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Seniors face improved job prospects as employers adopt hybrid recruiting strategies

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The move to Handshake is intended to give Dartmouth students access to more job postings.

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As fall recruiting comes into full swing, members of the Class of 2022 are navigating both virtual and inperson recruitment. One new addition to the process is Handshake — a jobsearching platform and mobile app that compiles career openings for college students — which the Center for Professional Development rolled out in May. CPD director Monica Wilson noted that the job market for post-college hiring has “exploded” during this recruiting season and that employers are “anxious” to have more applicants.

According to the New York Times, university career center directors and corporate human resources executives report that hiring is running well above last year’s levels, and in some cases is even surpassing pre-pandemic activity

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“I think job prospects for the Class of [2022] are excellent,” Wilson said “They’re in a much more improved place than last year.”

According to Wilson, the visit of Radian Capital — a venture capital company based in New York City — last week marked the first in-person recruitment events since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wilson said that the CPD is planning more inperson events for the upcoming winter and spring terms, adding that, each year, the CPD usually communicates with “a few hundred” employers who want to hire at Dartmouth.

For some seniors who received return offers from previous internships, the job search for full-time positions post-graduation is over. Others have found internships by “resumedropping” — submitting a resume directly on a company’s website — or

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through LinkedIn. However, in every graduating class, there are always students who are unsure of what they want to do, according to Wilson. With the pandemic affecting internships and in some cases causing them to be fully canceled, Wilson said some seniors “haven’t had the experiences that would help them narrow down what they want to pursue.”

“I would say there are no clear trends [for the job-hunting process],” she said. “There are many ’22s who are at different stages.”

Handshake, which according to its website has become the number one source for U.S. college students to find jobs, currently has over 10,000 postings of full-time opportunities and internships by employers, Wilson said.

She noted that one reason that the CPD decided to transition from Dartboard

On Nov. 7, a new Target location will open in TJ Maxx Plaza in West Lebanon.

The 86,562 square foot property will replace KMart and will ajoin retailers TJ Maxx and Rent-A-Center, according to plans provided by Dan Zelson, founding principal of Charter Realty & Development, the plaza’s property manager.

While Zelson declined to comment on pricing, the Valley News reported that the construction was part of a $2 million project to introduce a Target and Sierra Trading Post, another retailer, to the plaza. According to Zelson, there were no obstacles in the development of the store, and he wrote in an emailed statement that the new Target will be a “real positive” for the Upper Valley community.

“We reached out to [Target] as we felt they were missing from the market,” Zelson wrote. “I think it will be a real positive. With the loss of KMart and JCPenney[‘s West Lebanon locations], the community should be happy to have a new, high quality discounter like Target.”

The West Lebanon JCPenney and Kmart — which was the last of the chains’ locations in either New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine — both closed in summer 2020 amid the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sociology professor Janice McCabe said she is excited to have more retail options in the Upper Valley. She added that while she has previously done her retail shopping in several places, including CVS, Kohl’s and HomeGoods, having a Target in the Upper Valley will “expand our options in a really nice way.”

“I’m very thankful that it’s opening,” McCabe said. “Target has a lot of really cute home things and kids clothes. I think those things are a little different than what you find [in] other places.”

Zelson wrote that construction ended recently and “it was important for [Target] to be open by the holiday season.”

Many other Upper Valley residents are also pleased about the opening, according to local resident Heather

Wittman. Wittman said she and her two daughters have frequentedTarget’s Concord location and are “really excited” for the new storefront.

Upper Valley resident Lindsay Coker said that a West Lebanon location will help reduce “commute time and resources” for locals who previously had to travel to Manchester and other locations to shop at Target.

Members of the Dartmouth community are also excited about the prospect of a Target closer to Hanover.

Haley Banta ’25 said she thinks students will make “great use” of the Target but added that not having a car makes accessing stores outside of Hanover challenging. McCabe noted that house communities have previously organized van and bus trips to West Lebanon for students.

Despite the generally positive response to the new Target, some residents have expressed a resistance to “big box” stores infiltrating the Upper Valley, according to Wittmann.

“I don’t usually support large retailers,” Wittmann said. “I think [small businesses are] better for communities.

Typically they pay better wages to their employees. They can be part of the community. I think it’s really important to have a community sense, [and] to have a downtown, so there’s a place for people to go and to meet up.”

While Coker agreed that she prefers small businesses, she said she thinks Target provides a better alternative to other retailers such as Walmart. Coker pointed to Target’s “employee-friendly policies” to explain her preference.

“I typically avoid going to big box stores as much as possible and prefer to shop with local stores or thrift stores,” Coker said.

Furthermore, Coker said that when she does buy from retailers, she prefers Target over other national retailers due to her perception that Target is more politically progressive and offers better wages for their employees.

Banta said she thinks Dartmouth students also will “prefer [Target] to Walmart,” adding that “Target is just maybe a little bit nicer.”

Some residents also expressed

As College-sponsored travel resumes after the cancellation of domestic and international trips due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two courses — ECON 70.03, “Macroeconomic Policy in Latin America,” and PBPL 85, “Topics in Global Policy Leadership” — will be conducting off-campus study trips during this year’s winterim break.

ECON 70.03 will be traveling to Chile for 12 days to speak to local experts on Chile’s economy, according to economics professors Marjorie Rose and Douglas Irwin, who are teaching the course.

However, Rose said that the trip will not include travel to Argentina like normal, as the College “strongly discouraged” visits to the country due to the pandemic.

Students will talk to experts remotely to study Argentina’s economy, Irwin noted.

Meanwhile, PBPL 85 students will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for close to two weeks to speak with experts about public health infrastructure and innovation in the U.S., according to government professor Herschel Nachlis, who is teaching the class.

Nachlis noted that PBPL 85 usually travels abroad and choses different locations to visit each year. In late 2019, PBPL 85 students visited Greece, Germany and Switzerland.

Nachlis added that when the planning for this winterim break’s edition of PBPL 85 began last year, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy wanted to retain as much of the “core” of the course as possible — which entails “intensive study of a subject on campus and then traveling to talk with experts off-campus.” Given the global uncertainty of COVID-19, the Rockefeller Center committed to traveling domestically to maximize the chances of a successful off-campus trip, Nachlis said.

In contrast, Rose and Irwin said that even when ECON 70.03 began this fall, they were unsure whether they would be traveling off campus at all. Rose explained that students were informed during course registration that, if pandemic restrictions persisted, the study abroad component would be canceled — instead, the economics department would attempt to arrange a trip during spring break.

Rose also said that she and Irwin only confirmed that the class could visit Chile two weeks ago when the Chilean government eased restrictions on foreigners entering the country.

Pranit Gupta ’22 said that traveling was an important factor for him when enrolling in ECON 70.03.

“I think I speak for almost everybody in the class — what makes this course different from others is being able to travel,” Gupta said.

According to Gupta, several students considered dropping the course if the winterim trip was ultimately canceled.

Sachin Shiva ’22 and Blake McGill ’22, who are enrolled in PBPL 85, said

that their previous College-sponsored travel was canceled due to the pandemic.

Shiva had been accepted into the government department’s domestic study program in Washington, D.C., while McGill was planning to travel with the War and Peace Fellows program, which she said typically conducts one domestic and one international trip each year.

Shiva said that given ongoing pandemic restrictions, the ability to travel — even domestically — is a “great opportunity” that motivated him to enroll in the course.

In contrast, McGill called the ability to travel a “plus” but said she did not find it crucial — adding that she was most drawn to the course’s focus on public health. However, both Shiva and McGill said that they would have wanted to travel internationally if it were possible.

Nachlis noted that student interest for PBPL 85 was “very high” this year. Rose also said that interest in ECON 70.03 was slightly higher than usual, although she noted that applications were “somewhat self-selective” due to the uncertainty of the study abroad component.

