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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Cartoonist begins Montgomery Fellowship

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

SNOW WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE SNOW

By WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth

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OPINION

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In 1972, Larry Gonick dropped out of his mathematics graduate program at Harvard University to become a professional cartoonist. This term, he comes to Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow to share insights related to his educational comics that cover everything from American history to genetics.

Since arriving at the College, Gonick has been visiting classes and interacting with students. He said he has been impressed by the quality of instruction at the College and particularly enjoyed the writing courses he visited.

“Dartmouth overwhelms Hanover and I didn’t realize that,” he said. “My experience has always been in urban colleges.”

Additionally, Gonick has enjoyed the Orozco murals and local restaurants and has been surprised by “how many people go around in this weather with no hat.”

“The Montgomery Fellowship has put me in some very distinguished company, not to mention a very pleasant house,” Gonick said. “The fellowship office has been generous, attentive and instrumental in helping me meet dozens of people here.”

He also said he was excited about how his visit may influence instruction at the College.

Gonick attended Harvard for his undergraduate education and stayed on at Harvard for four more years as a math graduate student before pursuing a career in cartooning. Gonick said that his career in cartooning began when, during his fourth year as a graduate student

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Hanover was hit with a snowstorm yesterday, covering campus with about 10 inches of snow.

AMES and AMELL to restructure and refocus

By AUTUMN DINH The Dartmouth

Coming July 1, the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program and the Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Literature department will be restructured into two separate departments: the Asian Society, Culture and Language department and

the Middle Eastern Studies department.

According to Dennis Washburn, the former AMES chair and an Asian studies, comparative literature and film and media professor, the restructure is a response to governance issues within AMES and AMELL, as the new departments will be able to appoint more of their own

professors rather than relying on those from other departments to teach their courses. In the past, because AMES and AMELL were interdisciplinary, many professors who taught courses in them belonged to different departments. The new departments will be able to hire more professors directly, SEE AMES PAGE 3

Social justice awards honor Sociologist discusses community members critical race theory

By ISABEL ADLER The Dartmouth

O n Ja n . 2 5 , t h e College hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award ceremony as part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. The awards seek to honor achievement in social justice by member s

of the Dartmouth community.

Five people and one organization received awards this year: George Boateng ’16 T h’17, Zachary Kaufman ’08, s o c i o l o g y p ro f e s s o r Deborah King, Tuck S ch o o l o f B u s i n e s s director of strategic initiatives Dia Draper, Pat Terenzini ’64 and

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Boateng received the Emerging Leadership Award. In 2013, Boateng co-founded the Nsesa Foundation, which seeks to encourage young people in Africa to i n n ovat e a n d s o l ve problems within their SEE JUSTICE PAGE 3

By WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth

Last Friday, Matt Wray, associate professor of sociology at Temple University, delivered a talk titled “What’s Up with White People? A Field Guide for the Perplexed” to a room of over 40 people in Carson Hall.

Wray’s talk covered his work as a critical whiteness scholar — an extension of critical race theory

that investigates how white identities are constructed — and his theories on how to classify white people.

Wray’s system, which he for mulated by studying ethnographies of white people over at least 10 years, organizes white people into one of four groups. The system involves a two-by-two table that relies on SEE SOCIOLOGY PAGE 5

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Montgomery Fellow Larry Gonick shares cartooning work on campus

From there Gonick worked on a comic called “The Cartoon History at Harvard, he illustrated a comic on of the Universe” and then his first science project, which was a genetics tax reform.

“It was the dullest subject you cartoon he collaborated on with a microbiologist that he knew. could think of,” he said.

Because there weren’t many comics “Science writing was taking off as that combined fact, interpretation a discipline in the 1980s, so I thought and teaching, Gonick’s first project I should try doing something in science,” Gonick said. combined education and art.

E v e n t u a l l y, “It’s satirical editors picked up and funny, but it’s Gonick’s comics and also nonfiction, “If you like he beg an regularly reporting and comics, read books in his ex p l a i n i n g, ” comics and make publishing “Cartoon Guide” series.

G o n i c k He recently published explained. “It comics. It’s a “HyperCapitalism” and i s a w ay o f legitimate art is currently working on wedding fact and form, the world “The Cartoon Guide to interpretation.”

Biology.”

Soon after, recognizes that

According to Gonick earned now. If you’re Montgomery Fellows a job writing a program director Klaus comic strip for drawn to it — no Milich, this year marks the B o s t o n A f t e r pun intended — 40th anniversary of the Dark, a weekly Montgomery Fellowship. paper in Boston, do it.”

The College has hosted which later over 250 fellows since the became the now-LARRY GONICK, program started in 1978. defunct Boston MONTGOMERY

Milich, who Phoenix. helped bring Gonick “When I got FELLOW to campus, said that my first weekly Gonick was an interesting paying comic candidate for a liberal arts strip, I dropped college since he combines out of graduate the humanities of the comic and the school,” he said.

After Boston Phoenix dropped sciences. his strip, Gonick thought about “Cartoons, graphic novels and writing a comic book for the U.S. comics have become very prominent, bicentennial that could be sold particularly among students,” he at tourist attractions. The idea said. materialized through the Boston The core idea behind the Globe, where Gonick was hired to fellowship is to give Dartmouth illustrate a Sunday comic on the students the opportunity to interact American Revolution called “Yankee with individuals who are renowned in their fields and to combine the Almanack.”

From there, Gonick then moved humanities and sciences. to San Francisco to further pursue a “We have had prominent people career as a cartoonist. There he met here from all walks of life,” he said. artists involved with underground Former Montgomery scholars comix, which he said was an have included figures such as novelists “immensely influential” group of Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and small press or self-published comics Salman Rushdie. Musician Yo-Yo that focused on edgy, satirical comics. Ma will be joining the College as a “It had two prongs,” Conick Montgomery Fellow in the spring, said of the San Francisco comics Milich said. movement. “It started in the mid to S t u d e n t s h av e d i f f e r e n t late-60s, so one prong was the sexual opportunities to meet with revolution and the other prong was Montgomery Fellows, Milich said.

