The Dartmouth 10/20/14

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Riots at Keene State prompt police action

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Planners, pens and gag gifts will give way to handbags and accessories when College Supplies closes its doors early next year to make room for an expanded Lemon Tree Gifts. The home decor and gift shop will take over the store’s premises

at 28 South Main Street, which has housed College Supplies for more than 40 years.

Scott Winslow, the store’s owner and operator, said that College Supplies will “close up quietly,” declining to comment further.

The business’s trademark was first registered

College aims to focus undergraduate research B y MICHAEL QIAN

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Two new programs — Stamps Scholars and First Year Research in Engineering — aim to boost the number of student research opportunities.

Around 600 students conduct research in connection with the undergraduate advising and research office each year, director Margaret Funnell said, adding that she had no way of knowing how many students do research through other avenues

like theses and independent studies.

At a Steering Committee of the General Faculty meeting earlier this month, participants cited improving undergraduate research infrastructure and supporting more initiatives as a major priority, noting a need to track how much research is done each year.

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in 1971, according to the Valley News, and it has operated on Main Street since, selling greeting cards and toys in addition to school supplies.

Lemon Tree Gifts owner and operator Melissa Haas said she is excited to move into a new space.

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Rioting broke out among students and visitors at Keene State College this Saturday, just blocks away from the annual Pumpkin Festival, where families from all over the state brought 21,912 lit jack-o’-lanterns in an attempt to set a world record. Police in riot gear responded to intoxicated crowds in the street and on nearby properties.

Police officers made about 49 arrests and responded to 235 calls between 2:30 a.m. Friday and 3:30 a.m. Sunday, the Associated Press reported via New Hampshire Public Radio. Several people were taken to a local hospital, the Boston Globe reported.

“We are mindful that Keene State students played a part in this behavior and we intend to hold those individuals accountable for their actions,” Keene State College President Anne Huot wrote in a statement Saturday.

“We deplore the actions of those whose only purpose was to cause mayhem. And we are grateful for the swift response of law enforcement and first responders who

worked to minimize injuries and damage.”

Alex Moushey ’16, who planned to make a video at the festival, witnessed the rioting.

Instead of leaving the festival as planned around 4:15 p.m., Moushey remained in Keene when riot police blocked off the street he was walking down. He pulled out his video camera to record the footage.

Intoxicated students filled the street, which was lined with off-campus student houses hosting parties for the festival weekend, Moushey said. People threw beer bottles and tore down roads signs. When the police arrived, he said, they started yelling for people to move off the street.

As the rioting continued, however, the police began shooting pepper spray paint balls into the crowd, attempting to move people off the pavement, Moushey said. Even when people cleared the street, he added, they continued to shoot into houses.

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The Big Green nabbed a homecoming win against Holy Cross on Saturday.

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DAily debriefing LOCAL NEWS A fire destroyed all three of the Thetford Police Department’s cars on Friday night, the Valley News reported.

The police department will continue to patrol the town with a borrowed cruiser from the Norwich department until replacement vehicles can be obtained. The damage is estimated to be about $100,000, but the cause of the fire is undetermined. The search for replacement cars will begin next week and could take as long as three months. The incident is not expected to affect the level of police coverage in the area.

Former President Bill Clinton urged citizens to vote in the upcoming election at the New Hampshire Democrat’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner on Thursday, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. He referenced the 2010 New Hampshire midterm elections as a time Democrats suffered at the ballot boxes due to low voter turnout. Less than three weeks before the election, polls indicate that Republicans could potentially win both houses and three out of four seats, NHPR reported.

Two former employees are suing the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society over claims of age discrimination, emotional distress and multiple counts of wrongful termination, the Valley News reported. Dan King and John Boutin both worked in the Lebanon location and were fired in June without warning, instigating protests from Co-op members. Their suit, filed last week, alleges that the plaintiffs’ dismissal was retaliation for complaints about workplace conditions and disclosures to coworkers about meeting with union representatives. The plaintiffs demand financial compensation for the loss of their jobs and for being humiliated by management, citing welfare of Co-op employees as another reason.

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“With faculty departures, administrators consider exit interviews” (Oct. 19, 2014): Gavin Huang ‘14 said the College should focus on hiring professors in ethnic studies fields, but he did not advocate for the expansion of this faculty at the expense of recruiting and retaining minority faculty members.

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Gender institute takes on fellows B y Annie Ma

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This fall, the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth’s first postgraduate fellows will explore gender issues through research and discussions with students in residential halls.