A third winterim program in Vietnam, run by the Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages department, was supposed to move forward this year, but was recently canceled due to the COVID-19 situation in the country.

The program has been rescheduled for next year’s winterim break with originally enrolled students receiving priority, according to the program’s website.

Shiva, McGill and Gupta all expressed hope that more travel opportunities would resume. Shiva noted that vaccination rates in many countries are increasing quickly. In reference to the College discouraging travel to Argentina, Gupta added that he believes the College should “make a better assessment of where it’s safe to travel to,” noting how the country’s COVID-19 case counts are “rapidly declining.” Chile has a higher daily case count than Argentina as of Oct. 28, according to data from The New York Times — 9.1 cases per 100,000 versus 2.7.

McGill said she recognized that there are “liability concerns” with resuming travel, but felt that “the College should allow students the opportunity to travel if they feel comfortable doing so.”

Professors have expressed hopeful sentiments for the future of academic travel programs. Nachlis said he appreciates the College being supportive of experiential learning opportunities and hopes to see such opportunities grow. Rose added how she thinks the opportunity for students to apply what they learned in class to a real-world economy is “invaluable.”

“There is nothing that can take the place of actually going into a country and seeing the impact of what students have learned firsthand,” Rose said.

Blake McGill is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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concerns about the labor shortage in the Upper Valley, with many stores reporting short-staffing issues.

“I don’t know if they will be successful, frankly, with this labor shortage,” Wittmann said. “You go into Walmart, [and] there’s sometimes just one person at the checkout now and they’re doing a lot of the automated self-checkout. So hopefully that will be okay.”

According to Target’s website, the West Lebanon location is currently looking to hire for several positions, including cashiers, security specialists and visual merchandisers.

Zelson said Charter Realty is “always looking” to develop more retail in the Upper Valley. However, some residents pointed to the need to protect small businesses.

“I have mixed feelings because I think larger retailers coming in tend to drive smaller local businesses out of business,” Coker said. “I remember a time in the Upper Valley where there was no Walmart, and I appreciate those times and have concern for the local businesses that are being impacted.”

Representatives from Target did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Frat ban lifts for Class College Republicans panel of 2025 featuring Rep. Madison Cawthorn draws student protests

BY JACOB STRIER AND SOLEIL GAYLORD The Dartmouth Staff

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.; Karoline Leavitt, a Republican candidate for New Hampshire’s first congressional district and Republican campaign strategist Alex Bruesewitz spoke to a crowd of roughly 150 students and community members in Filene Auditorium in an event that was characterized by fiery rhetoric and misinformation.

The Sunday evening event covered a wide range of topics, including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, school prayer and the future of the Republican Party. Students walked out in protest throughout the panel, and additional protesters gathered outside in a rally organized by the Dartmouth chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.

Dartmouth College Republicans president Griffin Mackey ’21 opened the event and DCR vice president Chloe Ezzo ’22 led questioning, beginning by asking the panelists about whether National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted — with which all three speakers agreed, accusing him of lying to Congress about the funding of gain-of-function research and other offenses.

“What he did with the Wuhan Chinese virus should get him a lot more [jail time], so I do think he committed a lot of crimes with his handling of [COVID-19], and all that fun stuff,” Bruesewitz said, using a term for the pathogen that the American Medical Association has condemned as “racially-charged and xenophobic.”

Cawthornstatedthatif “communism [were] ever to come to America, it would come in the name of Anthony Fauci.” He added that “the Chinese” need to be held accountable for the spread of the virus and the U.S. should seize Chinese assets on American soil as “reparations” for the pandemic.

Leavitt advised students to exercise caution in digesting “mainstream media” and while listening to “professors here on a higher education campus.”

In response to a question regarding the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the three panelists aired their disappointment. Cawthorn cited the alleged “mental decline” of President Joe Biden as the cause of the chaotic withdrawal and the death of American troops in Afghanistan, adding that “any 15-year-old who has played Call of Duty for a number of days could pull us out of Afghanistan in a manner which made sense.”

The panelists also expressed opposition to offering asylum to refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border and Afghan migrants from overseas.

Bruesewitz said falsely that “nobody knows who these [Afghan refugees] are” — however, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, those evacuated from Afghanistan face multiple rounds of background checks before they ever arrive on American soil — and accused Democrats of wanting “child brides” and “rapists” in their communities.

Leavitt said that Biden should be impeached and removed from office for his handling of the “immigration crisis.” She argued that border patrol agents are “miserable” and criticized Biden for his failure to visit the U.S.Mexico border since he took office.

“It’s absolutely not fair that our tax dollars are going to supporting [undocumented immigrants] when we have homeless veterans on our streets, when we have an opioid epidemic that is raging in this state of New Hampshire alone,” Leavitt said. “When someone wants to talk about illegal immigration, they’re not a racist — they have common sense and they’re sticking up for American citizens first.”

The panelists also discussed the “deep state,” a group of “bureaucrats” that Cawthorn called a “bunch of nerds, a bunch of donors.” Cawthorn suggested moving federal agencies out of Washington, D.C. to “middle America” and limiting the power of agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency.

In response to a question about the future of the Republican Party, Bruesewitz expressed his excitement about new “right-wing powerhouses,” such as Cawthorn and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — a Republican from Georgia who was stripped from committee assignments after it emerged that she had advocated for violence against Democratic members of Congress in 2018 and 2019.

Both Cawthorn and Taylor Greene, according to Bruesewitz, share a support for “safe and secure” borders, “draining the swamp,” taking on the “fake news” media and advancing the “America First” agenda that former President Donald Trump “set in motion.”

“We’re in a war of ideas and [the Republican Party’s] ideas need to win — [Democrats] are antiAmerican, they brainwash our kids [and] it’s anti-science,” Bruesewitz said. “The Maldives were supposed to be underwater in 2005, acid rain was supposed to kill us in the ’90s — the temperatures only [rose] 1% in the last 250 years… So that’s why I don’t believe the science, but [Democrats’] ideas are dangerous, they’re anti-American.”

The Maldives may be fully underwater by 2100, according to the country’s environment minister, and the Earth has warmed by, on average, about one degree Celsius since the 1850-1900 baseline used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In response to audience member Jack Cocchiarella ’25 accusing Cawthorn of “lying to [his] constituents” about the 2020 presidential election results, Cawthorn alleged that election laws in several key states were unconstitutionally changed, a claim federal courts have dismissed. Cawthorn said in January, after Biden’s inauguration, that the election was “not fraudulent.”

Cawthorn also responded to an audience question about mandated prayer in schools — a policy that he supports.

“I don’t think it has to be a mandated Christian prayer — I believe there should be a time for prayer and you can pray to whatever God you choose,”

Cawthorn said. “I do not believe that we should create an atheist culture — I think it leads to debauchery, and I think it leads to a spiritual poverty within the soul.”

James Eiler ’25, said that he did not think Cawthorn was a “good person,” but he thought the congressman “spoke well.”

Cocchiarella said he thought that Sunday’s event would be the “perfect setting” to hold the panelists “accountable.” He added that he thought the moderators asked “some pretty softball questions,” so he wanted to confront the panelists directly.

Blake McGill ’22 said that she initially “advocated fervently” for the panelists’ right to speak but found Cawthorn’s statements to be “deflating.”

“It made me feel even more disenfranchised, from a party that I always thought I would be part of,” McGill said. “It is pretty frustrating to me, because I saw glimmers of hope in working across the political aisle, but it is pretty obvious to me that the future of the Republican Party is an anti-intellectual one.”

Outside of the event, a group of student protesters at least 50 strong wrote chalk slogans on the ground, held signs and shouted slogans, including “Fascists, go home,” and “Whose campus? Our campus.” During the event, multiple students walked out or shouted at the panelists.

Dartmouth’s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, alongside the Afro-American Society and CoFIRED student groups and the “Black Praxis” and “Dartmouth Radical” student publications, helped to organize the protest, according to co-chair Ian Scott ’24.

