The Dartmouth Commencement and Reunion 2016

VOL. CLXXIII NO.93

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

COMMENCEMENT & REUNION Class of

2016

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Senior class gift participation rate expected to decrease this year

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Seniors reflect on GPAs’ impact on students and career prospects

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Class of 2016 sees major policy changes Senior Survey

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For many graduating seniors, Commencement marks the end of academia and the beginning of something new. The ’16s have finally escaped the clutches of Baker-Berry Library, parted with their favorite flair and spent the last of their DBA in preparation for the very real world outside of our beloved Hanover. They are ready to utilize the skills they’ve acquired at Dartmouth and to learn from new mistakes along the way.

At the same time, Commencement also represents a time of reflection, especially for those marveling at how fast four years flew by. Perhaps it seemed like less than a month ago when you shook the president’s hand at matriculation and marched from the river to the Green for the first bonfire. In four years, you’ve seen a fair amount of change (pg. 6). You’ve witnessed the rise of the infamous Sun God’s “driving theater” and the inauguration of our 18th president, College President Phil Hanlon. You watched Keggy the Keg and the moose battle it out for a spot as the unofficial mascot. You experienced the death of Bored at Baker and the birth of Yik Yak . You spent lazy summer mornings on the river, winter afternoons on the skiway and countless nights in the library. And 50 years later, you will still be able to come back and call this place home (pg. 11).

With all its nostalgia and collective sentiments, Commencement is a time of celebration of these memories and more. It is a time to remember all the victories and failures you endured together. The friendships, the relationships and everything in-between. Here’s to this year’s graduating class. Let’s celebrate what you have accomplished and look forward to what you will achieve in the future.

Here’s to you, Class of 2016. Congratulations!

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Concern about paying off student loans looms over seniors

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Despite graduating, students plan to continue their art

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Senior athletes discuss moving on from the Big Green

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Ryan: A Sense of Place

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Yona: Dear Hanlon

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Levine: Appreciating the Day-to-Day

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McKay: When you Least Expect It

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Senior class gift participation rate expected to decrease this year

By CARTER BRACE

The Dartmouth Staff

The Class of 2016 may only just be graduating but as in past years, the College is asking its seniors donate to the senior class gift.

As of press time, 28 percent of the class has contributed to the fund, raising around $13,018. In total, the gift has raised $31,604, when including the Class of 1966, underclassmen, staff and others’ contributions. Seniors have until June 30, the end of Dartmouth’s fiscal year, to donate.

For the past 20 years, participation rates have been in the range of 65 to 75 percent, senior class gift co-chair David Cordero ’16 said.

The College has recently seen some decline in participation rates, admittedly from extremely high rates of participation. For instance, the Class of 2010 boasted a 99.9 percent participation rate as all but one student donated.

Since this peak in 2010, participation has declined over the following five years. The Class of 2015 had a participation rate of 61 percent, down 1 percent from the Class of 2014’s participation rate and 9 percent down from the Class

of 2013’s participation rate. the College stems from the percep- College through the Multi-School In 2012, the graduating class tion that administrators are not Divestment Fund, which will only reached an 80 percent mark. From listening to student concerns. give money to Dartmouth once it 2007 to 2015, the average participa- Leehi Yona ’16 echoed these divests from fossil fuels. sentiments in an email. Yona, a co- Bryan Thomson ’16 wrote a coltion rate was 82.5 percent.

Cordero said that this year with founder of Divest Dartmouth, wrote umn published in The Dartmouth the ’16s, the College hopes to explaining why he would not be get roughly 50 percent par- “[Leading the 2016 senior donating to the class gift. In the ticipation.

Last Thomson stated that he class gift campaign is] a labor column, year, the Class of 2015 raised had struggled to justify a single $20,143.30 in contributions and of love for Dartmouth. Even major policy decision made by when totaled with the alumni College in his time here. though I have my qualms the gifts from the Class of 1965, the Thomson specifically criticized with this place, I’m very the hard alcohol ban, undergifts equaled $85,830.90.

The campaign includes four advisor and Safety and content and I feel like I’ve graduate co-chairs as well as 44 senior Security walkthroughs to monivolunteers who typically help been fortunate enough to tor dorm activities, increasing reach out to 30 to 45 friends to have this opportunity [so] regulations of Greek life, the end tell them about the senior class of the acceptance of advanced someone else should.” gift. placement credits, and the “It ultimately makes it perchange to reinstate need-aware sonal to have a conversation with admission for international stu-DAVID CORDERO ’16, SENIOR someone you know,” he said. dents.

The funds raised go toward CLASS GIFT CO-CHAIR

Nonetheless, both Yona financial aid for the incoming and Thomson noted that they Class of 2020, said Jeff Hafner were recipients of financial aid. ’02, Dartmouth College Fund senior that she would not be donating to In Thomson’s column he also said class gift managing director. the senior class gift until the Col- he had benefited from aspects of Cordero noted that this year stu- lege responded to student concerns the College including flexible offdents publically chose to not donate, including those about fossil fuel terms, renowned professors and and as a consequence, the campaign divestment, issues about low rates a diverse student body, but added is expecting a lower participation of faculty of color and high rates that he believed these elements had rate than previous years. of sexual assault. Instead, Yona suffered in his time at the College Much of the dissatisfaction with stated that she was donating to the for various reasons.

Yona said that her fellow classmates also cited the lack of an inclusive community for people of color and a disregard for sexual assault victims. According to Yona, students also cited the level of administrative bureaucracy, which was a similar concern of Thomson’s.

While Cordero admitted that his Dartmouth experience had not been perfect, he decided to lead the class gift campaign because of his overall positive experience at the College.

“It’s a labor of love for Dartmouth,” he said. “Even though I have my qualms with this place, I’m very content and I feel like I’ve been fortunate enough to have this opportunity [so] someone else should.”

A study comparing alumni donation rates revealed high correlations of alumni giving with five measures based on students’ perceptions, including intellectual development as well as the ability to stay close with undergraduate friends. Of schools with more than 3,000 students, the study found the College placed second in the nation in average alumni giving percentage from 2008 to 2011, only behind SEE SENIOR CLASS GIFT PAGE 8

Seniors reflect on GPAs’ impact on students and career prospects

By AMANDA ZHOU

The Dartmouth Staff`

For most of the Class of 2016, graduation marks the last time that their performance will be quantified by grades. Three graduating seniors reflected on how course selection, campus climate and job recruitment have shaped their perceptions of their GPA over the past four years.

Like many students, Feyaad Allie ’16 and Taylor Watson ‘16, reported a lot of grade-induced stress during the beginning of their Dartmouth experiences, but became more relaxed later on. Watson postulated that “stressing about grades was mostly a freshman year thing” because his sense of belonging was more dependent on achieving high grades. Later, he said, his graderelated worries changed depending on course layout and material. For example, the rigorous nature of organic chemistry challenged him to work hard to remain above the median.

“I learned how to ask questions and figure out what works. I think a lot of Dartmouth students struggle with asking questions or admitting if they can’t do things,” Watson said.

Watson heavily prioritizes class assignments and themes when selecting classes within his major, but he admitted that he tends to care more about numerical grades when selecting ‘lay-up’ classes to fill distributive

requirements or to balance termly workload. He emphasized that it is crucial to balance work and fun; getting too hung up on grades can be unhealthy and cost people other enjoyable aspects of their college experience.

“Not having that standard, ‘You have to do the best you possibly can at all costs,’ I think, was really healthy, and I ended up doing fine in my courses,” Watson said.

Overall, Allie echoed Watson’s sentiments, saying that although he checked medians and asked others about the course load when selecting courses, he ultimately cared more about the professor than the grade. Allie argued that it’s always worth it to work a little bit harder than usual ­— sometimes sacrificing the prospect of an easy A — ­ if the course material or the professor seems really exciting.

Robert Scales ’16 also agreed that median grades should not dictate students’ class-selection process.

“That attitude could really blind one from some of the incredible academic opportunities that Dartmouth offers,” Scales said.

Scales was fascinated by economics when he came to Dartmouth, and he declared a major in the department, despite economics classes’ tough grading reputation. He said that he has learned to distance his grades from his emotions.

“Grades are certainly one aspect

of Dartmouth, but I don’t think they should overshadow the other elements of the Dartmouth experience,” Scales said.

Allie observed that in his experience, it has been difficult to tell whether students’ attitudes towards grades at the College are healthy or unhealthy, because no one really discusses them.

“It’s somewhat taboo to talk about [grades] informally,” Allie said.

Watson, on the other hand, was optimistic that most people on campus feel pretty good about their GPAs. “At the end of the day, it’s not worth groveling for a grade. I think the majority of people feel fine about [their numerical performance],” he said.

One reason that students may be generally satisfied with their performances is that everyone is doing relatively well. On average, students are receiving higher and higher grades each year. Over the past few decades, the average Dartmouth grade point average has risen from 3.05 in the 1970s to 3.40 in the 2010s — representing an 11.48 percent increase across all departments.The number of valedictorians and salutatorians has increased over the past few years. Last year, the Class of 2015 recognized a grand total of 12 students at graduation, naming four valedictorians and eight salutatorians. From 2010-

2015, there were on average four valedictorians and four salutatorians recognized in each graduating class.

