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Concerns arise over Duthu’s appointment as dean of faculty

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By MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

Recent discussion regarding Native American studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80’s appointment as the next dean of the faculty of arts and sciences has elicited controversy. On May 3, economics professor Alan Gustman sent out a faculty-wide email addressing Duthu’s co-authorship of a 2013 declaration supporting a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. He signed onto the declaration, titled “Declaration of Support for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions,” as the treasurer of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, a position he held from 2012 to 2015.

Gustman’s email stated that Duthu’s co-authorship signifies that he is an active advocate of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, a

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Anatomical Gifts Program will honor donors at service

By DEBORA HYEMIN HAN The Dartmouth Staff

While technology and computer simulations have become more efficacious in modeling the human body, many medical schools continue the tradition of using human cadavers for anatomical instruction. Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine is just one of the schools that continue to place value on cadaver-based teaching, and each spring, Geisel’s Anatomical

Gifts Program conducts a memorial service honoring the anatomical donors whose bodies are used in the first-year anatomy class.

According to director of the anatomy laboratory James Reed , Geisel first-years take three terms of anatomy before they finish the first year, working in small groups on one cadaver throughout that time. Reed said that using human bodies to teach COURTESY OF JAMES REED

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The Anatomical Gifts Program will hold a memorial service on May 25.

Q&A with long-time custodial leader Mickey Tyler

By MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

From late afternoon to midnight, custodial squad leader Mickey Tyler can be found working to ensure cleanliness and security of many buildings on campus including Collis Center, the Class of 1953 Commons and Parkhurst Hall. Tyler arrived at Dartmouth in 1994 after spending over 20 years driving trucks, backhoes and bulldozers as a construction worker.

He was honored at the 2014 Service

Awards Banquet for his 20 years of service for Dartmouth, as one of the most experienced custodians at the College.

What are some differences between working as a construction worker and as a custodian?

MT: One difference is that when it is 30 degrees below out, it’s much better being inside the building than being out in the cold. I came here in part because when I worked in construction, I

wanted to get out of the cold. There are also more people that you have to deal with. As a construction worker, I was just dealing with my boss or another guy, but as a custodian, I deal with kids, secretaries and so on. So the experience is quite different.

What does a typical day look like for you?

MT: We always come in with a “plan A,” but we always end up doing “plan B” because all the days are different. Plan A would be doing all

your common work — taking care of the trash, the bathrooms, dusting, cleaning the stairways and all the chores. Plan B would be if you come in and somebody needs carpet extraction or some extra cleaning because they have a new person coming in. We set it up to get it done as soon as possible.

If we can’t get it done that night, we will get it done right away. Another example of plan B would be when one of the three guys that work under me is SEE Q&A PAGE 2

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Across the Upper Valley, hot-pink signs have been posted by members of Conversations for Change, a grassroots group that hopes to stop violence against women, according to the Valley News. The group is made up of survivors and others who get together and hold open community discussions about social factors that contribute to gender-based violence. Over 100 flyers were distributed on telephone poles, car windshields and message boards across the valley. One sign read, “Did you know … rapists set it up to look like victims consented. #DontBeFooledByRapeCulture. Know the facts.” However, the Lebanon Public Works department removed many of the signs because the group did not receive permission from the city to post on public property. WISE, an Upper Valley non-profit organization that helps domestic violence victims and provides a meeting space for Conversations of Change, defines rape culture as “a term that introduces the concept that society creates an environment that normalizes violence against populations that do not have power.” WISE hopes to see more community initiates of local citizens advocating against domestic violence in the upcoming years.

The Norwich Farmers Market celebrated its 40th anniversary season this week and signed its first formal lease at its Route 5 location with its landlord, the Co-op Food Stores, according to the Valley News. While an unofficial deal was started back in 1977, the board of directors for the Norwich Farmers Market and former director of the Co-op Food Stores Terry Appleby agreed it was time to negotiate a formal lease. The market runs every Saturday for 26 weeks from spring to fall. Typically, the market has up to 53 vendors, and its by-laws mandate that as a nonprofit organization, the market cannot earn more than its budget of $50,000. Andrea Rhodes, a co-owner of Sunset Rock Farm in Lebanon, a vendor at the farmer’s market, said to the Valley News that she thinks the market offers a model for other farmers markets in the area to follow because of its location and visibility. According to Ed Fox, the Co-op’s general manager, the Co-op intends to maintain its relationship with the Norwich market because the food store hopes to encourage its customers to have access to the store’s partner products and shop farmers markets.

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Correction Appended (May 11, 2017): A previous version of the May 11 column “Roberts: A Frat’s Best Friend” misstated the number of dogs currently living in fraternities. The column has been updated to reflect this change.

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Custodian Mickey Tyler discusses time working at Dartmouth FROM Q&A PAGE 1

suddenly out. Then have to rearrange everything. You come in thinking that you are going to do the same thing, but something will pop up that will make your plans all different. This happens almost every day.

What is your favorite part about working at Dartmouth?

MT: I think my favorite part is dealing with the kids. Some of the students are right on it. They go out of their way and they will help you out by picking something up. They reach out and go for it.

Once in a while, you run into one or two students that are lazy. They

don’t want to move because they to keep the horse company when I wasn’t home. Last are doing work or November we had something. You ask “We always come them to move, but a baby donkey, they don’t want to in with a ‘plan A,’ so we now have move. This is a minor but we always end three donkeys.

All morning thing, though. up doing ‘plan B.’” before coming to W hat are your work, I usually future goals? do something out in the fields with MT: In two years, my animals, and I’m going to retire.

I am going to I live in Grafton, spend more time New Hampshire, and I raise a horse, three donkeys, with them and my wife after my six dogs, two cats and a bird with my retirement. wife. I bought two of the donkeys to This interview has been edited and keep my horse company because they are pack animals. I wanted some way condensed for clarity and length.