Brianne Gallagher, the program’s post-doctoral fellow, researches the relationships between war and trauma from the perspective of gender issues. Her work concentrates on the politics of wounded U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and the gendered, racial and colonial dynamics of veterans once they have left the war. Gallagher said she was drawn to apply for the position because of GRID’s mission, which emphasizes the effects of structures such as gender, race and economic inequality.

Both Gallagher and Stephanie Chavez-Yenter ’14, the program’s post-baccalaureate fellow, serve as faculty advisors to two independent living-learning communities.

Gallagher works with the Triangle House on LGBTQ issues, advising the special projects led by the house’s residents.

As the GRID post-baccalaureate fellow, Chavez-Yenter works with the gender neutral floor in McLane residence hall as the faculty advisor, leading discussions of gender inequality in everyday life.

Chavez-Yenter’s involvement with GRID extends back to her senior year, when she was the program intern. Her current work involves meeting with faculty, students and other campus programs, like the Center for Gender and Student Engagement.

The work of the two new postgraduate fellow positions complements GRID’s existing programming. GRID director Annabel Martin wrote in an email that a center like GRID had been discussed since the 1990s, but only became a reality once former interim College President Carol Folt sponsored the project.

Martin said that GRID was formed to enhance the visibility and research successes of the women’s and gender studies department through a dedicated center or institute focuses on gender related issues.

In the future, Chavez-Yenter hopes to grow the institute.

“We’d like to expand past a one-term seminar and be much more embedded in Dartmouth and funding opportunities for students,” Chavez-Yenter said. “I think that there will be a lot more intentional programming to help students funnel into doing research with faculty.”

GRID administrator Nancy O’Brien said that the institute has established its vision of faculty, staff and student collaboration on research. She hopes that this will

lead to increased campus dialogue on issues surrounding gender.

Martin highlighted GRID’s distinct approach to engaging with gender issues.

“Our vision of linking teaching, activism and research is unique in higher education,” Martin wrote.

“We place all intellectual work on the same level and try to solve problems from the perspective of diversity — the more diverse the practitioners, the better we solve the problems at hand.”

In the spring of 2013, the institute hosted its first seminar, “Seeds of Change: Gender, Scholarship and Social Change.” Gallagher said she will organize this spring’s symposium titled “Free Speech and Social Change.”

Run with the spring symposium, the GRID spring fellows program aims to promote research from students, staff and faculty. Students enrolled in an upper-level research class, taught by Gallagher, will automatically become fellows, while faculty and staff fill out a separate application to be involved with the program. Over the course of the term, the fellows must produce a body of work that is on track to be published, Chavez-Yenter said.

Recently, 2013 GRID fellow Jennifer Alford-Teaster published a report on income inequality in New Hampshire.

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Lemon Tree to move into vacated College Supplies store FROM SUPPLIES PAGE 1

Lemon Tree, which opened in fall 2012, is currently situated in a rented location at 44 South Main Street, below Starbucks.

Haas said she had also considered moving into the space vacated

by Eastman Pharmacy at 22 South Main Street, but when she heard about the closing of College Supplies, she decided to pursue that space instead.

She encountered Winslow while he was cleaning windows, she said, and he encouraged her to look into the space.

Lemon Tree, which Haas opened after a 24-year career in opera, will move into the new space sometime between January and March, Haas said. She is hoping to make the move by early February, but the exact date will depend upon College Supplies’ closing plans.

Haas said that while her store attracts students, they are not the bulk of her customers, and she hopes a new location will draw more business in the demographic.

“I think students in general don’t tend to walk around the corner as much,” she said, referencing the corner of South Main Street and Lebanon Street.

She also said she hopes the new location will allow her to expand her men’s section and the age range of her clientele.

With the move, Lemon Tree will acquire the ground floor space that houses College Supplies and the basement — 400 square feet of retail space and 1,700 square feet of storage, the Valley News reported.

The College Supplies premises is larger than the former Eastman Pharmacy location.

Haas said her relationship with Lemon Tree’s current landlord, Jay Campion, is positive, and that she may continue to use Lemon Tree’s current space in some capacity.

However, Haas said she looks forward to the new arrangement.

“We had the opportunity to own our own space, so that was a very appealing thing,” Haas said. “I always envisioned being kind of right in the sweet spot of Main Street.”

Of eight students interviewed, five said they had never shopped at College Supplies. The other three reported generally positive experiences. All were aware of the store.

“They have a lot of good things, but I just feel like it’s never marketed itself very well, so I can understand why they’re closing down,” said Cynthia Madu ’15. “Most students

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Lemon Tree hopes to attract a wider set of demographics in the store that College Supplies will vacate, its owner said.

don’t go to it — it’s not the first place they think of.”