As an example, he said that students the explosion of drug use.”

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CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

Correction Appended (Feb. 7, 2018): The Feb. 7 online version of the article “Montgomery fellow Larry Gonick brings comics and science to campus” incorrectly stated the publication that dropped Gonick’s strip.

Boston After Dark had already become the Boston Phoenix when it dropped his strip. The article has been updated to correct this error.

are invited to have lunch with fellows at the Montgomery House on Rope Ferry Road, where they are housed.

Gonick first heard about the fellowship opportunity through the associate dean for the sciences, Daniel Rockmore. “[Rockmore] was in San Francisco for some reason and we had a conversation and he said, ‘We should find a way to get you out to Dartmouth,’” Gonick said. “And he did.”

Elizabeth Whiting ’21 was also drawn to Gonick because of this combination of art and science.

“I’m not familiar with other people who combine education and cartooning,” she said. “He’s targeting an audience that wouldn’t normally be interested in a book on calculus.

I think that going forward art and education are going to be combined even more.”

Whiting, who has an interest in cartooning, said Gonick has an interesting style and his work is very detailed.

“If you like comics, read comics and make comics,” Gonick said.

“It’s a legitimate art form, the world recognizes that now. If you’re drawn to it — no pun intended — do it.”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018

SNOW WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SNOWPLOW

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About 10 inches of snow fell throughout the day yesterday.

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MLK Awards recognize social justice AMES, AMELL will restructure in July FROM JUSTICE PAGE 1

communities. The organization runs several programs, primarily in Ghana, Boateng said. It has a three-week summer program called Project iSWEST, an abbreviation for “Innovating Solutions With E n g i n e e r i n g, S c i e n c e a n d Technology,” for high school students. In the past five years, the camp has impacted 100 students, according to Boateng.

The foundation also runs STEM WOW, an abbreviation for “STEM Woman of the Week,” which seeks to highlight African women in STEM through social media. This is the foundation’s first program to expand out of Ghana. Boateng said he hopes it will encourage girls to study STEM, adding that he plans to compile inspirational stories into a book that schools across the continent can use to inspire girls.

SuaCode, the foundation’s newest program, uses smartphones to teach people across the African continent to code, Boateng said.

“We just tapped the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we can accomplish,” he said.

Boateng, who grew up in Ghana, said he disliked that the education system focused on memorization, which inspired him to create Nsesa.

According to Boateng, he will start at ETH Zurich as a Ph.D. student in the near future.

The Xi Lambda chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha received the Student Organization Award for its commitment to Dartmouth’s women of color and its community

service, according to the award website. Alpha Kappa Alpha is a black sorority that was originally founded in 1908 at Howard University, according to sorority president Alex Adams ’18. The Xi Lambda chapter was chartered in 1983.

Adams explained that the sorority primarily focuses on outreach and advocacy within the Dartmouth community. This year, it hosted a sleepover for first-year women of color to meet upperclasswomen of color, she said. The sorority has community dinners and events, such as a ski day, to “create spaces for marginalized people, especially black women,” she said.

Alpha Kappa Alpha also partners with national organizations to advocate for different causes. For example, next Saturday the sorority will host an event to raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

“Social justice can take many forms,” Adams said. “It can be about race, it can be about gender, it can be about socioeconomic class. Any organization can choose a cause and fight for it in any way. We are thankful that we won the award and glad that we got this recognition, and we hope to continue to serve the Dartmouth community in the future.”

Kaufman won the Ongoing Leadership Award. Seven years a g o, wh i l e ove r s e e i n g d at a management for an organization called Grassroot Soccer, which uses soccer to educate young people

in developing countries about global health issues, Kaufman found that Microsoft Excel was not a powerful enough tool to manage the program’s growing number of participants. He then created Vera Solutions, which helps social impact organizations better manage and use their data.

Kaufman stressed the importance of “not just doing business responsibly, but having business models that advance the social sector.”

“Get the heck out of Hanover during your time at Dartmouth,” he said as advice to students. “It’s really important to not get too sucked in by the bubble, but to venture out, whether it’s into the local communities in the Upper Valley or other communities throughout the country or other communities around the globe.

Get exposure and experience in the real world.”

For Kaufman winning an award from Dartmouth is meaningful.

“Dartmouth as a community has meant a lot to me personally,” Kaufman said. “It was an important support system for starting Vera.”

Te r e n z i n i , w h o w o n t h e Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement, agrees with K aufman’s sentiments, explaining that his experiences at Dartmouth inspired him to care about underserved students’ college experiences. Terenzini’s book, “How College Affects Students,” which he published with Ernest Pascarella, compiled thousands of studies on college students.

Te r e n z i n i f o u n d t h ro u g h his research that the college experience had different effects on underserved students than on majority ones, he said. He added that his book has changed the way that administrators, professors and public policy makers see college resources. Additionally, Terenzini said his books were used to support affirmative action in the Supreme Court. He explained that his research was used to argue that diversity in college “wasn’t just fair, it wasn’t just morally just, it was educationally important.”

Draper received the Holly Fell Sateia Award for her leadership in advancing diversity and community at the College. King received the MLK Social Justice Award in Lifetime Achievement, which is awarded to those who have worked in their field for more than 20 years.

Draper and King did not respond to requests for comment.

The awards are cosponsored by the MLK celebration committee, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the Center for Social Impact and the Geisel School of Medicine.

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he said.

The fact that there are enough faculty to launch an independent MES department is an opportunity for the restructure, Washburn said.

This restructure will help MES focus more on social studies and ASCL focus more on South and Southeast Asia, he added.