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Anatomical Gifts Program will hold memorial service FROM GEISEL PAGE 1

anatomy is the “best way to teach the subject,” as it allows students to examine normal human variation — something that simulations have yet to truly emulate. He said that it is important for students to know not only the standard structures of the human body, but also whether a deviation from that standard structure is actually normal human variation or pathology, which is best learned by interacting with actual bodies.

The Anatomical Gifts Program, overseen by Geisel’s Department of Anatomy, receives applications from donors who reside in and pass away in New Hampshire and Vermont to be included in the anatomical lab, according to Reed.

There are 1,600 bodies in Geisel’s program currently, and the average age of the donors at death is in the mid 80s, though the donors may be as young as 21 as long as they die of natural causes. The program requires that donors’ bodies be intact — namely, that they do not die of traumatic accident or have an autopsy post-death — and do not have infectious or rare diseases. In addition, because Reed and Anatomical Gifts Program administrative director Hanna

Riendeau embalm the bodies, the donors must not have had vascular issues and circular diseases or have undergone recent surgeries. Reed said that in order to protect the dignity of the donors, anatomical tissue is not transported outside the facility once they arrive.

Reed said that most donors participate in the program for “altruistic reasons,” such as giving back to Dartmouth. The program has accepted Dartmouth alumni, former professors and former doctors from DartmouthHitchcock Hospital and Veteran’s Affairs in the past. This year, Reed said there was a high number of local people who signed up to be in the program, exemplifying how strong the Dartmouth-Upper Valley connection is. He noted that this strong connection is one reason why Geisel has not had to outsource for cadavers very often.

Briana Goddard Med’20, who interviewed donors’ families in preparation for the memorial service, said that many said the donors had “a love of education” and wanted to help contribute to medical education.

Diana Funk Med’20 said that knowing that the people who are in the program truly “wanted to be there” was what allowed her

to overcome the initial shock of and his peers that the donor is their “first patient,” that the body working on a human body.

“That was really [a] meaningful is not just cells, tissues and organs sentiment that I think helped a lot to dissect, but a person with scars of people through their initial fear and tattoos, and whose brains and grief: knowing that every single were formed by the memories one of them wanted to be there to and experiences they had in their lifetime. According teach us,” she said. to Riendeau, John Damianos “Hopefully students are given ’16 Med’20 agreed the names of the that he had to strike [this] will bring donors as well as a a balance between together the brief background, respecting the families and the which gives students humanity of the context for their donors — who may students in a way subjects. still have living that they can be Damianos family members said incorporating — a n d b e i n g mutually grateful the different biocognizant that the for each other.” psycho-social factors donors made “the of the patient into conscious decision the class emphasized t o b e t e a ch e r s -DIANA FUNK that medicine is a even after death.” MED’20 humanistic science.

Damianos said Fu r t h er mo re, h e that knowing the said that the class donors desired to has changed his view be used for the purpose of teaching allowed him on medicine in the pedagogical to avoid being “too gingerly” in realm.

“Pre-med education trains you dissecting the bodies.

He added that the medical to think that medicine is a science, school made a concerted effort to but it’s really not — there’s science put the cadaver-based instruction in medicine and there’s biomedical into perspective, especially as sciences, but medicine in itself it fits into the larger medical is an art and a practice. When journey, through sessions on the you look at pre-med education psychology of illness and a panel curriculum, you don’t see that,” on the anatomical donations. The he said. “[In organic chemistry panel included a retired Geisel there is] always an answer, [and faculty member whose body will in] cell [biology] there’s always be donated to the Anatomical Gifts an answer. But the one remarkable thing about anatomy is that each Program once he passes.

During the panel, Damianos body is different.”

Funk added that working on said it was impressed upon him

human bodies has demonstrated that much of the study of medicine relies on what is handed down from person to person, whether that be information or tangible bodies.

She said that knowing that this is the type of scheme that she and her peers are a part of made her “feel connected” to the people who came before and after her. She also said she realized the importance of actually touching and feeling body parts in studying medicine.

Damianos echoed a similar statement, saying that holding a brain in his hands was the most impactful part of the process.

“To actually hold a human brain in my hands — this is the brain that is formed by this person’s experiences and emotions, this brain enabled them to speak, enabled them to love, enabled them to cry — that just blew my mind,” he said.

To commemorate the impact the donors have had on the students’ studies and medical journeys, and to meet the families of the donors, first-year students plan and conduct a memorial service each year.

Funk and Goddard are preparing reflections from families of donors and students, and Damianos will perform with the a cappella group the Dermatones, along with other student performers at the service.

Reed said that the group extends invitations to everyone who has been in the lab throughout the year in order to express the gratitude of the entire community to the donors’ families.

He also said that this service provides closure for the families that have been delayed for up to two years, given that they do not bury their loved one as most people do.

“It’s not the typical end of life procedure; you’re not triggering what would be considered the societal norm of having a large funeral with a casket,” Reed said.

Through the reflections, Funk said she and her peers hope to juxtapose the students’ reflections on what the learning experience meant to them with who the donors were in their lifetimes and how excited they were to be a part of the program. She said that knowing that every person in the program had specifically intended their bodies not just to go to science, but also to the Geisel anatomy program in particular was meaningful.

“Hopefully [this] will bring together the families and the students in a way that they can be mutually grateful for each other,” Funk said.

The Anatomical Gifts Program will hold its service at Rollins Chapel on May 25 at 5 p.m.

The event is open to the entire Dartmouth community.

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STAFF COLUMNIST MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18

A Numbers Game

Populism Will Survive Macron

Dartmouth’s yield rate may be more complex than it seems.