Hirsh Elhence ’17, who purchased a planner at College Supplies a year ago, said he is unhappy about the decline in competition in Hanover.

“That means that we have less of a choice when it comes to school

supplies, and competition is good for prices, but it’s not going to be devastating for me,” he said.

Alexis Hill ’17, who had not shopped at College Supplies, said it seemed to be an eclectic venue.

In addition to expanding physically, Haas said she hopes to grow Lemon Tree’s web presence. The

store does not have a website, and Haas estimated that at least half of her customers are visitors to Hanover, many of whom inquire about online purchasing opportunities.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin did not return requests for comment on Sunday.

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Staff Columnist EmILY SELLERS ’15

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST ANNIKA PARK ’18

Update the Honor Code

A Nobel Miss

The honor code should ensure that professors treat students like adults.

Each term, usually around the time professors get nicknames straight and summarize the syllabus, we are reminded of Dartmouth’s Academic Honor Principle. For our purposes, it is the dogmatic, underlying recognition of every student: do not cheat. “Cheating” here encompasses perhaps a larger realm than in high school, but the notion is the same. However, accepted within that code is the understanding that it is reciprocal — a departure from our more elementary understanding of academic honor, which consists solely in our duty to educational institutions. This reciprocity does much to lay the foundation for a mutually respectful professor-student relationship, a bond in some ways unique to Dartmouth. If we build further on these principles, however, the honor principle could facilitate an atmosphere in which honor is not only obeyed but respected. The understanding should be made explicit: professors must treat students like adults.

As it currently stands, the onus on professors is to forbid the proctoring of exams. While professors may appear intermittently, so as to answer any questions, they cannot remain with the sole purpose of policing exam activity. In this way, the honor principle acknowledges that we are all adults capable and trustworthy enough to take an unmonitored test. Though this may not seem substantial, I always find myself considering this small nod of respect while taking exams, even through the stress-haze of finals. This is the only explicit limitation imposed on professors.

Admittedly, some semblance of an honor code applies to professors in their own fields, and Dartmouth’s honor principle aims at upholding the academic integrity of the College, yet the phrasing of the code suggests the College’s code could be broadened from simply a student-focused understanding. “The Faculty of Dartmouth College,” it reads, “in recognizing the responsibility of students for their own education, assumes intellectual honesty and integrity in the performance of academic assignments, both in the classroom and outside” (emphasis my own). If professors are to assume intellectual honesty, would this preclude the use of paper-checking software?

Though this possibility has only been referenced (and quite possibly not employed) only once

in my four years here, the mere suggestion seemed to violate the implicit essence of a mutual code. I am not suggesting that this transgressed the code per se, or that such action was out of bounds, but it did make me think about the principle’s implications. As first-year students, all of us sign a form stating that we will adhere to the honor principle, which forbids plagiarism. To then run our essays through a plagiarism program aimed at identifying stolen phrases from other electronically submitted works undermines the integrity of our contractual promise.

The honor principle maintains that its requirements are “fundamental to the education process,” and I wholeheartedly agree. Along with the definitions of plagiarism and work-sharing explicated in the honor principle, though, it founds itself on the underlying ethics of academic exchange. Just as much as it proffers a guideline for emerging scholars, it also gestures toward the mutual respect necessary to form a dialogue with professors and to facilitate the close professorstudent relations that the College so heavily advertises. This is why I believe the code should explicitly articulate professors’ duties to their students. Memorializing such an understanding in what are Dartmouth’s arguably most important principles would better effectuate a mature interrelation between students and faculty. Though these relationships usually develop naturally over the course of a class, an implicit showing can only go so far, especially with regard to newer students.

Doing so would require adding clauses to the honor principle that pertain to the professors and other faculty that go beyond a prohibition on proctored examinations. To respect us as academics and our commitment to the honor principle, the College should insert a ban on using plagiarism software as well. Furthermore, professors, under the guidelines of the honor principle, should assume a student is truthful when requesting an extension or when explaining a missed class.

The honor principle imposes responsibilities on students under the guise of treating us as mature, adult academics. Following these principles, any non-contradictory code would require professors to treat students like adults, which proscribes paternalistic distrust of intentions.

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The Nobel Peace Prize’s criteria are worthy of celebration and chastisement.

The New York Times calls her “a symbol of defiance.” Obama said she possesses “character far beyond her years.” Shakira considers her one of education’s strongest advocates. I call Malala Yousafzai a thunder stealer.

