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Native American studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80’s nomination to succeed Michael Mastanduno as the next dean of the faculty of arts and sciences was met with much discussion, and on May 22, Duthu declined the position and decided to step down from his current position as associate dean of interdisciplinary studies, effective July 1. In the two months between his nomination and rescindment, concerns were raised over his 2013 co-authorship of a declaration supporting a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, sparking campus-wide debate.

In a regularly-scheduled faculty meeting on the same day as

Many students traveled to Boston this past weekend for the Boston Calling Music Festival.

Residence access restricted

By THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Card access to residence halls is restricted to residents only after a student received a threatening message as part of an internet scam, according to a campus-wide alert sent Sunday evening. Hanover Police has confirmed that the email sent to the student was a scam, and the student is safe and has been offered support resources from the College,

according to the alert, signed by interim Safety and Security director Keysi Montás and associate dean of residential life Mike Wooten.

Safety and Security has also increased the number of campus patrols “to provide reassurance to the community,” the campus-wide email stated.

Residence hall restrictions will be in place for an undetermined amount of time “in response to heightened student concerns.”

The internet scam has

surfaced periodically since 2011 and identifies a party as a “target for harm unless monetary compensation is paid,” according to the email.

The scam is unrelated to, but follows, a burglary at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority on Wednesday and a reported laundry bag theft from a residence hall on Friday.

“We know this has been a difficult week,” the email stated. “Please don’t hesitate to ask for help if you need it.”

SEE DUTHU PAGE 5

Panhell introduces changes to rush

By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff

The Panhellenic Council recently voted to change its name to the Inter-Sorority Council and restructure the formal sorority recruitment process. The name change will come into effect over the summer, and the rush

changes, which include restructuring rounds one and two to an open-house format, will be enacted in the fall.

Panhell held three town hall meetings during spring term with council members, sorority presidents and rush chairs. President of Alpha Xi Delta sorority SEE PANHELL PAGE 3

UFC allocates $1.1 million Student Activities Budget

By MIKE JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

The Undergraduate Finance Committee released its allocation decisions for the $1.1 million Student Activities Budget on Friday. The budget is similar to that of the previous year other than a $7,000 increase in allocation to both the Special Programs and Events Committee and the Programming Board, because of increased security measures on Green Key weekend and student event funding requests.

Council on Class Officers received $29,500; Homecoming Bonfire, $33,265; Greek Leadership Council, $39,782; Student Assembly, $44,000; club sports, $48,095; Dartmouth Outing Club, $53,139; Collis Governing Board, $84,576; SPEC, $176,442; Council on Student Organizations, $280,000; and PB, $328,202.

The budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year was $1,117,000, an increase of $17,000 from the previous year, according to UFC chair Brian Mc Gartoll ’19. The UFC funds for the next fiscal year comes from the student

activity fee charged to each student’s tuition this year, which is currently $89 per term. The College’s fiscal year begins in the summer term and ends at the conclusion of spring term.

Mc Gartoll said much of the $17,000 increase in the budget went to SPEC and PB. SPEC, which funds programs hosted by undergraduate student organizations that require more than $5,000, has seen an increase in funding requests for events like PRIDE week, Mc Gartoll said. Beginning last year, PRIDE has lasted two weeks instead of one. PB’s increase in funding was in

response to the new security protocols, including wristbands for entry and a barrier for the Green Key concert, Mc Gartoll added.

The funds allocated to other organizations mostly remained the same compared to those of the previous year.

The DOC, club sports and GLC saw an increase of $1,347, $1,283 and $938 in funding, respectively. On the other hand, CGB and the Homecoming Bonfire received about $100 less than they did last year. The Council on Class Officers SEE UFC PAGE 5

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Nine first-year Geisel students receive Schweitzer Fellowships

By JULIAN NATHAN

The Dartmouth Staff

Nine first-year Geisel School of Medicine students will be awarded the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.

Each year, approximately 250 firstyear graduate students from across the country begin community service projects addressing chronic health conditions and the underlying causes of health inequities as fellows. The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship provides fellowship recipients with a $2,000 stipend for each project.

This year’s recipients include Nasim Azizgolshani Med’20, Sarah Bennett ’16 Med’20, Frederick Burton III Med’20, Melissa Cantave ’16 Med’20, Louisa Chen Med’20, Chad Lewis Med’20, Lucas Mayer Med’20, Jacob Perlson Med’20 and Trenika Williams Med’20.

Mayer, who will be working with Lewis, said that their project aims to increase interest in science, technology, engineering and math fields within the student body of Hartford High School in Hartford, Vermont. Lewis echoed this sentiment.

“Someday, I want the kids who go through our program to look back and have fond memories of a meaningful [science, technology, engineering and math] experience,” Lewis said.

As part of this program, high school students will complete STEMrelated projects, including one experiment in which students will create remote-controlled cockroaches with electrodes, Lewis said. Mayer added that students will also hear from guest speakers and travel to STEM workplaces, such as an electrical engineering laboratory.

Mayer added that such a program could be useful for students at Hartford High School because while STEM opportunities and technology companies are common in Hanover and Lebanon, they are considerably rarer in the immediate areas surrounding the high school.

Perlson said that his project will focus on raising awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. PrEP is a drug treatment regimen that dramatically reduces the risk of becoming infected with HIV, but not everybody who could benefit from the drug knows htat it is available, he added.

Perlson said he will be partnering with community organizations in New Hampshire, places where people receive treatment and preventative care for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and the HIV program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to raise awareness of the drug in populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV, such as the LGBTQ community.

He added that since gay and bisexual men are disproportionately affected by HIV, he will raise awareness of PrEP using geolocation-based dating apps where gay and bisexual men meet partners.

