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Jane Hill dismissed as Allen House professor

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Alpha Delta will not be re-recognized

By ERIN LEE and ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth Staff

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Engineering professor Jane Hill was dismissed as Allen House professor on April 6.

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Engineering professor Jane Hill will no longer serve as Allen House p ro f e s s o r a c c o rd i n g to an email sent by Dean of the College Rebecca Biron to Allen House students on April 6. According to Hill, her dismissal was not voluntary, noting that

Biron dismissed her from the position.

Biron wrote in an email statement that she was grateful for Hill’s contributions to the development of the housing communities over the past two years.

“However, some staff turnover is to be expected in the beginning stages of any enterprise as dynamic and complex

as Dartmouth’s house system,” Biron wrote. “ I t ’s i m p o r t a n t t o recognize that each h ouse is defined by all of its members working together, rather than by any one person.”

She added in a separate, later email statement that she cannot “comment on

SPCSA updates recommendations

By REBECCA FLOWERS The Dartmouth

The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault has continued to work on five recommendations to improve reporting of sexual assault on campus that it originally released in October 2015. According to the current chair of the SPCSA Abhilasha Gokulan ’18, these recommendations include education of faculty, long-term

healthcare for survivors of sexual assault and feedback about administrative resources from survivors who have reported to the College.

According to associate director of theStudentWellness Center Amanda Childress, the SPCSA was established in 2011 by former College President Jim Yong Kim “as a response to a number of student concerns around sexual violence on campus SEE SPCSA PAGE 5

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The College notified derecognized fraternity Alpha Delta last month that the organization will not be considered for re-recognition, a move that concluded over 18 months of negotiations and discussions.

A confidential letter, sent March 13 and signed by Board of Trustees chair Bill Helman ’80, stated that although many derecognized organizations have been re-recognized in the past, going forward, the College’s policy will be clarified to specify that derecognition is permanent.

“There’s been all kinds of different actions taken as a result of derecognition,” Helman said in an interview. “In a post-[Moving Dartmouth Forward] world, 2017, permanent derecognition means permanent derecognition.”

The letter stated that the Board had to choose between “harming the College’s relationship with a group of alumni who have contributed a great deal to Dartmouth” and undermining the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative, an effort implemented in January 2015 to target “high-risk behavior.” The MDF plan states that “moving forward, student

organizations will be held to a much higher standard than they have in the past … individuals and organizations that choose not to fulfill these higher standards will not be a part of our community.”

Chair of the Alpha Delta board Lionel Conacher ’85 wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth that AD has been working with College President Phil Hanlon and administration to find a “mutually agreeable structure” for AD. He added that though AD hopes to become a recognized organization, the organization will continue to exist regardless.

“We hope we will be recognized, but if not, we will continue on as a private organization,” he wrote.

Derecognition AD was derecognized in April 2015 over branding allegations following several years of disciplinary sanctions. From September 2011 through November 2014, AD had been under sanctions of varying degrees for 11 of 14 terms. In September 2014, AD was suspended in relation to two incidents earlier that SEE AD PAGE 2

Turning Point USA launches chapter on campus

By DEBORA HYEMIN HAN The Dartmouth Staff

Last Tuesday, Dartmouth’s new Turning Point USA chapter held its first public event. The chapter, which was founded by Connor Turner ’20 and Tyler Baum ’20, is a part of the larger TPUSA group that has appeared on many college campuses and high schools across the country and is known for its founder, conservative

activist Charlie Kirk, and its Professor Watchlist, on which Dartmouth’s women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Eng-Beng Lim was listed.

According to its website, TPUSA was founded in 2012 and seeks to promote fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government through its National Field Program, a campus activist program. Today, TPUSA has established over 1,000

chapters, though it was recently denied recognition at Santa Clara University in California.

Baum, vice president of Dartmouth’s TPUSA chapter, said that the divisive political climate on campus post-election prompted him and Turner to create a forum for both liberals and conservatives to discuss issues that are principally nonpartisan, such as freedom SEE TURNING POINT PAGE 5

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Board of Trustees calls derecognition permanent going forward FROM AD PAGE 1

year involving unregistered parties and serving alcohol to minors.

The College extended the suspension indefinitely in March 2015 over allegations that members of AD branded new members the previous fall.

At the time, attorney George Ostler ’77 released a statement acknowledging that branding had occurred but claimed it represented “self-expression,” was not a requirement for membership and was limited to a small group of members.

On April 13, 2015, the College derecognized AD as a student organization in relation to the branding allegations. The Organizational Adjudication Committee determined that AD violated the Standards of Conduct after a finding that officers and older members had branded 11 new members, according to a report released

by Judicial Affairs. The report states that the brothers described personal knowledge of the practice dating back a decade and that this was an “open secret” of the fraternity.

In an interview, interim director of Judicial Affairs Katharine Strong said the decision to derecognize an organization is “entirely context dependent.”

“The OAC is making that decision based off of the context of the situation, [such as] other responses to similar situations in the organization’s judicial history,” she said.

OAC sanctions include warnings, fines of up to $100 and alcohol or College probation, which restrict the privileges of organizations. Derecognition is the most severe disciplinary sanction.

As of July 1, 2015, the Office of Judicial Affairs defines loss of recognition as “permanent revocation of recognition as a student organization by the College community and loss of all privileges of such status.” In June 2014, then-interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer reinstated the policy that students may not live in a Greek Letter, undergraduate or senior society facility that is not recognized by the College, which only affected AD at the time.