Art history professor Allen Hockley, the current chair of AMES, said that as the new ASCL department comes into function, it will start making more requests to the deans to hire more faculty whose expertise is in South and Southeast Asia.

Both Hockley and Washburn said that one way of expanding the focus of the ASCL department to South and Southeast Asia is to expand the number of study abroad programs. Hockley said that instead of fixing foreign studies program to one country, ASCL will consider creating cross-national programs.

Washburn said that the new ASCL department will give students more opportunities to explore more complex aspects of Asian studies, such as Asia as a concept and critical race studies.

“The new program will help us think of Asia not just as Asia, but as a global phenomenon,” he said.

According to Washburn, the requirements for the new ASCL major are at least two second-year level language courses; ASCL 1, “Thinking Through Asia”; two inter mediate courses focusing on national, social or linguistic traditions and transnational studies; three elective courses; and a seminar. He added that on students’ transcripts, the major will appear as ASCL along with the student’s concentration.

Hockley said that ASCL will focus more on interdisciplinary studies while keeping a balance with disciplinary studies. He said that while the current practice of interdisciplinary studies is to take different courses in different fields, the new ASCL department will use the co-teaching model with multiple professors teaching one class. Hockley said that he will coteach the “Introduction to China” course with a literature professor next term.

“That way, we can help students see how both art history and literature form the current urban environment in one course,” he said.

Washburn said that the new ASCL department will help students look at Asia as a whole picture.

“I’d like to look at it as Asian d i a s p o r a s t u d i e s, ” h e s a i d .

“Asia is very complex — it’s all

interconnected. I’m pretty confident that the new program will work.”

AMELL chair and Arabic studies professor Jonathan Smolin said that the new MES department will offer new social science courses starting next year. He added that the department is thinking of expanding the language and foreign study programs offered for students, but the College’s small size and security concerns in the Middle East currently limit those plans.

The restructuring of AMES and AMELL into ASCL and MES are important opportunities to further students’ academic experience at Dartmouth, Smolin said.

“We believe fundamentally that this is not just improving the cover of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth, but that we are enriching the educational landscape for students,” he said.

Both the ASCL and MES department will make sure that students will have a smooth transition to the new majors and minors, Smolin said.

“We will be very flexible with students who are already in the system,” he said. “All the courses they have taken in the old majors and minors will still be counted in the new programs.”

Mary Clemens-Sewall ’20, who is taking Arabic and will declare the new MES minor, and Alex Kim ’19, an AMELL major, said that they were concerned that the new departments will shift the focus away from the language program.

“I’ll be quite apprehensive if I have to take other courses for my major,” Kim said.

Clemens-Sewall said that she believes the restructure will have a negative impact on literature professors, as they will work in a social sciences department instead of a literature department.

However, Smolin says this change will provide more flexibility.

“In the old program, students minoring or majoring in AMELL are forced to take literature and language courses,” he said. “In the new programs, the students can either focus on just language and literature or take other social sciences courses as well. There will be more options.”

Kim said he thought that the two departments are “heading to the right direction.” Clemens said that even though she understands the reasoning behind the restructuring, she is frustrated that her minor will appear as Middle Eastern Studies instead of Arabic.

“I’m disappointed with the inherent association with the idea of studying the Middle East, like Orientalism,” she said.

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Sociologist Matt Wray gives talk on critical race studies Washington — as an identifier; Ben Shapiro — a conservative political two variables, “political variation” commentator — as a denier; Tim and “colorblindness,” to create four Wise — an anti-racism activist — as quadrants of white identities. Wray a resister; and Richard Spencer — a labeled members of the quadrants white nationalist — as a resenter. as “identifiers” (liberal whites Wray added that people typically who believe in associate “hipsters” “ f l u i d r a c i a l “Political variation w i t h i d e n t i f i e r s, boundaries”), “neoconservatives” “ d e n i e r s ” struck me as the with deniers, “social ( c o n s e r vat i ve most obvious way justice war rior s” whites who with resisters and in which white believe in “rednecks and white “ f l u i d r a c i a l people are differing trash” with resenters. boundaries”), today from one Wray also said he “resisters” believes that most (liberal whites another.” white Americans who believe in are identifiers, “firm racial resenters make up a b o u n d a r i e s ” ) -MATT WRAY, small portion of the and “resenters” ASSOCIATE population and it ( c o n s e r vat i ve PROFESSOR OF would be difficult for whites who resenters to switch b e l i e v e i n SOCIOLOGY AT quadrants. “ f i r m r a c i a l TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Wray said that boundaries”). historically, critical As examples whiteness scholars of members of have divided these quadrants, white people into Wray identified categories based on Rachel Dolezal — a white woman whether they were prejudiced or who says she identifies as black, discriminated against minorities. who formerly headed the National However, he said that because Association for the Advancement prejudice and discrimination are of Colored People in Spokane, “less salient in this era,” he selected FROM SOCIOLOGY PAGE 1

new variables.

“Political variation struck me as the most obvious way in which white people are differing today from one another,” Wray said in an interview following his talk. “The political divisions between whites are more acute than they have ever been before.”

In his speech, Wray labeled his second variable as “colorblindness.”

He explained that how white people think about race is important to classifying them.

“Do they think about racial categories and racial boundaries as fiction … or do they see them as real divisions?” Wray said in the interview. “You get white people who see racial boundaries as fluid and you get white people who see racial boundaries as fixed.”

Wray also discussed the 2016 election in his talk, saying that people need to think more critically about demographics than simply attributing President Donald Trump’s victory to working-class white voters.

After the talk, Wray held a question and answer session with his audience. During this period, he said that when society establishes a clear division between people of color and white people, it promotes a hierarchy, and that he wonders

whether a third racial category — where I’m content to lay out the people like Dolezal who identify out theoretical framework and throw — would destabilize that hierarchy. out some possible hypotheses “Maybe there is something that I think flow directly from deconstructive about the Rachel this framework,” Wray said in t h e i n t e r v i e w.