In comparison, from 2004-2009, there were on average only one to two valedictorians and one to two salutatorians recognized in each graduating class.

In some ways, a transcript full of A’s is inconclusive. College President Phil Hanlon addressed this issue as part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward “policy initiative, emphasizing the importance of curbing grade inflation to increase classroom rigor. One part of the proposal involved the potential removal of the non-recording option. On May 22, however, the Dartmouth faculty voted not to change the nonrecording option. Many argued that increased focus on GPA would lead to a decrease in intellectual exploration.

One theoretical culprit for grade inflation is the growth of an increasingly competitive workplace. As students compete more intensely for jobs, the standard grade point average will naturally rise. Allie, Scales and Watson all agreed that grades play a role in hiring after college.

Scales said that GPA is an undeniably important number in the world of job recruiting, but it was just one of many factors that influenced his studies at Dartmouth. A high GPA, he said, cannot define a person, but it can be indicative of a strong work

ethic.

“I think an intrinsic desire to develop intellectually is key for succeeding in the real world, but grades obviously don’t exist after college,” Scales said.

Allie believes that grades are an easy way for employers to sort through intern resumes, but they do eventually lose relevance.

“Once you graduate to your first job, no one cares about your GPA. They care about your job experience,” Allie said.

Watson argued that grades matter more if someone decides to apply to specific institutions like medical school, law school or high-end finance jobs. However, he is not interested in any of these areas; he noted that if he decides to apply to graduate schools later, his GPA will matter, but so will his post-graduation experiences.

The overall consensus was that Dartmouth students crave the opportunity to learn and to be challenged, without placing too much emphasis on grades.

“Coming from a high school at which grades received much more attention, I think Dartmouth students place an appropriate amount of emphasis on grades,” Scales reflected. “I think this balance is relatively unique within higher education, and Dartmouth students’ levelheadedness definitely enhanced my experience here.”

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Class of 2016 sees major policy changes, including several under Moving Dartmouth Forward

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When the Class of 2016 entered in 2012, Dartmouth accepted Advanced Placement credits. Twentyone-year-olds could drink hard alcohol. There was no talk of housing communities, and socializing in Greek houses began immediately without a six-week ban.

None of this can be said about Dartmouth in 2016. Much has changed in the past four years. The “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, introduced by College President Phil Hanlon in the winter of 2015, included wideranging changes: hard alcohol was banned on campus, a new residential housing system was introduced, and new organizational review standards for all student organizations were established.

The College also now does not accept credit for AP courses — although incoming students can still place out of introductory courses. A satisfactory grade on the Calculus AB Exam, for example, will give students credit for Math 03 “Introduction to Calculus” and placement into Math 08 “Calculus of Functions of One and Several Variables.”

The Greek Leadership Council implemented its six-week prohibition on first-year students entering Greek houses — except at specific pre-registered events — on Aug. 30, 2013. The decision, which Princeton University implemented in 2012,

was a part of the College’s Greek First-Year Safety and Risk Reduction policy.

A more recent, talked-about change is the end of a need-blind admission policy for international students. The admissions office, starting with the Class of 2020, is using a need-aware policy, which takes the financial need of international applicants into consideration when making their decision.

These policy changes have generated mixed effects, according to student leaders. House communities — possibly the biggest single change in Dartmouth’s undergraduate life over the past decades — are not necessarily met with warmth, although some see potential.

“In talking to house professors, I got the impression they did not understand the PR deficit they were starting out at,” former Sigma Phi Epsilon president Taylor Watson ’16 said.

Watson — who consulted on housing communities’ development as an undergraduate advisor and served as accountability chair for the Greek Leadership Council, amongst numerous other posts in student leadership — said the communities could benefit the student body but only with a strong buy-in from both students and the College.

“On any given night, to be a successful, inclusive community, you have to be more exciting to a freshman than a bunch of free beer — and free beer is pretty great,” he

said.

Creativity in planning social events and organizing new traditions within the houses will be key — and that will take “hundreds of dollars per night” and millions per cluster, Watson said.

Not everyone is sure it will be worth the cost.

“Why is so much money being pumped into brand new faculty housing and hopeless community programming when that money could be used to renovate or replace the Choates or River dorms?” senior class president Danny Reitsch ’16 wrote in an email.

In collaboration with senior class treasurer Michael Beechert ’16, Reitsch co-wrote a petition last month that urged administrators to divert their attention from “the realm of student life” and instead prioritize fiscal decisions regarding campus intellectual and social climate.

The petition, titled “Take Back Dartmouth,” was released on May 16 under the public name Daniel Webster. It argues that the spike in hiring rates of non-faculty staff is “adding layers of bureaucracy” to the College administration. It also criticizes increased cost of attendance, the new need-aware policy for international students, the alleged increased policing of the Greek system, and the administration’s alleged biased involvement in sensitive student debates. The petition states that “administrators have assumed the role of paternalistic baby sitters.”

Reitsch — who declined to speak in person or over the phone — said he sees potential for the creation of more intramural sporting events through the clusters but does not believe it will foster more studentfaculty engagement.

To Watson, however, the creation of a group itself could help boost school spirit.

“The moment you give people a group to belong to, they will freak out and love that group,” he said.

Written in a letter addressed to Allen House members, house professor Jane Hill said she is excited to get to know the students in her house and provide opportunities for them to enhance their intellectual and social worlds.

In a survey The Dartmouth sent to members of the Class of 2016, 27.9 reported feeling favorably about the housing communities, despite not being able to partake in the official start this upcoming fall. 42.7 percent of respondents feel unfavorably.

This may be because the housing system is seen by some as an attempt to replace the Greek system, Watson said. Although he does not believe in that interpretation — and instead offered a vision of the two systems coexisting — some perceive the policy change as a threat to the existence of the Greek system on campus.

“The crackdown on Greek houses has been accompanied by a loss of due process in a lot of respects,” Beechert said.

Beechert said he thinks college

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Several policies over the years involved changes to Greek life at Dartmouth, including the creation of a six-week prohibition period from fraternities for first-years.

administrators are creating excuses to target Greek houses while simultaneously showing too much leniency on what could be threats to free speech.

He cited the November 2015 protest at Baker-Berry Library — which some alleged turned violent and threatening — and the May 2016 removal of “Blue Lives Matter” posters from a Collis Center billboard as notable abdications of responsibility to protect students and their right to speech on the part of the College.

The Moving Dartmouth Forward policies prompted mixed responses.

The Class of 2016 existed for two years on campus prior to the policies’ announcement and two years following it, allowing them to see Dartmouth both before and after the changes began to take place.

“I really don’t know,” Beechert said. “The policies may ultimately be a mixed bag.”

Watson adopted a wait-and-see mindset to the policies, which he said have the potential to do good but are not yet adequately studied. Statistics pertaining to the hard alcohol ban are not available, making it difficult to judge its success, he said.

“It’s on [administrators] to put the numbers forward if [they are] not afraid that critics are obviously wrong about it,” he said.

The overall effect of the hard alcohol bad still remains unclear.

According to the Student Wellness Center, alcohol-related incidents

with Safety and Security decreased after hard alcohol was first banned in the spring of 2015. There were only 75 reported incidents in the spring of 2015, compared to the 118 reported incidents from the previous spring.

However, more recent data suggests that alcohol-related incidents have recently increased. This past winter, Safety and Security reported 122 incidents, the highest rate that they have seen in the past 5 winter terms.

Moving Dartmouth Forward also included a mandatory sexual violence prevention and education program. After Hanlon introduced the policy last January, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence specified the program would include an online consent manual and a campus-specific smartphone application that students can use when they are in unsafe situations. Following this decision, the GLC adopted a new sexual assault policy in which members of a Greek house found guilty of any sexual misconduct by the Committee on Standards would immediately be removed from their respective houses. This announcement came after the GLC voted unanimously in 2013 to pass a new sexual assault policy to place sanctions on those responsible individuals.

In 2015, the college reported that the number of sexual assault cases had increased significantly over the previous two years. Campus experts believed this reflected changes in stigmatization that made survivors at the time feel more comfortable

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College President Phil Hanlon unveiled the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative in 2015.

sharing their experiences.

In the senior survey, 39.7 percent feel favorably and 15.6 percent feel unfavorably about the College’s current sexual assault policy.

Reitsch said the Moving Dartmouth Forward policies were “driven by wonderful intentions” but regarding some of the more controversial ones, he noted “it’s a step in the wrong direction” for the College.

“I can’t imagine what all of the MDF funding could be used for if it were instead directed toward Dartmouth’s primary mission — advancing undergraduate education,” he wrote.

Watson criticized the College’s handling of organizational accountability. He said the system of reviewing four organizations per year was too slow to be effective and the metrics utilized — including participation in the web-based OrgSync system — would not ultimately be helpful in gauging groups’ contribution to campus life.

“For every Greek house to get evaluated one time, it will take something on the order of decades,” he said. “That’s a big F for that part [of Moving Dartmouth Forward].”

