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Community discusses bicycle safety measures

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Relocated Hanover bear killed in Canada

By ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth

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The College and the town are discussing bicycle safety measures.

By ROHINI MANDAI The Dartmouth

On Oct. 22, Lucile Bailey was struck by a bicyclist and died the next day at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, according to Hanover Police Department lieutenant Scott Rathburn.

She was 91. Safety and

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officers found that an elderly female pedestrian — later identified as Bailey — had been struck by a bicyclist.

Each of the parties involved had injuries, he said.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin released a statement after the incident SEE BICYCLE PAGE 2

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Event to focus Q&A with art history on mental health professor Nicola Camerlenghi

By EILEEN BRADY SPORTS

Security interim director Keysi Montás said that his department plans on implementing new programs addressing biker and pedestrian safety.

Rathburn said that at 4:09 p.m., Hanover’s police and fire departments responded to a medical call from Lyme Road. Upon their arrival,

One of the three bears that were captured and relocated to Pittsburg, New Hampshire after entering a local home last spring has been lawfully shot and killed by a hunter in Quebec, which has a legal bear hunting season during the fall, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game wildlife biologist Andrew Timmins. The death occurred on June 16, 18 days after the bears were relocated, but Timmins said he only recently received confirmation of its occurrence.

This past March, a sleuth of bears emerged from hibernation and began to disrupt residential life in Hanover. New Hampshire Fish and Game initially wanted to capture and euthanize the bears, but Gov. Chris Sununu intervened and ordered that three of them, then young cubs, be captured and relocated, which occurred over Memorial Day weekend.

“None of us really had any desire to destroy those animals,” Timmins said. “We

were concerned about their ability to be successful bears in the wild because of their level of habituation and the fact that they entered homes.

Once the decision was made that we were releasing them, we just went with it and wished them the best.”

N o t eve r yo n e a g re e d with Sununu’s decision.

Following the announcement, Democratic State Sen. Jeff Woodburn, who represents the North Country, tweeted that Sununu should let “wild life experts do their job” and not “relocate nuisance bears” to the north country.

Timmins said he was relieved that the bears were not killed in retaliation for endangering people.

“Our greatest fear was that they’d just go into a community and repeat the behavior and be shot as a nuisance animal, and that was not the case with this animal,” Timmins said.

Upon capture, each bear received an ear tag with a

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The Mood Disorders Service at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center will host its first International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day event in Filene Auditorium on Nov. 18 to raise awareness of suicide prevention. The service, which seeks to advance recovery from mood disorders through scholarship, teaching and

clinical care, is working with the New Hampshire chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to plan this event.

The International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day has been observed nationwide since 1999 when former Sen. Harry Reid introduced a resolution designating the Saturday before as Thanksgiving SEE MOOD PAGE 2

By ABBY MIHALY The Dartmouth

Art history professor Nicola Camerlenghi and his colleagues from other institutions photographed nearly 4,000 maps, prints and drawings from the last 3,000 years of Roman history at archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani’s archive in Rome and created a website to house these archives, widening access to Rome’s historical objects for scholars and the general public. The Lanciani archive

project was a part of the larger “Mapping Rome” project, a collaboration between faculty members across universities to map the development of Roman architecture over the last 3,000 years. He works on the Mapping Rome project with students at the Dartmouth College Rome Center and teaches Art History 1, “Bodies and Buildings: Introduction to the History of Art in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages,” as well as courses about medieval architecture and renaissance

architecture.

How did you first get involved in the Mapping Rome project?

NC: I got involved when I was still teaching at the University of Oregon, so before coming to Dartmouth in 2013. There’s a pretty solid history of studying things relating to Rome and maps at the University of Oregon. I took inspiration from there and brought my own SEE Q&A PAGE 5

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Event highlights suicide Town to evaluate bicycle safety prevention awareness FROM BICYCLES PAGE 1

although it is hard to predict the attendance as it is the first event National Suicide Survivor Day. of its kind on campus, she hopes to AFSP organizes and supports see both students and community Survivor Day events in 18 different members present. countries, with more than 350 events “[We are planning to welcome] worldwide last year, according to anyone who has any connection New Hampshire AFSP chair Lisa with suicide loss [or anyone] Riley. The core goals of AFSP are interested in helping out with the to fund research, educate the public, cause in general,” Malloy said. advocate for public policies related Malloy said the decision to hold to suicide and support survivors of the event on campus rather than at DHMC was based on both logistical suicide loss.

Riley said the AFSP has held “Out concerns and the desire to create of the Darkness Campus Walks” at a more comfortable, welcoming Dartmouth for the past three years environment than some might find to raise awareness, with the fourth DHMC to be. She also said she annual walk planned for next hopes that the location allows more spring. Out of the Darkness Walks students to participate. are a main source of fundraising Paul Holtzheimer, director of for New Hampshire AFSP, with the Mood Disorders Service and roughly half of the money raised professor of psychiatry and surgery going towards research and at the Geisel School of Medicine, programming on a national level said the event is important because and the other half funding local it raises awareness of suicide loss on college campuses programs like and supports suicide Survivor Day “Survivors tend to loss survivors at events, she said.

Dartmouth.

