The Dartmouth Winter Carnival Issue 2017

02.10.17

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EDITORS’ NOTE

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You might say that there are two definitions of community. We can think of a community just as a group of people with common traits. However, there’s another sense in which community is a deep feeling of connectedness with others. At Dartmouth, we like to think that both definitions of community hold true. Community is at once a very real, physical presence for this small, remote college, yet it is also a powerful ideal that still makes students choose Dartmouth over other elite colleges.

We think that identifying one single Dartmouth community may make the College seem less diverse and less fragmented than it is in reality. There is no “one” Dartmouth community. The task of this issue is to examine a few of the dozens of communities in this corner of the Upper Valley and show how they are interconnected. Everyone who is enrolled in, works for or lives near this school belongs to a community in some way or another.

Winter Carnival is meant to be a time of celebration for all of Dartmouth. It is an annual event that draws the College closer. It is our hope that readers can enjoy this big weekend having gained a deeper understanding of the unique communities that exist in our surroundings.

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Table of Contents The town and the College: an interdependent relationship

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Dartmouth faces socioeconomic divides within student body

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International students search for community on campus

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Graduate schools help organize student social life

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Living Learning Communities offer new options to students

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Faculty attracted to the teaching atmosphere at the College

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The strengths and imperfections of the Greek system

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Senior varsity co-captains reflect on close team bonds

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Faculty and staff evaluate Dartmouth community

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OPINION: Brown: The Places We Make

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OPINION: Sharma: Expanding the Bubble

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OPINION: Sandlund: See the Forster Through the Trees

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VERBUM ULTIMUM: Resilience in Community

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Through the Looking Glass: Dartmouth’s Mythical Community 28 Dartbeat’s Community Flowchart

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The town and the College: an interdependent relationship STORY By Debora hyemin han The Dartmouth Staff

The phrase “town and gown” refers to the relationship between an academic institution and the city in which it exists but is often used to describe disagreements or tensions that the two may have with one another.

The town and gown do not always fit together.

For many of Hanover’s leaders, however, the town and gown do seem to complement one another — and quite well. The phrase has evolved to represent a symbiotic and inextricable relationship between the College and Hanover. Town manager Julia Griffin said that the strong history of this relationship, and the challenge of maintaining it, is what attracted her to the position almost two decades ago.

The evolution of small businesses on Main Street provides a window into this long-lasting relationship. Patti Fried, a co-owner of Lou’s Restaurant since 1992, said that because Lou’s has been in Hanover for so many years, and because so many Dartmouth community members have come through the restaurant, the best word to describe the relationship is “nostalgia.” The staff at Lou’s conscientiously maintains a balance between new and old aspects of the diner because of how large of a role it plays in Dartmouth students’ experiences, making sure to “keep up the trends for the new kids,” but not changing too much for the older alumni who come to visit, Fried added.

Established in 1947, Lou’s had been originally been a 24-hour business, running as a diner in the mornings and then transforming into a Mexican restaurant at night.

When Lou’s decided to stop running as a 24-hour business and focus on breakfast and brunch, it did so to

“focus on the students,” according to Fried. The eatery often bases its menu options based on what students prefer and request. When making recipes, Lou’s kitchen is conscientious of its ingredients, because it wants to provide healthy options to students and because Lou’s staff enjoy “nurturing the students with food,” as Fried says.

This nurturing relationship with students is something the townspeople have developed over the years as well, most recently coming to light when the Donald Trump administration promised new policies on immigration and the status of immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students on campus were questioned.

“When the DACA student issue hit the newspapers, I can’t tell you the number of people in our community who emailed me to say if those students ever need a safe house to live in, if the federal government cracks down on the DACA students, I’m volunteering two bedrooms in my house if they need it,” Griffith said. “Port in a storm.”

Many townspeople, according to Griffin, have a lot of affection for students, and part of the reason they choose to live in a college town is because of the students. Victoria Simek, a new co-owner of Morano Gelato, said that the students’ vibe, energy and diversity “bring a lot to the town” and make it as vibrant as it is.

Because the students are such a prominent part of the community, however, there are some aspects that cause concern, especially student drinking. Griffin said that throughout her time as town manager, she has seen the level of drinking among Dartmouth students increase “markedly,” including the instances of students drinking until they

“blackout.” This troubles some Hanover residents, because they worry for both students’ well-being and their children’s impressions of Dartmouth students. Griffin says townspeople she has come in contact with speak about how children see heavily intoxicated Dartmouth students and wonder why they are in the state they are in.

Students, she says, are on display “for better or for worse,” and their choices, recreational and otherwise, impact others in the community.

“Our kids who are growing up in this community are seeing student behavior at its finest and student behavior at its lowest,” she said.

According to Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis, drinking and disturbances caused by parties are also two main reasons for the police’s involvement with students, in addition to theft. The relationship between students and the police department in regards to drinking has actually improved over the years, according to Dennis, as students are no longer automatically cited when they are sent to Dick’s House for drinking-related issues as they once were before the change was made in 2015. Dennis said this practice of “projecting ourselves in the middle of the medical process,” which was in place when he arrived to the position, was not perceived well internally or externally, leading to the changes.

One of Dennis’ other concerns regarding students and the Hanover community is pedestrian safety around campus, in terms of jaywalking and looking at cellphones while walking in the streets. Jim Kenyon, a Norwich resident and columnist at the Valley News, identifies this issue as one of the “special challenges” that comes with living in a college town.

This neighborly aspect to Dartmouth’s relationship with

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Data were collected from a campus-wide survey that received 532 responses. Data are presented in percentages.

Hanover is not restricted to students — in fact, it becomes extremely relevant in the College’s plans for expanding infrastructure and building new facilities, especially when those plans are close to residents’ property.

Griffin said one of the first things she did as town manager was tighten the planning and zoning processes of the town, which she said were a bit loose.

These processes present a tension within the Dartmouth-Hanover relationship.

“The biggest challenge we have in the town is when the College is developing new facilities on the periphery of the campus that abut a residential neighborhood,” she said.

“Inevitably, abutters to that project are often concerned about growth and development happening right on the edge of the campus.”

Recently, the Hanover planning board did not approve the College’s proposed indoor practice facility. The building, which was to be located near Tyler Road, was denied planning permission in a four-to-one vote. The College is now appealing that decision at the Grafton County Superior Court on the basis that the project complied with the zoning ordinance and town regulations and that the planning board did not have the authority to deny the project, according to Griffin.

According to Griffin, the proposed rezoning of West Wheelock Street two years ago provoked controversy.

She said that this project would have enabled the College to do additional construction on the north side of the street and replace old housing along West Wheelock with new housing that would be denser in terms of the residential units that could be constructed in a given space.

This motion initially failed at a town meeting because neighbors on the south side of West Wheelock Street

were concerned about growth and development, Griffin said. However, it passed last year to build a new parking facility into the hillside below Thayer School of Engineering as a “much more scaled back version of the proposal that had failed the year before.”

According to Griffin, balancing the College’s growth with the understanding of neighbors’ interests in this densely-settled town is crucial to maintaining a healthy relationship with the town and its residents. She said this balance is necessary in any community that hosts a large institution, whether it is a college, a federal or state government facility or a large manufacturer. Hanover’s director of planning, zoning and codes Robert Houseman said that from a town regulatory perspective, maintaining a level playing field for all applicants, including Dartmouth College, is “essential to [the board’s] process.”

At the same time, however, Dartmouth’s new buildings offer perks for the residents who can use those facilities. Dartmouth has collaborated with the town in joint-ventures that have been immensely beneficial to the community — projects that the town would probably not have been able to afford otherwise, according to Griffin.

For example, Griffin recalled when the community decided it was time to renovate Hanover High School and build a new middle school. The cost was $42 million, which would have been “a pretty exorbitant cost impact” for Hanover and Norwich residents, according to Griffin. The Hanover select board approached then-Dartmouth president Jim Wright and Dartmouth to fund a little over $9 million of that cost. Knowing SEE TOWN PAGE 22

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The town of Hanover will also be partaking in Winter Carnival festivities.

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Dartmouth faces socioeconomic divides within student body STORY

B y joyce lee

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When it comes to identity, socioeconomic status can be the least visible aspect of a student’s life, yet also the most tangible to the student herself. At Dartmouth, the average student is likely to be more affluent than the average college student. The recent findings from the Equality of Opportunity Project revealed that at Dartmouth, the median family income is $200,400 and 69 percent of the student population come from the top 20 percent of the national income distribution.

First Year Student Engagement Program director Jay Davis ’90 said that one reason for the disparity between the proportion of students from low- and high-income backgrounds is the difference in the quality of education offered to students before they enter college. He said that this disparity can be explained by a different awareness of post-secondary school opportunities and the financial aid options that might exist at a school such as Dartmouth. FYSEP is a mentorship program for firstgeneration students in their first year at Dartmouth.

“Schools like Dartmouth were more traditionally designed to meet the needs of students who could afford that education,” Davis said. “It’s only more recently in the history that these schools have made a commitment to meeting financial aid needs.”

Dartmouth is one of 38 colleges are well aware of the different that partners with Questbridge, socioeconomic backgrounds within a national nonprofit scholarship [my co-ed fraternity], and they try program that connects students to be considerate of that.” from low-income backgrounds to Castillo added that she found elite colleges. Questbridge student people she spent time with at liaison Bethany Malzman ’19 Dartmouth were considerate or said that without Questbridge, at least aware of the disparities she would not have been able to resulting from socioeconomic class. consider applying to Dartmouth.

Davis said that from his Alexis Castillo ’19 said that the ex p e r i e n c e, f i r s t - g e n e r at i o n Johns Hopkins Center for Talented students are excited to know that Youth scholarship program was there are other students from instrumental in her college similar backgrounds as their own application process. and that programs such as FYSEP “I didn’t know what college and the Office of Pluralism and was until the L e a d e r s h i p ’s ninth grade,” first-generation she said. “I was “There are resources and low-income very frustrated I’m lucky to have, but advising can going through provide a sense we had to fight to the financial aid of community process, even get it — Dartmouth to low-income with the help wasn’t created for low- students. of a mentor “The whom I was income students.” realization very lucky to that there are have. My mom others of similar and I, for the -ALEXIS CASTILLO ’19 backgrounds longest time, who are couldn’t figure succeeding — out what one word meant and if it that’s important,” he said. applied to us ... It kept adding up. As a former Dartmouth student I felt like I had to go through the who came from a low-income process on my own.” background, Davis said that there Castillo is also a first-generation seemed to be a default assumption student who is active in FYSEP, that most students were well-off where she said she has found most and were able to afford to travel of her friends on campus. back home, take vacations and have “My friend group is of a similar access to disposable income. socioeconomic status as myself,” “For students who do not [have Castillo said. “I am also part of this access], it can feel lonely,” a Greek organization, but they Davis said. “Socioeconomic status

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Socioeconomic inequality can be seen in students’ clothing. Canada Goose produces jackets that cost up to $1,500.