He said that the protest had “good turnout,” and that its goal was to promote an alternative to the conservative ideology of the panelists.

Scott added that the group decided not to attend the event itself. Instead, according to YDSA secretary Kaya Colakoglu ’24, the outdoor protest involved student speakers who aimed to reorient the conversation from “aloof ” national politics to local issues.

“We feel that these speakers, particularly Madison Cawthorn, bring hateful ideas to our campus that should not be spread,” Scott said.

Antony Smith, a volunteer on Leavitt’s campaign, said that a roundtable campaign event last week at the University of New Hampshire did not see protests.

In an interview after the event with The Dartmouth, Leavitt said that she appreciates that those who disagree with Cawthorn’s and her beliefs attended the event.

“I think it’s great — we need to exercise our First Amendment rights,” she said. “I think civil discourse is great for our country — that’s what America is built on.”

Leavitt, who, if elected, would be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, added that Dartmouth students should know they are “never too young to run for office.”

Blake McGill is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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to Handshake is that Handshake’s interface is better suited for high volumes of job postings, adding that students looking to apply to graduate schools can find relevant information on Handshake as well.

“There is no shortage of opportunities,” Wilson said.

Wilson estimates that 70% of seniors have created Handshake profiles so far.

Computer science major Devanshi Udeshi ’22 received a return offer after interning at a tech company this past summer. Udeshi, who had initially gone through CPD’s sophomore summer recruiting program, said she found the CPD “helpful” for applying for positions in the consulting and finance industry, but added that recruiting in the technology industry is “a bit outside of the CPD.” Udeshi said that in her experience,

jobs in the tech industry rely “heavily” on referrals and resume-dropping during recruiting, which led her to find her internship and full-time job.

Economics major Jenique Richards ’22, who also went through CPD’s recruiting programs but ultimately found her internship and full-time job through LinkedIn, said she had often turned to the CPD website to find answers to her questions early in her internship search process.

Additionally, Richards said she went to CPD workshops related to resume building and LinkedIn. Wilson noted that in response to the pandemic, many employers have cut their traveling and recruiting budgets; many will come to campus via virtual job fairs. Acknowledging the limitations of virtual events, Wilson said she defines a successful virtual job fair by its level of “engagement between the students and representatives of

employers.”

Udeshi said she recognized that there are both advantages and disadvantages to the transition to primarily virtual recruiting. While interviewing virtually is more convenient because it eliminates the need to travel for final-round interviews, Udeshi said those who make a better impression in person are put at a disadvantage.

Udeshi also pointed out that the pandemic has created more opportunities for people to apply to during the job-search process.

“Now that more remote positions have opened up, people have the freedom to live wherever they want and work at a company across the country,” she said “So that’s good, [since] you have a greater pool of jobs to interview for.”

Udeshi is a former member of The Dartmouth Staff.

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The six-week-long “frat ban” for the Class of 2025 was lifted this past Monday. A Greek Leadership Council policy, the ban prohibits first-year students from entering Greek houses with the exception of pre-approved dry events.

Since its implementation in 2013, the frat ban — formally known as the “Greek First-Year Safety and Risk Reduction Policy” — has sustained a safe social environment for freshmen, according to Greek Leadership Council chair Brandon Zhou ’22.

“We’re trying to allow first-year students to find community and friends before they’re introduced to Greek spaces.” Zhou said.

Chithra Singareddy ’22 said that, indeed, she felt the frat ban allowed her to foster connections with people prior to entering Greek spaces.

“I think the frat ban is important because you need to make your f ri en d s b e fo re yo u g o o u t , ” Singareddy said. “You need to experience a bigger part of campus and see more people in a nondrinking context before you see them going out.”

Sophie Kodak ’23 said that she hopes freshmen will be able to enjoy Dartmouth’s social scene more than they would absent the frat ban.

“I think it’s really important for people to experience college and transition into Dartmouth without having that added layer of Greek life, because there’s so much beyond that,” Kodak said. “If you were to come into college and immediately have access to those spaces, I feel like it would potentially limit your exploration of other social spaces on campus.”

Many ’25s were excited to finally attend fraternity parties.

Eiha Patnaik ’25 said that she is looking forward to being able to participate fully in campus culture.

“I’m glad that the frat ban is over because it allows us to actually do something during the nights,” Patnaik said.

Patnaik added that while weekend activities hosted by Collis After Dark — including mini golf, roller skating and movie showings — have been “fun,” she feels the lifting of the frat ban will help integrate freshmen into Dartmouth’s broader community, as Greek spaces tend to play a large role in upperclassmen’s social lives.

Gabriella Silva ’25 similarly said that she is looking forward to entering Greek spaces for the first time.

“I feel relieved and excited that I’ll be able to meet more people,” Silva said. She added, however, that she recognizes the benefits of other social spaces.

“The frat ban was useful in

the sense that it forced the ’25s to interact with each other and form stronger connections,” Silva noted.

“It really prepared us for frats, as well, in the sense that we have a group to go with and we know what to expect.”

The 2021-22 academic year is unique in that, since COVID-19 safety guidelines prohibited large gatherings for all of last year, many members of the Class of 2024 also entered Greek spaces for the first time this fall.

While discussion about a modified frat ban for the current sophomore class was briefly discussed, it was not put in place, according to Zhou. He explained that while Greek houses did discuss what a frat ban for the Class of 2024 might look like, the houses did not want to enforce one. “[A frat ban for the Class of 2024] was something that we discussed as a collective between all the chapter presidents, but we decided we did not want to implement one,” Zhou said. “Especially considering the rush timeline this year for [sororities and fraternities], it didn’t make too much sense.”

Singareddy agreed with the decision to not enforce a frat ban for the Class of 2024.

“The ’24s do not need the frat ban because they have had all of freshman year to make friends,” Singareddy said. She added that, since sorority and frat rush concluded on Oct. 6 and Oct. 16, respectively, the sophomores would have become affiliated before the lift.

Many members of the Class of 2024 were grateful that they were not subject to the ban as sophomores.

Danny Armella ’24 said that she was surprised that it was even considered.

A r m e l l a a d d e d t h at , w i t h fraternities and sororities closed to the public and the Class of 2024 largely isolated from the College’s community for all of the 2020-2021 academic year, it was difficult to gain perspective on Greek houses before deciding to rush.

“I think we got dealt the worst freshman year overall,” Armella said. “Coming back and being able to participate in everything has really made me feel more at home here.”

Sasha Kokoshinskiy ’22, a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, said that ending the frat ban on a Monday was “confusing,” as many freshmen attempted to enter Greek houses that were not hosting parties the night of the lift.

“I think around campus that sort of caused a lot of confusion, and so I think definitely maybe reconsidering to end on a different night to just improve safety and community would be a good idea,” Kokoshinskiy said.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2021

STAFF COLUMNIST SPENCER ALLEN ‘23

Fed Up with JED

Dartmouth’s mental health partnership with the JED Foundation is an utter waste of time, money and energy.

Most cur rent Dartmouth students remember the hell this campus went through last year: Dealt a bounty of pandemic-related stressors, students’ mental health suffered tremendously over the course of last year, and three first-year students — Beau DuBray ’24, Connor Tiffany ’24 and Elizabeth Reimer ’24 — died by suicide within a matter of six months. In response to these deaths and years of complaints from students about Dartmouth’s mental health infrastructure, the College announced a four-year partnership with the JED Foundation, a national nonprofit that promotes emotional health on college campuses. The partnership began last week when the “Healthy Minds” survey was fielded to students. Over the next two years, that survey and other findings will be used to implement interventions on campus before the survey is readministered in the 2024-25 academic year. Some community members see this partnership in a positive light; one student referred to it as “a step in the ‘right direction’” in a recent article.

I, however, see the partnership as a total sham.