If we look at Nobel Peace Prize winners in the past, we can place them into a few distinct categories. We have those like Nelson Mandela, who have been awarded for their efforts to preserve values of freedom and democracy and to fight against injustice. We have winners like the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, who were awarded for promoting peace, unification and truth throughout their lives. Others, like Mother Teresa, have been awarded to honor the legacy of a life dedicated to goodwill, charity and altruism. Then we have those awardees like Barack Obama and Yousafzai, choices that are harder to understand.

Decisions are released in October after a lengthy evaluation process by committees of different experts. According to the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to anyone who has worked toward the “abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

These broad criteria are worthy of both celebration and chastisement. The committee can honor those with honorable intentions — regardless of how much their aims for peace have materialized, it can award them for their efforts in and of themselves. However, much cause for contention comes from the criteria’s broadness.

With this in mind, it is interesting to examine who else was nominated for this year’s prize.

Edward Snowden was nominated for being a voice of reason in an age where “surveillance is the latest arms race.” Denis Mukwege, who works on issues of sexual violence in war, was another uncontroversial nominee. Pope Francis was also nominated, and had he won, the prize would have raised eyebrows for the fact that he is more a symbol for peace and a voice of good rather than an individual with recognizable achievements.

I cannot respect Yousafzai as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate because, in my opinion, her achievements as an individual fall far short of

those of others who have fought for the same cause. She was awarded specifically for her “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” But really, what achievement does she have beside rising to celebrity status after sustaining a bullet injury to the head, as the media so often reminds us? To be fair, she has made several inspirational addresses about the need to empower Pakistani girls through education and become the poster girl for a fund for girl’s education in Pakistan. But what about the women who work and strive for girls’ education in their everyday lives? Where are their chiming bells and standing ovations? Why can’t we honor less-heard voices through this prestigious prize?

I rue the day that a young girl who vaulted to celebrity status because of Western media’s fascination with martyrs wins over individuals who have dedicated much longer portions of their lives to women’s empowerment and education. But now that she’s been awarded, there are things we could do to make the best of her award.

The committee must revise the criteria if only to preserve the prize as recognition for concrete achievements or a lifetime of service rather than degrade it to a symbolic humanitarian Emmy award. Also, since most committee members are Norwegian and politicians, encouraging nonWestern, non-politician members may allow a greater variety of perspectives in the nomination and selection process.

I am not slamming Yousafzai. The valor and fortitude she has displayed over the past few years is simply remarkable. However, I have an issue with awarding such a great honor drawing so much international attention to a girl already publicized by the Western media. I urge Yousafzai in her address to direct the attention she’s receiving to where it’s due – to the other Pakistani women whose work for women’s education go unrecognized. She must also use this opportunity to reveal unfiltered truths and realities about women’s education to the Western world. It’s a chance for her to show the world that she’s more than the Joan of Arc for women’s rights and that she will continue to fight for women’s education in the developing world.

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Keene State president MIT uses central research database announces investigation FROM RESEARCH PAGE 1

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“I didn’t know what was going on, but it seemed like it was the world against the cops,” Moushey said.

“That was the attitude of the group.

Looking back at the video footage that I have, it’s extremely unclear what started it all, but it is clear that some people were doing some pretty irresponsible things in front of the cops.”

Although the rioters were a block away, he did not see them arrive at the festival, Moushey said, and by the time he left about a half hour later, the scene had calmed.

Kevin Mulquin ’14, a Keene resident who attended the festival, said he first became aware of the rioting around 4 p.m.

“It was shocking for sure,” Mulquin said, adding that the festival continued uninterrupted, and to him, others appeared to feel safe.

Later that evening, the disorder reignited, the Boston Globe reported Sunday. By the time police restored calm to the streets on Sunday morning, two dumpsters and at least one car had been overturned, street fires

burned out and beer cans littered the streets.

In a second statement, Huot wrote that college officials are working to identifying rioters and hold them accountable for unlawful behavior.

“We are reviewing images, videos, media coverage, social media postings and information we have about offcampus residences,” she wrote. Serious offenders could face suspension or expulsion.

After he returned to Hanover, Moushey uploaded his footage to YouTube. The video had more than 14,000 views as of press time.

Since the riots, the Keene State College Facebook page has shared photos of student volunteers in red Keene gear helping clean damaged properties.

Many Keene residents were upset about the rioting, as many children attend the festival, Mulquin said.

“It’s one of the things that Keene is known for, so it was bad press that people were definitely not happy about,” Mulquin said.

The Keene fire department will hold a press conference Monday at 4 p.m.

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A soon-to-be FoCo diner pays for her dinner amid autumnal decor.

a unique niche, Funnell said, falling in between a large research university and a small liberal arts school. She said that although faculty members at the former likely conduct cutting-edge research, they have fewer interactions with students. Meanwhile, at very small institutions, there is likely more student-faculty collaboration, but not necessarily the same caliber of research activity.