The decision to do very well when “Suicide is the hold a Survivor supported by other 10th leading cause Day event of death in the i n H a n o v e r survivors, and we United States, and was based on make a point to there’s a need for the g rowing bring them out of more research and capacity and education about n u m b e r o f the shadows.” suicide … I think volunteers that’s especially true i n t h e a re a , for college students, a c c o rd i n g t o -LISA RILEY, NEW Riley. The event HAMPSHIRE AMERICAN who are relatively young, energetic at the College FOUNDATION FOR and motivated and will be one of 10 may be less aware of held across New SUICIDE PREVENTION just how prevalent Hampshire on CHAIR depression and Nov. 18, Riley suicide are,” said.

Holtzheimer said.

T h e eve n t will include food, discussion, “Or, they are very aware because sharing of resources and screenings they’ve had someone in their of two documentaries produced by family, or themselves, suffer from AFSP that tell the stories of suicide depression, or somebody in the family or a close friend die by loss survivors, Riley said.

“The research suggests that when suicide, and that can feel like a very you have a family member, friend or isolating experience.” colleague who dies by suicide that H e a d d e d t h a t S u r v i vo r there’s a lot of shame and stigma Day events can bring people and a lot of unanswered questions,” together who have had shared Riley said. “Survivors tend to do experiences, reduce the stigma very well when supported by other surrounding mental illness and survivors, and we make a point to start conversations about how bring them out of the shadows, communities can improve mental bring them out of isolation and health.

S t u d e n t s a n d c o m mu n i t y offer them this healing event.”

Shannon Malloy, a research members can register for the coordinator for the Mood Disorders event on the AFSP website, though Service who, along with Riley, is non-registered participants are also leading the event on Nov. 18, said welcome, according to Malloy.

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reminding citizens that bicycles are not allowed on public sidewalks unless one is 12 years of age or under.

Rathburn said that pedestrians must keep in mind that while they have the right of way within a crosswalk, they don’t have the right of way when walking on paved portions of roadway.

Montás said that upholding pedestrian and bicycle safety is an ongoing effort because Hanover is a college town with a steady stream of new arrivals to the student body.

“What happens every September is that we get a brand-new set of constituents who may not necessarily be familiar with the programs that we have established,” Montás said. “So it’s a constant reeducating of the rules in place and the rules of the road if you will, and where the points of caution should be.”

Montás said the College must also deal with space constraints.

“The issue comes around when you have pedestrians running around on streets, which are for bikes and vehicles, and when you have bikes running on sidewalks, which are for pedestrians, so it’s having to negotiate that,” Montás said. “Because we don’t have great distances, we could very easily be more mindful of spaces that are for each kind of mode of transportation, whether

by food or bicycle or vehicle, then that would be more helpful.”

The bike registration program is one way to enforce biker safety, Montás said.

“One side of it is to make sure that we know that people lose their bikes, or if it gets stolen, we have a way to track it,” he said. “It’s also deterrence for ill-doers. If they see that a bike is registered, they might not want to get involved with that.”

Student outreach is an important component of biker safety at Dartmouth, he added.

“We do a little bit of outreach at Orientation, as we have a table,” he said. “We have an officer present, you’ve probably seen our officer in reflective uniform riding his bike there.”

Montás said that the Hanover Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee meets once a month to discuss bicycle safety. The committee offers Bike Skills 101, a course taught by Safety and Security officers, he added.

Montás said that there are plans for new programs regarding biker and pedestrian safety.

“One thing I plan on requesting is a Safety and Security officer and a Hanover Police stand on an intersection that is quite busy and tend to be walked on during class changes, when people ride their bikes on the sidewalks, and stopping them and talking to them,”

Montás said. “I don’t want them to be cited, but I want officers to be talking to them. I think that would be a great approach, talking to them about the safety concerns and why they should not be riding on the sidewalk.”

Montás said that pedestrians and cyclists must be especially cautious about using cell phones while traveling on sidewalks.

Ultimately, Montás said, the burden of ensuring a safe campus rests on students.

“We need to ultimately take responsibility for individual actions and inactions,” Montás said. “I will always put the honor on the individual. You need to be aware.”

Janet Hulloch, Bailey’s daughter, fondly recalled her mother’s memory.

“She was really kind to people, and generous to others,” Hulloch said.

Bailey was an avid cyclist, she said.

“Back in the early 60s, she and my father started bicycling and bringing the family along,” Hulloch said. “We’d go on trips together. Often my dad would have two kids on his bike — two little children — and she’d have one, and then the rest of us would ride our own.

My mother and father loved riding in Vermont on the country roads, and they did a lot of bike rides in France, where my mom would pull out maps and figure out routes based on the types of roads there were.”

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After relocation, bear cub shot and killed

weren’t afraid of them. That’s what you really have to guard against unique number sequence, Timmins — having another set of cubs that said, that led to the identification are so comfortable around people of the killed yearling. However, that we end up with the same cycle ear tags cannot be used to track starting again.”

H o w e ve r, movements Griffin said she and location, believes that the which is why “Our greatest fear bears pose more they did not was that they’d just of a threat to immediately house pets such know the bear go into a community as cats and dogs. h a d d i e d . and repeat the November, T i m m i n s behavior and be shot Last the sow reacted said he was defensively to notified of the as a nuisance animal the presence of a bear’s death ...” dog at a residence by a f r i e n d on Ripley Road, of the hunter wh i ch l e f t t h e w h o k i l l e d -ANDREW TIMMINS, dog with minor it and then NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH injuries. confirmed the Griffin said o c c u r r e n c e AND GAME WILDLIFE that to educate with h i s BIOLOGIST Hanover residents Q u e b e c about the bears, counterparts.

