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Students participated in Thursday Night Salsa at Sarner Underground.

For Alana Donohue ’18, life was about making those around her as happy as they could be.

Friends and family said that Donohue strove to put a smile on everyone’s face, an effort that came from her kindness and lively spirit.

On June 23, Donohue died at a New York hospital as a result of anaphylaxis. She was 19.

“She literally gave to all her heart, her joy and her optimism,” Donohue’s father Ted

Donohue said in her eulogy.

Ted Donohue described his daughter as someone who could effortlessly charm a room full of strangers with her playful wit and mischevous grin. He described her as a “lightbulb” in a room — the first to raise her hand, the first to laugh, the first to be silly or the first to hug. He added, though, that this was coupled with an intense intellectual curiosity. He said it is rare to find someone with such a balance of gifts.

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School of Graduate and Advance Studies opens today

By PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s new School of Graduate and Advanced Studies will open today. Hailed by many graduate students and faculty as an important step in creating a strong culture of research and excellence in graduate study at the College, in its inaugural year, the school will provide a permanent home to the 791 graduate students in

the arts and sciences.

“Dartmouth is not just a college,” Graduate Student Council finance chair Ed Feris GR ’17 said. “Obviously, Dartmouth College is a tradition, but it’s really a university.”

To many, the graduate school represents a shift toward an increased focus on research and interdisciplinary interaction amongst graduate students. F. Jon Kull ’88 will serve as the dean of the new

school, known as GRAD, an acronym for “Graduate and Advanced.”

Kull wrote in an email that the school will not cut into Dartmouth’s existing mission as an undergraduate-focused institution but does hope the research and graduate programs housed in GRAD will bolster Dartmouth’s reputation across many disciplines.

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The new GRAD office at 37 Dewey Field Road.

Kuster ’78 shares sexual assault story before Congress

By ERIN LEE The Dartmouth Staff

When Rep. Ann McLane Kuster '78, D-N.H., was sexually assaulted as a freshman at the College, she kept silent about the assault for more than 40 years. Last week, Kuster took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to speak out about the assault at Dartmouth for the first time, in addition to two others she experienced while

working as a congressional aide.

In her speech, Kuster recounted a night as an 18-year-old student attending a dance at a fraternity with friends.

"We danced. We listened to music. We enjoyed the evening, and we enjoyed the party, until one young man assaulted me in a crude and insulting way, and I ran, alone into the cold dark night,” she said in her floor speech.

Kuster said in an interview that she was inspired to share her story after reading the statement written by “Emily Doe,” the woman who was sexually assaulted by former Stanford University student Brock Turner last year. Kuster and 17 other members of the House read Doe’s 7,200-word open letter on the House floor earlier this month after news broke that Turner, who was found guilty of three felonies, would only

serve six months in a county jail.

“She made such an eloquent statement about not only the attack, but also the aftermath of her attack, her experience in the judicial process,” Kuster said. “I was really inspired by her courage.”

She added that during her efforts over the past year to investigate New Hampshire’s heroin epidemic, she has visited treatment and recovery

facilities throughout the state.

During one conversation with people in recovery, several discussed sexual assault and domestic violence, and Kuster was impressed by their candor and eloquence.

“I realized that there are a lot of people my age who have had this experience,” she said. “Many of us didn’t speak of it. I never told my family, my children or my SEE KUSTER PAGE 3

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“Dartmouth will continue to be the premier institution emphasizing the teacher-scholar model, and I am confident our faculty will continue to be, not only worldclass researchers, but also scholars passionately dedicated to the art of teaching undergraduates,” he wrote. “But we also realize Dartmouth’s reputation is influenced by the impact and quality of the research and scholarship we do here.”

The new school will house the almost 800 graduate students in doctoral and masters programs currently housed under the general arts and sciences bailiwick and will also absorb postdoctoral researchers, including members of Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows, which College President Phil Hanlon founded in 2014. It joins the Geisel School of Medicine, Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering in offering graduate programs at the College.

Currently there are no plans to expand the number of graduate students or faculty through the new school, but Kull said GRAD could make such changes in the future.

“In the very short term we are working out many devil-in-thedetails issues related to the administrative change,” Kull wrote.

The graduate school is not immediately intended to expand but GRAD “has the capacity to fully support new programs that faculty might develop,” he wrote.

Graduate students interviewed were universally enthusiastic about the school.

“This is a first step in strengthening the entire institution,” Graduate Student Council president Kyla Rodgers said. “Having a graduate school puts us on the same level as our peer institutions at the other Ivy League schools, so this should serve to attract more high quality graduate students and it should also be something that’s good for undergraduates.”

Feris noted that the creation of a separate, degree-awarding graduate school will increase the heft of Dartmouth’s graduate degrees and brings the College in line with its peer institutions, most of which have had freestanding graduate schools for decades.

Master of arts in liberal studies student Preetha Sebastian GR ’17 said GRAD, which currently has no physical plant, could benefit from its own building in the future, but in the short term she said the school

will foster greater interdisciplinary cooperation amongst graduate students and create a stronger community for them.

Another major issue the school hopes to address is funding. While current graduate funding can be disjointed, coming from a variety of professional schools and from

“This is the first step in strengthening the entire institution.

Having a graduate school puts us on the same level as our peer institutions at the other Ivy League schools.”

-KYLA RODGERS, GRADUATE STUDENT Dartmouth’s arts and sciences faculty, GRAD aims to “have one big umbrella” to allocate funds, doctoral candidate Janice Galejs GR ’19 said.

“I think that by creating this graduate school and by creating the letterhead, we can start looking for donors and getting our own funding,” she said.

Indeed, the symbolic heft of GRAD may be one of its largest contributions to Dartmouth. Rodgers said the College’s graduate programs seemed smaller than they in fact were due to the lack of an official graduate school, leading outside observers to underestimate Dartmouth’s contributions as a center for research and graduate studies.

“It’s more of an administrative shift than anything, but it does give kind of the language to address what we are as an institution, so instead of just being a grad studies office in the arts and sciences school — which sort of belied the size of the graduate community — now we have something that will give all the grad students more recognition,” she said.

Kull wrote that the school will enable Dartmouth to attract stronger graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, a major boon to faculty in all departments.

Having access to the best academics available will be a major contribution to the campus community, he wrote.

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The ability of the school to raise funds independently of the rest of the College “gives the school a lot more prestige [and] means it can become more like a university rather than just a college,” Feris said.

According to biochemistry professor Dean Madden, a member of the faculty task force that undertook the creation of GRAD, Dartmouth is now “ahead of the curve” in updating its graduate teaching, moving away from what he called “a model that developed in the beginning of the 20th century.”

Madden emphasized the careful process behind the creation of the graduate school, which was approved by a general faculty vote in November with 174 professors voting in favor with nine opposed.

Kull announced plans for GRAD in late October, less than a month before the faculty approved the plan.

“We had to make sure that this was something that fit into the Dartmouth community,” Madden said. “The community did this very thoughtfully, and I think it’s really going to pay dividends across campus, for graduates and undergraduate students and for

faculty and postdoctorate students as well.”

Moreover, the school could provide for key “cross-fertiliz[ation of] the undergraduate community,” according to Madden.

A strong graduate program best serves the undergraduate population, Galejs said. She cited her own undergraduate experience at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which has roughly as many graduate students as undergraduates, as an example for an ideal system of graduate-undergraduate interaction.

“If we keep segregating everybody, that would enable parts of the community to suffer,” she said.

Kull wrote that the new school would not take away from Dartmouth’s focus on undergraduates, noting in his email that GRAD will join Dartmouth’s existing professional schools, founded in 1797, 1867 and 1900.

“I don’t think that will take away from the undergraduate focus at all, actually,” Rodgers said. “One thing that I would say is that graduate students actually account for well over a quarter of the student body at Dartmouth and one of the feelings that a lot of graduate students have is that there is not as much

visibility as we would like.”

Rodgers said she has heard people say Dartmouth is not a strong research institution because of a lack of graduate students, an observation she believes is factually inaccurate.

For mer Graduate Student Council president Erin Brioso GR’16 wrote in an email that she hopes the new school will increase focus on humanities graduate programs while also “leveling the playing field” for graduate students at Dartmouth.

Brioso also cited potential expansion of graduate programs as an exciting opportunity for GRAD moving forward, although Kull has said no such plans currently exist.

