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Green Key sees more arrests

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

College motions for rehearing on SAE decision

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: HARWELL ’16 PAGE 8

ALMUNUS Q&A: MICHAEL BLUM ’15 PAGE 7

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Though there were fewer noise complaints over this year’s Green Key weekend, there were more arrests.

By ALEXA GREEN The Dartmouth Staff

Green Key arrests by the Hanover Police Department rose to 22 this past weekend, up from 17 last year and down from 34 in 2014.

Five arrests for disorderly conduct were made on Thursday, 11 were made on Friday, four on Saturday and two on Sunday morning. However, of

the 11 arrests that occurred on Friday night, eight were not Dartmouth students. On Saturday, three of the four people arrested were students at the College, while neither of the two arrests on Sunday were students.

Saturday morning, Safety and Security sent out an email to campus reporting that a sexual assault occurred in a residential room on the north

side of campus on Friday night between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. The female victim and reported male perpetrator are both students. After speaking with the victim and conducting a preliminary investigation, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne determined that he should send out a “timely warning” to inform campus SEE GREEN KEY PAGE 5

The College filed a motion on May 16 with the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment for a rehearing of the board’s decision to allow Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity to remain classified as a student residence under Hanover zoning laws.

The zoning board ruled on April 18 that SAE, which was derecognized by the College in the winter, was eligible to be considered a student residence as the fraternity demonstrated that it should be “grandfathered in” under previous zoning laws. This decision only related to the house’s legal status with the town, not to whether the College will permit students to live there.

Last June, then-Interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer announced that students at the College may not live in an unrecognized Greek, undergraduate or

senior society facility. Under current town law, student residences are required to operate “in conjunction with another institutional use.” However, the zoning board ruled that SAE was exempted from this law because the house was a residence before the law came into effect, during which time the College did not exercise “any appreciable health or safety supervision over the residential lives of students living at SAE.” The zoning board came to this decision after various former SAE members gave testimony to this effect. At the time, Dartmouth did not present any counterevidence to these claims, and the zoning board ruled in favor of SAE. Now, however, the College has presented the zoning board with evidence it says demonstrates that the College did provide health SEE SAE PAGE 2

Replacement to NRO option does not pass faculty vote

By MEGAN CLYNE

The Dartmouth Staff

Yesterday afternoon, around 100 faculty members, in their last faculty meeting of the 2015-2016 academic year, voted to not change the nonrecording option, approved the continuation of the Jewish studies program and a five-year plan for faculty compensation.

College President Phil Hanlon commenced the proceedings, followed by chemistry professor Dean Wilcox who reminded the assembly of

procedural rules.

Faculty members first discussed a proposal to replace the NRO with a satisfactory/D/E option, which would yield students a “satisfactory” mark for grades of C- and above. This mark would not be included in students’ GPAs, but it would count toward graduation and distributive requirements. If students earned a D or below, that grade would be recorded and reported. Students who used the satisfactory/D/E option would be allowed to change their choice before a

certain withdrawal date. As with the current NRO, the satisfactory/D/E option would be available for up to three courses at Dartmouth. Departments and programs could choose which courses would be permissible for election of this option. The proposal failed by a vote of 51-40.

A survey conducted by the Committee on Instruction about this option received 102 responses, of which 68 members agreed, 16 disagreed and 18 provided alternate methods of replacing the NRO.

After receiving an overwhelming response in favor of the satisfactory/D/E option, the COI wrote a proposal in favor of the new grading policy that was agreed upon unanimously the Committee of Chairs.

Computer science professor Devin Balkcom presented concerns from other faculty members, who have said that the NRO creates an unhealthy focus on GPAs and is too frequently offered, which decreases student motivation.

Other faculty members said they were in favor of the NRO

because it allows for exploration in subject areas that students might not otherwise experience.

All Ivy League schools currently offer similar grading options.

Faculty members also unanimously passed a vote on the continuation of the Jewish studies program. Many associated faculty members have wanted to establish the 20-year-old program as a permanent one.