However, after an investigation by the Hanover Police Department that concluded in summer 2015, no criminal charges were filed against either AD or any individuals involved.

Ostler, who represented AD in the police’s hazing investigation, said that the criminal statutes have specific definitions of what kind of conduct violates the law, which may differ from the College’s policies.

“It’s a relationship between private entities, and so the College can set their rules,” he said. “The College sets their rules, they review the facts and they

make the determination. It’s different from in court where you have a neutral arbiter, the judge, determining whether a law has been violated.”

Ostler noted that College hazing policy at the time referenced the New Hampshire hazing statute.

“Certainly I thought it was a good argument … hazing policies weren’t violated because there was no violation of the state criminal law, but the College found otherwise,” Ostler said.

According to Dartmouth’s hazing policy, as of July 1, 2015, the College’s definition of hazing “includes but is not limited to activities that would fall within New Hampshire statutory definition of hazing.” If occurring as part of initiation or admission into an organization, the consumption of alcohol or drugs, removing or destroying property or violating any Standard of Conduct or College policy can be defined as hazing by the College.

AD unsuccessfully appealed the derecognition on April 20, 2015 and encountered several legal setbacks regarding the use of its house over the course of that year. Following AD’s derecognition in April, the town of Hanover notified AD that the use of the property as a student residence violated zoning ordinances, a decision that AD appealed later that month. In June 2015, the Hanover Zoning Board upheld its decision from April, and in September 2015, AD then appealed the case to the Grafton County Superior Court, which ruled in favor of Hanover. AD appealed the case once more to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which came out with a decision on April 11, 2017 upholding the ruling in favor of the town. As a result, AD is unable to use its house as a student residence as long as it is unaffiliated with the College.

Re-recognition discussions and a change in policy Over the course of 18 months, starting in June 2015, AD and the College explored whether there was a path to re-recognition, a plan that was ultimately rejected through the Board of Trustees’ letter sent in March.

According to the letter, “some of the communications between the College and the [AD] corporation stated or implied that re-recognition was possible if the corporation undertook certain changes, including forming a new board, identifying a faculty advisor, closing the house for a period of time and shutting down unauthorized rush.” AD met all of these criteria — according to the AD board’s email, alumni leadership changed completely, members eventually vacated the house and AD did not recruit new members that fall. AD also selected new faculty

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advisors, including economics professor Maura Doyle, Geisel School of Medicine professor of microbiology and immunology Maureen O’Leary and economics professor Charles Wheelan ’88.

In December 2016, Helman and Nate Fick ’99, chair of the trustee committee on student affairs, took over discussions on the College side over concerns that Hanlon, as a former AD member and current member of the AD corporation, could have a conflict of interest. Following an initial call between Helman, Conacher, president of the AD board Chris Niehaus ’81 and Fick, the Board of Trustees discussed AD during its meeting in March. The subsequent discussion resulted in the Board of Trustees’ letter and both a call and an in-person meeting between Hanlon and AD leadership.

“During the process, it became clear that a bunch of statements, processes, etc. were not clear,” Helman said. “So one of the things we wanted to do is overcommunicate, be crystal clear and be sure all of the written materials were consistent.”

The Board of Trustees’ letter specifies that “organizations that have been permanently derecognized will not be considered for re-recognition.” The letter also notes that the Greek Letter Organizations and Societies handbook and student handbook will be amended to reflect this policy.

In an email statement, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed the authenticity of the letter and wrote that the student handbook has always stated that derecognition is permanent and language was added to the GLOS handbook to further clarify derecognition.

The letter went on to state that the administration would consider an application for a new student organization to be housed in AD’s house, though current steps AD has taken to create a new organization are not sufficient.

“AD as AD is not consistent with the kind of change and guidelines that President Hanlon has put forth,” Helman said.

The letter and the Board of Trustees’ decision came as a surprise to AD leadership. According to an email sent on April 12 from the AD board to organization members, AD felt it had reached an understanding with College administration on a path to re-recognition and was surprised when the path was rejected in the letter.

“That we had done everything that the administration had requested of us over the past 18 months makes it even more disheartening,” the AD board wrote.

In the past, several derecognized fraternities have been allowed to come back to campus. In 2004, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity returned to campus after being derecognized in 2000.

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Alpha Delta will not be considered for re-recognition but is continuing to work with the College and plans to continue as a private organization.

In 2008, Beta Theta Pi fraternity returned as local fraternity Beta Alpha Omega after being derecognized by the College in 1996. Most recently, in 2011, Zeta Psi fraternity returned after being derecognized by the College in 2001.

“At Dartmouth, ‘permanent’ has not always meant permanent, and all, or nearly all, organizations seeking re-recognition have eventually been re-recognized,” the Board’s letter reads, acknowledging that College administrators “clearly sent mixed signals” to AD regarding re-recognition.

Helman said that the main goal of the letter was to provide clarity.

“I think that was part of the problem — because nothing had been written down,” Helman said. “Sometimes writing things down is what’s part of providing clarity, so we felt it was time to do that, and we did it.”

In the AD board’s email, the board expressed frustration with the College.

“Like many of you, we feel that we are part of a Dartmouth family and are deeply loyal,” the email reads. “This experience strains our loyalty deeply.

In reviewing the last 18 months in total, the College Administration and Trustees have been bureaucratic and adversarial with us despite our every effort to be collaborative and creative … We have been ready to invest in AD for the future and instead been stifled.

It is a sad state of affairs.”

