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Divest Dartmouth holds Keystone pipeline protest

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne retires after 14 years

By AMANDA ZHOU

Next month, director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne will retire after 14 years at the College and a 37-year dedication to college public safety. During his time, Safety and Security became an accredited department in the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, a certification that only about one percent of college departments hold, Kinne said.

“It was lot of work but brought our department to another level of

professionalism of which we have maintained,” Kinne said.

Associate director of safety and security Keysi Montás said that the accreditation means Safety and Security must exceed or meet a minimum of 235 standards that range from emergency response to backup plans to how phone calls are conducted. There are about 47 schools that are accredited.

From calling Kinne in the middle of night to discuss something serious to getting lost on road trips to conferences, Montás SEE KINNE PAGE 2

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Be it studying the historical industrial disaster in Bhopal, India or psychological therapy for Syrians, Fulbright grants represent a unprecedented opportunity for a handful of scholars. As of Thursday, the U.S. Department of State has awarded 15 Dartmouth students and alumni with Fulbright U.S. Student grants to conduct

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Students built a “Keystone pipeline” to protest construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

By ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth Staff

Fifteen named Fulbright scholars

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research and teach around the world. The 15 Dartmouthaffiliated recipients represent a significant rise from the 2015-2016 cycle, in which eight Dartmouth students and alumni received the grant, and are the most since 2004.

The recipients are Iman Abdoulkarim ’17 , Nicole Castillo ’17 , Sharon Cho SEE FULBRIGHT PAGE 3

Instead of their typical location inside trash bags outside of fraternities and sororities, empty Keystone Light cans were instead arranged in the shape of a pipeline on the front lawn of Parkhurst Hall on Thursday afternoon to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Divest Dartmouth, which organized the protest, called upon College President Phil Hanlon and the Board of Trustees to divest endowment holdings from the 200 “dirtiest” fossil fuel companies, according to

Divest Dartmouth member Jay Raju ’18.

While Divest Dartmouth members built the pipeline, they also circulated a petition for onlookers to express their support for the cause.

Afterward, several members of Divest Dartmouth gave short speeches detailing the purpose of the rally before departing and walking across the Green with the pipeline.

Raju said that Dartmouth’s involvement with the fossil fuel companies suggests their complicity.

“We believe that when an institution like Dartmouth invests in a company as part of its endowment, it is making a statement that it agrees with

that company, it agrees with its value statement and the things that it’s doing,” Raju said.

Raju drew a parallel between divestment from fossil fuels and the College’s divestment in 1989 from companiesoperatinginSouth Africa during apartheid and the similar student movement that elicited the change.

“Back when apartheid was happening, the College successfully divested its holdings in companies that were complicit in apartheid, companies that profited,” Raju said. “That was as a result of a student movement SEE PIPELINE PAGE 3

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Allen House pilots mentorship program with Osher

By FRANCES COHEN The Dartmouth Staff

Early last week, the pilot of the Allen House Professional Fellows Program announced their inaugural fellows: Nicholas Gladstone ’17, Dania Torres ’20 and Amanda Zhou ’19.

The program, run by

the Allen House residential c o m m u n i t y, c o n n e c t s Dartmouth students to mentors in the surrounding area through the College’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, an organization that provides educational programs for residents in the Upper Valley.

The Osher mentors are

members of the institute who had notable careers and are now retired in the Upper Valley area, program organizer Jose Burnes Garza ’17 said.

The three mentors this year are Thomas Blinkhorn, who worked in international development at the World Bank, former New York Times

correspondent Christopher Wren ’57 and Roland Kuchel, former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia and Haiti.

The mentorship aims to give students both insight into a career of interest and a networking opportunity, Blinkhorn said.

As a mentor, he said he loves being challenged with

questions from students about his career and life. “ I t k e e p s m e a l i ve intellectually,” he said.

The program is organized around a partnership with Osher, which was established by the College with the aim of facilitating learning for Upper SEE FELLOWS PAGE 5

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Government professor Sonu Bedi becomes Ethics Institute director

By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff

Government professor Sonu Bedi was recently named the first Hans ’80 and Kate Morris Director of the Ethics Institute. He assumed his new role on March 15 and will be working to review the ethics minor and increase the level of student engagement outside of the classroom.

His position includes overseeing the Ethics Institute, which fosters the teaching and study of ethics throughout the College and comprises more than 150 faculty and staff. Founded in 1982, the institute is one of the oldest ethics organizations in the United States.

Bedi, who has six degrees including a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Yale University, was asked by sociology professor and vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony to be the director. Bedi said he thinks his appointment was partially due to his dual background in political theory and law.

“I both have my foot in constitutional law and law-related issues but also political philosophy and ethics broadly construed.” Bedi said. “The core courses of the ethics minor come from the political theory part of government or from philosophy, and I have interests in both.”

Anthony said that she has known Bedi for several years and thinks his experience in political theory and law help him effectively make connections between core legal concepts such as rights and current political conditions in modern American society.