The College’s decision to partner with the JED Foundation is nothing more than a reactionary measure to check a box saying that Dartmouth is doing “something” after the catastrophe that was last year. And, yes, Dartmouth must do something, but the administration should draw its solutions from the plethora of legitimate complaints students have lodged against the College.

The JED partnership is a waste of time and money; Dartmouth should immediately end its affiliation with the foundation and instead focus on resolving the problems its students have already identified.

In an Oct. 18 email encouraging students to take the “Healthy Minds” survey, interim Dean of the College Scott Brown exclaimed that “[t]his is your chance to be heard!” But, if this is our “chance” to be heard, that just underscores that Dartmouth has not been listening to students’ cries for help for years.

Students have long been pointing out the issues with mental health on campus and how they might be solved. If the College took its responsibility as a student-serving institution seriously and actually listened to the students it serves, it would have a precise road map of how to support students’ mental health — indeed, The Dartmouth conducted a thorough investigation into mental health at the College this summer, and many columns in this newspaper have been dedicated to the topic.

In case the constant string of complaints have somehow gone unnoticed by the administration — and Brown’s email seems to suggest that they have — let me spell out exactly what reforms students have already called for: Improve the 24-hour mental health mental health hotline. Give students academic leniency throughout the curriculum and in times of crisis. Do away with its forced medical leave policy. Redistribute parts of Dartmouth’s budget — including College President Phil Hanlon’s salary and the housing communities — toward mental

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health counselors and services.

Of course, Dartmouth likely has some reasonable justifications for why it cannot deal with the above listed problems students have pointed out. Hiring more mental health professionals might be more difficult in light of the nationwide labor shortage. But any other justifications are nothing more than excuses for the College to ignore and disenfranchise students struggling with their mental health.

Let’s just say the College goes through with the full four-year JED Foundation partnership: In 2025, after the second round of surveys are fielded and their results analyzed, I can almost guarantee that Dartmouth will come out in that survey looking better than they will in today’s survey regardless of what the College does in the meantime. Why? Memories of last year — the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, terrible mental health and three student suicides — will leave with the Class of 2024 when most of them graduate. If, before the 202425 academic year, no other students die by suicide and students have no other reason to unite en masse against the College’s mental health apparatus, student perceptions of Dartmouth’s mental health infrastructure will be inflated by cohort replacement and the passage of time.

Unfortunately, Dartmouth seems to be positioning the mental health challenges of last year as nothing more than a fluke — a momentary blip in the College’s history that will disappear once the COVID-19 pandemic finally comes to its end. After all, based on conversations I have had with ’20s and ’21s as well as faculty and staff, last year was especially bad and the first in many where any student died by suicide.

Yes, the mental health of young adults across the country suffered because of the pandemic, but three suicides and countless other mental health concerns cannot only be blamed on COVID-19. Rather, the pandemic exacerbated Dartmouth’s persistent failings in advocating for and supporting students’ mental health over the past several years. Last year can easily repeat itself — and it will, again and again — if the College continues to neglect its students and their mental health.

Mental health can be an issue of life or death; on this issue, the College has repeatedly ch o s e n d e at h . T h e J E D Fo u n d at i o n partnership, in completely failing to address the mental health concerns of this campus, is a slap in the face of every single student who has struggled with their mental health and grieved the deaths of four classmates in the last year. Dartmouth should be embarrassed by its callous intransigence. Students already know, and have told the administration, why we do not trust Dartmouth’s mental health services and what Dartmouth must do to regain our trust. There’s no reason it should take four years and potentially millions of dollars to address problems for which students already have communicated solutions. Listening to students costs nothing and provides Dartmouth with tangible, student-supported goals to work toward.

NINA SLOAN ’24: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

GUEST COLUMNIST MARC NOVICOFF ‘22

Oh, the Problems They Could Solve (If They Actually Cared) Dartmouth’s administrators take home bloated salaries; perhaps, they could deign to spend some pocket change on actually fixing the College’s problems.

This column was originally published on October 28, 2021.

fiscal year 2022 is $1.2 billion.

Solving all of the problems I listed would cost roughly 1.9% of next year’s budget.

Dartmouth is short on cash, or so it Or, without touching next year’s budget, seems. Last year, the College cut the budget we could look to the endowment instead. In of its study abroad programs by 45% and fiscal year 2021, the endowment rose 46.5%, permanently shuttered two of its five libraries. gaining $2.5 billion dollars and making the This year, the College is struggling with “labor total endowment roughly $8.5 billion. Solving shortages,” which they refuse to resolve by the six problems mentioned in this article offering higher wages. The labor shortage is would cost the College less than 1% of this so bad, the College argues, that the students year’s endowment gain. should excuse food lines that stretch down Or without touching the endowment, the block and Living Learning Communities we could look to our generous donor class. where the students live with mice, exposed Dartmouth just announced that its fundraising wires, no shower heads and a floor so tilted campaign “The Call to Lead,” launched in that items roll across the room.

2018, has surpassed $3 billion raised. Sure, Meanwhile, mental health remains a much of that was already earmarked, but I chronic issue. Currently, there are 13 mental think we could spend $400,000 of that to health counselors on staff for an alarming keep two of our five libraries open, if the ratio of one counselor for administrators actually approximately every 350 wanted to. Maybe $10.2 t h e million of this enormous undergraduates. This is “ P e r h a p s the reality students are administrators could number could be used to faced with despite the just end student debt at fact that just last year, lay out their daily Dartmouth. three freshmen died by duties in such a way H o w e v e r, suicide. In the weeks and instead of solving any months that followed, that justifies their of these problems, the students have repeatedly kingly wages, but I College administration urged Dartmouth to make spent $71,999,000 on improvements to its mental am fairly certain they itself in salaries and health infrastructure. aren’t worth all that b e n e f i t s fo r t h o s e i n Another chronic “administrative support” problem at Dartmouth money. We should and “development” last i s s t u d e n t d e b t a n d instead put some of year. This is a number 120 financial aid: According times the “deficit” run by to Dartmouth’s figures, that money towards the study abroad programs 37% of the Class of 2020 t h e p r o b l e m s t h e — which is only a “deficit” took out student loans and in the sense that College saddled themselves with an administration claims President Phil Hanlon runs average of $23,850 in debt. it can’t solve.” a $1,300,000 “deficit” by All of these problems virtue of being employed are inexpensive to solve by the school. relative to the College’s extreme wealth.

It is a curious question what this That the administration continues to refuse $71,999,000 for the administration actually to solve them — while paying themselves funds. An administration so weak that extraordinary sums — demonstrates either it allegedly tolerated decades of sexual greed or ineptitude. The exact amount of misconduct against graduate students, leading money needed to solve these problems is not to a $14 million settlement? An administration totally clear, but I think we can get a pretty so amateurish it had to pay students $5,000 good estimate by examining the available each to forgo housing because it didn’t fix the data. housing shortage it has had for 50 years? An According to the College, both the library administration so exceptionally incompetent closures and the study-abroad budget cuts that it couldn’t cut sports teams in a manner were executed in order to cut costs. The that didn’t violate the federal discrimination Guarini Institute runs an annual deficit of law it has an entire compliance office about $600,000 and Dartmouth’s libraries dedicated to? were asked to cut $2 million between 2018 Perhaps the administrators could lay out and 2022. their daily duties in such a way that justifies I do not believe I can figure out how their kingly wages, but I am fairly certain many dining employees we need to cover the they aren’t worth all that money. We should “labor shortage,” so I’ll give the Dartmouth instead put some of that money towards the administration a generous estimate and problems the administration claims it can’t say they are 50 full-time employees short. solve.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, There is no reason we should have a food service workers in New Hampshire as “staffing problem.” There is no reason we of May 2020 earn an average of $28,290. should have a study abroad budget problem or Let’s say Dartmouth needs to pay double a library budget problem. There is no reason that ($56,580) to attract people during the we should have a mental health counselor nationwide labor shortage. So, to hire 50 problem. There is no reason students should full-time dining employees, they need $2.8 live in such squalid conditions or graduate million per year. in debt. All of these problems are easily I don’t know a lot about carpentry or mice solvable with a fraction of what we spend extermination, but a three-star hotel in Boston on the administration, or a fraction of the costs up to $638 per square foot to build. endowment gain, or a fraction of the money Generously, let’s say each crumbling Living we raise in a year.

