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Tuesday workshops to Mastanduno talks faculty focus on new housing recruitment in meeting

By ERICA BUONANNO The Dartmouth Staff

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HEAVYWEIGHT CREW TAKES ON SPRINTS PAGE 8

OPINION

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GREEN: DAMAGE AND DISRESPECT PAGE 4

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Two interactive student workshops conducted Tuesday by a team from a Massachusetts-based architectural design firm will inform the College’s revamped housing system, slated to launch for the Class of 2019.

In this system, freshmen will be affiliated with a “neighborhood” and stay in dorms in that part of campus for the following three years, senior assistant dean of residential life Mike Wooten said.

During Tuesday’s sessions, which will take place in Collis Common Ground at noon and

5 p.m., students will comment on what works in the current system and what features they would like to see in the neighborhoods.

The neighborhoods, a residential college system, represent the second major shift in residential life under College President Phil Hanlon, along with the living learning communities that will begin this fall, Wooten said.

Data from surveys conducted by the office of residential life suggest that freshmen are more satisfied with their residential living experience than upperclassmen are, Wooten said.

“People lose track of the comSEE RESIDENTIAL PAGE 3

Seven seniors share stories in annual panel

By MIN KYUNG JEON The Dartmouth Staff

Appreciative chuckles, awed silence and enthusiastic applause rippled through a packed Alumni Hall audience as seven members of the Class of 2014 discussed issues including identity, mental health and healing from childhood trauma at the annual Women of Dartmouth panel on Monday.

Ma’Ko Quah Jones ’14, Kate-

lyn Walker ’14, Sarah Wang ’14, Celeste Winston ’14, E. E. ’14 and two other members of the Class of 2014 spoke at the event. Some panelists requested various degrees of anonymity in media coverage given the sensitive nature of their stories.

Jones, a 32-year-old transfer student with three children, said she grew up in a home with alcoholic parents and a sexually SEE PANEL PAGE 5

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Mastanduno said balancing the College’s teaching and research is its biggest strength.

By Roshan dutta The Dartmouth Staff

Debate over low student interest in the humanities, the College’s difficulty in attracting new faculty, the role of professors in campus social life and initiatives to strengthen undergraduate teaching marked the academic year’s final faculty of arts and sciences meeting, which took place Monday afternoon.

A lengthy annual report

by Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno anchored the two-hour meeting.

Increasing resources given to faculty recruitment and retention, constructing new facilities and renovating old buildings and creating a campus social environment that promotes Dartmouth’s intellectual goals comprised three

of the priorities presented in Mastanduno’s annual report.

Mastanduno said that the College’s biggest academic strength is its balance of liberal arts teaching and academic research, but as a result of its broad offerings, departments require more faculty members to meet student demand.

“We are like a restaurant with all these menu items, and students can order anything on the menu — and with special majors, even stuff off the menu,” Mastanduno said. “We used to do only replacement hiring with very few new hires.”

He discussed new hiring under the faculty cluster initiative, which was announced last fall. The initiative will create groups of professors, with some supported by an anonymous $100 million

donation received earlier this spring, to teach and research cross-disciplinary issues.

Mastanduno said that the College must pursue “diversity hiring” to ensure a wide range of academic offerings.

Dartmouth must also commit to finding new faculty that meet its high standards, he said, noting challenges to recruitment like the College’s remote location and limited research funding.

While research costs have increased, federal funding has decreased, Mastanduno said, and researchers face difficulty filling the gap through institutional funds.

Mastanduno said that departments have struggled to match compensation demands of potential hires.

Another challenge, he said, SEE FACULTY PAGE 3

Local Yama closes, ownership swaps

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Students in a music seminar performed on Monday.

After five years in Hanover, Yama Restaurant II will gain a new owner, a new name and perhaps a new JapaneseKorean menu by June, manager Yong Jeon said. Yama will continue to operate at its West

Lebanon location, Jeon said, but will close its doors in Hanover this Friday because the responsibilities of running two restaurants proved overwhelming for the restaurant’s owner, Pissung Hwang Kim. Much of Yama’s current staff will continue to work at the Hanover location after the

new owner comes to Hanover from Boston, Jeon said.

Acquiring a food license and restaurant inspection could take one or two weeks after Friday’s closing, Jeon said, but he expects a new JapaneseKorean restaurant to occupy SEE YAMA PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing CAMPUS BLOTTER May 16, 4:30 p.m., Webster Avenue: Safety and Security officers working at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s Block Party asked an individual to dispose of an open container of alcohol. The individual refused and shoved the officer when asked for identification. The individual was identified by Hanover Police and Safety and Security officers.

May 16, 7:26 p.m., Fahey Hall: Safety and Security, Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services and the Hanover Fire ambulance responded to a woman having an allergic reaction to peanuts. She was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

May 16, 7:39 p.m., Russell Sage Hall: Safety and Security and Dartmouth EMS responded to an unconscious intoxicated woman. She was admitted to Dick’s House.