She said the Ethics Institute practically applies the concept of ethics into practical application across many disciplines to help students and faculty understand what it means to talk about ethics and its role in professional practice and the institutions in which we live.

“The fact that Bedi has worked with law and ethics in American institutions make him a great fit for the job,” Anthony said. “Bedi himself is a multidisciplinary scholar and his ability to bring together faculty and students into this conversation to think critically about ethical questions makes him a great fit.”

Bedi said his research intersects nicely with his new role with the institute. He is currently working on a book project about ethics in markets and racial discrimination that occurs in private spheres such as assisted reproduction, which is closely tied to issues raised in ethics courses.

Bedi said he will be working on reconstituting an advisory committee that reviews the ethics minor and assesses what has been effective and what has not. He added that he intends to reach out to current students to hear their experiences and that these

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Government professor Sonu Bedi hopes to invite more legal experts to give talks.

initiatives will be an ongoing process based on review and feedback.

The Ethics Institute also has endowment funds to bring speakers to come to campus, which Bedi said he wishes to use to give students more exposure to the legal field.

“My background is in law, and in one sense we don’t have a law school here,” Bedi said. “My vision for the institute is that it will be a place where students can hear speakers and interact on law-related issues broadly defined.”

One speaker event has already been arranged for the beginning of fall 2017. Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who worked in the White House Counsel’s office, will be coming to speak about President Donald Trump and legal ethics.

Bedi said discussion about legal ethics and ethics in general on campus is especially crucial given the current presidential administration. He said he is thinking about using the endowment funds to create a lecture series on free speech in universities. The first speaker for this series will be Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

The Ethics Institute has already brought law experts to campus such as Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar 2015. Georgetown University Law Center professor Neal Katyal ’91 will be coming to the College this upcoming May under the leadership of the institute’s executive director Aine Donovan. Bedi will be working with Donovan who will continue her role at the institute in programming and academic coordination.

Bedi said that his larger goal is to raise the scholarly profile of the institute on and off campus by establishing a stronger presence of academic and extracurricular law and ethics opportunities on campus.

He also said that he wants to focus on getting students more involved in interacting with speakers, because he thinks students can often feel intimidated by other faculty members asking questions and the often high-profile

nature of the speakers.

“I think students can benefit from discussions in small group settings after the talks to interact with the scholars in more intimate settings,” Bedi said.

Anthony said that she anticipates Bedi will work with faculty to reimagine the ethics minor and try to make sure that it has the courses and content that it needs, as well as incorporate projects and experientialbased learning.

She said Bedi has ideas to build a law-related scholarly community on campus between students and faculty by continuing to bring in eminent scholars, speakers and writers.

Bedi said he hopes to create a fellowship program analogous to the Dickey Center’s War and Peace Fellows program.

Billy Kosmidis ’19 said that he chose to pursue the ethics minor because he did a law internship over his freshman summer and knew he wanted to go to law school but did not know what opportunities there were on campus to discuss law-related issues.

“It is hard as an undergraduate to explore things related to law since there isn’t a pre-law track like there is a pre-med track,” Kosmidis said. “I think ethics is really interesting because it is an interdisciplinary minor that allows me to explore my interests while taking diverse classes.”

Kosmidis added that he appreciates the institute’s initiatives, such as the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team and a book club for ethics minors.

However, Kosmidis said that he thinks that the institute needs more people to implement all of its ideas.

“I am hoping that with the appointment of the new director there can be more programming and resources for students,” Kosmidis said.

“The Ethics Institute is lacking the extracurricular involvement, and I think that they are doing an amazing job on the academics side, but providing more outside of the classroom experiences for students can be a great way to move the institute forward and provide hands-on learning.”

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Kinne reflects on 37 years in campus security FROM KINNE PAGE 1

described Kinne as “such a pillar within the community” and a very diplomatic person.

“He gives the people a sense of comfort, that things will be okay,” he said.

In recent years, the College has added an outdoor mass notification system alongside a campus-wide messaging service titled DartAlert, allowing Safety and Security to electronically communicate with campus.

Kinne’s career in college public safety began in 1979 when he became the director of safety at State University of New York at Cobleskill. Two years later, he took a position at Wesleyan University where he worked mostly as the director of public safety and interim dean of student services.

Kinne said that when he was asked to take on more responsibility for Wesleyan such as facilities and environmental health and safety, he realized after a few years that he missed the “direct contact with safety and security.” Thus, when he heard about an opening in safety and security at the College, he applied and received the job in 2003. “[I] applied because I’d always admired Dartmouth,” he said. “I knew several people up here, and I had visited Dartmouth a number of times and found it to be very desirable, a place I would want to work.”

From 2009 to 2010, Kinne became the acting associate dean of College, overseeing the Reserve Officer Training Corps and social events management committee and serving as a liaison to the president’s office.

“I’ve always considered myself to be an institutional soldier; when I work for an organization if I am asked to help out, I will be glad to do that,” Kinne said.

“But my ultimate goal was to return to Safety and Security, and I have been very happy there.”