Graduate students interviewed hope to see more interaction between members not just of different graduate programs but also between graduate and undergraduate students.

“Undergraduates become graduate students, so if you want your undergraduates to become very successful you need them to intermingle with graduate students,” Galejs said. “We will bring better professors, bring better students, and we can increase Dartmouth’s capabilities as a research institute.”

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Stanford case prompts discussion Donohue's father gives eulogy at N.Y. funeral FROM KUSTER PAGE 1

husband, and I realized that our silence has contributed to the lack of resolve in our society to end sexual assault, violence against women, domestic violence. It felt like the right time to speak up and find my voice.”

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the College was “deeply distressed” to learn of Kuster’s experiences and reached out to her to offer support.

“It is revelations like [Kuster’s] that demonstrate why we must continue to expand our efforts in prevention, response and accountability,” she said.

The College is currently being investigated for two separate Title IX complaints, filed on May 31, 2013 and August 21, 2015 respectively.

According to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, Dartmouth saw 42 reports of rape on campus in 2014.

Of the thousands of schools surveyed, Dartmouth had the second highest number of reported rapes in 2014. Brown University and the University of Connecticut each had 43. Dartmouth has a substantially smaller student population than either Brown or UConn does.

Melinda Pierce ’06 said she was not surprised by the number of reported rapes because of the College’s male-dominated social scene.

“I don’t think that the culture of Dartmouth is well situated to prevent sexual assault,” she said.

“There is a sort of coded behavior of protection amongst those maledominated social groups where they aren’t going to necessarily step up when they should to prevent something from happening.”

When she was an undergraduate, Pierce wrote an opinion piece in The Dartmouth addressing the issue of sexual assault at the College. She said she received words of support and solidarity from other women on campus after the piece was published, but the administration did not respond.

Pierce noted that during her time at the College, the Student Life Initiative, which launched in 2000,was meant to provide non-fraternity social options but failed, partly due to resistance from fraternities themselves.

“I think that Dartmouth in many ways is going around in circles,” she said. “We can only have a dialogue for so long.”

Lawrence cited the Association of American Universities’ sexual assault survey released last fall, which showed Dartmouth students reported a higher rate of knowledge about sexual misconduct procedures and available resources than AAU aggregate rates. Fifty-six

percent of Dartmouth respondents reported having been victims of sexual harassment, compared to the AAU aggregate rate of 48 percent.

“At Dartmouth, we want to see the number of reported incidents go up and the prevalence of incidents

“We are all Emily Doe. We all need to speak up because these stories are so common, and they're difficult to talk about, but it won't stop until there's an advocacy movement to make these changes in our society.”

-REP. ANN MCLANE KUSTER '78

go down,” she said. “Although the growing climate of reporting is encouraging, even one sexual assault is too many.”

Kuster noted that there are now more resources at Dartmouth than there were when she was a student, including Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist and on-campus WISE advocate Delaney Anderson.

As part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, the College is in the process of implementing several programs to address sexual assault, including a comprehensive sexual assault education program and an online consent manual.

Abhilasha Gokulan ’18, a member of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said the committee is currently working on implementing its recommendations released at the end of 2015. The committee is talking to residential housing staff and Greek organizations to introduce responder workshops for leaders in the residential and Greek systems, Gokulan said. The SPCSA is also working out logistics for training Greek leaders in how to react appropriately to situations of sexual assault.

Gokulan said she views the introduction of a sexual violence education program during prerecruitment for rush this past year as progress. The program, the Dartmouth Bystanders Initiative, was implemented in 2014 and is required for all students rushing GLOS societies.

Gokulan noted that sexual assault statistics can sometimes be misleading, as definitions and metrics vary between different surveys.

However, she said the numbers are still indicative of the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses.

“Even if that number was one, that still shouldn’t be the case,” she said. “That number should be zero.”

Kuster said she hopes students will be able to find their voice on these issues in their undergraduate years but added that sexual assault also needs to be tackled in a much broader societal context as well.

“We’re all Emily Doe,” she said.

“We all need to speak up because these stories are so common, and they’re difficult to talk about, but it won’t stop until there’s an advocacy movement to make these changes in our society.”

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“We almost felt guilty as parents,” Ted Donohue said. “It’s rare that you get the intellect, and the academics, but also the fun and the free spirit.”

Ted Donohue said Alana had struggled with various illnesses from a young age, including asthma, neurofibromatosis, celiac disease and various allergies, relentlessly harming her body and rarely providing any respite. Donohue had been on medical leave from the College for the past two terms, but had been planning to return for her sophomore summer.

He described his daughter’s many trips to hospitals, emergency rooms, ambulances, x-rays and MRIs, starting at a very young age. But amidst all the pain and struggles, Donohue’s father said she never “wallowed in self-pity.”

Furthermore, despite all this pain and “toxic onslaught,” Ted Donohue said that instead of letting these sicknesses consume her, his daughter saw them as a lesson to appreciate life, as she understood how fleeting a moment could be.

“Once [the illnesses] broke, that would be a reason she kind of exploded on the scene the next day,” he said. “She really knew what it was like to feel good, and to savor the preciousness of the moment.”

Donohue’s close friend Emilia Baldwin ’18 reflected on Donohue’s uncanny and extraordinary ability to bring joy to other people.

“Making others happy was a virtue that she achieved within her 19 years and one that I’m not sure I and many other people will ever be able to achieve,” Baldwin said.

Donohue was born on July 3, 1996.

In her eulogy, her father recalled that she came into the world “jaundiced and screaming at the top of her little lungs,” already a force to be reckoned with. Donohue attended a preschool in Manhattan called Christ Church Day School, and then from kindergarten until senior year attended The Chapin School, an all-girls independent day school also located in Manhattan.

Sophia Diserio ’18, Donohue’s classmate both at Chapin and at Dartmouth, said that Donohue was energetic, funny and spirited, even from a very young age. She said that Donohue, the shortest student in the class during lower and middle school, used to joke when lining up in order of height that “you always have to save the best for last.”

Diserio remarked that although Donohue might have been small in size, her benevolence and compassion were tremendous.

“She may have been the last to hit her growth spurt, but her heart and soul were mature beyond her years,” Diserio said.

In particular, Diserio recalled how Donohue would forgo giving into the typical seventh-grade cliques and would sit with anyone in the class during lunch. She attributed this to Donohue’s quality of being kind to everyone.

Ted Donohue remembered how his daughter was nearly “obsessed” with making her friends happy and ensuring that they got along.

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Lessons from Brexit

No ‘Right to Defame’

The Brexit vote has important lessons for us come November.

Although the United Kingdom’s exit from and many others believed fervently that Trump the European Union — “Brexit” — may feel would never become the GOP’s candidate. It’s far removed from our isolated lives in the Dart- time to take responsibility for our vote and realize mouth bubble, its consequences for those of that President Trump is a very real possibility us on this side of the pond are clear. Since the and, if that’s not an eventuality we want, we can’t British government held the referendum on June wait for someone else to vote for the opposition 23, global stock markets are plummeting, with a for us. No more excuses about how difficult it is record $3 trillion wiped from global markets the to vote or how your vote doesn’t matter. If you Friday and Monday following Brexit. think you don’t know enough about Trump The U.S. Dollar rising against or Clinton’s campaigns, take the pound may be great for your some time to do research. Find fall term abroad, but it also means “The rise of Trump out the candidates’ views and that CD and Bond yields are and the victory of the precedence about our nation’s likely to fall. While Britain and pressing issues and consider Europe are shouldering most Leave campaign are the real change each person of the fallout from this decision, not so different. If it could affect over the next four we still need to wake up and pay years. could happen there, attention.