The Class of 2016 will be the second-to-last that will be able to apply AP credit on their transcripts.

While members of the Class of 2018 and onward will be able to receive placement — and even credits that do not count toward their graduation requirement of 35 courses — they will not receive full Dartmouth

credit.

“If you want to tell me my AP U.S. History class is not equivalent to the class where you learn to play the gamelan or Russian fairy tales or any of a number of layups that are reputably known to be absolute jokes, that’s so stupid,” Watson said.

An extra off term, made possible

by AP credits, could save money, something that Reitsch said might attract strong students to the College.

“Less money should be spent trying to regulate student life and be redirected toward reducing tuition and increasing financial aid in an effort to open the doors of Dartmouth to a wider pool of talented high school students,” he wrote. “Even a $5,000 reduction in tuition would make a world of difference to hundreds of students on the fence between going to Dartmouth or our rival institutions.”

The GLC’s ban on first-year students entering Greek spaces in their first six weeks at Dartmouth was imposed well before Watson became a GLC leader, but he supports the measure and believes it contributes to freshman bonding nonetheless.

It particularly encourages athletes to mingle with other students, he said.

The ban also helps take the burden off of Greek houses and fellow students for risky behaviors that freshmen may take during their first few weeks on campus, Watson said.

Reitsch, however, said the ban drives high-risk drinking underground where it cannot be monitored

by older, more experienced students, leading to riskier behaviors and a greater chance of harm to incoming students. He encouraged Greek houses to build stronger relationships with Safety and Security to support students who may be drinking in risky fashions as well.

“The Greek ban is making drinking increasingly more dangerous,” he wrote.

17.6 percent of seniors who took the survey feel favorably about the Greek life changes, and 55.3 percent feel unfavorably. Across the measures of housing community, sexual assault and Greek life policies, however, many respondents feel neutrally about the changes.

Watson and Reitsch seemed to agree on what the College’s future direction should be: greater emphasis on the liberal arts, the College’s traditional mission.

Reitsch wrote that there has been a decline in Dartmouth school spirit in recent years, but an increased focus on undergraduate education might be able to reverse that trend.

“I think much of the negative energy is driven by the administration overstepping boundaries in the social realm of student life,” he wrote.

To Watson, Dartmouth needs to “double down” on its best qualities: a rural campus and its community and traditions.

“The College should not try to be a mini-Harvard College; it should try to be a better Williams College,” he said. “Who cares about Harvard?

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Construction on two temporary buildings for house communities began this year and should be completed by the start of the upcoming academic year.

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Senior Survey: A Profile of the Class of 2016 From Friday, May 27 to Wednesday, June 1, The Dartmouth conducted an online survey on the demographics, opinions, Dartmouth experiences and post-graduation plans of the Class of 2016.

297 students out of a population size of 1,071 individuals responded for a 27.7 percent response rate. This survey was an opt-in survey rather than a random sample survey. These are some of the results that the survey returned.

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Demographics

59.2 percent of respondents identified as female, 40.5 as male and 0.3 as other.

Regarding ethnicity, 68 percent of the responding seniors are white, 7.1 black, 2.4 are Native American/Alaskan Native, 20.5 Asian, 7.8 Hispanic, 5.8 percent multi-racial and 2 percent other. Note: Respondents could identify with more than one ethnicity.

89.1 percent identified as heterosexual, 6.5 percent as gay/lesbian, 3.1 as bisexual and 1.3 as other.

Post-graduation plans

In the graph of post-graduation salary by occupation, going from the bottom to the top of each bar corresponds with increasing salary. The purple and light blue sections represent the highest salary brackets. Results from the survey show that seniors going into technology and engineering after graduation will have some of the highest salaries next year, with 33.3 percent of that group earning over $100,000. Seniors taking on finance and consulting jobs will earn the second most with 28.1 and 9.5 percent, respectively, also receiving salaries above $100,000. According to the data, these three occupations are the most common workforce destinations. The most popular industry is consulting, with 16.7 percent of respondents going into this type of work after graduation.

Note: Some of these subgroups — namely, publishing and media, government and politics, entrepreneurship and other — suffer from particularly small sample sizes, making it difficult to state strong conclusions about those entering work in these areas.

Several differences appear between what fields seniors will enter following graduation and what fields they want to pursue in 10 years. The largest discrepancies occur for consulting and finance. Although these two occupations are the most popular areas of work for seniors immediately following graduation — more than half in each do not want to continue in that area of work in 10 years. On the opposite side of the spectrum, many more people want to be in health, entrepreneurship and government or politics in 10 years.

New York was the most popular post-graduation destination, with 25 percent of seniors going there, followed by Massachusetts, California and outside the United States.

Note: The map represents raw numbers.

Political views

Of the three candidates still in the race for the 2016 presidential election, seniors favored the Democrats over Donald Trump, the lone Republican. 93.2 percent of seniors expressed an unfavorable view of Trump. 56.3 percent rated Sanders favorably, while 54.9 percent rated Clinton favorably. The data also reveals Clinton had a 23.2 net favorability, and Sanders had a 24.2 net favorability.

Campus views

The most favorable Dartmouth-related issue on the survey was the Divest Dartmouth movement, with 45.8 percent of seniors having a favorable view. 39.7 percent viewed the College’s sexual assault policy changes favorably, and 34.7 percent also did so regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. On most issues, however, seniors had much more negative views. 77.1 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of the administration as a whole, 61.5 percent felt unfavorably about The Dartmouth Review and 60.3 percent reported an unfavorable view of College President Phil Hanlon’s job performance.

Out of 265 responses, 116 respondents ranked Sophomore Summer as the most important Dartmouth experience compared to Homecoming, Winter Carnival, Green Key and DOC First-Year Trips. One hundred fifteen students ranked Winter Carnival as the least important experience for them.

A full compilation of the survey’s results can be found on The Dartmouth’s website.

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66%

45%

31%

36%

of respondents attempted or completed the Lou’s Challenge.

of respondents said they completed one or more of the Dartmouth Seven.

of respondents attempted or completed the Ledyard Challenge.

the completion rate regarding the Dartmouth Seven for the Baker-Berry Library stacks.

11%

10%

of respondents attempted or completed the Dartmouth Decade.

the completion rate regarding the Dartmouth Seven for the center of the Green.

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Class of 2016 Opinion on Dartmouth-Related Issues Unfavorable

Favorable

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The D Runs the Numbers

77.1%

of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of the administration.

60.3%

of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of College President Phil Hanlon.

39.7%

of respondents said they had a favorable view of sexual assault policy changes.

After graduation, the ’16s will leave Hanover for new homes. New York was the most popular destination, with 25 percent of seniors going there, followed by Massachusetts, California and outside the United States.

Oh the places they’ll go!

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Concern about paying off student loans looms over seniors

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

“Your college education is one of the most enduring investments you will ever make,” Dartmouth’s financial aid website declares. The College says that it will meet the fully-demonstrated financial need of every accepted student as part of their financial aid program, one of the few schools in the nation that does so.

However, for some students, the necessity of taking out student loans remains a grim reality. For seniors, this reality may be especially sobering when they realize loan payments start once they shake College President Phil Hanlon’s hand and receive their diplomas.

In a survey conducted by The Dartmouth sent to members of the Class of 2016, 50 percent of the 297 responding students said they received financial aid from the College.

The 297 respondents represented 27.7 percent of the 1,071 seniors. 30.6 percent said they took out private or federal loans under their own name, and 10.5 percent said their parents took out federal or private loans.

Of those seniors with personal loans, 87.8 percent provided dollar amounts for their loans: collectively, these respondents borrowed $1,723,664 or $23,939.80 each, on average.

Of those whose parents had taken out loans, 32.1 percent provided dollar amounts: the loans totaled $301,038 for the entire group, with an average loan size of $33,448.70.

In March, the Board of Trustees approved a 3.8 percent increase in tuition, mandatory fees and room and board for the 2016-2017 academic year, making the total cost of

attendance rise to $66,174.

This amount is an increase from $63,744 for the 2015-2016 academic year.

However, this cost does not include indirect costs of attendance such as books, health insurance and travel.

Additionally, first-year students are required to pay an additional $390 in room charges and fees.

The average financial aid award for the 2014-2015 academic year was $46,315, and the average student debt across all four years combined was $20,373. The College notes this amount accumulated at graduation is among the lowest debt levels in the country.

Dartmouth’s financial aid office uses a formula to determine each eligible student’s demonstrated need.

This need is equal to the cost of education minus expected student and family contributions, determined based on financial information submitted through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the College Board CSS Profile.

To meet the student’s determined need, the College offers a general Dartmouth scholarship, grants, loans and a federal work-study option.

Broadly speaking, there are three types of loans students can take out: federal loans such as Perkins Loans, unsubsidized and subsidized loans, Dartmouth need-based loans that cover what federal cannot and additional private loans.

Dartmouth guarantees that families who earn less than $100,000 per year and possess typical assets will have their student’s tuition fully covered, without being required to take out loans.

However, families with incomes above this level will have low-interest

loans included in their aid packages.