Montás, who has worked under

Kinne for 10 years, called him the “best boss that I have ever had, anywhere.”

In terms of Kinne’s professional style, Montás said that Kinne has had “complete confidence” in him.

Above all, Kinne said he has loved working in such an academically stimulating environment.

“With all the centers that are here at the College, all the issues of the world are present here and discussed, and it makes it a very interesting place to work,” he said.

Whether it is Homecoming weekend or a political debate for the upcoming national election, Kinne said he looks forward to seasonal and daily activities.

“There are never two days that are the same,” he said.

While Kinne hopes retirement will improve his squash skills, there will also be students, faculty and staff across campus he will miss.

“If I’ve had success here at Dartmouth, it’s due in great part to people who supported our department and me,” he said.

As for the next director, Montás said the College is looking to conduct a national search. Montás will serve as interim director in the meantime.

“As with any organization, new people bring new trends new ideas fresh perspectives,” Montás said. “What we hope is that we will continue to have a great relationship with the community and continue to provide excellent safety and security services for the Dartmouth community.”

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email statement that the welfare of the Dartmouth community was always uppermost in Kinne’s mind.

“He has worked tirelessly to support the health and safety of everyone at Dartmouth,” the statement read.

Noah Goldstein ’18 and Caroline Berens ’18 contributed reporting.

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Under Harry Kinne’s (right) direction, Safety and Security became accredited by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.

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Divest Dartmouth holds protest FROM PIPELINE PAGE 1

very similar to the one we have right now.”

Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was originally shut down by former President Barack Obama in 2015, a decision that followed months of protests in North Dakota.

Shortly after his inauguration earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed legislation that would enable construction of the controversial project to continue. Divest Dartmouth member Catherine Rocchi ’19 noted that Trump is reinstating the Dakota Access pipeline, the Keystone pipeline and a “variety of other environmental injustices” that Obama did not support.

According to Rocchi, Divest Dartmouth not only aims to raise awareness for the Keystone pipeline, but also wants to bring attention to fossil fuel divestment in general.

Since its inception in 2012, Divest Dartmouth has had an active presence on campus. Last April, the organization hosted the Big Green Rally in support of divestment from fossil fuels, which was endorsed by over 110 co-sponsors, the most in Dartmouth’s history, and was attended by nearly 500 individuals.

Yesterday’s demonstration was inspired by a similar event that took place four years ago, when members of the organization constructed a pipeline out of discarded Keystone cans, Divest

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Fulbright recipients plan research projects

through the College. Beechert said that his experience reaffirmed his ’17 , Apoorva Dixit ’17 , Evelyn desire to attend law school at Yale Fernandez-Lizarraga ’16, Devyn University, where he has already Greenberg ’17, Michaela LeDoux been accepted.

Jake Levine ’15, another former ’17, Liane Makatura ’17, Daniel Miller GR’17 , Emma PeConga recipient of the Fulbright grant ’16, Jocelyn Powelson ’14, Travis who taught English in Medellín, Price ’11, Jordan Terry ’15, Clara Colombia from 2015 to 2016, said Wang ’17, and Joshua Warzecha that his favorite part of his experience ’17. Kristen Hinckley ’17, Natasha was the opportunity to fully immerse Maldi ’16 and Molly Siegel ’16 were himself in Colombian culture. He said that while he always intended selected as alternate candidates.

Dixit, who will be studying the to become a doctor, his experience after-effects of the Bhopal industrial as a Fulbright scholar in Colombia disaster in India, said that she was inspired him to more seriously explore motivated to apply for the award global health as a career path. Levine because her family is originally from said that he may one day return Bhopal. In 1984, a gas leak occurred to Colombia to fulfill his desire to assist an under-served in Bhopal population. He added and 500,000 that his experiences people were “It’s like following in Colombia have exposed to my dream of improved his toxic methyl being a therapist Spanish language i s o c ya n at e skills, allowing him g as . Dixit for a traumatized to more effectively r e c a l l s population.” interact with Spanishhearing speaking patients stories of the at Icahn School of disaster from -EMMA PECONGA ’16, Medicine at Mount her relatives FULBRIGHT GRANT Sinai, where he is a and said she student this year. is looki n g RECIPIENT L e v i n e, w h o forward to p l aye d r u g by at studying Bhopal more formally. She explained Dartmouth, also had the opportunity that her research will focus on how to coach a youth soccer team while in the disaster affected Bhopal’s political Medellin, an experience he enjoyed trajectory and significance and how bridging with his Fulbright teaching.

“I always wanted to find a way to the city recovered from the disaster.

Dixit also mentioned the cross- combine sports with [my teaching] cultural emphasis of the Fulbright there,” Levine said.

T h e C o l l e g e ’s F u l b r i g h t program and said she was excited coordinator Holly Taylor said this to connect with her heritage.