Finally, the Committee on the Faculty — which keeps faculty up to date on the growth SEE FACULTY PAGE 3

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DAILY DEBRIEFING This week, the Obama administration released a rule that will extend overtime pay to millions of American workers, including employees on college campuses such as postdoctoral fellows, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The rule increases the annual salary cutoff below which workers are eligible to receive overtime pay to nearly double it to $47,476.

The National Postdoctoral Association has endorsed the rule, though it poses significantly increased costs for most colleges and universities.

A report published last week in the journal Health Psychology found that alcohol-education programs on college campuses had little to no effect on fraternity and sorority members, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Researchers from Brown University analyzed 15 studies that involved 21 alcohol interventions from 1987 to 2014. All of the 6,026 participants were members of fraternities or sororities. The results showed that students who participated in intervention programs continued to drink just as heavily if not more so after the program. One consultant commented that group culture of Greek houses often exceeds any alcohol education advice.

Jerry Boykin, a professor at Virginia’s HampdenSydney College, will teach at the school next year following controversy over his public comments surrounding transgender bathroom laws. Boykin wrote on Facebook that he opposed bills that allow men to enter women’s locker rooms, showers and toilets, and later said that he had been terminated for his comments. A college spokesperson said that Boykin had not been fired for his comments, but rather his contract as an adjunct faculty member had not been reinstated. Last week the college said that Boykin has accepted an offer to teach next year on a yearly contract.

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Zoning board to decide on hearing FROM SAE PAGE 1

and safety supervision over SAE before the new law was enacted, claiming that the zoning board’s earlier decision “was not based on an accurate factual record.” The College’s motion cited a 1902 decision to limit fraternity houses to 14 residents as evidence that it has provided supervision since Dartmouth’s chapter of SAE was established in 1908. The College also cited a 1925 decision by the Board of Trustees restricting the types of construction for new fraternity houses, which predates the SAE house’s construction from 1928 to 1931.

The College also pointed to several regulations relating to fire safety.

The motion included evidence that in 1949, SAE was inspected to ensure that the house complied with fire safety regulations in order to remain a student residence and house guests for parties. The College also submitted records of further fire, electrical and furnace inspections of fraternity houses, including SAE, dating back as early as 1963. In addition, the College referenced a 1964 ruling that fraternity houses had to install fire alarms to remain student residences.

Outside of these housing and inspection records, the College pointed to the creation of a “Fraternity Governing Board” in 1971 as evidence that it was exercising supervision over

the fraternity system. The governing board, which included several Dartmouth faculty and staff, was designed to help with “long-range planning and guidance to promote the general welfare of the fraternities at Dartmouth.” The College also submitted records showing that the governing board proposed having regular fraternity inspections using College resources, which the motion says is further evidence that the governing board was operating “in conjunction” with the College. The motion also pointed to the hiring of a “fraternity business manager” in 1972.

In addition, the College claims that its supervision of SAE continued after the new zoning law’s adoption.

The College pointed to the creation of a constitution for the fraternity system, which imposed several health and safety regulations, that SAE agreed to follow.

Finally, the motion referenced a May 9 decision by the Grafton County Superior Court denying Alpha Delta fraternity’s appeal of a zoning board decision. That decision denied AD permission to continue using its house as a student residence.

The case was argued along similar lines as SAE’s, but in AD’s case, the zoning board ruled that AD did not present evidence that they had existed outside of College supervision before the new zoning law was enacted, a

decision the superior court agreed with. The College argued in its motion for rehearing that the zoning board should take this new superior court decision into account.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence declined to comment on the decision to request a rehearing.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said she thinks it is likely that the zoning board will agree to grant the College’s request to review the case, given that their previous decision emphasized that the College could potentially introduce new evidence for consideration.

The zoning board will decide whether or not to grant the College’s request for a rehearing during a session open to the public on June 2, during which time the College, SAE or other interested parties will be able to give testimony and make comments. Griffin said that the board will then likely schedule a deliberative session in the next week or two where they will probably give a decision. This session will be open to the public but will not allow for additional comments.