Dolezals of the world,” said Wray in “I wanted to “If other people find that aspiring his talk, adding that present this he is unsure whether and want to take up some tests of “ t r a n s r a c i a l i s m ” as if it were a some of these is progressive or kind of guide to i d e a s , I ’d b e regressive. super excited The e v e n t understanding the about that.” received national different types of W r a y m e d i a at t e n t i o n white people that emphasized that following its a n n o u n c e m e n t , are out there in the such a research p ro j ect wo u ld i n c l u d i n g f r o m world.” b e a m a s s i ve Fox News, which undertaking reported last that included N o v e m b e r t h a t -MATT WRAY, e x t e n s i ve Dartmouth would ASSOCIATE polling and be hosting Wray for ethnographies as the talk. Previously, PROFESSOR OF a basis of study he has delivered this SOCIOLOGY AT has drawbacks. talk at the University “ O n e o f t h e of California, Santa TEMPLE UNIVERSITY limitations that Barbara.

Wray felt that Fox News we see with ethnographies is that specifically overreacted to his talk. they’re not really generalizable,” “They just had [available to Wray said. “Instead, it offers you them] a short paragraph describing the opportunity to hypothesize.” the talk,” Wray explained in the Alayah Johnson-Jennings ’21, interview. “That was the extent of who attended Wray’s talk, wished what they had to report on, and it was more grounded in research. they just ran with it like it was a Emily Stehr ’21 said she attended the event because sociology often baby on fire.” focuses on the He added oppressed and that liberal and “It’s not my place to was interested conservative in a talk that media outlets tell any of the white a r e e q u a l l y people in the audience focused on the oppressor. guilty of trying

“It is t o s t i r u p where they ought to interesting to controversy. place themselves in think about Wr a y s a i d the grid.” the privileged he got the idea side of social for the name stratification, o f h i s t a l k -MATT WRAY, ASSOCIATE rather than from reading stratification’s the question, PROFESSOR OF effects on social “What’s up with SOCIOLOGY AT TEMPLE minorities,” white people?”

UNIVERSITY Jarett Lewis ’21 on the website said.

Re d d i t a n d thought it “got to the heart of Princilla Minkah ’21 said she attended the event because she was [his] analytical project.”

The subtitle, “A Field Guide for interested in Wray’s perspective as the Perplexed,” is not incidental, a white man.

“I thought it was a great talk,” Wray explained.

“I wanted to present this as Armond Dorsey ’20 said. “I think if it were a kind of guide to now it’s just a matter of how this understanding the different types will be critically applied to our of white people that are out in the lives. It’s a matter of how we go forward.” world,” he said.

Although Wray has ideas about In terms of what students take the behaviors of members of away from his talk, Wray says that different categories, he has not is each student’s decision. analyzed data to test his hypotheses. “It’s not my place to tell For example, he hypothesized that any of the white people in the “resisters” might be interested audience where they ought to place in ending mass incarceration, themselves in the grid,” Wray said. whereas “identifiers” might be “I’m not trying to do something more interested in combating prescriptive here, I’m trying to do racism by combining cultures, such something descriptive. I’m trying to say, ‘Well here’s what people are as through hip-hop music.

“For now, I’m at the stage doing. You decide.’”

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW MAGANN ’21

STAFF COLUMNIST DANIEL FISHBEIN ’19

An Unjust ‘Solidarity’

Ditch The Dartmouth

Dartmouth activists should seek justice, not censorship.

This past Friday, a controversial guest column came out in The Dartmouth. The writer, a male undergraduate, suggested that his rejection from First-Year Trips Directorate amounted to discrimination, citing the 80 percent female composition of the directorate. The article provoked intense backlash.

On Saturday, the emails started coming in.

Dozens of campus organizations sent out “letters in solidarity” to the campus Listserv, condemning the op-ed in unequivocal terms. This was a good thing; clearly, many students took deep offense at the article, and they weren’t afraid to voice their dissent. But some of the letters were troubling.

The Inter-Community Council, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Office of Pluralism and Leadership, published a statement condemning the editors of The Dartmouth for sacrificing “the safety and wellbeing of students in favor of supposed nonpartisanship.” Multiple solidarity letters, the ICC’s included, insisted that the article did not deserve publication and that The Dartmouth should either apologize or retract it. The Inter-Community Council rejected the suggestion of submitting an op-ed in response, claiming that doing so would “imply that [the author’s] opinions are credible and worthy of debate.”

I sympathize with those who responded.

Clearly, the op-ed struck them as deeply insensitive, and I respect that. The solution, though, is not censorship. And that’s what demands for The Dartmouth to retract the article are. The ICC, among others, advocated censorship on the grounds that the article constitutes hate speech, which The Dartmouth chooses not to publish.

However distasteful and logically flawed it was, the guest column did not contain hate speech.

The main allegation of bigotry stemmed from the author’s suggestion that an 80 percent female directorate must result from affirmative action, not from merit. That logic may not be popular or accurate, but it in no way “endangers the lives … of those actively working to make this college a more diverse and inclusive institution,” as a solidarity email from Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority suggests.

Claiming that an op-ed constitutes violence not only trivializes the all-too-real violence faced by oppressed groups. It attempts to silence debate by casting unpopular views as violent and thus

deserving of censure.

Ideas don’t die when censored. They continue underground, voiced in private circles free from dissenting views. By publishing the op-ed, The Dartmouth exposed it to criticism, dealing it far more damage than censorship ever would have.

At the time of writing, 10 solidarity letters either call for an apology from The Dartmouth, criticize The Dartmouth for publishing the article or demand the retraction of some or all of the op-ed.