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Students work during a workshop at the 2016 FYSEP pre-orientation.

is more hidden than other markers of diversity.”

Victoria Corwin ’19 said that because her situation and her interests derived from her backg round, she naturally g ravitated towards prog rams such as Dartmouth Quest for Socioeconomic Engagement.

“These kinds of communities [such as DQSE] bring themselves together naturally,” she said. “Some students just have more time and more money to do things that I wouldn’t normally do. They can afford to go to the [Hopkins Center] every week and see famous people; meanwhile, all of my friends are working, some of them say they don’t even have 10 dollars right now.

What you do socially depends on your socioeconomic status, and it influences who you interact with.”

Castillo said that she has often had conversations with her friends about issues of balancing work and academics as well as extracurriculars. Other issues, such as family financial needs, can also affect a student’s time on campus, she said.

Low-income students are more likely to have financial challenges at home, which can make it difficult to focus on the academic challenges of Dartmouth, Davis said.

“There are many students at [the College] who are working jobs to send money home to pay for family expenses,” he said. “And a student who is working 35 hours a week to help pay for their family’s needs uses time differently from a student who can focus time on their own needs.”

Davis said that he is co-chairing a

committee of staff and faculty called Money Matters with Rachel Edens, the assistant dean and advisor to first generation and low income students, to look specifically at the experience of low-income students so as to reduce inequities with highincome students.

Castillo said that certain actors in the Dartmouth community had to fight for the resources that are now available to low-income students. Castillo talked about her experience during spring interim, when all dining halls were closed, and she was unable to afford eating out every day. Davis and Edens, as well as 1vyG, a network of firstgeneration Ivy League students, helped to make this situation known to the College, and students staying over interim were provided with at least one meal a day by Dartmouth.

“There are resources I’m lucky to have, but we had to fight to get it — Dartmouth wasn’t created for low income students,” Castillo said.

Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto ’01 said that while the College tries to mitigate economic circumstances and allow low-income students to participate in core Dartmouth experiences, there remains a discrepancy in their sense of belonging.

Such discrepancies can exist in terms of academics. Castillo said that her socioeconomic background can affect her decision to take a class based on the cost of textbooks.

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International students search for community on campus STORY B y Mika jehoon lee The Dartmouth Staff

Comprising 8.9 percent of the College’s underg raduate population, international students at Dartmouth represent more than 70 countries around the world. This group includes a future anthropology major from Bulgaria, a water polo enthusiast from Hong Kong and an aspiring South Korean doctor who sings semi-professionally in her leisure time. Not only do international students here have diverse cultural backgrounds and interests, but they also share different ideas about what it means to be an international student on this campus.

When Ray Guo ’19 first arrived at Dartmouth from Beijing, China, identifying as an international student was an unfamiliar feeling, he said. Over the past 18 years of his life, he said he had always identified as a Chinese student. However, the moment Guo landed in the United States, he acquired a second cultural identity, which he described as “broad but ambiguous.”

“I think the definition of an international student is just imposed upon us when we get to the U.S.,” Guo said.

According to Guo, the diversity of nationalities and cultures represented by the College’s international students makes it difficult for the entire international community at Dartmouth to be tight-knit.

“The only common thing that [international students] share is that we are just international and not U.S. citizens, so it doesn’t really make [international students] tight,” Guo said. “Within the international community, there are sub-communities that are really

close like the Korean, the Chinese or the Latin American student communities.”

Ta i w a n e s e a n d C a n a d i a n dual citizen Herbert Chang ’18 explained why certain cultural groups on campus tend to be more closely knit than others.

“For one, people definitely feel the most comfortable with people that they are familiar with and who have experienced similar situations,” Chang said. “In that regard, a lot of my best friends are from Asia.”

From Jan. 22 to Jan. 29, The Dartmouth administered a campus-wide online survey of student attitudes toward different communities on campus, which garnered 532 responses. In this survey, 64.5 percent of respondents said that international students are “very integrated” or “somewhat integrated” in the general student body population at the College, while 26.4 percent of respondents said that international students are “not very integrated” or “not integrated at all.”

The percentage of international students in Dartmouth’s Class of 2020 is lower compared to that of other Ivy League institutions.

International students comprise over 10 percent of most Ivy League schools’ freshman classes, but only eight percent of Dartmouth’s Class of 2020.

Many international students said that various programs organized by the Office of Pluralism and Leadership at the beginning of the year significantly helped them get to know each other and adjust to the new environment.

Four days before New Student Orientation , OPAL hosts the International Student Orientation.

During this program, international

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Data were collected from a campus-wide survey that received 532 responses. Data are presented in percentages.

students receive information about their responsibilities under the F-1 visa, go on shopping trips to West Lebanon and socialize with their peers.

Holly Sung ’20, an international student from the Czech Republic, said that she especially appreciated ISO’s social events because they had a substantial impact on connecting her to her peers.

“Social events such as the welcome barbecue helped me get to know a lot of international students,” Sung said. “Most of us had never come to the U.S. before, so we could relate to one another more easily.”

Many of the relationships that international students built during ISO last even after the program

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Data from schools other than Harvard University and Brown University were released officially from the universities.

ends, according to EgyptianAmerican student Jebreel Samples ’19 , who grew up in Qatar. A few of Samples’ close friends at Dartmouth are the people that he first met during the program, he said.

Besides the social interactions that take place throughout ISO, Tony Kirumba ’19, whose home is in Nairobi, Kenya, said that he mostly valued the sessions that discussed academics and residential life.

“By the time the New Student Orientation started, I felt pretty well situated,” Kirumba said. “I would say 80 percent of the time that I spent in [ISO] sessions was really valuable.”

He added that these sessions helped him better understand classes, life at Dartmouth, work and other logistics.

In addition to ISO, OPAL also coordinates the International Friendship Family Program , as well as the International Student Mentor Program.

The FFP matches international undergraduates with local families in the Upper Valley. Throughout the year, “friendship families” invite students to dinners, family outings and holiday celebrations.

According to Chang, who is the FFP student coordinator, 90 to 120 students sign up every year. Chang also said that during the matching process, the FFP tries to group together students and families with similar interests.

Bulg arian student Veselin Nanov ’20 said that the FFP has provided him with a positive cultural experience so far.

“I am a prospective anthropology

major, and I got matched with an anthropology professor,” Nanov said. “In the beginning of the year, during a family picnic, I met his entire family and we ate lunch.”

He added that the picnic was the highlight of the program for him.

Participants in the International Student Mentorship Program are as s i gn e d t o u p p e r- c l as s Dartmouth students who are known as International Student Mentors. Mentors are responsible for assisting their freshmen mentees during their transition to Dartmouth for the fall and winter terms.

When Shirley Zhang ’19 landed in Boston Logan International Airport after a long flight from Chengdu, China, she was met by mentors who enthusiastically greeted her, she said. According to Zhang, the warm welcome she received lessened her anxiety and motivated her to apply to become a mentor her sophomore year.

South Korean student Kyoung Tae Kim ’20 said that while he valued the support he received from his mentor, the temporary nature of the program led to infrequent contact as the school year progressed.

“At first, I think the program is helpful because I have someone to ask questions to,” Kim said.

“These days, I only occasionally talk to my mentor because there isn’t any scheduled programming for mentors and mentees.”

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Graduate schools help organize student social life Rabinovitch said that he was in awe of the diversity at Thayer.

The Dartmouth Staff The different perspectives in terms W h e n p e o p l e t h i n k o f of academics and nationality help community at the College, they students work with one another, he often limit themselves to the said. scope of the underg raduate According to Geisel’s assistant population. However, graduate to the associate dean for student students at Dartmouth also learn affairs Tina Hoisington, Geisel together, study together and have plans an event called “Oh, the fun together. Thayer School of places you’ll go!” in which third Engineering, Tuck School of and fourth-year medical students Business and Geisel School of meet first and second year students Medicine are also characterized at a local restaurant. There, students further along in their by a strong community spirit.

Several s t u d e n t - l e d medical school experience talk organizations support communities with younger students about all in the graduate schools. The Thayer the experiences ahead of them Council is the student council for and answer any questions they may Dartmouth engineering students have, Hoisington said. She added while the MEM Student Council that semi-formals and formals serves those engineering students are great platforms for students working towards a Master of at Geisel to reconnect with other Engineering Management degree. medical students as well as students First-year Thayer Ph.D. student from the other graduate schools, and Thayer Council co-president especially given the frequent travel schedule of third A m o g h a and fourth year Tadimety and “The sense of s t u d e n t s. T h e MEM Student community leads semi-formals C o u n c i l and formals president Joey to a transformative are always well R a b i n ov i t ch experience from attended, she Th ’18 attested added. t o T h aye r ’s the moment you At Geisel, c l o s e - k n i t walk on campus to students have the community. the moment you opportunity and Thayer are encouraged plans various graduate.” to constantly s o c i a l collaborate endeavors as with the larger opportunities -LAURA SHEN TU’17 community for the and amongst students to get themselves, to know one Hoisington said. another better Each week, two outside of the to three students classroom, t r ave l w i t h a Ta d i m e t y faculty member said. These events include a Homecoming to do community service with barbecue, a sailing event at organizations like the Good Mascoma Lake and an annual Neighbor Clinic, the Haven, January for mal. Rabinovitch the Claremont soup kitchen, the added that there is a “Friday Beers” Manchester Sununu Program, event for Thayer students, faculty David’s House and the Mascoma and staff every week. There are Clinic. Hoisington also said that also frequent movie nights in the Geisel hosts a community service Thayer auditorium and evenings day in which the school provide of dinner, dancing and live music, services such as free blood pressure checks and hand sanitizer to the Rabinovitch said.

Tadimety said that these events greater community. have proven to be infor mal, Tuck has a profound sense of natural ways in which students community, said Laura Shen Tu’17 can socialize. Her experience at and Sally Jaeger, assistant dean and Thayer has emphasized to her the director of the MBA Program at importance of forging bonds with Tuck. students and faculty alike. Social “The sense of community leads opportunities organized by Thayer to a transformative experience are especially appreciated by from the moment you walk on students who may live off campus campus to the moment you and do not have the direct capacity graduate,” Shen said. to get to know other students better, Shen said that the residential experience of first-year students Rabinovitch said.

“Now that I’m here, I’ve grants them the opportunity to realized how important community learn, study and form connections is, especially at Dartmouth,” with one another. More than half of first-year Tuck students live on Tadimety said.

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The dining hall at the Tuck School of Business provides an extra dining option for graduate students at the College.

campus. Since this community is one main exception would be the medical school. Geisel students one that supports students, Shen graduate students who participate are also encouraged to participate said that students feel comfortable in the residential fellows program in undergraduate events such in taking risks. The diverse group at the College, Rabinovitch said. as the polar bear plunge during of students with different types of The residential fellows program Winter Carnival, Hoisington said. experiences also leads to a unique places graduate students in each Interim dean of Geisel Duane community spirit, Shen said. of the undergraduate housing Compton wrote in an email that Jaeger added that students communities and is designed there are many opportunities choose to come to Tuck because t o i n t e g r at e u n d e rg r a d u at e for undergraduate students to they want to be part of a explore medicine at community. There are a Geisel, especially the variety of programs that “Now that I’m here, I’ve realized shadowing program integrate Tuck into the how important community is, in which students other graduate schools, follow physicians and especially at Dartmouth.” including the MEM MBA lear n more about program between Tuck various medical fields and Thayer, Jaeger said. -AMOGHA TADIMETY, FIRST-YEAR PH.D. and professions.