Since the other two yearlings town officials conducted a townwere also ear-tagged, it is not wide mailing, which included known whether they are still alive, Dartmouth students, back in late Timmins said. He added that June that was intended to provide they could have died from natural infor mation regarding bears’ causes or been shot in a conflict behavior and provided links to situation with a homeowner who companies that sell bear-proof chose to not report the incident. dumpsters.

However, the absence of reports According to Griffin, nine times regarding the other two bears out of 10 that Hanover Police could also signify that they have responds to bear calls, it’s usually become integrated into the wild, because bears were digging into people’s trash. Griffin said that he said.

T he mother of the three most of these incidents occurred yearlings, meanwhile, remains in at off-campus student housing, as the Hanover area and was spotted most students do not manage their on two or three different occasions trash like individual homeowners, during the late summer and early leading the bears to become fall, Timmins said. He believes habituated. that she is currently pregnant and “In order to prevent this from will have cubs in either January happening again, we really need students, especially o r Fe b r u a r y those living offb e f o r e “These cubs were campus, to work surfacing again so habituated to with their landlords in the spring. to manage their H a n o v e r people that they outdoor storage of town manager weren’t afraid of trash so that we’re Ju l i a G r i f f i n a community that’s e c h o e d them.” less attractive to the Timmins’ bears,” Griffin said. sentiments, “The bears were saying she also -JULIA GRIFFIN, having a feeding believes that the HANOVER TOWN extravaganza sow will deliver MANAGER amongst the food cubs during trash.” t h e w i n t e r.

Griffin warned that sows with She said that town officials were newborn cubs are protective over prepared to relocate the sow and her their offspring and stressed the next batch of cubs if she continues importance of not approaching to frequent Hanover neighborhoods as a source of food in the spring. any of the bears.

“The biggest thing we worry “We can always hope that she about is when the three cubs won’t be a problem and that she entered a home that had small won’t be as inclined to keep her children inside at the time,” cubs right here in the Mink Brook Griffin said. “These cubs were corridor, but this is her territory,” so habituated to people that they Griffin said.

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The information gap at institutions of higher education is intolerable.

This article started as a tirade against Dartmouth Dining Services. I know this is an overworn topic — The Dartmouth Editorial Board and The Dartmouth Review have already done a good job airing students’ fresh set of grievances for 2017. But it was 4:30 p.m. on a rainy Sunday, and the KAF line was a long, painful reminder of the inadequacy of our school’s dining options. And so I wanted to know: What exactly is DDS? My cursory research only made things more confusing. DDS is a private, for-profit organization owned by a not-for-profit institution, Dartmouth College. It is partially overseen by a College administrator, David Newlove, who is also responsible for overseeing the Card Office, the Hanover Inn, mail and delivery services, printing services, the Dartmouth Skiway and transportation, according to the College’s website.

The only information we can get on the entangled structure of DDS is explained on page eight of the College’s 2016-2017 financial statements, which reads in part, “Auxiliary enterprises, primarily the operation of residence halls, dining services and recreational facilities, are included in operating activities.” On page four of the document you can read that auxiliary revenue was $77,680,000 and auxiliary expenses were $83,553,000. So the College ran approximately a $5,873,000 deficit for these expenses this past year. It is hard to believe DDS is not profitable, given their total monopoly over the student body.

However, we currently have no way of proving this.

If DDS is profitable, and I suspect it is, it is a disgrace that Dartmouth has found a way to monetize the college education experience in the same way budget air carriers find ways to charge customers for “auxiliary” services that are in fact necessities. But what is more disgraceful still is the way in which they have hidden this fact from the student body. Without transparency there can be no accountability. Without accountability there can be no way of ensuring the needs of a body politic are met. A first step would be for the College to include greater details on revenue and expense costs — grouping together dormitory revenue with DDS revenue makes little sense.

I once wrote about the incompatible needs of studentsandadministrators.Studentshaveashortterm preoccupation with their undergraduate experience. Ostensibly, administrators share this concern. In reality, the purveyors of our education

look beyond us the moment we accept our offers of admission. Their eyes are glazed and their mouths are agape because they are forever dreaming of the Future of the College. The dichotomy can be summed up with the following maxim: Our faculty and students care about education, the administration cares about public relations. One camp comprises the substance of Dartmouth College and the other the form. Our school is one of many American academic institutions where form now defines substance.

The College’s administration is a self-justifying entity that has the power to create new uses for itself. The reputation of the College is tied to its raison d’être. That is part of why each incoming class is described in glowing superlatives, backed up by some selectively chosen metrics. For instance, the Class of 2021 was described as “the most academically accomplished and globally diverse class the College has ever accepted.” We are on a trend ever upward, ever forward. But as the College’s administrative staff has grown in scope and power, it has come to occupy a space of limbo.

No proven system of accountability exists for this new entity. There is just the pressure of the unseen past, expressed via anxious donors and alumni, the diffuse rabble of the present student body, and angst over the College’s future experienced via the Board of Trustees. The only feasible way to keep all these groups happy is to somehow convince them that things are getting better.