Bennett said that when she heard of women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Pati Hernández’s “Telling My Story” program, which seeks to empower and build relationships between individuals through theatre, through the Beyond the Books program at Geisel, she and Cantave developed the idea to incorporate the program’s confidence-building elements into a project benefiting children.

She explained that as part of her project, she and Cantave will work with female juniors and seniors at Stevens High School in Claremont. to build a sense of community and increase the girls’ confidence.

Bennett added that it is important to maximize these traits because they have protective effects on mental health and can prevent substance abuse.

Bennett said that their project will also teach girls other skills, such as how to draft a résumé and write a personal statement.

Williams said she first learned of the Schweitzer Fellowship during her medical school search process, adding that Geisel students consistently winning the fellowship was a factor in her decision to attend.

As part of her project, she and Burton will collaborate with the Grafton County Senior Citizen Council’s “Meals on Wheels” program to deliver healthy foods to homebound seniors. She and Burton will also conduct health check-ins with the seniors to ensure that their medical needs are addressed.

Williams said that she hopes her project will make senior citizens feel more comfortable, more autonomous and less isolated.

She said that she was inspired to undertake this particular project because of her experiences as a home healthcare worker in Indiana. As a healthcare worker, she noticed that some of her clients were “forgotten” and went for weeks at a time without visitors, she said.

Williams said that upon her arrival to Hanover, she learned that homebound seniors in the Upper Valley faced similar problems.

“Once we knew that this was a problem here too, we wanted to do something about it,” she said.

Williams said that she expects that her experience as a Schweitzer Fellow next year will help her become a better doctor because it will afford her the opportunity to connect with an underserved population outside of

a clinical setting.

“You treat people better when you get to know the people that you are treating,” she said.

Chen said that she and Azizgolshani will direct a harm reduction program based out of the Claremont Soup Kitchen. As part of this program, she and Azizgolshani will distribute clean needles, sharps containers and naloxone to intravenous drug users. Naloxone, commonly known Narcan, is a life-saving drug that can treat opioid overdoses in emergency situations, but high drug costs prevent some intravenous drug users from accessing the medication, she said.

Chen added that nasal formulations of naloxone cost between $200 and $300 and that naloxone auto-injectors can cost as much as $6,000.

She explained that distributing clean needles and sharps containers to intravenous drug users can help prevent the spread of blood-borne diseases like HIV and hepatitis C. Chen added that she and Azizgolshani will also educate intravenous drug users about how to treat other complications of intravenous drug use, such as abscesses.

Chen said she decided to take on this project because of her previous experience opening a needle exchange program in Orange County, California. She said that upon her arrival to Dartmouth, she learned the extent of the opioid crisis in the Upper Valley and was inspired to take action.

New Hampshire/Ver mont Schweitzer Program Director Nancy Gabriel said that applicants for the fellowship were required to complete a written application that detailed key information about their projects.

Project proposals were evaluated on the basis of practicality, alignment with a community-identified need and sustainability, she said.

Gabriel said that each year, the selection committee allocates five project spots to applicants from Geisel. This year, 27 Geisel students, one- third of Geisel’s first-year class, applied for the fellowship. The students proposed14 different projects consistent with the medical school’s “service-oriented” culture.

Geisel Schweitzer Fellowship coordinator and Geisel professor Timothy Lahey said faculty help students with their project proposals by assisting in identifying a “sweet spot,” balancing innovative project ideas and the likelihood that a project will be sustainable. He added that the fellowship will help Geisel students become better doctors because it will teach them how to perform effective service work and reinforce the idea that the ultimate purpose of medicine is to help others.

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Panhell to become Inter-Sorority Council as of summer FROM PANHELL PAGE 1

Katherine Flessel ’18 said Panhell held the meetings to discuss points of frustration with the rush process and potential changes. After the last town hall, Panhell voted on and passed the new recruitment system, she said.

The new system changes the first two rounds of sorority rush so that instead of having structured schedules of house visits, Panhell rush will instead operate in an open house fashion, according to Flessel.

Unlike the previous structure where PNMs had to attend a 45-minute party at each of the houses, PNMs will now be able to choose how much time they spend at each house, she said.

Each house will offer at least six hours of open house time for PNMs, and there will be a minimum and maximum amount of time during which PNMs can visit a house. In the first round, PNMs will visit all seven houses and stay for at least 30 minutes but not more than 90 minutes. In the second round, PNMs can be called back to a maximum of four houses and will stay at each house for anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours.

PNMs will swipe their student IDs at each house to monitor the time

they spend at each house during rounds one and two.

Panhell co-vice president of recruitment Paige Mickel ’18 said that the motivation behind the change in format is that PNMs are now able to leave after only 30 minutes, as opposed to 45, allowing PNMs to maximize their time at their preferred houses.

The new changes will also include eliminating the silence period, which was a period lasting one or two days between preference night and bid night in which no affi liated sisters could speak to PNMs, Flessel said.

Mickel said that most of the changes were formalized this term.

She added that no sorority houses were happy with how the process operated before, but that it took time to create a complete plan because of the differing parts of the process up for change.

“There’s historically been a lot of anxiety and negative feelings towards rush ... so we wanted to relax the process more,” Mickel said. “That was the motivation behind the formatting changes ... especially comparing it to the men’s rush system where virtually none of these rules exist.”

The changes are meant to make the rush process less formal

and more “organic,” Mickel said.

She said that under the previous system, other time commitments would negatively affect PNMs, such as athletes who had practice or students with labs, leading many of them to drop out of the process. Additionally, she said that the new system aims to give houses more flexibility in scheduling their parties.