America, however, will not Perhaps the most important it can happen here.” necessarily follow the lead of lesson Americans can draw from our friends across the pond. the Brexit vote is that we can’t be The Brexit vote suffered from complacent in this year’s election. In many ways, a lack of voter turnout among young people, like supporters of the Leave campaign come from us. 75 percent of young people who did turnthe same demographic and hold similar beliefs out voted to remain in the EU. Yet, their votes to Donald Trump’s base: both groups tend to be comprised a small portion of the overall group older and less educated. And their motivations of voters aged 18 and above. Approximately are similar. Both campaigns rely heavily on only 36 percent of people aged 18 to 24 voted xenophobic sentiment: the Leave campaign by in the EU referendum. Similarly, in the 2012 generating fear of Syrian refugees and Trump’s U.S. presidential election, only 45 percent of campaign by fueling antagonistic attitudes toward eligible voters aged 18 to 29 voted, which was a both Hispanic and Muslim immigrants. Both decrease of about 1.8 million voters in the same are nationalist — and in many age group who voted in the ways bigoted — movements that “Brexit is a clear 2008 election. In both voting thrive on fear-mongering, drawscenarios, voters aged 65 and ing divisions among people and warning sign that older dominated the polls, with breeding hatred that translates in if we don’t take a 83 percent turnout for the EU the polls to decisions that damn referendum and 72 percent for vote seriously, we us all. the U.S. presidential election in It’s clear that these two probably won’t 2012. campaigns are similar, but what Brexit has not spelled out the does that similarity mean for us? be happy with the conclusion of this year’s elecIt’s simple: the rise of Trump outcome.” tion, but we can certainly learn and the victory of the Leave from it to make sure we — the campaign are not so different. If youth of this country — are not it could happen there, it can happen here. And apathetic and actually show up in November. unlike many of our tea-drinking counterparts, we Young, educated voters need to head out to the can’t shuffle our collective feet and act surprised ballot box and make our voices heard or else, like and chagrined, saying we hadn’t realized this many young Brits realized last week, the older could happen, or we thought other people would generation will end up deciding our future for vote the way we wanted and we didn’t have to, us. or in hindsight, we wish we had voted differently.

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Anti-Jewism at Dartmouth and its role in the return of Jews to Israel To My Beloved Dartmouth Community: Here it is; I’ve been expecting it.

I’ve known for a while that my alma mater, Dartmouth, could not be immune forever.

Institutionalized anti-Jewism has come to the Hanover Plain at long last. And the time has come for me, one lone “voice in the wilderness,” to speak out.

“For the sake of Zion, I will not be hushed, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like the morning star, and her salvation burns bright as a torch” (Isaiah 62:1-2).

On April 30, Jasbir Puar, a professor of social sciences at Rutgers University, gave a public presentation at Dartmouth in which she spent the vast majority of her time criticizing the State of Israel, its army and its people – the Jews.

I came to Israel 28 years ago, six years after graduating from Dartmouth. I have two sons, each of whom experienced the effects of unprovoked terrorist attacks by Arabs, including the deaths of their friends.

My eldest son was present at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in 2008 when a young Arab terrorist opened fire in a library, leaving eight young students dead, slumped over their books, and dozens of others maimed for life.

My other son was the roommate of Gilad Frankel, one of the three boys abducted

by Hamas operatives and murdered in the back seat of the getaway car two summers ago. The boys’ deaths and Hamas’ denial of involvement, were the prime causes of the most recent war against Hamas, the terrorist organization that took over Gaza in a bloody coup in 2007.

Let this be very clear: Puar’s steady stream of diatribe, laced with absolute hate for the Jewish state, is a distortion of what is happening in Israel, and purports to turn the victim of nationalist and religious violence into its supposed perpetrator. Moreover, Puar’s entire method of framing what is going on in my country is inaccurate and misleading. It has one overall objective — the demonization of the Jewish state and a people who have struggled so hard to lead a life of peaceful national independence in the midst of an ocean of countries whose cultures despise our nation and seek its annihilation.

It is widely known that the Jewish nation was expelled from its ancestral land because of its unwillingness to behave in the manner that is expected of a holy nation in its land.

Nevertheless, virtually all of the Hebrew prophets state explicitly that our painful exile would be only temporary, and that one day, the Jewish nation would return to the land from which we were forced out so long ago but we never, ever forgot.

That prophecy is being fulfilled today, and as part of it, the Jewish people has worked tirelessly to convert a barren and abandoned land into a veritable Garden of Eden. Everyone knows this is so, despite the attempts of detractors like Puar and her ilk at slandering our movement, our country and the nation itself.

She spares no efforts in her presentations

and questionable research to wield a kind of self-declared “Right to Defame.” The nefarious philosophy that powers her and those like her openly condones aggression, and is a blood libel against the nation of Israel in the Land of Israel. It is a retrograde force that has its origins in the greatest anti-Jew movements throughout history.

She frequently talks about people’s abuse of power for the oppression of populations but fails to admit that she herself uses her position of academic privilege to demonize Israel.

The reality is grim. Puar is not alone. She is joined by a small but increasingly vocal group of people, who attack Israel and its policies whenever they can.

The intensity of the hatred flowing from this group, however, could potentially serve another purpose entirely.

The Hebrew prophets – particularly King David, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel – talk about the return of ALL of the captivities of the nation of Israel back to the Land. In its 68 years of re-independence as the Jewish state, Israel has successfully absorbed millions of Jews from all over the world, many of them kicked out of their host countries and penniless, to start their lives anew in the land of their ancestors.

But there remains one great exile community that has never really felt the need to “make aliyah” – to “go up” to the Land of Israel. Like a gleaming marble structure on a hill that has withstood the rigors of time and has miraculously avoided being damaged by war, the American Jewish community has thrived, intact for more than 300 years.

North American Jewry represents the final, intact exile community. How long can that last? In the words of the Hebrew prophets: “And I will return the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and I will build them as in the beginning” (Jeremiah 33:6).

I postulate that Puar and those of a like mind may well be playing a critical role in the process of preparing America’s Jewish community for its eventual aliyah to Israel.

“Here — I am taking the Children of Israel from among the nations from where they went there; And I will gather them from around, and I will bring them to their Land. And I will make them one Nation in the Land, in the mountains of Israel, there will be one king for them, as king; and they will no longer be divided into two nations” (Ezekiel 37:21-22).

Though she might someday hope to claim credit for bringing the American Jews to Israel, Puar will be judged for her intentions, not the results.

Stay tuned. Don’t touch that dial.

This piece is dedicated to the memory of 13-yearold Hallel Ariel from Kiryat Arba, whom a 17-yearold terrorist stabbed to death yesterday morning at 9 a.m. while she was asleep in her bedroom. She was a remarkable and accomplished young girl whose precious life was cut short in the name of senseless violence. May her memory serve as a blessing for all decent human beings.

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Editors’ Note

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Happy 16X, Mirror readers! For many of us, the supposed highlight of our Dartmouth careers has finally arrived: sophomore summer. The weather is beautiful, we’re surrounded by our best friends and drowning in DBA, our workloads seem lighter, we can socialize endlessly and really, we’re only thinking about which fun activity to do next. Nothing could be better. Well, that’s the expectation.

Yet for some, life at #CampDartmouth isn’t as sunny as it’s often described. A friend told me today that campus feels a bit more lonely than usual. To be fair, the Green and the dining halls are far emptier, and the library is often deserted. Someone else mentioned to me that he finds himself more stressed than ever in his new Greek house leadership position. And, unfortunately, some of those “layup” classes aren’t quite layups.

As some have already come to realize, it’s impossible to characterize sophomore summer into a single, tightly bundled expectation. But one common feeling, the theme of this week’s Mirror, seems to underlie everyone’s experience so far: novelty. It’s hard to dispute the perception that sophomore summer is different than a “normal” term at Dartmouth. Maybe it’s the fact that we can finally walk outside without bundling up, or that DDS has wacky hours (and an even wackier assumption that we can survive without the Hop) or that there’s only one class on campus (which, as a side note, perpetuates my confusion as to why the KAF line this term seems to be longer than ever). But everyone experiences this “new Dartmouth” feeling in different ways.

So, rather than trying to meet the expectation that the summer will be the time of your life, I hope you make this term your summer. Let go of any expectations and try new things, but do them because you want to. Revel in this term’s novelty – which our writers explore in the issue – and make it your own. Enjoy the Mirror!

follow @thedmirror 07.01.16 VOL. CLXXIII NO. 95 MIRROR EDITOR ANNETTE DENEKAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF REBECCA ASOULIN PUBLISHER RACHEL DECHIARA EXECUTIVE EDITORS KOURTNEY KAWANO & CAROLINE BERENS

By May Mansour

My grandfather has read the same book every day for 43 years.

My first memory is waking up in my mother’s bed, nestled between her and my eldest aunt. To my left, Mama drapes her arm around my torso, her long fingernails tickling my exposed belly. To my right, Amto Zeinab, half-asleep, strokes my back to the rhythm of the Al-Fatiha.