Normally, such a request to the zoning board for reconsideration may only be made once, Griffin said. If the zoning board chooses to rehear the case, the losing party may make an appeal to the Grafton County Superior Court, as AD did in its case.

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Faculty compensation motion passes Sexual assault reported over Green Key weekend FROM FACULTY PAGE 1

rate of faculty compensation — issued a motion to increase the Dartmouth faculty’s average level of compensation.

Faculty compensation at the College should be benchmarked against its peer schools, government professor Stephen Brooks said. He argued that in a market system, an institution should not decide to have its own pay rate without reference to its competitors.

Brooks said that the compensation lag creates adverse effects. In a memorandum to the faculty of the Arts and Sciences, the COF estimated that the College could close the compensation gap between Dartmouth and the U.S. News and World Report top 20 schools by spending an additional $5.4 million to the budget for faculty compensation. The report further said that $5.4 million constitutes only 0.6 percent of Dartmouth’s current operating expenses, which amount to about $900 million.

A motion to close the compensation gap over a five year period was unanimously passed by the faculty members present.

In addition to the voting, eight faculty members who are retiring this year were recognized. Together, these professors constitute an aggregate 200

years of service at the College.

Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno also said that over the past year, Dartmouth has begun gearing up for a capital campaign. He said that the financial and reflective endeavor both increased College funds and givens faculty and staff an opportunity to think about institutional goals.

“If you’re going to spend people’s money, you better have a pretty good idea about what you’re going to do with it,” Mastanduno said.

Mastanduno also discussed Dartmouth’s dual dedication to research and a liberal arts education, its academic environment and the integration of technology into the College’s future.

He acknowledged that many people are dismayed that Dartmouth has dropped from an “R1” to “R2” research institution according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which ranks doctoral universities by their research output. He noted that it is troubling that the College can spend its “start-up budget” for initial research funding in a given year by hiring just two scientists.

Mastanduno identified two goals he has for the College over the next 10 years.

The first goal is to provide the best liberal arts education and be second to none. Despite widespread backlash

toward the liberal arts, Mastanduno said that many fields seek students who are holistically trained and critical thinkers.

To fulfill this goal, Mastanduno identified five core requirements that the College should target. These include: a focus on undergraduate research, emphasis on technologyenabled learning, the development of innovative programs, a diversification of both faculty and curriculum and an increase in academic advising opportunities.

“These are the kinds of things you could look for in a capital campaign when the overarching goal is to provide the best education,” he said.

Mastanduno said his second goal is to create a scholarly research profile at the College, even though Dartmouth operates on a smaller scale than many other research institutions. He noted that, in order to cultivate more scholarship, the tenure system must be reevaluated.

It is an “extraordinary privilege” to be considered for lifelong positions after only six years of working at the College, Mastanduno said. He said that faculty should think about whether six years is an appropriate amount of time prior to consideration for the tenure track, and whether all faculty have the fairest chance to obtain tenure.

Dick’s House but this weekend, Dick’s House was very busy and our officers and EMS were able to determine that of the incident.

Hanover Police Department the person did not need emergency later received information from the medical attention,” Kinne said.

There were also reports from the College stating that an anonymous sexual assault had occurred. Discuss- Collis Center manager Anna Hall ing Title IX rules and sexual assault and Safety and Security officers at investigations, Hanover Chief of Late Night Collis about individuals Police Charlie Dennis said that once taking food without paying.

“The material was confiscated a sexual assault is reported, it is and the student up to the victim to decide what “Generally, we take w a s ch a rg e d for whatever they want to do.

A victim can people to Dick’s House amount of food come forward but this weekend, t h e r e w a s , ” Kinne said. to the school, R e declare anonym- Dick’s House was very ity or talk to law busy and our officers ports were then written on the enforcement as they see fit, Den- and EMS were able situation and nis said. to determine that the those reports were referred to “They can decide for us to person did not need Judicial Affairs.