May 16, 10:09 p.m., Mid-Fayerweather Hall: Safety and Security responded to a call regarding an individual’s belligerent conduct and high level of intoxication. The individual was taken into protective custody by Hanover Police.

May 16, 10:09 p.m., Cohen Hall: Safety and Security responded to a call for an individual who had cut his forehead after tripping over a bench. He was transported by ambulance to DHMC. May 16, 10:50 p.m., Gold Coast Lawn: Safety and Security observed an intoxicated female vomiting on Gold Coast lawn.

She ran away from officers and was later located behind MidMassachusetts Hall. She was taken to DHMC by ambulance.

May 17, 1:32 a.m., South Massachusetts Hall: Safety and Security and Dartmouth EMS responded to a call about a belligerent, intoxicated male. The individual was turned over to a sober friend.

May 17, 2:46 a.m., Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of an unknown, intoxicated female who would not leave the premises. The individual would not tell anyone who she was. Hanover Police identified her as member of the Class of 2012. She was taken into protective custody.

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the location shortly.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said Yama’s owner transferred the restaurant’s liquor license approximately a month ago.

Neither Jeon nor Griffin knew the name of the property’s new owner.

Griffin said that though she does not know the details of Yama’s closing, she suspects the restaurant was “a victim of their own success,” experiencing too much demand across its two locations.

Hanover’s high rental rates usually motivate restaurant owners’ and retailers’ choice to leave, Griffin said, particularly following the 2008 recession. Dartmouth’s schedule, which significantly reduces business between Thanksgiving and the beginning of December, also causes difficulty for local owners, she said.

These cost-related issues, however, may not have affected Yama, as the restaurant always seemed to be busy and filled with customers, Griffin said. There is no “classic pattern” to business turnover in the town, she said, and no single factor that determines how long businesses last.

Nigel Leeming, owner of Murphy’s on the Green and 3 Guys Basement Barbecue, said that it may have been hard for Yama’s Hanover restaurant to stay “fresh and alive” when its owner also operated a similar restaurant in West Lebanon. Though Leeming also owns two restaurants, he said his eateries are based on very differ-

ent concepts and therefore do not overlap as much as the two Yama restaurants.

Maintaining a restaurant in Hanover also requires an exceptionally high level of quality, Leeming said, due to both competition from area restaurants and the town’s “discerning audience.”

Griffin said that Yama’s food was highly popular in Hanover, and that she hopes the restaurant’s new owner will serve a similar style

“I think it has a very different vibe than a lot of the other restaurants in town.

It’s a lot more calm, and it seems a lot less like they’re trying to get you in and out.”

- LAUREN SALGUEIRO ’15 of cuisine. Because Yama’s West Lebanon location is smaller than the one in Hanover, Griffin said she predicts people will line up at the West Lebanon location to get their “Yama fix.”

Taha Adib ’14 and his friends have eaten at Yama almost every Tuesday for the past two terms.

Adib said he was disappointed to hear that Yama was closing — the restaurant, he said, holds nostalgic value for him.

“It’s been kind of a significant

part of the Dartmouth experience for me and my friends,” Adib said.

Adib wrote a paper about Yama and Korean entrepreneurship for a geography course and said he had heard various explanations of what would happen to the restaurant after it closed. Some people told him the restaurant was closing for good, he said, while others said it would reopen after a week.

Adib said he hopes the new Japanese-Korean restaurant will continue Yama’s tradition of providing affordable and friendly service to customers, adding that he looks forward to the “new twist” that a change in ownership could bring to the restaurant and the Korean options on its menu.

Lauren Salgueiro ’15, who has celebrated two birthdays at Yama’s Hanover restaurant, said its relaxed atmosphere makes it feel as though the owners are not prioritizing profit over their customers’ experiences.

“I think it has a very different vibe than a lot of the other restaurants in town,” she said. “It’s a lot more calm, it seems a lot less like they’re trying to get you in and out.”

Yama is popular among students for its food, which students can’t get elsewhere off campus, Maria Sperduto ’14 said.

Sperduto said that people may miss Yama after it closes even if the new restaurant is successful, but that the new option has potential to be even better while providing a similar style of Japanese-Korean food.

May 17, 7:52 p.m., South Main Street: The Hanover Fire Department alerted Safety and Security that a male member of the Class of 2016 had been removed from a building following a minor fire. He was intoxicated and refused to leave the building.

He was later transported to Dick’s House.

May 18, 2:26 a.m., Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity: Dartmouth EMS, Safety and Security and Hanover Police responded to a call about an individual who allegedly assaulted three other males. Hanover Police took the individual into protective custody, and he was transported to Grafton County Jail. The other students were treated by EMS and released.

— Compiled by Marie Plecha for Dartbeat

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

“The Chainsmokers, Lupe Fiasco play weekend shows” (May 19, 2014): Avery Brown ’17 is a woman, and the pronoun referring to her has been corrected in our online edition.

“Tuck boosts discussion of women in business” (May 19, 2014): Lindsey Windham Tu’15 is not the initiative chair, as the article originally reported.

