VOL. CLXXIV NO.94
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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dartmouth selects two new trustees
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The name refers to a kind of Vietnamese soup noodle that includes meat, rice noodles and herbs in broth. Janet Wong, Kata Thai’s owner and Leanna Wong’s sister, came up with the name. In addition to Vietnamese foods like pho and bánh mì — a kind of Vietnamese sandwich — Pho Q will continue serving the most popular Thai dishes from
The Dartmouth Board of Trustees selected Elizabeth “Ellie” Mahoney Loughlin ’89 and Richard Lewis ’94 this past month to join the board. Loughlin and Lewis joined after Bill Helman’s ’80 three-year term ended on June 17th. Loughlin, who currently serves on the Dartmouth President’s Leadership Council and several other alumni committees, said she was surprised when she was initially asked to join the board. “I’ve been doing a lot of volunteering for Dartmouth and then one day they asked me … I said yes right away,” Loughlin said. Loughlin has helped with a number of Dartmouth alumni events, and credit these past experiences as a platform to draw from throughout her position as a trustee. She hopes she will be able to bring a variety of different perspectives to the board when suggesting new events. “I think it’s hard because when you’re at Dartmouth you see the school from such a different viewpoints than when you’re an alum and you can’t appreciate all that goes into it,” Loughlin said in regards to controversial administrative initiatives. “And you’re like why did the administration do this to me? But they didn’t do it to you.” Loughlin is excited to bring her experiences not only as an undergraduate student, but also as a parent of two Dartmouth students. “Remembering how I felt as a student will be really
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Hanover eateries close, rebrand By ZACHARY BENJAMIN
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
For a year and a half, Dartmouth students and Hanover residents have had a choice of three Thai restaurants in town — a high number given Hanover’s size. But one of these restaurants has shut down and plans to relocate, while another will be changing its name in the coming months and expanding its menu to serve
Vietnamese food. Thai Orchid, previously the oldest restaurant in town, has shut down its Hanover location and plans to reopen in Lebanon. Kata Thai, which opened last January and was Hanover’s newest Thai addition. However, it will rebrand itself as Pho Q in mid-August, serving both Vietnamese and Thai food. Kata Thai manager Leanna Wong said that “Pho Q” is short for “Pho Queen.”
Q&A with King Leadership Scholar Faith Rotich ’18
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Project, or KenSAP.
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How has your Dartmouth experience been shaped by the King Leadership Scholars Program? FR: I came to Dartmouth because I received the King’s Scholarship. So far I’ve felt very honored to be apart of the program for different reasons. It is a very well established and integrated program in that we have advisors who we
Across campus, King Leadership Scholar Faith Rotich ’18 can be found taking photos of students, staff and faculty for the online publication she co-edits, Humans of Dartmouth. Traveling far from her home country, Kenya, to attend Dartmouth, Rotich applied to selective colleges in the United States with the help of Kenya Scholar-Athlete
speak very often with. My relationship with the Robert ’57 and Dorothy King family is not typical — they make us feel apart of their family. For example, following the fall term, we got to go to their home in Maine and celebrate Thanksgiving with them. What has been the most interesting part of being a Kings Scholar? FR: There is something called the Kings Scholar Leadership week, which
alternates locations between Washington, D.C. and New York City. Every year at the end of fall term, we have a week where we go to one of these cities and meet with different organizations and companies that are mostly international and do work in the Global South in the health, entrepreneurship and tech industries. During our trip, we visited the World Justice Project and were fascinated by the company so I chose to pursue an
internship with them. What are you currently working on this summer? FR: Right now, I’m at home in Kenya working on a project that is aligned with one of the goals for the King’s Scholarship. I am setting up a project to help young women who have dropped out of school to go back to school. I hope it is something that I can continue to do and won’t just end at the end of this summer SEE ROTICH PAGE 3
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important because I realized we really need to explain things and we really need to be clear with students why things are happening,” Loughlin said. “[The administration] really do have student’s best interests at heart. No decision is arbitrarily made.” As a trustee, Loughlin will continue her past work with campaign planning in service to the College. Once elected, each trustee serves on the whole board as well as smaller committees that each oversee subsections of the College’s governance. Lewis, who approaches the tenure position with a different background than Loughlin echoed a similar excitement in joining the board and gaining experience. “Dartmouth opened up that pathway and told me anything was possible and I, personally, could achieve it,” Lewis said. “I’m hoping to continue helping provide the setting and place and experience for so many more people to do that.” Lewis, who currently lives in London and runs an international business with colleagues and employees from 50 different countries that speak 24 languages credited Dartmouth for giving him the initial opportunity to grow up academically and socially. “For me what it did is really open a world for me, told me that anything is possible,” Lewis said. “I knew I was at a school that was one of the best in the world but it normalized excellence and exception for me.” “I’m a kid that grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, suburb of Boston, Lewis said. “I came from a very different, you know, smaller pond. This was the big pond.” Lewis said that he was excited to follow President Hanlon’s leadership and become more informed to help grow and improve the College. “I’m humbled, honored and both excited for the college at this highest level,” is to help the president accomplish what he wants,” Lewis said.
