, who taught a Collis Miniversity cooking class last spring, said she enjoyed the experience. The program brought students together from all parts of campus, Zellers said. Rauschenfels said the
new program attempts to preserve this quality. “Miniversity has always tried to provide extracurricular academically enriching experience that includes as many people with diverse views and diverse talents as possible,” he said. “Not Another Lecture Series” includes discussions by economics professor Charles Wheelan ’88 and writer Harry Enten ’11, though more programming may be added later in the term. Wheelan will discuss his 2013 book, “The Centrist Manifesto,” Thursday. The book examines the Centrist Project, an organization promoting the political middle and independent candidates with centrist tendencies — a topic that reliably sparks discussion, Wheelan said. Enten, a former writer for The Guardian who now works as senior political writer and analyst for data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, will talk to program attendees on May 8 about his career trajectory. Some students who have not previously enrolled in any Collis Miniversity courses said they would be inclined to attend events in the new program, especially as they are free. Tsion Abera ’17, for example, said she liked the idea of bringing in faculty and alumni for possible networking opportunities. Wheelan’s April 3 discussion is co-sponsored by the Centrist Project. The new series will be open to the public.
participated in the six-hour DBI training last fall. She said she plans to encourage other members of her house to complete the training, adding that she would have done this despite the added incentive. “When we’re socializing, you should step in if you see something you’re uncomfortable with,” Gong said. “The DBI really tries to send that message.” Mike Haughey ’15, Alpha Delta fraternity president, said that although the incentive is a benefit, students should undergo training regardless of the money. Haughey said he underwent the one-hour DBI training this summer with several other members of his fraternity. “We’re trying to make Dartmouth as safe a space as possible,” Haughey said. “The fact that there’s also funding there is fantastic, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the ultimate goal.” Haughey said that along with encouraging current members to receive training, AD’s executive board members will alter the fraternity’s expectations for new members, emphasizing expected behavior at the house’s social events. “It’s a really interesting way to fuse the two issues because going Greek can be expensive, and getting these funds can often be hard to come by,” Haughey said. Delta Delta Delta sorority president Camila Vigdor ’15 said the added
scholarships will encourage potential new members to join the Greek system. “As a house, as women on campus, we feel a responsibility to look out for other women on campus,” Vigdor said. “Freshmen especially. And if this can better equip us to successfully do that job, then I’m all for it.” Vigdor said that the resolution’s success will depend on how well Greek officers publicize the initiative. Alpha Phi sorority president Courtney Wong ’15 said that over the summer, members of the organization who were on campus completed the training, and it was “well-received.” “This is definitely a step in the right direction to promoting a more positive culture,” Wong said. Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity president Zach Queen ’15 said the Assembly’s policy is a good start, but DBI training cannot completely address the issue of sexual assault. Harsher punishments, he said, will have a more meaningful impact. Sixteen students approached about the recent initiative declined to comment based on lack of prior knowledge about the topic. Student Assembly president Adrian Ferrari ’14 said the Assembly has not yet advertised the initiative. The resolution cannot move forward until the UFC, which deliberated the initiative Monday, approves it. If the UFC passes
the resolution, the Assembly will begin reaching out to Greek leaders. Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity member Troup Wood ’14 said he would participate in the six-hour program, even though his house has already facilitated similar programs, like those conducted by Mentors Against Violence. Jan Ketterson ’17 said he likes that the initiative addresses both sexual assault and socioeconomic class, but he is not sure how willing Greek house members will be to dedicate six hours to training. IFC president Wil Chockley ’15 declined to comment because of the early state of his presidency. Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 did not respond to a request for comment. Presidents of Alpha Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Alpha, Psi Upsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities and of Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta Epsilon, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Delta sororities did not respond to requests for comment. The presidents of Zeta Psi and Sigma Nu fraternities and the president of Alpha Xi Delta sorority declined to comment because they are members of The Dartmouth senior staff. Presidents of Alpha Phi Alpha and Bones Gate fraternities and Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority declined to comment. The president of Sigma Phi Epsilon declined to comment because he is affiliated with the UFC.