Sixty-one percent of students admitted to Dartmouth’s Class of 2021 accepted their offer of admission, the highest yield rate in the last 25 years according to the College. This figure is almost 10 percent higher than recent yield rates, which may lead us to instinctively believe that it signifies something important, perhaps the success of the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative or an increase in the caliber of current students.

But assuming such significance would be premature, and we cannot use this number as a reason to be complacent in thinking about what we — staff and students alike — still need to fix.

We cannot yet know whether this increase is the beginning of a positive trend or a one-year anomaly.

And even if the numbers do stay up, yield rate, like most statistics, can be manipulated and may be more complex than it initially seems.

A higher yield rate is generally correlated with more prestige; by virtue of having more students choose Dartmouth over comparable universities, the increase in yield rate suggests that we are better at getting prospective students to commit than other schools are. And yield rate is key to many college rankings systems, itself equated with prestige for the College and its students. An increasing yield rate, in the lens of prestige, may then be a positive signal for Dartmouth.

The increase from previous years also tells the College that it is doing something right, and can therefore be used to leverage the idea that recent reforms are exactly what the student body — or at least the incoming student body — wants. The administration of College President Phil Hanlon will likely take heart in the numbers — the figures could be taken as a positive sign for Hanlon’s signature MDF initiative and other reforms.

However, the evidence for that interpretation is incomplete.

Colleges calculate yield rate by dividing the number of students committed to attending by the number of students admitted. The number of admitted students includes the entire early decision pool, where the College can accept students who are essentially guaranteed to attend. This year, 43.4 percent of the Class of 2021 will be from the early decision pool, a slight increase from 42.7 percent the previous year that comes out to 61 additional students. Because accepting more early decision students allows Dartmouth to fill more

of its class early on, and thus rely less on the yield from regular decision students, it is unclear if the increased yield rate of the incoming class is tied to a positive trend for the College or a numbers game with early decision, or maybe both.

The College itself cites additional possible factors for the increased yield rate, such as the inclusion of Dartmouth-specific questions in the application, as demonstrating an increased ability to filter out people who are less invested in the school. While this is not a bad thing — of course we want students who also want us — it does not necessarily show that the College is improving, just that fewer students are applying on a whim.

The fact that the College’s yield rate has spiked in Lee Coffin’s as vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid could point to a different explanation. Coffin was previously employed by Tufts University, a school that lent its name to “Tufts syndrome,” the practice of rejecting more qualified students for less qualified students who are more likely to accept their offers of admission. More technically known as “yield protection,” this was given its colloquial moniker during Coffin’s 13-year tenure at Tufts, in which application volume increased 37 percent. However, it’s unfair to tie this concept directly to Coffin, as this year’s accepted students have higher SAT scores and more valedictorians and salutatorians than previous years. He’s also just doing his job — and doing it very well in his first year.

While increased yield rate is a positive sign for the admissions office, its impact on current students is harder to gauge. The College is already suffering from a shortage of undergraduate housing, and admitting a larger class is unlikely to ameliorate the situation. The College may also need to reduce its intake next year to compensate, leading to smaller future class sizes.

This year’s high yield rate seems like a positive trend, but we cannot assume that it shows that the College or its students are improving as a whole.

The College has every reason to celebrate the yield rate — in the years to come, it might reveal that reforms are actually working and the student body is getting stronger. Yet yield rate, like most statistics, is more complicated than it may seem.

We shouldn’t interpret it as a blanket affirmation of ourselves — and of our College and continue to strive to improve.

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Emmanuel Macron’s victory is a minor setback for the forces of the far right.

If French president-elect Emmanuel of a populist sentiment that is growing, not Macron’s victory in the French presidential shrinking, it is also a large enough proportion election can be called a landslide, then the of seats to make Wilders’ Party for Freedom column inches hyperbolically trumpeting it a significant opposition force. There may, as the wholesale rejection of global populism then, not be any anti-populist trend in a can rightly be called a tsunami. The authors Europe whose governing bodies will be in of a Washington Post piece on the election part beholden to expressly populist interests. couch the French people’s decision in Moreover, the root causes of today’s mythological terms, saying that “France ... global populism remain present and are shrugged off the siren call of right-wing likely to be exacerbated in the coming populism.” CNN asserts, in heroic language, months and years. There are clear, that Macron defeated populism in the “great traceable connections between refugee political battle between globalism and crises, terrorism and the rise of the right. nationalism that is underway in Western The Syrian civil war, raging for years, has democracies.” The Huffington Post calls produced an incredible number of refugees Macron’s victory “somewhat comparable — over five million at the last count of the United Nations’ refugee agency. These to Napoleon Bonaparte.”

Reading this coverage, one might think displaced people frequently make their the 39-year-old former investment banker a way westward, joining similarly situated latter-day Atlas singlehandedly shouldering Mediterranean-crossing North Africans in the weight of the perilously-situated liberal Europe. world order. And even the thinkpieces Citizens of France, Germany, the U.K. acknowledging that the troubles of world and other countries are then confronted populism cannot be solved by one country’s with the influx of populations whose practices are frequently election of one man inimical to those take Macron’s victory as “...one might think citizens’ conceptions emblematic of a positive the 39-year-old of their national trend. i d e n t i t y. Te r r o r i s t Not so fast. If anything, former investment attacks per petrated t h e Fre n ch e l e c t i o n by members of those should deepen worries banker a latter-day refugee populations, as about the influence and Atlas singlehandedly well as those carried out pervasiveness of farmerely in hatred of the right parties like Marine shouldering the West, bolster people’s Le Pen’s National Front. weight of the perceptions of a present Since its founding by or impending clash of Le Pen’s father Jean- perilously-situated civilizations. Far-right Marie in 1974, the filial liberal world order.” parties — some, like partner ship has run National Front, with for president a total of seven times — he five times, she twice. racist roots to boot — capitalize on this fear, Before this year, the Le Pens had reached pushing nationalist agendas, closed borders the second round of France’s presidential and a sociocultural definition of national election only once, in 2002. In that round, character. Compare this progression of Jean-Marie won 17.8 percent of the vote. events with what we know about the rise Sunday, Marine Le Pen won 33.9 percent, of Trump, Le Pen, Wilders or any other more than doubling the National Front’s reactionary, revisionist Western leader you best-ever showing on the French national care to choose. stage. Furthermore, according to analysts, The problem for the populist-trend the National Front could win 100 or more doomsayers is twofold. First, Bashar alseats in the upcoming French legislative Assad’s long, bloody war, the Islamic State’s elections — 100 seats, that is, out of a total domination of parts of Kurdish Iraq, Libya’s of 577. This will enable Le Pen to fulfill her lawlessness and other Middle Eastern crises promise to become the primary opposition are currently all but intractable. Second, to the nascent Macron administration. absent effective U.S. leadership, it is unclear How far the party of “Holocaust denials” that the West will have any significant hand and “overt racism,” which won only two in stopping them. Therefore, the number of refugees landing on Europe’s shores is parliamentary seats in 2012, has come.