I nuzzle my way out of my mother’s embrace, sweat seeping through the little red jumpsuit I’d refused to take off the night before. I make my way out into the garden, my stubby arms flailing in the damp air, swatting away desperately at morning mosquitos.

At the opposite edge of the garden is jiddo, my grandfather. He’s just come back from village prayer, his prayer rug still rolled tight and held snug in the crook of his arm.

Jiddo makes his way to the plastic chair on the concrete ledge.

“Now he’ll take off his straw hat and wipe his brow,” I whisper to myself. I know his movements down to the head scratch — I’ve watched this scene play out every day since I was born.

His thick-framed glasses in hand, jiddo reaches into his knapsack and pulls out the family Quran. He kisses the cover and touches it to his forehead.

A picture of my late grandmother serves as his bookmark. Jiddo lightly strokes the crinkled photograph with his thumb, then turns to the page he’d left off the night before: Chapter 55, Ar-Rahman, Verse 76.

I have always pitied my grandfather.

He has never traveled beyond the walls of his village. He has never owned a pair of sneakers.

After visiting him during my senior year of high school, I vowed never to live a life so monotonous and mundane.

I would not read just one book, but as many books as could fill the New York Public Library. I would not think or live inside a box. I would collapse the box. I would tape the box to more boxes. I would makeshift an airplane from said boxes and fly myself to the Western land of culture and bon goût.

And so I drafted a bucket list — a list

’18:“My hormones are raging. It’s like I’m experiencing puberty at 21-years-old.”

of places I want to visit, experiences I want to have, goals I want to achieve before I kick the proverbial “bucket.”

“This is my memento mori,” I thought.

“Some hang 15th-century vanitas of skulls and hourglasses. I make a ‘Hey, Don’t Die Before Doing These’ list on iWish.”

What started off as a short checklist in my phone (“Save up for a trip to Ireland,” “Start a travel blog,” “Realize you don’t travel nearly enough to write a travel blog”) soon became a 227-item catalog of my wildest (and most trivial) desires.

My bucket list included paragliding in the Swiss Alps, snowmobiling glaciers in Iceland, corrupting a nephew or two and falling madly in love with a steamy French chocolatier, only to leave him in pursuit of a fast-paced career in international journalism. (Your bucket list is only as interesting as the rom-coms you watch.)

There was no desire too ludicrous — no idea too far-fetched — to be made an item on the bucket list.

Josie Nordrum ’17, who drafted a detailed bucket list of her own for sophomore summer, said that compiling a bucket list is an exercise in imagination.

“The excitement of a bucket list is actually making the bucket list. I enjoy coming up with the ideas, sitting around and thinking of a million crazy things that I want to do while I am still young and reckless.

That’s the fun of bucket lists — letting your imagination wander,” she said.

As Nordrum suggested, bucket lists are often made in the spirit of devil-may-care adventurousness. They require a certain surrender of inhibition, an abandonment of personally and socially constraining rules.

“The purpose of a bucket list is to broaden your comfort zone and to get you to try new things — things that you wouldn’t consider trying otherwise,” she explained.

And while most buckets lists are highly individualized — suited to the desires and ambitions of their author — there can be immense pressure from others to fill the bucket list.

Elena Horton ’18 commented that pressure to complete a sophomore summer bucket list in particular comes from upper-

’18: “One time in high school we had to swab our belly buttons. One kid had E. Coli in there.”

’16: “Is your grandma playing pong right now?”

classmen and alumni looking to safeguard Dartmouth tradition.

“There’s a lot of pressure to finish my bucket list, to make sophomore summer live up to everything everyone has said about it. It’s so anti-Dartmouth to not love sophomore summer,” she said.

The very notion of a bucket list — along with the internal and external pressure to “fill one’s bucket” — often encourages cultural commodification.

As Rebecca Mead suggested in her 2014 essay “Kicking the Bucket List” for “The New Yorker,” bucket lists reduce cultural experiences to items on a checklist that can be crossed off. They promote a kind of hyper consumerism — the pursuit of novelty for novelty’s sake, the relentless consumption of new places, experiences and cultural objects.

I saw the Mona Lisa. Now what?

Lela Gannon ’18 warned against privileging the satisfaction of crossing off items on a bucket list over personal engagement with the items themselves.

“If you’re just mindlessly doing things to check off a box, and not actually considering whether or not you want to do them, or whether or not you’ll get something out of it, then I certainly don’t think your [bucket list] will be fulfilling,” Gannon said.

In other words: I saw the Mona Lisa.

But what did I learn from it? Did I engage with the artwork cognitively, emotionally or spiritually? Have I attained a greater cultural understanding of others or myself ?

My grandfather has never traveled beyond the walls of his village. He has never owned a pair of sneakers.

But he has engaged and re-engaged with a cultural work every day for 43 years.

He has dedicated himself to a life of open and critical thinking, one of tireless introspection and intellectual and spiritual growth.

I may never read as many books as can fill the New York Public Library. I may never paraglide in the Swiss Alps.

But if I can be half the person that my grandfather is, I will be more than ready to “kick the bucket” when my time comes.

’18: “They took my skin and now I’m gonna sleep forever.”

’18 guy: “I finally got to fulfill my lifelong goal of making out in a starlit lake.”

MIRROR //3

The Novelty of Returns to Campus STORY

By Caroline Berens

Few life transitions are as immense as the shift from high school to college. Suddenly, your parents — and the curfews, restrictions and rules (if you’re already 18 by the time you matriculate) that often accompany them — are gone. You’re living in a new room in a new place with thousands of new people. Your schedule is often much less regimented than it was in high school, and it’s okay if you sleep through class or go to bed at 5 a.m. In many ways, it’s like stepping into a new, unfamiliar world.

This is often referred to as the “novelty” of college. For me, at least, this novelty wore off toward the end of my freshman fall. I soon became accustomed to eating mozzarella sticks at 1 a.m., to experiencing the bizarre but wonderful privilege of living within such close proximity to my friends, to being done with class for the day at 12:20 p.m. All of these once-foreign things became a part of my normal routine, and I adapted. They became less of a novelty and part of my lifestyle.

Two years into college, it’s hard to imagine experiencing the same level of “novelty” as I did when I first arrived in Hanover. However, sophomore summer brings with it a unique kind of novelty: it’s just ’18s on campus, we’re suddenly the only class in everything from our Greek houses to a cappella groups and our “school” suddenly transforms into a more camp-like environment than any of the actual summer camps I attended as a child. It’s the same Dartmouth I’ve always attended, of course, but at least for me, it’s a bit like stepping into a new dimension.

So I wanted to determine: how does the novelty of freshman fall compare to that of sophomore summer? Are the “novelties” different? Can they even be compared?

Julia Decerega ’18 opined that the typical novelty of freshman fall of college is amplified at Dartmouth due to the Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips, since they often entail completely new and foreign experiences for students.

“Definitely here, with Trips, it’s very much a novelty,” Decerega said. “You do something most people have never done before. I had never hiked before, or gone camping, so that was all very new to me.”

She explained that the five-day Trips experience is totally immersive, complete with numerous performances and the opportunity to meet and receive advice from upperclassmen. She said that in this way, Dartmouth prepares students for the novelty of college especially well, particularly in getting them excited about it.

“Right when you get here, you have built-in role models, which isn’t super common,” Decerega said. “Dartmouth does an especially good job [with preparing students for freshman fall].”

Dru Falco ’18 expressed a similar sentiment and said that for her, Trips was unlike anything she had ever done before.

She agreed, too, that Trips offers some-

thing unique from other colleges.

Falco also said that a good Trips experience can help ease the transition into the novelty and craziness of freshman fall.

“After a positive Trips experience, people retain that feeling,” Falco said. “It can positively impact your freshman fall; it’s really exciting to come off that kind of high from trips.”

She noted, though, that a negative trips experience might pessimistically impact one’s freshman fall — or simply might have no impact at all.

Decerega said the freedom afforded to students during their first few weeks of orientation at Dartmouth lends to the novelty of college. And then of course, when freshman fall truly begins, reality sets in that this is life for the next four years.

Falco said that the most novel aspect of her freshman fall was her newfound autonomy.

“There’s definitely a lot of novelty freshman fall in that you’re on your own, responsible for your actions and making your decisions,” she said.