This linear way of conceptualizing Dartmouth is what I see as an endemic part of the administration’s failure to be in touch with the experience and needs of students and faculty. Administrators are essential to maintaining this relationship, but they should really be thought of as facilitators.

A potential long-term solution to this lack of shared interests would be to create a more organized and effective student government.

Some sort of student union that is a part of the administration should be considered. More paid bureaucratic positions or internships within the administration, such as the President’s Intern who works part-time in the Office of the President during his or her senior year, could be set up for students to fill during off terms. These students would experience firsthand the Dartmouth bureaucracy and could work as liaisons between the administration and students. We are entitled to real power in our educational system — in modern American higher education, that power emanates from college administrations.

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Dartmouth’s next chief academic officer must put undergraduates first.

Dartmouth recently announced the appointment of computer science professor David Kotz ’86 as interim provost while a search committee begins its hunt for outgoing Provost Carolyn Dever’s replacement. As one of the most powerful administrators at Dartmouth, second only to the College president, the provost oversees close to 30 offices, support centers and programs ranging from admissions and financial aid to information technology services to environmental health and safety.

In making its recommendations for our next provost, the search committee will play a critical role in shaping Dartmouth’s academics in the coming years. In its current form, the committee is comprised of 11 members, including one undergraduate student and one Tuck School of Business student. Unfortunately, these two students can only represent a small subset of the opinions of the student body.

Although there are constraints on the number of students who can feasibly be on the search committee itself, there is still value in presenting a student perspective from the outside. It is beyond the scope of this article — or our expertise — to make suggestions for every office the provost oversees. The committee, or the College as a whole, may already be considering some of our suggestions in the course of its work. However, we can only speak to what we wish to see the search committee take into consideration, especially for one aspect of the provost’s job that carries greatest weight for students: her role in the faculty of arts and sciences.

The official description of the provost’s role states that she is responsible for supporting “the programs, the teaching and the scholarship” of the faculty. The new provost should support educational opportunities for students, especially in research. Dartmouth is currently ranked second in undergraduate teaching by U.S. News and World Report; this strong teaching also attracts a strong, intellectually curious student body. While of course there are outliers, most students enjoy learning, and many willingly commit to multi-term research projects and theses on topics about which they are passionate.

Yet funding for thesis research is uneven at best, even for some of the more popular programs. This year, the Rockefeller Center Senior Honors Thesis Grants program was unable to fully support the requests for thesis funding it received. While there may have been some unexpected demand or other anomaly, it is nevertheless a timely reminder that the amount of funding budgeted for undergraduate research is often inadequate.

The provost’s role as both head of academics and financial planning affords her the unique ability to oversee both sides of the equation, an opportunity to demonstrate support for students through funding. If the College is committed to academic rigor, it must back up its goals with increased funding initiatives for undergraduate research.

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship is an excellent example of institutional support for undergraduate research and scholarship.

Run by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it funds students from undergraduate minority groups and similarly-minded non-minority students to pursue doctorates that will lead to

careers in academia. The fellowship’s funding, in supporting students hoping to enter academia, helps create innovative thinkers who are making an impact in emerging and relevant fields at Dartmouth and beyond.

Yet to attract such innovative thinkers, the College also needs to hire professors who support and inspire such research. The provost plays a critical role in this through her appointment powers. As provost, Dever appointed leaders across departments, including the Tuck and Geisel School of Medicine deans, the vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and the dean of libraries. The future provost will have similar responsibilities.

The search committee has a clear role in supporting these goals. It can examine candidates based on their prior work, either supporting similar goals in the liberal arts in an administrative role or in their teaching work. To support the faculty of the arts and sciences as completely as possible, candidates should have a demonstrated commitment to students and faculty in their previous jobs. The committee can determine such attributes through its evaluation and interview process, and in doing so it ought to prioritize those candidates most committed to the liberal arts, to the small college ideal and to Dartmouth’s role as an undergraduate-focused institution.

Dartmouth is still a private, nonprofit institution, and these goals on first glance may seem to purely benefit students, not the College.

However, hiring for a provost who is committed to student research and strong undergraduate teaching would be beneficial for all, particularly if it distinguishes Dartmouth as the undergraduatefirst answer to impersonal research universities like the College’s peers within the Ivy League.

Dartmouth cannot become a large research university focused on graduate student research.

It simply does not have the space or facilities to support the aggressive expansion needed to compete with the likes of Harvard University, which in 2016 had a total enrollment of 22,000 students, about 15,300 of which were graduate students. But Dartmouth does have the ability to carefully select and court professors who are admired in their fields. With a base of respected professors who feel supported by the College, Dartmouth can more easily attract talented faculty who want to work with such innovators and need fewer other incentives to bring them to such a rural community, alongside students committed to learning through personal interactions with their professors. By providing funding to its undergraduate population’s research efforts, Dartmouth can capitalize on the strength of its teaching, bolstering valuable academic contributions that will increase the school’s rankings and attract brighter students.

The search committee has the power and responsibility to hand-pick a new provost. In doing so, they should take candidates’ academic backgrounds and commitments into consideration to select a candidate who will benefit both students and the College. The search committee has a responsibility to hire a new provost who will embody what the College does best.

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interests, in particular things that had to do with the Middle Ages, and brought a whole new facet to the project. It was a nice match because my interests are in the Middle Ages, and the ones at Oregon were more the Renaissance and Baroque period, so 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. So what I was able to do was bring it back even a thousand years earlier and bring some of my interest and expertise into the picture.