Some punditry on Macron’s win also liable to increase, not decrease. If the causal posits a new anti-populist trend in 2017 chain described above holds, this should Europe, standing in stark contrast to 2016’s bode well for right-wing populists’ future nationalist protectionism of Brexit and electoral hopes. other far-right movements. The defeat Is Macron’s victory better for the current of Geert Wilders, the Netherlands’s own international order than a Le Pen win would E.U.- and immigration-hating candidate, have been? Certainly. But do the results of serves as putative evidence for this trend. the French election mean that the rise of However, the proponents of this narrative populist nationalism has come to a halt, fail to note that even though Wilders lost, or that its characteristic xenophobia and his party gained eight parliamentary seats, aversion to longstanding norms will begin to bringing its total to 20 in the 150-seat Dutch fall? Absolutely not — perhaps, worryingly, Parliament. Not only is this representative just the opposite.

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Faculty member’s letter challenges Duthu’s appointment as dean FROM DUTHU PAGE 1

“Palestinian-led movement” that has been “challenging international support for Israeli apartheid and settlercolonialism,” according to its website.

In his email, Gustman argued that BDS is anti-Semitic due to its core goal.

He referred to the 2013 declaration, which stated that “the NAISA Council encourages NAISA members to boycott Israeli academic institutions because they are imbricated with the Israeli state and we wish to place pressure on that state to change its policies.”

In an interview with The Dartmouth, Gustman said he believes the BDS movement is “an anti-Semitic, antiJewish movement,” adding that it is not proper for a school of Dartmouth’s reputation and standing to appoint someone who has taken a pro-BDS position and but has not publicly renounced it.

In the email, Gustman asked Duthu to “either publicly disavow the full ramifications of the BDS positions he has publicly endorsed, or resign his position as dean and return to his faculty position where expression of these views is sanctioned as academic freedom, but is not representative of Dartmouth College or its faculty.”

Jewish studies professor and chair Susannah Heschel disagreed with Gustman’s interpretation of Duthu’s co-

authorship, saying that the declaration no circumstances can be constructed does not endorse the BDS movement, as anti-Semitism automatically.” as it does not explicitly mention BDS. Michael Salzhauer ’84, a member She added that she believes BDS is of the Dartmouth chapter of Alum for a “very dangerous, Campus Fairness, a wrong and nasty” “No matter how national organization movement. that, according to History and I disagreed with its website, “fight[s] Je w i s h s t u d i e s some people in the the anti-Semitism” p ro f e s s o r U d i on college campuses, administration in Greenberg said said that as a dean that support for the past, I never of the faculty, Duthu BDS does not would have gone will represent the necessarily indicate College and its a n t i - S e m i t i s m . public, even on policies. Salzhauer Greenberg added controversial noted that Duthu that “as an Israeli, a policy things, so this is an co-authored someone who has that does not align [a] Ph.D. from issue that rose to with the policies of the Israel, who has a such importance College, as evidenced lot of academic ties

by College President in Israel and whose that I didn’t think I P h i l H a n l o n’s family has suffered had any choice.” statement on Dec. 28, from anti-Semitic 2013 affirming that persecutions,” he Dartmouth does not finds this accusation -ALAN GUSTMAN, support the boycott “deeply misguided ECONOMICS of Israeli institutions. and honestly pretty Although Hanlon did PROFESSOR offensive.” not explicitly mention “The BDS BDS, Salzhauer said movement is composed of multiple the statement’s message suggested a movements and individuals — some rejection of the movement. of them are idiots, demagogues and Salzhauer said Duthu has to be anti-Semites,” Greenberg said. “The aware that boycotting Jewish academics position itself of BDS — calling for the is a “long and cherished go-to position academic boycott of Israel, in under of anti-Semites.”

According to Heschel and studies and interdisciplinary programs, Greenberg, Duthu has actively he has “embraced this position.” supported the College’s academic ties Heschel said that through the May 9 with Israel, supporting student exchange email, Duthu has renounced the views programs with Israeli institutions and expressed in the declaration that he faculty members’ publications in Israel. signed in 2013, calling his new stance Heschel said Duthu facilitated visits “a change of heart.” from professors working in Israel, which Greenberg said that through the she said is a complex and cumbersome email, Duthu unequivocally expressed process. his opposition to academic boycotts and “He is not promoting or facilitating thus, Greenberg believes the matter is the boycotting [of Israeli institutions] ... closed. He noted, though, that even if on the contrary, he is doing the opposite Duthu had not expressed opposition of boycotting,” Heschel said. to these boycotts, such a stance should In a written statement to The not affect his appointment to an Dartmouth, College spokesperson administrative position.