Instead, Morgan McLean Tu’15 holds that position.

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Yama’s ownership will maintain its restaurant in West Lebanon, about four miles from campus.

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Firm visits campus to Faculty talk admissions in meeting research housing plan FROM FACULTY PAGE 1

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munities that were so important to them in their first year, and they feel scattered through our housing process,” Wooten said.

The firm, Sasaki Associates, will focus on designing scenarios that allow students to establish roots in sections of campus and to minimize the housing transitions they face during their four years, Wooten said.

The College hired the firm to help with the transition.

The Sasaki team has spent several weeks on campus developing their design and conducting research, Wooten said, adding that the team will listen to students to draft a plan that represents the student body’s opinions.

Sasaki’s research, principal architect Bill Massey said, evaluates the College’s existing structure, including the D-Plan and the first-year experience. Activities like the design workshops explore how that structure evolves over a student’s four years in residence.

Based on their research, the Sasaki team and ORL will determine by the end of the summer whether to construct new residence halls in addition to renovating existing living spaces, Wooten said.

During the workshops, Sasaki will present display boards showing existing campus spaces and designs the firm has completed for other colleges, Massey said. Students can comment on those designs.

“It’s a way for us to collect information and get some really good one-on-one feedback from students,” Massey said.

Founded in 1953, Sasaki designed the master plan for the University of

Maine in 2008 and Purdue University in 2009. The firm’s website lists its involvement with the planning of 10 institutions’ residence halls.

The Sasaki team plans to finish designing the new residential life proposals by the end of September, Massey said.

The Sasaki team will also collect student information through MyCampus, software that asks students to pinpoint places on campus where they eat, interact and study, among other things, Wooten said.

Wooten said that ORL hopes to present its findings to the Board of Trustees by the end of the summer.

Students interviewed said they were happy that the workshops will give them a voice in the future of Dartmouth’s residential life.

Undergraduate advisor Chris D’Angelo ’16 said the workshops will provide insight into what students like and dislike about the current housing system.

“My biggest worry is that very few students will participate, as we saw with the ‘Moving Dartmouth Forward’ seminars,” D’Angelo said.

At the most recent event under the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” banner, seven students attended two sessions on global experiences at the College. About 30 people attended in total.

Drayton Harvey ’17 said he appreciates that the College and the Sasaki team has included students in the planning stages instead of just implementing a new system arbitrarily.

Marylynne Sitko ’16 said she hopes that the future system will include mechanisms for students to connect classroom learning to residential life.

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is that many potential hires are part of dual-career households in which both members must find employment.

Funding should also be used to renovate and construct buildings, he said.

The College planned to open the North Campus Academic Center, a facility intended to house a number of health care delivery projects, in 2015, but the project stalled and stopped, Mastanduno said. He mentioned plans to create a center focusing on the interaction of society and the environment, but he said that the Board of Trustees has not yet discussed it.

Mastanduno said that administrators want to renovate existing buildings, including the Hopkins Center, buildings on Dartmouth Row and the Fairchild complex.

“Renovation isn’t as sexy,” he said.

“Donors don’t like it as much, but looking at those buildings I saw a renovation plan is really needed to create a space so that we can put funds towards a new science and social science building.”

Mastanduno also emphasized that faculty members must reject compartmentalization between academic and social life.

“I hear from students wondering how they’ll perform in class on Thursday given what they did Wednesday

night, but I never hear them thinking about how they’ll go out on Wednesday nights given the homework they have for Thursday,” Mastanduno said. “We’re part of a campus-wide social contract, and we have to help change this.”

Later in the meeting, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris presented her report, saying that the Class of 2018 will be “supersized” compared to previous classes.

Following a 14 percent drop in applications, Laskaris said the department took several steps to ensure a high matriculation rate and improve future admission cycles, noting increased student outreach and promoting the College’s efforts to address sexual assault.

“We had faculty, students and alumni working to make sure that we are very aware that we have issues and that we are trying to fix them, but also that we celebrate the very extraordinary work that goes on on a daily basis,” she said.

Laskaris said that around 95 percent of incoming students had at least two academic interests. Faculty members, however, expressed concern at the low percentage who were interested in the arts and humanities — 9 percent of incoming students indicated a primary interest in those areas.

“It’s important to note that students express primary, secondary and tertiary

interests and that these interests shift as students move through the school,” Laskaris said.

In an interview after the event, music department chair Steve Swayne discussed this lowered interest.

Students’ hesitation to commit to studying the humanities, Swayne said, may stem from a belief that some majors are intrinsically more employable than others.

“One of the things that students and parents don’t seem to understand is that the link between academic major and future career is tenuous at best,” he said.

“The notion that a liberal arts college needs to be a pre-professional training environment seems to be misplaced.

That’s a larger marketplace issue that we need to address.”

Computer science and mathematics professor Peter Winkler said in an interview that he thinks cluster hiring is an effective way to improve the College’s quality of teaching and research.