Conacher wrote in an email that AD believes it has presented a plan in line with the goals of MDF and continues to work with Hanlon to reach an agreement, though it will continue to exist as a private organization if it cannot be recognized.

“Regardless of the outcome of those discussions, we intend [to] re-organize and create a thriving organization that will positively contribute to undergraduate life at Dartmouth within the goals of

Moving Dartmouth Forward,” he wrote.

Looking ahead Helman said that the policy of permanent derecognition applies to all organizations going forward, not just AD. “It’s our view, it’s the [Board of Trustees’] view, that we all as a community committed to that behavior [as outlined by MDF], to the ideals and principles in that report, and we need to live by it,” Helman said.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was derecognized by the College in February 2016 after it was suspended by its national organization for five years. At the time, then-director of Judicial Affairs Leigh Remy wrote in a statement that while the chapter will not be re-recognized as a local organization because of misconduct, SAE could return to campus after its five-year suspension passed.

AD is discussing potential changes to its proposal to form a new organization with Hanlon and is developing a new proposal. AD continues to own its house at 9 East Wheelock, but the building cannot operate as a student residence and thus does not have a permitted use. According to the email from AD leadership, AD is exploring zoning options that do not involve recognition, which could include a special exception for a private club use or potential upcoming changes to the zoning ordinance at the town meeting on May 9.

“These have been dark times for [AD] at Dartmouth,” the email concludes. “We are painfully reminded every time we visit campus that our house is silent and decaying and in spite of our best intentions for it to be vibrant, renovated and making progress for Dartmouth. We hope we have better news soon. Until then, we will strive tirelessly towards our goals.”

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Engineering professor Jane Hill leaves as Allen House professor for Professional Development for advice on a program after Biron personnel matters.” instructed her not to do so.

Hill said she was unhappy with Hill also wrote that she missed Biron’s decision, and stated that the House Council meetings she would have chosen to stay if due to research-related travel, given the choice. According to the absences that were “known” and New Hampshire Department of “even encouraged,” and that she Labor, the state has employment- requested minutes for the meetings at-will laws, which stipulate that she missed. As for failing to omit an employer can terminate an the word on the flyer, she said employee without giving reason she did not receive the request or notice. to use a different word because Hill was she was out of the u n s u r e w h y “Emotionally, office, as indicated by exactly she was her email autoreply. it’s tough to see fired from the In reference to the the impact on position.

CPD, Hill admitted “ I a s s u m e students.” that she did speak there was a to the organization difference in before and after she direction, but I’m -JANE HILL, FORMER received notice that not really sure,” she should direct ALLEN HOUSE she said. questions related to Hill wrote in PROFESSOR the CPD to Biron. a separate email She said, statement that though, that the when she asked for the reasoning reasons given seemed inadequate behind her termination, she was for termination. told it was because she did not “I don’t understand why the respond to two emails and did not reasons given equaled to being let attend four or five House Council go,” she said. meetings this past fall. Another Hill said she was notified of the reason was that she did not remove decision for the first time during a word from a flyer for Allen House this past spring break and must and also reached out to the Center vacate the Allen House Professor’s FROM HILL PAGE 1

residence by June 15. She said she was aware that some students speculated that her dismissal was due to illness, changing jobs, unethical conduct with students or any other behavior, and she denied all claims.

The Allen House Leadership Council was notified of Hill’s resignation in a meeting with Biron on April 6, according to Jose Burnes Garza ’17, an external relations officer of the Allen House Leadership Council.

Bur nes Garza was at the meeting and said Biron could not clearly state why Hill was leaving the position. Burnes Garza recalled that the meeting implied, among other things, that Hill was “fine.”

A l l e n H o u s e i s c u r re n t l y o p e r at i n g w i t h o u t a H o u s e Professor, according to Sam Seifert ’20, an Allen House Leadership Council member.

Hill acknowledged that the College’s decision to remove her was not productive for the House system, as it is still in its infancy.

“I don’t think it helps the stability of the system,” she said.

Seifert voiced a similar sentiment.

“This will be very detrimental for the housing system because it

takes away from the momentum we had from this year,” he said.

“We’ll have to backtrack, get a new professor and re-establish ourselves.”

Seifert was concerned about whether Allen House would be able to find another house professor as good as Hill.

“It’s going to be hard to get another house professor, especially one of [Hill’s] quality and caliber,” Seifert said.

According to Hill, the most difficult consequence of her stepping down is its negative influence on the students.

“Emotionally, it’s tough to see the impact on students,” she said.

Seifert said he was upset that Hill was fired and that the council appreciated Hill’s efforts and that she was always willing to help.

“The council loved her,” Seifert said.

Burnes Garza said that Hill was an integral part of the housing community, and that her removal left a “vacuum,” since Allen House currently does not have a house professor.

Hill is the second House Professor to step down since the implementation of the House system this past fall. Biological sciences professor Ryan Calsbeek

stepped down as North Park House professor in September.

Biron subsequently became the North Park House professor until Native American studies professor Melanie Benson Taylor replaced her in the winter term.

Calsbeek declined to comment on Hill’s firing or his resignation.

Assistant director of Allen House Lauren Oliver did not respond to request for comment on how Hill’s resignation affects Oliver’s role.

Hill wanted to be a house professor because of the stimulating a n d e n g a g i n g e nv i ro n m e n t the system creates for students when the system is successfully implemented, she said. Her vision for the house system included a community, traditions, innovation and intellectual expansion, she added. According to the April 6 email to Allen House students from Biron, Hill “will continue her teaching and research at Thayer [School of Engineering].”