B e n pursue that case emergency medical Robbins, a Colas a criminal lis worker, said matter, or they attention.” that Late Night may decide they theft occurs on don’t want to do -HARRY KINNE, SAFETY most big weekthat yet,” he said. ends, which is “Also, a person AND SECURITY DIRECTOR why Safety and can decide they Security officers want to have a are necessary to sexual assault kit tested, and will still be completely monitor food displays at peak hours.

Robbins also commented that granted anonymity.”

Kinne reported that from Friday students sometimes open the doors at morning to Monday morning there the back of Collis, which are closed were a total of 88 reports filed — during late night hours to prevent including medical emergencies, ill- theft.

“I’ve nesses, accidents and intoxication. “I’ve watched a kid get watched a kid their food Around 20 situtheir food and then put get and then put ations occurred where Safety and it on the corner of the it on the corner the salad Security officers salad bar, wait a few of bar, wait a few responded to intoxicated individ- and then go to the door and then go to uals. A majority and walk out with it.” the door and walk out with of these incidents it,” he said. involved DartSafety mouth students, - BEN ROBBINS, COLLIS and Security he said. Kinne c o o rd i n at e d reported that five WORKER with Hanover to 10 people went Police and Fire to Dick’s House Departments for alcohol related medical attention and about eight in addition to student activities to 10 people went to Dartmouth- groups for the weekend. Extra paHitchcock Medical Center. A small trols and staff attended the events, proportion of these numbers were including the concerts. Staffing not Dartmouth students, but non- levels were taken into consideration Dartmouth attendees at the Green by both Hanover Police and Safety and Security.

Key concerts.

Kinne commented that there According to Kinne, Safety and Security saw a number of instances was a noticeable decrease in noise where alcohol was involved but the complaints related to Friday’s afterindividuals in question were not in- noon block party on Webster Avenue toxicated enough to require medical and evening concert on Gold Coast attention. In these situations, Safety Lawn. He partially attributed this to and Security officers did “turn overs” a memo that notified the surrounding Hanover community members about to sober individuals.

“Generally, we take people to the activities.

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COLUMNIST MERCEDES DE GUARDIOLA ’17

STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ’17

Food is Not a Monopoly

Black and Blue

DDS needs to completely overhaul its current system.

In rankings of American college campus dining services, Dartmouth often ranks in the top tier.

However, although Dartmouth Dining Services does offer quality products and a wide range meal options for students, there are several areas that need significant improvements. While students have brought up many of these problems over the past few years, they have gone unaddressed by the College.

First, by requiring students living on campus to purchase a meal plan, DDS operates a monopoly on student dining. In the past, DDS has argued that this is benefits students, as not requiring a meal plan resulted in a “class system being developed.” However, this statement did not consider the fact that students may not choose to spend their money on a meal plan because of issues with financial aid and the fact that they are already required to find ways to cover the other $63,624 needed to attend Dartmouth.

In addition, as many students frequently notice, food sold at multiple DDS locations is marked up by as much as two or three times the price at which it is sold in town. Since DDS buys their goods wholesale, and since Dartmouth is not located in an area in which food prices are overwhelmingly high, there is no apparent reason for the markup. Given that DDS has inadvertently boasted in the past that it has made around and a $1 million in net revenue each year “despite the economic recession” from 2009 to 2011, theoretically it should be possible to cut prices for students attending a non-profit institution.

Students should also be given more of the money back. Currently, $100 of DBA “rolls over” at the end of each term. But if students have enough DBA to take advantage of that system, it doesn’t really make a difference in the long run since they will probably be stuck in the same situation the following term if they follow the same eating habits. Dartmouth students should not be penalized if they do not eat as much as the meal plan expects.

Even given the high prices students pay, however, it is hard for students to receive sufficient accommodation in dining when necessary. For example, while many colleges offer kosher dining options on campus, DDS does not offer an option that is certified by Orthodox or Conservative Judaism. While Jewish students publicly pushed for increased standards last year so that they

could eat the food in the dining hall, no official changes have yet been made and the task has been delegated to a working group. At the end of the day, since the school requires students to purchase a dining plan, they must offer meals every student can eat.