Learning Community is 4,000 square feet; These are all problems that are created and this puts the costs of building two entirely new nurtured by the administrators who run our buildings at about $5.1 million. We’ll use this college, and whose brazen acts of greed and/ as our estimate, and since Dartmouth is only or ineptitude amount to a kind of legalized doing renovations, fixing the LLCs should theft. Do not buy into their excuses, and do cost, theoretically, even less. not believe that new administrators, or more On to the counselors. Say we want to double diverse administrators, or administrators the number of mental health counselors. The who got PhDs in “college student personnel Bureau of Labor Statistics says their average administration” will suddenly be on our side. pay in the state is around $84,000. To be Demand they cut their never-ending bloat generous, let’s double that. Hiring 13 more and pay the small sums that could solve the counselors would cost $2.1 million annually problems on this campus. at that rate.

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

Fall Staged Reading Series expands theater opportunities

BY MICHAELA GREGORIOU The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Ocotber 28, 2021.

This upcoming weekend, the theater department’s Fall Staged Reading Series — the department’s MainStage production this term — will bring three staged readings to the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ Warner Bentley Theater. The series, which will feature Dartmouth student performers, diverges from typical theater productions in relying on minimal set and actor movement.

“Poor Clare,” written by Chiara Atik and directed by Dartmouth theater professor Peter Hackett, premieres on Friday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. The play — which is framed by contemporary language but is based on the life of historical figures from the Middle Ages — follows the noblewoman Clare, who has begun to realize the social injustice of the world around her after an interaction with Saint Francis.

The second play, “Ridgway,” written

by Charlie O’Leary and directed by visiting artist Kareem Fahmy, tells the story of two journalists’ — one white and one Latino — investigation of a decades-old murder rumored to involve a gay love triangle in Western Pennsylvania. According to the event website, the play aims to raise parallels between the past and the present to ask “Who can live safely in rural America?” The theater department’s reading of the play will premiere this coming Saturday.

Lastly, “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning,” written by Katori Hall and directed by visiting artist Kemati Porter, will premiere on Oct. 31 at 5 p.m. The story, which takes place during the end of World War II at a beauty parlor and boarding house in Memphis, Tennessee, focuses on the lives of a group of young Black women as they grapple with “love, sexuality and sisterhood” amid a background of social change and post-war trauma, according to the play’s description.

Hackett said the department deliberately chose plays written in the 21st century, adding that the more barebones format of a reading would

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Cast members of “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning” rehearse in the Hopkins Center’s Warner Bentley Theater.

allow audiences to more easily focus on and engage with the ideas in the plays.

“My hope is that audiences will then read other plays by these same authors or their contemporaries,” said Hackett.

Though, according to Hackett, the plays were not intentionally chosen to be in conversation, they happen to share the theme of social injustice.

During the College’s transition back to on campus learning, the theater department remained mindful of the potential impact of COVID-19 measures on the feasibility of a MainStage production. According to Hackett, the department decided to put on staged readings for this term’s MainStage production because the format would allow for an easier transition to the remote format in the event of another lockdown.

Jacqui Byrne ’22, who portrays Clare in “Poor Clare,” said she was initially hesitant about the structure of a staged reading, as she was more familiar with traditional staged productions. However, she said she grew to appreciate the performance medium.

“I really enjoyed it, but I didn’t really get it [at first] … because I am so attached to a full production of theater,” said Byrne. “Because it’s so barebones, because we are doing a staged reading, we really dive into the meaning of the play.”

Byrne said that the incorporation of blocking, movement and props have made the staged reading more dynamic and interpretive.

“It isn’t just people sitting on stage and reading from a script, it is dynamic and evolved,” said Byrne. “We’ve been doing a lot of blocking and making

sure we’re still moving around and involving props … the text is obviously at the forefront, but you’re still getting what the play would look like.”

In bringing three plays to the stage in a single weekend, the Fall Staged Readings production allowed for more student performers to be cast than usual. Brianna Parry, the production manager of the project, said that the unique format of this year’s productions fosters student engagement by making the project accessible to more performers.

“The bigger draw is being able to have more students participate, and participate in a lower-stakes way where we’re not asking you to commit six weeks of your life to us, we’re asking you to commit three weeks to us,” said Parry. “So we [are] hoping that we’ve gotten some people to be in this play that wouldn’t normally be in a play.”

Parry added that the fact that actors are not required to memorize the script has been crucial in attracting incoming freshmen to the project. Compared to a typical year’s MainStage production, in which most of the roles would go to upperclassmen, the Fall Staged Readings allow room for greater firstyear involvement.

Gwendolyn Roland ’25, an actress in “Poor Clare,” expressed excitement at the opportunity to be so closely involved in a theater production this early in her Dartmouth career.

“It is a great opportunity as a first year student to be in a seven-person play that’s a MainStage,” said Roland.

“Even though I am not the title character, I am very involved in the show, and I think that’s going to be a lot of fun, and I think that’s not an opportunity that we may have gotten otherwise.”

Green To Go: A Sip of Quirkiness at Juel Modern Apothecary

BY ALEJANDRO MORALES The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on October 26, 2021.

I needed an experience to lift my mood after the stress of midterms, so my partner and I headed to White River Junction again this weekend.

Since we had such a pleasant time at Tuckerbox, we thought we’d see what else the town has to offer. After walking around the narrow, one-way streets, packed with parallel-parked cars on either side, we decided to check out a curious cafe on the corner of North Main Street: Juel Modern Apothecary.

“Apothecary? Who even uses that word anymore?” I thought to myself as I approached the door of the building.

The last time I had seen that word was my freshman year of high school while reading “Romeo and Juliet.” Still, it was half past ten in the morning, and I needed a dose of caffeine.

When I first entered the building, Juel’s door was on my left, while Little Istanbul’s sat to my right. The noise, the colors and the smell of spices coming from Little Istanbul, a gift shop, directly contrasted Juel’s solid white, sleek design. It felt like a battle between tradition and modernity.

Juel was packed. It’s about as big as two triple dorm rooms put together, and that may be a little too generous.

The furthermost wall was lined with hanging snake plants, spider plants and succulents, while the one closest to the entrance had a small fridge with fresh fruits and homemade kombuchas. These two microcosms of vibrance emphasized the minimalist white walls and light-colored wood.

Shelves containing CBD products, beeswax wrap, metal straws and Abracadabra — a Woodstock-based coffee company — coffee beans lined the wall next to the barista counter.

The most interesting aspect of Juel’s design is the ceiling. It is black with rods and piping going through it, with tiny lights pointing down on the orderly, pristine cafe, as if it were a movie set.

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I think it captures the entire aesthetic of Juel — a perfectly designed mise en scène for millennial tastes.

As I soon found out, people know Juel for its coffee. As an avid coffee consumer, I understood this recognition as soon as I walked up to the counter to place my order: Right next to the cash register, as if to show off its credentials, was an industrystandard espresso machine with “La Marzocco” in bold, red capital letters.

This quality item inspired some confidence in their drinks as I placed my order.

Though drinks comprise twothirds of the menu at Juel, they serve food as well. The entire menu is vegetarian, and they accommodate very well to gluten-free and dairyfree options. I ordered a Golden Latte with homemade cashew milk for $6.50, The Buzz smoothie for $9, a Superseed Energy Ball for $3 and Kimchi Avocado Toast for $7.50. The total came out to $29, which seemed a bit expensive for the amount I got, but

the aesthetic foreshadowed the high prices.