Hill was proud of Allen House’s progress in its first year, noting that more undergraduate advisors applied to work in Allen House for the 2017-18 school year than from any other house.

Seifert is a former writer for The Dartmouth.

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STAFF COLUMNIST SOFIA STANESCU-BELLU ’20

GUEST COLUMNIST DEVON KURTZ ’20

Try, Try Again

A Pop Culture Blind Spot

Getting up after failing is difficult, but persevering is worth it.

On April 9, Women’s Grandmaster Sabina-Francesca Foișor became the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion. Not only is she the the first Romanian to clinch the title — a point of personal pride — she did so on her ninth attempt playing in the tournament, even after losing twice in the first four games.

Foișor is the definition of perseverance.

All the odds were against her: her mother had passed away a few months prior in January, she had failed over and over again to land the title in the tournament and she had cutthroat competitors such as Grandmaster Irina Krush, a seven time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, as well as last year’s champion Nazí Paikidze. Most people would have decided not to participate, perceiving these obstacles as signs of the impossiblity to win.

I know I probably would have given up — in fact, I have abandoned similar situations because they just seemed too hopeless.

I stopped playing competitive chess three quarters of the way through my senior year of high school, in part because I wanted to focus on schoolwork, but also because I had reached a plateau. I hated leaving tournaments knowing that I played well but wasn’t quite good enough or that I had a bad day and ruined my chances at the last minute. For me, it was easy to make a list of the failures I’d had in my competitive chess career and use them to justify why I would stop playing in tournaments for the time being.

I spent this past winter applying to internships. I felt good about my résumé and experience and applied to some big software companies, expecting to hear back from them with positive results. When the rejections started rolling in, I saw them as a sign that I wasn’t good enough and that I should stop trying, so I took a break from applications and only resumed a few weeks ago when I was able to muster the courage to risk getting rejected again.

We have all been in similar situations where you’ve worked hard but the results just aren’t what you want them to be.

When you keep trying for something, be it a certain GPA, internship, job or title, and

keep falling short. When you look around at your peers and see what they’re achieving and look back at yourself and think, “Why can’t I do that? Why am I not that successful?

Why am I getting 20 rejections when they’re getting 20 acceptances?” When you see the mountain of reasons as to why you can’t or shouldn’t do something and decide that it would be too difficult to scale it, so you walk away, not realizing what awaits you on the other side if you do. At Dartmouth, which may be seen as less competitive as its peer institutions in the Ivy League, we are surrounded by brilliant people who are constantly achieving amazing things. Failing hurts, especially since many of us haven’t truly failed before. We came to this school as valedictorians, salutatorians, athletic champions, award-winning writers, artists and musicians. When we face our rejections, it can hurt — a lot. It’s this fear of getting hurt again that stops us from moving forward.

Yet Foișor didn’t stop. She took everything working against her and used it as ammunition as to why she could succeed, and on her ninth try, she finally took home the gold. As actor Will Smith said, “The best things in life are on the other side of terror, on the other side of your maximum fear.”

We are afraid of rejection, but we shouldn’t be. We have to know what we want and commit to it 100 percent. No matter what gets in our way and how many times we fall, we must keep trying, because only then will we even have the possibility of succeeding.

After applying to over a dozen more internships, I’m starting to receive requests to move forward in the interview process.

They’re not definite acceptances by any means, but there is potential — an opportunity for more. Had I been pushed away by that mountain of reasons as to why I shouldn’t apply, I never would have gotten this chance to see what’s on the other side.

Had Foișor played poorly or not shown up at all, she would have missed out on her chance to make history. By choosing to stand up over and over again, we can all make history in our own way — even after falling down for the ninth time.

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Popular media fails to account for LGBTQ narratives.

I noticed something strange earlier this sisters that struggle with overbearing parents week: most of my Twitter feed was about and inaccessibility to boys. “Cyberbully” something other than President Donald is about a girl who is labeled a slut for her Trump’s tweets. Some TV show called “13 sexual encounters with a classmate. “Girl, Reasons Why” had supplanted the president’s Interrupted” is based off of the book of the Twitter account — which had led on the same name and is the story of an 18-yearsite for as long as I can remember — almost old girl who is in a mental hospital after an intentional drug overdose. “It’s Kind of a overnight. I was intrigued.

Following the release of “13 Reasons Why” Funny Story” follows the love story of a boy on Netflix, there seemed to be a spike, at least and a girl in a mental ward. “The Perks of on social media, in conversations about high Being a Wallflower” is based off of the book school bullying, mental health and suicide. of the same name and tells the story of a Most would agree that these are critical topics depressed teenage boy who eventually falls in for discussion, and many people would also love with his closest female friend and learns applaud “13 Reasons Why” for raising these that he was molested by his aunt as a child. In issues in a public and far-reaching manner. the last two decades, only one film that could While there is growing debate about whether be considered a part of “popular media” had or not the show romanticizes suicide, there is a a plot focused on an LGBTQ teen struggling lack of conversation about how suicide affects with depression and committing suicide: the LGBTQ teenagers. LGBTQ teens are some of 2011 Polish film “The Suicide Room.”