T here are also social

The relationship events like the Suits and STUDENT AND THAYER COUNCIL CObetween Tuck and Stethoscopes party thrown PRESIDENT the College has only annually in order to foster grown over the years, r e l a t i o n s h i p bu i l d i n g Jaeger said. Tuck between Tuck and Geisel faculty members students. teach three courses In terms of connections for undergraduate to undergraduate students s t u d e n t s , Tu c k at Thayer, Tadimety said students in the that she does not see significant and graduate students through Women in Business club mentor interaction beyond professional activities like mentoring, tutoring student-athletes, the Tuck Bridge outreach in the laboratory, where and dinners. program exposes undergraduate graduate students interact with and H o i s i n g t o n s a i d t h a t students to the methods and support undergraduate students. b e c a u s e G e i s e l ’s s c h e d u l e knowledge of business and Tuck Rabinovitch agreed, adding that differs fundamentally from the partners with the Rockefeller Thayer students are primarily undergraduate student schedule, it Center to provide internships to interested in developing friendships is difficult to establish connections a group of Dartmouth students with their fellow classmates. The between undergraduates and the through the Paganucci program.

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Living Learning Communities offer new options to students STORY

B y betty kim

The Dartmouth Staff

Though students often make friends through different classes, clubs, sports teams and performance groups, one common place students tend to form long-term relationships is on their floor or in their building. Living Learning Communities take that idea to the next level by housing people together who have similar interests and want to integrate them into their daily lives.

In an online survey with 532 student respondents by The Dartmouth, among students who have lived or currently live in an LLC, 66.2 percent said that LLCs have had a positive impact on their Dartmouth experience, 25.5 percent reported no impact and 4.5 percent said there was a negative impact. The numbers correlate to a variety of factors, some well-known by all Dartmouth students while others are not as visible to students outside of the LLCs. According to Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Delivery LLC Student Coordinator Nathan Busam ’17, a student’s level of engagement with the LLC depends in part on how involved they choose to be in the LLC’s activities and events.

“Some students are very engaged, and they come to all the events; other students are too busy, or they just kind of live there,” Busam said.

Though the application process highlights the benefits revolving around living in a community based on identity and intellectual discourse, housing benefits seem to be a factor just as significant in a student’s choice for living in the LLCs. In The Dartmouth’s survey, 39.6 percent of students reported housing benefits as their primary reason for choosing to live in an LLC. Only 7.5 percent chose programming as their primary reason, and 49.2 percent chose both.

Regardless of the reason for per term and are assigned a roommate general create a space for students to In The Dartmouth’s survey, 40.8 a student’s interest in an LLC, with different religious views than theirs. feel “appreciated and included.” The percent of non-white students said that however, programming within each Rafa Rosas ’20 also described Great Issues Scholars LLC is part of LLCs had a positive impact on their community is diverse and provides Triangle House as a safe space for the Global Village. time at Dartmouth, while only 22.1 several benefits to students both “LGBTQIA+” students. According “Since we all have such diverse percent of white students said the same. affiliated and unaffiliated with the to Rosas, half of the programming by experiences and come from entirely Also in the Global Village LLC LLCs. Triangle House has to do with social different backgrounds, I’ve felt that cluster is the Japanese Language One such benefit that several LLC activism, and the other half has to do these are some of the most complex Program, which is a community residents and leaders emphasized was with important issues such as mental, and rewarding friendships that I’ve centered around integrating education the way in which LLCs are spaces physical and sexual health. Members been able to have so far in my life,” about Japanese language and culture accepting of religious, cultural or will be pursuing a project this spring Bronson said. into dorm living. Emily Grabowski gender and sexuality-related identities term coding data related to research Bronson observed that this ’18, who has been both a member that might not and undergraduate otherwise be advisor in the acknowledged. program, said that Leah Torrey, it is designed to help Tucker Center students of different multi-faith advisor proficiency levels and staff advisor i m p rove t h e i r of the Interfaith knowledge of LLC, said that the Japan. Though Interfaith LLC students are often operates encouraged to as a “safe space” practice speaking for students who Japanese as much feel that their as possible, there religious identity is no strict rule is not welcomed re g a rd i n g t h e in everyday usage of English. conversation.

“Not having a “ [ Re l i g i o u s strict language people] can easily requirement be themselves really makes it on the Interfaith a more inclusive floor, so it’s not environment so uncommon for people who don’t religious minorities have as strong a to find this floor language skill can and stay on this still feel included,” floor,” Torrey said.

Grabowski said. “I ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF think that’s really Whether s t u d e n t s a r e Data were collected from a campus-wide survey that received 532 responses. Data are presented in percentages. important for religious, agnostic the community or atheist, the LLC requires all students about sexual assault prevention. welcoming environment is not only building aspect.” to have one hour of “religious or International students and students created by racial diversity but also According to faculty advisor moral conversation” per week, either of color can also find a home in the centered on the common interests James Dorsey, events for Japanese at the floor’s weekly Sunday dinner McLaughlin Cluster. According to of members, who are all dedicated Language Program students include or Tucker’s Multifaith Conversations Makisa Bronson ’20, a member of to learning about and educating the “3 F’s,” or “Food and Film with on Tuesday nights. Students must also the Great Issues Scholars LLC, the themselves on issues of global attend one alternative religious service Global Village cluster and LLCs in importance.

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According to Miller, another benefit of teaching at Dartmouth is The Dartmouth Staff the size of the faculty community.

When we think of “Dartmouth,” He said that the College has a we think of our friends, our large enough faculty group to scenic campus and of course, our introduce diversity, though it is not professors — but do the faculty as big as other high-level research at the College also feel a unique universities. sense of community? One of “At some of these large research the most defining elements of a universities you can spend your “Dartmouth education” is learning whole career there and never what the word “community” really get to know people in many means. At Dartmouth our sense other departments because the of community sets our experience community is just too big,” Miller apart from others and what, said. “Here at Dartmouth, if you ironically, binds us all together. stay here long enough you will There is a reason why Dartmouth meet most of your colleagues, even has one of the most loyal and in other departments and other far-reaching divisions.” a l u m n i “There’s a sense here, Miller networks. added that T h e r e ’ s a for example, that faculty he likes that re a s o n w hy members feel they his “primary alumni and home,” the should participate in families h i s t o r y r e l i g i o u s l y the governance of the department, f l o o d i n t o school.” is mediumHanover every s i z e d , Homecoming because w e e k e n d . -MICHAEL MASTANDUNO, it allows SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF And there’s a faculty in the The government department’s faculty lounge serves as a place of relaxation for professors.

DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF reason why the department student body ARTS AND SCIENCES to specialize as a whole Mastanduno said he observed who have been staples of the to our students?” in their is seemingly how many of the faculty “really Dartmouth economics department Irwin and Rose said they found teaching. clothed in for 19 years, explained how slowly a community at the College “ Y o u engage in the culture here.” one particular “It’s a small community, but it’s but surely, Rose came to adopt through their relationship with can teach shade of their students. cour ses on also cultural,” he said. “There’s Dartmouth as g reen. That For nine years t h e a r e a a sense here, for example, that a new home “I really do think r e a s o n ? now the couple of y o u r faculty members feel they should f o r t h e i r that the students are Community. participate in the governance of family. said they have research specialty,” he said.

The concept of “Dartmouth” is the school.”

In t h e the best thing about hosted “senior Dean of much more than a charming New t h e f a c u l t y “Dartmouth is a place M a s t a n d u n o process of women dinners” England Ivy League institution. of arts and added that faculty a c c l i m a t i n g Dartmouth. I think at their home.

It’s much more than the pretty sciences and where it really brings a r e i n v o l v e d t o h e r n e w that as a group, you They added that facade of Dartmouth Hall or the g ove r n m e n t the two together, in the College career path c o nve r s at i o n s will not find a group echo of the clock in Baker Tower. p r o f e s s o r c o m m u n i t y after leaving during one of and it gives faculty The Dartmouth we know and M i c h a e l t h ro u g h t h e i r her job at the of undergraduates these student love is composed of the people Mastanduno, members time and engagement in International who are more dinners was who populate and give life to our who has been resources to be its governance. M o n e t a r y the “impetus seemingly idyllic campus. Our a f a c u l t y Fa c u l t y c a r e Fund in D.C., committed to learning for the Political vigorous sense of community is a m e m b e r a t leading scholars a b o u t t h e i r Rose said she for learning’s sake.”

E c o n o m y reflection of not only the dynamic the College but also creates colleagues and d i s c o v e r e d Project,” student body but also the faculty for over 30 the success of a l o v e f o r a program a culture where who captain our big green ship. the institution, he teaching she -EDWARD MILLER, directed by years, echoed According to history professor M i l l e r ’ s the undergraduate said. n eve r k n e w HISTORY PROFESSOR Irwin.

Edward Miller, who has taught at sentiments on experience is a top Even those who s h e had S i m i l a r l y, the College for 13 years, there is Dartmouth’s never envisioned before.

Miller and in fact “a very strong community “ r a r e ” priority.” a career in “I just Mastanduno among the faculty at Dartmouth.” b a l a n c e academia have love teaching also said their As I spoke to different professors b e t w e e n found a home D a r t m o u t h students were -MICHAEL about why they decided to stay teaching and at Dartmouth. students,” she an important MASTANDUNO, DEAN OF After working on said. at Dartmouth, I quickly realized research. reason that they that our hybrid identity as both an economic policy R o s e were inclined THE FACULTY OF ARTS undergraduate college and a top- “Dartmouth in Washington, a n d I r w i n to eng age in tier research university was one i s a p l a c e AND SCIENCES D. C . a n d described that the Dartmouth of the most attractive aspects to where it really Chicago, Illinois, being both a community. many of the long-residing faculty. brings the two e c o n o m i c s couple and “I really do “Dartmouth is the only school I together, and p r o f e s s o r professors think that the know of that really tries to split the it gives faculty Douglas Irwin in the same students are the difference, that really emphasizes m e m b e r s said he knew department best thing about that they want their faculty to be t i m e a n d that he wanted has ultimately allowed them to Dartmouth,” Miller said. “I think both excellent teachers and cutting resources to be leading scholars to pursue a career in academia, become better educators. They that as a group, you will not find a edge outstanding researchers,” but also creates a culture where but for his wife, fellow economics explained how they are able to group of undergraduates who are Miller said. “And so for me that’s the undergraduate experience is professor Marjorie Rose, the feeling lean on each other and ask, “What more committed to learning for the most distinctive thing about a top priority,” Mastanduno said. was not exactly mutual. The couple, are the things that are interesting learning’s sake.”