Additionally, some parents opt to take out Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students Loans, a federal loan that may be as high as the cost of education minus other aid sources, to cover the family contribution. Interest rates for this loan type were fixed at 7.21 percent for the 2014-2015 academic year.

In an age where America’s student loan debt exceeds its household debt and increases at a rate of $2,726, the cost of education truly adds up once loan payments need to be made.

However, the pressure to escape debt does not always govern the immediate decisions seniors make regarding their futures.

Kathy Rao ’16 said that she had taken on some debt, though it was not part of her financial aid package.

With her brother beginning college this past fall, she said she and her parents wanted to make sure there was leeway to pay for both of them.

Though she is concerned about paying back the debt, she said it did not affect her post-graduation plans.

“It didn’t really affect me in what job I should take up,” she said.

For others, the pressure from paying off student loans did affect their post-graduate plans.

A male member of the Class of 2016, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic, said that while he has not taken out loans himself, some of his friends have expressed concerns about repaying them after graduation.

Some of them have mentioned to him they cannot take jobs below certain salary levels because they need to pay back their loans.

He also said that some students who have not taken out loans also feel

pressure to take higher-paying jobs to help repay their parents, especially the children of first-generation immigrants who grew up poor themselves.

Recent evidence suggests that middle-income families might be disproportionately affected by student loan debt. In 2013, sociology professor Jason Houle conducted a study on the relationship between parents’ socioeconomic resources and student loan debt.

His research revealed middleincome families, those who make $40,000 to $99,000, have a higher risk for debt that young adults from low and high-income families.

Those whose families earned above $100,000 reported the lowest levels of debt.

Possible reasons for the disparity include difficulty for middle-income students to find sources of aid and debt-aversion amongst the lowestincome earners.

Another member of the Class of 2016, who also wished to remain anonymous for sensitivity purposes, said that he had to take out a significant number of private loans to finance his education.

While the financial aid office makes it possible for some lowerincome students to attend college, he said, others like him are caught in a place where they need aid to be able to afford Dartmouth but do not receive it.

Looking back, he said that he would probably still have attended Dartmouth knowing what he does now, but might have made some changes in his academic path.

Within the Ivy League, Harvard College, Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University

explicitly state on their respective financial aid websites that they do not require loans as a part of their financial aid packages.

However, Dartmouth, Brown University and Cornell University include loans as parts of their financial aid packages for some students. This difference may be due in part to the large endowments of Dartmouth’s rival institutions.

In 2015, the colleges that practice a no-loan policy as well as Cornell possessed larger endowments than the College. Dartmouth placed fourth among the Ivies with $.740 million in the endowment amount per student, behind Princeton, Yale and Harvard.

In 2012, Tier One Athletics, a website dedicated to providing information on athletic recruiting and competition at prestigious institutions, compared hypothetical financial aid awards at Ivy League schools using the net price calculators provided on the college’s respective websites.

For a family with two children, a combined income of $150,000, a $400,000 home and $90,000 in cash and investments, Dartmouth was the most expensive school in the League, costing $46,745 after financial aid.

Princeton was the cheapest option with a cost of $27,180 after aid.

Despite the College’s commitment to providing financial aid for those in need, increased tuition costs continue to make loans and the possibility of graduating with debt an unfortunate reality for a sizable portion of students.

Whether taken out from private companies or as a part of the College’s financial aid package, they continue to be a pressing concern for graduating seniors.

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Princeton University.

In the 2015 fiscal year, Hafner reported Dartmouth had the fifth highest participation rate in the Ivy League for the senior class gift behind Princeton, Yale University, Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania. However, earlier this year The Yale Daily News also reported drops in its senior class gift participation from 78.1 percent in 2015 to 72.6 percent in 2016.

The campaign urges seniors to donate the symbolic figure of $20.16 but accepts donations as small as a dollar. The fund offers an incentive for those who give $20.16 or more by inviting those who do so to a Homecoming brunch during the fall term following their graduation.

Some have already made their gifts in honor of Dartmouth community members such as faculty, staff, classmates and in memoriam to community members who have

died in recent years, including Summer Hammond ’17 and Tate Ramsden ’17.

In addition, the class that graduated 50 years before the current graduating class customarily matches funds for the senior class gift. This year, the Class of 1966 has agreed to give $66 dollars for each senior who donates to the class gift.

The senior class gift is part of the Dartmouth College Fund, the College’s annual fund, which is distinct from the endowment. Gifts made to the fund are used primarily toward the College’s financial aid sources but can also be used to support athletics, arts opportunities and competitive salaries for professors.

In the 2014-2015 academic year, $41.4 million from the DCF comprised 41 percent of Dartmouth’s financial aid sources while the College’s endowed scholarship funds comprised 39 percent with $38.6 million.

“You can think about the Dart-

“You can think about the Dartmouth College Fund as the College’s checking account, whereas the endowment is more like a saving account.”

-JEFF HAFNER ’02, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND SENIOR CLASS GIFT MANAGING DIRECTOR

mouth College Fund as the College’s checking account, whereas the endowment is more like a saving account,” Hafner said.

Dartmouth’s endowment is much larger than the DCF, but the College only spends about 5 percent of the endowment each year as an attempt to ensure that the returns on the endowment exceed the amount taken from it.

Last year, Dartmouth reported an 8.3 percent return on its endowment for the 2015 fiscal year. The endowment is also restricted in that much of it is spent on financially supporting the operations of the College’s undergraduate programs, the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business.

While the Divest Dartmouth campaign pushes for the College to avoid spending its endowment on energy from fossil fuels, the donations from the senior class are separate from the endowment.

When asked about this distinction, Yona maintained that the College’s investments make a statement

about the kind of future Dartmouth wants for its students.

More specifically, Yona wrote, the lack of divestment indicates that Dartmouth doesn’t envision a future for its students in a livable planet.

In his column, Thomson wrote that donating to the class gift frees up more of the College’s money to spend on superficial fixes to Dartmouth’s problems.

In an email statement, Thomson wrote that many of his friends had been receptive to his argument and were also planning on not donating.

The Dartmouth College Fund’s website asks graduating seniors, “What will your legacy be?”

If most ’16s feel similarly to Thomson and decide not to participate in the senior class gift, this year’s seniors will be making a statement about whether or not students feel they received their own return on their four-year investment from Dartmouth.

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Students plan to continue with artistic passions post-grad

By JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

With the approach of Commencement, students involved in the arts at Dartmouth face the challenge of pursuing different paths and careers that may not necessarily involve their artistic talents in the future. However, several members of the Class of 2016 involved in the various arts on campus are still keen to pursue their passions beyond Dartmouth.

Andrew Nalani ’16, a member of the World Music Percussion ensemble, played the conga drums as well as the djembe, an African goblet drum, and provided vocals for the group. A beginner to the instruments when he first joined the ensemble in his freshman spring through a friend, Nalani said that his involvement with the arts, which includes courses in theater, has been central to his time at Dartmouth.

Rehearsals for the ensemble gave him a chance to engage his mind in a different manner than academic studies require. Playing percussion provided him with a sense of doing something with his hands and kept his stress levels low. It also gave him the opportunity to engage with community members involved in the ensemble.

Nalani, a religion major modified with gender and environmental studies, is also a Stamps Leadership

Scholar involved in a transformative project focusing on the role of the arts in social and developmental learning.

The summer after graduation, he will be a program assistant for the Dickey Center for International Understanding, where he will help bring artists and entrepreneurs to Dartmouth.

In the fall, he will begin a masters program in education with a concentration in human development to see social and emotional learning in academic environments. Regarding his love for the arts, he said he wants to continue his involvement possibly with a direct leadership program in Uganda.

After his final performance with the percussion ensemble, Nalani said that he felt a sense of having grown as a musician as well as in endurance.

“There’s a sense of joy that music and performing with one another brings, [and it was] a bittersweet moment when we had to say goodbye,” Nalani said. “These are people I’ve connected with in a different way than I normally do — through music and the time and energy put into rehearsal.”

Music was also a large part of Simone Wien ’16’s experience, who said there had been no question for her about pursuing it at Dartmouth.

A member of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, Wien said perform-

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The Dartmouth Cords, an all-male a cappella group, held its senior show at Psi Upsilon fraternity on May 30.

ing percussion with the group was a way to introduce friends to Western classical music, a genre that many of them did not know much about.

“I think musical appreciation is a really great grounding factor,” she said.

For Wien, the future lies in Atlanta, where she will be working for

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While she will not be pursuing music professionally, Wien said that she sees music as a way to establish community very quickly.

“I’m looking for a way to use music to settle roots,” she said. “One of the quickest way to know a place is to understand the musical tradition there.”

Steven Povich ’16, who played trumpet in the Wind Ensemble, said that being able to play music in college was an important factor in his decision during his senior year of high school.

Before choosing Dartmouth, he met with the ensemble’s director Matthew Marsit while the group was on a tour.

Povich will be working at a finance company in Boston after graduation.

He is looking into performing with community ensembles but knows playing will be harder to fit into his life.

“It’s weird — playing the trumpet is not something I wanted to give up but I don’t really know where I’ll be playing it,” Povich said. “I’m excited for the real world, but finding opportunities to play will require more initiative.”