Popular media excludes narratives the most at-risk for depression, bullying and suicide amongst teenagers, yet their struggles about LGBTQ teenagers struggling with are rarely portrayed as a main focus in books, homophobia, bullying, depression and movies and TV shows about youth depression suicide. There is an ignorance of the stories of my community. Other and suicide. stories get Hollywood I do not wish to backing while we are undermine or dismiss “Popular media lucky if we get the anyone’s experiences — excludes narratives backing of our parents. personal or otherwise about LGBTQ Hollywood, author s — with suicide. Rather, and anyone else who I believe that popular teenagers struggling has vowed to tackle the media fails to portray the with homophobia, issue of “youth suicide” issue of youth suicide and through their work but depression accurately, as bullying, depression proceeded to ignore the their narratives are not and suicide.” disproportionate amount as “typical” as one would of struggling LGBTQ believe after seeing or reading them. The Center for Disease Control teens who are at the highest risk for suicide reported in its Youth Risk Behavior Survey and depression are denying the reality of the that while 19 percent of heterosexual students issue.

Despite the staggering disparity between reported being bullied, 34 percent of LGB students were bullied. Among heterosexual straight and LGBTQ teenagers, we still remain students, 5.4 percent reported being sexually in the backgrounds of the movies about a assaulted, while 17.8 percent of LGB students heterosexual teenager struggling with drugs, reported being sexually assaulted. Of non- family issues, their heterosexual partners and LGB identifying students, 21.7 percent were bullying, acting as a plot point when we steal involved in a physical fight, compared to 28.4 an unwanted kiss from the protagonist, as in percent of LGB students. LGB students were “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “13 also twice as likely to be threatened or injured Reasons Why.” After reading all of those statistics and with a weapon on school property and twice as likely to be seriously injured in a fight. Amongst recognizing the ignorance of popular media, non-LGB identifying students, 26.4 percent my question is this: when will my community reported experiencing feelings of extended be deemed significant enough to be viewed as sadness or hopelessness, while 60.4 percent of more than just statistics? When will we have LGB students reported the same. Finally, 6.4 our heartbreaking stories shared in the public percent of non-LGB identifying students in sphere? When will we be humanized beyond grades nine to 12 attempted suicide in 2013, these statistics? With the continued production while 29.4 percent of LGB identifying students of TV shows like “13 Reasons Why,” it seems in the same cohort attempted suicide. The like that won’t be anytime soon.

CDC does not offer any data on transgender Kurtz is a member of the Class of 2020. He has and gender non-conforming students, but other studies have found they are at a similar written and edited for The Dartmouth Review and is elevated risk relative to their straight peers. a member of the Dartmouth Alliance, a LGBTQIA+ Consider the most popular and acclaimed pre-professional organization.

The Dartmouth welcomes guest columns. We films and books about teen suicide and depression. (There are only few TV shows request that guest columns be the original work of that have this theme as their main plot, but the submitter.

Submissions may be sent to both opinion@ shows like “90210” follow the same pattern when they do interact with the issue of suicide.) thedartmouth.com and editor@thedartmouth.com.

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SPCSA hosts symposium to update community on progress FROM SPCSA PAGE 1

[and] how the College was handling sexual violence issues.” It was established to be an advisory board and a committee that could act as both a student voice and a means of disseminating information from the administration to the student body. It continues to accomplish these goals by releasing recommendations to the administration and working to implement them, Childress said.

In the group’s first years, its main accomplishments were implementing the Safe Ride program — that continues today — and prompting the College to hire a second staff member to address sexual violence. Childress explained that previously, there was only one staff member who was responsible for sexual assault prevention and response work on campus, and, due to time constraints, had focused more on advocacy work than prevention education.

Childress was hired for a position that, at the time, was called “sexual assault awareness coordinator.” Since then, her position has “evolved massively” in both title and work, Childress said.

The SPCSA has continued to work as an intermediary between Dartmouth students and administration since then.

Initially, the group released long lists of recommendations every year, but it “takes time to look into the research into

what’s effective and how to implement those things,” Childress said.

In the day-to-day mechanics of SPCSA, members work throughout the term toward both developing recommendations and implementing policies. A few people are assigned to each recommendation, Gokulan said, and everyone is updated on their progress at weekly meetings. Gokulan said the diversity of their group helps them access different parts of campus.

“Thegoodthingaboutourcommittee is everyone has different strengths and skills,” Gokulan said. “We have people who were on [the Panhellenic council], [the Interfraternity council], athletes, we have people who are [members of Movement Against Violence] [and Sexual Assault Peer Advisors].”

On Friday April 14, the sixth annual symposium of the SPCSA updated students on the committee’s progress towards implementing previous recommendations. The symposium also included a presentation by Mae Hardebeck ’18, to whom the SPCSA had awarded the Elizabeth A. Hoffman research grant to conduct research on sexual assault reporting at the College.

SPCSA has had success in working towardstherecommendationspresented at past symposiums. After working with government professor Yusaku Horiuchi in the quantitative social sciences

department, the committee developed a forum to centralize the process of providing feedback about the College’s treatment of people reporting sexual assault so that any problems in the process can be addressed more easily.

However, the committee still wants to see more improvements in the administration. The second recommendation presented at this year’s symposium, which SPCSA continues to work on, states that the College should provide financial support to cover the cost of long-term counseling at Dick’s House for survivors of sexual assault.

Originally, Dartmouth had a limit of 10 counseling sessions per term, a policy that was recently removed in efforts towards the goal of long-term counseling, Gokulan said. However, it’s still based on a short-term counseling model because of limited resources, she added.

According to Katherine McAvoy ’17, former chair of the SPCSA, the Elizabeth A. Hoffman research grant supports a researcher for one to two terms and includes a stipend as well as covers any costs associated with research.