Lewis also said he believes Dartmouth can be an eye opening experience for all people of different backgrounds. In addition, he added that he is pleased to bring an international perspective to the board of trustees. “I have an aspiration to continue to bring an international perspective to the board because I live and operate outside of America,” Lewis said. “We’re growing not only our international intake of new students into Dartmouth, but growing Dartmouth’s perspective and reach and brand outside of the US and North America.” After living in London over the past few years and helping recruit students from London to Dartmouth, Lewis is excited to return to campus each quarter. Lewis has spent part of the last 15 summers living in Quechee, Vermont and is excited to return back to the area with his family. Both Loughlin and Lewis are eager to become more involved with Dartmouth and ready to serve the College. “I’ve scaled back on some of the other things I’m doing outside of Dartmouth and am really focusing a lot of energy on Dartmouth right now,” Loughlin said. In comparison, Lewis is focused on building off of community work he has previously done at the intersection of youth and education. “It’s always been trying to provide people the opportunities that I got perhaps somewhat by luck, somewhat by chance. I’m trying to remove the various aspiration achievement through education, educational expenditure.” According to the Statement of Gover nance and Trustee Responsibilities, Loughlin and Lewis each pledge to fulfill responsibilities as newly appointed trustees. Among their responsibilities, both are expected to act as a fiduciary, advance the mission of Dartmouth, and uphold the integrity of the Board.
Kata Thai, like pad thai, fried rice and curries, Leanna Wong said. The restaurant is also considering serving samosas. It will stop serving the less popular items on Kata Thai’s menu, such as soup noodles. Leanna Wong noted that Pho Q will be the only Vietnamese restaurant in Hanover, giving it a competitive edge. “I think Vietnamese food is healthier — less oil,” she said. “People like healthy now.” Originally, the plan was to switch the restaurant’s cuisine to serve Vietnamese food exclusively, Leanna Wong said, as both she and Janet Wong are Vietnamese. However, at the advice of Kata Thai’s previous owner, they chose to continue serving its most popular Thai foods in order to keep the restaurant’s usual customers happy. The switch from Kata Thai to Pho Q is scheduled for mid-August, she said. The restaurant is currently preparing to make the switch to a new cuisine and is purchasing new equipment. While Kata Thai is merely revamping and rebranding itself, Thai Orchid has chosen to leave
Hanover entirely. Its website says that it plans to reopen in a new location that is more accessible — the Hanover location was on the second floor of a plaza — and has more parking options. The restaurant’s voicemail says that it plans to reopen in Lebanon in the near future. The restaurant, which has not provided any updated contact information, could not be reached for comment. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said that the town faces a high demand for parking due to the busy retail and restaurant presence in the town. In comparison, both downtown Lebanon and other locations in the area, such as Highway 12A or Mechanic Street, have much more open parking than Hanover, she said. Ken Pace, manager of Hanover’s third Thai restaurant, Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine, called Thai Orchid’s closure “shocking.” Pace said he and his wife Pannipa Pace, who owns Tuk Tuk, had no ill will towards Thai Orchid. Pannipa Pace had previously worked as a cook at Thai Orchid before eventually leaving to open her own restaurant. Ken Pace said that when Pannipa Pace left, Thai
Orchid’s owner had delivered some heated comments to her, spurring her on to succeed at Tuk Tuk. In 2015, the Valley News reported about a possible personal rivalry between the management at Thai Orchid and at Tuk Tuk. It would be difficult for two Thai restaurants operating at similar price points, such as Thai Orchid and Tuk Tuk, to coexist in a town the size of Hanover, Griffin said. The closure of Thai Orchid marks another unexpected Hanover restaurant shut down. This past May, pizza restaurant Everything But Anchovies closed without warning after the opening of a Domino’s Pizza franchise in West Lebanon, which offered later pizza deliveries than EBAs. A Facebook page called “Ebas Hanover” later posted a status announcing plans to bring in a new management team and reopen the restaurant; however, the status appears to have since been deleted. G r i f f i n s a i d s h e b e l i eve s Dominos’ aggressive attempts to promote its late-night delivery was a major factor in EBAs’ closure. The Dartmouth previously reported that EBAs saw a 20 percent decline in late night deliveries following Dominos’ opening.