Flessel said that she thinks the motivations behind the new changes are to make a system that gives more agency to PNMs to choose where they end up so that they can find better-fit houses than they would have under the previous system.

As a result of these changes, the new structure is also expected to reduce the number of possible rush violations because of the new flexibility with open houses, Flessel said.

“For example, if a girl has to go to the bathroom during an open house, she isn’t going to be rude and be penalized for that rudeness because she has more flexibility,” Flessel said. “Since she is no longer being constrained to 45 minutes per house, she is able to go to the bathroom and not worry that she is being rude to a sister or not making a good impression.”

Flessel said that PNMs will be encouraged to sign up for open houses in order to gauge how many people will be attending an open house at a time, but that PNMs will not be held strictly to the open house times. She added that, like last year, PNMs will only have three or four houses to visit in the second round, compared to seven during the first round.

Last spring, Panhell and sorority presidents voted to change the rules so that potential new members would no longer be guaranteed a callback for round two of the sorority recruitment process.

Former Panhell recruitment chair Alexis Wallace ’17 said at the time that the change was meant to create more transparency in the process, as bids are not actually guaranteed until preference night.

When asked about the reasons behind the re-branding of the Panhellenic Council to the InterSorority Council, Mickel said that Panhellenic Council is the name for councils of national sororities at every other college and usually does not include local houses. She said that unlike most colleges’ Panhellenic Councils, Dartmouth’s Panhellenic Council includes both national and local houses.

“We kind of realized that

the name should be based on Dartmouth’s environment and the fact that half of Dartmouth’s sororities are local — it wasn’t really representative of everyone at D a r t m o u t h ’s va l u e s a n d even national sororities’ values sometimes,” Mickel said. “So we just felt it was more appropriate to have a more Dartmouth centered name and Inter-Sorority Council is more representative of our goals.”

Mickel added that the Panhellenic Council name tended to primarily be associated with rush.

“Although rush is a pretty big part of what we do ... we also are trying to do a lot of general Greek stuff, like programming and outreach to freshman, and general Greek stuff to benefit the Dartmouth community, not just rush,” Mickel said.

Flessel said that AXiD is excited about the new system because it will create more transparency in the formal rush process.

“I am really excited about the fact that our PNMs are going to get a lot more info about our sorority and how financial aid works for everyone,” Flessel said. “This will allow us to show that sororities can cover full financial aid for girls.”

Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority recruitment chair Preeti Rishi ’18 said that she does not think many of the new changes will apply to EKT because EKT does not participate in the formal rush process. Instead, EKT uses a shakeout process, which is already in an open-house style. Sigma Delta sorority used a shakeout process for the first time last fall and winter.

“I think that people are kind of realizing that what we do is a good model of how recruitment works really well for us,” Rishi said.

Rishi, who went through formal rush herself for one day, said it was a rigid structure because PNMs have to go to every party and risk being punished for a violation if they do not spend enough time at each house. She added that formal rush is complex because, although PNMs are allowed to both shake out and go through formal rush, they cannot be given simultaneous bids through each process.

She said she thinks the removal of the silence period will increase transparency and help houses communicate with one another and be more straightforward in extending bids.

Rishi added that if every house goes through the open house process, it will benefit all of the houses and PNMs in general.

“I think if all houses go through [an] open house [rush process], it’s just more kind of systematic and the houses are on kind of a more of a level playing field, and everything is just more of the same and it’ll be easier,” Rishi said.

STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19

GUEST COLUMNIST TERENCE HUGHES ’17

Fighting Back

Behind our Diplomas

We can do more to rid this campus of sexual assault.

I have never felt unsafe on this campus. The weathered buildings straight out of the 18th century, the scenic mountain views and the vivid blades of grass on the Green never posed a threat to me. This space has always been a space of beauty, of quiet comfort, of deep self-reflection.

It has always been a space of security. Until now.

The burglaries, intrusions and gruesome threats directed at Dartmouth women over the last few days have done more than instill a sense of disgust and outrage in all of us. They have made every woman on campus afraid to walk home alone, keep their doors unlocked and even enter their respective Greek organizations, the places that are supposed to be safe havens where they can take refuge from the stress of the daily grind.

This week has been difficult and terrifying for many of us. It has also been a rude awakening to the kind of fright millions of women live with every day of their lives. I have rarely felt the need to look over my shoulder when walking home at night. I have been catcalled but never frightfully harassed. I have always heard stories but was never the subject of one. Especially here, in Hanover, a sheltered small town with a particularly low crime rate, I have always felt protected. In 2012, the Center for Disease Control reported that one in five women will be raped during her lifetime.

On college campuses across the United States, two women are sexually assaulted for every robbery.

I have never had to live through one of those experiences. I was never one of those women.

Students on this campus have to live through this fear every day. Some of them have to see their rapists walking around. Some of them may spend hundreds of hours on therapy. The small dose of their panic I have felt over this last week is a daily nightmare for them which I never truly understood. I never thought so sensibly and so tangibly about the people for whom this kind of violence is forever engrained in memory, for whom fear is permanent.

I also came to register something disturbing about my own way of dealing with each piece of news. After the initial waves of shock and disgust subsided, I spent more time thinking about the perpetrator than about the victims. I wanted to know who could have done this, whether it was one person or a group, whether the events were connected or independent of each other. I wanted to know what could have caused anyone to snap so

violently that they would do what they did, whether out of hatred for women, hatred for themselves or another reason. The attention I gave them, the vast amount of headspace I allowed them to occupy, does nothing but encourage such behavior.

