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An “All Access” meal plan — equivalent to 28 meal swipes a week — will replace the SmartChoice 20 this coming fall. The new plan is transitional and is intended to help move Dartmouth Dining Services away from a meal swipe model toward meal plans with unlimited access to the Class of ’53 Commons by the fall of 2019, DDS director Jon Plodzik said. The “All Access” plan allows students to use a swipe during each meal period of the day, all seven days a week — breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night.
The new “All Access” meal plan, to be offered next fall, will offer 28 meal swipes per week.
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College begins reaccreditation
Baker-Berry Library will deaccession print materials
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The College has begun a two-year self-study project in pursuit of reaccreditation under the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The accreditation process, which takes place every 10 years and includes
a five-year interim report, will be completed in 2020. While NEASC a c c re d i t at i o n , a s e l f regulatory peer review process that helps ensure a school’s academic quality, is not mandatory, it does affect the allotment of SEE ACCREDITATION PAGE 2
By ISABEL ADLER
B a k e r- B e r r y L i b r a r y announced in an email distributed to faculty that it will deaccession, or per manently remove, 59,000 books and journals, or about 2.9 percent of its collection, over the course of the next three years
in response to dwindling storage space. According to Barbara S a g r av e s , t h e i n t e r i m a s s o c i at e l i b r a r i a n fo r information services, the l i b r a r y i s c u r re n t l y at maximum capacity. The standard for shelving is that shelves should only be at 80 percent capacity to provide leeway for adding to the
collection, she said. Sagraves added that collection management “should be an ongoing activity of any library.” The deaccessioning program, which will occur from January 2018 to June 2020, will target print materials that are already SEE BOOKS PAGE 2
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Salt Hill Pub to open café in Lebanon in spring By NICOLAS BERLINSKI The Dartmouth
The Salt Hill Pub franchise plans to open a new café in downtown Lebanon this spring, serving a combination of coffee and desserts. Opening a coffeehouse has been a long-time ambition for the Tuohy brothers, who co-own the Salt Hill Pub franchise. Co-owner Josh Tuohy, who runs the
business with his brother Joe Tuohy, said that the original Salt Hill Pub opened at 7 a.m. and served coffee and breakfast. “That was a really enjoyable part of the business for us,” Josh Tuohy said. The café will take up the space of a vacated yoga studio. Having long been interested in the property, which is adjacent to the current Lebanon Salt Hill Pub SEE CAFÉ PAGE 5
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Salt Hill Pub has five locations in New Hampshire, including one in Hanover.
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Baker-Berry Library to begin deaccessioning print materials
world, according to the website. According to the library’s accessible from other institutions w e b s i t e , t h e u p c o m i n g or that no longer support the deaccessioning “should give current curriculum,” according the library room to continue to the email. Deaccessioned books purchasing new materials at [its] will be listed on the library’s current rate for years to come.” website and offered to other Humanities and social sciences libraries and organizations. librarian Wendel Cox said that Capacity has been an issue reducing the library collection at Baker-Berry for several years, will decrease the area needed for S a g r ave s s a i d , a d d i n g t h a t overflow collections, which will shortly after the library collection make it easier for researchers to expanded from Baker into Berry find material. It will also make it in 2000, the shelves rapidly easier for the library to keep the filled to capacity. The library stacks organized, Sagraves said. already routinely deaccessions a “Undergraduate students will smaller portion find it easier to of its collection browse the stacks every year, but “Undergraduate and find the items t h e c u r r e n t students will find they need,” Sagraves deaccessioning said. “It won’t be w i ll b e o n a it easier to browse n o t i c e a bl e o t h e r l a r g e r s c a l e, the stacks and find than ease of use.” S a g r a v e s While the the items they explained. College is reducing After the three- need. It won’t be its own collection of ye a r p e r i o d , noticeable other books, community the library members will not will revert to than ease of use.” necessarily lose more typical access to all texts that deaccessioning -BARBARA SAGRAVES, are deaccessioned. levels of about This is because 3,500 volumes INTERIM ASSOCIATE o f t h e C o l l e g e ’s per year. partnerships with LIBRARIAN FOR The library’s other academic website notes INFORMATION libraries, which t h a t p r u n i n g SERVICES allows them to collections is borrow volumes something most that are not in libraries do. Baker-Berry’s D a r t m o u t h ’s o w n c o l l e c t i o n s. relatively Fo r e x a m p l e , i n f r e q u e n t d e a c c e s s i o n i n g students and faculty are able throughout history makes it an to borrow books from the Ivy outlier among libraries across the Plus libraries, consisting of FROM BOOKS PAGE 1
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The Baker-Berry Library will permanently remove 59,000 print volumes over a period of three years.