Beyond independently seeking out one-on-one research opportunities with faculty, students can participate in programs like presidential scholars, sophomore science scholarships, senior fellowships and the Women in Science Project. Students also conduct research at the College’s graduate schools, Funnell said, noting that Tuck Business School in particular has recently emphasized undergraduate researchers.

Students working on facultymentored research can apply for grants through the College, or seek funding from sources like the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Neukom Scholars, the Dickey Center or the new Stamps Scholars program, which provides students with up to $10,000 per year.

Anthropology professor Deborah Nichols, who works with Stamps Scholar Andres Mejia-Ramon ’16,

said in a previous interview that her department supports student-professor research and that all of her colleagues have worked with student researchers.

WISP, which matches female students with faculty mentors in paid science internships, was founded in 1990 to address the underrepresentation of women in science, math and engineering.

WISP participant Paula Chen ’17 said that research seemed very accessible to her as both a freshman and sophomore.

“However, I’m talking about it in the more traditional sense of mathand science-related research,” she said, adding that WISP’s application process allowed her to explore topics and labs in a variety of fields.

Maya-Simone Moten ’18 said that upon coming to Dartmouth, she knew she wanted to be involved in research, as she had worked at a physics laboratory last summer.

Moten does research with physics professor Kristina Lynch, an opportunity she found through the E.E. Just Program — an initiative that supports minority students in STEM fields. Moten added that several of the around 15 freshmen in the program have also found research positions.

At the Steering Committee of the General Faculty meeting, the Massa-

chusetts Institute of Technology was mentioned as an example of a school with a good program for tracking undergraduate research involvement.

MIT’s system requires that students register through a central website and have faculty confirm the position.

More than 50 percent of Duke University undergraduates do research, according to the school’s website.

“Anyone can find a research position as long as they are persistent in searching for a lab that has an open position. It’s not hard for freshmen or sophomores to find opportunities,” Duke sophomore Joy Li said. “If anything, I’ve heard it’s easier because many labs are looking for longevity, and students who can stay in their lab for a longer period.”

Funnell said even everyday tasks like using a search engine are micro-level applications of research skills. She said that unlike what some may believe, students do not have to be at the top of their class to do research, because research and classwork use different skill sets.

Weaver and Funnell both cited a desire to continue expanding undergraduate research opportunities, though Funnell added that the office might reallocate resources to support more interdisciplinary research initiatives.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

RING OF FIRE

TODAY 4:00 p.m.

“Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture,” with Mark Winne, Dartmouth 105

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Fall 2014 Donoho Colloquium with Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School, Filene Auditorium

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“American Moor,” Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center

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“Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters,” with Eitan Hersh of Yale University, Silsby 119

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Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar, Wilder 111

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“White Earth to Picardy: Native Americans and the First World War in France,” with Gerald Vizenor, Rockefeller Center 001

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and Jim” (1962) and the tale of Job, B y andrew kingsley the trio is inseparable until Xibalba The Dartmouth Staff meddles, fooling Manolo into killing Vibrant, encompassing, kaleido- himself to rescue Maria from the scopic and free-flowing: these words dead. evoke images from “The Epic of If you thought the animation American Civilization,” commonly couldn’t get any more dramatic or known as the Orozco Mural. Its lurid, you were mistaken — Manolo’s expressive richness was typical of entrance into the Land of the Rethe early 20th century’s Mexican membered evokes Dorothy’s entry muralism movement, spearheaded into Oz. Nearly psychedelic, the

by Diego Rivera and Orozco him- effervescent underworld captures self. Director Jorge Gutierrez’s first the playful, anti-morose visions of animated feature film, “The Book death in Mexican folklore, packed of Life” (2014), brings muralism with painted skeletons and parade into the 21st century, creating a floats. Only LSD will get you close bustling, sumptuous 3-D adventure to this level of visual stimulation. that explodes off the screen.