This year, Hardebeck presented on reporting sexual misconduct at Dartmouth. She said she was inspired after a revelation she had while working as a SAPA. “I realized after being a SAPA on

campus for a couple of terms that even though I knew all these ways of how to emotionally support survivors, I didn’t actually understand or know exactly what the process was when they wanted to report,” Hardebeck said.

Hardebeck collected data through a campus-wide survey that received 266 responses and conducted in-depth interviews with 16 participants who wanted to share their reasons behind why they did or did not report to the administration. She found that many students are not familiar with the reporting process and that there is a huge lack of information about the resources.

“A lot of people will get information from their friends, so it can be especially difficult for freshmen who either don’t have those connections made yet or people who just are not well-connected,” Hardebeck said.

She also found that there is a huge misconception that the Title IX coordinator at Dartmouth is an advocate for survivors. Title IX is a law that prohibits all forms of sex or gender-based discrimination in any education program, and the purpose of the Title IX coordinator at Dartmouth is to uphold this law. Therefore, it has the responsibility to be fair to all students in its process, which prevents them from being an “emotionally supportive

resource for survivors,” Hardebeck explained.

In her surveys, Hardeback also found that identity has a huge impact on how survivors experience campus life after the incident of sexual violence. For example, before policies were changed at Dartmouth, Hardebeck said there was an assault victim who did not possess the resources to obtain a lawyer, as her assailant did.

“She was out-resourced in her complaint,” Hardebeck said.

In her research, Hardebeck found differences in perception of the College’s sexual violence support among students from different socioeconomic classes. For example, students of higher socioeconomic classes rated the College’s sexual violence support higher than students of lower socioeconomic classes. Hardebeck speculated that this could possibly be due to remembrance of this “horror story.”

Hardebeck has her own recommendations for the administration, which include making students more informed and getting them more involved in Dartmouth’s sexual assault prevention resources, through internships and mandatory education.

“I think there’s a lot of room for accountability and transparency,” Hardebeck explained.

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of speech and free markets, rather than “focusing on issues that conservatives will never convince liberals of and vice versa.” Both Baum and Turner said that, while there are groups on campus for students with specific beliefs to come and discuss issues, the College lacks a place for discussion on nonpartisan issues.

Turner, president of the chapter, said that TPUSA creates a place for a conservative niche who “actually want to have meaningful conversations with people who [have] opposite views.”

Referencing other conservative clubs on campus, he says that these existing groups often make things “worse for the political discourse on campus” and represent “a huge minority of people’s opinions” when it comes to highly controversial social issues such

as immigration policy and abortion rights.

“I don’t feel like conservatives on campus really make their case all that well,” Turner said. “I feel like they only worsen the divide. So my whole goal with starting a Turning Point chapter here was to create those meaningful dialogues.”

Economics professor Meir Kohn, the faculty advisor for TPUSA, said that he sees broader issues

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The Dartmouth chapter of Turning Point USA hosted its first public event last Tuesday.

with free speech when it comes to political beliefs on college campuses in that they are often liberal and dominated by a narrow spectrum of ideas. This phenomenon, he said, prevents students from being aware of opposing views and from challenging their own beliefs, hindering them from creating a strong foundation for their beliefs.

“Instead of free speech, we now have ‘correct speech’ — that’s a kind of totalitarianism,” Kohn said. “And I think that if students are against that and want to do something about that, that’s terrific.”

While the official topics of discussion set forth by TPUSA are nonpartisan and the non-profit nature of the organization renders it unable to support partisan efforts, the organization leans conservatively, according to its website. However, Baum says he hopes that the organization will not be seen as “just another conservative group” on campus and hopes that more liberals, particularly women, will join the group.

Turner turned to the association of conservatism with President Donald Trump as a potential reason for the lack of women in the group.

“I think a lot of women are turned off by especially Donald Trump’s rhetoric,” Turner said. “If anybody identifies with something on the

right, they’re immediately tied in with Donald Trump now and they’re considered basically every ‘-ist’ in the book.”

However, Turner was also optimistic about expanding the group’s membership in the future once people see the core of their message. He and Baum said they hope to create awareness of TPUSA’s efforts to discuss nonpartisan issues through various speakers and events. This includes plans for a “free speech ball” — a large inflatable beach ball on which students will be encouraged to write what they wish, in order to promote the idea of free speech.

Overall, Turner and Baum said that they hope TPUSA will be an opportunity for both sides of the political spectrum to reach out to one another to discuss bipartisan issues. Turner said he especially hopes that TPUSA will be an organization that gives conservatives a chance to redefine their identity on campus.

“We want to be successful advocates for our positions and we want people to see our viewpoint, and that people who identify on the right side of the ideological scale aren’t as evil as everybody seems to make them out to be on college campuses,” Turner said.

Baum is a member of The Dartmouth Staff.

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STOP, DROP AND ROLL

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017

Rachel Lincoln ’20

TODAY 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Portuguese Taster Session, test drive a Portuguese class and taste authentic Brazilian food, Dartmouth Hall 102

4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Exhibit: “The Erasure Trilogy“ by photographer Fazal Sheikh, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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

Performance: music by singers and instrumentalists from the Nile Project, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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

Sapientia Lecture: “Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?” with University of British Columbia, Vancouver professor Evan Thompson, Thornton Hall 103

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

Lecture: “A Life with Wildlife: The Arctic, Brazil and Tibet,” with conservationist, zoologist and field biologist George Schaller, Haldeman 41

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‘The Leftovers’ should let the mystery be in its final season

By SEBASTIAN WURZRAINER The Dartmouth Staff

“The Leftovers” may currently be in the middle of its third and final season, yet I find it no easier to describe the show now than I did when it first started. In fact, I’ve rewritten this particular review more than any other because it’s nigh impossible to explain the hypnotic power of this show.