My desire to mentally investigate seems to have overshadowed my empathy for the women to whom this violence was directed. I want whoever is behind these acts to be caught more so because I want this to stop and less so because I want the women who were threatened to receive retribution. I do want both — I can only imagine what those women are going through, and I feel so much sympathy for them and so much anger on their behalf. But the person, or people, who are responsible for this have received more of my mental time and space in the past week than the people that I care about have. I do not know if I have been conditioned to think this way or if I am solely at fault, but these events have given me a disturbing wake-up call. They have also given me an opportunity to reflect on my own faults, on the way I am inadvertently a participant in the culture that normalizes sexual violence, and on how I can shift my thoughts and actions to be a better classmate, ally and friend.

We can do something as a campus. Most obviously, we must stay safe, watch out for each other and communicate with one another. But communicating goes two ways. We need to do more than just talk. Sharing our stories, our fears and our words of wisdom can keep us sane. It can give us comfort and strength. But we also need to listen, not just to our friends and to people we agree with or with whom we have something in common. We also need to keep an ear out for those around us who perpetuate the kind of derogatory, offensive, sexist dialogue that gives others the license to harass. We cannot stop something we ignore, tune out or let pass. Verbal violence is far closer to physical violence than we often realize.

I doubt anyone finds any of this amusing, but just because we think of it as unacceptable does not mean that we did not play a role in permitting it to happen. I am not blaming every person on this campus for what has happened this past week.

But in the horror and revulsion I feel, I know that we can do more for one another. Keeping each other safe needs to be less of a reactive response and more of a proactive, deeply ingrained and self-enforced conduct.

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NEWS EDITOR: Sonia Qin and Amanda Zhou

SUBMISSIONS: We welcome letters and guest columns. All submissions must include the author’s name and affiliation with Dartmouth College, and should not exceed 250 words for letters or 700 words for columns. The Dartmouth reserves the right to edit all material before publication. All material submitted becomes property of The Dartmouth. Please email submissions to editor@thedartmouth.com.

Consider Dartmouth from a staff member’s perspective.

When interviewing staff, I took note of symbols perhaps before taking note of stories. While a Dartmouth-crested polo commands uniformity in a way that makes a staff member seamlessly blend into the background, a wedding ring, Boston Red Sox hat and wrist tattoo reaffirm personhood and individuality.

I learned a great deal about perspective in these interviews. Consider the Green. We see a space where students lounge between classes, where tours traverse with visitors, where a farmer’s market gathers in warm months. On the other hand, staff see a space where underground sprinkler systems cross like road maps, where re-seeding is done frequently, where constant maintenance is needed to keep up appearances.

In this way, Dartmouth is a metaphorical stage.

“Onstage” is a place populated by students and faculty where academic research thrives, visitors come to observe and students grow into themselves.

But there is also an “offstage,” where staff ensure that chemistry hoods function properly so faculty can conduct their research, that someone is behind the counter at Late-Night Collis when we drunkenly stumble in to grab mozzarella sticks, that classroom projectors work so Dartmouth can continue on being a top school for undergraduate teaching. What happens offstage frequently makes what happens onstage possible.

These metaphors, stories and reflections have emerged throughout the past two terms as I conducted ethnographic research for my senior capstone project, “Staff Narratives at Elite Academic Institutions.” In my research, I conducted interviews and focus groups with campus maintenance staff. As an anthropology major, I often feel a fundamental tension in the assumption that to do anthropology properly, you must travel far away and experience “otherness.”

But I have learned that anthropology does not have to be elsewhere. As a first-generation college student from a blue-collar family, I often reflect on the unspoken ways in which class touches each corner of our community. Accordingly, I began to question how I might engage anthropologically with this place I call “home.” How might this permit new levels of empathetic engagement with otherwise unheard narratives on campus?

My fieldwork quickly brought me to the intersection of recognition and labor, leading me to consider Dartmouth through the lens of economic anthropology. Economic anthropologists analyze how commodities are produced, what the labor behind a commodity entails and what a commodity means to its consumer. Consumers frequently forget — or perhaps are encouraged to overlook — the labor that produces the commodity they consume.

Through my research, I began to consider Dartmouth as a commodity. Who consumes Dartmouth? Who labors to produce Dartmouth?

How do politics of (mis)recognition interweave producers and consumers here in our community?

In many ways, students, faculty and administrators “consume” the institution. We attach Dartmouth to our résumé to land jobs. We sit in classrooms, offices and research labs, simultaneously consuming and producing knowledge.

But like any other commodity, there is a disconnect. There is much that goes into the making of Dartmouth as image and as a physical space. In time, I realized that even as a first-

generation college student from a blue-collar background, I did not understand the work and the experiences that make this place the commodity it is. Despite my appreciation for the work that I grew up watching my parents do, I failed to consider the effort it took staff to create a space in which I, and others, could perform our Dartmouth experiences.

In conducting my research, I heard beautifully complex narratives that cannot be distilled down into an op-ed. I listened as staff reflected on what working at Dartmouth before co-education was like, sharing stories of fishing with students each year in the Second College Grant. I laughed alongside staff members when they questioned the purpose of “The Onion” or asked me why we voluntarily drink Keystone Light. I heard stories about how working at Dartmouth is the dream job for many because of the financial and personal stability it provides.

Staff members also shared the frustration they feel when the 500th student in a row shows up at the Novack Café window engrossed in his phone, not knowing what to order. They shared their experiences cleaning up the vomit of students who didn’t bother to leave an apology note or even attempt to clean up after themselves. I listened as they confided in me the ways faculty frequently make them feel as if their time is not valuable.

Their jobs, such as testing the smoke alarms or fixing classroom technology, are commonly viewed as disturbances, and staff are asked to “come back later,” as if they don’t have schedules, lives and families of their own to tend to.