the eight Ivy League members plus the University of Chicago, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, through the BorrowDirect system. Each year of the deaccessioning process, three librarians will be selectors, in charge of choosing which books to deaccession in their subject specialties, Cox said. For the first year of the process, Cox, head of research and instruction services Ridie Ghezzi and reference bibliographer for geography and maps Lucinda Hall will be leading the deaccessioning. According to Cox, the librarians will begin by deaccessioning duplicate books within the library collection. Then the librarians will likely use circulating statistics to
find books that are not frequently checked out, he said. “Significant portions of [the] library collection have never been used,” Cox said. F u r t h e r m o re, d u e t o t h e College’s participation in the Ivy Plus library, there is “an exceedingly low risk that [the library] would be deaccessioning a book that is the only known survivor,” Cox said. The library’s email statement to faculty mentions that it will focus on keeping volumes that are unique to the College or that are frequently used. Baker-Berry wants the deaccessioning process to be “an organized and open process,” Ghezzi said. The library will have a website to communicate with faculty to ensure that books important in
specific fields or part of course curricula are not removed, Ghezzi said. Books that have been selected for deaccessioning will be posted on the website, she said, adding that if faculty members have not expressed objection within two weeks of a book going on the site, the book will be deaccessioned. Those with objections about a book’s removal should reach out to the relevant subject librarian. Cox said that Baker-Berry will send the Center for Research Libraries, Ivy Plus partner libraries and the Internet Archive discarded books that the other libraries need. If none of these groups need a particular book, Baker-Berry will give it to Better World Books, a group that will recycle, resell or donate the book and donate much of the proceeds to global literacy initiatives.
College begins two-year reaccreditation self-study process FROM ACCREDITATION PAGE 1
some federal funding, according to associate provost for institutional research Alicia Betsinger, who is serving as Dartmouth’s accreditation liaison officer. Accreditation also provides the College with an opportunity to examine its strengths and weaknesses and the framework through which to craft a plan for the future, Betsinger said. The first step in being reaccredited is for the College to complete a self-study process. According to Betsinger, the self-study began in fall 2017 with the establishment of a steering committee composed of administrators and an initial compilation of data related to
students, faculty and student learning outcomes, among other things. The goal of the self-study is for the College to draft a 100-page report measuring its compliance with NEASC’s nine accreditation standards, which include categories such as “The Academic Program” and “Teaching, Learning and Scholarship.” The report is also meant to address special emphasis areas outlined by NEASC in its response to the College’s last five-year interim report. For Dartmouth, these areas include creating financial plans for the College to improve its facilities, creating a sustainable financial model for the Geisel School
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of Medicine and implementing previously recommended changes to the undergraduate curriculum. This report will be written by a small implementation group and overseen by the steering committee, which is chaired by Dean of the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies F. Jon Kull ’88. Nariah Broadus, Dartmouth’s accreditation project director, emphasized the importance of keeping the voice of the report consistent. “My role is really to just help us create a first draft of the selfstudy as quickly as possible and to ensure that the first draft, as much as possible, is in one voice and conveys a sort of overall tone for the institution,” Broadus said. Betsinger said that in order to do this, the implementation group will be altering its process in response to feedback from peer institutions by adopting a more collaborative
writing strategy. “The way we’re approaching it this time, which differs from the last 10-year comprehensive evaluation, is that we have an implementation group ... a small, nimble group of individuals who will be writing to the standards and to the special emphasis areas, and then others who will be going out into the community and gathering additional information for the narrative,” Betsinger said. Throughout the writing process, the steering committee will have an oversight role, according to Kull. Members of the committee, which includes deans and heads of different College organizations such as libraries, departments and graduate schools, will also likely help gather data related to the report and circulate information, Kull said. “It’s a pretty interesting process, really, because it allows us to look at
what we’re doing, make sure we’re being effective, assess our programs and then also identify that we might want to strengthen and then use that as a guideline to look at the next five to 10 years,” Kull said. “I don’t think anyone doubts that Dartmouth will be reaccredited, but it’s still a useful process to go through.” The first draft of the self-study report is scheduled to be released to the Dartmouth community in October 2018. A two-month public comment period will follow. The final draft will be shared in late August or early September 2019, followed by an on-site visit by an external evaluation team made up of senior officers from peer institutions from Oct. 27 to 30, 2019. That team will publish a report on the visit, after which the College will respond. NEASC will make a final decision on accreditation in spring 2020.