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The strengths and imperfec On a small campus in the middle of the woods, a sense of community is important. Where Dartmouth students find their communities varies. According to director of the Office of Greek Life Brian Joyce, 46.3 percent of students at the College are affiliated with Greek organizations, equivalent to 62.6 percent of eligible students, as first-year students are ineligible to join. The Greek system provides students with a unique community of its own.

The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of students on communityrelated topics, and the data from 532 student responses provided a tangible gauge of how some Dartmouth students view the Greek system.

When asked how inclusive or exclusive they perceive the Greek system at Dartmouth to be, 35.2 percent of men said “very inclusive,” while 13.8 percent of women said “very inclusive.”

Chair of the Greek Leadership Council Austin Welch ’17 said that this year the council identified five areas to improve upon: sexual violence, high risk drinking, hazing, accountability and inclusivity. The GLC works to serve the needs and interests of the students affiliated with recognized open societies and Greek Letter Organizations. According to its constitution, the GLC’s goals include maintaining the integrity of the Greek community, which refers to Greek culture as it relates to civic, academic, personal and community excellence.

Over the summer of 2015, Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training was implemented for all new members joining a Greek organization. The program assists students in recognizing and acting upon potential moments of harm.

During his sophomore summer, Welch said the GLC saw the need for intervention training.

“We thought [members] were at a point where they had the opportunity to speak up, but maybe felt concerned joining a new organization, that their voice would be silenced or shamed,” he added. “So, what we worked to do is make sure that anyone who saw something they felt uncomfortable with knew they had the support of upperclassmen.”

Joyce said there are multiple ways in which the Greek community has created a place for active discussion surrounding inclusivity. One example was the Panhellenic Council’s panel on inclusivity in the Greek system this past summer.

“We had a really transparent, honest conversation about ways we are inclusive and ways we still have exclusivity in our system, how that made people feel and how we can address that,” Joyce said.

At the panel, some affiliated women talked about how they did not expect to be involved in Greek life at Dartmouth because they were not stereotypical sorority girls.

However, Joyce noted that many were pleasantly surprised that they found a home here, adding that they fit in and found their system of support.

“However, on the flip side, people talked about how they felt like they had to segment out certain parts of their life because certain friend groups didn’t agree with Greek life,” Joyce said. “It’s a polarizing community here at Dartmouth.”

Megan Batangan ’18 is a member of Chi Delta sorority and participated on Panhell’s inclusivity panel during her sophomore summer. She said she spoke about her experience as a Native Hawaiian student and her

involvement in the Native American at Dartmouth community in tandem with that of her Greek house.

“I recognize it is hard to change a system that was not necessarily made for me,” she said. “It wasn’t made for females of color who come from a lower socioeconomic background — I am partaking in a system that at the beginning was made for wealthy white males.”

She added that she participates heavily in Greek life, attributing her very active role in Chi Delt to her attempts to break down socioeconomic and racial barriers.

Last spring, Sigma Delta sorority organized and co-hosted a panel on inclusivity in the Greek system with Epsilon Kappa Theta and Chi Delt sororities. Sigma Delt president Alanna Kane ’17 said that the panel was a great way to express opinions and discuss ways to navigate a space on campus.

“It’s not necessarily an easy thing, devoting a lot of time and attention to building community as a social space,” she said. “Some people are interested in the house as a social space, and some are interested in it as a community.”

Kane added that Sigma Delt members work to make their house a space where people can hang out, get along and feel safe, in order to minimize tensions among members.

Joyce also said that the work from individual chapters in the Interfraternity Council can be the start to having a larger, communitywide discussion on inclusivity.

“Alpha Chi [Alpha fraternity], in the fall, held a discussion on race — within the Dartmouth community, nationally and their fraternity — and how white privilege intersects with that,” he said. “Hopefully others

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will have some of those discussion as well.”

Joyce added that Gamma Delta Chi fraternity has a high percentage of athletes and had a conversation on “locker room talk,” facilitating the support of a safe environment.

Tabard genderinclusive fraternity president Paul Vicker s ’19 s a i d t h at t h e organization is recreating its constitution to state actively in its bylaws that they support the rights of all minority groups. “ We are defining what inclusivity means because in the past, related to the incident that Data were collected from a campus-wide survey that received 532 got us kicked off campus, there have been issues with open access,” we wanted to focus our efforts and Vickers said. “The idea that every money there,” she said. “We are single person can rush maybe wasn’t trying to provide scholarship and the greatest thing because there lower the barriers to be a part of an wasn’t any filter, but also inherently organization.”

One of the barriers addressed we want to be inclusive to all people.”

Vickers said that his fraternity by Panhell women is the gap is a strong supporter of the Black between first-year women and Lives Matters movement, as well as upperclassmen women, Huff said. other groups on campus, noting that At Dartmouth, students are eligible Tabard has a strong Native American to join a fraternity, sorority or gender-inclusive organization their population.

Many members of Tabard do not sophomore year. “[Freshmen] are not inherently fit in the traditional systems, he said.

“We have the most identifying coming into sorority houses,” Joyce minorities, percentage-wise, and have said. “I talked to so many [potential the lowest income, percentage-wise,” new members] and sorority women Vickers added. “We span pretty where recruitment is the first time broadly but come together with they have stepped into a sorority space.” shared experience.”

“I think there is a big divide Additionally, financial inclusivity is being addressed by both the GLC between class year at Dartmouth,” and Panhell. The GLC is currently Huff said. “It’s very much an creating a policy and program to aid identifier.”

She added that the six-week organizations supply financial aid to their members. Welch said that freshman fraternity ban creates a all Greek membership is officially divide between freshmen women and affiliated upperclassmen women. need-blind.

“I think there are definitely “Financial need won’t be taken into consideration and won’t be a ways to bridge that gap,” Huff problem for those who are looking said. “However, there is a stigma — whenever anything is associated to join,” Welch added.

Previously Panhell focused on with rush, people get freaked out and programming, such as last year’s nervous.”

The formal recruitment process dance marathon and panels, to facilitate discussion. Chair of Panhell is run by Panhell. According to its Lauren Huff ’17 said Panhell was website, during the first round, a unable to meet all of the scholarship potential new member attends a party requests for sorority houses last year. at each of the eight Panhell chapters.

“So, in the spring, we then decided After the first round, a maximum of

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formal recruitment process starts. While a potential new member can receive bids from more than one organization, they can only accept one bid. For some fraternities, a third night of men’s recruitment is used for call-backs.

The specific recruitment process for gender-inclusive organizations, such as Tabard and Panarchy undergraduate society, is different for each organization.

Huff said that the Greek recruitment process promotes c o m m u n i t y by being an inclusive and open system.

“Recruitment gives everyone an equal chance,” Huff said.

ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF She added that 2 responses. Data are presented in percentages. the number of connections a four houses will invite potential new potential new member has in a members back to attend a second certain house does not affect the round of parties. Following the second choices made throughout the process. round, potential new members will be “The aim is to have potential new invited back to a maximum of two members come in open minded and houses at preference night, which see every house,” she said. “But it’s is the final round of recruitment. an inherently exclusive system just After attending these parties, the by the nature of what it is.” potential new members meet with Batangan said that based on the their Recruitment Counselors, stereotypes portrayed in the media, ranking the houses they attended. she did not originally think she was Following this, the women will be suited for Greek life. granted a bid, which is an invitation “Throughout the rush process, I to become a member of that chapter. met so many cool upperclass[men] Later that night, new members will women who I would’ve never be welcomed at their new sorority. had the chance to meet otherwise Sigma Delt and EKT hold without the rush process, when I was “shake-out,” which mirrors the IFC’s literally forced to sit down and talk recruitment process. to them in their houses,” she said. “I Alpha Pi Omega sorority, Sigma wanted another community to add Lambda Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas onto my already very strong NAD Unidas sorority and Alpha Kappa community.”

Alpha sorority fall under different Sigma Delt’s shake-out process organizations from Panhell and have was established with the goal of different recruitment processes. providing potential new members Recruitment occurs every fall, with as much agency as possible, winter and spring for the IFC; some Kane said. chapters will only take new members “They are coming here because during certain terms. The IFC’s they are interested in meeting people official recruitment process occurs and seeing what the house is, then over the course of three nights. On maybe coming again and saying that the first two nights of recruitment, ‘I’d like to be a part of this space,’” potential new members visit the she added. fraternities that they are interested Joyce, however, said he recognizes in joining. There, they are allowed the pressure that the size of the Greek to “shake-out” at one fraternity community can impose. at the end of the evening, which “There is almost this desperation indicates the potential new member’s about [joining a Greek house],” he top choice. Fraternities deliberate said. “Here [students] feel like, ‘I and give out bids any time after the have to get into a sorority because,

especially for sophomore summer and other times, it’s such a big thing here and it’s not an option — I need to do this.’”

Since there are so many affiliated students on campus, Greek life can be crucial to people feeling like they fit in, Joyce added.

The ways in which each of the 28 College-recognized Greek organizations fosters community is different depending on the house.

Some are member-focused and closeknit, while others develop a larger open and welcoming space.

“By the time our members are brothers, our community is already formed,” Sigma Nu fraternity president Lotanna Ezenwa ’17 said.

“The formal recruitment process is not as applicable to us because we’re just a group of friends that like to hang out with each other.”

He added that Sig Nu’s recruitment process regards strong friendships in the house and involvement in their established community. “[Tabard is] more of a community for our members and focused on the house itself, more than on the outside community,” Vickers said. “There is an interesting balance between a Greek house that is much more open and inviting, hosting more events, and a Greek house like ours, which is much more community-based and member-focused.”

Many regard their houses to be an aggregation from different parts of campus, creating a unique environment.

“When I walk into Chi Delt as a space, I know I will be surrounded by girls who don’t think the same way I do or act the same way I do or are interested in the same things I am interested in,” Batangan said.

“That’s exactly why I came to college, to grow and be challenged.”

With weekly home-cooked meals and “Delta dates” over sophomore summer, Batangan said that Chi Delt works to “break down barriers so people can feel like they can be their whole selves stepping into Chi Delt.”

Kane added that Sigma Delt works to be an inclusive community for all self-identifying women on campus.

“We have so many different people who are interested in different things, involved in different sports, performance groups, and people who generally would not have met without that connection of the house,” she said.

The Dartmouth community undergoes unique transitions, frequently revolving around the D-Plan. During sophomore summer, only the sophomore class is on campus. In The Dartmouth’s survey, 90.1 of affiliated students said they felt “very connected” or “somewhat connected” to social life and activity on campus during sophomore summer, compared to the 52.5 percent of unaffiliated students that said the same. “[Sophomore summer] is definitely different because it can

be pretty Greek-centered – you have a lot of people living in their organizations, if they’re affiliated, or living with friends off campus,” said Kane, adding that there is a “different vibe.”