Listening to these stories impacted me.

How might they come together to impact our community?

Like most questions in anthropology, the answer is that it’s complicated. But one step is to remember that we all have blind spots that prevent us from seeing the world exactly as it is. All members of our community are in a position to better acknowledge the labor that produces Dartmouth as we consume it. I realized I was blind to how, as I go about being onstage, I consume Dartmouth without properly recognizing those working offstage who make my life here possible. I also found a blind spot through my assumptions; specifically, I assumed that an offstage existence would be a “lesser” existence.

When I started this project, I assumed that staff members were unhappy because their work was invisible; as an idealistic student, I assumed I could fix this unhappiness. However, the lived truth forced me to understand offstage Dartmouth on its own terms, not as a space inherently devoid of value but as one that can offer stability, community and personal meaning to those within it, even without proper recognition by those onstage.

We must therefore critically self-examine our personal blind spots and how our onstage position at Dartmouth impacts what we recognize and what we misrecognize. We can translate this reflection on personal blind spots into an understanding that we — as those onstage — are in a position of privilege from which we can better demonstrate appreciation. Thus, we can reframe our understanding of offstage Dartmouth as a space that does not need consumer recognition to be intrinsically valuable but deserves it. As students, we must empathetically engage with the stories of those who work to build our community.

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Following faculty discussions, Duthu will not reconsider decision FROM DUTHU PAGE 1

Duthu’s announcement, the faculty voted to unanimously reaffirm their support of Duthu as dean of faculty. The motion passed without opposition.

Despite College faculty’s affirmation of support, Duthu does not plan to accept the position. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Duthu expressed the reasoning behind his decision and outlook following his rescindment.

“I felt that my integrity was on the line in terms of being able to honestly look at the job and feel like, so long as this opposition is out there, then I could not adequately do my job as dean,” he said. “The other piece of it, to be completely honest, was that I felt that it would have been important to have a very strong and early and public statement of support from the administration at the earliest outset, which could have been very helpful to tamp down what became a louder call.”

Duthu also expressed his frustration that Gustman denied his request to meet with him. Duthu noted that while he was able to have conversations with two pro-Israeli students, he was not able to have that same kind of conversation with Gustman.

Economics professor Alan Gustman authored a faculty-wide letter criticizing Duthu’s affiliation with BDS on May 3. In his letter, Gustman called for Duthu to publicly denounce his affiliations with the BDS movement or resign his position as dean.

“I don’t agree with the language of [Gustman’s] letter, but I understand the motive,” anthropology and Native American studies professor Sergei Kan said.

He noted that while signing a letter in support of BDS does not make a person anti-Semitic, the Palestinian leadership and some of the European and U.S. core of the BDS movement is anti-Semitic.

While Gustman wrote in his letter due to his affiliation with BDS. that he does not believe that Duthu is Heschel also said that while anti-Semitic, the letter was published the BDS movement is flawed and in Frontpage Magazine on May 5 misguided, signing a petition in under the headline “Dartmouth support of it does not make a person Appoints Anti-Semitic Terrorist anti-Semitic. She also claimed that Enabler as its New Dean.” Though Gustman’s letter went too far. headlines are not always written by the “I find Alan Gustman’s creed authors of the piece, The Dartmouth against [Duthu] was pretty horrific and could not confirm the origins of the offensive and wrong and damaging to headline with Gustman, who declined [Duthu] and to Dartmouth,” Heschel request for comment. said. “I am offended as a member D u t h u of the Dartmouth responded to community by the “As distressing and Gustman’s email way he behaved.” by authoring a spirit-crushing as this F o l l o w i n g f a c u l t y - w i d e experience has been Duthu’s response letter on May 9, letter, Gustman claiming that he for me, it has been authored another supports the right outweighed by the letter to the faculty of private citizens May 9. In this love, the respect, the on to criticize letter, Gustman g o v e r n m e n t encouragement that noted that he found practices. He the overwhelming Duthu’s response added that he letter inadequate, does not support majority of faculty as he did not clearly a boycott of have shown for me.” repudiate the academic BDS movement. institutions. He Gustman called also wrote that he -N. BRUCE DUTHU for Duthu to condemns anti- ’80, NATIVE STUDIES either denounce Semitism, bias t h e m ove m e n t and prejudice PROFESSOR or return to the and claimed that position of faculty his past support where he can hold of boycotts has not affected his role the beliefs of a “private citizen.” as associate dean of interdisciplinary Heschel said she offered to studies. meet with Gustman three times, Chair of the department of Jewish and College spokesperson Diana studies Susannah Heschel said that Lawrence said that Duthu also offered Duthu’s past support of boycotts has to meet with Gustman so that they not affected his work as associate dean. could speak about their differences She noted that he has consistently in opinion. Gustman declined these supported Jewish academia by helping meeting requests. bring Jewish and Israeli scholars to “For me to reach out to a faculty the College, attending events hosted member and ask for a personal by the department and introducing meeting and to have that rejected, guest speakers from the Jewish studies to me was a signal that this was not department. She said that Duthu about engagement,” Duthu said. has been invited to speak at Hebrew Sandor Farkas ’17 was one of the University of Jerusalem. Duthu said two Jewish students who met with that while he would have loved to Duthu following his nomination. speak at the University of Jerusalem, Farkas, the former president of he is prohibited from entering Israel Dartmouth Students for Israel, noted

that he appreciated the opportunity to have a respectful dialogue with Duthu.

Despite the conversation, Farkas still holds his beliefs regarding Duthu’s disqualifying support for BDS. “It’s your duty to encourage the exchange of ideas, not your duty to prevent,” Farkas said. “For as long as Dean Duthu supported BDS, I opposed his appointment as dean.”