PeConga, who will be investigating year’s winners represent a diverse cost-effective psychological therapy range of interests and experiences, interventions for Syrian refugees with a roughly even split between in Copenhagen, Denmark at the candidates who chose to pursue Danish Institute Against Torture, research and those who will be said the Fulbright grant appealed teaching. Taylor explained that most to her because of the wide range of this year’s Dartmouth-affiliated of global opportunities available to winners sought College endorsement award recipients. Another factor in of their applications, but two applied her decision to apply was that she at-large, which means that they did already had a specific research project not receive College endorsement. in mind. PeConga said she is excited Candidates who apply with College to be immersed in Danish culture endorsement receive assistance with because global happiness surveys the essay, interview and research consistently rank Denmark very components of their applications.

Levine, PeConga and Dixit all highly compared to other countries.

PeConga said her experience identified the College’s support as will be the culmination of a lifelong helpful to them in their application processes. ambition.

Taylor said that to give prospective “It’s like following my dream of being a therapist for a traumatized applicants more information about different Fulbright possibilities, her population,” she said.

Michael Beechert ’16, one of office began publishing information last year’s Fulbright scholars who about specific programs and studied global jurisprudence trends in their acceptance rates on her Germany, said he decided to apply for office’s website. She explained that the grant because he wanted to return acceptance rates for individual to Germany after participating in Fulbright programs can vary widely two German study abroad programs from eight to 60 percent.

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Students protested the Keystone XL pipeline by building a “Keystone pipeline.”

Dartmouth member Ches Gundrum ’17 said.

Divest Dartmouth member Greg Szypko ’20 said that the protest may not necessarily lead to direct action by administrators, but the intention was to bring attention to the issue.

“Our goal is to get people more involved and actively thinking about environmental justice,” Szypko said.

“Obviously this event, in and of itself, will not convince the Board of Trustees or President Hanlon, but hopefully it will sort of put the fire in the bellies of a lot of Dartmouth students to make more push to make that happen.”

Additionally, Gundrum said that several members of Divest Dartmouth met on record with Hanlon and two trustees, board chair Bill Helman ’80

and investment chair Rick Kimball ’78, to discuss divestment during the fall of 2016. Gundrum added that this meeting was inconsequential.

“Nothing really came of it,” he said. “Since then, we’ve just been going back and forth via email and nothing really seems to be getting done, so this is why we do things like this. This was a relatively easy action to put forward and we definitely will be doing things in the future.”

While Anna Matusewicz ’20 was unaware of the demonstration, she supported the organization’s actions, citing her agreement with their goal to divest from fossil fuel companies.

“If there was another way that I had heard of it, I probably would’ve stopped by,” Matusewicz said.

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Office Hours Harm Minorities

Assembling Better

Students of color are disadvantaged by the current office hours system.

Many students choose Dartmouth because of the close relationships the school fosters between students and faculty. So, all peer mentors, trip leaders and other upperclassmen brimming with guidance will encourage freshmen to go to office hours — but what they don’t explain is how to actually go to them. As a freshman, office hours were to my academic experience what elusive secret menu items were to chain restaurants. To order Starbucks’ “Pink Drink” or In-N-Out’s “Animal Style” fries, you have to be aware of the item’s existence and confident enough to place the order. The actual fries or drink, regardless of taste, seemed to be a prize for attaining obscure knowledge and possessing self-confidence.

Peers who went to boarding schools with small class sizes or knew how to display a confidence that people wanted to hear their ideas seemed to already be equipped for office hours. I wished there was a pamphlet explaining what to do and what to say in office hours. Despite the many questions I often had about my classes and curiosity to explore further readings, I did not have the confidence to raise them or simply thought my ideas were not worth pursuing.

You will often hear the term “taking up space” in addressing a social barrier that minoritarian subjects, like women and people of color, might face. In this case, the minoritarian subject might fear taking up the time and mental energy of professors and question the validity of the ideas they might raise in conversations with faculty. This is an issue that I have discussed with other people of color and women. Part of the difficulty of solving the problem is that much of the evidence is anecdotal, which is often seen as illegitimate evidence on its own.

Minoritarian subjects may feel undeserving of space because of an inherent lack of self-confidence, victim complex or innate helplessness. It is because institutions, such as academia, can send an implicit message that ideas out of the white, normative mainstream are unimportant by erasing these other narratives. One form of this is the lack of faculty of color at elite institutions like

Dartmouth, which is a result of various factors.

These factors include the disproportionate rate at which faculty of color leave Dartmouth over white faculty — perhaps due to a lack of comfort or hostile environment — the denial of tenure to faculty of color and the uneven hiring of white professors and faculty of color.

Another factor is the focus on white scholarship and academic material, like the generally accepted literary canon of English literature that focuses on white writers and dismisses non-white, non-male writers of English literature like Toni Morrison and Langston Hughes, who are sequestered into their own category of African-American literature. By excluding women and writers of color, the canon overvalues the writing of cisgender, white males. Another important factor is conditional response rates that professors have with their students. A 2014 field experiment by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor Katherine L. Milkman, Columbia Business School professor Modupe Akinola and New York University Stern School of Business professor Dolly Chugh included data from 6,000 professors in numerous fields found that the discipline of business showed the most bias in responding to prospective letters from students, with 87 percent of white males receiving a response compared to just 62 percent of all females and minorities combined. This finding is particularly salient in the context of the College, which, along with its Ivy League peers, is known for sending many graduates into fields like finance and consulting.