Asian-American Students for Action, Dartmouth CoFIRED, Divest Dartmouth, EKT, the ICC, La Alianza Latina, Phoenix Senior Society, the Rockapellas, Sigma Delta sorority and the Stonefence Review all advocated such censorship.

Their solidarity letters reflect a troubling belief that free expression hinders social justice. The opposite is true. Citizens should never trust those in power to define acceptable speech — after all, the powerful have not historically sided with the oppressed.

Authoritarianism is never justified. Press censorship is a tool of tyrants who impose their wills, not of campaigners for justice. And thankfully, most of the solidarity letters did not call for censorship. The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault put out a solidarity letter just as critical as the rest. Without calling for the article’s redaction, the committee ended its letter with a thoughtful line, which deserves to be read in full: “While we are saddened that such rhetoric and ideas continue to exist at Dartmouth, we hope this article sparks conversations and reminds everyone that we must continue to be better.” The committee’s letter expresses strong disagreement with the op-ed and advocates change, but it rejects oppressive means. Tempting as it may be to silence disturbing views and ignore them, doing so hurts the cause of social justice.

Unjust speech should be challenged with more speech, just as the writers of the solidarity letters did. This can be hard, even painful, but it must be done if hope is to oppose injustice.

I substantially disagree with the article, but I strongly defend The Dartmouth’s choice to publish it. I believe in the right of all people to express their views, even when I find those views abhorrent. Freedom of expression is integral to social justice. It must be protected at all costs.

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To find open discourse, students must listen to marginalized voices.

Ryan Spector ’19’s Feb. 2 guest column titled “You’re Not Tripping” seems to me, and many others, to be a violent attack against women and women of color. Fortunately, the Dartmouth community has responded; several organizations — 40 at the time of publication — have voiced their support for the members of the Trips directorate. Those mentioned in Spector’s column and those who went out of their way to support them make this community strong.

Editor-in-chief Ray Lu ’18, executive editors Kourtney Kawano ’18 and Erin Lee ’18 and opinion editors Parker Richards ’18 and Ziqin Yuan ’18 state that the The Dartmouth’s reason for keeping the article online is to “advance open discourse within the community.” They fail to acknowledge that the openness of the pages of The Dartmouth can only go so far as the openness of the College’s own heavily guarded gates.

Dartmouth does not exist in a bubble, though people often might imagine it to. Perhaps the source of this belief lies in the College’s admissions practices that enable it to maintain its elitist Ivy League ethos. In a study by The New York Times on students from the Class of 2013, the median family income of a Dartmouth student was $200,400; 69 percent of students came from families in the top 20 percent of income while only 2.6 percent of Dartmouth students came from families in the bottom 20 percent. From a socioeconomic standpoint, Dartmouth College does not accurately represent America’s broader society. Any discourse that takes place on campus therefore has inherent limits.

To be fair, Spector does not mention the socioeconomic status of the Trips directorate.

Yet personal identities, such as gender, sexuality, race and socioeconomic status, do not exist in a vacuum. Intersectionality, a social theory that describes the complex interactions between and among identities, posits that oppression operates systematically. An individual who faces bigotry due to one identity may also face a different form of bigotry due to another. These two forms of bigotry work in tandem to produce a greater degree of harm to individuals than either would in isolation. Spector’s column has the potential to cause harm to women and people of color.

Looking at the guest column through the lens of intersectionality, this harm can be intensified for women and people of color who possess another marginalized identity, such as low socioeconomic status.

At a school that routinely benefits the privileged, those who are the most marginalized at best go largely unnoticed by the collective student body and at worst face unprovoked attacks. The Dartmouth’s guest column contributes to this erasure and vilification. Though 19 of the 36 members of the opinion staff are women and 16 are people of color, the paper and many organizations at Dartmouth may inherently have structural barriers to those coming from a lower socioeconomic background and other marginalized identity groups.

As someone who attended an upper-middleclass high school, I had the opportunity to join and later serve as the editor of my student newspaper.

I understand that this opportunity is a privilege not afforded to everyone. In fact, a 2011 study found that only two-thirds of public high schools

across the country had student newspapers and low-income schools were less likely to have student newspapers. The Dartmouth has enabled me to pursue my interest in journalism as a college student. This interest might not have developed among my less privileged classmates who, through no choice of their own, lack previous exposure to the field.

My socioeconomic status affords me the ability to devote a portion of my time to writing for The Dartmouth without receiving compensation for my work, time that students with less privilege have to spend working a job.

The Dartmouth grants a limited number of workstudy stipends to its staff as part of a financial aid program, and those who wish to secure one of these stipends must demonstrate that they have already made and will continue to make a substantial commitment to the newspaper.

Students marginalized for reasons other than low socioeconomic status might face different barriers. Perhaps an immigrant who feels threatened by the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration prefers to go under the radar rather than speak out and risk having a classmate threaten to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them. Perhaps queer students fear a homophobic response for speaking out against a heteronormative campus culture. The editors of The Dartmouth may try to assure the safety of marginalized student contributors, but marginalized students, given the trials and tribulations they already undergo both at Dartmouth and beyond, may not feel that they can withstand additional scrutiny like that which Spector may have anticipated yet had the privilege to prepare for when writing his op-ed.

In order to achieve its lofty — and worthy — ideal of advancing open discourse, The Dartmouth must recognize and work to address its own closed doors. The Dartmouth demonstrated its capacity to function as a platform for inclusivity when it published Jessica Cantos ’18’s guest column rejecting the 2017 Homecoming bonfire because of the College’s legacy of violence. Beyond this action, The Dartmouth must prioritize diversity in its application process and bring more of those with the most marginalized voices on campus onto its staff. It must continue to offer financial aid to help staff members from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds to secure editorial positions. It must not view itself as having achieved this goal of advancing open discourse when it prints the controversial viewpoint of a student from one of the most overrepresented identity groups on campus.