Regardless of dietary concerns, another frustrating aspect of DDS is the limited weekend and summer service. On weekends, Collis Cafe and several food stations in the Class of 1953 Commons shut down. While standard 9-to-5 office jobs might have weekends off, it’s not the standard in the food industry: if students weren’t forced to pay for a meal plan, DDS would have to compete with restaurants in town on weekends.

Likewise, students should not be forced to pay the same price for less service during the summer. As The Dartmouth Editorial Board discussed in the May 5 verbum ultimatum “Real Term, Real Education,” the school needs to start treating sophomore summer as a real term. If the College requires students to be on campus, they cannot penalize them for it by charging the same amount as a regular term for less of everything. Obviously, there are clear financial concerns given that there are fewer students on campus. But if that is such a financial burden on the school and the services it provides, then Dartmouth needs to look at ways to adjust the summer term instead of forcing students to pay for it.

Ultimately, many of these issues have gone unaddressed or unsolved because there is no accountability. As DDS holds a monopoly over students living on campus, there is no way for students to forcibly enact change. Students cannot vote with their wallets: whether or not they want to spend their money at DDS locations, money left over will go to DDS anyways. Currently, the school provides no poll or serious end-of-year survey to gather student thoughts on DDS. If students are to be forced to pay for it, they should be able to have a much bigger voice in it.

It is not clear why any of the above areas so often cited by Dartmouth students as factors that should be changed have not elicited public scrutiny from the College. But ultimately, there is no reason why an institution that prides itself on being a non-profit for higher learning should allow a service to forcibly make a profit from its students.

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The Black Lives Matter organization’s actions in Collis are condemnable.

It is never easy to draw attention to the to mash its fists against that which it dislikes failures of this school I have come to love and then hide behind a curtain of hashtags so much. It is harder still to hold my fellow as if that could make the consequences go students responsible for such failures. But away. The whole thing would almost be hardest of all is to see these same students amusing, were it not laced with such genuine fight one another, so insistent in their quest hatred and unveiled intolerance. to be right that they refuse to see the school I say intolerance because of the way Black for anything else. Nonetheless, when basic Lives Matter has presented itself. I cannot civil liberties are violated and when so few associate guarding the halls of Collis to have spoken against their transgressions, I silence dissent with any other word. Such cannot and will not remain silent. Thus I an action constitutes a literal policing of must turn to the students of the Black Lives free speech and the weaponization of fear, Matter movement and roundly condemn which are hardly the tools of a peaceful their actions in the Collis Center. organization. Where Lincoln pleaded for By now, it is a story so widely circulated malice toward none, instead I see malice around campus that it scarcely needs re- toward all. Where Martin Luther King Jr. peating. The College Republicans placed begged for a table of brotherhood, instead a memorial on the Collis billboard com- I see fists raised in a cry for war. Former memorating America’s police forces under champions of equality would indeed find the name of “Blue Lives Matter.” On April little in common with such efforts to shun 13, supporters of the Black Lives Matter all reconciliation, as they continually mirror movement tore down that memorial and the very hatred they supposedly oppose so replaced the College Republicans’ posters much. with ones that read “You cannot co-opt These are not standards based on political the movement against state violence to ideology or belief, but on the very standard memorialize its perpetrators.” Even as the of equality Black Lives Matter purportedly College Republicans advocates. People should made attempts to place “Before anything not be spared the consetheir memorial back on of their actions, else, we must uphold quences the board — a board regardless of who they they had already re- the sanctity of are or what they believe served following the in. Even when rules responsibility. The College’s protocol — a must be bent to prove a cluster of Black Lives same rules apply point, they must not be Matter supporters were to all students of broken with the purpose perceived as enough of of frightening others a safety concern that Dartmouth, regardless into silence. Aggression they were unable to do of identity or creed.” and bullying have no so until much later that place at Dartmouth, and night. The controversy they should not be the has since prompted the language of activism. administration to decry Nor are they sustainable the movement’s “unacceptable violation of tactics — organizations that take up such free exchange.” In the wake of Green Key’s naked hostility are usually doomed to fail. ecstasy, the controversy has scarcely died History is unkind to radical voices and down. deals harshly with its sympathizers; just as Before anything else, we must uphold society has condemned the segregationists the sanctity of responsibility. The same of older times, so too will it one day revile rules apply to all students of Dartmouth, the extremism that pervades so much of the regardless of identity or creed. Such is as it activism we see today. Black Lives Matter should be, for in an equal society all must must disavow the radical aspects of its moveuphold equal responsibilities to one another. ment that have plagued its ranks since last Just as freedom of speech is a core tenet of November, lest it face its own extinction. an equal society, so too is denouncing unOurs is a narrative that must be built necessary destruction. I therefore applaud together, for all of us. The community of — if reservedly and begrudgingly — the Dartmouth transcends race to encompass administration’s email acknowledging such all of its students, to allow us to pursue our responsibility. Only time will tell if it will convictions without fear of one another. be followed by any tangible action.