What is Lanciani’s archive?

NC: The Lanciani project is this huge treasure trove of drawings and prints and maps that this particular archeologist Rodolfo Lanciani had collected over the course of his career.

We photographed about 4,000 objects, and we have catalogued them and made them available online so people can consult this archive, which otherwise is not really accessible because it is in a tower in a 15th century building in Rome. You need special permission to go in. So we’ve made a lot of that material available to scholars anywhere in the world.

The project fits in to a bigger picture called “Mapping Rome,” which is also a website. That is a more ongoing project about taking a city like Rome and its 3,000 years of architectural history, from 1,000 B.C. when it was founded all the way up to today. We’re working on placing things in space and in time, to know what was where, when. That’s kind of the idea behind the maps we’re creating — seeing how a city changes overtime, that’s what Mapping Rome is.

Why is it important to digitalize this work?

NC: It’s important to digitalize it because some of it is quite old and not in the greatest of conditions, and so every time a scholar wants to see the things, it risks damaging the objects.

That said, there are particular reasons a scholar needs to see the original, but in a lot of cases the original was just as good as a high-resolution photograph.

Who do you hope will take advantage of this digitalized artwork?

NC: I think it can range from amateur, in the literal sense of the word — an amateur is someone who has a keen interest in something, in this case in the city of Rome. And there are lots of people who are kind of professional tourists, people who take the city quite seriously when they travel and want to learn about it.

And at the same time, the archives can be useful to someone who does this as a profession who needs to see, learn and compare images. When you have 4,000 images, you can do some pretty good research on the Colosseum looking at the 60 or even 80 images that we have of the Colosseum that we’ve scanned over the course of several centuries, so

that you can do comparative studies on how the Colosseum has changed.

How have Dartmouth undergraduates helped with the project, and how has collaborating with students been beneficial to your work?

NC: I’ve worked with students that are both currently enrolled and alumni who for one reason or another have kept close ties with the department of art history and are now going on to do Ph.D. research, for example in art history. And in that in-between time, where they were leaving Dartmouth and not yet enrolled in a Ph.D. program, they kept in touch and we enlisted them to do pretty intensive research about these images.

That means in some cases, going to the archive, looking at the drawings, measuring, studying and making observations about the drawings, that is, people who were actually in Rome working on the material. And also students who are currently enrolled who were doing more observational things where they work on the drawings as they were scanned and digitized, trying to help us catalogue all this material. The students were quite skilled and useful at making this data available and properly catalogued.

It’s been beneficial because having a lot of smart students that are interested in art history and Rome, having them be on board, the project has meant having dialogue and conversation about the material, which brings it alive for both me and the students. Having this stuff be more than just an image on a screen, having it be part of a bigger discussion about Rome, about what buildings do, what buildings mean and things like that, that’s been rewarding for me personally, and I think for the students to have the kind of conversations that go on in preparation of the curating. We’re kind of creating an exhibition like people in a museum do, so they’ve in essence been helping organize this material in a logical way like a curator in a museum

would do. The only difference is that our museum is virtual — we have a website, not an actual space where you can see all these objects physically and in person.

Has art history always been an interest of yours?

NC: I started college wanting to be a theatre major, and maybe a physics major. And then I took an art history class my freshman year and it was an enormous class, 400 students, but I had a great professor at Yale University, and I have to say, despite the size, I was pretty much hooked and completely entranced by the subject. In particular, it’s the architecture more than the art, so not paintings or sculptures but buildings.

That excited me early on, and I’ve never really let go ever since.

Is there anything else you want readers to know about your work, or the “Mapping Rome” project?

NC: We are always looking for students interested in technology, computers, mapping, like using geographic information systems, using computers to create historic maps. We’re interested in people who like Rome, who like history, who like to make sense of things as they were, physical spaces that somehow, although they were build 2,000 years ago, are still meaningful, they still are exciting, they still move us emotionally.

The Dartmouth College Rome Center is a nice way to merge hightech computer programing with the humanities, so it’s a nice way to bridge things that might otherwise be very separate and in two different niches.

For students, it’s like, ‘Oh, are you a science student or are you a humanities student?’ Well this is the kind of student who is both. And it’s the kind of student that frankly I have found a lot of at Dartmouth because the interests are often very broad and students are smart and curious.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

COURTESY OF NICOLA CAMERLENGHI

Art history professor Nicola Camerlenghi and his colleagues mapped Roman art.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

ART AND THE POWERFUL MALE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017

RACHEL LINCOLN ’20

TODAY

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Lecture: “The Musical Protolanguage Hypothesis and the Origins of Poetry,” with Texas Tech University professor Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro, Thornton Hall 103

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Theatre: “Medea,” by Euripides, in a version by Ben Power, directed

by Kelleen Moriarty ’19, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Performance: Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

9:00 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.

Film: “It,” directed by Andrew Muschietti, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

SUNDAY

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Film: “Jane,” directed by Brett Morgen, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Review: Michelle Obama-inspired ‘Courage is Contagious’

By JORDAN McDONALD The Dartmouth

An ode to former first lady Michelle Obama, “Courage is Contagious: And Other Reasons to be Thankful for Michelle Obama” takes on the task of memorializing and honoring the legacy of Obama as a cultural icon through a collection of written reflections. The book’s editor, Nick Haramis, compiled essays by actors, writers, fashion designers, activists, high schoolers and others in order to participate in the process of unpacking the Obama family’s legacy in America and the significance of Obama’s navigation of the first lady position.