Sadly, very few people have actually seen “The Leftovers.” It is the greatest show on TV that nobody watches. However, it is highly unlikely that I, or anyone really, can do much to change that: words can’t capture how strange, beautiful and strangely beautiful this show is. Nonetheless, I’ll do my best.

In the show, two percent of the world’s population suddenly disappears in an event on Oct. 14, 2011 that becomes known as the “Sudden Departure.” Reactions are varied. Some insist that it was the Biblical Rapture. Others search for a more scientific explanation.

Some declare themselves modern day healers, saviors and prophets.

And still others join the “Guilty Remnant” — a silent cult with mysterious motives.

But most people just want to move on with their lives, only to discover that they can’t. The show picks up three years after the Sudden Departure and ostensibly follows the Garvey family. Kevin (Justin Theroux), the chief of police in the fictional town of Mapleton, New York, is trying to keep the peace while battling his own demons. His wife, Laurie (Amy Brenneman), has joined the Guilty Remnant, and his daughter, Jill (Margaret Qualley), has descended into depression and ennui. Meanwhile, Laurie’s son, Tommy (Chris Zylka), has become a follower of Holy Wayne, a postDeparture saint.

This description may sound straightforward, but it’s deceiving.

The show doesn’t actually have much of a centralized plot, nor is it really about the Garveys.

The family gets the most screen time, yet we regularly glimpse into the lives of other fascinating characters including Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), a disillusioned reverend, and his sister, Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), who lost her entire family in the Departure. And in season two we meet the Murphys, a family whose dysfunctionality mirrors the Garveys.

By focusing on such a broad spectrum of character s and subplots, the show becomes less narrative driven, instead turning into a tapestry that explores life after the Sudden Departure. To be clear, the world of “The Leftovers”

is strange. Very strange. And yet how could it not be? The world is falling apart at the seams, and each season’s trajectory heads toward apocalypse. This may sound like a depressing tale, but it’s not. Instead, it’s baffling. Both the characters and the audience cry out into the void looking for answers — none ever come.

The experience can admittedly be maddening, but it works because we care about these phenomenal characters, thanks in no small part to spot-on casting. Theroux and Coon are particularly good and have real chemistry as Kevin and Nora, respectively, forming a gradually touching relationship which becomes the heart and soul of show.

That being said, just as the world of “The Leftovers” is strange, so are the people who populate it.

Characters we care about regularly make decisions that are puzzling at best and unfathomable at worst. We only want to see them happy, yet the writers continually deny that desire. This may be aggravating, but it also forces us to wonder: if we were in their position, would we behave any differently? Probably not.

A perceptive reader will notice a contradiction running rampant through this review. On the one hand, I have insisted that “The Leftovers” is a bewildering ordeal, yet I have also declared it is one of the greatest shows on television.

This may sound like a paradox, but it is also the only way I can properly express my feelings. It’s the sort of show where even when you want to wince and look away, you know you can’t — it’s just too compelling. It’s frustrating, hopeful, depressing, profound, upsetting and finally deeply cathartic.

For example, at one point a character must sing Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” for a karaoke contest to escape limbo. This scene, for me, encapsulates the entire show: on paper the premise sounds ridiculous, but in execution it creates one of the most heartbreaking moments I’ve ever seen depicted on screen.

The last episode will air in a few weeks, and fans are understandably concerned about how the show will end. After all, co-creator Damon Lindelof was responsible for “Lost,” which is renowned for its underwhelming conclusion.

I suppose it’s possible that Lindelof could disappoint again if and when he decides to solve the mystery of the Sudden Departure.

Regardless, it probably won’t affect the overall quality of the show. I think the creators were trying to tell the audience something when they chose Iris DeMent’s “Let the Mystery Be” for the season two

opening theme. The show isn’t supposed to be about the mystery of the Sudden Departure. Rather, it’s about how those left behind react.

Indeed, this notion is continually reinforced. I’m not the only person to notice that the Garveys make for unique protagonists because none of them were taken during the Departure. They should be the least affected by the event, but clearly it still has an impact on them.

Likewise, season two takes place in Jarden, Texas, the only place on Earth were no one disappeared.

Nonetheless, we quickly learn that its inhabitants are no less damaged and fragile than the rest of the world.

Above all else, the show is deliberately called “The Leftovers” and not “The Sudden Departure.”

Frankly, I don’t think the creators are interested in solving some cosmic mystery. Instead, I think they aim to pose one simple question: when life stops making sense and the world is stripped of meaning, how do we as humans react? Even if the final season does answer the mystery of the Sudden Departure in a less than satisfactory way, I don’t think the show will ever fully answer that deeply existential question. For that reason alone, “The Leftovers” will always be relevant.

TWO TAKING TANGO

Rating: 10/10

Students partnered up during Monday evening’s tango class.

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JAZZ FROM THE HEART, FREE OF CHARGE

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The “ChamberWorks: From The Heart” concert took place in Rollins Chapel and showcased jazz arrangements.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017

Q&A with Friday Night Rock guest, rising rap artist Saba

By JACOB MEISTER The Dartmouth

This past Friday, April 21, Friday Night Rock brought rapper Saba to perform at Sarner Underground.