When such alienating tactics and intimidaRegardless, such radical behavior is tion take root in our community, the diviwholly unnecessary whether or not one sion they engender can do no good. When agrees or disagrees with the Black Lives we attack one another, when we tear each Matter movement. Whether or not the Col- other’s messages down and insist that ours lege Republicans “co-opted” the Black Lives is the only one worth hearing, in many ways Matter movement’s slogan is, likewise, irrel- we are also attacking ourselves. evant. There are plentiful opportunities for The foundation of this college must not productive dialogue and countless resources be built on a legacy of mutual hostility, nor exist on campus to allow such dialogue to does it have to be. Either we must all stand take place. Unfortunately, the Black Lives together to address the issues within our Matter movement has not availed itself of community, in good faith and with compasthese opportunities. Instead, it has seen fit sion, or we must risk seeing it all fall.

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Front and Center at Green Key Music was all over campus this weekend as artists played from fraternity yards to Gold Coast Lawn to the Collis Center’s porch. This year, Cash Cash headlined the Programming Board concert Friday night, which had Dan + Shay and Raury as the opening acts. Collis Mainstage featured sounds ranging from Hanover talent Noah Kahan to student band Half the City.

On Saturday, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity hosted electronic artist Gryffin, while student band shArk opened the show. See the concerts through our photographer Daniel Berthe ’18’s lens in this photo essay of the weekend’s music scene.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

American Red Cross Blood Drive, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center

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“National Security’s Entanglement with Corporate Law,” Andrew Verstein, Wake Forest University School of Law, 215 Silsby

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“EYEWASH: Jennifer Levonian,” Experimental images and sounds, Black Family Visual Arts Center 001

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Alice in Wonderland Tea Party, hosted by students and faculty of the English department, Sanborn Library

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“Language Change; Change Across the Lifespan and the Bardi Historical Record,” Claire Bowen, Yale University, Reed 108

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Alumnus Q&A: Jazz guitarist Michael Blum ’15

By KAINA CHEN

The Dartmouth Staff

Michael Blum ’15 is a jazz guitarist who is already making waves in the music industry. In 2015, he was named the Rising Star Guitarist in DownBeat Magazine’s 63rd Annual Critic’s Poll. His newest recording, “Chasin’ Oscar: A Tribute to Oscar Peterson,” will come out next month, and his follow-up jazz fusion project will be titled “Expansion.” He has collaborated with jazz and classical musicians such as John and Jeff Clayton, Eddie Gomez, Joe Hunt, Michael Manring and Gary Karr.

Could you tell me a little bit about your time at Dartmouth?

MB: I was in the Dodecaphonics all four years, and I loved that.

Throughout the years, I had a few experiences that played a role in my decision of pursuing music. I played in the pit orchestra for the musical “Hairspray,” and many musical directors gave me opportunities to pursue jazz more seriously. Those probably led directly and directly to me pursue creating the album.