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Dartmouth Dining Services to offer new meal plans in fall As to why DDS is choosing to debut a new meal plan, Rachel “This [old] model is a problem Kent ’21 said many other colleges and we know that,” Plodzik said. offer similar plans and more Issues that exist under the traffic to ’53 Commons is always current system include the rising welcome. Although Kent said she cost of a meal swipe and weeks often eats at ’53 Commons, she when students run out of meal does not see herself switching to swipes and must decide between the “All Access” plan. using DBA and spending their own “I do think there are definitely money, he said. s t u d e n t s wh o c o u l d b e n e f i t At least for the next year, swipes though,” she said. “For some can still be used outside of ’53 students — especially athletes — Commons once per meal period. the SmartChoice20 isn’t enough.” The shift towards unlimited meal The “All Access” plan will swipes is intended to ease the effectively cost the same as the student burden on other campus SmartChoice20, aside from annual dining locations such as the Collis increases to room and board fees, Café and the Courtyard Café. The Plodzik said. lines at both locations are already Room and board increases are long and a possible expansion of typically around 3 percent a year student enrollment would only and capture increased service and increase the wait, Plodzik said. food costs, which Plodzik estimated “You couldn’t put 1,000 more takes up around 75 percent of the people into Collis or Courtyard, budget. but you could [in ’53 Commons],” All full-time employees, aside he said. from the ones at Collis Café, are Meal swipes represented will also be by the Service a d d e d t o t h e “What will an Employees BlockChoice100 unlimited plan really International a n d Union, which BlockChoice65, change? I am on the negotiates t u r n i n g t h e [SmartChoice14], and directly with plans into the the College. I never have to worry BlockChoice125 He added a n d about swipes.” that DDS BlockChoice75, also carries r e s p e c t i v e l y. expensive Fifty dollars of -JOSEPH CONNOLLY ’19 products like DBA will also halal meats be added to the and kosher “All Access” and certified foods. BlockChoice100 plans. B r a n d o n C ro s by, t h e ’ 5 3 Increases to DBA are used to Commons area manager and a offset the price for a meal swipe former manager for a dining hall at and keep it below the door price the University of New Hampshire, to ’53 Commons, Plodzik said in which offers an unlimited meal an earlier interview. The current plan, said he thought students door price is $7.75 for breakfast, and parents enjoyed the unlimited $10.75 for lunch meal access and $14.95 for “I do think there are at UNH. He dinner. added that S t u d e n t s definitely students at UNH, 85 i n t e r v i e w e d , who could benefit percent of who have people at the though. For some participated in university DDS’s student students — especially — including a d v i s o r y athletes — the faculty and meetings, staff — choose expressed some SmartChoice20 isn’t to purchase a skepticism over enough.” meal plan. t h e n e w “A l l Also Access” plan. planned for the J o s e p h fall of 2019 C o n n o l l y -RACHEL KENT ’21 is a biometric ’ 1 9 s a i d t h at device that th e n ew p lan will use hand simplifies swipes or fingerprints but said the to swipe into SmartChoice20 already offers dining locations instead of student enough meal swipes per week. IDs and guest passes, if all goes “What will an unlimited plan well, Plodzik said. In the meantime, really change? I am on the he said he welcomes feedback at [SmartChoice14], and I never the student advisory meeting next have to worry about swipes,” he Thursday, which will take place at said. 6 p.m. in Paganucci Commons. FROM MEAL PLANS PAGE 1
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The value of meal swipes have risen over time across all SmartChoice plans.
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Meal plan rates have generally grown slower than both room and board and tuition rates since 2013.