In the words of Lena Dunham, whose essay opens the collection, Obama “fully and completely rejiggered our notion of what a first lady could and should be.”

She is a figure whose image and actions could easily be the subject of a much longer work detailing the implications of the first AfricanAmerican first lady and all her specific political engagements, with issues spanning from American health to the educational access of young women and girls around the world. But this collection diverts from such a template, instead opting for a personal and accessible

narrative of Obama. It is a narrative which considers her not only in the context of what she has done, but also as who she has shown herself to be and what she represents to the American people.

My favorite essays were those written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Janet Mock and Tracee Ellis Ross. All of the essays in the collection contain special anecdotes and reflections, but these three exemplify the importance of Obama as a public figure and as a woman and do so with particular care given to the intricacies of the black female experience in the United States and what it meant when the first lady of the nation was, in fact, a black woman.

An acclaimed Nigerian author, Adichie approaches Obama both as she was seen and as she presented herself, engaging with the racial and gendered politics that informed her public perception as well as Obama’s own reluctance to take on the position of first lady.

As first lady, Obama was in many ways called to mold her image into something more palatable to the American public’s conception of what a wife and mother should be as well as how a first lady ought to exemplify those characteristics for the nation. American caricatures

of black femininity, particular those depicting black women as abrasive, emasculating and invulnerable, were imposed upon her actions in the limelight and were used by many to discredit and delegitimize her claim to the position.

Despite this, Obama actively challenged the American people to reflect both personally and on the country’s history throughout her time in the White House, remaining forthright about what she considered the nation’s shortcomings and sins.

At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she unapologetically proclaimed that “every day I wake up in a house built by slaves.”

In her essay, Adichie writes that “[Obama] is a descendant of slaves ... ambivalence should be her birthright.” And yet, Obama is not an ambivalent figure in American politics; rather, her brand of patriotism is informed by a critical engagement with the American past and present, and a strong interest in its future.

Transgender rights advocate and writer Mock wrote about the sense of familiarity many Americans found in Obama. An AfricanAmerican who calls Hawaii home, Mock felt a special connection with Barack Obama due to their shared backgrounds, but found

herself drawn to Michelle Obama as “one of the visible black women in the world.” Her perseverance and presence welcomed many Americans who had “been told we did not belong,” offering them a sense of inclusion in the American vision, “with [Michelle Obama’s] invitation she seemed to be saying that this house ... belonged to us.”

Michelle Obama’s decidedly collectivist and futurist approach to engagement with the American public is emphasized in Mock’s citing of Michelle Obama’s own words that demanded that we “build a country worthy of [our] boundless promise.” A woman whose place in history is still being grappled with, Michelle Obama’s legacy is one which Mock reflects upon intently, calling attention to the ways that she opened up the White House to American people and worked to secure a space for those who would come after her.

“She made it clear that when she, as a black woman, entered that historic space, she may have been the first to be let in, but that it was her duty to ensure that she would not be the last,” Mock wrote.

Ross articulates Michelle Obama’s significance as one which represents the “ripening” of a woman into her true self under

public scrutiny and the ways that such a honest self-presentation called into question preconceptions about what a first lady is and what a black woman can be. Ross reflects on Michelle Obama’s inner strength as rooted in her undeniable humanity rather than an imagined superhumanity. Exploring Obama’s resilience while facing criticism and opposition, Ross writes that “the more the wind whipped around her, the sturdier she became.” Her essay is a kind of love letter to Michelle Obama, a woman whom Ross credits with challenging the painful stereotypes of Black women that persist. Ross names Michelle Obama as a figure who made it possible for her character on ABC’s “Black-ish,” a mixed-race black female doctor and mother of five, to become plausible in the American imagination. Michelle Obama’s real-world demonstration of her full personhood and complexity allowing for other representations of thoughtful, joyful and layered black women in American entertainment, too. The collection of essays culminate in Ross’ encapsulation of Michelle Obama’s impact: “to have her name prefaced by two things that are rarely associated with black women — ‘first’ and ‘lady’ — well, it shattered everything.”

Column: Can Dartmouth get sustainable food access right?

By HAN VALE

The Dartmouth

Recently, Dartmouth announced a clear commitment to address food sustainability throughout campus dining by initiating the formation of a “food working group” comprised of a collective of students, faculty and staff. As one of the students serving in this group, I am as nervous as I am hopeful, and while not jaded, certainly uncertain. I wonder — what would a comprehensive sustainable food action plan look like, and how could we direct our efforts into getting it right?

By “getting it right,” I mean creating an equitable and sustainable solution to a College food ecosystem, addressing wellresearched need in ways that embrace and respect the voices of our suppliers, staff and students.

Sustainability is both notoriously hard and, frankly, notoriously onesided, often overlooking the ways solutions could impact or exclude the most vulnerable members of communities. As the school moves toward a more sustainable campus food system, the needs of students must be remembered and realized.

If Dartmouth “gets it right” and used this moment as an opportunity to generate novel, creative and

equitable solutions to a complex college-specific food ecosystem, what would this look like? Tailored meal plans? Cooking options? Sourcing culturally relevant ingredients? The solutions are only limited by our vision and understanding.