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Rotich talks student life as a King Leadership Scholar FROM ROTICH PAGE 1
but will expand into something better and bigger. What are your future plans? FR: Unlike other international s c h o l a r s h i p p ro g r a m s, l i k e MasterCard, is it not a requirement for King scholars to return home after graduation. That said, Bob and Dottie King do hope that the scholars, many from the Global South, will use their education and the opportunities they have access to to help alleviate poverty in their home regions, in whatever capacity they can. After interning at the World Justice Project in Washington, D.C., how has your perspective on development changed? FR: The project was actually started by a Dartmouth alum, Paul Neukom ’82. The organization hopes to strengthen the rule of law around the world. The company collects data from different countries, measure the rule of law with issues of criminal justice and corruption. Each year, the [World Justice Project] publishes a book and distributes it to different countries to see how each governments can improve in
comparison to each other. While working at a non-profit, the main incentive for employees is the purpose of the organization, the mission and goals because there isn’t a monetary incentive. It was quite interesting to realize and think about when I go to the office — I know I am working for this organization because I believe in their purpose. The World Justice Project was an excellent opportunity not only for my professional advancement but also for personal growth. I came to realize the limitations of the nonprofit sector and I’m therefore looking to explore for-profit sectors that create value through social impact. On campus, what other groups are you involved with? FR: Working at the World Justice Project utilized my quantitative analysis skills and also helped me make infor med career choices of going into economic development as a general field after I graduate. Humans of Dartmouth encompasses my passion for photography and human relations. I started being apart of Humans of Dartmouth in Fall 2016 as a photographer. I like taking pictures of people
and I believe that each person in a community like Dartmouth has a unique story that Humans of Dartmouth can share. One of the most important things of photography is being able to capture a certain moment where it is just unguided, spontaneous, and just human. I find capturing that moment fascinating. Humans of Dartmouth has provided a space for me to keep doing that.
move behind that and talk about other things that make this person, human. We are getting better at it and its something found in every student at Dartmouth.”
Rotich is a former photographer for The Dartmouth. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
What do you envision for Humans of Dartmouth in the future? FR: We are trying to expand the project by encompassing different aspects of the community with faculty and staff in addition to students. Most international students have some kind of interesting story as a given. They come from thousands of miles away and grew up in very different backgrounds. That said, its easier to get a story from people with different backgrounds than the majority of students at Dartmouth. One of the things we try to insist on at Humans of Dartmouth is really trying to push for stories outside of the normal Dartmouth routine. Dartmouth students tend to speak about their normal Dartmouth routines and it takes a lot to actually
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Faith Rotich ’18 is a King Leadership Scholar.