Change to The Dartmouth will come slowly if it comes at all. In the meantime, conscientious readers must look elsewhere for truly open discourse. They could attend a training session at the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, get involved with a campus activism group or take a class in the geography, African and African American Studies or Native American Studies departments that focuses on the study of social justice. The Dartmouth might fail to accurately represent the voices of the most marginalized in its pages due to deeply embedded institutional issues. This does not mean that those voices do not exist. Go find them. Listen.

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STAFF COLUMNIST SOFIA STANESCU-BELLU ’20

STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18

Freedom to Listen

‘White Man’s Burden’

Listening to harmful rhetoric is the first step in combating it.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the to be torn down and replaced with bridges. press have always been polarizing points of But while those eight years were a time of discussion, particularly in recent years. It is change and progress for many, the nation still difficult now to read any publication or witness had a dark underbelly of negative sentiment any discourse, on TV or elsewhere, without that only truly came to light during the 2016 there being an undercurrent pertaining to election. The ascent of the Republican Party this freedom of expression. On both sides and of President Donald Trump was shocking of the aisle, invisible lines are being drawn, because no one saw it coming — no one partitioning categories of opinions and ideas could fathom that eight years of progress that are allegedly “fake news,” conspiracies or could be unraveled so easily and that a new subjectively considered to be wrong. Some may administration could spawn something so feel that open discourse is being suffocated. tenebrous. This is why even the most painful Others might contend that people are not and hurtful opinions should be heard. doing enough to stifle unsavory discussion. A Hearing does not mean accepting — we society must define what is out-of-bounds in should in no way accept poisonous ideas and terms of freedom of expression and ask where allow them to become norms — but we should it ought to draw a line in still listen. Ignoring ideas limiting dialogue. that run contrary to the “Hearing does not In 1789, James Madison prevailing narrative of mean accepting — defined these freedoms by social justice and to the stipulating that “Congress we should in no way current goals of progress shall make no law … accept poisonous ideas may leave people happier abridging the freedom of in the short term, but all speech, or of the press.” and allow them to good things come to an But our constitutional become norms — but end. To avoid disorienting definition is vague. Speech people should we should still listen.” setbacks, can and does encompass allow themselves to pretty much anything, register all arguments save for extreme cases deemed to involve and ideas. Only then will people have the defamation, threats or extreme obscenity. ammunition to fight them and the forecast to While many of the discussion topics deemed plan ahead. unsuitable today are protected by the First If the media had not published Trump’s Amendment, does that make them correct or and the Republican Party’s rhetoric, no acceptable? No, and this is where the lines get matter how factually incorrect and harmful blurry. many considered it to be, would the public It is easy to let emotion drive responses to have known it existed? The sentiments upon certain ideas and situations — many people which Trump capitalized were certainly not naturally react strongly when faced with as apparent during the Obama administration something deemed a direct affront to who as they are today, and the substantial support they are and what they stand for. They may these ideas received had therefore been vastly instinctively feel an ardent need to fight for their underestimated. If The Dartmouth had not ideals, morals and values, which can lead to published “You’re Not Tripping,” would visceral and vitriolic reactions. But while some members of the Dartmouth community have opinions can be hurtful, upsetting, rooted in been as aware of the sexism and anti-minority factual misconceptions or posed to propagate sentiments evidently still prevalent at the false ideas to a large and susceptible audience, College? Some people may have suspected it, stifling them does more harm than good. but others would have remained blissfully in the Arguably, many opinions voiced during the dark. Ryan Spector ’19’s arguments had little 2016 presidential election factual basis and were were harmful in the ideals “But [Ryan Spector rooted in bitterness. But they promoted and in the his reaction to rejection, ’19’s] reaction to toxic environment they widely circulated on created for a large subset of rejection, widely campus, and resentfulness the American population. circulated on campus, toward a group of more But when reflecting on the qualified women brought years of former President and resentfulness the issues minorities face Barack Obama’s tenure, toward a group at Dartmouth to the such opinions were largely forefront of discussion. of more qualified veiled from both mass Now, this issue media and the general women brought the cannot be ignored by population. There were issues minorities the student body and notable tragic exceptions, the administration, and but those were just that: face at Dartmouth action of some form has exceptions to the rule in to the forefront of to be taken. If we allow an environment fueled by sentiments like those discussion.” dreams and ambitions in espoused by Spector which many hoped that fester in the dark, they will America could be a true progressive country continue to grow and spread to infect others. for the people and by the people; a country If brought out into the open and exposed it where everyone felt accepted and at home; a for what it is, this kind of rhetoric will wither country where societal walls were beginning in the face of love, hope and unity.

The University of Oxford’s “Ethics and Empire” project asks the wrong questions.

Last year, the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Oxford announced a project titled “Ethics and Empire” to convene “a series of workshops to measure apologias and critiques of empire against historical data from antiquity to modernity across the globe.” The first colloquium took place from July 6 to 7, 2017, as the opening session of the five-year project. The project’s webpage justifies the need for such a project given the “intense public debate” surrounding issues of colonialism and its legacies in Britain and around the world. The project seeks to challenge the consensus it identifies in scholarship of colonialism that imperialism has been nothing but “wicked; and empire is therefore unethical” so “nothing of interest remains to be explored.” The webpage for the project cites the movement to topple statues of British imperialist and white supremacist Cecil Rhodes as evidence for this imagined scholarly orthodoxy that needs to be challenged, arguing that imperialism had often produced good outcomes around the world.

Over the past few months this project has attracted significant public attention in the U.K. and within academia. The convener of and participants in this project can hold whatever views they desire, but the scholarly premise of this project is naïve and unsophisticated. It asks the wrong questions and relies on delegitimized modes of historical analysis out of tune with current scholarship of colonialism. Moreover, this project comes at a time when chauvinistic right-wing nationalism movements seek the return to an alleged great past in which missions claimed to be ethical or civilizing justified imperialism.