In the same survey, among sophomores, juniors and seniors, 76.4 percent of unaffiliated and 58.2 percent of affiliated students agree that Dartmouth needs more alternative spaces social spaces to Greek houses on campus. Of the freshmen responses, 59.3 percent agree with the statement. One such space that considers community a pillar of its foundation is the Collis Center.

Collis Governing Board president Sean Cann ’17 said that he thinks Collis provides a great alternative social space for students.

Cann added that the board has been intentionally focusing on weekly programming this year, pointing out Microbrew Mondays and Trivia Tuesdays as examples.

“It’s nice to have consistent events every week that people can show up to and know they have a place there,” he said.

Greek life at the College is not limited to one single narrative for the whole student population, Welch said.

“I think one of the best parts of our community here is that it means something different to every person,” said Welch. “It’s about creating a sense of unity, while trying your best not to make anyone feel excluded.”

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Senior varsity co-captains reflect on close team bonds lead Dartmouth to the second talk about a balance between round of the NCAA tournament. academics and athletics, but I think The Dartmouth His seven shutouts during his senior academics should be the heavier Dartmouth’s athletic programs season are tied for fourth most in a weight. Our students have chosen aren’t as flashy as Duke University single season in Dartmouth soccer to come here to a Division I Ivy b a s k e t b a l l o r O h i o S t a t e history.

League program so obviously the University football, but to those While there are many positives demands are significant. Learning undergraduates at the College to participating in varsity athletics, to balance those things and to who are varsity athletes, their working as both a student and make good decisions is all part of teams are just as important as the an athlete simultaneously is not growing up.” teams playing high-profile games easy. For Orimolade and Hickok, Through prog rams like on national television. the commitment is Dartmouth Peak For football co-captain Folarin unyielding.

“We bring the P e r f o r m a n c e , Orimolade ’17, playing at “[The season] S h e e hy a n d t h e commuity on Dartmouth changed his “life for consumes your mental athletic department the better.” capacity, more than board with us incorporate “It was an amazing feeling even your time, because as we try to academics into to be a part of such an amazing you have games coming their athletic institution with a storied tradition,” up, and you’re always have success.” sphere. Dartmouth Orimolade said. “The team in worried about your has led Division I particular has meant so much to performance,” Hickok in six-HARRY SHEEHY, programs me.” said. ye a r g r a d u at i o n Like many members of the team, Even on top of their ATHLETIC rate in four of the Orimolade has invested countless already busy schedules, DIRECTOR last five years and hours into the football program, many student-athletes has led Division resulting in the formation of a choose to participate in I programs in strong bond among members. various extracurricular Academic Progress “When you’re so focused on the and volunteer activities. Hickok Rate in each of the last four. The goal of winning a game and the knows teammates involved in all Academic Progress Rate rates preparation for that, and you’re sorts of off-field activities, from NCAA varsity teams on a scale HOLLYE SWINEHART/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF spending all this time working band and the arts to mentorship from one to 1000, and is a measure Members of Dartmouth’s football team sing the alma mater together. out with programs off- of athletes’ academic performance each other, getting out of his office as much but if we’re playing Harvard campus. and retention. w a t c h i n g “When you’re so focused “ W e “What we do in athletics is as he can and working with the [University] in Homecoming f i l m w i t h on the goal of winning a t r y t o d o not academic in nature, but it is teams directly. He visits every team football, for three hours virtually each other, our best as certainly educational in nature,” captain to talk about goals and the whole stadium feels the same f i g h t i n g game and the preparation a team to get Sheehy said. “I look at these challenges before the season gets way,” he said. w i t h e a ch for that, and you’re Especially at a college with involved in 35 varsity teams and our club underway. In addition to continued o t h e r, i t f u n d r a i s e r s programs as learning laboratories contact with coaches, he regularly an immensely diver se range spending all this time m ak es fo r a n d e ve n t s to help the young folks mature and speaks to entire Dartmouth of viewpoints, athletics are in a close-knit working out with each t h a t [ t h e gain confidence and strength to be teams. For Sheehy, there is no a unique position to rally the bond that other, watching films with a t h l e t i c able to perform at their highest disconnect between coaches, student body behind a single cause. can’t be department] level. We’re trying to bring assets professors, students, athletes and Just ask any of the hundreds of broken by each other, fighting with students who waited in line outside t h r o w s , ” to bear that will enable our athletes administrators at Dartmouth. anything,” each other, it makes for a He sees the athletic programs Thompson Arena for the hockey Hickok said. to have great success on the field Orimolade as important in unifying the game against Princeton University. u d o n’t and off the field.” close-knit bond that can’t “hYo said.

“We bring the community on ave time Sheehy fosters the connection Dartmouth community.

I n be broken by anthing.”

“No one feels the same way board with us as we try to have like you do between the athletic administration addition to out of season and the teams he overlooks by about anything of importance, success,” Sheehy said. mandatory to do things p r a c t i c e -FOLARIN ORIMOLADE ’17, like skiing a n d f i l m FOOTBALL CO-CAPTAIN t h o u g h . sessions, In season, the football soccer is a t e a m e at s focus almost together around the a l m o s t clock.” every day, in and out of season.

Orimolade, who has taken With all their shared time, on and four classes in each of his last off the field, Orimolade’s teams three terms, knows the struggle of have compiled an impressive 27- balancing athletics and academics 13 four-year record. The senior as well as anyone. himself finished his career second “Your time is essentially gone all-time in sacks for the Big Green from two to eight o’clock, and you with 23.5 and was the 2016 Ivy have class before that,” Orimolade League Defensive Player of the said. “It’s a struggle to find time Year. sometimes. You always make time Similarly, James Hickok ’17, for whatever’s important to you the goalkeeper and captain for the though.” men’s soccer team, experienced Midway through his seventh success on the field and noted season with the school, athletic how close he is to his teammates. director Harry Sheehy prides Hickok considers the seven seniors t h e at h l e t i c d e p a r t m e n t o n on the soccer team to be his closest its continued commitment to friends, and he currently lives with academics.

SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF five of them.

“The experience academically This past fall, Hickok helped comes first,” Sheehy said. “We Floren Varsity House is home to the offices for the football, baseball, softball and women’s lacrosse teams.

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Dartmouth’s commitment to fostering a supportive community is highlighted prominently on the College’s website and in its marketing materials. However, faculty and staff at the College have differing opinions on whether Dartmouth has succeeded in its efforts to create the inclusive community it promotes and publicizes. Some of the new changes implemented by the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative, such as the house communities and an increased focus on academic rigor, seem to be having an effect on the sense of community felt on campus.

Peter Mar sh of facilities, operations & management, who has spent over 30 years working at Dartmouth and is a former trustee for Dartmouth’s branch of the Service Employees International Union, said that he has observed some negative changes in Dartmouth’s community atmosphere over the years.

Marsh explained that students seem to be more academically stressed than ever before. He added that students’ increased focus on academics might have come at the expense of long-standing

Dartmouth traditions. Among the traditions he said that Dartmouth has lost is the construction of snow sculptures during Winter Carnival.

Marsh, who grew up in Hanover, recounted a time decades ago when students built snow sculptures “everywhere.” He added that now, it seems that students are too busy to build any snow sculptures at all. On Jan. 13, a campuswide email announcement from the Winter Carnival Council explained that “many years of

listed decreasing snowfall and an absence of student leadership as reasons for its decision.

Marsh remarked that over the years, campus-wide enthusiasm about events like Homecoming seems to have gradually decreased.

The loss of these traditions could be tied to a larger change i n D a r t m o u t h ’s c o m mu n i t y atmosphere as a whole, he said.

Marsh also said that, in the last decade, a strain of elitism has pervaded campus. He said that this elitism was not entirely contained within the “Our house communities student body. On some provide an opportunity occasions, Marsh said for faculty members in he has felt as though different departments to get Dartmouth community members have treated together in a purely social him as “the help.”

He also said that environment.” over the years, political correctness has stifled -RYAN HICKOX, PHYSICS free speech and open discussion on campus.

PROFESSOR AND WEST HOUSE’S According to Marsh, HOUSE PROFESSOR students used to be more receptive towards more conservative publications like The Dartmouth Review. declining involvement from the Students do not want to read student body” led the Council to anything that they do not agree focus its efforts on other Winter with, he added.

Carnival events. The Council also Still, on the whole, community

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Students study together at House Center B, which is shared by Allen House and School House.

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The two new house centers serve as social and study spaces for students.

at Dartmouth is more of a positive factor than a negative one, Marsh said.

Physics professor Ryan Hickox, who is also West House’s house professor, said he has not noticed any negative trends in student behavior towards each other, faculty and staff during the six years he has worked at the College.

While there are some isolated instances where students are disrespectful towards others, these incidents appear to have become less common throughout his time at Dartmouth, he added.

Dartmouth Dining Services supervisor Gordon Wright said that he has not noticed any trends related to elitism or increased academic stress on campus.

He characterized all of the interactions that he has had with students during his seven-year tenure at DDS as positive, noting that he becomes especially familiar with athletic teams that frequent the Class of 1953 Commons.

He added that most of the interactions he has witnessed occurring between students have been positive.

Hickox said that house c o m mu n i t i e s m i g h t f u r t h e r strengthen the College’s campus community as future classes become more involved in the programming. He said that house communities could facilitate “genuine interactions among diverse groups of people.”

H o u s e c o m mu n i t i e s a l s o facilitate interactions between faculty member s who might otherwise not have ever crossed paths, he said. “ O u r h o u s e c o m mu n i t i e s provide an opportunity for faculty members in different departments to get together in a purely social environment,” Hickox added.

Wright also said that DDS’ p o l i c y o f p rov i d i n g f a c u l t y members with discounted prices, as well as the Paganucci Lounge, which provides faculty with a space to dine with colleagues, have attracted more faculty to eat at ’53 Commons. The increasing presence of College faculty at the dining hall has allowed him to become familiar with faculty members he might not have otherwise encountered, he said.

Marsh, however, said that the College has felt increasingly impersonal and corporate, adding that Dartmouth’s previouslyexisting personal culture set it apart from other universities.

Hickox said that he has not observed any degradation in the College’s ideals of civility, respect, empathy and rigor in his time at the College.

“Most of the things that I see happening on campus give me a very positive sense of where the community is going,” he said. “The vast majority of the interactions that I see [occurring between students] are really positive.”

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The Places We Make

Expanding the Bubble

Building a more unified Dartmouth requires that we start with ourselves.

We must not neglect the greater community we belong to.