Dartmouth prides itself on the strong relationships cultivated between students and faculty members. In general, these relationships do exist. Last term, the professors in all four of my classes brought doughnuts and ice cream for the students and held office hours on weekends and over Skype. Professors from previous terms also sent information about events I might be interested in based on the interests I had expressed in class.

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Student Assembly must be a better advocate for Dartmouth students.

Student Assembly elections are next week, and social media is buzzing with candidates’ promotional photos and posts. With the election comes the age old question: what exactly does Student Assembly do? What should it do?

For an organization meant to be the voice of Dartmouth’s student body to the administration, Student Assembly has potential that is currently untapped and under-supported.

Last fall, Student Assembly used a large chunk of its budget to get students free online access to The New York Times. The cost came to over $12,000, but bringing highquality journalism and access to reliable information to the entire campus is worth the price. This initiative is a valuable example of Student Assembly’s potential to provide us with something the College could, or would, not. Dartmouth does not have a direct online subscription to the Times, and the library’s FAQ suggests that students interested in accessing articles go through roundabout and often difficult-to-access online catalogues or databases.

This past year’s Student Assembly had less than $25,000 to spend on initiatives, which is a meager sum to support the entire student body for a year, especially considering the Undergraduate Finance Committee’s $1 million budget. Next year’s Student Assembly has roughly $44,000. Nonetheless, it cannot rely on its budget to make an impact for the student body. Instead, it should use its voice and bargaining power to enact change.

Student Assembly is one of Dartmouth’s only student organizations with a formalized, direct connection to the administration — as its Constitution states, one of its president’s duties is to “meet with representatives of the Dartmouth College President’s Office, Provost’s Office, Dean’s Office and the [Student Assembly] administrative advisor on a regular basis.” As a direct means of communication between the studentry and the administration, it can use this pipeline to voice concerns for the entire student body and help organizations and individuals gain administrative support they may not otherwise get.

One specific way to do this is to use referenda and polling to help campus groups gauge support for their own initiatives and to bring those that have enough backing to the administration. Many students care about initiatives but may not have the time to dedicate themselves actively to them. Divest Dartmouth is an example. Though the club itself is small and may not seem heavily supported at first glance, its rally this past spring was the most co-sponsored event in Dartmouth’s history and gained support from a wide range of student and community organizations. Though subtler methods such as unofficial referenda, electronic signatures and Change.org petitions may not have as much clout as large rallies, Student Assembly can use its publicity and direct connection to the administration to provide a platform for these smaller groups.

Those doubtful of the power of referenda and polling may point to Improve Dartmouth’s inadequacy — its recent ideas have few votes, and the club itself has little campus

exposure. Yet there are some key differences.

Improve Dartmouth’s members are chosen by application, not popular election, so it has less social and political clout within Dartmouth’s student body. With less of the visibility that comes with such clout, ideas on Improve Dartmouth are generally unable to gain enough student support to present to administration.

Possibly most important, suggestions on Improve Dartmouth represent individual, not organizational, interest.

Student Assembly can leverage its position to advocate passionately for student rights.

Although the proposed student Bill of Rights put forward by the administration of Frank Cunningham ’16 was ultimately never enacted, it represents exactly the sort of thinking the Assembly should be doing. Advocating for the students to the administration is the most essential function our student government can fulfill. As one of the few organizations truly student-run and student-selected through relatively transparent measures, the incoming Assembly has a responsibility to use its visibility, legitimacy and campus connections to provide a voice that other groups cannot.

The recently released platforms put forward by current candidates for president and vice president — Aaron Cheese ’18 and Austin Heye ’18, Garrison Roe ’18 and Sydney Walter ’18 and Ian Sullivan ’18 and Matthew Ferguson ’18 — show that some are aware of this potential. Sullivan and Ferguson focus on convincing the administration to advance the ideas of good character, communication and community and Cheese and Heye’s 87-word “statements of concern” touches on some policy concerns. Roe and Walter include a section on “[making] Student Assembly a Stronger Advocate of Student Voices.” All three tickets hope to provide students, especially those who are generally overlooked, with a stronger voice in important issues such as sexual assault and diversity. Though the platforms vary in depth and thoughtfulness, we hope that the eventual victors will take advantage of their access to the administration to create meaningful change.

The easiest way to help traditionally unheard students is to provide them a bigger platform on which to voice their concerns. Electronic forms may be one way to start. Allowing the entire campus to choose the initiatives to support through referenda is the next step. Actually bringing them to the administration is the final, and most important, part of the Assembly’s job.

But the election is the easy part — actually governing and remembering to continue to act as a voice for the students throughout the entire academic year, is more difficult. This past Student Assembly started off strong, with a website overhaul announcing clear goals and a commitment to accountability, yet its online presence has fallen off since last spring.