The 22-year-old Chicago native has worked with artists like Noname and Mick Jenkins, and he was recently featured on “Angels,” a single from Chance the Rapper’s 2016 album, “Coloring Book.”

Saba released his own project in 2016 as well, titled Bucket List Project . Before the show, The Dartmouth sat down with Saba to talk about his music, his influences and his city.

When did you start making music?

S: I started making music when I was 9 years old.

What inspired you to start?

S: I just came from a really musical family. My dad did music and s---, and my grandad did music and my uncle did music, so it was kind of inevitable.

Did you think that you were going to be making music professionally when you were in high school? Did you ever look at other creative outlets?

S: Absolutely. I mean, when I was like eight, I used to like drawing. I used to wanna make a cartoon one day, which I still kind of wanna do, but that was the only other thing that I ever really thought about doing.

When you were eight, was it just instruments or did you start with rapping?

S: I started playing piano when I was like seven or eight, and then from there on I just started producing and trying to rap and s---.

When did you release your first project?

S: 2012. Dec. 18, 2012. It was called “Get Comfortable” — actually that’s a lie. That is a lie. My first project that I put on the internet was called “Born Emperors.” I put that out Feb. 15 , 2011 when I was in high school.

But it was some high school s---, I don’t know, “Get Comfortable” was like my first real project. I dropped “Born Emperors” just on

some high school s---.

You’re part of this generation of up-and-coming Chicago performers and artists that includes Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, Noname, Mick Jenkins and countless others.

You’re all coming out of the same area and are all coming up at the same time. What do you think is the cause of that?

S: There’s a lot going on in Chicago. But I think one of the most important parts is that people are collaborating. Chicago is very inspired, and it’s always been a very inspired place. There’s both sides to Chicago — you hear one more than the other maybe — but there are a lot of stories in Chicago, and I think it’s just young people speaking their minds and stickin’ together doing it.

Violence in Chicago touches a lot of your music. How do you take that kind of terrifying reality and make something more positive with your music?

S: I think, more so than with the music, it’s kind of like what you have to do as a person. So I think, even speaking on a lot of the terrifying s--- that happens in Chicago, a lot of young people don’t see it as the end. And I think that as long as there’s that underlying message of hope in the music, then it’ll come off as positive. I don’t even know if what I’m saying a lot of the time is positive or not, but I am hopeful about it. I do hope to one day change it, I do try to inspire people to change it and to be different than what’s happened in the past.

Another big part of your music is this religious aspect that comes in to play a lot. What role do you think religion has to play in Chicago and in hip hop music?

S: To each his own, I don’t really see it as a one or the other kind of thing. I don’t really consider myself religious at all, but there are a lot of spiritual elements in a lot of my writing, and I think it’s just natural because I don’t really consider myself religious. I think as far as Chicago, a lot of people came up in church, but I don’t really know. It’s hard to speak on

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Saba performed at the Sarner Underground venue in an event organized by Friday Night Rock.

what inspires other people to make what they make, but for me it’s just a natural sense of spirituality and trying to be in tune with some higher power.

Who would you say are your biggest influences?

S: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is kind of the reason I became a rapper so I would have to put them atop the list. My father too — for me those two are kind of a given. Besides that, I think I’d say like Pharrell ... Who can I put in this list? I’m not sure. Those are the three for right now. As far as what they did with patterns and the sing-song kind of thing in their music, that’s a big influence.

One of my favorite parts of your album is the phone calls at the end of some songs where people tell you what’s on their bucket list. What’s your favorite response?

S: My personal favorite is [Chicago singer] Jean Deaux, at the end of “Symmetry.” She wanted to direct a TV show, reverse gentrification and [smoke] with Beyoncé.

And Will Fountain is just a

legend at this point, cannot forget about him. (Fountain’s bucket list entry appears at the end of the first track, “In Living Memory.” He wants to have a burger from In-N-Out, go oneon-one against basketball star Derrick Rose and hook up with Kylie Jenner, according to the entry.) I’m trying to take Fountain to In-n-Out burger next month.

Is Fountain one of your friends?

S: I have no idea who Fountain is.

He’s a kid from Twitter. I wanted to get fans involved with the creation of the album so like 100 people sent in their personal bucket lists, and Fountain was one of the people who sent me an email. Taking Fountain to In-n-Out is on my personal Bucket List.

Who’s an artist you would like to work with in the future?

S: I want to work with Robert Glasper. He’s like a crazy producerpianist — it’s hard to describe.

You might just have to end this interview and then instantly google him.

What’s next for you?

S: I’m ending a tour right now and hitting some colleges. I guess now it’s time to make some more music.

I haven’t been in the same place for a while so I haven’t really had time to be creating stuff, but after these few shows I have coming up, I plan to just stay put and make some s---.

W h o a re yo u r t o p t h re e Chicago rappers of all time?

S: Hmm ... Lupe Fiasco. Twista ...

I don’t know, Twista’s funny ’cause he’s just the OG at this point so he’ll just be knocking s—t out hella fast. But damn. Twista, Fiasco and Kanye West?

Eh. I can come up with someone better for this list than Kanye. I’m gonna have to stick with Twista and Fiasco and leave one blank for us to see how this generation of Chicago artists do for like the next five to 10 years.

For the kids?

S: Yeah, well. For myself really.

I’m just gonna leave one blank for myself.

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