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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW MAGANN ‘21
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A House Divided
One Year Later
Embracing President Donald Trump threatens our party system. The modern Republican Party is built on contradictions. Classical liberals and social conservatives never had much in common past a shared hostility toward communism. Yet the GOP alliance has proven strong. Republicans pander to bigoted elements within American society, but often as a means to an end; social conservatism rallies for a core policy of limited government and free markets. Republicans need to incorporate social conservatives in order to win elections and promote their agenda. But now they have a new coalition partner. Despite opposition from prominent Republicans, President Donald Trump’s populism has seized a vital role within the GOP. While it has garnered votes for Republicans, it has also attacked the party’s unity and values. To understand the extent of Republican discord, scroll through the comments section of a Breitbart article. Below a story featuring Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, I found a torrent of vitriol directed toward the senator and the GOP. Commenters dub McConnell “McZit” and “Mr. Obstructionist Legislator,” arguing that America should “get rid of all of these RINO’s to help Trump and our nation succeed.”This is hardly a friendly compromise between the GOP mainstream and Trump’s populist acolytes. Despite the dissension, the far right still finds a home in the Republican Party. That’s to say nothing of ideology. The alt-right, which deals in nativist rhetoric, might side with conservatives, but its noxious ideology opposes the mainstream GOP nearly as much as it does the Democrats. Previously, free-market conservatives made major concessions to social conservatism as a compromise to rally votes for key policies. With its embrace of the alt-right, though, the Republican Party hasn’t just made concessions; it has abandoned core values to win elections. Trump’s ideology explicitly rejects the mainstream GOP; his populist, isolationist rhetoric seems at odds with the Republican message of small government, free trade and assertive foreign policy. Despite Trump’s opposition to traditional conservatism, Republican politicians have largely fallen in line behind the president, and for a good reason: The base loves him. Recent polls show support for Trump at roughly 80 percent among
Republicans, and that rating has hardly moved even as Trump reneged on his populist campaign promises and championed policies supported by mainstream Republicans. This all points to a terrible conclusion. For one, many Republican voters have replaced policy beliefs with partisan loyalty. Worse, the Republican Party has shown itself willing to abandon core principles and party unity if doing so gets candidates elected. By aligning with the alt-right, it prioritized winning elections over policy-making. With voters unconcerned by ideological shifts like the one Trump brought, the party has largely ceased to derive its support from its policies, focusing more on party loyalty, regardless of what form that takes. The Democrats are not immune to political tribalism either. The extreme strain of the left — think authoritarian campus radicals and “Bernie-or-bust” voters — may have less influence than the alt-right, but they trample on the liberal values for which Democrats stand. Just like the Republicans, Democrats have been far too lenient with their extremists. The GOP, however, has seen its conflicts erupt to national notoriety, as the party stands by a disastrous administration that regularly betrays Republican beliefs. Parties must rest on ideas, not on identities. When identity forms the basis for voting, democracy collapses into tribalism. Look at Pakistan; there, party affiliation generally owes much more to family, tribe, caste or religion than to any particular policy. Unsurprisingly, Pakistan’s government is essentially dysfunctional, its rampant corruption punctuated by occasional military coups. America is not Pakistan, but we can suffer from the same sort of factionalism. The Republican Party’s embrace of Trump, even at the expense of legislative goals, demonstrates a terrifying willingness to put party over policy. As Abraham Lincoln famously foretold, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Identity-based parties would grind American democracy to a standstill. Our system works because we share a common American identity, but if the two parties continue to gain support from identity instead of policy, we would see two feuding groups, unwilling to compromise. Republicans should reconsider supporting Trump and the alt-right. Whatever the short-term political cost; the long-term danger is far worse.