Jinny Seo ’16, a studio art major with a concentration in painting, said her time after Dartmouth also deviates away from what she has done during her four years, despite pursuing visual art at a software service company in Dallas. Seo will be working with user-experience design, a process that deals with the interaction between a user and products such as websites or apps.

During her junior year, Seo learned about user-experience design through the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab. “I thought [the user-experience field presented] an interesting problem and I’ve been interested in psychology so that related as well,” she said.

Seo is unsure about how often she will paint in the future but knows it

will continue to be a part of her life. “[My feelings after finishing my portfolio] wasn’t so much related to art in general but more like the ending of college — bittersweet in that way,” Seo said.

Kathryn Waychoff ’16, an engineering major who has played with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble since her freshman fall, grew up with jazz music in her home and played the jazz trumpet, an instrument her father also plays, since she was 8-years-old.

Similar to Povich, one of Waychoff’s top priorities in choosing a college was being able to continue playing music, which in her case, was jazz.

She also performed for the Dartmouth College Marching Band and volunteered with a youth wind ensemble.

Next year, Waychoff will be attending Thayer School of Engineering and plans on participating in the community ensembles. She also plans to teach on the side.

Waychoff said the jazz ensemble has been her second family at Dartmouth since 2012. While she admitted the preparation before the ensemble’s spring senior concert was stressful, she said all of the members worked to make the show the best it could possibly be.

“The Barbary Coast has been a way for me to keep myself sane because my academic studies have been really rigorous,” Waychoff said.

“Having an outlet of music to funnel all your energy is a great way to take your mind off the stress, and the ensemble has been a really necessary part of my time here.”

Although not all seniors who participated in the arts at Dartmouth have plans directly involving some form of it, there is comfort in knowing most want to continue expressing their creative passions, which comprise an important piece of who they are.

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Senior athletes discuss moving on from the Big Green

By EVAN MORGAN

The Dartmouth Staff

Since shortstop Katie McEachern ’16 arrived in Hanover in 2012, she has been the big bat in the Dartmouth lineup. Now, the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year must come to grips with a future in which her playing days are numbered.

She pauses, and then a smile breaks out, admitting, “Maybe I’m in denial a little bit.”

After a senior season in which she batted .442 and became the Big Green’s all-time leader in home runs (40), hits (203), RBIs (129) and batting average (.380), McEachern will travel to Sweden to play out the summer with a club team. It will be the swan song of her career as a player.

McEachern’s path is one of many that Dartmouth’s senior standouts will continue on.

Some will follow potential professional careers, including Laura Stacey ’16 who is pursuing one in hockey. A star forward and captain for the College’s team, Stacey played with Canada’s National Women’s Development Team in the 2016 Nations Cup, where she was named the team’s most valuable player.

Instead of joining a similar workforce to her classmates next year, she will play and train full-time in a bid to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Although she is looking forward to this opportunity to continue playing, Stacey believes her future as a fulltime hockey player is limited because of the difficulty to pursue a lasting career in female sports.

Once her time as a hockey player

ends, Stacey said the athletic side of her will be dampened a little bit in favor of other pursuits like a new career and starting a family.

At a college where one-quarter of the student body competes on a varsity team, it can feel natural to categorize people as athletes and non-athletes. For four years, seniors like McEachern and Stacey have borne the “athlete” label.

“As hard as any athlete tries not to, you’re so consumed by the sport that it’s impossible not to get that label, for better or for worse,” first baseman Joe Purritano ’16 said. “You do your best to branch out but [your sport] gives you sort of a label that marks who you are.”

For Purritano, that label evolved last year when the Cincinnati Reds selected him in the 30th round. A professional career became a viable option, but he chose to stay at Dartmouth and compete in his fourth year, helping the Big Green to a second-place finish in the Rolfe Division.

Now that many athletes’ careers are coming to a close, each senior’s decision will shape that label and his or her own identity as an athlete.

For rugby co-captain Yeja Dunn ’16, that identity is heavily intertwined with her sport.

“I don’t think I could separate myself from rugby,” she said.

Despite not knowing how to play the sport when she came to college, Dunn has become a force to be reckoned with on the pitch.

Dunn played a significant role in helping the women’s club rugby team gain varsity status here in 2015. In its first season this past fall, Dunn lead

the team to an Ivy League Championship over Brown University.

Perhaps because of her beginning, Dunn has taken a come-what-may attitude to her rugby career beyond Dartmouth. Earlier this year, the Women’s Eagles, the United States national rugby team, selected Dunn as one of 49 players for its player pool and the chance to play in the 2017 World Cup. If selected, Dunn said she would be thrilled, but that she would also be satisfied with finding and playing for a good club team where she can have fun playing the sport she loves and make new connections.

“Playing rugby is something that just happened, and so as long as rugby is involved in my future, I am okay with going anywhere it goes,” she said.

Goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland ’16, the 2015 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, will actually remain a collegiate athlete next year as he pursues an MBA at the University of Louisville. Following a successful season in the more competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, he hopes to play professionally or work in business using his bachelor’s degree from Thayer School of Engineering.

“I like to think I’m not just an athlete,” he said. “But at the same time, I could very well see myself staying within the game of soccer or coaching because I love the game so much.”

Similar to his senior varsity classmates, Cleveland believes playing his sport has changed who he is.

“Without the setbacks in soccer, I would get much more held up on larger setbacks in life,” he said.

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Women’s rugby co-captain Yeja Dunn ’16 has a shot at playing in the 2017 World Cup.

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Softball standout Katie McEachern ’16 will play on a club team this summer in Sweden.

Purritano also feels baseball has kept him grounded.

“Baseball has made me a very even-keeled person,” he said. “No situation becomes too big, no moment becomes too grandiose.”

If McEachern had never played softball, she said she would be more insecure or care a lot more about what other people think.

“I think I still have those parts of me, but softball has definitely helped

me overcome them in a way,” she said.

For her part, McEachern plans to be an assistant softball coach while attending business school. “[Softball] is something that I love and it is a large part of who I am,” she said. “[People] always tell you to follow your passion and follow what you love and care about, and I’ve taken that to heart — why would I change that?”

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Hockey player Laura Stacey ’16 is pursuing a professional career after graduation.

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GUEST COLUMNIST LEEHI YONA ’16

Dear Hanlon: Thank You A senior’s poignant note to the face of the College.

Dear President Phil Hanlon: based assessment of the impacts of divestment I came to Dartmouth with wide eyes eager was released. At the end of its analysis, the report to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. found that under no circumstances could refusing As I walk to receive my diploma on June 12, I to divest ever be a wise or rational decision. The am more cynical, jaded and empowered than I question that remained was not if to divest, but have ever been. when, and how much –– a question that you, as I came to Dartmouth already carrying a of press time, refuse to entertain. heavy burden: I knew that climate change was If you were to tell me that we could start a going to be the defining issue of my generation. campaign our freshman fall and find ourselves When I arrived at the College, I dove headfirst in our senior spring without a single public, on into science research and policy studies. My re- the record meeting with the president or Board search culminated in a Senior Fellowship, where of Trustees, I never would have believed you.

I studied interdisciplinary solutions to climate President Hanlon, what does our Dartmouth change full-time for the past year. I am eternally education teach us when you act as though indebted to Dartmouth faculty –– some of the climate change isn’t urgent enough? When you world’s leading experts act as though lip service will on climate change, from “Thank you for teaching be enough? When you tell Arctic science to interus that Dartmouth should national policy –– who me to trust the power be conducting climate rementored me and pushed of my own voice, and search, yet doing nothing in me to expand my sense of to the alarm bells to recognize when my response academic comfort. that ring and ring and ring All the while I was voice is being co-opted.” as a result of that research? conducting this research, When you tell me to do my I was deeply involved in research when I am the one advocacy for climate acdoing the research, when I tion. I attended United Nations conferences as a am the one going to the Arctic and witnessing youth delegate. In my freshman year, I launched it all firsthand? the Divest Dartmouth campaign to disinvest You have taught me so much about the world: the College’s endowment from 200 fossil fuel that an institution’s rate of change will never be companies. I was helplessly trying to bring this swift enough to address urgent problems. That broken world back together. for some, the desires of special interests matter President Hanlon, I know you already know more than the lives of future generations. That all of this. After all, I’ve been to your office young people who so boldly dream of the “Big hours dozens of times to talk about divestment Ideas” you encourage will be dismissed as and climate change. The irony isn’t lost on me naïve and misguided. That students can work when, in response to divestment, you tell us diligently, peacefully, and patiently for an urgent that we misguided issue throughout their activists should do our entire Dartmouth career research, when we “Thank you for showing me without being granted so are in fact these very just how much love there much as public dialogue. climate researchers.