There is a lot to the name “Dartmouth.” and individualized nature of community The Dartmouth of today bears almost no building. Community is, after all, just people resemblance to the College on the Hill that en masse, united by common bonds. If we Eleazar Wheelock founded in 1769. The as a Dartmouth community are serious school itself has grown to become one of about bridging interest, race, wealth and the wealthiest and most storied universities lifestyle divides, then we must be willing in the country, with a brand that has swelled to communicate outside of our familiar in tandem. The student body is larger, multi- spaces. ethnic, multi-national, gender-inclusive and Healthy community building occurs on home to many amazing minds and talents. the individual level. It’s all too natural for us These are all expected markers of the 21st to reduce each other to some demographic century university, but reflecting on how or group membership. We don’t make it drastically Dartmouth has evolved over easier for ourselves when we literally wear the years demonstrates that this place is our affiliations on our sleeve, whether it be made up by those who inhabit it. The name some club, sport, Greek house or housing “Dartmouth” is defined by its community; community. It is a mistake, however, to everything that the name connotes is the look at any group as a monolith. Even product of our shared actions. That also the most homogenized group is still made means that people’s perception of this up of individuals, all of whom have a place will vary depending on what part of unique combination of identities and the community they have come to know. lived experiences. Humanizing others and You learn that just by wandering around coming to respect and accept their differing campus. identities is the first step to creating the At the same time as crowds hop up and bonds that we desire. It is easy to understand down Webster Avenue, there are theatrical and communicate with someone who shares works being put on at the Hopkins Center for your interests, but it becomes difficult and the Art, and spoken word performed in One potentially challenging when differences are Wheelock. Groundbreaking more apparent. However, research and last-minute you do not need to be problem sets are completed “Community is, after identical to another person while a student band plays to all, just people en to have camaraderie. If we a packed crowd. On any given want to build a stronger, day, there are club events, masse, united by more connected campus, Greek life activities, nature common bonds.” then we must take the outings, art shows, socials time to learn about and and sporting events of every interact with each other as level for campus to engage individuals. Rome wasn’t in. We pride ourselves on our built in a day — and involvements and interests neither was its culture and so much that we affiliate identity. them with our identities at All of this requires that Dartmouth. For all this supposed diversity we be fearless in action. In context, it’s of identity and involvement, I consistently a bit strange to call venturing into some feel as if the school is not as interconnected party, club or event you’ve never been to as it should be. Those same communities before a brave act, but confidence and we find silo too many of us away from good faith are often requisite when entering the greater community, leading to wildly unfamiliar spaces. This principle is key divergent experiences depending on who to building community on campus and you surround yourself with. In a time when in society at large. The Balkanization of understanding those who are not like us the Friday night social scene is inevitable, has become paramount, I’m concerned but such differences in expression should that even at our small liberal arts college never bar us from interacting or sharing we still find ways to insulate ourselves. in spaces with which we are connected.

Discussions on how to build functioning Dartmouth will always mean many different diverse communities shouldn’t be new to things to different people, but as students Dartmouth students. The debates that it is necessary to appreciate the fact that embroil campus usually focus on how large, there is no one way to “do Dartmouth” quantifiable groups fit into campus. The and that all communities on this campus, Greek system has long been the central and the school itself, are ours to shape, pillar of community at Dartmouth, though not the other way around. We should campus has also debated how to build more also take the opportunity to learn from inclusive clubs, sports teams, performance the exceptional and diverse student body groups and social scenes. A central that is assembled here, as in all likelihood goal of College President Phil Hanlon’s this is the last time that most of us will be Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative is surrounded by those unlike us. We owe it premised on the idea that you can build to each other to at least acknowledge and community through organizations and respect our classmates as individual people, social engineering. This is a fair approach, even if we occupy divergent worlds. This as similar people tend to gravitate toward is not a recipe for social harmony, but any each other. What’s often overlooked in step toward a closer-knit campus must start these talks, however, is the very personal with the one-on-one.

Communité is the Ang lo-French important to be cognizant of our attempts at word that gave rise to our English word inclusion so that we do not unintentionally “community.” Communité signified create exclusionary practices. commonness, everybody — inspiring a After the inauguration, 3.3 million warm, fuzzy feeling of wholesomeness. people participated in a Women’s March “Community” is one of the first words that against the policies of President Donald came to mind when I first visited Dartmouth Trump throughout the country, including during Homecoming in fall of 2013. several groups of Dartmouth students Basking in the glorious peak foliage of New and alumnae. These events featured England autumn, I speeches from public saw alumni — proudly f i g u r e s a c ro s s t h e f l a u n t i n g s we at e r s “Community is fostered political spectrum from class years way through the respect that and galvanized many before either of my to stand up for their it takes to step outside parents’ birth years rights and their fellow — interacting with the of your comfort zone and citizens’ rights, under eager, albeit nervous, listen to a story markedly threat now more than members of the Class ever. of 2017 getting ready different from yours.”

T he Women’s to take part in the March is a shining “cultish” tradition of example of our most running around the essential and innate spectacular bonfire as constitutional right as the newest members American citizens: the of the Dartmouth right to assemble and collective. My decision was made. I decided protest. That right has fueled the birth and to apply to Dartmouth right then and there. growth of the country we all lovingly call Now in my fifth term at Dartmouth, my our own: the United States of America. definition — and definitely the College’s But despite this apparent unity, divisions definition — of community has taken quite remain. Not all women agree about Trump a few turns. Under the all-encompassing and his policies. In achieving victory, he shadow of the Moving Dartmouth Forward carried the votes of 42 percent of women initiative, the Dartmouth community has — including 53 percent of white women. seen highs and lows, unifying solidarity Many have discussed the marginalization and strained tensions. These changes of working-class white voters in the Rust have been openly embraced by some parts Belt and their dissatisfaction with former of the campus population and loudly Democratic presidential candidate Hillary protested by others.

Clinton, perceived as But amidst all this “In these politically one of the key factors change, one trait has that propelled Trump tumultuous times, remained constant: to his victory in key Dartmouth’s openness it is important to states like Ohio and to engage in dialogue reinforce our values of Wisconsin. and voice dissenting While it is true opinions. W hether openness to all opinions that many of the policy it is inside classroom in an academic and measures Trump hopes walls discussing enact are particularly intellectually stimulating to current events or in threatening to women public spaces, our environment.” and minority groups, communal spirit the direct sexism extends to the macro that many protesters level. And after the see in Trump and strong reactions that his team should not the recent presidential breed indirect sexism election and its fallout in retaliation. This h ave e l i c i t e d , o u r holds true for our conception of the Dartmouth community Dartmouth community as well. In these is drastically changing and expanding. politically tumultuous times, it is important “Community” is the free space where to reinforce our values of openness to all students and veteran groups from across the opinions in an academic and intellectually Upper Valley can openly protest and express stimulating environment. In the microcosm dissenting views. Community is fostered of our College on the Hill, it is easy to through the respect that it takes to step trap ourselves in a bubble. But we have outside of your comfort zone and listen to to remain mindful of the fact that our a story markedly different from yours. After community consists of not only the student all, inclusion begins with communication. population but also the communities in the Our campus has been very receptive to Upper Valley region that have ensured the initiating dialogues that, at times, may success of the College from 1769 to the involve uncomfortable and sensitive issues present day. And of course we are also a but ultimately lend themselves to a robust part of a national community. Let’s hope worldview. In this time of change, it is that inclusion doesn’t end up excluding.

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See the Forster Through the Trees

Resilience in Community

Divisive times in America call for common decency.

The fluidity of our community allows us to remain unbreakable.

When I visited a friend in Berkeley, moved through life exuding an essential California, I noticed something odd as we morality. But this aspect of human nature is sat on a café bench still damp from the rain. as elusive as it is effusive, making it difficult Blocking my view of the road were seven for authority to harness. Perhaps this is battered and disused newspaper vending because, as Forster reminds us, the threat machines. I pointed them out to my friend, of force is the foundation of government, and he remarked sullenly, “Don’t make me while such intuitive decency is an altruistic look at them any longer; it’s too depressing.” quality that is the antithesis of physical He had a point. There was something violence. sad and even surreal about those clunky People have vastly different opinions on objects that no longer served a purpose. the state of the nation today, but in general They were forgotten — ­ literally left by the there is undeniable tension on a national wayside. I had needed five minutes just to and global level. In times that are as divisive register their total lack of presence. It was as ours, there is the frequent but politicized strange to be confronted by a labor-saving rallying cry for unity. To me, President device that itself had become obsolete and Donald Trump’s call for “total allegiance to stranger still to feel emotional about it. the United States of America” feels empty Newspaper vending machines are and frightening not just because of my distant memories for my generation, like a dislike for our new leader but also because well-loved relative who died in our infant vapid nationalism is transferrable to any days. I vaguely recall seeing one of these nation on earth, democracy or otherwise. It contraptions as a child and being utterly often holds authoritarian regimes together; confused even then. I asked my dad, “Why without it Vladimir Putin would not have don’t people just take all the newspapers?” an 83 percent approval rating. One of He said something about honesty and how the characteristics of democracies is a most people only need reflexive division and one copy. From my “Even when our good fragmentation, and now-jaded perspective, we should revel in I can understand that it nature is exploited for the contrarian clamor, was probably cheaper profit by an object as however partisan. to have the newspaper

When a good simple as a newspaper vending machine than friend of mine recently to pay someone to hawk machine, you can’t help told me that he voted papers, just as it is now but admire the simple act for Trump, my first more cost-effective to reaction was to say, abandon the device on of taking just one copy off “ W hy d o we h ave roadsides across the the top of the stack.” such different political country than to dispose views?” The discussion of them. that followed was While it is sad to not angry, nor was it behold forgotten times particularly interesting. in their rusted forms, What is apparent is there is some comfort in that friendship made it the sentimental caress of history. The push somewhat pleasant and even funny. Sadly, and pull of technological development and this is not how national discourse plays obsolescence, guided by market forces, is a out. It is inevitably petty, simplistic and permanent fixture in our lives. Even when sometimes violent. our good nature is exploited for profit by A protestor was shot in the days after an object as simple as a newspaper vending the inauguration at the University of machine, you can’t help but admire the Washington, and there was a violent protest simple act of taking just one copy off the at the University of California, Berkeley top of the stack. last week. Whether we are entering a new English novelist E.M. Forster saw such era of violent discourse is not yet clear. common decency as the essence and grace If we are, the national debate will only of the human race. In his resonant essay become more simplistic and petty, with “What I Believe,” published on the eve of finger pointing and accusations of “They World War II, Forster wrote: “The man who started it!” becoming even more common. is selling newspapers outside the Houses of At the heart of these developments is how Parliament can safely leave his papers to the debate over debate itself has developed. go for a drink, and his cap beside them: The argument over what divides free speech anyone who takes a paper is sure to drop a from hate speech has only intensified in the copper into the cap. But the men who are Trump era and it deserves a much longer inside the Houses of Parliament — they discussion than I can give here. can’t trust one another like that; still less In order to have the intellectual can the government they compose trust confrontations we crave, at least one group other governments.” must abstain from physical force and be a Forster understood that there is a champion of common decency. Otherwise, fundamental under standing in our the communities we participate in will immediate human interactions that forms be strained to the point where calls for the foundation of a peaceful society. He unquestioning American unity will sound identified a certain type of person who appealing rather than terrifying.

Wednesday nights at Dartmouth are usually lively. In Greek houses across campus, affiliated women and men congregate for weekly bonding festivities, and crowds of students gather in living rooms to watch a cappella groups perform.