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STAFF COLUMNIST JOSEPH REGAN ’19
Dangerous Rectangles
We must moderate the amount of time we spend on our smartphones. Bright rectangles reflecting in the summer sun are not what sophomore summer is, but that is often how it appears. Smartphones bulge in students’ pockets, bringing many unique advantages and disadvantages. Smartphones bring unprecedented communication and coordination, which is useful in a term rife with so many activities. However, the irony is that students spend inordinate amounts of attention not on the world they inhabit, but rather the small rectangular prisms residing in their pockets. Smartphones have revolutionized the college campus. People can plan to meet other people without either person meeting beforehand. The advantages of the smartphone are so obvious, so quotidian in the details, that these advantages were digested long ago as the normal state of affairs. Anyone who believes that the ubiquity of the smartphone on college campuses is normal is correct. The amount of aggregated online content per day at Dartmouth must be incredible; the proportion of which is vapid content is equally astounding. Smartphones enable and encourage indolence. Spending free time in one’s room is no longer a way of disengaging from the world, but instead an opportunity to stare at a small screen for hours. In that time one could possibly be witty in a group chat, peruse social media, curl the smallest of smiles at a meme—if it is truly that humourous and merits an actual physical response—or commit any of the series of taps necessary to reach another source of entertainment. There is nothing inherently wrong about spending time away from others. The problem lies in the unnecessary prolongment of solitude, where one is easily seduced by the glowing screen for far longer than necessary. Smartphones are omnipresent in our daily lives, actively in use irrespective of our location or social interactions. The longest a Dartmouth student may be without his or her phone is when they use it to reserve a spot in the dining hall or library. Coordinating activities with a smartphone is one taking advantage of the benefits of living in the 21st century, but communicating with people other than those you are with is nonsensical abuse of that privilege. What is the purpose of being friends with someone if you are rarely with them? Whether it be in a fraternity late at night, or across a table laden with food, we are all guilty of paying our phones too much attention in the company of friends. Our little rectangles
are dangerous conversation killers. It is far too common to take refuge in a smartphone when small talk has been exhausted, than it is to go beyond the discussion of hometowns, majors, extracurriculars and interim experiences. One result of the omnipresence of smartphones is the possibility of recording events. Recording one’s experiences is an excellent way to reflect. However, it can also negate the power of the meaningful experience. Actors in a movie are who we see on screen, not the people behind the cameras. Curating a life online is perfectly fine so long as it doesn’t determine how you live your life in the world. The sea of iPhones at concerts, or slew of posts on Instagram this Fourth of July, are just a few examples of our modernday conflation of frequently boasting about activities without truly taking enjoyment in them. The proliferation of cracks across iPhone screens bears testament to unwarranted use. No device is used more per day than one’s smartphone. Strangely, this does not result in behavior that seeks to protect these devices. Cases are common, and not the simplest solution. Our phones are fragile devices liable to be dropped infrequently— protecting for that eventuality is not foolish. However, venturing into the night, having coordinated with friends to meet up with your smartphone, meeting with them and recording incessantly with your smartphone, reaching your destination and continuing to record while also consuming the recordings made by other people on their smartphones, is gratuitous. It is fun, and it is the reality of modern socialization, and yet dangerous, and not just dangerous for pristine screens. Augmenting memories by using a smartphone to record one’s life is to take advantage of the marvels of technology. All you need to do to understand that marvel is to turn wifi off and set your phone on airplane mode. It is remarkable how habitual smartphone usage is proven to have been if one conducts this simple experiment. The urges to check social media, snapchat, and texts generally go unnoticed because they are automatic. One doesn’t think to do these things, one does them. This is of course a ridiculous experiment because phones are valuable tools. To forego their use entirely is as nonsensical as using them ceaselessly. We must find a middle ground after thoughtfully considering our possible addiction to this rectangular prism.
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STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19
Summer Sluggishness