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TODAY 12:00 p.m. “Tucker Tuesday: What Matters to Me and Why,” with Rabbi Robin Nafshi, South Fairbanks Hall, Tucker Living Room
3:00 p.m. “What We Learn When We Learn About History,” with Woden Teachout, Filene Auditorium
4:30 p.m. Flim screening, “Winter in the Blood” (2013), Filene Auditorium
TOMORROW 4:15 p.m. “Technical Tradeoffs in the NSA’s Mass Phone Call Data Program,” with Edward Felten, Steele 006
6:00 p.m. Voxmasters workshop, “Call to Action,” Rockefeller Center, Class of 1930 Room
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The Dartmouth Staff
A glance through the glass walls of the Hopkins Center’s Strauss Gallery reveals vibrant and intriguing photographs hanging on its whitewashed walls — the works of senior studio art lecturer and renowned photographer Virginia Beahan. “Elegy for an Ancient Sea,” the collection showcased in the gallery, tells the stories of the Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea, located in Southern California. Beahan uses a Deardorff camera for large format photography, which captures greater details than other types of photography and makes larger prints from the negatives. “I like the way it links me to the entire history of photography because the first cameras were very much like this,” Beahan said. “I see myself as a part of a long tradition of landscape photography.” The collection begins with an interior shot of artist Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, an installation on the landscape of the Southern California desert, east of the Salton Sea. Made of adobe clay and paint, the work celebrates the beauty of nature and expresses Knight’s religious devotion. Beahan said Salvation Mountain was one of the reasons she returned to the Imperial Valley. She had seen the area in the 1990s, after the Salton Sea had flooded nearby communities, and decided to begin “Elegy” after returning in 2012. “I always like to revisit places and see what has changed,” Beahan said. The 10-year span showed the Salton Sea receding, she said, an issue whose environmental, social and political facets she wanted to explore.
“I guess I always liked that idea of literature,” Beahan said. “I don’t want to just tell a single story, so I’m attracted to landscapes that tell many stories.” The Salton Sea, the largest lake in California, was born in 1905 in what Beahan called an “accident of irrigation.” The Colorado River’s waters, which had been diverted to irrigate the dry desert lands, flooded after snowmelt and heavy rainfall. The area slowly became a tourist attraction in the 1950s, but declined into deserted land as a result of flooding and agricultural runoff. “It is emblematic of some of the worst outcomes of human intervention,” Beahan said. Today, communities once again encircle the Salton Sea. At the entrance of Salvation Mountain is Slab City, an abandoned former military base. The only occupants of the base, Beacon said, are concrete slabs left over from army barracks and people who live there for free without electricity or running water. The Imperial Valley serves as a refuge for people from all walks of life, Beahan said. Its inhabitants, she said, include people who have lost their homes to foreclosure, those taking refuge for the winter and outsiders having trouble living as a part of society. In her work, Beahan seeks to explore the relationship between people and the environment. She is intrigued by the concept of the “sublime,” a paradoxical state in which something can be simultaneously terrible and beautiful, she said. “The Salton Sea is simply one lens through which we may learn more about our motives, our aspirations and our ultimate nature,” Beahan said.
Studio art professor Brian Miller, a colleague of Beahan’s, learned of her works as a student. “[Beahan] is a tenacious artist,” Miller said. “She is completely dedicated to what she does as an artist.” Miller also called Beahan an “incredible colorist,” someone who understands how light affects the presentation of subject matter. Noah Smith ’15, one of Beahan’s students, said that Beahan “has the ability to pull color out of things that don’t have that color.” Beahan said she has always been fascinated with light. She prefers photographing late in the day to capture the “rose-gold color of late daylight.” “[The light] carries a sense of forgiveness and speaks about time,” Beahan said. Beyond the visual aspect of photography, Beahan has considered words to significantly enhance her photographs’ meaning. Audrey Sherman ’14, another student of Beahan’s, said that Beahan stressed “the importance of writing and words,” often introducing her students to complementary passages and quotes. “I’m interested in reading the landscape,” Beahan said. “The first thing I do, as someone new to a place, is try to understand what it is that I’m seeing. That’s why I use captions to elaborate on things that may not readily be known at first glance.” Beahan said that “Elegy” remains in progress, calling it “just a preview” of her recent work. Her last project, a photography collection focusing on Cuban history, took almost 10 years to complete. Although Beahan said she does not expect this project to take as long, she has yet to finish telling all of the stories of the Salton Sea.