The faint sound of music emanating from fraternity basements hangs over Webster Avenue as groups of students brave the Hanover winter nights. Collis Late Night, Domino’s Pizza and Everything But Anchovies see to it that the night doesn’t end until we’ve indulged.

Last week was different. On Wednesday night, Webster Avenue was silent enough to hear a pin drop in the snow. The Interfraternity Council had sent out a campus-wide email that all fraternities would be closed for the night. The crowds that would have gathered in fraternity basements instead gathered on Beta Alpha Omega fraternity’s lawn to commemorate the life of Adam Wright ’17, a Beta brother, a friend, a student, a member of our Dartmouth community.

At the College, where approximately 4,300 undergraduates inhabit a secluded rural campus quiety located in the middle of nowhere, each person carries a weighty presence. Each of us is closely tied to something: to an organization, a society, our Greek affiliation, our friends, our peers.

If every person on Earth is separated by no more than six degrees, then every person on this campus is family.

There is a special sense of community at Dartmouth that manifests itself in every type of social situation. First-year trips exposes us to this odd, and arguably cultish, form of camaraderie. This five-day adventure with fellow freshmen welcomes us into Dartmouth’s family, where tutus, crazy hair colors and animal onesies reign.

Moreover, this sense of community is fluid enough to fit a diversity of circumstances.

The flag burning demonstration on the Green led by Timothy Messen ’18 was a situation that had the potential to become inflammatory, yet it evolved into a dialogue where opposing sides could vocalize their opinions with the guarantee that the other side would listen and respond.

GroupMes for Dartmouth organizations are conversational outlets for a healthy combination of crude comedy and honest debate. Workshops, panels and group discussions provide open forums to discuss difficult issues and controversial current events, while dinner conversations between friends provide a similar purpose in a more intimate setting.

The Dartmouth community is one that none of us can help but immerse ourselves in. No matter how involved we choose to be, we all contribute to this madness. It’s embedded in our language, exemplified by terms like “Foco,” “tails” and “flair.”

We realize just how unusual our learned language is when we’re on the phone with our friends from home and have to translate from the Dartmouth dictionaries that we’ve

catalogued in our brains. It’s embedded in our lifestyles, from our “work-hard-playhard” mentality to our shared battle every fall to survive the freshman plague.

We, as Dartmouth students, have allowed ourselves to become a part of a collective even as we still manage to maintain a high degree of individuality.

We are not just running blind with the pack; we are engineering majors who talk about literature and art majors who know everything about politics. We choose to be a part of the pack for its ability to enrich our lives. We join organizations and make affiliations not for the promise of having friends and people to tag in Facebook photos, but for the conversations and events that make our Dartmouth experiences so life-changing. We immerse ourselves in the collective not just because it guarantees that we will have people to eat dinner with and parties to attend, but because we teach each other empathy and we offer unique narratives.

Dartmouth is an inherently communal place, but we are not so collectivized that we lose our individuality. We are a community that is capable of going beyond the surface level. In the wake of Wright’s passing, we saw our Dartmouth community bend under the weight. When grief hits, certain individuals will be affected more than others, but grief touches all parts of a community.

The resiliency of this community is deeply rooted and unbreakable because each of us who chooses to be a part of the collective takes a share of the burden. It is far more bearable to be hit by disaster with others who can help carry some of the weight than it is to bear it alone.

Dartmouth is many things, but the beauty of Dartmouth transcends the flair that we wear, our beloved cultish rituals and the stateliness of Baker Tower. It comes from the dirt and the grit underneath the centuries-old buildings that our community has worked so hard to keep pristine. There is beauty in admitting that we’re not doing well in a place where there is such high expectation to do well — and there’s beauty in how we feel at the end of a long night as we kick off our shoes and get ready to sleep before another day.

In the same communal spaces that we socialize in on weekends, we also share our personal struggles, discuss controversial issues and gather together in solidarity to mourn the loss of a fellow member of our community. The fluidity of the Dartmouth community is what makes us unbreakable in times of distress. While no one is supposed to see the cracks and the peeling paint, this side of our community is the most honest and beautiful perspective that Dartmouth offers because it is a testament to our resiliency in a system that relentlessly pushes us.

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have undergone various challenges as they tried to settle in the new environment. Students like Guo and Nanov experienced culture shock when they arrived, they said.

“Even if we have a lot of friends, when we exchange ideas, we are not really on the same page due to the difference in our past experiences and system of values,” Guo said. “It is sometimes hard to find someone who really understands you.”

Nanov added that the disparity between his expectations of Dartmouth and what he witnessed in reality was disappointing.

“I was unaccustomed to the ‘frat’ culture and found it challenging to accept that it is the primary way to spend leisure time,” he said.

According to Nanov, he was impressed by the number of academic lectures and events the College coordinates but was also disappointed with the consistently low student turnout.

“So few students attend the lectures held by the humanities speakers or [Hopkins Center] events,” Nanov said. “That is not what I had expected coming to a school with a reputation that Dartmouth has.”

Samples, who g rew up in cities with large international populations, said he believed the College’s rural setting and its relative lack of international students made his adjustment to Dartmouth more difficult. “[In a city], you have opportunities to be with and go to a community group and find other people from your background or other people from stories similar to

yours,” Samples said. “It is difficult [at Dartmouth] since there aren’t many international students.”

Meanwhile, Kirumba said his adjustment phase was much smoother because he had family members living in the United States.

“Something I am thankful for is the feeling of home here,” he said. “When everyone leaves for ‘winterim’ to spend Thanksgiving with their families, I can do that here — I know that’s not the case with some of my [international] friends.”

One issue that international students said they believe will pose a challenge for the College’s future international community is the recent end of need-blind a d m i s s i o n fo r i n t e r n at i o n a l applicants. Starting with the Class of 2020, the financial need of international applicants was factored into admission decisions.

In an article published in The Dartmouth on Jan. 27, 2016 that focused on the application pool for the Class of 2020, director of admissions Paul Sunde wrote in an email that the number of applications from international students has either stayed constant or increased. However, many international students expressed concerns about the impact that this policy change will have on the international community.

“When the information [about the need-aware policy] came down, there was a lot of outrage — why was this decision being made, did they think about how this was going to affect people applying to Dartmouth because it’s an important part of their decision

to come and that this opportunity is not going to leave us in crazy debt,” Kirumba said.

Guo said that this issue had a positive influence in bringing members of the international community together.

“The change in financial aid is the only issue that I could think of that binds the international community together and sheds some light on our identity as international students because we are fighting for the common cause,” Guo said.

A c c o rd i n g t o Z h a n g, t h e College’s change to need-aware admissions illustrates its underappreciation of international students.

“I think the College should focus on actually accepting more international students and not take financial aid away,” Zhang said.

“I don’t think we are valued as much as international students in other institutions — [Dartmouth’s] actions don’t reflect how much they value us.”

Nanov said he also thinks that the current political climate has posed challenges to international students in all U.S. highereducation institutions.

“I feel like especially in light of the executive action on immigration signed by the p re s i d e n t , t h e i n t e r n at i o n a l community throughout all U.S. institutions have been affected,” Nanov said. “I think it’s important for the College and other students to realize that it’s a great challenge to come to the U.S. from abroad, so I would appreciate the support from other students on campus and the College administration.”

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International students head to Moosilauke Lodge to snowshoe in December 2016.

that improving the high school and middle school facility was an important community asset that had some value for faculty and staff at Dartmouth, as well as newly recruited faculty and administration who were looking to relocate, the College agreed to help subsidize $9.2 million for the project. The College also paid $50,000 for a new boat for the Connecticut River for the fire department to use in emergencies, Griffin added.

Now, the College works with the town to plan joint cultural activities, facilitate events that happen on Dartmouth’s campus which the community also takes part in and collaborate on infrastructure projects, Griffin said. Such projects include rebuilding sidewalks, building a new bus shelter, burying utilities underground and switching street lights over to LEDs. Dartmouth alsodirectly contributes to Hanover infrastructure through tax contributions. This tax relationship means that Dartmouth, as a private college, pays property taxes on dorms and dining halls, making Dartmouth the largest taxpayer in Hanover, paying $7 million in dining halls and residence halls taxes alone, according to Griffin. The tax revenue goes towards the general fund operating budget for the town, which includes the operations of the public works department, police department, parks and recreation, planning and zoning, administrative debts and the two local libraries. In addition to this, Dartmouth pays a fire tax, a water tax and wastewater fees that go towards the water treatment facility, the water distribution system, the sewer collection system and sewer treatment facility, Griffin said. These taxes allow the town to do “a lot of things that your average community that hosts a state university in New Hampshire can’t do,” she said.

“I am sure that there are always people who think the College should be doing more than [it’s] doing, but a lot of our residents simply don’t have a really detailed sense of all that the College is doing in part because the College doesn’t blow its own horn about those things,” she said.

However, the problems that the College does have are under scrutiny by the community, such as the issues with Rennie Farm. The College was recently accused of contaminating the land of Hanover residents by burying animal remains that had been used for medical research at Rennie Farm in the 1960s and 1970s. Kenyon says the community is “waiting to see what Dartmouth does” in regards to this issue. “[Dartmouth executive vice

president] Rick Mills has talked about that — that they’re going to make it right — so people are just are very interested to see how the College defines that,” he said.

After Kenyon spoke with The Dartmouth, on Feb. 6 the College agreed to compensate homeowners for any losses they may experience in the housing market that are caused by the contamination.

Kenyon said that Dartmouth is a corporation and that its nature as a business often impacts the way it deals with issues like Rennie Farm and the rest of the community.

“People think that higher education is about is a philanthropic operation,” he said. “Those days are long over. So the important thing is for people to remember that Dartmouth is a business and they operate like a business.”

He and Griffin both point out that Dartmouth once had a community relations officer who was in charge of managing relations and issues with the town, but that position is no longer in place. Griffin said it would be helpful to have a person with a similar role whose job it is to “keep their ear to the ground and take the pulse of the community” to maintain Collegetown relations. However, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email statement that Heather Drinan, an associate director in the office of the Vice Provost for Research, takes care of many aspects of community relations such as responding to community concerns, securing public grants, attending community meetings and meeting with public officials. Lawrence added that community relations are also handled by the College’s Real Estate Office, the Provost’s Office and the President’s office.

The College’s responsibility to actively maintain this relationship with Hanover, and divert resources to do this, is one of its competing priorities, according to Griffin. She acknowledged that the town cannot expect the College to use its money to better the town, and that the College’s mission is not to improve the town, but to educate their students. However, she believes that the more the College dedicates to the town, the more will be returned back to the students and the College community.

“It’s a balancing act, and I recognize that,” she said. “But I know as a municipal manager that there are all sorts of ways that we take care of our residents and that is so appreciated by our residents. It comes back to us tenfold in terms of positive impacts on the relationship that the town has with its constituents, and so I think it behooves the College to continue to stay focused on what they can do to support the community.”