Lethargy over sophomore summer is not necessarily a reason to panic. Summer has been strange so far. It has been group was objectively less productive. Instead hard to reconcile the beautiful, sunny, languid of focusing on their work, they presumably days with the looming realization that real work thought about what they would rather be needs to get done. Going from a swim in the doing. Pleasant alternatives – like being in the river to a frat barbeque or a trip to Ice Cream beautiful Hanover outdoors instead of reading Fore-U straight back to 3rd Floor Berry has 40 pages of an economics textbook – take a not aligned well with my usual rhythm. On toll on our ability to concentrate. top of this sense of summer lethargy I realized A lot of other research goes beyond that I also feel an acute sense of guilt. Despite productivity, finding connections between doing all my scheduled work and signing up weather and thoughtfulness, critical thinking for as many recruiting sessions I can fit into and even happiness. In 1994, Gerald Clore my schedule, I feel frustrated with how little found that pleasant weather can lead to sleep I am getting and how hectic my daily a lapse in thoughtfulness and undermine life has become. undergraduate students’ ability to thoroughly Sophomore summer is often described as the analyze given information. Sweltering heat “easiest” term for most Dartmouth students. and high humidity can also amplify those With a supposedly lighter workload and so effects. A different study published in the many opportunities for both wholesome and British Journal of Psychology found that high not-so-wholesome fun, the summer is meant humidity induced lower concentration and to feel different from a regular term. With increased sleepiness in participants, in addition our class having the campus to ourselves, the to weakening their critical thinking – the hotter sunny days and seemingly carefree disposition the weather, the less likely the subjects were of most students should engender a fairly easy to question what they were being told. going atmosphere. I would also argue that through our It has not really worked out that way for years spent in formal education, we might me. I have found myself have developed an inherent unexpectedly busy and summer rhythm. For every stressed the first two “I would like to think year that we have spent in weeks of this term, rarely I am not the only school, we have become being able to find any accustomed to shut our organic time for my one struggling with brains off in the summer. own leisure. Grabbing a adjusting to the pace Granted, we have probably scoop of gelato, eating gone to camps, done some of this term.” my lunch outside or reading and throughout high taking a short nap always school, maybe even worked came with the awareness or interned somewhere. But that I was sacrificing the academic rigor of a daily something, whether that class schedule is something meant forfeiting a few we may have perhaps hours of sleep, risking learned to disassociate with a few points on an assignment or even the summer season. jeopardizing my prospects of finding an off- Good weather, however, does have its positives. term internship. None of these are legitimate While it may make us more sluggish and even fears, not actually. But my desire to enjoy the jeopardize how diligent and efficient we are, it outdoors and the resulting fear of “wasting” can also make us more content. People tend to time have recently occupied an unreasonably be happier as the days get warmer and longer vast amount of headspace. I recognize that I and sadder as they get shorter and colder. am less focused, less productive and less satisfied I would like to think I am not the only one with my work ethic. I am not reaching 100 struggling with adjusting to the pace of this percent of my mental capacity and while part term. The important thing to remember is of me feels fully responsible for that, another that feeling a little idle is okay. I am certainly part believes it is not entirely my fault. not advocating for laziness or apathy – we Most behavioral scientists would agree all have a responsibly to make the most of with the latter. Recent studies have found a our education here and that cannot happen negative correlation between good weather without a fair amount of hard work. However, and a subjects’ productivity, motivation and we know ourselves and it is perfectly reasonable critical thinking ability. A 2008 study published to adjust our schedules to reflect what we know in the Journal of Labor Economics found that we can and cannot do. Sophomore summer is men spent on average thirty more minutes at unlike any other term. If taking fewer classes work on rainy days than on comparatively while enjoying the outdoors improves the sunny days. A 2012 investigation conducted summer, then we should not hesitate to take by researchers from Harvard University and the opportunity. Absorbing as much vitamin the University of North Carolina at Chapel D as possible and making every effort to be Hill that studied Japanese bank workers and genuinely happier may actually work to your reached a similar conclusion: bad weather advantage later in life. The fulfillment we can made workers more productive. Those find at Dartmouth is something we might researchers then timed two groups of Harvard rarely, if ever, achieve again. To really enjoy students completing data entry tasks. One Sophomore Summer, we need to let go of group was shown six pictures of pleasant artificial constructs and restrictive fears, reflect outdoors activities, while the other group was on who we are and what we want and make asked to describe their daily routine. The first these ten weeks what we need them to be.