Work by food activists, thought leaders and students alike has already laid the foundation for realms of possibility when it comes to equitably restructuring a sustainable food system based on community need. For example, the keynote speaker for Food Day, visionary and activist Malik Yakini, solved food issues in his community in the form of creating D-Town Farm and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. Using food both for its value as food and to build and empower communities, Malik and others’ work has more equitably restructured a portion of that food system. Sharing his intellectual and tactical work with institutions, Yakini emphasizes the importance of this method.

At Cornell University, a studentrun and -designed grocery store exists thoughtfully at the intersection of need and sustainability. Called Anabel’s because it is located in Anabel Taylor Hall, the store brings together students and professors from across disciplines, including

finance, food science, architecture and marketing, to merge their skills.

With the intent of alleviating food insecurity on campus, Anabel’s team addresses assessed barriers to access.

The staff create videos, print recipe pamphlets, source from local farms and even hold cooking lessons.

“Anabel’s is comprised of a diverse array of students from many different disciplines who are committed to improving Cornell’s food system,” said Alexandra Donovan, a Cornell ’18 and one of the grocery store’s leading team members. “We see the store and our educational programming as a piece of the complex puzzle of food security in the college context.”

The Anabel’s team has proved that at the intersection of sustainability and justice, creative and novel systems can reshape and objectively better a community. Carefully and cross-disciplinarily examining both access and sustainability, devising creative, specific solutions to specific problems and working diligently to achieve success with this program have made the space revolutionary. I am not saying something like Anabel’s would be a component of Dartmouth’s new sustainable food system, but Dartmouth could and should very well use this sustainability-focused

moment to utilize the school’s collective thought power and affect lasting, sustainable and equitable

improvements to our campus food system. Dartmouth has the chance to get food right.

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TODAY’S LINEUP

W HOCKEY VS YALE 6 P.M.

After Ivy Scrimmages, squash teams set sights on top eight

By SABA NEJAD

The Dartmouth Staff

Last season, the men’s and women’s squash teams each finished ninth in the nation, one spot away from the top-eight status that distinguishes the best teams in the College Squash Association. This winter, both squads have a top-eight ranking in their sights.

The women’s squash team has been on an upswing the past two seasons. It has been ranked between No. 9 and No. 11 in the country and won the Kurtz Cup, the B Division national tournament, the past two years. If the team keeps improving, it has a chance to break into the A Division and compete for the Howe Cup at the end of the season.

“We all know that if we work hard this year, breaking into the top eight is perfectly doable,” co-captain Zainab Molani ’18 said.

What’s different this year? For one thing, the team graduated two members of the Class of 2017 and added three first-years: Brynn Bank ’21, Ellie Gozigian ’21 and Sandra Reiss ’21.

On the Brinck

with Nathan Albrinck ’20 Will the Saints come marching in?

A f t e r t h r e e c o n s e c u t i v e, disappointing 7-9 seasons and an 0-2 start this year, the New Orleans Saints have reeled off six straight wins and are making a case they could go deep in the playoffs.

Despite the team’s struggles in recent years, the Saints offense has been as good or better than every other team in the league. Unfortunately, pairing a powerhouse offense with a pitiful defense has been a common storyline for the Saints in recent

“The ’21s bring a lot of energy and fun to practice,” Molani said. “They are so confident, both on and off the court, and that really comes across in how they play and their determination to win. Losing the ’17s and some of our other teammates this year was tough, but ultimately we still have a great team.”

The team played its first matches of the year at the Ivy Scrimmages this past weekend, coming into the tournament ranked seventh and finishing the day in seventh. Dartmouth opened the weekend by taking three of nine matches from the University of Pennsylvania, who finished last season ranked No. 2 in the country. The performance bodes well for the Big Green, which has not won more than one regular-season individual match against Penn since at least 2008.

The team ended Ivy Scrimmages with a 6-3 loss to Columbia University and a 5-4 win over Brown University.

Head coach Hansi Wiens said he will be expecting more from seniors in terms of mental toughness in how they perform and how they finish their matches.

“I expect the team to be close together,” he said. “They’re very very deep — deepest team we’ve had for a while ­— and I’m looking forward to the season.”

Molani hopes to set an energetic and engaged tone in the season opener against George Washington University. In a positive sign for the Big Green, the squad’s within-team challenge matches have had much closer scores this season than in years past.

“It shows that our ladder has a lot of people with similar playing ability and this makes our ladder strong,” Molani said. “A strong ladder will really help us do well against teams we have struggled to beat in the past.”

The men’s team finished ninth last season, a disappointing result after the team broke into the top eight in the 2015-16 season for the first time in four seasons. In a remarkable run, the men ranked as high as No. 5 nationally, defeated Harvard University for the first time in almost 70 years and qualified for the Potter Cup, the A Division national championship, for the first time since 2011-2012. Last

year, the team spent most of the season at No. 8 and No. 9 in the nation.

Jack Harvey ’18 thinks last year’s dip in the national standings has more to do with the variability in competition than the actual ability of the team. Like Molani, Harvey believes that the level of play has increased every year since he joined the team.

“What makes squash so unique is the fact that we placed two spots higher in the final season rankings in [the 2014-15 season] than we did in [the 2016-17 season],” Harvey said.