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Agosto said, because access to resources is a shared experience high school experience. Putting and it cuts across all identities. students in classes such as Writing “But class can also exacerbate 2-3 instead of Writing 5 and pressures or discriminations you providing resources like RWIT already feel as a woman or person and free tutoring can help students of color or as a member of the achieve academic success, she said. LGBT+ community,” she said.

However, Agosto said that the “It’s sometimes challenging to be very act of reaching out for help a first-generation student who’s and engaging with resources can not low-income because there be difficult if students were not are conflations of those identities socioculturally prepared to express that aren’t accurate. It can be challenging to be white and low themselves in those ways.

“When we created FYSEP, it income because of the conception was less about teaching people that your skin color makes you to navig ate Dartmouth and privileged in a way that you might more about accessing resources not be.”

When and asking it comes to for help,” she “When we created discussion said. “It’s less about class about ability FYSEP, it was less about identity on a n d m o r e teaching people to c a m p u s, about being Corwin said t a u g h t t o navigate Dartmouth and that she has ask for help more about accessing often felt the and going to topic pushed office hours. resources and asking for away during That creates help.” most social a discrepancy interactions. in ter ms of “I’ve access that we -LIZ AGOSTO ’01, SENIOR only just c o n t i nu e t o ASSOCIATE DEAN OF realized that fight against.” there’s so C o r w i n STUDENT AFFAIRS many people said that many around me low-income i n d i f f e re n t students as well as first-generation students situations,” Corwin said. “It’s not may have no experience or idea something that Dartmouth kids of what an Ivy League college has bring up a lot. I don’t know if it’s to offer. Figuring out financial aid because people assume everyone’s and whether or not one can go well off or can at least afford to abroad were some difficulties a participate in Dartmouth activities the way they can.” student may face, she said.

“Socioeconomic status blends a Malzman said that she thought lot with first-generation [status] so it was important to have discussions that can relate back to how people about socioeconomic status on don’t know what they can do here,” campus and that such discussion would be helpful to people who she said.

The overlap of first-generation come from different backgrounds, and low-income status can often especially in a space created by a lead to the misconception that program like DQSE. one means the other. Castillo said Agosto said that the creation that not every first-generation of programs like FYSEP provides student is low income, and that students with the ability to talk Dartmouth’s definition of a first- about being first-generation and generation student is someone low-income so that they feel that whose parents did not receive a their identity is not something four-year college education in the to be ashamed of. She said that students who have resources United States.

“It can bring up an awkward should acknowledge that there are conversation in the first-generation students who are different. c o m mu n i t y, ” C a s t i l l o s a i d . “We have to find spaces to “[Members of the community] acknowledge why some students are mostly the same socioeconomic aren’t doing certain things or status, but if there’s a first- how are we treating students who generation student who doesn’t work at dining halls,” Agosto said. share the same experience, it can “Some students who don’t work don’t acknowledge that there are be easily noted.”

While different identities can students who are working and also gain prominence at different parts taking classes. There is a need to of one’s life, socioeconomic class recognize that your experience is can become a “great equalizer,” not everyone else’s experience.”

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Policy, Innovation and Delivery LLC and the Thought Project LLC are student-designed.

Busam said that coordinating events for his LLC would be easier with more support from the administration in terms of dealing with logistics and securing funding for events.

More communication between administrators and LLCs, as well as clarification on which administrator

Faculty,” where a faculty member picks a movie to watch over dinner with students and leads a discussion afterwards. Members also attend student-centered events, like cooking Japanese food and singing karaoke.

The Chinese Language House, a standalone LLC on North Main Street, provides a similar experience for students who want to improve their fluency in Chinese language and “I understand the necessity culture. According to Chinese for a safe space, but it Language House member would be really nice to have Catherine Conway ’17, the learning experience may be [Triangle House] open to the more valuable for students broader community.” advanced enough to speak outside of a classroom setting, but advanced speakers do help -RAFA ROSAS ’20 less-experienced members.

According to Conway, Chinese Language House members commit to eating dinner while speaking Chinese with live-in advisor and visiting to reach out to for a specific project, professor Hesheng Zhang every week. would be helpful, Busam added.

Though speaking Chinese at all times Torrey also said that she felt there is mandatory in theory, the rules are was some ambiguity regarding who in place to encourage students to to contact and what kind of requests practice, rather than to restrict them were reasonable to make. to speaking only Chinese, Conway Torrey also brought up how LLCs said. can be integrated into the new house Many LLCs are only a few community system. Certain LLCs years old, and LLC administrators are trying to foster a larger sense of and residents expressed ideas for general community among the houses change and excitement about future by having joint events with other developments.

LLCs. The LLC system continues to The Interfaith LLC, for example, evolve with the possibilities of the has collaborated with the Thought “Design Your Own Community” Project LLC by hosting an event in LLC initiative. Both the Healthcare which environmental studies and

writing professor Terry Osborne shared a spiritual autobiography “in secular terms” in Occom Commons, Torrey said. According to Busam, the Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Delivery LLC has also had very similar speakers to the Thought Project and is attempting to collaborate in the future with the Thought Project.

Recently, a barbecue and winter outdoors activity event was hosted for all LLC students. By aiming for an “LLC identity,” the program helps make students feel included even if they might feel excluded from the housing system, Conway said.

Rosas, however, expressed a desire for his LLC to be more connected with the rest of the school. Though non-LGBTQ identifying students are welcome in Triangle House, only residents have access to the building.

“I understand the necessity for a space safe, but it would be really nice to have [Triangle House] open for set time frames where it’s open to the broader community,” Rosas said.

Rosas expressed his appreciation for Queer Family Dinners, which are events held in Triangle House by Spectra, a club for queer and allied students at Dartmouth.

“Triangle House is huge [in terms of size] for the amount of people that live in it, [so] it always makes me sad that not more things happen there because it has the potential to be such an amazing space,” Rosas said. He also said that he hopes more events will be held at Triangle House, especially as Spectra grows.

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The Interfaith Living and Learning Community dined with the Jones Family Singers, a gospel choir that came to Hanover during the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration this year.

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Through the Looking Glass:

Dartmouth’s Mythical Community

to find a community within Dartmouth, because “Dartmouth” as a community just was not Winters at Dartmouth are enough. Being a Dartmouth my favorite terms. Winters in student gives you a sense of general are my favorite time — camaraderie, not necessarily a there is something magical in the supportive community. Whether or beginning not communities, of the by default, must year, the “I say ‘mythical’ because be supportive promise of I’m not sure Dartmouth’s i s a q u e s t i o n something for another n e w a n d community really exists.” day. But in my the hope imagination, in for many a c o m m u n i t y, snow days. people actively I have been on campus every care for one another. That winter, winter, and I have come to I didn’t feel cared for. appreciate this hated term for My second winter, I began to slightly shorter lines at the Collis find spaces that cared for me.

Center and a general acceptance Beginning to work out what I had of not going out on Friday nights. valued over my first year and a I have also come to appreciate how half, I realized the communities much my winters here have taught I valued were exclusively female. me about Dartmouth’s mythical In the female-dominated social community. spaces and the group chats that I say “mythical” because I’m were never silent, I began to build not sure Dartmouth’s community my community out of the women r e a l l y e x i s t s . D a r t m o u t h ’s here. That same winter, I took community is advertised as this Religion 20.2, “Magic, Science & passionate, loving, all-consuming Religion,” hoping to learn about entity in which first-years feel magical worlds (we did not). That welcomed from the moment term I learned the magical world they step onto Robo lawn during was not some alternate universe Trips. While that welcoming but finding magic in the mundane spirit is undeniably present at of Dartmouth: in the pleasures of many moments, Dartmouth’s sending music to friends, in the community feels fractured to me. dependency of a weekly lunch date, My first winter, I learned how in teaching skiing and in beginning much I could hate Dartmouth. I to find my voice about how I was not taking hard classes, and felt toward Dartmouth. I started it was snowing a writing more; lot, which should “I learned a lot that I remember both be positive best a piece for t h i n g s , b u t I winter about the Mouth entitled, was floundering worst in people; “How are you?” i n s e a rc h f o r about how simultaneously, I something that fake our daily could be mine realized how much interactions a n d a p l a c e I longed to find a here are and where I could an anonymous f e e l at h o m e. community within submission to Memories of fall Dartmouth, because Vo i c e s t h a t of my first year w i n t e r. A t ‘Dartmouth’ as a feel hazy and Voices, when a overwhelming. community just was girl walked out Nothing stuck not enough.” onto the stage from that fall and began besides my telling my story, academics tears started (taking History streaming 24, “The Cold down my face.

War & American My friends Life,” was the best decision I have enveloped me in hugs and held made in my time here — that me and reassured me that my story professor is now my thesis advisor). was important and I didn’t sound That failure to find solid ground stupid. These women caring for in the fall — I joined no clubs and me reminded me that I had found became a member of no groups my own little community here at — translated to feeling lost in this Dartmouth. supposedly close community. I My third winter, I found joy in learned a lot that winter about the Dartmouth. Not for the first time, worst in people; simultaneously, but for the most sustained time.

I realized how much I longed I wasn’t taking classes, and the

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Emily Burack ’17 talks about how Dartmouth’s community may seem mythical at times.

issues that typically characterize friends and helped me uncover and protected. I am frustrated by my terms here – insurmountable my academic passions has also the trust that should be there in a workloads and stress – faded away been extraordinarily challenging hookup that is not, by the lack of into research I enjoyed, wintery and draining. I am trying to help support for the most marginalized adventures that let me explore the spaces and communities I belong students here and by the notion beauty of the Upper Valley and to and care deeply about become that one Dartmouth community dedicated viewings of “Jane fits all. the Virgin.” Happiness is so D u r i n g t h e w i n t e r, fleeting here; one moment, “I would take my friendships, Dartmouth is the best, even I can feel so happy and so the women who have made though it can sometimes be content, thinking, “Wow, I the worst. It reminds me this place meaningful and love this place,” and the next, that I love snow days more I feel so dejected and drained magical, over this large and than anything. It reminds that I don’t know how I have mythical community any day.” me that not everyone can ever enjoyed school. But that understand Dartmouth’s winter, that third winter, community the way I do, and reminded me of all the love I can’t understand it as my that exists in my life because peers do. Everyone at this of Dartmouth. All the magic school has competing views of music blitzes and yummy of Dartmouth, not only as sandwiches on sourdough the school ought to be but as bread and drinking good beer it exists. Trying to reconcile with good friends. more inclusive. But I struggle with these divergent views of a place Now, during my final winter, how communities premised on we all share to form one opinion I am struggling to reconcile exclusivity, like Dartmouth itself, on Dartmouth’s community is the moments of magic in this can ever be considered inclusive. I just not possible. But I know this: place and this community with am frustrated by the failures of our I would take my friendships, the the moments where I feel as community, from the small to the women who have made this place lost as I did that first winter. I large, and the current inability of meaningful and magical, over this try to understand how a place Dartmouth to make every student large and mythical community any that has brought me my closest on this campus feel supported day.