Diana Lawrence reaffirmed that “To me, the notion that someone’s Duthu “has embraced” the College’s politics is a yardstick that determines institutional their appointment position against “To me, the notion to an administrative the boycott of position is hugely that someone’s Israeli academic problematic,” politics is a yardstick Greenberg said. “I institutions.

Gustman said that determines think that the position he had originally people hold in person notwantedtomake their appointment is their own business.” a public statement to an administrative In a May 9 regarding his statement sent to the position is hugely reservations about faculty in response Duthu. He said problematic.” to Duthu’s email, he sent letters to Gustman said Duthu Duthu, Hanlon did not clearly state and the Board of -UDI GREENBERG, that he repudiated his Trustees in hopes HISTORY AND JEWISH support of the BDS of them resolving movement. Gustman STUDIES PROFESSOR the issue internally. wrote that “if [Duthu] He received a does not clearly and response from Duthu but did not find unambiguously repudiate his position it satisfactory. and support for BDS, the anger directed “No matter how I disagreed with his way will only get louder.” some people in the administration in the “I just wanted [Duthu] to issue a past, I never would have gone public, statement that says, ‘I know in 2013 even on controversial things, so this is I was a public supporter of the BDS an issue that rose to such importance movement — I no longer hold those that I didn’t think I had any choice,” views or repudiate those views,’” Gustman said.

Gustman said in the interview. “That is Gustman added that some faculty all I wanted him to say, and in the latest members expressed agreement with letter he sent, he still doesn’t do it.” his email to him personally, voicing Economics professor Andrew Levin concerns about, for instance, potential said he does not understand why Duthu problems negotiating on research topics “[didn’t] simply say in plain English related to BDS with Duthu as a dean. that he no longer supports the BDS He said, though, that they did not want movement.” He called Duthu’s letter to speak openly about the issue due to “helpful but ambiguous.” Levin said personal interest. he is concerned by ambiguity because “It takes a lot of courage to get up “there is potentially a much bigger issue when this person is going to be driving about how we are going to have an open the budget of your department,” and transparent community.”

Gustman said.

Salzhauer said Duthu’s statements On May 9, Duthu sent a faculty-wide imply an unrealistic compromise. email in response to “recent charges” “His statement to the faculty that his support of the declaration attempts to have feet in both thought should disqualify him from serving as camps and that isn’t possible,” Salzhauer the next dean of faculty of arts and said. sciences. In the email, Duthu said he Lawrence wrote that “Duthu has “continue[s] to believe in the right of publicly condemned anti-Semitism.” private citizens to express criticism of She added that Duthu has offered any country’s government policies.” to meet with Gustman to discuss his Duthu added that at the same time, he concerns, but that Gustman declined. does not believe “a boycott of academic Heschel said she hopes people institutions is the appropriate response” will “accept the reality instead of the and that he fully supports Hanlon’s fantasy.” statement that the College will not “The fantasy is that Duthu boycotts support the boycott of Israeli academic [Israeli institutions],” Heschel said. institutions or academic boycotts of any “The reality is that he does not.” kind. He also wrote that in his current Duthu did not respond to multiple role as associate dean for international requests for an interview.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS

“ACTIVISM”

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017

Matthew Goldstein ’18

TODAY

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Colloquium: “Fabry-Perot Microcavities for Diamond Photonics,” with McGill University professor Lilian Childress, Wilder 104

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Film: “Table 19,” directed by Jeffrey Blitz, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College 45th Annual Powwow, Dartmouth Green (rain location: Leede Arena)

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Introductory Tour: Outdoor Sculpture, a 75-minute docent-led tour of outdoor sculpture, Hopkins Center plaza

SUNDAY

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Film: “The Sense of an Ending,” directed by Ritesh Batra, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Lecture: “‘Smart’ Disruptive Technologies or Infectious Pathogens?” with professor Andrea Kremer, Kemeny 201 RELEASE DATE– Friday, May 12, 2017

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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16 Parson’s home 17 Some shoulders 19 Doppelgänger cast for a lowbudget remake of “Ocean’s 11”?

21 Speck in la mer 22 Sweet climber 23 Usual night in the old town?

32 Entomological case study?

33 Repeated number of curls, say 34 Bust gp.

35 Whatever 36 Fanny pack spot 37 Backing strips 39 Liszt’s “__ Préludes” 40 Fish house freebie 41 Sympathize 42 Quality marsh output?

46 Mayo is in it 47 Fan noise 48 Gold dust lid cover?

56 Theo van Gogh, notably 57 Orange variety 59 Couth he is not 60 Khartoum’s waters 61 Birds do it between thermals 62 Place to take a dip 63 Hits up (for) 64 Place to take a dip?

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2 “Dies __” 3 #30 on a table

4 Canadian pump name 5 “People” person, perhaps 6 Cain was one 7 Cry to a mate 8 Ruler that doesn’t work anymore 9 Gender-specific beverage?

10 Zilch 11 Group with many barrels 12 Office staple 15 Bite playfully 18 Editorial override 20 Buck heroine 23 It may be under a rug 24 Bag carrier 25 “__ in point” 26 Cambodia’s Lon __ 27 Bits 28 In like an old cat?

29 Travel bag attachment 30 Maestro Zubin 31 Lightens up

36 Gender-specific pronoun 37 Non-suicidal migrants, contrary to myth 38 Heidi got high on one 40 Cheerful 41 Julia of film 43 “All in the Family” spin-off 44 About

45 Waldo forerunner?

48 Cambodia neighbor 49 Itch 50 Bonus, in ads 51 Lamb’s alias 52 Sharp bark 53 Simba’s love 54 Far from harmless 55 Cabs, say 58 Lamb’s place

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017

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Barbary Coast prepares for spring concert, director Glasgo’s last

By MADELINE KILLEN

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

For the past 40 years, Don Glasgo and Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble have been practically synonymous.