B y Marley Marius The Dartmouth Staff
This term, the Dartmouth Film Society presents audiences with “The Life Cinematic with Wes Anderson,” a series that surveys all eight of the esteemed director-screenwriter’s feature-length works. Anderson is known best for the meticulous and often whimsical quality of his work, the product of what New York Times critic A. O. Scott described as an “impish, ingenious and oddly practical imagination.” Employing devices such as stop-action animation, highly specific color palettes and an arsenal of repeat collaborators including Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, Anderson occupies a singular niche in American cinema. Society members voted Anderson as the focus of their spring series at the end of fall term, Hopkins Center film manager Sydney Stowe said. In the past, DFS has organized 20-part film series on themes that ranged from famous villains to a study of realism and surrealism. After the success of their first nine-part series last summer, a Hitchcock retrospective, Stowe and DFS director Johanna Evans were encouraged to use the shorter format as a model for series. The shift made the Hopkins Center’s film program more flexible, Stowe said. With the Hop’s funding coming in large part from ticket sales, Stowe said it is important to be able to show new and high-profile films such as “The Monuments Men” (2014), “Lone Survivor” (2013) and “Muppets Most Wanted” (2014), which tend to be consistently popular. “We can do something obscure and interesting [for the series], and it’s only one-third of our program,” Stowe said.
“The other two nights [each] weekend are for new movies.” Kevin Patterson ’17, a member of DFS, said he looks forward to putting Anderson’s offbeat style on more students’ radars, adding that Anderson’s distinctive style lets viewers spot his films from “miles away.” “I’m hoping that Wes Anderson [will] challenge the taste of that portion of the student body who hasn’t really had the opportunity to branch out in their film experiences,” Patterson said. “Anderson was one of the main reasons I began to love film, [and] I hope he will be the same for other students here as well.” DFS member Katie Kilkenny ’14 said that Anderson is “like that neurotic friend who you find really endearing,” noting the filmmaker’s quirkiness and wit. “[Anderson’s] cinema is really interactive with the audience,” Kilkenny said. “You’re constantly identifying all of these aesthetic tropes he uses and it’s just really fun.” Evans said that Anderson “speaks to our generation” through his recurrent themes of apathy, bemusement with society and struggling to come of age. Kilkenny, who considers “Fantastic Mr. Fox” her favorite Anderson film, said that stop-motion animation suits Anderson’s style. “Animators are always creating an entire world, and Wes Anderson tries to do that in his live-action films as well,” Kilkenny said. “It’s just a really fantastic, funny, touching and mature film that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike.” The series opened this Sunday and will conclude May 25. Kilkenny is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
Charlotte Johnson Dean of the College
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 PA R K H U R S T 1 1 1 Courtesy of Virginia Beahan
“Pink Chair,” a 2013 photograph, is on display as part of Virginia Beahan’s “Elegy for an Ancient Sea” exhibit.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014
TUESDAY LINEUP
BASEBALL AT PRINCETON 12 PM
SOFTBALL AT HARTFORD 2:30 PM
Baseball team splits games at Cornell By GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
The Dartmouth baseball team split a doubleheader against host Cornell University in its first pair of Ivy League games, dropping the first game 3-2 and coming back to win the second game, 5-4, in extrainnings. Yet for the second time last week, the Big Green (4-10, 1-1 Ivy) was forced to postpone its second set of games due to the weather, as the Sunday doubleheader at Princeton University was rescheduled to Tuesday afternoon.
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“I think the first game was and always is very competitive,” cocaptain Jeff Keller ’14 said. “I think we played really well, we just didn’t get that big hit.” The team continues to struggle with hitting but remains unconcerned about long-term effects, focusing on batting in practice, Nick Lombardi ’15 said. “I think that detailed approach that we have will help us in the next week or two,” he said. “We’re really going back to the fundamentals of the swing, timing, every aspect that could lead to lack of success at the plate.” The team looks to capitalize on its proven power and talent in the line up as it moves forward, Keller said. Dartmouth is returning some of the League’s best hitters this season, including Keller, who led the Ivy League last season in slugging percentage (.702), runs scored (39), RBIs (41), doubles (21), triples (4) and total bases (99). Other returning standout hitters from last season include power-position hitter Joe Purritano ’16, the second highest slugger (.593) on the team, leadoff hitter Matt Parisi ’15, who led the team with 55 hits and Lombardi, who was second on the team with 39 RBIs. In the first game this weekend, Beau Sulser ’16 went 6.2 innings on the mound, allowing just seven hits and one walk while striking
The Big Green returns home, where it went 11-3 last season, this weekend.