College President Phil Hanlon delivered a brief introduction, and Spanish and Portuguese professor Rebecca Biron, the chair of the committee on priorities, emphasized the importance of technology-based learning, living learning programs and campus climate in her report.

The faculty did not address opening course evaluations to students at the meeting.

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Staff Columnist Andrew shanahan ’14

contributing columnist isaac green ’17

Lower the Drinking Age

Damage and Disrespect

The current drinking age of 21 exacerbates high-risk drinking.

Recently student social life, particularly the Greek system and the administrative abrogation of responsibility, has dominated campus discourse.

Given the great strides we’ve made, I believe we should engage untried pathways toward greater inclusivity. Initiatives like the Hop Garage Bar or Collis Microbrews have drawn sizable crowds, but the truth is that only students of age — a small fraction — have full access to alcohol. It is likely, however, given the success of open venues where alcohol is served, that should underage partygoers be allowed to imbibe, they would flock to school-administered or public events where those delinquents in fraternities don’t control all of the power and beer. Therefore, I propose that Dartmouth begin lobbying the state of New Hampshire to allow residents to choose either a drinking license or a driving license upon turning 18. The other option is to convince students that you don’t need to be drunk to have fun. I think the former is significantly more likely than the latter.

In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which mandated that each state raise the drinking age to 21 or suffer cuts in highway funding. By 1989, each of the 50 states agreed that highways were more important than beer. New Hampshire hopped on the no-fun bandwagon in 1985. Of course, this drastically changed schools like Dartmouth, where absolutely no beer has been served to students under 21 since.

Weekends such as Green Key bear testament to the overall sobriety of the underage population.

Moving the drinking age to 21 can mostly be attributed to the drunk driving prevalent among young adults. However, raising the drinking age to combat drunk driving only makes sense if people actually stop drinking under the age of 21. Here lies the paradox of collegiate drinking regulation. Many underage students drink. The College and local law enforcement know that many underage students drink. Yet despite this acknowledgement, few steps actually attempt to enforce the laws decided upon in 1985. While raising the drinking age has succeeded in limiting drunk driving nationwide, the costs of forcing alcoholic consumption underground on college

campuses are decidedly negative. Higher risk drinking occurs when the only places to imbibe are away from sources of authority. Lowering the drinking age would allow students to move outside private places and into zones administered by the College or public establishments like bars.

The issue of underage drinking plays into campus discourse regarding Greek life. Fraternities have been made into the boogiemen of student culture for many reasons, alcohol distribution forming a key aspect of the case against them.

Dartmouth’s administration and Hanover’s public establishments cannot supply alcohol to underage students. Fraternities, as student organizations, technically cannot either, but in reality can and do. People go to fraternities because they are the primary campus drinking venues. People join Greek life partially because it is the largest viable social scene on campus that allows unmitigated drinking. Greek life, as a part of larger collegiate culture, facilitates high-risk alcoholic consumption. Once people join fraternities and sororities they fall prey to Greek life’s patriarchal, heteronormative and cisgender structures. In olden days, students could hold parties in the open unconnected to the problematic fraternities in venues like their residential halls. Indeed, residence halls often boasted better, albeit different scenes than fraternities before the drinking age was raised.

This brings me back to my original point: drinking licenses for those who would rather drink than drive. If a higher drinking age results in many social problems and merely exists to curb drunk driving, it is the responsibility of the smart people who make our laws to find a better way to decrease drunk driving in our nation’s otherwise upstanding youth. Other options include allowing all undergraduate students a lower drinking age, but that reeks of classism and ableism, which are unacceptable. A far more unlikely solution to the problems associated with drinking would be to decrease social reliance on alcohol and the idealization of unhealthy consumption. However, it is more probable that instead we’ll continue to black out in droves in our dorms, beg fraternity brothers for beer and acceptance and blame Dartmouth for our social problems.

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Poor treatment of common spaces illustrates an alarming level of disrespect.

As I rounded the bannister of the second floor landing in Russell Sage hall on Sunday night, I saw it blinking there, on and off. A sad little light, crying for attention. At first I didn’t believe it, but my eyes weren’t deceiving me. A displaced paper towel dispenser, torn from the walls of the bathroom and for some unfathomable reason placed on the second floor landing where it proceeded to occasionally make a halfhearted effort to add to the rolls of unused paper that covered the staircase. How it got there may forever remain a mystery. Perhaps it’s related to the fate of the mangled wooden chair sitting at the bottom of the stairs, or the trail of destruction strewn throughout Russell Sage and beyond.

Its existence is no doubt the result of some escapade of Green Key, but one thing’s for sure: whoever put it there — most likely under at least one mind-altering influence — had no intention of coming back in the morning to return it to its home in the bathroom. Who then was responsible for its safe return to the bathroom? The custodial staff of Russell Sage, of course. The dispenser is just one example of the flippant destructiveness that often occurs on this campus. Taken together, this, the littered beer cans, the smashed furniture and the screens thrown from windows represent a general disregard and even disrespect for the people who work so hard behind the scenes to keep our campus beautiful, clean and safe.