Regardless of who wins the election, we hope that they will continue to serve as a voice for the Dartmouth community long after the ballots have been cast and the votes tallied.

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Allen House matches fellows with Upper Valley mentors FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1

Valley residents through courses, lectures and events. Blinkhorn said he thought Osher would be an excellent resource for Dartmouth to use in developing the new house communities.

“Osher has a treasure trove of experience in people who have done extraordinary things with their lives,” he said.

Applicants to the program were asked to submit a resume and a few short essays and then were interviewed over spring break. Final decisions were released last week, and the program began with an inaugural dinner on Wednesday, April 5.

The program had an acceptance rate of under 10 percent, with the organizers receiving almost 50 applications for the three available spots.

According to Garza, once paired with a mentor, the fellows can shape their individual mentorship relationships however they desire.

Each fellow is required to submit three goals at the beginning of the program to ensure the mentoring meetings have some direction, but otherwise the nature of the relationship is completely up to each fellow.

“It’s basically this cool, new,

malleable program where the student can define what they want,” he said.

Garza said that each fellow is at a completely different stage of their career, noting that a senior with a job offer will have different mentoring needs than a freshman who is beginning to figure out his or her interests.

Torres, for example, hopes to narrow down her career options, since she is broadly interested in government but wants to learn more about her opportunities within the field.

As a current freshman, Torres has the opportunity to work with her mentor, Kuchel, throughout her four years at Dartmouth.

Kuchel could even help her find summer opportunities or an off-term internship, Torres said.

Through the program, she hopes to expand her classroom work and experiences into a broader context.

“I want to know how we can actualize these concepts we’ve learned in class in the real world, since the concepts seem so abstract,” she said.

Gladstone, who is weeks away from graduation, wrote in an email that he hopes to work with Blinkhorn to establish some important next steps in his long-term goal of working in international development, as well as

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The Allen House fellows are paired with mentors through the Osher Center for Lifelong Learning.

get answers to specific questions only someone with real-world experience can answer.

“Having access to a mentor who has worked in development for 40 years and knows exactly which decisions can lead to which career paths is invaluable,” he wrote.

According to Garza, Allen House provides all of the resources for the meetings, and the program organizers keep track of each meeting that takes place. The program has a budget of

about $1,000, he said.

The program, as its name indicates, is currently only available to Allen House students. Garza said he thinks the house system is a great starting point to test out a program that will hopefully be open to all Dartmouth students in the coming years.

Blinkhorn agreed that the house system is a great opportunity to pilot the program.

“My view is that the house system is not simply social … but it’s also an

intellectual experience that can benefit from an exchange of ideas such as this mentorship program,” he said.

Though only three mentors are participating in the first year of the program, Garza said they plan to extend the program to include more of the Osher members, as well as give more students a chance to participate.

Burnes Garza is a former writer for The Dartmouth. Zhou is a current member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Seminar: “Mechanics and Geometry: Shape Evolution During Embryonic Development and Plants’ Movement” with Thayer School of Engineering professor Zi Chen, Life Sciences Center 201

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Film: “The Lego Batman Movie,” directed by Chris McKay, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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be celebrated, it is critical to recognize that these relationships are conditional.

They are present but often not available to everyone.

Part of the problem can be solved by hiring more faculty of color, not for the sake of having token faculty of color, but because they simply deserve to be here.

Instead of thinking of hiring faculty of color as a way to show diversity, it needs to be understood that there are plenty of excellent faculty of color doing superb scholarship. By understanding

the validity of their work, we can send a message to students of color that their ideas, too, are worth pursuing.

As a short term fix, perhaps faculty can hold mandatory office hours or encourage their students to come; this might encourage students who might otherwise not attend office hours to realize that their ideas are, in fact, valued.

But these are small parts of an abstract problem: finding validity in one’s own ideas. Idea validity compounds many of the problems faced by various minoritarian groups.

Because of the prevalence of fake news

which often seeks to silence the voices of protesters and those fighting for their rights, it is especially important that the College provides the tools necessary to all students to assert their ideas — even anti-establishment ones.

W.E.B. Du Bois asked us, “how does it feel to be a problem?” This inquiry has contextualized other forms of discrimination against minoritarian communities. It applies to these same communities in the elite — and sometimes elitist — world of academia. Minorities aren’t the problem. Institutions imply they are.

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The Mammals to perform at Skinny Pancake tonight

By KYLEE SIBILIA

The Dartmouth Staff

Local residents and students can experience Hanover’s burgeoning live music scene at tonight’s performance

by The Mammals, an American folk group based in Woodstock, New York.

While The Mammals are primarily known for mixing the tones of barnyard fiddle and acoustic guitar, the group also incorporates rock and roll into its sounds, as well as elements of bluegrass and old-time music. Mike Merenda, who performs vocals and co-founded the band, called the group’s music a combination of traditional and contemporary styles.

“We’ve been calling it a rock and roll string band,” Merenda said. “The foundation of a string band is generally guitar, banjo and fiddle. We add sort of a rock and roll rhythm section to that, which enables us to jump around from genre to genre, but the through line is American roots music.”