out three. Cornell’s first run came in the third inning with two outs, but Dartmouth got on the board in the top of the fourth when Nick Ruppert ’16 scored off a single by Dustin Selzer ’14 and a wild throw by the Cornell third baseman. The Big Red put up its second run in the fourth off a home run by Chris Cruz, Cornell’s (8-8, 1-1 Ivy) team leader in home runs last season. “Cornell has a great middle of the order,” Keller said. “They’ve got a lot of power in their lineup.” Dartmouth’s last run of the game
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came in the fifth when Purritano singled to center to drive in Keller, who had reached on a triple to right center. The tying run, however, wouldn’t be enough to carry the team through the bottom of the seventh, when Cornell scored the game-winning run with two outs. Dartmouth left nine runners on base in the seven inning game, which, Keller said, represents a positive aspect of the team’s performance. “It’s always an emphasis to get
guys on base,” he said. “We just needed the big hit, and we didn’t get it. We knew we could’ve won that game. We were competitive the whole time.” Dartmouth took revenge when it beat the Big Red in the subsequent nine-inning game, which extended to 11 frames. A victory after a loss, co-captain Selzer said, is almost more impressive and positive than a sweep would have been. “To get that win was huge, especially coming back from the 3-0 deficit,” he said. “It was very tough for us to turn around and get this next one. I think it’s a testament to the character of the team that we are able to come back and get that victory immediately following a loss on another team’s home field.” Cornell quickly built a 3-0 advantage, but the Big Green scored four runs on a collaborative effort that included four singles and a pair of walks in the seventh. After Cornell tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, both teams fought for the final run, which came for Dartmouth in the top of the 11th. Duncan Robinson ’16 stifled the Big Red lineup for the last five innings, allowing just one run on three hits. Louis Concato ’14, the Dartmouth starter, and Robinson took on the depth of Cornell’s pen, pitching the 11 innings against Cornell’s five pitchers. “Of course depth is always a good thing,” Selzer said, “but we’ve got a great and talented staff this year, and I’ve got all the confidence in them.” The team has stayed in New Jersey and will play Princeton University in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.
No matter who you are, it’s hard to deny that our campus is brimming with active people — we have everyone from varsity athletes to just-learned-to-skate intramural hockey player coaches. As varsity athletes ourselves — we play field hockey and squash — we are curious what it would be like to get on the elliptical in Zimmerman Fitness Center and wonder at what pace College President Phil Hanlon runs on the treadmill (does he take gym selfies?!). On the other hand, Floren Varsity House is a mysterious cave that many of our friends cannot wrap their heads around. All I can tell you is that it’s full of lecture halls, study rooms, training rooms, offices, a weight room and the evermysterious football locker room. If I told you anything more, I’d have to recruit you. For nearly three full years, we have spent hundreds of hours between the weight room, the practice field and getting our toes behind the line for conditioning sessions. When we say we have a game or a match on Saturday at noon, we really mean that we will be unavailable to interact with the rest of campus from Friday at 10 p.m. to Saturday at 5 p.m. Varsity life, however, is not a burden. Every time our teams get together, something great is in the works. We live for the days when we get a personal record on our squat test or when something funny happens in the drill line. We don’t always get immediate gratification, but nothing is better than our rewards for the blood, sweat, tears and laughs we put into our sports. Whether it’s a compliment from a coach or an Ivy League championship ring, we put ourselves through this because we love our sports (even if we’re internally cursing out our coaches). We spend so much time with our teams that it is hard to focus on much else besides class and practice.
We have great resources to help us find the balance we need, but with one year until graduation, we are anticipating the NARP (that’s nonathletic regular people) life with both excitement and fear. Will we have to eat salads? How many times a day do NARPs shower — is three too many? What do people do between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.? Who will we eat dinner with every night? What does sleeping past 7 a.m. feel like? Is sitting in class while wearing jeans even comfortable? Is joining five clubs too aggressive for one term? While some NARPs relish the glory days of high school sports when they see us walking across the Green in our newest Nike swag (which we don’t get to keep) and others think that varsity athletes are simply nuts, let us assure you that we have those same pangs of jealousy when we see NARPs going back to bed after class or hitting the town on a [insert any day of the week here]. Yet there are things that many of us take for granted — they are such integral parts of our everyday life. For instance, we have an excessive amount of chocolate milk at our fingertips, we can meet with advisors who truly have a feel for what we need help with, and we get breathtaking views of the country while we drive eight hours to Pennsylvania. Okay, maybe not that last one, but you catch our drift. We are writing this column to give you a backstage pass into the life of an athlete that extends past the mundane complaints about practice times. A lot gets said about varsity athletes, and this column is our point of view. We’ll describe anything from the diet of an offensive lineman to practice facilities. If you’ve ever wanted to know something about varsity lifestyles, now is your time to ask — blitz us with your questions. Thankfully, we have another year before NARP-dom comes to fruition, and until then, we will give you a look inside the locker room.