Before you say that this is an unreasonable criticism to make — and perhaps it is a little overblown — ask yourself how you would feel if you were one of the custodians walking into Russell Sage on Monday morning. I would certainly feel burdened, to say the least. While it’s the custodians’ jobs to clean up, they shouldn’t have to clean up messes that simply did not need to have been made. Every weekend, students get drunk and often purposefully make a huge mess just because they can. We know someone else will clean it up.

Just because we’re in college and having a great time and working hard, doesn’t mean we have earned the right to give more work to those who make their living keeping our home beautiful.

These are the people we should instead be going out of our way to thank. I know that my peers and I don’t intend to send a message of entitlement, but that’s how the things we do are likely perceived. It sends the message to custodians that we think they are so irrelevant or beneath us that we do not even consider how our actions affect them. Whether humans or robots or magic clean up the mess probably didn’t matter at the time to whoever put the dispenser there — but it should have.

We all know Dartmouth is more than the stereotype to which it is often reduced, but actions like this only reinforce the perception that we are entitled kids letting loose in our rarified little bubble. The people who graduate from our school go on to be successful and accomplished adults. It’s too bad that behaviors like this are so prevalent here, because the attitudes and behaviors we allow to persist and grow in us at college will continue through our entire lives. As future leaders, we ought to aspire to loftier ideals, as individuals and as a community.

I learned in kindergarten that you can’t make a mess and walk away. This applies to paper towel dispensers and subprime mortgages equally. We should practice responsibility and think about the effects of our actions. We’re preparing ourselves to go out and make a difference in the world, so we should practice holding each other and ourselves accountable. A large part of accountability is recognizing that others are affected by what we do. As Ivy League graduates, many of us may benefit every day for the rest of our lives from the people working behind the scenes around us.

We would do well to respect and appreciate their work. It’s the very least they deserve.

Vox Clamantis: Face the Facts

To the Editor: Thank you for making sexual assault a special issue for Green Key weekend. Thank you also for doing and analyzing such a large student body survey. While student opinions are interesting — and it makes a good story that the campus is “divided” — the research literature on the topic of rape is not divided; it is quite clear. A point entirely missing from your article is how far many student opinions are from the actual published research. This situation reminds me of global warming, when climate-change deniers (and much media) were clinging to the idea that the science was “in debate,” when it was not. I’ll focus on two key points.

First, the literature is unambiguous on Greek life as a contributor to rape. A national study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol in 2004 found that sorority members are three times more likely than those in off-campus housing (and twice as likely as those on campus) to be raped while drunk. Cultural factors such as social competition are the main issues here — reading comments to The D, and arguments at the recent debate on this, it seems that some students deny that culture shapes human behavior. As for the correlation of fraternity membership with rapists, research by Dan Hoyt, Kimberly Tyler and

Les Whitbeck, as well as by Leandra Lackie and Anton de Man, is equally clear. Hoyt, Tyler and Whitbeck’s article shows that fraternity men use more coercive verbal, physical and alcohol-related strategies than other students, with p<0.05 in each case and correlation coefficients around 0.2-0.25.

To claim that there is no evidence for causation is naïve. Frats provide the ideal environment (and training ground) for rapists, most of whom are repeat (serial) offenders and many of whom are, incidentally, charming and of “high social status.”

As has been repeated for decades by both insiders and outsiders, faculty and students, the Greek system at Dartmouth needs to go, replaced by a large-scale investment in a non-status-oriented, coed, racially mixed social and residential system.

Second, David Lisak’s research shows that only 2 percent of alleged victims falsely report; this is comparable to other serious crimes. It is shocking that 21 percent of your male respondents believe that false reporting is the norm — this misguided and chauvinist belief conveniently fits into a world view where men can rape with impunity while women are not to be believed.

Please, men, educate yourselves a little, even if it is uncomfortable to do so.

Alex Barnett, Mathematics Professor

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Seniors share stories of identity, healing at ‘Women of Dartmouth’ FROM PANEL PAGE 1

abusive grandfather. Recounting numerous hardships, she stressed the importance of self-advocacy in combating social ills and personal difficulties.

“The harshness of it is that nobody is going to advocate for you but you,” she said. “When I was 15 and finally decided to be honest about what I was experiencing with my grandfather, I put my grandfather in prison.”

Jones said she had to undergo a long process of court testimony and police interviews that included intimate details of the abuse. She added that many survivors are subjected to “horrific” legal procedures causing them to doubt their own stories’ validity.

“It was another way that the system victimizes victims, that they make you recount every detail, questioning you as if you what you’re saying isn’t true,” she said.

Society’s expectations, she said, often force women to remain strong in the face of hardships, and she initially struggled with expressing her pain due to this pressure.

Jones said she sees value in creating safe spaces that defer to survivors’ views and desires to make the healing process more “bearable.”

“We should have a community that accommodates how survivors want to heal, not by someone else’s terms of what we should be feeling,” she said.

Walker spoke about the dangers of labeling and judging others based on appearances.