The combination of different sounds allows the group to perform traditional instrumental numbers while incorporating high-energy music into its performances. Many of the group’s concerts are so spirited, in fact, that they are followed by a square dance.

Co-founder Ruth Ungar, who performs on vocals, fiddle and ukulele, commented on the multifaceted nature of the group’s music.

“We have a big dynamic range,” Ungar said. “We usually find that people comment later that they really like the harmonies, and they really like the instrumentation, and they really like the fact that sometimes it’s super loud and sometimes it’s super quiet.”

Merenda and Ungar have been to express their feelings on America’s married since 2006, although they current political landscape. Most originally formed The Mammals recently, The Mammals released with folk musician Tao Rodríguez- “Culture Wars,” a single that touches Seeger in 2001. After cycling through on topics such as climate change, numerous variations in its lineup, The electronic voting and the use of Mammals went on hiatus in 2008. genetically modified organisms.

For the next nine years, Merenda and “It seems like the time to be Ungar performed as Mike + Ruthy, politically outspoken is now more than a touring folk duo based in Hudson ever with the current administration,” Valley, New Merenda said. “And York. T hey political opinions on “It seems like the produced five stage couple really albums and time to be politically well with hightoured across outspoken is now energy dance music. the country That’s just two things in addition to more than ever The Mammals are raising their with the current known for. So we’re two young that formula administration. And using children. again to speak our This year, political opinions minds but still really h o w e v e r , on stage couple present a party Merenda and atmosphere.”

U n g a r a r e really well with T heir ability bringing The high-energy dance to create a party Mammals’ atmosphere is a music.” name back — big part of what mainly because drew The Skinny of the group’s -MIKE MERENDA, Pancake to book history of The Mammals for speaking out CO-FOUNDER AND the show in Hanover on political VOCALIST OF THE tonight. Michael issues. In their Cyr, brand manager MAMMALS early years, The for The Skinny Mammals were Pancake, noted the known for their group’s appeal for activist leanings, particularly making the venue. their position on the Iraq war very “[Merenda and Ungar] are clear by singing many anti-war songs. husband and wife, and you can One song by Merenda, called “The recognize that chemistry on stage,” Bush Boys,” even caused the group to Cyr said. “They’re a super high quality be censored at many festival venues. act, and they have a lot of energy.”

In light of recent political events, The Skinny Pancake has been Merenda and Ungar feel that bringing bringing in big acts like The Mammals The Mammals back is the best way with increasing frequency as of late.

COURTESY OF THE MAMMALS

The Mammals are performing tonight at the Hanover Skinny Pancake location.

Since opening a little under a year ago, the restaurant has vastly expanded Hanover’s live music scene.

“There was really no scene for this sort of music a year ago — we’re coming on our one-year anniversary in three weeks — and just the fact that we’ve been able to get here in a year is amazing to look back on,” Cyr said. “And we’re super grateful that Hanover’s been coming out for it.”

More and more Dartmouth students have been attending these performances as well, enjoying the opportunity to get off campus and try some local food.

“I really love doing things around Hanover,” Katie Bernardez ’20 said.

“It’s always nice to have a chance to get off campus, and it would be cool

to hear live music.”

Merenda and Ungar believe in the power of live music to brighten people’s lives, and they encourage Hanover residents and Dartmouth students alike to come out and hear them play.

“People seem to think that we have a really awesome energy, and people who come to our shows tend to leave with that really great cathartic feeling that comes from seeing live music,” Ungar said. “These days it’s really easy to stay home and watch Netflix, but if you make that very small extra effort to go out and see live music, you will not be disappointed.”

The Mammals’ performance will begin at 9 p.m. Tickets range from $10 to $12.

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SPORTS

TRACK & FIELD VS UMASS LOWELL 1 p.m.

Win over UMass Lowell a bright spot in men’s lacrosse season

By EVAN MORGAN

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Alone on the turf this past Tuesday, men’s lacrosse head coach Brendan Callahan let out a whoop. Callahan’s team had already left the Scully-Fahey Field for the locker room, jubilant after a 14-8 victory over the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

The win was a bright spot in a season marked by eight losses out of 10 games so far. Dartmouth got off to a roaring start with five unanswered goals to begin the first quarter before the River Hawks managed three of their own. A trio of markers in the second and three more in the first three minutes of the third put Dartmouth ahead 11-4.

The team looked to be coasting from then on. Dartmouth slowed the ball down considerably after the first five minutes of the third. Substitutes who don’t normally see the field got action in the fourth quarter. UMass Lowell scored several more times, but Dartmouth had the game firmly under control.

It was a sharp contrast to last Saturday’s contest at then-No. 17 Yale University. The Bulldogs possessed the ball for most of the first half, opening up an 8-0 lead. In the second half, Dartmouth’s defense stiffened up, and the offense showed signs of life, turning the final score into a more respectable 13-6 line.

“Coming off the weekend at Yale, we played a good second half, and the feeling from the guys was that we’ve just got to keep playing like that,” Callahan said. “Tonight, I challenged them. I said, ‘Hey, if you want things

to be different than they are, then do something.’”