Natalie Chertoff ’18 spoke similarly about students’ independence and accountability.

“The responsibility of getting myself up and to class every single morning, and having nobody there to tell me what to do, definitely made it a novel experience,” Chertoff said.

Danny Reitsch ’16 said that college’s foreign and even unpredictable nature can also contribute to this sentiment.

“You have no idea what’s around the corner, and it’s novel in the sense that everything is new and abnormal,” he said.

Falco also noted that freshman fall is sometimes the first time that students drink alcohol or party.

Decerega said that sophomore summer is also novel, in that it’s the first time it’s solely your class on campus, many students are living off-campus or in Greek houses and when you walk around campus, you tend to know or recognize almost everybody.

“Sophomores kind of own the campus, and feel good about themselves because they do,” Decerega said. “That’s something students at other colleges have to wait until senior year to experience.”

Chertoff echoed Decerega’s statement about knowing more people when walking around campus. She also said it often feels less like school and more like she’s just spending time hanging out with friends.

Chertoff also noted that because departments tend to offer fewer classes over the summer, students sometimes experience academic novelty, because they often take a class in a subject with which they aren’t very familiar.

Falco also said people are more apt to branch out over their sophomore summer than during the regular year.

“A lot of people are motivated to try new things over sophomore summer,” Falco said.

Even though some might argue that sophomore summer isn’t too different from a regular term, Chertoff said the shift felt distinct to her.

“Even though you’re coming off of a term of college, it still felt new,” Chertoff said. “It requires more getting used to than other terms in sophomore year.”

Decerega thought differently, saying that besides the weather, things are mostly the same during the summer as a normal term, since you’ve already spent two years here and are very familiar with life at Dartmouth.

Chertoff noted, though, that her adjustment to freshman fall was much more difficult than the transition to sophomore summer. She said they are both novel in that they entail a lot of new things all at once, but that her attitude towards both differed greatly.

She explained that although she was excited for freshman fall, she remembered feeling mostly nervous. Her sentiments toward sophomore summer were much more positive.

“Freshman fall, I felt like I had to figure it all out on my own, and I couldn’t really be excited about the term until I established a routine,” Chertoff said. “Sophomore summer, I feel much more comfortable on campus and know I have a good group of friends.”

Reitsch said that during his sophomore summer, he had more free time and alone time, which engendered self-growth and helped him develop a better sense of who he is.

“It made me rely on myself a lot more,” Reitsch said.

Falco and Decerega expressed similar sentiments about feeling more established at the College.

“By sophomore summer, you’ve gotten much more used to Dartmouth and happier to be here,” Decerega said.

Falco said that although she enjoyed her freshman fall, she doesn’t consider it as her favorite term, largely because she had yet to feel grounded.

“There’s a lot of transitioning freshman fall, and I didn’t really feel like I’d found my place at Dartmouth,” Falco said.

Her freshman fall felt hectic as she figured out what activities she wanted to try out. Going into sophomore summer, she said, she has a better idea of how she wants to spend her time.

Reitsch believes freshman fall is about exploring one’s environment, whereas sophomore summer is about finding new aspects of oneself.

“Rather than the external novelty of freshman fall, sophomore summer was more of an internal discovery,” Reitsch said.

Ultimately, people expressed that although freshman fall was somewhat exhilarating, by the start of their sophomore summer they felt much more grounded — but were still willing to embrace the novelty that the term brings.

“Freshman fall, it felt like my parents were dropping me off at this random place that had accepted me. I felt like an outsider,” Chertoff said. “But coming back for the summer, it felt like I was returning to a place I have started to make my home.”

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Time: The Greatest Gift

An exploration into one of Hanover’s hidden novelty stores.

PROFILE

By Abbey Cahill

“Audrey Hepburn is the most popular by far. For every five Audreys, I probably sell one Marilyn.”

Bryan Smith is the manager of International DVD & Poster, and he loves to talk. We were talking poster sales. Back when the store opened in 2003, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom were flying out the door. They were celebrity crushes.

Icons. But the age of the idolized celebrity has fizzled since then — Channing Tatum is okay, Smith explained, but not for everyone.

The real money is in the Winter Carnival posters. IDVD & Poster has the largest collection of originals in the world. The rarest ones sell for $4,000 to $6,000. On big weekends, alumni return to campus and buy them. Busy season is from Memorial Day through Columbus Day. In the winter, however, the store is sleepy.

“It’s cyclical,” Smith said. “The store has a rhyme and a reason; a pattern. And you start to get the hang of it after almost 14 years.”

The content, though, is somewhat unpredictable. There are maps and ads for musicals and many different John Belushi posters pasted to the walls. There are album covers and anime and sports teams and subway signs, collections of novelty items, racks of DVDs and boxes of vinyl records labeled classical, rock and roll and jazz, among others.

Smith thinks the name of the store doesn’t do its location justice. Often, he overhears customers on the phone, struggling to explain where they are.

“I’m in the record store,” they say.

“No — the poster store. I’m in that cool store underneath Starbucks.”

I asked Smith why people keep coming back. Can’t they buy posters online or rent movies from Amazon? For some people, he said, it’s a throwback from their youth. For others, it’s the appeal

“It’s cyclical. The store has a rhyme and a reason; a pattern. And you start to get the hang out of it after almost 14 years.”

“I love to look at the pictures she based her prints on,” Smith said. “You realize the real photos have, say, a trailer or a broken down truck in the front, and she takes it out, just cause she can. She makes it iconic Vermont.”

“I have a visual memory. I can say, ‘You came in here with your little brother and your mom two years ago, and you’re from Oklahoma.’ Individuals and experiences.

Those are the things I keep in my memory.”

-BRYAN SMITH, OWNER OF INTERNATIONAL DVD & POSTER

Smith loves the iconic image. He has an idea for a poster: Rapunzel in Bartlett Tower. Or the equestrian team, riding horses in front of Baker-Berry Library.

While we’re talking, Acacia Hoisington ’18, a member of the Dartmouth Fencing team, came in with a friend.

She had an idea for a fencing poster, and Smith was excited to help. 25 percent of profits will go to the store, 25 percent go to the artist and 50 percent go to the sports program, he explained. He wanted to launch a similar program for Greek house posters — but profits would go strictly to the maintenance of the houses, to avoid the possibility of spending on alcohol-related functions.

Hoisington came in with her freshman trippees, and Smith still remembered her.

He said that he recognizes students from

year to year.

“I have a visual memory,” Smith explained. “I can say ‘you came in here with your little brother and your mom two years ago, and you’re from Oklahoma.’ Individuals and experiences. Those are the things I keep in my memory.”

The world is speeding up, though, and our illusion of hyper-connectivity might actually be making us less connected.

Smith believes that we value people and experiences less than we should. And technology is largely to blame.

“I’m a little bit of a Luddite,” Smith said. “People these days are losing that sense of person to person experiences.

Our noses are buried in our phones.”

He misses when people used to come into the store and ask him about movie recommendations. Smith’s grandfather started the film studies program at Dartmouth, so he grew up surrounded by movies. The experience of selecting and watching a film has become much less personalized, he argued.

Smith drilled me: “Have you seen ‘Lawrence of Arabia?’ ‘Casablanca?’

‘The Wizard of Oz?’ ‘Singing in the Rain?’ ‘The Graduate?’”

I’ve only seen “The Wizard of Oz,” I replied, and he was thoroughly unimpressed.

“Those are a sample of the top 10 movies of the 20th century,” Smith said. “‘Casablanca’ — a date movie. You turn off your phone, turn off the lights, get some popcorn and watch the movie. If you are texting or calling or pausing it to talk to someone else, you can’t get back from the present day to World War II Casablanca. You’re going to be taken out of the moment. Young people don’t have the attention span, now.”

Smith said that we are losing our ability to devote ourselves to a single moment.

He watched pairs of students come into the store during their freshman week with half-finished cups of gelato in their hands. They were not shopping, just looking and spending time with each other,

and then suddenly someone’s phone would ring.

“And they start talking to their buddy about the date they’re on — right in front of the date!” Smith exclaimed. “I tell them, the greatest gift you can give anyone is your time, because time you can never get back.”

Smith’s work is a paradox. He sits in a shop surrounded by objects. They are anything but interactive; they are fixed items, devoid of human connection.

But for Smith, it is not about the objects themselves. Instead, it is their ability to connect us to experiences and people.