She said she hails from a “smart, strong and proud” ancestry of former slaves and that her family considers itself black even though it consists of multiple races and cultures.

Walker expressed pride in her background, which she said provided her with an affinity for Southern dishes like chitterlings and music genres like hip-hop, along with an understanding of social norms that often differ from Dartmouth culture.

She then cautioned the audience against making flash judgments about individuals according to their skin color and other components of their identities, adding that although neither of her parents graduated from college, her great-grandparents did.

Walker said that even in high school, her guidance counselor regarded her acceptance into Dartmouth as a result of “affirmative action” policy, not her personal achievements.

Winston discussed her experience with race at Dartmouth and her romantic relationship with another student. Dartmouth, she said, played a “pivotal” role in enhancing her understanding of both race and love.

Winston, who grew up attending a historical black church and whose

parents belonged to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that during her childhood, she regarded race to be about skin color, identity and culture. Upon her arrival at the College, however, she learned that race is tied to many more issues.

Being at Dartmouth, Winston said, made her acutely aware of systems of oppression and instilled in her a strong desire to seek justice both during the “Freedom Budget” protests and in other venues.

E. E. spoke about the importance of increasing awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues.

She said her shy personality and students’ tendency to form insular groups made it difficult to form friendships and interact with others on campus.

Starting from the end of last term, she said, she has suffered from anxiety, which manifests itself in an urgent fear of death. Though her anxiety has prompted her to contemplate suicide, support from family and friends has helped mitigate her symptoms.

Recounting her experience of dealing with a friend’s struggle with an eating disorder and depression, she said that many people stigmatize mental health issues as a sign of failure and abnormality. She advocated for heightened awareness and normalization of these issues.

One panelist began her story by calling the audience’s attention to the event’s title.

She said that the possessive “of ” in “Women of Dartmouth” conveys both a sense of belonging and a sense of “home.”

As a Dutch citizen of Indian ancestry who attended international school in Singapore, she said she feels suspended among three identities.

She never felt at home in Singapore because she always believed her stay there to be temporary, as her family had only moved there because of her father’s job, she said. Even in the Netherlands, however, she said she never felt as if she could lay an unqualified “claim” to the country because of her Indian ethnicity.

She said that her experience of attending an American college has made her ponder whether she could call herself American. Hanover is now “the closest thing to home,” with friends and a room she can call her own, she said.

Wang requested that her story be excluded from media coverage because she did not want it on the Internet. The seventh student, who declined to include her name or story in media coverage, did not provide an explanation for her choice.

Olivia Evans ’14, an event organizer, said that some panelists spoke at the event under the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive and personal nature of their stories.

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The panel’s audience, listening to seven seniors sharing personal stories, filled Alumni Hall on Monday evening.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

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TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

Anna Miller ’16

TODAY 12:00 p.m.

Tucker Tuesday, “What Matters To Me and Why,” with Tanalís Padilla, Tucker Living Room, South Fairbanks Hall

12:30 p.m.

Lunchtime gallery talk, “Looking Around: Sculpture by Former Artists-in-Residence,” Hood Museum of Art

4:00 p.m.

Lecture, “Growing Up Muslim,” with Andrew Garrod and Ala’ Alrababa’h ’14, Baker-Berry Library

TOMORROW 4:00 p.m.

Department of physiology and neurobiology lecture, “The Physiological Effects of Exercise,” DHMC, Auditorium G

4:15 p.m.

Electrical engineering seminar series, “GeSn Materials Growth and Optoelectronic Properties,” Cummings 202

7:00 p.m.

Performance, World Music Percussion Ensemble, Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

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Hood aims for teaching value and continuity in its collections

B y Andrea Nease

Sitting across the Green from Dartmouth’s Baker Tower is a building whose walls hold approximately 65,000 works, the majority of which, when not on display, are kept on site.

The Hood Museum of Art’s collection combines works from the former College museum in Wilson Hall, which housed the College’s archaeological, historical and anthropological works, with the fine arts collection housed in both the Hopkins Center for the Arts and Carpenter Hall. The two collections came under one roof in 1985 when Charles Moore and Chad Floyd of Centerbrook Architects completed construction of the Hood.

In addition to the Hood’s collection, Dartmouth is also home to a collection of scientific instruments that history professor Richard Kramer oversees. Another large collection of note on campus is the College’s archives, cared for by archivist Peter Carini.

Acquisition Each year, the museum expands its extensive collections with pieces acquired as gifts or through purchase with endowment funds.

Hood director Michael Taylor said that the museum’s main priority when looking to acquire new pieces is their teaching value. This technique distinguishes the Hood from civic art museums, since the Hood may add a piece to its collection because a professor values it.

“We work directly with professors while building our collection,” said Katherine Hart, the senior curator of collections and Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 curator of academic programming.

“We ask professors what pieces could work in conjunction with their classes and enhance their teaching.”

A recent acquisition, for example, is Dutch painter Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s “Still Life with Grapes.”

Art history professor Joy Kenseth had been in dialogue with the museum about acquiring a Dutch still life, Hart said.