Duthu also noted that he blames the lack of conversation following his nomination on what he calls “corrosion of civil discourse” that stems from an “embolden[ed] rightwing and quite narrow-minded perspective that thrives on hate and division instead of openness and fair mindedness to at least try to approach really tough issues with respect for both sides.”

Duthu said that following his nomination, he received a substantial amount of hate mail from both named and anonymous authors. He cited a specific example in which a senior partner at a law firm told him that his decision to resign benefits the College and that he should be ashamed that he ever taught Dartmouth students.

When asked about his support for BDS, Duthu noted that he never fully supported the BDS movement.

He claimed that NAISA instead only supported a boycott and that he no longer believes a boycott is necessary.

“The motive was to express solidarity with Palestinian academics and to offer a critique of specific governmental policies of the state of Israel,” he said. “We were very clear in not endorsing BDS as a movement because we understood that there were segments within that very broad movement that could be interpreted as being anti-Semitic. Anyone who took the time to read out statement would see that we do not reference BDS at all.”

He further noted that he believes that Gustman’s accusations were slanderous.

“I deeply regret the statements made about me, including those made

by Professor Gustman, that could be characterized as slanderous,” Duthu said.

Duthu said that he does not plan to sue Gustman for slander.

“When there is no prospect of true engagement, the only response is to pray for someone like that,” he said. “That is what I will do.”

Duthu plans to continue his work at Dartmouth as a member of the faculty. He hopes that this position will allow him to educate students without facing constant scrutiny for past his beliefs regarding BDS. “As distressing and spirit-crushing as this experience has been for me, it has been outweighed by the love, the respect, the encouragement that the overwhelming majority of faculty have shown for me,” Duthu said.

On May 19, Native Americans at Dartmouth authored a letter of support for Duthu’s appointment, signed by 610 people at press time.

College President Phil Hanlon and Provost Carolyn Dever issued a statement on the same day expressing regret that Duthu declined his appointment.

On May 24, Dartmouth Students for Israel issued a statement in response to the NAD letter. In their email, DSI debated some of the points in the NAD letter, explained the dangers of BDS, noted instances of anti-Semitism at the College and called Duthu’s decision “honorable.”

On May 26, Coalition for IsraelPalestine issued a statement in solidarity with NAD. A search committee will convene to nominate a new dean. The College will also continue its search for a new associate dean of faculty, “The critically important thing in the dean of faculty position is to get a person who is absolutely passionate and committed,” Dever said. “Whoever that person is, if that person brings the right ingredients and the right talents and the right experiences, that’s the right person.”

UFC Student Activities Budget allocations similar to last year FROM UFC PAGE 1

saw a $500 decrease in funding, while the allocated budget of COSO and the Student Assembly remained the same. The Student Assembly has received a fixed allocation for several years, Mc Gartoll said.

The UFC advises the Office of Student Life on allocating the student activity fee. It is comprised of nine student members, nine organizational representatives from the College’s campus organizations, a non-voting chair and two non-voting advisors: associate dean of student life Eric Ramsey and student life

coordinator Juliann Coombs. There is no organizational representative for the Homecoming Bonfire, as the allocated funding only goes toward material and building costs, Mc Gartoll said.

Mc Gartoll said members of the UFC met every Monday this term. He added that the first several meetings were dedicated to discussing each organization’s expenditure of the previous fiscal year’s budget, unexpected expenses and trends in increasing costs. During the next few meetings, organizational representatives presented their budget proposals and explained why their organizations should receive the proposed amount

of funding. Afterward, the UFC voted to agree on a final budget allocation.

Most organizations did not end up receiving the full amount of money they initially asked for, Mc Gartoll said.

DOC president Alex Lochoff ’17 said the organization initially requested $61,152, more than the $53,139 it received. The funds that it received from the UFC, which will supplement the funds the organization already receives from its endowment, will be used to make outdoor activities by its member clubs more affordable as well as expand and support student trips during school breaks, he added.

Lochoff said the DOC requested

more money this term because rising student participation in its trips over the past few years has increased the costs for transportation, lodging and equipment. In the past year alone, the DOC organized nearly 8,000 unique activities for a total of over 50,000 student involvement hours, according to Lochoff.

COSO board member Connor Regan ’18 said the organization asked for $280,000 at the start of this term, which was the same amount of money it requested last year.

“We didn’t necessarily feel that we needed more money,” Regan said. “We focused a lot this past year on increasing

budgetary efficiency so we were able to have more events and more student interactions with each event this year with the same budget.”

Regan said nearly all of the funding COSO receives from the UFC goes toward supporting student events. He added that COSO has seen a general trend in the number of student events on campus as well as the amount of funding for them over the years. COSO is comfortable with the size of its budget at this point, but its proposed budget to the UFC in the future will depend on the number of requests it receives for student events on campus, according to Regan.

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TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Interactive Panel Discussion: “Tackling the New Hampshire Opioid Crisis,” by RSVP only, Common Ground, Collis Center

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

Lecture: “Filtering in Modern Graphics: Thinking Outside the Pixel,” with McGill University professor Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Kemeny Hall 007

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

“Computer Science Unleashed,” presentations by the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab, CS 27, CS 52 and CS 98, Hanover Inn Ballroom

TOMORROW 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Art Exhibit: “Fiber Fusion,” fiber and mixed media works by artists Cindy Heath and Margaret Sheehan, Suite 107, 7 Lebanon Street

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Performance: “Music 32: Improvisation Performance” by Ensemble Polyphonia, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Contemporary Music Lab Spring Concert featuring works by Seth Cluett, Peter Garland, Stefan Maier and Michael Pisaroa, Rollins Chapel

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Film Review: ‘T2 Trainspotting’ mixes the new and nostalgic

By SEBASTIAN WURZRAINER The Dartmouth Staff

In this era of sequels, reboots and remakes, who would have thought that “Trainspotting” would get a second chance to shine.