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Activism of all stripes is critical for our nation — and our campus. Last Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s first year in office has been marked by an aggressive agenda of attempted policy changes, some sweeping and others less so, some successful and others defeated. The political turmoil nationwide has inspired a similar — if somewhat subdued — change in Dartmouth’s campus culture, an effect that supports the notion that universities are microcosms of society. As students become more aware of how national politics affect their daily lives, their personal engagement with politics increases, leading to a tangible increase in political involvement and discussion that reflects the country as a whole. As the country enters Trump’s second year in office, students should continue to grow this culture of discussion and activism while engaging more with people who have different priorities from our own. Strong democracies require strong citizens, and strong citizens must be informed, involved and ready to act. Much of the campus dialogue has revolved around the promises Trump made while on the campaign trail, many of which he did not attempt to keep. Other initiatives, however, he has worked hard to enact. In February 2017, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education after Vice President Mike Pence cast a tiebreaking vote in the Senate. In September 2017, Trump called to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, put in place under former U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In October 2017, despite a Republican failure to repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act the previous month, Trump announced plans to take away subsidies that helped low-income people pay out-of-pocket costs to health insurance companies. In the past year, Dartmouth students have seemingly become more aware of and active in responding to current policy issues. This shift became noticeable immediately after Trump’s inauguration. That afternoon, Timothy Messen ’18 held a discussion on flag burning with a group of student demonstrators as well as counterdemonstrators, including members of Rolling Thunder New Hampshire Chapter 2 and the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association. Messen’s discussion, which was planned as a follow-up to his Nov. 19, 2017 column, initially focused on the idea of flag burning, but he also read his critiques of Trump and invited onlookers to continue the discussion over email. The demonstration was the first of many at Dartmouth over the next year. The campus response to Trump’s proposed end to DACA is another illustrative example. Ending DACA would have potentially led to the deportation of 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children who do not have citizenship or legal documentation, some of whom are Dartmouth students. Perhaps because its impact is so direct, and the magnitude so large, members of campus rallied to protest and hold Dartmouth accountable for helping its students. A
group of students picketed the Homecoming bonfire in response to College President Phil Hanlon’s statements on DACA, which they considered insufficiently supportive of DACA recipients’ rights. During the Homecoming football game, cheerleaders protested by taking a knee during the national anthem. Beyond the flag burning demonstration and protests of DACA at Dartmouth, students have weighed in on issues from the Trump administration’s tax bill, which affects Dartmouth’s endowment, to environmental concerns. This increased political engagement and discussion, arguably spurred by the controversy surrounding Trump’s campaign and election, has moved beyond the Trump administration into other areas of life at Dartmouth and nationwide. Students responded, both in their personal lives and through campus publications, to the sexual assault, harassment and rape allegations against individuals such as Harvey Weinstein, as well as the investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against three Dartmouth professors. Dartmouth students’ increased political activity may be part of a larger trend, but this administration’s policies continue to drive student engagement. A significant number of students turned out to vote in the last election cycle in 2016. Trump’s time in office, at the end of the day, has increased discussion and engagement with politics. Some Dartmouth students are enraged by Trump’s policies and proposals that have the potential to quickly and devastatingly impact students, whether directly through the removal of programs like DACA or indirectly through proposals that would benefit businesses at the expense of the environment. Others are supportive of Trump’s policies, and their activism and engagement reflects that. Ultimately, all this is good. America thrives when its citizens, particularly its young citizens, are engaged with current events. The nation is undergoing a trying time, yet it also has an opportunity to seize upon increased political engagement and become better for it. During and after their time at Dartmouth, students should continue their discussions and critiques of policies and national changes that can make an impact, whether direct or indirect, on their lives and the lives of others. Regardless of one’s view on Trump, it is hard to argue that he and his cronies have contributed to and accelerated a culture that emphasizes discussion and debate. However, this culture has grown over the course of one year. With respect to the importance of this debate, we must be careful not to fall into our own echo chambers and denounce others’ opinions. Engaging in good faith across ideological lines is vital to our success as individuals. As a society, though, we must keep discussing, keep listening and keep fighting for the policies we believe in. The editorial board consists of opinion staff columnists, the opinion editors, the associate opinion editor, both executive editors and the editor-in-chief.
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Salt Hill Pub to open a café in Lebanon FROM CAFÉ PAGE 1
location, the Tuohy brothers quickly pounced on it when it came up on the market, Josh Tuohy said. There are also Salt Hill Pub locations in Hanover, Newbury, Newport and West Lebanon. The new coffee shop will be connected to the current Lebanon Salt Hill Pub restaurant, which serves Irishthemed pub food. The hope is that the two establishments will complement each other, Josh Tuohy said. While the menu has not yet been decided, Josh Tuohy said that the shop will provide coffee and espresso in partnership with Woodshed Roasting Company, a coffee roasting company with locations throughout New Hampshire. The café will also serve a range of desserts and light bites. Salt Hill Pub’s café is not the first coffee venture in Lebanon. While Hanover has long been home to coffee shops such as Dirt Cowboy Café, Starbucks and the King Arthur Flour location on the College campus, other coffee shops have sprung up in Lebanon including Jake’s Coffee Company and Lucky’s Coffee Garage. Rob Taylor, executive director of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, said
that the opening of the café is “definitely a positive thing.” He added that Lucky’s Coffee Garage, a recent addition to the community, has boosted commerce in the area and attracted more people to Lebanon’s streets. He said he expects that Salt Hill Pub’s café will add to this. Atthemoment,notmanyDartmouth students seem enthused by the new café, as Lebanon is relatively far away. Colin Fennelly ’21 said he thinks it is unlikely to build much of a following among most Dartmouth students right now, as Lebanon is only accessible to students with a car or those willing to take a long bus ride on the Advanced Transit bus system. Jenny Engelman ’21 also said that she would not travel to Lebanon to try the new café. Urie Choi ’21 agreed with the sentiment, saying it is unlikely Dartmouth students will go to Lebanon to visit the new location. However, the possibility of a Salt Hill Pub café coming to Hanover is not out of the question. “It’s certainly possible,” Josh Tuohy said. “I haven’t researched it or looked for any spaces in Hanover, but if [the Lebanon café] does well, and we hope it will, we’ll definitely consider it.”