The piece promoted the Hood’s other priorities as well. In addition to its high teaching value, the painting holds strong connections to other works in the collection and draws upon historical context and reference. The de Heem, on display in the museum’s Ivan Albright Gallery, is used frequently

by Kenseth for her classes, Hart said.

By having pieces build an area of interest in the collection, the Hood can showcase the repertoire of a specific culture or time period.

The Hood must evaluate the current works’ features with regard to culture, time period and genre, Hart said.

“For instance, you look at a certain culture or time period and look for what pieces may be missing,” she said. “You look for what

“We work directly with professors while building our collection.

We ask professors what pieces could work in conjunction with their classes and enhance their teaching.”

- KAtherine Hart, senior curator of collections

and France. Hart said that the Hood will look for acquisitions that complement Goya’s prints and work toward expanding the war theme through more diverse pieces.

The most recent piece acquired for the theme was “When Photographers are Blinded, Eagles Wings are Clipped” by Daniel Heyman ’85, now on display at the museum.

The piece was chosen for its subject matter, the Afghanistan War, as well as Heyman’s connection to the College. Heyman was featured in this past fall’s artist-in-residence exhibition.

Other pieces that have contributed to this theme are the Assyrian Reliefs that reside on the physical walls of the Hood. Theater professor Laura Edmondson used the Assyrian Reliefs as well as Alfredo Jaar’s “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita” for her class this term on human rights and performance.

Process and Maintenance The museum’s acquisitions committee meets three times a year, every term but summer, to assess potential works for the collection. The committee is comprised of Taylor, library representatives, the museum’s advancement and development department, the provost’s office and constituents from the anthropology, art history, classics and studio art departments.

The committee votes on most of the museum’s acquisitions and

gifts, but the museum also has a certain number of discretionary purchases each year, which are small acquisitions that can be made without the committee’s assessment.

“We write curatorial reports on proposed works and give presentations before the committee before voting on pieces proposed

“You look at a certain culture or time period and look for what pieces may be missing. You look for what pieces may build a well-rounded representation of a particular area within the collection.”

- KAtherine Hart, senior curator of collections by donors,” Hart said.

The Hood also must focus on conservation. The pieces not on display are kept in alternative storage on site with controlled humidity and temperature. The Hood belongs to the Williamstown Conservation Consortium, a

group of regional art museums that oversees conservational analysis and advice.

A representative from the consortium came to the museum for assessment this May, with another visit expected in July. Consortium representatives examine works that could potentially use maintenance and consult museums as to how to properly preserve them.

Deaccession An important topic for any museum is deaccession, or the removal of pieces from the collection. When considering whether or not to deaccess a piece, the committee examines the piece in question against external sources to provide an unbiased opinion on whether the Hood should still hold the art.

The Hood would deaccess a piece because its teaching value has diminished or it does not align with the existing collection, Hart said. Lowered monetary value, she said, is not a consideration.

The Hood museum’s collection is organized in an online visual catalog that provides the name, artist and a picture of each work.

There is also a list of all of the exhibitions in which a work has been displayed. To bring more attention to the museum’s collections, the Hood has recently published catalogs that provide overviews of certain areas of their collection.

pieces may build a well-rounded representation of a particular area within the collection.”

Representations of war The Hood’s depiction of war is particularly expansive, spanning across culture and time period and offering a comprehensive representation of the art form for students.

Goya’s “The Disasters of War” consists of 80 separate prints and was gifted to the College by Adolph Weil ’35. The etchings display the brutality of the Peninsular War of 1808-14 between Spain

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“Perdido” (1978), a sculpture by Clement Meadmore, was donated to the College this winter.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

SPORTS

TUESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

Heavyweight crew takes on Sprints B y JEHANNA AXELROD The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth men’s heavyweight crew team traveled to Worcester, Massachusetts, last weekend for the Eastern Sprints Regatta, where the Big Green finished 14th overall out of the pool of 18 crews for the Rowe Cup. First varsity eight took 12th place, while the second, third and fourth varsity eights all came in ninth in their divisions.

The 18 crews were split into heats of six, and finish times in the preliminary determined which boats qualified for the grand final, which consisted of the top six finishers overall, and the petit final, which included the next fastest six boats. Each of Dartmouth’s heavyweight boats raced in the regatta’s petit final.

The first varsity eight entered and finished the Eastern Sprints as the 12th seed.

The Big Green came fourth in its heat of six but 12th overall in the first race of the day with a time of 5:47.500.

The boat just made the cut to participate in the petit final, where it finished in a nearly identical time of 5:47.379.

“We rowed much better in the morning, and then the conditions changed,” Ryan O’Hanlon ’17

said. “The conditions got a little quicker, but we rowed much worse in the afternoon. We just had a rough race, and it’s not a good time to have a bad race.”

Though Dartmouth beat two of its competitors in the first race, the Big Green was far behind the field in the second ; the first boat finished slightly over seven seconds behind the 11th place crew from University of Pennsylvania in the petit final.