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Collaborative Theater at VoxFest
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At a 2010 Christmas party in New York, three Dartmouth alumni considered the dilemma of finding both the resources and space in the city to rehearse their new projects and ideas. Six years later, Matthew Cohn ’08, Thom Pasculli ’05, and Kate
Mulley ’05 have returned to Dartmouth to open the fifth annual VoxFest, a week-long showcase of new projects by various alumni of the College’s Theater department that collaborate with faculty, students and locals of Hanover.. Originating from it’s creators’ desire to workshop and rehearse in an open space, VoxFest has evolved as a way to connect alumni with students and
expose students to different aspects of theater production, Cohn and Mulley said. “My parents had just moved to Hanover so it seemed like a great, possible solution,” Mulley said. “When we asked Dartmouth for a space where we could come workshop a play, they offered us Bentley Theater, where we ended up doing a fully staged production.” The production was so successful with faculty and students that the plan was to do a similar workshop every term, she said. However, travel complications caused Pasculli to come up with the idea of an annual, week-long theater festival where alumni would be invited to innovate and collaborate with each other and students, Cohn said. “It just felt like a good thing to keep doing, and it fit well into the curriculum of Theater 65,” Mulley said. Theater 65, or Summer Theater Lab, taught by theater professor James Horton, is a course in which students are matched according to their interests with a variety of productions, including those of VoxFest, Horton said. “Students are involved as actors, technicians, stage managers and other wide variety of roles,” he said. “Association in [Summer Theater Lab] have gone on to become professional associations, and the connections established has great promise and tangible results.” Horton said that students get to witness firsthand the full development and creation of theater productions. She added that they additionally experience the full value and range of theatrical content. “Students here are so smart and creative, and what we can do with people who’ve trained in all sorts of different backgrounds is introduce
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them to students who are talented and hungry for new things,” Cohn said. “As Dartmouth alumni, we all speak the same language. They work with us and we work with them as professionals and equals.” Students who have worked with VoxFest in previous summers have returned as alumni, such as Debi Xiadani ’15, who will be one of the leaders for the production “Book Club” on Friday, along with Cohn and Olivia Gilliatt ’08. Mulley and Cohn said that VoxFest has not only provided a space for alumni to workshop and rehearse, but also a space to network in the same place where they began as artists, and with new, burgeoning student artists. “When I was a young alum, I didn’t have that many [collaborative] relationships [with alumni],” Mulley said. “But with the four students rehearsing the play I’ve written, the space creates the sort of relationship you don’t get from a classroom or simply connecting to a random alum.” Alumni may also benefit from having students in their productions, as with Mulley, whose work “Trash” takes place in a boarding school. She said that it was helpful to have student actors closer in age to high school aged characters, adding a visceral emotion to the play. Mulley’s work is based on a phrase that exists within the “underground” preparatory school community: “Pass the trash.” This phrase alludes to what happens after a teacher is found having an affair with a student and is subsequently fired, but also given a letter of recommendation for their next job. “I was really interested in how that happens and exploring the psyche of someone serially dating students, as
well as how that can be dramatized,” Mulley said. “I was also interested in seeing how people try to retain their youth, when it’s appropriate to behave like an adult, and the power dynamic between teachers and students [as well as] when that line gets blurred.” Cohn, who will be involved in “Book Club,” said that the work, based on Gialetti’s Book Club theater techniques, will also require a lot of collaboration between students involved in the production, alumni and other professionals. The play will be an example of devised theater, where the production is developed through experimentation and collaboration during rehearsal. “We’ll be generating the content in the rehearsal room, rather than bringing it in through a more traditional method like a written script,” he said. Gialetti’s Book Club theater also involves dramatizing texts. For this week’s production, the text will be the surreal short story “As They Rode Along the Edge” by Leonora Carrington. The story involves fantastical elements, therefore Gialetti’s production will require the cast and crew to answer the question: How do we stage an impossible thing? “We’ll just have to create the world,” Cohn said. The first event of VoxFest, Vox Barter, was on Wednesday at the BEMA. The showcase of alumni productions begin 5:00 PM on Friday at the Bentley Theater, with the presentation of “Live Feed” by Carol Brown ’12, Max Hunter ’13, Mia Jessup ’12 and Jay Ben Markson ’10. “Book Club” will premiere directly afterwards at 8:00 PM. Saturday evening, “Trash” will be performed at 4:30 PM followed by “The Cure” at 7:30 PM, both in the Bentley Theater.