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‘Moonlight’ filmmaker Barry Jenkins to speak at the College By SAVANNAH MILLER The Dartmouth
This Saturday, the Hopkins Center for the Arts will host “An Evening with Barry Jenkins,” an event that brings the renowned filmmaker to campus for two hours of film clips and discussions. Jenkins is best known as the director of “Moonlight,” the cinematic underdog that went on to win the Academy Award for “Best Picture” in 2017. The movie tells the story of the character Chiron in three stages of his life: youth, adolescence and adulthood. It depicts Chiron struggling with his identity and sexuality while highlighting the abuse he endures growing up in Miami, Florida. “Moonlight” made history by winning the Oscar for “Best Picture,” becoming the first film to win with an all-black cast and
said. an LGBT protagonist. Johanna Evans ’10, acting Evans and Stowe first met Jenkins a t C o l o r a d o ’s film manager Telluride Film at the Hop, “[Barry Jenkins] is Festival in 2016 said that after seeing “Moonlight” super accessible “Moonlight” is a very true and lovely. He’s not at the and poignant polarizing. He’s just a premiere f e s t i va l . T h ey coming-ofmovie lover.” met the director age story. by ch a n c e o n “I feel the shuttle bus like the film does a n -SYDNEY STOWE, ACTING heading from the excellent job FILM DIRECTOR AT THE festival to the Denver Airport. of capturing HOPKINS CENTER FOR “ We were what it feels leaving the l i k e t o n o t THE ARTS festival in this know who you shuttle bus, and are,” Evans we were listening said. Acting film director at the to this guy in front of us talking,” Hop Sydney Stowe echoed her Evans said. “[Stowe] and I just looked at each other and realized sentiments. “His story about love and that it was [Jenkins].” acceptance is universal,” Stowe The pair spent the next few
COURTESY OF BARRY JENKINS
Barry Jenkins agreed to visit the College after meeting Hopkins Center for the Arts employees at the Telluride Film Festival.
hours talking to Jenkins about “He really wants to talk about “Moonlight.” They also discussed love and what it looks like in all its the possibility of the director forms,” Stowe said. coming to Dartmouth to speak During Saturday night’s talk, with students. Jenkins is also expected to talk “We convinced him that the about the obstacles he overcame students and faculty at Dartmouth to become successful in the movie were just as much fun as we are,” business. Evans said. “This was his first “One of the things I’m sure opportunity that he was able to he’s going to talk about is what come.” it’s like to be a young, black man “Moonlight” was Jenkins’ in Hollywood,” Evans said. second feature film. His first Jenkins, who was born and film, “Medicine for Melancholy,” raised in Miami as the youngest of explores similar, socially-relevant four, has frequently spoken about topics while telling the story of two growing up in the housing projects, individuals navigating the morning which he credits as helping him to after a one-night stand, getting create “Moonlight.” Stowe thinks to know each other and debating his difficult background adds even the issues affecting more wonder to their community the stories he as young black “[Barry Jenkins] tells on screen people. and his story of is such a lively, “A lot of the success. wonderful conversation they “It never even have during the presence. We’re occurred to him day is about the excited to see to be in the movie gentrification of business,” Stowe San Francisco,” where this is going said. “It seemed Evans said. like living on to go.” Jenkins is Mars. He lets currently working anyone say that on several new -JOHANNA EVANS there is a career projects, including ’10, ACTING FILM in the arts.” an adaptation According to of C o l s o n MANAGER AT THE Stowe, part of Whitehead’s “The HOPKINS CENTER FOR w h a t m a k e s Underground Jenkins’ story so THE ARTS Railroad” and incredible is that James Baldwin’s he did not try “If Beale Street and make the Could Talk.” Stowe