The second boat fared better, finishing eighth in the first race of the day and ninth overall.

“The coolest thing is that we went in with no expectations,” Nevin Cunningham ’17 said. “We just went out and tried to do as well as we could.”

The Big Green raced in the first heat of six and took third with a time of 5:47.755. In the petit final, the boat completed the course in 5:48.562, good enough for a top-10 finish.

“Our race in the heat was really good, and the final was also good, there was just more exhaustion,” Cunningham said. “It just wasn’t as sharp, we had some trouble putting together the last bit of the race.”

As only 14 third varsity eight boats raced in the Eastern Sprints, the third boat competed against just four other crews in its first race of the afternoon.

Some teams can only field one or two boats due to limited roster sizes, coxswain Cameron O’Reilly ’17 said. Having more boats, however, can benefit the team overall since team points determine final standings.

The third boat finished eighth in its first race of the day with a time of 5:52.578.

The finish qualified them for the petit final, where they placed third for ninth overall.

The team, O’Reilly noted, beat some crews that they saw earlier this season, like Columbia University.

The fourth varsity eight competed in a field of just 12 boats, helping Dartmouth secure extra points for its eventual team finish.

“What it really means is that the program has a lot of depth,” O’Reilly said. “That bodes well for the future in that we have a lot of bodies to work with and a lot of people to develop.”

The Big Green qualified 10th overall with a time of 6:05:036. In the petit final, Dartmouth again claimed ninth, finishing five seconds faster.

The team now prepares for the IRA National Championship, where Dartmouth will face some of the country’s best crews. The regatta begins May 30 in Mercer Lake, New Jersey.

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The heavyweight crew team finished 14th out of 18 for the Rowe Cup on Sunday.

B y SARAH CAUGHEY As an athlete, one of the key factors that determines a game experience is the crowd that is there watching. With a season of very few home matches and a lot of traveling, home court advantage was not something the squash team experienced frequently this year.

While memories of our rowdy home matches are some of my most treasured, much of our season is played far from Hanover, away from the cheering excitement of the Dartmouth faithful.

Completely unbiased, our Dartmouth fans are some of the best in all of collegiate squash, starting with the fact that they actually show up to matches — at many other schools we have played at, this is simply not the case.

Based on my experience, it is not the heckling that is difficult to play in, but the complete lack of it. No question, I would take being heckled at a rambunctious away match over a match devoid of fans of either team.

This may seem counterintuitive — why would you possibly choose to be cheered against over neither team showing support? The answer to this is quite simply about energy. For many sports, the cheers or chirps can be lost due to the size of the arena. The tiny, glass-encased box of a squash court, however, generally accomplishes the opposite. Echoing and amplifying what fans say between points, squash courts are the perfect place for fans to actually be heard. While heckling can be distracting if you let it, it can also energize and, ironically, encourage us. Instead of wanting to merely beat your opponent, you also want to silence your hecklers. This year, in between matches, one of my teammates voiced her desire to “crush” in the next game so her opponent’s boyfriend watching from outside would, in slightly kinder words, be quiet. Needless to say, the tactic worked.

Saying that we are without fans at away matches, however, is hugely inaccurate. Our teammates are from all over the country, so many of our away matches end up being closer to our players’ families than our home matches are. Incredibly faithful Dartmouth squash moms and dads, then,

become our dual snack providers and loyal cheerleaders. As a player who is not from the East Coast, I especially welcome this extra support, even if I am a little jealous.

Along with parents, we often also see alumni at away matches. Hands down, I have to say that these are my favorite fans. We saw the most alumni playing against Columbia University.

My freshman year, I remember playing at Columbia at these strange courts that are pretty removed from campus and thus far from any fans, pro-Dartmouth or not. Columbia was just an emerging team, and the match was an easy 8-1 win for us. Little drama, few fans, very little excitement. This year, however, was a completely different story.

In a matter of two years, Columbia had become the team we were most concerned about beating. We had pumped ourselves up for this match all season because we needed to win it to compete in the Howe Cup, the final tournament for the nation’s top eight teams. After a low-key freshman year game against Columbia, I did not expect a crowd turnout but was blown away when we arrived to courts overflowing with Dartmouth alumni. Fanwise, we outnumbered Columbia by an impressive ratio, boosting our desire to win. After clinching our closest match of the season 5-4, I was overwhelmed by the support that I felt from multiple generations of Dartmouth squash.

Home or away, I am often struck by how many people help to make the engine of our team run smoothly. On campus we have strength and condition coaches, DP2 advisors, faculty advisors, nutritionists, athletic advisors and innumerable other people who help push us and support us as athletes.

During competition, however, those who help advise, strength and improve our team are also, most fundamentally, transformed into our fans. While being in a tiny box with the closest thing to a mortal enemy can feel like some sick modern version of gladiator battles, knowing that I have the support of my teammates, my coaches and my Dartmouth fan family motivates me to keep fighting.

Inside the Locker Room is a weekly column, alternately written by Phoebe Hoffmann ’15 and Sarah Caughey ’15.