“However in my opinion, if those two teams were to play today, our team from last year would beat the previous year’s team pretty badly.”

A proud moment for the team last season was bringing the Hoehn Cup, named for longtime Dartmouth coach Edward Hoehn, back to Hanover.

While the squad hopes to place higher than it did last year and qualify for the Potter Cup, it is more focused on growing as a team, according to Harvey.

“We have an incredible class of freshmen, all of which have the ability

to play in the top nine,” Harvey said.

“I think this is the strongest team that I have been on here at Dartmouth.”

Toby Harding ’21, who hails from Bristol, England, is the second international player on Dartmouth’s roster, joining Brandon De Otaduy Nam ’20. James Bell ’21 has ranked as high as No. 17 in the United States while Reg Anderson ’21 has been as high as No. 12.

“On this team, anyone could play in the top 10, [depending] on the week and on injuries,” Wiens said.

At Ivy Scrimmages, the men picked up a 9-0 win over Brown and lost 5-4 to Penn and Princeton University.

“It’s a little early to say where we can be or where we can’t be, but there’s a lot of potential out there,” Wiens said about both teams.

His goal for the season, like many of his players, is to break into the top eight teams in the country.

Dartmouth will face its first regularseason test on Saturday, Dec. 2 in Annapolis, Maryland as the men face the United States Naval Academy and the women take on George Washington University.

years. New Orleans finished first in total yards in 2014 and 2016 and second in 2015. Their defense ended 31st in total yards in 2014 and 2015 and 27th in 2016.

Over their win streak, the Saints have won by an average of over 15 points, including three blowout wins by over 20 points. Their recent success can be attributed to the everyouthful Drew Brees, a reenergized defense and a strong 2017 National Football League Draft class.

Since his trade to the Big Easy before the 2006 season, Brees has cemented his place in Canton as a future Hall-of-Famer. In 11 full seasons with the Saints, Brees has led the league in passing seven times, gone to the Pro Bowl 10 times and won the only Super Bowl in Saints history. He has five 5,000yard seasons — the only player in NFL history with multiple 5,000-yd seasons.

This season, Brees is once again playing at a high level. Halfway through the 2017 season, he has passed for 2,214-yds, 13 touchdowns and only four interceptions. Though these numbers aren’t as impressive as Saints fans might be used to, he is passing more efficiently than he ever has before, completing passes at a rate of 71.6 percent. With

Brees at the helm, the Saints offense has been bolstered by recent draft picks Alvin Kamara and Brandon Coleman and a resurgent defense, ranked 13th in the league in 2017.

With their first pick in the 2017 Draft, the Saints drafted Marshon Lattimore at No. 11 from Ohio State University. Lattimore has immediately become one of the best cornerbacks in the league.

Opposing quarterbacks have a brutal 37.4 passer rating with Lattimore in coverage, the second lowest mark in the NFL. Late in the first round, with their second pick in the draft, the Saints were able to draft Ryan Ramczyk, who dropped to the No. 32 slot because of injury worries. Ramczyk has started every game this season on an offensive line that has only allowed Brees to be sacked eight times all year.

The Saints drafted Marcus Williams, a safety from Utah, with their third pick of the draft.

Williams, another every-game starter for the Saints, has proved an effective deep safety for head coach Sean Payton. Williams’ fit at safety allowed the Saints to move their utility man, Kenny Vaccaro, to a more permanent role as a slot cornerback, where he has emerged

as a defensive force in his fifth season with the Saints. Vaccaro holds opposing quarterbacks to a 40.7 passer rating, just behind Lattimore at third in the league.

New Orleans traded up to get Kamara, a running back from the University of Tennessee, with the No. 67 pick. Kamara’s impact has been quickly felt as a complement to Mark Ingram. Kamara has 311 yards and three touchdowns so far this season, with an impressive six yards per carry. He’s also the Saints third leading receiver, with 38 receptions, 341 receiving yards and two more touchdowns.

After their 0-2 start, Saints defensive coordinator Dennis Allen altered his defensive strategy.

They began favoring man coverage over zone coverage and blitzing significantly more, from 28 percent of snaps after two games to 39 percent of snaps now, the sixth highest rate in the NFL. Allen’s strategy has been paying dividends. In the Saints’ two losses, the Minnesota Vikings scored 29 points and the New England Patriots scored 36 points. Since then, the Saints have given up an average of just 15 points per game, though this is skewed by a 52-38 win over the Detroit Lions. Excluding

that shootout, the Saints have given up 16.7 points per game.

Even against the Lions, where the Saints gave up 38 points (though 14 points came from a Brees interception returned for a touchdown and a punt return), the defense still saved the day. Four minutes into the game, Vaccaro recovered a fumble in the end zone.

In the third quarter, Lattimore returned a Matthew Stafford pass for six points. And finally, with five minutes to go in the game and the Lions on the brink of a 35-point comeback, Cameron Jordan intercepted a pass at the goal line to put the Saints up two scores.

At 6-2, the Saints have a halfgame lead on the Carolina Panthers for the NFC South lead. As well as they have played, the Saints’ recent stretch of games has been an easier portion of their schedule this season. Payton and the Saints still have to play the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams all on the road, as well as Atlanta and Carolina again at home.

New Orleans looks to be well on its way to getting more than seven wins for the first time since 2013 but have their work cut out for them in the second half of the season.