University of Oxford professor and convener of “Ethics and Empire” Nigel Biggar “observes that, as a historical phenomenon as distinct from an ideological construct, ‘empire’ has meant all manner of ethical thing.” The webpage for the project goes on to provide a balance-book or cost-benefit framework for empire which contends that the British Empire’s bringing of alleged order and rule of law around the world, abolition and eventual suppression of the Atlantic and African slave-trades or granting of independence to colonies were a positive entry. This positiveentry allegedly provides some amelioration for horrors such as the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919, Bengal Famine of 1943 and the white-supremacist apartheid regimes in South Africa and Zimbabwe, not to mention the long-term industrial-scale exploitation of natural resources, wealth and brown and black bodies as just the tip of the iceberg.

As a young historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, I think that such approaches to studying history using top-down discrete terms such as good and bad alongside balance-book or cost-benefit analyses are naïve and simplistic. Indeed, an open-letter from over 50 Oxford scholars rejecting this project cites Aimé Césaire’s “Discours sur le colonialisme,” which discredited these simplistic cost-benefit analyses of colonialism over half a century ago. No serious scholar of colonialism simply views the

phenomenon as wicked, as it is not the job of historians to proclaim goodness or wickedness but to reveal and unpack the complex processes shaping the course of history.

History unfolds as the result of the agency of individuals intersecting and collaborating with the collective agency of systems of formal and informal power. Emphasizing eventual good in the form of the abolition of the slave trade or decolonization places all historical initiative on Europe to make progress in the world while minimizing Europe’s role in instigating these exploitative relationships and ignoring the sheer scale of the ongoing benefits reaped by Britain from colonialism and slavery.

Many colonized actors collaborated, supported, interacted with, contested and subverted colonialism, and their historical initiative matters as well. While it was undoubtedly good that the British eventually abolished the slave trade and granted brown and black people independence, that does not erase or justify their history of benefitting from these systems of exploitation and subjugation. Nor does it account for the everyday collaboration, contestation, subversion and transformations in cultures, religions, economies and social orders that occurred under colonial rule across the world.

With the rise of right-wing nationalism comes more pronounced racial and immigration tension amidst chauvinistic and hypermasculine nationalisms seeking a return to greatness. A part of this is a willful ignorance of history in favor of emphasizing all the allegedly good deeds done in the name of the civilizing mission of the British Empire or manifest destiny carried out by the United States while minimalizing the horrors, transformations and legacies of colonial rule.

When 50 Oxford scholars wrote an open-letter rejecting the views informing the convening of the “Ethics and Empire” project as “breathtakingly politically naïve” and “very bad history,” they argued that while “historical scholarship should inform public debate and contemporary politics ... it cannot do so through simple-minded equations between ‘pride’ and swaggering global confidence.”

No serious scholar would argue that imperialism was simply bad. Indeed, the scholars conclude their letter by stating most serious historians “never believed it is sufficient to dismiss imperialism as simply ‘wicked.’ Nor do we believe it can or should be rehabilitated because some of it was ‘good.’” Biggar and the University of Oxford have every right to convene a project they deem academically serious, but I hope they reconsider the premises and questions of the workshop and what they deem to be the historical orthodoxy that needs challenging.

There is a rich literature in postcolonial studies and non-Western history moving beyond “good” and “bad” to show the wide spectrum of things colonialism meant for indigenous actors that I doubt Biggar has bothered to consider. This ongoing controversy in the U.K. holds relevance for us in the U.S. given our own public debates over how to remember, memorialize and grapple with our past of settler colonialism and slavery.

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Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Aonzo to play Vivaldi

By ELIZABETH GARRISON The Dartmouth

To kick off Winter Carnival weekend, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will perform a new interpretation of one of the most popular pieces of baroque music, Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” This Friday, guest artist Carlos Aonzo will play the traditional violin solo on the mandolin, giving “The Four Seasons” a new and exciting sound. The DSO will also play Tchaikovsky’s first symphony. This lesser-known piece also explores the theme of the seasons and is titled “Winter Daydreams.”

Filippo Ciabatti, music director of the DSO, selected “The Four Seasons” for the winter program when he heard about Aonzo’s adaptation using a mandolin. Ciabatti thought that the cultural operation of adapting the violin solo for another instrument captured the spontaneous spirit of the baroque period during the piece’s original conception. Therefore, to share musical innovation with the Dartmouth community, Ciabatti

invited Aonzo to perform with the DSO. “The audience has the opportunity to hear a world-renowned artist that plays an unusual instrument that is not often heard, and they’ll get to experience ... Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ ... in a completely new and interesting way,” Ciabatti said.

Ciabatti said that the technical differences between the violin and the mandolin presented an interesting musical challenge.

“The violin is a string instrument played with a bow, so it has the capacity to hold notes and to shape notes into being,” Ciabatti said. “The mandolin, like a guitar or even a piano, does not have a way to hold the value of the notes. Instead, when the mandolin has to muse, has to play, has to linger with the long slow phrases, it uses a sort of vibrato or vibration to create that musical effect.”

Vivaldi’s piece contains four d i s t i n c t s e c t i o n s : “ S p r i n g, ” “Summer,” “Autumn” and “Winter.”

Each concerto is designed to tell a story and capture the specific sights

and sounds of the corresponding season. The four concertos will be accompanied by four sonnets projected on a screen during the concert.

Eleni Mora ’18 is an environmental studies major with a biology minor and is the principal violist in the DSO. Mora said that “The Four Seasons” has always been a personal source of inspiration throughout her life.

“It’s always fun to work on a piece but I do think that Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ is special,” Mora said. “For me, it was actually the piece that I listened to when I was six that made me fall in love with orchestra, so it’s really cool to get to play that my senior year.”