Smith’s niece has a senior recital this

“As far as things go, they get flooded, they get burned, but you can always replace them. But once time is gone, it’s gone.”

-BRYAN SMITH, OWNER OF INTERNATIONAL DVD & POSTER

November. If he can’t find anyone to watch the store, then it will close for the evening. That recital, he said, is more important that selling anything to a customer.

“As far as things go, they get flooded, they get burned, but you can always replace them,” Smith said. “But once time is gone, it’s gone.”

-BRYAN SMITH, OWNER OF INTERNATIONAL DVD & POSTER

of finding something rare ­— something you can’t get just anywhere. He produced an example: a movie by film and media studies professor Bill Phillips about a local printmaker, Sabra Field. She makes vibrant New England landscapes of red barns, snowy fields and undulating green mountains.

I said that I take art classes at Dartmouth, and Smith was eager to share something from the store’s extensive collection.

“Here,” he said, handing me the DVD, “I’d hope you bring it back, but if you don’t, I’m not going to chase you down.”

His favorite part about Sabra’s work is its idealized portrayal of Vermont and New Hampshire.

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International DVD & Poster, which sells everything from DVDs to vinyl records is located underneath Starbucks at 44 Main Street in Hanover.

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friends were always happy.”

Close family friend and Dartmouth classmate Dean Marriott ’18 expressed a similar sentiment about Donohue’s altruistic and “unselfish” nature, especially toward her friends.

“She had a wide reach and affected people from all ages and backgrounds, which is difficult to do,” Marriott wrote in an email.

Close friend Ross Bower ’18 spoke similarly to Marriott about Donohue’s dedication to her friends and her efforts to ensure they were happy.

“She was the truest friend, always putting the needs of others before her own,” Bower said “She showed her affection by always hugging and kissing and her friends, and making sure they knew how loved, appreciated and special they were to her.”

Friends and family also remarked on Donohue’s boundless energy and effortless sense of humor. Diserio recalled how, when standing in line for assemblies or class pictures, Donohue’s enthusiasm and zest could not be restrained. “[Donohue] would bounce out of line and bound up to me with bundles of energy, usually to give me an unsolicited hug or share a silly story,” Diserio said. “Her energy could not be contained even by teachers begging her to return to her spot.”

Marriott echoed this sentiment.

“Alana was crazy, but in a great way,” Marriott said. “Everyone loved her for her quirkiness.”

Ted Donohue recounted a funny memory from his daughter’s Hawaiian-themed seventh-birthday party when Donohue spontaneously threw off her top and started dancing around with her grass skirt. A few moments later, the other girls at the party were dancing around with their skirts too. He said this moment was representative of Donohue’s constant “zaniness.”

Baldwin spoke similarly about Donohue’s energy and humor.

“When she noticed a boring moment, she would do something ridiculous, like show us unflattering photos of herself as an adolescent, which she was very proud of,” Baldwin said.

She said that this example of Donohue’s spontaneous humor served to show that “her greatest joy in life was being happy.”

Ted Donohue said that Donohue was particularly close with her parents and brother Peter, who is 17.

He described his daughter and son’s relationship as typical of siblings, but said that Donohue adopted a particularly maternal role with her brother.

“Alana truly thought she was like [Peter’s] co-mother,” Ted Donohue said with a laugh. “She definitely reveled in his success and happiness, but also felt it was completely within her

boundaries and protocol to discipline or lecture or tell him what to do.”

He said his son would turn to Donohue for help with math homework to confirmation that his outfit was okay before leaving home. He said Peter Donohue looked up to his sister’s accomplishments and was proud to be her brother.

As for Donohue’s relationship with her mother Niki Donohue, Ted Donohue compared it to “Fourth of July fireworks.” He said the two were very close. He noted they both possessed emotional and outgoing personalities and knew that even when they argued, they would inevitably make up.

“No matter what, they both always went to bed with a kiss and a hug,” he said.

He noted that Donohue’s close relationship with her mother was especially evident during her numerous bouts in the hospital. He humorously recalled that his daughter would text her mother when she was in the emergency room, pleading her to come, but then upon her arrival Donohue would tease her mother about her outfit.

“She’d say, ‘How could you wear that to the hospital? Did you look in a mirror?’” Ted Donohue recalled with a laugh.

Ted Donohue remarked that this was the kind of playful relationship the two had, but said it was ultimately “enveloped in deep and enduring love”.

He described his and his daughter’s own relationship as “phenomenally close,” saying that they shared more with one another that he ever thought he would share with his teenage daughter. He said this was largely because she was a big believer that sharing and telling was healthy and cathartic.

Throughout her life, Donohue was a passionate explorer, traveling to Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Turkey, Egypt, Dubai, Brazil and Peru, many of these on vacations with her family.

When she was 16, Donohue spent her junior year of high school in Beijing, China, studying Mandarin as part of the School Year Abroad program, immersing herself in the language and culture of the area and living with a host family. She attended a school in Bejing with a combination of Chinese and American high school students.

Ted Donohue said her year in China was not the easiest for Donohue, largely due to her health issues and missing her friends from home, but she wanted a challenge.

“She wanted to have a full, adventuresome life,” he said.

Diserio added that even when Donohue faced difficult times during high school, she never failed to maintain her positive attitude.

“In high school when her health and the pressure of academics

dwelled over her, her smile and laughter never ceased to fill the halls of Chapin,” Diserio said.

In addition to Mandarin, which she began learning in third grade, Donohue showed a passion and aptitude for mathematics early in her academic career. This became her intended major at the College, her father said.

He said that upon arriving in Hanover, Donohue “fell madly in love” with the College. She considered Dartmouth to be the best place in the world, as it was a school where people were smart but also knew how to have a good time, he said.

“She was lucky to have found [Dartmouth],” he said. “That was really what she wanted to be — somebody who was both fun and a really serious student.”

Bower said that although Donohue was a “New York spirit,” her love for the College was “unmatched,” and she was often in full Dartmouth garb.

“She was often seen in a Dartmouth-on-Dartmouth outfit, like sweats on sweats,” Bower said. “Only she could pull it off because she exuded confidence.”

Writing professor Jennifer Sargent taught Donohue in her Writing 5 class, “Crime, the Criminal Mind and the Courtroom.” She noted that she and Donohue connected over both being from New York City.

Echoing the words of others, she described Donohue as energetic, blowing in and out of every place like a “whirlwind.” She added that she had an effortless sense of humor and often made the class laugh without even trying.

Sargent said that as a student, Donohue had a brilliant mind. She described Donohue’s unusual intellect, explaining that her ability to observe, analyze and think critically had a depth that Sargent didn’t often see with students just starting their freshman year.

“She had a way of latching on to the critical facts and ideas that pushed our class to the next level,” she explained. “I could always rely on her to move us in the next direction.”

Donohue also had a gift for writing, Sargent said, and this reflected her sharp intellectual mind.

“She was an excellent writer, very mellifluous,” Sargent said. “[Her pieces] flowed [and] had beautiful cadence. Her writing had this beautiful sort of quality to it.”

Sargent humorously recalled how during office hours, Donohue would again appear in her “whirlwind” at the last moment, speaking a mile a minute, but once she got talking, she was able to sustain a deep conversation. Sargent said that she engaged with academic material because she genuinely wanted to learn it.

Sargent also recalled how Dono-

COURTESY OF NIKI DONOHUE

Alana Donohue '18 attended The Chapin School in New York City.

hue would often come into class with four or five iced teas from King Arthur Flour. When Sargent commented to Donohue, at the beginning of the term, how nice it was that she had brought the iced teas for the class, Donohue responded that she actually drank them herself throughout the day — but would be happy to share if Sargent wanted one.

“I thought that was so funny, because she was so honest, and so genuine,” Sargent said, laughing.

“She was always full of surprises.”

In her eulogy, Donohue’s father recalled a funny recent memory, where Donohue insisted to her parents that she needed a car during her sophomore summer. Her parents agreed and soon the car that she had originally desired turned into a truck, and before they knew it, Donohue and her parents were in the Bronx picking up a F-150 4x4 pickup truck. Ted Donohue joked that his daughter had never even “changed a lightbulb.” Although Donohue originally remarked that the car was “so damn ghetto,” her face lit up and soon enough she was asking her dad how many people could fit in the back of it.