The Golden Latte, an alternative latte — sans espresso — made from “turmeric, coconut oil, black pepper, and raw local honey,” came out in a beautiful, handmade clay mug.

The orange specks in the grey clay complemented the design of the cafe, as well as the yellow latte itself. The cashew milk was silky and matte, exactly what a perfectly frothed milk should look like, and it had no real aroma to it. When I took my first sip, though, all the flavors hit me at once. The texture was a bit gritty from the turmeric, but I found that it worked quite well. The sweetness of the steamed cashew milk, as well as its saltiness, helped balance out some of the stronger tones from the turmeric. The deep sulfur color of the drink piqued my curiosity, and I kept wondering how they achieved the thick texture; it was like drinking fresh cow milk. This is the best alternative latte I’ve ever had, and for a buck more

than a venti iced chai at Novack, it was definitely worth its price.

Next, I moved on to The Buzz smoothie, which the menu simply describes as “Abracadabra coffee, banana, dates, organic oats, cashews.”

It arrived in a plastic to-go cup; however, I was expecting at least a glass, since the mug of the previous drink was so beautiful. The greyish-brown color didn’t make me love the drink at first sight, but the idea of a coffee smoothie still interested me. Little chunks kept coming up the straw when I took my first sip, which I enjoyed as someone who favors heterogeneous mixtures.

The smoothie itself was viscous: not viscous enough to clog up the straw, but viscous enough to coat your whole mouth. This would have been super great had I enjoyed the flavor of the smoothie. It was a bit too tangy, which makes sense since it had a coffee base, but I assumed that the banana and dates would have tempered that flavor note. For a $9 drink, the most out of my entire order, it felt disappointing.

Before I started with the Kimchi Avocado Toast, I tried the Superseed Energy Ball. It almost smelled like nothing. Almost. I associated the faint odor with vinegar. When I bit into it, it seemed like any other energy ball I’d tried in the past. The same nutty flavors, the same sweetness. It tasted good, but nothing popped out at me.

Still, the coconut flakes helped leave a sweet aftertaste which I dwelled on before the avocado toast.

The toast, made with “gluten free bread, avocado, kimchi, sesame oil, toasted sesame seeds, and dulse flakes,” came in a clay plate that seemed to be from the same set as the mug. It wasn’t a big plate, so the amount of negative space only emphasized how small the serving was. The whole toast was about the size of an egg and cheese sandwich from Novack. It still looked beautiful: The toast, fully loaded with nothing spilling off, had reds, whites and greens that played off each other just like with Tina’s Toast from Red Wagon Bakery.

The dulse flakes added a beautiful chrome purple that elevated this dish beyond the diner’s dish. The kimchi gave the toast an incredible taste that paired well with the sesame seeds and oil. Finally, the avocado, as if a wave, washed away the flavors with its fatty richness and left a calm, neutral aftertaste in my mouth. The bread, on the other hand, was a bit too soggy, a pity since the experience was almost perfect.

The items that made this experience worth it were the Kimchi Avocado Toast and the Golden Latte. Even then, I found it hard to justify the price of the toast compared to the serving size. The cafe provides a relatively quiet experience, one that feels a bit more chic compared to Starbucks or even Still North Books & Bar, but it all depends on whether you favor the millennial aesthetic. If you end up at Juel Modern Apothecary, I recommend ordering their coffees and alternative lattes. Regardless of whether or not you can justify the price of the food, I can’t guarantee you’ll feel full in the end.

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Hall of Krame: The Miracle of the ‘Miracle in Cambridge’

BY JUSTIN KRAMER

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

When Dartmouth football takes the field in Cambridge, Mass. on Saturday, the Harvard University Crimson will have had almost two years to reflect on the “Harvard Heave,” a last-ditch, game-winning Hail Mary pass thrown

by Derek Kyler ’21 to Masaki Aerts ’21 on Nov. 2, 2019, the last time the two teams squared off.

At the time, the miracle sustained Dartmouth’s undefeated record and delivered Harvard its secondconsecutive loss of an eventual fivegame losing streak, leading to the Crimson’s worst record since 1996.

The completion itself was miraculous. Kyler spun and stumbled around four Crimson defenders before launching a high-arcing 43-yard throw as time expired, and Aerts only caught the ball on a deflection after two Harvard defenders had position in front of him. The “Miracle in Cambridge” garnered Dartmouth rare SportsCenter Top 10 coverage and won the fan vote for The D Sports 2019-20 Moment of the Year.

But given Dartmouth’s history against Harvard the past two decades, the 9-6 win was a minor miracle on its own merits, irrespective of the final Hail Mary. A fan tuning in for the final minutes of the 2019 game might have thought luck was on the Big Green’s side against Harvard, but history says otherwise.

The win matched Dartmouth’s longest win streak against Harvard since 1995-96 — at only two games.

Before its 2018 Homecoming victory, the Big Green had dropped 14 straight against Harvard and had not beaten the Crimson in Hanover in 25 years.

For a team as historically successful as Dartmouth, which has posted only one losing season in the last decade, the 14-game losing streak to Harvard was unprecedented.

Dartmouth has not lost 10 or more games in a row to any other team this century, and their previous doubledigit losing streak started against the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. Meanwhile, Dartmouth posted double-digit winning streaks against Brown University, Columbia University and Cornell University since then.

The Big Green’s 14-game spell of futility against the Crimson was the lowlight of a murky overall conference record against Harvard. Dartmouth’s 24-38-2 conference record against Harvard — even with a couple recent positive performances — represents its only losing conference record to any of its seven Ivy League opponents. The Big Green has a cumulative 244-1367 record in conference play against its other six Ivy rivals, good for a .642 winning percentage.

Similarly, Dartmouth’s 2-8 record in its last 10 matchups with Harvard is its only losing mark against its Ancient Eight competitors — the Big Green is a combined 45-15 (.750) under the same metric versus its other Ivy opponents.

Much of Dartmouth’s difficulty against Harvard seems to come on the offensive end. Dartmouth has historically averaged just 15.22 points per game against Harvard, below their average against every other Ivy League school. As an aside, Dartmouth has averaged a whopping 25.84 points per game against Columbia, making their first shutout defeat in 10 years at the paws of the Lions last weekend all the more shocking.

Even in its most recent win in Cambridge, the Big Green barely scored nine points, and the year before that, Kyler and fellow quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20 combined for only 49 passing yards — the team’s fewest in 23 years — with just three secondhalf points despite the streak-snapping victory.

Headed into this weekend’s

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The Nov. 2019 “Harvard Heave” was miraculous not only for its last-second heroics but also because of Dartmouth football’s historical struggles against Harvard University.

matchup, however, there are more reasons for optimism, even absent another miracle Hail Mary, despite Dartmouth’s historical struggles against Harvard. The Big Green is on the right trajectory, but its recent losses were heartbreaking. From 2013-2017, toward the end of its losing streak versus the Crimson, Dartmouth lost four of the five games by three points or fewer.

In 2013, with the losing streak already at nine games, a field goal with 48 seconds on the clock sunk the Big Green 24-21 after quarterback Alex Park ’14 threw an interception with 19 seconds left on the final Big Green drive. In 2015, with both teams 3-0 at

the time, Dartmouth held a 13-0 lead with only seven minutes to play, but Harvard scored two touchdowns and blocked a game-winning 46-yard field goal attempt to win 14-13 and push the losing streak to 12 games.

“It wasn’t supposed to end this way,” The Dartmouth reported.

Dartmouth fell short again in 2016, losing its homecoming game against Harvard 23-21. With a chance down 25-22 to put an end to the streak in 2017, quarterback Jack Heneghan ’18 threw a tipped interception with just 1:14 left to clinch the Big Green’s 14th-consecutive defeat against the Crimson.