Glasgo has been the director of Barbary Coast since the mid-1970s; prior to his directorship, Barbary Coast was a small, student-run jazz ensemble. This Saturday’s concert, though, marks the end of an era, as it will be Glasgo’s final concert with the ensemble. In honor of Glasgo’s impending retirement, the second half of tomorrow night’s show will feature Barbary Coast alumni, including some ’78s and ’79s from Glasgo’s first years with the ensemble, sharing the stage with its current members.

“I’m sort of [taking things] one thing a time, so I’ll probably start thinking about my feelings Saturday night,” Glasgo said. “We have 15 hours of rehearsal to get through before then.”

Even if Glasgo is not yet reflecting on the end of his run with the ensemble, some of its current members certainly are. “[Glasgo] is such a character,” said trombone player and manager of the ensemble Barrett Clark ’17.

“He’s so happy to be alive. He does a great job of building relationships with all of his students — he spends

time chatting with us, getting to know us.”

Glasgo said that the most rewarding part of his run as director has been building these relationships with students; he approximates that he has directed 329 jazz ensemble members.

“I think the thing I’ve enjoyed the most is just seeing students change over four years from when they enter as first-years to when they graduate,” he said. “It’s a pretty interesting and remarkable period. I also feel very lucky that I can see those students every term that they’re on campus … as opposed to professors, who only see them for one term.”

The ’17s, of course, are celebrating their final concerts with the jazz ensemble as well. They are also the final class to experience all four years under Glasgo’s directorship.

Emmanuel Hui ’17, who plays violin in the ensemble, said that Glasgo’s influence has been invaluable to his Dartmouth jazz career.

“I play violin for the Coast, and that’s weird because nobody really knows how to fit a violin in jazz,” Hui said. “Now, it’s to a point where [Glasgo] would write a part for me deliberately so I can play with the group. He really wants me to stick with the group, and that’s something I really appreciate about [Glasgo] — that he takes the time and effort

to put me in, to think about this one violin part.”

The spring concert is always the jazz ensemble’s “Senior Feature” concert, in which each senior in the group gets to select one piece of any genre for the Barbary Coast to perform. Hui’s selection is one of his own compositions, entitled “Sleepless at Narita,” which he began writing during a layover at the Narita, Japan airport. Hui explained that the piece is meant to represent that travel experience, with portions of the piece intended to mimic a plane’s takeoff and landing and influences from music he listened to in-flight and overheard in the airport.

After graduation, Hui will be working with Moogene, a biotech company that he began with several professors, but he already has plans lined up to continue pursuing music — he will be featured in the soundtrack of the upcoming third season of the Netflix original “Narcos.”

Clark, a biology and music double major, was involved with jazz in high school and came to Dartmouth knowing that he wanted to continue his jazz career. Barbary Coast is the extracurricular that takes up most of his time, he said, but he is also a member of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble. “[The jazz ensemble is] definitely a

creative outlet,” Clark said. “I couldn’t live without a jazz environment. It’s incredibly liberating.”

Although Clark will be working with a trading firm in Washington, D.C. next year, he hopes to find jazz groups to play with.

“When I came to Dartmouth, I had such a passion for jazz that I had to continue,” Clark said. “Leaving, that passion has only grown.”

John Martin ’17, a trumpet player who joined the ensemble his freshman spring, chose the LCD Soundsystem song “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” for his senior feature selection.

“I saw this video a few years ago where someone had mashed up that song with a Miles Davis improvisation, and I was like ‘Oh, that’s pretty cool,’” Martin said. “So I’m playing a combo arrangement of that song that’s kind of inspired by that video.”

Martin credits Glasgo and the jazz ensemble with increasing his interest in and passion for jazz since joining the ensemble.

“I think [Glasgo] really embodies the philosophy of jazz in a lot of ways,” he said. “So, for me, it’s not as much about how he runs rehearsals or the songs he picks, but just his willingness to roll with stuff. He really brings to the table the sense that there’s no one right way to play

jazz or one right kind of jazz, and I think that’s such a good mindset to have as a performer and a director.”

Although seniors won’t get the chance to play under the directorship of Glasgo’s successor, they have been involved in the selection process.

Clark explained that the ensemble played with each of the five potential candidates, and ensemble members then offered feedback to the Hopkins Center for the Arts regarding each candidate. Although the Hop makes the final decision, ensemble members’ opinions are considered.

Glasgo is removed from the search process and did not sit in on any of the rehearsals with potential new directors.

“I’m not involved in that process at all, which I think is a good thing,” Glasgo said.

After his retirement, Glasgo hopes to focus more time on writing his own music, on traveling and on spending time with his adult children.

“I like to call it rewiring instead of retiring,” he said.

Barbary Coast members are optimistic about the search process and the ensemble’s future.

“The future of jazz at Dartmouth looks bright,” Clark said.

The senior feature concert will be Saturday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students.

The Gaslight Tinkers to perform at Skinny Pancake tomorrow

By KYLEE SIBILIA

The Dartmouth Staff

Tomorrow, Hanover’s Skinny Pancake will host The Gaslight Tinkers, a popular world music g r o u p. Wi t h p e r f o r m a n c e s influenced by Caribbean, Latin, Celtic, Americana, reggae and funk sounds, The Gaslight Tinkers has headlined several major clubs, dances and festivals, and it combines upbeat, danceable music with traditional fiddle tunes to further increase its accessibility.

M i ch a e l C y r, d i rec tor of marketing at The Skinny Pancake, says that The Gaslight Tinkers’ multifaceted appeal is a big part of what motivated them to book the group.

“It’s kind of a good combination of all the music we try to bring in here, sort of folkier, but also they have sort of this jam band sound to them as well,” Cyr said. “Kind of like the best of all the interests we bring together.”