“Buoyancy” exhibition, alumni art comes to Hop galleries
B y AManda zhou
The Dartmouth Staff
The Strauss and Jaffe-Friede Galleries in the Hopkins Center for the Arts are featuring artists at all points of their career, ranging from recently graduated alumni to well established professional artists. Darby RaymondOverstreet ’16 and Benjamin Albrecht ’16, winners of the Perspectives on Design Award, currently have their art showcased in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery. Next door, the Strauss Gallery features a group exhibition around the topic of “Buoyancy.” Gerald Auten, director of the studio art exhibition program and professor in the studio art department, is in charge of planning the different exhibitions for each gallery. Auten said that the Perspectives on Design Award is given to one or more graduating studio art majors. The award consists of a cash stipend to support the students’ work for a year. Then, the following summer, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery displays their work in a unique
exhibition. The award is provided by Navajo herself, said in the past year an endowment given by Judith and she has incorporated Navajo type David Collins, who valued studio patterns into portraits and hand-made art and believed relief prints. that the program R i l ey, “It’s a real honor. It’s should have a who was a critic g r e a t a w a r d an endorsement of for RaymondAuten said. the strength of these O v e r s t r e e t ’ s “It’s a real senior seminar, honor. It’s an student’s work from said she has endorsement of last year.” d e ve l o p e d a the strength of “ver y strong these student’s visual language.” w o r k f r o m -ENRICO RILEY, During last year,” said PROFESSOR OF STUDIO the end of her P ro f e s s o r o f senior spring, studio art Enrico ART w i t h o u t a ny Riley, who is advance notice, also involved in Raymondorganizing exhibitions. Overstreet learned she was chosen Raymond-Overstreet said she for the POD award. did not originally plan on majoring Raynmond-Overstreet said she in studio art, but was inspired after plans to pursue art professionally and taking a drawing class at Dartmouth. is considering applying to Masters of After working with portraits, she said Fine Arts programs. that she began studying Navajo style Albrecht’s work features paintings patterns which began influencing her which include miscellaneous objects work. Raymond-Overstreet, who is and colorful detail. Riley also
worked with Albrecht during his watercolor to aluminum wire mesh to time at Dartmouth and said that folded color paper. his work showcases “a lot of skillful A committee, comprised of the nine manipulation tenure-track and of paint” and “It usually comes tenured studio has moved to faculty, chooses embrace more together around a topic and abstraction. each member the theme in really While the proposes an J a f f e - F r i e d e remarkable and artist. Then, the G a l l e r y i s unexpected ways.” faculty discuss currently the artists and displaying works eventually invite by e m e rg i n g -GERALD AUTEN, them to display a r t i s t s , t h e PROFESSOR OF STUDIO their work, Strauss Gallery Auten said. is showcasing ART works by well “The piece established artists usually comes based on the idea of “Buoyancy.” together around the theme in really Each summer, the gallery is dedicated remarkable and unexpected ways,” to an exhibition focusing around a Auten said. single theme and is supported by the The POD Award Exhibition Jacob H. Strauss ’22 Memorial Fund in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery and Auten said. “Buoyancy,” features “Buoyancy” in the Strauss Gallery eight works representing six artists will both be on display until August from different parts of the world. The 20. exhibit consists of various media from Elise Higgins contributed to reporting.
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In 36th annual Prouty, students compete against cancer By EVAN MORGAN
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Hanover will come alive this weekend with runners, bikers, rowers and golfers participating in the 36th annual Prouty. The signature fundraising event of the Norris Cotton Cancer Care Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will offer four different ways to participate. Despite forecasted thunderstorms, which have forced route changes and cancelation of some cycling events, the 2017 edition of the Prouty includes walking, golfing, rowing, and biking. Walking Walkers can choose routes o n l o c a l ro a d s o r t h ro u g h Storrs Pond and Oak Hill. The Prouty’s 3-kilometer, 6-kilometer, 9-kilometer and 12-kilometer residential walking routes begin and end on Lyme Road near Frances C. Richmond Middle School. The 3K walk, named Audrey’s 3K Walk, will originate and conclude at the Prouty venue. The 6K, 9K and 12K routes each go around Occom Pond, and the longer two walks will then traverse campus on Old Tuck Drive. Five-kilometer and 10-kilometer “wooded” walking routes begin on Lyme Road and pass the north end of Storrs Pond, with the 10K route turning onto the Oak Hill trail system on a path that gains
more than 600 feet of elevation. Regan Gore ’19 and Elise Higgins ’19 both plan on participating in the 5K wooded walk. “I had heard a lot from upperclassmen, that it’s a really fun experience and a great way to get out,” Gore said. “It’s exciting to do something different on a Saturday and actually do something with the town.”
Golfing Golfing the Prouty is in a four person scramble format. Foursomes will tee off every nine minutes between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hanover Country Club. Each group of four will compete together, selecting the best of the four players’ shots at each juncture and recording one score per hole. The Hanover Country Club is an 18-hole, par-72 course. As a comparison, during the Dartmouth Invitational in September, the Big Green women’s golf team averaged a little more than four over par. Rowing The Prouty rowing course spans the 10-mile stretch of the Connecticut River between the Ledyard Bridge and the Lyme Bridge. Rowers must bring their own shells and will begin at the Dartmouth boathouse and row north for a distance of five, 10, 15 or 20 miles. They will choose to launch at any time between 6:30am to 12:30pm.