To be sure, the original is a cult classic and generally considered one of the greatest British films ever made, but it has a fairly selfcontained story that doesn’t invite further continuation. Yet through some miracle that I will not pretend to understand, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge have managed to return over 20 years later to make a sequel that happens to be one of the best films I’ve seen so far this year.

S o m e s e q u e l s a re h i g h l y dependent upon their predecessor, and some can exist entirely independently. “T2 Trainspotting” sits somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. I suppose you could see it without prior knowledge of the original, but you’d probably miss many of the film’s wonderful little nuances. The story picks up 20 years after the first film, which ended with Scottish heroin addict Mark “Rent Boy” Renton (Ewan McGregor) stealing 16,000 pounds in drug money from his three best mates, Daniel “Spud” Murphy (Ewen Bremner), Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller) and Francis “Franco” Begbie (Robert Carlyle). “T2” begins with Renton returning to Edinburgh to confront the sins of his past only to discover the impact of his fateful decision all those years ago. While he may have used the money to clean up his act, get married and build

himself a new life, not everyone else was so lucky. Both Spud and Simon have traveled farther down the rabbit hole of addiction, and Begbie is now in jail, desperate to escape and exact revenge.

Boyle has become famous in the last decade for directing award-winning and prolific work like “Slumdog Millionaire,” “127 Hours” and “Steve Jobs.”

“Trainspotting,” however, was really the film to put him on the map, and it remains his most visceral and stylish work. Much of what made the film great was its ability to be a social critique without being pretentious or heavy-handed. Renton’s nowfamous “Choose life” monologue is a creed against the hypocrisy and shallowness of the middleclass “cultured” society that he has chosen to reject, yet the film never portrays him or his friends as somehow superior. They are lovable yet total wrecks, and the film is honest enough to acknowledge both these facts.

“T2” does what the best follow-ups do by picking up the themes and ideas introduced in the first film and developing them further. In bad sequels or reboots, there is a woeful tendency to cite beloved scenes from the original in the hopes that the audience will nostalgically reminisce and ignore the weaknesses of the film they’re watching. “T2” certainly alludes to key moments from the original but does so intelligently by re-contextualizing those moments.

For example, when the film revisits the “Choose life” speech, Renton no longer rants about the

consumerist society he once hated because he is now, to some extent, a member of that society. Instead, the speech now addresses themes of aging, ennui and the impending feeling of meaninglessness and lack of purpose in life. In a memorable scene, Renton explains that he has been diagnosed with a heart condition, but the doctors predict that he will live for another 30 years. Yet Renton would prefer it if his life expectancy were only a year or two. As he sees it, he at least knows how to squander away his life for a couple of years, but he has no idea how to spend the next 30 years. I find it fascinating how universal the themes can be in a couple of films about heroin addicts.

At the screening I went to, I think I was one of approximately three people who laughed, although the three of us laughed hard. This is another way of saying that this film is simply not for everyone.

Boyle once said that film is a young person’s medium, and even though he’s now 60, he still directs with the zeal of a recently graduated film student. Half of the film looks more like a music video than a cinematic feature, and it’s full of dark humor that some will undoubtedly find intensely alienating. While I loved how refreshingly unrestrained the film felt, I will admit that the brain can only handle so much of this craziness. It’s like going on a roller coaster; you never stop having fun, but at a certain point you do wonder when things will finally slow down.

That being said, because the film is moving so fast, you don’t really have time to notice some of the

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wimp when it comes to temperatures even slightly below 60 degrees (but really, it was the windchill).

Oh Wonder kicked off our second — and last — day at the festival and reminded us of the joy of listening to small, alternative bands à la Misterwives circa Green Key 2015.

Not only did the group perform beloved hits such as “Midnight Moon” and “Without You,” it also played new tracks such as “Ultralife,” the name of the band’s anticipated second album. We followed this high through Tegan and Sara’s performance of “Boyfriend,” The 1975’s performances of “Somebody Else” and “Chocolate” and Mumford & Sons’ performance of “White Blank Page” — obviously, we are all about mainstream hits.

Thegemof thedaywas Carlile.The 35-year-old Americana and folk rock songstress gave an unapologetically

moving performance of “The Story” as well as a sweet tribute to her daughter Evangeline in “Mother.”

However, the real treat came at the end of Mumford & Sons’ set, during which lead singer Marcus Mumford welcomed Carlile, Nathaniel Rateliff and Kevin Garrett to perform “With A Little Help From My Friends.” Carlile outshone everyone on that stage. Even Mumford got lost in her rapturous voice; after he heard Carlile sing “Would you believe in a love at first sight,” he started to sing the next line but couldn’t help laughing and telling the crowd, “She’s so good.” And Carlile, unfazed by the praise, remained completely immersed in the tune, belting her harmonies and adding to the most unforgettable performance of the night. Not bad for a collaboration that “had never been done as a group before,” according to Mumford.

While we obviously can’t give

Boston Calling enough praise, there are flaws in our judgment because we both don’t have other music festival experiences to compare. If we’re comparing this past weekend to Green Key 2017, then Boston Calling is everything and more.

Still, we wished the organizers didn’t schedule performers so close to one another. (Kourtney: I’m still salty that I missed The xx perform “Intro” because the group’s performance overlapped with The 1975’s.) Also, more efficiency in the food lines, please, and chairs because standing for hours really takes a toll on your legs even if we are sprightly 21 year olds.