The band’s global sound is not something one would normally find in a group that primarily tours in the New England area, and Cyr said that this unexpectedness is another thing that enhances the band’s appeal.

“It’s sort of a thing that the reasons I find it so fantastic to and variety of songs than the makes you stop and go, ‘What’s play with this group of people.” group’s eponymous first album. going on over there?’” Cyr said. In light of its recent success, The band’s name has special “It’s unusual, and it’s not just The Gaslight Tinkers is currently significance, Siegel explained. an accessory to your meal. It’s working on a new album, which “Like a tinker, someone that something that commands a little should be completed by this messes with something, and more attention, which we like.” summer. The group writes many gaslight, like something old, so the The band currently idea of messing with the old,” has four core members: “One day we’ll be playing Siegel said. “Tinkering with Audrey Knuth on the old.” fiddle and vocals, Jopey some club in New York City This combination Fitzpatrick on drums, where people are dancing, and of young and old aligns Garrett Sawyer on bass perfectly with a recent push the next day we’ll be playing and Peter Siegel on

by The Skinny Pancake to vocals, guitar and banjo. at a Unitarian church where attract a greater number of Siegel formed the group everyone’s over 50 and sitting younger listeners to their in 2012 with the goal concerts. Cyr believes that of creating a band that in their chairs. The music The Gaslight Tinkers will be appeals to younger and seems to have appeal ... to all approachable for Hanover older listeners alike. Part and Dartmouth ages. That’s one of the reasons residents of the reason the group students alike. incorporates so many I find it so fantastic to play “Musically, they’re pretty dif ferent sounds, he with this group of people.” approachable to an older said, is to maintain this audience that’s more into accessibility. folk music,” Cyr said. “But “One day we’ll be -PETER SIEGEL, FOUNDER OF THE the way they look, they’re playing some club in New younger, hipper-looking …

GASLIGHT TINKERS York City where people the sounds of the music won’t are dancing, and the next alienate younger listeners.” day we’ll be playing at a Caroline Lee ’20 said that Unitarian church where everyone’s of its own songs in addition she has noticed the performances over 50 and sitting in their chairs,” to incor porating some more in The Skinny Pancake and thinks Siegel said. “The music seems to traditional numbers. they look really fun. While she have appeal — which was the Siegler said that he hopes this knows a lot of students haven’t goal — to all ages. That’s one of album will have a greater number made it to one of these concerts

yet, she believes that many would really enjoy them.

“I happened to be there when one was happening,” Lee said.

“It was actually very good. It was a group of three men playing country music, and it really added positivity to the ambience of the restaurant.”

As concerts at the restaurant occur more frequently, students are likely to take notice and check out this implant of the local music scene. Dartmouth student attendance at The Skinny Pancake is also likely to be up this week in particular, because the restaurant is celebrating its first birthday with various discounts and special performances. In only a year of being active in Hanover, the Skinny Pancake has already proven to be a popular attraction for students and town residents, who frequent the establishment for both the crepes and the feel-good music.

The performance by The Gaslight Tinkers this Saturday will cap off a week of celebrating the beginning and the future of a successful local business.

The Gaslight Tinkers will perform tomorrow at The Skinny Pancake on Lebanon Street at 8:30 p.m.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017

TODAY’S LINEUP

W TENNIS AT KENTUCKY 10 a.m.

Women’s tennis squares off with Kentucky in NCAA regional

By Cody Fujii

The Dartmouth Staff

The No. 45 women’s tennis team will take on No. 17 University of Kentucky this Friday in a regional NCAA tournament match hosted by the University of Michigan. The Big Green ended its season with a strong overall record of 17-4 and a 5-2 record in the Ivy League. This season Dartmouth shared the Ivy title with Harvard University and Cornell University, clinching Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament bid by virtue of a complicated tiebreak scenario. The last season the women’s team finished first in the Ivy League was 2011.

“We got a lot of confidence from our spring Ivy season and this is a really great opportunity,” Taylor Ng ’17 said.

“We took a week off to rest and have

been working hard the last week and a half. We are focusing on staying sharp while also balancing this with rest and recovery.”

This is Dartmouth’s second appearance at the NCAA tournament.

The team made its NCAA debut in 2015 after receiving an at-large bid.

That year, the Big Green downed No. 49 College of William and Mary 4-1 in the first round before falling 4-0 in the second round to No. 2 University of North Carolina.

This is the fourth straight NCAA bid for the Wildcats, who play in the Southeastern Conference, perhaps the most competitive women’s tennis conference in the nation. They enter this tournament with a 16-8 record that includes six wins over ranked opponents, notably then-No. 10 and current No. 3 Vanderbilt University. Most recently, Kentucky lost to then-No. 11 University

ONE ON ONE

with Olivia Champ ’19

By EVAN MORGAN The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Four members of the equestrian team traveled to the heart of horse country last weekend to compete at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association championships in Lexington, Kentucky. Dartmouth had its most successful national performance ever, with reserve championship rides from Meg Rauner ’17 in novice flat and Claire Bick ’18 in intermediate flat.

Meanwhile, after finishing as high point rider for Zone 1 Region 2 during the regular season, Olivia Champ ’19 competed in the Cacchione Cup class, the most prestigious division at nationals. Facing off against 37 of the top equestrians in the nation, Champ ultimately finished in 12th.

What was the atmosphere of Nationals like?

OC: I’ve been to that horse show before when I used to compete on a national level outside of college riding, so for me it was really exciting to go back to that intense atmosphere of people from around the country and horses from all over. We’re so used to going to the small horse shows during out season at each barn where you get

to know everyone, and this time it was just a totally different group of people.

The whole staff there in Kentucky does a great job of really making it into a big event and making everyone feel that their hard work really paid off.