“It was so illogical, incongruous, nonsensical for her to have a 4x4 pickup truck living in a Manhattan apartment,” Ted Donohue said. “As Alana said, ‘It makes no sense, but it just makes me so happy.’”

Donohue’s dean Kent Shoemaker

said her “quick mind, even quicker sense of humor, resilience and vibrancy” will be deeply missed by all those who knew her on campus.

Ted Donohue recalled another recent instance where an employee at Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine restaurant said “there’s nobody more fun” than Alana. He speculated that employees at other Hanover establishments would probably say the same thing.

In a similar vein, her friends joked that she loved socializing and chatting with Uber drivers.

“She so, so loved to make those people happy,” Ted Donohue said.

“She was relentless and real. And I wish I was more like that.”

Ultimately, friends and family said that beyond her intelligence and talent, it was her kindness and positivity that made Donohue who she was.

“Despite all of her accomplishments, all her vast travels around the world, all her brilliance and her beauty, it was her capacity to act as a messenger of goodness, happiness and healing others in the end that most defined her,” Donohue’s father said in his eulogy.

A memorial service is planned for some point in the coming weeks.

Bower said he and Donohue’s friends are currently in the process of collecting funds to place a bench in New York’s Central Park in her honor.

Emilia Baldwin '18 is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Japanese brush ink paintings exhibition featuring the work of Kathleen Dixon Swift, Suite 107, 7 Lebanon Street

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“Dearest Home” (2016), a work-in-progress performed by dance company Abraham.In.Motion, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“A Hologram for the King” (2016), Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“Francofonia” (2016), a film by Aleksandr Sokurov, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Award-winning Circus Smirkus troupe coming to Hanover

By SOPHIA SIU

The Dartmouth Staff

If summer classes have you considering dropping out to join the circus, you may be disappointed to learn that professional recruiting might actually be less competitive. At the same time, the circus is actually closer than you think. The award-winning international youth circus, Circus Smirkus, will perform in Hanover on July 5 and 6, bringing along their well-earned international recognition and dazzling performances. Founded in 1987 by performer and teacher Rob Mermin and based in Vermont, Circus Smirkus is currently the only international touring youth circus in the United States. As such, it presents a unique opportunity for youth interested in pursuing a professional career in the circus to hone and showcase their skill sets. Artistic director Troy Wunderle said that Circus Smirkus’ high standing in the circus community means that many organizations that train youth in circus performance look to Smirkus as the next level in circus training.

Circus Smirkus’ Hanover shows are part of its 2016 Big Top Tour, a Northeast tour of 66 shows over seven weeks. The Big Top Tour is an annual event currently in its 29th season. According to Wunderle, “every year the audience knows what to expect for our enthusiasm and talent.”

Circus Smirkus offers only around 30 spots in its Big Top Tour troupe, so the application and audition pro-

cess is highly competitive. Interested performers must first send in an application with clips of themselves performing, as well as references. A small creative team then selects 40 of the top contenders and invites them to participate in a two-day audition process at Smirkus Headquarters in Greensboro, Vermont. The creative team whittles the group to 30, who will then become troupers. This year’s troupe consists of a mixed group of performers, aged 11 to 18, who hail from 13 states.

“What audiences always comment on with the Smirkus shows is that these are not kids that are talented in just one area. They have very diverse skill sets, and audiences love watching how many different things these kids step into the ring to do,” Wunderle explained.

Smirkus is more than just a touring circus troupe — the organization also runs a summer camp open to people of all ages and of all experience levels.

The organization trains campers in all of the circus disciplines and many go on to take part in the Big Top Tour after several years of training.

Liam Ryan-O’Flaherty, a 17-yearold trouper from Norwich, is touring with Smirkus for his second year. He attended a circus summer camp as a child and began training in juggling and tight-roping on his own five years ago.

“A lot of people here have aspirations beyond Smirkus, and a few people are going to circus school in Canada

next year,” he said. “Many of the troupers have used Smirkus to launch careers and they’re all over the states doing incredible things.”

Although Ryan-O’Flaherty intends to attend a traditional college in the future, he hopes to take a gap year to perform after graduating from high school and keep circus performance in their life.

In the three weeks before the tour begins, the troupe as well as its coaches, directors, musicians and crew worked to compose music, make costumes and learn the various skills that will be displayed during the shows.

“It is a wildly creative process, and everyone puts their heart and soul into creating a show that we’re proud of and that we can take onto the road and entertain audiences,” Wunderle said.

Each year the group focuses on a new storyline and theme, allowing Smirkus to continue to entertain audiences year after year. Although each season features the same types of skills — clowns, acrobats, aerialists, tight-ropers and jugglers, to name a few — the theme determines the unique ways the group presents each skill.

This season’s theme is “Up, HUP and Away! The Invention of Flight,” a celebration of the invention of flight and pioneering aviators. “[Up, HUP and Away is] our tip of the hat to the early 1900s and the wildly creative and inventive aviators, so we’re honoring folks with real grit, real passion, real vision, and folks that

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Circus Smirkus, international youth circus troupe, will perform in Hanover.

really believed in the impossible and pushed to make it possible,” Wunderle remarked.

The show will feature a storyline of an inventor and a group of aviators. All of the aerial apparatuses will be unique to the concept of flight. For example, one of the very first aerials is inspired by an airscrew, Leonardo da Vinci’s first illustration of a flying machine.

“All of the show’s elements are viewed through the thematic glasses of the invention of flight,” Wunderle said.

Wunderle noted that the troupers in Smirkus bring to each show not only great skill and talent, but also passion, heart and enthusiasm.

“The most amazing thing that I see in every performance is the smile

because these kids are doing the most amazing physical feats. They’re standing on their heads, they’re standing on their hands, they’re doing cartwheels, all of these incredible things and the smiles they sustain while they’re doing that is really the most inspiring part of the show,” tour public relations intern Jane Medoro echoed.

Circus Smirkus will be performing at Fullington Farm Field in Hanover on July 5 and 6. There will be two shows on each day, with one at 1 p.m. and the second at 6 p.m. Each show will be around two hours long, including a 15-minute intermission. Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for children aged 7 to 12, and $15 for children aged 2 to 6. The troupe will also be featured in the Hanover Fourth of July parade.

‘The Lobster’ (2015) makes the perfect date or anti-date film

By DIEGO MORENO The Dartmouth

“The Lobster” (2015) is the latest effort from renowned Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who received the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for this film. Fans of Lanthimos’ previous work such as “Dogtooth” (2009) and “Alps” (2011) will likewise enjoy the tone of his most recent masterpiece, which borders on the verge of experimental while still effectively utilizing techniques common in mainstream cinema.

“The Lobster” is hard to place in a specific genre: it manages to intertwine romance, drama and comedy while touching upon the human psyche.

Like many of today’s dystopian movies with their thematic warnings about our impending futures, the film is set in a near future in which, the government controls human behavior. In this case, it is illegal for humans to be single.

Sure, that may not seem so bad if you’re thinking you have years to do so. But the catch in Lanthimos’s world? Those who are single are

taken to a hotel where they are given 45 days to find a suitable partner or else they will be turned into an animal and cast off into the wilderness.

“The Lobster” focuses on David (Colin Farrell), who realizes he has no other choice but to check into the hotel after his wife leaves him to begin a relationship with another man. Accompanied by his brother, who transformed into a dog several years earlier because of his inability to find a partner within the allotted time, David, upon checking in, decides he will turn into a lobster should he similarly fail. His reasoning? Lobsters have lengthy lifespans and live in the sea, which he loves.

During his “stay,” David befriends the two runts of the litter, “the lisping man” (John C. Reilly) and “the limping man” (Ben Whishaw), who provide much of the comic relief throughout the film but also highlight the low quality of the guests’ lives.

After a heated discussion with the limping man forces David to consider the possibility of being boiled and eaten, he decides to try

to seduce the most heartless woman at the hotel by pretending to be heartless himself. David is soon found out, however, and forced to flee to the woods. There, he encounters “the loners,” a group of singles who have embraced their single lifestyle and created their own kind of authoritarian society.

When David first arrives there, the leader of the loners (Léa Seydoux) welcomes him with two bizarre rules with horrific consequences. The first is that loners are forbidden from relationships with one another. The second is that based on the ideology that people live and die alone, all loners must dig their own graves. Throughout this exile from the hotel, David realizes the effects of these rules.