More importantly, this weekend was a stark eye-opener to the world of music festivals. Like getting tattoos or ear piercings, they’re addicting, and now, we can’t help but look for future festivals to attend.

But thanks to Chance and Carlile, we surely won’t forget our first.

plot cul-de-sacs and clichéd scenes.

Like its predecessor, “T2” doesn’t really have a story and thus is particularly hard to discuss in a review. The film is, when it’s all said and done, far more interested in portraying the lives of these addicts than placing them in a cohesive three-act structure. I will say that none of this mayhem would work if it weren’t for the impeccable performances of the lead actors.

All four fully commit, which is necessary to sell certain scenes, like when McGregor and Miller have to perform a deeply satirical and bigoted song titled “No More

Catholics!”

Near the end of the film, Renton hops on top of a moving car and holds on for dear life in an attempt to escape from Begbie. In many respects, that visual is a metaphor for the entire film. The car plows forward at 160 mph, and you have the option to either hold on or fall off. Which is funny because, like its characters, “T2 Trainspotting” often isn’t actually going anywhere in particular, but it goes with such relish that I can’t help but admire it.

Rating: 8/10

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Students in English professor Michael Chaney’s class “Dave the Potter: Slavery Between Pots and Poems” presented their final projects on Thursday.

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Review: Despite rain, Boston Calling 2017 did not disappoint

By KOURTNEY KAWANO and MADELINE KILLEN The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Through long lines and rain, we, Kourtney and Madeline, successfully survived our first music festival.

Saying we had a blast would be an understatement. Nearly every performer we watched at Boston Calling exceeded our expectations by giving audiences a mix of tracks for new and die-hard fans. Despite the rain on Friday and the subsequent muddy patches throughout Harvard University’s Athletic Complex, the artists and attendees — numbering more than 30,000 thanks to the venue’s relocation from Boston’s City Hall Plaza — embraced the weather to enjoy a weekend celebrating music, comedy and art.

We began our adventure on Friday by watching Francis and the Lights, a one-man “project” by singer Francis Farewell Starlite, who gives off “electro Phil Collins,” vibes according to Madeline. While Starlite’s vocals were mellow enough to entertain us, his eccentric dance moves were the real showstoppers.

Although Starlite was too busy dancing like Michael Jackson to sing most of “I Want You to Shake,” his emotional performance of “My City’s Gone” really sold us on how versatile this artist is. Of course, then Starlite brought out Chance the Rapper to dance onstage with him to “May I Have This Dance,” effectively causing everyone in the crowd to go wild in anticipation for Chance’s performance later that night. It’s okay, Francis. You gained two new fans in us.

Solange had to drop out of Boston Calling last week, and in an effort to fill her spot, the festival booked Migos to replace her. Only thing is, we didn’t anticipate the hour-long set to be filled mostly by some rando named DJ Durel playing the “Top 40” playlist from Spotify and asking if we were ready for Migos yet. Ready as we’ll ever be, DJ Durel. After the Durel-fueled delay that had me (Madeline) wishing I’d brought a book to read in my downtime, hearing “Bad and Boujee,” “T-Shirt” and “Slippery” live was fine but nothing special, no matter how “lit” it may have appeared on our Snapchat stories.

Migos also kept repeatedly thanking the crowd for making it “the number one group in the world,” to which we fact-focused journalists only had

“Excuse me, sirs, by what metric?” as a — yelled, during the concert — response.

During Bon Iver’s set, fans got a rather serendipitous experience.

While we — politely — maneuvered our way toward the front of the green stage for Chance, Bon Iver started to perform “Holocene,” a Grammy-nominated song that evokes the imagery of the cold and wet outdoors. For Scott Lloyd ’19, the moment that ensued felt “scripted and unreal.” Because this is New England and summer here really means winter in California, it started raining as Bon Iver sang the song to the delight of fans who started screaming. The band concluded its set with a soulful rendition of “Skinny Love,” during which lead singer Justin Vernon seemed to have a team of accompanying vocals 30,000 strong. With the rain still pouring, Zoe Leonard ’19 noted that this performance was her favorite.

“It was so magical and couldn’t have been cued any better,” she said.

The highlight of our night, unsur prisingly, was Chance’s performance. His down-to-earth personality — and dimples — made us love him even more. Even with all

of his prestigious accolades, Chance reminded us that he is a people person. He performed his biggest hits off “Coloring Book” as well as crowd favorites such as “Sunday Candy” and “I’m the One.” To go along with his taste for gospel rap, Chance tried to get serious with the crowd during different moments of his show, asking questions such as “How many of you wanna get to heaven” and having people point toward the sky during the line, “When the praises go up” in the song “Blessings.” We weren’t sure what to make of it, but the crowd response was overwhelmingly positive as people clapped, yelled and cheered because well, it’s Chance.

If Friday’s lineup served as an ode to American-based music, then Saturday’s lineup, with the exceptions of singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile and pop duo Tegan and Sara, is evidence that Brits do it better. Oh Wonder, The xx, The 1975 and headliner Mumford & Sons performed killer sets that made us hate ourselves a little less for spending $7 on a suspicious medium rare (just rare?) cheeseburger from Tasty Burger, $8 on beer and $70 on a hoodie because I, Kourtney, am a SEE BOSTON CALLING PAGE 7

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London-based duo Oh Wonder played popular songs such as “Landslide.”

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Fans raised their hands during Chance the Rapper’s performance of “Blessings.”

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Boston Calling 2017’s headliners included Chance the Rapper and Mumford & Sons.