If the Miracle in Cambridge was any indication, it seems as though Dartmouth may have finally exorcised the Crimson spirits that have haunted the team for years despite its success against the rest of the league.

The Big Green has a chance this weekend to secure its first three-game winning streak against Harvard since the early 1980s. With both teams coming off their first losses of the season yet still in contention for an Ivy League title at 2-1 in the conference (5-1 overall), both teams will be desperate to get back in the win column as Dartmouth tries to hang another loss on its historic rival.

Dartmouth football shut out for first time since 2011

BY WILL ENNIS

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on October 25, 2021.

In Friday night’s home matchup against Columbia University, Dartmouth football was stifled offensively, losing 19-0 in the team’s first shutout loss on Memorial Field since 2006 and its first overall since 2011.

The loss drops Dartmouth to 5-1 with a 2-1 record in Ivy play — the same record that Columbia holds after their win.

“We were beaten in every aspect of the game,” said head coach Buddy Teevens ’79. “They outplayed us from the opening kickoff right on through, and we didn’t have an answer. We were outcoached and outperformed, and we made too many mistakes in all facets: offense, defense and special teams.”

Dartmouth’s usually fierce rushing attack, the bedrock of its offense, could not get momentum at any point in the game. The Big Green had averaged 200 yards per game on the ground through its first five matchups. In Friday night’s game, however, the team was held to just 60 yards on 20 carries.

Offensive lineman Jake Guidone ’21 praised the Lions’ defensive game plan but maintained that the Big Green offense underperformed.

“All teams try to try to mix things up, get you off guard, but I do think that we were prepared,” Guidone said.

“But we went 0/3 on fourth down and 0/2 in the red zone. It doesn’t matter what the defense is drawing up. Once you get down there, you gotta make it when it counts.”

Both defenses came out strong to start the game, with the first four drives — two for each team — ending in punts.

On the fifth drive of the game, Columbia put together a 14-play, 52yard possession ending in a 34-yard field goal, giving the Lions a 3-0 lead with one minute remaining in the first quarter.

On Dartmouth’s following possession, quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 was hit in the backfield on first down, losing the ball. The referees called on the field that Columbia had recovered a fumble and gained possession inside Dartmouth’s 10-

yard line. Fortunately for Dartmouth, the call was overturned and the play instead resulted in an incomplete pass.

The Big Green, however, could not string a successful drive together and was forced to punt the ball away yet again.

Columbia got the ball back and marched down the field. Aided by two offsides calls on the Dartmouth defense in the red zone, the Lions punched it in for a touchdown. After the extra point, Columbia held an early 10-0 lead.

Facing that deficit, the Big Green offense started to make mistakes that it hadn’t in previous games. On third down and six, Kyler targeted rookie receiver Paxton Scott ’24 but threw an interception — his first of the season — to give possession back to the Lions.

The Dartmouth defense, working with poor field position, was able to keep the Lions in check on the following drive, holding them to a field goal. Still, Columbia extended its lead to 13-0 with 7:26 to play in the half.

That deficit was the first time that Dartmouth has trailed by 13 or more points in four years, since the Big Green went down 16-0 by halftime against Columbia in the teams’ 2017 matchup. Dartmouth went on to lose that game 22-17 after making a second-half push.

On what would prove to be the team’s final offensive drive of the half, the Big Green looked to be putting together a scoring drive, moving 63 yards down the field. The possession, however, ended with a turnover on downs after the Lions broke up a 4thdown handoff from Nick Howard ’23 to Scott.

The Lions’ ensuing drive petered out quickly and Columbia took its 13-0 lead to halftime.

The second half did not begin any more favorably for Dartmouth. After a 3rd-down pass from Kyler to Jamal Cooney ’23 fell incomplete and the Big Green was forced to punt once again, the Lions marched down the field, eventually finishing the drive with a 25-yard pass for a touchdown.

Columbia opted to go for two on the extra point and did not convert, so the score stood at 19-0 with eight and a half minutes remaining in the third quarter.

From there, the defenses stood strong on both sides of the field. The

next six possessions, stretching into the fourth quarter, all ended in punts.

Niko Mermigas ’21 praised his team’s defensive performance in the second half, but also lamented that they could not find that rhythm earlier in the contest.

“I think if we played like we did in the second half for a majority of the game, it would have been very different,” Mermigas said. “But, again, you just cannot keep giving them life on third and fourth downs.”

With 10 minutes to play, the Lions punted the ball to Dartmouth and drew a penalty for targeting, giving the Big Green excellent field position

— the drive began at the Columbia 40. Another big reception by Scott put Dartmouth in the red zone, but the Big Green could not seize the late-game opportunity. Scott was not able to haul in a 4th-down pass in the end zone, possession returned to the Lions, and the game was all but over.

Dartmouth will next take the field on the road against Harvard University on Saturday, the site of Kyler’s miracle “Harvard Heave” two years ago.

The Big Green will be hoping for similar good fortune in the matchup this year, with Harvard currently tied with Dartmouth in the Ivy League

standings after a 5OT thriller of a loss against Princeton on Saturday.

Mermigas said that he told the players in his position group that the loss stings, but that they have to learn and build from it.

“This is like my fifth loss my whole time at Dartmouth, and I told the [defensive backs], it gets worse every single time you lose,” Mermigas said.

“I think we’ve struggled a little bit to find an identity and I think this is a perfect time, coming into Harvard week. Let’s find an identity, let’s figure out what we did wrong in this game, and let’s figure out who we actually are.”

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This is a 5-day/week, ~20-hour position during the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. In the Summer term, the schedule is reduced for a total of ~10 hours. It is a salaried position starting at $23 per hour, depending on experience. The office manager is paid during all break periods.

If interested please email your resume and letter of interest to Olivia Gomez at publisher@thedartmouth.com

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“This Campus is Haunted to Me”: ’24s on Grief and Loss STORY

By Omala Snyder

This article was originally published on October 27, 2021.

pressure the administration for support, and just because everything is back to normal now doesn’t mean After a tumultuous 18 months, that everything and everyone is Dartmouth retur ned to near suddenly okay,” Ortiz said. “It normalcy in September. In-person doesn’t mean the events of the last classes resumed, dining halls opened year have been erased.” to full capacity and campus began She wants to see more commitment to feel alive again after being in a from the administration to issues like long hibernation. However, for many mental health. ’24s, the tragedies of this past year “I feel as though they pick up have hit particularly hard — and issues to fight for, but don’t actively made it harder to shift to a normal have a plan or direction in which they never knew. to take them.” She added, “I Kiara Ortiz ’24, a West House also know as much as the student representative for Student Assembly, body knows, despite being on c o m m e n t e d o n h ow “ n e r ve - Student Assembly, so there needs wracking” her physical return to to be more transparency and open campus was this fall. Close to both communication.”

Beau DuBray and Elizabeth Reimer, In the wake of the challenges of two members the last year, the of the Class of “I was so disheartened administration 2024 who died announced by the end of spring by suicide this an increased past year, Ortiz term, and physically commitment s a i d t h a t t h e being here is nerveto mental administration’s health. They lack of response wracking. I hope have since and empathy to the administration announced a the student deaths partnership understands what we by suicide made it with the JED very difficult for have been through and Fo u n d a t i o n her to return to is committed to taking and employing campus this fall. m o r e “ I w a s s o it seriously.” counsellors, disheartened but Ortiz is by the end of not exactly -KIARA ORTIZ ’24 spring term, and sure how physically being transformative here is nervethis has been. wracking,” she said. “I hope the The JED Foundation partnership administration understands what we has begun; students have received have been through and is committed the “Healthy Minds” survey via to taking it seriously.” email.

Ortiz also said that she felt no real She said that Dartmouth “has sense of community in her first year a lot of really intelligent fighters” at Dartmouth, but she appreciates who she hopes will “continue to talk that the sophomores are getting about mental health and not take no to experience some of the classic for an answer.”