That, for any necessary In fact, Dart- is in the communities of change to happen, we as mouth has featured students, faculty, and young people need to build my climate research a world of our own. in its promotional alumni who strive to Thank you for materials at least make Dartmouth – and, teaching me that progress seven times in the is the work of the restless. past year –– conve- by extension, our world Thank you for niently omitting the – better.” teaching me to trust the social justice work at power of my own voice, the very core of it. I and to recognize when my have seen the ways in voice is being co-opted. which my own voice has been stolen so that lip Thank you for teaching me that I can follow service can be substituted for real action. all the rules I am told are necessary to make And, while my research has been praised, my change, and still get nowhere. advocacy –– advocacy very much informed by Thank you for showing me just how much my research findings –– has been ignored. You love there is in the communities of students, fachave both praised and belittled me in the same ulty and alumni who strive to make Dartmouth breath. As an individual, I embody what you –– and, by extension, our world –– better. treat as two very different people on campus: Thank you for giving me the fire that I feel the former honored, the latter disdainful. in my veins to keep fighting for our future, my Divest Dartmouth’s membership has tripled future, for the Class of 2066. over the past year. We have an engaged alumni Thank you for giving me the knowledge, the constituency spanning 53 class years. In April, anger, the hope I need to keep fighting. we organized a rally on Gold Coast Lawn that, at nearly 500 attendees and with more than 115 Leehi Yona ’16 completed a biology and environmental co-sponsors, broke both New Hampshire and studies double major and a public policy minor. As a Dartmouth records. We have a petition with Stamps Leadership Scholar and a Senior Fellow, she over 2,500 signatories. studied interdisciplinary solutions to climate change this Finally, this term, an objective report you com- year. While at Dartmouth, she was named Canada’s Top missioned in 2014 that offered a fair, evidence- Environmentalist Under 25 in 2013.

GUEST COLUMNIST ALLAN A. RYAN ’66

A Sense of Place

There is — and always will be — a place at Dartmouth to call home.

On the last day of Freshman Week 1962 — some 54 years ago — we sat in Webster Hall for a lecture by professor Francis Childs, on the history of this College. He told us of Dartmouth’s founder Eleazar Wheelock, and notable alumni Daniel Webster and William Jewett Tucker, and he concluded his presentation with this: “You are now a part of Dartmouth, and for as long as your lives shall last Dartmouth will be a part of you.”

I think few of us fully understood what he meant at the time. We had been at the College only a few days. We were still learning our way around the campus in our freshman beanies, still wondering what this place had waiting for us; some of us still wondering, perhaps, whether we had come to the right place at all, this beautiful remote College on the Hill, in the granite of New Hampshire.

Four years later, at Commencement, we assembled again, for the last time together as students, and heard then-President John Sloan Dickey, that tall strapping fellow with his bounding golden retriever, give us a sort of farewell: “And so, Men of Dartmouth,” he said, “the word is ‘so long,’ because in the Dartmouth fellowship there is no parting.”

But we were parting, some of us to return home, or to new jobs or to roam round the girdled earth, some of us to law school or medical school or some other school, some of us, in that fateful year, to military service, some of us, at that impossibly young age, to marriages. We said our so-longs to those who had become close friends, roommates, teammates and fraternity brothers, assuming we would meet again, not knowing where or when, but sensing that wherever it might be, it would be removed from the life we had lived, in the world that had been ours, for four years in this place.

Now, 50 years to the day after that sunny Commencement, we are here, again, at this place: honored guests of advanced age: thinner of hair, thicker of waist, slower of foot though with spiffy new knees, each bringing with us the scars and joys of a life we could not have foreseen then. We have read obituaries or attended funerals of classmates with whom we shared the Ravine Lodge, a road trip, the chem lab, 105 Dartmouth or the Skiway on a bracing February afternoon.

Dartmouth is of course now a place quite different from the College we knew then.

There are women here, students and faculty.

Diversity, a word of little significance back then, surrounds us now. In our class, there were several, no more than that, men of color in a population of overwhelmingly white, middle-class, suburban fellows, and most of us did not appreciate then how distant this community must have seemed to those few, and to our classmates who were gay in a community that did not acknowledge their full selves, or allow them to.

Beyond this, we are here at a place that is far less remote than the one we knew. In our lives at this College, communication with the world beyond Hanover depended on two pay telephones in a dormitory, the

radio, and mail the Post Office carried to the new Hopkins Center for the Arts. Scant television, except on that awful weekend in November 1963 in Spaulding Auditorium.

No personal computers, email or texting, no internet, cellphones or social media.

Our Facebook was a bound volume of high school graduation photos. Had anyone said then that we would someday routinely go online with our laptops and smartphones to Google a website and download a PDF to the cloud or a flash drive, I daresay even John Kemeny would have been mystified at what on earth they were talking about.

And yet. Whether we have come back often in the intervening years or are here now for the first time, the Ravine Trail still leads to the summit. We can walk straight to our first dorm room. The Tower Room still beckons us to come in and find a book and a stuffed chair and snooze for a while.

We can flick out at the Nugget. We can paddle or row on a river that flows as it did half a century ago. The mornings are still sharp and misty, bells still clang, feet still crunch on snow. It is possible, if we wish, to walk across the Green and imagine that it is still 1966 and that the young men and women throwing a Frisbee are our friends and their dates.

Professor Childs, in his history lesson to us, had begun by acknowledging that we had all come from somewhere else. As he put it, “You have left your families and your hometowns to plunge into a new place and a new environment, Dartmouth College, and you find it doubtless quite different from any that you have known before. Yet here, as everywhere, the past is with you in the present.”

Fifty-four years later, most of us would find his words truer than we could have appreciated then. This week our past is once again with us. For all that Dartmouth has changed and continues to change, much remains the same. There is a sense of place here, a sense that assures us that we know where we are, a place that can gently erase the years and remind us, however fleetingly, of our youth.

We did come to this place from somewhere else; it was our place for four years, and then we left it for somewhere else. Yet it remains, and we return and are part of it again for these few days. Professor Childs knew something we didn’t then. However great or measured our dedication to Dartmouth has been for 50 years, this College, this place, has been and will continue to be a part of us. The world that was ours then and the times that we knew then are distant memories today. Yet it is still our place. We are not strangers or tourists here. We know this place. And we can believe that, in its way, this place knows us. However great or measured our dedication to Dartmouth has been for 50 years, this College, this place, has been and will continue to be a part of us for as long as our lives shall last.

Ryan may be reached via email at ryan@hbsp. harvard.edu.

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THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF JUSTIN LEVINE ’16

THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF KATHERINE MCKAY ’16

Appreciating the Day-to-Day

When You Least Expect It

Summing up four years at Dartmouth is not so simple after all.

Over the past few weeks, many of my have found frustratingly insufficient. friends have asked me how it feels to be so I don’t have a single, all-encompassing close to graduating, and what I’ve learned takeaway of what my time at Dartmouth has from my time at Dartmouth. I’ve yet to pro- meant to me, nor any insightful lessons that vide a satisfactory answer to the question, can easily be passed down to future students even though it’s a question I’ve spent plenty of Dartmouth or current undergraduates. of time considering. I had barely formed a These four years here have been too complex rough conception of what my Dartmouth to be summed up neatly, and that’s what experience has meant to me in my head, makes it so special. Therefore, rather than let alone found a way to formalize my ex- try to wrap my four years into a neat box, perience into words I reflect upon my that could serve as time at Dartmouth a proper conclusion “My impression is that many through a stream of to my time here. So other ’16s feel like me and many stories, shaped to everyone who’s deeply by all the asked me this ques- have refrained from discussing people I have met tion, what follows graduation directly because along the way and is my best attempt organized loosely to date at reflecting we don’t want to face the en- around several deon my Dartmouth suing questions – either from fining moments. experience.

My freshman First off, I’ve no- our friends or from ourselves year I kept a bulleted ticed that only un- – of what fundamental lessons list in the notes secderclassmen have tion of my phone of we will be taking away.” been eager to talk enjoyable moments about the idea of that I wanted to graduating. I was remember. Through the same way the the course of sevpast three years. Proeral phone and iOS tected by the assurance that I had at least upgrades, I seem to have lost the list, but one more year here, it felt safe to discuss I still remember most of the events I once such a frightening topic. In particular, I put down. I remember writing down stories spent a lot of time last spring trying to better about learning how to ski at the ski way, understand the psyches of the graduating spending nights with new friends in frat ’15s in an attempt to figure out how I should basements and learning new concepts from feel when my time came. classes that really interested me. But more But now I’m a senior, and it’s notable importantly, I remember the excitement how few conversations I’ve had with other I felt freshman year from the newness of ’16s in which we truly reflect on how we feel everything and simply being happy to have about graduating. The nearing reality is often stories that I felt were worthy of writing addressed indirectly down. While I stopped through congratulathe practice of writing tions of friends getting “These four years here down stories on my jobs, attending thesis have been too complex phone, and many of the presentations and the stereotypical freshman shared frustration of to be summed up neatly, activities I often wrote having our DA$H and and that’s what makes it about no longer bring DBA accounts closed. me the same fresh exso special.”