If the Big Green is going to win its last three games, things will have to be different. Dartmouth is dead last among Ivy League teams in the most important offensive categories: goals per game (7.70), assists per game (4.30), shots per game (33.80) and shot percentage (.228). The Big Green scores nearly three fewer goals per game than the next-lowest team, the University of Pennsylvania. And these problems aren’t new. You have to go back to 2012, two seasons before Callahan’s arrival, to find a season in which Dartmouth didn’t trail the Ancient Eight in per-game offense.

So what’s the problem? Attackman Richie Loftus ’18, after racking up seven assists against UMass Lowell, thinks the problem is teamwork.

“We’ve played a little selfishly, and we haven’t had enough assists,” he said. “Today, we focused on getting assists, looking out for other people, getting other people open and kind of using your movements to help other people.”

The stats suggest that more assists could help — somewhat. Big Green scorers are assisted on 55.8 percent of goals, fourth in the Ivy League. No. 14 Princeton University, which leads Ivy League teams with 14.55 goals per game, also has the highest percentage of assisted goals. Yet No. 15 Yale gets assists on 55.4 percent of its tallies, a hair lower than the Big Green, and scores twice as more goals per game.

In Ivy League play, assists aren’t the be-all end-all of offensive output.

Callahan believes the problem has been with execution.

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Since 2012, Dartmouth men’s lacrosse team has made the lowest shots per game among all Ivy League teams.

“We’ve had opportunities,” he said.

“Other teams’ goalies have had a lot of saves against us. We’ve hit a lot of pipes and shot wide. We have a low shooting percentage, so it’s been in our finishing.”

His team trails the Ivy League in shot percentage by a wide margin.

The Big Green shoots fewer times per game than any team in the Ancient Eight, and it also makes fewer of those shots.

Dartmouth found the back of the net 14 times against UMass Lowell with an impressive .424 shot percentage. But those figures weren’t too far off what the River Hawks’

The weekday Roundup

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Baseball The baseball team lost at home, 9-5, to the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Tuesday at Red Rolfe Field in Hanover.

The River Hawk offense struck early in the first inning against starting pitcher Jackson Bubala ’17, putting three runs on the board. Nate Ostmo ’19 went 2-for-4 on the day with a double and a triple while scoring two runs.

Matt Feinstein ’19 and Michael Ketchmark ’17 each provided two hits in the loss, while Trevor Johnson ’20 scored two runs. A total of seven pitchers made appearances, with Austen Michel ’20 and Clay Chatham ’18 combining to provide five innings of relief. However, the team were unable to contain UMass Lowell’s offense, which racked up 13 hits in all. The game was delayed for 42 minutes due to lightning.

opponents have been doing all season.

UMass Lowell allows 12.23 goals per game and sits at the bottom of the America East conference. The River Hawks entered the preseason ranked 65 out of 71 Division I teams by Inside Lacrosse. In this same ranking, the Big Green was No. 67.

No matter how bad a team the 2-11 River Hawks are, Tuesday was a step in the right direction for Dartmouth.

George Christopher ’20 posted 14 saves and allowed eight goals.

Freshman standout Ben Martin ’20 had a career day with seven goals — half of Dartmouth’s total score — to his credit.

If the Big Green is going to turn things around, Loftus and Martin will be leading the charge. More than half of Loftus’ 33 shots have found the back of the net this season. And Martin, the team’s leading scorer after Tuesday, has a shot percentage of .328.

“It’s nice to have this momentum, this team effort with all the pieces coming together,” said Martin of Tuesday’s win.

The Big Green will need to see a lot more pieces come together to make the Ivy League tournament. Dartmouth must win out against No. 13 Princeton, Penn and Brown University to have a shot at the postseason.

Women’s lacrosse For the first 40 minutes of play, the Big Green hung with No. 15 Boston College on Wednesday.

But the Eagles pulled away over the final 21 minutes, turning a 7-7 tie into a 16-9 victory and dropping Dartmouth to 5-6 overall on the season .

The first half ended 7-5 in favor of the Eagles. Taryn Deck ’17 added a free position shot to begin the second period and assisted Kierra Sweeney ’19 on another tally with 22:37 left, pulling Dartmouth even with Boston College. Then the Eagles turned on the afterburners.

Kate Weeks and Sam Apuzzo combined for six of Boston College’s eight goals, locking up the Eagles’ eleventh win of the season.

Elizabeth Mastrio ’19 and Deck led the Big Green, making a hat trick each, with Deck’s trio coming on just four shots.

Kiera Vrindten ’20 played the full 60 minutes in the cage. The freshman goalkeeper made 14 saves on 36 shots from the Eagles, passing the 100-save mark for the season .

Though 0-4 in the Ivy League, Dartmouth still has a path into the Ivy League Tournament on paper. To sneak into fourth place by the season’s end, the team would have to win out in the Ancient Eight — beginning with No. 8 Cornell University on Saturday — and get some help from the teams above it.