Dartmouth traditions they missed David Katz ’24 echoed similar out on, like the Twilight Ceremony concerns to Ortiz regarding the and matriculation. administration’s lack of response to O r t i z a r g u e d t h a t t h e the mental health crisis. He spoke to communication between students the struggle between taking care of and the administration should be oneself and staying on top of classes. better.

“There have been so many times “Students shouldn’t need to when I have wanted to take class

off because I am not mentally okay, but there is no safety net to fall back on, as attendance is part of the grade, and faculty are not always as empathetic as they could be,” Katz said.

Katz also struggled to return to Dartmouth this fall after freshman year. After the death of his best friend, Reimer, he said he was “encapsulated” by his own grief and hurt by the lack of support from the College. He added that he has “lost complete faith” in the administration.

Despite the College being open now, he still struggles to be optimistic, as he sees the system as too fundamentally flawed to be people,” Heaphy said. “I’m proud of changed. the way I dealt with everything, but “It feels to me like the ’24s are the hard part for me is that someone the cursed child of Dartmouth,” I cared deeply about will never get Katz said. “We will never be a the token Dartmouth experience.” normal class and are forever plagued Heaphy appreciates the by how difficult our introduction administration’s active efforts to to Dartmouth was. It’s hard to make members of the Class of 2024 pretend that events like the Twilight feel more included in the Dartmouth Ceremony will change anything. I community, but he said that their didn’t attend matriculation, I didn’t attempts also further emphasize see the point. the fact that Every single part not ever yone “Not a single faculty of this campus is originally member or member haunted to me.” admitted as a Jack Heaphy of the administration ’24 will get to ’24 reflected experience similarly on the has reached out to pivotal traditions difficult end to me. It feels like they like Homecoming his freshman or rush. year last spring checked a box by Fo r H e a p h y, — specifically, having the vigil in Dartmouth feels t h e c h a l l e n g e May and that they like a different of balancing s c h o o l n o w, m o m e n t a r y just want everyone to and the quick, f e e l i n g s o f move on now. But the immediate shift to happiness and normalcy again j o y w i t h t h e reality is that many of has made it too undercurrent of us will never move on easy to forget the grief and sadness or heal properly.” challenges that that permeated everyone faced the Class of 2024. last year. “ I w a s l e f t -JACK HEAPHY ’24 “Despite things feeling this weird being so much combination of better now, it feels emotions. Despite losing my best like everyone rushed forward to friend, Connor [Tiffany ’24], I had forget the challenges of last year actually had a great first year at and move on,” Heaphy said. “I Dartmouth and met a lot of amazing really wanted to honor Connor and

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those that we lost last year. I was in talks with the Student Assembly to organize a commemoration called The Candle Project, but it never materialized.”

Heaphy feels like he has been able to grieve without public commemorations, but he thinks that the College has not done nearly enough to honor the students who died.

“Not a single faculty member or member of the administration has reached out to me,” Heaphy said.

“It feels like they checked a box by having the vigil in May and that they just want everyone to move on now.

But the reality is that many of us will never move on or heal properly.”

Heaphy thinks that the College is too focused on expanding existing mental health resources without creating new ones. He added that he thinks that the entire system needs to be broken down and built from the bottom up.

When reflecting on his own experience with Dartmouth mental health services, he says that they have been far from adequate.

“I went to one in-per son counseling session this term at Dick’s House and it honestly was awful,” Heaphy said. “The counselor was late, the set up was beyond janky, and the room that we were in was bleak and depressing. I kept thinking about how much I didn’t want to be there the entire time.”

HCD Minor Teaches Problem Solving via a Human Lens STORY

By Arielle Feuerstein

This article was originally published on October 27, 2021.

When considering Dartmouth’s “must-take” classes, it seems ENGS 12, “Design Thinking” always tops the list. Over 100 students enroll in the course each year, and over 100 additional students are still sent to a waitlist, according to Engineering professor Peter Robbie, who described the class as “a foundational course in creativity.”

While ENGS 12 is a quintessential course even for non-engineering majors, it also serves as a core course for the human centered design minor, which, according to the minor’s webpage, focuses on “the process of innovation for addressing human needs.” I sat down with Robbie and two current human centered design students to explore one of Dartmouth’s most unique programs.

According to Robbie, Dartmouth is the only school he knows of that offers a formal undergraduate minor in human centered design. Robbie initially conceptualized the program with computer science professor Lorie Loeb, and the pair spent over two years writing proposals until the committee approved the program in Spring 2014. Part of Robbie’s motivation for establishing the minor was the popularity of ENGS 12.

“The original impetus for the program was the frequent story that students would finish taking the Design Thinking course and be like ‘This is really exciting. I want to do more of this. What’s next?’ and I’d have to say ‘I’m sorry that’s it,’” Robbie said. “[The minor] was really designed to provide a framework for students who really wanted to develop this set of skills and capabilities.”

Robbie stressed that “empathy is the starting point for human centered design thinking.” Lidia

Balanovich ’22 said the discipline’s central focus on the human elements of design attracted her to the program.

“I want to just work with people and help people … and this was a way I could work with them and feel more confident that I would be making a positive impact as a result” Balanovich said.

H u m a n c e n t e r e d d e s i g n’s emphasis on the human experience prompts an interdisciplinar y pedagogical approach, according to Robbie. Per its website, the minor draws courses not only from engineering, but also from anthropology, psychology, sociology, geog raphy, computer science, film, studio art, public policy and economics.

“The field is inherently interdisciplinary, because when you’re designing for humans, you have to understand humans: human behavior and human preferences and abilities,” Robbie said. “Social scientists spend their careers developing that knowledge base.

So it really is design informed by this kind of special, deep understanding of people in context.”

As part of the minor, Robbie said, students are tasked with “applying design in an area of interest,” such as in product design, interactive digital technology, architecture or improving social systems. Robbie also said that principles of human centered design can be used in “almost any discipline,” and that many of his former students have used their design skills within the context of their majors or other interests, including as designers for Microsoft or political reformers.

Both of the current Human Centered Design students I spoke to expressed a similar appreciation that the skills they learn are applicable to their surroundings. Abigail Johnson ’23, a current Human centered

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design minor, emphasized that the program teaches a mode of thinking that emphasizes fundamental strategies for approaching problems, which can be applied to many facets of her personal life.

“I’ll bring different aspects of my learning with human centered design into both my other classes and my extracurricular activities,” Johnson said. “What I like about human centered design in general is it’s kind of learning a mindset, and then the tools that you can use to engage with that mindset.”

In learning this mindset, Johnson felt that she was even able to “learn creativity” from her participation in the program, which is a skill she “didn’t know that you could learn until [she] took these classes.”

Balanovich said that the minor taught her fundamental life skills, such as how to best communicate ideas and how to navigate group

dynamics. She also mentioned a number of useful technical skills she developed, such as proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. Balanovich also emphasized that for many students in the human centered design program, the coursework is just the beginning — students also have an abundance of opportunities to apply what they learned in the real world and around campus, particularly in the DALI Lab. “The courses you take for the minor are like the springboard where you practice and make projects just to figure out how stuff works and what the process should be,” Balanovich said. “Then, you actually get to do it through other extracurriculars and put it into the world.”

Johnson specifically mentioned using human centered design

for an independent project last summer. She was tasked with improving inclusivity and equity in the Dartmouth Outing Club. In this project, she said she was applying the design process in a very direct manner in order to create more accessible levels of membership in the DOC. Both Balanovich and Johnson intend to use human centered design in their professional lives post graduation. Balanovich accepted an offer to work in user experience at Microsoft, and while Johnson does not know what career path she will pursue yet, she feels confident her skills will come in handy.

“The nice thing about human centered design is that because it’s more of this mindset, it can be used in a very literal way in some sort of design firm or design studio, but it can also be applied to really anything that you do,” Johnson said.