However, the kind of citement, I’ve recently reflective graduation resumed my effort to conversations I’ve had think about events from with underclassmen I the day that would’ve rarely seem to have with my friends who are been worthy of making it onto that list. So also ’16s. It’s possible that at the time of this now when I reflect on my time at Dartmouth, writing, still two weeks away from gradua- I think of the extensive record of experition, we’ve all subconsciously chosen to delay ences I have accumulated –– accounts of these bittersweet conversations, and that by accomplishments, setbacks, discoveries and the time you are reading this I will have been everything in between –– that combine to proven to be flat-out wrong. I also think that tell the story of my personal growth. many avoid the topic because they think As I’ve gotten to the end of my Dartmouth it will make others sad, and they’d rather career, I haven’t suddenly been struck by the devote their remaining time here to more momentous insights that I used to anticipate upbeat conversations. But my impression is would occur. Instead, I’ve acquired a better that many other ’16s feel like I do and refrain appreciation for all the small day-to-day from discussing graduation directly because events that have slowly turned me into we don’t want to face the ensuing questions who I am today. When I think of my time –– either from our friends or from ourselves at Dartmouth, it’s usually accompanied by –– of what fundamental lessons we will be feelings of, “Wow, I’m going to miss this.” taking away. It was only through writing this And that’s good enough for me. column that I’ve forced myself to address the question head-on, and what I’ve settled Justin Levine ’16 is the former publisher of The upon is an answer that my past self would Dartmouth.

Rape is devastating and incomprehensible, but healing is possible.

Content warning: The following contains images and content that may trigger survivors of violence or sexual assault.

I was raped two months before I matriculated at Dartmouth.

He was a close high-school friend, and I was visiting him at his house the night it happened. After, I cried in his bed while he slept on the couch just a few feet away. In the morning, I hugged him and thanked him for letting me spend the night. I didn’t know what else to do.

Weeks later, I tried to confront him, but I did not understand the intricacies of acquaintance or drug- and alcohol-facilitated rape well enough to recognize this incident as it was — perfectly, heartbreakingly normal.

When he told me to “take responsibility” for what happened, I wondered if he was right.

Back then, I was the only person I knew who had been raped. My friends and I possessed no rubric for making sense of this.

One friend even chastised me for talking about it so much. I could not explain to her how the incident was like a corrosive and igneous presence in the back of my throat, how I needed to talk about it to abate this feeling. I could not explain to her how lonely and terrifying it was.

When I arrived on campus, sexual assault was barely discussed. As an opinion columnist for this newspaper, I made it my mission to address the issue. Writing about rape was not a political agenda but a personal duty.

Although my peers might dismiss or politicize sexual violence, I resolved to neither ignore nor sensationalize it. I attempted to write about sexual assault in a way that was completely impersonal, because I was not ready to reveal what had happened to me.

Besides, my experience was so far removed from the dialogue with which I was engaging.

National discourse on campus rape sought to identify specific, structural causes such as Greek life or so-called rape culture, whereas my story of assault was so personal and small. The quotidian reality of rape and its aftermath was, in my experience, so detached from these abstractions.

When my classmates spoke about rape, they were comfortable with the concept in general but dismissive of specific instances like mine — I found myself living in a rape culture that somehow possessed no rapists and, implicitly, no victims either. I grew increasingly alienated, but I could not resist the temptation to pick fights with my peers, rubbing salt into my own wound to keep from feeling desensitized.

That year, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although the cancer and the rape were unrelated, both shattered my reality. My body suddenly felt foreign and my life unpredictable. I felt responsible for my rape, and I felt as if my instability were somehow contributing to my mother’s suffering as well.

I lost 15 pounds by the end of freshman year, 40 by sophomore winter. My knee-bones ground together while I slept, and my veins protruded from my arms. I could no longer

recognize myself. It was as if I were watching a film about someone else’s life. I cringed at how broken and pathetic this person seemed, and I mourned the person I had been before the assault.

Then, one morning late in the winter of 2014, I awoke in Dick’s House wearing a flimsy cotton gown with bile in my hair. I learned that a friend had found me naked and vomiting in a fraternity the night before, in an upstairs bedroom with one of the brothers. I did not remember meeting him, nor did I remember going upstairs — but through my texts and emails I could piece together what had happened.

Lightning is not supposed to strike twice, but it did. It should have been devastating, and in some ways it was, but just imagine spending years blaming yourself for an assault that you had endured. Imagine obsessing over your weight and your body, and whatever other attributes might have incurred the assault, only to realize that it was all so meaningless. What had escaped me for the last two years was suddenly obvious: it was not, and had never been, my fault.

This realization could not bring back the last two years, and it could not solve my now-fraught relationship with my body nor could it release me from the scrutiny of my peers, but it was a start.

I reported the incident to the College and allowed it to investigate what I could not remember. When he was found responsible for sexual misconduct, I didn’t look back.

I poured myself into my close friendships, into a much-needed off-term and into a year of leading this newspaper. I repaired my personal relationships and took on new challenges.

Many people back home still cannot accept that my friend could have committed rape, and on this campus I’ve seen my experience get swept up in the broader discussion on how the College is supposedly changing, its old traditions failing. But I’ve learned to forgive those who either cannot comprehend or refuse to accept my experiences. I do not need others to understand in order to be happy with myself. I have nothing to prove.

Furthermore, I know that I can never restore my life to how it was before the assault, but doing so is no longer my goal.

Recently, I heard someone describe hearing about friends’ rapes and then seeing how their lives returned to normalcy as being like pressing into a sponge then watching it bounce back to its original form. I liked this, but I cannot help but wonder whether or not there will always be a small but indelible mark left behind — and perhaps that’s not the worst thing.

If you or a loved one has experienced sexual assault, you can contact the RAINN hotline at (800)656-4673 or the on-call crisis counselor at Dick’s House at (603)646-9442 during the daytime and on weekdays or (603)646-3333 after hours or on weekends. Each of these resources is confidential.

Katie McKay ’16 is the former editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth.

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GRACE MERMEL

Congratulations Chris! It is definitely a top 10 moment for us to see you graduate! We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what adventures await you!

Congratulations Grace; great job!! I am so proud of you!

Just remember, “You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.”

Love, Mom, Dad, Nona, Katie, Delaney, and Sophie

I love you, Mom

ELINORE BEITLER

GIGI ANDERSON

Congratulations, Elinore! We love you and are extraordinarily proud of you. Remember, “...keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side...”, and spread joy wherever your life takes you.

Love, Your Family

Congratulations Gigi! So proud of all that you do and what you have accomplished at Dartmouth. You have so much to offer the world, be brave and share all that you are - we are so excited for you!

Love, Mom and Dad

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MACKENZIE GARRITY

K AT I E J A R R E T T

WHOOOHOOO! Forever a Dartmouth ’16!

Celebrate your hard work Mackenzie! So incredibly proud and excited for you as you begin this next chapter of your life! Your strength, kindness and smile will forever bring us joy.

We love you, Mom & Dad & Kelly

Congratulations, Katie! We are so proud of you, both for what you already have accomplished and as you continue to “go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”

KAITLIN WHITEHORN

K AT I E R O W E

Kaitlin; the unstoppable K.O.! We’re so proud of you and all of your accomplishments. You truly are a trailblazer and trendsetter; your resilience and dedication have paid off. Take every lesson you’ve learned and continue to make your dreams come true! We love you!

Congratulations, Katie!

Love, Mom & Dad

Love, Dad and Mom Elizabeth, Molly and Davis

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TRACE SMITH

COREY STOCK

You’ve come a long way since nursery school at The Apple Orchard and your first day on skis at Nashoba Valley!!

An amazing journey and no doubt the best is yet to come... Congratulations!

With love from Daddy and Mary Alice

Congratulations, Corey!

“Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.”

- Hillary Clinton

CLARE DETRICK-YEE

JULIA McMAHON

Congratulations Clare! You did it! We could not be prouder of the young woman you have become. You have so many milestones and adventures ahead of you.

Enjoy every one of them!

All our love, Mom, Dad, and Jill

Dearest Julia, You have been a blessing in our lives and have made us all better people with your smile and generous spirit.

Never doubt your magnificent abilities to accomplish whatever you set out to do.

Congratulations, Mom, Dad, Joseph, Irina, and Scout

All our love, Mom, Dad, and Chris

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M AT T H E W R O S S I

REBECCA SCHANTZ

“Step with care and great tact, and remember that life’s a great balancing act.” - Theodore Geisel You brighten our lives everyday. We love you and are proud of you. Congratulations, Matt.

-Mom, Dad, & Claire

CONGRATULATIONS REBECCA! “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” - SSilverstein With love, Us

TIANTIAN ZHANG

MARY GRACE WEISS

You have always been a very amazing daughter and an absolute delight. We love you and can’t be more proud of you, Keep your coolness and humor in the humdrum of worldly tasks. God bless you.

From your first day of junior kindergarten to your last day of college, you have amazed us with your brilliance, warmed our hearts with your kindness, and filled us with love. We’re so proud of you!

Love, Mom and Dad

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K AY L A M c FA R L A N D

AXEL HUFFORD

Congratulations, Kayla!

Is there no limit to your awesomeness??

Remember... no matter where you go, we’ll always be with you (even when you don’t want us to be).

We’re so proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad and the Buffalo Gang.