Like something from a “Super The film begins with the classic Mario” level, Manolo must survive bucolic Disney fairy tale music (Ed- deadly mazes and a murderous givard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt”), which is ant to reach Xibalba, the “boss,” abruptly cut short by a rowdy band who challenges him to defeat all of students in detention on a museum the bulls his ancestors had slain to field trip. In this earn back his life era of animaton Earth. PETA ed films when “While the film can be fans will rejoice, p r o d u c t i o n accused of having too as Manolo is companies treat many didactic oneadamantly proideas like tubes animal-life, conof toothpaste, liners or not enough quering raging squeezing the conflict in its plot, it bulls by dish“Ice Age” and ing out modern “Shrek” series adamantly addresses pop hits with his into four films a theme rarely tackled swoon-worthy each, Gutierrez guitar playing. in children’s films: makes clear that With a new lease his fare will be death.” on life, Manolo minty fresh. He can now save his employs a styltown, San Angel, ized, robust computer animation from the invading bandit Chakal with style, which grows on you despite the help of his friends, reincarnated being initially foreign. family and a band of dangerously Structured like “Shrek” (2001), adorable pigs. the film is narrated by a museum While the film can be accused of guide named Mary Beth (Christina having too many didactic one-liners Applegate), who tells a timeless tale or not enough conflict in its plot, it from the massive tome, “The Book of adamantly addresses a theme rarely Life.” La Muerte (Kate del Castillo), tackled in children’s films: death. Yes, the loving goddess ruling the Land the film includes messages of being of the Remembered, and Xibalba yourself and loving others — “Fro(Ron Perlman), the Hades-like god zen” (2013), anyone? — but its central ruling the Land of the Forgotten, tenet focuses on the innocuousness wager over two young boys, Manolo and quasi-beauty of dying.

(Diego Luna) and Joaquin (Channing This is not, however, Tom Burton’s Tatum), who both seek the heart of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” the lovely Maria (Zoe Saldana). The (1993). Like the Mexican holiday Día young children are responsible for the de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), fate of the underworld, as Joaquin’s the film celebrates the memory of the success would let Xibalba take over deceased, a contrast to Halloween’s the Land of the Remembered. demonic depiction of death.

Manolo, the more romantic, Using a charming lens, Gutierrez sympathetic suitor, is caught between creates an artistic film with a Mexican his longing to play guitar and his influence that will spice up the Halfather’s demand that he continue the loween season. Its colorful flair stands Sanchez lineage of famous matadors. to remind us that the bloodthirsty Joaquin is Tatum animated, embody- zombies and bed sheet ghosts are ing all of his swagger with large mere American folklore — nothing muscles, military medals and a sexy to be feared. mustache. Maria, like a young Joan of Arc, leads her hometown against Rating: 8.1/10 invaders, appeasing feminists with “The Book of Life” is showing daily her independent, anti-housewife at the Nugget in 2-D at 6:50 p.m., and outlook. Like a cross between “Jules 3-D at 4:30 p.m.

Gar Waterman ’78 is a Connecticutbased sculptor known for his large public sculptures. He typically works in stone, bronze, wood and glass, and his sculptures are often inspired by the natural world, especially sea life. Waterman installed “Feral Seed,” a sculpture, in the atrium of the Life Sciences Center in August.

Can you talk about “Feral Seed”?

GW: Well, seed forms have been a source of inspiration for me for years. I do a lot of sculptures of seeds. I’m very attracted to their mysterious qualities, and of all the bits and pieces of all these different life forms within them that wait for the right moment to germinate.

Seeds have a lot of symbolism in our language. You can have some wonderful metaphors there — seeds of destruction, seeds of hope, seeds of misery — anything you want to put in there.

The shapes appeal to me a great deal.

They’ve been something I’ve worked on many times, in all my different types of media, and I just thought that given that this is a “life sciences center,” a seed would be an appropriate source of inspiration for a sculpture to go in there.

How was it installed?

GW: The installation process was pretty straightforward. It was all planned out ahead of time, and it was really just a question of engineering and making sure we had the proper suspension, the cables, that kind of thing. The real monster was the pulling of the sculpture itself, which is a waxed, bronzed casting.

It was quite a complicated and timeconsuming process.

Did you sculpt as a student here?

GW: I took one art course at Dartmouth, which I loved, with [Thayer Engineering School professor] Peter Robbie [’69], who still teaches there.

He’s a wonderful sculptor who teaches at the engineering school now. Sadly, the time that I was at Dartmouth I wasn’t clear about what I wanted to do with my life, so I didn’t take further advantage of the really great art department we had. Some of the best times I had when I was at Dartmouth were working down at the shops underneath the [Hopkins Center]. I was not self aware enough at the time to really know what I wanted to do but work with my hands. That didn’t come until I left school, was out in the big, bad world for a few years and found my way.

What did you make at the Hop? GW: I started there for a project for Robbie’s course, and then enjoyed it so much that I continued on one on my own, making some things in the woodshop and metal shop there. It was the instructor there, who ran the metal shop and took a quiet liking to me, and ended up, to my great surprise

and pleasure, giving me a Marcus Heiman Award when I graduated, which couldn’t have surprised me more. It was a delight and a very nice acknowledgement of something that I wasn’t really even thinking about. Certainly given my life, it has been about making things.