Quick hits By JOYCE LEE, EVAN MORGAN and MAX ZHUANG The Dartmouth Staff
Bordeau returns for second stint at head of women’s rowing Last Friday, senior associate a t h l e t i c s d i r e c t o r We n d y Bordeau was announced to return to coach the women’s rowing team. She for merly served as a member of the senior management team for the past three years. “I was intrigued to work in administration and provide the
female coaching perspective to that leadership group,” Bordeau said. “I felt it was important to bring that perspective to the table.” Bordeau said that while she enjoyed her time as part of the leadership, she felt compelled to return to coaching. “What excites me most is having direct contact with players,” Bordeau said. “I love rowing and racing, I missed being out in the water.” Bordeau had been the team’s head coach previously from 2005 to 2014. Director of athletics and recreation Harry Sheehy and executive associate atheltics
Jackson Witherspoon ’19, a member of the lightweight rowing team, plans to row the 20-mile distance with teammate Henry Cawthorne ’19. “It’s a big part of the culture on campus and on the team, and we love rowing so it’s no big deal for us to do an extra workout,” Witherspoon said. “We do a lot of steady-state long-distance rowing and erging, so doing something like this is just an easy day of training for us.”
Biking The Prouty began in 1982 with four nurses cycling 100 miles through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It was inspired by Audrey Prouty’s nine-year battle with ovarian cancer. To fundraise and bring awareness for cancer research, the Prouty still regards cycling as its signature event. For the most adventurous, the Prouty Ultimate comprises two 77-mile rides on Friday and Saturday that were modified from 100-mile rides due to recent hazardous weather conditions. Friday’s route loops through eastern Vermont, heading east to Woodstock and turning as far north as Chelsea before passing through Thetford and returning to Hanover. On Saturday, Ultimate riders follow the Connecticut north to Wells River, Vermont before turning back for Hanover. Shorter 77 mile, 50 mile and 20 mile routes will follow similar routes along the director for varsity sports Brian Austin were supportive of her decision to go back to coaching. During Bordeau’s first tenure as head coach, the women’s rowing program appeared in three NCAA Championship, with the entire team qualifying for the first time since 1998 in 2007. “Once a coach, always a coach - it was a tough decision to make, but I feel really strongly that it’s the right decision,” said Bordeau. Interim women’s hockey coach Joe Marsh takes over for Laura Schuler Joe Marsh will serve as the Dartmouth women’s hockey interim head coach for the upcoming 2017-18 season. The Big Green women’s hockey head coach Laura Schuler assumes
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river. Stormy weather has forced cancelation of the 35 mile route and the 64 mile metric century, which would have taken place on back roads. “I’m doing the 77 mile ride on Saturday because I was originally
planning on biking the 100 mile,” said Afnan Enayet ’19. “I love riding and this is an excuse to ride some more. I’m glad the roads will be blocked off and that they have modified the routes so cycling will be smooth.”
head coaching responsibilities for the Canadian Olympic Team. Schuler’s responsibilities with Team Canada will take her away from Hanover for the season as she looks to guide her team to a fifth straight Olympic Gold Medal in PyeongChang, South Korea. Interim coach Marsh brings with him experience and expertise as the former longtime head coach of the St. Lawrence men’s hockey team. Coming out of retirement, Marsh coached for the Saints for 27 years between 1985 through 2012. Marsh retired as the most succesful head coach at St. Lawrence in terms of tenure, wins (482), conference regular season titles (two), conference tournament titles (five), conference championship appearances (eight) and NCAA tournament appearances (eight).
Heavyweight rowing competes at Royal Henley Regatta On June 30, the heavyweight rowing team lost to Ruder Tennis Hockey Club Bayer Leverkusen, a German sports club, in the first heat of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta. RTHC bested the Big Green by a third of a length. The Henley, established 1839 and held in the British town of Henley-on-Thames, is one of the oldest regattas in the world. Dartmouth was one of three Ivy League crews competing in the 2017 edition. Brown University lost in the semifinal of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, while Yale University bowed out in the semifinal of the Temple Challenge.