thinks this typical, mainstream Hollywood makes it even more impressive that movies, instead opting to tell Jenkins is willing to come speak at different kinds of stories. Dartmouth. “It’s hard when you’re making “He’s coming here in the middle movies to take risks when you’re of these two huge projects because starting off,” Stowe said. “In his he said he would,” Stowe said. second feature, he made the movie “An Evening with Barry Jenkins” he wanted to make.” will show clips from “Moonlight” Evans and Stowe want all and “Medicine for Melancholy” people with an interest in films, as well as videos from Jenkins’ art or overcoming obstacles to personal Vimeo channel. Jenkins attend “An Evening with Barry will introduce some of the work Jenkins” — Stowe does not think himself and talk about his projects. seeing “Moonlight” previously Stowe is excited for the audience to is necessarily a prerequisite to be able to hear the director speak attending the event. and interact with his films. “The scenes we are showing “He’s super accessible and [in the event] are so universal that lovely,” she said. “He’s not it doesn’t matter who you are or polarizing. He’s just a movie lover.” when you’re watching it,” she said. Both Evans and Stowe cited “They will have seen enough of Jenkins’ take on love as one of the that work to understand.” main draws to hearing him speak Aside from the predetermined live and watching his films. film clips, much of “An Evening “He’s deeply interested in with Barry Jenkins” will be up this intersection between race to the director on the spot. He is and cultural divides but also just leading the discussion. Evans and love stories,” Evans said. “All Stowe are excited to learn about of his works explore this subtle whatever he decides to highlight. melancholy kind of attitude toward “[Jenkins] is such a lively, romantic love.” wonderful presence,” Evans said. Jenkins focuses on more than “We’re excited to see where this is just romantic love in his movies — going to go.” he also explores the love between Jenkins will be speaking on family members and childhood Saturday at 7 p.m. in Spaulding mentors. Auditorium.
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SPORTS ONE ON ONE
with Isalys Quiñones ’19
By SAMANTHA HUSSEY The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Isalys “Ice” Quiñones ’19 has been a consistent leader for the Big Green as one of only three players to average double digits each game; she records 10.1 points per game. This past summer, Quiñones earned a spot on the Puerto Rican Women’s National Team and had the opportunity to play in the Women’s Centrobasket Championship in the Virgin Islands and the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup in Argentina. Puerto Rico ultimately finished third in both tournaments, which qualified the team for the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup this upcoming fall. Last season, the team went 8-19, and currently the team is 9-6. What can you say about the team’s performance this season? IQ: I don’t want to say I’m shocked because I’m not — I think we could have done this last year too. The core, the seniors and the juniors — there’s eight of us so that’s a majority of the team — have all matured, and we’re finally able to work together. We know each other’s strengths and know each other’s growth opportunities and how to move toward those strengths and use them effectively. What has led to this different season? Is there anything that has changed in terms of training or strategy from previous seasons? IQ: I think we’re pretty much working as hard as we did last year. We only have 13 players, but the group of people that we have want to be here, want to improve for themselves and want to improve for the team. You can see that, and that’s something different that we haven’t had the past years. It really does help in terms of chemistry and in terms of confidence within the team. After a strong start to the season, the Big Green opened Ivy League play with a win against Harvard University.