As Dr. Seuss says: You’re off to great places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Congratulations Axel. We are so proud of you.

Love, Mom and Dad

HENRY ARNDT

HUNTER JOHNSTONE

Henry,

Congratulations Hunter!

Congrats and You’re Welcome!

Love, Mom, Brett, Ford, Will, Luke, Lauren and Adler

Love, Mom, Dad, Gmom, Zoe & Koby.

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ROCCO MORRA, JR.

TREY JENNINGS

Congratulations! We are so proud of all you have accomplished and look forward to more milestones to come...

Congratulations, Trey!

WHY FIT IN WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT? - Dr. Seuss

Love, Mom, Dad, Leah, Lauren & Livvie

BRENDAN JOHNSON

ANGEL ANTONIO S A AV E D R A

Congratulations and Godspeed, Brendan!

Love always, Mom, Dad, Caroline, Willie, Joseph, Mema, Grandma Mary and all your loving family!

We’re so proud of you!

Congratulations!

One more accomplishment in your life and one more time that we are very proud. Never forget to enjoy every moment and always be grateful for the ones still to come.

Love, Mom, Dad & Vilma

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S A LVAT O R E ( T O RY ) TIANO

D AV I D C L O S S E Y

Congratulations Tory!

We are so proud of you & all that you have accomplished.

We love you & will always be here for you.

Love, Mom & Dad

You’ve come such a long way. Yet your dream is still to help others.

SUTTON LOWRY

ELIZABETH WILKINS

Sutton,

We love you as much on your last day of school as we did on your first day of school-and we are even more proud!

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts.

This is the secret of success. -- Swami Sivananda Also remember your parents love you.

And you will. We are very proud of you.

With love and admiration, Mom and Dad

Congratulations from Mom, Dad, Jack, Grammy and everyone at home!

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LEDAH GELLER

YOU DID IT! We knew you would!

We love you and we are so proud of YOU!

M A R Y LY N N E S I T K O

Congratulations, Marylynne! Your hard work has finally paid off! May the Holy Spirit guide you in your journey to come and may you always remember the power of knowledge and faith.

Love, Mom, Dad, Gab, Homer, and Henry

We know you’ve got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind.

Congratulations ’16s... a Team of Champions!

Love, Your Parents Will Konstant, Sawyer Whalen, Niko Mamula, Will McNamara, David Caldwell, Dan Gorman, Jack Sheehy, Sam Laptad, Frankie Hernandez, Paddy Clancy, and Jake Young

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B R I D G E T- K AT E M c N U LT Y

LUCIELLE KOZLOV

Bridget-Kate, Remember when you missed prom to make a college visit? That was one in a series of great decisions that you have made that brought you to today. Congratulations, we are so very proud of you.

Love, the McNulty, Fowler, Reed, Ries and Orme families

Congratulations, Lucielle!

With your strengths, smarts and adventurous spirit, there is nothing holding you back from reaching your life’s goals.

You will forever have the guidance and support of family and friends.

Your loving family.

MAGGIE SHIELDS

ANTHONY ANZIVINO

Oh, the places you’ll go!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting!

Congratulations, Maggie! with lots of love from Mom and Dad

Where does the time go? Always glad I’ve had you to look to in my life. Amazing job at Dartmouth bro!

-Mitch So proud of you Tony, you inspire me in so many ways through your character and faith.

-Matt

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A M A N D A E D WA R D S

JAKE GABA

Congratulations Amanda on this terrific milestone!

We are so proud of all you have accomplished and look forward to watching you succeed in the next phase of your life.

Love, Mom, Dad, Lindsay and Emily XO

Congratulations, Jake, as you head off into the world.

ANTHONY ANZIVINO

MARGOT BYRNE

“You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

- Obi-Wan Kenobi The force is strong with you. May your journey continue to bring you love & happiness.

With Love, Mom-Dad

Congratulations, sweet girl! You have exceeded all of our expectations. We love you and are so very proud of you.

We are all excited to see where life takes you next.

XOXO Mom, Dad & Liza

We love you very much, Mom, Dad and Matthew

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E VA N R E A D

A N N A G H N O U LY

ONWARDS !!

We love you, Dad, Mom, Vaughan & Carrie

“Anna is a delightful young lady, a hardworking student that sets high stands for herself, and someone that never gives up, but tackles things head on until she succeeds.”

- Miss Perrino, Kindergarten Some things never change.

Love, Dad

MARY LIZA HARTONG

WORTH GOODELL

“Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. Perhaps the answer is simply one: one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet.”

- from “Questions about Angels” by Billy Collins

IT’S A HAPPY DAY!!

So proud to see you on your way.

You are Worth A Lot, and we couldn’t be more proud of you.

Love, Mom, Dad, Jackie, Libby, Loraine, and Kallie

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K.C. BEARD

MAUREEN MENTREK

Steve Jobs never graduated from college... so we expect great things from you. Follow your heart even when it leads you off of the well worn path. We are so proud of you and all you have accomplished.

Love, Tim and Bird

You planted your roots along the sandy shores of Lake Erie and grew your wings in the granite hills of New Hampshire.

Now it’s your time to soar. Dream, Dare, Do - the world is yours! Congratulations on your graduation, Maureen!

Love, Mom, Dad, and J. Michael

JUSTIN LEVINE

RACHEL PORTH

Congratulations Justin! We are so proud of you and all that you have accomplished.

We wish you happiness and success as you start your next journey in law school.

With much love, Mom, Dad and Matthew

May life be full of good times & ice cream. You’ve worked hard and proved that you can accomplish anything.

Take a big bite out of life and never give up on your dreams.

You rock!

Love, Mom & Dad

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ASHLEY ELIZABETH SEE

MADELINE COOPER

Congratulations! We are so proud of all your accomplishments but more importantly of the intelligent, kind and generous young lady you have become... Cheers to a future filled with happiness and success!

Love, Dad, Mom, Alex, Grandie & Oliver

Madeline, we are so proud of your stellar academic accomplishments and dedicated leadership in Hillel, UVJC, Dartmouth Dems and Tucker. We look forward to the continuation of your amazing journey in Rabbinical school.

K AT I E M c K AY

JOSHUA SCHOENBART

Congratulations Katie McKay!

Congratulations, Josh!

We are most proud of you! You have exemplified a path of hard work, dedication, determination, passion and heart! The world is your oyster! Live life to the fullest and follow your dreams!

Love always, Mom, Dad, Samantha

Continue to be bold and brave.

And always, always get messy!

We love you!

Congratulations! We love you, Mom and Dad

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N ATA L I E VA N B R U N T

M AT T K R A N T Z

Congratulations!

Love, Mom and Dad

Matt: Congratulations on your great achievement. You have made the most of your four years and created memories that will last a lifetime. You should be proud of yourself. We are incredibly proud of you. Dartmouth is forever in your muscles and your brain.

The Krantz and Weiss families

ANNE STORY

K.C. CORD

Anne, We are so proud of you! You are bright and brilliant and will be able to follow your dreams.

As always, you are Awesome Anne!

Love, Mom, Dad, Louise/Braxton, Will/Traci, Tommy, Bev, Bill, Fred, Caryn

Dearest K.C., Congratulations! Your family and friends are humbled by the magnitude of your accomplishments and remain inspired by the grace with which you live your life. The world is better because of you.

Love, Mom and Dad

On to the next adventure!

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NOAH REISMAN

SARAH KOULOGEORGE

No matter where you go You know you’re not alone We’re only one call away Superman Got Nothing On You! All our love, Your Family

Congratulations Sarah! Remember those famous words...

This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end but rather the end of the beginning. You’ve just begun to live, to learn and to make your way in the world. A wonderful adventure awaits. Can’t wait to go along for the ride.

All our love, Mom, Dad, Peter and Andrew

E VA M U N D AY

K AT I E PA PA

Eva, you are an extraordinary woman. The depth of courage, honesty and spirit you live life with makes us more than proud. We are challenged by you to raise the bar of our own choices. Your life will be an extraordinary one, one that will change others. Congratulations beauty, we are so excited to be witness to what is next for you! - Your family

“She believed she could so she did” ... Congratulations Katie and the Class of 2016! Your family couldn’t be more proud!

-Papa, Lynch, Austin, DeNaro, Angerome, and Hambel families

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We were excited when you bought your Class Jersey!

We enjoyed you during Family Weekends!

We now look forward to every 2016 Class Reunion!

See you in June 2021!

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ALI HAMLIN

LEDAH GELLER

Congratulations, Ali Hamlin!

We are awestruck by your perseverance, dedication and accomplishment! Take a moment to appreciate what you’ve done. Relish in your achievement! Embrace the infinite possibilities of your future!

All Our Love, Mom, Dad, Andrew and Caitlin

Congratulations Ledah on all your achievements! We could not have been prouder.

MARISSA COOPER

DALE BELLITTO

Always knew you could do it! Much continued blessings and success.

Yay, Dale !!!

Our loving advice (and Julia Child’s): “Learn how to cook - try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”

And maybe fit in a bit of law school, too!

Love, Mom and Dad

Love, Mom ’85

Love, The Geller Family

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