He encounters a couple who had their lips sewn shut for kissing and flirting. Later, when a fellow loner steps into a bear trap, the group abandons him to his death.

The film leaves the audience in the dark about the identity of the sporadic narrator until David meets a short-sighted woman (Rachel Weisz). Enamored by this woman who shares the same subtle

disability as himself, David strikes up a dangerous, secret relationship with her. The last act of the film focuses entirely on this forbidden relationship and its physical and psychological consequences. The leader of the loners has the pair re-enter society pretending to be a couple on covert missions on behalf of the loners’ leader, who does not know that the pair are together.

Deception and tragedy fill the remainder of the film, which sees David questioning his existence.

Contradictions make up much of the film’s audio-visual production and its conceptual backbone.

Walking flamingos interrupt beautiful shots of the Irish countryside.

Fast-paced classical music accompanies transitions that violently pull the audience from one scene to the next. The characters seem to be the epitome of human sadness, yet they are still able to make the audience laugh hysterically. The film pokes fun at the institution of marriage while simultaneously pointing out the flaws of a single life. The characters, sad and despondent, still possess the uncompromising, unflinching human spirit.

Lanthimos and his co-writer Efthymis Filippou grapple with some fundamental questions about human interaction and the need for relationships with “The Lobster.”

What does it mean to be human?

What does it mean to be alone?

What does it mean to love? While the film does not answer any of these questions in its two-hour running time, it forces you to consider and confront these questions after you’ve left the theater.

Deeply moving yet surprisingly unsentimental, “The Lobster” is one of last year’s most intriguing and enthralling films, thanks largely to Farrell’s genuinely human performance and Reilly’s unexpectedly superb mastery of his role.

Funny, smart, troubling and sad, the film is perfect for dates, antidates and single lovers of cinema alike.

Rating: 8/10 “The Lobster” will play on Saturday, August 6 at 7 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium as part of he Hopkins Center’s summer film series.

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Giordano’16 and Whitehorn’16 named All-Americans

By CHRIS SHIM

The Dartmouth Staff

Dana Giordano ’16 and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 ended their collegiate careers with a whirlwind finish. Both seniors placed third and earned First-Team All-American honors in their respective events at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor National Championships in Eugene, Ore., on June 11. Giordano completed the 1500-meter race in a school-record 4 minutes, 11.86 seconds, and Whitehorn cleared a height of 5.82 meters in the high jump.

“Everyone has an idea of how they’d like to finish their careers, and finishing as an All-American is about as good as it gets,”said Barry Harwick ’77, men’s track and field coach.

Giordano, a three-time Ivy League champion in the 1500, came into the final with the top seedtime from the semifinal round two days earlier. With this in mind, she said her goal was to finish in the top eight and become an AllAmerican in her last collegiate race.

After the gun went off for the final, Giordano took off and led for much of the race, with eventual winner Maria Freitas from Mississippi State and runner-up Elise

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As the summer staff at The D rotates through editor positions under the careful and trained eye of editor-in-chief Rebecca “A-

Cranny from Stanford University in close chase.

“It was great publicity for the school, actually, since the race was televised on ESPN,” Harwick said.

“She was up at the front and led much of the race, so we were proud that she ran such a great race.”

Giordano placed 23rd in the 5000 in last year’s outdoor national championships and decided it was time to make a change in her final track season.

“The 5K stopped bringing me as much joy as I wanted it to,” Giordano said. “I have always enjoyed faster workouts and my coach and I planned a year long taper to focus on the 1500-meter race this spring. The training is a blast and it has been very rewarding working toward nationals.”

Like Giordano, Whitehorn is a three-time Ivy League champion, and came in as a top contender. In the high jump, Whitehorn cleared the first three heights without a miss, but was unable to clear 1.85 meters in three attempts.

Ultimately, she tied for third with Claudia Garcia Jou from Akron University.

“I was excited to return to the outdoor national meet this year,” Whitehorn said. “I wanted to place better than [my 12th-place finish last year] and better than [my

seventh-place finish] this year at indoor nationals. I was happy to place third!”

Traveling across the country to the national championships made for a hectic senior week.

“They had to finish their competitions, have the coaches drive them to the Eugene airport, take a red-eye flight, drive to Hanover from the airport and then march at graduation,” Harwick said.

Despite their busy schedules this past spring, competing at the national championships was a truly unique experience for these star athletes.

“Hayward Field is extremely intimidating for a first time competitor, but thankfully I had the experience of bombing two races there to understand that it is just another track just with a lot more fans,” Giordano said. “After I finished my race I immediately saw my dad, coach and a very close friend. It was so surreal having so much joy and love around me and then traveling across the country to graduate.”

Both Giordano and Whitehorn remain unsure of whether they will continue to compete postcollegiately. Whitehorn, however, plans on representing the Big Green at least one more time. She will compete this Friday at the U.S.

Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 finished third in the high jump at the NCAA Nationals.

Side” Asoulin’17, I’ve enjoyed the week off to lounge on the Green and hand in “First Team” five hours late to this week’s sports editor Vikram Bodas’18 — who turned his own articles in on-time a grand total of zero times in the spring. Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to “getting money,” or so the saying goes.

Since the debut of “First Team” last Friday, students and faculty alike have reached out to congratulate me on my success. Here are few excerpts from the emails, text messages and letters: “I regret wasting my brain cells on those two boys from Riding the Pine,” Richard McNulty.

“We feel connected to your column on a deep, personal level,” the sisters of Kappa Delta Epsilon.

“This guy is the truth,” Riding the Pine collaborators Henry Arndt ’16 and Joe Clyne ’16.

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) is a fantastic

movie. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play an estranged couple that erases their memories of each other post break-up. Between pauses to grab tissues for my “allergies,” the idea for this week’s column was born: What memories would people erase if given the chance?

Ex-girlfriends and mom-catchingyou-in-compromising-situations aside — this is a sports column.

Erasable memories from the past week: Lionel Messi’s penalty kick: Argentina came into the Copa America Centenario final with much more pressure than opposing Chile. Argentine football legend and diva Diego Maradona told the press that the team “shouldn’t come back” if they don’t win the title. The Argentines fell in penalty kicks, 4-2, with Messi uncharacteristically missing the net entirely on his shot. The 29-year-old, reeling from the mounting pressure, then retired from international play,

shocking the footballing nation and probably devastating loyal fans.

England’s loss to Iceland: The Cinderella story in the European Championship lives to see another round. Iceland came from behind to take down England, 2-1, on Monday, humiliating a nation that is already reeling from the effects of Brexit. It was an overall erasable week for the United Kingdom.

The Boston Celtics’ NBA Draft: After months of speculation that the Celtics would trade down in last Thursday’s NBA Draft, the team decided to — or had no other choice but to — make their selection, taking forward Jaylen Brown out of the University of California, Berkeley. The pick was widely panned by fans and media alike, who believe the versatile forward lacks the offensive firepower that the C’s need.

Thon Maker’s age: The newlyminted Milwaukee Buck who

Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. for a spot on Team USA and a chance to compete in Rio. “If all goes well on Friday, I will definitely compete next year,” Whitehorn said.

Whitehorn will be joined by other Dartmouth alumni competing at the trials, many of whom are also competing in track and field.

The team will hold a reception for the athletes and their families as many Dartmouth community members will be watching closely

in Eugene.

Regardless of the outcome, both Giordano and Whitehorn are extremely thankful for their experiences competing for the Big Green.

“Everyone has been so supportive of my running and nationals was the most spectacular showing of that. I am so lucky,” Giordano said. “It has been an honor to run for Dartmouth and I have so much hope for the future of Dartmouth running.”

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earned the 10th overall pick shouldn’t Google himself right now. He’s anywhere from 19 to 79 years old.

Edinson Volquez’s start against the Houston Astros: Last Friday, the Kansas City Royals’ starter was charged with 11 earned runs in just one inning pitched as my beloved ‘Stros ran away with a 13-4 win.

With the start, Volquez’s earned run average went up by more than one run, and the performance was considered one of the worst starts in baseball’s modern era.

Volquez bounced back nicely on Wednesday night against the St. Louis Cardinals, blanking the team in 6.2 innings before the Royals pulled out the win in 12 innings with a score of 3-2.

This column is ending early. I have dinner plans. Then I’m erasing my memory. Thursday is the new on night.

Welcome to the “First Team.”

We don’t ride the pine.