The second piece in the concert, “Winter Daydreams,” is not one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works, but it represents one of his early works. In contrast to Vivaldi’s piece, it is less focused on telling a specific story but tries to musically evoke the feeling of winter in general. Leslie Sonder, professor of earth sciences and violist with the DSO for 25 years, said she

was moved by “Winter Daydreams” will get to hear an underrated — not and believes that it is a magnificent often performed — beautiful school work. of melodies, passion and emotion “It evokes winter in a more in this symphony of Tchaikovsky.”

Ciabatti said. abstract way, a less tangible way “Tchaikovsky is a favorite than ‘The Four “At the winter concert, Seasons,’ but it still the audience will get of everybody, gives you the sense to hear an underrated ba e i npgo p suul cahr of the sweeping of cold and snow and — not often and modern it is just a beautiful performed — beautiful composer in piece in its own the way that right,” Sonder school of melodies, he relates to said. “When I play passion and emotion the moder n it, I’m struck by man. Being in this symphony of how Tchaikovsky a tortured o r c h e s t r a t e s Tchaikovsky.” soul from the things, the beginning of structure of the his life, his piece and the -FILIPPO CIABATTI, music making sheer scope of his DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY reflects a mix ideas.” of emotions ORCHESTRA MUSIC Ciabatti said that is still modern audiences DIRECTOR s o re l eva n t may not have today.” heard Tchaikovsky’s first symphony The DSO’s winter concert will before but may relate to it. be held in Spaulding Auditorium at “At the winter concert, the audience 8 p.m. on Feb. 9.

Dartmouth Aires host Winter WhingDing event Saturday night

By MELANIE PRAKASH The Dartmouth

Winter WhingDing is an annual a cappella show offered through the Hopkins Center of the Arts as a part of Winter Carnival programming.

Each year, the concert is headlined by one of the various a cappella groups on campus. This year the Dartmouth Aires, Dartmouth’s oldest all male a cappella group, will be hosting the program.

The Aires are widely recognized from the group’s local performances in the Upper Valley as well as domestic and international tours. In addition, the group boasts several albums featuring songs from a range of genres. Each a cappella group works arduously to set its own “group tone” to stand apart from the many a cappella groups on campus and entice others to watch. High-energy performances, according to the group’s members, define the Aires’ reputation. “[What’s] really cool about the Aires is that we really try to give an energetic performance,” Michael Harteveldt ’19 said. “No standing still for the most part unless we

mean to.”

When asked if that statement pertained to the audience or the singers, members Macguinness Galinson ’21, Harteveldt and M a n n y H o w z e - Wa r k i e ’ 1 8 unanimously responded, “Both.”

“We try to keep high energy with both movement and with our vocals,” Harteveldt said.

Galinson added that the energy is also conveyed through their dress. A defining aspect of the Aires’ image is the members’ loud fashion choices.

While they do have more formal wear — called “Conservo Trou” — their more casual “Fun Trou” is especially memorable for its bright colors and clashing designs.

“The running joke is that if you were colorblind and patternblind, we’d be very well dressed,” Harteveldt said.

Most Dartmouth a cappella perfor mances are hosted by various Greek houses during the school year, and the Aires’ are no exception. While informal and enjoyable, these concerts are also not widely accessible to the immediate community. Winter WhingDing is a platform for groups

to reach a wider audience.

Howze-Warkie defined the Winter WhingDing as “a holistic experience.” “[It’s] something you can bring your whole family to, so whether it’s students coming because they want a break between Winter Carnival festivities or your parents are in town and you want everyone to come or [you] are just a resident of the Upper Valley, we have something for everyone in the show,” Howze-Warkie said.

Howze-Warkie said the Aires aim to challenge the average perception of college a cappella through this upcoming performance. For instance, the Aires plan on utilizing a format of each student holding a microphone, symbolizing the idea that each individual holds an valuable part of the group, HowzeWarkie said.

“What people have in mind when they think college a cappella may be very basic and not that appealing to them necessarily,” Howze-Warkie said. “We sort of want to subvert that stereotype and present something that’s very fun to watch, very engaging.”

The Aires will be joined onstage by dance troupes Sheba and Sugarplum and another all-male a cappella group, the Tufts University Beelzebubs.

“Most WhingDings don’t have that many groups,” Harteveldt said. “It’s a really great opportunity to not only see the Aires perform but also set a great tone to your weekend.”

Tufts Beelzebubs president Davis Franklin said he was eager to retur n to the Dartmouth campus, citing the unique energy of performing on college campuses.

Franklin performed at Dartmouth as a younger “Bub” during his sophomore year.

“The Bubs and the Aires have a really, really great relationship,” Franklin said. “We love singing together but we don’t get to do it often.”

Franklin said that only about half of the members have been to Dartmouth to perform before, and only an infor mal setting with approximately 50 audience members. In comparison, Spaulding Auditorium seats over 800.

“We’re really excited to do a ...

performance for a big audience,” Franklin said. “That’s the kind of stuff we like doing.”

The Aires teased some surprises planned for the evening.

“We’re not going to guarantee it, but we’re pretty much going to guarantee some laughs ... it’s going to be a funny event,” Galinson said.

H o w z e - Wa r k i e s a i d t h e surprises may include some topical commentary.

“There will be a very great musical moment and that’s all we’re going to say,” Howze-Warkie said.

Based upon the current campus climate, it will go over very well.”

Galinson said that the Winter WhingDing performance offers a chance for audience members to step inside from the cold and have a night of fun. “[Winter WhingDing is] a very energetic, cheerful kind of thing ... in the middle of winter, which for me is really sad,” Galinson said. “If I could watch the Aires, I would.”

The Aires will host the Winter WhingDing concert in Spaulding Auditorium on Saturday. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for the general public.