Where do you find inspiration?

GW: I would say my inspiration comes from nature. Pretty straightforward — I generally take different bits and pieces that I am interested in, including seeds. I love insect forms, beetle exoskeletal forms.

A lot of my work is inspired by the underwater world. A lot of my childhood was spent diving with an underwater filmmaker father, so that had a lot of influence on me over the years. “You are what you eat” as an artist, and what I ate as a kid was diving underwater, so it comes out a lot in my work.

What aspects of Dartmouth did you most enjoy?

GW: Well, other than the great friends that I still have from that time, I was pretty clueless at the time. I was not mature enough to fully appreciate the privilege of going to that place. Which is not unusual, I know. I was guilty of that, unfortunately.

But I would have to say, my time in the shops. I didn’t know it at the time, but in retrospect, we were all supposed to go there and find something in that school — willy nilly, a bit or a piece here or there. Some of you guys are so far ahead of the game, and you know what you want, but I didn’t. Despite that, I still found my way into the shops, and I loved that. I was not a terribly good student, or

a terribly diligent student, I’m afraid. I went to a pretty challenging prep school and probably worked harder there than I ever did at Dartmouth.

But it’s funny how things work out, and the pieces I took away from that school have served me very well. There is a real place in my heart for it. This sculpture I did for the Life Sciences Center has really served as a wonderful, productive process for me, because I feel like my time at that school was not well taken advantage of. I’m so delighted to be able to be given the chance to do something that’s really a very strong piece of myself, that’s really me. That sculpture is very much my style and form, so I’m fortunate to be able to make amends for not knowing enough when I was an undergrad and not taking enough of what that school had to offer.

Do you have advice for students pursuing a career in the art?

GW: Only what I tell most people who ask me about a career in the arts, which is you need to be in it for the long run, and if you want it enough, you will find a way to do it. A career in the arts is not for the faint of heart. It’s a very difficult world to make a living in, and I’ve been pretty lucky and lived pretty close to bone for many years.

But I survived doing my work, and I don’t teach. This is what I do. In the art world, that’s huge success. If you can just survive, that’s huge success. You have to find your own voice, which takes time, and your expectations have to be extremely moderate.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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A student toured Sonya Kelliher Combs’s artist-in-residence exhibit over the weekend.

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Profs talk new ways to teach ‘The Bard’ Emerson String Quartet to play Hop WWI series B y OWEN Shepcaro

Called “The Swan of Avon,” “The Bard of Avon” or simply “The Bard,” William Shakespeare and his plays and poems remain a staple in English literary education. Dartmouth marked the 400th anniversary of the poet’s death with a symposium on Friday and Saturday in the Haldeman Center that focused on how to teach his works today.

The symposium, “Teaching Shakespeare,” featured lectures by Dartmouth and visiting faculty and an address by Provost Carolyn Dever. Dartmouth students and community members led and participated in group discussions as well.

Organized by English professor Jonathan Crewe, the symposium aimed to prompt educators and students to reevaluate how they teach or have been taught Shakespeare, Crewe said.

Though the texts have remained the same over the centuries, instruction can better take into account learners’ contemporary biases and assumptions when approaching the works, he said.

“In reality, nothing remains unchanged,” Crewe said. “There are various circumstances, such as the arrival of digital methods of teaching, the loss of energy in the humanities and the academic shift toward the modern and contemporary that made me think it desirable to rethink the practice of teaching Shakespeare and the assumptions we have about it.”

English professor emeritus Peter Saccio kicked off the symposium on

Friday afternoon with a lecture called “Shakespeare for a Shadow Audience,” and Dever welcomed attendees and introduced Harvard University English professor Marjorie Garber, the event’s keynote speaker, in the evening.

Garber has written about Shakespeare’s connection to modern culture and has applied contemporary theories of dreaming to analysis of Shakespeare plays, among other topics.

Many attendees at the conference were interested in how their peers were integrating technology into their teaching, though they disagreed about its merits. English professor Thomas Luxon said he believed technology could be an asset if it reduced the need for physical copies of books and provided access to resources like voice recordings or performance videos of key passages.

University of California at Davis English professor Gina Bloom, however, said she does not commonly use technology to augment her teaching of Shakespeare.

“When I teach Shakespeare, I want the class time to belong entirely to my class and I,” she said. “I think that in class discussion is more conducive to an understanding of Shakespeare than blankly watching a performance.”

On Saturday, symposium attendees visited a morning panel where English professors from Stanford University, U.C. Davis and Barnard College spoke about the relevance of Sigmund Freud, video games and African-American heritage to teaching Shakespeare today.