Bob Cacchione is the one who created the IHSA, and it was their 50-year anniversary this year, so he was greeting everyone when we first got there. He’s this peppy, spirited, amazing man who runs through the stands and just makes everyone feel like they’re so special and like he really cares that everyone is there.

That also creates an atmosphere of everyone cheering each other on. They have a really fun way to do the horse draw where they line everyone up and you have to draw a rubber ducky that looks like a little race-horse going around a track. They make even the smallest details so special so that everyone who’s traveling from around the country feels super welcome.

Does the scale of the venue affect the horses?

OC: It is a lot grander and scarier for the horses especially, because there are so many more people and so many more distractions. The horses start schooling super early in the week to make sure they’re all okay with that ring.

We always compete in an indoor ring,

of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference tournament. Dartmouth played Kentucky at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association kickoff weekend last January, losing 4-1. Dartmouth scored the initial doubles point before losing the next four singles matches. However, one of Dartmouth’s losses was in three sets and the two unfinished singles matches were in their third set.

“We ended up losing, but all the matches were really close,” Kristina Mathis ’18 wrote in an email “I don’t know how their team looks this year, but we will play just as hard as we have been playing all season and keep supporting each other and have fun on the court.”

Ng added that it will be key to come out strong in doubles, an area of play which sometimes gave the Big Green trouble in the regular season.

Dartmouth went 12-9 in doubles in 2017.

“I don’t know their team that well, but knowing ours, it will be important for us to be aggressive for doubles because they have a very strong doubles team,” Ng said. “We need to make sure we’re executing on the day. Ultimately what it comes down to is having confidence.”

Ng also noted that this year’s team is younger than last year’s squad. The current roster has four freshman players.

“A lot of the team has never had a chance to play at the NCAA’s,” Ng said.

“It’ll be a cool chance for them to be in that atmosphere.”

The current women’s team has had one of had one of the program’s bestever seasons, accumulating the fewest losses for a Dartmouth women’s tennis team since the 2008 squad went 16-4.

“This year’s team has definitely felt like a progression — each year we have been improving, and it is great to see everything come together,” Ng said.

The tournament will be the last collegiate competition for seniors Ng and Jacqueline Crawford ’17. This is the second NCAA team tournament appearance for both players. Crawford played at the No. 4 spot in the Big Green’s 2015 NCAA run, while Ng was at the No. 1 spot, where she has played every match since her sophomore year.

“It’s great to end on a high note — it has been a great four years together,” Ng said. “This being my last tournament is definitely weird, which is why we are just trying to take things one day at a time and enjoy every minute.”

The winner of the DartmouthKentucky match will play the winner of the University of MichiganYoungstown State University match on Saturday. The winner of that match will move on to play the remainder of the tournament in Athens, Georgia from May 19-23.

but this one is like a gigantic stadium compared to the little ring we ride in back at Dartmouth. It’s a lot to ask of the horses, and they’re so good to do what they do. They go in multiple classes per day, and it’s a lot that we ask, and they’re so good to do what they do and do it so well.

showed that this was a really strong group of riders, because a lot of people really excelled.

group by making the horse go a little extra. That was really fun, and I felt awesome after that ride. After that part, when you’ve done everything you’ve can in the ring, then you just hope for the best. All you can do is ride and not worry about the judging.

How did you emerge as high point rider in the fall season?

OC: What really helped it all come together was riding consistently and being able to adapt to whichever horse I drew. That’s the way to be really successful in the IHSA, being able to pick any horse on any given day and be able to ride exactly what’s underneath you and exactly what you feel. It was really surprising to me how we basically didn’t ride most of the winter, and I haven’t been riding most of the spring since I’m off, so to be able to pick up right where I left off after being off for so many months was great. It’s like riding a bicycle — you never lose that ability to create an instant connection with a horse and feel what’s underneath you.

What was the competition like in the Cacchione Cup? OC: The Cacchione is the top rider from each region in the country, so it’s an incredibly high caliber of riders.

Everyone really did a great job, and when you think about the pressure of traveling all that way and being on tougher horses and having to do a more challenging course, it really

Take us through your ride at Nationals.

OC: The first round was over fences, and I drew the perfect draw — a big gray horse who had a super long stride, which is great for jumping. He was so well-trained that I could focus on my own position, which is the best thing you can ever hope for. In the morning, I walked the course and was really excited going into it, because the course had a lot of turns and lots of broken lines and twists, and that’s where I can really shine. When you get the perfect horse, that always makes it a lot better, and I felt like I could really ride confidently and do the best that I could with that course.

I could really give a confident ride and not worry about a horse that might be spooky or tougher. After the first round, they called back the top 24 for the flat phase. I drew another incredible horse who I felt I could really push and get that extra out of him. When you’re doing those flat classes, everyone’s going around in a circle, and to someone who doesn’t have a trained eye, it’s so hard to be able to tell the difference between the top riders. With this horse, he was really well-schooled and well-trained on the flat, so I felt like I could really show off.

They asked for the basic movements, but they also asked for an extended trot and extended canter. That’s when you really push the horse forward, and you can distinguish yourself in a large

What did you see in your teammates’ performances?

OC: Not to brag, but they blew the competition out of the water. It was incredible. They have so much poise and are so natural on the horses.

I think [head coach Sally Batton] does an incredible job of preparing because we do a lot of strengthening so your position is totally solid and strong on the horse, but also I know that any rider who’s on our team can get on and be able to fit naturally with whatever horse they draw. Both Meg and Claire rode the most adorable little chestnut horse that just shined in a pack of 16 other very strong riders. It was really, really exciting to see how hard work really pays off.

What I love especially about how Meg and Claire ride is that they’re so smooth, and everything looks like the horse knows exactly what they want.

They’re so definite in the way that they ask for transitions from walk to trot to canter, and they look totally in sync and in harmony with the horse. That’s something that can’t be taught — it’s natural, and it’s feel.

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