How did your interests in guitar and jazz music begin?

MB: I’ve been playing guitar since I was about eight, and my dad also plays. My family has pictures of my dad and I playing. In those pictures, we’re mirroring each other and I look like I’m about six or seven. I first got interested in jazz music because it was always around my house. The way that I got into jazz was by listening to it, and I

stuck with it because it presented a challenge to me. Jazz presents different challenges than other types of music, because a jazz musician needs to be equipped with the skills to improvise.

Could you describe the process of recording an album?

MB: Well, each recording session is pretty much a live take, and it’s usually not more than one take.

For this album, it’s four musicians in the studio, and the engineer will be there. A lot of it is improv. For this specific album, “Chasin’ Oscar: A Tribute to Oscar Peterson,” the music was much more difficult than what we’re generally used to — we got together twice before recording in the studio.

What is the inspiration behind this album?

MB: It’s a tribute to Oscar Peterson, a pianist [who] was known for his ability of playing very fast. I thought the best way to pay tribute to him was to play his music. This album is unique because many of the songs and solos on the album are recreations of Oscar Peterson’s music on the guitar. And to my knowledge, I don’t think that’s ever been done before.

How do you deal with the uncertainties of the music industry?

MB: A majority of my peers are in a totally different line of work, and I see the comparison [between different lines of work] all the time.

There is uncertainty, but that is what makes it fun. Someone once told me that once you start feeling

secure in life, that’s kind of when you stop growing, when you stop seeking more. So yes, it is uncertain and it’s taken some time to get comfortable with [the uncertainty], but it’s what I love to do, so I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?

MB: I think 10 years from now, whatever I’m playing, I hope I’ll be impacting people on a personal level. That is the goal of my music — getting people to feel and think differently.

MB: I don’t think it’s added any more pressure or changed the kind of music or the level I play. Mostly it’s been a positive thing, and it’s helped me in times where I feel I’ve sunk into a slump because I have a plaque sitting on my desk encouraging me to keep going and affirming that I should be doing this.

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You recently graduated. Any advice to the outgoing senior

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MB: I don’t want to be preachy or sound cliché, but try as much as you can to not compare yourself to your peers. You never know what other people are feeling. Just make decisions for yourself, and stay true to yourself.

As a musician, how do you define success?

MB: Well, I think that if I’m affecting other people, and I’m impacting other people on a personal level, then I’ve achieved some success.

I think rejection is probably the thing that makes me question myself the most. When I call up a club manager and they say there aren’t spots for me to perform, or when a reviewer doesn’t like my music, it’s challenging. I don’t think I can convince myself to stop feeling down. The only thing I can control is making more music, and after doing playing and creating more, I stop thinking about that one criticism until another one comes up. I guess the remedy is to get back up on the horse and not let [criticism] pull you down.

You’ve recently been named the “Rising Star” Guitarist in DownBeat Magazine. Are there any new expectations that come with this recognition?

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Michael Blum ’15 is releasing his recording, “Chasin’ Oscar,” next month.

Student Spotlight: Studio art major Emily Harwell ’16 geometric shapes then displayed them on a piece of copper leaf.

The Dartmouth Staff Harwell said she felt honored Emily Harwell ’16 was among to win this award and was excited many senior art majors who because it gave her the opportunity recently won the Class of 1960 to have her artwork displayed perResidential Life Purchase Award. manently. Although she had always Faculty and membeen interbers of the Class “[Studio art professor ested in art, of 1960 saw all the never Colleen Randall] really she work shown at the envisioned senior art exhibition pushed me to work herself and then selected harder, spend more pursuing it which ones they as a major wanted to buy to time in the studio and or profesdecorate residential consider majoring.” sionally. dorms and offices.

When Harwell won the she came award for her col- -EMILY HARWELL ’16 to Dartlages “Untitled” mouth, and “Study of MonHarwell ey.” To create these pieces, she cut originally planned on majoring in real money and prints of bills into environmental science. However,

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she eventually changed her mind and switched to majoring in studio art, although she is pursuing an environmental science minor.