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tendees listened to two more panels, the first titled “Teaching Shakespeare, Here and Now,” chaired by English professor George Edmondson, and the second titled “Performance and/as Pedagogy,” chaired by theater professor Laura Edmondson. The second panel focused on teaching Shakespeare for the stage and featured English professor Brett Gamboa as a participant.

The symposium concluded with a group discussion chaired by Luxon and facilitated by English and comparative literature librarian Laura Braunstein, special collections librarian Morgan Swan, English major Jasmine Sachar ’16 and former Hanover High School English teacher John Galton.

Regardless of how his works are taught, Johns Hopkins English professor Andrew Davis said “The Bard” remains critical to the canon of English literature.

“The works of Shakespeare poignantly reflect many basic conditions of being alive,” he said. “They are reflections of life and death, parents and children and so many other things — though these illustrations are rooted in their particular moments, they are portable and have the capability of influencing our lives.”

Crewe said it was appropriate for Dartmouth to host the event. Not only does the English department boast several Shakespeare experts, but Rauner Special Collections Library is home to a first edition folio of Shakespeare’s plays, printed in 1623.

Sachar is a member of The Dartmouth senior staff.

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Students and community members picked up tickets to “Boyhood” (2014), screened at the Loew auditorium on Sunday.

Dartmouth community members over the years, Drucker said.

The Dartmouth Staff “There is a sense of a very lively Nine-time Grammy Award win- intellectual and cultural life [at Dartners The Emerson String Quartet mouth],” Drucker said. will perform at the Hopkins Center Dutton will hold a master class on Tuesday evening. The program will on Tuesday afternoon where he will consist of string quartet works from coach a quartet and a piano trio, composers Benjamin Britten, Mau- music lecturer Alex Ogle said. He rice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich. will spend about 40 minutes each Comprised of violinists Eugene with the groups, who are performing Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist a work by Haydn and Mendelssohn, Lawrence Dutton and cellist Paul respectively.

Watkins, The Emerson Quartet has “Their playing is extraordinary, released dozens of albums and is one polished and intelligent,” Ogle said. of the most well-known quartets of Violinist Joseph Hwang ’17, a our time. member of a piano trio playing in The program is part of The Hop’s Tuesday’s master class said he is “World War I Reconsidered” series. excited for the quartet’s visit, calling Although the dates of the quar- the group “probably the most famous tets don’t fall perfectly in line with quartet.”

World War I — Ravel finished his “[The quartet’s] longevity is requartet in 1903, ally important,” with the Britten Hwang said, “You “Their playing is and Shostakovich don’t see many enquartets date back extraordinary, sembles going on to 1945 and 1946, polished and for 40 years.” respectively — ele With a group ments of warfare intelligent.” as renowned and can be heard in the long-lasting as the pieces.

Emerson String - alex ogle, Music “[Ravel’s ‘String Quartet, young Quartet in F Ma- department lecturer artists should pay jor’] is a piece on particular attention tone color and varieties,” Drucker to how the professional musicians said. He contrasted Ravel’s work with interact on stage, Hwang said. those of the Austro-German tradition, “They are on the same musical in which composers tended to use wavelength at all times,” he said. more of an attack with the bow.

The Emerson Quartet has record Britten’s “Quartet No. 2 in C ed both the Ravel and Shostakovich Major, Op. 36” commemorates the quartet featured in Tuesday night’s 250th anniversary of Henry Purcell’s program. The latter was released in death. Britten wrote the composition 2000 alongside the rest of the Shostaafter performing the piece at newly kovich quartets, for which the group liberated concentration camps fol- earned a Grammy. lowing World War I. The group plans to record Britten’s The Shostakovich quartet’s third works in the near future, Drucker said. movement takes on a depiction of The addition of Watkins, whose war, giving off a manic character- playing style Drucker said has a “rich, istic, Drucker said. The following bass, baritone-like quality,” adds a movement is a funeral march, whose new element to pieces in the group’s background hints at “the atmosphere repertoire. of war,” he said.

“It’s like re-discovery, even if we Tuesday’s performance will mark don’t make conscious decisions to the quartet’s sixth show at the Hop, change the interpretation,” Drucker and the first one at the Hop featur- said. “Everything for us is a somewhat ing Watkins, who joined the group in new experience.”

Mayfollowing the departure of David Since the Emersons recorded the Finckel.

Shostakovich quartet in 2000, they The quartet regards Dartmouth have played the entire Shostakovich as one of the important concerts on cycle a number of times, giving them their circuit and have gotten to know a different perspective, Drucker said.

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