Despite coming off of a recent loss to Harvard in Cambridge, how does the team plan on shifting the momentum going forward in the season? IQ: I think we can take this, and we can learn from all the mistakes that we thought we made in the Harvard game and we could learn from the stuff that we did well. Our defense was really strong in the game. We weren’t hitting as many shots as we had in past games, but if we play defense like that we limit the other team from scoring even if we’re not scoring well. We can take some stuff that we’ve learned and that we’ve done well and really apply it to all the games that we play. Looking further into the schedule, are there any specific teams that you think will be particularly challenging? If so, who and why? IQ: The Ivy League in general, everyone is pretty strong. It’s the ninth-best conference in all of women’s basketball, so it is a really tough conference. For me personally, I think playing the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University is our hardest weekend. Penn won the Ivy League Championship last year, and Princeton just played Penn and ended up beating Penn by 15 points, so those are two teams that we need to show up and really compete well against. I’m looking forward to those games. What is the team’s ultimate goal for this season? IQ: Our saying is “Mind on 18,” which is we have our mind on our 18th Ivy League Championship. Dartmouth has won 17 in all the years that they’ve played in the Ivy League, and so our mind is on the 18th championship, but first we want to get to The Palestra [the site of the Ivy League Championship tournament], which is for our league and new for us. We weren’t able to get there last year, so our goal is to get to The Palestra and then from there on, hopefully win the tournament and win the Ivy League Championship. The last time that Dartmouth won the Ivy League Championship was in
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2009, so it’s been a while. This past summer you were named to the Puerto Rican Women’s National Team. What did it mean to you to be selected and to have the opportunity to play at such a high caliber? IQ: It was really a surprise. It was something I dreamed about my entire life: to represent a country and especially to represent my culture. My parents, they’re both Puerto Rican and we speak Spanish at home, so that culture lives in my house every day. It’s an honor, and it’s amazing to see so many grown women who have so much pride in their country and who still love the game. It was amazing to be part of it. What made you try out for the national team? IQ: I actually got a call from the team’s general manager. My parents had been trying to set it up for a couple years, and we finally got to know someone directly related to the national team. I finally got a call, and then they said come out and try out. I really wasn’t expecting much but the opportunity to try out was amazing to me, and I ended up making the team. I didn’t get as much playing time as everyone else, but I was also five years younger than the majority of the people. It was just a great experience for me. Can you explain a little about how the tryout process, training and competition works? IQ: They call you for a tryout. It’s not like open tryouts. The tryout was about a week, and it was basically just going over the team’s offense and seeing if you fit in well with it. If you make the team, for me in my case, we played in a tournament. We would train almost every day, you get one day off a week and you lift twice a week. It’s pretty similar to what we do at Dartmouth. We would leave two to three days before the first tournament, just to get a feel for the country, get a feel for the court, playing in a different environment and stuff like that. In our first tournament in the Virgin Islands, we ended up doing well — we placed third. The trick is you have to medal in the first tournament to make it to the next tournament, so we medaled in the first tournament and we got placed in the next tournament, which was in Argentina. We went back to Puerto Rico and
COURTESY OF ISALYS QUIÑONES
Isalys Quiñones ’19 played on the Puerto Rican Women’s National Team.
trained again for two or three weeks until the next tournament. That tournament was broken up into two pools, five teams in each pool. You had to finish top-two in your pool in order to play in like the next bracket. From that final bracket, you had to also medal in order to make it to the World Cup which is in Spain this year in September. We were fortunate enough to medal, so Puerto Rico is heading to the World Cup in Spain. Are you also planning to compete with the team for the World Cup as well? IQ: Hopefully. The hope is that I’ll be getting a call for the tryouts and then get to play. So you have to make the team again? IQ: Yeah, there’s a pool of 40 girls who can get called at any point. They call a bunch of people then they try out. So you know, it’s pretty incredible. How did training and playing with the Puerto Rican National Team improve your game? IQ: It definitely made me more physical. I had to learn to play against women, people who had been doing this for 10 more years than me. I had to play at a whole different level compared to college. It’s a much faster, much more physical game and the rules are a little more fluid. I don’t want to say it in a bad way, but you’re allowed to get away with a little more physicality at that level. I had to learn to play a little bit faster and play a little bit stronger in order to keep up with them. Were you able to bring that back to Dartmouth women’s basketball?
IQ: I gained a lot of confidence in a way that I was able to step on the court and be like, “I’m here to play.” That’s the mentality you have to have while playing with the pros because they can sense fear, and they can sense if you’re timid. I think I was able to bring that out a little bit more this year at Dartmouth. It’s definitely a different game, college versus pros. In the pros, it’s more free flowing — if you want to shoot the ball, you can shoot it. In college, you have to know your place in order to better the team, so it’s a little bit of a different game in that sense, but I was able to bring some of what I learned over. What was the biggest takeaway from the whole experience? IQ: For me, it was just to have pride. These girls have grown up on this island, and they’re representing an entire country and that’s something that I’ve never experienced before. I’ve never experienced representing thousands of people, and that was something extremely special to me. I wasn’t born there, but I still have that sort of connection and it was awesome to have that “I’m representing a country and you’re not going to stop me” sort of attitude. I’ve definitely brought that to Dartmouth, representing the women and the championship winners who have played before me and the people at Dartmouth who truly care about women’s basketball and who value sports. For me, this pride has helped on the court so much more now than it has in the past. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.