Harwell said that the transition to becoming a studio art major was relatively easy since she had already taken so many studio art classes simply out of interest.

However, while Harwell had the technical skills, she needed to invest more time in her art which she was encouraged to do by studio art professor Colleen Randall.

“She really pushed me to work harder, spend more time in the studio and consider majoring,” Harwell said.

After she made the decision to pursue the major, Harwell began to take her art more seriously and explore various themes that she would continue to work on

throughout her time at Dartmouth. forest. As a result, she spent time Although her artworks selected outside appreciating nature. by the Class of 1960 focused on “I spend more time outside than inside,” Harwell m o n ey, s h e usually focussaid.

Harwell tries to es on natural “To me, her artwork conceptualize exelements. Her often creates a interest in enactly how nature fits into her work. vironmental strong dichotomy, s c i e n c e l e d highlighting beautiful Je n n y S e o n g ’16, a fellow stulargely to this plants and scenery focus. Howdio art major who works in a studio ever, Harwell from nature with next to Harwell, said she has a darker, twisted always been said that the two of them occainterested in perspective.” nature due sionally discuss and comment on to her Native -HAYDEN CHUN ’16 American each other’s art.

“She’s more inheritage. She grew up in a small town in Okla- terested in nature and how humans homa on a 40-acre piece of land SEE SPOTLIGHT PAGE 8 mainly made up in large part of

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Harwell ’16 focuses on the intersection of nature and violence FROM SPOTLIGHT PAGE 7

have manipulated nature,” Seong said.

Hayden Chun ’16 agreed with Seong about the combination of nature and destructive elements.

“To me, her artwork often creates a strong dichotomy, highlighting beautiful plants and scenery from nature with a darker, twisted perspective,” Chun said.

Over the years, Harwell said her work has become more focused on human violence against nature, which she associates with men’s violence against women.

“I think about my connection with the land and my body while creating,” Harwell wrote in her artist statement for the senior art exhibition.

The subject of violence against women is particularly relevant for Harwell for two reasons. Sexual assault is a large problem within the Native American community, in which one in three women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime. This rate is alarming in and of itself, but particularly so because it is higher than the overall average rates of sexual assault among women. As a member of the Native American community,

Harwell said she felt connected “In my work, sometimes I’m to this issue. In addition, Harwell successful in combining the two is herself a survivor of sexual as- and having balance, and somesault, making the topic extremely times one overcomes the other,” personally relevant.

Harwell said.

“As a survivor of such violence, The relationship between these it is important to me to create elements has continued to evolve work that expresses resilience via over the years that Harwell has beauty while also addressing that spent creating art while at the this darkness, or violence, is present College. and strong,” Harwell said.

“It’s been amazing to see her Harwell said that after her as- work evolve over the past few years, sault, she noticed that her art be- and I can’t wait to see how her pascame darksion will continue to er in sub- “As a survivor of grow,” Chun said. ject matter The gallery pres u b c o n - such violence, it is sentation for the s c i o u s l y. important to me to Class of 1960 PurA f t e r chase Award was create work that writing one of Harwell’s her artist expresses resilience last projects while statement, via beauty while also at Dartmouth. HowHarwell ever, she wishes to b e g i n t o addressing that this continue working think more darkness, or violence, on her art once deeply graduates. She is present and strong.” she about her plans on doing two work and post baccalaureate the mean- -EMILY HARWELL ’16 s e m e s t e r s b e fo re ing behind eventually going on it. to graduate school.

Harwell said that after writing This summer, a gallery that had her statement she began to focus viewed Harwell’s art in the senior more on the conflict between exhibition will showcase and put violence and pure elements. her art on sale.

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Emily Harwell ’16 prefers to focus on nature, specifically honing in on human violence against nature.

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Emily Harwell ’16 wishes to continue working on her art post-graduation.

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Emily Harwell ’16 won awards for two of her pieces at the senior exhibition.